The Germans (and the Austrians) seem to be all aboard for the magical gender tour with their recent self-ID law, the snappily-titled Selbstbestimmungsgesetz. With, inevitably, the same results. From Reduxx: A number of trans-identified male prisoners who have been locked up across Germany have repeatedly sexually assaulted and harassed female inmates and correctional officers, according…

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Meanwhile in Greenland ! pic.twitter.com/fqP9igQeeR — Mary Coughlan (@mary_coughlan4) January 10, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

The Islamic Human Rights Commission [IHRC] thinks it's "morally unacceptable" that Gaza is not considered a "genocide" alongside the Holocaust. From the Telegraph: An Iran-linked group funded by a registered charity is urging councils and universities to boycott Holocaust Memorial Day. The Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) has written to 460 town halls and educational…

Joan Smith at UnHerd: Get ready for foot-stamping. For too long, a motley collection of trans activists and green zealots have only needed to threaten to withdraw from literary events, and the organisers have taken fright. Now the Oxford Literary Festival has discovered a backbone, inviting the gender-critical author Helen Joyce and the feminist campaigner…

Freddie Attenborough in the Spectator on ‘Islamophobia’ and the grooming gangs scandal: At PMQs this week, Kemi Badenoch told MPs that Labour’s adoption of the All Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslim’s definition of ‘Islamophobia’ has inhibited public discussion of rape gangs. She pointed out that, according to this definition, anyone who draws attention to…

This is astonishing. When I asked my 46th District legislators about the lawsuit from the former female prisoner forced to share a cell with a 6’4” male who sexually assaulted her, their response was … interesting. What do you think? pic.twitter.com/NuaBFUoATi — Beth Daranciang (@bethsd) January 11, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Transcript (via): Question: Hi. Washington State…

I’m sure you’re right on both points. But just to reassure the sceptics and naysayers could you produce a list of British-Pakistani Muslim community leaders and/or prominent spokesmen (I assume they will be all men) who have been robust in condemning the rape gangs? https://t.co/3uil66qSH5 — Andrew Neil (@afneil) January 11, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Rachel Pepper, author of "The Transgender Child," was asked what to do about "extended family members" who are "skeptical" about your 4-year-old "trans kiddo." Pepper says to cut them out of your life because they're "not safe people for those children to be around." pic.twitter.com/xaNIKNEviO — Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) January 18, 2023 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

From the Times: When Martin Speake, a jazz teacher at one of the country’s leading conservatoires, saw an email from his school asking for staff and student feedback regarding their equality and diversity policy, he was happy to respond. Speake, 66, an internationally renowned saxophonist, who has been playing jazz for 50 years and teaching…