Thursday, May 26, 2022
This day in Herstory: Mamie Smith (née Robinson), born May 26, 1891 (died September 16, 1946), was an American vaudeville singer, dancer, pianist, and actress. As a vaudeville singer she performed in multiple styles, including jazz and blues. In 1920, she entered blues history as the first African American artist to make vocal blues recordings. (more)
Worrying truth of what children are REALLY learning in Sex Education: Many schools have handed over their classes to unregulated groups pushing a ‘woke’ agenda
It is now compulsory for schools to teach new sex and gender lessons
Minister for Schools Robin Walker said his department could not advise on the suitability of external resources and that it was to schools to check credentials
Many parents are sharing concerns about the content of lessons and the increasingly fevered environment in schools surrounding these topics
From The Daily Mail (UK)
By MILLI HILL
May 25, 2022
Every parent remembers the first time they leave their child at the school gates. It’s a monumental milestone and, when we turn and walk away, we have an unspoken expectation that they will be kept safe from harm while out of our sight.
We trust, too, that the teaching they receive will be clear, age-appropriate and rooted in established facts. But as a parent of three children myself and also as a former therapist who has worked extensively with children at risk, I’ve started to wonder whether it’s safe simply to trust this is the case.
I’m particularly concerned about one new and deeply controversial area of the school curriculum: the teaching on sex, gender and identity in today’s Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) lessons. … read full article
The Makers Of ‘The Genderbread Person’ Announce New Tool To Teach Kids About Sexuality: ‘The Sexualitree’
From The Daily Caller (USA)
By CHRISSY CLARK
May 25, 2022
Two activists designed a supplemental learning device called the “Sexualitree” to help students learn about the 45+ components of sexuality, according to a review of the “Sexualitree” website.
The learning tool looks at sexuality on three levels — intimate, relational, and cultural. It includes 45 ways in which individuals reportedly “experience various aspects of sexuality.” Examples include “abortion, fantasy, fetish, masturbation, medical theory, pornography, sex toys, skin hunger,” and more. … read full article
Same Left That Freaks Out Over Ivermectin Wants To Pump Kids Full Of Transgender Hormones
Even if you think children should be able to pause puberty and take hormones, shouldn’t you at least want to make sure the drugs are safe?
From The Federalist (USA)
By MARCO RUBIO
May 26, 2022
“Don’t do it,” yelled Dr. Anthony Fauci in August. “There is no evidence whatsoever that that works!”
Fauci, of course, was referring to the use of ivermectin to treat Covid-19. For the moment, set aside that Fauci should have been fired years ago and has a long record of misleading and politicizing “science.” He and pretty much everyone else in America’s public health infrastructure pointed out that ivermectin had not been approved for treating Covid — and therefore using it “off-label” was dangerous. … read full article
There’s nothing right-wing about gender critical views
Onjali Rauf proves it
From The Spectator (UK)
By James Kirkup
May 26, 2022
I’ve been writing about sex and gender for a few years now, largely because it’s a subject that needs to be better understood. Far too much about this issue is shrouded in misinformation and dishonesty, not least because some of the people and groups interested in the issue have made considerable efforts to keep this stuff out of the public gaze.
Slowly, the veil is being lifted and questions of sex and gender more freely discussed. It’s not yet getting the media coverage it deserves, but the employment tribunal case of Allison Bailey is helping. It’s seen Stonewall and other trans rights advocates saying in public things that most people not familiar with the gender wars find it hard to believe are ever said out loud: humans can change sex; it’s transphobic to say that abusive men might misuse trans rights laws to harm women; it’s not coercive to persuade lesbians to sleep with male-bodied transwomen. … read full article
Gender ideology cannot come at the cost of keeping kids safe
We ban children from buying scratch cards, but allow them to consent to puberty blockers.
From Spiked (UK)
By James Esses
May 26, 2022
Earlier this week, UK MPs debated a public petition calling for the recognition of a ‘non-binary gender identity’ in law.
Towards the end of the debate, Mike Freer MP, a government equalities minister, delivered his speech. Mr Freer is a well-known supporter of gender ideology, who has previously tried to push for a ban on conversion therapy that encompasses ‘gender identity’ (something the government has now, thankfully, decided against due to the significant potential unintended consequences). … read full article
BBC upholds JK Rowling transgender discussion complaint
From The Herald (Scotland)
By Herald Staff Online
May 26, 2022
THE BBC has said it was wrong for a Radio 4 programme to claim that JK Rowling had “a very unpopular opinion regarding gender identity”.
