Links - 13th June 2025 (2 - Hamas Attack Oct 2023)

Love My 7 Wood on X - "I was at a Bat Mitzvah this evening at a synagogue in Toronto I will leave unnamed. Before beginning the service, the Rabbi said that in case of emergency the two nearest exits were behind her. Then she gave instructions should a Code Red be called. Code fucking Red! In Toronto. In Canada. Why? Because we are Jewish and Jew-hating mobs are given free rein to hate and intimidate with absolutely no repercussions. The shame falls on politicians and police who are too afraid to call out or arrest the mobs out of fear of being tarred as Islamophobics so they let antisemitism explode instead. And they are too stupid to be ashamed of their actions. I’m talking about you @MayorOliviaChow  @fordnation  @TPSMyronDemkiw  @MarkJCarney"

Police confirm investigation into Leeds student group's ‘armed resistance’ call - "West Yorkshire Police is reviewing whether a criminal offence was committed after a Leeds-based student group called for “armed resistance” and a “global siege” ahead of a protest in the city centre.  The demonstration, held on Saturday 10 May by leedsstudents4palestine, went ahead days after the group published a graphic Instagram post urging followers to “let our collective rage erupt” and “strengthen unity around armed resistance”. "
More censorship of "pro-Palestinian" speech! This is a chilling attack on freedom of speech. The police need to stop wasting time persecuting people and go back to arresting people for "transphobic" tweets

Eyal Yakoby on X - "BREAKING: A new wave of Gazans has just landed at Sydney Airport—granted instant entry, thousands in government aid, and citizenship. While Arab nations won’t take a single Palestinian, Western leftist governments are opening their borders and committing national suicide."

Greg Price on X - "In the year 2023, a huge crowd of people holding Palestinian flags outside the Sydney Opera House in Australia are chanting “gas the Jews.” They’re just resisting occupation, guys!"
Merve Karataş on X - "Things that make you a "Nazi" according to Western liberals:
- Opposing race or gender based quota systems in workplaces and schools.
- Claiming that there are two genders.
- Arguing that IQ tests can be used to measure mental ability.
- Wanting Islam to be criticizable, just like any other religion.
Things that do NOT make you a "Nazi" according to Western liberals:Another one of the authors, Nader Ibrahim, posted this back in the day.  I don't even know what the hell this is.
- Chanting "GAS THE JEWS"."

Israeli Woman on Her Way to Give Birth Is Killed in West Bank Attack - The New York Times
U.S. Senator John Fetterman on X - "The depravity to target and celebrate killing a pregnant woman as a “heroic operation.” Call that what it is and pick a side in this existential war. 🇮🇱"

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll on X - "Yuval Raphael survived the Nova festival massacre by playing dead while hiding under the bodies of her friends slaughtered by Hamas terrorists. She survived to sing and represent her county in Eurovision but she is under threat by "human rights activists" in Switzerland who want her dead"

No evidence of genocide in Gaza, UK lawyers say in arms export case - "No evidence of genocide in Gaza, UK lawyers say in arms export case  Palestinian rights organisation Al-Haq has launched high court action over carve-out of F-35 fighter jet programme Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor Tue 13 May 2025 19.51 BST  No evidence has been seen that a genocide is occurring in Gaza or that women and children were targeted by the IDF, UK government lawyers have claimed, as a high court case opened into the handling of arms exports controls to Israel.  They also suggested there was no obligation placed on the UK to make other states comply with international humanitarian law but only to ensure that no breach occured within its jurisdiction... “No evidence has been seen that Israel is deliberately targeting civilian women or children. There is also evidence of Israel making efforts to limit incidental harm to civilians.” Government lawyers also stressed that the international court of justice last year had not found there was a plausible risk of a genocide occurring."
But if aid to Palestinians is used by terrorists like Hamas, there's no problem, because all "resistance" is justified

Oversight needed after rally diverts ambulance in Toronto - "The emergency for Toronto may not just be that an ambulance with a child on board was blocked from getting to a hospital by a pro-Gaza protest, but that the demonstration is considered by the city to be a higher priority. An ambulance responding Saturday to a child in medical distress needed to use a detour to get around a pro-Palestinian protest at Yonge and Bloor Sts. and was forced to find another route to a hospital upon loading the stretcher-bound child.  “It was shocking,” said journalist and lawyer Caryma Sa’d, who said paramedic sources expressed their anger that there was difficultly responding to a call for a child facing a medical issue because of a blocked intersection. “I fully expected the ambulance would be able to get through the intersection, as I have seen happen at other demonstrations.”... this large crowd, which routinely blocks the intersection and other roadways since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks in Israel, was given courtesy over an ambulance transporting a child...  It’s mind-boggling that anti-Israel protesters continue to control Toronto’s streets. They are given too much leeway. They go where they want, intimidate who they want and sometimes use troubling language to rally their supporters.  Whether it be sparking a smoke grenade on the street or calling for escalation in support of Hamas’s war with Israel or now diverting the route of an ambulance trying to transport a child to a hospital, the police and city have lost control of the streets. No matter the excuse, police would not tolerate this from anybody else.   It it were a Christian pro-life protest or a trucker rally, none of the things the pro-Palestinian demonstrators do weekly would be tolerated. In every case, these protests do not have permits to clog roadways and are not asked to cover the cost of the policing like the Jewish community is asked to do for the Walk With Israel, which is also required to have provisions in place for emergency calls... With so many hospitals downtown, it has never made sense that protesters take precedence over patients in ambulances."
The people who endorsed freezing the bank accounts of the Freedom Convoy even though they said to keep lanes clear for emergency vehicles and disrupted the country (and indeed the world) for a shorter period of time don't care about this

Toronto Police direct a paramedic driving an ambulance to make a U-turn and take a detour, as Yonge Street is blocked north of the Bloor & Yonge intersection due to the demonstration. : r/Ontario_Sub - "The police, directed by left-wing municipal governments, see their job as protecting the demonstrators, not only from interruption or being pushed aside, but from anyone who might dare criticize them. Protesting is a sacred right - unless you try to protest against the Palestinians. Then you'll be arrested."

Caryma Sa'd - Lawyer + Political Satirist on X - "Protesters attempt to block my videographer from filming a woman giving a speech while the demonstration halts traffic on Bay Street.  They strike him with flagpoles and call him a “Zionist,” despite the fact he has only ever identified as Jewish-Canadian.  Ironically, the speaker was denouncing infringements on protesters’ rights while her comrades harassed my videographer for exercising his own civil liberties.  #cdnpoli #Toronto #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #ProtestMania"

Eyal Yakoby on X - "BREAKING: Thousands of Palestinians in Khan Yunis have taken to the streets, demanding that Hamas surrender. Why does the Western media refuse to report this?"

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib on X - "Thousands of courageous anti-Hamas Gazan protesters are screaming "Hamas get out, we want to live, damned are Hamas's leaders, children have a right to live"! Will anyone listen? Will pro-Palestine activists, NGOs, politicians, journalists & online personalities take notice?!💔🙏"
Roya Hakakian on X - "In the past few weeks, thousands of headlines have been written about the food crisis in Gaza and not a word about Gazans protesting against Hamas in the leading press. It's clearly far more important to these journalists to disgrace Israel than to let voiceless Gazans be heard."

