Wow Biden needs to flood SC if that goes the wrong way
He'd be mad if he does that over this. That would be starting an arms race which might well write their (already messy) democracy off.
Whichever side of the debate you are on, RvW was a terrible mistake - it was a clear act of setting policy by judicial activism, against the democratic will of significant chunk of the electorate. The subsequent result is it's so politicised the court that we are in the position today where lots of people vote for terrible presidential candidates purely based on who they can get on the SC.
What should have happened is that abortion should have been left to legislators in the states to sort out, based on their promises to electors. It would mean that the rules varied from state to state (in California, it would probably be allowed up to 3 weeks after birth, whilst in Texas, merely saying the word might get you a month in jail). That would have been democratic, and taken the heat out of the situation.
The best thing that could happen now is that RvW gets struck down by the SC, and the Democrats prove wise enough to leave the situation alone, other than legislating as they see fit in Democrat held states. If they did that, it might actually take some of the heat out of the situation, instead of adding more in.
It won't be the start of the arms race. The arms race already started and the GOP shenanigans over SCOTUS Justices has opened the door to this.
Why should control over a woman's own body be democratically decided? As opposed to being a private matter for the woman whose body it is?
Because in a democracy ultimately either everything is democratic or nothing is. Trying to set the fashionable morals of the day in stone always ends in tears eventually (this is currently playing out in the USA with the destruction of the SC, because it tried to do just this with RvW 50 years ago).
The importance of RvW has tended to grow over time. Back when it was passed (7-2, I believe), it was not considered particularly controversial. It was only really in the 1980s, when Reagan used it to mobilise the Southern Baptists that it came to the fore.
And, by the way, the Republican leadership are not idiots. We've had a number of Republican Senators stating that they expect (hope) the Texas law will be struck down by the Supreme Court.
(Which, by the way, it should be. Not because it overturns RvW, but because it would allow any State to ban the right to bear arms. Bear in mind the SC refused to strike it down, not because of abortion or RvW, but because they said that it's formulation was such that it had no ability to do so.)
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Is he? I thought the proposals were reverting to the rules in 2010, where the members could vote.
I've carefully read the header (which is articulate and persuasive) and the response by Glom (which is articulate and persuasive) and now I'm really fucking depressed.
I'm going to drink some wine, which I never do on a Monday.
I've carefully read the header (which is articulate and persuasive) and the response by Glom (which is articulate and persuasive) and now I'm really fucking depressed.
I'm going to drink some wine, which I never do on a Monday.
It's not even that I'm in opposition to the article completely. Starmer is weak if he isn't calling out harassment and intimidation. I'm questioning why that point needed to be loaded with insensitivity.
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Is he? I thought the proposals were reverting to the rules in 2010, where the members could vote.
I thought they were changing the rule so that 200 MPs have the same say as 400k members but not totally sure.
Either way OMOV has to be the right system and i am no longer a member
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Is he? I thought the proposals were reverting to the rules in 2010, where the members could vote.
I thought they were changing the rule so that 200 MPs have the same say as 400k members but not totally sure.
Either way OMOV has to be the right system and i am no longer a member
Yes, but that's not the same as "banning ordinary Labour members from voting", is it?
Hi, everyone. It is technically my first post, but I have been lurking for many, many years. The thread header has finally made me feel I should contribute.
It is disappointing that Cyclefree, who wrote so much on the subject of Corbyn Labour's blind spots to bigotry in the form of antisemitism, has now fallen so deeply into her own blind spot.
To be clear, this isn't about condemning abuse and intimidation of people like Rosie Duffield. Of course, such behaviour is contemptible (not to mention counterproductive). Nor is this even about concerns over protection of women's spaces if gender recognition is made too easy to abuse.
Also "chest-feeding", if indeed that term is used, is stupid. What organ are you using to nurse the child if not a breast?
As the old saying goes, it's not what you say, it's how you say it. And this article, while articulating concerns about intimidation of those who are concerned about protections for women, does so in a way that is deeply transphobic. It is so because wording goes out of its way to pay no respect whatsoever to the validity of trans people as trans people.
"in response to a question from Justin Webb on the Today programme about whether there was anywhere biological males should not go – replied “No, no”."
I haven't seen the programme, but I highly doubt it went down like that. I'm sure the question was about transwomen specifically. By paraphrasing it in this way, Cyclefree is denying that transwomen are any different at any level from any man. They are basically just "men in dresses", a known anti-trans slur that she has in fact used in the past few days, but would never abide, from her writing on Corbynism, its antisemitic equivalents such as Zio or even the coded used of theoretically objective term Zionist.
"let along something to be recategorized out of existence to assuage the feelings of some men."
If the concern is predatory men abusing self-ID to access women's protected spaces, this is clearly not targeted at them, because recognition of trans people is not intended to protect their feelings, obviously. Rather it is targeted at transwomen, again denying that they are indeed so. Just "men in dresses".
Denying the validity of transwomen, especially when conflating them with trojan horse predation, i.e. something to feared, is the very definition of transphobia.
I'm sure Cyclefree doesn't want to be associated with any form of bigotry, hence brisling against being labelled transphobic, but if you deny the legitimacy of trans people and are blase about using insensitive and demeaning terminology to refer to them, then how else would you describe your attitude towards them?
Clearly, we have a long way to go, but at least these issues are being talked about.
Welcome but Cyclefree's language is entirely correct.
Unless the individual in question has undergone a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria and gone through a transition then yes they absolutely are men.
To say that a man is a woman, without any transition or medical diagnosis just because he says he is a woman is to deny everything that actually makes a woman a woman.
A trans woman is only a trans woman if she's undergone transition and followed the steps via treatment etc for medically diagnosed dysphoria. Which extremist activists want to skip entirely and allow any man to pretend to be a woman.
That ignores the fact that these slurs are levied at fully transitioned trans-women as well. Repeating them without clarification shows an insensitivity for the struggle even those who completed the transition, let alone those in the middle (transition is not done on an out-patient basis). That insensitivity to a marginalised group can only be interpreted as hostility.
The entire basis of PC is that words and phrases have accrued connotations, and we all need to be careful that we don't imply things we don't mean through careless use of them.
I must say this piece is unusually punchy for a BBC article, reminds me of when they had an article referring to 'Gaffe prone Joe Biden'.
The French must see there is no point in wailing about having been shoddily treated. They were.
But who ever heard of a nation short-changing its defence priorities out of not wanting to give offence? The fact is that the Australians calculated they had underestimated the Chinese threat and so needed to boost their level of deterrence.
They acted with steely disregard for French concerns but, when it comes to the crunch, that is what nations do. It is almost the definition of a nation: a group of people who have come together to defend their own interests
But the second painful truth exposed by the Aukus affair is that the US no longer has any great interest in the outdated behemoth that is Nato. Nor does it harbour any particular loyalty to those who have stood by its side...
But the UK's is Europe's only other serious army. The two countries have similar histories and world experiences. Their soldiers respect each other. In the long term, Franco-British defence co-operation is too logical to ignore. That may be the last of Macron's painful truths.
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Is he? I thought the proposals were reverting to the rules in 2010, where the members could vote.
I thought they were changing the rule so that 200 MPs have the same say as 400k members but not totally sure.
Either way OMOV has to be the right system and i am no longer a member
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Members would be banned from voting as individuals, with local CLPs as a whole contributing around 30% of the vote - whilst MPs and Unions held the vast bulk of democratic power.
Hi, everyone. It is technically my first post, but I have been lurking for many, many years. The thread header has finally made me feel I should contribute.
It is disappointing that Cyclefree, who wrote so much on the subject of Corbyn Labour's blind spots to bigotry in the form of antisemitism, has now fallen so deeply into her own blind spot.
To be clear, this isn't about condemning abuse and intimidation of people like Rosie Duffield. Of course, such behaviour is contemptible (not to mention counterproductive). Nor is this even about concerns over protection of women's spaces if gender recognition is made too easy to abuse.
Also "chest-feeding", if indeed that term is used, is stupid. What organ are you using to nurse the child if not a breast?
As the old saying goes, it's not what you say, it's how you say it. And this article, while articulating concerns about intimidation of those who are concerned about protections for women, does so in a way that is deeply transphobic. It is so because wording goes out of its way to pay no respect whatsoever to the validity of trans people as trans people.
"in response to a question from Justin Webb on the Today programme about whether there was anywhere biological males should not go – replied “No, no”."
I haven't seen the programme, but I highly doubt it went down like that. I'm sure the question was about transwomen specifically. By paraphrasing it in this way, Cyclefree is denying that transwomen are any different at any level from any man. They are basically just "men in dresses", a known anti-trans slur that she has in fact used in the past few days, but would never abide, from her writing on Corbynism, its antisemitic equivalents such as Zio or even the coded used of theoretically objective term Zionist.
"let along something to be recategorized out of existence to assuage the feelings of some men."
If the concern is predatory men abusing self-ID to access women's protected spaces, this is clearly not targeted at them, because recognition of trans people is not intended to protect their feelings, obviously. Rather it is targeted at transwomen, again denying that they are indeed so. Just "men in dresses".
Denying the validity of transwomen, especially when conflating them with trojan horse predation, i.e. something to feared, is the very definition of transphobia.
I'm sure Cyclefree doesn't want to be associated with any form of bigotry, hence brisling against being labelled transphobic, but if you deny the legitimacy of trans people and are blase about using insensitive and demeaning terminology to refer to them, then how else would you describe your attitude towards them?
Clearly, we have a long way to go, but at least these issues are being talked about.
Welcome but Cyclefree's language is entirely correct.
Unless the individual in question has undergone a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria and gone through a transition then yes they absolutely are men.
To say that a man is a woman, without any transition or medical diagnosis just because he says he is a woman is to deny everything that actually makes a woman a woman.
A trans woman is only a trans woman if she's undergone transition and followed the steps via treatment etc for medically diagnosed dysphoria. Which extremist activists want to skip entirely and allow any man to pretend to be a woman.
Don't agree with that. A trans woman is a woman regardless of whether any treatment etc has taken place. He has transitioned into being a woman (a she) - and therefore IS a woman - as long as we are strictly talking about gender.
Why would that be true? Why can't they have made an appalling mistake? That's what Bell in Bell vs Tavistock says happened to them. So do you think they WERE a woman for a bit and then stopped being, or what?
Hi, everyone. It is technically my first post, but I have been lurking for many, many years. The thread header has finally made me feel I should contribute.
It is disappointing that Cyclefree, who wrote so much on the subject of Corbyn Labour's blind spots to bigotry in the form of antisemitism, has now fallen so deeply into her own blind spot.
To be clear, this isn't about condemning abuse and intimidation of people like Rosie Duffield. Of course, such behaviour is contemptible (not to mention counterproductive). Nor is this even about concerns over protection of women's spaces if gender recognition is made too easy to abuse.
Also "chest-feeding", if indeed that term is used, is stupid. What organ are you using to nurse the child if not a breast?
As the old saying goes, it's not what you say, it's how you say it. And this article, while articulating concerns about intimidation of those who are concerned about protections for women, does so in a way that is deeply transphobic. It is so because wording goes out of its way to pay no respect whatsoever to the validity of trans people as trans people.
"in response to a question from Justin Webb on the Today programme about whether there was anywhere biological males should not go – replied “No, no”."
I haven't seen the programme, but I highly doubt it went down like that. I'm sure the question was about transwomen specifically. By paraphrasing it in this way, Cyclefree is denying that transwomen are any different at any level from any man. They are basically just "men in dresses", a known anti-trans slur that she has in fact used in the past few days, but would never abide, from her writing on Corbynism, its antisemitic equivalents such as Zio or even the coded used of theoretically objective term Zionist.
"let along something to be recategorized out of existence to assuage the feelings of some men."
If the concern is predatory men abusing self-ID to access women's protected spaces, this is clearly not targeted at them, because recognition of trans people is not intended to protect their feelings, obviously. Rather it is targeted at transwomen, again denying that they are indeed so. Just "men in dresses".
Denying the validity of transwomen, especially when conflating them with trojan horse predation, i.e. something to feared, is the very definition of transphobia.
I'm sure Cyclefree doesn't want to be associated with any form of bigotry, hence brisling against being labelled transphobic, but if you deny the legitimacy of trans people and are blase about using insensitive and demeaning terminology to refer to them, then how else would you describe your attitude towards them?
Clearly, we have a long way to go, but at least these issues are being talked about.
Welcome but Cyclefree's language is entirely correct.
Unless the individual in question has undergone a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria and gone through a transition then yes they absolutely are men.
To say that a man is a woman, without any transition or medical diagnosis just because he says he is a woman is to deny everything that actually makes a woman a woman.
A trans woman is only a trans woman if she's undergone transition and followed the steps via treatment etc for medically diagnosed dysphoria. Which extremist activists want to skip entirely and allow any man to pretend to be a woman.
Don't agree with that. A trans woman is a woman regardless of whether any treatment etc has taken place. He has transitioned into being a woman (a she) - and therefore IS a woman - as long as we are strictly talking about gender.
I disagree, there's a process to follow for transitioning.
Simply saying "I have transitioned" and then expecting an immediate violation of safeguarding etc on the basis of that doesn't make it so.
Doesn't your strong liberalism commit you to allowing that someone can be the gender they want to be as long as they are not causing harm to others?
Hi, everyone. It is technically my first post, but I have been lurking for many, many years. The thread header has finally made me feel I should contribute.
It is disappointing that Cyclefree, who wrote so much on the subject of Corbyn Labour's blind spots to bigotry in the form of antisemitism, has now fallen so deeply into her own blind spot.
To be clear, this isn't about condemning abuse and intimidation of people like Rosie Duffield. Of course, such behaviour is contemptible (not to mention counterproductive). Nor is this even about concerns over protection of women's spaces if gender recognition is made too easy to abuse.
Also "chest-feeding", if indeed that term is used, is stupid. What organ are you using to nurse the child if not a breast?
As the old saying goes, it's not what you say, it's how you say it. And this article, while articulating concerns about intimidation of those who are concerned about protections for women, does so in a way that is deeply transphobic. It is so because wording goes out of its way to pay no respect whatsoever to the validity of trans people as trans people.
"in response to a question from Justin Webb on the Today programme about whether there was anywhere biological males should not go – replied “No, no”."
I haven't seen the programme, but I highly doubt it went down like that. I'm sure the question was about transwomen specifically. By paraphrasing it in this way, Cyclefree is denying that transwomen are any different at any level from any man. They are basically just "men in dresses", a known anti-trans slur that she has in fact used in the past few days, but would never abide, from her writing on Corbynism, its antisemitic equivalents such as Zio or even the coded used of theoretically objective term Zionist.
"let along something to be recategorized out of existence to assuage the feelings of some men."
If the concern is predatory men abusing self-ID to access women's protected spaces, this is clearly not targeted at them, because recognition of trans people is not intended to protect their feelings, obviously. Rather it is targeted at transwomen, again denying that they are indeed so. Just "men in dresses".
Denying the validity of transwomen, especially when conflating them with trojan horse predation, i.e. something to feared, is the very definition of transphobia.
I'm sure Cyclefree doesn't want to be associated with any form of bigotry, hence brisling against being labelled transphobic, but if you deny the legitimacy of trans people and are blase about using insensitive and demeaning terminology to refer to them, then how else would you describe your attitude towards them?
Clearly, we have a long way to go, but at least these issues are being talked about.
Welcome but Cyclefree's language is entirely correct.
Unless the individual in question has undergone a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria and gone through a transition then yes they absolutely are men.
To say that a man is a woman, without any transition or medical diagnosis just because he says he is a woman is to deny everything that actually makes a woman a woman.
A trans woman is only a trans woman if she's undergone transition and followed the steps via treatment etc for medically diagnosed dysphoria. Which extremist activists want to skip entirely and allow any man to pretend to be a woman.
Don't agree with that. A trans woman is a woman regardless of whether any treatment etc has taken place. He has transitioned into being a woman (a she) - and therefore IS a woman - as long as we are strictly talking about gender.
Why would that be true? Why can't they have made an appalling mistake? That's what Bell in Bell vs Tavistock says happened to them. So do you think they WERE a woman for a bit and then stopped being, or what?
Yes. Gender can be fluid.
But that's not what Bell is saying, that s/he flowed one way one year and the other way the next, but that s/he made a catastrophic error. You do seem to know people better than they know themselves.
Academic studies of people who thought they were trans and realised they weren't, are about as easy to get funding/approval for as studies into how quickly the earth is cooling. That probably tells us something about something.
On the header, I think Starmer is determined not to get publicly involved in the sensitivities of the 'trans' debate(s). He knows that as soon as he comments, media coverage will focus for days, if not longer, on what he's said, and will open toxic wounds. He wants the focus to be on the 'big' issues, not peripheral (even if important) concerns. So he's avoiding the debate, just as he's avoiding re-opening Brexit wounds. It's probably good politics. I would hope that he reaches out to Rosie Duffield privately. I suspect he's broadly in support of those advocating pro-Trans + safe spaces for women, as is the current situation.
