Soula Emmanuel

It's hard not to see the aggressive sexual language of GCs (shouting "penis, penis, penis" at Judith Butler at the Royal Festival Hall to give a recent example) as a class flex. They know they're allowed to say things their opponents can't, and they get off on the impunity

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"pedalled"

The Telegraph is still subeditor-critical, I see

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Of course, Professor Dame Baroness Saint Hilary Cass *could* come out and defend her review's recommendations but she only seems to do that when trans people criticise it

Vice Precedent

This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Vice Precedent

doll witch (@dollxwitch) on twitter: "australian bottom surgeon: lets take the shrimp off the barbie"

When you've definitely met more than one trans woman

the arc of history is long. it's long as hell. it's just—whew. it's a long-ass arc, is all I can tell you.

This is a recurrent feature of anti-trans radicalisation: bored, comfortable people in their 50s/60s with grown-up kids, trying to regain the thrill of parental authority by becoming "the adults in the room" attacking "noisy, immature activists"

I'm not one to blame political trends on stuff that annoys me online, but the Leopards Eating People's Faces reply is such an empty yet corrosive bit of posturing. STOP IT!

Just saw a thread about a guy calling into cspan saying his diabetic supplies increased from 5 dollars to 80 dollars and somebody in the comments, probably multiple people but I stopped reading, replied “FAFO” and I can’t stress enough how much you need to stop doing that shit

Elon Musk on X: Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week. Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.

I'm no scholar of history, but I paid attention in college and can tell you this man will be fortunate to die in a prison cell

Dr Lydia Foy: ‘I never got an apology actually. It would be nice to get one’ The trans activist who fought the State for years for the right to change her gender on her birth cert would prefer to ‘talk about me as a person rather than all the baloney with the courts’

I interviewed the very talented and brave accidental activist Dr Lydia Foy:

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Chelsea Manning in a tailored blue pinstripe suit with a pink tie drinking from a bottle of water alongside a row of benches against a wall.

Just spotted @xychelsea.tv among the massive crowd of Mangione supporters, who says she’s here “exercising my sixth amendment right to observe our court proceedings.”

‘I won’t cede the ground’: Sophie Lewis wants feminists to know their enemies – even if they’re other feminists In a new book, Enemy Feminisms, the scholar traces a line from reactionary tendencies in history to anti-trans feminists enabling the far right today

Last week, a number of prominent UK feminists declared Donald Trump a "feminist hero" for banning trans women from playing sports.

How did we get here? A new book by @reproutopia.bsky.social explores how reactionary tendencies have created Enemy Feminisms throughout the history of feminism

Before: Trans Man Killed in New York Was Tortured for More Than a Month, Police Say After: Man Killed in New York Was Tortured for More Than a Month, Police Say

Change in Headline

Remarkable sights today, j*sse s*ngal posted an article observing that Trump's USAID cuts have already caused deaths and this is an immoral disaster - and dozens of his subscribers promptly commented to tell him that these kinds of opinions are absolutely not what they are following him for

“If those in power want to protect women’s spaces, they should focus on the most dangerous place for women in Ireland-their own homes.

We have seen the harm this State can do to those it believes should be hidden”

Brava Jenny Maguire

#TransRightsAreHumanRights #translivesmatter

Succession clip: Kendall Roy tells Rava “you’re too online. you’ve lost context.

"There are 95 mentions of the words “trans” or “transgender” in the book, and only five mentions of the word “housework” or of the word “childcare”."

The chapter on reproduction, maternity and surrogacy, you would expect, would have little about trans women, given these subjects are generally not a trans thing. But even here she drags in the issue, implicating the use of “inclusive” language as a way of separating women from the experience of bearing children. She says the analysis of the relationship between pregnancy and women’s oppression founders because: “We rarely get beyond ‘right-wing men don’t want pregnant people to have abortion care because they want to punish assigned-female-at-birth sex-havers for having sex’.” Whatever that means. On surrogacy, she talks about feminist warnings of “the toxic combination of ‘progressive’ sex denialism and commercial surrogacy”. So there you have it – the transgenders are responsible for exploitation in surrogacy, because of words.

Nice to see a review of a "gender critical" book that points out how utterly inane its preoccupations are archive.is/7gWDV

The south's mental health minister has a trans son and has direct experience of using GenderGP. According to the new health minister, she's basically the government's point-person on this issue, which bodes well for them not embracing Cass. PBs are already de facto banned in the public system tho

His illiquidity is the danger. He has to keep doing shit like this. The Not Actually Real Money Bus must be kept above $200 billion or it will explode. All of this shit is basically debt and blackmail and it's forcing people like Musk into increasingly precarious and dangerous positions.

The only trans voices that seem to get any sort of traction in the UK are currently deeply conservative, willing to collude with the far right media in return for "platform", disregard strategic discussions within the community.

Housing estates in Dublin 5 named in honour of the moon landing

The only reason passports include sex markers AT ALL was because of a previous moral panic over gender.

Tfw you remember what happened the last time the ECB loosened monetary policy to revive a sluggish German economy