Category: Notes and Comment Blog

  • Dude you’re blocking my face

    Honoring women in sports…er…sort of…

    The Guardian has details:

    A White House photo celebrating a champion women’s sports team has drawn backlash due to the positioning of Donald Trump and a group of men, who overshadowed the female athletes by lining up in front of them.

    No no, the men are standing in front of the women to shield them from bears.

    The University of Georgia women’s tennis team was one of several collegiate teams to visit the White House on Tuesday to mark a recent NCAA championship win. In a photo shared by press aide Margo Martin, Donald Trump and five Georgia staffers and coaches took up the front row of a stage setup, with 11 women standing in the background on a riser.

    Because bears. The White House is full of them, as everyone knows.

    In a video shared by Martin, Trump approaches the group and shakes the hands of the five men, but does not do the same to the women.

    Because he didn’t want to rile the bears. Bears think women should stay home and be modest.

    Before 2019, no women’s championship team had made a solo visit to the White House under Trump. Some had participated in events celebrating men’s and women’s teams. Four of the teams honored at Tuesday’s event were women’s sports teams, plus one mixed-gender rifle team.

    Earlier this year, the US women’s hockey team declined an invitation to visit the White House after winning gold at the Milano Cortina Olympics. The team cited scheduling and previous commitments, but the decision came after Trump joked about needing to invite the women’s team while on a phone call with the gold-winning US men’s team. The men’s team visited the White House and attended the State of the Union as Trump’s guests.

    Hilary Knight, the captain of the women’s team, later called Trump’s remark a “distasteful joke” that had overshadowed the Olympic success.

    Oh come on, where’s your sense of humor?! That’s a hilarious joke! The bears pissed themselves laughing!

    The image at Tuesday’s event drew comparisons to previous instances in which men have dominated photos at events focused on women’s issues. In 2017, a photo of Trump signing an anti-abortion bill surrounded by eight male staffers in the Oval Office was met with outrage.

    Ok ok ok. Women are stupid. Trump leaves them out when he can get away with it, and hides them behind the men when he can’t get away with leaving them out. You win: he does it on purpose, because women are stupid and weak and there only for sex. Ok?

    The bears have been relocated to Lafayette Park.

  • A particular target

    They want us to get Covid.

    Covid-19 vaccines roughly halved the chances that a US adult would need to visit the emergency room or be hospitalized with their infections last fall and winter, according to two sources familiar with the findings of a new study. But you won’t hear about it from the agency that led the research: the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

    The current head of the CDC, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who’s also director of the US National Institutes of Health, blocked the publication of those findings in the CDC’s flagship journal, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, according to the sources.

    The authors of the study received an official rejection letter from the journal on Tuesday, one source said, even though the study had cleared internal reviews and had been scheduled for publication.

    …

    The rejection of the new study is “pretty problematic in general, because it’s a very standard, well-established study design that has been used for a long time,” said Dr. Fiona Havers, who resigned as senior vaccine policy adviser at the CDC in June over changes to the agency’s vaccine policy made by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. She used to be part of the team that worked on studies with VISION data.

    “It’s not perfect, but it is a reasonable way of measuring real-time vaccine effectiveness during the season and getting data that can be tracked over time,” she said.

    Liberal propaganda! Don’t trust them or their vaccines or their findings! It’s all liberal espionage and stealth warfare!

    Covid-19 vaccines have been a particular target of the HHS under Kennedy.

    In June, he announced that Covid-19 vaccines would no longer be recommended for pregnant women and children, a move that blindsided and alarmed many agency scientists.

    Kennedy has no medical training of any kind.

  • Time’s up

    See you in court.

    Parkrun and nine sports bodies have been threatened with legal action by Sharron Davies over their refusal to ban those born male from their female categories.

    The Football Association of Wales, Irish Football Association, Swim England, British Gymnastics and Royal Yachting Association (RYA) have also been targeted a year after the Supreme Court ruling that only those born female should be considered women under the Equality Act 2010.

    Only women are women; men cannot be women; stop letting men invade women’s sports. It’s not that much to ask.

    Baroness Davies and Tracy Edwards MBE have co-signed letters from the Women’s Sport Union and legal advocacy organisation ADF International to each of the sports bodies.

    Seen by Telegraph Sport, the letters warn legal action will follow if the bodies continue to refuse to join the likes of the Football Association, Scottish FA, Rugby Football Union and England and Wales Cricket Board in protecting their female categories.

