Saturday, May 7, 2022
This day in Herstory: María Eva Duarte de Perón (née María Eva Duarte), born May 7, 1919 (died July 26, 1952), better known as just Eva Perón or by the nickname Evita, was an Argentine actress, politician, activist, and philanthropist who served as First Lady of Argentina from June 1946 until her death in July 1952, as the wife of Argentine President Juan Domingo Perón (1895–1974). She was born in poverty in the rural village of Los Toldos, in the Pampas, as the youngest of five children. In 1934, at the age of 15, she moved to the nation's capital of Buenos Aires to pursue a career as a stage, radio, and film actress. (more)
Biden officials prepare to blow up Trump’s rules on sexual misconduct in schools
The Education Department — already attacked by conservatives over critical race theory and Covid restrictions in schools — is expected to roll back Betsy DeVos’ agenda on Title IX.
From Politico (USA)
By BIANCA QUILANTAN
May 7, 2022
A Biden administration plan to overhaul how schools respond to sexual misconduct complaints and extend federal protections to some of the most vulnerable students is coming as soon as this month — and partisan combat is certain to follow in its wake.
Along with casting off many Trump-era guidelines Biden officials say are too arduous for assault victims, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona is expected to codify safeguards for transgender students for the first time, handling both issues in the same rule. … read full article
Children taught about a ‘sliding scale’ between male and female
A book that explores “gender as a spectrum” has been sent to 814 primary schools
From The Times (UK)
By James Beal
May 7, 2022
Primary school children are being taught that a person’s sex is “assigned” to them by a doctor at birth and that gender can be a “sliding scale”.
More than 800 schools have been sent copies of What Does LGBT+ Mean? which claims that a doctor or nurse “looked at our body and gave us a label based on what they could see”.
Written by mother-and-son diversity campaigners, it features a picture of a doctor holding a clipboard and pen by a row of babies under the “assigned sex” chapter. The book adds that “gender is different from assigned sex” and is who they “feel” they are, with examples given as “male, female, both or neither”. … read full article
For more on this story, see Daily Mail:
and Transgender Trend:
'Suddenly getting the right pronoun doesn't seem so big!' Bill Maher taunts woke mob's obsession with trans rights and says prospect of Roe v. Wade being overturned puts it into perspective
Bill Maher mocked the woke crowd's obession with transgender issues, saying the expected overtun to Roe V. Wade was a more pressing issue
Maher said the controversial abortion restriction laws in Louisiana and Oklahoma should take precident over what pronouns people should use
Maher also bashed pro-choice defenders, saying their claim that overturning Roe V. Wade would send U.S. abortion rights back 50 years is 'inaccurate'
A leak from the Supreme Court earlier this week revealed that five of the nine justices are willing tor strike down the landmark abortion case by June
Maher claimed that because most abortions are induced by pills, a change to Roe V. Wade would not make that big of an impact across the U.S.
He said the U.S. would still have more abortion freedoms than most European countries, who set shorter limits on abortion than a majority of American states
From Daily Mail (UK)
By RONNY REYES
May 7, 2022
Real Time host Bill Maher mocked woke advocates for transgender issues on Friday night, saying the possible overturn of Roe V. Wade was a more important issue that puts their complaints into perspective.
In his opening monologue, Maher discussed the Supreme Court leak that revealed five justices are prepared to alter the landmark abortion case.
But the talk show host couldn't resist taking a jab at transgender people and their supporters obsession with policing pronouns. … read full article
The US left is harming the pro-choice cause
Uncompromising activists risk losing the middle ground when they portray having an abortion as a badge of honour
From The Times (UK)
Janice Turner
May 06 2022
Looking across the Atlantic, British women should count every blessing. Not just because Roe v Wade, that flimsy, makeshift frame upon which US abortion rights hang, looks set to fall while we have robust 55-year-old laws. If anti-choice activists protest outside our clinics they may chant, wave mawkish foetus photos and upset patients, but they won’t have guns.
Bravery is an overused word. But those who provide abortions in Midwest or southern states where clinics are firebombed, receptionists stalked, doctors put on wanted posters then shot, patients publicly shamed show a courage we can’t comprehend. US rule of law was not breached when Trump’s mob stormed the Capitol: there’s always been armed insurrection against Roe. … read full article
Rescuing women’s rights from the trap of identity politics
The tyranny of gender has set back the cause of women’s liberation. It’s time for a fightback.
