Author: Mick Hartley

batants and noncombatants and whose accuracy has been questioned by experts.

He's already compared Gaza to the Holocaust. Of course.

Girls in Kabul attend a graduation course for memorising the Koran. From the Times (paper, not online).

[Photo: Samiullah Popal/EPA]

k and asked: “Can you reassure me it is just a woman-only group?”

The woman was repeatedly told that such meetings were “trans-inclusive”.

Cunningham said: “The tone of the conversation changed and a few days later she got an email saying: ‘You are not suitable for our services.’”…

The tribunal had previously been told that Wadhwa told an audience that the “best way” to get staff to support trans inclusion policies was to “fire them”. Nicole Jones, a former student, told the hearing that the word “transphobes” was used in a “disparaging way”, adding: “She was asked what’s the best way to get staff on board with inclusion policies and she responded bluntly, ‘Fire them.’”

A rape crisis centre, to serve desperate women who've been subjected to male violence, appears to have been turned into an affirmation centre for transitioned men. The women are victims twice over.

of using hospitals and schools as their operational centres. The JC:

The IDF has killed more Hamas militants in the recent operation in Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital than in any other single operation since the war began, according to the IDF’s chief spokesperson Daniel Hagari.

The operation – which began on 18 March and ended on April 1 – reportedly killed some 200 terrorists from Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad faction and took more than 900 captive including senior commanders. Israeli troops also seized weapons and millions in US and Jordanian currencies from inside the hospital, according to the IDF.

Thousands of Palestinians who had sought refuge in al-Shifa hospital were forced to evacuate through a checkpoint to shelters south of the hospital, while Israeli special forces conducted room-to-room searches. CCTV footage and video from inside showed firefights erupting as terrorists had barricaded themselves in the maternity ward and emergency rooms. Other Hamas members, according to the IDF, fired mortars at the hospital and Israeli troops from outside.

You're unlikely to get that kind of information from the BBC.

John Collier, November 1942. "Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Champion No. 1 cleaning plant. Loaded coal cars ready for market."

[Photo: Shorpy/John Collier, Office of War Information]

of sense.'

Someone tell the Scottish government: they're looking to make it illegal to put anything in the way of gender transition for minors. 

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But KS complained to the province’s appeals board, which overturned the decision on the grounds that vaginoplasty shouldn’t inherently include a penectomy.

LGBTQ rights group Egale Canada said the OHIP’s “interpretation (of a vaginoplasty) is exclusionary and discriminates against nonbinary people on the basis of their gender identity”.

The decision prompted a counter-appeal and Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice is expected to issue a ruling in the coming months….

KS’s doctor, an Ottawa endocrinologist, wrote a letter supporting the request for the surgery.

“It is very important for (KS) to have a vagina for her personal interpretation of her gender expression but she also wishes to maintain her penis,” the doctor said.

“(KS) is transfeminine but not completely on the ‘feminine’ end of the spectrum (and) for this reason it’s important for her to have a vagina while maintaining a penis.”

Critics told the National Post the request illustrates “how far off the rails” gender-affirming treatment has gone.

“Our public healthcare system is at the breaking point and really needs to focus on procedures that are medically necessary,” Pamela Buffone, founder of the parents’ group Canadian Gender Report, said.

“The patient will not be physically healthier because of the operation, which is likely to result in complications and the need for corrective surgeries and further demands on the health system.”

Likely to? Almost certain to.

The goal with phallus-preserving vaginoplasty is to create a vagina that is “aesthetically pleasing” while “maintaining the original genital structure” of the penis, according to the Art Plastic Surgery clinic in New Jersey.

A similar case last June saw the OHIP fund surgery for a civil servant, 41, who had a penis constructed without removing their vagina and uterus.

Ha! They ought to get together, these two. Should be able to work something out.

Kim Jong-un has commanded that from henceforth South Korea will be referred to as "the South Korean puppet state". With far-reaching consequences:

North Korean restaurants operating in Russia are no longer accepting South Korean customers. The policy change appears to be part of an order by North Korean authorities to turn away South Korean customers at all North Korean restaurants overseas.

On Apr. 1, a source in Russia told Daily NK that South Korean visitors to the North Korean Pyongyanggwan (“Pyongyang Restaurant”) in Vladivostok were unexpectedly turned away during a visit in mid-March.

The restaurant had previously been a popular destination for South Korean tourists and Korean expatriates in Russia.

A restaurant employee had struck up a conversation with the group as they were escorted to their seats. However, as soon as the group sat down, the employee asked them, “Are you puppets?” When the customers asked for clarification, the employee explained that he wanted to know if the customers were “from the South Korean puppet state.”

When the customers replied that they were from South Korea, the North Korean staff told them, “We can’t serve puppets here, get out right now,” and kicked the customers out of the restaurant.

This particular group of South Korean guests had been visiting Pyongyanggwan for several years and had eaten at the restaurant as recently as January without any problems. As a result, the group was quite confused by the sudden turn of events.

According to the source, “in the past, when customers revealed that they were from South Korea, the North Korean staff would be very friendly and make comments like ‘we are compatriots,’ but the customers in question now say that the staff’s attitude seems to have changed overnight.”

necessarily charitable towards Lazuli Clark, the offender here: worrying about what pronouns to use for him, and speculating about his "gender dysphoric" confusion. Couldn't the truth be more prosaic? – the guy's just a sociopath, and too many sporting bodies in thrall to trans ideology are allowing sociopaths like him to thrive, and girls to suffer as a result.

Yep.

So if trans-identified men are pretty enough (as judged by you, a man) women ought to agree they're women?

Femaleness has no relation whatsoever to how well an individual – man or woman – performs femininity to male standards. This is the very definition of misogyny. https://t.co/MWieeOFmON

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 2, 2024

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[Munroe Bergdorf was one of the ten trans women featured by Rowling in her "April Fools" tweets.]