    “Any governing body that continues to permit biological males to compete in the female category contravenes the Equality Act 2010 as interpreted by the Supreme Court. This exposes the organisation to immediate and substantial legal liability,” the letters state.

    But it’s worth it for the sake of ruining things for women, right?

    Last week, Bridget Phillipson, the Education Secretary, said EHRC guidance on protecting women’s spaces would not be published until after Scottish and Welsh elections on May 7, despite the fact that the draft guidance was submitted for review last September.

    The delay was criticised by Baroness Falkner, former head of the EHRC, and Reem Alsalem, the UN’s special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, who said the guidance should be published “without further delay”.

    Aka without further obstinate pig-headed determined contempt for women and gross favoritism for men who call themselves women.

    Edwards was the world-renowned sailor who skippered Maiden, the first all-female-crewed boat to sail around the world. She said: “When I stood outside the Supreme Court on 16 April 2025 as For Women Scotland won their case, I celebrated the return of sanity. Little did I know that a year later we would still be fighting for the female category in sport, and that over 30 UK sports governing bodies would be shirking their responsibility to women and girls.

    “Sharron and I set up the union to ‘support, protect and grow female participation in sport’ but we knew that getting males out of the female category would be job number one. I have written to the RYA on a number of occasions and the disappointment I feel in their reluctance to protect women and girls is profound. I have spent my sailing career promoting and facilitating women and girls into sailing and yet the misogyny 37 years after ‘Maiden’ hasn’t gone away, it has just changed shape.”

    It’s true and it’s unbelievably depressing.

  • All the spicier

    David Leask at the Times:

    Engaging in a war of words with Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart of The Rest Is Politics, the Harry Potter author posted a meme of Scooby-Doo and his pal Shaggy shivering in terror. 

    The image, she joked on X, was “live footage” of the pair. “Mmmm. Bit weird,” responded Campbell, still the master of the dark arts of political spin. “But hey ho.”

    Rowling, a prominent gender-critical feminist, and the socially liberal Campbell have been sparring over trans issues.

    Rowling is a good deal more socially liberal than Campbell is.

    The latest row has focused on The Rest Is Politics not inviting For Women Scotland (FWS) on the podcast, the group behind the UK Supreme Court judgment decreeing that sex, in terms of the UK Equality Act, is biological. 

    It comes after Campbell and Stewart hosted Sarah McBride, America’s first transgender member of Congress.

    In other words these two men have not invited gender critical feminists on their podcast but they have invited a man who claims to be a woman and is a member of Congress. Ignoring women while fawning on men who pretend to be women is not the height of “socially liberal”; it what’s technically known as adding insult to injury.

    But the friction goes back further and is all the spicier because Campbell’s daughter Grace, a comedian, once called the FWS women celebrating their victory “freaks” and “ugly with the worst hair, the worst clothes and the worst views”.

    Oh do stop giggling, god damn it. It’s not “spicy”. It’s not some trivial by the way that Campbell’s horrible daughter spewed all those insults to please yet another man pretending to be a woman. None of this crap is funny.

    Campbell rejected criticism that he would not host gender-critical spokespeople on a spin-off of their podcast called The Rest Is Politics: Leading. 

    “For all those claiming we won’t listen to people who share JK Rowling views, we have in the past asked JK Rowling, who said no. She is a leading voice and therefore we would happily talk to her on Leading. Previous attempts have been rebuffed,” he said.

    What he means is she’s an extremely famous voice and therefore he and his mate would happily have her on their poxy podcast. Yes of course you would, you patronizing piece of crap, because that would be good for you, but the women you should be talking to are the ones your putrid daughter mocked and dismissed on her ass-kissing fame-chasing podcast.

    Rowling responded: “That’s because I wasn’t interested in being used to boost the viewing figures of a pair of exceptionally arrogant men whose understanding of this issue drips with classism and misogyny.

    “If you’re genuinely interested in a debate, I’m at a loss to understand why you’re uninterested in interviewing FWS, who secured the Supreme Court victory and are therefore THE leading voices on this issue. But perhaps your charming daughter has adequately represented the entire Campbell family’s view, by describing them as ‘ugly’ women, with whom she wouldn’t ‘want to be in a room’?”

    It doesn’t pay to mess with JKR.

