cording to the BBC, the documents presented to the Supreme Court of Appeal described her as 22 years old, but her birth certificate and death certificate stated that she was 16.
But it's always worth being reminded of Iran's horrendous history of crimes against women.
If only those silly Afghani women and girls just had the sense to identify as men and boys. THE STATE OF THIS FROM @AmnestyUK pic.twitter.com/gUacj8Gk1d
— Helen Joyce (@HJoyceGender) February 13, 2025
Another one from Reduxx. A trans woman in Germany is making a nice living for himself by applying for jobs he's not qualified for and has no intention of taking up, then suing over discrimination.
A trans-identified male in Dortmund, Germany, is facing scrutiny after winning over €250,000 over the course of 240 separate discrimination lawsuits. Many have accused the man, who has been unemployed for 12 years, of using Germany’s strict protections for those who self-identify as transgender to enrich himself.
Apart from three internships and one short-term job, the trans-identified man has been unemployed since 2012 and receives public welfare. While Germany has strict privacy laws that have resulted in the man’s identity being censored, Reduxx can reveal his name as Alina Steffen.
In a recent interview with Westphalen Blatt, Steffen claimed to have applied for over 1,577 jobs over the last eight years, but reported he has struggled to find a position. But critics have accused Steffen of running something akin to a racket, labelling him an “AGG-hopper.” The German slang term refers to individuals who do not apply for a job with the intention of actually taking it up, but rather to receive compensation for alleged violations of anti-discrimination laws.
Steffen has been known to apply for jobs he does not actually qualify for throughout the North Rhine-Westphalia region. For example, in one instance he applied for a job which was a one-hour drive from his home despite the fact he does not have a driver’s license and cannot drive.
But the moment Steffen receives a rejection from a job he applies for, he files a lawsuit citing a violation of the German Equal Treatment Act (AGG). Steffen has also filed lawsuits for jobs he never applied for, but found to be “discriminatory” in advance by focusing on minor errors in the job advertisements.
For example, in one case, an advertisement omitted to specify that people of “diverse” genders can apply, and only stated that “male and female” applicants were welcome. Steffen sued over this omission and won.
Despite being on welfare, the hefty compensation awarded to Steffen by labor courts in various districts is not offset against his welfare benefits and is tax-free. As a result, Steffen is collecting welfare and raking in hundreds of thousands of Euros in court awards.
Nice (non) work if you can get it.
In addition to his lengthy history of court battles, Steffen is a self-published author who sells ebooks for less than one euro on neobooks.com. Among his publications are books on job hunting, including one titled “The Professional Application.” The book describes itself as offering expert advice on finding a job. Another book written by Steffen is called “Tips for the Perfect Job Interview.”
Norwegians eating their fermented herring on toast, or whatever it is they have for breakfast, will have been surprised to read in their morning paper of the case of a woman beating a man to death with a baseball bat. "Hey, that's unusual", they will have muttered to themselves (in Norwegian). But it's not quite so simple:
On the evening of November 27, 2023, a 22 year-old female who went by the name Oliver Ravn Rønning was beaten to death with a baseball bat at her apartment in Porsgrunn, which she had just moved into days before with her partner after having met via an LGBT dating app that summer. Rønning is a female who identifies as a man, while her partner, who Reduxx will refer to as Jonas, is a 19 year-old male who identifies as a woman.
The killer, with a history of violence, has had his sentence reduced on appeal on the grounds that he may have been acting in self-defense. And, you know, him being female and trans and all.
The murder has received significant attention and media coverage in Norway. However, the language used to describe the case has perplexed some readers. Many news reports have altered language used to refer to both the victim and suspect, or have described the case as one in which a woman violently beat her husband to death, obfuscating the sexes of those involved completely.
re not subject-matter experts, overruled their female subordinates—women who had organized the conference, were experts in their field and knew exactly who they were inviting and why. These men also thought it appropriate to censor a female speaker whose expertise had earned her an international reputation. The fact that three out of the four women affected were Jewish, and all were of Eastern European background, only worsened the optics.
The article's worth reading also for shedding light on the unique situation of Finland – of the West, yet so close to the USSR. Compromises were made, not least on the promotion of the Soviet position that equated Zionism with Nazism. As Tabarovsky notes, "One of my Finnish contacts may have been right when she told me that Finland has yet to fully come to terms with that past."
