Friday, October 28, 2022
"[Christianity, Judaism, and gender fluidity all require] faith. Introducing the ideology of gender fluidity in our public schools by paid staff violates the [separation of Church and State]."
This day in Herstory: Camille Muffat, born October 28, 1989 (died March 9,2015), was a French swimmer and three-time Olympic medalist. Swimming for the Olympic Nice Natation club, she specialised in the individual medley and the free style events. Her career ran from 2005 to 2014. (more)
US News - Florida Votes To Ban Sex Change Procedures For Minors After Volatile Testimony
From Daily Caller (USA)
By Sarah Weaver
October 28, 2022
The Florida Board of Medicine has voted to ban sex change surgeries and hormone therapy for children under the age of 18 after hours of deliberation and testimony Friday.
The guidelines, first released April 20, 2022, state that anyone under 18 cannot receive hormone therapy or puberty blockers. It also bans “gender reassignment” surgery for children and adolescents. The Florida Medical Board released the guidance in response to guidance from the US Department of Health and Human Services endorsed sex change procedures for teens. … read full article
US - Pro-transgender activists attack women at Washington women's rights rally
From Fox News (USA)
October 28, 2022
US - Trans Activists Allegedly Assault, Threaten Demonstrators At ‘Let Women Speak’ Rally, Shuttering Event
"The USA is failing to uphold the First Amendment at the behest of this odious and most insidious quasi-religious cult called transgenderism."
From Daily Wire (USA)
By Amanda Prestigiacomo
October 27, 2022
By way of threats and alleged assault, transgender activists on Wednesday reportedly forced a group of women’s rights demonstrators to shutter their “Let Women Speak” rally in Tacoma, Washington.
Women’s rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen, who headed the event, told The Daily Wire the “Let Women Speak” speaking tour is intended to allow women who’ve been silenced online for bucking radical transgender orthodoxy to make their voices heard “in the actual public square” — though on Wednesday the women were shut down in-person, too. … read full article
US - Trans activists chanting 'no hate here' shut down a 'Let Women Speak' rally after viciously assaulting female demonstrators
From Blaze Media (USA)
By Candace Hathaway
October 28, 2022
Kellie-Jay Keen, a women's rights supporter, was forced to shut down her "Let Women Speak" rally in Tacoma, Washington, on Wednesday afternoon after far-left activists harassed, assaulted, and injured attendees.
Keen told Fox News that the rally's purpose was to give women their voices back from the trans movement. … read full article
Scotland - Sturgeon suffers largest ever SNP rebellion over trans bill
Ash Regan said her conscience would not allow her to vote in favour of legislation to introduce a gender self-ID system for Scotland
From The Telegraph (UK)
By Daniel Sanderson
October 27, 2022
Nicola Sturgeon suffered the largest SNP rebellion in the party’s 15 years in power, after her community safety minister dramatically quit to vote against an overhaul of transgender laws.
Ash Regan, who has held ministerial office since 2018, became the first nationalist minister in the history of devolution to resign on a matter of principle on Thursday, saying her conscience would not allow her to back the legislation.
Ms Regan said that while she was "not against reform per se", she was unwilling to support measures "that may have negative implications for the safety and dignity of women and girls". … read full article
Scotland - JK Rowling applauds SNP minister who quit over Nicola Sturgeon’s self-ID bill after warning of threat to women and girls... after war of words between Harry Potter author and First Minister
Harry Potter author JK Rowling shared a tweet about Ash Regan's resignation
Posted clapping emojis after the minister quit Nicola Sturgeon's Government
Community safety minister quit over controversial gender self-ID laws
Legislation would make it easier for people as young as 16 to change gender
Bombshell resignation came hours before MSPs were due to vote on Bill
From Daily Mail (UK)
By JACK WRIGHT
October 28, 2022
JK Rowling has expressed her support for an SNP minister who dramatically quit Nicola Sturgeon's Government yesterday over the controversial self-ID bill.
The Harry Potter author shared a Tweet by Woman's Place UK - a group opposed to self-identification for trans people - about the resignation of SNP minister Ash Regan and showed her support for the politician with ten clapping emojis.