Ihab Hassan on X - "Unbelievable: under constant bombardment and Israeli airstrikes, people in Gaza still found the courage to rise up and protest against Hamas.  Yet the protests were overwhelmingly ignored by major pro-Palestine voices, accounts, and media outlets that claim to support Palestinians. The bravest act of defiance—dismissed, simply because it didn’t fit their narrative.  What’s worse is that many didn’t stop at silence. They went further—smearing these courageous protesters, accusing them of betrayal, and lecturing them that Hamas is “resistance.”  You’d think the harshest backlash against anti-Hamas protesters in Gaza came from Palestinians loyal to Hamas—but it didn’t.   It came from abroad: pro-Hamas voices in the West and keyboard warriors, thousands of miles away, sitting comfortably as they preach “resistance” while Palestinians bleed.  Those who did this aren’t pro-Palestine—they’re pro-Hamas. They’re indifferent—because they’re not the ones paying the price, but Palestinians in Gaza."

Ademọ́lá. on X - "The people that are funding and supporting the genocide in Gaza are trying to tell us there’s a genocide in South Africa."
Wilfred Reilly on X - "Everything a leftist says is flipped reality. It's funny when you see it."
mark on X - "Gosh you'd think people who hate whites as much as these scholars do would be thrilled to see them go."

Thread by @GAZAWOOD1 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Yesterday’s post about the Gaza café with all the ice cream and Nutella got mixed reactions. Some were happy, others asked if it’s really Gaza and recent. Quick follow-up: life’s tough there, but cafés, ice cream, Nutella, Wi-Fi, and pricey laptops aren’t hard to find. 🧵
Here’s why there were doubts: people saw the area destroyed on Google Maps — that’s correct. Part of the area is destroyed, but the café reopened after renovations around March 2025. Here’s a video from after, with surrounding buildings still partially destroyed👇 In this video, you can see supplies being brought to the café — salad fridges and probably the ice cream itself. Part of the video shows destroyed buildings nearby, but the people look great… and the ice cream looks even better.🍨 Some people need to see renovations happening, or nothing counts. So, here you go — renovation phase video included.  And some people need to see the Nutella being delivered, with the same people and the same half-destroyed buildings in the background — or they just won’t believe it. And some people… well, they also need to see the Nutella after it’s been eaten — or nothing will ever convince them. Oh, and you can see activist Yatsentyk Elena visiting the lovely café just a few days ago — while also posting a video where she’s buying wood by weight from laughing children because “there’s no gas in Gaza.”
Bonus video, filmed a day ago — nothing too important. Anyway, I hope @CommunityNotes takes a quick look; it might save them a few discussions. And @Grok, here’s the thread I promised you. I do wonder why people are still surprised… haven’t you checked out @imshin's account?
🔍 Some stories aren’t what they seem. With your support, we can keep asking the right questions and uncover what’s real. ☕️ Help us continue — because truth matters. 👉"

Anita Anand debuts at foreign affairs by doing publicity for Hamas - "A day after being sworn in as foreign affairs minister, Anita Anand lashed out at Israel proving, yet again, that the Liberals are oddly concerned with keeping the support of those who sympathize with terrorists.   When asked by a reporter about Israel’s blockade of Gaza, Anand could have pointed out that Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group that governs the enclave, had been stealing aid and reselling it for profit. She could have pointed out that it was Hamas that refused to continue a ceasefire with Israel that would have ended the war. She could have pointed out that Hamas continues to hold hostages, or that it routinely inflates casualty numbers and obscures the number of fighters killed to leave the impression of higher civilian deaths. Finally, Anand could have pointed out that Hamas started the war with Israel by committing the October 7 massacre. She could have pointed out any number of those things, but instead, Anand chose to attack Israel. “We cannot allow the continued use of food as a political tool,” she started, conveniently ignoring Hamas’s routine theft of aid. The terrorist organization has profited at least US$500 million from stolen aid since October 7, funds it has used to bolster its ranks. For example, in October Hamas was caught on camera hijacking 47 aid trucks in a convoy of 100. After Israel started its blockade in March, however, Hamas started to struggle to pay its terrorist fighters, as funds from stealing aid began to dry up.  Chastising Israel for using food as a “political tool” while overlooking the fact humanitarian aid has been used to fund Hamas’s own war effort, demonstrates an appalling level of bad faith on the part of the foreign affairs minister. Anand then summed up the war as one entirely of Israel’s making, while simultaneously accepting Hamas’s dubious casualty count. “Over 50,000 people have died as a result of the aggression caused against the Palestinian and the Gazan people in Palestine,” she said... Repeating Hamas’s casualty numbers without at least distinguishing between Hamas fighters and actual civilians is repeating terrorist propaganda.  Anand also said “we need to continue to work towards a ceasefire,” but, again, it is not Israel that is standing in the way of an end to hostilities. After the end of a 42-day ceasefire in March, Israel had agreed to a U.S. proposal to move to a second phase that would have eventually led to the end of the war. It was Hamas that refused in part because it didn’t want to agree to be disarmed.  Anand’s blaming of Israel, while ignoring the actions of Hamas continues the regrettable pattern of her predecessor, Mélanie “have you seen the demographics of my riding” Joly. Under Joly’s “leadership,” Canada continued funding UNRWA, despite the fact some of its employees took part in October 7, an arms embargo was implemented against Israel, and Canada supported a UN motion calling for a ceasefire that placed no conditions on Hamas. Joly’s department condemned an Israeli attack on a school that never occurred, just as Joly herself condemned Israel for an explosion at a hospital that was committed by the Palestinian side.   Again and again, the Canadian government’s position could be summed up as: Israel has a right to defend itself, so long as it doesn’t use its army. The terrorists who started all this? Well, they are the victims of “aggression,” according to Anand."

Tasha Kheiriddin: Carney Liberals give Hamas a pass - "the collective amnesia is mind-boggling — and highly selective. We don’t blame Ukraine for fighting Russia after it invaded their country... Hamas knew its act of war would produce a severe counter-reaction, and that by not releasing the hostages, they would give Netanyahu every reason to continue fighting. That fighting would inevitably lead to mass casualties among the Palestinian population, which would produce a reaction in the rest of the world: the revival of antisemitism. And that was the true goal of October 7. Hamas is the proxy of the Iranian government, whose stated goal is the destruction of the state of Israel. But Iran knows they cannot achieve this goal alone. They need the rest of the world to turn on Israel... The number of reported cases of hatred targeting Jews is up 124 per cent in Canada since 2022, to seventeen cases a day. Where is our government’s outrage on that? Answer: nowhere. Instead, our new foreign minister, Anita Anand, on her first day in office, went on a tear about Israeli “aggression” with no mention of the hostages. And now, a week later, Canada issues its statement, condemning Israel for fighting an enemy that seeks its annihilation."

