Tuesday, August 9, 2022
Los Angeles Unified School District shared a video to an Instagram story on Saturday featuring trans activist Addison Vincent. It was linked to a page filled with soft core pornographic images.
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US - LA school district shares video on 'preferred pronouns' with links to non-binary biological male's 'boudoir photos'
On the video about pronouns that LAUSD shared, Imani instructs her followers to "check out" Vincent’s "absolutely gorgeous boudoir photos as well."
From The Post Millennial (USA)
By Christina Buttons
August 9, 2022
Los Angeles Unified School District shared a video to their Instagram story on Saturday to explain to people how to use "preferred pronouns," featuring trans activist Addison Vincent, and linking to Vincent’s personal page. That page is filled with numerous soft core pornographic images of Vincent, who prefers they/them pronouns.
The video shows Vincent along with Blair Imani, who shares on her profile that she is bisexual and Muslim. The two walk through their belief that it's necessary to ask people what their preferred pronouns are. The two introduce themselves, with Vincent stating pronouns, and Imani playacting by claiming "cisgender confusion," by saying that people should just be able to tell what her pronouns are. … read full article
US - Education Department's Fake Punt on Women's Sports | Opinion
From Newsweek (USA)
By RACHEL N. MORRISON
August 9, 2022
Controversy continues to surround the participation of transgender-identifying athletes in women's sports. This issue garnered national attention earlier this year with Lia Thomas' collegiate swimming success.
Thomas, a biological male who identifies as transgender, competed for the University of Pennsylvania women's swim team in compliance with the NCAA transgender student-athlete participation policy. Thomas smashed women's swim records, won the Division I national title in the 500-yard freestyle, and most recently was nominated by the Ivy League university for the NCAA "Woman of the Year" award. (Another athlete ultimately received the award.) … read full article
US - West Virginia's already highest per capita trans youth population may be under counted: Study
The study found more than 7% of students do not identify with their sex at birth
From Fox News (USA)
By Michael Lee
August 9, 2022
A West Virginia University study found that the population of youth who do not identify with their sex at birth may be much higher than previous estimates.
"Gender-diverse youth are incredible young people, and — as our study found — many of them live in rural areas," WVU School of Medicine researcher Dr. Kacie Kidd, one of the co-authors of the study, said in a press release Monday. "It is important that we ensure they have access to support so that they are able to thrive."
Kidd's comments come after researchers at the university anonymously surveyed close to 3,000 students in grades 7-12 in Appalachian region public schools, finding that more than 7% of respondents identified with a gender other than their sex at birth. … read full article
US - Elite Nashville All-Girls School Will Now Admit Biological Males Who Identify as Female
From OutKick (USA)
By Ian Miller
August 9, 2022
Woke politics continue to infest educational institutions in the name of “diversity, equity and inclusion.”
One such example is The Harpeth Hall School, an elite all-girls, private college preparatory school in Nashville, Tenn.
Harpeth Hall has a storied history dating back to 1865, and intends to develop future female leaders. It counts actress Reese Witherspoon, singer Amy Grant and comedienne Minnie Pearl among its alumnae. It prominently displays messages on its website like “Live Honorably” and “Think Critically.” … read full article
US - Florida School Board Member Brags About Promoting Woke Ideology ‘From The Inside’
From Daily Caller (USA)
By Chrissy Clark
August 9, 2022
A Florida school board member appears to brag about promoting a leftist agenda “from the inside” of a school district, according to video footage from an event.
Sarasota County Schools Board member and vice-chair Thomas Edwards admitted to being “woke” and promoting the ideology “from the inside” of the school board in the video. Edwards claims that he earned “credibility” and “trust” among families in just under two years. … read full article
US - Proposed gender policy sparks debate
Several Oak Harbor parents voiced their opinions on a proposed policy revision.
From Whidbey News-Times (USA)
By Rachel Rosen
August 9, 2022
Several Oak Harbor parents voiced their opinions on a proposed policy revision that would allow counselors to tell parents that their child is transgender, even if the student does not want them to.
Members of the Oak Harbor School Board didn’t make any decisions during the Monday night meeting, but heard from residents with strong opinions.
