Thursday, July 21, 2022
"The Los Angeles Unified School District offers schools and teachers a "Queer All School Year" calendar that provides a blueprint for promoting LGBT pride throughout the year."
This day in Herstory: Brandi Denise Chastain (born July 21, 1968) is an American retired soccer player, two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion, two-time Olympic gold-medalist, coach, and sports broadcaster. She played for the United States national team from 1988 to 2004. In her 192 caps on the team, she scored 30 goals playing primarily in the defender and midfielder positions. She scored a World Cup-winning penalty shootout goal against China in the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup final. (more)
US - Trans-Identified Male Arrested After “Manipulating” Minors Into Sexual Abuse
From REDUXX (USA)
By Reduxx Team
July 21, 2022
A trans-identified male who “manipulated” children into sexual activities was arrested last Wednesday in Citrus County, Florida. According to police, 33-year-old Diana Elizabeth Guevara fostered a relationship with one child in order to “identify [his] next victims.”
Guevara sent multiple explicit photos and videos on social media to children between the ages of 12 to 17, law enforcement officials said, adding that he also had sexual relations with a number of the children at his home in Inverness. ... read full article
UK - Minnesota Venue Cancels Dave Chappelle Show As Transphobia Controversy Boils Over
From Forbes (USA)
By Derek Saul
July 21, 2022
TOPLINE
A Minneapolis venue called off comedian Dave Chappelle’s scheduled stand-up performance Wednesday night following backlash, as the fallout over his controversial remarks on transgender people deepens.
KEY FACTS
The venue First Avenue’s announcement didn’t directly cite Chappelle’s trans comments as the reason for the cancellation, but said its belief in the “freedom of artistic expression” caused it to lose “sight of the impact” hosting Chappelle may have.
The cancellation came after heavy backlash toward the venue online and from its own employees.
Chappelle’s Wednesday show was moved to the Varsity Theater in Minneapolis, which was set to host performances Thursday and Friday. ... read full article
US - The Left’s Trans Agenda Is All About Erasing The Past To Control The Future
The left doesn’t just want you to deny biology in the present. They want you to ignore that it was ever valued as reality in the past.
From The Federalist (USA)
By JORDAN BOYD
July 21, 2022
Radical gender idealists recently announced they are unhappy with the “current standards in forensic human identification” because those policies “do a disservice to people who do not clearly fit the gender binary.”
Instead of simply discovering and classifying the past using contextual clues in human remains, including sex as determined by biological features, there’s a new academic push to project the sexual climate of today on history and offer “a gender-expansive approach to human identification.” ... read full article
US - LA schools promote 'Queer All School Year' calendar, documents show
From Washington Examiner (USA)
By JEREMIAH POFF
July 21, 2022
The Los Angeles Unified School District offers schools and teachers a "Queer All School Year" calendar that provides a blueprint for promoting LGBT pride throughout the year.
Documents from the Los Angeles Unified School District Human Relations, Diversity, and Equity office contain a month-by-month plan for schools to promote gay and transgender ideology to students in different ways. ... read full article
US - Trove of disturbing docs show LA school district’s attempt to integrate ‘Queer Theory’ into K–12 teachings
From BPR Business & Politics (USA)
By Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
July 21, 2022
Conservative activist Christopher Rufo has set his sights on exposing the Los Angeles Unified School District’s attempt to integrate academic Queer Theory into every facet of Kindergarten through 12 grades.
After shedding light on Critical Race Theory in schools and various companies, Rufo is targeting Queer Theory. The gender controversy engulfing the public school system in the United States is compounded by the fact that many teachers, staff, and schools themselves actively conspire to hide from parents that their children are being indoctrinated with the woke gender-confusing ideology. ... read full article
US - Gender identity. Birth control. Here are some objections to Miami-Dade’s sex-ed textbook
From Miami Herald (USA)
By Sommer Brugal
July 21, 2022
They didn’t like the terms cisgender or gender fluid when describing how three different people described their gender identity. They objected to a lesson on emergency contraception pills. They didn’t like the chapter guiding students to communicate with a trusted adult in difficult situations.