MPs who receive threats deserve very public support, not private words of support.
Mmm. Like whenever I mention the truly shocking level of sustained abuse that (say) Diane Abbot received for years and everyone says well, you know, public eye, and anyway it's cos she's a bit thick and can't do numbers, so what can you expect.
But Rosie Duffield gets a bit of online stick and - ooo - it's front page of the Sunday Times, and all over the Murdoch press, and it's the most TERRIBLE thing ever, and it just shows how HORRIBLE and IRRATIONAL all these weirdo lefty trans people are, how they
In response to @kinabalu - "I'd start with this question: What should the balance be between self-ID and medical certification in the process for changing gender?
Then based on the answer to this proceed to 2 more:
- What medical and other resource is required to make the process humane and efficient? - On what grounds should female only activities and spaces be able to exclude transwomen?"
I think this structure can generate a good debate and a good policy for any political party."
This is a not bad approach. And my answer to the first question is this.
- There is nothing to stop any man calling himself a female name or dressing in women's clothes. There is absolutely no reason for the law to get involved at all. - If gender dysphoria is a medical condition, then before someone can claim to suffer from it, there must be a medical diagnosis. We do not permit people to declare themselves suffering any other sort of medical condition without diagnosis. Why should this be an exception? - If transition is the answer to for an individual with this condition - and note that it is often not the answer, especially for children - then once transition has happened, a gender recognition certificate can be given. - The medical and other resources available to those suffering from this condition are very poor. The waiting times are very long indeed. This does cause suffering to people needing help. THIS is where the focus should be - on increasing the resources and reducing waiting times and providing support and help in the interim. It is notable that this is not what the trans activists are campaigning about. - It is not for women to justify why they need female-only spaces. This should be the default assumption. The burden should be the other way around. Are there any circumstances when people born male should be given access to female-only spaces and female-only sports. And my answer is only for those who have fully transitioned (and not even for those in the case of sport, because of the irreversible effects of puberty in a male). - So women have to right to loos, refuges, changing rooms, sport, single sex wards, intimate care being provided by a woman, rape counselling by a woman, female only prisons etc. If they wish to allow a man in, that is their choice not that of the man. In no circumstances should a man or transwoman guilty of offences against women, girls and children be allowed into a female-only space.
Cheers thanks. I'd argue for the default the other way. Inclusion unless there's a good reason otherwise. I'm not sure about self-ID but whatever you do, self-ID is at the heart of it since only the person truly knows how they feel. It's in place in several countries without serious problems, I believe. We aren't cutting edge radical on this, not at all.
Great header anyway. I might try and see if I can write one putting the alternative (and less popular on here!) view.
Couple of things I'd like to ask you now if you have the time and inclination:
Do you know any transpeople?
Harking back to Mrs May's proposed GRA reforms, can you remember if you were passionately opposed to them at the time, or is this an issue you've plunged a lot more into in the last year or so?
Re the real practical harm to women if transwomen can self-ID and share their facilities/spaces. If - IF - you could be convinced that it'd be immeasurably less than the harm caused to transwomen if they can't, would this influence your view at all?
I ask this because I detect a strong theological strand to some of the GC feminist argument inc yours, ie that maybe it's not, deep down and fundamentally, about being massively scared about perverts pretending to be women in order to access and harm them, but more a profound objection to womanhood being divorced from biology, a feeling that the whole notion of being a woman is being in some way dissed if those born male can legally become one without going through a heavy mental and physical medical process - Would that, if you're honest, be what actually fires you up about this matter?
"Weirdo lefty trans people" ffs, you can't steal a whole demographic like that. Or perhaps you can: there are genuinely trans people whose situation in no way maps on to their political leanings - why on earth should it? - and lefties on their usual quest for something to be wankers about, who have arbitrarily settled on gender dysphoria because antisemitism is sooo last decade.
And why does this subject so reliably throw up outrageous whataboutery from people who should know better? The reason we are talking about Rosie Duffield, is that Rosie Duffield is what we are talking about. You go on about Diane Abbot, but I note you haven't uttered a squeak about Alfred Dreyfus all evening. What about him, hey?
My post went off half cock, hadn't finished it, computer issues, but I was caricaturing what I'm seeing in places, how transpeople are being demonized as far left fanatics and morally dangerous and perverted. You're right that they aren't. Also right that Duffield abuse isn't mitigated by Abbott abuse. Whataboutery? I don't think so because what I'm suggesting is that Duffield is getting amped by media outlets and people with a strong and specific agenda.
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Is he? I thought the proposals were reverting to the rules in 2010, where the members could vote.
I thought they were changing the rule so that 200 MPs have the same say as 400k members but not totally sure.
Either way OMOV has to be the right system and i am no longer a member
Yes, but that's not the same as "banning ordinary Labour members from voting", is it?
They can vote at a CLP meeting but then that only counts for 1/650 th of the CLP one third vote.
So could end up with 250k members voting for candidate A and150K voting for Candidate B but if a maj of CLPs have a Candidate B victory Candidate B gets more than half of the CLP third
Hi, everyone. It is technically my first post, but I have been lurking for many, many years. The thread header has finally made me feel I should contribute.
It is disappointing that Cyclefree, who wrote so much on the subject of Corbyn Labour's blind spots to bigotry in the form of antisemitism, has now fallen so deeply into her own blind spot.
To be clear, this isn't about condemning abuse and intimidation of people like Rosie Duffield. Of course, such behaviour is contemptible (not to mention counterproductive). Nor is this even about concerns over protection of women's spaces if gender recognition is made too easy to abuse.
Also "chest-feeding", if indeed that term is used, is stupid. What organ are you using to nurse the child if not a breast?
As the old saying goes, it's not what you say, it's how you say it. And this article, while articulating concerns about intimidation of those who are concerned about protections for women, does so in a way that is deeply transphobic. It is so because wording goes out of its way to pay no respect whatsoever to the validity of trans people as trans people.
"in response to a question from Justin Webb on the Today programme about whether there was anywhere biological males should not go – replied “No, no”."
I haven't seen the programme, but I highly doubt it went down like that. I'm sure the question was about transwomen specifically. By paraphrasing it in this way, Cyclefree is denying that transwomen are any different at any level from any man. They are basically just "men in dresses", a known anti-trans slur that she has in fact used in the past few days, but would never abide, from her writing on Corbynism, its antisemitic equivalents such as Zio or even the coded used of theoretically objective term Zionist.
"let along something to be recategorized out of existence to assuage the feelings of some men."
If the concern is predatory men abusing self-ID to access women's protected spaces, this is clearly not targeted at them, because recognition of trans people is not intended to protect their feelings, obviously. Rather it is targeted at transwomen, again denying that they are indeed so. Just "men in dresses".
Denying the validity of transwomen, especially when conflating them with trojan horse predation, i.e. something to feared, is the very definition of transphobia.
I'm sure Cyclefree doesn't want to be associated with any form of bigotry, hence brisling against being labelled transphobic, but if you deny the legitimacy of trans people and are blase about using insensitive and demeaning terminology to refer to them, then how else would you describe your attitude towards them?
Clearly, we have a long way to go, but at least these issues are being talked about.
Welcome but Cyclefree's language is entirely correct.
Unless the individual in question has undergone a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria and gone through a transition then yes they absolutely are men.
To say that a man is a woman, without any transition or medical diagnosis just because he says he is a woman is to deny everything that actually makes a woman a woman.
A trans woman is only a trans woman if she's undergone transition and followed the steps via treatment etc for medically diagnosed dysphoria. Which extremist activists want to skip entirely and allow any man to pretend to be a woman.
That ignores the fact that these slurs are levied at fully transitioned trans-women as well. Repeating them without clarification shows an insensitivity for the struggle even those who completed the transition, let alone those in the middle (transition is not done on an out-patient basis). That insensitivity to a marginalised group can only be interpreted as hostility.
The entire basis of PC is that words and phrases have accrued connotations, and we all need to be careful that we don't imply things we don't mean through careless use of them.
That's why I don't believe in PC.
But they have 3 MPs.
Or I could have gone with: Mac guy, eh?
I was thinking of parish councils myself. A bit of a mess ever since creation, but still harsh.
Hi, everyone. It is technically my first post, but I have been lurking for many, many years. The thread header has finally made me feel I should contribute.
It is disappointing that Cyclefree, who wrote so much on the subject of Corbyn Labour's blind spots to bigotry in the form of antisemitism, has now fallen so deeply into her own blind spot.
To be clear, this isn't about condemning abuse and intimidation of people like Rosie Duffield. Of course, such behaviour is contemptible (not to mention counterproductive). Nor is this even about concerns over protection of women's spaces if gender recognition is made too easy to abuse.
Also "chest-feeding", if indeed that term is used, is stupid. What organ are you using to nurse the child if not a breast?
As the old saying goes, it's not what you say, it's how you say it. And this article, while articulating concerns about intimidation of those who are concerned about protections for women, does so in a way that is deeply transphobic. It is so because wording goes out of its way to pay no respect whatsoever to the validity of trans people as trans people.
"in response to a question from Justin Webb on the Today programme about whether there was anywhere biological males should not go – replied “No, no”."
I haven't seen the programme, but I highly doubt it went down like that. I'm sure the question was about transwomen specifically. By paraphrasing it in this way, Cyclefree is denying that transwomen are any different at any level from any man. They are basically just "men in dresses", a known anti-trans slur that she has in fact used in the past few days, but would never abide, from her writing on Corbynism, its antisemitic equivalents such as Zio or even the coded used of theoretically objective term Zionist.
"let along something to be recategorized out of existence to assuage the feelings of some men."
If the concern is predatory men abusing self-ID to access women's protected spaces, this is clearly not targeted at them, because recognition of trans people is not intended to protect their feelings, obviously. Rather it is targeted at transwomen, again denying that they are indeed so. Just "men in dresses".
Denying the validity of transwomen, especially when conflating them with trojan horse predation, i.e. something to feared, is the very definition of transphobia.
I'm sure Cyclefree doesn't want to be associated with any form of bigotry, hence brisling against being labelled transphobic, but if you deny the legitimacy of trans people and are blase about using insensitive and demeaning terminology to refer to them, then how else would you describe your attitude towards them?
Clearly, we have a long way to go, but at least these issues are being talked about.
Welcome but Cyclefree's language is entirely correct.
Unless the individual in question has undergone a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria and gone through a transition then yes they absolutely are men.
To say that a man is a woman, without any transition or medical diagnosis just because he says he is a woman is to deny everything that actually makes a woman a woman.
A trans woman is only a trans woman if she's undergone transition and followed the steps via treatment etc for medically diagnosed dysphoria. Which extremist activists want to skip entirely and allow any man to pretend to be a woman.
Don't agree with that. A trans woman is a woman regardless of whether any treatment etc has taken place. He has transitioned into being a woman (a she) - and therefore IS a woman - as long as we are strictly talking about gender.
Why would that be true? Why can't they have made an appalling mistake? That's what Bell in Bell vs Tavistock says happened to them. So do you think they WERE a woman for a bit and then stopped being, or what?
Evolve Politics @evolvepolitics Police cars revolving light | NEW: Keir Starmer is considering banning ordinary Labour members from voting in Labour Leadership elections
Is he? I thought the proposals were reverting to the rules in 2010, where the members could vote.
I thought they were changing the rule so that 200 MPs have the same say as 400k members but not totally sure.
Either way OMOV has to be the right system and i am no longer a member
Yes, but that's not the same as "banning ordinary Labour members from voting", is it?
They can vote at a CLP meeting but then that only counts for 1/650 th of the CLP one third vote.
So could end up with 250k members voting for candidate A and150K voting for Candidate B but if a maj of CLPs have a Candidate B victory Candidate B gets more than half of the CLP third
As somebody who was cheerleading in my own small way for Lis Truss, on FB and here 2 years ago in the tory leadership election that Boris would eventually win, I'm pleased to see she is progressing and is now that is being recognised by a wider audience, but I don't think its enough to entice me back in to the party. perhaps if Boris announces his departure date in advances so i could re-join and vote, but that's not how things have normally worked.
She has long been most popular in the freedom loving wing of the party, and perhaps that's the same people who like me have left of the lockdowns and authoritarian policy's of the government. I suspect there are not enough people like me to make a defiance in any leaderships election.
A few years ago Truss was the flag bearer of the comical neoliberal wing of the conservative party - more deregulation, less taxes, etc. Boris has completely buried this way of thinking and reinvented the Conservative party and in doing so shifted its political base to the north of England where Thatcherism is still largely detested. Truss has worked hard and kept her head down, and had what seems like some good luck in the department for international trade. But she needs a new set of ideas if she wants the top job.
Hi, everyone. It is technically my first post, but I have been lurking for many, many years. The thread header has finally made me feel I should contribute.
It is disappointing that Cyclefree, who wrote so much on the subject of Corbyn Labour's blind spots to bigotry in the form of antisemitism, has now fallen so deeply into her own blind spot.
To be clear, this isn't about condemning abuse and intimidation of people like Rosie Duffield. Of course, such behaviour is contemptible (not to mention counterproductive). Nor is this even about concerns over protection of women's spaces if gender recognition is made too easy to abuse.
Also "chest-feeding", if indeed that term is used, is stupid. What organ are you using to nurse the child if not a breast?
As the old saying goes, it's not what you say, it's how you say it. And this article, while articulating concerns about intimidation of those who are concerned about protections for women, does so in a way that is deeply transphobic. It is so because wording goes out of its way to pay no respect whatsoever to the validity of trans people as trans people.
"in response to a question from Justin Webb on the Today programme about whether there was anywhere biological males should not go – replied “No, no”."
I haven't seen the programme, but I highly doubt it went down like that. I'm sure the question was about transwomen specifically. By paraphrasing it in this way, Cyclefree is denying that transwomen are any different at any level from any man. They are basically just "men in dresses", a known anti-trans slur that she has in fact used in the past few days, but would never abide, from her writing on Corbynism, its antisemitic equivalents such as Zio or even the coded used of theoretically objective term Zionist.
"let along something to be recategorized out of existence to assuage the feelings of some men."
If the concern is predatory men abusing self-ID to access women's protected spaces, this is clearly not targeted at them, because recognition of trans people is not intended to protect their feelings, obviously. Rather it is targeted at transwomen, again denying that they are indeed so. Just "men in dresses".
Denying the validity of transwomen, especially when conflating them with trojan horse predation, i.e. something to feared, is the very definition of transphobia.
I'm sure Cyclefree doesn't want to be associated with any form of bigotry, hence brisling against being labelled transphobic, but if you deny the legitimacy of trans people and are blase about using insensitive and demeaning terminology to refer to them, then how else would you describe your attitude towards them?
Clearly, we have a long way to go, but at least these issues are being talked about.
Welcome but Cyclefree's language is entirely correct.
Unless the individual in question has undergone a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria and gone through a transition then yes they absolutely are men.
To say that a man is a woman, without any transition or medical diagnosis just because he says he is a woman is to deny everything that actually makes a woman a woman.
A trans woman is only a trans woman if she's undergone transition and followed the steps via treatment etc for medically diagnosed dysphoria. Which extremist activists want to skip entirely and allow any man to pretend to be a woman.
Don't agree with that. A trans woman is a woman regardless of whether any treatment etc has taken place. He has transitioned into being a woman (a she) - and therefore IS a woman - as long as we are strictly talking about gender.
Why would that be true? Why can't they have made an appalling mistake? That's what Bell in Bell vs Tavistock says happened to them. So do you think they WERE a woman for a bit and then stopped being, or what?
Yes. Gender can be fluid.
But that's not what Bell is saying, that s/he flowed one way one year and the other way the next, but that s/he made a catastrophic error. You do seem to know people better than they know themselves.
Academic studies of people who thought they were trans and realised they weren't, are about as easy to get funding/approval for as studies into how quickly the earth is cooling. That probably tells us something about something.
There is a fair bit of evidence that youngsters who think they are in the wrong body in their teenage years have a much higher proportion to then be gay (or rather, come out as gay) as they get older.
Our gas bill on leaving our old house is £1250! When I told the girl at eon, she said if no one from eon read the meter for a year we can complain and maybe not pay. They didn’t, so we could be in luck. Is this right?
My gf swears she sent them the readings but every bill is an estimate, though the electrics a reading in June
Think you will find you are on to plums. Keep the money handy , they are likely to get you and by that time will have added all the debt collector / bailliff charges if they do not have your new address.
It usually revolves around estimated readings and actual readings.
If you have an actual reading on a date, ideally but not necessarily with a dated photo, they will cave.
Just had £250 removed from my bill when they had overestimated consumption.
Looking at our bill from Aug-Oct 2020, they estimated our use of Gas at £9.09, and £139.34 for the next 12 months, so something was up, I guess we underpaid
If it is a rental you left which is still empty, then a reading taken now would still be far less than a massive overestimate, so you could potentially go back for you reading.
As somebody who was cheerleading in my own small way for Lis Truss, on FB and here 2 years ago in the tory leadership election that Boris would eventually win, I'm pleased to see she is progressing and is now that is being recognised by a wider audience, but I don't think its enough to entice me back in to the party. perhaps if Boris announces his departure date in advances so i could re-join and vote, but that's not how things have normally worked.
