Sunday, September 4, 2022
"... the goal of the curriculum is to ... disrupt the 'entrenched gender norms in western society' while encouraging children to transition to a more 'gender creative world.'"
This day in Herstory: Eileen Mary Challans, born September 4, 1905 (died December 13, 1983), known by her pen name Mary Renault, was an English writer best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece. Born in Forest Gate in 1905, she attended St Hugh's College, Oxford, from 1924 until 1928. After graduating from St Hugh's, she worked as a nurse and began writing her first novels, which were contemporary romances. In 1948, she moved to South Africa with her partner Julie Mullard, where she spent the rest of her life. Living in South Africa allowed her to write about openly gay characters without fearing the censorship and homophobia of England. She devoted herself to writing historical fiction in the 1950s, which were also her most successful books. She is best known for her historical fiction today. (more)
US - Could Republicans own education issues this November?
In historic shift, voters now trust Republicans as much as Democrats on education issues thanks to school closures and culture wars
From Deseret News (USA)
By Suzanne Bates
Sept 3, 2022
The American voting public now trusts Republicans nearly as much as Democrats on education issues, according to recent polling. This represents a significant leveling of the playing field on an issue that has traditionally been a boon to the political left.
In an August 2022 Fox News poll, 48% of voters said they think Democrats would do a better job handling education, while 46% said they think Republicans would do a better job. A pollster for the group Democrats for Education Reform said Democrats have in the past held a “double-digit advantage” on education issues, and this was a “historic” shift. … read full article
US - America’s school curriculum: Garbage in, garbage out
From The Washington Times (USA)
By Everett Piper
September 4, 2022
In New York City, at Trinity School on the Upper West Side, where parents pay $60,000 per year for their sons and daughters to get “a balanced educational program for body and soul,” Jennifer Norris, Director of Student Activities, proudly boasts, to an undercover reporter, that she works at “a real fancy school … I can’t pretend I’m promoting an agenda even though I clearly am with all the stuff I’m doing… I feel like I’m a double agent… Unfortunately, it’s the white boys who feel very entitled to express their opposite opinions… There is a huge contingent of them that are just horrible… [They] are so protected by capitalism that it makes me sad…We just need someone like Dexter (a fictional vigilante serial killer) to ‘take them out.’”
In Chicago, four public school districts declare they have partnered with Lurie Children’s Hospital to provide materials that promote gender theory, trans activism, critical race theory, and the condemnation of “western society’s white values.” In case you miss their clear intent, the goal of the curriculum, says Jennifer Leininger, associate director of Lurie’s Community Programs, is to “communicate a non-binary understanding of gender” and to disrupt the “entrenched gender norms in western society” while encouraging children to transition to a more “gender creative world.” “White” western ideas, according to Leininger, are “oppressive, gender binary, and falsely divide the world into to categories of man and woman that result in racial discrimination.. cissexism and systemic discrimination.” … read full article
US - Serial Pedophile Back In Custody After Being Released Following Transition
From Reduxx (Canada)
By Jennifer Gingrich
September 4, 2022
A serial pedophile who was released from prison after beginning a gender transition which officials said reduced his potential to reoffend is back in custody after being found with child sexual abuse materials.
Joseph Matthew Smith, who also goes by the name Josie Maria Dunham or Josie Smith, made international headlines in 2020 after being released from prison just 4 years into an indefinite prison sentence. Smith had been convicted of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old resident at Midwest Christian Services (MCS), a treatment facility for juveniles. Smith had been housed at MCS following another conviction for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old when he was a teenager. … read full article
US - Libs of TikTok Takes on Big Tech: ‘If Twitter Permanently Bans Me, I’ll Sue Them’
From Breitbart (USA)
By Alana Mastrangelo
September 4, 2022
Chaya Raichik, the woman behind the popular Twitter account Libs of TikTok, known for exposing the outrageous behavior of radical leftists, says she will sue the social media platform if it permanently bans her. Raichik promised a legal war against the far-left Silicon Valley company in a blog post following her most recent suspension for “hateful conduct,” a charge she vehemently denies.
