Retired academic. Vintage shop owner. Dogs, garden, grandkids, books - in no particular order. HALVE is my Wordle start word when I remember to play.

Henty, Wiradjuri Country, Aus.
Joined April 2023
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There is a devastating irony in a judge doubting a court ruling years later about puberty blockers.
Replying to @Martina
Don't forget, it was BBC Sport that threatened to report members of the public to "the authorities" for pointing out that Laurel Hubbard is a man who stole an Olympic spot from women.
Replying to @BBCSport
A message to all @BBCSport followers 📝 #HateWontWin
A litany of horrors, indeed.
Must-watch interview! Malcolm Clark on the dereliction of duty of the BBC’s news division. In thrall to a small activist unit, it has all but ignored the greatest medical scandal of our time - the administration of drugs to block the puberty of distressed teenagers. Spot on, Malcolm!
There is nothing they won’t appropriate - breastfeeding, periods, spaces, language, the HOLOCAUST. Insufferable narcissists one and all.
Sir, calm down, you just can’t go into female only spaces.
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Sir, calm down, you just can’t go into female only spaces.
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Replying to @bbcnickrobinson
What are the ‘competing pressures’ between fetishistic, activist and homophobic men who claim to be lesbians and actual lesbians who don’t want men who promote a corrective-rape narrative in their dating spaces? What are the ‘competing pressures’ between men in fishnets and lippy who want to video themselves masturbating in women’s toilets and women who don’t want hulking wankers in their facilities? What are the ‘competing pressures’ between housing murderers, rapists and other violent male offenders in women’s prisons and the rights of vulnerable women inmates not to be put at risk of serious assault? What are the ‘competing pressures’ between those men who demand the ability to get naked in changing rooms with women, teenage girls and prepubescent children and those who prioritise safeguarding and dignity for women and girls? Nothing has been more predictable over the past couple of days than the stampede of entitled, privileged and elitist male journalists ‘manning’ the barricades to supports the BBC’s institutional failure to protect women and children. This is on you and every other so-called journalist-with-integrity who chose cowardice when strength of character was required.
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On sex-based rights, the BBC has hardly been caught in the middle - it actively promoted gender ideology to every audience, including via CBBC. Look again at Kirsty Wark's Newsnight interview with Germain Greer, 10 years ago. The sheer incomprehension. piped.video/7B8Q6D4a6TM?si=IQYN…
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BBC being advised by a lobby group...sound familiar @abcnews ? Neutrality and balance in reporting needs a comeback.
Stephen Nolan is the first presenter on the BBC tonight to raise the issue of sex and gender coverage in-depth. He’s talking to former BBC executive @rogermosey
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Diana Bryant, chief justice of Australia's Family Court when the transgender idea took off in in the mid-2010s, now has doubts about the landmark ruling that liberalised access to puberty blockers for gender-distressed children. In the 2013 re Jamie case, the court accepted an argument by the Australian Human Rights Commission that the risk of a child being wrongly prescribed blockers was not too serious because anonymised experts in the proceedings had asserted the drugs were “fully reversible” and had “no side effects”. Link ($) below to today's front-page news report in @australian
John, when I was on Woman’s Hour I said that lesbians were women and the presenter apologised to listeners for my offensive views. The BBC no longer thinks truth matters.
The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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“So, if I were deciding the (2013 Re Jamie) case now and had the evidence that’s now becoming available, I certainly doubt that I would have come to the conclusion that we should move to the general view that (court) approval wasn’t needed for puberty blockers.” @ABCmediawatch @PatsKarvelas @amapresident @RACGP @RCHMelbourne @Mark_Butler_MP @MaryAnneThomas @ama_media @bec_white @TimNichollsMP @Jilliantweeting @QldChildPsych @mbachelard @australiandr @JacintaAllanMP @BenCarrollMP @Bernard_Lane
How will the captured explain it to themselves? Or will the waters just close over as if they were never involved?
This social contagion memidemic has run its course and will soon fade into history. Except, unlike other playground crazes (yo-yos, jacks, hula-hoops, marbles) this one will never fade for those unfortunate children irreversibly damaged by chemical or even surgical mutilation skeptic.com/article/transgen…
Ideology over science results in a lack of patient safety. And a whole lot of other bollocks...
Psychiatrist Dr. Lauren Schwartz: “That's where we see that infiltration of politics into medicine, and when it gets all tangled up the results are gender ideology, and identity politics in medicine”
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Fabulous @Bernard_Lane ! So good to see your comprehensive and scrupulous report in The @australian today. I can't express how relieved and happy I am to see it. It is chock full of relevant facts, myth busting and names. Dr Telfer and Anna Cody among them. Telfer is the specialist Australian courts retired on, and it's clear her research and experience were grievously lacking. Will she be held accountable? Cody pontificates like she thinks she is a specialist, and not just the amateur activist she is exposing herself to be more and more every day. Will she be held accountable? A link to the paywalled story is in the next reply.
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What BBC trans propaganda sticks in your mind? For me it's this one: the trans identifying male rugby player who folded a female opponent "like a deckchair". "I do feel guilty, but what can you do?" she says. "I don't go out to hurt anybody. I just want to play rugby."
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I suspect she won’t be the only Australian judge to realize they made a very stupid decision during the gender ideology era.
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"Thousands, it not tens of thousands, of female athletes have been harmed by these policies" "Okay, sure, yeah, but what percentage is that of the total number of athletes, huh? It's like less than one percent!" This seems to be the typical pivot when activists are confronted with the fact that indeed, thousands of female athletes have been deprived of fair competition, robbed of medals, awards, and prize money, and pushed onto the bench and out of sport due to the "inclusion" of male athletes in women's competition. I know that these activists don't seem to view women and girls as actual people, so let's substitute male athletes as the victims to illustrate how absolutely silly this argument is. "Okay, yeah, [athlete A] is fixing games in exchange for money, but who cares? It's one guy doing it. Why do we need rules against this? Yeah, maybe it is unfair to the other athletes on his team, but you're making rules to target, like, one athlete out of how many million? What percentage is that out of all athletes on earth? Why are you focusing on this instead of fixing world hunger? Leave him alone!" Or even better: "So what if the last Super Bowl and World Cup outcomes were fixed? That was two competitions out of how many million that year? Not even a percent of a percent! Why would we need rules against that? Why do you care?!?" They are right in that it's insane that so much time, money, and energy has had to be wasted on this rather than our leaders and sporting authorities immediately making a clear and definitive sex-based female-only category and judges actually using their judgement to dismiss silly cases in which men cry discrimination when they aren't "included" on women's teams. That could have been done in a heartbeat.
We need to stop using terms like 'trans', 'transition' and 'gender affirming'.
That Anna Cody, a supposedly intelligent person, is a transmaiden is reprehensible. That she is also Sex Discrimination Commissioner is outrageous. Gender ideology in action causes great harm to individuals and families.
Replying to @ellymelly
People like Anna Cody are culpable. She is part of the collective responsibility for the horrific harm happening to young people who have been confused about the reality of sex. She needs to resign.