She has long been most popular in the freedom loving wing of the party, and perhaps that's the same people who like me have left of the lockdowns and authoritarian policy's of the government. I suspect there are not enough people like me to make a defiance in any leaderships election.
A few years ago Truss was the flag bearer of the comical neoliberal wing of the conservative party - more deregulation, less taxes, etc. Boris has completely buried this way of thinking and reinvented the Conservative party and in doing so shifted its political base to the north of England where Thatcherism is still largely detested. Truss has worked hard and kept her head down, and had what seems like some good luck in the department for international trade. But she needs a new set of ideas if she wants the top job.
Not according to the ConHome surveys. The question is whether she can garner enough support on the MP side. I suspect that quite a few Tory MPs are not too keen on the PR-savvy Sunak. Who will they turn to when the time comes?
I agree with @HYUFD - hard to see past Sunak and Truss at the moment. Top outsider if Johnson goes on long term: Kemi Badenoch.
I must say this piece is unusually punchy for a BBC article, reminds me of when they had an article referring to 'Gaffe prone Joe Biden'.
The French must see there is no point in wailing about having been shoddily treated. They were.
But who ever heard of a nation short-changing its defence priorities out of not wanting to give offence? The fact is that the Australians calculated they had underestimated the Chinese threat and so needed to boost their level of deterrence.
They acted with steely disregard for French concerns but, when it comes to the crunch, that is what nations do. It is almost the definition of a nation: a group of people who have come together to defend their own interests
But the second painful truth exposed by the Aukus affair is that the US no longer has any great interest in the outdated behemoth that is Nato. Nor does it harbour any particular loyalty to those who have stood by its side...
But the UK's is Europe's only other serious army. The two countries have similar histories and world experiences. Their soldiers respect each other. In the long term, Franco-British defence co-operation is too logical to ignore. That may be the last of Macron's painful truths.
Evolve Politics @evolvepolitics Police cars revolving light | NEW: Keir Starmer is considering banning ordinary Labour members from voting in Labour Leadership elections
Is he? I thought the proposals were reverting to the rules in 2010, where the members could vote.
I thought they were changing the rule so that 200 MPs have the same say as 400k members but not totally sure.
Either way OMOV has to be the right system and i am no longer a member
Yes, but that's not the same as "banning ordinary Labour members from voting", is it?
They can vote at a CLP meeting but then that only counts for 1/650 th of the CLP one third vote.
So could end up with 250k members voting for candidate A and150K voting for Candidate B but if a maj of CLPs have a Candidate B victory Candidate B gets more than half of the CLP third
I think
Like I said, not banning.
But not Democratic either
CLP 1 - A gets 51 MEMBER VOTES B 49 MEMBER VOTES CLP 2 - 51/49 CLP3 - 5/ 552 Total 107 members voted for A 600 for B
New system allocates two thiirds of votes to A
Any system that decide Candidate A wins the CLP vote in a Scenario like that is undemocratic
Evolve Politics @evolvepolitics Police cars revolving light | NEW: Keir Starmer is considering banning ordinary Labour members from voting in Labour Leadership elections
Is he? I thought the proposals were reverting to the rules in 2010, where the members could vote.
I thought they were changing the rule so that 200 MPs have the same say as 400k members but not totally sure.
Either way OMOV has to be the right system and i am no longer a member
Yes, but that's not the same as "banning ordinary Labour members from voting", is it?
They can vote at a CLP meeting but then that only counts for 1/650 th of the CLP one third vote.
So could end up with 250k members voting for candidate A and150K voting for Candidate B but if a maj of CLPs have a Candidate B victory Candidate B gets more than half of the CLP third
I think
Like I said, not banning.
But not Democratic either
CLP 1 - A gets 51 MEMBER VOTES B 49 MEMBER VOTES CLP 2 - 51/49 CLP3 - 5/ 552 Total 107 members voted for A 600 for B
New system allocates two thiirds of votes to A
Any system that decide Candidate A wins the CLP vote in a Scenario like that is undemocratic
No, but that wasn't the claim, which was that members would be banned from voting.
As somebody who was cheerleading in my own small way for Lis Truss, on FB and here 2 years ago in the tory leadership election that Boris would eventually win, I'm pleased to see she is progressing and is now that is being recognised by a wider audience, but I don't think its enough to entice me back in to the party. perhaps if Boris announces his departure date in advances so i could re-join and vote, but that's not how things have normally worked.
She has long been most popular in the freedom loving wing of the party, and perhaps that's the same people who like me have left of the lockdowns and authoritarian policy's of the government. I suspect there are not enough people like me to make a defiance in any leaderships election.
A few years ago Truss was the flag bearer of the comical neoliberal wing of the conservative party - more deregulation, less taxes, etc. Boris has completely buried this way of thinking and reinvented the Conservative party and in doing so shifted its political base to the north of England where Thatcherism is still largely detested. Truss has worked hard and kept her head down, and had what seems like some good luck in the department for international trade. But she needs a new set of ideas if she wants the top job.
Not according to the ConHome surveys. The question is whether she can garner enough support on the MP side. I suspect that quite a few Tory MPs are not too keen on the PR-savvy Sunak. Who will they turn to when the time comes?
I agree with @HYUFD - hard to see past Sunak and Truss at the moment. Top outsider if Johnson goes on long term: Kemi Badenoch.
I don’t see any of those. Again, there are a large block of Tory MPs in Red Wall seats who realise Johnson got them their seats and looking for someone to carry them through. The problem is there no one in the Cabinet right now who has the same appeal to those voters. Truss is not that person.
In fact, if she didn’t have historical baggage to fill a Jumbo Jet and was regarded as bonkers by many, Nadine Dorries would be. Good outside bet as she ticks a lot of boxes (pro-Brexit, right-wing, working class, ‘straight talking’)
As somebody who was cheerleading in my own small way for Lis Truss, on FB and here 2 years ago in the tory leadership election that Boris would eventually win, I'm pleased to see she is progressing and is now that is being recognised by a wider audience, but I don't think its enough to entice me back in to the party. perhaps if Boris announces his departure date in advances so i could re-join and vote, but that's not how things have normally worked.
She has long been most popular in the freedom loving wing of the party, and perhaps that's the same people who like me have left of the lockdowns and authoritarian policy's of the government. I suspect there are not enough people like me to make a defiance in any leaderships election.
A few years ago Truss was the flag bearer of the comical neoliberal wing of the conservative party - more deregulation, less taxes, etc. Boris has completely buried this way of thinking and reinvented the Conservative party and in doing so shifted its political base to the north of England where Thatcherism is still largely detested. Truss has worked hard and kept her head down, and had what seems like some good luck in the department for international trade. But she needs a new set of ideas if she wants the top job.
Not according to the ConHome surveys. The question is whether she can garner enough support on the MP side. I suspect that quite a few Tory MPs are not too keen on the PR-savvy Sunak. Who will they turn to when the time comes?
I agree with @HYUFD - hard to see past Sunak and Truss at the moment. Top outsider if Johnson goes on long term: Kemi Badenoch.
I don’t see any of those. Again, there are a large block of Tory MPs in Red Wall seats who realise Johnson got them their seats and looking for someone to carry them through. The problem is there no one in the Cabinet right now who has the same appeal to those voters. Truss is not that person.
In fact, if she didn’t have historical baggage to fill a Jumbo Jet and was regarded as bonkers by many, Nadine Dorries would be. Good outside bet as she ticks a lot of boxes (pro-Brexit, right-wing, working class, ‘straight talking’)
Jesus, my editing is piss poor. Anyway, you get the drift
Hi, everyone. It is technically my first post, but I have been lurking for many, many years. The thread header has finally made me feel I should contribute.
It is disappointing that Cyclefree, who wrote so much on the subject of Corbyn Labour's blind spots to bigotry in the form of antisemitism, has now fallen so deeply into her own blind spot.
To be clear, this isn't about condemning abuse and intimidation of people like Rosie Duffield. Of course, such behaviour is contemptible (not to mention counterproductive). Nor is this even about concerns over protection of women's spaces if gender recognition is made too easy to abuse.
Also "chest-feeding", if indeed that term is used, is stupid. What organ are you using to nurse the child if not a breast?
As the old saying goes, it's not what you say, it's how you say it. And this article, while articulating concerns about intimidation of those who are concerned about protections for women, does so in a way that is deeply transphobic. It is so because wording goes out of its way to pay no respect whatsoever to the validity of trans people as trans people.
"in response to a question from Justin Webb on the Today programme about whether there was anywhere biological males should not go – replied “No, no”."
I haven't seen the programme, but I highly doubt it went down like that. I'm sure the question was about transwomen specifically. By paraphrasing it in this way, Cyclefree is denying that transwomen are any different at any level from any man. They are basically just "men in dresses", a known anti-trans slur that she has in fact used in the past few days, but would never abide, from her writing on Corbynism, its antisemitic equivalents such as Zio or even the coded used of theoretically objective term Zionist.
"let along something to be recategorized out of existence to assuage the feelings of some men."
If the concern is predatory men abusing self-ID to access women's protected spaces, this is clearly not targeted at them, because recognition of trans people is not intended to protect their feelings, obviously. Rather it is targeted at transwomen, again denying that they are indeed so. Just "men in dresses".
Denying the validity of transwomen, especially when conflating them with trojan horse predation, i.e. something to feared, is the very definition of transphobia.
I'm sure Cyclefree doesn't want to be associated with any form of bigotry, hence brisling against being labelled transphobic, but if you deny the legitimacy of trans people and are blase about using insensitive and demeaning terminology to refer to them, then how else would you describe your attitude towards them?
Clearly, we have a long way to go, but at least these issues are being talked about.
Welcome but Cyclefree's language is entirely correct.
Unless the individual in question has undergone a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria and gone through a transition then yes they absolutely are men.
To say that a man is a woman, without any transition or medical diagnosis just because he says he is a woman is to deny everything that actually makes a woman a woman.
A trans woman is only a trans woman if she's undergone transition and followed the steps via treatment etc for medically diagnosed dysphoria. Which extremist activists want to skip entirely and allow any man to pretend to be a woman.
Don't agree with that. A trans woman is a woman regardless of whether any treatment etc has taken place. He has transitioned into being a woman (a she) - and therefore IS a woman - as long as we are strictly talking about gender.
Why would that be true? Why can't they have made an appalling mistake? That's what Bell in Bell vs Tavistock says happened to them. So do you think they WERE a woman for a bit and then stopped being, or what?
Yes. Gender can be fluid.
But that's not what Bell is saying, that s/he flowed one way one year and the other way the next, but that s/he made a catastrophic error. You do seem to know people better than they know themselves.
Academic studies of people who thought they were trans and realised they weren't, are about as easy to get funding/approval for as studies into how quickly the earth is cooling. That probably tells us something about something.
YouTuber Jammidodger cited studies showing it was about 11% of people who transitioned would then go on to detransition. That's not dissimilar to overall proportion of LGBT within the population. So not insignificant, but certainly doesn't invalidate those who go on to live much happier lives in their new identity.
Wow Biden needs to flood SC if that goes the wrong way
He'd be mad if he does that over this. That would be starting an arms race which might well write their (already messy) democracy off.
Whichever side of the debate you are on, RvW was a terrible mistake - it was a clear act of setting policy by judicial activism, against the democratic will of significant chunk of the electorate. The subsequent result is it's so politicised the court that we are in the position today where lots of people vote for terrible presidential candidates purely based on who they can get on the SC.
What should have happened is that abortion should have been left to legislators in the states to sort out, based on their promises to electors. It would mean that the rules varied from state to state (in California, it would probably be allowed up to 3 weeks after birth, whilst in Texas, merely saying the word might get you a month in jail). That would have been democratic, and taken the heat out of the situation.
The best thing that could happen now is that RvW gets struck down by the SC, and the Democrats prove wise enough to leave the situation alone, other than legislating as they see fit in Democrat held states. If they did that, it might actually take some of the heat out of the situation, instead of adding more in.
It won't be the start of the arms race. The arms race already started and the GOP shenanigans over SCOTUS Justices has opened the door to this.
Why should control over a woman's own body be democratically decided? As opposed to being a private matter for the woman whose body it is?
The arms race was started at the end of the 18th century. There is nothing new in these arguments about nominations and political balance of the SCOTUS.
Agreed.
So the Democrats should continue to fight the arms race while they have the chance.
The GOP haven't and won't give up their chances to do so. Which is why they currently have a 6-3 majority.
And the GOP will do the same when they get in. Which they will. Unless you want to change the system to ensure they ever don’t get in at all.
If the Democrats had had the same opportunity and ability as the GOP, they would have done exactly the same and pushed their own candidates onto the court. So don’t try making out this is “one side good, one side bad”. Both parties operate in exactly the same way.
And if you want to blame someone, blame Ginsburg for not stepping down when she could have done.
Evolve Politics @evolvepolitics Police cars revolving light | NEW: Keir Starmer is considering banning ordinary Labour members from voting in Labour Leadership elections
Is he? I thought the proposals were reverting to the rules in 2010, where the members could vote.
I thought they were changing the rule so that 200 MPs have the same say as 400k members but not totally sure.
Either way OMOV has to be the right system and i am no longer a member
So, when you say One Man, One Vote, do you have to biologically be a man, or is self identification ok?
Hi, everyone. It is technically my first post, but I have been lurking for many, many years. The thread header has finally made me feel I should contribute.
It is disappointing that Cyclefree, who wrote so much on the subject of Corbyn Labour's blind spots to bigotry in the form of antisemitism, has now fallen so deeply into her own blind spot.
To be clear, this isn't about condemning abuse and intimidation of people like Rosie Duffield. Of course, such behaviour is contemptible (not to mention counterproductive). Nor is this even about concerns over protection of women's spaces if gender recognition is made too easy to abuse.
Also "chest-feeding", if indeed that term is used, is stupid. What organ are you using to nurse the child if not a breast?
As the old saying goes, it's not what you say, it's how you say it. And this article, while articulating concerns about intimidation of those who are concerned about protections for women, does so in a way that is deeply transphobic. It is so because wording goes out of its way to pay no respect whatsoever to the validity of trans people as trans people.
"in response to a question from Justin Webb on the Today programme about whether there was anywhere biological males should not go – replied “No, no”."
I haven't seen the programme, but I highly doubt it went down like that. I'm sure the question was about transwomen specifically. By paraphrasing it in this way, Cyclefree is denying that transwomen are any different at any level from any man. They are basically just "men in dresses", a known anti-trans slur that she has in fact used in the past few days, but would never abide, from her writing on Corbynism, its antisemitic equivalents such as Zio or even the coded used of theoretically objective term Zionist.
"let along something to be recategorized out of existence to assuage the feelings of some men."
If the concern is predatory men abusing self-ID to access women's protected spaces, this is clearly not targeted at them, because recognition of trans people is not intended to protect their feelings, obviously. Rather it is targeted at transwomen, again denying that they are indeed so. Just "men in dresses".
Denying the validity of transwomen, especially when conflating them with trojan horse predation, i.e. something to feared, is the very definition of transphobia.
I'm sure Cyclefree doesn't want to be associated with any form of bigotry, hence brisling against being labelled transphobic, but if you deny the legitimacy of trans people and are blase about using insensitive and demeaning terminology to refer to them, then how else would you describe your attitude towards them?
Clearly, we have a long way to go, but at least these issues are being talked about.
Welcome but Cyclefree's language is entirely correct.
Unless the individual in question has undergone a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria and gone through a transition then yes they absolutely are men.
To say that a man is a woman, without any transition or medical diagnosis just because he says he is a woman is to deny everything that actually makes a woman a woman.
A trans woman is only a trans woman if she's undergone transition and followed the steps via treatment etc for medically diagnosed dysphoria. Which extremist activists want to skip entirely and allow any man to pretend to be a woman.
Don't agree with that. A trans woman is a woman regardless of whether any treatment etc has taken place. He has transitioned into being a woman (a she) - and therefore IS a woman - as long as we are strictly talking about gender.
Why would that be true? Why can't they have made an appalling mistake? That's what Bell in Bell vs Tavistock says happened to them. So do you think they WERE a woman for a bit and then stopped being, or what?
Yes. Gender can be fluid.
But that's not what Bell is saying, that s/he flowed one way one year and the other way the next, but that s/he made a catastrophic error. You do seem to know people better than they know themselves.
Academic studies of people who thought they were trans and realised they weren't, are about as easy to get funding/approval for as studies into how quickly the earth is cooling. That probably tells us something about something.
YouTuber Jammidodger cited studies showing it was about 11% of people who transitioned would then go on to detransition. That's not dissimilar to overall proportion of LGBT within the population. So not insignificant, but certainly doesn't invalidate those who go on to live much happier lives in their new identity.
Welcome, Glom.
Thanks for the detransition stat. I haven't seen estimates of that, beyond "a lot". On the other...
