Monday, June 13, 2022
This day in Herstory: Penelope Oleksiak, born June 13, 2000, is a Canadian competitive swimmer. Having won 7 medals at the Summer Olympics, she is Canada’s most decorated Olympian. During the 2016 Summer Olympics, she became the first Canadian to win four medals in the same Summer Games and the country's youngest Olympic champion. With her gold medal win, she became the first athlete born in the 2000s to claim an Olympic gold medal in an individual event. (more)
Ed. Note: GC News deplores the events reported in this article. We oppose gender ideology and sexualizing children, but we oppose intimidation and fear tactics just as strongly. Threats of violence and disregard for the rights of fellow-citizens are shameful and cowardly. They have no valid role in democratic political discourse. Such tactics are the hallmark of fascists and bullies.
Proud Boys members under hate crime investigation after shouting slurs at Drag Queen Story Hour
From The Hill (USA)
By MONIQUE BEALS
June 13, 2022
Five Proud Boys members are under investigation for hate crimes after shouting homophobic and transphobic slurs at a “Drag Queen Story Hour” library event in California.
The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office announced the investigation the day after deputies responded to a disturbance at the San Lorenzo Library on Saturday, according to a press release posted on social media. … read full article
Domestic Violence Survivor Sued for Defamation by her Aggressor
Canada at fault for refusing to arrest the man for assault committed abroad.
From 4W (USA)
By Andreia Nobre
June 13, 2022
Isis Muniz, a Brazilian tattoo artist who lives in NYC and was severely battered in Las Vegas in 2021 by her ex-boyfriend, Sebastian Pawelczuk, is now facing a defamation lawsuit filed by her aggressor.
The ex-couple took a trip to Las Vegas last year, where Pawelczuk physically assaulted her in their hotel room. Ms Muniz managed to escape and her attacker was arrested, but the next day he was released and the charges were dropped. … read full article
Puberty Blockers, Cross-Sex Hormones, and Youth Suicide
From The Heritage Foundation (USA)
By Jay Greene, Ph.D.
June 13, 2022
Lowering legal barriers to make it easier for minors to undergo cross-sex medical interventions without parental consent does not reduce suicide rates—in fact, it likely leads to higher rates of suicide among young people in states that adopt these changes. States should instead adopt parental bills of rights that affirm the fact that parents have primary responsibility for their children’s education and health, and that require school officials and health professionals to receive permission from parents before administering health services, including medication and “gender-affirming” counseling, to children under 18. States should also tighten the criteria for receiving cross-sex treatments, including raising the minimum eligibility age. … read full article
Why should lesbians have sex with men?
It's now bigoted to be attracted to only female bodies
From UnHerd (UK)
By ELIZA MONDEGREEN
June 14, 2022
These days, a woman who calls herself a lesbian invites suspicion. Over the past 20 years, bars, bookstores, and festivals, once set aside for women attracted to other women, have rebranded themselves as “trans-inclusive” or “queer”, shut down, or gone underground. Lesbian playwrights such as Carolyn Gage see their plays shelved. Lesbian role models such as Ellen (now Elliot) Page come out as transgender. Even gender-nonconforming girls and women from the past fall victim to the new gender creed. Joan of Arc — the subject of Gage’s cancelled play — has undergone a posthumous transition nearly 600 years after she was burned at the stake. … read full article
Trans sport not just about the elite, say campaigners
From The Times (UK)
By Brian Mahon
June 14, 2022
The debate about transgender people in sport is a “wedge issue” and most trans people do not feel “comfortable in a sporting context”, LGBT activists have said.
The issue of trans women in sport has become a point of contention in recent months, with Lia Thomas, an American college swimmer, winning the 500 yards freestyle at the NCAA championships in Atlanta, Georgia. Emily Bridges, a transgender cyclist, was barred this year from competing in the UK women’s national championships.
… read full article
22-Year-Old ‘Detrans’ Man Posts Viral Twitter Thread After Watching ‘What Is A Woman’
From The Daily Wire (USA)
By Mairead Elordi
June 13, 2022
A 22-year-old man who said he surgically transitioned to female as a teenager but has now “detransitioned” posted a Twitter thread that went viral over the weekend, sharing his thoughts on The Daily Wire’s new documentary, “What Is A Woman?”
Why words are so important when it comes to talking about gender
From Christian Today (UK)
David Robertson
June 13, 2022
In the working-class housing estates of the UK, in the inner-city poor areas of the US, and in the Western suburbs of Sydney, there is little evidence of, or support for, the woke ideology which seems to have gripped much of the leadership of Western society in the 21st Century.
It was recently reported that 27% of Harvard students identified as LGBTQI+. And it was a private school in England where a baroness addressing the students resulted in the bullying and hounding out of a girl who dared to suggest that biological sex might matter! ... read full article
Political slogans or clinical evidence – Stonewall or Cass?
