Friday, July 22, 2022
"We are in the midst of a cultural war, and it's not an exaggeration to say that the future of human civilization is at stake."
This day in Herstory: Emily Ann Saliers, born July 22, 1963, is an American singer-songwriter and member of the musical duo Indigo Girls. Saliers sings soprano and plays lead guitar as well as banjo, piano, mandolin, ukulele, bouzouki and many other instruments. (more)
US - How The CEO Of A Leading LGBTQ Rights Group Played A Role During The Opioid Crisis
Amit Paley, CEO of The Trevor Project, was part of a team advising Purdue Pharma on how to boost sales of opioids during his time at McKinsey & Co., according to a trove of documents reviewed by HuffPost.
From HuffPost (USA)
By Molly Redden
Jul 21, 2022
In the summer of 2016, America’s opioid epidemic was raging, and Purdue Pharma, one of the drug manufacturers at the center of the maelstrom, was seeking outside help to manage its collapsing reputation.
For Amit Paley, a rising associate partner at the global consulting giant McKinsey & Co., it was an opportunity. He had worked closely with Purdue before and seemed eager to do so again. So, on a Friday evening in June, Paley scrambled to come up with a list of past examples of how companies selling dangerous products had reduced risk in order to avoid liability and salvaged their reputations with an outraged public.
He suggested looking to pharmaceuticals that carried risky side effects — but also, to consider Twitter, noting it was “lauded for opening discourse but also [a] hotbed of lots of hatred and anonymous vicious attacks,” and trains, saying, “people initially thought they would be very dangerous.” ... read full article
US - Female Inmates Speak Out On Prison Pregnancies, Reveal Other Trans Inmates Were Penalized for Sexual Activity
From REDUXX (USA)
By Genevieve Gluck
July 22, 2022
The trans-identified male convict who impregnated two women at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women had been trying to have sex with the female inmates from the moment he was transferred in, according to sources at the prison.
Demetrius ‘Demi’ Minor, 27, came to widespread notoriety after it was revealed that he had been responsible for two pregnancies in the women’s estate after being transferred in while serving a 30 year sentence for the murder of his foster father. Earlier this month, Minor was moved out of Edna Mahan to the vulnerable housing unit at the Garden State Youth Correctional Facility, a prison for young adults ages 18 to 30, a New Jersey Department of Corrections spokesman Dan Sperrazza told NJ.com. ... read full article
US - 'Abandoning reality': Megyn Kelly blasts claims that trans women are women
From Washington Examiner (USA)
By Heather Hamilton
July 22, 2022
Media personality Megyn Kelly slammed a feminist group’s claim that transgender women are women, saying it is “abandoning reality.”
Kelly took exception to a tweet from Women’s March that stated, “Trans women are women. That’s it. That’s the tweet.”
“No they aren’t,” Kelly responded. “There are massive differences between women and trans women. We can be respectful to people while not abandoning reality.”
... read full article
US - Republicans Gain Ground in Education
Voters are becoming more confident in Republicans on education policy, as conservatives promote school choice while fighting CRT and gender ideology in the classroom.
From National Review (USA)
By Jack Wolfsohn
July 22, 2022
A recently released poll conducted by the American Federation of Teachers, one of the largest teachers’ unions in the country, indicated a trend that won’t please many of its members. Republicans are gaining ground in battleground states on an issue that traditionally has been dominated by Democrats: education.
The poll found that when voters were asked whether they have more confidence in Republicans or Democrats to handle education issues, 39 percent chose the GOP, 38 percent the Democrats. While this is a narrow lead, what matters are the gains that Republicans have made on this issue. ... read full article
US - Most voters 'dissatisfied' with how schools are teaching sexuality, gender identity, race: poll
From The Christian Post (USA)
By Michael Gryboski
July 22, 2022
Voters in the United States are overwhelmingly "dissatisfied" with how public schools handle issues of race, sexual orientation and gender identity, according to a recent poll commissioned by a progressive teacher advocacy organization.
