Great point, Josie Long! Thank goodness the trans rights movement never sought to police anyone. I mean, okay, aside from the compelled speech with the pronouns, the affirmation-only model of therapy, the contortion of medical ethics, the changes made to sports rules, the

I’ve been thinking of how I use the label “detransitioner.” I don’t want to use it anymore. Here’s why: 🧵

“Copilot, could you suggest some fictional names of higher education institutions for a training demo product that we are currently working on?” Copilot’s response: “Sure, how about the University of Bums on Seats?”

There’s always a silly excuse. If the EHRC hadn’t issued guidance, the cry would have been, “There is no guidance!” If the EHRC issues guidance, “It’s only guidance!” If the EHRC publishes its draft statutory code amendments, “They are only draft amendments!” When the EHRC

The minutes from the 8th May meeting of the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body (SPCB) - essentially the body that oversees the property, services and staff of the Scottish Parliament - have now been published. Maggie Chapman MSP was, indeed, present at the meeting. This makes

The tombstone of Hannah Twynnoy in the churchyard of Malmesbury abbey. She was the first English woman to be killed by a tiger.

Stephen Fry sneering at JK Rowling in front of a live audience - when he has made it very clear, previously, that he knows sterilising kids and dismantling women’s single-sex spaces, services and sports are wrong - is the epitome of scapegoating. It’s incurious, it’s cowardly

Completely agree with Diane Abbott’s substantive point here. However, I am so exhausted by this language of “the most vulnerable” and “the most marginalised”, even from people I agree with on an issue. This kind of rhetoric always feels to me like a trick, a tactic…a claim

I wonder if anyone can help me source something. I’m working on a project connected with ‘compassion’ on behalf of a university. I remember hearing or reading - I can’t remember where - the idea that the problem today is not a lack of compassion in the world, but rather the

I love this Queer Majority article from Lisa Selin Davis. The last four paragraphs sum up so much of how I have felt about myself for a couple of years. The fears, the certainty, the finding of a marvellous assembly of brave and interesting and intelligent fellow apostates. A

Academia’s conception of a free-thinker: someone who finds out what the free-thinkers are thinking, & thinks that

Beautifully ironic. Dr Searle exercises her right not to be forced to profess public adherence to a metaphysical belief.

Wow

Congrats on the appeal being permitted to go ahead, Kenny McBride

Michael’s marvellous Substack videos about each day of Peggie v NHS Fife has definitely taken the top spot for my end of the day viewing, bumping The White Lotus down to its new “only if there’s time and if I have the energy” second place status.

“The gender that was given to me at birth” The language sounds more religious with each passing year. Gold, frankincense, myrrh and gender were upon the newborn infant bestowed. Who giveth this child their gender?

One thing that really strikes me - not just about this case, but about every conversation about sex and gender issues these days - is just how far the gender woo has undermined people's ability to have normal conversations, both at home and at work. It is beyond walking on

I love people who reject nominations, honours and titles. There's a mix of humility and arrogance in it that I find really engaging.

A friend of mine asked me recently when people started calling it *the* patriarchy, instead of just ‘patriarchy’. She didn’t like the ‘the’. I thought that was a very interesting distinction and observation.

'It is divisive to reject our way of being divisive.'