The GC world cup 2023! Who knows if twitter/me/the world will survive the year, but while there's daftness of this calibre let's face the music and dance the irrationality tango.
Here is Victoria Coren Mitchell, a cis woman literally telling Graham Linehan PUBLICLY what he has done wrong, and saying she also said it privately. But apparently nobody will tell him what he's done wrong.
People have tried mate. You should try listening.
So I'd read auntie here as 'someone who is my life by circumstance rather than choice, who I have a degree of affection for'
Helen Joyce reads is 'I don't want to have sex with her, so will dismiss her'. Ok.....
JK Rowling is best known as a children's author. She's not Mary Wollstonecraft, she's not an expert on prisons policy, she's not a gender studies professor, she's not a lawyer, and she's DEFINITELY not the spokesperson for UK women.
Mumsnet are getting upset about actors playing the opposite sex in Shakespeare.
" kids were in the audience.ย
It felt a little like finding yourself in a recruitment party for a transgressive sex cult, when what you really wanted was Shakespeare."
Who wants to tell them?
Can people stop saying 'JK Rowling has every right to be heard because she is a woman?' She doesn't have some kind of gold plated, diamond encrusted uterus, millions of women disagree with her, but the Daily Mail isn't publishing our opinions because we're not rich.
Well here's a mystery. An Oregon woman has said she was denied cancer care at a clinic because she didn't like them having a trans flag. The clinic says they don't treat cancer.
I note that having not got over Atwood's betrayal, the GCs are trying to recruit Terry Practhett posthumously presumably because they know he can't contradict them.
CW Rape.
There is yet another GC crowdfunder for yet another case, this time to sue a Rape Crisis Centre because their service is trans inclusive. Yes you read that right.
"Yeah, we're JUST like women's suffrage campaigners, except if instead of wanting the vote they wanted to look at everyone's genitals. Knowing what is in everyone's pants a basic human rights issue"
WTAF is the 'shared experience of living inside a female body? I live in a house Jean. Also my breasts tend to stay attached to my body rather than "If we turn too quickly, they may forget to follow us and linger, joining us a second later, clapping."
Dear transphobes:
You can change biology - it's called medicine.
If it wasn't for medicine an awful lot of people currently alive would be dead. You can't get much more changed than that.
Your biology is destiny act is both wrong and anti feminist.
I have no idea who smashed the windows of a restaurant, but since no one has apparently been charged or convicted, how does Julie Bindel/The Sun know it is 'sick trans activists'?
Hello, the majority of ambulance crew members (54%) are men. Ambulances are EMERGENCY vehicles. You don't choose your crew. Anyone can refuse treatment, but understandably most, whatever their religion, don't.
I've had an EGC performed by male crew and didn't mind in the least
As a lesbian and a feminist I hold the following beliefs:
Trans women are women
Trans men are men
Non binary people are non binary
Nobody gets to define someone else's gender or sexual orientation.
So anyway heartwarming news in case you missed it.
Earlier today a GC randomly picked on a young trans man for his crowdfunder, which had only made a tiny amount to date.
Thanks to the publicity boost, he's now hit his target in hours.
One of the Get the L out protesters is on Mumsnet moaning that most of those who told them to STFU were women and that a lot of those women were lesbians.
Women don't support you, that's why.
#JKDoesntSpeakForMe
because I recognise that the type of person who will kick you in the head for being trans is also likely to kick you in the head for being lesbian, gay or bi and they're not really fussed which one it is.
#LGBWithTheT
always.
If you are a gay person/a woman, JK Rowling is claiming that she speaks for you in her views about trans rights.
If she doesn't speak for you, quote tweet this tweet with the hashtag
#JKDoesntSpeakForMe
and explain why.
I used to volunteer for a rape crisis centre, which was women only, but we never checked anyone's current gender, let alone that assigned at birth. And how exactly would you do that? Genital checks of women who've been raped?
This is the bit GCs can never explain.....
Richard Dawkins on the radio saying he can't call anyone a woman who has an XY karotype. He must be fun at parties, as he insists on DNA testing everyone he speaks to before deciding if they're a lady or not.
You mean the adult human male Daniel Radcliffe who has worked pretty consistently as an actor since Harry Potter ended Graham? How's your career going? Oh your 'work' is now writing Gettr posts. Ok.
"My lesbian friend wants to have fun with jolly open minded people instead of listening to us bang on about trans people at dinner parties. Still at least we save on stamps. And dinner parties"
Dear transphobes.
Many people have conditions that do indeed make them a "lifelong medical patient" so stop using the phrase in a derogatory way.
It's ableist and very nasty.
Be better.
Ten things that are more important than whether a woman can have a penis:
1. The women going without food so their kids can eat.
2. The 1 in 4 women who experience domestic violence.
3. The 99% of reported rapes which do not result in prosecution.
4. The gender pension gap.
Iran: young women are being executed for removing their hijabs.
England: You'll be referred to social services as a gender traitor if you don't look like a proper girl and given psychological therapies till you conform.
State of this. An adult woman can't cope with a man being in the women's loos, but he is meant to take his 4 and 6 year old children into the mens. Yes that makes a whole heap of sense.
So this is just really sad and also just shows the hypocrisy of this parent who doesn't want their son to wear a dress despite giving him a different message up until now. "gender criticals" always turn out to be gender conservatives when the chips are down...
Here's a thing, heterosexual people are in the majority in society. So if you were a bi woman on a dating site and 40% of the people on there were straight men 5% bi men, and 10% were bi lesbian/women then yes, you'd probably message more men...that's maths.
