Thursday, June 9, 2022
This day in Herstory: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, born June 9, 1836 (died December 17, 1917), was an English physician and suffragist. She was the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon. She was the co-founder of the first hospital staffed by women, the first dean of a British medical school, the first woman in Britain to be elected to a school board and, as mayor of Aldeburgh, the first female mayor in Britain. (more)
Lawsuit aimed at banning transgender discussion in Mount Lebanon School District
From CBS PITTSBURGH (USA)
By JOHN P. WISE, AMY WADAS
JUNE 9, 2022
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- A lawsuit KDKA-TV just got its hands on alleges that the Mount Lebanon School District has violated three parents' civil and constitutional rights "to direct the upbringing and education of children under their control."
Carmilla Tatel, Stacy Dunn and Gretchen Melton have named the district, the school board and one teacher, in particular, Megan Williams, among others in the lawsuit.
"This lawsuit seeks to prevent instruction in the District on gender dysphoria and transgender transitioning now and in the future, particularly at the elementary school level," the 45-page lawsuit reads. … read full article
Republican Complains Democrats Restrict Guns, But Not Gender Transitions
From Newsweek (USA)
By ZOE STROZEWSKI
June 9, 2022
A Republican representative took aim at Democrats over their push to restrict guns for Americans under 21 years of age in comparison to what she said were their views on age and parental consent when it comes to gender transition procedures. …
"But let's talk about a couple of things that the Democrats feel you are mature enough to do under the age of 18, because once again, their standards clearly aren't consistent," McClain said. She added that Democrats believe minors under the age of 18 "should be able to change your sex without notifying parents." … read full article
‘Gender Affirmation’ For Minors Is Child Abuse, Not Treatment
While critics of House Bill 454 claim its passage will ‘threaten’ the mental health of Ohio’s youth, there is reason to doubt these ‘experts’ are considering all the facts.
From The Federalist (USA)
By SAMANTHA STEPHENSON
June 09, 2022
On June 1, the Ohio House of Representatives followed Arkansas’s lead in passing a bill that blocks medical gender transition for minors, protects parental rights, and prevents biological males from competing in women’s sports. While critics of House Bill 454 claim its passage will “threaten” the mental health of Ohio’s youth, there is reason to doubt these “experts” are considering all the facts.
Ohio’s vote preceded the release of the “Let Kids Be Kids” report issued by Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida’s Agency for Healthcare Administration on June 2. The report summarizes the scientific research about the effectiveness of treatment for gender dysphoria in children, or rather, lack thereof, and has been met with heavy criticism from transgender activists who argue the report is motivated by bigotry. … read full article
“Queer” Academic Suggests Pedophilia Be Taught in Schools as an Innate Sexuality
From REDUXX (USA)
By Genevieve Gluck
June 9, 2022
A professor of Ethics at Oslo Metropolitan University in Norway has called to legalize AI-generated child pornography, claiming that pedophilia should be seen as an innate sexuality that requires destigmatization.
Ole Martin Moen, a gay man who identifies as “queer,” currently serves as a member of the advisory board on Norway’s Patient Organization for Gender-Incongruence (PKI), a social and political lobby group for trans rights. According to their official website, PKI’s purpose is to provide access to “gender-affirming treatment” to the public “regardless of factors like non-binary identity, sexual practice or having other diagnosis.” Moen has also served as academic council at Civita, Norway’s largest liberal think tank, since 2015. … read full article
Parents angered over local school librarian’s lesson on LGBTQ community
From The Livingston Enterprise (USA)
By John Carroll
June 9, 2022
A librarian at East Side Elementary School in Livingston violated school district policy last week when she showed an unapproved presentation about the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community to third-graders, school officials said.
The school has received a number of complaints from parents of students who viewed the presentation and those concerns are being investigated, said Livingston Public Schools Superintendent Lynne Scalia.
“This wasn’t anything that was approved by the district,” said Scalia. “And we had her discontinue it immediately when we found out about it. Anything that has to do with human sexuality instruction, including gender identity, is something that parents need to be aware of.” … read full article
Newborn babies could be harmed by woke NHS-backed guidance which states transwomen can breastfeed by taking powerful drug, experts warn
NHS has linked to charity advising transwomen to take a drug to produce milk
This drug is known to carry a risk of causing irregular heartbeats in newborns
Experts say the NHS should focus on breastfeeding in women and transmen
From The Daily Mail (USA)
By JOHN ELY
June 9, 2022
Newborn babies could be harmed by woke NHS-backed guidance that states transwomen can breastfeed, experts warned today.
