Feminism

Stopping or refusing basic trans healthcare isn’t just dangerous and unethical. It is in defiance of the General Medical Council, which tells doctors that “you must not refuse to provide a patient with medical services because the patient is proposing to undergo, is undergoing, or has undergone gender reassignment.” And it’s the result of endless scaremongering and demonisation in the press and by politicians.

From the quote, not treating ‘flu because the person is or is proposing etc is unethical. Not referring for trans treatment itself isn’t – in that wording quoted – covered at all.

Kamala Harris has a problem with men. Will misogyny cost her the election?
Simon Tisdall

Hmm:

“Women – and women candidates – are subject to toxic and misogynistic standards that are often perpetuated in public and by the media,” the Emily’s List pressure group warned this summer. “Stereotypes and tropes centred around diminishing the qualifications, leadership, looks, relationships and experience of women candidates for office are always part and parcel with her campaign. This is exacerbated for women of color.”

Despising the one woman is not misogyny.

This is how we do it: ‘Having sex as two trans guys is so expansive … there are endless possibilities’

Really, whatever floats the boat, obviously.

Not necessarily in that order of course:

In the latest case to raise major questions about the Football Association’s ongoing failure to ban those born male from the women’s game, the 17-year-old has been left distraught at being charged by her county FA over a remark made during a match against a trans-inclusive club.

She was charged last month with saying, “Are you a man?”, “That’s a man”, “Don’t come here again”, or similar comments during what was a pre-season friendly back in July.

In documents seen by Telegraph Sport, the girl admits asking a player she describes as having “a beard”, “Are you a man?” She also admits asking the referee for guidance about the player’s eligibility to participate in women’s football “given my concern for my safety after already suffering a number of overly physical challenges”.

But she has denied doing so constituted transphobia or that she made any comments that could be construed as such, while Telegraph Sport understands the referee also heard nothing he deemed to be discriminatory.

From what we’ve got here it’s not what was said at all. Rather, it’s what meaning to put on what was said.

#And, you know, people say some pretty strong things on playing fields. Asking someone with a beard whether they’re a man is not one of those strong things. This is the weebles having a fit of the vapours over nothing – sex and travel mateys.

You can’t get much for £5.50 nowadays. A takeaway coffee and a muffin, maybe; a pint and a packet of crisps, outside London. But in parts of Canada, roughly that amount can buy you a day’s childcare. Or it can, at least, if you can find a nursery place.

The country is now three years into a post-pandemic social experiment, offering parents heavily (and expensively) subsidised childcare for what is by envious British standards a staggeringly cheap C$10 a day. The idea is that ultimately this multibillion-dollar state programme will pretty much pay for itself, thanks to the boost in GDP expected to be provided by more parents going out to work. But arguably, its biggest insight has been treating childcare less as some kind of perk the state sadly can’t afford right now and more as what Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s deputy prime minister, calls “social infrastructure”: an essential part of the national plumbing, like commuter trains or fast broadband or any other thrusting great multibillion-pound building project we are wearily prepared to believe will ultimately be worth it.

This has been the demand this past century and a half – that government must solve the servants problem.

As a country gets richer then real wages rise – they’re the same statement. Therefore servants, in rich countries, are expensive. Therefore wimmins want someone, somewhere, to solve the problem of servants. The answer is to tax everyone so that poorer, working class, women still take care of the children of the middle class women.

And that’s all. Everything else about it is an excuse.

After all, stated fertility intentions in Europe and America – the number of children women say they want to have – are still well above replacement level, with women in the US listing factors such as expensive childcare, financial instability or struggles with work-life balance as major reasons why they haven’t been able to have the families they wanted.

Ever since the question was asked desired fertility has been one child above real fertility. Who wouldn’t love to have another babbie around the house? But when it comes to actually…..

Last year, the largest increase in the gender pay gap was among employees aged 30 to 39 years, where it increased from 2.3% to 4.7%, official figures show.

Average age of first birth is now 31. So, and?

It could well be that these statements from Melania Trump are sincere. But that does not mean that her choice to make them now, at a moment when they are maximally politically beneficial to her husband, is not cynical. The Trump campaign, after all, has been frantically trying to project an image of moderation and reasonableness on abortion rights over the past few weeks, responding both to the overwhelming voter support for the issue in elections held since the Dobbs decision, and to a changed race in which their new Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris, is dramatically more comfortable and effective at campaigning on abortion rights than her incumbent predecessor, Joe Biden.

Bird writing about an election is shocked, shocked, to find people doing politics during the course of an election.

Perhaps Kinky had the right idea:

Get Your Biscuits In The Oven & Your Buns In The Bed

You know, rather than this idea of a career putting words in order?

Anyone but Badenoch should be next Tory leader, says Nadine Dorries

Nothing quite so bitchy as a woman seeing another outshine her.

The Census reported there were 262,000 trans people, equivalent to 0.5 per cent of the population, or one in 200 people. It was the first time the survey had asked whether people identified as a gender that was different from their registered birth sex.

