I wasn’t going to do an update until next Tuesday when I am back at home but I have been so enraged by news about the BBC I stumbled across this morning that I am doing an emergency special!! However I thought I’d start with a cheerful thing before getting to the BBC.
Excellent new video from Whistle and Cat Cattinson.
Kick A Terf
Down to business. Thanks to Feminist Legal Clinic for bringing this to my attention.
BBC defends playing song that tells listeners to ‘kick terfs’ ( 17 September)
The BBC has defended airing a song that encourages listeners to “kick” gender critical people, despite complaints.
BBC Radio 6 Music played the track called They/Them by the band Dream Nails, which features the lyrics “kick terfs all day, don’t break a sweat”.
Terf is an abbreviation for trans-exclusionary radical feminist, a term used to describe people who believe trans women’s gender identity is illegitimate.
The BBC has dismissed the criticism, suggesting that the lyrics were ambiguous.
How can those words be ambiguous? Are we paying our licence fee for this?
Please complain about this though I can’t find out precisely when the song was aired. Anyone know?
All comments gratefully received.
The article continues:
It comes after the station was accused of refusing to play songs by the Irish singer Róisín Murphy following her criticism of puberty blockers.
Ms Murphy, 50, posted on Facebook: “Puberty blockers are f——, absolutely desolate, big pharma laughing all the way to the bank. Little mixed-up kids are vulnerable and need to be protected, that’s just true.”
Dennis Kavanagh and Clive Simpson cover both these matters in Queens’ Speech. They also mention some potential good news regarding the conversion therapy bill being shelved - here’s hoping! There may then be a fear as to what Labour might do if they get into power next year in the UK.
Tatchell Turned On By His Own People!
Before I sign off I also noticed this from FLC:
Sex Discrimination Without Sex ( 16 September)
The controversial LGBTQI+ [ Dusty: WTF LOL] activist Peter Tatchell recently tweeted something heretical for his side of far-left politics: ‘People cannot change biological sex’.
Gender-critical feminists took gleeful enjoyment in some of the silliest replies to his tweet from trans rights activists, including University of Sheffield sociologist Sally Hines’ claim that hormones change a person’s biological sex, and minor celebrity transwoman India Willoughby’s agreement with Hines that if Tatchell were to take oestrogen, ‘within 12-24 months he would absolutely have changed sex.’
Gender-critical feminists in Australia shouldn’t be too gleeful about this biological illiteracy, however, because it looks like the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) agrees with Hines and Willoughby. The Sex Discrimination Commissioner was granted leave to appear as amicus curiae (‘friend to the court’) in the ongoing case of Tickle v Giggle, and the AHRC is currently reviewing submissions on an application by the Lesbian Action Group for an exemption to the Sex Discrimination Act. Both cases involve a clash between sex and gender identity—a clash which there is not a hope of resolving in a sensible way without a clear understanding of sex and a firm insistence upon the distinction between sex and gender identity.
[I]t’s a tricky question, because while plenty of sex-based exemptions have been granted at the federal level, it is never made explicit whether the exemption covers all males regardless of gender identity, or only all males without ‘woman’ gender identities (or to put this differently, all males except those who are trans-identified).
Hines, Willoughby, and the Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner all believe that sex (“sex”) can be changed.
Not having surgically or medically transitioned, and not having changed the sex marker on one’s birth certificate, but merely presenting oneself as female and being socially recognised as “female” (whatever that means—securing the cooperation of one’s community by tacit threat of being hauled before the anti-discrimination commission?) may be taken to change your sex. Sex, according to the Sex Discrimination Commissioner, is almost nothing at all.
And finally..
I thought everyone would like a transcription of Brandubh’s version of Molly Malone.
This was a difficult task because I was laughing so much while I tried to do it.
Anyway, altogether now…
In Dublin’s fair city
Where some girls are so manly
I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Mo Thóin
As she wandered through the ladies
Pouting and taking selfies
With her cock and her balls
She’s a man, a man oh
A man, a man ohoh
He’s a man , a man ohoh
With his cock and his balls
He’s a man, a man oh
She died of a misgender
Someone would not affirm her
And that was the end of sweet Molly Mo Thóin
Now her ghost wanders through the ladies
Pouting and taking selfies
With her cock and her balls
She’s a man, a man oh
A man, a man ohoh
He’s a man , a man ohoh
With his cock and his balls
He’s a man, a man oh
OK Hopefully I will now be back on Tuesday.
You're welcome, Barri.
Big Country still on my list. I did look at a clip and it looks great.
That's absolutely brilliant. Did you write that? Is it recorded anywhere?
Dusty
This is a FFS moment on steroids 🤬
Will be complaining to the BBC for definite. They cancelled Roisin Murphy but this is somehow ok. What is going on?
Well done Brandubh, what a star.
Thanks for all the coverage and pictures Dusty, wish I could have been there.