So much good news on the gender beat this week. It is my great pleasure to present this absolutely bulging-at-the-seams jam-packed edition for your delectation. Enjoy! Stonewalls Come Tumbling Down In very big news, the Information Commissioner has instructed Oxford University to reveal the details of its Stonewall membership.
It's been an incredible week in England. Not just in the detail but on a broad scale. Scotland is still a worry, of course. Let's hope this changes soon.
Miriam Cates, as well as Nadine Dorries, has been out and about to protest transgender ideology but also the grooming of young children in schools. Whatever we might think of Nadie Dorries, she's doing the right thing and it's more than just a broken clock being right twice a day.
I saw today that Bette Middler is also on our side. I've always liked her so it's pleasing.
Brent Green Party are explicitly accepting gender critical members and that's got the trannies foaming at the mouth. Maybe some Green Party members will start seeing who the true haters are.
Scotland is very far from being one of the most misogynistic countries in the world, trust me. I think a lot of people, wherever they come from, are not thinking clearly about what's going on or how they should respond to it. They're in shock.
As has been pointed out by others with a better understanding of this (sort of) ideological movement - what has emerged as a political force with so much authority and influence, has been a long time in the making, gradually gaining ground in a way most people were unaware of. When you examine it, that conclusion seems entirely valid.
It's only now people are starting to become aware, but all the work has been done and they weren't consulted and didn't consent to any of it. Very few people were given the option of doing that. But everyone is going to wake up from this stupor, they already are because they can see the most unfeasible harm that's being done, with the potential for more. When that finally happens maybe you can visit your country again.
What I realized this morning -- after hearing about two sisters, one eight and one nine, hanging themselves because of Tiktok's blackout challenge -- is that people can no longer afford to be unaware of TRENDS that are going on. Several years ago I saw two parents absolutely devastated because their daughter had met a grown man online and gone off with him, and it was clear this was a world they were unable to cope with. I feel for the parents of the two dead girls (suing Tiktok, of course, and presumably accepting no responsibility), but it was their responsibility to supervise their children's use of social media; who else was going to do it?
Omg , I hadn’t heard this , my dil is a slave to social media , I’ve made her promise my wee gd will not be allowed to access it till she’s at least 16 , the absolute shite my dil comes out with is shocking and absurd
God, that's dreadful. I'm sure the parents are feeling desolate and denying or, right now are unaware of their role in what happened. Social media is an unstoppable affliction, all parents can do is try to control their kid's access to it, and they need to do whatever they can. No, no one else is going to take responsibility, not when it's in the interests of so many not to do that.
I think there has been some very good advice for parents on this site, but I'm also aware that many parents will not make the supreme effort of taking themselves off social media / screens and supervising their children. Back in my day it was the TV that used to raise children, and that has certainly not proven successful.
Yes, that's true unfortunately, it's far too prominent in some people's lives. I grew up when parents used to stress about what was in TV and the impact it was making, etc. I think I've been very lucky with my kids, they aren't really interested in social media. A couple of them like gaming, but not communicating with people outside that. This is as far as I know, obviously, but I feel reasonably confident about it.
So glad Sharron Davies is still fighting for women, apparently Bette Middler is wading in now so will be interesting if she's got the strength to deal with the tra's like Sharron and others. Also, the woman in the Sturgeon tee is an icon ❤️
Sharron is wonderful, she dealt with Tom Daly's foot stamping fury so calmly, dismissing it for what it is. An entitled man expressing his irrelevant opinion on an issue affecting women and only women. I'm sure Daly, with the bits of LGBT pride that matter to him intact, showed his support for everyone apart from women who aren't going to tolerate being fucked over.
What's she's said is a big deal, and it sounds like something she put a lot of thought into, and has maybe been thinking about for some time. I don't know much about Bette Midler, but that's the impression I get. It's a direct and forthright response, which is a good indicator.