From Transgender Trend (UK)
June 12, 2022
By leaving transgender people out of their proposed conversion therapy bill, the government has angered trans activist and LGBTQ+ organisations. Allowing more time to consider the potential unintended consequences on professional treatment services for children experiencing gender-related distress is a responsible decision given the sobering findings of the Cass Review interim report. But the government faces huge pressure from the trans lobby to rush through the bill anyway, without proper pre-legislative scrutiny. A petition signed by over 145,000 people is to be debated in parliament on Monday June 13th. … read full article
The power of flags
Even in a material age, symbols matter
From The Critic (UK)
By Harry Miller
June 13, 2022
In July, following a two year absence due to Covid restrictions, the seaside town of Southport will once again play host to the bowler hatted patriarchs of the minority Orange Order. The group will take to the streets in a splash of festival sashes, accompanied by bands of squeezed accordions and whistled flutes. King Neptune, a Liver Bird, and a very much on-point bearded mermaid will fly on a banner that declares the slogan of the march, Civil and religious liberty for all. One imagines that this would be right up the street of Merseyside Constabulary given how regularly it marches to the beat of another minority cause. ... read full article
Scots should be allowed to change gender ‘as many times as they like’
Scholar says that SNP’s proposals should be less strict as people ‘change their minds’ about whether they are male or female
From The Telegraph (UK)
By Daniel Sanderson
June 13, 2022
Scots should be able to alter their legal sex unlimited times throughout their lives because some people repeatedly “change their minds” about whether they are male or female, an expert has said.
Prof Sharon Cowan, an academic from the University of Edinburgh’s school of law, claimed that some transgender people had a “shifting sense” of their identity and that a proposed overhaul of gender laws should be widened to accommodate the group.
… read full article
Transgender Woman Sues To Be Transferred To Women’s Prison
From Southern Minnesota News (USA)
June 13, 2022
MOOSE LAKE, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota transgender woman who’s serving prison time on a drug charge says she should not have been assigned to a men’s facility and has been sexually and verbally abused because of her gender identity.
Christina Lusk is suing the state Department of Corrections for discrimination. She wants to be moved from the men’s prison in Moose Lake to the women’s prison in Shakopee. ... read full article
Mother-of-two is ordered to pay £300 compensation to transwoman over her 'transphobic' comments during angry Twitter exchange about female loos... after turning up to court wearing a badge saying 'transwomen are men'
Chinzia Ogilvie was involved in a seven-hour long Twitter spat with Ivy Burrows
Ogilvie, 43, was accused of sending 'transphobic' messages to the transwoman
Ms Burrows said comments made about her genitalia made her feel 'violated'
A district judge ordered Ogilvie to pay Ms Burrows £300 and not to contact her
From The Daily Mail (UK)
By MATTHEW LODGE
June 13, 2022
A mother-of-two has been ordered to pay compensation and not to contact a transgender woman after a row about whether she should be allowed to use female toilets.
Chinzia Ogilvie was involved in a social media spat with Ivy Burrows, in which she was accused of sending 'transphobic' messages that 'invited hate' against her.
The 43-year-old, who turned up to court in Portsmouth wearing a badge saying 'transwomen are men', argued fiercely that Ms Burrows should not be allowed to use women-only facilities, such as shared changing rooms. … read full article
Ed. Note: Readers may notice that the following article is not directly related to gender and might wonder why it’s included in GC News. In short, we think the press must be free to express views that are unpopular or question the political motivations of the powerful.
Arron Banks loses libel action against reporter Carole Cadwalladr
Judge rules Guardian journalist successfully established public interest defence under Defamation Act
From The Guardian (UK)
By Harroon Siddique
June 13, 2022
The multimillionaire Brexit backer Arron Banks has lost his libel action against the Observer and Guardian journalist Carole Cadwalladr, in a significant decision for public interest journalism.
Banks, who funded the pro-Brexit Leave.EU campaign group, sued Cadwalladr personally over two instances in which she said the businessman was lying about his relationship with the Russian state – one in a Ted Talk and the other in a tweet.
… read full article
"I ask this one thing: let me go mad in my own way."
But nobody ever does.
From Writing behavior by Eliza Mondegreen (Canada)
By Eliza Mondegreen
June 13, 2022
I've been reading Anne Carson's translation of the Oresteia, which captures that pathological strain of rejection that so many young women live out in some form or another:
At one point, the implacable Elektra says:
I need one food:
I must not violate Elektra.
In response to a chorus that cajoles her to wear her suffering more lightly, Elektra protests: "I ask this one thing: let me go mad in my own way." ... read full article
Fear
From Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) (USA)
June 13, 2022
There is nothing positive about this. There is nothing to celebrate.
The fact that my son declared himself as trans from one day to the
next does not make him brave. This unexpected episode in our family
life feels like doom. Like an unexpected punishment. Of all the
fantasies we had with my husband about the future, nothing like this
ever came up.
And it seems to never end. … read full article