Tuesday, August 2, 2022
"Female inmates at a prison in Indiana have filed lawsuits alleging they were subjected to a "night of terror" when a guard sold keys to their cells to male prisoners who sexually assaulted them."
Isabel Angélica Allende Llona, born in Lima, August 2, 1942, is a Chilean writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the genre magical realism, is known for novels such as The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus, 1982) and City of the Beasts (La ciudad de las bestias, 2002), which have been commercially successful. Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author." In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom. (more)
US - Six GOP senators ask Education Department about transgender Title IX changes
From The Hill (USA)
By ZACH SCHONFELD
August 2, 2022
Six GOP senators sent a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona late last month asking about the potential ramifications of the Biden administration’s proposal to extend Title IX protections to transgender students.
The letter, sent by Republican Sens. Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.), Tom Cotton (Ark.), Ted Cruz (Texas), Josh Hawley (Mo.), Mike Lee (Utah) and Marco Rubio (Fla.), describes the proposal as likely to “force a radical gender ideology” into classrooms and cites recent high-profile controversies related to transgender protections in schools. ... read full article
US - FDA sounds alarm on possibly lethal side effects of trans drugs
From The Jewish Voice (USA)
By Bob Unruh
August 2, 2022
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning about dangerous – and possibly lethal – side effects from drugs that commonly are used in treatments for children with gender dysphoria.
The American Academy of Pediatrics explained the FDA warning is about the risk of pseudotumor cerebri from “gonadotropic-releasing hormone agonists.” ... read full article
US - Trans Killer with a ‘Blood Fetish’ Married Female Inmate While Incarcerated in a Women’s Prison
From REDUXX (USA)
By Genevieve Gluck
August 2, 2022
An inmate at New Jersey’s only women’s prison has revealed to Reduxx that a violent trans-identified male transferred into the facility has been allowed to marry a female inmate while serving a 50-year-sentence for the brutal murder of a prostituted woman.
Perry Cerf, 39, was arrested for the rape and murder of 47-year-old Ecuadorian immigrant Flor Andrade in 2002. Cerf, who now goes by the name Michelle Hel-loki Angelina, was wearing his victim’s clothes and utilizing her identification when he was found by police. ... read full article
US - Rachel Levine Is a Quack Promoted By Pharma-Backed Group To Normalize Disembodiment
From Human Events (USA
By Jennifer Bilek
August 2, 2022
How does a dangerous man like Dr. Rachel Levine wind up in the White House, spewing potentially deadly information to the public about drugs to treat children distressed about their sexed bodies? He was backed by The Victory Institute, which works to get LGBTQ activists into top levels of power in the US.
According to the group’s website. “When LGBTQ presidential appointees are empowered, they can significantly influence the policies and direction of agencies and the executive branch to make positive change for LGBTQ people.” … read full article
US - "Night of terror": 28 female inmates at Indiana jail allege sexual assault by male prisoners after guard sold cell keys, lawsuits say
From CBS News (USA)
August 1, 2022
Female inmates at a prison in Indiana have filed lawsuits alleging they were subjected to a "night of terror" when a guard sold keys to their cells to male prisoners who sexually assaulted them.
In a pair of lawsuits filed in U.S. District Court, a total of 28 women said they were attacked shortly after midnight on the night of October 23, 2021 at the Clark County jail in Jeffersonville.
The female prisoners accused a guard at the facility, David Lowe, of providing the key to the male inmates for $1,000. ... read full article
US - One NYC Council Member Criticized Drag Queen Story Hour. She Faced Threats So Severe She Requested Police Protection
From National Review (USA)
By Diana Glebova
August 2, 2022
Drag Story Hour (DSH) NYC, a program funded with over $200,000 of taxpayer money, has drag performers prompt children as young as three years old to pick out their “drag name” and “circle their pronouns.” When one lawmaker decided to stand up against DSH, she received threats severe enough to have police deployed to guard her office and home.
