Which Rights Do You Believe You’ve Lost, Then?

Last week’s supreme court ruling sent shock waves through the UK’s trans community. The unanimous judgment said the legal definition of a woman in the Equality Act 2010 did not include transgender women who hold gender recognition certificates (GRCs). That feeling was compounded when Kishwer Falkner, the chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, which is preparing new statutory guidance, said the judgment meant only biological women could use single-sex changing rooms and toilets.

And apparently this is going to cause issues for those men who have been posing as women for years.  

The fear is back. The fear I had when I first started my transition in 1979, that people will hurt me,” says Janey, who is 70. She has been living “happily and independently” as a woman for nearly half a century. Based in London, she still works in the mental health sector and is part of a large and accepting Irish family. She is also transgender. “I still go into the women’s toilets at work, but when I open the door there’s that little voice inside me: ‘Will someone shout at me?’,” she says.

What are you planning to do it there? If it's just 'use the toilet', it's unlikely. If it's to pose in front of the mirrors for a selfie to show how you're in a women's toilet like so many of the exhibitionist freakshows on Twitter and Instragram, then no.  

Janey’s colleagues don’t know she’s trans (Janey is not her real name).

Don't they? I wouldn't bet on that. 

It’s the fragility of rights that scares her. “Just look at what is happening in the US – what worries me in this country is that it’s all about trans people now, but this is the start of something. Rights can be knocked out in a second.”

You never had a right to invade female spaces. You're a man.  

Diana James, 66, a domestic abuse worker, says the supreme court judgment has been “a tremendous shock” to mature trans women in particular. “These are women just living their lives, coming up for retirement, pottering around their gardens, and suddenly their safety and security has been removed.”

What about the safety and security of women who don't want them in their spaces, Diana? 

In the intervening decades since her own transition in the mid-70s, James has witnessed “an incremental increase in rights and understanding” for trans people. “The path forward wasn’t rushed but in gentle increments, so some people who had concerns could discuss them.”

And have them belittled and ignored in favour of the utter madness that has become the trans rights movement? Gee, thanks awfully... 

Christine Burns, a retired activist and internationally recognised health adviser, charts “a fairly straight line of progress” towards the passing of the Gender Recognition Act in 2004, which allowed trans people to change gender on their birth certificate, marry to reflect their chosen identity and gave them privacy around their transition. That legislation “mattered so much to people” says Burns, while acknowledging that only a minority of the community have gone on to apply for a GRC.

Well, clearly it didn't matter as much as you thought. 

She points to another significant social shift in the mid-00s. “The oddity is that the Gender Recognition Act changed lives, but the emergence of social media made it possible for there to be a revolution in how trans people engaged with the world.”

And we saw how they engaged with the world and realised just what we were expected to invite into our private spaces. And a brave bunch of women went to the Supreme Court to put an end to it. 

Yet another Mothers’ or Women’s Day for the year

Just posted this on X:

Where’s the red line with this “blasphemy” thing?

Hope this thing does come to a head:

The quote as a whole:

Chap called Steve Delaney on X:

I for one do defend the deathcult’s right to speak out … at Hyde Park corner, even on a footpath … just as with Isabelle Vaughan-Spruce’s vigil against baby murder as a lifestyle choice for the single mother.

See, it might be that no one agrees with this but “arresting” for blasphemy is an entirely different thing to verbally counterattacking and that’s that. But fanatics can never leave it at that, can they?  Just as with Wokery, they have to break things, burn churches and so on.

On the other hand, if someone was about to physically hurt your family, what would you do?  Just verbal the thug?

What’s With The Pronouns, How Many People Does She Think She Is..?

Londoners living with disabilities and chronic health conditions say they have struggled to use a Transport for London (TfL) scheme while travelling, with one even threatened by another passenger. The "Please Offer Me A Seat" badge and card scheme, which marks its eighth anniversary this month, is designed to help those with disabilities and health conditions by signalling, external to other passengers they should give up their seat if needed.

And what happens when those passengers have no visible disability? Like their example, a typical dyed-hair example of modern youth?

