Friday, August 19, 2022
"The dirty little secret of transgender ideology is that it is inherently misogynistic. “Transgenderism” is basically the belief that men are better than women at everything, including being women."
Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel, born August 19, 1883 (died January 10, 1971) was a French fashion designer and businesswoman. The founder and namesake of the Chanel brand, she was credited in the post-World War I era with popularizing a sporty, casual chic as the feminine standard of style. This replaced the "corseted silhouette" that was dominant beforehand with a style that was simpler, far less time consuming to put on and remove, more comfortable, and less expensive, all without sacrificing elegance. She is the only fashion designer listed on Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. A prolific fashion creator, Chanel extended her influence beyond couture clothing, realizing her aesthetic design in jewellery, handbags, and fragrance. Her signature scent, Chanel No. 5, has become an iconic product, and Chanel herself designed her famed interlocked-CC monogram, which has been in use since the 1920s. (more)
US - Americans know public schools are indoctrinating their children
From Washington Examiner (USA)
By Kaylee McGhee White
August 19, 2022
Americans’ trust in the public education system has been falling for years and reached an all-time low this past June. It’s not difficult to understand why: Public schools shut children out of the classroom for months because of the COVID-19 pandemic and then forced them to abide by ridiculous mask and quarantine policies for even longer. The harm caused by school closures and mandatory masking will take years to undo, and yet there has been no apology or even hint of regret from the people responsible.
And that’s because the bureaucrats and union lobbyists running the public education system aren’t actually interested in educating or caring for students. Public schools’ COVID response was just one example of their priorities. Another, which is far more concerning, is the woke material that has taken over public schools’ curricula. From the ahistorical 1619 Project to the Gender Unicorn , leftist ideology is running amok in our public classrooms, and students are suffering as a result. … read full article
US - FMR. COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC DIRECTOR: Biden’s proposed changes to Title IX will harm women
Professor Rob Jenkins has seen the benefits of Title IX firsthand as a former collegiate athletic director and basketball coach.
From Campus Reform (USA)
By Rob Jenkins
August 19, 2022
The dirty little secret of transgender ideology is that it is inherently misogynistic.
“Transgenderism” is basically the belief that men are better than women at everything, including being women.
Not content with merely declaring “trans-women” (men) “actual women,” trans activists and their allies in government, education, and media regularly insist that “trans-women” make the very best women. … read full article
US - Utah judge temporarily halts law barring male-born athletes from girls’ scholastic sports
From The Washington Times (USA)
By Valerie Richardson
August 19, 2022
A Utah judge has blocked a state law barring male-born athletes from competing in female scholastic sports, sending decisions on athletic eligibility to a newly created special commission.
Third District Court Judge Keith Kelly granted the preliminary injunction Friday sought by three teens who were born male but identify as female, saying that the state law discriminates on the basis of sex because it “classifies individuals based on transgender status and, therefore, on sex.” … read full article
US - Transgender sexual assault claims at Brevard Public Schools could bring new state rules
From Florida Today (USA)
By Bailey Gallion
August 19, 2022
Amid hotly disputed claims that a transgender student sexually assaulted a girl in women's restroom at Johnson Middle School, and an investigation of another incident where a girl claimed she was groped in different school restroom by a transgender girl that led to no charges being pressed, Brevard Public Schools is braced for new potential regulations of bathroom access by transgender students.
In response to allegations at Brevard Public Schools, the Florida Department of Education is weighing rules that would require districts to publish on their websites if their policy "allows for separation of bathrooms or locker rooms according to some criteria other than biological sex at birth," according to a draft of the rule published to the Department of Education website. … read full article
US - Disney’s transgender tampon experts
Why the streaming service is striking out
From The Spectator World (UK)
By Marc Oestreich
August 19, 2022
I should have known when the Disney+ logo splashed across the screen. The last time I saw it, what followed was an impassable disclaimer warning me of the microaggressions I might endure watching a pair of Asian cats. I should have known when we landed again in San Fransokyo — the setting of Disney’s Big Hero 6 and new spinoff, Baymax! — and the cast looked like bad stock art from the Oberlin College DEI handbook. I should have known.
