Fantastic editorial on how groupthink, cowardice and a reluctance to confront fashionable orthodoxy for fear of losing face is undermining British institutions.
“in the end, facts have a way of triumphing over lies.” Scotland take heed.
thetimes.co.uk/article/5927b4…

I’ve written about the demographic at the heart of the Cass review: teenage girls. How could the NHS have betrayed so many unhappy, vulnerable girls by medicalising them to be boys?

thetimes.co.uk/article/c7cc51…

A shattering thread by Dennis Noel Kavanagh , quite rightly utterly furious at the lies, the cover-ups, the ferreting, the dishonesty & the harm that’s resulted from this woeful decision.

Do read.

This week, at the launch of his first season as chief conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Antonio Pappano spoke powerfully about his belief in sharing music with new generations and ensuring everyone has the opportunity to hear the incredible sound of a live orchestra.

The utter, historic shame of Stonewall: from a noble, decent defence of same-sex love to ignoble, mendacious denial of debate and sense.

Posted without further comment.

Now people are transplaining to me that sex and gender are different.
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Yes, they are.
Which is why trans women shouldn't be joining women's sports or running rape crisis centres.

#TerfsWereRight

Open twitter to find #TerfsWereRight is trending.

Humans cannot literally change sex, and sometimes that matters.

That's not hate, just truth.

But how many women were hounded & vilified for saying it?

As so often, Andrea Dworkin spoke truth.

Now the tide's turning, you want to ride up on your white horse and show us all how to have respectful, mature discussion? You were missing in action when it might have made a difference. Don't you dare lecture us how we should've fought the battle you avoided. 2/2

I thought the last tweet was going to be my last, but I just burst into tears. The #CassReview may be a watershed moment, but it comes too late for detransitioners who've written me heartbreaking letters of regret. Today's not a triumph, it's the laying bare of a tragedy. 7/7

The silence of those who now complain of 'polarisation' made some very violent people feel very entitled. And it will be hard to de-escalate that. It will not, however, be the fault of those these people have spent years harassing and misrepresenting with impunity.

This from ⁦amelia gentleman⁩ is a thoughtful and excellent interview theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Please understand: the sensible, compassionate, responsible approach advocated by Hilary Cass in her review is what gender zealots at Stonewall and Mermaids call ‘torture’. Her approach would be illegal if Labour fulfils its repeated pledge to ban ‘trans conversion therapy’

I wrote about why those who'd rather validate than interrogate the body hatred of adolescent girls were never 'being kind' thecritic.co.uk/killing-with-k…

Three women a year for the last six years have been murdered in West Yorkshire in spite of asking for police help.
Kulsuma Akter's appalling death is not an isolated incident but the latest in a whole series.
We can't hope to #endVAWG unless we see what's happening.

‘This has all happened because children have been lied to’

By ⁦suzanne moore⁩

‘Cass report may now see the legal dam break’

Unusual to see a comment so high up, but pertinent, deserved archive.ph/2024.04.09-061…

As with so much in this debate, guilt by association, or the condemnation of such, is used unequally. To shut up women (who are, like Eve, responsible for all the world's ills and all the bad men), but exonerate the groups and politicians who hide behind violent men.

It's…