Thanks so much ,JL. So much wonderful news. These women are true heroes and definitely put the female tra supporters to shame. Great that the beeb ,for once , didn't give in to the bullies ,and stood by Sharron Davies. She truly deserves her position. So hard to believe that speaking up for women's rights and SAFETY causes such furore and outrage among so many people , especially men like Tom Daley ,who won't be affected at all by these attempts to destroy women's sports. She saw him off anyway.👏👍 Has he no MOTHER , SISTERS, AUNTS etc? Shameful 👎😭💔Well done to all who are fighting back and you ,JL ,for keeping us informed about it all ♥️♥️♥️
Well, one woman in Tom Daley's life was the mother of his son. Or maybe it was two women who were the hidden mothers for him and his husband, one providing the necessary female eggs and half of the baby's family genetic heritage, another giving over her woman's body to gestation of his baby and its birth.
Or they might have been one and the same woman. Whichever, a woman or two provided him and his husband with the increasingly sought-after, woman-erasing dream: parenthood without a visible mother.
It's not just in language that 'mother' is being disappeared.
This applies both to gay and straight couples using surrogacy, BTW.
Daley shows both massive self-regard generally and a kind of boastful disregard for women. No surprise to me that he would openly side with trans-identified males against fairness for women in sport.
Thank you for this good news. I feel like common sense, biology and women’s rights are winning this battle. Sport has been the TRAs undoing. They were greedy but people can relate to the fairness of sport and it was a step too far! Sharron Davies is my Shero!
In the city where I live, an HIV gay man was hounded relentlessly by trans activists out of work, out of his music career helping men in prison, out of all his contacts and any employment, and out of social services for housing and food stamps, so he is now homeless without food, all because he joker about non-binary identities and would not say that a man is a woman.
I said to my sister that I feel unsafe living here and it puts me off getting to know people, knowing that they would participate in my ruination if I let slip that I think the trans movement is misogynistic, and don’t believe men are women because they say so.
Her response was to say that while she doesn’t agree with cancel culture, it happens over all sorts of stuff (a lie; it’s this group above all which harasses people’s friends and employees) and that “some feminists are transphobic.”
This is after saying I hoped we could agree that no employers, institutes ot services should be listening to these bullies shout about others’ beliefs about gender. She studied homelessness for her PhD studies, and she cannot come out and condemn the driving of an HIV-positive gay man to homelessness because he doesn’t believe in gender.
She says to her sister, a multiple rape survivor with complex trauma, who says that asking for a female-only group for rape survivors is not bigotry and that the people terrorizing vulnerable women and gay people are bullies, “some feminists are transphobic, too.”
So women also hate our own group and are indifferent to our own suffering.
My apologies to all readers for typos in my comment…phone-typed and there’s no edit button!
I’m usually more careful but am particularly distraught that my sister’s answer to my sending her the above article- by which I mean to express my fear of these people to her- was met with “feminists are transphobic” and “agree to disagree.”
Or indeed being branded a witch in 16th century Salem. The US is in an epistemological crisis so profound it no longer knows it's arse from its mouth, and people's lives are being ruined because of it.
I agree with everything you've said there. The depressing thing I would add, from my own experience, is that almost all the friends of mine who most espouse this nonsense are female. With each of them they are otherwise intelligent people to the extent that I defer to them on many subjects - but on trans issues they have drunk the Kool-Aid and are parroting all the usual lies, including believing that trans people led the Stonewall riots, that male-bodied athletes should be allowed to compete as women, and that no one identifies as female in order to gain access to female prisons. It's like banging my head on a wall.
Though apparently the case for so many of us that I'm somewhat reluctant to put much weight on "self-identifying" as one.
But some evidence that "the (New York) times are a-changin' …":
"The Far Right and Far Left Agree on One Thing: Women Don’t Count
Perhaps it makes sense that women — those supposedly compliant and agreeable, self-sacrificing and everything-nice creatures — were the ones to finally bring our polarized country together.
Because the far right and the far left have found the one thing they can agree on: Women don’t count."
Though I'm not entirely sure that it's just "the far left" and the "far right" given the ubiquitous support for transgender dogma and related "ideas", particularly on the left.
But archive link and summary courtesy of GC News:
"At long last, the American 'newspaper of record' has begun to acknowledge the damage done to women’s rights for the sake of gender identity ideology."