    Susan Smith, co-director of FWS, said the group would still meet with The Rest Is Politics. But she added: “We have always said that we would engage with Mr Campbell. However, he has made it clear that he thinks anyone other than Ms Rowling is below his touch.

    “We do not know if this is because he really is this arrogant, or if he fears that he would be humiliated should he attempt to debate any of the many qualified women who have studied this issue and he feels safe in the knowledge that JK Rowling will turn him down. 

    I think I’ll go with both? He really is this arrogant – that’s obvious – and he doesn’t want to talk to those intelligent women who know far more about the subject than he does.

    “Insultingly, he has now told feminists that they should listen to his interview with the trans politician Sarah McBride, something which suggests he has crossed from political commentator to online troll.”

    I did listen to a few minutes of it and was unmoved. McBride chats well enough but he’s no JK Rowling.

    Rowling, meanwhile, referring to McBride as male, posted: “What better way could there be of repudiating accusations of misogyny than recommending an episode where three men instead of two discuss which rights women should be fine giving up — without, of course, mentioning the words ‘women’s rights’?”

    Four men? A hundred? A few billion?

  • Had he been

    If only someone had thought to make Trump president in 1965.

    Trump boasted that he “would have won Vietnam very quickly” had he been president during the decades-long conflict, as the U.S.-Iran peace deal hangs in the balance.

    The president joined CNBC’s Squawk Box by phone Tuesday morning where he spoke for more than 30 minutes about the Iran war, his pick for Fed chair Kevin Warsh, oil prices and the White House ballroom.

    The Vietnam digression came as Trump compared the Iran conflict, which began nearly two months ago, with the length of other wars that America has been embroiled in.

    Well it’s not really fair to call it a digression, given the fact that he’s incapable of saying anything without digressing every few words. He doesn’t think, he blurts.

    Unlike most American men of his generation, 79-year-old Trump avoided military service in Vietnam despite the U.S. having a mandatory draft at the time. The U.S. was involved militarily in Vietnam from about 1954 until 1975 and over 58,000 American service members were killed in the armed conflict.

    Wait, what? Most American men of his generation served in Vietnam??? That can’t be right.

    I looked it up. It’s not right; not even close. Do better, Independent.

  • Pretend befuddlement

    Moira Donegan at the Guardian:

    Last month, the International Olympic Committee announced that transgender women athletes would be barred from competing in all Olympic events in the women’s category – but not the men’s events.

    Er, yes, because they are men. What part of that is hard to understand?

    In addition to trans women athletes, cisgender women with conditions known as DSDs – differences in sexual development – will also be banned from competition. The new rules effectively redefine womanhood – but not manhood – as a novel and previously unrecognized category consisting only of those with a specific set of genetic prerequisites.

    Yes of course “womanhood” and not “manhood”: because it’s women who are harmed by letting men idennify into their sports, while men are not thus harmed. It’s really not that difficult to grasp.

    To comply with this new requirement, women athletes – but not male ones – will be made to submit to genetic testing, to determine whether their womanhood meets the committee’s standards.

    See above. It’s the pretend women who are a problem, not the pretend men.

    The move comes as increased political and media attention to the issue of trans rights and visibility over the past years – along with pressure from the Trump administration – has led athletic federations to ban trans women from sports competitions, a demand that has largely not been made for transgender men in women’s or men’s sports.

    Because it’s asymmetrical you damn fool.

    The vitriol and intensity of this controversy has been acute. Twenty-eight states ban trans girls and women from participating in sports consistent with their gender identity; last year, the NCAA announced a ban on trans athletes competing in women’s collegiate leagues.

    What’s vitriolic and intense about knowing that sports are based in bodies and not in “gender identity”?

    No stupid is too stupid for this ideology.

  • Another

    Not quite Monty Python level.

  • No dessert for a whole week

    Just don’t forget, Trump is keeping track.

    The White House has developed something akin to a “naughty and nice” list of NATO countries, as the Trump administration looks for ways to punish allies who refused to back the Iran war.

    …

    Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth floated the broad idea in December. “Model allies that step up, like Israel, South Korea, Poland, increasingly Germany, the Baltics and others, will receive our special favor,” he said. “Allies that still fail to do their part for collective defense will face consequences.”

    It’s not collective defense though, is it. It’s Trump’s personal war, launched and continued without consulting purported allies. Trump doesn’t have any allies, Trump does what Trump feels like doing.