In June, New York City Council member Vickie Paladino called DSH programming for children “grooming” and “sexualization,” saying it’s “unacceptable and grotesque” in a statement on her private Twitter account. She then received death threats in the form of calls to her office and messages on social media and was lambasted by her fellow council members and Mayor Eric Adams, as being anti-LGBTQ. ... read full article
US - Utah’s largest school district defends decision to remove 52 ‘pornographic’ books
From The Washington Times (USA)
By Sean Salai
August 2, 2022
Utah’s largest public school district is defending its decision to remove 52 books that some parents deemed “pornographic” under a new law restricting age-inappropriate materials.
The Alpine School District, which enrolls 84,000 students in an area 40 miles south of Salt Lake City, recently decided to pull the books by 41 authors from its library shelves after an internal audit flagged them as “sensitive material” without “literary merit.”
Of the books removed, 21 feature LBGTQ characters or themes, including “Nineteen Minutes” by Jodi Picoult, “Forever…” by Judy Blume, and the 2015 Caldecott Honor Book “This One Summer” by Mariko Tamaki. ... read full article
US - Biden Administration Declares ‘Open Season’ on Religious Hospitals That Object to Gender Transitions
From National Review (USA)
By Isaac Schorr
August 1, 2022
In 2016, the Obama administration’s Department of Health and Human Services issued a rule that would have forced doctors across the country to assist in transitioning patients out of their biological sex, regardless of a provider’s medical opinion or conscience objections.
“A provider specializing in gynecological services that previously declined to provide a medically necessary hysterectomy for a transgender man,” for example, “would have to revise its policy to provide the procedure for transgender individuals in the same manner it provides the procedure for other individuals.” ... read full article
US - The Transgender Serial Killer
From National Review (USA)
By Madeleine Kearns
August 2, 2022
“How did a two-time killer get out to be charged again at age 83?” reads a recent New York Times headline.
In the first two paragraphs of the story, Rebecca Davis O’Brien and Ali Watkins set the scene. In 2019, “the person before the parole panel” — later “the supplicant,” “the murderer,” and “the inmate” — was someone who “had spent decades in prison, first for shooting a girlfriend dead in 1963, and then for stabbing another in 1985, stuffing her corpse into a bag and leaving it in Central Park.” The panel granted the request for release. ... read full article
US - Talk to Your Kids About ‘Gender’ Before They Do
Activist teachers are indoctrinating your kids. It’s time for people with common sense and courage to speak up.
From Reality’s Last Stand (USA)
By Pamela Buffone
August 2, 2022
According to the 2021-2022 student census taken by the Toronto area Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board, a full five percent of students consider themselves a gender other than boy or girl. These other genders include names like “boyflux,” “demigirl,” “trigender,” and many other fashionable bespoke identities. Seven percent say they are either “transgender” or “not sure” if they are. Given current trends, these percentages are sure to increase as gender ideology becomes more pro-actively entrenched throughout the educational system and society more broadly. ... read full article
US - Transgender cyclist blasts USA Cycling for revoking silver medal
From The Washington Times (USA)
By Valerie Richardson
August 1, 2022
USA Cycling has landed in the middle of a hubbub over transgender athletes after stripping a male-born cyclist of a silver medal won in a women’s race last week at the national championships.
Leia Genis, a 25-year-old cyclist from Atlanta, said a USA Cycling official informed her Thursday that her second-place finish in the women’s elite individual pursuit would be revoked, and pulled her from other events at the 2022 USA Cycling Junior & Elite Track National Championships. ... read full article
US - From the Royal Formerly Known as Mom
From Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) (USA)
August 2, 2022
Dear Zane,
I have good news! But before I share that, let me pause to pat myself on the back for using your “true” name. It took me a while and a lot of reminders from you. But, believe me, I’ve got it now.
On to my own good news—I’ve also discovered my authentic self! Remember how I used to sometimes be nervous before attending social events, anxious about my career and concerned about the future? Now I understand that my depression, anxiety and lack of confidence were all due to not living as my authentic self. You see, I am trapped in the wrong body. My mind and soul don’t match my exterior, the one the world sees.
