On Wednesday, I made the mistake of taking part in a podcast debate with Julie Burchill for The Spectator. What followed was a harangue from Burchill about why the world had gone to pot because of the left constantly slanging itself. Not that I class Burchill as “the left” any more, mind, but I’m sure…

See more at AP Breaking News MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — You don’t have to be just male or female on Facebook anymore. The social media giant is adding a customizable option with about 50 different terms people can use to identify their gender as well as three preferred pronoun choices: him, her or them.…

Read more at Toronto Life At 5:23 p.m. yesterday, British comedian Avery Edison was detained at Pearson International Airport after flying to Toronto to visit her girlfriend. On its face, this was a routine detainment—she reports that she was prevented from coming into Canada because she had overstayed her student visa on a previous visit—but…

Read more at The Huffington Post Jared Leto caught the ire of a heckler on Tuesday while accepting one of the Santa Barbara Film Festival’s Virtuosos Awards for his performance as a transgender AIDS patient in “Dallas Buyers Club.” As Leto was taking his seat after accepting the award, a woman yelled, “You don’t deserve…

For more of this story see the NY Daily News Grieving mother Delores Nettles was on her way home a couple of weeks ago when she saw the man she says pummeled and killed her transgender daughter, Islan. Paris Wilson, 20, was yucking it up on his phone near 125th St. between Fifth and Madison…