I don’t understand how this trans stuff became so ubiquitous. It’s literally insane that so many mentally ill people have become victims as they victimize while the real victims of this insanity are labeled the victimizers and are attacked by the government and usually normal organizations
The left wants to destroy I guess, in this case women. But to what end? It’s literally insane.
I believe books have been written about how this became so ubiquitous. The short answer is basically several billionaires supercharged it in the mid 2010s after the gay marriage became legal and the activist charities required a new cause. Black Lives Matter also always championed the trans cause and quite a lot of the George Floyd funding was funnelled into trans causes.
I don't think people considered the consequences to women. I think a sizable portion of people when they were chanting trans women are women thought that they were saying the women who wanted to be seen to be men (aka trans men) were in fact women. And many people did not think it directly affected them. There are reasons why they were able to get trans identifying male prisoners into women's prisons so easily to begin with (and against the UN Human Rights charter) -- basically very few people care about women prisoners. Male prisoners get visits from wives and girlfriends but very few female prisoners do.
The end game I think is to destroy trust in the institutional bedrock of the West. If they can get people to believe this, they can get them to believe anything
Yes it is the authoritarianism. It is part of the Omnicause and you also have the whole luxury belief thing going on. The vast majority are products of a white middle class upbringing and this gives them victim status. And there are many parents who don't want to admit what they did to their children (having been fed a load of BS from certain quacks who actively suppressed data, according to the HHS)
So interesting as always Michelle! I have little time to keep up online these days, but do so appreciate your posting of interesting nuggets I can ocassionally read. I was and am very pleased that RFKjr changed his opinion on the trans issue after reading the Cass Report. He actually follows the 'Science' ---imagine that!
If anything RFKjr's stance has hardened and the HHS has gone beyond. There again in the UK, they are also looking at banning all cross-sex hormones prescriptions for under 18s. The NHS is no longer giving them and the next step will be a total ban after the recent Finnish and Swedish research.
My fingers are crossed with RFKjr that he can actually achieve things.
Me too. Although I do feel that RFKjr has already been quite sucessful in his original stated purpose in entering the presidential race-- namely to have a big enough platform to not be completely cancelled when he and others brought up these important issues for public discussion. Of course he's still being canceled and villified and discredited etc, but it's not possible to completely dismiss him anymore!
He's a Kennedy so I think they are brought up to have thick rhino hides. He is used to the spotlight -- good and bad. I think some of his choices have been interesting and if he can manage to Make America Healthy that will be fabulous.
SO good to see you JT. I am pleased you liked the articles.
It is good to have honey and we shall have to see what the rest of the summer brings.
The drought isn't so bad here as Northumberland is well served reservoirs and it has started raining (finally) but apparently the reservoirs in the North West as slightly different and the lack of rain has caused problems. It is still really bad on the Inner Hebrides as well which is somewhat crazy.
It is good to be enjoying writing. Thank you for the kind thoughts.
Northwest England. York. I was there some years ago on business. At dinner I made a naive suggestion of some sort to which my host's reply was, "You don't understand, sir; we only get four decent days each spring, and you were here for three of them."
York is in the North East which has slightly better weather than the North West.
The situation at Manchester is normally -- about to rain, raining or has just finished raining.
After my Junior Year Abroad at Lancaster (again North West England), I stopped noticing drizzle. As I'd grown up in the Silicon Valley I always noticed it before.
Some areas of England can be v dry -- East Anglia. However, there are no real deserts (unlike France or Spain)
I am really looking forward to Gordon Corera's book. The Rest is Classified have started a series on it. I wonder how many people genuinely approach spy agencies with just incredible inside information.
That is a lot of honey your bees have produced! Do you sell any of it or just give it as gifts? I cannot imagine using it all.
Hopefully rain will come your way. We've had a really wet May.
Dogs in rain jackets are just so cute! Paddy looks like my cats when it rains, so sad.