Yes, I’m still your Mom, but I can no longer live a lie. I identify as a princess and am transroyal. ... read full article
UK - Schools left to write own transgender rules 'behind parents' backs'
Headteachers will continue to decide whether to tell guardians about a child changing their identity
By Louisa Clarence-Smith
August 2, 2022
Schools will continue to set their own policies on transgender pupils, including whether to tell parents if a child has changed their name, as the Government delays new guidance.
The Department for Education has been working on national guidance for headteachers on transgender pupils since April. ... read full article
UK - What a moment for women! In an age where our very existence is being denied, the Lionesses' glorious show of bold femininity is truly iconic, writes JULIE BURCHILL
From Daily Mail (UK)
By JULIE BURCHILL
August 1, 2022
Honestly, I can’t bear sport. I remember being ordered off the athletics field as a teenager after attempting to do the long jump in four-inch fake snakeskin platform boots (‘You’re a liability, Burchill!’), and that was fine by me.
But yesterday even I woke with a dart of joy. The Lionesses had won!
Why such happiness? Where do I start? In an age when women’s very existence is being denied and we’re being robbed of our hard-won gains – from toilets to trophies – by angry trans activists; at a time when our bodies are commodified and picked apart like never before thanks to social media, these bold young women have clawed out new territory. Their spirit signifies new freedoms, new potential for women everywhere. ... read full article
UK - Labour’s trans-rights policy is looking increasingly absurd
Half of Keir Starmer’s party don’t know if women have a cervix or not and the other half do but are too scared to say so
From The Telegraph (UK)
By SUZANNE MOORE
August 2, 2022
Finally, we are having the debate that Stonewall said we must not have. Their policy, remember, over trans/women’s rights was “no debate”. To their supporters, to debate was to essentially deny the existence of trans people. To question their dogma was transphobic and one would be shouted down, deprived of work and, if you were a woman, issued with death and rape threats. That strategy, however anti-democratic and bonkers, actually worked – entire organisations swallowed it whole.
No one denies the existence of trans people. That’s patent nonsense. No one wants to take away their existing rights or make their lives any more difficult. All of us described as “gender critical” have just wanted to maintain sex-based rights for women. ... read full article
UK - How ‘The Blob’ smothered the Tavistock scandal
The civil service is determined to crush any dissent against gender ideology.
From Spiked (UK)
By SAM ASHWORTH-HAYES
August 2, 2022
The death of the UK’s Tavistock clinic, announced by the NHS last week, was long overdue. Even the briefest glance at the evidence shows former equalities minister Kemi Badenoch was entirely correct at the weekend to call its closure a simple matter of ‘right and wrong’. At the clinic, children were placed on puberty-blocking drugs, without there being adequate evidence on how this would influence their long-term development. Staff felt ‘under pressure to adopt an unquestioning affirmative approach’ to children’s self-declared trans identities, sidelining basic medical principles. ... read full article
UK - Star Observer columnist suspended after trans rights row
Nick Cohen agrees to pause writing while GNM investigates allegations about his conduct by campaigner Jolyon Maugham
From The Telegraph (UK)
By Ben Woods
August 2, 2022
One of the Observer's star columnists has been suspended following allegations over his conduct in the wake of a row about trans rights with the campaigning lawyer Jolyon Maugham.
Nick Cohen's weekly column has been put on hold while the allegations are investigated, according to the newspaper's publisher, Guardian News and Media (GNM). ... read full article
UK - Gender dysphoria is a bland, useless and damaging concept
Here's why - a thread
From Twitter
By TullipR/Ritchie
August 1, 2022
1. It's the only medical condition based primarily on self diagnosis. In the UK Gender Dysphoria is classified as a medical condition. No other medical condition relys solely on the authority of the patient.
2. It cannot be physically tested for physically. Diabetes, psychosis, autism, cancer, low iron and just about any other physical or neurological condition can be reliably tested for. To date, no reliable model for testing dysphoria has emerged.
