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The head of a primary school uses a woman as a positive example of masculinity for boys, to "encourage empathy, kindness, showing emotions.."

"Undoing the deeply ingrained gender stereotypes in our society takes time" she says.https://t.co/p8emzpYvbm

— TransgenderTrend (@Transgendertrd) July 20, 2025

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From the article:

A primary school has held up a trans man as a positive example of masculinity in teaching materials for its pupils.

Streatham Wells School, in south-west London, said Elliott Page, the Canadian actor who medically transitioned with cross-sex hormones along with gender surgery and now identifies as a man, showed that masculinity “can mean softness and strength”.

However soft and caring Elliott Page may be, there is the problem that she's not a man – so perhaps not the best example. Anyway, is Elliott Page noted for her softness and kindness? Not that I'm aware of. Maybe it's the head teacher here who's guilty of a bit of the old gender stereotyping.

In an article for the online newsletter Teachwire, Sarah Wordlaw, the head teacher, wrote about her school’s efforts to tackle issues such as toxic masculinity and violence against women.

She wrote: “It is important to teach pupils about harmful stereotypes about masculinity. However, if the first time we teach and name masculinity is calling it toxic, that could do more damage than good to our boys.

“It is extremely important to teach about positive masculinities. We need to encourage empathy, kindness, showing emotions, listening to alternative points of view and developing emotional literacy.

“Undoing the deeply ingrained gender stereotypes in our society takes time. It’s certainly not a quick fix. We have seen a significant improvement in children’s awareness of key issues surrounding gender equality. They know how to use their voice to advocate for others.”…

However, some educational professionals have suggested that holding up a trans man as a positive example of masculinity might undermine the intended message that biological men can be gentle and caring.

Well quite. 

d its own awareness day, as the diversity officer at one friend’s workplace decided? How about making pronouns on work emails mandatory? Is a man who identifies as a woman more deserving of protection than an actual woman? These are the kinds of hard questions the diversity officer must puzzle over daily, meaning those who apply for the job tend to have few talents other than scolding their colleagues….

e engaged in a war. Several Hamas terrorists are killed and wounded. The bodies of these terrorists are taken to hospital.

Scene 2: Cut to local hospital. Images of dead – mostly men of fighting age are seen. Random people speak to camera about how they were shot at by tanks for just wanting food. Doctors are used to confirm the terrorists were civilians killed near an aid site.

Scene 3: Western media sources – now overrun by ex Al-Jazeera staffers & other Islamists who hate Jews – spring into action. Stories begin to circulate about the latest 'massacre'. The 'journos' know what they are going to write – but reach out to the IDF for a 'right to reply'.

Scene 4: The IDF receive questions from media. They know there was no massacre and know the incident took place not at the aid station, but some distance away. The IDF respond acknowledging their forces were under threat and they fired warning shots.

Scene 5: The activist journo has his story. Hamas (who they believe) say 'massacre'. There are bodies at hospital. The IDF (who they don't believe) say they just fired warning shots.
'Massacre at aid site' headline is built in places like @bbcnews @skynews .

Off camera. No editor questions why with 60 million cameras in Gaza, there is never clear footage of these events. Nobody asks the doctor in hospital how he knows what happened at the aid site if he wasn't even there. The goal is clear. Another chance to demonise Israel.

Final scene: 'Massacre' headline runs at media outlets that have turned into pro-Hamas mouthpieces. Curtain falls.
Journos stand to applause from audience of antisemites & Islamists.
'Come back tomorrow' the Gazans shout, we are running the show again. The journos wink back.

Off camera…
Hamas terrorists congratulate themselves over another successful production.
One asks – how can western media be so stupid? They put into headlines whatever nonsense we give them..
Another replies. It is easy… we have lots of friends there now. END.

From the Telegraph:

Police are treating graffiti stating that “men can’t be women” as a hate crime, The Telegraph understands.

Gloucestershire Constabulary is investigating after slogans were daubed around Stroud ahead of the town’s annual Pride march.

Police said the graffiti was “targeted towards transgender people” and the incident was being treated as a “hate crime”, but did not reveal what the slogans said.

The Telegraph understands that the slogans included statements such as “men can’t be women”. Others included “you can’t change sex”, “being female is not a costume”, and “trans women are men”, according to sources.

So hateful! 

The Telegraph previously revealed that the Pride event planned to ban performers with gender-critical opinions whom organisers deemed “harmful”.

Which presumably explains why people decided to put up these slogans, as a protest against the constant pandering to trans activists. Pride is clearly no longer about gays – who've won their rights and would just like to get on with their lives thank you very much – but all about the T. 

The slogans were either cleaned off by Stroud council or covered with painted “pink love hearts”.