The broadcaster’s Executive Complaints Unit said there was “no conclusive evidence” that those with a different view to the Harry Potter writer “represented a majority”.
However, they dismissed complaints that it was wrong to include her in a discussion which also took in sex offender R&B artist R Kelly, paedophile sculptor Eric Gill and Adolf Hitler. … read full article
We need to talk about Sex Education
Relationship and Sex Education classes for children are being taken over by outside providers with their own agenda
From The Critic (UK)
By Shonagh Dillon
May 26, 2022
Never did I think I would be explaining to my children’s teacher why I was concerned about a Relationship and Sex Education (RSE) organisation that promotes the use of butt plugs whilst simultaneously proclaiming that “virginity benefits no one” being brought into the classroom — but welcome to 2022.
The teaching of RSE became compulsory in secondary schools in England in September 2020. No doubt in part because of the understandable reluctance of teachers towards sliding another condom on a cucumber, many schools are opting to bring in external providers to deliver RSE. … read full article
School Counselor Could Lose License for 'F**k Transgenderism' Remark
From Newsweek (USA)
By JAKE THOMAS
May 25, 2022
A conservative legal advocacy group says a Wisconsin state agency is illegally threatening to revoke the license of a school counselor for comments she made about gender identity at a rally.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) on Wednesday told the state's teacher licensing agency that its investigation into counselor Marissa Darlingh violated her First Amendment protections and state law. The dustup comes as schools across the country grapple with their response to shifting norms around gender identity. … read full article
Scientists bow to transgender activists once again
From Washington Examiner (USA)
By DEBRA SOH
May 25, 2022
Nature, one of the top-tier scientific journals in the world, published an editorial last week requiring future study authors to consider how their findings "might perpetuate gender stereotypes" as part of the submission process.
Researchers must also acknowledge how sex and gender were accounted for in their study design and analysis, and if they weren't, they would have to explain why. This is with the goal of removing bias, and it applies to research involving humans, animals, and cell lines. … read full article
Joyce Activated, issue 7
Barrister Cathryn McGahey likened Allison Bailey’s sexual orientation—that of a female exclusively attracted to females—to the male sexism that holds women back in the workplace, and to the racism of the white supremacists who fought to sustain apartheid.
From Helen Joyce (UK)
By Dr. H. Joyce
May 26, 2022
I had intended to write something else this week, but then Cathryn McGahey QC, of Garden Court Chambers and a former vice-chair of the Bar Standards Board, gave evidence in the hearing of Allison Bailey’s case against her barristers’ chambers, Garden Court, and Stonewall, alleging discrimination on grounds of sex, sexuality and gender-critical belief. …
Bailey is an extraordinary woman. A lesbian and the child of Jamaican immigrants of the Windrush generation, she has spent a lifetime battling obstacles and prejudice. As a child she witnessed her father’s violence against her mother. Between the ages of nine and 11 she was sexually abused by a family friend (as an adult she at least had the satisfaction, very rare for a victim of historical sexual abuse, of seeing her assailant jailed). … read full article
New therapist group on the watch
The "affirmation-only" mindset is coming under challenge from health professionals
From Gender Clinic News
By Bernard Lane
May 26, 2022
A new Australian group has been launched for health professionals in favour of ethical, open-minded alternatives to the dogmatic “affirmation-only” treatment approach with young people who question their gender.
Founded by registered nurse and psychotherapist Jenny Kyng, the Active Watchful Waiting group hopes to bring together health and allied health professionals concerned about the weak evidence for the gender-affirming approach and its potential to do harm. … read full article
Wolf Takes Radical Feminist Free Speech Arguments to the Virginia Supreme Court
From Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) (USA)
May 26, 2022
WoLF has just filed a friend-of-the-court brief (also known as an amicus brief) with the Supreme Court of Virginia, in a case where a public school French language teacher was fired after attempting to avoid the use of incorrect male pronouns for a female student who believes she is a boy. …
Mr. Vlaming brought suit against the West Point School Board and several school officials, alleging that their decision to fire him violated Virginia’s state constitution and statutory free-speech protections, as well as Virginia’s constitutional clause on the free exercise of religion. … read full article
Oklahoma Gov. Stitt signs school bathroom bill into law
From KJRH News (USA)
By Emily Farris
May 26, 2022
TULSA, Okla. — A bill requiring students to use the bathroom that matches their biological sex is now law in Oklahoma.