Thanks for more wonderful good news. But the UCLan 'guidance', which I managed to read before it was taken down, was absolute rubbish. Which was a major disappointment as journalists sorely need to reestablish their professional standards in this area of court reporting. In the UK the Society of Editors needs to step up.
Good news indeed. Let us hope that that things will snowball now. There is so much more to look forward to. I hope positive results from Alison's and Maya's cases. The Cass report will hopefully put an end to the transitioning of children. A big win will be getting Stonewall and other TRA organisations out of every single public body. Hopefully the private sector will do the same, especially when they see the response to Halifax. We need to compile a list of business that are untainted with gender ideology so that we can use our economic power to send a message too. Does anyone know of a bank that isn't promoting pronouns? Finally, of course, the GRA must be repealed.
Much Kudos to Macy Gray, who is of course as predicted receiving lots of hate. Can we start a movement to show our support for her? Maybe pick one of her more famous songs and all start buying/downloading it, spreading the word, see if we can get her to No.1..?
“A woman goes through a completely unique experience and surgery and finding oneself doesn’t change that,” she said. “Being a little girl is a whole epic book, you know? You can’t have that just because you want to be a woman.”
The more realists come out, the less the trans cult can hurt people.
He's a diver I understand. The thought did occur to me that that could be one sport where sex in fact doesn't need to matter? Women are just as good as men at it or better. Other examples figure skating, gymnastics curling show jumping?
God bless Sharron Davies, and all other women and men (whose names I don't know) fighting for the safety and rights of women and children, specifically.
Bravo - nice to see further evidence of the wheels coming off the transgender bus; couldn't happen to a nicer bunch …
But a bit disappointing that the UCLan "Guidance for Journalists" bit the dust, though it seems to have been a bit questionable at best. Though this part seems a good start:
"New guidelines for reporters recommend … and using 'claims to be transgender' rather than unequivocally stating male defendants are women or transwomen"
Though for transwomen who've had their nuts removed, one might reasonably suggest the use of "eunuch" or "eunuch-identified", particularly as NHS endorsed the terms, at least briefly, before getting their knuckles rapped by the Tranish Inquisition:
By which token, one might reasonably argue that "self-identifying" transwomen should be identified in court documents as males if they still have their nuts attached, and as eunuchs if the don't. Truth in advertising …
But UCLan also made this welcome comment:
“Courts do not exist to serve as stages on which the players perform an affirmation of a person’s chosen identity."
Amen to that. Hard to imagine a more cretinous idea than "self-identification". Fairly decent article here by philosopher Michael Robillard at Quillette on "The Incoherence of Gender Ideology", particularly in his differentiation between "gender" - which has some scientific merit as a synonym for personality and behavioral stereotypes by sex - and "gender identity" which is little better than pseudoscience, than the "merging of science, magic, and religion":
It feels like an evil spell is lifting…..
Yes, the good news is getting regular and strong.
It's been an incredible week in England. Not just in the detail but on a broad scale. Scotland is still a worry, of course. Let's hope this changes soon.
Miriam Cates, as well as Nadine Dorries, has been out and about to protest transgender ideology but also the grooming of young children in schools. Whatever we might think of Nadie Dorries, she's doing the right thing and it's more than just a broken clock being right twice a day.
I saw today that Bette Middler is also on our side. I've always liked her so it's pleasing.
Brent Green Party are explicitly accepting gender critical members and that's got the trannies foaming at the mouth. Maybe some Green Party members will start seeing who the true haters are.
Scotland is very far from being one of the most misogynistic countries in the world, trust me. I think a lot of people, wherever they come from, are not thinking clearly about what's going on or how they should respond to it. They're in shock.
As has been pointed out by others with a better understanding of this (sort of) ideological movement - what has emerged as a political force with so much authority and influence, has been a long time in the making, gradually gaining ground in a way most people were unaware of. When you examine it, that conclusion seems entirely valid.
