Thursday, June 2, 2022
On this day in Herstory: On June 2, 1692, Bridget Bishop was the first woman to be tried for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. She was found guilty and later hanged. Bishop was described as not living a Puritan lifestyle, for she wore black clothing and odd costumes, which was against the Puritan code. When she was examined before her trial, Bishop was asked about her coat, which had been awkwardly "cut or torn in two ways". This, along with her "immoral" lifestyle, affirmed to the jury that Bishop was a witch. (more)
Florida State Health Agency Issues Report Challenging Science of Transgenderism
From Breitbart News (USA)
By Katherine Hamilton
June 2, 2022
The State of Florida is set to issue a formal report questioning the science behind “gender-affirming” care for people who believe they are transgender.
Breitbart News exclusively obtained a 45-page report on Thursday completed by Florida Medicaid and requested by the Secretary of the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA), which oversees Florida’s Medicaid program.
In consultation with several experts, the report concludes that sex reassignment surgeries, puberty blockers, and cross sex hormone treatments for people with gender dysphoria are not proven as “safe or effective” treatments and are “experimental and investigational.” … read full article
Biden’s Title IX Rewrite Is an Assault on Women’s Rights
The administration’s new draft rules redefine the word ‘sex’ to mean ‘gender’ and ‘gender identity.’
From The Wall Street Journal (USA)
By Jennifer C. Braceras and Inez Feltscher Stepman
June 1, 2022
Title IX is a simple anti-discrimination mandate that prohibits federally funded educational institutions from discriminating “on the basis of sex.” Yet, without congressional authorization or other constitutional authority, the Biden administration is writing new Title IX rules to socially engineer every aspect of the educational experience—from student speech and school athletics to high-school locker room use and relationships between adult college students.
These draft rules, leaked to the media in dribs and drabs, have been delayed repeatedly to avoid organized backlash. Behind the scenes, the administration is telling educational institutions that the rules are a fait accompli, demanding enforcement that curtails freedom of speech, due process and women’s rights. … read full article
50 Years Later: Impact of Title IX
From WRGB Albany News (USA)
By Liz Bishop
June 2, 2022
New York State (WRGB) — We are three weeks away from the 50th anniversary of groundbreaking legislation that forever changed the social landscape, and a new poll is out showing its impact over those five decades. Title IX banned discrimination based on sex in the United States. And today, a new Marist Poll shows that Americans are well aware of its effect on both the growth--and acceptance--of women's sports in this country. … read full article
Kids shouldn't choose their 'preferred pronouns,' majority of Americans say in poll
From The National Desk (USA)
by ZACHARY ROGERS
June 2, 2022
WASHINGTON (TND) — New polling shows most Americans believe children should not be able to choose their own "preferred pronouns" and should instead stick with gendered pronouns that align with their biological sex.
Fifty-nine percent of Americans who responded to a new Harvard-Harris poll conducted in late May say kids should be referred to using pronouns that align with the sex the child was born with.
Sixty percent of American poll respondents say they think preferred pronouns are an "excessive measure that does more to confuse kids about their sex.” … read full article
Gov. Kristi Noem threatens lawsuit against feds over transgender inclusive school lunch policy
From Sioux Falls Argus Leader (USA)
By Joe Sneve
June 2, 2022
A new initiative to cut off school lunch funds for schools that deviate from federally-backed transgender policy in classrooms has South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem threatening a lawsuit.
Weeks after the United States Department of Agriculture proposed new rules that would choke dollars from public schools that prohibit transgender youth from participating in sports or using gender-designated bathrooms of their choice, the first-term Republican governor Thursday vowed to resist the measure with litigation.