But, there I was, two sick kids (two and six) running 102-degree fevers, upset and crying, nestled on either side of me on the couch. We just needed a break. Something wholesome; simple; happy. This was Disney’s sweet spot. … read full article
US - The Transgender Movement Is Not Just Intolerant. It’s Barbaric And Violent, And It’s Coming For Your Children
Transgender ideology has infiltrated public schools, hospitals, and higher ed. Its adherents are not going to leave you alone.
From The Federalist (USA)
By JOHN DANIEL DAVIDSON
August 19, 2022
Hardly a day goes by now that we don’t see another appalling example of transgender ideology’s aggressive intolerance in the public square. Recently, the target of that intolerance was an 80-year-old woman in the small town of Port Townsend, Washington, who was permanently banned from her local YMCA pool after she objected to a “trans woman” — a man — in the women’s locker room.
And for daring to speak out about that in public, she and her supporters were attacked this week in broad daylight by a mob of trans activists and Antifa thugs. … read full article
US - ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ Is The Opposite Of Gender-Affirming And Caring
The euphemistic phrase conceals the brutal realities of medical transition. Gender-affirming care is a lie, and we must stop it.
From The Federalist (USA)
By NATHANAEL BLAKE
August 19, 2022
People don’t like hospitals that hurt children instead of healing them. Boston Children’s Hospital has been deluged with criticism after conservative activists highlighted its own materials promoting medical transition for minors. The hospital has tried to cover up its deeds, but it cannot escape the truth that so-called gender-affirming care isn’t. The euphemistic phrase conceals the brutal realities of medical transition, but these procedures — including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and various surgeries — do not affirm patients’ gender, let alone care for them. Gender-affirming care is a lie and we must stop it. … read full article
US - Fury as Yale School of Medicine professor brags about helping kids as young as THREE on 'gender journey' if they identify as trans or non-binary
Christy Olezeski is Director and co-founder of the Yale Pediatric Gender Program
In a YouTube video, since taken down, she explains how she runs a program that helps children from the age of three-years-old with their 'gender journey'
The program website at the Yale School of Medicine details how transgender surgeries are only available to those 18 and older
The idea of children who are barely out of wearing diapers making a decision to change genders was met with outrage on social media
From Daily Mail (UK)
By JAMES GORDON
August 19, 2022
A Yale professor has sparked fury for proudly shating she was part of a program that helps children as young as three with their 'gender journey'.
Christy Olezeski, director and co-founder of the Yale Pediatric Gender Program, said her team offers advice on if and when youngsters should seek 'medical intervention'.
She later bragged in the clip - which was posted on Yale Medicine's YouTube page - that she 'loves' what she does. … read full article
US - Parents Demand Resignations, Pull Donations After All-Girls School Announces Plan to Admit M2F Trans Students
Parents, donors, and alumni of Harpeth Hall, an all-girls school in Nashville, Tennessee, are pulling donations and calling for the resignations of several school officials who they believe have been “enablers of political activism and division.”
From Breitbart (USA)
By Spencer Lindquist
August 19, 2022
The call from parents, alumni, and donors comes shortly after the all-girls school announced that they would be allowing boys who identify as girls to attend. The policy was then ditched just one week after it was announced following backlash from parents and other community members.
The Harpeth Hall Board of Trustees told parents in a letter “Based on the response from our school community, Harpeth Hall is choosing to pause the adoption of the philosophy in order to engage a wider audience in continued discussion.” … read full article
US - Trans Activism and the Road Not Taken
The current conflict over trans rights was entirely avoidable.
From Reality's Last Stand (USA)
By Eliza Mondegreen
August 19, 2022
Halfway through Dave Chappelle’s controversial Netflix special, The Closer, his tone changes as he relates the story of a transgender-identifying friend and fellow comedian:
“Well, Daphne,” I said “Well, that was fun.” I go, “I love you to death, but I have no fuckin’ idea what you’re talking about.” The whole crowd laughed except for Daphne. …
One thing that strikes me every time I talk to friends, colleagues, and near-perfect strangers about gender is just how far something like Daphne’s plea—“I just need you to believe that I’m having a human experience… Just believe I’m a person and I’m going through it”—would have gone in winning people’s empathy. … read full article
US - Roadmap to Misery
From felice j. killer (USA)
By felice
August 19, 2022
I’m going to start posting screenshots of the nightmarish bullshit Jamie retweets, weekly if I can. …
Did you just barf? I did.