Eliza Rain, 28, who has a chronic pain condition, said when using the badge they were often challenged and one passenger "threatened to push me off the train because I'd asked for their seat".Eliza, a content creator from London, is one of the more than 140,000 people who use the badge. They said they used it for more than four years on their Tube commute and on buses and trains, but eventually opted to use their wheelchair while on public transport due to how many other passengers refused to give up their seat. "People wouldn't give me a seat, and I couldn't stand... without potentially having a dangerous medical episode," they explained.

Is 'dangerous medical episode' code for 'nervous breakdown', perhaps? She's clearly not operating with a full set of tools. 

When working in their old job, Eliza said it was stressful and "pretty much impossible" for them to get a seat on the Northern line to London Bridge using the badge, despite being at risk of passing out. They said: "I had someone basically just shout at me and flat out say 'no'. "Someone else threatened to push me off the train because I'd asked for their seat because I needed to sit down, and they were in the priority area and didn't have a badge. Obviously they could have said no if they needed the seat."

What makes you so sure they didn't need it, Eliza? Don't you believe in the 'invisible disabilities' yourself? 

On some days not being able to sit down on the Tube caused a symptom flare-up which left them unable to do daily activities like cook a meal.

She doesn't look like she's missed many...  

They said they had also been questioned in the past about "what was wrong" with them when using the badge.

Pity the author of this article didn't mention the fact she appears not to know how many people she is... 

Thoughts on Grandad, RIP

The news, courtesy of daughter:

https://headrambles.com/2025/05/07/the-late-grandad/

Grandad, whom Longrider and I knew as Richard … well, the three of us started up Martin Scriblerus, while Longrider and I started up Orphans … obviously with other fine folk too.

There is Richard’s wife, plus at least one daughter I know of.  She is the one who posted.

One of the interesting aspects was that Richard liveblogged the whole saga, not unlike Grandpa at Orphans and I also fully intend to do so if possible, when the time approaches.

Many thoughts about the whole saga.

VE Day 2025

On the 80th anniversary of 1945.

Agincourt, Crecy, Waterloo, Armistice Day, Battle of Britain, Dunkirk, VE Day, VJ Day … these are all days worthy of commemoration and I for one believe they should be commemorated on the day, not for the convenience of Them above.

The issue with that argument is that people work (or at least did before Tories started and Labour finished the tradition off), with the indigenous population having jobs, plus man the main breadwinner, women mixing part time with child rearing … and so it goes. In wartime, women stepped up and their lives became doubly onerous.

The degree of self-sacrifice of these men and women is something which should be commemorated forever.

This below captures the relief of those on that day of relief, VE Day:

And here:

It would be narrowsighted to only think of Britain in this, as the Americans, Canadians, Commonwealth countries, European countries involved, plus the USSR were all involved … the Russkies commemorating theirs on May 9th Day of Victory.

Some of our reflections were posted across the way at Unherdables:

Dearieme: I don’t remember any fuss about VE day when I was a boy. It was Armistice Day that we did fuss about.

……

JH: Ditto. It was Armistice Day for us.

……

Steve: I concur, there was little to no observance up until the 50th. I certainly can’t remember anything about VE Day even when I was serving. We did a D-Day parade on the 40th at the Commando Memorial, Achnacarry. I was listening to a historian on GB News and she said these commemorations (D-Day VE/VJ Day) only took off in the 1980s. This VE Day will probably be the last major one where veterans are present. Those with us today are over 96 with the eldest 104.

And here at OoL:

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/05/my-ve-day-memories.html

I can only finish by saying that, especially in the light of the current attempt by Them above, plus other groups around the world, including those who have invaded, to kill off Allied countries’ identities, heritage and culture … over the dead and wounded bodies of those who fought and served earlier, plus ourselves in the coming events … no way will the evil, anti-western and anti-second world forces prevail.

On behalf of Grandpa and Julia, remember VE Day today.

Why Is “It was part of the system and the culture of the time” Shocking, When It’s Simple Fact?

'It' being the treatment of unwed mothers by the church in Ireland.

While public expression by the state of its culpability has been explicit and categorical, the remorse expressed on the religious side has been less clear-cut. Past statements from the orders involved such as “with deep regret … we acknowledge that there are women who did not experience our refuge as a place of protection and care” and “it is regrettable that the Magdalene homes had to exist at all” lack a certain tone of regret, shall we say. The Good Shepherd Sisters, as they are now known, have made particularly impressive use of grammatical gymnastics over the years (“We sincerely regret that women could have experienced hurt and hardship”). Perhaps most shocking was this: “It was part of the system and the culture of the time.”

