I see a lot of MPs broadcasting their views on how the @EHRC Code of Conduct impacts trans people. I wonder if they have any view as to how it affects women?
There was a big win for girls in Scotland today.
The Court of Session has ruled that West Lothian Council @LoveWestLothian multi-user unisex toilets in a primary school amounted to indirect sex discrimination against female pupils.
Common sense was upheld. GIrls deserve privacy, dignity, and single-sex facilities especially in schools.
Full judgment here:
https://t.co/bXB2JiY0wB
Scottish councils and @scotgov need to stop ignoring biological reality and follow the law.
Another woman's job is being threatened over her gender critical views. This time, Agnes Wold in Sweden.
Agnes Wold is a much-loved public intellectual in Sweden who is known for her feminism, her level-headed response to the COVID lockdown hysteria (she’s a bacteriologist), and, more recently, for refusing to go along with the transgender dogma that has gripped Swedish bureaucratic, activist, media and political elites.
On 20 May, the Swedish parliament approved an amendment to the law that criminalises “psychological violence” and “coercion” relating to “gender identity or gender expression (such as conversion practices)”, among other things. It is widely understood to be Sweden’s version of a conversion therapy ban (a more explicit law is likely if the left coalition gets into power in September).
Speaking on a radio programme about the law, Wold told the host that she would take 4 years in prison— the penalty for trying to prevent someone from leaning into their opposite-sex, delusion — before she would allow the gender transition of a grandchild (hard agree).
This comment set off major drama, with one famous gay media guy calling her the Swedish equivalent to “old hag” or “old crone”. Specifically, he said “get rid of the old hag. It is unethical of Sveriges Radio to give her access to a microphone,” which is a way of saying she should be fired from her public radio job.
Many, many people have called for Agnes Wold to be fired throughout the trans-mania era, and a lot of them seemed to be hoping that this comment would be the final nail in her coffin. But the remarks seem to have the opposite effect. Not only did Swedish people get very offended by this little shithead calling their beloved based radio-granny an old hag, they started to ask questions about the law that she was criticising.
And that, boys and girls, is how the omerta on the trans mass derangement got partially lifted in Sweden, and suddenly everyone started to ask: wait, what? Some kids think they’re in the wrong body and you can go to jail for telling them to snap out of it? Yes, dear Swedes, that’s what’s happening. Welcome to the conversation. We’ve been expecting you.
As of writing, Wold still has not yet been fired.
Allowing biological men into women’s toilets, changing rooms, prisons, shelters, and sports isn’t “kindness” it’s reckless stupidity that gets women assaulted, raped, and robbed of their privacy and safety. We’ve already seen the cases: girls traumatized, female prisoners impregnated, records smashed by mediocre male athletes.
Sex is real. Male violence patterns don’t magically vanish with lipstick and a dress. Women’s single-sex spaces exist because biology matters and safeguarding isn’t bigotry. Stop sacrificing women and girls on the altar of this delusional ideology.
Trans rights don’t include the right to override female rights and endanger them. Enough.
Today, I was given a permanent ban of posting on my Facebook page, @Meta. The page can exist - apparently - but I am not allowed to post on it anymore. The page has been deemed controversial due to the Giggle v Tickle case and increased popularity of 25,000 new followers in a week. I don't want to labor the irony of being banned on a social networking platform while fighting in court for the right to ban men from a woman only social networking platform, it is what it is. Frankly, I'd love to have the same right that you do, @Meta.
Women are routinely punished for not accepting men as women. It doesn't turn those men into women. Nothing will.
"If a woman can be prosecuted for saying something that basically all women know to be true, then free speech in France does not exist." @doramoutot
https://t.co/1A19DYyNiz
Ako išta, a ono što smo imali mudrosti da ona bojeva zrna opet pretočimo u slova, pa mirno, s vrhunskom željom, zadojeni slobodom, obnovimo državu, dovoljno je za ljudskog života.
Neka je vječna Crna Gora! ❤️🇲🇪
It was May the 16th, 1978, just before 3 days from the release of Dire Straits' epic single 'Sultans of Swing' which is in their self-titled album.
The band took the stage live at The Old Grey Whistle Test and performed that legendary, invaluable, and amazing song, Sultans of Swing.
This footage is one of the earliest footage of the band and it is beyond perfection since there was no release back in that time from Dire Straits.
The band's sound, playing, and whole live performance is just obviously amazing and it also sounds as great as the album version.
What an incredible live performance.
lIf you do anything today, watch @MaeveHalligan at the Cambridge Union. I genuinely think this was the first time many people in that room were confronted with the hard reality of the trans debate, rather than the slogans that usually surround it.
@BuckAngel was exceptional: calm, articulate, humane. Ultimate respect.
And then there was Helen Webberley. I remember once thinking the criticism directed at her by GC women was excessive, especially the claim she was ‘pure evil’. After hearing her speak, I no longer think that. She is totally insincere. I can deal with hard ideologues- they believe they are telling the truth; they are genuine, @HelenWebberley is different.
One audience member, a trans-identified male and former patient of hers, stood to speak during points of information. His account of how he had been treated was deeply disturbing.
Watch the full debate. It is worth your time.
Think of the best man you know of.
He is excluded from every single sex space, sport and services that is exclusively for women.
And he understands why and respects that exclusion.
Now think of the very worst man you can.
He can evade that exclusion by pretending he's a woman.
And increasing numbers of the very worst men are doing just that.
Two males?
It's not a diversity of sexes.
Men are already over-represented in the Scottish Parliament.
Fewer women have been elected to this Scottish Parliament.
This is equality & diversity washing.