We all have to be alert to all the attempts to sneak 'gender identity' into the law, giving it recognition and legal status which it currently doesn't have. Next up will be challenging the 'trans conversion therapy ban'. It's not just dangerous in its effect on parents and therapists trying to help confused kids but because once these concepts have that recognition and status it will be impossible to reverse and far easier for the gender lobby to demand their incorporation into other legal instruments.
Yes, I saw the letter. Very powerful. It's getting a lot of traction - shared by Wings, FWS, Jill Foster, Our Graham etc etc.. Brindley is hanging by her fingertips.
Glad you liked the pandas - they were just for you! 😊
I hope you are right about Seb Coe. He was a runner. I can’t remember him commenting on the Italian man competing in female events at the paraolympics and previously he suggested only at elite level should there be a level playing field. If it isn’t level at the grassroots level girls will give up.
The state of competition outside elite level is a concern to me. It's from grassroots levels that the talent at elite levels emerges. Imagine being say a 14 or 16 year old girl or young woman with some promise having to compete against (and probably lose) against boys or young men who are developing the benefits of male puberty. They could become disheartened and stop participating which would leave no new talented sportswomen coming through to elite levels. I'm surprised that bodies overseeing sport haven't realised this. Or maybe they have but are more interested in inclusivity than fairness and safety. We have to watch developments like hawks!
Hello JL. Thanks, as always, for this GNS. Graham suggested I ask you about a matter I put to him recently. It's not, therefore, a comment on anything you've posted in th GNS. Please don't worry if you know nothing about it. But here's what I wrote to Graham:
'There's something I really want to read again, and I can't find it. I'm sure you covered the false report -- around 2018, I think -- of a huge rise in sex crimes committed by women. Something like 78%, but I might have got this wrong. I think it was on the BBC news website, or possibly in The Guardian. Or both. It's one of those things I wish I'd saved on my computer, and I don't seem to have done so. I've tried web searches but nothing comes up, and I tried trawling BBC news but found nothing there either. I wondered if it'd been redacted. But if you covered this matter -- and I'm pretty sure you did, as I say -- I'd be really grateful if you could remind me where to find your article. Indeed I'd be grateful for any help at all.'
And that's it. Graham suggested I watch his podcasts about safety in women's prisons -- which I did. But, as I later said to him, I've begun to wonder whether my memory might not have constructed something -- not out of the blue, because there's definitely something in it. And I could have sworn it was the BBC. But it may not have formed any of the Glinner updates. Anyway, I may be mistaken. It's just that it's such a good example to have at hand when one wants to give an example of the gross injustices that can follow gender self-ID. Thanks. DB.
That looks like the one! And it wouldn't matter if it wasn't -- it's still exactly what I was looking for. Thank you very much JL for taking the trouble to reply. I'd just about talked myself into believing I had false-memory syndrome or something. Thanks again and very best wishes. DB.
Thanks for some great news JL. Really hope Seb Coe gets the job but if he does, he needs to speak out loud and clear that female sport starts at grassroots level. Banning men at elite level isn’t enough.
Ah fabulous antidote to Monday's email. I mean the fact that the Irish government was planning to implement such a law is just staggering. No government has been able to properly define gender (nor has any TRA) so to try to put this nonsense in law beggars belief. Then again, the word woman is clearly defined and exists in law but that has also been bastardised. It's just one big head fuck and I hope I live long enough to see the nonsense eradicated (I estimate I have around 35 years left 😁), what do you think?
Great post ,JL. Thank God there are so many brave people fighting back against the horrors of this movement. As a woman in my late 70s ,with no public platform of any kind ,I so often feel powerless to protect my family ( the females especially ) from the effects of this misogyny-driven insanity ,so all I can do really is support those who DO have the courage and the platform to fight back !! God Bless them all .Thanks ,JL. Great work as usual x
I was especially delighted at the news about the Irish Hate Speech Bill. In my small way I have been campaigning against it since it rolled off the blocks😃
There is a General Election in Ireland next year and the Government are extremely unpopular so no doubt this was part of their reasoning.
Yes, next year's general election is going to be... interesting. Purely from a journalistic point of view of course... 😏 The pandas were especially for Petal who expressed a partiality! Glad you like them.
