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From the Telegraph – Female NHS workers ‘humiliated’ by trans guidance in hospitals.

Sex Matters, a women’s rights group, said dozens of NHS trusts were “breaking the law” by continuing to allow trans women to use female facilities in defiance of last month’s Supreme Court ruling.

It has written to the NHS Confederation, which represents trusts, to demand that it withdraw guidance that says trans people can use whichever lavatories and changing rooms they wish….

Maya Forstater, the chief executive of Sex Matters, said in the letter: “Those that are following the current guidance from the NHS Confederation are breaking the law. There is no reason for delay. The fact that your guidance is ‘informal’ is no excuse.

“It encourages NHS employers to uphold policies that create an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating and offensive environment for staff who do not wish to share single-sex spaces with members of the opposite sex and to breach workplace health and safety rules.”

In her letter, Ms Forstater said the NHS Confederation’s trans guidance was “legally illiterate” and “encouraged NHS employers to break the law”.

The guidance states: “In all types of workplaces, trans and non-binary people should be supported to use the bathrooms they feel most comfortable using. At no time is it appropriate to force staff to use the toilet associated with their assigned sex at birth against their will.”

It also tells management, senior healthcare leaders and human resources directors to take a “zero-tolerance attitude” to transphobia, even though this approach led to NHS staff such as Sandie Peggie and the Darlington nurses being disciplined for asserting their rights to single-sex facilities at work.

They – the NHS Confederation – got the law wrong. The Supreme Court ruling makes that clear. They're now muttering about how "elements of our guide on trans and non-binary allyship are now dated":

We will update the guide more fully as soon as the Government has responded to the EHRC’s updated code of practice after it has been publicly consulted on, so that the implications of the judgment for NHS services are fully known.

“We will continue to work with our members while we do this. The resource on our website remains as guidance and is not official policy for the NHS.”

The implications are clear enough: their guidance is wrong. Why the prevarication?

ow about your art”.

The report also stated that “women who voiced gender-critical viewpoints reported being subject to psychological torment, social ostracisation, [and] attempts at economic sabotage” by colleagues.

Part of the reason for this, with the trans debate, is surely the patent absurdity of gender ideology. If the arguments were clear and logical, no pressure would be needed. People would automatically gravitate towards the sensible view. But no one really, deep down, believes TWAW, or that you can change sex by fiat, and men should be free to use women-only spaces if they feel like it. A strong degree of social pressure is required. And, it seems, no group is keener on peer approval than the conforming artist.

Also, the BBC and the Arts Council….

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-perverts.html”>previous post). It's long – over two hours – but Chu comes up early on as case number three, at a minute and a half in. "Getting fucked makes you female, because fucked is what a female is." "To be female is in every case to become what someone else wants."

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This is great:

Here’s @marycatedelvey laying out the facts. https://t.co/9REihRY9iU

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Just stunning that a man in his 40’s is over the top joyfully celebrating beating a 14 year old girl. Congratulations to @usacycling for their leadership in developing young girls on how to lose to men. The Board of Directors at USA Cycling and Brendan Quirk are spineless… https://t.co/3ZtjOkUxoe

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hical, inclusive cultural programming”.

Unless Jews are involved.

The Bristol Beacon has now announced that the concert has been cancelled, saying: “The Jonny Greenwood and Dudu Tassa concert on Monday 23 June will no longer be taking place. All ticketholders will receive a full refund.”

A spokesperson for the venue later said: “Given the small-scale nature of the performance in Lantern Hall, and with other events taking place in the venue, we do not feel that we can run the event viably with the wellbeing and safety of everyone in mind considering the potential for disruption from advertised protests.

"We apologise for the disappointment this may cause.”

BPA has hailed the move as a “victory” adding: “Public pressure works."

Threats work – if the venue is sufficiently lacking in backbone.

Talk of a Gaza genocide is bad enough, but "the Gaza Holocaust"? Vile. They know what they're doing.

because Hamas wanted to murder people who believe in peace. Hamas has always sought to murder peace. It did it in the 1990s with bombings, and then the Second Intifada and then after Disengagement.

It is Hamas that has always been responsible for Israel's "shift" to the right.

ng positions that they know will be approved by those whose opinions they value. It’s the same as intelligent Christians who use their ingenuity in defending silly doctrines, in order to be in good standing with their community.

For a short while – a couple of centuries, maybe – there was a dominant ideology among intellectuals that you should follow logic and evidence wherever they led, and if you were howled down for your heterodox views, then fine. That ideology is ebbing away, to my great regret. Young people are far less likely to hold it. Perhaps it’s the result of social media? Anyway, I know from personal experience that whenever I go to a philosophy conference, the younger people there will advance what they deem to be the most progressive positions, and if they consider objections, it will be in a cursory manner, with the aim of dismissing them.

It’s more important for Fuentes, and the editors of Natural History, to be in the right camp – the camp that disagrees with traditionalists and Trump – than to follow the evidence. The thirst for affirmation overwhelms the desire for truth, I’m afraid.

It's the same as the proud "right side of history" boast. Never mind the argument and the science, it's all about being seen as progressive and virtuous.

Also, what she said.

g to stack up. The condescension, overreach, entitlement and aggression of gender activists is eroding public support daily. Women are fighting back and winning significant victories. Sporting bodies have miraculously awoken from their slumber and remembered that males tend to be larger, stronger and faster than females. Parts of the medical establishment are questioning cutting healthy breasts off teenaged girls is really the best way to fix their mental health problems.

One seemingly harmless little white lie – Trans Women are Women, Trans Men are Men – uttered in most cases without any real thought at all, and a few short years later, people who think of themselves as supremely virtuous are typing 'yes, rapists' pronouns are absolutely the hill I'll die on,' rubbing shoulders with those who call for women to be hanged and decapitated for wanting all-female rape crisis centres, and furiously denying clear and mounting evidence of the greatest medical scandal in a century.

I wonder if they ever ask themselves how they got here, and I wonder whether any of them will ever feel shame.