Hart Research Associates conducted a poll in May of 1,758 likely voters in seven states considered battleground states in presidential elections. The survey had a margin of error of ±2.4 percentage points and was commissioned by the American Federation of Teachers. ... read full article
US - Of course 'trans women' are not women
From Washington Examiner (USA)
By Christopher Tremoglie
July 22, 2022
We are in the midst of a cultural war, and it's not an exaggeration to say that the future of human civilization is at stake.
Radicalized politicos diligently try to recreate a society in which men can be women and women can be men just by force of will.
Consider one of the recent tweets from the Women's March. It read: "Trans women are women. That's it. That's the tweet." ... read full article
US - Letter from Finland and Sweden
Can they help us solve America's most vicious culture war?
From BROADVIEW with Lisa Selin Davis (USA)
By Lisa Selin Davis
July 22, 2022
Earlier this year, as the U.S. culture war over trans kids was reaching full tilt, Sweden’s National Board of Health and Welfare (NBHW) released new guidelines for treating young people with gender dysphoria, or what is increasingly called “gender incongruence.” That means puberty suppressants, cross-sex hormones and gender surgeries—often called “gender-affirming care”—to make one’s body appear more like the opposite sex’s—or increasingly, with nonbinary gender medicine, neither sex.
They read: “The NBHW deems that the risks of puberty suppressing treatment with GnRH-analogues and gender-affirming hormonal treatment currently outweigh the possible benefits, and that the treatments should be offered only in exceptional cases.” ... read full article
US - ‘Family Friendly’ Pride Event Features Sex Toys and Drag Queen Performances
From Daily Caller (USA)
By Reagan Reese
July 22, 2022
A “family friendly” pride event in Rome, Georgia, featured sex toys and explicit performances, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The Rome, Georgia, Pride 2022 event was advertised as “family friendly” with a “Pride Kids Zone” that included face painting, a live DJ, hair styling and drag queen story time, according to documents obtained by the DCNF. The event also featured vendors with sex toys and explicit drag queen performances. ... read full article
US - Maryland School’s Guidelines Claim Kids Have A ‘Right’ To Keep In-School Gender Identities Private
From Daily Caller (USA)
By Chrissy Clark
July 22, 2022
A Maryland public school district asserts kids have the “right” to keep their in-school gender identities private from parents, according to Montgomery County Public School’s “Guidelines for Student” Gender Identity.
The guidelines vow to “respect the right of students to keep their gender identity or transgender status private and confidential,” including parents who do not affirm the child’s perceived gender identity. ... read full article
US - Miami-Dade schools ban sex ed books for being ‘age-inappropriate’ under Fla. parental-rights law
Florida's biggest school district puts the kibosh on two sex-ed books, reverses previous approval
From The Washington Times (USA)
By Sean Salai
July 22, 2022
Florida’s Miami-Dade County School Board has voted to ban two previously-approved sex education textbooks amid concerns that they violate a new state law against age-inappropriate sexuality and gender lessons.
The board voted 5-4 against the books this week. It previously allowed the book in a 5-3 vote in April after parents’ groups challenged it in light of the Parental Rights in Education bill that went into effect on July 1. The law bans “age-inappropriate” sexuality and gender identity lessons from the state’s public K-12 classrooms. ... read full article
US - As a society, have we reached 'peak woke'?
From The Christian Post (USA)
By Michael Brown
July 22, 2022
Columnist David French recently expressed his hope that we have reached “peak woke.” He defined this as “the peak (for now) of left-wing institutional intolerance and illiberalism regarding race, sex, and religion.” I certainly hope he is right, since the alternative is hard to imagine.
To be sure, many of us saw this craziness coming a long time ago, both in terms of intolerance and cultural madness. ... read full article
US - The Messiah Complex
There’s no co-existing with evil like this. This ends when they lose.
From Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) (USA)
July 22, 2022
As the parent of a gender questioning child, I have done extensive research into the belief system of gender ideology, and the current practice of medicalizing gender nonconforming children and young people. I have come across plenty of ideas and practices that are disturbing. So much that would previously have been simply unbelievable is now commonplace. The espousing of a ludicrous belief system in some sort of gendered soul, as a justification for the sterilizing of children and the surgical modification of their bodies. Exaggerating the risk of suicide to frighten parents into complying with medical and surgical transition. ... read full article
EU - FiLiA Responds to NEU Transphobia Accusations
From Women’s Liberation Now! (EU)
By FiLiA Trustees
July 22, 2022
FiLiA is a women-led volunteer organisation which seeks to build sisterhood and solidarity, amplify the voices of women and defend women’s human rights. We organise the largest annual grassroots feminist conference in Europe, bringing together women from around the world who organise and campaign on a wide range of issues. We support campaigns and projects which advance reproductive rights, work to end male violence against women and girls, celebrate lesbian lives, and challenge racism, classism, ableism, militarism and environmental destruction through feminism. ... read full article
Finland: LGBT Pride and gender self-identification
New legislation on transgender persons is being considered, to be discussed after summer in Finnish parliament.
From International Family News (EU)
By iFamNews Italia
July 22, 2022
Far from being simply a parade of LGBT+ pride, at best a time of sharing with cities and civil society, the “Pride” events held on the last weekend in June in countless cities end up becoming the stage for politics, which is increasingly preoccupied with laboriously demonstrating its “non-homotransphobia,” indeed, its prone and supine dependence on the “non-binary” agenda, whatever that means.
This was seen in Milan, where Mayor Giuseppe Sala took advantage of the speakers’ platform to implement a quid pro quo exchange with the LGBT+ community, Milanese and beyond. Sala announced that he had resumed in the Milanese municipality, it is unclear on the basis of what change in the existing situation, the registration of children born in Italy to homosexual couples, and asked in return for LGBT+ support for his own work and for his council. ... read full article
Canada - "But let us at least refuse to say what we do not think!"
From gender:hacked by Eliza Mondegreen (Canada)
By Eliza Mondegreen
July 22, 2022
On the fourth of July, I had the pleasure to join Julia Long, Kara Dansky, Jesika Gonzalez, and Amanda Stulman on a Women’s Declaration International webinar about language and values. You can watch it here, if you’re curious.
One of the questions that came up was how to navigate social-media censors and real-world settings where you can’t always say everything that’s on your mind. Call Laurel Hubbard a man on Twitter — or Elliot Page Ellen — and you’re likely to get banned. Call a very special subset of men men and you might lose your job. You can’t always tell the full truth. But you never, ever have to lie about reality. When you can’t use pronouns, use names. When you can’t talk about gender, talk about sex. When you can’t say everything, say something. ... read full article
UK - Families shocked to find biological males were allowed to provide intimate care for vulnerable women due to a subtle change in the rules
Care company provided mother of Amanda Watkins with at-home assistance
The firm had listed protected characteristics specified in the Equality Act 2010
But care firm had deleted the word 'sex' and replaced it with 'gender' instead
It meant potentially anyone who identified as a woman could care for her mother
From Daily Mail (UK)
By JILL FOSTER and SANCHEZ MANNING
July 22, 2022
Amanda Watkins was fast asleep in the spare room of her elderly mother's house when she was awoken by the sound of a man's voice.
Shaken, she jumped out of bed and rushed to 81-year-old Joyce's room. There, she found her mum lying half-naked, at the end of her bed, with a man in a Covid face mask standing over her. ... read full article
UK - Transgender women banned from female contact rugby in England
From The Times (UK)
By Martyn Ziegler
July 22, 2022
Transgender women will not be allowed to play in female contact rugby competitions in England, under new recommendations from the RFU.
