Author: Mick Hartley

No, I detransitioned because I was pretending to be the opposite sex as a delusional trauma response to being abused as a girl. pic.twitter.com/0WxhaJM7gm

— Laura Becker🦎 (@LauraBeckerReal) July 6, 2024

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John Vachon, February 1943. "New York, New York. Associated Transport Company trucking terminal on Washington Street. Loading goods on a southbound transport."

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ly beat the previous Olympic trials record, which was 3:58.03 set by Elle St. Pierre at the 2021 U.S. track and field trials. St. Pierre finished third on Sunday to also earn a spot on Team USA along with the second-place finisher, Emily Mackay.

“This is bigger than just me,” Hiltz told NBC. “It’s the last day of Pride Month, and I wanted to run this one for my community. All the LGBTQ folks, you guys brought me home that last 100. I could just feel the love and support.”

She's transgender and nonbinary. How does that work? And if she's transgender and "was assigned as female at birth" then she's presumably now a trans man – but she's denying her gender identity to compete in the women's race – which according to trans dogma is very wrong. 

It's all very confusing. Though of course there'd be little point in her competing in the men's race, where she wouldn't stand a chance. Still – wow! It's all just so wonderful, her being trans and nonbinary and a good runner and the last day of Pride Month, and feeling the love of LGBTQ folks and all. She's clearly a special magical person.

Runners like Hiltz who were assigned female at birth do not face the same restrictions for women’s divisions as transgender athletes who were assigned male at birth.

A line for future generations to look back at and wonder. Women don't face the same restrictions for women's events as men do – obviously, because men aren't women – but all garbled up in gender-speak.

now about the Iranian “elections” that took place. No, #Pezeshkian is not a “reformist” there is NO reform with the Islamic Republic. The Western media peddling this narrative are doing the work of the Islamic republic. #notoIR #electioncircus pic.twitter.com/xriru0R6G1

— Emily Schrader – אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) July 6, 2024

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Previously.

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abour in this election in response to Sir Keir Starmer’s initial refusal to back an immediate ceasefire in Gaza…

In a city that two years ago was rocked by days of violence between Hindu and Muslim groups, Adam says one of his priorities in parliament will be to challenge the “weaponisation of ethnicity, religion and race that has grown since Brexit”.

Challenging the weaponisation of ethnicity, religion and race by weaponising Muslim grievances about Gaza in a UK election…

arty of Margaret Thatcher to embrace a thoroughly misogynistic ideology and call it feminism. By then, of course, any number of institutions had been captured. Police forces, NHS trusts and government departments competed — and paid — for gold stars from Stonewall. Gender-neutral toilets, male sex offenders in women’s prisons, trans women on female hospital wards — all of these things happened under Conservative administrations, including one led by the Tories’ second female PM, Theresa May.

May was as keen to suck up to trans activists as Keir Starmer would prove to be a few years later. In 2017, she appeared at the Pink News awards, promising to “streamline and de-medicalise” the process of getting a gender recognition certificate, something that sounds very much like self-ID.

The Tories got us into this mess, and it’s ironic that it was the Tories’ third and spectacularly unsuccessful female prime minister who put the brakes on. In 2020, when Liz Truss was Women and Equalities Minister, she abandoned plans to reform the Gender Recognition Act, putting her party back on the road to sanity on this subject alone if little else.

This sequence of events is easily overlooked, now that Labour has picked up the mantle from the Conservatives. But the Tories were in power for 14 years and it’s only in the last few months that they’ve proposed amending the Equality Act and banning the teaching of gender identity in schools. Starmer would have less room for manoeuvre if he had inherited a legislative landscape where issues such as women-only spaces were already firmly protected by law….

Identity politics is clearly not easily reducible to a Left-versus-Right analysis, given that Angela Rayner and Anneliese Dodds are now spouting the kind of nonsense we used to hear from Tory women. But it’s hard not to feel this morning as though we’re back where we were seven or eight years ago — and that’s as much the Tories’ fault as Labour’s.