Does Jamie really believe that everyone should bend over backwards to believe her when she says she’s not a woman?
This is exactly what I was talking about to Jamie’s counselor. Supporting our loved ones does not mean agreeing with them.
Affirmation isn’t love. … read full article
UK - NHS blows £1million on 'woke groups' for staff including 'tea and rainbow cake' picnics and a Filipino martial arts performance in the midst of growing cash crisis
Nearly 500 of the groups were set up by health trusts across the country
It has taken up around 36,000 hours of staff time a year to run events
Some groups use taxpayers' money to put on the events, often during work day
These have included 'rainbow cake' picnics and a Filipino martial arts show
From Daily Mail (UK)
By SHAUN WOOLLER
August 19, 2022
The NHS has spent more than £1million on hundreds of 'woke' staff networks at a time when it desperately needs more cash for patient care.
Nearly 500 of these groups have been set up by health trusts across the UK – taking up around 36,000 hours of staff time a year. Despite ministers' calls for the NHS to cut back on 'waste and wokery', some groups use taxpayers' money to put on events around transgender issues, sexuality and racism, often held during the working day.
These have included 'tea and rainbow cake' picnics, a special session about pronouns and a Filipino martial arts performance. Amid fears of an impending winter NHS crisis, the audit by the TaxPayers' Alliance found there are now at least 493 networks across the UK health service. … read full article
UK - Trans “Sexual Deviant” Arrested Following Pedophile Hunter Sting
From Reduxx (USA)
By Reduxx Team
August 19, 2022
A trans-identified male who describes himself as a “sexual deviant” stands accused of child sexual abuse and of disseminating child sexual exploitation material. Jonathan Lea, 44, who also uses the name Emma Bella-Puttana, was arrested following a filmed pedophile sting by an anti-predator group and is currently in police custody.
A collective of volunteers affiliated with the Online Child Abuse Activist Group (OCAAG) confronted Lea on August 18. The grassroots organization End Game streamed the video of the interaction with Lea to their Facebook page, where it currently has nearly 40,000 views. During the confrontation, Lea confirmed his identity and names, both his male name and his “transgender” name. … read full article
UK - 32 Medical schools in the UK have signed up to GLAAD'S insane 'conversion therapy' charter
American medicine has gone insane. Will the UK follow?
From The Glinner Update (UK)
By Graham Linehan
August 19, 2022
This GLADD medical schools charter is attempting to put an all-out ban on discussing any factors that could be behind gender confusion with patients, even though that is contrary to the law. Even if this charter is not legally binding, it is still making doctors (and future doctors) think that patients with 'gender identity' can only be affirmed. This will endanger patient care at a time when we need to be reversing these procedures in the NHS, not bringing new doctors into it with the absolute wrong approach to it. … read full article
UK - The problem with gaslighting
Some realities need to be undermined
From UnHerd (UK)
By Kathleen Stock
August 19, 2022
Consider the last time you fell out with someone: your partner, a friend, or your boss, for instance. Perhaps you argued about a previous event: about who said what to whom, what exactly happened, and whose fault it was. Did your opponent say things that made you doubt your version of history? Did you start to feel like your grip on reality was becoming undermined? Have you considered that you may have been gaslit?
… read full article
UK - Sex Differences between Men and Women
And why they matter in sport.
From BeetleBomb (UK)
By Emma Hilton
August 18, 2022
Like almost all animals and many plants, male and female humans are built differently, because they do different things in reproduction. Males have testes that make sperm to be delivered by the penis. Females have ovaries that make eggs to be fertilised by sperm and grow, within her uterus, into babies.
In humans, like almost all animals and many plants, there are two sexes.