These were among the objections that a less than a year-old group had to a sexual education textbook the Miami-Dade School Board ultimately rejected Wednesday night after a contentious meeting. The board’s decision overruled the recommendations of an officer appointed by Superintendent Jose Dotres to review the materials and the criticisms of the book that were raised. ... read full article
US - UPenn female swimmer blasts university over nomination of Lia Thomas for Woman of the Year award
From Washington Examiner (USA)
By Christopher Tremoglie
July 21, 2022
EXCLUSIVE — As an Ivy League school, the University of Pennsylvania has a reputation for being one of the most intelligent institutions in the world. But given the school's inability to differentiate between men and women, perhaps that reputation should be reconsidered.
The school's decision to nominate transgender swimmer Lia Thomas as Woman of the Year is just plain dumb. Furthermore, it's insulting to actual women, especially those who competed on the women’s swimming team. One of those swimmers spoke to me on the condition of anonymity and blasted the school's decision to nominate Thomas. ... read full article
US - 50 School Districts Granted $10,000 By ‘It Gets Better Project’ To Promote Gender Ideology In Schools
From Daily Caller (USA)
By Chrissy Clark
July 21, 2022
An LGBT organization awarded 50 school districts nationwide a $10,000 grant to promote gender ideology and support “Gender Sexuality Alliance” (GSA) clubs, according to a press release from the “It Gets Better Project.”
The “It Gets Better Project” provided grants to 50 schools nationwide that submitted project proposals, according to the group’s press release. The organization said the grants were created via customer donations from American Eagle customers during Pride Month 2021. ... read full article
US - “Trans” Social Justice Warrior
From Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) (USA)
July 21, 2022
My son is not old school trans, the type that suffered from extreme dysphoria and distress and was forced to seek mental and medical help to cope. He is part of the new generation of trans—the social justice “trans” warriors.
My son knows he is male. But he wants to be “trans” because he hates gender stereotypes and believes in “trans” as a social justice cause—and he doesn’t so much want to be a girl, as he wants to not be a man. He sees men as harmful to women and wants to protect them, but somehow in his mixed up mind he thinks becoming one, will help women. ... read full article
Canada - Schools aren’t in session but that won’t stop the radical activists
From True North (Canada)
By Sue-Ann Levy
July 21, 2022
Indoctrination of the innocent doesn’t seem to stop even during the summer months.
Even though schools aren’t in session, woke activists are springing out of the woodwork every day to keep radical trans/LGBTQ ideology on the front burner.
Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) trustee Karen Meissner is promoting a “binding” workshop for this Saturday at the Kitchener public library.
... read full article
Transcript: Jonathan Rauch
My conversation with the Washington journalist and author of The Constitution of Knowledge
From Lean Out with Tara Henley (USA)
By Tara Henley
July 21, 2022
How do we arrive at truth? My guest on the latest podcast argues that it is through reality-based communities — in government, media, the law, and science and academia — which collectively determine truth through trial and error, rules and norms, and discussion and debate. All together, he calls this system “the constitution of knowledge.”
But this system is under threat, he says, from both the right and the left. On the right, through the flooding of the public sphere with what’s called “a firehose of falsehoods.” And on the left, through cancel culture. (You can find his useful cancel culture checklist here.) ... read full article
UK - Girlguiding embroiled in new trans row after promoting interview with boy, seven, who lives as a girl
Social media backlash as parents criticise ‘dangerous nonsense’ of article with parents of young person
From The Telegraph (UK)
By Ewan Somerville
July 21, 2022
Girlguiding is embroiled in a fresh trans row over promoting an interview about a seven-year-old boy who lives as a girl.
Britain’s biggest girls’ organisation published an article by the parents of the child, a Brownie, in its summer magazine, saying it shows “what it means to feel included”.
... read full article
UK - Lord Coe hits back at ‘second-rate sociologists’ as Caster Semenya out-paced in women's 5,000m heats
Great Britain’s Eilish McColgan and Jessica Judd qualify for the final
From The Times (UK)
By Matt Lawton
July 21, 2022
It was not so long ago that Caster Semenya ruled the world over two laps. But here last night in Eugene, because of rules that now exclude her from his chosen event, the former Olympic champion found herself the best part of a lap behind.
