This day in Herstory: Wu Zetian, born February 17, 624 (died November 26, 705), was the only female emperor in the history of China. Under her 40-year reign, China grew larger, corruption in the court was reduced, its culture and economy were revitalized, and it was recognized as one of the great powers of the world. (more)
Scot flashed her penis and used sex toy in public leaving onlookers shocked
Former soldier Chloe Thompson, who is originally from Glasgow but moved to the Teesside area in 2011, was previously placed on the sex offenders' register for assaulting an underage girl.
From The Daily Record (Scotland)
By Naomi Corrigan & Sarah Vesty
Feb 17, 2022
A Glasgow-born sex offender has admitted exposing her penis, using a sex toy and masturbating in public.
Chloe Thompson committed the "grossly offensive" acts in daylight and in front of shocked members of the public, a court was told.
At one point, three children saw the former soldier exposing herself and thrusting her hips in the window of her home, TeesideLive reports.
Thompson had been due to stand trial at Teeside Magistrates' Court on Tuesday morning but changed her plea to guilty shortly before. … read full article
Scotland’s women won’t be erased
Gender-critical feminists are mobilising against the SNP
From UnHerd (UK)
By Sarah Pedersen (@SarahPedersen2)
Feb 17, 2022
There are inflatable dinosaurs leafletting shoppers in Aberdeen city centre. Grassroots feminists in Forth Valley are organising a conference for International Women’s Day. “Weegie Witches” dance out their defiance in Glasgow, while “Sole Sisters” create street art out of shoes to show the SNP that “women are voting with their feet”.
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Currently, if you want to legally change your gender in Scotland, medical evidence is required; you must have lived in your “acquired gender” for at least two years. The Scottish government’s proposed reforms would mean that no diagnosis or medical reports would be needed, and the period in which applicants must have lived in their acquired gender would be cut to three months. In other words, self-identification of gender would be introduced. The SNP government is expected to reveal its draft legislation in the coming weeks. For Scotland’s gender-critical feminists, their fight has never been so urgent. … read full article
The Abyss
From Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) (USA)
Feb 17, 2022
This is how it feels to watch my child embrace gender ideology:
It’s like I am watching my daughter jumping into the abyss. She is falling in slow-motion, having purposely leapt past me into a gaping hole with no bottom in sight. I am holding out my hand to catch her as she falls past, but she refuses to take it. I have tried before to grab her and pull her out of the darkness before she fell too far, but she pushed me away, which made her fall a little faster toward the bottom. Seeing this and trying to learn from my errors, I stopped trying to grab her. Now I just leave my hand dangling where she can see it, where she can easily grasp it and be pulled to safety, should she want to. I’ve tried other things too. I’ve left a few ropes hanging into the pit that she can grab onto (the seeds planted in her brain), if she so chooses. I live in hope that she will take my hand, or latch onto one of those ropes I left hanging and then, tied to reality, she can carefully climbs up the wall on her own before hitting the bottom. Or maybe she will pick up the pieces of rope and supplies I’ve nailed to the wall for her and create her own rope or ladder that she can use to climb up.
If she falls until she hits the bottom, she will likely sustain severe injuries. I’ve seen this happen to others. I know some who have fallen into this same abyss and recovered completely from the fall. Others I’ve seen make their way out of the abyss, still struggle with their injuries, but will ultimately survive. It’s unclear how many of the survivors will thrive. It surely depends on how quickly they fell, and how they fell (what body parts were injured in the fall and how severely)— and how determined they are to recover from their self-inflicted descent. … read full article (and subscribe to PITT - free!)
Trans exceptionalism and ordinary children
From Writing Behavior (Canada)
By Eliza Mondegreen
Feb 17, 2022
Trans activists, ‘affirmative’ medical providers, and parents tend to see kids who identify as transgender as exceptional. To these children, none of the normal rules and nothing we know about child development seems to apply.
But children who identify as transgender are just that: children. They hurt, like other children. They’re trying to figure out themselves and the strange world they live in, like other children.
They’ll change over time, like other children, in unpredictable ways, like other children.
And they will grow up, like all children. They will surprise themselves and us.
Children who identify as trans only have one body and one life, like all children. They are—as Ian McEwan put it—“easily torn and not easily mended.”