Until now, the governing body has allowed some transgender women to play women’s rugby but they have had to apply on a case-by-case basis. However, after a two-year review, it is now recommending to the RFU Council that anyone whose sex was assigned as male at birth should not be able play girls’ or women’s rugby. ... read full article
UK - Girl Guides sparks trans row by issuing statement from parents who let their seven-year-old son live their 'true gender' as a girl - in article blasted as 'dangerous, reality-defying nonsense'
Article shares story of 'Rainbow' who began 'living as a girl' from the age of five
Campaigner Maya Forstater criticised article and said the child 'is not a girl'
Others supported the piece and thanked Girl Guides for 'bringing attention' to it
From Daily Mail (UK)
By LAURENCE DOLLIMORE and MARY O'CONNOR
July 22, 2022
Girl Guides has sparked a trans row after publishing an interview with the parents of a child who began 'living as a girl' from the age of five.
The largest organisation for girls in Britain boasted of its 'trans inclusive' credentials as it told the story of 'Rainbow', one of its newest 'Brownies', in its summer magazine.
... read full article
UK - Police told to focus on catching criminals, not ‘Twitter debates’
New guidance warns officers not to intervene in ‘trivial or irrational’ online incidents simply because someone is offended
From The Telegraph (UK)
By Martin Evans
July 21, 2022
Police should concentrate on catching criminals rather than dealing with spats on social media, according to new guidelines.
Officers are also being reminded they must respect free speech and should not get involved in lawful debate, simply because someone is offended. ... read full article
UK - Barristers could be disciplined for 'seriously offensive' tweets
From The Law Society Gazette (UK)
By Monidipa Fouzder
July 22, 2022
Barristers who deliberately misgender someone on Twitter or send seriously offensive private messages on LinkedIn could potentially face disciplinary proceedings under revised social media guidance drawn up by the Bar Standards Board (BSB).
Consulting on the regulation of ‘non-professional conduct’, the BSB says it is seeking to clarify where the boundaries should lie in regulating conduct that occurs in a barrister’s private or personal life, taking account circumstances where it is accepted in case law that it might be legitimate for regulators to intervene. ... read full article
Scotland - Offer ‘bridging’ hormones to people on gender clinic waiting lists, Scottish doctors told
Advice comes despite warnings from GPs that they are not qualified to treat such patients, and of a lack of evidence to support use of drugs
From The Telegraph (UK)
By Daniel Sanderson
July 22, 2022
Scottish GPs are set to be told to offer powerful hormones to people referred to specialist gender clinics, despite doctors saying they are not qualified to treat the patients and warning of a lack of evidence to support use of the drugs.
A report commissioned by the Scottish NHS and endorsed by the country’s deputy chief medical officer has called for “bridging” hormone prescriptions to be made available by family doctors to those who have been referred to a specialist gender clinic, but have not yet been seen. ... read full article
So many parallels between Purdue Pharmas claim that Oxycontin isnt addictive and the gender industry's claim that gender meds help anything.
“The rate of addiction for patients who are treated by doctors is much less than 1%”, touts an Oxycontin TV commercial. This claim was based on a four word statement by a doctor that was used in Purdue's marketing 10x more than any other statement.
https://alcoholstudies.rutgers.edu/the-four-sentence-letter-behind-the-rise-of-oxycontin/
Maryland Schools actions erase kids right to go through puberty and not be trick into harming themselfs based on misinformation. Maryland Schools erase parents right to protect kids from fraud. Maryland Schools erase the right of gay kids to experience dysphoria without being lied to told theyre born in the wrong body and pushed into sterilzing drugs. Maryland Schools erase the rights of gender non conforming kids to go through puberty . Kids cant concent. At Knotts berry farm in So California, they dont even let kids in the park who are under 18 without adult 21 or older.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-07-20/knotts-berry-farm-to-require-weekend-chaperones-after-fights%3f_amp=true