    The White House made its frustration with allies clear. “While the United States has always been there for our so-called allies, countries we protect with thousands of troops have not been there for us throughout Operation Epic Fury,” said White House spokesperson Anna Kelly, referring to the Pentagon’s name for the operation. “President Trump has made his thoughts on this unfair dynamic clear, and as he said, the United States will remember.”

    But nobody asked him to do any operation epic tantrum; it was all his idea.

    But there is little precedent for taking such steps to punish allies, and such notions already face push back on Capitol Hill.

    “It is not helpful when American leaders speak of our alliances with derision,” Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) said Tuesday before a hearing on U.S. forces in the Indo-Pacific region. “We must be clear about the numerous political, strategic and moral benefits that country receives from its alliances.”

    But without slavish obedience what use are those strategic and moral benefits?

  • Could anyone?

    Seen on social meeja just now:

    Whatever you think about her books, what J.K. Rowling is doing right now matters more.

    She’s one of the most successful authors alive. She could have stayed quiet, protected her empire, and avoided the mob.

    Instead, she chose to speak up for women for sex-based rights, for single-sex spaces, for safeguarding.

    It gave me pause. I had to think about it. Could she have?

    I’m not so sure. I don’t say that to challenge her courage, but to look more closely at the nature of the situation. I’m not sure she could have put up with it forever, for the simple reason that it’s intolerable. Sitting back and staying silent while purported adults talk the most ridiculous destructive nonsense adults have talked since about the 11th century is no picnic, let me tell you. It’s itchy. You want to scratch it. Trying to ignore it gets more difficult every day.

    I think she would probably say the same. It’s keeping shtum that would have been the torture, not slapping the challenge onto the table and refusing to budge.

  • A more compelling

    Alastair Campbell has seen the error of his ways at last!

    Kidding. Totally kidding.

    Fantastic. Three men chatting about…trans rights. Women? What are those? What good are they? Who cares?

  • The worst Alastair

    This went well.

    There are many many pointed references to the Iraq war and many many pointed suggestions that he invite For Women Scotland on his podcast and many many reminders of the disgusting things his daughter Grace said in that skin-crawling interview with a poisonous man who pretends to be a woman. So far he’s ignored all of it. Not a good man.

  • Et tu?

    This isn’t the Guardian or the BBC, it’s the Times. Why does even the Times do this?

    Trans doctor at heart of NHS gender row to work in Australia

    The transgender doctor who was at the centre of a legal dispute in Britain over the use of women’s spaces has been given permission to work in Australia.

    Beth Upton, 30, left NHS Fife after the A&E nurse Sandie Peggie took her to court over the latter’s suspension due to a heated exchange at Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy in 2023.

    Took HER to court – why do they do that?? The whole point is that he’s a he, so why does even the Times lie about it and confuse, trick, mislead readers? Why does even the Times obey the rules of this idiotic destructive women-hating ideology?

    Upton has now been registered as an emergency medic by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, which has allowed her to work under supervision at hospitals on the north coast of New South Wales.

    She was registered on April 9, and her sex was listed as female. It was not immediately known whether she had started work. 

    Yes, HIS sex was listed as female, which is a lie. Doctors shouldn’t be lying about their sex. The Times shouldn’t be helping doctors lie about their sex.

    The decision has outraged some women’s rights advocates in Australia. Rachael Wong, the chief executive of Women’s Forum Australia, said it was “deeply alarming” that the regulation agency had registered Upton as female.

    She added that Upton was “not only male; he is a male who has openly disregarded women’s boundaries, privacy and consent”.

    Which is true, and a matter of public record, so why is the Times lying about what sex he is?

    The regulation agency defines a female as someone whose “biological sex is that of a female” and whose gender identity or gender expression is that of a female.

    That’s deranged. Idenniny and expression have nothing to do with it. Fantasize and play let’s pretend all you like, but not on the job, especially when that job is being a doctor. Who the hell wants a deranged lying giant bully of a man for a doctor?

  • Guest post: Queering Mr S

    Originally a comment by iknklast at Miscellany Room.