It's only now people are starting to become aware, but all the work has been done and they weren't consulted and didn't consent to any of it. Very few people were given the option of doing that. But everyone is going to wake up from this stupor, they already are because they can see the most unfeasible harm that's being done, with the potential for more. When that finally happens maybe you can visit your country again.
What I realized this morning -- after hearing about two sisters, one eight and one nine, hanging themselves because of Tiktok's blackout challenge -- is that people can no longer afford to be unaware of TRENDS that are going on. Several years ago I saw two parents absolutely devastated because their daughter had met a grown man online and gone off with him, and it was clear this was a world they were unable to cope with. I feel for the parents of the two dead girls (suing Tiktok, of course, and presumably accepting no responsibility), but it was their responsibility to supervise their children's use of social media; who else was going to do it?
Omg , I hadn’t heard this , my dil is a slave to social media , I’ve made her promise my wee gd will not be allowed to access it till she’s at least 16 , the absolute shite my dil comes out with is shocking and absurd
God, that's dreadful. I'm sure the parents are feeling desolate and denying or, right now are unaware of their role in what happened. Social media is an unstoppable affliction, all parents can do is try to control their kid's access to it, and they need to do whatever they can. No, no one else is going to take responsibility, not when it's in the interests of so many not to do that.
I think there has been some very good advice for parents on this site, but I'm also aware that many parents will not make the supreme effort of taking themselves off social media / screens and supervising their children. Back in my day it was the TV that used to raise children, and that has certainly not proven successful.
Yes, that's true unfortunately, it's far too prominent in some people's lives. I grew up when parents used to stress about what was in TV and the impact it was making, etc. I think I've been very lucky with my kids, they aren't really interested in social media. A couple of them like gaming, but not communicating with people outside that. This is as far as I know, obviously, but I feel reasonably confident about it.
Horrible:
"Parents sue TikTok over deaths of two girls after 'blackout challenge'
It's the second time families have sued TikTok over the deaths of children who were said to have taken part in the 'blackout challenge.' ...."
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/parents-sue-tiktok-deaths-two-girls-blackout-challenge-rcna37100
I'm Canadian, and can relate to a sense of appreciation, now completely lost like dust in the wind.
It’s not all bad (yet !)it’s not quite caught on out in the sticks yet ,just in twat arsed embra
O and that just happens to be where all the twats are based , imagine that !
So glad Sharron Davies is still fighting for women, apparently Bette Middler is wading in now so will be interesting if she's got the strength to deal with the tra's like Sharron and others. Also, the woman in the Sturgeon tee is an icon ❤️
Sharron is wonderful, she dealt with Tom Daly's foot stamping fury so calmly, dismissing it for what it is. An entitled man expressing his irrelevant opinion on an issue affecting women and only women. I'm sure Daly, with the bits of LGBT pride that matter to him intact, showed his support for everyone apart from women who aren't going to tolerate being fucked over.
And Macy Gray - all brilliant women! Looking forward to a landslide
weheyy Macy! .... Hope it's gonna fall down like a house of cards now .....
Yes it is falling, in slow motion
It's building up some good momentum ....................
The Marvelous Miss M will not alienate her gay fans by saying men and women are different. If they didn’t realize that already, they wouldn’t be gay.
What's she's said is a big deal, and it sounds like something she put a lot of thought into, and has maybe been thinking about for some time. I don't know much about Bette Midler, but that's the impression I get. It's a direct and forthright response, which is a good indicator.
Fabulous! And thank you for the reminder to vote for the Nolan podcast - done!
Me too, it was very easy to do.
Yeah ,I did too 👍👍👍
Thanks so much ,JL. So much wonderful news. These women are true heroes and definitely put the female tra supporters to shame. Great that the beeb ,for once , didn't give in to the bullies ,and stood by Sharron Davies. She truly deserves her position. So hard to believe that speaking up for women's rights and SAFETY causes such furore and outrage among so many people , especially men like Tom Daley ,who won't be affected at all by these attempts to destroy women's sports. She saw him off anyway.👏👍 Has he no MOTHER , SISTERS, AUNTS etc? Shameful 👎😭💔Well done to all who are fighting back and you ,JL ,for keeping us informed about it all ♥️♥️♥️
Well, one woman in Tom Daley's life was the mother of his son. Or maybe it was two women who were the hidden mothers for him and his husband, one providing the necessary female eggs and half of the baby's family genetic heritage, another giving over her woman's body to gestation of his baby and its birth.
