Why is Ben Goldacre not calling out quacks like these? Where is Mister ‘Bad Science’ on these lunatics? Joseph, like Ellie Mae O’Hagan here, thinks the problem is that these kids aren’t being sterilised and mutilated quick enough! Can’t wait until she’s under oath and giving her thoughts on the Cass Report! (“I looked it over”)
I’m reposting this here as I just posted this on the Twitter post from yesterday:
I’ve quit Unison tonight and I’m writing to explain why. I can’t trust them to protect me.
I actually googled “does unison protect gender critical beliefs” and on my results page saw a Unison page with the title “TERFS toxic opinions and an obsession with who’s in what toilet” from three days ago but when I click the link the page doesn’t exist anymore.
Terfs, ‘toxic opinions’ and an obsession over who’s in what toilet
LGBT+ delegates take aim at “exhausting” negative press coverage of trans people, and the horror to conversion ‘therapy’
Moving a motion on combatting anti-trans narratives in the media at UNISON’s LGBT+ conference this afternoon, Jenny said that, until 2016, it was largely either a case of having to “put up with Germaine Greer and her toxic opinions” or a sort of British Carry On humour.
Then came Brexit , which emboldened bigotry. Across all the British media, she said, there has been a constant stream of anti-trans opinion, portraying trans people – and trans women in particular – as a danger to others, and displaying an obsessive interest in what “bits” other people in public toilets have what they do with them.
“We’re even responsible for the national HRT shortage, for goodness sake!” she exclaimed.
And to reinforce the point, she quoted leading British gender critical commentator Kathleen Stock who stated, earlier this year, that “every trans person is a problem in a sane world”.
Delegates also heard of the links between ‘Terfs’ (trans-exclusionary radical feminists) and very un-feminist anti-abortionists, racists and fascists.
Hannah told conference that “the demonisation of trans people is constant and exhausting. It paints us a threat simply for existing.
“Gender essentialism was at the heart of fascism in the 1930s and is now,” she added, citing how the Nazis destroyed Magnus Hirschfeld’s institute, which carried out the first advocacy for LGBT+ rights, in 1933, as soon as they came to power.
And Simon, a trained psychologist, mentioning intersex and other non-binary people, pointed out: “Nature is not binary.” The hippocampus is different sizes in men and women, but research shows that its size tends to match the identity of trans and non-binary people.
“All are free to be who we were born to be” and conversion ‘therapy’ is “immoral, unethical and extremely harmful”.
Gail was speaking to a motion that saw delegates from across the community movingly discuss the harmful nature of attempts to change a person’s sexuality or gender identity.
She went on to describe how, after coming out at her evangelical church, she was told: “You were created perfect, you became flawed” and sent to a form of conversion ‘therapy’.
It is coercive practice that is linked to an increased risk of mental health issues. Gail described how people end up “hating who they are, as I did for many years.
“There is no debate to be had. Condemn – and fully, not partially, ban conversion therapy.”
Michael said that, of those trans people offered conversion ‘therapy’, “one in 25 had undergone it”.
Some religious groups will continue to fight against any ban on the “perceived protection of religious belief”, he added.
Another delegate explains how he looked into conversion ‘therapy’ for research. Just 20 minutes into one session in, he realised he wasn’t confident comfortable and walked out.
“Stop this abhorrent practice. It can ruin lives and it can end lives,” he said.
In a motion on the need to defend LGBT+ rights won via the Human Rights Act, which Conservatives have longed sought to scrap, Louise said: “Human rights have been demonised by the Tories.
“Based on shared values”, they “should belong to everyone. Why has the Tory government got such an issue with human rights?” adding that home secretary Suella Braverman has already made comments on LGBT+ people that breach human rights, as she called on delegates to be vigilant.
Bit ironic to demand to use the toilet facilities of the opposite sex and then claim others have an obsession. If it doesn't matter, why don't they just use the correct facilities (i.e. those corresponding to reality rather than fanciful thinking) instead of trying to change the law?
Also if you're struggling to remember Ellie Mae, one of my favourite of her quotes is " you know I actually don't know why some people are women and some people are men, no-one on this panel does"
That was such a beautiful example of...something, something beyond wilful ignorance. Someone who's gone so far down the rabbit hole that they can no longer acknowledge any connection between man or woman as a biological entity. She's smart enough to take Transgenderism to it's logical conclusion, but not smart enough to see how absurd it is when taken to it's logical conclusion. It's a very pure example of high level stupidity, a dumb person couldn't be this stupid.
I'm trying to work out what she actually thinks she is saying. I assume it's that the allocation of xx and xy in the womb is arbitrary, and there is nothing you can do (in spite of old wives tales to the contrary) to make a boy or a girl outcome more likely.