Canada's Israel statement garners Hamas praise, condemnation from Jewish, Israeli groups - "Deputy Conservative Party Leader Melissa Lantsman pointed out this was the second time Canada’s Israel policy earned praise from Palestinian terrorists — with senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad praising Canada’s support of a non-binding 2023 UN ceasefire resolution ... “If Israel were to cease targeting Hamas, hostages would remain chained in tunnels and Hamas would repeat the October 7 massacre — as it has explicitly vowed. If Hamas were to release the hostages and cease targeting Israel, this war will come to an end. That is why thousands of Gazans are in the streets today bravely protesting Hamas rule.” Hamas routinely hijacks Israeli aid coming into Gaza and diverts it to fund its terror campaign against Israel. As well, the Israeli government has furnished proof that important NGOs operating in Gaza, namely UNRWA, act as tools of the Hamas regime — using the agency as a de facto education ministry, and using UN infrastructure and resources to further its goals. Gerald Steinberg, founder of Jerusalem-based think tank NGO Monitor, said billions of dollars of taxpayer-funded aid from western nations helped build the massive terror network used to carry out the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks."
When you're being praised by a terrorist group your yourself acknowledge is one, you know you're doing the right thing

Michael Dickson on X - "Hamas just turned down an offer to end the war - they felt emboldened by support from the leaders of France, the UK and Canada. Their leaders - Macron, Starmer and Carney - helped prolong the war today and keep the hostages in captivity."

Meme - Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby: "Did I somehow miss the letter from France, Canada, and the UK condemning Turkey for cutting off water to a million Kurds just a few months ago?"
"Turkish strikes in Syria cut water to one million people"

Keffiyeh-clad kindergarten teachers create hostile school environment - "Problems with political activism and antisemitism seeping into Canadian schools came to the fore last fall after Toronto students were taken to a rally against environmental contamination on an Indigenous reserve that quickly descended into an anti-Israel hate-fest. But this was only the tip of the iceberg: our schools have become cesspools of Jew-hatred and woke identity politics, yet most of the time, the public never hears about it.    The elementary school in my urban Toronto neighbourhood, for example, is a microcosm of everything that’s wrong with our public-education system. On a tour of the facility last fall, every classroom I visited prominently displayed a Progress Pride flag. Many included other faddish political slogans like “Black Lives Matter” and “Every Child Matters.” Yet the closest thing I saw to a Canadian flag was a Maple Leaf embedded in Pride colours. In class, students spend an inordinate amount of time learning about the “bad white people” in residential schools and participating in mock protests, while completely ignoring all the things that make Canada great. Perhaps it should come as no surprise, then, that following October 7 — when thousands of Hamas terrorists invaded Israel, brutally raping and slaughtering 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking over 250 hostages — the school has become increasingly inhospitable to the neighbourhood’s Jewish community... a teacher added two keffiyeh — a symbol of violent resistance against Israeli Jews — to the Asian Heritage Month display last Friday, arguing that the Middle East is technically part of Asia. Islamic History Month, however, is observed in October, which calls the teacher’s motives for prominently featuring Palestinian jihadi symbols next to a Jewish cultural display into question. Either way, the effect was to politicize what was supposed to be an innocuous celebration of the school’s multiculturalism... Then, on Tuesday, the displays were abruptly moved to a remote corner of the library, where they cannot be seen by parents or other visitors. Books about Islam were also added to the exhibit, which can be seen from a photo. A number of Jewish families expressed concern to me, and in emails to the principal that I have viewed, that the decision may have been made because their cultural identity had become too controversial. The school’s principal refused to answer questions about why she made the call, and a Toronto District School Board (TDSB) spokesperson claimed that, “As both displays continued to grow, they were relocated to the library to better support student engagement.” Yet the new space is much smaller than the old one. This is not the first time something of this nature has happened. To commemorate the anniversary of the Quebec mosque shooting at the end of January, some classes attended a TDSB-sanctioned talk by children’s author and illustrator Hatem Aly, who’s listed as a participant in a boycott of Israeli cultural institutions. And the day after Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader who masterminded the October 7 massacre, was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, two kindergarten teachers showed up for work wearing keffiyehs... although the scarf is a traditional Bedouin garment, it has long been associated with violent Palestinian attacks against the British, who controlled the area after the First World War, and the region’s Jewish inhabitants. It was used to hide the identities of Palestinian guerrillas when they launched assaults against the Brits in the 1930s. It was popularized in the West in 1969 as the garment worn in a widely circulated photo of Leila Khaled, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist who was one of the hijackers of TWA Flight 840 from Rome to Tel Aviv. In more recent decades, it became associated with the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, a man who turned down numerous viable offers for peace and Palestinian statehood in favour of two bloody intefadehs. And nowadays, it is the fashion choice of the thugs who occupy university campuses, picket outside synagogues and in Jewish neighbourhoods, and fill western streets with calls to “globalize the intefadeh” and wipe out all the Jews “from the river to the sea.”... “Palestinians (Gaza, West Bank) are considered to be a part of West Asia, including the Levant region, and as such cultural attire and other artifacts from that part of the world were represented in the Asian Heritage Month display.” (Though one can imagine the backlash from displaying an Israeli flag or Israel Defence Forces logo for Asian Heritage Month, even though Israel is technically part of West Asia, as well.)  School administrators, it would seem, are more than happy to sweep issues like this under the rug and pretend as though the problems caused by their wholesale buy-in to the identity-politics craze and blurring of the lines between education and activism don’t exist. But in this case, it would appear as though the keffiyeh was used, not as a means of expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people, but of antagonizing the local Jewish community and politicizing Jewish cultural expression.  This incident was orchestrated by those at the school who apparently could not stand the thought of elementary kids celebrating their culture without injecting Middle Eastern politics into the fray. It was aided and abetted by a school administrator who was unwilling to stand up to her own staff, creating a culture of fear among faculty, who are genuinely afraid to speak out. And we can be quite sure that similar things are taking place at public schools right across the country.   Unfortunately, the school board is unlikely to do anything to address issues such as this. While the TDSB’s inquiry into the field trip to an anti-Israel rally acknowledged “the deleterious effect on young minds of hearing chants that troubled them,” it spent more time criticizing the media for its coverage of the incident and painting the “TDSB’s Indigenous communities” as the true victims.  It’s high time for the provincial government to intervene and make it clear that politics has no place in the classroom — full stop."
Only left wing approved "minorities" get to feel "safe"