Or they might have been one and the same woman. Whichever, a woman or two provided him and his husband with the increasingly sought-after, woman-erasing dream: parenthood without a visible mother.
It's not just in language that 'mother' is being disappeared.
This applies both to gay and straight couples using surrogacy, BTW.
Daley shows both massive self-regard generally and a kind of boastful disregard for women. No surprise to me that he would openly side with trans-identified males against fairness for women in sport.
Seal taking over a guys sun lounger - love it 🥰
Me too! What a delight!
Thank you for this good news. I feel like common sense, biology and women’s rights are winning this battle. Sport has been the TRAs undoing. They were greedy but people can relate to the fairness of sport and it was a step too far! Sharron Davies is my Shero!
Mine too. I have such a crush!
Women do, too.
In the city where I live, an HIV gay man was hounded relentlessly by trans activists out of work, out of his music career helping men in prison, out of all his contacts and any employment, and out of social services for housing and food stamps, so he is now homeless without food, all because he joker about non-binary identities and would not say that a man is a woman.
I said to my sister that I feel unsafe living here and it puts me off getting to know people, knowing that they would participate in my ruination if I let slip that I think the trans movement is misogynistic, and don’t believe men are women because they say so.
Her response was to say that while she doesn’t agree with cancel culture, it happens over all sorts of stuff (a lie; it’s this group above all which harasses people’s friends and employees) and that “some feminists are transphobic.”
This is after saying I hoped we could agree that no employers, institutes ot services should be listening to these bullies shout about others’ beliefs about gender. She studied homelessness for her PhD studies, and she cannot come out and condemn the driving of an HIV-positive gay man to homelessness because he doesn’t believe in gender.
She says to her sister, a multiple rape survivor with complex trauma, who says that asking for a female-only group for rape survivors is not bigotry and that the people terrorizing vulnerable women and gay people are bullies, “some feminists are transphobic, too.”
So women also hate our own group and are indifferent to our own suffering.
On which continent is this city where you live?
North America.
In fact, here’s an article about it: https://reduxx.info/homeless-man-says-he-was-cut-off-from-rehab-food-due-to-gender-ideology/
My apologies to all readers for typos in my comment…phone-typed and there’s no edit button!
I’m usually more careful but am particularly distraught that my sister’s answer to my sending her the above article- by which I mean to express my fear of these people to her- was met with “feminists are transphobic” and “agree to disagree.”
This is terrifying. Being in his situation leaves nothing to be desired over being Communist under McCarthyism
Or indeed being branded a witch in 16th century Salem. The US is in an epistemological crisis so profound it no longer knows it's arse from its mouth, and people's lives are being ruined because of it.
That's horrific. So much for "be kind"!
I agree with everything you've said there. The depressing thing I would add, from my own experience, is that almost all the friends of mine who most espouse this nonsense are female. With each of them they are otherwise intelligent people to the extent that I defer to them on many subjects - but on trans issues they have drunk the Kool-Aid and are parroting all the usual lies, including believing that trans people led the Stonewall riots, that male-bodied athletes should be allowed to compete as women, and that no one identifies as female in order to gain access to female prisons. It's like banging my head on a wall.
As an addendum I should point out I do have more female friends than male, so I'm not suggesting that men are in any way better on this subject.
Not All Men, of course … 😉
Though apparently the case for so many of us that I'm somewhat reluctant to put much weight on "self-identifying" as one.
But some evidence that "the (New York) times are a-changin' …":
"The Far Right and Far Left Agree on One Thing: Women Don’t Count
Perhaps it makes sense that women — those supposedly compliant and agreeable, self-sacrificing and everything-nice creatures — were the ones to finally bring our polarized country together.
