Saturday, September 10, 2022
Proposed "regulations undermine the initial premise of Title IX ... will chill speech and enshrine gender identity as a reality, which could trump sex-based, freedom of speech and religious rights."
Alison Bechdel, born September 10, 1960, is an American cartoonist. Originally known for the long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, she came to critical and commercial success in 2006 with her graphic memoir Fun Home, which was subsequently adapted as a musical that won a Tony Award for Best Musical in 2015. In 2012, she released her second graphic memoir Are You My Mother? She was a 2014 recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" Award. She is also known for originating the Bechdel test. (more)
Ed. Note: GC News will not post tomorrow (Sunday, September 11). We’ll be back September 12.
US - Proposed Title IX changes - only 2 more days for comments
Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex in Education Programs or Activities Receiving Federal
Financial Assistance
The U.S. Department of Education (Department) proposes to amend the regulations implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX). …
Dates
Comments must be received on or before September 12, 2022.
US - When Harry wants to be Sally: Proposed changes to Title IX seek to enshrine gender identity as reality
From The Ohio Press Network (USA)
By Erin Friday
September 10, 2022
While U.S. citizens, and particularly women and parents, should be celebrating the golden jubilee of Title IX, marking 50 years of protection against sex discrimination, they are instead feverishly trying to stop the Biden administration from implementing sweeping changes to the 1972 federal civil rights law. The proposed regulations undermine the initial premise of Title IX, prohibiting sex discrimination in educational programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance. These regulations will chill speech and enshrine gender identity as a reality, which could trump sex-based, freedom of speech and religious rights. … read full article
US - Jennifer's and Vera's stories: Cutting off gender indoctrination at its source
From Washington Examiner (USA)
By Kaylee McGhee White
September 10, 2022
Gender dysphoria is a real mental condition that, until very recently, affected a very small group of people, almost all of whom were young men. Now, it’s a social contagion that is spreading like wildfire among vulnerable young girls.
Almost every one of the dozens of families with whom I’ve spoken in recent months told me the same story: Their daughter suffered from an underlying mental condition like body dysmorphia or high-functioning autism, and the anxieties and emotions they experienced as a result made them the perfect targets for gender ideologues. Gender ideology gives them a community, a group of social misfits just like them with whom to connect. And most importantly, it provides them with an explanation for why they feel so out of place in their changing bodies and social environments. If you believe you’re born into the wrong body, then of course it makes sense why you hate the way you look and struggle to fit in with girls your age. You’re not a girl, after all.
… read full article
US - Miami Surgeon Using TikTok To Promote Sex Change Procedures To Teens
From Daily Caller (USA)
By Laurel Duggan
September 10, 2022
Dr. Sidhbh Gallagher is promoting cross-sex surgeries she performs on the youth-dominated social media platform TikTok, a Daily Caller News Foundation review found.
She addresses questions about “gender-affirming” surgeries including mastectomies and genital surgeries and criticizes efforts to restrict youth sex change procedures.
“Probably about 20% of my patients opt to go nip-free. Now the reason some folks do this is this is what’s going to be most affirming for them,” she said in one video. “Some folks describe dysphoria associated with the nips themselves, and most people just want that clean look of the nip-free chest.”
Dr. Sidhbh Gallagher, a Miami-based plastic surgeon, advertises the “gender-affirming” surgeries she performs on adolescents on the youth-dominated social media app TikTok, a Daily Caller News Foundation review found.
Gallagher’s TikTok profile contains hundreds of videos about transgender-related surgeries she performs, some of which include photos or videos of her young patients showing off mastectomy scars. Her videos are part of the pro-medicalization, transgender-affirming trend encouraging young people on social media to pursue biomedical interventions. … read full article
US - Librarians go radical as new woke policies take over: experts
From New York Post (USA)
By Dana Kennedy
September 10, 2022
Marian the Librarian, the prim, bespectacled love interest of con artist Harold Hill in the classic musical, “The Music Man,” wouldn’t recognize her profession today.
Libraries, for decades the ultimate safe spaces, have become ground zero in the ongoing culture wars, with battles over banned books, drag queen story hours and free access to porn raging all over the country — from Louisiana to Idaho to Washington State as well as cities like New York and LA. … read full article
US - WDI USA Report on "Gender Identity" Indoctrination in Schools
From Kara Dansky’s Substack (USA)
By Kara Dansky
September 10, 2022
The U.S. chapter of Women’s Declaration International (WDI USA) (full disclosure: I serve as the current president) has published a trove of information about how children are being indoctrinated to believe that sex isn’t real and that anyone can be a boy or a girl depending on their identity and their preference for certain types of clothes and toys. This is the industry’s way of pushing its relentless war on biology and its insistence on enshrining regressive sex stereotypes throughout law and society.