Brendan O'Neill: Waving dead babies in the faces of Jews is blood libel - "It chills the blood to think of what we’ve witnessed in Britain these past 18 months. We’ve had people on the street hollering for the return of the Army of Muhammad to finish off the Jews.  Posters featuring the Jews kidnapped on 7 October have been savagely attacked. Everywhere I went I saw their remnants, scarred with the claw marks of the frenzied bigots who tore them down.  In a Jewish part of London, the faces of the three-year-old twins kidnapped by Hamas were daubed with Hitler moustaches. Denigrating Jewish infants? Branding them Nazis? You can call that anti-Zionism if you like — I call it fascism. There’s been a huge rise in antisemitic attacks. Things got so bad that students at the Jewish Free School in London were given permission to remove their blazers on their way to and from school. Kids hiding their Jewishness to guard against the invective and violence of the mob? England, what happened?  In the U.S., the reheated Jew hate is rampant on campus. Jewish students have been harassed. They’ve been told to go back to “f–king Berlin where you came from” — the dream of a Jew expulsion masquerading as opposition to Israel.   “Long live 7 October,” said a banner in New York City, as gross a statement as “Long live Kristallnacht” would have been in 1938. We’ve seen activists angrily searching for “Zionists” on the New York subway and on the streets — Jew hunts in all but name.  Jew hatred soars in Canada, too. As Casey Babb wrote last week, this is now “one of the most antisemitic countries in the Western world.” From October 7 2023 to the end of 2024, antisemitic incidents skyrocketed by an alarming 670 per cent...  The virus of Jewphobia reaches as far as Australia. A synagogue in Melbourne was burnt. A Jewish daycare center in Sydney was torched. Chants of “F–k the Jews” were heard at the Sydney Opera House just day after Hamas’s pogrom.  A car in a Jewish neighbourhood in Sydney was daubed with “F–k Israel” on one side and “F–k the Jews” on the other.   Boom. There it was, in black and white: the interchangeable nature of anti-Zionism and antisemitism. Brute proof that today’s voguish and demented hatred for the Jewish nation is really a hatred for the Jewish people.  Indeed, it is striking that all the things people once said about the Jews, they now say about the Jewish homeland.  Israel is uniquely murderous, the activist class insists. It loves to murder children. It bloodlets in Gaza. It controls our weak governments here in the West.  Every old calumny uttered about the Jews — they’re child-killers, blood-spillers, the sneaky puppet masters of earthly affairs — has been revived on the altar of Israelophobia. Those who still say “Hating Israel is not the same as hating Jews” deserve nothing but mockery at this point... Having educated the new generation to hate the West, to be skeptical of the very idea of civilization, we have no right to be surprised that many have fallen under the spell of barbarism."
Jews who do not actively and vigorously identify as anti-Zionist must be assumed to be Zionist, and it's good to attack them. But good luck if you similarly tar Muslims or other "minorities" with collective responsibility. Meanwhile the people who claim to be about "empathy" and "kindness" cheer them on

All charges over convoy who shouted 'rape Jewish daughters' are dropped - "All men arrested for allegedly being part of a convoy of cars that drove through London shouting hate towards Jews on a loudspeaker have had charges dropped.  The Crown Prosecution Service said there was not enough evidence to prosecute any of the four men detained.  Footage of the incident on Finchley Road in north London in March last year went viral, with even then prime minister Boris Johnson condemning the scenes.  The Metropolitan Police announced they had identified the vehicle and four men were arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated public order offences and were released on bail.  But the CPS took the decision not to prosecute two of the men in July with a further decision now made not to prosecute the remaining two suspects.  The Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) has condemned the decision to drop charges... The videos showed a convoy of cars covered with Palestinian flags driving through north London, with passengers heard to shout offensive language and threats including ‘F*** the Jews, rape their daughters’... the group’s analysis of Home Office statistics showed that an average of more than five hate crimes are directed at Jews every single day in England and Wales.  He also said that Jews were more than five times likelier to be targets of hate crimes than any other faith group."

Recovery from the lost decade means ditching the Impact Assessment Act

Recovery from the lost decade means ditching the Impact Assessment Act

It’s hard to get major projects built in a country that requires evaluations of systemic racism, local psychosocial conditions and confidential Indigenous spiritual knowledge to be considered at length before any approval is issued. But that’s the current scheme for building big projects that fall under federal jurisdiction and are thus subject to the Impact Assessment Act — and that’s exactly why any plan for turning around the country’s lost decade requires its repeal.

The Impact Assessment Act (IAA), passed by the Liberals with great pride in 2019, requires extensive sociological surveys — taking into account demographics, women, Indigenous and otherwise non-white racial identity — to be conducted alongside environmental assessments prior to any federal project receiving approval.

Impact assessments, according to the law, must take into account “social or economic conditions,” positive or negative, that are likely to arise from the project; confidential Indigenous knowledge, as well as Indigenous cultural concerns; “community knowledge”; and the “intersection of sex and gender with other identity factors.”

The result: delays, more work for consultants and, ultimately, fewer shovels in the ground. From 2019, when the law came into force, to 2023, only one of 25 total projects designated by the act for federal assessments received approval (and this was, in the later stages, delegated to the B.C. government’s process).

At the same time, investment has dwindled: Natural Resource Canada’s project inventory was worth $711 billion in 2015, but in 2023, that dropped to $572 billion. Had investment kept pace with population increases, it would have reached $985 billion by now, according to a Macdonald-Laurier Institute analysis released Monday.

Take the Indigenous-owned Cedar LNG terminal, which will ship Canadian energy out of Kitimat, B.C. Approved in 2023 by then-environment minister Steven Guilbeault, it had to undergo a full socioeconomic review before a green light could be given. In its decision letter, the agency cautioned that the project’s positive impacts might be “experienced disproportionately by males and non-Indigenous people,” and warned that family cohesion and the health of Indigenous women could suffer with “an influx of a majority male workforce.”

It went on to complain that the wages paid out from the project, though beneficial, “may not automatically benefit Indigenous women, subgroups, recent immigrants and racialized communities.” Ultimately, the project was required, as a condition of approval, to create a gender and diversity plan based on Statistics Canada labour data, echoing the Employment Equity Act and its requirement for government to hire on the basis of identity.

And on it goes. The IAA’s gender component has made it commonplace for companies to consider, in the application process, the potential for human trafficking and domestic violence, the idea being that with a largely male workforce comes a bigger market for prostitution and a greater potential for abuse. This was the case with Cedar LNG, as well as the proposedUpper Beaver gold mine near Ontario’s Kirkland Lake.

Even when human trafficking isn’t an explicit consideration, gender remains a tricky obstacle. For the proposed Eskay Creek gold and silver mine in northern British Columbia, the company in charge had to consider making a “broader commitment to improving equality and not perpetuating norms and structures that have contributed to inequality,” and include details about company diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) training. Similar issues were highlighted in the application for a gold and copper mine in northern Quebec, whose proponents were urged to develop “measures to ensure … diversity in senior positions.”

The IAA’s vast socioeconomic requirements range far beyond sex, however. In the course of assessing the Wasamac gold mine planned halfway between Timmins, Ont., and Val-d’Or, Que., which had been in the assessment process in 2020, the company was asked in 2021 to conduct a human health assessment of the community and its “diverse subgroups,” taking into account “their different access to resources, opportunities and services within the community.” That was on top of the many other environmental assessments it was required to produce.

In addition, the company was to prepare a social assessment, which was to cover community cohesion, perceptions of racism, the “psychosocial environment,” local food security and a wide range of information about Indigenous traditions in the area. Ultimately, the requested information wasn’t provided to the government in time, and thus the project was terminated at the end of 2024.