The numbers from the ONS were 2% identifying as LGB in 2017, not 10% or 11%, with the highest percentage of 4.2% amongst the 16-24 age group.
The proportion of the UK population aged 16 years and over identifying as heterosexual or straight has decreased from 94.4% in 2012 to 93.2% in 2017.
Over the last five years, the proportion of the UK population identifying as lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB) has increased from 1.5% in 2012 to 2.0% in 2017, although the latest figure is unchanged from 2016.
In 2017, there were an estimated 1.1 million people aged 16 years and over identifying as LGB out of a UK population aged 16 years and over of 52.8 million.
Males (2.3%) were more likely to identify as LGB than females (1.8%) in 2017.
People aged 16 to 24 years were most likely to identify as LGB in 2017 (4.2%).
Regionally, people in London were most likely to identify as LGB (2.6%), with people in the North East and East of England the least likely (both 1.5%).
69.4% of people who identified themselves as LGB had a marital status of single (never married or in a civil partnership).
Evolve Politics @evolvepolitics Police cars revolving light | NEW: Keir Starmer is considering banning ordinary Labour members from voting in Labour Leadership elections
Is he? I thought the proposals were reverting to the rules in 2010, where the members could vote.
I thought they were changing the rule so that 200 MPs have the same say as 400k members but not totally sure.
Either way OMOV has to be the right system and i am no longer a member
So, when you say One Man, One Vote, do you have to biologically be a man, or is self identification ok?
Hi, everyone. It is technically my first post, but I have been lurking for many, many years. The thread header has finally made me feel I should contribute.
It is disappointing that Cyclefree, who wrote so much on the subject of Corbyn Labour's blind spots to bigotry in the form of antisemitism, has now fallen so deeply into her own blind spot.
To be clear, this isn't about condemning abuse and intimidation of people like Rosie Duffield. Of course, such behaviour is contemptible (not to mention counterproductive). Nor is this even about concerns over protection of women's spaces if gender recognition is made too easy to abuse.
Also "chest-feeding", if indeed that term is used, is stupid. What organ are you using to nurse the child if not a breast?
As the old saying goes, it's not what you say, it's how you say it. And this article, while articulating concerns about intimidation of those who are concerned about protections for women, does so in a way that is deeply transphobic. It is so because wording goes out of its way to pay no respect whatsoever to the validity of trans people as trans people.
"in response to a question from Justin Webb on the Today programme about whether there was anywhere biological males should not go – replied “No, no”."
I haven't seen the programme, but I highly doubt it went down like that. I'm sure the question was about transwomen specifically. By paraphrasing it in this way, Cyclefree is denying that transwomen are any different at any level from any man. They are basically just "men in dresses", a known anti-trans slur that she has in fact used in the past few days, but would never abide, from her writing on Corbynism, its antisemitic equivalents such as Zio or even the coded used of theoretically objective term Zionist.
"let along something to be recategorized out of existence to assuage the feelings of some men."
If the concern is predatory men abusing self-ID to access women's protected spaces, this is clearly not targeted at them, because recognition of trans people is not intended to protect their feelings, obviously. Rather it is targeted at transwomen, again denying that they are indeed so. Just "men in dresses".
Denying the validity of transwomen, especially when conflating them with trojan horse predation, i.e. something to feared, is the very definition of transphobia.
I'm sure Cyclefree doesn't want to be associated with any form of bigotry, hence brisling against being labelled transphobic, but if you deny the legitimacy of trans people and are blase about using insensitive and demeaning terminology to refer to them, then how else would you describe your attitude towards them?
Clearly, we have a long way to go, but at least these issues are being talked about.
Welcome but Cyclefree's language is entirely correct.
Unless the individual in question has undergone a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria and gone through a transition then yes they absolutely are men.
To say that a man is a woman, without any transition or medical diagnosis just because he says he is a woman is to deny everything that actually makes a woman a woman.
A trans woman is only a trans woman if she's undergone transition and followed the steps via treatment etc for medically diagnosed dysphoria. Which extremist activists want to skip entirely and allow any man to pretend to be a woman.
Don't agree with that. A trans woman is a woman regardless of whether any treatment etc has taken place. He has transitioned into being a woman (a she) - and therefore IS a woman - as long as we are strictly talking about gender.
Why would that be true? Why can't they have made an appalling mistake? That's what Bell in Bell vs Tavistock says happened to them. So do you think they WERE a woman for a bit and then stopped being, or what?
Yes. Gender can be fluid.
But that's not what Bell is saying, that s/he flowed one way one year and the other way the next, but that s/he made a catastrophic error. You do seem to know people better than they know themselves.
Academic studies of people who thought they were trans and realised they weren't, are about as easy to get funding/approval for as studies into how quickly the earth is cooling. That probably tells us something about something.
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Is he? I thought the proposals were reverting to the rules in 2010, where the members could vote.
I thought they were changing the rule so that 200 MPs have the same say as 400k members but not totally sure.
Either way OMOV has to be the right system and i am no longer a member
Yes, but that's not the same as "banning ordinary Labour members from voting", is it?
They can vote at a CLP meeting but then that only counts for 1/650 th of the CLP one third vote.
So could end up with 250k members voting for candidate A and150K voting for Candidate B but if a maj of CLPs have a Candidate B victory Candidate B gets more than half of the CLP third
I think
Like I said, not banning.
But not Democratic either
CLP 1 - A gets 51 MEMBER VOTES B 49 MEMBER VOTES CLP 2 - 51/49 CLP3 - 5/ 552 Total 107 members voted for A 600 for B
New system allocates two thiirds of votes to A
Any system that decide Candidate A wins the CLP vote in a Scenario like that is undemocratic
No, but that wasn't the claim, which was that members would be banned from voting.
Hi, everyone. It is technically my first post, but I have been lurking for many, many years. The thread header has finally made me feel I should contribute.
It is disappointing that Cyclefree, who wrote so much on the subject of Corbyn Labour's blind spots to bigotry in the form of antisemitism, has now fallen so deeply into her own blind spot.
To be clear, this isn't about condemning abuse and intimidation of people like Rosie Duffield. Of course, such behaviour is contemptible (not to mention counterproductive). Nor is this even about concerns over protection of women's spaces if gender recognition is made too easy to abuse.
Also "chest-feeding", if indeed that term is used, is stupid. What organ are you using to nurse the child if not a breast?
As the old saying goes, it's not what you say, it's how you say it. And this article, while articulating concerns about intimidation of those who are concerned about protections for women, does so in a way that is deeply transphobic. It is so because wording goes out of its way to pay no respect whatsoever to the validity of trans people as trans people.
"in response to a question from Justin Webb on the Today programme about whether there was anywhere biological males should not go – replied “No, no”."
I haven't seen the programme, but I highly doubt it went down like that. I'm sure the question was about transwomen specifically. By paraphrasing it in this way, Cyclefree is denying that transwomen are any different at any level from any man. They are basically just "men in dresses", a known anti-trans slur that she has in fact used in the past few days, but would never abide, from her writing on Corbynism, its antisemitic equivalents such as Zio or even the coded used of theoretically objective term Zionist.
"let along something to be recategorized out of existence to assuage the feelings of some men."
If the concern is predatory men abusing self-ID to access women's protected spaces, this is clearly not targeted at them, because recognition of trans people is not intended to protect their feelings, obviously. Rather it is targeted at transwomen, again denying that they are indeed so. Just "men in dresses".
Denying the validity of transwomen, especially when conflating them with trojan horse predation, i.e. something to feared, is the very definition of transphobia.
I'm sure Cyclefree doesn't want to be associated with any form of bigotry, hence brisling against being labelled transphobic, but if you deny the legitimacy of trans people and are blase about using insensitive and demeaning terminology to refer to them, then how else would you describe your attitude towards them?
Clearly, we have a long way to go, but at least these issues are being talked about.
Welcome but Cyclefree's language is entirely correct.
Unless the individual in question has undergone a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria and gone through a transition then yes they absolutely are men.
To say that a man is a woman, without any transition or medical diagnosis just because he says he is a woman is to deny everything that actually makes a woman a woman.
A trans woman is only a trans woman if she's undergone transition and followed the steps via treatment etc for medically diagnosed dysphoria. Which extremist activists want to skip entirely and allow any man to pretend to be a woman.
Don't agree with that. A trans woman is a woman regardless of whether any treatment etc has taken place. He has transitioned into being a woman (a she) - and therefore IS a woman - as long as we are strictly talking about gender.
I disagree, there's a process to follow for transitioning.
Simply saying "I have transitioned" and then expecting an immediate violation of safeguarding etc on the basis of that doesn't make it so.
Doesn't your strong liberalism commit you to allowing that someone can be the gender they want to be as long as they are not causing harm to others?
Absolutely 100% yes.
But violating safeguarding is causing harm to others.
If someone wants to identify as a man, as a woman or as a frog then I couldn't care less. Do as you please.
If someone who is of the male sex wishes to get into women's only spaces without the women's consent that is invasive and not ok.
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Is he? I thought the proposals were reverting to the rules in 2010, where the members could vote.
I thought they were changing the rule so that 200 MPs have the same say as 400k members but not totally sure.
Either way OMOV has to be the right system and i am no longer a member
So, when you say One Man, One Vote, do you have to biologically be a man, or is self identification ok?
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Is he? I thought the proposals were reverting to the rules in 2010, where the members could vote.
I thought they were changing the rule so that 200 MPs have the same say as 400k members but not totally sure.
Either way OMOV has to be the right system and i am no longer a member
So, when you say One Man, One Vote, do you have to biologically be a man, or is self identification ok?
With regard to the trans debate, I am sympathetic to her position, but Cyclefree is unfortunately on the losing side. In the end, this is because the ideology of identity politics, which has effectively become the defacto state religion in the anglosphere; directs that in all significant ways biological differences are socially constructed.
I have been waiting for years for a wave of popular anger to emerge in response to the insanity of woke identity politics, it never happens. If it didn't happen for the desecration of the centopah, it is unlikely to happen now. One must concede that trying to preserve the sanctity of womanhood is ultimately a hopeless battle.
Wow Biden needs to flood SC if that goes the wrong way
He'd be mad if he does that over this. That would be starting an arms race which might well write their (already messy) democracy off.
Whichever side of the debate you are on, RvW was a terrible mistake - it was a clear act of setting policy by judicial activism, against the democratic will of significant chunk of the electorate. The subsequent result is it's so politicised the court that we are in the position today where lots of people vote for terrible presidential candidates purely based on who they can get on the SC.
What should have happened is that abortion should have been left to legislators in the states to sort out, based on their promises to electors. It would mean that the rules varied from state to state (in California, it would probably be allowed up to 3 weeks after birth, whilst in Texas, merely saying the word might get you a month in jail). That would have been democratic, and taken the heat out of the situation.
The best thing that could happen now is that RvW gets struck down by the SC, and the Democrats prove wise enough to leave the situation alone, other than legislating as they see fit in Democrat held states. If they did that, it might actually take some of the heat out of the situation, instead of adding more in.
It won't be the start of the arms race. The arms race already started and the GOP shenanigans over SCOTUS Justices has opened the door to this.
Why should control over a woman's own body be democratically decided? As opposed to being a private matter for the woman whose body it is?
The arms race was started at the end of the 18th century. There is nothing new in these arguments about nominations and political balance of the SCOTUS.
Agreed.
So the Democrats should continue to fight the arms race while they have the chance.
The GOP haven't and won't give up their chances to do so. Which is why they currently have a 6-3 majority.
And the GOP will do the same when they get in. Which they will. Unless you want to change the system to ensure they ever don’t get in at all.
If the Democrats had had the same opportunity and ability as the GOP, they would have done exactly the same and pushed their own candidates onto the court. So don’t try making out this is “one side good, one side bad”. Both parties operate in exactly the same way.
And if you want to blame someone, blame Ginsburg for not stepping down when she could have done.
Actually, I think McConnell should have allowed a vote on Merrick Garland. It was pretty cheap to not even allow hearings.
With regard to the trans debate, I am sympathetic to her position, but Cyclefree is unfortunately on the losing side. In the end, this is because the ideology of identity politics, which has effectively become the defacto state religion in the anglosphere; directs that in all significant ways biological differences are socially constructed.
I have been waiting for years for a wave of popular anger to emerge in response to the insanity of woke identity politics, it never happens. If it didn't happen for the desecration of the centopah, it is unlikely to happen now. One must concede that trying to preserve the sanctity of womanhood is ultimately a hopeless battle.
I think the popular anger has happened. It's just that the movers and shakers, though smaller in number are vocally larger, particularly now they are tooled-up with social media.
As somebody who was cheerleading in my own small way for Lis Truss, on FB and here 2 years ago in the tory leadership election that Boris would eventually win, I'm pleased to see she is progressing and is now that is being recognised by a wider audience, but I don't think its enough to entice me back in to the party. perhaps if Boris announces his departure date in advances so i could re-join and vote, but that's not how things have normally worked.
She has long been most popular in the freedom loving wing of the party, and perhaps that's the same people who like me have left of the lockdowns and authoritarian policy's of the government. I suspect there are not enough people like me to make a defiance in any leaderships election.
A few years ago Truss was the flag bearer of the comical neoliberal wing of the conservative party - more deregulation, less taxes, etc. Boris has completely buried this way of thinking and reinvented the Conservative party and in doing so shifted its political base to the north of England where Thatcherism is still largely detested. Truss has worked hard and kept her head down, and had what seems like some good luck in the department for international trade. But she needs a new set of ideas if she wants the top job.
I think there is a fundamental error in your claims. It assumes that what applies in times of major crises like wars or pandemics and their aftermath is what should apply in more normal times. No one in their right minds would claim that the rules and priorities that existed during WW2 should apply to times of peace. Nor should the politics of the pandemic inform the post pandemic world any further than is necessary to get things back on to a more stable footing. Truss does not need new ideas. What she needs is the backlash. Unfortunately for her that won't come for probably a decade by which time she will be yesterday's news. But those ideas of smaller Government and deregulation won't go away in the long term any more than the ideas of freedom were permanently crushed by the necessities of wartime controls.
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Is he? I thought the proposals were reverting to the rules in 2010, where the members could vote.
I thought they were changing the rule so that 200 MPs have the same say as 400k members but not totally sure.
Either way OMOV has to be the right system and i am no longer a member
So, when you say One Man, One Vote, do you have to biologically be a man, or is self identification ok?
effectively become the defacto state religion in the anglosphere;
The anglosphere?
Transgenders are far more historically, socially and culturally recognised in many other parts of the world especially the Indian sub-continent, southeast Asia and parts of the Pacific.
The way that thug culture has weaponised this debate and lost sight of the nuances of both gender and sex is terribly terribly sad and backward. But it's of a piece with the kind of thuggery that is aimed at many others who don't fit the current anti-woke hegemony.
Hi, everyone. It is technically my first post, but I have been lurking for many, many years. The thread header has finally made me feel I should contribute.
It is disappointing that Cyclefree, who wrote so much on the subject of Corbyn Labour's blind spots to bigotry in the form of antisemitism, has now fallen so deeply into her own blind spot.
To be clear, this isn't about condemning abuse and intimidation of people like Rosie Duffield. Of course, such behaviour is contemptible (not to mention counterproductive). Nor is this even about concerns over protection of women's spaces if gender recognition is made too easy to abuse.
Also "chest-feeding", if indeed that term is used, is stupid. What organ are you using to nurse the child if not a breast?
As the old saying goes, it's not what you say, it's how you say it. And this article, while articulating concerns about intimidation of those who are concerned about protections for women, does so in a way that is deeply transphobic. It is so because wording goes out of its way to pay no respect whatsoever to the validity of trans people as trans people.
"in response to a question from Justin Webb on the Today programme about whether there was anywhere biological males should not go – replied “No, no”."
I haven't seen the programme, but I highly doubt it went down like that. I'm sure the question was about transwomen specifically. By paraphrasing it in this way, Cyclefree is denying that transwomen are any different at any level from any man. They are basically just "men in dresses", a known anti-trans slur that she has in fact used in the past few days, but would never abide, from her writing on Corbynism, its antisemitic equivalents such as Zio or even the coded used of theoretically objective term Zionist.
"let along something to be recategorized out of existence to assuage the feelings of some men."
If the concern is predatory men abusing self-ID to access women's protected spaces, this is clearly not targeted at them, because recognition of trans people is not intended to protect their feelings, obviously. Rather it is targeted at transwomen, again denying that they are indeed so. Just "men in dresses".
Denying the validity of transwomen, especially when conflating them with trojan horse predation, i.e. something to feared, is the very definition of transphobia.
I'm sure Cyclefree doesn't want to be associated with any form of bigotry, hence brisling against being labelled transphobic, but if you deny the legitimacy of trans people and are blase about using insensitive and demeaning terminology to refer to them, then how else would you describe your attitude towards them?
Clearly, we have a long way to go, but at least these issues are being talked about.
Welcome but Cyclefree's language is entirely correct.
Unless the individual in question has undergone a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria and gone through a transition then yes they absolutely are men.