Guidance from a charity — linked to on the controversial 'chestfeeding' advice page — states biological men who swap sex can stimulate milk supply using the Newman-Goldfarb protocol.
But the procedure, which involves taking a powerful drug called domperidone, has been mired in controversy. ... read full article
Joyce activated, issue 8
From Helen Joyce (USA)
By Dr. H. Joyce
June 9, 2022
I’m sometimes asked why I don’t talk about people for whom transition was the best option. I give part of the answer in my book—that what I’m interested in isn’t trans people per se, it’s the notion that some men can “really be women” and vice versa, and its impact on society
I’m sometimes asked why I don’t talk about people for whom transition was the best option. I give part of the answer in my book—that what I’m interested in isn’t trans people per se, it’s the ideology that underpins the notion that some men can “really be women” and vice versa, and the impact of that ideology on society at large, which I think is wholly negative. In this issue I’m going to elaborate on that answer. I’ll explain why I think a common framing is mistaken—that for some people, at least, transition is the best option and all that is needed is to identify them accurately; and why anyone who cares about sex-based rights should want fewer people to believe in gender-identity ideology, and fewer people to transition. ... read full article
Publish and be cancelled
Unreadable and insufferable woke academics are boycotting the publishers that grudgingly print their inane work
From The Critic (UK)
By Capel Lofft
June 8, 2022
Why do publishers publish the books they do? The answer seems obvious: they publish what they think will sell because they have to make money, unless they have the luxury of being some heavily subsidised university press, or a publisher of poetry (“the invisible link that connects literature and poverty”, to adapt Hazlitt). Most will, to some degree, specialise in certain areas — be it in terms of subject matter, type of book or both — because one needs to know a market well and establish one’s presence in that market before one can realistically expect to make money, or at least keep afloat. … read full article
Collegiate runner urges female athletes to demand 'fairness' in women's sports: 'Use our voices and fight'
Madisan DeBos fears transgender athletes could mean the "end of women's sports"
From Fox News (USA)
By Madeline Coggins
June 9, 2022
After nearly two decades of success in cross-country and track, collegiate athlete Madisan DeBos found herself in 2020 competing against a transgender athlete who had already crushed records set by some of the fastest women in the sport.
DeBos, a Southern Utah University rising senior, is now fighting to protect women's sports against domination by transgender competitors.
"We really just need to get back to focusing on having fairness in women's sports, because I think so many are afraid to see the end of women's sports with having male athletes competing within our sports," DeBos said on "America's Newsroom" Thursday. ... read full article
Transgender sports ban moves forward in Pennsylvania
From Axios (USA)
By Mike D'Onofrio
June 9, 2022
Pennsylvania's Republican-controlled Senate has approved a proposal to ban trans girls and women from competing in school sports that align with their gender identity.
Driving the news: Republican lawmakers and one Democrat, Sen. Lisa Boscola, passed the measure by a 30-20 vote on Tuesday. ... read full article
Four Colorado Elementary Schools’ DEI Groups Teamed Up To Promote Drag Queen Story Hour
From The Daily Wire (USA)
By Mairead Elordi
June 9, 2022
Four Colorado elementary schools’ Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion groups joined forces to promote a drag queen story hour event earlier this month.
Erie, Colorado’s Meadowlark Elementary School’s Parent, Teacher and Student Association committee announced that its DEI committee would team up with the DEI groups at three other elementary schools in Erie to participate in the town’s first Pride celebration. … read full article
What’s next in Florida’s bid to restrict transition care for transgender kids
Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo has asked the state medical board to establish a “standard of care” for gender-affirming treatments.
From Tampa Bay Times (USA)
By Sam Ogozalek
June 9, 2022
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration last week asked the Florida Board of Medicine to create policies that could ban or restrict transition-related care for transgender youth.
Doctors and advocates have raised questions about the potential ban since NBC News reported a June 2 letter to the board from the state’s surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo. In the letter, Ladapo encouraged the board to review controversial Florida Department of Health guidance against treatment beyond counseling for the distress that children and teens feel when their gender identity doesn’t match the sex they were assigned at birth, a condition called gender dysphoria. He also asked the board to establish a “standard of care” for gender-affirming treatments. … read full article
Exclusive: Trans Journalists Pull Out of Guardian Newspaper’s Pride Coverage
Freelance journalists Freddy McConnell and Vic Parsons said they were declining all future work with the UK paper “until it changes its trans-hostile and exclusionary stance.”
From Vice (USA)
By Ben Hunte
June 9, 2022
Two trans journalists are pulling out of the Guardian’s Pride special coverage due to what they claim is “ingrained prejudice against trans women” by the newspaper, VICE World News has learned.
