All transwomen are to be moved out of Scottish female prisons today. 🙌🏻

The awful thing is seeing people you know to be intelligent, and in general quite sensible, being caught up in this horrendous herd mentality and starting to mouth the slogans without apparently having thought about them at all.

Someone I had previously thought quite bright recently told me off for saying I wasn't keen on JK Rowling's writing but failing to say she was an evil anti-trans whatever I was meant to say, and loudly and angrily informed me that I ought to shut up because she was using her money to try to destroy all trans people. wtaf? Clearly very short on information, long on propaganda.

Great example of the sort of misinformation spread by TRAs.

This.

TIMs problems are not for biological women to solve either. Maybe sort out the segregation in men's prisons.

We could be here a while.

I genuinely do not know how anyone has the patience this week, I really don't.

Also, you have to put down 5 years of addresses. I was dealing with PhD students at the start of their courses, often from overseas. When a DBS comes back within a week, I do not believe that the overseas police forces were asked to check. At all.

Have you wondered why women are housed separately from male inmates?

Go on. Take your time.

And once you've got that, extra points for explaining why it's up to women to compensate for male violence.

I only found out quite recently (possibly on MN) that the non-conviction police data on an enhanced dbs check is only updated every 9 months? This could include warnings, fixed penalties, arrests and/or investigation but no charges etc. So convictions are updated weekly but non convictions on every 9 months.

I do think the whole system needs updating and bringing in to the 21st century!

The whole business was typical of the owner of the snake not being prepared to pay attention to what was going on.

Yes, one of the mice found it a problem; I am unsure how much of a problem having been eaten in turn was for the snake, but it did get taken to the vet about it.

But it did get to eat one of the mice, right? So that's still kind of a problem.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5543655-guardian-weaponised-emotional-blackmail-from-14yo-trans-athlete?page=2&reply=152984473&utm_campaign=reply&utm_medium=share&utm_source=copylink

It starts here and goes on forever. Have fun!

I knew a python who was left in the cage with two mice intended for his lunch. One of them started to chew him when he was torpid after eating the other.

Gerbils could be very bad for an anaconda.

Oh it was a doozy 😂

Aww I missed that one lol

Oh, that reminds me of the anaconda in the gerbils' cage discussion we had a few days ago. It was just as delightfully nonsensical 😂

'oh no, this dog is getting picked on and attacked by the other dogs. Clearly it's not safe here, so instead of training the other dogs to not attack, let's put this one in with the cats instead, that can't end badly'

And it assumes you got caught; it's no use in dealing with clever people who have managed to avoid that.

It only certifies that on the day the checks were run, there was nothing to see, or that there was, and employers cam make a judgement call on whether it's relevant to the job. I have in the past, as it totally wasn't relevant and she'd been working for years. It basically lasts 24 hours. We gave them 3 years, bit someone could have been charged the next day and still had a clean one until renewal. Employers can set their own lengths for requiring a new one.

The update service does help, but you still need to set a check date.

Yes, I know that (which FWIW I stills find discombobulating, having been brought up in a place with ID cards!).

But then, what exactly is a DBS certificate certifying? The last 2 years of your life since you changed your name unilaterally? What use is the bloody certificate then?

I'm just saying that it would be possible to deal with this problem by way of identity cards. Not that the government would actually do something as useful as that. As far as I'm aware other countries don't just let people change their name without any kind of formal process, have more than one name at a time, and so on. It's lovely for criminals. As for married women - married people could be allowed to use both names, but there'd need to be some kind of registration process, adding the married name to the identity card. It would then be linked for criminal record check purposes.

That doesn't work for scads and scads of married woman who have a married name (to be the same as their children) and a work-name, likewise professional women who use a simpler name than Esmeralda ffitchett Mount-Stephens for their work, or anyone who has changed their surname from Sidebottom, Hooker or Daft for some obscure reason.

i thought the govt had already established that digital ID when it comes will be as open to chosen fictionalisation as birth certificates?

Rendering them somewhat as expensively pointless as the HS2.

Wasn't Hudson the one with the x inch 'surprise'? So terribly female of him.

I suppose this could be another argument in favour of identity cards - you can only use the name on your identity card.

In the case of Tara Hudson it was Cheryl Morgan, who lived local.