Along with gold mines, the intensive requirements of the IAA have also killed pipelines, hence the “no more pipelines law” moniker it’s received from Conservatives.

In 2023, the proposed 780-kilometre Gazoduq pipeline was proposed to connect TC Energy’s northeastern Ontario pipeline to a proposed liquefaction and export terminal on Quebec’s Saguenay River. Guilbeault killed the terminal project in 2022, following Quebec’s refusal to approve it in 2021. The pipeline project, meanwhile, died in 2023: the company proposing to build it had been given a 183-page checklist of environmental, social and economic assessments to perform, and didn’t provide them in time.

The checklist’s demands included: human health assessments covering the physical, mental, sexual and spiritual health of local communities and each Indigenous group in the area, broken down by demographic group; social assessments covering crime rates and community social networks; detailed descriptions and maps of the communities involved, including fire stations, schools, daycares, housing, recreation areas, etc.; economic assessments covering local job statistics, wages, training programs, Indigenous-specific training programs and local businesses; and Indigenous assessments covering the above factors, as well as Indigenous laws, land use, rights issues, traditional social structures and even language.

In assembling these reports, the company had to show how it used “Indigenous knowledge” in its work, as well as the viewpoints of “diverse subgroups.” Combined with the extensive environmental reporting that was also required, the company was pretty much being asked to write an encyclopedia series on the areas its pipeline would cross.

From there, the would-be Gazoduq pipeline builders were asked to describe, in detail, the potential effects, positive or negative, of their project on the many dimensions of society they were ordered to study. These analyses had to be intersectional, looking into the different impacts that could be felt by men and women, young and old.

The company was required to “identify whether social divisions might be intensified as a result of the project,” “evaluate potential social effects associated with the increase in disposable income,” “describe any anticipated effects on language” and even “identify and consider the barriers that impede taking advantage of the positive effects on social conditions and how they are accentuated across diverse subgroups.” Further, they were required to predict future changes to local job markets and wages, and even had to provide their plans to use gender-neutral signage and other DEI efforts.

Finally, all planned mitigation measures to the above had to be plotted out, again with special consideration for identity. Considering how much territory that pipeline had to cross, how much detailed multi-year social analysis it was expected to produce for the government and how little interest it was being shown by the government authorities who already killed plans for an accompanying export terminal, it’s no wonder it was abandoned.

The feds have defended the legislation as necessary and socially responsible, but what they really seem to be doing is downloading government functions — and an increasingly aggressive government social agenda — onto private players. Health care, education and crime are all responsibilities of government. As for private corporations, it’s essential that groundwater, forest health and even archaeological surveys are conducted prior to construction. But psychosocial health and staff diversity? That should be up to the company to decide.

Comically, even foreign aid projects — including those that are not run by government, but are federally funded — fall under the scope of the IAA. Global Affairs Canada is currently deciding whether a program for vulnerable people in Afghanistan should warrant a full assessment. The Business Development Bank of Canada is awaiting the same determination for a warehouse in Texas. The Canadian Armed Forces even had to launch a preliminary environmental review to install two diesel storage tanks at a peacekeeper base in Ukraine (this project was terminated before it could begin). Nearly 100 projects have gone through this process.

And if you think that’s ridiculous, federal lands fall under the law, too, even when it comes to simple infrastructure upgrades. Preliminary environmental assessments had to be conducted to replace fire-destroyed washrooms in Cape Breton Highlands National Park, to install a single “No Anchor” sign in a no-anchor zone of the Fraser River and to replace the old roofs at B.C.’s Cape Beale light station out of concern for the local bats (though no bats have been known to live there). Many more very minor touch-up projects can be found in the federal catalogue.

There are very few things — provincial matters, really — that the Impact Assessment Act doesn’t touch. And even there, it’s been a fight to get the feds to keep their red-tape trigger-happy hands away: Alberta had to take the matter all the way up to the Supreme Court to put constitutionally respectful boundaries on the IAA, and even that only half worked, because the feds don’t want to comply with the court direction (Alberta is therefore headed back to court).

It wasn’t always this way. The IAA’s predecessor, the Harper-era Canadian Environmental Assessment Act of 2012, didn’t require as many identity and cultural considerations. That’s why, for example, the 2022 approval of a new palladium mine near Marathon, Ont., which fell under the old law because it was initiated prior to the IAA taking effect, didn’t come with as many onerous socioeconomic requirements for the project to follow.

During the mine’s assessment, housing and infrastructure concerns had been raised by a local First Nation whose on-reserve housing was at capacity. The company proposing the project promised a housing complex in the nearby town to accommodate them. This, said the local First Nation, was systemic racism because its people, who are in need of homes, wouldn’t want to move to the company-built complex in town.

Also discussed was the local First Nation’s philosophy on education, capacity for schooling and history of residential schools, even though education was outside the mining company’s responsibility. Nevertheless, it was concluded by government staffers that the First Nation was a victim of systemic racism because the local town’s schools — a responsibility of the province — received more funding than the on-reserve schools — a responsibility of the feds.

Ultimately, the mine was approved by Guilbeault with conditions to mitigate impacts on traditional food sources. Diversity plans, extraneous housing and education projects were left out, even though concerns in those areas were raised. That was the right call: it’s up to the feds and First Nations to take care of reserve amenities, not the private sector and the province. Under today’s law, these requirements would have likely been much more expansive.

Overall, the Impact Assessment Act is a handout to private consulting firms that benefit from a dragged out, regulatorily burdensome procedure that prevents actual work from getting done. Unfortunately for anyone who wants anything built in this country, it’s been used as a policy speculum, widening, from a few short lines of law, its purpose from sober second thought to socioeconomic panacea.

If we want to leave the lost decade behind, we have to leave the Impact Assessment Act with it.

Clearly, even more regulation is needed. The fact that greedy companies can't do the decent thing is proof that capitalism has failed and the government needs to take over.

Links - 13th June 2025 (1 - Trans Mania)

Meme - "LABOUR WINNING WOMEN'S VOTES
Sir Keir Starmer, Labour leader. "[The phrase 'only women have a cervix'] is something that shouldn't be said. It is not right"
"It is factually inaccurate to say only women have cervices" Emily Thornberry MP
Alex Sobel MP. Q: Q: Do you agree that there should be sex-segregated facilities for women in hospitals, schools, refuges and prisons? A: No.
Labour MP Lisa Nadia. Q: Should child rapist Christopher Worton be housed in a women's jail now he identifies as a woman?
A: I think trans women are women and they should be accommodated in a prison of their choosing
David Lammy MP. "[Those who want to deny males access to women's spaces] are dinosaurs who want to hoard rights"
Nadia Whittome MP. "The Labour Party should  educate those who are ignorant rather than ideological. And if they don't respond to education, unrepentant transphobes should be expelled""

Meme - J.K. Rowling: "Does anyone have a spare Irony-meter? Mine just blew up."
Dawn Butler: "Currently, anyone can call themselves a nurse. There's been some very worrying cases of people impersonating nurses. We must stop it. My Bill will legally protect the title "nurse", ensuring only Registered Nurses can use it. #ProtectNurse My column"
"Dangerous people are pretending to be nurses - I have a plan to stop it"

Steve Delaney 🇬🇧 on X - "Remember, if you didn’t want weird Pervy men watching your eight year old daughter getting changed then you were a “Dinosaur” according to the brilliant mind of professional race baiter @DavidLammy"

Meme - India Willoughby @IndiaWilloughby: "No we don't all agree on the fact we are not "biological women" Femi. I am absolutely a biological woman. As is Katy Montgomery and everyone else who has medically transitioned. Hormones change your biological sex. Bones, body chemisty etc. Having a baby or period is not a pre-requisite. Hormones have infinitely more influence than chromos. That's not me being stubborn, or obtuse - it's true. There is NO definition of "biological woman" because every woman (trans or not) is different."
Trans people are experts on their bodies and identities!