3. It pathologises gender non conforming people A flamboyant boy or a girl whose tomboyish are now seen as prospective medical patients. This pathologisation also reinforces binary behaviour based on sex, to the extent that it should be medicalised.
4. It's blandness captures autistic/adhd Feeling like an alien, unease with your body and having a different way of thinking are all common traits amongst neurodivergent people, but this also is a key symptom of dysphoria. Check out autism/gender dysphoria referral rates.
5. The symptoms describe common feelings expetienced during puberty Telling children going through or about to go through puberty that unease with your body means you could be trans is deeply irresponsible. Isn't puberty hard for everyone?
6. It discourages you from digging deeper. "Oh so my low self esteem is all due to this?" ...but not the bullying, ocd, trauma, etc.... Having being presented this option is a golden ticket out of your issues.
7. It reinforces stereotypes of what men and women should be To the point of even physically "correcting" a healthy body
8. It encourages dissociation through self destruction Be yourself! Just change your name, appearance, pronouns, social circle, political beliefs and your body.
9. It doesn't tell you what else it could be Imagine going to the doctor with a lump, and they said "100% cancerous" without even checking. Now, he might be right but how often is it not cancerous? How would that news change your life
10. Despite the misinformation, its not a global medical issue. Its prevalent in western countries. But not all, and almost absent elsewhere. Why?
… republished with the kind permission of the author
UK - Does Stonewall have no shame?
From The Spectator (UK)
By Gareth Roberts
August 1, 2022
Watching people brazening it out can be tremendous fun. The higher the stakes, the more extreme the disparity between reality and what we now call ‘cope’, the greater the cheer.
We remember the brass neck of Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, the Iraqi information minister dubbed ‘Comical Ali’, still denying the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime as American tanks rolled into Baghdad. Or the final balcony address given by Nicolae Ceaușescu on his pet TV station as his regime was toppling. ... read full article
UK - The revolt against Drag Queen Story Hour
Parents are right to challenge the indoctrination of their children.
From Spiked (UK)
By FRANK FUREDI
August 2, 2022
The project of exposing children as young as three and four to topics related to sexuality and gender has acquired momentum in recent years. Time and again, gender-identity entrepreneurs declare that it is never too early to talk to children about these issues. They continually interpret children’s behaviour through the prism of an adult narrative. They want to ‘educate’ – that is, indoctrinate – young children to interpret their feelings in line with what is described as an ‘inclusive’ and ‘genderfluid’ outlook.
Gender-identity zealots are constantly targeting children with propaganda that masquerades as disinterested research. LGBT advocacy organisation Stonewall now goes so far as to insist that evidence shows ‘that children as young as two recognise their trans identity’. In pushing this fantasy research, Stonewall hopes to transform the way that nurseries socialise young children. ... read full article
UK - After Tavistock, will Mermaids be next?
From The Spectator (UK)
August 2, 2022
'Mermaids must fall next.' That was the response of Professor Kathleen Stock to the news that last week that the NHS was closing its Tavistock gender identity clinic for children. Stock, who quit Sussex University over what she called a trans rights 'witch-hunt', added that it was now time for 'a no-holds barred journalistic dive' into Mermaids, the British charity which supports 'gender variant and transgender youth.' Their methods of doing this have come under much scrutiny, such as by promoting breast binding at an event last year. ... read full article
Scotland - Nicola Sturgeon told to protect 'single-sex sport' after she hails Lionesses Euro victory
The SNP leader welcomed England's Euros victory but campaigners claim the party's policy is putting female sport at risk
From Scottish Daily Express (Scotland)
By Douglas Dickie
August 2, 2022
Nicola Sturgeon has been told she needs to protect single-sex sport amid concerns over the SNP's gender recognition reform.
It came after the First Minister hailed England women's football team's success at the European Championships. The 'Lionesses' won the trophy with a 2-1 victory over Germany at Wembley.
Ms Sturgeon called the victory "brilliant" while also taking a pop at England's men's team. But fears have now been raised that the SNP's Gender Recognition Reform Bill will lead to sporting authorities feeling pressured to let men who identify as women play female sports. ... read full article