Children who identify as trans don’t have endocrine conditions or birth defects. They’re not the vanguard of some transhuman future. Rather, they’re made of the same stuff that children have always been made of, with the same needs for care and attention. … read full article (and subscribe to Writing Behavior)
The OECD Stages a Magic Gender Show in Japan
From The 11th Hour Blog (USA)
by Choko Ishioka
Feb 17, 2022
It has already been revealed that there are many billionaires hiding behind this creepy ideological movement. They are like cult gurus, changing people's minds and intoxicating them with illusions. Among such magicians, there is one group that may shed some light on the nature of this issue. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an intergovernmental economic organization with 38 member countries to stimulate economic progress and world trade.
Gender ideology has many flaws and does a lot of harm to society, yet it pretends to be a human rights movement. For example, Open Society is funding Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch for “human rights,” while also helping to create legal medical identities for children which sterilize them and create other physical harms.
When it comes to OECD, delegates from the member countries attend committee, and what is discussed and agreed upon in the meeting is reflected in the policies of each country. In other words, the OECD is not only a data aggregator, but it also influences the economic management of nations. Such organizations that influence governments are demanding that member countries legislate "self-ID", "non-binary", etc. which are no more than corporate illusions, no less magical than unicorns, that support the medical industry.
The OECD says, ”Anti-LGBTI discrimination also reduces economic output by excluding LGBTI talents from the labour market and impairing their mental and physical health, hence their productivity”. But is that what they really mean? … read full article
Trans people can ‘change sex’ when filling out census form, court rules
From The Times (UK)
By Mike Wade
Feb 17, 2022
Transgender people will be allowed to record their sex on the census differently from what is printed on their birth certificate after a court rejected a challenge by feminists to outlaw new guidance on the “sex question”.
Lord Sandison ruled that Scottish ministers had acted lawfully in approving the advice, which will state: “If you are transgender the answer you give can be different from what is on your birth certificate. You do not need a gender recognition certificate.”
Fair Play for Women, the organisation behind the legal challenge, had argued that this explanation was “unlawful and directly impacts the rights of women and girls” because the census is used to plan government policy. … read full article
‘Only Two Sexes’ — Rep. Chip Roy To Introduce Legislation That Would Make Passports Have 2 Gender Options
From Daily Caller (USA)
By Henry Rodgers
Feb 17, 2022
Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy will introduce legislation Friday that would make it so that only two sexes can be on U.S. passports.
The Daily Caller first obtained a copy of the bill, titled the Passport Sanity Act, which would reverse the State Department’s decision to allow people to choose their gender on passports. In October, the State Department issued the first U.S. passport with an (X) as the gender where it says what sex you are, instead of (M) for male or (F) for female.
“There are only two sexes — male and female — and that’s what official government documents should reflect. Passports exist to serve our national security by verifying the identity of those who exit and reenter our country; they do not exist to undermine reality,” Roy told the Daily Caller.
“Radical gender ideology has no place in our government — whether in our education system or at the passport office. That’s why I introduced the Passport Sanity Act to put an end this madness,” he added. … read full article
Shereen Benjamin on Stonewall: “It is alarming that City of Edinburgh councillors would affiliate their council to this increasingly discredited organisation.”
From Lesbian and Gay News (UK)
By Lesbian and Gay News
Feb 17, 2022
In a spectacular failure to read the room, Edinburgh City Council voted last week to join Stonewall’s Diversity Champions Scheme and Workplace Equality Index.
Joining Diversity Champions – for a fee – will enable the council to access advice and training (at additional cost) from Stonewall: submitting to the Workplace Equality Index will entitle the Council to prepare and submit an extensive report detailing how well or otherwise it has implemented Stonewall’s recommendations, in return for which Stonewall will provide feedback and a grading and ranking.
These schemes, which are undoubtedly excellent money-spinners for Stonewall, have been robustly discredited over the last year. In a blog post last June, Legal Feminist (a collective of solicitors and barristers) noted that “although Stonewall purports to provide organisations with advice on complying with the law on equality and diversity, in reality it has been pursuing its own law reform agenda in the guise of ‘training’ ”. … read full article