It's a simple statement of fact - it's only 'shocking' to modern sensibilities. Back when this was happening pretty nearly everyone agreed with the attitude towards sex and childbith out of wedlock. 

Nothing from the nuns, or the Catholic church, has really come close to expressing true remorse. A “definitive” apology in 2021 from Eamon Martin, Ireland’s most senior church figure, was worded thus: “I accept that the church was clearly part of that culture in which people were frequently stigmatised, judged and rejected. For that, and for the longlasting hurt and emotional distress that has resulted, I unreservedly apologise.” Yet the church wasn’t just part of that culture. It was the culture, saturating every aspect of life in Ireland, shaping public attitudes towards women and their babies, encouraging their shaming and ostracising. Some campaigners have called for church assets to be seized unless the institution contributes to a state-run redress scheme.

So, if not for the church, everyone would have been just fine with women sleeping around and dropping litters like stray cats? I really don't think Ireland would have looked like a colder, wetter San Francisco, love.  

I was too young when I saw in 2002 The Magdalene Sisters, a drama which gave me a lifelong aversion to Irish nuns, so repugnant and sadistic was their behaviour towards the vulnerable women in their control.

Wow! Wait until you get to watch 'Adolescence'!  

Nasty 2020 thugs and karens now covering their posteriors

Just before getting to my topic of the day, a quiet word about VE Day:

It was not run yesterday because that was not the date of the declaration … the date is May 8th, Thursday … I’ll be running something on the correct day.

To today:

Dissident doctors and nurses have called the whole shebang of deathjabs out, plus the karens giving us all a hard time … even today, at our place across the way, we’re running links to other connections now being made … even the WHO is getting into the act.

In short, people, including Hancock with Andrew Bridgen, are covering their posteriors in unseemly haste, as one would expect of a karen or the male equivalent who was happy enough to demand we be sent to concentration camp circa 2020/21, despite evidence even available back then for the ferreters online.

So let’s all go outside this evening at 8 p.m. and clap these thugs and karens as if we were performing seals.

My VE Day Memories

 

“We Would Have Got Away With It If Not For Those Pesky ‘Vested Interests’..! ”

A leaked document shows that vested interests may have been behind a “mud-slinging” PR campaign to discredit a landmark environment study, according to an investigation. The Eat-Lancet Commission study, published in 2019, set out to answer the question: how can we feed the world’s growing population without causing catastrophic climate breakdown?

And what conclusions that we'd all otherwise have been fine about except for a PR campaign did it come up with?

The report recommended that if global red meat eating was cut by 50%, the “planetary health diet” would provide nutritious food to all while tackling the harms caused by animal agriculture, which accounts for over 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. It suggested individuals – particularly in wealthy countries – should increase their consumption of nuts, pulses and other plant-based foods while cutting meat and sugar from their diets.

Well, clearly, we'd all be muching on carrots and telling each other we never really liked steak if not for those meddling 'vested interests', eh? 

It may have seemed like a fairly straightforward proposal but the backlash was ferocious, with researchers receiving personal threats and insults. Thousands of negative posts were shared on Twitter (now X), and more than 500 articles were published criticising the report.

Yes, and the ones I saw were spot on.  

A leaked document seen by the climate website DeSmog reveals that helping to fuel this backlash was a PR firm, Red Flag, which represented the Animal Agriculture Alliance, a meat and dairy industry coalition set up to protect the sector against “emerging threats”, and which has staff from Cargill and Smithfield Foods – two of the world’s five largest meat companies – on its board. DeSmog has seen a document from the PR firm which states: “In the two weeks following publication of the Eat-Lancet report, this campaign’s messages have continued to demonstrate remarkable success. Key stories returned time and again in traditional and social media to reach major online influencers, particularly highlighting the radical nature of the Eat-Lancet diet and hypocrisy criticisms levelled at the Eat founders.”

As Tim points out, these 'vested interests' were pushing on a very wide open door, so let them crow all they want. One of his commenters had their number: 

QED, eh, Reader?