“President Biden is holding lunch money for poor Americans hostage in pursuit of his radical agenda. He is insisting that we allow biological males to compete in girls’ sports or else lose funding for SNAP and school lunch programs,” Noem said in a statement sent to the Argus Leader. “South Dakota will continue to defend basic fairness so that our girls can compete and achieve." … read full article
A “speak out champion” who won’t speak for all
Politics and prosecution make for a dangerous combination, and women are most likely to lose out
From The Critic (UK)
By Sarah Phillimore
June 2, 2022
On 31 May 2022 the CPS made an exciting announcement: the appointment of a new “Speak Out Champion”. The purported aim was to improve confidence amongst employees at the CPS to speak “openly about their experiences”, to help the CPS uphold its organisational values “to treat everyone with respect”, and — ominously — “as part of the CPS’s continued cultural drive to embed EDI” (Equality Diversity and Inclusion) throughout the workforce. This position is well remunerated with public money: £31,304 for four days work a month. … read full article
UK: CPS Appoints Transgender Rights Campaigner as 'Speak Out Champion'
Cook has publicly questioned the law on rape by deception and has accused the LGB Alliance of being a hate group.
From 4W (UK)
By Josephine Bartosch
June 2, 2022
On Tuesday, director of public prosecutions Max Hill QC announced the appointment of Sophie Cook to a paid role within the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) as a “Speak Out Champion.” Cook is a male transgender activist who has publicly questioned the law on rape by deception, has accused the LGB Alliance of being a hate group and attacked parenting website Mumsnet as “a centre for transphobic hate.”
The appointment of Cook comes less than a week after the publication of a report entitled “Transgenderism and Policy Capture” by a leading UK think tank. The report, authored by legal academic Maureen O’Hara calls for the end of de facto gender self-identification across the criminal justice system, noting:
“Current criminal justice policy prioritise the wishes and feelings of those who identify as transgender over the rights of others, and particularly over the sex-based rights of women, such as rights to single-sex facilities.”
Ohio House passes bill banning transgender girls from female school sports
From Fox19 Now (USA)
By Jennifer Edwards Baker
June 2, 2022
CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Ohio House lawmakers late Wednesday passed a bill prohibiting transgender girls from joining female sports teams in schools, state institutions of higher education and private colleges.
It passed with heavy GOP support 56-28 party-line vote in House Bill 151, which replaces the Ohio Teacher Residency Program with a two-year local teacher mentorship program that starts in the 2023-2024 school year. … read full article
North Carolina Republicans push parents’ bill of rights that bans K-3 sex, gender curriculum
From Houston Herald (USA)
by Herald Staff
June 2, 2022
Republican lawmakers in North Carolina have pushed forward a bill to protect parents’ rights to direct their children’s upbringing, including the right to be informed of conversations the school has with their child about sex and gender.
The bill, similar to one that recently became law in Florida, would ban public school curricula for grades K through 3 from containing instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity. In general, school administrators and employees would not be allowed to keep secret from parents any information related to the “mental, emotional or physical health or well-being” of their child. … read full article
One year later, 200 posts and counting...
Our stories are now part of the narrative, and the gender house of cards is shaking
From Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) (USA)
June 2, 2022
When we launched PITT a year ago, there were hardly any parent voices out there. It was a lonely place for many of us. PITT sprang forth from a parent support group for boys as a way for us to be heard, and to show the other side of the story—what’s really at the end of that rainbow—when the rest of the world was mesmerized by the “euphoria” of transition and how transition is the only responsible path for parents of gender confused kids and youth. … read full article
Transgender Ideology in Our Schools – Crossing the Line of Gender Discrimination?
An update on my daughter’s hearing at the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal
From Canadian Gender Report (Canada)
By Pamela Buffone
June 2, 2022
My daughter’s human rights case was finally heard earlier this spring. We are waiting for the decision and expect it sometime this summer. What happened is still a raw and painful topic for us. Our daughter – now age 11, still recalls that her teachers’ lessons were very upsetting to her. … read full article
Twitter Adds 'Misgendering, Deadnaming' as Reportable
“Posting logos, symbols, or images intended to spread hate,” included in reporting options.
From 4W (UK)
By Andreia Nobre
June 2, 2022
Twitter users have started to spot a change in the platform's reporting tools. In some countries, this seems to go back to at least March, 2022.