The proposed policy change was first discussed in the board meeting on July 25. Under the proposal, counselors would have to first determine that the student wouldn’t face danger at home before notifying parents. … read full article
US - Paso Robles school district proposes removing separate LGBTQ bullying protections
From The Tribune (USA)
By Mackenzie Shuman
August 9, 2022
The Paso Robles school board is proposing to remove specific protections for LGBTQ+ students in its district regulations.
The move comes almost a year after students at Paso Robles High School ripped a Pride flag from a teacher’s wall and tried to flush it down a toilet — sparking community outrage and leading to the creation of a task force designed to guide the district to better serving its LGBTQ+ students.
Paso Robles Joint Unified School District board members and administrators were scheduled to discuss the proposed changes to district policy at their meeting Tuesday evening beginning at 6 p.m. at the district office. … read full article
US - Duneland School Board wrestles with policy for transgender students, listens to parent opposition
From Chicago Tribune (USA)
By Carole Carlson
August 09, 2022
Some Duneland School Corp. parents voiced opposition Monday to the school board establishing a policy allowing restroom and other accommodations for transgender students.
The school board heard a presentation from Lisa Tanselle, general counsel for the Indiana School Boards Association, and she detailed federal judges’ support for transgender students’ rights in past lawsuits.
The courts have consistently followed the tenets of Title IX, the federal law passed by Congress in 1972 that banned discrimination in education programs that relied on federal funding. … read full article
US - W.Va Judge: ‘Transsexual Surgeries’ Must be Covered by Medicaid, Employee Healthcare
From Women Are Human (Canada)
By Diana Shaw
August 9, 2022
US — Charleston, West Virginia. A federal judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia has ruled that the state’s Medicaid and state employee health programs must cover ‘transsexual surgeries.’
The state of West Virginia previously placed a ban under its Medicaid and state employee health plans on coverage of surgical affirmation of gender identity beliefs.
Medicaid is the nation’s public health insurance program for people with low income and covers one in five Americans. 564,000 people are covered under West Virginia’s Medicaid plan. … read full article
US - How Our Shoes Can Help Explain the Biology of Sex
There are no good reasons to doubt that sex is, in fact, binary.
From Reality's Last Stand (USA)
By Tomas Bogardus
August 9, 2022
What is sex?
When asked questions like “What is a male?” or “What is a female?” many people immediately think of our own species, of human males and human females. And so you’ll often hear answers that pick out features having to do with our chromosomes, or our genitalia, or our hormone levels, or the typical expectations of and social roles played by human males and human females: “Males? Oh, a male has XY chromosomes, male genitals, chest hair, and he’s drawn to sports, Coors Light, violence, etc.” But which if any of these answers is the right answer? … read full article
US - Why is this happening to my family?
A viral tweet suggests a new theory of race-based social identity threat and identity exit
From Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) (USA)
August 9, 2022
We parents of trans-identified kids have all asked this question: Why is this happening? Let’s examine one possible answer that I’ve heard from several sources - such as Josh Daws, Amber Athey, and Helena Kerschner - but that I think originated with James Lindsay at New Discourses1: That the recent surge in trans-ID and rapid onset gender dysphoric (ROGD) teens is the deliberate result of a politically-motivated plan to break down the family structure. This article is a quick assessment to see if this explanation makes any sense, is worth pursuing, and, if so, to determine what actions we can take.
THE DAWS CONJECTURE
Daws tweets “to sever the bond between parents and their children” in order “to create little revolutionaries,” “the left is using a two-pronged approach.” The prongs are Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Queer Theory (QT). … read full article
UK - 'Women are being erased by the NHS': Fury over health guidance on PERIODS that doesn't mention girls or women once and instead refers to 'people who bleed'
Bloody Brilliant is a Welsh Government funded website on periods and taboos
However, the website has omitted terms 'girl' and 'women' from this information
Experts say theses omissions could confuse and even potentially harm children
From Daily Mail (UK)
By JOHN ELY
August 9, 2022
The NHS has been accused of trying to erase women after MailOnline revealed the terms 'women' and 'girls' had been omitted from guidance about periods.