She may be saying: I don't know why we are dimorphic mammals, which is a kind of philosophical thingy.
It's possible that she's saying I don't know why we are roughly 50%m 50%f when technically you need fewer males than females to keep the population going. Which leads to questions about in-breeding as well as nurturing roles etc.
But even if it is the first one, that still has zero bearing on whether men can transform into women and vice versa.
That twitter 'moderator'! A wannabe, his tight pink t-shirt clinging to his chest implants. To keep control of my emotions, I had to dig my nails into my hands! I want my twitter account back!!!!!!
I suppose in a world where a man can declare himself a women, it follows that a convicted criminal can declare herself (himself in the real world) to be of good character.
It’s mad world where personal declaration trumps reality and one that simply isn’t sustainable as in the end, perhaps after much pain, reality will win.
I had to laugh. That Melissa man thinks that Twitter is going to become a more toxic place than it is? Nope, it will become a place where people can talk about reality.
Nothing but perverts and profiteers. Digging your fingernails into your hand to leave impressions and then taking a photo of it to post on the internet is very childish. So, I'll add those suffering from arrested development to that list.
They had this "Melissa" person on the NPR show "1A" the other day. One of the 1A producers has a "trans kid" so the show (like most NPR shows) is very one-sided on the subject.
(EDIT: I was confusing Jesse Thorn of the show "Bullseye" with this show. Though 1A is also very one-sided; not sure if they have a trans connection or are just following the NPR trend.)
I was listening to it and thinking "The 'Melissa' person doesn't sound like any Melissa I've ever met..."
I heard that too. And you say that one of 1A's producers has a "trans kid"? No wonder my multiple complaints to them about their biased coverage of trans issues have gone unheeded. NPR's other shows must have the same situation, or trans people on staff because they don't seem to care about my many complaints to them about the same thing. You would think they would at least mention sometimes that there is another viewpoint. They only mention that in the context of what red-state legislatures are doing. I've told them multiple times that it's not a right vs. left kind of issue. That alone should warrant a whole story.
D'oh! - I confused 1A with Jesse Thorn of the show "Bullseye", who has a "trans kid". My mistake, sorry about that! But both shows are equally biased in their reporting on trans issues/debates.
I agree - NPR and other lefty media outlets seem to think that GC doesn't exist, that anything not following the party line is something espoused by "right wing extremists" (or that people who have solid left-wing/liberal credentials but who are GC are somehow sadly deluded).
Re: Good Law Project and Gendered Intelligence? I am also disgusted. It's absolutely CRAZY that someone can't be guaranteed to get their natural puberty halted and then be swiftly sterilised based on sexist stereotypes and/or for going through largely normal adolescent/teen angst. I hate these ring-wing bigots who don't want to experiment on children as soon as possible.
They don't seem to realise we can't be too far away from the news breaking they are abusing autistic and LGB youth...
Sexualised parodies of women... sexual innuendo... slut drops... twerking... drug culture... promoting that sexist stereotypes determine biological sex... anatomy way too clear through costumes.
I think there should be drag queen story hours for *birthing parents*, REALLY start them young. I don't know how we survived this long as a species without [s]exposing our kids to drag queens. THIS is where we've been going wrong. At least we've been educated now!
The post from gender is harmful with the drag event for 14 year olds, the last photo says rupaulsdragrace at the top. Is there an official affiliation there?
Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers for approving of the "Gender Unicorn" in elementary schools, got caught. For a 2 min lesson on the developmental concept of bodily integrity, watch:
Ben Goldacre is another serious disappointment. He made his name supporting evidence-based medicine, calling out the bullshit that Big Pharma put out and investigating the horrors that Big Pharma tried to hide. Now, when the stakes are (in my opinion) higher than the were when "Bad Pharma" was first published - and the stakes were fairly high back then - he has done nothing to support objective reality over faith. I will not forget this in the future, and I hope others don't, either.
I’m reposting this here as I just posted this on the Twitter post from yesterday:
I’ve quit Unison tonight and I’m writing to explain why. I can’t trust them to protect me.
I actually googled “does unison protect gender critical beliefs” and on my results page saw a Unison page with the title “TERFS toxic opinions and an obsession with who’s in what toilet” from three days ago but when I click the link the page doesn’t exist anymore.
Ah but the internet never forgets!
Terfs, ‘toxic opinions’ and an obsession over who’s in what toilet
LGBT+ delegates take aim at “exhausting” negative press coverage of trans people, and the horror to conversion ‘therapy’
Moving a motion on combatting anti-trans narratives in the media at UNISON’s LGBT+ conference this afternoon, Jenny said that, until 2016, it was largely either a case of having to “put up with Germaine Greer and her toxic opinions” or a sort of British Carry On humour.