Yes Petal it’s a good one. The rest of Wings brings to light how all these crackpots are related to each other through work, and other more personal connections. Unpicking this lot is not going to happen overnight but Scotland is ripping it open at the seams wherever we can.
Indeed. Thank you, JL, as ever, for this essential work.
The WOW is like a series of metaphorical slaps in the face, and the GNS like the application of some soothing balm.
However, the bruising and swelling should never have happened. I think that It still astounds anyone with an elementary ability to process logical thought, that we got into these situations in the first place.
Well done to our Welsh sisters. Drakeford was as much of a misogynist bastard as Sturgeon.
Women's Rights Network Wales and Merched Cymru have done an incredible job exposing and challenging the Bill. I'm proud to be part of WRN Wales!
Cathy from WRN Wales has an excellent opinion piece on the Bill in Nation Cymru:
https://nation.cymru/opinion/the-gender-quotas-bill-is-undemocratic-unfair-and-discriminatory/
We all have to be alert to all the attempts to sneak 'gender identity' into the law, giving it recognition and legal status which it currently doesn't have. Next up will be challenging the 'trans conversion therapy ban'. It's not just dangerous in its effect on parents and therapists trying to help confused kids but because once these concepts have that recognition and status it will be impossible to reverse and far easier for the gender lobby to demand their incorporation into other legal instruments.
I shall try again !
As always thanks JL 🌹
Yay the wee pandas 🐼
This maybe got lost on the WOW thread but it’s worth repeating , there is an open letter to Brindley from a rape survivor over on wings over Scotland
Yes, I saw the letter. Very powerful. It's getting a lot of traction - shared by Wings, FWS, Jill Foster, Our Graham etc etc.. Brindley is hanging by her fingertips.
Glad you liked the pandas - they were just for you! 😊
Excellent I’m crap on tinternet as you know but it was well worth a share
I was actually allowed a comment on wos !! My comments are usually just binned - just because I once said about the ICJ gonnae no dae that
Should shut my pus as usual lol
I spent a good half hour on utube watching pandas 😊
Brindley should be sacked for breaking Confidentiality by giving phone numbers to journalists. Plus then prosecuted for breaching Data Protection law.
I hope you are right about Seb Coe. He was a runner. I can’t remember him commenting on the Italian man competing in female events at the paraolympics and previously he suggested only at elite level should there be a level playing field. If it isn’t level at the grassroots level girls will give up.
The state of competition outside elite level is a concern to me. It's from grassroots levels that the talent at elite levels emerges. Imagine being say a 14 or 16 year old girl or young woman with some promise having to compete against (and probably lose) against boys or young men who are developing the benefits of male puberty. They could become disheartened and stop participating which would leave no new talented sportswomen coming through to elite levels. I'm surprised that bodies overseeing sport haven't realised this. Or maybe they have but are more interested in inclusivity than fairness and safety. We have to watch developments like hawks!
Hello JL. Thanks, as always, for this GNS. Graham suggested I ask you about a matter I put to him recently. It's not, therefore, a comment on anything you've posted in th GNS. Please don't worry if you know nothing about it. But here's what I wrote to Graham:
'There's something I really want to read again, and I can't find it. I'm sure you covered the false report -- around 2018, I think -- of a huge rise in sex crimes committed by women. Something like 78%, but I might have got this wrong. I think it was on the BBC news website, or possibly in The Guardian. Or both. It's one of those things I wish I'd saved on my computer, and I don't seem to have done so. I've tried web searches but nothing comes up, and I tried trawling BBC news but found nothing there either. I wondered if it'd been redacted. But if you covered this matter -- and I'm pretty sure you did, as I say -- I'd be really grateful if you could remind me where to find your article. Indeed I'd be grateful for any help at all.'
And that's it. Graham suggested I watch his podcasts about safety in women's prisons -- which I did. But, as I later said to him, I've begun to wonder whether my memory might not have constructed something -- not out of the blue, because there's definitely something in it. And I could have sworn it was the BBC. But it may not have formed any of the Glinner updates. Anyway, I may be mistaken. It's just that it's such a good example to have at hand when one wants to give an example of the gross injustices that can follow gender self-ID. Thanks. DB.
Hi DB. I don't think that was me! Maybe you're thinking of this piece by Nutmeg??
https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/how-long-will-women-stand-for-this
That looks like the one! And it wouldn't matter if it wasn't -- it's still exactly what I was looking for. Thank you very much JL for taking the trouble to reply. I'd just about talked myself into believing I had false-memory syndrome or something. Thanks again and very best wishes. DB.