Photographs show that the slogan “you can’t change sex” was altered to say “you can change sex” and left in place, along with new graffiti that stated “trans rights”.

Tony Davey, the mayor of Stroud, said the original gender-critical slogans were an attempt to sow “hate and division” and to “instil fear”.

Instilling fear? By pointing out the idiocy of gender nonsense?

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Considering only one tenth of an iceberg is above water, the land must shelve spectacularly here to allow these bergs to come in so close.

quot; Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa said.

A bit on the hot-blooded side, these Bedouin tribesmen. Mind you, these Druze chappies are just as bad. Heigh-ho.

This is an ”anti-Israel protest” that took place in Sweden TODAY. The banner above the dead hanging Jews says ”a genocide is a genocide”. One of the most fkd up things is that I, as a European Jew, am not even shocked. The writing has been on the wall for a long time. pic.twitter.com/kisfc7NsHY

— Annika H Rothstein (@truthandfiction) July 18, 2025

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And dressed as concentration camp victims. Couldn't be more vile.

Oh my god, this woman is an absolute savage. I know some people don't like TikTok links, but I don't really know how else to share this with you. “What do you think he meant by that?” Ooooooooffff https://t.co/YQc67exWgh

— Graham Linehan 🎗️ (@Glinner) July 19, 2025

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A report:

UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons forcefully defended his institution against allegations of tolerating antisemitism during a congressional hearing on Tuesday, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The hearing, which also included leaders from the City University of New York (CUNY) and Georgetown University, was the latest in a series of high-profile clashes between universities and Republicans over the campus climate for Jewish students following the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel.

"Forcefully" isn't quite the word I'd use.

onths, season two started this week.

First up was Isla Bumba, NHS Fife’s youthful yet handsomely paid equality and diversity officer — a woman who almost certainly sees herself as one of the righteous. Her answers could’ve populated a DEI bingo card. She disputed the term “biological sex” and claimed that men who identify as women pose less of a threat to women than other men. With the dead-eyed calm of the ideologically possessed, she told Peggie’s lawyer Naomi Cunningham that she would unquestioningly accept someone’s trans identity. But it was Bumba’s declaration — “I don’t know what my own body is made of biologically. No one knows what their chromosomes are or their hormonal composition” — that marked the moment many critical observers shouted “full house.”

Perhaps – one hopes – in a few years time the wretched Bumba will look back on her youthful and absurd obeisance to gender ideology, and cringe.

Meanwhile, Dr Upton, who during the hearing in February mystifyingly described himself as biologically female in court, is a bully with the swagger of a tomcat. He thought he was untouchable, presenting himself as part of an apparently vulnerable minority granted him unchecked power to push through demands. As the nice girls climbed the internal hierarchy by signalling their compliance with gender ideology, Upton saw an opportunity. He knew that women trained to be accommodating, those who valued seeming ‘kind’, would hesitate to push back. He was right.

The complaint he submitted against Peggie was finally dismissed after 18 months due to “insufficient evidence”. It was a year and a half in which Peggie, while the media picked over everything from her menstrual flooding to her husband’s political views aired in court, was still being put through the rigours of NHS Fife’s internal investigation. It’s almost as if Upton threw together a complaint in a fit of pique to punish a woman for not playing along with his delusion.

It's notable how the NHS Fife doctors – "co-operative handmaidens" all – report on how upset poor Dr Upton was: sobbing, apparently, after his encounter with this woman who was prepared to stand up to him. Hard to imagine this six-foot burly man sobbing – only women sob, of course – but it's all part of the well-worn victim narrative in this and just about every other trans story.

These dynamics are woven into the operation of organisations. There’s no social capital in defending a middle-aged woman who refuses to play nice, and there is a risk to standing up to men like Upton. And so, despite begging the Nursing Union to do its job and represent her, Peggie has been left unsupported. Meanwhile the likes of Scotland’s Engender, which claims to “work to dismantle structural sexism to increase women’s social, political and economic equality” and the Fawcett Society have steadfastly ignored the case. Presumably they’ve found it more profitable to keep quiet.

In the end, it’s not kindness that drives women to prioritise men — it’s conditioning. It’s a pattern of behaviour that gives them status and mitigates the risk posed by dangerous men. Upton didn’t act alone; his allies were everywhere, smiling as they tightened the screws. That’s why this courtroom drama resonates. The names change, but the plot stays the same: a woman speaks, and the system rushes to shut her up.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 718 people have been killed in Sweida.

The Druze are being massacred before our very eyes. The world must speak out to stop the slaughter. pic.twitter.com/9ow0CJn0Pz

— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) July 19, 2025

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