Saturday, July 16, 2022
Saturday, July 16, 2022
J.K. Rowling is criticizing gender-focused policies that "endanger extremely vulnerable teenage girls."
This day in Herstory: Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, born July 16, 1862 (died March 25, 1931), was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Over the course of a lifetime dedicated to combating prejudice and violence, and the fight for African-American equality, especially that of women, Wells arguably became the most famous Black woman in the United States. (more)
US - Federal judge blocks Education Department’s Title IX guidance that protects transgender students
The preliminary injunction essentially ties the department’s hands when it comes to protecting transgender students from discrimination in 20 states that have laws or are attempting to pass laws that restrict their access to facilities and sports.
From Politico (USA)
By Bianca Quilantan
July 16, 2022
A federal judge temporarily blocked the Education Department’s Title IX guidance, which prohibits discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.
Eastern District of Tennessee Judge Charles Atchley in an order late Friday said the agency’s guidance “directly interferes with and threatens Plaintiff States’ ability to continue enforcing their state laws” that restrict transgender people from playing on sports teams and using bathrooms that match their gender identity. ... read full article
US - CNN’s Zakaria slammed by left for column urging Dems to 'forget pronouns,' Washington Post changes headline
Chasten Buttigieg called Zakaria's column 'wildly inappropriate'
From Fox News (USA)
By Gabriel Hays
July 16, 2022
The Washington Post amended columnist and CNN host Fareed Zakaria’s Thursday opinion column after it received fierce backlash from the left for pointing out the Democratic Party is too preoccupied with "pronouns" and gender ideology over issues most Americans care about.
By Friday evening, The Washington Post had changed the headline of his piece from its original title, "Forget Pronouns: Democrats need to become the party of building things," to simply "Democrats need to become the party of building things." ... read full article
US - Transgender woman who impregnated 2 inmates removed from N.J.’s female prison
From NJ.com (USA)
By Joe Atmonavage
July 16, 2022
A transgender inmate who impregnated two women while incarcerated at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women has been moved to a new facility, according to the Department of Corrections.
Demi Minor, 27, was transferred to Garden State Youth Correctional Facility, a prison for young adult offenders in Burlington County, last month, Dan Sperrazza, a Department of Corrections spokesman, said. ... read full article
US - Everybody else understands the role of journalism better than journalists do
From Washington Examiner (USA)
by Zachary Faria
July 16, 2022
Trust in the media has deteriorated over the past several years. Evidently, most people recognize that establishment media outlets don’t trust them.
A recent Pew Research Center poll found that just 44% of U.S. journalists think that “journalists should always strive to give every side equal coverage.” Meanwhile, 55% think that “every side does not deserve equal coverage.” That journalists think their job is to determine which sides “deserve” coverage and not to inform the public isn’t a surprise, given how legacy media have frozen conservatives out on issues that are very much two-sided or more: abortion, gun control, “systemic racism,” religion, and gender ideology. ... read full article
US - Co-ed sex ed classes prompt protests in Virginia
Students are calling for more inclusivity at school.
From ABC News (USA)
By Kyla Guilfoil
July 15, 2022
Students in Virginia are calling on school administrators to combine genders in their Family Life Education, or sex education, courses.
Members of the Pride Liberation Project, a student-led LGBTQIA+ advocacy group in Fairfax County, protested on Thursday ahead of the Fairfax County School Board's meeting. ... read full article
US - Lia Thomas nominated for NCAA Woman of the Year award by her university
From Axios (USA)
By TuAnh Dam
July 16, 2022
Lia Thomas, a transgender woman who swims for the University of Pennsylvania, was one of more than 240 Division I athletes nominated by their schools for the 2022 Woman of the Year award, the NCAA announced on Friday.
Why it matters: Thomas' rise and success has drawn criticism from some corners and fueled debate over transgender participation in elite sports. ... read full article
US - Critics Blast UPenn Nominating Lia Thomas for NCAA Woman of the Year Award
From Newsweek (USA)
By ANDREW STANTON
July 16, 2022
The University of Pennsylvania has faced criticism this week for nominating Lia Thomas, whose success in college swim meets fueled debate about transgender women's inclusion in athletics, for the NCAA Woman of the Year award.