    Well, it happened again. We didn’t walk out at intermission this time, but it was still difficult to watch yet another Shakespearean play being “queered”. I didn’t mind the same sex romance; it might not have been strictly Shakespearean, but it wasn’t offensive, either. The ‘transing’ wasn’t as obvious this time. The actors couldn’t act – they were either overacting or just saying their lines so fast you couldn’t catch them (unfortunately, the fool was one of those, so any humor in the lines was lost in ethereal nothingness).

    The worst, though, was the pre-show explanation of the celebration of the non-binary in Shakespeare. They seemed to think his cross-dressing characters were taking up his stance for trans-rights (privileges, as we know).

    The thing they never got is that Shakespeare understood the binary. He knew there were two separate sexes. He knew what roles were expected of each sex, and he knew that the altering of the roles could be used to create both dramatic situations and comedy. He used that to great effect. When the director and actors fail to understand that, and take the gender-bending, cross-dressing seriously, as a statement meant to speak to our contemporary delusions – excuse me, ‘knowledge’ – then all comedy is lost.

    It wasn’t just the characters rushing lines, or shouting in overacting, or simply phoning it in that made it lose so much of the comedy, though of course that played a role. It was the fact that the actors didn’t understand that Shakespeare, fully aware of male and female, was using a biological reality to create a comical situation where things were not quite as one would expect, and characters set up situations that they believe to be in their best interests but often backfire on them with highly amusing results.

    And I will never, ever forgive the actor who didn’t do a good job delivering the Seven Ages of Man monologue. That is totally unforgivable, and if there was a god, I am sure she would receive eternal punishment for such a transgression.

  • Speaking of being rebuffed…

    Speaking of JKR – she’s just handed Alastair Campbell his head, after he tried to bully her into going on his podddkassst.

    …I’m at a loss to understand why you’re uninterested in interviewing @ForWomenScot, who secured the Supreme Court victory and are therefore THE leading voices on this issue. But perhaps your charming daughter has adequately represented the entire Campbell family’s view, by describing them as ‘ugly’ women, with whom she wouldn’t ‘want to be in a room’?

    Ouch. He needs to put some gasoline on that burn.

  • a white, cis woman from the UK

    Colin Wright tells us:

    This new academic paper claims that J.K. Rowling has essentially become Voldemort via her “celebrified transphobia,” which is apparently the authors’ term for Rowling publicly acknowledging basic biology.

    It argues that the “Wizarding World should be considered a cultural field” whose defining principle is “trans/queer inclusivity,” and says Rowling’s views have “significantly depleted her once-elite status.”

    This is an academic paper? It’s not a nerdy hobby for nerdy hobbyists but an actual paper in an academic field?

    It says Harry Potter has been read as “resisting binary gendering” and presenting gender as “varied, easily shifting, exploratory, and ‘slippery,’” with the Wizarding World offering trans and queer fans “identification and community” and “a ‘place of belonging.’”

    So Rowling became the moral equivalent of her own villain because some readers projected gender ideology onto the books, then felt shocked when the author turned out to believe sex is real.

    And in case the paper was not absurd enough already, its conclusion declares: “You’re a muggle, Joanne.”

    That’s Ms Rowling to you pathetic goons.

    Ooooh a prestigious global celebrity – what a very academic and scholarly observation.

    There are ways academics could educate us about JKR and/or her work, but this isn’t one of them.

  • A textbook narcissist

    I can’t help enjoying this from JKR.

    This is a man who desires nothing more than to be admired, whose entire shtick revolves around presenting himself as a hero worthy of envy and emulation (lest we forget, he ‘identifies with Gandhi and Martin Luther King’). To people like Maugham, any perceived diminution of what they believe to be their exalted status feels like a mortal attack, which is why every loss must be spun as a win, and black must be made to be white if the facts threaten his self-image.

    He’s just the latest in a long line of people on social media who think they’re dealing me a fatal blow by telling me I’ve lost popularity, that my legacy is tarnished or that former fans hate me. None of these people appear to grasped yet that I’m completely indifferent to being disliked by people I’ve never met, especially those I do not respect because of their online behaviour or what I believe to be their irrational and illiberal views.

    Maugham is a textbook narcissist who can’t believe that everyone else doesn’t live life with an unceasing thirst for validation from complete strangers. In spite of the fact that we’ve never met, and that as the years have rolled by I’ve been very open about the fact that I find his public behaviour increasingly bizarre, he seems to genuinely believe that the loss of his approval will cause me anguish. In reality, it’s a welcome source of ongoing entertainment, so long may he continue.