Twitter suspended Libs of TikTok last week for so-called “hateful conduct” after the account shared a recording of Children’s National Hospital staff saying the hospital performs transgender-related hysterectomies on minors. … read full article
US - Detrans Titans - Grace
An interview with Grace (@hormonehangover)
From TullipR - Detrans Man (UK)
By @TullipR Detrans Male
September 4, 2022
Next up in the Detrans Titans series, we have the wonderful Grace, who goes by the substack and twitter handle @HormoneHangover. Grace rose to the spotlight when she featured alongside four over detransitioners in May 2021’s CBS’s 60 minutes look into Gender Affirming Care. However, Grace has been advocating for better healthcare and awareness well before the segment.
Alongside Sinead, I first saw Grace’s interview on Benjamin Boyce’s YouTube who has platformed a number of detransitioner stories, and once again I found myself relating strongly to the story of another detransitioner, regardless of the differences in our sex.
It felt like, although there are key differences in the route ways that take young men and women down this path, the thoughts are strikingly similar. After all, we were all part of the same belief. … read full article
A North Carolina school baptized more than 100 kids without parental permission or attendance: 'Mama, can you bring me some dry clothes?'
From Insider (USA)
By Yelena Dzhanova
Sep 3, 2022
A North Carolina school baptized more than 100 students without asking permission from their parents, The Fayetteville Observer reported on Friday.
When parents learned that their children had been baptized at the Northwood Temple Academy, they were upset.
"My daughter calls me from the school and says, 'Mama, can you bring me some dry clothes? I got baptized today,'" one parent told the Observer. "I said, 'WHAT?'" … read full article
US - Scantily-clad 13-year-old in children’s hospital video says ‘you’re never too young’ to discuss gender
From BPR (USA)
By Ashley Hill
September 4, 2022
Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago is woke. As if in a bid for the blue ribbon of wokeness, administrators posted multiple videos of “gender conversations” featuring children 13 years old and under.
In years past, this conversation would be like the 1990 scene from Kindergarten Cop where a little boy proudly stands up in class and announces “boys have a penis, girls have a vagina,” but fast forward to 2022 and you have a scantily clad 13-year-old speaking in a video entitled “Never Fear: Jupiter (13) & Natalia Talk Gender Conversations at Home.” … read full article
US - Former College Basketball Coach on Title IX
Campus Reform Higher Education Fellow and tenured associate professor of English at Georgia State University, Rob Jenkins, joined The Lars Larson Show to discuss the Biden Administration’s proposed changes to Title IX.
From Campus Reform (USA)
By Avery Selby
September 4, 2022
Campus Reform Higher Education Fellow and tenured associate professor of English at Georgia State University, Rob Jenkins, joined The Lars Larson Show to discuss the Biden Administration’s proposed Title IX changes.
The proposed changes intend to expand Title IX protections beyond biological sex to include “sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics."
In his Campus Reform op-ed, “Biden’s proposed changes to Title IX will harm women,” Jenkins, a former collegiate athletic director, explained that progressives, who are proposing the updates, can’t define a woman. … read full article
US - Victimhood is One Helluva Drug
From Queer Majority (USA)
By Ben Appel
September 2(?), 2022
I recently came across an old tweet, posted in 2020, by transgender ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio. Strangio tweeted that after he asked a man to move his SUV that was blocking Strangio’s driveway, the man called him a “faggot.”
“At the time it was mostly embarrassing,” Strangio wrote. “I felt that deep pang of self-hatred (and a tiny bit of gender validation for being called a faggot — since yes, accurate).”
