This day in Herstory: Sarah Parker Remond, born June 6, 1826 (died December 13, 1894), was an American lecturer, activist and abolitionist campaigner. Born a free woman in the state of Massachusetts, she became an international activist for human rights and women's suffrage. Remond made her first public speech against the institution of slavery when she was 16 years old and delivered abolitionist speeches throughout the northeastern United States. (more)
Harrisonburg Schools face lawsuit over gender identity policy
From WHSV 3 News (USA)
By Colby Johnson
June 6, 2022
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - Harrisonburg City Public Schools is facing a lawsuit from a group of six parents and teachers regarding a school division policy on gender identity and the treatment of transgender students.
The lawsuit was filed in Rockingham County Circuit Court by Deborah Figliola, Kristine Marsh, Timothy and Laura Nelson, and John and Nicole Stephens. They are represented by Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal advocacy group based in Scottsdale, Arizona. … read full article
“A Wave of Fear”: Incarcerated Sexual Abuse Survivor Condemns Male Transfers to Women’s Prison
From REDUXX (USA)
By Anna Slatz
June 6, 2022
A second female inmate at the Edna Mahan Correctional Center for Women has come forward to slam policies placing biological males in her facility,and reveal the hardships survivors of sexual trauma like herself have had to endure since their arrival.
“In my 23 years of incarceration here at Edna Mahan… I’ve never seen anything like the traumatic damage that’s been going on. The state needs to find a place specifically for transgender [people].” … read full article
The “Gender-Variant Universe”
A consortium of publicly subsidized nonprofits wants to “decolonize gender” and normalize male genitalia as a form of authentic womanhood.
From City Journal (USA)
By Christopher F. Rufo
June 6, 2022
Transgender activism has been making inroads into America’s public institutions. The Biden administration has recently promoted neo-pronouns and gender-reassignment surgery for minors, government agencies have celebrated the expansion of identity categories such as “pansexual” and “non-binary,” and public schools across the country have adopted curricula teaching students about transitioning from one gender to another.
Trans activists often present their ideological program through a series of euphemisms and tautologies, such as “gender diversity,” “LGBTQ inclusion,” “love is love,” “protect trans kids,” and “comprehensive sexual education.” But these slogans obscure more than they reveal. The deeper nature of trans ideology is much more radical, and the public should have a clear-eyed understanding of what trans activists believe, beyond the protective layer of obfuscatory language. … read full article
State Farm 'Creepy Neighbor' saga: New campaign asks why insurance giant pushed LGBTQ+ books on children
Consumers’ Research launches ‘Ask State Farm Why,’ demands answers on controversial partnership
From Fox News (USA)
By Brian Flood, Nikolas Lanum
June 6, 2022
State Farm quickly ditched a controversial partnership that pushed books about gender fluidity on young children last month after Consumers' Research launched the "Like a Creepy Neighbor" campaign, but low internal morale, angry agents and a follow-up campaign loom over the company’s 100-year anniversary celebration.
Consumers’ Research launched the next phase of its campaign against State Farm on Monday, with a new website AskStateFarmWhy.com. The site allows people to sign a petition demanding State Farm enlist a third party to audit all programs targeting children, determine every school, public library, and community center where the books were donated, publish the findings and notify parents in the areas where books were made available to children. … read full article
Should Feminists Work with the Right?
We’re caught between a cock and a hard place
From 4W (USA)
By Josephine Bartosch
June 6, 2022
The women’s movement is resurgent, yet every day brings more examples of what Phyllis Chesler recognized as “women’s inhumanity to women” — of trashing, smearing and the vicious vanity of small differences. The latest has cleaved along that man-made fault of left and right; a conservative man, Matt Walsh made a film about the threat of transgenderism called ‘What is a Woman?’.
Some have welcomed his film as reaching an audience outside the cliques of radical feminists, arguing that it will raise awareness about an immediate threat to the safety of women and children. Others refuse to separate the film from the misogynist values of its creator, regarding the promotion of the documentary as a betrayal, as working with a man who would gleefully sacrifice women’s bodily autonomy to his patriarchal god. Cut through the crossfire and it is clear the issue hinges on whether the ends justify the means when it comes to feminists allying with those with whom we disagree on wider matters. … read full article
"I could not picture myself as a woman aging."
Taking apart Elliot Page's Esquire interview
From Writing behavior by Eliza Mondegreen (USA)
By Eliza Mondegreen
June 6, 2022
This interview’s got it all:
Hyperbole!
There are people in elected office saying that, essentially, transgender people are going to be responsible for the end of existence. That degree of rhetoric is really alarming and horrible.
Historical revisionism!
The idea of gender being a binary concept specifically based on genitalia is a very new idea in relation to human history. We existed in every culture throughout history! People don’t learn about that reality. They’re banning kids from learning it. It’s all tactical.
Co-morbidities and suicide-mongering! … read full article
Hiding the word ‘women’ in health advice is dangerous, NHS told
Expert says ‘desexed’ web pages could confuse people with poor literacy
From The Times (UK)
By Kat Lay
June 6, 2022
Making the word “women” less prominent in NHS health advice risks harming patients, an expert has warned.