This was Semenya’s first appearance in a World Championships since she won the women’s 800m in London in 2017, but the World Athletics regulations that now exclude inter-sex athletes like her from the 400m to the mile meant she was competing in the 5000m. ... read full article
UK - What Kathleen Stock gets wrong about the Tories, trans and feminism
From CAPX (UK)
By Helen Dale
July 21, 2022
Earlier this week the philosopher Kathleen Stock waded into the national press to talk about Tories and our troubled relationship with transgender issues, using Penny Mordaunt’s tilt for the top job as commentary fuel.
For Stock, the Tories’ flapping around on gender issues demonstrates ‘a special kind of indifference to half the population’, which she ascribes to a ‘hidden ideological commitment’ to individualism. She also suggests that the many Tory MPs who do oppose self-ID are motivated by ‘opportunism and cultural warmongering’, rather than concern about women. ... read full article
UK - Joyce activated, issue 14
On Tuesday 19th July, Sex Matters launched a report on single-sex spaces at the House of Lords. This week I’m sharing my speaking notes for the event.
From Helen Joyce (UK))
By Dr. H. Joyce
July 21, 2022
On Tuesday 19th July, Sex Matters launched a report on single-sex spaces at the House of Lords. Rather than return immediately to the subject of “toxic underlings”, this week I’m sharing my speaking notes for the event—and urging you all to read the report, whether in the short, medium or long version. The thousands of testimonies from ordinary people about how much single-sex spaces and services matter for women’s inclusion in public life provide a powerful human-rights argument for halting the trend towards making everything mixed-sex, whether by declaring spaces “gender-neutral” or by allowing men to use women’s spaces if they identify as women. ... read full article
Australia - Parent of five-year-old child has cops called on them after raising concerns about a day care centre for teaching kids about transgenderism and sexual identity: 'There was an entire wall of things like pansexual and lesbian'
The parent says the centre is teaching children 'inappropriate' lessons on gender
However, when they raised concerns, the centre reported them to the police
Parent angry at children being taught about being 'non-binary' and 'pansexual'
From Daily Mail (Australia)
By DANYAL HUSSAIN
July 21, 2022
A Sydney parent says an after-school care centre called the police on him after he reacted angrily to his child being taught 'inappropriate' lessons on gender and sexuality.
The parent said they were told by Roseville Kids Club, which provides before and after school care for students from Roseville Primary School, that the lessons were to raise a more 'inclusive' generation of students. ... read full article
Australia - Shorten intervenes to reverse gender-neutral language on Medicare form
From The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
By Lisa Visentin
July 21, 2022
Government Services Minister Bill Shorten has intervened to scrap a consent form for new parents that used the term “birthing parent” after a mother complained about the gender-neutral language.
The minister’s decision has fuelled an ongoing, often vituperative debate about the appropriateness of gender-neutral terms, particularly around childbirth. ... read full article
Australia - New mum is OUTRAGED after being called a 'birthing parent' instead of a mother by the Australian government - as Ally Langdon slams the move as 'dehumanising'
Gold Coast mother said she was referred to on a form as a 'birthing parent'
She claimed the term was appalling, offensive and dehumanising to mothers
Consent form is part of new hospital trial to upload new baby details to Medicare
Today Show hosts and social media users were divided on term 'birthing parents'
Some Aussies said the term was inclusive to surrogates and same-sex couples
From Daily Mail (Australia)
By OLIVIA DAY
July 20, 2022
A new mother has called out the government after being referred to as a 'birthing parent' rather than a 'mother' on a healthcare form.
Sall Grover, from the Gold Coast, said she was shocked by the 'alienating' form that has been introduced in some hospitals as part of a trial to upload new baby details to Medicare.
She pointed out the form asked for the 'birthing parent's full name' in one box and 'birthing parent's signature' in another instead of 'mother' and shared an image of it on Twitter. ... read full article