People whose first language was not English were four times more likely to say they were trans than those with English as their main language.

It led to anomalies such as a greater proportion of people in the London boroughs of Newham and Brent declaring themselves trans than that in places such as Brighton.

No, that doesn’t pass that simple test, does it?

When Claire Watson moved to Sydney in 2022, the keen runner was excited to try out the famed track around the city’s vast, picturesque Centennial Park.

But when the 29-year-old turned up for her first run shortly after 6am before work one morning, she was stunned.

“I’d heard so much about Centennial Park, but when I got there it was dark and there were no lights, so I just turned around and went home,” Watson says.

“As a woman, I know it’s not safe to run in the dark.”

The problem isn’t confined to Centennial Park. Watson was unable to find accessible running tracks lit up before sunrise or after she finished work.

But, but, we’re all being told to reduce the amount of light because it obscures the stars, aren’t we?

Every time an upmarket home is bought in the UK, the new residents seem obliged to rip out the kitchen and install two bathrooms where there was only one.

It is almost a cast-iron rule that walking across the threshold means paying builders to rearrange what was there before, almost for the sake of it.

It is the same in government when Whitehall departments are merged or broken up. The difference is that the refreshed home will probably have extensive new plumbing to accompany the latest appliances and the state will not.

It’s that female nest-building thing. New kitchen, new bathrooms, this is my nest not that bitch before me. The answer to the government problem is not to elect women, obviously.

The forces of loneliness can cause political instability. And threaten democracy
V (formerly Eve Ensler)

So spending decades standing on stage and shouting about your twat leaves you Billy No Mates, does it?

Who knew?

Amanda and Clive Owen, the stars of Channel 5’s fly-on-the-wall documentary Our Yorkshire Farm, announced their separation two years ago.

Mr Owen, a farmer who married the 49-year-old former model in 2000, said last year that he had “a massive part to play” in their marriage ending after he “handled it badly” when the show started to take off.

The pair have now described how Mr Owen’s growing jealousy and depression “played a part” in their split.

Mr Owen described how his insecurities mounted as the Yorkshire Shepherdess’s fame grew, admitting it was “especially hard” knowing she “would be going out all dressed up to launches and events and meeting other people”.

He revealed that he “resented her success” and how she “got paid more for talking about sheep than I ever could farming sheep”.

“If I’m honest about it, I didn’t want to accept that I was no longer the breadwinner for our family,” Mr Owen told the Daily Mail.

It might no longer be “Ugg bring back mammoth steak!” but the issue is still there.

After getting nothing from the public hospital that made me, the private IVF giant that now owns that hospital’s work, the government and individuals in medicine who literally created me and should have known better – I used DNA to find my biological father. Along the way, I found out one of my friends is my sister. So, I know who my biological father is. A basic human right, one would have thought, in a society where we have for-profit baby factories, but at least I managed to wrest answers from the void.

If that’s a basic human right then all those men who’ve raised a child not their own – unknowingly – get a refund, right? Further, no woman gets to refuse to allow them to find out……

“At some point we will field a team solely of trans women for the first time in history. How good is that?”

As an – I think – Australian team has just won their by fielding five what we might call men in a women’s team. Which does seem to breach the purpose for which we have women’s sport in the first place…

We need to tell the truth about what motherhood does to women
After she had her first child, Zoe Blaskey felt broken. Her podcast about the physical and mental impact became a huge hit. Helen Rumbelow meets her

Talkin’ to your Mum is how the species has long done it…..that the answer is often “Yes, it does, doesn’t it, Dear” might not be wholly analytical but there we are.

Jermaine Jenas ‘ashamed’ as he admits sending explicit texts to colleagues
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He added: “These were two consenting adults I was speaking to. With one she made it clear she was interested.”

Well, not quite true they were consenting, more that they were of an age to be able to consent.

This opinion could change of coure. But at this point I tend to think it’s about the reaction of a bureaucracy. Because the BBC has just had the Huw Edwards thing they’re frit and going to fire anyone who even in hte slightest offends any mores at all. Like asking adult women whether they’re up for it or not.

As I say, more info could change that opinion of mine. But that’s where we are now…..

A man has been accused of switching gender to avoid a trial for threatening his former partner in Spain.

The victim’s lawyer has described the move, which takes advantage of the country’s ultra-liberal transgender laws, as “fraudulent”.

One of the country’s specialist courts to protect women from male violence has said it now cannot try the individual – who has a previous conviction as a man for threatening his former partner – as he has since changed his legal status to female.

This is not specific to gender, err, specific laws either. You might think but, but, no one would so that! So the gap in the law doesn’t exist for practical purposes. But a useful lesson about humanity is that there’s someone out there who will try absolutely anything.

About what?

Jermaine Jenas has been sacked by the BBC over complaints about inappropriate communications including text messages.

Hmm?

It is understood Jenas was cut from the presenting team following an internal process.

A female colleague had come forward with concerns about alleged flirtatious behaviour, The Sun reported.

Trying to chatup the make up girl? Or summat stronger?

Getting fired for flirting does seem a tad extreme….