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[Michael Peters @PetersMich28437]

The fastest female, 100-meter sprinter in recorded history is American legend Florence Griffith Joyner. She set the world record of 10.49 seconds on July 16, 1988.

In 2026, there were over 1000 high school boys that beat this record! You read that correctly. In this year alone, there were over 1000 high school boys that beat the record of fastest woman in the world ever!

If just one of those boys, or a meager 1/10 of 1%, decided to compete as a woman, he would crush the women’s world record!

I’m not talking about a high school record or a college record or even an Olympic or professional record. I’m talking about the women’s world record that has held since 1988!

Remind me again, why you’re not supportive of women’s rights.

[James Esses @JamesEsses]

🚨Puberty Blockers Trial Update🚨

I’m deeply saddened to announce that the High Court has refused permission for us to proceed to a full Judicial Review hearing in our pursuit to block the deeply unethical and highly dangerous puberty blockers trial.

This judgment does not negate the serious and avoidable harm that will be caused if this trial is allowed to proceed.

Vulnerable children should never be used as guinea pigs in medical experimentation that may lead them down a path towards irreversible physiological and emotional damage, including infertility.

This trial is the antithesis of child safeguarding and I will now be consulting with my lawyers regarding the possibility of an appeal.

[deirdre o donovan @dm0d]

A response like this to what was then emerging from the Trans Industrial complex was an obvious and critical necessity within all the listed professions about 7years ago and had it come would have stopped the intellectual rot already eating our institutions and prevented the medical scandal that is the state sanctioned mutilation of children -but to the shock of many of us who naively believed there were some ethical and rational guardrails -‘professional standards’ to protect society from such claptrap -it never came-on the contrary never was it truer that the worst of charlatans were full of passionate intensity while the best- it seems -lacked any conviction and we are all paying a high price for this total failure to act like rational human beings

[Colorado Principled Physicians @ColoradoDoctors]

The fact remains: the trans industry, which consists of doctors, psychologists, lawyers, teachers, elderly caregivers, hospice workers, and billionaires like "Martine" Rothblatt and "Jennifer" Prizker, acting globally to capture medical institutions and the law itself, cannot be defeated by putting our heads under the sand and hoping it will pass. The trans industry, which has grown by leaps and bounds faster than any religion using cult tactics, is coming for the dissociation of sex from the human mind in an effort to push #transhumanism. Yes, sounds absolutely insane and absolutely grotesque, but it's HERE and it's happening. Most doctors simply cannot believe the damage being done by gender ideology simply because it sounds too ridiculous that other doctors would actually sexually mutilate children under the guise of feelings called "gender identity" but they ARE.

The truth about the trans industry is too dark and sinister to bear in what we assume is a civilized society but we MUST look into it. We can't all be pediatricians singing kumbaya as our colleagues permanently harm children sexually; we simply cannot if we have basic consciences. Wake up and fight back against the trans industry, we promise it's a noble cause and well worth the toil. You can get in touch with us if you want to start a Principled Physician's group in your state (as a lot of fighting gender ideology seems to be at state level due to how much politics have divided us 🇺🇸), and contact us via the link in bio. Abusers sending nasty messages will be screwed for life as our weird unpaid social media intern is keen about curses and things, but we can always use more physicians popping their heads out of their nethers and bank accounts, etc to help in the mission. Welcome to the good side if you're ready, Player One.
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[Sall Grover @salltweets]

“Men who identify as women may not enjoy being reminded they are not women. They may not like hearing that women don’t want them in our sports, spaces or services. Tough. Their personal sensitivity cannot become the legal standard for the entire country.”

Latest op-ed link 👇

[Brandi Kruse @BrandiKruse]

No, @thecomeback. We’re not playing this game anymore. It’s a fan rally. It’s not anti anything. It’s pro truth and fairness. We’re fighting for women’s rights and we won’t be deterred.

[Wesley Yang @wesyang]

The man in the photo is not the murder victim but its perpetrator. He is referred to as the “daughter” of the father he killed (he is his son) because he claims to be a woman (he is a man) and Britain’s state-funded news service has a policy of referring to any man who says he is a woman as a woman.

It shares this policy in common with most of the news outlets in the Western world because a mind virus controls the media and compels virtually every person employed in that sector to collude in deranged lies.

[Carole Hooven @hoovlet]

1/ Today marks five years since my appearance on Fox & Friends (first time on TV). Does not feel so long ago. It ultimately cost me my 20 year career at Harvard.

I spoke about why educators must be clear about the biology of sex and resist caving into the mob and sacrificing scientific accuracy.

My case is just one of many casualties of the sex and gender culture wars. If we want to restore trust in our institutions, a good place to start would be acknowledging what went wrong, and admitting that what happened to many of us was unjust, and a plan to ensure it doesn't happen again.
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[Helen Joyce @HJoyceGender]

Perhaps the worst thing Alison said was that she didn't need to check facts with WRN NI because "it was a column". When I was commissioning columnists at The Economist, if any one had suggested that because it was a column they could make stuff up, I'd never have accepted a file from them again.

[Kellie-Jay Keen @ThePosieParker]

Hate to say I was right all along about Cass.

[Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety]

Most people know Dutch artist Piet Mondrian for his block colours and geometric abstraction, but here also are two of his earlier, naturalistic works created before 1910 ~ Apples, Ginger Pot and Plate ■ Still Life with Oranges

[deirdre o donovan @dm0d]

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[Charlie D. Becker @charliedbecker]

I'm a second-generation bookseller. My family runs Houston's largest used & rare bookstore and I'm building an AI tool for used bookstores. We got hit by exactly these orders, including a single order for 70 obscure books that made us pause online sales entirely. So I dug in. I don't think this connects the way people want it to.