To say that a man is a woman, without any transition or medical diagnosis just because he says he is a woman is to deny everything that actually makes a woman a woman.
A trans woman is only a trans woman if she's undergone transition and followed the steps via treatment etc for medically diagnosed dysphoria. Which extremist activists want to skip entirely and allow any man to pretend to be a woman.
Don't agree with that. A trans woman is a woman regardless of whether any treatment etc has taken place. He has transitioned into being a woman (a she) - and therefore IS a woman - as long as we are strictly talking about gender.
With regard to the trans debate, I am sympathetic to her position, but Cyclefree is unfortunately on the losing side. In the end, this is because the ideology of identity politics, which has effectively become the defacto state religion in the anglosphere; directs that in all significant ways biological differences are socially constructed.
I have been waiting for years for a wave of popular anger to emerge in response to the insanity of woke identity politics, it never happens. If it didn't happen for the desecration of the centopah, it is unlikely to happen now. One must concede that trying to preserve the sanctity of womanhood is ultimately a hopeless battle.
"all significant ways biological differences are socially constructed"
After what many tories perceive as the disaster of their last female leader I don't think they will be electing another one anytime soon. That's just my view but they will keep quiet about it whilst other parties flounder.
Hi, everyone. It is technically my first post, but I have been lurking for many, many years. The thread header has finally made me feel I should contribute.
It is disappointing that Cyclefree, who wrote so much on the subject of Corbyn Labour's blind spots to bigotry in the form of antisemitism, has now fallen so deeply into her own blind spot.
To be clear, this isn't about condemning abuse and intimidation of people like Rosie Duffield. Of course, such behaviour is contemptible (not to mention counterproductive). Nor is this even about concerns over protection of women's spaces if gender recognition is made too easy to abuse.
Also "chest-feeding", if indeed that term is used, is stupid. What organ are you using to nurse the child if not a breast?
As the old saying goes, it's not what you say, it's how you say it. And this article, while articulating concerns about intimidation of those who are concerned about protections for women, does so in a way that is deeply transphobic. It is so because wording goes out of its way to pay no respect whatsoever to the validity of trans people as trans people.
"in response to a question from Justin Webb on the Today programme about whether there was anywhere biological males should not go – replied “No, no”."
I haven't seen the programme, but I highly doubt it went down like that. I'm sure the question was about transwomen specifically. By paraphrasing it in this way, Cyclefree is denying that transwomen are any different at any level from any man. They are basically just "men in dresses", a known anti-trans slur that she has in fact used in the past few days, but would never abide, from her writing on Corbynism, its antisemitic equivalents such as Zio or even the coded used of theoretically objective term Zionist.
"let along something to be recategorized out of existence to assuage the feelings of some men."
If the concern is predatory men abusing self-ID to access women's protected spaces, this is clearly not targeted at them, because recognition of trans people is not intended to protect their feelings, obviously. Rather it is targeted at transwomen, again denying that they are indeed so. Just "men in dresses".
Denying the validity of transwomen, especially when conflating them with trojan horse predation, i.e. something to feared, is the very definition of transphobia.
I'm sure Cyclefree doesn't want to be associated with any form of bigotry, hence brisling against being labelled transphobic, but if you deny the legitimacy of trans people and are blase about using insensitive and demeaning terminology to refer to them, then how else would you describe your attitude towards them?
Clearly, we have a long way to go, but at least these issues are being talked about.
Welcome but Cyclefree's language is entirely correct.
Unless the individual in question has undergone a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria and gone through a transition then yes they absolutely are men.
To say that a man is a woman, without any transition or medical diagnosis just because he says he is a woman is to deny everything that actually makes a woman a woman.
A trans woman is only a trans woman if she's undergone transition and followed the steps via treatment etc for medically diagnosed dysphoria. Which extremist activists want to skip entirely and allow any man to pretend to be a woman.
Don't agree with that. A trans woman is a woman regardless of whether any treatment etc has taken place. He has transitioned into being a woman (a she) - and therefore IS a woman - as long as we are strictly talking about gender.
Hi, everyone. It is technically my first post, but I have been lurking for many, many years. The thread header has finally made me feel I should contribute.
It is disappointing that Cyclefree, who wrote so much on the subject of Corbyn Labour's blind spots to bigotry in the form of antisemitism, has now fallen so deeply into her own blind spot.
To be clear, this isn't about condemning abuse and intimidation of people like Rosie Duffield. Of course, such behaviour is contemptible (not to mention counterproductive). Nor is this even about concerns over protection of women's spaces if gender recognition is made too easy to abuse.
Also "chest-feeding", if indeed that term is used, is stupid. What organ are you using to nurse the child if not a breast?
As the old saying goes, it's not what you say, it's how you say it. And this article, while articulating concerns about intimidation of those who are concerned about protections for women, does so in a way that is deeply transphobic. It is so because wording goes out of its way to pay no respect whatsoever to the validity of trans people as trans people.
"in response to a question from Justin Webb on the Today programme about whether there was anywhere biological males should not go – replied “No, no”."
I haven't seen the programme, but I highly doubt it went down like that. I'm sure the question was about transwomen specifically. By paraphrasing it in this way, Cyclefree is denying that transwomen are any different at any level from any man. They are basically just "men in dresses", a known anti-trans slur that she has in fact used in the past few days, but would never abide, from her writing on Corbynism, its antisemitic equivalents such as Zio or even the coded used of theoretically objective term Zionist.
"let along something to be recategorized out of existence to assuage the feelings of some men."
If the concern is predatory men abusing self-ID to access women's protected spaces, this is clearly not targeted at them, because recognition of trans people is not intended to protect their feelings, obviously. Rather it is targeted at transwomen, again denying that they are indeed so. Just "men in dresses".
Denying the validity of transwomen, especially when conflating them with trojan horse predation, i.e. something to feared, is the very definition of transphobia.
I'm sure Cyclefree doesn't want to be associated with any form of bigotry, hence brisling against being labelled transphobic, but if you deny the legitimacy of trans people and are blase about using insensitive and demeaning terminology to refer to them, then how else would you describe your attitude towards them?
Clearly, we have a long way to go, but at least these issues are being talked about.
Welcome but Cyclefree's language is entirely correct.
Unless the individual in question has undergone a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria and gone through a transition then yes they absolutely are men.
To say that a man is a woman, without any transition or medical diagnosis just because he says he is a woman is to deny everything that actually makes a woman a woman.
A trans woman is only a trans woman if she's undergone transition and followed the steps via treatment etc for medically diagnosed dysphoria. Which extremist activists want to skip entirely and allow any man to pretend to be a woman.
Don't agree with that. A trans woman is a woman regardless of whether any treatment etc has taken place. He has transitioned into being a woman (a she) - and therefore IS a woman - as long as we are strictly talking about gender.
I disagree, there's a process to follow for transitioning.
Simply saying "I have transitioned" and then expecting an immediate violation of safeguarding etc on the basis of that doesn't make it so.
Doesn't your strong liberalism commit you to allowing that someone can be the gender they want to be as long as they are not causing harm to others?
Well up to a point. But 'woman' is a biological term, not a term of identity. I could, if I wanted - I don't - identify as a Manchester United fan. I could literally declare myself to BE a Manchester United fan. And it would make it so, because that is a matter of chosen identity. But I could not declare myself to be a horse. Because that is a matter of biology. I could declare myself to be a woman - but no amount of wishful thinking would make it so. Only complicated surgery can make it so. It might hurt people's feelings that this is the case, but the truth doesn't depend on how it makes people feel.
Hi, everyone. It is technically my first post, but I have been lurking for many, many years. The thread header has finally made me feel I should contribute.
It is disappointing that Cyclefree, who wrote so much on the subject of Corbyn Labour's blind spots to bigotry in the form of antisemitism, has now fallen so deeply into her own blind spot.
To be clear, this isn't about condemning abuse and intimidation of people like Rosie Duffield. Of course, such behaviour is contemptible (not to mention counterproductive). Nor is this even about concerns over protection of women's spaces if gender recognition is made too easy to abuse.
Also "chest-feeding", if indeed that term is used, is stupid. What organ are you using to nurse the child if not a breast?
As the old saying goes, it's not what you say, it's how you say it. And this article, while articulating concerns about intimidation of those who are concerned about protections for women, does so in a way that is deeply transphobic. It is so because wording goes out of its way to pay no respect whatsoever to the validity of trans people as trans people.
"in response to a question from Justin Webb on the Today programme about whether there was anywhere biological males should not go – replied “No, no”."
I haven't seen the programme, but I highly doubt it went down like that. I'm sure the question was about transwomen specifically. By paraphrasing it in this way, Cyclefree is denying that transwomen are any different at any level from any man. They are basically just "men in dresses", a known anti-trans slur that she has in fact used in the past few days, but would never abide, from her writing on Corbynism, its antisemitic equivalents such as Zio or even the coded used of theoretically objective term Zionist.
"let along something to be recategorized out of existence to assuage the feelings of some men."
If the concern is predatory men abusing self-ID to access women's protected spaces, this is clearly not targeted at them, because recognition of trans people is not intended to protect their feelings, obviously. Rather it is targeted at transwomen, again denying that they are indeed so. Just "men in dresses".
Denying the validity of transwomen, especially when conflating them with trojan horse predation, i.e. something to feared, is the very definition of transphobia.
I'm sure Cyclefree doesn't want to be associated with any form of bigotry, hence brisling against being labelled transphobic, but if you deny the legitimacy of trans people and are blase about using insensitive and demeaning terminology to refer to them, then how else would you describe your attitude towards them?
Clearly, we have a long way to go, but at least these issues are being talked about.
Welcome but Cyclefree's language is entirely correct.
Unless the individual in question has undergone a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria and gone through a transition then yes they absolutely are men.
To say that a man is a woman, without any transition or medical diagnosis just because he says he is a woman is to deny everything that actually makes a woman a woman.
A trans woman is only a trans woman if she's undergone transition and followed the steps via treatment etc for medically diagnosed dysphoria. Which extremist activists want to skip entirely and allow any man to pretend to be a woman.
Don't agree with that. A trans woman is a woman regardless of whether any treatment etc has taken place. He has transitioned into being a woman (a she) - and therefore IS a woman - as long as we are strictly talking about gender.
My God this argument is so BORING
Fear not, I am sure that the 73,768th circular shouting match about Scotland will be along shortly to drown it out.
After what many tories perceive as the disaster of their last female leader I don't think they will be electing another one anytime soon. That's just my view but they will keep quiet about it whilst other parties flounder.
To confuse the issue, the Tories should elect, as the next leader, a biological man who identifies as female. On Wednesdays and Fridays.
HAH! Then he/she should demand the right to publicly chest-feed next to Jacob Rees Mogg
Hi, everyone. It is technically my first post, but I have been lurking for many, many years. The thread header has finally made me feel I should contribute.
It is disappointing that Cyclefree, who wrote so much on the subject of Corbyn Labour's blind spots to bigotry in the form of antisemitism, has now fallen so deeply into her own blind spot.
To be clear, this isn't about condemning abuse and intimidation of people like Rosie Duffield. Of course, such behaviour is contemptible (not to mention counterproductive). Nor is this even about concerns over protection of women's spaces if gender recognition is made too easy to abuse.
Also "chest-feeding", if indeed that term is used, is stupid. What organ are you using to nurse the child if not a breast?
As the old saying goes, it's not what you say, it's how you say it. And this article, while articulating concerns about intimidation of those who are concerned about protections for women, does so in a way that is deeply transphobic. It is so because wording goes out of its way to pay no respect whatsoever to the validity of trans people as trans people.
"in response to a question from Justin Webb on the Today programme about whether there was anywhere biological males should not go – replied “No, no”."
I haven't seen the programme, but I highly doubt it went down like that. I'm sure the question was about transwomen specifically. By paraphrasing it in this way, Cyclefree is denying that transwomen are any different at any level from any man. They are basically just "men in dresses", a known anti-trans slur that she has in fact used in the past few days, but would never abide, from her writing on Corbynism, its antisemitic equivalents such as Zio or even the coded used of theoretically objective term Zionist.
"let along something to be recategorized out of existence to assuage the feelings of some men."
If the concern is predatory men abusing self-ID to access women's protected spaces, this is clearly not targeted at them, because recognition of trans people is not intended to protect their feelings, obviously. Rather it is targeted at transwomen, again denying that they are indeed so. Just "men in dresses".
Denying the validity of transwomen, especially when conflating them with trojan horse predation, i.e. something to feared, is the very definition of transphobia.
I'm sure Cyclefree doesn't want to be associated with any form of bigotry, hence brisling against being labelled transphobic, but if you deny the legitimacy of trans people and are blase about using insensitive and demeaning terminology to refer to them, then how else would you describe your attitude towards them?
Clearly, we have a long way to go, but at least these issues are being talked about.
Welcome but Cyclefree's language is entirely correct.
Unless the individual in question has undergone a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria and gone through a transition then yes they absolutely are men.
To say that a man is a woman, without any transition or medical diagnosis just because he says he is a woman is to deny everything that actually makes a woman a woman.
A trans woman is only a trans woman if she's undergone transition and followed the steps via treatment etc for medically diagnosed dysphoria. Which extremist activists want to skip entirely and allow any man to pretend to be a woman.
Don't agree with that. A trans woman is a woman regardless of whether any treatment etc has taken place. He has transitioned into being a woman (a she) - and therefore IS a woman - as long as we are strictly talking about gender.
My God this argument is so BORING
Well, quite.
It should be about 27th on the list of our most important issues. And yet, it seems to be in the top 5 and talked about more than educating our kids or affordable housing.
Our gas bill on leaving our old house is £1250! When I told the girl at eon, she said if no one from eon read the meter for a year we can complain and maybe not pay. They didn’t, so we could be in luck. Is this right?
My gf swears she sent them the readings but every bill is an estimate, though the electrics a reading in June
Think you will find you are on to plums. Keep the money handy , they are likely to get you and by that time will have added all the debt collector / bailliff charges if they do not have your new address.
It usually revolves around estimated readings and actual readings.
If you have an actual reading on a date, ideally but not necessarily with a dated photo, they will cave.
Just had £250 removed from my bill when they had overestimated consumption.
Looking at our bill from Aug-Oct 2020, they estimated our use of Gas at £9.09, and £139.34 for the next 12 months, so something was up, I guess we underpaid
If it is a rental you left which is still empty, then a reading taken now would still be far less than a massive overestimate, so you could potentially go back for you reading.
FWIW I had a similar problem with estimated readings resulting in massively miscalculated bills, I ran up a similar debt to my electricity company. I think there must have been admin problems at the electricity company as I can recall giving readings but they never processed them and relied instead on flawed estimates (it was a small supplier that went bankrupt a few years ago). I never thought twice about paying it, but in my case I could check the actual reading and knew the company had got it wrong.
As somebody who was cheerleading in my own small way for Lis Truss, on FB and here 2 years ago in the tory leadership election that Boris would eventually win, I'm pleased to see she is progressing and is now that is being recognised by a wider audience, but I don't think its enough to entice me back in to the party. perhaps if Boris announces his departure date in advances so i could re-join and vote, but that's not how things have normally worked.
She has long been most popular in the freedom loving wing of the party, and perhaps that's the same people who like me have left of the lockdowns and authoritarian policy's of the government. I suspect there are not enough people like me to make a defiance in any leaderships election.
A few years ago Truss was the flag bearer of the comical neoliberal wing of the conservative party - more deregulation, less taxes, etc. Boris has completely buried this way of thinking and reinvented the Conservative party and in doing so shifted its political base to the north of England where Thatcherism is still largely detested. Truss has worked hard and kept her head down, and had what seems like some good luck in the department for international trade. But she needs a new set of ideas if she wants the top job.
I think there is a fundamental error in your claims. It assumes that what applies in times of major crises like wars or pandemics and their aftermath is what should apply in more normal times. No one in their right minds would claim that the rules and priorities that existed during WW2 should apply to times of peace. Nor should the politics of the pandemic inform the post pandemic world any further than is necessary to get things back on to a more stable footing. Truss does not need new ideas. What she needs is the backlash. Unfortunately for her that won't come for probably a decade by which time she will be yesterday's news. But those ideas of smaller Government and deregulation won't go away in the long term any more than the ideas of freedom were permanently crushed by the necessities of wartime controls.
I'd love a Truss Government.
She'd be more effective than either May or Boris, and possibly even eclipse Cameron too.
Going back to the subjects of gas supply and also practical climate issues, a question based on a lack of knowledge. (So hoping to be enlightened).
Two bits of factual news today
1. We are now looking at a shortage of CO2 for important processes including food supply, fertilisers, refrigeration and all manner of industrial processes. 2. Drax are spending 20 million quid on updating their carbon capture systems to capture more of the CO2 from biomass burning and pump it under the North Sea.
So...
Is there some fundamental difference between CO2 (from carbon capture at power stations) and CO2 (used in all manner of industrial and manufacturing processes?
Or
Are our political and business leaders so utterly inept that they can't arrange for some of the CO2 being captured as a biproduct from power stations to be rediverted to the industries where it is in terribly short supply?