In a letter to the UK newspaper’s bosses seen by VICE World News, freelance journalists Freddy McConnell and Vic Parsons said they were declining all future work with the Guardian. They were commissioned to write pieces about their experiences of being trans for the paper’s upcoming Pride special in its G2 magazine.
… read full article
Ohio Republican lawmaker: Nationwide Children's Hospital website is a few clicks from porn
From The Columbus Dispatch (USA)
By Abby Bammerlin
June 8, 2022
Is there porn closely linked to Nationwide Children's Hospital? Republican Rep. Gary Click seems to think so.
Click's claim happened during a committee discussion of House Bill 454. The bill, if passed, would ban the use of puberty blockers, hormones and gender reassignment surgery for children under the age of 18. … read full article
ACLU asks court to strike down emergency order, allow birth certificate changes
From Missoula Current (USA)
By DARRELL EHRLICK
June 9, 2022
(Daily Montanan) The American Civil Liberties Union in Montana is asking a district court judge to immediately order the state’s Department of Public Health and Human Services to revert to a 2017 law allowing citizens to change the sex designation on a birth certificate with just a form and rule that the efforts to create an “emergency rule” to stop that were “bogus.”
On April 21, Yellowstone County District Court Judge Michael Moses ordered a temporary injunction against a law passed by the 2021 Legislature that required a judge’s order and proof of surgery in order to change a birth certificate. ... read full article
Professor Blasts 'Unacceptable' Gender-Neutral Bathroom With Man at Urinal
From Newsweek (USA)
By SHIRA LI BARTOV
June 9, 2022
An outraged London professor has taken to the internet after encountering a man at a urinal in a gender-neutral bathroom.
Sarahjane Jones, an associate professor of patient safety at Staffordshire University's School of Health and Social Care, told Twitter that she came across the objectionable bathroom at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, England, on Wednesday.
"I just entered this 'inclusive toilet' [...] to find a man using a urinal, which I would have had to talk past to use the cubical," Jones wrote. Her post has racked up 10,000 likes and nearly 2,000 retweets. … read full article
Transgender advocates call out WestJet for forcing passengers to identify as male or female
Some travellers want to use 'X' as a gender when booking, as allowed on Canadian passports
From CBC News (Canada)
By Feleshia Chandler
June 9, 2022
Transgender advocates across Canada are calling out national airline WestJet for not allowing people to choose X as a gender, instead of male or female, when booking flights.
They say WestJet is violating their human rights.
"It is a legal gender marker in our laws, it's a violation of the Charter [of Rights and Freedoms]," said Iz Lloyd, a non-binary person from Halifax who was recently denied boarding a WestJet flight until they conceded to identifying as their sex assigned at birth. ... read full article
Drag queen storytime event at Montreal library ‘about respect,’ not controversy
From Global News (Canada)
By Tim Sargeant
June 9, 2022
A planned story time reading at the Dorval library is stirring some controversy.
Montreal drag queen Barbada is scheduled to read to children in French and English on June 11th.
The performer already read to kindergarten kids on June 6th and is now being invited back. … read full article
'They laughed at things that shouldn't be laughed at': Ricky Gervais jokes he's 'reported fans for hate crimes' after they previewed his new stand up show Armageddon
The comic, 60, performed at London's Leicester Square Theatre, testing out new content for his upcoming stand-up show titled Armageddon
Posting on Twitter after the show, Ricky joked that his audience had been 'reported for hate crimes' after laughing at his taboo jokes
The star also retweeted a string of complimentary tweets about his latest material, with one declaring him to be a 'comic genius'
Ricky previously admitted that he wanted to 'try to get cancelled' with Armageddon, revealing he is keen to push boundaries as far as he can
Last month Ricky angered Twitter's 'woke' brigade following the broadcast of his Netflix special, SuperNature
From The Daily Mail (UK)
By JOANNA CRAWLEY
June 9, 2022
Ricky Gervais is refusing to rein in his famously controversial stand up routines, joking about his taboo subjects as he previewed new material on Wednesday night.
The comic, 60, performed at London's Leicester Square Theatre, testing out new content for his upcoming stand-up show titled Armageddon. ... read full article
A medical miracle
From New Times (USA)
By JOHN DONEGAN
June 9, 2022
Sometimes important advances in science can come from a most improbable source: politics. Who would have thought that the political process could contribute so much to advance science? …
Of course, we can expect some pushback from our self-interested scientific and medical communities, who will undoubtedly counter with "the science must be respected" or some other such nonsense. They will likely insist that only peer-reviewed studies and observed, tested, and repeatable empirical evidence are credible, instead of "discoveries" by social scientists responding to the fashionable thinking.
… read full article