Then came Brexit , which emboldened bigotry. Across all the British media, she said, there has been a constant stream of anti-trans opinion, portraying trans people – and trans women in particular – as a danger to others, and displaying an obsessive interest in what “bits” other people in public toilets have what they do with them.
“We’re even responsible for the national HRT shortage, for goodness sake!” she exclaimed.
And to reinforce the point, she quoted leading British gender critical commentator Kathleen Stock who stated, earlier this year, that “every trans person is a problem in a sane world”.
Delegates also heard of the links between ‘Terfs’ (trans-exclusionary radical feminists) and very un-feminist anti-abortionists, racists and fascists.
Hannah told conference that “the demonisation of trans people is constant and exhausting. It paints us a threat simply for existing.
“Gender essentialism was at the heart of fascism in the 1930s and is now,” she added, citing how the Nazis destroyed Magnus Hirschfeld’s institute, which carried out the first advocacy for LGBT+ rights, in 1933, as soon as they came to power.
And Simon, a trained psychologist, mentioning intersex and other non-binary people, pointed out: “Nature is not binary.” The hippocampus is different sizes in men and women, but research shows that its size tends to match the identity of trans and non-binary people.
“All are free to be who we were born to be” and conversion ‘therapy’ is “immoral, unethical and extremely harmful”.
Gail was speaking to a motion that saw delegates from across the community movingly discuss the harmful nature of attempts to change a person’s sexuality or gender identity.
She went on to describe how, after coming out at her evangelical church, she was told: “You were created perfect, you became flawed” and sent to a form of conversion ‘therapy’.
It is coercive practice that is linked to an increased risk of mental health issues. Gail described how people end up “hating who they are, as I did for many years.
“There is no debate to be had. Condemn – and fully, not partially, ban conversion therapy.”
Michael said that, of those trans people offered conversion ‘therapy’, “one in 25 had undergone it”.
Some religious groups will continue to fight against any ban on the “perceived protection of religious belief”, he added.
Another delegate explains how he looked into conversion ‘therapy’ for research. Just 20 minutes into one session in, he realised he wasn’t confident comfortable and walked out.
“Stop this abhorrent practice. It can ruin lives and it can end lives,” he said.
In a motion on the need to defend LGBT+ rights won via the Human Rights Act, which Conservatives have longed sought to scrap, Louise said: “Human rights have been demonised by the Tories.
“Based on shared values”, they “should belong to everyone. Why has the Tory government got such an issue with human rights?” adding that home secretary Suella Braverman has already made comments on LGBT+ people that breach human rights, as she called on delegates to be vigilant.
https://web.archive.org/web/20221120151128/https://www.unison.org.uk/news/article/2022/11/terfs-toxic-opinions-and-an-obsession-over-whos-in-what-toilet/
Bit ironic to demand to use the toilet facilities of the opposite sex and then claim others have an obsession. If it doesn't matter, why don't they just use the correct facilities (i.e. those corresponding to reality rather than fanciful thinking) instead of trying to change the law?
1. Lots of typos and non-sequiturs
2. All the individuals quoted as speaking have no surnames
3. Non binary hippocampus.. what?
4. The Stock 'sane world' quote is completely out of context, as per usual. Oh and it was actually Helen Joyce
5. ..
Oh it's all such bobbins isn't it.
It’s a mystery why it got deleted really!
Well done, SazzelDazzle! How F-ing dare they!?
Also if you're struggling to remember Ellie Mae, one of my favourite of her quotes is " you know I actually don't know why some people are women and some people are men, no-one on this panel does"
https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1460942680440061954?s=20&t=gkZhKA2eP_Ih-qqPPKThAg
Loopy Law Project just keep going don't they?
That was such a beautiful example of...something, something beyond wilful ignorance. Someone who's gone so far down the rabbit hole that they can no longer acknowledge any connection between man or woman as a biological entity. She's smart enough to take Transgenderism to it's logical conclusion, but not smart enough to see how absurd it is when taken to it's logical conclusion. It's a very pure example of high level stupidity, a dumb person couldn't be this stupid.
Deliberately Dumb DD
I'm trying to work out what she actually thinks she is saying. I assume it's that the allocation of xx and xy in the womb is arbitrary, and there is nothing you can do (in spite of old wives tales to the contrary) to make a boy or a girl outcome more likely.
She may be saying: I don't know why we are dimorphic mammals, which is a kind of philosophical thingy.
It's possible that she's saying I don't know why we are roughly 50%m 50%f when technically you need fewer males than females to keep the population going. Which leads to questions about in-breeding as well as nurturing roles etc.
But even if it is the first one, that still has zero bearing on whether men can transform into women and vice versa.
So bizarre.