Glad to be of help!
Sorry for 'liking' my own question. How conceited.
😄
Thanks for some great news JL. Really hope Seb Coe gets the job but if he does, he needs to speak out loud and clear that female sport starts at grassroots level. Banning men at elite level isn’t enough.
Ah fabulous antidote to Monday's email. I mean the fact that the Irish government was planning to implement such a law is just staggering. No government has been able to properly define gender (nor has any TRA) so to try to put this nonsense in law beggars belief. Then again, the word woman is clearly defined and exists in law but that has also been bastardised. It's just one big head fuck and I hope I live long enough to see the nonsense eradicated (I estimate I have around 35 years left 😁), what do you think?
Great post ,JL. Thank God there are so many brave people fighting back against the horrors of this movement. As a woman in my late 70s ,with no public platform of any kind ,I so often feel powerless to protect my family ( the females especially ) from the effects of this misogyny-driven insanity ,so all I can do really is support those who DO have the courage and the platform to fight back !! God Bless them all .Thanks ,JL. Great work as usual x
Thank you, Susan! x
Thanks as ever, JL.
I was especially delighted at the news about the Irish Hate Speech Bill. In my small way I have been campaigning against it since it rolled off the blocks😃
There is a General Election in Ireland next year and the Government are extremely unpopular so no doubt this was part of their reasoning.
Loved the pandas!
Dusty
Yes, next year's general election is going to be... interesting. Purely from a journalistic point of view of course... 😏 The pandas were especially for Petal who expressed a partiality! Glad you like them.
Can I express a partiality for Jason momoa next week ? 😂
I should probably delete that before I get shit but , meh who cares if you can’t take a joke
Jason Momoa?? 😲 Not my cup of at all! A MIMOSA on the other hand... 🍸
Knowing Google you could probably find both 😂
And indeed you can 😂
Well I tried my best to send a pic but my efforts are sub par !
Here ya go, Petal:
https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.845394624.1014/flat,750x,075,f-pad,750x1000,f8f8f8.u1.jpg
https://i.etsystatic.com/17506165/r/il/955d33/1724032168/il_794xN.1724032168_hc3w.jpg
https://preview.redd.it/64ioiihqr6d71.jpg?auto=webp&s=7bfe40932a4a31db1a7db21b3bcb03776cede566
😂 thank you
I know every zoo would love to have some pandas but you can go too far🤣https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/offbeat/zoo-admits-that-their-pandas-are-painted-dogs-after-backlash-from-visitors/ar-AA1qS6Ol?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=747a23ea9590417a9a8639d9180368f6&ei=28
Well I was fooled 😂
Mind I’m an eejit !
Hi Petal
If you could hear them barking that might have given you a clue 😀
Dusty
My two don’t bark , one yips and the other howls like a wolf , complete with head thrown back , pity she’s about 1/6 of a size of a wolf lol
Yes Petal it’s a good one. The rest of Wings brings to light how all these crackpots are related to each other through work, and other more personal connections. Unpicking this lot is not going to happen overnight but Scotland is ripping it open at the seams wherever we can.
Hopefully that thread won’t descend into the usual 300 year old colonial guff !
Cb , has your Owen jones vid been taken down , I went to look and it ‘isn’t available any more ‘
I’ve emailed myself the JL and perverts as I couldn’t find a way to link it , no biggie I just wondered
You and yours have a great w/e 😀
I found it 🙂
Thank you cb , I’m assuming level 1 is just the general ability to switch the damn thing on 😂
You’ll be fine
Cheers, CB. Enjoy your booze!
Indeed. Thank you, JL, as ever, for this essential work.
The WOW is like a series of metaphorical slaps in the face, and the GNS like the application of some soothing balm.
However, the bruising and swelling should never have happened. I think that It still astounds anyone with an elementary ability to process logical thought, that we got into these situations in the first place.
Fuckin ell cb you swallowed a dictionary
O you’ve lost me , is the app different !? Don’t answer that , it clearly is
Can’t sleep tonight , downsizing booze not working this evening obviously 😐
Going to try watching some shite on iPad and see if that will work , doesn’t help with two two snorting snoring pugs each side mind
Don’t like to disappoint 😂