Thomas, a transgender woman, emerged as a star swimmer for the college this year, becoming the first trans athlete to win a NCAA Division I title in March after finishing first in the women's 500-yard freestyle championship. ... read full article
US - Scioto County Republican Central Committee Condemns Sexually Explicit Display at Portsmouth Public Library
From Scioto County Daily News (USA)
July 16, 2022
The Scioto County Republican Party Central Committee issued a statement to the press regarding the Portsmouth Public Library and Portsmouth City Council’s stance on Critical Race Theory. Below you will find the 2 statements in their entirety without editing. The votes on the issues were unanimous.
The Scioto County Republican Party Central Committee condemns the recent display of sexually explicit materials to children which took place at the Portsmouth Public Library. ... read full article
UK - 'So bloody angry': J.K. Rowling criticizes gender-focused 'policies that endanger extremely vulnerable girls'
'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling highlighted an article written by the parents of a disabled girl condemning a new intimate care policy
From Fox News (USA)
By Audrey Conklin
July 16, 2022
J.K. Rowling is criticizing gender-focused policies that "endanger extremely vulnerable teenage girls."
The "Harry Potter" author earlier this week highlighted a blog post authored by the unnamed parents of a learning-disabled girl who attends a special-needs school that apparently implemented "cross-gender intimate care" instead of "same-sex intimate care."
"I'm so bloody angry my hands are shaking. I'm the daughter of a disabled mother and I've campaigned for the rights of vulnerable children for many years, but I'm still constantly shocked by the cruelty and indifference shown to those who cannot advocate for themselves," Rowling tweeted on Monday. ... read full article
UK - Voices forgotten in the push for gender neutral changing rooms – disabled women, rape victims and religious groups
They all respect the rights of trans women. But here they ask: What about ours?
From The Mail+ (UK)
By Jill Foster and Nicole Lampert
July 16, 2022
A FORTNIGHT AGO, Josephine Kelly was undressing in the changing room of her local gym Total Fitness in Willerby, Hull, alongside other, mostly elderly, women, when a figure caught her eye in the mirror opposite. Something about the tall, well-built stranger’s demeanour made Josephine instinctively turn round to double-check.
‘I was taken aback because standing there, quite blatantly, was a biological male getting changed into a pair of women’s leggings, with full genitalia on display,’ says Josephine, a 51-year-old married mother-of-two from East Yorkshire. ‘This person was stocky and tall, with hair in a ponytail but they had a bald patch common in middle-aged men. ... read full article
UK - Sexual abuse of women and girls and protection for male perpetrators will persist until gender equality is achieved – Susan Dalgety
Holly was barely 16 when she was gang-raped for the first time. But it was not the first time she had been sexually abused by strangers.
From The Scotsman (Scotland)
By Susan Dalgety
July 16, 2022
“Sexual abuse was a daily reality,” she writes in her book, I Never Gave My Consent.
“My teenage years were punctuated by rape and beatings, as I was passed round paedophiles like a piece of meat.
“I believed them when they called me a slut and told me how worthless I was. I even believed I was a prostitute because they’d sometimes chuck me a few quid after they’d raped me.” ... read full article
UK - Rochdale grooming gang ringleader who blamed his crimes on Western society for allowing young girls to 'parade on the streets' gets prison 'equality' role
Shabir Ahmed was a ringleader of notorious Rochdale child sex grooming gang
Former taxi driver, 69, is now appointed as 'equalities representative' in prison
Chief crown prosecutor branded Ahmed’s prison appointment as ‘staggering'
From Daily Mail (UK)
By JAMES TOZER
July 15, 2022
The vile ringleader of the notorious Rochdale child sex grooming gang has been appointed ‘equalities representative’ at his maximum security jail.
Shabir Ahmed was handed the role in a move branded an ‘insult’ to his victims despite having attempted to blame his crimes on Western society for allowing young girls to ‘parade on the streets’. ... read full article
UK - BBC apologises after interviewing transgender athlete who boasted of violence against women
Justin Webb, who led the interview, has insisted he had 'no idea' the retired MMA fighter, Fallon Fox, had made such comments
From The Telegraph (UK)
By Ewan Somerville
July 16, 2022
The BBC has apologised for interviewing a transgender athlete who boasted about knocking women out, in a discussion about female-only sports.
