An old joke — just given a new lease of life — It’s not often that Government Ministers volunteer to provide updates to material i use in my occasional forays into stand-up. Yet here we are. …

Transphobia meets grc reform, drops its trousers! — Last week, the Scottish parliament passed legislation to amend the Gender Recognition Act. Much shenanigans in Parliament before and after the vote. And if hurried statements by members of the UK gov are to be credited, more to come. Now read on… * * * * * * * *…

Gender crittery and word games This week the Cambridge dictionary “re-defined” “woman”. Note: the parallel quote marks: they are relevant. Of course, the usual suspects went into meltdown. And of course, as usual, the usual suspects were mostly wrong. Now read on… * * * * * * * *…

Just when you thought the bigots could go no lower… — Long story short: we did Trans Day of Remembrance (TDOR). Cis bigots complained that not enough trans folk were dying. Then a right-wing supremacist attacked an LFBTQ+ club in Colorado. This totally set the cat amongst the bigots, who could not agree as whether no trans folk were harmed in…

…and how it is weaponised against trans people — Fame is a potent drug. Press and broadcasters are well aware of that. Which is why they are so quick to dole it out in little (taster) packets. A dash of fame. A dollop of flattery. …

A myth most convenient for the lazy hack… — Trans people mostly don’t mind UK journos inquiring into what they want. The problem is that these same journos frame a perfectly reasonable trans desire to be left alone to live their lives as “ideology” — and utterly fail to inquire about the ideological under-pinnings of the anti-trans. That’s about…

How market research is preparing us for the worst — Market research is being used to attack minorities and prepare the UK for much worse to come. It likely breaks all of the rules. But in post-Brexit Britain, who cares any more? Now read on… * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * …

The misrepresentation of research — This week, the anti-trans have been out and about once more pushing the fraudulent line that trans women display a “male pattern” of offending. Like, we’re all rapists, doncha know. This is bare-faced misrepresentation of the one supposed major piece of research in this area. …

A short history in two snarks: snark the second — My continuing adventures in the gender recognition trade. Still mostly harmless. Now read on… * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Typical! I ended my last piece on my journey to gender recognition nirvana with acknowledgment that the system that…