Because the far right and the far left have found the one thing they can agree on: Women don’t count."
https://archive.ph/HMsba
Though I'm not entirely sure that it's just "the far left" and the "far right" given the ubiquitous support for transgender dogma and related "ideas", particularly on the left.
But archive link and summary courtesy of GC News:
"At long last, the American 'newspaper of record' has begun to acknowledge the damage done to women’s rights for the sake of gender identity ideology."
https://gcnews.substack.com/p/a-break-in-the-darkness
Thanks for more wonderful good news. But the UCLan 'guidance', which I managed to read before it was taken down, was absolute rubbish. Which was a major disappointment as journalists sorely need to reestablish their professional standards in this area of court reporting. In the UK the Society of Editors needs to step up.
Good news indeed. Let us hope that that things will snowball now. There is so much more to look forward to. I hope positive results from Alison's and Maya's cases. The Cass report will hopefully put an end to the transitioning of children. A big win will be getting Stonewall and other TRA organisations out of every single public body. Hopefully the private sector will do the same, especially when they see the response to Halifax. We need to compile a list of business that are untainted with gender ideology so that we can use our economic power to send a message too. Does anyone know of a bank that isn't promoting pronouns? Finally, of course, the GRA must be repealed.
Brilliant bumper load of good news this week. Love the seal.
Thank you!
Much Kudos to Macy Gray, who is of course as predicted receiving lots of hate. Can we start a movement to show our support for her? Maybe pick one of her more famous songs and all start buying/downloading it, spreading the word, see if we can get her to No.1..?
Good on Ms. Gray.
“A woman goes through a completely unique experience and surgery and finding oneself doesn’t change that,” she said. “Being a little girl is a whole epic book, you know? You can’t have that just because you want to be a woman.”
The more realists come out, the less the trans cult can hurt people.
Tom Daley can take a long walk off a short plank. The flashy bastard would probably throw in a triple somersault on the way down.
He's a diver I understand. The thought did occur to me that that could be one sport where sex in fact doesn't need to matter? Women are just as good as men at it or better. Other examples figure skating, gymnastics curling show jumping?
I guess you could take away the Sex categories and deprive 50% of the currently eligible cohort the opportunity to participate in competitive sport
Has The Guardian sniffed the wind?
It’s too busy producing it.
Thank you for making me laugh this morning,
Thanks, JL, you were right an excellent GNS!
Glad you enjoyed it!
God bless Sharron Davies, and all other women and men (whose names I don't know) fighting for the safety and rights of women and children, specifically.
Bravo - nice to see further evidence of the wheels coming off the transgender bus; couldn't happen to a nicer bunch …
But a bit disappointing that the UCLan "Guidance for Journalists" bit the dust, though it seems to have been a bit questionable at best. Though this part seems a good start:
"New guidelines for reporters recommend … and using 'claims to be transgender' rather than unequivocally stating male defendants are women or transwomen"
https://twitter.com/AmyB_writer/status/1541683979421630468
Though for transwomen who've had their nuts removed, one might reasonably suggest the use of "eunuch" or "eunuch-identified", particularly as NHS endorsed the terms, at least briefly, before getting their knuckles rapped by the Tranish Inquisition:
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/nhs-scotland-under-fire-including-27252557
Although, technically speaking, "eunuch" means sexless, neither male for female:
https://www.usrf.org/news/010308-hiddenpower.html
By which token, one might reasonably argue that "self-identifying" transwomen should be identified in court documents as males if they still have their nuts attached, and as eunuchs if the don't. Truth in advertising …
But UCLan also made this welcome comment:
“Courts do not exist to serve as stages on which the players perform an affirmation of a person’s chosen identity."
Amen to that. Hard to imagine a more cretinous idea than "self-identification". Fairly decent article here by philosopher Michael Robillard at Quillette on "The Incoherence of Gender Ideology", particularly in his differentiation between "gender" - which has some scientific merit as a synonym for personality and behavioral stereotypes by sex - and "gender identity" which is little better than pseudoscience, than the "merging of science, magic, and religion":
https://michaelrobillard.substack.com/p/the-incoherence-of-gender-ideology