Our different reproductive systems develop, in the uterus, under the influence of genes and then hormones, but the role of hormones does not stop at moulding reproductive systems. At puberty, hormones cause males and females to develop sex-typical secondary characteristics that form a mature body prepared to reproduce. Shaped by evolution and sexual selection that, for example, favours fighting skills in male primates, these secondary characteristics also help those males and females secure or attract a mate with which to reproduce. … read full article
UK - 'They treated me like I was David Icke': Father Ted creator Graham Linehan slams BBC for 'making him look insane' during Newsnight interview about the Tavistock Centre... but says he's been 'vindicated' now trans clinic has been shut down
Mr Linehan, 54, has been attacked by activists for defence of women's rights
Mr Linehan appeared on the BBC's Newsnight programme in 2020
Aired concerns about trans activists and the NHS's controversial Tavistock clinic
Presenter Sarah Smith criticised him for increasing the 'toxicity' of the debate
Mr Linehan told GB News's Dan Wootton that Newsnight carried out a 'hit piece'
From Daily Mail (UK)
By HARRY HOWARD
August 19, 2022
The Bafta-winning creator of Father Ted has slammed the BBC for making him look like he had 'gone insane' during an interview about transgender issues in 2020.
Graham Linehan, 54, whose writing credits also include The IT Crowd, has been attacked by trans activists for his defence of women's rights and speaking of the importance of biological sex. … read full article
UK - Gender Identity in the ECtHR - Rees v UK
Part VII
From Gender Dissident (UK)
By Alessandra Asteriti
August 19, 2022
The jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has been crucial in embedding gender identity in human rights law and so it is an inevitable step in reconstructing the genealogy of this concept. The Goodwin was a seminal case, but we would not have gotten there without the cases that preceeded it, which we are considering in this post. … read full article
Scotland - The moral poverty of the “Period Poverty Act”
Politicians should do better — period
From The Critic (UK)
By Josephine Bartosch
August 19, 2022
Earlier this week, the Scottish government — always at the bleeding edge of woke — enacted legislation to provide free sanitary protection as part of the Period Poverty Act (2021). In a statement, which artfully avoided acknowledging that it is only females who menstruate, Social Justice Secretary Shona Robison said provision of free period products is “fundamental to equality and dignity, and removes the financial barriers to accessing them”. … read full article
Scotland - Tayside's male 'period dignity officer' is a parable for Scottish public life – Susan Dalgety
It’s been a rollercoaster week for ex-tobacco salesman, Jason Grant. On Monday he was “absolutely buzzing” about his new job as Tayside’s period dignity officer. Full of ideas about how he, as a man, was going to break down barriers and reduce the stigma around menstruation.
From The Scotsman (Scotland)
By Susan Dalgety
August 19, 2022
He even offered to raise awareness of the menopause. “A natural process for women,” he stated, but one that has “wider repercussions in the world of work and family.” “It’s time to normalise these topics,” he said, “and get real around the subject.”
Hours after the press release heralding Tayside’s courageous appointment was issued, things started to get very real indeed for Jason who, rather mysteriously on the first week of his new job, was on holiday. … read full article
Australia - Suing child gender clinics may be harder in Australia
From Spectator | Australia
By Lyle Shelton
August 20, 2022
It would probably be illegal for Victorian families to do what their British counterparts are doing, and sue LGBTQ+ child gender clinics for harming their children.
News broke last week that up to 1,000 families are considering joining a class action against London’s Tavistock child gender clinic after it was shut down by authorities following a review. … read full article
Canada - Xir Majesty
From gender:hacked by Eliza Mondegreen (Canada)
By Eliza Mondegreen
August 19, 2022
Academics working with the Globe Theatre speculate that Queen Elizabeth I may have been nonbinary and—out of an abundance of inclusivity—will henceforth refer to her as ‘they’:
“I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman,” Elizabeth I once said to rally her troops to face the Spanish Armada, “but I have the heart and stomach of a king”.
And was a non-binary person too, according to academics working for Shakespeare’s Globe, who have cast doubt on the gender identity of one of England’s greatest queens. …
Now, I’m not a historian but I can state with great confidence that Queen Elizabeth I did not identify with a concept that’s younger than the microblogging site Tumblr.
… read full article