It is the latest in a long-running war of words between JK Rowling and the First Minister on the subject of self-ID and trans rights. … read full article
Scotland - SNP rebels defy party over gender reform laws
First minister Sturgeon faces biggest ever rebellion
From The Times (UK)
By Kieran Andrews and Mike Wade
October 28, 2022
Nicola Sturgeon has faced an unprecedented rebellion from her own MSPs after a vote to allow trans people to switch gender without a medical diagnosis exposed deep splits within the party.
In the biggest revolt since coming to power in 2007, a minister resigned and nine SNP MSPs defied the whip. It is not known what action the leadership will take but if the dissidents were excluded, the SNP would lose its Holyrood majority. … read full article
Opinion - Scottish Labour is now a branch office of Stonewall. It won't defend its £1 million donor JK Rowling
From The Telegraph (UK)
By Tom Harris
October 28, 2022
Long term watchers of Scottish politics got very excited yesterday by the spectacle of nationalist MSPs rebelling against their own government. In fact nine SNP MSPs at Holyrood defied their party whip. A minister even resigned her office on principle, just so she could vote against Nicola Sturgeon’s wishes.
The subject was the Scottish Government’s Gender Recognition Reform Bill, which will, when it is inevitably enacted, allow trans people to change their legal gender without a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria, and to do so in a shorter period of time than is allowed under existing law. … read full article
Scotland - Gender identity clinics across Scotland secretly use extreme guidelines from controversial trans group
World Professional Association for Transgender Health says teenagers should be able to access sex change surgery without parents’ support
From The Telegraph (UK)
By Daniel Sanderson
October 27, 2022
Clinicians at Scottish gender clinics are following guidelines issued by a body that advocates sex-change surgery for children.
In a leaked recording, obtained by The Daily Telegraph, a consultant clinical psychologist at the Sandyford Clinic states explicitly that gender clinics are following advice issued by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), despite the NHS and Scottish Government denying this is the case.
WPATH presents itself as a global body of medical professionals but its critics believe it is little more than a lobbying group, set up to legitimise an extreme form of gender ideology. It believes people who identify as eunuchs should be able to receive castrations on the NHS. … read full article
Scotland - How Scotland’s trans lunacy is harming the young
The Sandyford gender clinic's practices mirror those of the disgraced Tavistock.
From spiked (UK)
By James Esses
October 28, 2022
Many will be familiar with the Tavistock clinic in London, which until July of this year was England’s sole specialist ‘gender identity’ clinic for children and young people. In July, after years of complaints and whistleblowing, it was ordered to shut its doors by NHS England. Dr Hilary Cass, who is leading the government’s independent review into gender-identity services, found that the clinic was ‘not safe’ for its young users.
Four hundred miles away, in Glasgow, is the Sandyford gender-identity clinic. Many of its practices mirror those of the Tavistock. Yet the Sandyford still continues to operate, seemingly without coming under much political or clinical scrutiny. That is until this week, when a leaked recording of an NHS seminar from June emerged. It contains shocking admissions from a consultant clinical psychologist at the Sandyford.
Patients as young as 16, the consultant acknowledged, had been referred for double mastectomies by the Sandyford after just one clinical assessment. This was despite her stark admission that there was not ‘robust evidence’ for the treatments the Sandyford offers. … read full article
UK - Age-appropriate sex education set to be enforced by Sunak administration
There are concerns that third-party companies are exposing schoolchildren to explicit content and contentious ideas about gender
From The Telegraph (UK)
By Camilla Turner
October 27, 2022
Rishi Sunak plans to clamp down on inappropriate sex education classes in schools, The Telegraph understands.
The Prime Minister wants to strengthen guidance for teachers on relationships and sex education (RSE) to make sure children are only taught lessons that are age-appropriate.
It comes amid concerns that some schools are contracting sex education out to third-party companies which are exposing youngsters to explicit content and contentious ideas about gender. … read full article
Opinion - The U.K. Is Backing Off Transgender Mania. The U.S. Should Follow
Guidance from the National Health Service is a welcome step toward sanity on transgender issues. So why is the U.S. doubling down?