A website funded by the Welsh Government to give advice about menstruation refers to them as 'people who bleed' and 'half of the population'.
Medics and campaigners described the language as 'infuriating' and 'confusing', warning it would complicate health messaging for vulnerable girls. … read full article
UK - Schools with only unisex lavatories are acting unlawfully, warns Suella Braverman
Attorney General tells teachers that allowing students to ‘socially transition’ without parents’ consent could be a breach of care
From The Telegraph (UK)
By Camilla Turner
August 9, 2022
Schools that only offer “gender neutral” lavatories are acting unlawfully, Suella Braverman has said as she uses a major speech to set out the Government’s legal advice on transgender pupils.
The Attorney General will warn on Wednesday that teachers who allow students to “socially transition” to the opposite gender without their parents’ consent could be in breach of their duty of care to the child and open themselves up to a negligence claim.
She will use a speech on equalities legislation on Wednesday to say schools should only use a transgender child’s preferred pronouns on the advice of a medical professional. … read full article
UK - Schools should know the law on trans rights
Our compassion for children should never blind us to the harm it is possible to do to them by misplaced affirmation
From The Telegraph (UK)
By SUELLA BRAVERMAN
August 9, 2022
Rights are hard to get right. Sometimes they are presented by the Left as an inevitable march of progress towards ultimate liberation. But, as Conservatives, we reject this quasi-religious narrative. People are flawed and we can never create a perfect framework that can solve the human condition. Tolerance for difference and for robust debate is often more appropriate than restricting freedom. Balancing rights and responsibilities can be challenging.
But it’s so tempting to see things superficially. All rights, however noble, impose duties on others, even if in many cases we wholeheartedly agree that the benefits outweigh the costs. And the trade-offs can be tricky. Should protesters have the right to block the streets? Even if that includes ambulances? Should women have the right to single-sex spaces? And do our feelings about our identity change the rights to which we are entitled? … read full article
UK - How Big is the Women's Tent?
Val McDermid's good intentions have led her to a bad conclusion.
From Arty Morty’s Substack (Canada)
By Arty Morty
August 9, 2022
The other day the Sunday Times ran an online poll which consisted of a single question, presented as a cute little interactive dial for you to drag with your mouse or your finger: “Do you think womanhood a big enough tent for natal-women & trans women?”
This was part of the packaging of an interview with the crime writer and lesbian Val McDermid, who said to the Times, “Womanhood is a big tent. It embraces me and Kim Kardashian. There is certainly room in that tent for the trans women I know.”
What an odd way of looking at womanhood — a big tent. I think McDermid’s missing the bigger picture. … read full article
UK - Wickes and the perils of corporate virtue-signalling
Why is a hardware shop telling gays and lesbians to embrace gender ideology?
From Spiked (UK)
By Kate Harris
August 9, 2022
For those of us who lived through the criminalisation of homosexuality, rather than merely learning about it in history class, the corporatisation of Pride produces mixed emotions. When we see floats sponsored by banks and supermarkets passing in the parade, the first reaction of old-time homosexuals is often a sense of cynicism: where were these brands during Section 28, when their support would have been brave, bold and genuinely helpful to our cause?
At the same time, we welcome the fact that Pride has become such an uncontroversial part of the corporate calendar. Pride has always been about providing a ‘safe space’ for everyone – and why shouldn’t that include businesses, which can now come out and market themselves openly to same-sex attracted people without fear? ... read full article
UK - British Transport Police row as force suggests people who question gender ideology should not work for them
The British Transport Police (BTP) is facing backlash after suggesting people should not work for the force if they question gender ideology
From GBN (UK)
By Tom Evans
August 9, 2022
A picture of a Pride flag with the BTP logo on it was shared on social media this weekend.
Taking to Twitter, an officer shared an image of the symbol on display in Brighton alongside the caption: “Great to see BTP represented at Brighton Pride today.
"Loads of opportunities to join us. We want you to apply to be part of a modern, diverse and inclusive police force." … read full article
UK - Party poppers
Can liberal philosophers be used to justify censorship?
