Just stuck an "i" in his name and he was ready to go.
Kylie Small took 🥇in the women's 3/4 today at the Maverick Classic Crit in Grand Junction, CO.
Kylie was born a male named Kyle and – against all odds – has managed to become a women's cycling champion.
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as a public broadcaster, funded by a license fee from every television owner in Britain, whether or not he or she actually watches the BBC. For its audience of hundreds of millions, including world leaders, it retains an unrivaled reputation for accuracy and impartiality — an increasingly rare phenomenon in this era of fake or partisan news.
This reputation is not deserved. And while the BBC is regarded as biased on many issues (Brexit, for instance) in a way that has angered large sections of the British public, when it comes to Israel, its distortions and one-sidedness are in a league of their own.
The French are waking up:
French Senators want to ban gender transition treatments for under-18s, after a report described sex reassignment in minors as potentially “one of the greatest ethical scandals in the history of medicine”.
The report, commissioned by the opposition centre-Right Les Republicains (LR) party, documents various practices by health professionals, which it claims are indoctrinated by a “trans-affirmative” ideology under the sway of experienced trans-activist associations.
The report, which cites a “tense scientific and medical debate”, accuses such associations of encouraging gender transition in minors via intense propaganda campaigns on social media.
ion of 17-year-olds coming through. All the kids who were 11 when this phenomenon kicked off six years ago are now 17 and heading up to the adult services so it is a real worry,” she added.
“And because the waiting lists are long the middle classes who have the money to pay are getting pressurised by their kids to go the private route. I want to see a ban on cross-sex hormones for under 18s in both private and NHS services in the UK.”…
Hannah Barnes, the former BBC journalist who investigated Gids and has an updated version of her bestselling book, Time To Think, published next week, said the new guidance on cross-sex hormones at 16 “baffles” her.
“For those born female, even a short period of time on testosterone will have completely irreversible effects,” she said. “The question is whether anyone approaching their 16th birthday can possibly understand the full consequences of what they are doing.”
Paul Conrathe from SinclairsLaw, who is acting in the Evans case, said: “The decision of the CQC to license the first paediatric hormone clinic is a leap in the dark. As regulator, the CQC is responsible for ensuring the public and especially the vulnerable and children receive safe and effective medical treatment. Concerns for this treatment are particularly serious given the irreversible lifelong consequences and that it is given to a vulnerable group of teenagers.”
ed to storm a conference on gender issues.
Dr Ronx Ikharia, who presents Operation Ouch!, was seen using a loud hailer outside a meeting of doctors and academics at the Royal College of General Practitioners in London….
In a speech outside the First Do No Harm conference, Dr Ronx said: 'I am a doctor of 13 years, I am a trans, non-binary doctor and Can-SG is doing harm.'
Dr Ronx, 40, presents alongside twin doctors Chris and Xand van Tulleken on the popular children's health show Operation Ouch!
Last night, Stephanie Davies-Arai, of campaign group Transgender Trend, said: 'A CBBC presenter should not be involved in protests against evidence-based medical care for children.
'That Dr Ronx led a mob that prevented attendees from accessing the conference is a serious public order infraction.'…
In an Instagram post yesterday, Dr Ronx said: 'To see people who are 'professionals' tut, frown and take pictures of us as if we are the enemy whilst accessing the conference was not nice. The intellectualisation of trans bodies frames our existence as debatable.'
Um. You were violently attempting to stop medical professionals from attending a conference. That's not nice. Plus of course the usual line about any debate on transitioning in youngsters being somehow an existential threat to all trans people. No discussion allowed: just go with the ideology.
Author Helen Joyce said: 'This is somebody with influence with children. Adults were behaving like tantruming toddlers.'
A trans activist children's BBC presenter. Not a surprise.
c could probably have been prevented had the Wuhan authorities acted differently in the last days of 2019 and the first week of 2020.
The authorities, as well as punishing and silencing the whistle-blowers, took the line that this mysterious outbreak was the result of zoonosis – humans infected from an animal source – from the Wuhan seafood market. The market was closed down, while concerns that people with no connection to the market were getting infected were ignored.
The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission issued guidelines on how to diagnose the new disease. In addition to clinical symptoms, under the “inclusion-exclusion criteria”, a patient had to have had a link or proximity to the Huanan Seafood Market to be treated as having Covid.