Gov. Kevin Stitt signed two bills into law on Wednesday. One is Senate Bill 615 and the other is considered to be the nation's strictest abortion ban. … read full article
Mom in Manchester no-tell transgender lawsuit: 'Things could take a turn for the worse if we don’t know'
From New Hampshire Union Leader (USA)
By Mark Hayward
May 26, 2022
The mother suing Manchester schools over their non-disclosure transgender policy is a teacher herself, and said she would never want to hide information about a student’s transgender status from a parent.
The mom spoke to the New Hampshire Union Leader earlier this week.
On Thursday, the Legislature is scheduled to take up final votes on a parental rights bill that would require school officials to inform parents of any actions taken by a student to change their gender identity. … read full article
AG's office backs teacher fired for refusing to use transgender student's preferred pronouns
From Richmond Times-Dispatch (USA)
By Andrew Cain
May 25, 2022
Attorney General Jason Miyares’ office has filed a brief with the state Supreme Court backing a former West Point teacher who was fired in 2018 for refusing to use a transgender student’s preferred pronouns.
Miyares’ office argues, in part, that a 2007 state law, the Virginia Religious Freedom Restoration Act, barred the West Point School Board from firing Peter Vlaming “because of his religious objection to the School Board’s pronoun-usage rule.”
The brief also asserts that the School Board’s firing of Vlaming “violated Virginia’s robust constitutional free-exercise protections, which reflect the Commonwealth’s pioneering history of defending religious freedom.” … read full article
Ed. Note: The following article was translated from Dutch automatically by Microsoft Edge
Transgender law is unfair. At least, in sports
Gender Men who are allowed to participate with the women; proponents themselves have never participated in competitive sports, suspects Christine Karman. (Christine Karman is transgender and a cyclist.)
From NRC (Netherlands)
By Christine Karman
May 26, 2022
Not so long ago it seemed as if cycling was only for men. The men's matches were broadcast live on television, and if there was a women's match at all, its coverage was limited to a casual comment in the men's match commentary. That has changed a lot in recent years. …
The question is how this emancipation in sport will be influenced by a bill that has been before parliament for a year: the relaxation of the transgender law (in full: Bill amending the mention of gender in the birth certificate). … read full article
British Cycling investigate after transgender cyclist wins women's mountain bike race
Maxine Yates won the race in the 'expert' category and runner-up Jane Page raised the matter with British Cycling
From The Telegraph (UK)
By Jeremy Wilson
May 25, 2022
British Cycling are investigating a complaint into how a transgender woman won a national series mountain-bike race after the governing body had voted last month to suspend its trans inclusion policy.
Maxine Yates, a transgender woman, won the women’s 19+ category in British Cycling’s downhill national series event at Fort William earlier this month.
She was competing in what is considered to be the “expert” category – below the higher elite level – but British Cycling had made no distinction when it announced the immediate suspension of its transgender and non-binary policy on April 8, pending a full review. … read full article
Transgender cyclists still competing in women’s races
From The Times (UK)
By Matt Lawton
May 25, 2022
Transgender cyclists are still competing in women’s races despite British Cycling suspending the policy last month that had allowed them to race in the female category.
The storm that erupted over the possible participation of Emily Bridges, a 21-year-old trans-female cyclist, in a women’s national track cycling competition led to British Cycling (BC) issuing a statement on April 8. … read full article
Sharron Davies says MSPs in trans talks ‘don’t care about women’s sport’
From The Times (UK)
By Mike Wade
May 26, 2022
The former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies has accused Scottish ministers of bias in their efforts to extend trans rights by speaking only “to people who back up their point of view”.
Davies said SNP ministers were like the “men in suits” of the International Olympic Committee and “do not care about women’s sports in the slightest — it is heartbreaking, when half the world is female”. … read full article
What’s in a Name?
From Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) (USA)
May 26, 2022
For my 14 year old daughter, on her birthday:
My sweet kid. It’s your 14th birthday but we can’t sing the song and watch you blow out the candles as we always have. We can’t even say your name—to utter the name I gave you—your given name—is forbidden. It’s what you like to call your “dead name”. It’s one of the many lies you have been told.
How did this happen? Your life was once so full of joy. … read full article
Ricky Gervais shouldn't be cancelled for his wickedly offensive new Netflix stand-up show – he deserves a knighthood
From The Mail + (UK)
By SARAH VINE
May 26, 2022
ONE of the funniest lines in Ricky Gervais’s SuperNature show comes about three quarters of the way in when, in the middle of a particularly politically incorrect monologue (about Aids, as I recall), he pauses, does that wolfish grin of his and says: ‘Don’t worry, Netflix have already bought this.’
Ha. I imagine there may well be a few squeaky bums over at the streaming giant when it surveys the avalanche of predictable outrage that his show has provoked. … read full article