UN study reveals transgender athletes have won nearly 900 medals in women's competitions - "The U.N. says transgender athletes competing in women's athletic events have won nearly 900 medals over their competitors... The 20-page document examined “violence against women and girls in sports” and claims more than 600 biologically female athletes have lost at least 890 medals to transgender competitors. These defeats occurred in over 400 competitions in 29 sports, though authors did not specify specific events, levels of competition or time periods.  Authors of the U.N. study said the creation of “mixed sex” competitions has disadvantaged biologically female athletes who take on transgender opponents. “Male athletes have specific attributes considered advantageous in certain sports, such as strength and testosterone levels which are higher than the average range for females even before puberty, thereby resulting in the loss of fair opportunity,” the study reads. “To avoid the loss of a fair opportunity, males must not compete in the female categories of sport.”  Biologically female athletes, the study reads, are often tested by their sport’s governing bodies to ensure they are not using performance-enhancing drugs, such as testosterone. Biologically male athletes, however, are only subject to “arbitrary and asymmetrical” testosterone requirements, which the study says creates an imbalanced playing field compared to biologically female competitors."

Colin Wright on X - "Today, @amazeorg removed a video about puberty blockers from their YouTube channel when @BillAckman brought attention to it. It appears they have also removed the video below about p0rnography from their channel. Care to explain these decisions, AMAZE?"
Bill Ackman on X - "Consider that http://Amaze.org has taken down their cartoon videos that I and others have been posting over the last 24 hours.   What does that say about these cartoons that http://Amaze.org has inserted into the curricula of thousands of elementary schools around the country?  How is it ok to show these cartoons to eleven-year-old kids and then immediately take them down when they are shared with a broad audience of adults on @X ?"

Andy Ngo on X - "You'd think there'd be more media coverage about an international trans terror cult linked to six homicides across the United States."

The Waterloo math genius killed after joining radical cult - "Felix “Ophelia” Bauckholt knew how to play a human, but she excelled as a zombie... On Jan. 20, Bauckholt was pulled over by border agents on Interstate 91 in Vermont. Prosecutors allege her companion, Teresa Youngblut, pulled out a gun and began firing at the agents. FBI documents say Bauckholt pulled out her own gun and was shot and killed, along with border agent David “Chris” Maland. In the ensuing days, connections between Bauckholt and a cultlike group known as the “Zizians” emerged, a collection of highly educated vegan and transgender members, mostly in their 20s and 30s, with connections to five other homicides across the United States. The group appears to share bonds over topics like radical veganism, gender identity and artificial intelligence, though much is still being learned about their connections, objectives and leader, Jack LaSota, or “Ziz,” who was arrested on Sunday along with two other alleged members... Lorne Dawson, a sociology professor emeritus at the University of Waterloo, spent 20 years studying new religious movements, wrestling with why some eventually turn violent. When the Canadian government asked him to use that expertise on terrorism, he spent the next 20 years focusing on the process of radicalization.  He retired about two years ago but, after reading about Bauckholt, he decided to start looking into what he calls a “textbook” case.  “The vast majority of people who get involved in new religious groups, and to some degree terrorist groups, are generally kind and empathetic. And because they have that background, they really feel upset about injustices in this world,” Dawson said.  “So, being an empathetic, generous person actually draws you in more, which leads to a belief that you need to do something more.”"
Time to arrest more people from the "far right" to keep the public safe

Meme - Globe Eye News @GlobeEyeNews: "BREAKING: Donald Trump signs executive order to transfer transgender women to men's prisons."
Cloudy (estrogen angel): "this effectively makes prison a death sentence for trans women btw."
Holly Grayle @HollyGrayle: "Gay men, old men, young men, physically small men, men who were former law enforcement, intellectually disabled men, men who committed crimes against children, and men who pretend to be women are all examples of 'vulnerable' men in male prison estate. Only ONE of these categories of men were housed in the female estate, in breach of the Mandela Principles.   Risks posed to men by other men are not something that involves women.   Women are not human shields for men whose fetishes make them vulnerable to other men. And I'm sick of having to repeatedly point this out."

Progressive Misogyny on X - "DEI says we have to treat everyone equally. Safeguarding says we can't treat everyone equally. DEI says we should always ignore risk factors. Safeguarding says we should never ignore risk factors. DEI is anti-safeguarding."
Fury as Scotland's care watchdog says girls in care should share rooms with boys who self-ID as female - "In the latest development of Scotland’s single-sex scandal, the Care Inspectorate says looked-after transgender children ‘should not be made to use the toilet or bedroom of their sex assigned at birth’.   The edict adds that trans youngsters should be able to ‘share a room with other young people who share their gender identity’.   Astonishingly, it also states there is ‘no law in Scotland’ that protects single-sex spaces... According to the Cass Review published last year, there is a high presentation of children who have had adverse childhood experiences and those who are ‘looked after’ among the transgender population."

Wide Awake Media on X - ""[J.K. Rowling] believes... that if you're born a man, you can't ever be a woman." Labour MP Carolyn Harris: "Biologically, she's correct, but... when you introduce this level of hate into a debate, rationality goes out of the window." Which do you find more irrational? The statement of biological facts, or the belief that males can become females?"
Biology is Hate

Why are celeb children more likely to be trans? Experts explain phenomenon that has touched the Affleck and Musk families - "celebrity children may be more likely to be trans for attention.  Dr Persaud said that among children who live in the shadows of their parents, there may be a factor at play where they crave to be noticed.  'For those who are not the child of celebrities, they know that to come out as transgender you are going to get a lot of attention,' he said.  'It may be that there are a group of people not choosing the trans life course who otherwise would because they don't want the attention.  'But if you are the child of parents who seek attention, and you have attention-seeking genes, and you have a very famous father and mother meaning there is a distinct challenge in how to get attention, then there may be something about this drive for attention and coming out as transgender.' Dr Jonathan Alpert, a psychotherapist in New York City who works with transgender patients, said rather than seeking attention, it could be about establishing their own identity — although he didn't think this was a strong theory... Helen Joyce, a mathematician and former journalist at The Economist who researches transgender issues — and is a spokesperson for UK charity Sex Matters — added that it may be linked to trends in society.  She said: 'Another part of this is that it is just fashionable. It's the latest status symbol to be the parent of a transgender child."