From The Critic (UK)
By Nathan Williams
August 9, 2022
Picture the scene. You’ve joined a political party so that you can hang out with people who share your worldview. But to your horror you discover that there are people in the party who think differently on certain issues. They may agree with you on 95% of the party manifesto, but on a few important questions they hold a different opinion to you. What to do? You could ignore them, you could argue with them in an attempt to convince them to change their mind, or you could work with them to find common ground and a compromise position. Or you could try to kick them, and those who think like them, out of your party. … read full article
UK - A Genealogy of Gender Identity - Money Who?
Part V
From Gender Dissident (UK)
By Alessandra Asteriti
August 9, 2022
The concept of gender identity seems to come into being in international law fully formed, like Athena from the head of Zeus. The Report of the IE does not reference any source. In the words of the IE, ‘Human experience in relation to gender identity and expression is both complex and rich’ (p. 12). The IE ignores the history of this term. Gender identity was coined as a concept in the 1960s and one of its main proponents was John Money, the psychologist and sexologist responsible for the treatment of David Reimer following a mutilating operation on his penis as a child.
David Reimer was one of twins who were then raised as a girl and as a boy, forced to enact sexual behaviours in front of the doctor who wanted to prove that gender identity can be imposed on a child (on these terms, gender ideology moved quite to the opposite position from the one advocated by Money). Both twins committed suicide eventually, David Reimer after trying to revert to a male body and identity (the history of the Reimer twins is summarised here). … read full article
UK - Belfast Pride 2022 organisers ‘may have broken law by seeking to bar transgender critics from parade’
A gay campaign group says that the organisers of Belfast Pride 2022 may have broken the law by trying to exclude critics of transgenderism from the festivities.
From Belfast News Letter (Northern Ireland)
By Adam Kula
August 8, 2022
The group, The LGB Alliance, said that the organisers have left themselves “potentially open to litigation or even judicial review” as a result of their move.
The Equality Commission meanwhile said that “there is no straightforward answer” to the question of whether it was unlawful to seek to exclude people who do not support the tenets of the transgender movement.
The News Letter tried to get a response from the Pride 2022 organisers to the LGB Alliance’s comments, but none was forthcoming. … read full article
Australia - Top cop slammed for 'sickening' Facebook post about trans-women in sport - but he says he's not transphobic: 'It's science and it's cheating'
The officer described a trans footy player in a woman's league as 'lunacy'
His comments were later removed by the league, with boss slamming them
John Kernahan said the league's officials were 'disappointed, even sickened'
From Daily Mail (Australia)
By DANYAL HUSSAIN
August 9, 2022
A senior police officer has come under fire for posting a message on Facebook calling the inclusion of trans competitors in women's sport cheating.
The South Australian cop wrote the message after a transgender player participated in a women's match last weekend in the Adelaide Footy League - an amateur AFL competition.
His comments were later removed by the league, with chief John Kernahan saying they were 'sickened' by them. … read full article
Spain - Spanish Parents to Sue Municipality Over “Pornographic” Event for Children
From Reduxx (USA)
By Genevieve Gluck
August 9, 2022
Parents in a small Spanish community are planning on suing local lawmakers after they discovered an event aimed at the town’s children had exposed them to highly sexual “games.”
The event, which took place on July 22 in Vilassar de Mar, a small municipality in Catalonia, included activities in which children were instructed to imitate sexual positions taken from the kama-sutra with each other, form genitals from play-dough, and learn about hardcore drugs.
The city’s youth department had organized the event, known as a “gincana” – a typical Spanish game involving completing a series of challenges. It was targeted at youth as young as 12, but allowed adults up to 30 years of age to participate. … read full article
Thank you for the very informative links. As are others, I am very concerned about the hypersexual material to which school children are being directed ("LAUSD shared, Imani instructs her followers to "check out" Vincent’s "absolutely gorgeous boudoir photos as well"). In time, people will look back at this phenomenon with disbelief.
The pronoun thing has got to stop. Pronouns are based on sex and sex cannot be changed and is obvious to us all in the vast, vast majority of cases. If someone wants a “gender” that has nothing to do with the pronouns I will use. (But if they ask nicely, I’m happy to say things like “she who has a special gender identity wants to attend” or “that belongs to him who believes he has a special gender”