As a result, cases with no link to the market were ignored. “They only transferred those [patients] with an exposure history to the Seafood Market, including those we had almost cured,” complained one doctor at the hospital designated for receiving Covid patients. “But they didn’t want any [patient] without a history of contact with [the] Seafood Market.”
After the market was closed the number of patients seemed to stabilise and fall, reassuring the authorities. But inside the hospitals of Wuhan, more and more people were presenting with symptoms and more and more doctors and nurses were falling ill, only for their cases to be deleted from the data by provincial bureaucrats in thrall to the seafood-market dogma.
This problem of “ascertainment bias” was also to fool western scientists for years as they continued to argue that because early cases were associated with, or lived near, the market, the virus must have started there. This was and is a circular argument.
The authorities, in other words, decided that the seafood market was the cause of the outbreak, and then dismissed data that didn't tie in with their theory.
Ridley – co-author of Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 – notes that Dali Yang confines his criticism to the local authorities, not Beijing, and barely touches on the issue of a lab-leak.
But the author, Dali Yang, is a professor at the University of Chicago and between 2010 and 2016, was the founding faculty director of the University of Chicago Center in Beijing. He is also a member of the National Committee on US-China Relations, and a member of the China committee of the Chicago Sister Cities International program. His ready access to Chinese sources must require at the very least some caution about saying things that go against Xi Jinping Thought. Hence, perhaps, the decision not even to discuss a laboratory leak, the ultimate no-no in Beijing.
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Barry Lewis previously – Butlins 1982.
A conference on child healthcare ambushed by violent protestors, shouting and letting off smoke bombs. London, today:
Doctors at a gender-critical conference were ambushed by “aggressive” masked protesters who let off a smoke bomb and had to be held back by police.
Dozens of officers were required to prevent the demonstrators gaining entrance to the first conference of the Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender conference held on Saturday in London.
Video footage showed the protesters, dressed mainly in black and waving flags, blocking the entrance and jostling with police.
Held at the headquarters of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), the conference brought together doctors, academics and parents “to discuss current controversies in the care of children and young people with gender-related distress…”
One attendee said on X, formerly Twitter, that the protesters had been violent.
Another, Elaine Miller, a physiotherapist, said: “Met Police were great outside RCGP when a crowd of very aggressive, masked and mistaken people were cross that a bunch of HCPs [health care professionals] want to talk about excellence in healthcare.”
Jane Symons, vice-chair of the Medical Journalists’ Association, said: “It’s the first time I have ever attended a medical conference requiring police protection. Healthcare should be driven by evidence not ideology.”
One banner appeared to read “trans power”.
No science please, we're trans activists.
And in Wales:
Women’s rights charity FiLiA had booked a stand at Plaid Cymru Conference, hoping to use the opportunity to talk to delegates and Plaid Cymru politicians about a range of grass roots campaigns they support.
With less than 48 hours to go, the charity was told that they would not be welcome, and their stall booking was revoked.
The Plaid Cymru message:
“While there are many issues and campaigns on which I expect we would agree, it has come to my attention that some of FiLiA’s positions are potentially contrary to the party’s values – for instance on trans rights. We welcome robust debate, but must balance this with the need for our delegates from all backgrounds to feel as though the party conference is a safe space for them to express their identity comfortably.
I regret therefore that we will be unable to welcome you to Caernarfon this week. I’m sorry for the late notice.”
No terfs, in other words. No debate. Sensitive trans identities must be respected.
Honestly, what's going on with these Celts?
t to the gas chambers, is getting some attention. From the Telegraph:
A fictional trans-hating character called “Jo”, who women’s groups claim is an offensive parody of JK Rowling, was invented by Police Scotland officers, it has emerged.
The national force faced scrutiny this week over a “scenario” presented at an official hate crime event in which “Jo”, a gender-critical campaigner who, like Rowling, has a large social media following, states that trans people should be sent to gas chambers.
The Time for Inclusive Education (TIE) campaign group, which ran the hate crime event in collaboration with police, revealed the Jo character had been “written by officers at Police Scotland based on their expertise”
Their expertise?? Their complete capture by trans activists more like. The level of sheer misogynist aggression aimed at Rowling is getting scary – and now with official sanction.
Women’s groups said the revelation raised new doubts over the ability of police to impartially enforce new hate crime laws, which come into force on April 1.
That's putting it mildly.