Trans rights: a perspective

[jeremyp]

This is 42 years old.

How is it that only now it is relevant, rather than just being a silly riff in a film:

https://youtu.be/sFBOQzSk14c

I'm pretty pleased that the woke don't seem to have discovered that film. This scene alone would have the trans activists demanding cancelation. There's also a scene at the beginning where you see John Cleese in black face for a few seconds.

[Nearly Sane]

Great interview with a fascinating woman

https://lesbianandgaynews.com/2021/03/miriam-ben-shalom-the-first-openly-lesbian-service-member-to-be-reinstated-by-the-us-army-after-being-discharged-in-1976/?fbclid=IwAR1j0EP--pxUkSRbPndjbNvc5nzG5Pl9rcugHAAmu754OrJFW2u8nVb_fr4

[Nearly Sane]

And to quote a tweet from the vacuous idiotic organisation tgat is the ACLU on International Women's Day


'On International Women's Day, here's your reminder that trans women are women.'


Betraying women to centre men

[Nearly Sane]

Good piece on the debate on 'conversion therapy'


https://lesbianandgaynews.com/2021/03/jo-bartosch-reports-on-last-nights-debate-on-conversion-therapy-in-the-house-of-commons-and-is-left-angry-and-disappointed/

[Nearly Sane]

The census question

https://murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2021/02/12/ons-guidance-for-the-sex-question-in-the-2021-census-in-england-and-wales/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Decision on case


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56338666

https://archive.is/r7Otk

[Nearly Sane]

Simon Fanshawe


https://lesbianandgaynews.com/2021/03/simon-fanshawe-as-i-was-kicked-he-shouted-fucking-qr-i-still-wont-write-the-q-word-in-full/

[Aruntraveller]

Simon Fanshawe


https://lesbianandgaynews.com/2021/03/simon-fanshawe-as-i-was-kicked-he-shouted-fucking-qr-i-still-wont-write-the-q-word-in-full/

I do like Simon. Met him many years ago.

He expresses many of the thoughts that swirl around undefined and nebulous in my poor old mind.

[Nearly Sane]

I do like Simon. Met him many years ago.

He expresses many of the thoughts that swirl around undefined and nebulous in my poor old mind.

He's rather lovely

[Nearly Sane]

 Good article


https://uncommongroundmedia.com/dear-intersectional-feminist-why-we-fight-for-the-word-woman/

[Nearly Sane]

A thread on how the transing of children is based on regressive stereotypes and parent's disquiet at having a child that doesn't behave how they think it should.


https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1371713528869060610.html

[Nearly Sane]

Update on the census question. Fair Play for Women win, ONS concede

https://fairplayforwomen.com/fair-play-for-women-wins-high-court-challenge-against-ons-census/

[Harrowby Hall]

Update on the census question. Fair Play for Women win, ONS concede

https://fairplayforwomen.com/fair-play-for-women-wins-high-court-challenge-against-ons-census/

Excellent news.  And the fact that a government agency has been told to pay the costs of both parties may ... err ... encourage other government agencies and departments to consider biological reality and not some populist fad.

[Nearly Sane]

Excellent news.  And the fact that a government agency has been told to pay the costs of both parties may ... err ... encourage other government agencies and departments to consider biological reality and not some populist fad.

Great thread on the issue

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1372120815823638530.html

[jeremyp]

Excellent news.  And the fact that a government agency has been told to pay the costs of both parties may ... err ... encourage other government agencies and departments to consider biological reality and not some populist fad.

Not that great. What they really need is your actual sex, not your legal sex. Of the three attributes: actual sex, legal sex and gender, legal sex is the one that doesn't matter for population statistical purposes.

[Aruntraveller]

Ralph Fiennes talking sense:

https://attitude.co.uk/article/ralph-fiennes-defends-jk-rowling-i-cant-understand-the-vitriol-directed-at-her-1/24682/

[Nearly Sane]

Trouble in the Green Party


https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/a-small-bit-of-sanity-from-green?r=7vxx9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter

[jeremyp]

Ralph Fiennes talking sense:

https://attitude.co.uk/article/ralph-fiennes-defends-jk-rowling-i-cant-understand-the-vitriol-directed-at-her-1/24682/

More than can be said for the person who wrote the article:

[JK Rowling] has since mocked trans men who have periods, tweeting last June: "'People who menstruate.' I'm sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?"

[jeremyp]

Trouble in the Green Party


https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/a-small-bit-of-sanity-from-green?r=7vxx9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter

I have to ask what the people who opposed the Gender ID motion doing if all they needed was another 170 votes out of 50,000 to overturn it. I think this shows the importance of making sure your vote is counted in even what may seem trivial circumstances.

[Nearly Sane]

Good article


https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2021/03/22/matthew-dancona-beware-the-emotional-industrial-complex/

[Nearly Sane]

And an article on the attempted shutdown and shut out of comments in Irish student unions.


https://unherd.com/thepost/student-unions-are-suppressing-dissent/

[Nearly Sane]

Good thread


https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1374623760217702401.html

[Nearly Sane]

Ludicrous headline on report of case lost yesterday by forwomen.Scotland on the legal redefinition of women in Scotland

https://archive.ph/QDlZm

[Nearly Sane]

Good, long article on the madness of sex denialism.


https://virginiasroom.co.uk/f/sex-denialism-a-case-study-in-collective-insanity

[Nearly Sane]

From CNN, apparently  'there is no consensus criteria for assigning sex at birth.'


https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/03/30/politics/south-dakota-transgender-sports-kristi-noem/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

[Nearly Sane]

Good article


https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/april-2021/the-trans-rights-that-trump-all/