Every ingredient of the viral story is true. ISBNdb really does advertise sourcing books for AI companies. Anthropic really did destructively scan millions of books though they were mostly acquired through things like library deaccessions, not bookstore inventory. And booksellers really are getting bizarre bulk orders. But "rare" here isn't what you're picturing. It's The Insider's Guide to Metro Denver (1995) and how-to-use-WordPerfect 1991 manuals. Obscure, but often not precious.

When we combed through our orders, nearly every book bought from us was either unavailable on Amazon or listed there at 5, 10, 20x our price on the platform they were purchased on. And the shipments are going to FBA prep companies: which is what you do with a book you're about to resell, not one you're about to cut apart. There is more than circumstantial evidence that this is a well-funded company running algorithmic arbitrage, buying underpriced or out-of-stock books to relist on Amazon at markup. This evidence includes an official denial that they are selling to train AI but I don't want to mention them for several reasons. You can Google it.

That's more mundane than the shredder story. The actual risk is worse, though, because it's quieter: books that don't sell via FBA eventually get liquidated. If we really hold the last copies of some of these (and comparing platforms, it looks like we might) we're feeding them into a portal they may not come back from. No AI company required.

Everyone assumes the internet preserved everything. It didn't. Many of these books have almost no metadata anywhere, just a scattered listings across proprietary databases then nothing. That's what my project is for: building better bibliographic records for these books than exist anywhere else, so we at least have a map of what we stand to lose. So the Library of Alexandria is still burning, just more slowly, and kore from “who cares” than from some cinematic villain.

(I am open to being corrected.)

Full writeup: https://t.co/tHXMH0L3us

[The Countess @TheCountessIE]

An omertà exists in Irish media, both print and broadcast, to never platform women who want to speak up for the erosion of women’s rights following the enactment of the GRA in 2015.

Since then we have seen very little in the way of reporting on said erosion e.g. referring to women as people with a cervix/vulva etc, & the inclusion of “anyone who identifies as a woman” in women’s healthcare literature such as menopause for example.

Is being a woman simply in our minds now? Or more importantly, are women to be defined by what some tiny minority of men “feel?” Are we to ignore thousands of years of biological evidence for 2 sexes, and bow down to this minority and their champions?

Not one leading Irish newspaper has reported on this, nor have they allowed anyone from The Countess or any other women’s org to publish an opinion in their publications.

The Countess held a conference in the RDS in 2023 that was heavily protested by trans activists. Some attendees were intimidated and assaulted by these activists in front of the Gardai. Ask yourself why women can’t meet to discuss our concerns safely.

Trans activists are the most cosseted group by politicians & civil societies & media in Ireland, both north and south. That is a fact.

To suggest that women haven’t been affected negatively in many ways because of gender self ID is childish, to put it mildly.

[Clare Page : No Secret Lessons @NoSecretLessons]

It’s the latter.

[Clare Page : No Secret Lessons @NoSecretLessons]

‘Tremendous win’…?

To be allowed to once again record the fundamental reality of sex - just so long as it is alongside a cult fiction that is still being applied by the NHS to justify stunting children’s puberty and slicing young people’s healthy body parts off? I’m afraid I cannot agree.

[Clare Page : No Secret Lessons @NoSecretLessons]

Once again, an example of a ‘gender critic’ using absurdly soft and appeasing language, to operate within a corrupted system, without truly pointing that out.

As ever, this ‘incremental little wins’ attitude fails to pierce the medical ‘trans’ cult and reintroduce the reality we need. Much as one can ‘damn with faint praise’ the inverse is just as bad, to ‘approve with weak critique’.

This notice should read:

‘Sex at birth has just been *restored* as a mandatory data item in the NHS core information standard…

…but it is within an otherwise intact system of gender ideology that is enshrined in the NHS, not least due to deranged ‘gender’ laws.

This is not nearly enough to secure patient safety and care in an organisation that is clearly corrupted by cult ideation and malpractice.

Far from being the important step forward for patient safety and care that we might hope for, this merely seems to rationalise the fantasy of ‘gender’ in relation to the fact of sex (which activists were previously trying to totally erase btw), and thus normalises the fantasy of ‘gender’ in medical science, even as it recovers the fact of sex.

These are dangerous manipulations that should be rejected, as should the ‘gender’ laws that cause this to happen.

No one is safe in medical science so long as the medical institution deals so significantly at a structural level in fantasy.

What should be happening is a public inquiry to discover how this systemic capture, by what is effectively scientific fraud, occurred in the first place, with consequences for the fraudsters.’

Read the standards for yourself, to see which notice you think is most helpful:

[Ayaan Hirsi Ali @Ayaan]

Germany's crisis isn't immigration. It's denial.

A government that refuses to confront Islamist ideology cannot protect its citizens. I've warned about this for years. My latest for @RestoringWest.

[Jennifer Thetford-Kay @JenKteach]

Sophie Cunningham refused to fold... and in doing so, she just shifted the Overton window for every female athlete in America.

Males have no place in the women’s game. Full stop. Every headline should be about her courage...

"At 6’1”, Cunningham is exceptionally tall, even by elite female standards. Yet the average male professional basketball player stands around 6’7”. She knows that if sex categories disappear, women’s sport won’t become more inclusive; it will become more male."

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

This beautiful map scales America's rivers by the volume of water they carry rather than their length. It reveals just how dominant the Mississippi system is and reminds us that not all rivers are equal. Flow matters as much as distance. Source: https://t.co/cTWxApCdEo