As Chris Andrew is saying that it is good, I suspect it is really good. Chris doesn't lavish such praise lightly.
We mostly just give the honey as gifts. It would too much faff to sell it. Honey luckily does not go off as such. It does crystalize but if you gently reheat it, it stays liquid,
And I agree dogs in coats are cute. Paddy is not overly fond of driving rain. He likes water, just not when it is pouring from the sky.
I am really hoping for rain for the Inner Hebrides which is where my youngest now lives. If they run out of water, they will really run out of water. He is working for the RSPB as an assistant warden and loving being outside.
I always get tickets to the whisk(e)y tasting at our local Scottish Games. Your youngest must have been disappointed to miss the whisky festival, but his job sounds fun. I really hope they get their rain!
If you can ever go, apparently the Islay festival is amazing. Some of his friends went this year and had a fabulous time. He went last year and had intended on going back but didn't want to have to go to the mainland. It is when the distilleries sell their limited run whiskies plus there is folk music. Apparently the lower numbers are the ones which go for the huge prices. Several of his friends collect them.
He is enjoying his job. He wanted to get back into conservation rather than enforcement, and the opportunity presented itself. As long as he is happy, I'm happy.
I was shocked to discover that CalMac was only allowing 45 people on one of their ferries which was supposed ti be able carry 450 because the lifeboats were rotten.
I don’t understand how this trans stuff became so ubiquitous. It’s literally insane that so many mentally ill people have become victims as they victimize while the real victims of this insanity are labeled the victimizers and are attacked by the government and usually normal organizations
The left wants to destroy I guess, in this case women. But to what end? It’s literally insane.
I believe books have been written about how this became so ubiquitous. The short answer is basically several billionaires supercharged it in the mid 2010s after the gay marriage became legal and the activist charities required a new cause. Black Lives Matter also always championed the trans cause and quite a lot of the George Floyd funding was funnelled into trans causes.
I don't think people considered the consequences to women. I think a sizable portion of people when they were chanting trans women are women thought that they were saying the women who wanted to be seen to be men (aka trans men) were in fact women. And many people did not think it directly affected them. There are reasons why they were able to get trans identifying male prisoners into women's prisons so easily to begin with (and against the UN Human Rights charter) -- basically very few people care about women prisoners. Male prisoners get visits from wives and girlfriends but very few female prisoners do.
The end game I think is to destroy trust in the institutional bedrock of the West. If they can get people to believe this, they can get them to believe anything
So it’s Marxism/leninism where as usual it’s not equality that’s desired but authoritarianism.
Yes it is the authoritarianism. It is part of the Omnicause and you also have the whole luxury belief thing going on. The vast majority are products of a white middle class upbringing and this gives them victim status. And there are many parents who don't want to admit what they did to their children (having been fed a load of BS from certain quacks who actively suppressed data, according to the HHS)
There was a v good article (can't remember if I shared it) about one of the trustees from the LGB Alliance a human rights lawyer who used to be v pro trans until he realised that no one had considered the women. It was the plight of the so-called trans widows which moved him. https://archive.ph/2025.05.27-070845/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/27/i-lost-friends-when-i-changed-my-mind-on-trans-rights/
So interesting as always Michelle! I have little time to keep up online these days, but do so appreciate your posting of interesting nuggets I can ocassionally read. I was and am very pleased that RFKjr changed his opinion on the trans issue after reading the Cass Report. He actually follows the 'Science' ---imagine that!
If anything RFKjr's stance has hardened and the HHS has gone beyond. There again in the UK, they are also looking at banning all cross-sex hormones prescriptions for under 18s. The NHS is no longer giving them and the next step will be a total ban after the recent Finnish and Swedish research.
My fingers are crossed with RFKjr that he can actually achieve things.
Me too. Although I do feel that RFKjr has already been quite sucessful in his original stated purpose in entering the presidential race-- namely to have a big enough platform to not be completely cancelled when he and others brought up these important issues for public discussion. Of course he's still being canceled and villified and discredited etc, but it's not possible to completely dismiss him anymore!