Now, basically anything Strangio tweets bothers me, since I, like a lot of other LGB (and some trans) people, believe that many children and some adolescents presenting at gender clinics today would likely desist and grow up to be gay, lesbian, or bisexual if they were given proper emotional support. In other words, in many cases, the medicalization of “trans kids” might actually be the medicalization of homosexuality. This puts me at odds with Strangio’s apparent mission to make puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and irreversible surgeries (which lead to infertility and, for males especially, lack of proper sexual function) more accessible to vulnerable youth who might be struggling with internalized homophobia. … read full article
US - Remembering Yaeli
From Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) (USA)
September 4, 2022
Today, September 4th, 2022, is the first day of Suicide prevention week. This also happens to be the third anniversary of the untimely and entirely preventable death of Yaeli Galdamez. She was a 19-year-old California girl who, like many teenage girls, was plagued with depression, anxiety and came to believe she was transgender after being bullied in middle school. What followed was a conspiracy of school counselors, Department of Family and Child Services, friends, other kid’s parents, and the LGBTQ Rise task force that resulted in Yaeli being coerced into walking out of her family home one July evening in 2016 and ended with her stepping in front of a train three years later. According to her mother, “she went on her knees, raised her arms up and just laid on the tracks.” She was discouraged from seeing the remains as “they had to pick pieces of her off of the track.” … read full article
Canada - The anti-women trans activism movement
From True North (Canada)
By Sue-Ann Levy
September 4, 2022
Vancouver registered nurse Amy Hamm faces a disciplinary hearing later this month for speaking out – while off duty – about radical gender theory and women’s sex-based rights.
She could lose her nursing license for the alleged crime of defending the biological differences between women and men, and standing up against the threats to women’s sex-based rights based on those differences.
She could not ignore either the potential harms this radical trans ideology can inflict on children indoctrinated to transition at a young age. … read full article
Canada - Trans, non-binary community alarmed by Brian Jean email challenging gender identity in sport
From iHeart Radio (Canada)
By Adam Lachacz
September 3, 2022
Advocates are calling an email sent by United Conservative Party leadership candidate Brian Jean as transphobic and dangerous for members of the LGBTQ2S+ community.
Jean's campaign sent an email Friday morning to supporters that challenged letting transgender and non-binary athletes compete in sports using their preferred identity.
"There should be two categories in sport," the email read. "One for biological men, and one for biological women. Going through puberty as a male makes changes to your body that are permanent and cannot be denied. … read full article
UK - The tyranny of Pride
It’s time for a fightback against rainbow authoritarianism.
From Spiked (UK)
By Brendan O’Neill
September 4, 2022
Imagine there was a political movement so powerful and so intolerant that you might be visited by the cops for making fun of it. A movement so dominant that desecrating its symbols came to be treated as a kind of blasphemy. A movement so fawned over by the elites that any town or village that refused to bow down to it – to wave its flag and shout its slogans – risked being written off as unsafe, and essentially as unclean. A movement so embedded in the ruling class that every wing of the establishment, from the political set to the military to the financial elite, was duty bound to display its insignia.
Well, such a movement exists, right here in 21st-century Britain. And it isn’t Toryism or ‘Brexshit’ or any of the other ideologies the liberal elite is constantly telling us to fear. It’s Pride. … read full article
UK - Church of England says its own teaching presents a safeguarding risk
From Archbishop Cranmer (UK)
By Archbishop Cranmer
September 4, 2022
Remember the Rev’d Dr Bernard Randall? He was chaplain at Trent College, Nottingham – an independent Church of England school – until he was sacked for preaching Church of England doctrine. The fact that Trent College is a Church of England school and Dr Randall was a Church of England chaplain preaching Church of England doctrine wasn’t enough to save him. He preached quite sensitively and intelligently on gender identity and the challenges presented by LGBT ideology, and how this is often in conflict with other worldviews, and especially in a school which exists “to educate boys and girls according to the Protestant and Evangelical principles of the Church of England”. And for this he was reported to the counter-terrorism unit Prevent, and sacked.
His Employment Tribunal case begins this week. … read full article
UK - Members of Swansea University feminist society are forced to quit for their own safety after being targeted by trans activists
Swansea University feminist society was 'purged by trans activists', it's claimed
Abby Claron, the society's outgoing president, says members were intimidated
It came after the society supported Sussex University professor Kathleen Stock
Ms. Claron clams the society as piled on by trans activists and branded a 'Terf'
From Daily Mail (UK)
By MATTHEW LODGE
September 4, 2022
The president of a university feminist society says its members were forced to quit for their safety after it was targeted by trans activists.