From National Review (USA)
By Leor Sapir
October 28, 2022
The National Health Service (NHS) of England just released new draft guidance that abandons the “gender-affirmative” model for the treatment of gender-questioning youth. Recognizing the potential for harms and finding no evidence of benefits to “affirming” a minor’s self-declaration of transgender feelings with hormones, the NHS now recommends noninvasive psychotherapy as the default treatment for youth struggling with gender dysphoria. Puberty blockers will remain available for carefully selected cases, but only in regulated research settings. A similar fate likely awaits cross-sex hormones. The U.K. has never allowed transgender surgeries for minors and won’t allow them going forward. … read full article
US - The GOP is strengthening its grip on education. Parents say Democrats are to blame.
From USA TODAY (USA)
By Alia Wong
October 27, 2022
The video starts as many attack ads do: an ominous voice invoking fear. In this case, though, the video doesn’t target any particular candidate but an entire political party: Democrats. And the subject isn’t one that typically induces terror, like crime, but education.
“Kids are back in the classroom, and Democrats? They’re back to their propaganda, pushing woke ideology like gender fluidity, mandating vaccines, enforcing masks on our children,” warns the video, produced and shared on social media by the Republican National Committee in September. Images of Nancy Pelosi and Kamala Harris fade in and out of view, accompanied by scenes of a teacher reminding her students that gender isn’t binary and another taping a mask to a child’s face.
“Back to school should be driven by parents,” the narrator concludes. “Not Democrat indoctrination.” … read full article
US - Officials ready to fight sexualization in schools
From Laramie Boomerang (USA)
By Jasmine Hall
Oct 27, 2022
CHEYENNE — State Superintendent of Public Instruction Brian Schroeder welled up with tears as he began a news conference on a topic he said he found disturbing and unsettling.
He organized Tuesday’s event at Little America Hotel and Resort to bring together stakeholders to inform the public on the sexualization of children in Wyoming public schools. Inside an overflowing room, he said this is designed as a “clarion call to our legislators to do everything they can to make our schools places that protect childhood innocence and respect parental authority.” …
Inappropriate materials being available to students wasn’t the only issue brought forward. Jackson-native and parent Gloria Courser argued for separation of church and state and upholding the Establishment Clause requiring schools not promote particular religions.
“What is religion? Religion is either a set of personal or institutional beliefs. Religion requires faith, something that cannot be proven. Christianity requires faith, Judaism requires faith, and gender fluidity requires faith,” she said. “Introducing the ideology of gender fluidity in our public schools by paid staff violates the Establishment Clause.” … read full article
US - Florida father sues son's school district over teacher displaying Pride flags
From Washington Examiner (USA)
By Jeremiah Poff
October 28, 2022
A Florida father has filed a lawsuit against the school district of Palm Beach County after a teacher allegedly displayed two Pride flags in the classroom.
In a lawsuit filed in state court, Francisco Deliu accused the school district, Emerald Cove Middle School, and the school's principal of ignoring his complaints that his son's teacher had prominently displayed two Pride flags and "proselytized to the students in class" about gay lifestyles. … read full article
US - 'A man shouldn't be in the women's locker room': Vermont student, 14, is SUSPENDED and her coach father FIRED for complaining about trans pupil in girls' changing room
Blake Allen, 14, was suspended from Randolph Union High School and her father Travis Allen was suspended from his soccer coach job without pay
The Vermont family filed a lawsuit against the school district alleging that they were punished for complaining about a trans student in the girls locker room
Last month, members of the volleyball team claimed the transgender student made an 'inappropriate' comment while they were changing
Under Vermont state law, students can play sports and use the locker rooms of whatever gender with which they identify
From Daily Mail (UK)
By ANDREA CAVALLIER
October 28, 2022
A high school student and her father are suing a Vermont school district - accusing it of retaliating against them for complaining about a transgender student being in the girls' locker room.
Blake Allen, 14, was suspended from Randolph Union High School and her father Travis Allen was fired without pay from his job as the girls' soccer coach for calling the biologically male student, who identifies as a transgender girl, 'a male.'
