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The rebuilding work in the background may be connected to the Great Baltimore Fire, the year before.

He made these remarks in an interview that aired on Diwan Al-Mulla Online (Kuwait) on May 26, 2021. Taha explained that Tehran is using the Palestinian cause as a bargaining chip in the Vienna negotiations, in order to lift the sanctions on it. He continued to say that the money and weapons that Hamas receives from Iran go towards destruction and not construction. Taha continued to say that Hamas is the Muslim Brotherhood’s military wing and that “peddling in the Palestinian cause” has become its only hope to save its political presence. He added that Hamas wants funds in order to expand its tunnels and drug trafficking. Taha then asked whether it is considered a victory when Hamas uses women and children as human shields, and when thousands of Palestinians are wounded and hundreds are killed. He added that this is true all the more so when some of these casualties are a result of Hamas rockets. Taha congratulated Haniyeh for his “Mercedes, his Rolex watch, his 300 million dollars, and his Armani suit.” He said: “Congratulations to Hamas for all its rewards for peddling in the blood of innocents.”

Ismail Haniyeh is Hamas leader, and a wealthy man.

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I won that race, and I'm grateful. But time after time, I have lost. I’ve lost four women’s state championship titles, two all-New England awards, and numerous other spots on the podium to male runners. I was bumped to third place in the 55-meter dash in 2019, behind two male runners. With every loss, it gets harder and harder to try again.

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Instead all I can think about is how all my training, everything I’ve done to maximize my performance, might not be enough, simply because there’s a transgender runner on the line with an enormous physical advantage.

I won that race, and I'm grateful. But time after time, I have lost. I’ve lost four women’s state championship titles, two all-New England awards, and numerous other spots on the podium to transgender runners. I was bumped to third place in the 55-meter dash in 2019, behind two transgender runners. With every loss, it gets harder and harder to try again.

And so on, throughout.

The CIAC allows biological males to compete in girls’ and women’s sports. As a result, two males began racing in girls’ track in 2017. In the 2017, 2018, and 2019 seasons alone, these males took 15 women’s state track championship titles (titles held in 2016 by nine different girls) and more than 85 opportunities to participate in higher level competitions that belonged to female track athletes.

That’s because males have massive physical advantages. Their bodies are simply bigger and stronger on average than female bodies. It’s obvious to every single girl on the track.

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The CIAC allows transgender athletes to compete in girls’ and women’s sports. As a result, two transgender athletes began racing in girls’ track in 2017. In the 2017, 2018, and 2019 seasons alone, these runners took 15 women’s state track championship titles (titles held in 2016 by nine different girls) and more than 85 opportunities to participate in higher level competitions that belonged to female track athletes.

Their bodies are simply bigger and stronger on average. It’s obvious to other girls on the track.

The article has been cleansed of any offensive content. "That's because males have massive physical advantages" has been excised completely, as has any mention of "biological males". It's "hurtful language". 

Any hurt that Chelsea Mitchell may feel about losing out to men in a women's sporting event is of little concern – as will be her feelings on this absurd bowdlerisation of what she actually wrote.

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At its height there were around 850 Diversity Champion Members, including 250 Government departments and public bodies, 120 universities and 31 police forces. Fees are estimated to start at around £2,500 per annum, in exchange employers are offered guidance on gender neutral spaces, pronouns and trans inclusion and are ranked on the charity’s Workplace Equality Index.

Maya Forstater is co-founder of Sex Matters, a group established to safeguard human rights by showing “sex matters in rules, laws, policies, language and culture.” Forstater told Lesbian and Gay News:

“Stonewall’s diversity champions scheme is now a liability. It no longer signals tolerance and harmony in the workplace. Membership of the scheme has become a reputational and legal risk. Employers don’t need to pay Stonewall protection money any more”

It shows how much Stonewall has moved from its original agenda that it's now seen as the enemy by gays and lesbians.

requires minimum effort, conceals their identity and may even result in them avoiding prison altogether.

In publishing, politics, academia and sports, trans ideology has given rise to a revolution of mediocre men, but even more worrying is that it has brought about a golden era for predators. They can escape justice and scrutiny, they can access their victims more easily, and the UK’s media and courts, both of whom are heavily influenced by groups like Stonewall, are helping them do so.

non-binary women say they’ve found what they perceive as an “escape hatch” from oppressive gender norms. As Lovato sees it, her new label is a form of “healing.” Criticizing this sort of thing is taboo, as no one wants to oppose “escape” or “healing.” But the awkward truth is that nothing described by Lovato, Page, Stodden, or any of the other young (biological) women who’ve chosen different forms of self-identification marks them as different: Few women (and none that I happen to know) are fully comfortable with the stereotypes and expectations that society places on female people.

The most logical way of fighting back is to point out that these stereotypes and expectations are misguided and unhealthy. To instead simply flee the category of woman through a trick of language, on the other hand, isn’t really brave or progressive. Lovato and all the other non-binary-identified women are simply throwing the rest of us under the bus by validating the idea that being a woman requires you to be comfortable with feminine stereotypes. In doing so, they unwittingly contribute to the real sources of female oppression….