Dear Mr Linehan. It's not appropriate to speculate on the private lives of people we don't know, but generally speaking not many divorced women can't stand up for themselves and if they wanted their ex husband standing up for them, he almost certainly wouldn't be 'ex'.
Yep, you can't do this madam. You don't get to pick the gender of your nursing team any more than you get to pick their race, religion or hair colour. It's not possible.
Some of the WORST homphobia I've had is from women, and any vaguely GNC woman could tell you the same. The idea that the average cis woman is all about celebrating butch lesbians would make the average butch lesbian fall over laughing.
CW rape. So apparently JKR's claim about toilets is based on a report that a schoolgirl was assaulted in a unisex toilet. But there's a problem with that. Which is there are numerous reports of schoolgirls being assaulted in non unisex toilets.
Sick of gender crits saying people who are 'obviously men' shouldn't be allowed in women only spaces.
Who is 'obviously a man' usually boils down to exactly the misogynist stereotypes about how a 'real woman' looks that they claim to oppose. Gender critical my arse
If LGB alliance can sue Wickes, for making a statement contrary to their protected belief, does this mean that I can sue LGB alliance for making statements contrary to my protected belief?
(the answer is no, we'd both be laughed out of court).
Can I just point out that it's 2 weeks today since I was in the presence of a large number of trans persons and NOT ONE of them demanded I sleep with them.
Either GCs are way hotter than me, or trans people aren't relentless sexual predators. Could be both I suppose.
"People transition because of homophobia" is about the most homophobic take you can get. It's based on the perception of a straight person who doesn't understand that no, most LGB people do NOT want to be straight.
Anyway let us end the week by paying tribute to Mrs Victoria Gillick, queen of the law of unintended consequences.
She went to court to try to stop under 16's getting contraception and abortion and instead enshrined those rights in law.
Think on, litigators!
Because he's not her mum? Why is everyone obliged to speak up for her?
She's an adult. Disagreeing with her does not mean you condone her receiving threats any more than thinking Liz Truss should do one means you condone her receiving threats.
So to summarise, they are raising money to sue a RAPE CRISIS CENTRE, with a case they know has a high chance of failing as a publicity stunt. Feminism my arse.
See Dr Kathleen Stock OBE finally met her match in Lorraine Kelly. Probably thought she was just a cosy daytime TV host who was going to fawn all over her, like woman's hour did.
Wrong!
So to summarise, GCs came to Manchester and
- a woman was harassed in a bar for wearing a Stonewall t shirt.
- Mancunians were told where we could stand in our own City
- An artwork featuring a trans woman DV survivor had people shouting 'trans women are men' in front of it.
This pride month let's talk about the (probably) oldest tree in Europe changing sex. Yes it's a tree, but this stuff REALLY annoys bigots for some reason.
See the GCs are having their periodic hissy fit on realising for the umpteenth time that Margaret Atwood supports trans people. Proving once again that they have never read the Handmaid's tale. Anyway
Hello madam, your child's interests RN are eating, sleeping, weeing and pooing. It doesn't care about whether or not its clothing is gender appropriate since it doesn't know what that is.
Sorry folks, we're going to have to be more straight acting and not make any lavish music videos with fabulous costumes. The heteros are upseteros.
We're not here to make friends mate.
Is it ok to make threats to JK Rowling? No.
Have I known people with much less money who can't afford security get threats? Yes.
Have those threats come from GC people? Also yes.
New mumsnet conspiracy theory just dropped. Apparently some trans people, particularly children, are perfectly lovely and this makes people not want to hate them, yet another dastardly TRA plot.
The most successful female author in human history in terms of sales is Agatha Christie, who continues to be popular many years after her death. Barbara Cartland and Danielle Steel sold as many as JK Rowling.
Women continue to take part in sport, give birth and win awards.
@JamesEsses
Some even have chilling documents called 'person specification' and 'job description' as well as 'codes of conduct' and 'human resources manuals'. It's basically fascism.
So gender crits, once you've 'won' what does that look like?
No trans people, obvs, but what about us cis women who just don't agree with you, what happens to us? Because we aren't going ANYWHERE voluntarily I'm afraid.
A judge having a trans child isn't a conflict of interest when dealing with a case involving a trans child, for the same reason a judge being divorced isn't a conflict of interest when dealing with a divorce case.....
To a cis person, the idea of puberty blockers is horrifying, because the idea of not having a cis body is horrifying. Even if you found puberty difficult. Throw in some ill informed speculation, a refusal to actually listen to trans people and voila, a fully formed transphobe.
Oh M8.
Saying you don't want to interact with under 18s is literally saying you don't want to talk to kids because it's not appropriate...
IE it's the actual opposite of being a paedo๐
The basis of the case is that a cis woman was attending group therapy at the centre and, it is claimed a trans woman joined. She is suing because as an alternative she was offered one to one therapy or a referral to other services. She wants a trans exclusive group set up.
Yet again, I have just seen a cis man getting terribly concerned about the 'problem' of trans women pestering lesbians for sex.
I think I will wait a VERY LONG TIME to see a cis man get even vaguely bothered about cis men pestering lesbians, or just women in general, for sex.
So I can find literally nothing on
@BBCNews
about yesterday's trans pride (thousands of people) but they carried an anti trans non story based on a BS survey. And had Maya Forstater on radio 4 on the busiest news day ever but didn't report the Mackereth EAT decision.