For instance, for people using Twitter in Belgium, the reporting process now includes categories that used to only feature in the platform’s Terms of Services. The new process has a choice to report tweets that “attack” someone “because of their identity.”
… read full article
The reality of prostitution is not complex. It is simple
From Psyche (Australia)
By Rachel Moran
June 1, 2022
I left home three weeks past my 14th birthday, a few months after my father’s suicide, to escape the abuse of a schizophrenic mother who was in the throes of an ever-escalating mental health crisis. I was homeless by the summer of that year, and street-walking by the year after that. I got out of prostitution at 22, returned to education at 24, and the following year took a place in Dublin City University studying for a BA in Journalism. I wrote a memoir about my seven years in prostitution, which has been published all over the English-speaking world and translated into other languages too. In the intervening years, I’ve received thousands of messages from strangers from across the world, most of them women, and a good sprinkling of men. They vary widely in their content, but there are recurring themes. … read full article
Amazon Workers Stage “Die-In” To Protest “Transphobic” Books
From REDUXX (USA)
By Jennifer Seiland
June 2, 2022
Amazon employees staged a protest outside of the e-commerce giant’s Seattle headquarters yesterday, just as the company was kicking off its “pride month” festivities.
Approximately 30 employees draped themselves in trans pride flags and simulated being corpses, laying flat on the sidewalk in front of Amazon’s “Glamazon Pride 2022” event stage, which would host pride-related festivities for staff and the public. “Glamazon” was initially formatted as GLAmazon, to emphasize Gay and Lesbian Amazon employees, but was rebranded “Glamazon” in 2017 to place “more emphasis on all the letters of LGBTQIA.” … read full article
What I Wish I'd Said
If I'd had the courage, the knowledge and the support I have now
From BROADVIEW with Lisa Selin Davis (USA)
By Lisa Selin Davis
June 2, 2022
This week, Stephanie Davies-Arai, founder of Transgender Trend, received the British Empire Medal in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. The importance of such recognition cannot be overstated. Long before many of us realized that some children and families were being hurt by a movement that sells itself on rescuing them, Stephanie was sounding the alarm about overmedicating gender dysphoric kids. For her tireless campaigning, Stephanie was called many names, but it never deterred her, and now she’s been recognized as helping children get proper, evidence-based care. … read full article
Investing in girls’ sports will help more women become leaders, Michigan task force says
From MLive (USA)
By Melissa Frick
June 2, 2022
MACKINAC ISLAND, MI – Women who participate in sports are more likely to enter leadership positions in their workplaces, making companies more inclusive, diverse and profitable, research shows.
That is why Michigan is trying to close the gender gap in athletics by investing more into girls’ and women’s sports. A task force created by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2019 has come up with three ways that Michigan can expand on current policies and make new investments to help women flourish in sports. … read full article
Study finds early exposure to testosterone predicts gender-role behaviors in boys
From PsyPost
June 2, 2022
Low exposure to gonadal hormones during early gestation and infancy predicts higher recalled childhood gender nonconformity in men, according to new research published in Psychological Science. The findings provide evidence androgens such as testosterone play a role in the development of male-typical gender role behaviors in childhood.
“Biological sex is probably the most important factor explaining variability among people, and many diseases … differ by sex in prevalence and/or severity. Understanding the development of psychological sex differences is therefore critical to understanding individual differences in mental health,” said study author David A. Puts” … read full article
I watched "What is a Woman?" by Matt Walsh. Don't have high hopes.
From Ovarit | GenderCritical
By istitchandi1200
June 2, 2022
I just finished watching the whole thing. Siiigh.
It opens with Walsh waxing poetic over how much he cares about truth, and that boys and girls are different. I mean, yeah, of course. That's a true and innocuous statement. Right? It's over slow motion footage of a kid's birthday party. Cake, candles, presents. Kids are laughing.
All the girls are dressed in pink. All of them. They unwrap tea sets. Barbie dolls. The boys are in blue with BB guns and toy trucks. No, I am not joking. … read full post