Fallon Fox, an American former martial arts fighter, was invited onto BBC Radio 4’s Today programme last month after trans athletes were barred from women’s elite races if they have gone through male puberty. ... read full article
UK - Leaked documents call Penny Mordaunt’s gender self-ID claims into question
From The Sunday Times (UK)
By Harry Yorke and Caroline Wheeler
July 16, 2022
Penny Mordaunt’s claims that she has never supported gender self- identification came under fresh scrutiny after leaked government documents suggested she backed watering down the legal process for transitioning.
Papers drawn up by civil servants appear to show she was in favour of removing at least one medical requirement needed by transgender people when she was equalities minister. ... read full article
UK - What is a Woman? And does it Worry You?
From YouGov (UK)
By John Humphrys
July 15, 2022
It’s always fun trying to imagine how our long-deceased grandparents or even parents might react to the modern age. Simply walking down a busy street would fill them with wonder. Why do so many people have those little deaf aids in their ears and why are they talking to themselves, sometimes in a very agitated way? But it’s not just the relentless march forward of digital technology that has rendered our society incomprehensible to those who lived in an earlier age.
I try to imagine trying to explain to my parents if they were to be reincarnated why one of the issues in the contest to be our next prime minister is whether someone born with a penis can be a woman. The question “What is a woman?” may not be at the top of the debate but it is causing real difficulties for one of the leading contenders in the race to be our next Prime Minister. Is it something that preoccupies you? Should it? ... read full article
UK - 'What's happening to this country, is all humour dead?' Ex athletics coach who jokingly dressed up as 'Olympic 2024 female athletic team' at town carnival hits back at 'transphobia' claim and says his group has nothing to apologise for
Carnival float featured men dressed 'as the Olympic 2024 female athletic team'
Trans stand-up comedian Donna Landy attended event in Devon back in May
She blasted float, for highlighting a backwards' viewpoint on transgender issues
Great Torrington Mayfair and Carnival Committee issued apology to community
From Daily Mail (UK)
By KATIE FEEHAN and KAYA TERRY
July 15, 2022
The man behind a town carnival entry in which men dressed as women athletes has hit back at claims that the spectacle was transphobic.
Former athletics coach Maurice Cockwill, 75, his son Carlton Cockwill and their friend Paul ‘Benson’ Hutchings appeared in sports bras and swimming trunks alongside a group of women during the Great Torrington May Fair.
Trans stand-up comedian Donna Landy attended the event in Devon back in May and blasted the float for being 'offensive' and highlighting a backwards' viewpoint on transgender issues. ... read full article
UK - Tory MPs mocked for complaints of 'woke bias' in Channel 4 leadership debate
From The National (UK)
By Gregor Young
July 16, 2022
TORY MPs have been mocked after claiming that the Tory leadership debate shown on Channel 4 was “biased”.
The broadcast was the first time the five Conservative MPs vying for the keys to No 10 had faced each other in a televised debate, though they had all spoken at an online hustings earlier on Friday. ... read full article
UK - Watch our Fact and Fiction webinar now live on YouTube!
From Transgender Trend (UK)
July 16, 2022
On Saturday July 9th Transgender Trend spent the morning in the company of a stellar cast of ground-breaking authors. Our webinar Fact and Fiction celebrated the authors who have written and published books in a cultural climate that is hostile to facts and reality and insistent on their replacement with a fiction, namely the idea of gender identity in place of the reality of sex.
Today, in a cultural climate where it is heresy to define a woman as an adult human female, to even write a book about menstruation for girls becomes a subversive act, let alone books that critique the idea of gender identity or challenge the medical treatment of children. ... read full article
France - Trans Activists Destroy Feminist Mural to Infant Victims of Abusive Brain Trauma
From REDUXX (USA)
By Anna Slatz
July 16, 2022
Feminists are expressing outrage after a mural created in remembrance of the infant victims of shaken baby syndrome was destroyed by trans activists.
On July 14, pictures began circulating on Twitter showing street art dedicated to babies lost to abusive head trauma — also known as “shaken baby syndrome” (SBS) — that had been intentionally defaced. The mural was paper-based art plastered near a sidewalk creating a collage with the names and ages of 14 babies who had died as a result of the injury. Most of the infants were aged 1 to 13 months. ... read full article
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