Abby Claron, who is the outgoing president of Swansea University Feminist Society, says its members were intimated after it showed support for a university professor over her views on gender. … read full article
UK - Jeremy Clarkson: The offensive word today’s entitled teens have never heard: ‘no’
From The Times (UK)
By Jeremy Clarkson
September 4. 2022
At the moment, everyone has their own idea of what we should be worrying about most of all. Some say it’s the energy crisis, others say it’s global food shortages, or Brexit, or climate change, or Putin’s ambitions in eastern Europe, or runaway inflation and the effect it’s having on the cost of living.
The trouble is that there are so many different problems coming at us from so many different angles that no one has yet spotted the biggest problem of them all: the complete and utter uselessness of today’s youth. … read full article
UK - The police are having an identity crisis
From The Spectator (UK)
By Julie Burchill
September 4, 2022
What are the police for? The answer used to be obvious – to solve crimes and catch criminals. But now, I’d seriously have to think about it; going on the evidence of recent years, I’d probably conclude that they’re being paid to have a laugh, signal virtue and, of course, dance. Plod’s attempts at ‘getting down’ at the Notting Hill Carnival are legendarily embarrassing; last month, Lincolnshire police proudly shared a video of them doing the Macarena at Pride on the force’s official Twitter account. When people look back for an image to sum up the disintegration of our society, one of our own ‘Nero fiddling while Rome burns’ moments will surely be ‘the police dancing the Macarena at Pride while rape becomes essentially decriminalised.’
I remarked on the sinister side of the police here a few months back, noting their startling misogyny which includes everything from using images of stalked, attacked and murdered women as their own private pornography stash to the brotherly solidarity they showed to the grooming gangs, ignoring the terrified children who summed up the courage to report their rape and torture, sometimes to the point of arresting the girls themselves for ‘disorderly behaviour’. Wayne Couzens, killer of Sarah Everard – the 15th woman killed by a policeman in 12 years – was affectionately known as ‘The Rapist’ by his colleagues. Since then, we’ve seen Welsh police remove lesbians from a Pride march because they upset the men in frocks. … read full article
UK - Rugby Transgender Ban Under Threat as Governing Body Left to Tackle Legal Challenge
From Breitbart (USA)
By Peter Caddle
September 4, 2022
A ban on transgender players taking part in women’s rugby is now under threat, with the body responsible for the sport in England being hit with a legal case over the decision.
England’s Rugby Football Union (RFU) — the body responsible for the management and regulation of rugby union — has been hit with a legal case over its announcement that it was banning all transgender players from taking part in women’s rugby. … read full article
Barclays criticised for advert that shows transgender woman receiving financial advice so she can fund surgery to give her ‘big t***’
The bank has teamed up with Channel 4 for a series of 'authentic' TV adverts
Luna, a 30-year-old transgender woman, wants advice on saving for surgery
She details how she is transitioning from male to female but her goal is surgery
From Daily Mail (UK)
By SAM MERRIMAN
September 3, 2022
Barclays has been criticised for an advert that shows a transgender woman receiving financial advice so she can fund surgery to give her ‘big t***’.
The bank has teamed up with Channel 4 for a series of televised adverts showing ‘authentic and heartwarming’ stories. … read full article
Ed. Note: This crime couldn’t even occur in the USA or the UK. Only you know your gender identity … and it can change at any time. Nobody can “pretend” to be transgender. That’s the beauty of gender identity. Who could say that you’re “pretending” - or not?
“Police are trying to verify their identities.” Good luck with that.
Bangladesh - Four men arrested for extortion pretending to be transgender
From New Age Bangladesh
By Staff Correspondent
September 4, 2022
The police arrested four people on charge of extortion in public transport and shops pretending to be transgender in the capital’s Uttara area on Saturday evening.
The arrested were extorting money from public transports in front of BNS Tower at Uttara sector-7, said Uttara West police officer-in-charge Mohammad Mohsin.
They are 30–35 years old and extort in Uttara and Dakshin Khan areas, the police officer said.
Police are trying to verify their identities. … read full article
Can this get any crazier?
Thank you again. Much of this is hard to believe, isn't it?