From the Jerusalem Post:
The Hollywood premiere of Captain America: Brave New World on Tuesday was picketed by several dozen pro-Palestine protesters upset over the inclusion in the film of an Israeli superhero, Ruth Bat-Seraph, aka Sabra, played by Shira Haas, Variety reported.
Sabra, in the original Marvel comics version, first appeared in the early 1980s as a Mossad agent, but Brave New World producer Nate Moore added in February that Sabra is “not Mossad” in the film and although she’s a first-generation Israeli, she now “works within the US government.”
That softening of the character didn’t deter the protesters, who held signs reading “Sabra has got to go” and “Disney supports genocide” while shouting out “Free, free, free Palestine” and “Disney, Disney, you can’t hide.”
Shira Haas is not a soldier. She’s not a political figure. She doesn’t represent the Israeli government or speak for the IDF.
She’s an actress.
No one would think to boycott a Sudanese, Syrian, or Yemeni actor because their country is at war.
Yet, dozens of “Free Palestine”… pic.twitter.com/D6oBrKAIq3
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) February 12, 2025
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"Yet, dozens of “Free Palestine” protesters gathered to oppose the presence of an Israeli actress and Israeli character in the new Captain America film.
"You can protest a war, you can protest a government’s actions, but you can’t protest our existence.
"Shira Haas exists. Israelis exist. And we’re not going anywhere."
’s Darkest Hour – The NSW nurses have not just threatened individual patients—they have desecrated what it means to be Australian.
Naomi Cunningham, Sandie Peggie's lawyer at the NHS Fife tribunal, gets to the heart of it:
Ms Cunningham said: “What Sandie Peggie has done by withdrawing from changing room when you were there is opted out of immersive role play. That’s why you were angry with her.”
She added: “I want to suggest that the reason it’s not acceptable to you for one colleague to opt out, is the danger that one voice telling the truth will break its spell. It’s like the child in the Emperor’s New Clothes. That one voice saying you’re a man will break the spell.”
See also Milli Hill's substack piece – "A doctor talking utter nonsense about biology might seem funny, but in fact, it's a deadly serious sign of a much wider problem".
Meanwhile, in Norwich:
A Green councillor has been accused of calling a group of women holding a silent vigil for Afghan women and children "Nazis".
Charlie Caine, a member of Norwich City Council, is said to have launched the verbal attack on the event outside the Forum.
The vigil was organised by the Norwich Women's Rights Group and Women's Rights Network (WRN) Norfolk, which have previously raised concerns about the impact of gender ideology on women and girls.
The councillor, who is a transman – the term for someone born female but who identifies as a man – is accused of shouting at the gathering, calling those assembled "Nazis" and "transphobes"….
Sarah Walker, a member of the group, said: “As soon as I announced our vigil we were approached by Green Party city councillor for Mile Cross, Charlie Caine, who stood on the library steps above us and screamed abuse, yelling as loud as possible that we were 'transphobes' and 'Nazis' and looking around at passersby as if trying to rouse them to join in abusing and harassing us. It was quite extraordinary.”
Liz Wills, a WRN co-ordinator, said “It’s worth stressing that this situation had nothing to do with trans issues.
"The women who turned up, including the Muslim women, were there solely to support Afghan women who are actually the most oppressed group in the world.
"This cannot be dismissed as a battle of rights, it was abuse, harassment and public disorder.”
Somehow it's always the Greens.
e National Portrait Gallery (also rehung at the height of the woke moment), Samuel Pepys stands condemned to posterity as a sex abuser by the label fixed next to his picture. I sometimes wonder if I will live to see the curator intelligent enough to replace it with one explaining that his diary is one of the all-time wonders of human introspection and that Pepys’s extramarital excursions are not even the 100th most interesting thing in it. One strand of opinion holds that these organisations have the power to stamp their values on society permanently. But it is worth countenancing another future, in which those institutions still clinging to the fashionable ideas of the 2020s exile themselves from the mainstream and doom themselves to irrelevance as the rest of society simply moves on.
The big beasts of capitalism are already moving on. Bud Light, for instance, is focusing on blokey good humour now in their latest Superbowl ad, trying to put the Dylan Mulvaney disaster behind them. Universities and cultural institutions, on the other hand, are going to take a lot longer. The people there actually believe this stuff: often enough it's how they got their jobs in the first place. Sometimes a touch of cynicism can be a good thing.