The father and teen daughter joined 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' on Thursday night to discuss the lawsuit filed against the school district. … read full article
US - Trans Activists Offer Gender-Confused Minors Cash And Uber Rides To Get Them Away From Home
From The Federalist (USA)
By STEPHANIE LUNDQUIST-ARORA
October 27, 2022
From coast to coast, transgender activists are working to push chemical castration and genital mutilation on minors at all costs. In September, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 107 into law, blocking officials from enforcing other states’ laws that hinder access to transgender medical procedures and drugs for minors.
Meanwhile, in Virginia, the Pride Liberation Project (PLP) is organizing resources to help confused minors whose parents are not supportive of their gender and/or sexual identity experimentation to run away from their homes to stay with a “queer-friendly” adult. The potential for predatory behavior with this initiative is alarming. … read full article
US - FAIR News: Taking a Stand on Gender Activism in Schools
From Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (USA)
By Bion Bartning
October 27, 2022
It’s hard to see the news these days and not conclude that a portion of the country has lost its way when it comes to children who don’t conform with gender stereotypes. Whether it be the exponential growth in “gender affirming mastectomies” for adolescents, or the now widespread practice of teaching young children that sex is on a “spectrum” using “the Genderbread person,” everywhere we look it seems like our kids are at risk of being caught up and medicalized in what has all the hallmarks of a social contagion. This can leave us with a fatalistic mindset about the state of our society and our prospects for improving it.
This week, I would like to share three reasons why I am optimistic about the future and our ability to move forward in a constructive way on these and other issues. … read full article
US - Study Finds Trans ‘Top Surgery’ Up Almost 400% Among Children
From The Daily Caller (USA)
By Mary Rooke
October 27, 2022
As the debate over the proper treatment for children who identify as transgender becomes a national talking point, a peer-reviewed journal published a pediatric study that shows an almost 400% increase in some transgender surgeries performed on children.
Researchers Rishub Karan Das, Dr. Galen Perdikis, Dr. Salam Al Kasis and others found “the annual number of gender-affirming chest surgeries increased by 389%” between 2016 to 2019, according to a study published by the pediatric network of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Oct. 17. … read full article
UK - There’s more to womanhood than high heels
The idea that Eddie Izzard can flick between ‘boy mode’ and ‘girl mode’ whenever he feels like it is a self-serving travesty
From The Times (UK)
By Janice Turner
October 28, 2022
Is womanhood a costume male people can pop on at whim, for reasons emotional, erotic or politically strategic, then remove again when it suits them better to be a man? This is the crux of why Eddie Izzard enrages women and, in seeking selection as Labour candidate for Sheffield Central, has become yet another gender conundrum for Sir Keir Starmer to fudge on phone-ins.
First, the pronouns. This week Izzard self-defined as “gender fluid”, saying that while “she/her” is preferable, “he/him” is fine. So, since gender is indeed ephemeral, superficial and based on regressive stereotypes, but sex is immutable, I’m going with “he/him”. I realise this means I’ve failed what has become a quasi-religious test. Unlike TV presenter Lorraine Kelly I won’t squeal “You go, girl!” at a 60-year-old man, as I don’t believe he’s a woman — but then I don’t think Eddie does either. … read full article
UK - How British Rowing fell victim to radical trans ideology
Governing body accused of a ‘failure of leadership’ by former US Olympic rower Dr Mary O’Connor over its ‘indefensible’ transgender policy
From The Telegraph (UK)
By Oliver Brown
October 28, 2022
British Rowing has been accused of a “failure of leadership” and a “lack of integrity” by a former US Olympic rower over its decision to allow transgender athletes to compete in the same elite races as women.