My acceptance of gaps in my knowledge tends to make me think the former whilst my natural cynicism about the abilities of our leaders makes me strongly suspect the latter.
As yet there are no commercial scale carbon capture plants on power stations in the UK. When there are, some of the captured CO2 could be used for a range of industrial purposes. If it needs to be food grade, then additional purification and quality monitoring will be required.
If we ever have a future PB meet up in West Yorkshire I'll be more than happy to bore everyone rigid by talking about CCS. I'll even say a few things that I won't say on line!
Both gender and sex are highly nuanced, much more fluid that some try to make us believe with a myriad of complex angles and interpretations.
But I'll leave it there. It needs a gentle, thoughtful, discussion.
Nuanced are they? Well bugger me. I've been knocking about the place for sixty years under the impression that it was strictly binary. A feller's got bumps on his chest, dammit, or he hasn't. Like they say, you never stop learning.
Thanks for putting me right about that, but could you word any future posts a bit more patronisingly?
With regard to the trans debate, I am sympathetic to her position, but Cyclefree is unfortunately on the losing side. In the end, this is because the ideology of identity politics, which has effectively become the defacto state religion in the anglosphere; directs that in all significant ways biological differences are socially constructed.
I have been waiting for years for a wave of popular anger to emerge in response to the insanity of woke identity politics, it never happens. If it didn't happen for the desecration of the centopah, it is unlikely to happen now. One must concede that trying to preserve the sanctity of womanhood is ultimately a hopeless battle.
I actually disagree with that a bit.
My university friends WhatsApp (generally Remainery, LD'ey and softly internationalist) has started to speak out against Woke in the last few months in a way that's surprised me. It was even an aggravating factor for one of my friends quitting Morgan Stanley, as he'd got a bit fed up with it amongst other things
However, they are all professional white men in their late 30s. I detect far less sign of this amongst professional white women who are still rather achingly Right-On.
Here there is a clear gender divide, but that could change and change quickly too.
With regard to the trans debate, I am sympathetic to her position, but Cyclefree is unfortunately on the losing side. In the end, this is because the ideology of identity politics, which has effectively become the defacto state religion in the anglosphere; directs that in all significant ways biological differences are socially constructed.
I have been waiting for years for a wave of popular anger to emerge in response to the insanity of woke identity politics, it never happens. If it didn't happen for the desecration of the centopah, it is unlikely to happen now. One must concede that trying to preserve the sanctity of womanhood is ultimately a hopeless battle.
"all significant ways biological differences are socially constructed"
Where does that leave Black Lives Matter?
It starts from the position that race is socially constructed. Racism = unjustified prejudice based on skin colour.
Hi, everyone. It is technically my first post, but I have been lurking for many, many years. The thread header has finally made me feel I should contribute.
It is disappointing that Cyclefree, who wrote so much on the subject of Corbyn Labour's blind spots to bigotry in the form of antisemitism, has now fallen so deeply into her own blind spot.
To be clear, this isn't about condemning abuse and intimidation of people like Rosie Duffield. Of course, such behaviour is contemptible (not to mention counterproductive). Nor is this even about concerns over protection of women's spaces if gender recognition is made too easy to abuse.
Also "chest-feeding", if indeed that term is used, is stupid. What organ are you using to nurse the child if not a breast?
As the old saying goes, it's not what you say, it's how you say it. And this article, while articulating concerns about intimidation of those who are concerned about protections for women, does so in a way that is deeply transphobic. It is so because wording goes out of its way to pay no respect whatsoever to the validity of trans people as trans people.
"in response to a question from Justin Webb on the Today programme about whether there was anywhere biological males should not go – replied “No, no”."
I haven't seen the programme, but I highly doubt it went down like that. I'm sure the question was about transwomen specifically. By paraphrasing it in this way, Cyclefree is denying that transwomen are any different at any level from any man. They are basically just "men in dresses", a known anti-trans slur that she has in fact used in the past few days, but would never abide, from her writing on Corbynism, its antisemitic equivalents such as Zio or even the coded used of theoretically objective term Zionist.
"let along something to be recategorized out of existence to assuage the feelings of some men."
If the concern is predatory men abusing self-ID to access women's protected spaces, this is clearly not targeted at them, because recognition of trans people is not intended to protect their feelings, obviously. Rather it is targeted at transwomen, again denying that they are indeed so. Just "men in dresses".
Denying the validity of transwomen, especially when conflating them with trojan horse predation, i.e. something to feared, is the very definition of transphobia.
I'm sure Cyclefree doesn't want to be associated with any form of bigotry, hence brisling against being labelled transphobic, but if you deny the legitimacy of trans people and are blase about using insensitive and demeaning terminology to refer to them, then how else would you describe your attitude towards them?
Clearly, we have a long way to go, but at least these issues are being talked about.
Welcome but Cyclefree's language is entirely correct.
Unless the individual in question has undergone a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria and gone through a transition then yes they absolutely are men.
To say that a man is a woman, without any transition or medical diagnosis just because he says he is a woman is to deny everything that actually makes a woman a woman.
A trans woman is only a trans woman if she's undergone transition and followed the steps via treatment etc for medically diagnosed dysphoria. Which extremist activists want to skip entirely and allow any man to pretend to be a woman.
Don't agree with that. A trans woman is a woman regardless of whether any treatment etc has taken place. He has transitioned into being a woman (a she) - and therefore IS a woman - as long as we are strictly talking about gender.
My God this argument is so BORING
Fear not, I am sure that the 73,768th circular shouting match about Scotland will be along shortly to drown it out.
Our gas bill on leaving our old house is £1250! When I told the girl at eon, she said if no one from eon read the meter for a year we can complain and maybe not pay. They didn’t, so we could be in luck. Is this right?
My gf swears she sent them the readings but every bill is an estimate, though the electrics a reading in June
Think you will find you are on to plums. Keep the money handy , they are likely to get you and by that time will have added all the debt collector / bailliff charges if they do not have your new address.
It usually revolves around estimated readings and actual readings.
If you have an actual reading on a date, ideally but not necessarily with a dated photo, they will cave.
Just had £250 removed from my bill when they had overestimated consumption.
Looking at our bill from Aug-Oct 2020, they estimated our use of Gas at £9.09, and £139.34 for the next 12 months, so something was up, I guess we underpaid
If it is a rental you left which is still empty, then a reading taken now would still be far less than a massive overestimate, so you could potentially go back for you reading.
FWIW I had a similar problem with estimated readings resulting in massively miscalculated bills, I ran up a similar debt to my electricity company. I think there must have been admin problems at the electricity company as I can recall giving readings but they never processed them and relied instead on flawed estimates (it was a small supplier that went bankrupt a few years ago). I never thought twice about paying it, but in my case I could check the actual reading and knew the company had got it wrong.
It seems to me in our case that they were underestimating our consumption to a ludicrous degree - we never checked the bill and now what’s likely to be the true amount has emerged. My girlfriend says she gave meter readings each time though, but they’ve used estimates for over a year.
Going back to the subjects of gas supply and also practical climate issues, a question based on a lack of knowledge. (So hoping to be enlightened).
Two bits of factual news today
1. We are now looking at a shortage of CO2 for important processes including food supply, fertilisers, refrigeration and all manner of industrial processes. 2. Drax are spending 20 million quid on updating their carbon capture systems to capture more of the CO2 from biomass burning and pump it under the North Sea.
So...
Is there some fundamental difference between CO2 (from carbon capture at power stations) and CO2 (used in all manner of industrial and manufacturing processes?
Or
Are our political and business leaders so utterly inept that they can't arrange for some of the CO2 being captured as a biproduct from power stations to be rediverted to the industries where it is in terribly short supply?
My acceptance of gaps in my knowledge tends to make me think the former whilst my natural cynicism about the abilities of our leaders makes me strongly suspect the latter.
CO2 is CO2.
Isn't CO2 that is manufactured classified as 'food safe CO2'? May not be the technical term but it does require to be food grade certified doesn't it? Again maybe not the technical term.
Is the CO2 that is a by product considered food grade?
Sort of like the difference between using the meat of a pig that you slaughter and the meat of a pig that you find already dead. The latter to the best of my knowledge wouldn't be food safe.
I guess that's just how pure the CO2 is. If you had some way to extract only CO2 from the emissions of a power plant it would be more than acceptable for foodstuffs.
There are a number of Coca Cola plants around Europe where CO2 is captured from the exhaust of the on-site CHP plant and used for carbonation. I've visited one of them. The quality control on the CO2 is a serious business. They test for a very long list of potential contaminants.
Legal abortion is extremely popular in Nevada - IIRC, it's more popular there than in California.
Yes, a whole bunch of GOP Govenor Primary candidates are now going to have to pledge to ban abortion during the nomination process because the base will demand it but now they no longer have the shield of the public knowing they have no way of following through if they actually get elected come the General.
Hi, everyone. It is technically my first post, but I have been lurking for many, many years. The thread header has finally made me feel I should contribute.
It is disappointing that Cyclefree, who wrote so much on the subject of Corbyn Labour's blind spots to bigotry in the form of antisemitism, has now fallen so deeply into her own blind spot.
To be clear, this isn't about condemning abuse and intimidation of people like Rosie Duffield. Of course, such behaviour is contemptible (not to mention counterproductive). Nor is this even about concerns over protection of women's spaces if gender recognition is made too easy to abuse.
Also "chest-feeding", if indeed that term is used, is stupid. What organ are you using to nurse the child if not a breast?
As the old saying goes, it's not what you say, it's how you say it. And this article, while articulating concerns about intimidation of those who are concerned about protections for women, does so in a way that is deeply transphobic. It is so because wording goes out of its way to pay no respect whatsoever to the validity of trans people as trans people.
"in response to a question from Justin Webb on the Today programme about whether there was anywhere biological males should not go – replied “No, no”."
I haven't seen the programme, but I highly doubt it went down like that. I'm sure the question was about transwomen specifically. By paraphrasing it in this way, Cyclefree is denying that transwomen are any different at any level from any man. They are basically just "men in dresses", a known anti-trans slur that she has in fact used in the past few days, but would never abide, from her writing on Corbynism, its antisemitic equivalents such as Zio or even the coded used of theoretically objective term Zionist.
"let along something to be recategorized out of existence to assuage the feelings of some men."
If the concern is predatory men abusing self-ID to access women's protected spaces, this is clearly not targeted at them, because recognition of trans people is not intended to protect their feelings, obviously. Rather it is targeted at transwomen, again denying that they are indeed so. Just "men in dresses".
Denying the validity of transwomen, especially when conflating them with trojan horse predation, i.e. something to feared, is the very definition of transphobia.
I'm sure Cyclefree doesn't want to be associated with any form of bigotry, hence brisling against being labelled transphobic, but if you deny the legitimacy of trans people and are blase about using insensitive and demeaning terminology to refer to them, then how else would you describe your attitude towards them?
Clearly, we have a long way to go, but at least these issues are being talked about.
Welcome but Cyclefree's language is entirely correct.
Unless the individual in question has undergone a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria and gone through a transition then yes they absolutely are men.
To say that a man is a woman, without any transition or medical diagnosis just because he says he is a woman is to deny everything that actually makes a woman a woman.
A trans woman is only a trans woman if she's undergone transition and followed the steps via treatment etc for medically diagnosed dysphoria. Which extremist activists want to skip entirely and allow any man to pretend to be a woman.
Don't agree with that. A trans woman is a woman regardless of whether any treatment etc has taken place. He has transitioned into being a woman (a she) - and therefore IS a woman - as long as we are strictly talking about gender.
My God this argument is so BORING
Yes it is. Not going away though.
One reason this argument is uniquely boring is that both sides, in the main, are arguing from bogus premises and with false intentions.
That is to say: for those on the Left who have seized this issue, it's not because they really care - they don't, apart from a few genuinely passionate, sometimes aggressive trans activists. For most of them they only shout about it because they have literally run out of other social causes to feel aggrieved about. Because they won on every other issue. We have gay marriage, hate speech laws, Pride marches, abortion on demand, women only shortlists.
So the Left, which only lives to feel "good" about itself and to fight for causes, has taken up this issue, even if it only affects about 73 people in the country, and they act as if it is a burning injustice for many millions, akin to Civil Rights in the '60s in the USA. Ludicrous and embarrassing
However, the Right is no better. Instead of politely ignoring the Left as it spirals into internecine lunacy (which would probably be for the best) they see a way to exploit it, by making it part of the Culture Wars. The Right can point and laugh at the Left than turn to the voters and say: look, they are insane, they don't care about poverty or peace or wages or climate change, really, they care about enforcing mixed gender changing rooms in public swimming pools, and, by the way, they hate women
So this insane debate pleases both sides, and it gets blown so far out of proportion, careers are ruined and people get death threats
Going back to the subjects of gas supply and also practical climate issues, a question based on a lack of knowledge. (So hoping to be enlightened).
Two bits of factual news today
1. We are now looking at a shortage of CO2 for important processes including food supply, fertilisers, refrigeration and all manner of industrial processes. 2. Drax are spending 20 million quid on updating their carbon capture systems to capture more of the CO2 from biomass burning and pump it under the North Sea.
So...
Is there some fundamental difference between CO2 (from carbon capture at power stations) and CO2 (used in all manner of industrial and manufacturing processes?
Or
Are our political and business leaders so utterly inept that they can't arrange for some of the CO2 being captured as a biproduct from power stations to be rediverted to the industries where it is in terribly short supply?
My acceptance of gaps in my knowledge tends to make me think the former whilst my natural cynicism about the abilities of our leaders makes me strongly suspect the latter.
CO2 is CO2.
Isn't CO2 that is manufactured classified as 'food safe CO2'? May not be the technical term but it does require to be food grade certified doesn't it? Again maybe not the technical term.
Is the CO2 that is a by product considered food grade?
Sort of like the difference between using the meat of a pig that you slaughter and the meat of a pig that you find already dead. The latter to the best of my knowledge wouldn't be food safe.
I guess that's just how pure the CO2 is. If you had some way to extract only CO2 from the emissions of a power plant it would be more than acceptable for foodstuffs.
There are a number of Coca Cola plants around Europe where CO2 is captured from the exhaust of the on-site CHP plant and used for carbonation. I've visited one of them. The quality control on the CO2 is a serious business. They test for a very long list of potential contaminants.
Shame that after such a laborious and rigorous process they then contaminate it anyway by pumping it into cokes.
With regard to the trans debate, I am sympathetic to her position, but Cyclefree is unfortunately on the losing side. In the end, this is because the ideology of identity politics, which has effectively become the defacto state religion in the anglosphere; directs that in all significant ways biological differences are socially constructed.
I have been waiting for years for a wave of popular anger to emerge in response to the insanity of woke identity politics, it never happens. If it didn't happen for the desecration of the centopah, it is unlikely to happen now. One must concede that trying to preserve the sanctity of womanhood is ultimately a hopeless battle.
"all significant ways biological differences are socially constructed"
Where does that leave Black Lives Matter?
An in interesting place. If total freedom to deny/renounce immutable physical characteristics at will is to be regarded as a right, then presumably every form of trans identification is as valid as transgenderism? So white people can identify as black, black people can identify as white, and the entire construct of cultural appropriation belongs in the dustbin. It's all more than a bit of a mess.
Hi, everyone. It is technically my first post, but I have been lurking for many, many years. The thread header has finally made me feel I should contribute.
It is disappointing that Cyclefree, who wrote so much on the subject of Corbyn Labour's blind spots to bigotry in the form of antisemitism, has now fallen so deeply into her own blind spot.
To be clear, this isn't about condemning abuse and intimidation of people like Rosie Duffield. Of course, such behaviour is contemptible (not to mention counterproductive). Nor is this even about concerns over protection of women's spaces if gender recognition is made too easy to abuse.
Also "chest-feeding", if indeed that term is used, is stupid. What organ are you using to nurse the child if not a breast?
As the old saying goes, it's not what you say, it's how you say it. And this article, while articulating concerns about intimidation of those who are concerned about protections for women, does so in a way that is deeply transphobic. It is so because wording goes out of its way to pay no respect whatsoever to the validity of trans people as trans people.
"in response to a question from Justin Webb on the Today programme about whether there was anywhere biological males should not go – replied “No, no”."
I haven't seen the programme, but I highly doubt it went down like that. I'm sure the question was about transwomen specifically. By paraphrasing it in this way, Cyclefree is denying that transwomen are any different at any level from any man. They are basically just "men in dresses", a known anti-trans slur that she has in fact used in the past few days, but would never abide, from her writing on Corbynism, its antisemitic equivalents such as Zio or even the coded used of theoretically objective term Zionist.
"let along something to be recategorized out of existence to assuage the feelings of some men."
If the concern is predatory men abusing self-ID to access women's protected spaces, this is clearly not targeted at them, because recognition of trans people is not intended to protect their feelings, obviously. Rather it is targeted at transwomen, again denying that they are indeed so. Just "men in dresses".
Denying the validity of transwomen, especially when conflating them with trojan horse predation, i.e. something to feared, is the very definition of transphobia.