From Spiked (UK)
By Brendan O’Neill
May 7, 2022
Remember the time the ACLU rewrote an old Ruth Bader Ginsburg quote? It was in September 2021, on the first anniversary of RBG’s death. The ACLU rightly wanted to celebrate the esteemed justice who did so much for the liberation of women in the United States. So it took to Twitter to remind people of what RBG said about one of the testiest moral topics in that nation: abortion. ‘The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a [person’s] life, to [their] wellbeing and dignity’, the ACLU had Ginsburg saying. ‘When the government controls that decision for [people], [they are] being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for [their] own choices’, the quote continued. … read full article
Toddler-Killer Quietly Moved to New York Women’s Prison
From REDUXX (USA)
By Genevieve Gluck
May 7, 2022
A trans-identified male convicted of torturing and killing a 4 year-old boy has been quietly transferred to a women’s prison in New York state. Christopher “Kryzie” King was serving a sentence of 22 years to life in Clinton Correctional Facility until April 20, when he was relocated to the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women.
King pleaded guilty to abusing and murdering 4-year-old Myls Dobson in 2014. The child had been left in his care after his father, Okee Wade, was arrested.
Myls had been removed from the custody of his abusive mother, Ashlee Dobson, in 2012 and placed with his father despite Wade’s long history of incarceration and sexual assault. The city’s Administration for Child Services only monitored Myls for a year before closing his case in late 2012, just months before his father would be detained on charges of bank fraud. … read full article
Trans narrative under fire in Sweden
From BioEdge (Australia)
Michael Cook
May 7, 2022
The Swedish national broadcaster SVT has produced a series of programs which are sceptical of transgender medicine. The latest, Transbarnen (The Trans Children), examines the case of “Leo”, a ten-year-old girl who decided that she was really a boy. It is an appalling tale of abysmal medical care – at one of the world best hospitals, the Karolinska.
The troubling revelations from the SVT’s investigative reporters were one factor in new guidelines for gender-affirming care issued in February by the National Board of Health and Welfare. It stated that, based on current knowledge: “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
We Belong Here: Raquel Rosario Sánchez
From Women’s Place UK
May 7, 2022
The closing remarks from Raquel Rosario Sánchez at ‘A Woman’s Place is With Women: feminism, birth and motherhood’ held at the University of Bristol on Tuesday 3rd May 2022, organised by Woman’s Place UK and With Woman.
As chair of the event, this is the first time Raquel has spoken publicly since the outcome of #RaquelvBristolUni.
The chair doesn’t usually speak, but I have asked the women on the team if I could please have a few minutes to address the elephant in the room. Or better yet, the elephant here in the Great Hall. … read full article
Anne Robinson: ‘I’m horrified by the lack of safety for women’
The presenter on how females should look on TV, the lack of debate on trans issues, and why she’s leaving Countdown after just a year
From The Telegraph (UK)
By Anita Singh
May 6, 2022
Not for the first time this afternoon, Anne Robinson is looking at me as if I have lost my mind. I have just asked if, after presenting her final episode of Countdown last month, she had a leaving party. “Where a lot of people who can’t stand you are having to raise a glass? Ugh, no!”
Can you stand Anne Robinson? She’s perfectly happy if you can’t – it means she’s not bland. “If you ever get me to do a job, there will be half the audience saying: ‘Oh, no; not her’. Because you can’t be as opinionated and pleased with yourself as I am and not have people – particularly women – saying: ‘God, she really gets up my nose,’” she says. … read full article
A cloud hangs over trans medicine
Investigative journalism in Sweden has uncovered appalling abuses.
From MercatorNet (Australia)
By Michael Cook
May 6, 2022
“For almost forty years, I’ve considered it an honor to be a doctor. I believe in our role as healers, and I believe in our role as truth-tellers. The truth we need to confront right now is that medicine and science are being politically perverted around the country in ways that destroy human lives.”
These are the words of Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Rachel Levine, a USA Today Woman of the Year, and the Biden Administration’s most prominent transgender bureaucrat.
Speaking a few days ago at Texas Christian University, Levine declared: “Gender-affirming care is medical care. It is mental health care. It is suicide prevention care. It improves quality of life, and it saves lives. It is based on decades of study. It is a well-established medical practice.”
However, transgender care is far from being “well-established”, as Admiral Levine must surely know. It might be helpful; it might be transformative; it might be life-saving. It might not. But whatever it is, it is not well-established. … read full article