Higher Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences in Transgender Than in Cisgender Individuals: Results from a Single-Center Observational Study - "Adverse childhood experiences (ACE) have been shown to have a tremendous negative impact on health outcomes later in life. This study presents data on the prevalence of ACEs, psychological distress, and trauma-related symptoms in transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) people compared to cisgender people. TGD adults (n = 35) and a matched sample of nonpsychiatric hospital patients (n = 35) were surveyed between September 2018 and March 2019. Participants completed the Maltreatment and Abuse Chronology of Exposure Scale to assess ACEs, as well as the Brief Symptom Inventory and the Essener Trauma Inventory to assess psychological distress and trauma-related symptoms. TGD patients reported a higher number of ACEs than cisgender patients (0.7 vs. 2.4; p < 0.001; d = 0.94). A total of 28.6% of TGD vs. 5.7% cisgender patients reported four or more ACEs (p < 0.001). The most common forms of ACEs were parental abuse (54.3%) and peer abuse (54.3%). No significantly increased prevalence of sexual abuse was found (p > 0.05). TGD patients also reported a higher prevalence of depression (48.4% vs. 5.7%, p < 0.001), posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms (59.4% vs. 13.8%, p < 0.001), and anxiety (58.1% vs. 28.6%, p = 0.016). Health care providers should be aware of and assess ACEs, especially in vulnerable groups such as TGD people, and create a safe place through open-minded, affirming care."
The cope is that trans people face transphobic abuse - even before coming out as trans

Jennifer Sey on X - "Right now, in California, Oregon and Connecticut, the number one ranked high jumpers in the girl’s division are boys. Weird how it never happens and yet here we are."

Teen Won't Change Name To Make Trans Classmate Comfortable: AITA - "“I have a pretty common name, and my name is the same as what his dead name was.”  “He constantly complains and makes exaggerated cringing noises when people say my name in front of him.”"
Cis comfort is more important than trans lives!

Ontario must pay for patient's penis-sparing vaginoplasty, court rules - "Ontario’s top court has ruled the province must cover the cost of a penile-sparing vaginoplasty for a transgender resident who does not identify as exclusively female or male and who wishes to have both genitalia...    The latest ruling is the third unanimous decision in favour of the patient, identified as K.S. in court records...   In a letter accompanying the request, her doctor said that because K.S. is “not completely on the ‘feminine’ end of the spectrum” it was important for her to have a vagina while maintaining her penis, adding that the Crane Center for Transgender Surgery in Austin, Tx.,”has an excellent reputation” for gender-affirming surgery, “and especially with these more complicated procedures.”"

Meme - J.K. Rowling: @jk_rowling: "Preventing women and girls from accessing their bathrooms will totally dispel the idea that your movement contains a lot of very angry, potentially unbalanced men who're currently displaying classic symptoms of narcissistic rage."
Toxic Ivy (she/her) @ivyweber95.bsky.social: "The UK needs allies to start banning GC thugs from bathrooms. Technically political opinion is protected, but given what that lot are like, banning them is a proportionate response to ensure bathrooms are safe to use. A bucket and private yard are enough for them to shit like the animals they are."

J.K. Rowling on X - "Funny, isn’t it, how women who’ve been raped or beaten are accused of ‘weaponising’ their trauma when they ask for male-free spaces, but trans-identified men who claim using the Gents has a higher mortality rate than armed combat are met with credulity and simpering concern."
Jason Sheffey on X - "Another excellent point. If I may add to it: Why do trans identified men think that using the gents loo would be inherently more dangerous for them than just sitting in a public cafe or park? Is it because they fear that terrible things are more likely to happen to vulnerable, unsuspecting  individuals behind closed doors with no cameras?   Hmm…yet we are supposed to let the foxes into the hen house with no trepidations.   Just another logical inconsistency draped in moral superiority."

Meme - Queen Chimerazilia: "Rowling hasn't produced a successful thing since the HP Books."
Billy Bragg @Serena_Partrick: "She's only founded charities, created & funded a r*pe crisis centre, written a best selling children's book which is getting a film adaptation, & sold a mere 20 million copies of her Strike books, in 50 different countries, spawning a prime time TV series too.  What a loser."

Meme - Lee Patriot Hood @Mofoman360: "Do You Think Daniel Radcliffe stabbed JK Rowling in the back   Yes or No?"
Sam (he/him) @mushycrouton: "No. Without his performance as the star of the Harry Potter films, Rowling would be a moderate success with a failed film franchise to her name.   She should be more grateful to Radcliffe for what he did for her career. I think it’s really suspicious that this woman who isn’t related to Daniel Radcliffe in any way would want to spend so much time around him as a child 🚩"
Trans Mania melts your brain

What is a Therian? And why do children identify as animals? (aka "My daughter identifies as an animal. This is what I want you to know.'") - ""I wondered if it was just a passing fad — something she had seen on social media and connected with," she told Mamamia.  But it was more than that. Emma's daughter explained to her mum that she's a Therian — and she's just one of a growing number of children identifying this way... "Furries don't identify as an animal, they are people who dress up like animals with human characteristics," a Therian member of the Mamamia community commented.  "Therians identify as an animal/s spiritually and/or mentally."... There seems to have been an increase in Therianthropy (or perhaps simply an increased awareness), particularly on social media and in schools — meaning more parents like Emma are navigating this identity expression with their children. Which, according to Carly Dober, Director, Australian Association of Psychologists, is totally normal.  "Childhood is all about identity formation," the psychologist told Mamamia. "Children might be curious when they come across the term 'Therian' about what it means, and might try this identity on for size.  "The internet allows for subcultures to be shared more widely, and this in part could influence the uptake in Therian lifestyle," Dober explained. "Children might also be exposed to other children who identify as Therians which can influence them to try this lifestyle out."...  as Dober explained, identifying as a Therian is not a sign of a 'problem'.  "Generally speaking, exploring identifying as a Therian is healthy and normal," she said. "Children can have a rich, well-adjusted and socially expansive life as a Therian."  Emma does what she can to support her daughter, such as helping her source materials for animal masks... for many children, identifying as a Therian might represent a way to cope with mental, social and other challenges...  while identifying as a Therian isn't inherently harmful, some psychologists and child development experts caution that it can become concerning if it leads to social isolation, obsessive behaviour, or dissociation from reality...   "Help your child to develop critical thinking skills by discussing the differences between imagination, belief and reality," Dober said. "Encourage them to question and explore their thoughts and feelings."
If you don't offer them free tail surgeries, you are therianphobic
What a therianphobic article. Therian kids know who they are

Shared post - Stevenson, Wa. city council member exposes self for Trantifa activism - "Lucy Lauser, a radical trantifa activist on the Stevenson, Wash. city council, was investigated for an alleged indecent exposure incident on the street near a pre-school on March 31, 2025. A search of his online history also reveals a disturbing history of graphic sexual images and video. Watch the exclusive police body camera footage."