He's a Kennedy so I think they are brought up to have thick rhino hides. He is used to the spotlight -- good and bad. I think some of his choices have been interesting and if he can manage to Make America Healthy that will be fabulous.
Hello Northumberland! Good to see You again!
I'm glad to see that Ursula Doyle won. And glad to see the gender affirming clinic threatened with closure.
It seems uncontroversial to have a women-only breast-feeding organization.
Sorry to hear about Your drought.
I have no sympathy for "do-nothing mayor" Sadiq Khan.
That was an interesting article on the new Cyber Command.
And another interesting article on the Victory Goddess.
And a really fascinating article on Vasily Mitrokhin.
That's great You had such a good take of honey.
Glad to hear of the progress on the new Regency.
Paddy looks so cute, as always.
And, as always, TY Michelle.
SO good to see you JT. I am pleased you liked the articles.
It is good to have honey and we shall have to see what the rest of the summer brings.
The drought isn't so bad here as Northumberland is well served reservoirs and it has started raining (finally) but apparently the reservoirs in the North West as slightly different and the lack of rain has caused problems. It is still really bad on the Inner Hebrides as well which is somewhat crazy.
It is good to be enjoying writing. Thank you for the kind thoughts.
Northwest England. York. I was there some years ago on business. At dinner I made a naive suggestion of some sort to which my host's reply was, "You don't understand, sir; we only get four decent days each spring, and you were here for three of them."
York is in the North East which has slightly better weather than the North West.
The situation at Manchester is normally -- about to rain, raining or has just finished raining.
After my Junior Year Abroad at Lancaster (again North West England), I stopped noticing drizzle. As I'd grown up in the Silicon Valley I always noticed it before.
Some areas of England can be v dry -- East Anglia. However, there are no real deserts (unlike France or Spain)
(Oops on the east-west.) It amazed me how much geographic and climatic variation Britain manages to cram into one rather small island.
Talking about the weather is a British pastime.
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Great roundup up as always!
I am really looking forward to Gordon Corera's book. The Rest is Classified have started a series on it. I wonder how many people genuinely approach spy agencies with just incredible inside information.
That is a lot of honey your bees have produced! Do you sell any of it or just give it as gifts? I cannot imagine using it all.
Hopefully rain will come your way. We've had a really wet May.
Dogs in rain jackets are just so cute! Paddy looks like my cats when it rains, so sad.
As Chris Andrew is saying that it is good, I suspect it is really good. Chris doesn't lavish such praise lightly.
We mostly just give the honey as gifts. It would too much faff to sell it. Honey luckily does not go off as such. It does crystalize but if you gently reheat it, it stays liquid,
And I agree dogs in coats are cute. Paddy is not overly fond of driving rain. He likes water, just not when it is pouring from the sky.
I am really hoping for rain for the Inner Hebrides which is where my youngest now lives. If they run out of water, they will really run out of water. He is working for the RSPB as an assistant warden and loving being outside.
I always get tickets to the whisk(e)y tasting at our local Scottish Games. Your youngest must have been disappointed to miss the whisky festival, but his job sounds fun. I really hope they get their rain!
If you can ever go, apparently the Islay festival is amazing. Some of his friends went this year and had a fabulous time. He went last year and had intended on going back but didn't want to have to go to the mainland. It is when the distilleries sell their limited run whiskies plus there is folk music. Apparently the lower numbers are the ones which go for the huge prices. Several of his friends collect them.
He is enjoying his job. He wanted to get back into conservation rather than enforcement, and the opportunity presented itself. As long as he is happy, I'm happy.
I was shocked to discover that CalMac was only allowing 45 people on one of their ferries which was supposed ti be able carry 450 because the lifeboats were rotten.
Maybe it was for the best he didn't go, considering the ferry situation! What a nightmare.
Hachette, not Hatchette.