The main NHS web pages on ovarian, womb and cervical cancers, suffered only by people born with female biology, no longer refer to women. They have instead been “desexed”, using gender-neutral language that includes people who have female body parts but do not identify as women, such as transgender men. Sub-sections of these pages still refer to women but users have to click through to see them. … read full article
The Times view on hiding the word ‘women’ from NHS advice: Healthy Language
NHS attempts to be diverse may exclude thousands of women at risk
From The Times (UK)
The Times Leading Articles
June 6, 2022
Good intentions can often lead to bad outcomes. The National Health Service, like all public bodies nowadays, aims to be as inclusive as possible. Diversity — sexual, ethnic, racial and cultural — is a goal that reflects mainstream social attitudes in Britain today. The danger, however, is that on an issue as vexed and politically contentious as the treatment of trans people, an attempt to steer a sensible course can perplex the majority. By removing the word “women” from its health advice, the main NHS webpages on ovarian, womb and cervical cancers have used a “desexed” language that health experts say is now preventing many people, especially those without fluent English, from getting the advice they need. … read full article
On The Myth That Puberty Blockers Are "Reversible"
From Dr Dylan Wilson, Paediatrician (Australia)
By Dr Dylan Wilson
June 6, 2022
reversible
/rɪˈvəːsɪb(ə)l/
adjective
able to be turned the other way round.
"a reversible pushchair seat"
(of the effects of a process or condition) capable of being reversed so that the previous state or situation is restored.
"potentially reversible forms of renal failure" …
One of the most crucial parts of my last post was the importance of understanding the way puberty blockers are actually used. The realities of this are vital to really understanding the pathway. … read full article
Fraud In the Development Of Lupron
From Screaming Into The Void
by David Redwine
June 6, 2022
(Lupron is the main puberty blocker used in precocious puberty and gender affirming care-transgendered kids)
Here is the core of the issue: during early (1980's) development of Lupron for the treatment of endometriosis, TAP (Takeda/Abbott Pharmaceuticals) developed information that by one year after stopping Lupron, ovarian function did not return to baseline in most (63%) of the few patients followed that long. … read full article
Mother Warns of Influence of Pornography on Gender Identity Among Youth
From REDUXX (USA)
By Genevieve Gluck
June 6, 2022
The mother of a teen girl who has recently detransitioned is warning parents about the influence of pornography and tight-knit online friend groups on youth who abruptly express a strong desire to transition. Jennifer* discovered her daughter Emily* was being groomed into claiming a ‘gender identity’ beginning from the age of 13 by programs at her school, older teens, and sexually explicit content.
According to Jennifer, her daughter began to question her identity after attending her school’s sexual education program called Teen Talk. Children were taught about pronouns and the meanings of sexual terms such as ‘pansexual’ and ‘polyamorous.’
After the Teen Talk lectures, Emily, along with her friend group, adopted a variety of labels and shunned the term ‘cis.’ … read full article
How are parents treated? A long answer to a short question
From Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) (USA)
June 6, 2022
A few weeks ago, a detransitioner posted the following survey for parents:
There was no way for me to answer by the choices given, but he inspired me to write a long form answer instead. … read full article
The Stories We Tell Ourselves
From StoicMom’s Newsletter (USA)
By StoicMom
June 6, 2022
Humans make meaning. It’s wired into us. I haven’t studied this in an academic institution so everything I say here just represents my theories informed by other things I’ve read and experienced and how I, ahem, have made meaning of what I’ve learned. I think this meaning-making instinct(? not sure if this cognitive mechanism would be called an instinct) might be one of the drivers that keeps us bonded in social groups which humans need to be a successful species. So why am I writing about this?
In Defining “Trans”, I talk about some of the needs that teens are filling by convincing themselves they’re transgender. And make no mistake, this identity is working to meet needs for them–or they wouldn’t bother. … read full article
Billboard Chris’ lone campaign against the epidemic of gender ideology in North America’s schools
From True North (Canada)
By Sue-Ann Levy
June 6, 2022
When I spoke with British Columbia’s Chris Elston a few days ago, he was just about to leave on his unofficial Pride Month tour.
First stops after an all-night drive from South Surrey would be San Francisco, Monterey Bay and San Jose where he said he’ll meet up with a woman who, like him, campaigns against the epidemic of gender ideology and the pressure put on young kids to transition medically. … read full article
Free-speech group will spend millions to promote First Amendment cases
Some backers see FIRE moving to take on fights ceded by ACLU.
From Politico (USA)
By Josh Gerstein
June 6, 2022
An advocacy group that has spent more than two decades fighting for free expression on college campuses is broadening its efforts to fight so-called cancel culture and other perceived threats to free speech across American society.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is renaming itself the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and keeping the “FIRE” acronym as it launches a drive to promote greater acceptance of a diversity of views in the workplace, pop culture and elsewhere. Part of the push may challenge the American Civil Liberties Union’s primacy as a defender of free speech. … read full article
Fight looms over transgender treatments in Medicaid
From WJCT News (USA)
By Jim Saunders
June 6, 2022
National and state legal and LGBTQ-advocacy groups are preparing to fight a move by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration to deny Medicaid coverage for treatments such as hormone therapy and puberty-blocking medication for transgender people.
Lambda Legal, the National Health Law Program, the Florida Health Justice Project and Southern Legal Counsel issued a statement Friday, a day after the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration announced it would start a rule-making process related to treatment for gender dysphoria. … read full article
We’re Fundamentally Transforming Our Society Because Of A Generation Desperate For Attention
From The Daily Caller (USA)
By Hayden Daniel
June 6, 2022
A recent study by the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI) found that the number of young people who identify as LGBT has skyrocketed over the last five years.
While the sexual identification of older generations remained static, the percentage of Millennials, Americans born between 1981 and 1996, who identified as LGBT increased from a little over five percent in 2012 to 10.5% in 2021. The percent of Americans in Generation Z, born between 1997 and 2012, who also claimed to be LGBT soared from an already suspiciously high 10.5% in 2017 to an unfathomable 20.8% — one out of five — in 2021. … read full article
So many good articles tonight...thank you Lee!