Andy Ngo on X - "Colorado state Sen. Faith Winter (D) says she has space in her home to harbor children who have run away from their families due to trans and queer ideology. Last year, the lawmaker was determined to violate ethics policy for being drunk at a meeting."

NETHERLANDS: Trans-Identified Male Inmate in Women's Prison Brutally Assaults Female Employee - "A trans-identified male incarcerated in a women’s prison in the Netherlands set fire to his cell before brutally beating a female prison guard. The victim has been described as having sustained “serious” injuries and has been hospitalized. The incident, which took place at Ter Peel prison for women, was first reported by De Telegraaf, and the outlet confirmed the assault with the Dutch Prison and Probation Service (DJI)... The prison guard was reportedly taken away from the scene via ambulance, and prison officials confirmed that her “teeth were knocked out of her mouth.”... Authorities in the Netherlands have been secretive about the transfer of trans-identified male convicts into women’s prisons, often protecting their identities... In 2023, news reports surfaced which described how a Chilean national convicted of committing a brutal murder was placed in a women’s prison even in advance of his final hearings. “Daniela D” had stabbed a man 214 times, targeting his eyes, ears, and genitals.  Daniela D. had been residing illegally in the Netherlands since February 2022, where he was involved in the sex industry. The court heard that he came from a broken home and that he had been “bullied” as a youth by peers who did not accept his gender identity.  Despite having not undergone any form of genital surgery, Daniela was detained in Ter Peel women’s prison."

Why the arguments against trans, intersex and DSD athletes are based on prejudice and ignorance - "Sport isn’t fair. Never has been. Genetics isn’t fair. Basketball players are blessed with height. Gymnasts are blessed with compact, flexible bodies. Fulham players are blessed with a preternatural ability to give the ball away on the halfway line. Economics isn’t fair. Geography isn’t fair. Privilege isn’t fair. What we call the level playing field is in fact a cosy myth, a homespun feel-good tale that hoodwinks us into chasing our dreams.  But let’s follow this argument all the way through. Let’s say the floodgates do open. Let’s say transgender athletes pour into women’s sport, and let’s say, despite the flimsy and poorly-understood relationship between testosterone and elite performance, they dominate everything they touch. They sweep up Grand Slam tennis titles and cycling world championships. They monopolise the Olympics. They fill our football and cricket and netball teams. Why would that be bad? Really? Imagine the power of a trans child or teenager seeing a trans athlete on the top step of the Olympic podium. In a way, it would be inspiring."
Sports is never fair, so let's make it more unfair. By this logic we should allow doping
It's inspiring to see women pushed out of women's sports

Meme - "r/soccer
Scotland bans transgender footballers in women's game"
transtifa (Mod): "Once again I would like to remind everyone that trans women are women and we are not "biological males" and referring to us in that manner is transphobic and will result in a ban. Thanks.
Edit: Okay we're locking it now."
Once again, biology is transphobic. We're going to get a lot of cope about "advanced biology", of coure

Meme - Femi @Femi_Sorry: "Biological sex isn't binary. It's bimodal.  i.e. If you plotted physical criteria on a graph, there would be two clear peaks, but intersex people, infertile people, and whole list of hormonal issues, mean it's a spectrum.  So when you MY approach ignores the facts..."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: "Zachary Elliott, the person who made the image in this post, has said in response: "this screenshot is taken from my Paradox Institute video where I debunk the absurd idea that sex is bimodal"."

Meme - "Trans people: "We will not be erased!"
Also trans people: "Let's render ourselves incapable of reproduction, then attempt suicide at a 41% rate.""

Texas bill would make identifying as transgender a state jail felony - "A Texas state bill could charge transgender people with “gender identity fraud,” making it illegal to identify as trans on official documents and potentially leading to jail time.   The bill, which was filed last week by Republican state Rep. Tom Oliverson, would make it a state jail felony if a person “knowingly makes a false or misleading verbal or written statement” by identifying their sex assigned at birth incorrectly to a governmental entity or to their employer."
The usual fake news and misinformation from the media. Or maybe the new TRA orthodoxy is that "sex assigned at birth" can be changed.
Weird, we keep being told that sex and gender are different and only ignorant people don't know that.

Meme - zoestorm: "brb, going to write "To the cutest" on a golden apple and toss it into a room full of trans girls. Will report results.
Okay I'm back. Pure chaos. Every single one of them kept insisting she's not the cutest and the others deserve the apple more than she does. They looked like they were about to fight. Gonna check on them again, hold on.
So, um. Good thing is, they're not fighting. They're definitely not fighting. Bad thing is, that room will need to be cleaned. Very thoroughly."
There's no narcissism like trans narcissism. And of course this doesn't prove that they are sex crazed or that it's a fetish

Shared post - Owner of famous Florida drag clubs and his boyfriend charged over child s—x crimes - "  The owner and his boyfriend of two pillar drag and queer clubs in Tampa and Orlando, "Southern Nights," were indicted on federal child s—x crime charges.  Richard "Rick" Kowalczyk and Eric Patrick, who is a teacher, are accused of conspiring to s—xually abuse a child and transmitting child s—x abuse material (CSAM). They were given bail ($400k) after being arrested on Jan. 2, 2024, and have since deleted all their social media and photos online.  The couple recently gained custody of a baby, and the court has shockingly allowed them to continue contact with that child.  According to court documents, investigators discovered communications where Mr. Kowalczyk and another man shared graphic content of child s—x abuse involving boys as young as seven.  Mr. Kowalczyk and his boyfriend, Mr. Patrick, a teacher, had communications detailing how to find and gr oom underage victims on Grindr, according to court documents.  They've had time to delete their photos online before news reporting broke about their arrest. I found what images remain of Florida LGBTQ+ community star Mr. Kowalczyk. I was unable to find any photos of his boyfriend and co-defendant.  Liberals and queer activists reacting online to the news of the charges say the story will be used by the right to "dehumanize" and attack queer and leftist communities."
Grooming is a transphobic right wing myth

Thread by @benryanwriter on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Almost nothing about this pod was scientific. Almost all of it was political, namely taking a political stance against Republican efforts to restrict access to gender-transition treatment, in particular for minors, but in some cases also for adults.  At the end of the podcast, they made a series of non-evidence based claims. And they also did not distinguish between pediatric and adult gender-transition treatment and how the ethical considerations and evidence base differ between them.  They falsely claimed that doctors in this field simply “follow the evidence”; because if they did, those doctors would know that evidence-based medicine experts have widely concluded that for minors in particular, gender-transition treatment is not evidence-based and instead is grounded in weak and uncertain research findings.  Most notably, no research has backed the claim that this treatment lowers suicide deaths. Only one study has sought to determine whether these treatments are life saving for youths and it found that they are not.
@scifri turned off replies when this post was inundated with people saying the pod is not scientific. The pod then falsely claimed they were muting the replies because of hate. I do not see hate in the comments. I see people arguing about science.
Here are some of the replies that @scifri hid from the post, which I gather are the reason they turned off replies:"