Though of course the hard left are, as ever, up there alongside their Muslim "comrades" in the fight for Gaza:

Jess Phillips was heckled by pro-Palestine activists after narrowly defeating a far-left candidate who has accused Labour of backing Israeli “genocide”.

The re-elected MP for Birmingham Yardley beat Workers Party candidate Jody McIntyre by just 700 votes on Thursday night.

After being declared the winner, Phillips’s attempt to give a victory speech was interrupted by chants of “free Palestine”.

She told the audience at the count: “I see we’re going to continue with the class we had during the campaign.”

The Labour MP continued: "I will carry on with my speech. I understand that a strong woman standing up to you is met with such reticance [resistance?]”

Faced by more chanting, she asked officials to throw those heckling her out of the venue. 

The campaign, Phillips said, was the "worst election I have ever stood in"….

A “brilliant” community activist who had joined her to campaign was filmed on the street and had her tyres slashed, Phillips claimed, while a woman canvassing on her own was screamed at by an older man.

She would not allow the family of Jo Cox MP, who was killed by a far right extremist during the Brexit campaign, to campaign with her because of the “aggressive” mood.

Phillips concluded: “I didn’t bring my children here tonight, because I knew this would happen and they deserve better.”

Phillips won 11,275 votes while McIntyre recieved 10,582.

Speaking to Muslim news website 5Pillars during the campaign, McIntyre said Labour would lose seats in Birmingham “god willing”.

Can you imagine any other situation where a hard left candidate would use the phrae "god willing"? Dropping the old socialist principles there to pander to the Muslim vote…

"Yes Palestine is a big issue… but this is not the only issue we’re campaigning on and it’s not the only reason we’ve got the overwhelming amount of support that we’ve got.”

Labour’s position on Gaza is “abhorrent, disgusting, if not criminal,” he added.

Many Muslim voters supporting his campaign would never return to supporting the party, McIntyre claimed.

"We call them the genocide party, we call them the party of injustice and corruption,” he added.

"The genocide party". ffs. Best tone down the old Marxist-Leninist dialectical materialism "dictatorship of the proletariat" stuff comrades – it's the old Jew-hatred that's going to get us the votes here.

close to defeat by TMV’s Leanne Mohamad, winning what had been a safe Labour seat by just 500 votes. Mohamad, a TMV post said, “took on a seasoned politician with the weight of the Labour Party machine behind him to a razor thin margin; all with no time to prepare.

“You are the community's real winner. You Put Gaza back on the ballot. You've created history and given us incredible hope for the future.”…

In all these constituencies, the Gaza war figured as a central campaign issue, with Labour repeatedly battered for supporting Israel’s right to self-defence after the October 7 terrorist massacre. One of the few consolations for pro-Israel Labour supporters was that in Rochdale, the Workers Party’s anti-Zionist firebrand leader George Galloway lost the constituency he had won in a by-election in February to Labour’s Paul Waugh – although Waugh himself made a demand for an immediate Gaza ceasefire a key part of his campaign.

TMV claimed on X that “all this talk of a Labour landslide” was hiding the “real political earthquake” – what it called “the nearing end of the Labour-Tory duopoly that has held the country back for decades”. According to a BBC analysis, Labour’s vote was down by an average 15 points in seats with big Muslim electorates.

A Labour source told the JC it was far too early to assess what impact the TMV’s apparent success would make on the incoming government’s policy. Nevertheless, he accepted that “it is of concern, for sure”.

Indeed it is. Though seeing the back of Galloway is a small ray of sunshine.

When TMV was launched last year, it announced that its goal was to demonstrate that Muslim voters would ‘no longer tolerate being taken for granted. We are a powerful, united force of 4 million acting in unison…. We are focused on seats where the Muslim vote can influence the outcome,” the TMV website says. “In 2024, we will lay the foundations for our community’s political future.”

The results of the general election suggest that this goal has been met.