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the Government will take to ensure correct police record keeping and prevent the potential corruption of data on crimes and their impact on women and girls.’

The full text is here.

Good for her. The tide is turning on gender ideology.

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“padding-left: 40px”>Apparently this wasn’t the first pro-Hitler tweet from him, and in 2014 he had tweeted a similar sentiment, saying that “Hitler did good with those Jews.”

Pakistani actress Veena Malik also tweeted support for Hitler. She posted a quote on Twitter, claiming Hitler had said “I would have killed all the Jews of the world, but I kept some to show the world why I killed them.” Twitter removed the tweet but some screenshots of it can still be found online. Some users pointed out the hypocrisy whereby her tweet was removed but her account was not suspended. Apparently pro-Hitler tweets are not a red line on social media.

Oddly some Pakistani activists, such as opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif, also claim that Israel is like a Nazi state because of its treatment of Palestinians. Sharif even tweeted “Israeli Prime Minister is today’s Hitler.”

It’s unclear how, on the one hand some can praise Hitler and on the other also claim Israel is like the Nazis. This inconsistency is common among countries where the Muslim Brotherhood is supported, from Turkey to Malaysia and Pakistan, Qatar and Hamas-run Gaza. In those places Holocaust denial, as well as claims that Israel is like the Nazis, and praise for the Nazis, is often common. This three sided contradictory logic denies that the main crime of the Nazis ever took place, but critiques Israel for committing that crime, and then praises the crime. It makes not sense, but then, antisemitism often makes no sense.

In another pro-Hitler tweet a Pakistani who claimed to be an engineer said that “Jews are not humans, they are animals,” a quote the user ascribed to Hitler. Like the quote tweeted by Malik, it was not clear if Hitler even said this. It would appear that Pakistan is awash with fake Hitler quotes. Another man claiming to be Pakistani said he wanted to “repeat the colorful story of Holocaust, respect to Hitler.”

e to this issue, and should spare no effort [to solve it.]”  

Kim’s speech may be one reason why North Korean public security institutions have strengthened their response to the spread of outside information. 

“You could see how harshly the six students had been interrogated just by looking at them when they were dragged out at the trial,” the source told Daily NK. “Their faces were nothing but skin and bones and they couldn’t even hold their bodies upright.”

For watching South Korean videos.

ransgender women who are transitioning from male to female could play as long as they could certify they had been on hormonal treatment for at least 12 months and their testosterone levels were under five nanamoles per litre.

Under current FFR regulations, people who have already undergone a gender transition and changed their civil record may play in the league that matches the gender on that record.

"Rugby is an inclusive, sharing sport, without distinction of sex, gender, origin or religion," FFR vice president Serge Simon said.

"The FFR is against all forms of discrimination and works daily to ensure that everyone can exercise their free will in rugby without constraint."

We've got this far into the report and there's no mention of the real issue…no mention that we're talking here about women's rugby. I mean, this wonderful inclusivity, in a sport where "everyone can exercise their free will in rugby without constraint" – does that mean that a hulking great six foot six inch 300 pound bloke can exercise his free will without constraint against a bunch of smaller weaker women? And if not, why not, if exercising his free will without constraint is the sole criterion here?

Anyway, as long as he's been on the old hormone treatment for a while and claims he's a woman he'll be fine. Even though he's still a hulking great six foot six inch 300 pound bloke who could plough through a bunch of women without breaking sweat, leaving a trail of broken bones behind him. This testosterone level business might limit his effectiveness against top-level male opposition, but the post-pubertal advantages of a male physique don't just disappear because of a bit of hormone treatment.

In 2020, World Rugby became the first international sports federation to say transgender women should not compete at elite and international level in the women's game.

At last. "The women's game" gets a mention. That's the issue. A women's game that's losing its one defining positive feature – that men can't play.

Ah well – as long as FFR vice president Serge Simon and his pals feel that big buzz of self-righteousness, all is well. Shame about the women, though.

No details yet as to how transmen can face the exhilarating challenge of playing men's rugby. For some reason it doesn't seem to be much of an issue…

Aren't women getting violent nowadays? Rachelle Mikhnevich from Liverpool, for instance:

A patient attacked NHS workers during an outburst that resulted in "carnage" at a hospital.

Rachelle Mikhnevich was at Clock View Hospital in Walton when she launched an attack after being given a cup of tea she complained was too cold.

The 37-year-old grabbed and twisted one hospital worker's arm before punching, spitting and kicking at six other NHS workers who were trying to help.

Hospital workers were left with bruises, pain, swelling and scratches after Mikhnevich's attack, during which she launched a "disgraceful" racist outburst at Abdulmalik Abadullah-Atta, calling him a racial slur and biting his hands and fingers.

Mikhnevich appeared at Liverpool Crown Court on a video link from HMP Altcourse on Monday.

Oh dear. Looks like we'll have to revise our stereotypical views on the kinds of crimes much more likely to be committed by men.

Oh wait, there's a picture. Um, yes…he is a man.

Sign that petition…

Damian Counsell takes apart the extraordinary storm of abuse and disinformation that greeted the government's recent race report – Debate and Disinformation: The Ugly Quarrel Over the UK Government’s Race Report.