Thanks fr the EM quote..it got me a much needed LOL moment. 🥰
That twitter 'moderator'! A wannabe, his tight pink t-shirt clinging to his chest implants. To keep control of my emotions, I had to dig my nails into my hands! I want my twitter account back!!!!!!
Totally agree! This explains a LOT.
It looks more like socks stuffed into a bra to me. If they're implants, the surgeon needs a good talking to!
haha!
I suppose in a world where a man can declare himself a women, it follows that a convicted criminal can declare herself (himself in the real world) to be of good character.
It’s mad world where personal declaration trumps reality and one that simply isn’t sustainable as in the end, perhaps after much pain, reality will win.
I had to laugh. That Melissa man thinks that Twitter is going to become a more toxic place than it is? Nope, it will become a place where people can talk about reality.
"That Melissa man..." 😊 I love that!
Nothing but perverts and profiteers. Digging your fingernails into your hand to leave impressions and then taking a photo of it to post on the internet is very childish. So, I'll add those suffering from arrested development to that list.
Claims about the risks of porn are contradictory? WTF!?
Their agenda might be to protect your innocent mind from an exploitative industry. OH NO! DEMONS!
They had this "Melissa" person on the NPR show "1A" the other day. One of the 1A producers has a "trans kid" so the show (like most NPR shows) is very one-sided on the subject.
(EDIT: I was confusing Jesse Thorn of the show "Bullseye" with this show. Though 1A is also very one-sided; not sure if they have a trans connection or are just following the NPR trend.)
I was listening to it and thinking "The 'Melissa' person doesn't sound like any Melissa I've ever met..."
https://the1a.org/segments/the-future-of-elon-musks-twitter/
I heard that too. And you say that one of 1A's producers has a "trans kid"? No wonder my multiple complaints to them about their biased coverage of trans issues have gone unheeded. NPR's other shows must have the same situation, or trans people on staff because they don't seem to care about my many complaints to them about the same thing. You would think they would at least mention sometimes that there is another viewpoint. They only mention that in the context of what red-state legislatures are doing. I've told them multiple times that it's not a right vs. left kind of issue. That alone should warrant a whole story.
D'oh! - I confused 1A with Jesse Thorn of the show "Bullseye", who has a "trans kid". My mistake, sorry about that! But both shows are equally biased in their reporting on trans issues/debates.
I agree - NPR and other lefty media outlets seem to think that GC doesn't exist, that anything not following the party line is something espoused by "right wing extremists" (or that people who have solid left-wing/liberal credentials but who are GC are somehow sadly deluded).
Re: Good Law Project and Gendered Intelligence? I am also disgusted. It's absolutely CRAZY that someone can't be guaranteed to get their natural puberty halted and then be swiftly sterilised based on sexist stereotypes and/or for going through largely normal adolescent/teen angst. I hate these ring-wing bigots who don't want to experiment on children as soon as possible.
They don't seem to realise we can't be too far away from the news breaking they are abusing autistic and LGB youth...
They must REALLY believe what they are saying!
FFS!
Of course drag queens are for kids!
Sexualised parodies of women... sexual innuendo... slut drops... twerking... drug culture... promoting that sexist stereotypes determine biological sex... anatomy way too clear through costumes.
I think there should be drag queen story hours for *birthing parents*, REALLY start them young. I don't know how we survived this long as a species without [s]exposing our kids to drag queens. THIS is where we've been going wrong. At least we've been educated now!
I'm 100% joking... what a F-ing nightmare!
On Balenciaga, the photographer says Balenciaga chose every single item! The photographer has no control over the item choice. Check it out here:
https://nypost.com/2022/11/23/balenciaga-bdsm-teddy-bear-photographer-addresses-backlash/
God the NY Post! This article has "It was in beary bad taste". Yesterday's "They're beary sorry". Stop making cheap puns!
Yeah, I actually like puns, but not in this case.
The post from gender is harmful with the drag event for 14 year olds, the last photo says rupaulsdragrace at the top. Is there an official affiliation there?
FFS!!
This is a very perceptive tweet on the Balenciaga pictures.
https://twitter.com/unofiatu/status/1595046593631248387
Remember Jacob Breslow objectifying children. No different to a shoe.
Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers for approving of the "Gender Unicorn" in elementary schools, got caught. For a 2 min lesson on the developmental concept of bodily integrity, watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVp2BszabSk&t=2s
Ben Goldacre is another serious disappointment. He made his name supporting evidence-based medicine, calling out the bullshit that Big Pharma put out and investigating the horrors that Big Pharma tried to hide. Now, when the stakes are (in my opinion) higher than the were when "Bad Pharma" was first published - and the stakes were fairly high back then - he has done nothing to support objective reality over faith. I will not forget this in the future, and I hope others don't, either.
Males of Reddit is suspended from Twitter. New boss, just like the old boss?