I'm sure Cyclefree doesn't want to be associated with any form of bigotry, hence brisling against being labelled transphobic, but if you deny the legitimacy of trans people and are blase about using insensitive and demeaning terminology to refer to them, then how else would you describe your attitude towards them?
Clearly, we have a long way to go, but at least these issues are being talked about.
Welcome but Cyclefree's language is entirely correct.
Unless the individual in question has undergone a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria and gone through a transition then yes they absolutely are men.
To say that a man is a woman, without any transition or medical diagnosis just because he says he is a woman is to deny everything that actually makes a woman a woman.
A trans woman is only a trans woman if she's undergone transition and followed the steps via treatment etc for medically diagnosed dysphoria. Which extremist activists want to skip entirely and allow any man to pretend to be a woman.
Don't agree with that. A trans woman is a woman regardless of whether any treatment etc has taken place. He has transitioned into being a woman (a she) - and therefore IS a woman - as long as we are strictly talking about gender.
My God this argument is so BORING
Yes it is. Not going away though.
I confess much of it is way beyond me and I do not like to be involved, other than to say from what I have heard from my wife, daughter, and daughter in law they are very unhappy and feel uncomfortable
The one thing that surprised me this weekend was that the lib dems seem to have issues which I only heard for the first time when Davey was interviewed on Marr yesteday, and I was concerned they also have a problem with it, with actual pending litigation
Going back to the subjects of gas supply and also practical climate issues, a question based on a lack of knowledge. (So hoping to be enlightened).
Two bits of factual news today
1. We are now looking at a shortage of CO2 for important processes including food supply, fertilisers, refrigeration and all manner of industrial processes. 2. Drax are spending 20 million quid on updating their carbon capture systems to capture more of the CO2 from biomass burning and pump it under the North Sea.
So...
Is there some fundamental difference between CO2 (from carbon capture at power stations) and CO2 (used in all manner of industrial and manufacturing processes?
Or
Are our political and business leaders so utterly inept that they can't arrange for some of the CO2 being captured as a biproduct from power stations to be rediverted to the industries where it is in terribly short supply?
My acceptance of gaps in my knowledge tends to make me think the former whilst my natural cynicism about the abilities of our leaders makes me strongly suspect the latter.
CO2 is CO2.
Isn't CO2 that is manufactured classified as 'food safe CO2'? May not be the technical term but it does require to be food grade certified doesn't it? Again maybe not the technical term.
Is the CO2 that is a by product considered food grade?
Sort of like the difference between using the meat of a pig that you slaughter and the meat of a pig that you find already dead. The latter to the best of my knowledge wouldn't be food safe.
I guess that's just how pure the CO2 is. If you had some way to extract only CO2 from the emissions of a power plant it would be more than acceptable for foodstuffs.
There are a number of Coca Cola plants around Europe where CO2 is captured from the exhaust of the on-site CHP plant and used for carbonation. I've visited one of them. The quality control on the CO2 is a serious business. They test for a very long list of potential contaminants.
Indeed. That was my point, the CO2 that is carbon captured will have contaminants etc so not pass those tests.
It might theoretically be possible to 'clean up' the CO2 to bottle it up, though it might not be cost-effective to do so. But either way it isn't simply a case of bottling up the captured CO2 then using it.
Evolve Politics @evolvepolitics Police cars revolving light | NEW: Keir Starmer is considering banning ordinary Labour members from voting in Labour Leadership elections
Is he? I thought the proposals were reverting to the rules in 2010, where the members could vote.
I thought they were changing the rule so that 200 MPs have the same say as 400k members but not totally sure.
Either way OMOV has to be the right system and i am no longer a member
Evolve Politics @evolvepolitics · 59m Under the Electoral College, the power of ordinary members to choose the leader would be crushed.
Members would be banned from voting as individuals, with local CLPs as a whole contributing around 30% of the vote - whilst MPs and Unions held the vast bulk of democratic power.
The Labour party is full of whoppers so that change sounds entirely sensible
Going back to the subjects of gas supply and also practical climate issues, a question based on a lack of knowledge. (So hoping to be enlightened).
Two bits of factual news today
1. We are now looking at a shortage of CO2 for important processes including food supply, fertilisers, refrigeration and all manner of industrial processes. 2. Drax are spending 20 million quid on updating their carbon capture systems to capture more of the CO2 from biomass burning and pump it under the North Sea.
So...
Is there some fundamental difference between CO2 (from carbon capture at power stations) and CO2 (used in all manner of industrial and manufacturing processes?
Or
Are our political and business leaders so utterly inept that they can't arrange for some of the CO2 being captured as a biproduct from power stations to be rediverted to the industries where it is in terribly short supply?
My acceptance of gaps in my knowledge tends to make me think the former whilst my natural cynicism about the abilities of our leaders makes me strongly suspect the latter.
CO2 is CO2.
Isn't CO2 that is manufactured classified as 'food safe CO2'? May not be the technical term but it does require to be food grade certified doesn't it? Again maybe not the technical term.
Is the CO2 that is a by product considered food grade?
Sort of like the difference between using the meat of a pig that you slaughter and the meat of a pig that you find already dead. The latter to the best of my knowledge wouldn't be food safe.
I guess that's just how pure the CO2 is. If you had some way to extract only CO2 from the emissions of a power plant it would be more than acceptable for foodstuffs.
There are a number of Coca Cola plants around Europe where CO2 is captured from the exhaust of the on-site CHP plant and used for carbonation. I've visited one of them. The quality control on the CO2 is a serious business. They test for a very long list of potential contaminants.
Indeed. That was my point, the CO2 that is carbon captured will have contaminants etc so not pass those tests.
It might theoretically be possible to 'clean up' the CO2 to bottle it up, though it might not be cost-effective to do so. But either way it isn't simply a case of bottling up the captured CO2 then using it.
Hi, everyone. It is technically my first post, but I have been lurking for many, many years. The thread header has finally made me feel I should contribute.
It is disappointing that Cyclefree, who wrote so much on the subject of Corbyn Labour's blind spots to bigotry in the form of antisemitism, has now fallen so deeply into her own blind spot.
To be clear, this isn't about condemning abuse and intimidation of people like Rosie Duffield. Of course, such behaviour is contemptible (not to mention counterproductive). Nor is this even about concerns over protection of women's spaces if gender recognition is made too easy to abuse.
Also "chest-feeding", if indeed that term is used, is stupid. What organ are you using to nurse the child if not a breast?
As the old saying goes, it's not what you say, it's how you say it. And this article, while articulating concerns about intimidation of those who are concerned about protections for women, does so in a way that is deeply transphobic. It is so because wording goes out of its way to pay no respect whatsoever to the validity of trans people as trans people.
"in response to a question from Justin Webb on the Today programme about whether there was anywhere biological males should not go – replied “No, no”."
I haven't seen the programme, but I highly doubt it went down like that. I'm sure the question was about transwomen specifically. By paraphrasing it in this way, Cyclefree is denying that transwomen are any different at any level from any man. They are basically just "men in dresses", a known anti-trans slur that she has in fact used in the past few days, but would never abide, from her writing on Corbynism, its antisemitic equivalents such as Zio or even the coded used of theoretically objective term Zionist.
"let along something to be recategorized out of existence to assuage the feelings of some men."
If the concern is predatory men abusing self-ID to access women's protected spaces, this is clearly not targeted at them, because recognition of trans people is not intended to protect their feelings, obviously. Rather it is targeted at transwomen, again denying that they are indeed so. Just "men in dresses".
Denying the validity of transwomen, especially when conflating them with trojan horse predation, i.e. something to feared, is the very definition of transphobia.
I'm sure Cyclefree doesn't want to be associated with any form of bigotry, hence brisling against being labelled transphobic, but if you deny the legitimacy of trans people and are blase about using insensitive and demeaning terminology to refer to them, then how else would you describe your attitude towards them?
Clearly, we have a long way to go, but at least these issues are being talked about.
Welcome but Cyclefree's language is entirely correct.
Unless the individual in question has undergone a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria and gone through a transition then yes they absolutely are men.
To say that a man is a woman, without any transition or medical diagnosis just because he says he is a woman is to deny everything that actually makes a woman a woman.
A trans woman is only a trans woman if she's undergone transition and followed the steps via treatment etc for medically diagnosed dysphoria. Which extremist activists want to skip entirely and allow any man to pretend to be a woman.
That ignores the fact that these slurs are levied at fully transitioned trans-women as well. Repeating them without clarification shows an insensitivity for the struggle even those who completed the transition, let alone those in the middle (transition is not done on an out-patient basis). That insensitivity to a marginalised group can only be interpreted as hostility.
The entire basis of PC is that words and phrases have accrued connotations, and we all need to be careful that we don't imply things we don't mean through careless use of them.
PC means politically correct and it simply means ensuring you say what is politically correct for the times.
In 1930s Germany, for example, it would have been un-PC to say anything pro-Jewish. In early 1950s America to say anything pro-Communist.
Today, it means painstaking pedantry over language, to demonstrate you possess the right sentiments on race, gender and sexuality, but it doesn't intrinsically mean that - it just reflects our times.
Hi, everyone. It is technically my first post, but I have been lurking for many, many years. The thread header has finally made me feel I should contribute.
It is disappointing that Cyclefree, who wrote so much on the subject of Corbyn Labour's blind spots to bigotry in the form of antisemitism, has now fallen so deeply into her own blind spot.
To be clear, this isn't about condemning abuse and intimidation of people like Rosie Duffield. Of course, such behaviour is contemptible (not to mention counterproductive). Nor is this even about concerns over protection of women's spaces if gender recognition is made too easy to abuse.
Also "chest-feeding", if indeed that term is used, is stupid. What organ are you using to nurse the child if not a breast?
As the old saying goes, it's not what you say, it's how you say it. And this article, while articulating concerns about intimidation of those who are concerned about protections for women, does so in a way that is deeply transphobic. It is so because wording goes out of its way to pay no respect whatsoever to the validity of trans people as trans people.
"in response to a question from Justin Webb on the Today programme about whether there was anywhere biological males should not go – replied “No, no”."
I haven't seen the programme, but I highly doubt it went down like that. I'm sure the question was about transwomen specifically. By paraphrasing it in this way, Cyclefree is denying that transwomen are any different at any level from any man. They are basically just "men in dresses", a known anti-trans slur that she has in fact used in the past few days, but would never abide, from her writing on Corbynism, its antisemitic equivalents such as Zio or even the coded used of theoretically objective term Zionist.
"let along something to be recategorized out of existence to assuage the feelings of some men."
If the concern is predatory men abusing self-ID to access women's protected spaces, this is clearly not targeted at them, because recognition of trans people is not intended to protect their feelings, obviously. Rather it is targeted at transwomen, again denying that they are indeed so. Just "men in dresses".
Denying the validity of transwomen, especially when conflating them with trojan horse predation, i.e. something to feared, is the very definition of transphobia.
I'm sure Cyclefree doesn't want to be associated with any form of bigotry, hence brisling against being labelled transphobic, but if you deny the legitimacy of trans people and are blase about using insensitive and demeaning terminology to refer to them, then how else would you describe your attitude towards them?
Clearly, we have a long way to go, but at least these issues are being talked about.
Welcome but Cyclefree's language is entirely correct.
Unless the individual in question has undergone a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria and gone through a transition then yes they absolutely are men.
To say that a man is a woman, without any transition or medical diagnosis just because he says he is a woman is to deny everything that actually makes a woman a woman.
A trans woman is only a trans woman if she's undergone transition and followed the steps via treatment etc for medically diagnosed dysphoria. Which extremist activists want to skip entirely and allow any man to pretend to be a woman.
Don't agree with that. A trans woman is a woman regardless of whether any treatment etc has taken place. He has transitioned into being a woman (a she) - and therefore IS a woman - as long as we are strictly talking about gender.
My God this argument is so BORING
Fear not, I am sure that the 73,768th circular shouting match about Scotland will be along shortly to drown it out.
Also, have we done Brexit yet?
What, that thing about Europe and the red bus? It's kinda ringing a bell...
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Is he? I thought the proposals were reverting to the rules in 2010, where the members could vote.
I thought they were changing the rule so that 200 MPs have the same say as 400k members but not totally sure.
Either way OMOV has to be the right system and i am no longer a member
Yes, but that's not the same as "banning ordinary Labour members from voting", is it?
They can vote at a CLP meeting but then that only counts for 1/650 th of the CLP one third vote.
So could end up with 250k members voting for candidate A and150K voting for Candidate B but if a maj of CLPs have a Candidate B victory Candidate B gets more than half of the CLP third
I think
Like I said, not banning.
But not Democratic either
CLP 1 - A gets 51 MEMBER VOTES B 49 MEMBER VOTES CLP 2 - 51/49 CLP3 - 5/ 552 Total 107 members voted for A 600 for B
New system allocates two thiirds of votes to A
Any system that decide Candidate A wins the CLP vote in a Scenario like that is undemocratic
With regard to the trans debate, I am sympathetic to her position, but Cyclefree is unfortunately on the losing side. In the end, this is because the ideology of identity politics, which has effectively become the defacto state religion in the anglosphere; directs that in all significant ways biological differences are socially constructed.
I have been waiting for years for a wave of popular anger to emerge in response to the insanity of woke identity politics, it never happens. If it didn't happen for the desecration of the centopah, it is unlikely to happen now. One must concede that trying to preserve the sanctity of womanhood is ultimately a hopeless battle.
"all significant ways biological differences are socially constructed"
Where does that leave Black Lives Matter?
An in interesting place. If total freedom to deny/renounce immutable physical characteristics at will is to be regarded as a right, then presumably every form of trans identification is as valid as transgenderism? So white people can identify as black, black people can identify as white, and the entire construct of cultural appropriation belongs in the dustbin. It's all more than a bit of a mess.
Yes, this is actually happening, and is an actual thing, and it is going to fuck everyone's heads, given the implications
With regard to the trans debate, I am sympathetic to her position, but Cyclefree is unfortunately on the losing side. In the end, this is because the ideology of identity politics, which has effectively become the defacto state religion in the anglosphere; directs that in all significant ways biological differences are socially constructed.
I have been waiting for years for a wave of popular anger to emerge in response to the insanity of woke identity politics, it never happens. If it didn't happen for the desecration of the centopah, it is unlikely to happen now. One must concede that trying to preserve the sanctity of womanhood is ultimately a hopeless battle.
"all significant ways biological differences are socially constructed"
Where does that leave Black Lives Matter?
An in interesting place. If total freedom to deny/renounce immutable physical characteristics at will is to be regarded as a right, then presumably every form of trans identification is as valid as transgenderism? So white people can identify as black, black people can identify as white, and the entire construct of cultural appropriation belongs in the dustbin. It's all more than a bit of a mess.
With regard to the trans debate, I am sympathetic to her position, but Cyclefree is unfortunately on the losing side. In the end, this is because the ideology of identity politics, which has effectively become the defacto state religion in the anglosphere; directs that in all significant ways biological differences are socially constructed.
I have been waiting for years for a wave of popular anger to emerge in response to the insanity of woke identity politics, it never happens. If it didn't happen for the desecration of the centopah, it is unlikely to happen now. One must concede that trying to preserve the sanctity of womanhood is ultimately a hopeless battle.
"all significant ways biological differences are socially constructed"
Where does that leave Black Lives Matter?
An in interesting place. If total freedom to deny/renounce immutable physical characteristics at will is to be regarded as a right, then presumably every form of trans identification is as valid as transgenderism? So white people can identify as black, black people can identify as white, and the entire construct of cultural appropriation belongs in the dustbin. It's all more than a bit of a mess.
Yes, this is actually happening, and is an actual thing, and it is going to fuck everyone's heads, given the implications
Yeh. She’s definitely next. She’s awful though. Like a smugger, more articulate Boris.
Same sort of dodgy romantic history, too, according to that leaked Whip’s document.
I think she has an interesting romantic history. But, nothing that would be considered unethical in this day and age.
Johnson to be succeeded by Tory trollop!
Bad evening on grindr?
I know justin has some wrongheaded views on personal sexual morals but I don't think winding him up that way is a great way of pointing out that wrongheadedness.
With regard to the trans debate, I am sympathetic to her position, but Cyclefree is unfortunately on the losing side. In the end, this is because the ideology of identity politics, which has effectively become the defacto state religion in the anglosphere; directs that in all significant ways biological differences are socially constructed.
I have been waiting for years for a wave of popular anger to emerge in response to the insanity of woke identity politics, it never happens. If it didn't happen for the desecration of the centopah, it is unlikely to happen now. One must concede that trying to preserve the sanctity of womanhood is ultimately a hopeless battle.
"all significant ways biological differences are socially constructed"
Where does that leave Black Lives Matter?
An in interesting place. If total freedom to deny/renounce immutable physical characteristics at will is to be regarded as a right, then presumably every form of trans identification is as valid as transgenderism? So white people can identify as black, black people can identify as white, and the entire construct of cultural appropriation belongs in the dustbin. It's all more than a bit of a mess.
