Stonewall states that “misgendering” isn’t a crime

I can definitely understand this, in some cases.

When the Police have, historically, not had to pay attention to how they connect with deaf people, people with learning disabilities etc. then they'd learn little from previous or current practices. I'd fully endorse them buying in training from a lobby group that represents Deaf charities or LD charities/organisations.

'pinafore' is literally the two English words 'pin' and 'afore' - an apron whose bib you pin to your front.

'pinniped' comes from the Latin words pinna 'fin' and pes, pedis 'foot'.

Thanks, but I was joking about pinafores.

Fascinating to hear about the kinship, though. I did not know that.

I’m very interested in why and how Stonewall and other extremists have been allowed to train government servants like the police and teachers. If you want to train a junior chef, you get a senior chef to do it. If you want to train a junior mechanic or lawyer you use a senior mechanic or lawyer. Why do we train junior police with a political lobby group?

That is SO satisfying!

I can't think what else it could be, TBH.

Extirpating the influence of people already in position will take decades.

There are minor victories and the publicity is heartening but Denton's strategy has worked. They're in place everywhere, influencing and writing policy with negligible oversight and almost no mechanism for revising, far less tearing it up (see GRA 2004).

People who are padding their CVs with Stonewall accolades will continue because social pressure to be an ally works.

Does anyone thing the command and control of NHS is going to reverse any time soon? Especially as there's a culture that lauds bullying combined with a public face as angelic?

No. I can give you the etymology if you've time to waste...

One thing I didn't know until today is that the closest relatives of the pinnipeds (walrus, sea lions, fur seals, true seals) are the musteloids, which include weasels and ferrets.

Neat, eh?

Lucky you! It is exactly that - a privilege - to see animals behaving naturally in their habitat.

I'm taking that to mean that seals' flippers are named after pinafores.

Sorry crap at links. I know I must do better, just not good at technological stuff. And most of this info is on SM or in much smaller news outlets.
It is not in the big, national newspapers here, and I don’t expect it will be - they didn’t write a jot about Sturgeon’s Downfall either.
But - people are talking irl and on social media.
It is good, because it exposes the madness.

*here is in Scandinavia

I have it in my diary for sometime in May.

I was actually privileged to see a weasel mother moving her litter from one (obviously somehow compromised) under-tree trunk burrow to somewhere she considered safer.

She was tiny, and carried five minute kits, one at a time across the field where I was standing, through another field of cattle to her preferred place. There may have been more - I don't know if she'd been busy before I spotted her. I would guess, size-wise, it would have been like me carrying five cocker spaniels, one after another, a distance of a couple of miles, and coming back each time for the next. All at full speed.

It was pure good fortune that I spotted her and the dog didn't, (though the dog was an elderly west and probably wouldn't have bothered) - I leashed her and just watched the drama unfold until Mammy Weasel didn't come back for any more.

it was thrilling - I wished I'd had a camera. I' d love to know what she had felt threatened. I can only think it was something that humans were doing - I can't imagine weasels have many enemies, though they were very tiny babies, so maybe badgers or foxes might have taken them?

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So... focusing on misgendering, which is "literal violence" only serves to trivialise real violence?

Come again?

Oh look, a ferret reversing!

I was slightly addicted to Ozzy the Desktop weasel on YouTube. The cutest thing ever. Small and fearless.

Have you any links @turbonerd ?

Oh, just saw this one.
The weasel-reputation has been tattered by The Wind in the Willows.

(I still like a Sneak of Weasels, though. They sort of do Sneak around).

This law, and the big orgs responses, are getting much International attention and SCORN.
It is marvellous to behold.

Just as a matter of interest - now that we are allowed to correctly sex men, does that mean we have every right to keep them out of single-sex spaces?

Asking for women and girls everywhere.

Edited because I had put "correctly sex me" and not "correctly sex men".

Sorry about that. Not easy to correctly sex me with my post-menopausal moustache, but I don't consider it literal violence to get it wrong, so don't anybody worry about it.

Probably shot themselves in the foot with that, as other organisations will have seen that they couldn't rely on their batshittery advice or support.

Henceforth I will always use a Sneak of Weasels as the collective noun

Indeed - a Reverse of Weasels is surely the right term?

They are nearly ferrets. (Apologies to all other mustelids - except stoats, they are little bar stewards, too)

Is that a support-seal identifying as a dog?

As long as it's a sincerely held belief that pinnipeds can be quadrupeds, I suppose that's acceptable.

I read this statement with interest. I expect the line will be that of course it isn’t a crime, it is just immoral.

What's "immoral" about it, it's a sane person's opinion of the facts as they see them.

Just a sec! So their name isn't 'Idul Wadhwa'. All this time, I thought the Mr bit was a title

Thank heavens I never met the person, that could have been embarrassing.

'...everyone deserves to feel safe while going about their daily lives...' huh? Like women (XX women, for the avoidance of doubt) in changing rooms, loos, prisons ?