Happy Girls' Day!
Plus some international news
March 3 is Girls’ Day in Japan. Celebrate Hinamatsuri with your daughters, nieces, and/or your friends!
International News, in No Particular Order
GOOD NEWS! EU opens up funding to guarantee abortion rights across bloc; Women from countries with near-total bans on terminations will be given help to access services elsewhere.
Brazilian Veterinary Student Faces Up to 10 Years in Prison for Social Media Comments on Gender Ideology . Unbelievable.
Meanwhile, in the UK:
UK’s gender [sic] pay gap ‘won’t close for 30 years’ at current rates
Progress on gender [sex] equality at top of UK’s biggest firms ‘achingly slow’
Domestic abuse and indecent messages on the rise in Scotland
Scottish government orders public inquiry into grooming gangs. It’s abut frickin’ time.
Uh, UK? You need to fix all your misogyny before you can achieve sex-based equality…
NZ’s Minister for Women says 'no' to the Women’s Suffrage flag; and 'yes' to Zonta who welcomes men who say they’re women. “NZ women are denied just one flag to fly at Parliament on Suffrage Day, whilst FIVE flags are flown on 17 May for gay, bisexual, trans, and intersex people.” New Zealand rivals Tranada for its institutionalized misogyny.
Meanwhile, New Zealand’s neighbor has its own fight for reality. ‘Chilling effect’: Lesbian group fights human rights commission to exclude trans women. “A Federal Court battle has begun over whether biological sex trumps gender identity, with lesbians claiming their rights have been ‘subordinated’ to transgender interests.” Notice how the media never say “women defend their right to free association and women-only socials.” It’s always “exclude TIMs.” SMH.
GI comes to Eastern Europe: Polish defence minister cancels “gender training” for soldiers after backlash.
Sierra Leone’s harsh new laws to protect women and girls are causing harm in the wrong places.
In the decades after Sierra Leone’s civil war (1991-2002), there was pressure on the west African country to demonstrate progress on gender [sic] equality. Laws were passed to fight domestic violence, rape and teen pregnancy. But drawing on colonial legal models, the reforms don’t always match social realities and in many cases are harming young people from poor communities. Punishment is being made more important than resolution or education.
Here is the most appalling news from the EU
‘Trans Women’ Are Women, EU Parliament Says.
Men who identify as women should not only be included in all the EU’s feminist policies—the recognition of their ‘right’ to be treated as women should also be defended as a priority. That’s the recommendation from the European Parliament to the Council, approved this Thursday in the Strasbourg plenary.
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A proposed amendment stating that “only biological women [sic] can become pregnant” was rejected after 233 MEPs voted against it, with 200 for and 107 abstentions.
Sex, Law, and the EU’s 340–141 Vote; The European Parliament’s refusal to anchor pregnancy to biological sex signals a structural shift in how sex is treated in law.
The resolution does not amend treaties or compel immediate statutory change. But EU governance does not operate solely through hard law. Parliamentary resolutions shape Commission priorities and influence how equality frameworks are interpreted across member states.
Language adopted at this stage often migrates — from guidance, to funding priorities, to regulatory expectation.
This vote shifts the line between biology and law.
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The rejected pregnancy amendment is the fulcrum. Law depends on categories that can be administered. Reproductive health policy, medical research, crime data, sports eligibility, prison placement, and sex-segregated protections all require clarity about biological sex. In sport, those categories determine competitive fairness. In prisons and female-only shelters, they affect safety.
When legislators decline to state who can become pregnant, they are not merely broadening inclusion. They are signaling that biology itself is negotiable in statutory language.
So, according to the EU, a man who thinks he’s a woman always supersedes real women. Every. Single. Time. There can be no doubt that “trans rights” has always been a men’s rights movement. Watch the videos of women members of the European Parliament cheering their own subordination and erasure. Hello??!! Do you realize WTF you just did?? This is simply disgusting. I can’t even.
In another deeply disturbing development, UK First: Woman Gives Birth After Womb Transplant From Deceased Donor.
"This is a huge milestone, giving more hope to women who do not have a womb and are looking to start a family," says [transplant surgeon Isabel] Quiroga, who works at the Oxford Transplant Centre, part of the NHS Foundation Trust.
If uterus transplants were only used to help women without uteri (the article later says “people born without a womb”) this would probably be good news. However, we all know uterus transplants will not stop there. “People born without a womb” — IOW, MEN — will demand uteri. AGPs will lead the charge. So, as usual, improving women’s lives will take a back seat to fulfilling men’s delusions.
At least Britain left the EU (Brexit.) So we hope that TWAW doesn’t apply, especially with the recent UK Supreme Court landmark decision that TWANOTW. However, once the medical and surgical skill exists, it will spread all over the world, and in the EU men who think they’re women will have priority for a uterus transplant instead of actual women.
Today’s Much-Needed Palate Cleanser
h/t Bored Panda