    The approval of Maugham is not a desirable goal.

  • All seasoned investigators

    In other (but related) FBI news…

    A group of FBI agents is suing FBI Director Kash Patel, Attorney General Pam Bondi, the FBI and the Justice Department after they were terminated over their work on the investigation into Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

    The three former agents — Jamie Garman, Blaire Toleman and Michelle Ball — were all seasoned investigators who primarily handled public corruption investigations and were assigned to special counsel Jack Smith’s team.

    The lawsuit, filed in the D.C. U.S. District Court, names Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel as defendants. It is the second such lawsuit filed this month against the Justice Department by former FBI agents who were terminated over their work on the 2020 election probe, code named “Arctic Frost.”

    They were doing their damn job. What were they supposed to do, say no?

    Although there are only three named plaintiffs in the latest case, the lawsuit also represents a proposed class of other similarly situated former agents. 

    It estimates there are currently at least 50 former agents who were terminated in a similar way, and it says that number is expected to grow.

    So Team Trump has been lavish in firing trained agents. How expensive.

    “Defendants have fired more than 50 FBI employees on the basis of their perceived political affiliation, without providing them any modicum of due process, and while disparaging their reputations and service in public statements around the time of the firings,” the lawsuit says.

    The proposed class represents a group of employees that goes beyond just those who were fired for their work on Smith’s investigations into President Trump. It also includes others who were fired for different alleged political reasons that run the gamut from being wrongfully perceived to support the Black Lives Matter movement and displaying a LGBTQ pride flag, to having friendships with disfavored employees, being targeted by far-right media personalities and having internal messages flagged by an artificial intelligence review. 

    A number of former FBI agents who fit into some of the categories named in the lawsuit have already filed separate complaints against the department over their termination, including a handful of former agents who knelt during racial justice protests in 2020, in an effort to fend off potential violence after the death of George Floyd.

    Never you mind about effort to fend off violence, punish them anyway!

    Return of the gang that couldn’t shoot straight.

  • Episodes and absences

    Who you callin a drunk?

    FBI director Kash Patel has sued The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick over a story that alleged Patel has “alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.”

    The defamation suit, filed Monday morning in US District Court in the District of Columbia, seeks $250 million in damages.

    The Atlantic says nuh-uh.

    We can be pretty confident that the Atlantic didn’t just wave the story through without making sure it was safe.

    The defamation suit says statements in Fitzpatrick’s article “falsely assert” that Patel “is a habitual drunk, unable to perform the duties of his office, is a threat to public safety, is vulnerable to foreign coercion, has violated DOJ ethics rules, is unreachable in emergencies, has required the deployment of ‘breaching equipment’ to extract him from locked rooms, allows alcohol to influence his public statements about criminal investigations, and behaves erratically in a manner that compromises national security.”

    And now lots more people know that: far more people than those who read the Atlantic piece.

    Fitzpatrick wrote that she interviewed “more than two dozen people” about Patel’s conduct, “including current and former FBI officials, staff at law-enforcement and intelligence agencies, hospitality-industry workers, members of Congress, political operatives, lobbyists, and former advisers.”

    The sources were known to Fitzpatrick but were granted anonymity “to discuss sensitive information and private conversations.” She wrote that they “described Patel’s tenure as a management failure and his personal behavior as a national-security vulnerability.”

    Other than that he’s a gem.

  • Jolyon pitching a fit again

    Jolyon Maugham is calling on the troops to…tell the government that men can be women.

    Force the government to rip up the EHRC’s transphobic guidance

    It’s been a year since the Supreme Court’s decision that accelerated the rollback of trans rights in the UK. It’s been a difficult year, but it’s also been a year of coming together and fighting back.

    Remind us what this evil ruling was?

    That women are women, and men are not women.

    And it’s working. Our people power just forced the government to admit the EHRC’s transphobic draft guidance got it wrong, and they’ve had to send it back to the drawing board.

    Got it wrong? So men are women?

    But the fight is far from over. The government plan to bring an updated version back to parliament in May. So we need to act – fast.

    We have less than a month to put pressure on this government and make sure each and every MP is holding Bridget Phillipson to account. We need to make sure this new draft is workable, inclusive and fair. 

    That is, inclusive of men in the category “women” and fair to men at the expense of women.

  • Just like he do

    Jesus wants what Trump wants! It’s been scientifically shown!