>When we read these things, we feel distress: distress for the victims of these crimes first and foremost, but distress too that as a sex class we are being libelled and defamed.
We know there will be many members of the public who are mis-led by this reporting and wrongly attribute these crimes to women.
We also know that crime statistics may well falsely record these crimes as committed by women, skewing important data.
But these are not women’s crimes.
00,000 following its shameful treatment of gender-critical philosopher Kathleen Stock. And, of course, the Free Speech Union, where I work, is on hand to come to the defence of any academics should their employer choose to ignore all these legal protections and its duty to uphold them. If gender-critical academics won’t speak up now, then when will they?
In a way you can't blame them though. It's often more than just being given the cold shoulder in the canteen.
I know from experience just how brutal this can be. Last year, I was suspended from my committee position at Leeds University radio station, simply because I expressed gender-critical views. I was told I had to submit a written apology to members of Leeds students’ union and undergo a ‘re-education’ course.
For standing up for women’s rights, I was ‘vilified’ by my peers. What was meant to be one of the best years of my life turned out to be one of the loneliest. The one friend who stood by me was told that he should make sure not to be seen in public with me if he wanted to remain respected within the radio station. Over time, I have discovered the impact this kind of shaming has had on some of my now closest friends who have also taken the risk of speaking out. Their relationships have been profoundly damaged, and their career prospects now uncertain. Indeed, I realised that the worst cancellations at university are the ones that go unnoticed.
The fact is students do not enjoy the same legal protections afforded to academics. It should not be left to students to play guessing games as to whether their professor might be a secret TERF. They should not have to weigh up the risk of outing themselves as a ‘transphobe’ to the person marking their work on the off chance that their professor is on side.
‘Courage calls to courage everywhere’, as suffragist Millicent Fawcett said, and if there was ever a time for feminist academics to be bold, it is surely now. On behalf of students afraid to speak out, I implore gender-critical academics to collectively make themselves known – not just online, but on campus, too.
The consensus among these students is that the fear of being ‘villainised’ by colleagues is no longer washing. The causes of biological truth, women’s rights and free speech are too important.
Courage, mes braves!
“Is it your intention to run trans people out of the state of Texas?”
Republican State Rep Angelia Orr: “Just out of the bathroom.” 🤣
BOOM
MEN DO NOT BELONG IN WOMEN’S BATHROOMS. This isn’t hard. pic.twitter.com/jxP9avYH71
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 29, 2025
Jesus, the New York Times. Their latest, a hit piece on men-out-0f-women's-sport campaigner Riley Gaines, archived here.
With caps covering their hair, goggles over their eyes, and sleek suits down to their knees, the eight swimmers on the pool deck looked indistinguishable from one another. They crouched in identical poses: One foot back, head down, rear up, hands dropped forward on the starting block. Together, they waited for the starting signal….
Indistinguishable from one another?? The guy racing against the women – Lia Thomas – is well over 6ft.
First of all, they make you deny the evidence of your senses…
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When we hear all about trans heroes – and when we don't.
Leor Sapir on The Broken Chain of Trust in Pediatric Gender Medicine:
The American Medical Association (AMA) is the largest and most powerful doctors’ organization in the United States. It has also consistently supported pediatric medical transition, or “gender-affirming care,” which includes puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries administered to minors. The AMA has passed a resolution promising to protect these procedures, joined an amicus brief in a lawsuit challenging a state age-restriction law, and written a letter urging state governors to veto similar legislation.
The AMA has done all this despite the findings from systematic reviews—the gold standard of evidence-based medicine (EBM)—of weak evidence for these treatments’ mental health benefits, and despite the corresponding health risks. In 2021, AMA board member Michael Suk publicly called pediatric transition “medically-necessary, evidence-based care.” He did so after health authorities in several European countries, including progressive Sweden and Finland, had already begun to change course and prioritize psychotherapy for pediatric gender dysphoria cases.
Skeptics of the AMA’s position have wondered how a professional medical organization could have ignored systematic reviews. New videos, one of which was published by the Daily Wire, provide a possible answer. The videos reveal the AMA’s president, the Michigan-based otolaryngologist Bobby Mukkamala, making false claims about pediatric gender medicine and demonstrating ignorance of basic concepts in EBM. Mukkamala appears to believe that only doctors involved in medical practice can be trusted to evaluate the evidence for the treatments they perform. Where EBM sees a potential conflict of interest, the president of the AMA sees a credible source of expertise….
Rotting from the top down.
he judge not to impose a death sentence by stoning, which is among the Taliban’s penalties for adultery.
However, Hira was convicted of appearing in the market without a male guardian and of interacting with a stranger. She was sentenced to 39 lashes.
A crowd of men then gathered to watch her punishment, she said. “After the court’s verdict, I was taken to a public area filled with dozens of men. My face and head were covered, and I endured immense suffering and humiliation as I was whipped in front of the crowd, who loudly counted each lash,” she said.
Overwhelmed with the pain, she cried out. Sobbing, she was then taken back to her jail cell and held there for another day to allow her wounds to heal.
How kind.
he farm before the entire workforce.
A police official revealed the farm worker’s actions and declared, “South Korea isn’t just a foreign country, but an enemy trying to plunder our nation. The cultural materials they’re trying to spread are ideological poison, and this reactionary act of poisoning even one’s own children can never be tolerated.”
The farm workers then took turns condemning their colleague. Throughout the entire struggle session, the farm worker just stood with his head down and remained silent.
Ring any bells?
ize: 11pt”>In that piece, it was accompanied by the caption: “A malnourished boy lies on a bed at a hospital in the Red Sea port city of Houdieda, Yemen" and was credited to photographer Abduljabbar Zeyad.
TRT’s post is still online and no public correction has yet been issued.
It comes after a number of photos of apparently malnourished children in Gaza were published by international media, only for it to be revealed subsequently that the children in question suffered from pre-existing medical conditions.
Any lies to blacken Israel….
"The effect of an open letter of that sort is simply to deter anyone else from dipping their toes into the third rail topic [of transgender medicine]."
MIT Philosophy Professor Alex Byrne (@byrne_a) told his side of the story on Radio Free Campus: pic.twitter.com/jixbxuTL8z
— American Council of Trustees and Alumni (@goACTA) August 26, 2025
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Full interview here.
Background:
Nasty open letter from philosophers to Byrne accusing him of gender wrong-think.
And this February essay is worth revisiting.