In the most stinging public rebuke yet to the policy, Dr Mary O’Connor, a member of the US women’s team selected for the 1980 Moscow Games and a trailblazer for female equality in sport, told the Telegraph: “It’s indefensible, ridiculous.” In 1976, she was one of 19 female rowers who famously protested against Yale University’s refusal to offer them separate changing facilities, stripping naked in a college office to make their point. … read full article
US - Apostate From Institutional Consensus And On Behalf of Normative, Evidence Based Practice
Julia Mason MD and the Politics and Aesthetics Of Apostay, Part 1
From Year Zero (USA)
By Wesley Yang
October 27, 2022
It matters perhaps more than it should to the issue in which she has come to be embroiled that Dr. Julia Mason looks like a minor character on Portlandia. The imposing red mane flowing down her back with its white roots showing at her hairline; the saffron-hued Indian smock dress with floral designs stitched in white; the eclectic braided bead necklace accented by large turquoise, orange, and lime green beads: Mason could parachute in to play the hippie elder stateswoman leading the collective that runs the feminist bookstore with no changes in her personal wardrobe, hairdo, or deportment. … read full article
US - From the Rejection Archives #2: The Gender Unicorn
Somehow this mild op-ed was too hot for the media to handle
From BROADVIEW with Lisa Selin Davis (USA)
By Lisa Selin Davis
October 27, 2022
For the last year-and-a-half, I’ve been trying to publish pieces in the mainstream media about the problems with the current gender identity movement, its teachings, and its associated medical protocols—that is, I’ve tried to diversify the mainstream and liberal media narrative. From time to time I’ll share my failed attempts to do so.
What’s crazy about the unpublished piece below is: It’s really mild. I started sending it out in 2020, then revamped it and sent it out again in summer 2021, querying the usual suspects, many of whom I’d written for before: The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, NBC Think, etc. No dice. At this point, it probably feels outdated (and also, Zander Keig did an excellent video on this subject with FAIR). At the same time, I feel it’s important to show just how intense the censorship has become. … read full article
Opinion - On 'allying with the right': politics are not so black and white — let's think about people as people
This is my first response to the question, "Can feminist causes be furthered by working with right wing or religious people and groups? And should we support and defend blanket free speech?"
From The Same Drugs (Canada)
By Meghan Murphy
October 26, 2022
This is part 2 in a 6-part correspondence series between journalist, Julie Bindel, and myself. I will be writing parts 2, 4, and 6 here, at The Same Drugs, and Julie will be writing parts 1, 3, and 5 on her Substack, Misogyny: what is it and why won't it die?
Dear Julie,
Feminism was one of the first things that ever really made sense to me. I remember being irate as a kid, marching off to the principal’s office to complain about the objectification happening to girls in my class, as they began to enter puberty. I have been impassioned about justice for as long as I can remember, and have never been able (or inclined) to shut up about the things that are important to me. … read full article
UK - Eventbrite ‘silencing women’ by pulling ticket sales for gender-critical event
Seminar organisers attack website for dropping listing and refunding tickets over fears it would provide a platform for ‘dangerous’ views
From The Telegraph (UK)
By Craig Simpson
October 27, 2022
A ticketing website has been accused of “silencing women” after pulling tickets for a gender-critical event over fears that it would provide a platform for “dangerous” views.
Eventbrite was being used to sell tickets for a book launch organised by campaigners critical of “gender ideology”, led by barrister Sarah Phillimore and comedy writer Graham Linehan.
However, the company’s “trust and safety” team refunded all tickets and removed the event listing from its website, stating that the planned gathering violated its policy on “hateful, dangerous or violent content”. … read full article
US - Who is thinking of the parents?
From Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) (USA)
October 28, 2022
I recently had a lovely dinner with some mom's from my support group. As we were talking someone mentioned when this whole Trans thing blows over, something along the lines of” will they think of how this hurt us parents? “ I started thinking in all this child centered agenda of the push for acceptance of your child announcing their new gender identity. Who is thinking about the parents? The government isn’t thinking of the parents with their new push to “gender affirming care.” AKA genital mutilation and double mastectomies and hormone drugs for kids. Doesn’t seem like caring to me. More like Eugenics. My state of California dosen’t care about us parents as Governor Newsom passes SB107 that makes us a gender affirming sanctuary state. A cash cow for everyone with their hands in the cookie jar poised to profit on confused kids and their homophobic parents. … read full article