I’m sympathetic to the pain that women such as Lovato have experienced as they’ve sought to live “authentically” in a society that wants to put people, especially women, into pre-defined boxes. Although I certainly can’t speak to life as a celebrity, Lovato and I actually have some things in common. Like her, I survived sexual trauma, battled mental illness, and self-harm in my teenage years, struggled to come to terms with my bisexuality, and felt trapped by gender norms. Where we differ is in our vision for a better future. Feminism fights for a world in which no woman or girl will be oppressed or subjected to violence on the basis of her sex. Behind the rise of non-binary identities, on the other hand, is the hope that no one will be forced, because of their sex, to be a woman. Being a woman is perceived to be the problem itself, rather than the cultural stereotypes and pressures applied to women.

That gets it, I think: "being a woman is perceived to be the problem itself, rather than the cultural stereotypes and pressures applied to women". Being a woman brings with it a whole host of problems nowadays….gender stereotypes, an increasingly sexualised social world, violence at the hands of men. Which is where feminism comes in. To simply and absurdly deny that you're a woman is to cop out in the most ridiculous way.

The same applies, of course, to the huge increase in sad young girls looking to transition, under the malign guidance of Mermaids and the like.

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tly make a decision on whether to continue this.”

Barrister Akua Reindorf’s report prompted Essex University to apologise for cancelling Prof Jo Phoenix and Prof Rosa Freedman. She noted that its trans policy for staff “states the law as Stonewall would prefer it to be, rather than the law as it is”.

Last night Stonewall’s chief executive, Nancy Kelley, prompted a furious backlash on Twitter by likening so-called “gender critical” beliefs to anti-Semitism. ‘Gender-critical’ academics and researchers argue that male-born trans women are not women, a view the EHRC has said is protected by equality law.

Ms Kelley told the BBC: “With all beliefs including controversial beliefs there is a right to express those beliefs publicly and where they're harmful or damaging – whether it's anti-Semitic beliefs, gender critical beliefs, beliefs about disability – we have legal systems that are put in place for people who are harmed by that.”

Campaign group Fair Play for Women, tweeted: “Stonewall reaches a new low. CEO Nancy Kelley is now claiming that knowing sex is real and can’t be changed is as bad as anti-Semitism.”

The mystery is not why so many are no leaving: it's how so many signed up for this nonsense in the first place.

e served as the foundation for many atrocities against targeted groups around the world,” the email said.

“If you have been adversely impacted by anti-Semitic or any other discriminatory incidents in our community, please do not hesitate to reach out to our counseling and other support services on campus. Our behavioral health team stands ready to support you through these challenging times,” the email, obtained by the Daily Caller, said.

The university’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter, leading campus organizers of the Boycott, Divest, Sanction (BDS) movement against Israel, took issue with this condemnation of antisemitism at a time when Palestinians were being "brutalized by Israel's occupation and bombing of Gaza". So the next day the chancellor and provost apologised:

“In hindsight, it is clear to us that the message failed to communicate support for our Palestinian community members. We sincerely apologize for the hurt that this message has caused,” the message began.

“Our diversity must be supported by equity, inclusion, antiracism, and the condemnation of all forms of bigotry and hatred, including anti-Semitism and Islamophobia,” it said.

“As we grow in our personal and intuitional understanding, we will take the lesson learned here to heart, and pledge our commitment to doing better. We will work to regain your trust, and make sure that our communications going forward are much more sensitive and balanced,” it concluded.

If you condemn antisemitism then you're condemning antisemites – and, let's not forget, they have feelings too.

Nancy Kelley of Stonewall speaks to the BBC:

Stonewall head Nancy Kelley has defended the organisation's position amid a freedom of speech row and criticism from a founder.

Matthew Parris said in the Times that Stonewall had become "tangled up in the trans issue" and "cornered into an extremist stance".

But Ms Kelley told the BBC she was "really comfortable" with the direction the charity was going in.

She likened so-called "gender critical" beliefs to anti-Semitism.

Oh ffs. Really? Like antisemitism? That's offensive and deeply stupid all in one. 

Ms Kelley said that while Stonewall believed in freedom of speech, it was "not without limit".

"With all beliefs including controversial beliefs there is a right to express those beliefs publicly and where they're harmful or damaging – whether it's anti-Semitic beliefs, gender critical beliefs, beliefs about disability – we have legal systems that are put in place for people who are harmed by that."

Challenged as to whether it might be considered offensive to compare anti-Semitic beliefs to gender-critical views, she insisted it was appropriate.

I doubt she even understands what "gender-critical" means. It's not about some kind of phobia or dislike of trans men and women: it's simply a belief that sex is real; that people can't change sex by just saying the right words; that the whole gender-identity business is a pseudo-science or cult. Trans women are not women. Apart from that – well, it has nothing to say about how trans people should be treated, but I imagine that most people who think of themselves as gender-critical would subscribe to the belief that if a man wants to live as a woman and dress as a woman, well, good luck to him. Live and let live. Just as long as he doesn't think he is a woman. Which means, in practical terms, just as long as he doesn't demand access to women's safe spaces or inclusion in women's sport.

I think history is moving on, and Nancy Kelley has been left behind – stranded and clutching at straws.