and other stuff!

This blog was originally posted on my website, but I'm sharing it here because I feel some of you will be interested.

and here at Bev's Acres (well metres), we've not long had Sunday lunch.

Found on Medium:

https://medium.com/@notCursedE/gender-critical-feminism-is-b...

and they taketh away!

This just showed up my audible page so I thought I would share it here. Anyone listened to it? Is it any good?

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/A-Total-Switch-Show-Audiobook/B...

Last Sunday, 60 Minutes had a segment about trans.

https://www.cbs.com/shows/60_minutes/video/Q3tmFP_EoyZrqeaAD...

It started out as a discussion of anti-trans laws and quickly took a sharp turn into the ease of convincing doctors to start hormone therapy and actual SRS.

TLDR:

Google is going to do inclusive language based grammar suggestions.

but still smarting.

I had noticed that this date was coming up at the beginning of May, but with 1,001 different things happening this week, I hadn't realized that it was upon us. May 18th 2021 marks the 41st anniversary of the eruption in Washington State of Mount Saint Helens.

This is something that I've always been fascinated with. I love studying geology, and I find it interesting, the amount of devastation that can occur from the eruption of a single volcano.

Hi Folk,

Last Saturday morning I woke-up, did my Transcendental meditation, got out of bed and turned on NPR (radio). I then heard most of a program on various trans topics. Here is a link to this podcast:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/trans-form...

and a return to more autumnal temperatures!

well okay, maybe not but today is distinctly cooler and damper!

OK. I guess I just can't help myself.

Privilege/Class/Social Inequalities Explained in a $100 Race
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K5fbQ1-zps

We need to work on the big problems and stop wasting our time polishing the chrome on this rusted out old Edsel.

I have always been a fan of Richard Dawkins for his no-nonsense attitude to myths and superstition, science works on evidence not 'imaginary friends'. It appears he feels the same about transgender people which has led the American Humanist Association to withdraw an award they gave him 1996, as humanist of the year.

yes indeedy and I hope you all think its a pleasant one.

https://time.com/5947032/elliot-page/

By Katy Steinmetz

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Elliot Page doesn’t remember exactly how long he had been asking.

About a hundred and seventy thousand people died across the world today. Each one was a mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, friend, partner colleague, comrade. Many were loved, Many were good people. Many will be missed. Some died surrounded by their loved ones. Others alone. Some at peace. Others in pain.

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4/7/2021 8:31 PM
Kristal Larson's election to township clerk in central Lake County is being celebrated by proponents of LGBTQ rights across the Chicago area and the nation.

Larson, chosen by voters Tuesday as Avon Township's next clerk, is the first openly transgender candidate to win elected office in Lake County and only the second in Illinois' history. Larson previously served as an Avon Township trustee but was not openly transgender at that time.

Statistically, here in the UK, it is more likely to snow at Easter than Christmas

Geez, anyone would think I had everything planned out!

So apparently transgender people are no longer considered pariahs when it comes to serving in the American military. Most of us knew this was coming, it was pretty much a campaign promise of the current administration, but the Pentagon formally announced its change in policy today. This from the Associated Press: https://news.yahoo.com/reversing-trump-pentagon-release-tran...

Dr. Rachael Levine has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as assistant secretary of Health and Human Services. She is the first openly transgender woman to hold a cabinet-level post.

Here is the link for the NPR site: https://tinyurl.com/42fva5z7