According to WDI USA:
Millions of children across the United States are being systematically indoctrinated by their schools into the regressive ideology that everyone has a “gender identity.” The indoctrination starts in the earliest school years. It’s happening in red and blue states, big city and small town schools. Children are inundated by gender identity ideology from all sides, over and over again, as though “gender identity” were real, and as though it is more important than the material reality of biological sex. … read full article
US - Montana health department adopts rule severely restricting changes of sex on birth certificates
From CNN (USA)
By Rebekah Riess
September 10, 2022
Health officials in Montana adopted a proposed rule change Friday pertaining to changing the identification of sex on state-issued birth certificates, which now excludes changes following gender confirmation surgeries.
The rule change by the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, which went into effect Saturday, now makes it virtually impossible for transgender persons to change the sex listed on their birth certificates by now only allowing changes under very limited circumstances.
According to the new rule, the sex on a birth certificate can now only be changed if it was listed incorrectly on the original certificate "as a result of a scrivener's error or a data entry error" or if "the sex of the individual was misidentified on the original certificate and the department receives a correction affidavit and supporting documents, ... including a copy of the results of chromosomal, molecular, karyotypic, DNA, or genetic testing that identify the sex of the individual." … read full article
US - Catholic Colleges Now Offering ‘Gender-Inclusive’ Housing, Among Other Lgbtq+ Initiatives
From The Catholic Telegraph (USA)
By Edie Heipel and Joe Bukuras
September 9, 2022
Catholic parents with children in college have something other than rising tuition bills to worry about this fall, as some Catholic colleges and universities are adopting “gender-inclusive” housing policies as part of a broader embrace of gender ideology.
Sacred Heart University, Saint Mary’s College of California, and Fairfield University are three universities providing a “gender-inclusive” roommate option this school year, which means sharing a dorm room with someone of the opposite sex.
Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, offers a gender-inclusive housing option that consists of “two or more students [who] mutually agree to live in a gender-inclusive, multiple-occupancy bedroom, suite, or apartment.” … read full article
US - POLL: Over one-third of white Democrat college-educated women say men can get pregnant
From The College Fix (USA)
September 10, 2022
A recent survey asking respondents if men could get pregnant found that over one-third of college-educated women affiliated with the Democratic Party responded “true.”
In a graphic posted to Twitter on September 7, the WPA Intelligence poll told participants “Now you are going to read some statements that are commonly shared. To the best of your knowledge, please indicate whether you believe that statement to be true or false.” … read full article
Mexico - Trans Activists Stage “Coup” of Women’s Washroom at University, Issue Rape Threats
From Reduxx (Canada)
By Nuria Muíña Garcia
September 10, 2022
Female students at one of Latin America’s top Universities say trans activists staged a coup of a single-sex washroom on their campus, and have left some gender critical women and lesbians fearing for their lives.
On August 24, feminist students at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) were confronted by trans activists as they painted a lesbian pride symbol on a wall near the Samuel Ramos Library. Speaking to Reduxx, a witness who prefers to remain anonymous said that the activists began hurling verbal abuse at the women who were painting the lesbian labrys. … read full article
UK - The Quiet Erasure of Same-Sex Attraction
How and when sexual orientation was conceptually undermined in Wikipedia
From Void if removed (UK)
By Dave Hewitt
September 10, 2022
Wikipedia in many ways represents what the internet aspires to be - a vast and ever-growing repository of human knowledge, free and available to all, for the betterment of humanity. It is not perfect, but certainly for straightforwardly factual matters it is a resource that we take for granted - whether directly, or indirectly through other services that depends on its information.
Wikipedia works on a model of consensus, where any edit is presumed to represent the agreed viewpoint until it is disputed, and that this majority view tends towards “truth” over time. Disputes require credible sources to defend contrasting viewpoints, with edits reverted until consensus can be reached in discussions on an article’s “talk page” and then a new, uncontested view put forward. In a worst case, on straightforwardly factual matters alternative viewpoints are presented side by side, letting the reader know as fairly as possible that there is a dispute and leaving them to reach their own conclusions. … read full article
UK - Trans Fetish Enthusiast Reportedly Advising Irish Policy on Men in Women’s Sport
An interview in the Guardian claims 'Giulia' Valentino has been consulted as part of a policy review into inclusion of males in Irish women's football
From 4W (USA)
By Dana Vitalosova
September 10, 2022
An Italian 37-year-old male DJ and IT specialist "passionate about fetish" has been consulted as part of a policy review concerning the presence of men in Irish women's football teams, the Guardian has revealed.
Giulia (formerly Marco) Valentino was born in Rome, Italy, and moved to Ireland in 2019, where he first joined a Dublin women's rugby team. According to The Independent newspaper, in 2021, he complained to Gay Community News magazine that we was barred from using the female-only changing room. … read full article
UK - The distinctiveness of human aggression
A review of The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution by Richard Wrangham
From The Critic (UK)
By Rob Henderson
September 6, 2022
The “self-domestication hypothesis” is the idea that in the ancestral environment, early human communities collectively killed individuals prone to certain forms of aggression: arrogance, bullying, random violence, and monopolizing food and sexual partners.
Over time, our ancestors eliminated humans — typically males — who were exceedingly aggressive toward members of their own group.
If there was a troublemaker, then other less domineering males conspired to organize and commit collective murder against them. … read full article