Some of the batty left are going to get in a right old pickle both criticising cultural appropriation while simultaneously supporting those who want to change racial identity.
With regard to the trans debate, I am sympathetic to her position, but Cyclefree is unfortunately on the losing side. In the end, this is because the ideology of identity politics, which has effectively become the defacto state religion in the anglosphere; directs that in all significant ways biological differences are socially constructed.
I have been waiting for years for a wave of popular anger to emerge in response to the insanity of woke identity politics, it never happens. If it didn't happen for the desecration of the centopah, it is unlikely to happen now. One must concede that trying to preserve the sanctity of womanhood is ultimately a hopeless battle.
"all significant ways biological differences are socially constructed"
Where does that leave Black Lives Matter?
An in interesting place. If total freedom to deny/renounce immutable physical characteristics at will is to be regarded as a right, then presumably every form of trans identification is as valid as transgenderism? So white people can identify as black, black people can identify as white, and the entire construct of cultural appropriation belongs in the dustbin. It's all more than a bit of a mess.
Trans racialism the next big thing?
Arbitrary differences of race and sex etc are stupid, but a right to insist upon total self identification, without qualification, as is suggested in this debate, seems silly.
Yeh. She’s definitely next. She’s awful though. Like a smugger, more articulate Boris.
Same sort of dodgy romantic history, too, according to that leaked Whip’s document.
I think she has an interesting romantic history. But, nothing that would be considered unethical in this day and age.
Johnson to be succeeded by Tory trollop!
Bad evening on grindr?
I know justin has some wrongheaded views on personal sexual morals but I don't think winding him up that way is a great way of pointing out that wrongheadedness.
He is a seriously unpleasant poster, a member of
A sect, whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies; In falling out with that or this, And finding somewhat still amiss; More peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distract or monkey sick; That with more care keep holy-day The wrong, than others the right way; Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to; Still so perverse and opposite, As if they worshipped God for spite.
And if he leaves Truss alone I'll leave him alone.
Hi, everyone. It is technically my first post, but I have been lurking for many, many years. The thread header has finally made me feel I should contribute.
It is disappointing that Cyclefree, who wrote so much on the subject of Corbyn Labour's blind spots to bigotry in the form of antisemitism, has now fallen so deeply into her own blind spot.
To be clear, this isn't about condemning abuse and intimidation of people like Rosie Duffield. Of course, such behaviour is contemptible (not to mention counterproductive). Nor is this even about concerns over protection of women's spaces if gender recognition is made too easy to abuse.
Also "chest-feeding", if indeed that term is used, is stupid. What organ are you using to nurse the child if not a breast?
As the old saying goes, it's not what you say, it's how you say it. And this article, while articulating concerns about intimidation of those who are concerned about protections for women, does so in a way that is deeply transphobic. It is so because wording goes out of its way to pay no respect whatsoever to the validity of trans people as trans people.
"in response to a question from Justin Webb on the Today programme about whether there was anywhere biological males should not go – replied “No, no”."
I haven't seen the programme, but I highly doubt it went down like that. I'm sure the question was about transwomen specifically. By paraphrasing it in this way, Cyclefree is denying that transwomen are any different at any level from any man. They are basically just "men in dresses", a known anti-trans slur that she has in fact used in the past few days, but would never abide, from her writing on Corbynism, its antisemitic equivalents such as Zio or even the coded used of theoretically objective term Zionist.
"let along something to be recategorized out of existence to assuage the feelings of some men."
If the concern is predatory men abusing self-ID to access women's protected spaces, this is clearly not targeted at them, because recognition of trans people is not intended to protect their feelings, obviously. Rather it is targeted at transwomen, again denying that they are indeed so. Just "men in dresses".
Denying the validity of transwomen, especially when conflating them with trojan horse predation, i.e. something to feared, is the very definition of transphobia.
I'm sure Cyclefree doesn't want to be associated with any form of bigotry, hence brisling against being labelled transphobic, but if you deny the legitimacy of trans people and are blase about using insensitive and demeaning terminology to refer to them, then how else would you describe your attitude towards them?
Clearly, we have a long way to go, but at least these issues are being talked about.
Welcome but Cyclefree's language is entirely correct.
Unless the individual in question has undergone a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria and gone through a transition then yes they absolutely are men.
To say that a man is a woman, without any transition or medical diagnosis just because he says he is a woman is to deny everything that actually makes a woman a woman.
A trans woman is only a trans woman if she's undergone transition and followed the steps via treatment etc for medically diagnosed dysphoria. Which extremist activists want to skip entirely and allow any man to pretend to be a woman.
Don't agree with that. A trans woman is a woman regardless of whether any treatment etc has taken place. He has transitioned into being a woman (a she) - and therefore IS a woman - as long as we are strictly talking about gender.
My God this argument is so BORING
Yes it is. Not going away though.
One reason this argument is uniquely boring is that both sides, in the main, are arguing from bogus premises and with false intentions.
That is to say: for those on the Left who have seized this issue, it's not because they really care - they don't, apart from a few genuinely passionate, sometimes aggressive trans activists. For most of them they only shout about it because they have literally run out of other social causes to feel aggrieved about. Because they won on every other issue. We have gay marriage, hate speech laws, Pride marches, abortion on demand, women only shortlists.
So the Left, which only lives to feel "good" about itself and to fight for causes, has taken up this issue, even if it only affects about 73 people in the country, and they act as if it is a burning injustice for many millions, akin to Civil Rights in the '60s in the USA. Ludicrous and embarrassing
However, the Right is no better. Instead of politely ignoring the Left as it spirals into internecine lunacy (which would probably be for the best) they see a way to exploit it, by making it part of the Culture Wars. The Right can point and laugh at the Left than turn to the voters and say: look, they are insane, they don't care about poverty or peace or wages or climate change, really, they care about enforcing mixed gender changing rooms in public swimming pools, and, by the way, they hate women
So this insane debate pleases both sides, and it gets blown so far out of proportion, careers are ruined and people get death threats
Even without the bad faith actors, it would still be a wicked problem. Whatever the decision made, it will end up causing genuine harm to someone's sense of who they are. And saying and doing nothing is in itself a decision.
Which is what makes it such a perfect issue for the shock jocks of the right and whatever their equivalent is on the left.
One tit bit from a recent interview with the investigator who exposed Jimmy Savile, he claims Savile only actually ran a couple of marathons, all the rest was just a massive fraud where he got driven most of the way.
Yeh. She’s definitely next. She’s awful though. Like a smugger, more articulate Boris.
Same sort of dodgy romantic history, too, according to that leaked Whip’s document.
I think she has an interesting romantic history. But, nothing that would be considered unethical in this day and age.
Johnson to be succeeded by Tory trollop!
Bad evening on grindr?
I know justin has some wrongheaded views on personal sexual morals but I don't think winding him up that way is a great way of pointing out that wrongheadedness.
He also appears to imply that any male who adheres to traditional moral views which were mainstrem circa 1965 must be 'gay'!
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And, by the way, the Republican leadership are not idiots. We've had a number of Republican Senators stating that they expect (hope) the Texas law will be struck down by the Supreme Court.
(Which, by the way, it should be. Not because it overturns RvW, but because it would allow any State to ban the right to bear arms. Bear in mind the SC refused to strike it down, not because of abortion or RvW, but because they said that it's formulation was such that it had no ability to do so.)
Either way OMOV has to be the right system and i am no longer a member
Or I could have gone with: Mac guy, eh?
The French must see there is no point in wailing about having been shoddily treated. They were.
But who ever heard of a nation short-changing its defence priorities out of not wanting to give offence? The fact is that the Australians calculated they had underestimated the Chinese threat and so needed to boost their level of deterrence.
They acted with steely disregard for French concerns but, when it comes to the crunch, that is what nations do. It is almost the definition of a nation: a group of people who have come together to defend their own interests
But the second painful truth exposed by the Aukus affair is that the US no longer has any great interest in the outdated behemoth that is Nato. Nor does it harbour any particular loyalty to those who have stood by its side...
But the UK's is Europe's only other serious army. The two countries have similar histories and world experiences. Their soldiers respect each other. In the long term, Franco-British defence co-operation is too logical to ignore. That may be the last of Macron's painful truths.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58614229
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Under the Electoral College, the power of ordinary members to choose the leader would be crushed.
Members would be banned from voting as individuals, with local CLPs as a whole contributing around 30% of the vote - whilst MPs and Unions held the vast bulk of democratic power.
Academic studies of people who thought they were trans and realised they weren't, are about as easy to get funding/approval for as studies into how quickly the earth is cooling. That probably tells us something about something.
So could end up with 250k members voting for candidate A and150K voting for Candidate B but if a maj of CLPs have a Candidate B victory Candidate B gets more than half of the CLP third
I think
I agree with @HYUFD - hard to see past Sunak and Truss at the moment. Top outsider if Johnson goes on long term: Kemi Badenoch.
“When it came to the crunch, the Australians preferred to be closer to a superpower, not a mini power”
CLP 1 - A gets 51 MEMBER VOTES B 49 MEMBER VOTES
CLP 2 - 51/49
CLP3 - 5/ 552
Total 107 members voted for A 600 for B
New system allocates two thiirds of votes to A
Any system that decide Candidate A wins the CLP vote in a Scenario like that is undemocratic
In fact, if she didn’t have historical baggage to fill a Jumbo Jet and was regarded as bonkers by many, Nadine Dorries would be. Good outside bet as she ticks a lot of boxes (pro-Brexit, right-wing, working class, ‘straight talking’)
If the Democrats had had the same opportunity and ability as the GOP, they would have done exactly the same and pushed their own candidates onto the court. So don’t try making out this is “one side good, one side bad”. Both parties operate in exactly the same way.
And if you want to blame someone, blame Ginsburg for not stepping down when she could have done.
Thanks for the detransition stat. I haven't seen estimates of that, beyond "a lot". On the other...
The numbers from the ONS were 2% identifying as LGB in 2017, not 10% or 11%, with the highest percentage of 4.2% amongst the 16-24 age group.
As we know, T is a rounding error statistically.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/culturalidentity/sexuality/bulletins/sexualidentityuk/2017
.Main points
The proportion of the UK population aged 16 years and over identifying as heterosexual or straight has decreased from 94.4% in 2012 to 93.2% in 2017.
Over the last five years, the proportion of the UK population identifying as lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB) has increased from 1.5% in 2012 to 2.0% in 2017, although the latest figure is unchanged from 2016.
In 2017, there were an estimated 1.1 million people aged 16 years and over identifying as LGB out of a UK population aged 16 years and over of 52.8 million.
Males (2.3%) were more likely to identify as LGB than females (1.8%) in 2017.
People aged 16 to 24 years were most likely to identify as LGB in 2017 (4.2%).
Regionally, people in London were most likely to identify as LGB (2.6%), with people in the North East and East of England the least likely (both 1.5%).
69.4% of people who identified themselves as LGB had a marital status of single (never married or in a civil partnership).
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/poll-tracker/canada/
But violating safeguarding is causing harm to others.
If someone wants to identify as a man, as a woman or as a frog then I couldn't care less. Do as you please.
If someone who is of the male sex wishes to get into women's only spaces without the women's consent that is invasive and not ok.
I have been waiting for years for a wave of popular anger to emerge in response to the insanity of woke identity politics, it never happens. If it didn't happen for the desecration of the centopah, it is unlikely to happen now. One must concede that trying to preserve the sanctity of womanhood is ultimately a hopeless battle.
Thanks for clearing that up.
Transgenders are far more historically, socially and culturally recognised in many other parts of the world especially the Indian sub-continent, southeast Asia and parts of the Pacific.
The way that thug culture has weaponised this debate and lost sight of the nuances of both gender and sex is terribly terribly sad and backward. But it's of a piece with the kind of thuggery that is aimed at many others who don't fit the current anti-woke hegemony.
Where does that leave Black Lives Matter?
I have been laying Rishi and Starmer as next PM for some time. I have been backing Truss.
I could, if I wanted - I don't - identify as a Manchester United fan. I could literally declare myself to BE a Manchester United fan. And it would make it so, because that is a matter of chosen identity. But I could not declare myself to be a horse. Because that is a matter of biology.
I could declare myself to be a woman - but no amount of wishful thinking would make it so. Only complicated surgery can make it so.
It might hurt people's feelings that this is the case, but the truth doesn't depend on how it makes people feel.
But I'll leave it there. It needs a gentle, thoughtful, discussion.
HAH! Then he/she should demand the right to publicly chest-feed next to Jacob Rees Mogg
It's possible the Tories come out ahead and still clock 140 seats if they do better in the key marginals.
Leaving the EU is not responsible for high gas prices. But not being part of the EU is responsible for taking the full brunt of high prices.
And what must be understood is that leaving the internal energy market was a political choice. We rolled the dice. https://twitter.com/bestforbritain/status/1440009150050848771
It should be about 27th on the list of our most important issues. And yet, it seems to be in the top 5 and talked about more than educating our kids or affordable housing.
She'd be more effective than either May or Boris, and possibly even eclipse Cameron too.
She's sorely needed.
If we ever have a future PB meet up in West Yorkshire I'll be more than happy to bore everyone rigid by talking about CCS. I'll even say a few things that I won't say on line!
Thanks for putting me right about that, but could you word any future posts a bit more patronisingly?
My university friends WhatsApp (generally Remainery, LD'ey and softly internationalist) has started to speak out against Woke in the last few months in a way that's surprised me. It was even an aggravating factor for one of my friends quitting Morgan Stanley, as he'd got a bit fed up with it amongst other things
However, they are all professional white men in their late 30s. I detect far less sign of this amongst professional white women who are still rather achingly Right-On.
Here there is a clear gender divide, but that could change and change quickly too.
The dog has caught the car.
That is to say: for those on the Left who have seized this issue, it's not because they really care - they don't, apart from a few genuinely passionate, sometimes aggressive trans activists. For most of them they only shout about it because they have literally run out of other social causes to feel aggrieved about. Because they won on every other issue. We have gay marriage, hate speech laws, Pride marches, abortion on demand, women only shortlists.
So the Left, which only lives to feel "good" about itself and to fight for causes, has taken up this issue, even if it only affects about 73 people in the country, and they act as if it is a burning injustice for many millions, akin to Civil Rights in the '60s in the USA. Ludicrous and embarrassing
However, the Right is no better. Instead of politely ignoring the Left as it spirals into internecine lunacy (which would probably be for the best) they see a way to exploit it, by making it part of the Culture Wars. The Right can point and laugh at the Left than turn to the voters and say: look, they are insane, they don't care about poverty or peace or wages or climate change, really, they care about enforcing mixed gender changing rooms in public swimming pools, and, by the way, they hate women
So this insane debate pleases both sides, and it gets blown so far out of proportion, careers are ruined and people get death threats
The one thing that surprised me this weekend was that the lib dems seem to have issues which I only heard for the first time when Davey was interviewed on Marr yesteday, and I was concerned they also have a problem with it, with actual pending litigation
It might theoretically be possible to 'clean up' the CO2 to bottle it up, though it might not be cost-effective to do so. But either way it isn't simply a case of bottling up the captured CO2 then using it.
It’s been a long day…
In 1930s Germany, for example, it would have been un-PC to say anything pro-Jewish. In early 1950s America to say anything pro-Communist.
Today, it means painstaking pedantry over language, to demonstrate you possess the right sentiments on race, gender and sexuality, but it doesn't intrinsically mean that - it just reflects our times.
https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/19415358.issue-day-identifying-another-race/
"THE extreme actions of a British influencer who has undergone surgery to look Korean have turned the spotlight on transracialism. "
Does anyone have a feel for how IAG shares are going to go? I have had some stuck in my mum's Estate, which I will need to sell.
Is now the time?
Thanks
The principle reason was the lack of wind over the last few months and it was stark when shown on a graph
Unfortunately for all @Scott_P hot air even he has not been able to shift the dial
Meanwhile most of the country is more concerned about tax rises, the cost of living and whether they be able to go on holiday next year.
Arbitrary differences of race and sex etc are stupid, but a right to insist upon total self identification, without qualification, as is suggested in this debate, seems silly.
A sect, whose chief devotion lies
In odd perverse antipathies;
In falling out with that or this,
And finding somewhat still amiss;
More peevish, cross, and splenetic,
Than dog distract or monkey sick;
That with more care keep holy-day
The wrong, than others the right way;
Compound for sins they are inclined to,
By damning those they have no mind to;
Still so perverse and opposite,
As if they worshipped God for spite.
And if he leaves Truss alone I'll leave him alone.
https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/irn-bru-production-under-threat-due-to-carbon-dioxide-shortage-3389313
Which is what makes it such a perfect issue for the shock jocks of the right and whatever their equivalent is on the left.
Where is Centrist Dad/Mum when we need them?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10009987/Winner-Bristol-half-Marathon-disqualified-running-wrong-race.html
One tit bit from a recent interview with the investigator who exposed Jimmy Savile, he claims Savile only actually ran a couple of marathons, all the rest was just a massive fraud where he got driven most of the way.