On March 31st, the British government’s 258-page report by the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities (CRED) was released. From the start, prominent figures and institutions with an interest in UK race relations savaged the report, which they alleged denied the existence of institutional racism, and attacked its non-white authors, sometimes in unambiguously racist terms. On April 21st, after three weeks of ferocious reaction from ostensibly progressive race activists, academics, and campaign groups, the Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch commended the report to the UK Parliament and defended its authors against “deeply personal and racialised attacks … which have included death threats.” In the session itself, she added that it was “disgusting” of Labour MP Dawn Butler Brent to refer to its authors as “racial gatekeepers.”

Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the creation of the commission in June of last year, after protests in the UK following the killing of George Floyd. That its findings provoked controversy was not surprising in itself. Such reports often split observers—at least, those the media seek out—along tribal lines. Tribes generally prefer to broadcast their allegiance rather than illuminate the issue in question. Even by the dismal standards of such discourse, however, the vicious rhetoric that the report, or an imagined version of this report, elicited was remarkable. But it is also true in the UK that things do—usually, eventually—get done. If you have a personal interest in the material outcomes of a government report’s recommendations, it’s worth paying attention to those recommendations. In UK politics, unelected members of commissions often make bigger differences to real lives than MPs.

Definitely worth reading in full.

So, how should a neutral approach this fraught debate? I would recommend a modern variant on King Solomon’s test: Which side professing to care about the disadvantaged is acting in their immediate interests? Depressingly, not one of the criticisms of the report I have encountered has focused on its material recommendations. Indeed, few address its recommendations at all. In this respect, one of the funniest hit jobs of all is that in the Voice, which complains that the report should have called for the implementation of other government-sponsored reports about racism. Anyone who has actually read the document will know that it makes this recommendation with almost-tedious frequency.

Most critics have instead based their criticism on the demonstrably false accusation that the report “denied the existence of institutional racism in the UK.” But what difference would it have made to the lives of people from any minority group in the UK if the report had denied “institutional racism”? What is the significance of this particular phrase beyond a charge of simple “racism”? These questions are not rhetorical.

r begins, but you don’t get to decide when it will end. And you will be paying a higher price at that unknowable end than you were at the beginning.”

Hamas has probably won de facto control of the Palestinian national movement this week. It has shown it can spark unrest in the West Bank and within Israeli society. But it has done so at the cost of transforming beleaguered, struggling Gaza into a proxy proving ground for the next Israel-Hezbollah war. Israel believes that the Olmert government’s forceful response in 2006 was the reason Hezbollah has declined to test the IDF in a significant exchange of fire ever since.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's sister Yo-jong, who had thrown another hissy fit about the leaflets. That prompted U.S. Representative Tom Lantos to schedule another hearing on the issue, adding to condemnation from every respectable human rights body on the entire globe.

Moon does not want North Koreans to learn the truth about their vile regime. When Kim Yo-jong demanded that South Korea enact laws to crack down on the leaflets, the government responded just four-and-a-half hours later by saying one "is being prepared." When she flew off the handle again after a defectors' group still sent leaflets across the border, the government vowed to undertake a "stern investigation." In fact, it is now considering prosecuting people even if the materials did not actually fly across the border….

I think "craven appeasement" is the term we're looking for here.

evel of risk”.

This difference is noted to include the type of sexual offending and their anatomy/physiology. What they mean here of course but have not dared to say is that the difference between transwomen and women is their sex. Transwomen are not the same as ‘other women’ because they are male and have male bodies – male bodies with superior size and strength and a penis that can be used for rape.

But the ideal of happy mixing still remains, albeit involving considerable staff supervision:

“ACTION – Staffing levels to be sufficient to enable the levels of supervision required for women to access regime”.

Male-born transgender prisoners with a GRC must be considered “female for all purposes” and so the MOJ does not want to treat them any differently to the ‘other’ women. This means allowing them to experience as much of the ‘women’s regime’ as possible. In order to maximise trans prisoners’ access to communal areas such as the chapel, canteen, laundry, showers, telephones, gym and exercise classes they will need to be supervised by the guards. We’ve heard from female prisoners that this takes the form of 1:1 supervision, with guards following them around to make sure other prisoners are ‘safe’. This of course only extends to physical safety; the psychological welfare of women is not being addressed.

“ACTION – In order to ensure that the policy fosters good relationships between the high risk transgender women on the unit and the other women in HMP Downview, staff at HMP Downview will continue to include the women on E wing in the normal regime as much as possible”.

Public Sector Equality Duty requires the prison service to ‘foster good relations’ between groups with different protected characteristics. In this instance it means the prisoners who are trans (the high-risk male-born prisoners) and prisoners who are not trans (the women).

There is no acknowledgement that women might not actually want to mix with high-risk males, and that this enforced mixing may actually foster ‘bad’ relations. A high number of women in prison have suffered male violence and/or have a history of sexual abuse from males and may not wish to be alongside males with a history of violent or sexual offending against women.

Instead the policy promotes the idea that mixing will foster good relations. Is it right to expect women to have ‘good relations’ with violent males, some of whom are sex offenders?

As we've seen, some of these trans women are indeed serious sex offenders. Why would women possibly want to mix with them, considering the very real threat they pose? But the needs of women are simply brushed aside when it comes to the supposed needs of men claiming to be women.

But it's not over yet:

The MOJ’s transgender prison policy, including the housing of high-risk male-born prisoners on the female estate, is now the subject of a Judicial Review. Evidence was heard in the High Court on 2-3rd March 2021. Fair Play For Women submitted witness statements detailing our engagement with with MOJ and HMPPS over the course of the last 2 years. If the court decides that the policy does not adequately consider the needs and rights of women in prison the policy will be quashed. We now await the court ruling.