Tuesday, July 12, 2022
"One of the goals of gender ideology is to force everyone ... to question what they know to be true and accept a new reality that is, in fact, fiction." - Kaylee McGhee White
This day in Herstory: Malala Yousafzai, born July 12, 1997, is a Pakistani activist for female education and the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Awarded when she was 17, she is the world's youngest Nobel Prize laureate, and the second Pakistani and the first Pashtun to ever receive a Nobel Prize. She is known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of women and children in her native Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where the Pakistani Taliban have at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become Pakistan's "most prominent citizen." (more)
US - Trans woman returns to life as man and takes aim at the ‘activist’ doctor who turned his life upside down
From New York Post (USA)
By Rikki Schlott
July 12, 2022
“Coming out of my transition was like leaving the Twilight Zone, but the rest of society is still in it.”
After living nearly a decade of his life as a transgender woman named Brianna, Brian Wagoner ultimately came to realize his transition had been a mistake. In February, the 31-year-old made the decision to detransition back to his biological gender and live once again as a man. ... read full article
US - Rep. Rashida Tlaib attacks NY Times for ‘providing a platform for transphobic hate and propaganda’
Tlaib slammed a recent New York Times Magazine article on 'the battle over gender therapy' for trans teens
From Fox News (USA)
By Joe Silverstein
July 11, 2022
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., attacked the New York Times Monday for "providing a platform for transphobic hate & propaganda" after the newspaper's magazine published a long form piece in June exploring the impacts of gender transition on minors.
Tlaib called on her followers to sign a petition sponsored by her congressional campaign "to tell the New York Times to stop providing a dangerous platform for transphobic hate, and instead amplify trans voices," in response to reports that the article was being used to support a Texas policy to investigate transgender "treatments" for youth as child abuse. ... read full article
US - Berkeley professor to Hawley: ‘Your line of questioning is transphobic’
From The Hill (USA)
By Dominick Mastrangelo
July 12, 2022
Berkeley law professor Khiara Bridges rebuked Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) during a Senate hearing on Tuesday, accusing him of peppering her with a line of transphobic questioning.
Bridges during an exchange with Hawley at the hearing cited the suicide attempt rate among transgender people and accused Hawley of asking questions that could lead to violence against the trans community. Hawley appeared annoyed with those accusations and eventually asked Bridges if that was how she treated her students. ... read full article
US - Gender ideologues want to scare you into submission. Don't let them
From Washington Examiner (USA)
By Kaylee McGhee White
July 12, 2022
One of the goals of gender ideology is to force everyone, but especially those who might not feel certain about the issue, to question what they know to be true and accept a new reality that is, in fact, fiction.
Thus far, transgenderists have been alarmingly successful at this. Media outlets now use “preferred pronouns,” including bizarre and grammatically incorrect ones such as “they/them,” regularly — to the point where it is actually difficult to determine the true sex of the person in question . And nearly one-third of all young adults now say they know someone who identifies as a gender different than his or her biological sex. In most, if not all, of our institutions, this is the new normal. ... read full article
US - Florida teacher rips school district's gender policies: 'Exact opposite of loving and safe'
Matthew Woodside says progressive policies are causing 'homogenous confusion' on 'Fox & Friends First'
From Fox News (USA)
By Bailee Hill
July 12, 2022
One Florida teacher is speaking out against his school district's progressive gender policies that enable students to use the bathroom of their choosing aligning with their "gender identity."
Brevard County public school teacher Matthew Woodside joined "Fox & Friends First" to discuss the impact of the policies and how he believes they are affecting students. ... read full article
US - At Teachers Union Convention, Indoctrination Trumps Education
From The Daily Signal (USA)
By Brenda Lebsack
July 12, 2022
As a teacher, I attended the National Education Association convention last week, and my worst fears were confirmed.
Public schools are no longer a safe place for families who hold traditional values or for families who believe gender (as in male/female binary) is biologically determined.
… read full article
US - Twin Falls Teacher Calls It Quits Over School LGBTQ Policy
From KLIX News Radio (USA)
By Bill Colley
July 12, 2022
Jaren Thompson won’t play the school district’s game. The veteran teacher told the Board of Education he’s walking away from the classroom because he can’t support woke gender policies. Some have been in place for several years. Thompson is a devout man and cited several recent court cases to bolster his position. Cases the school’s lawyers have likely also followed and noted.
Thompson explained at a Monday board meeting that also he can’t violate biological science and then teach that there are multiple genders in order to appease confused students. You can watch his comments on YouTube by clicking here. ... read full article
US - Wisconsin School Policy Hiding Students’ Gender Identity From Parents Can Continue, Court Finds
From Daily Caller (USA)
By Reagan Reese
July 12, 2022
The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that a school policy allowing students to secretly change their pronouns at school could remain in place.
In a 4-3 ruling, the state’s supreme court denied an injunction against the policy on procedural grounds because the plaintiffs were anonymous, allowing the gender identity policy to continue, the court’s opinion said. The final decision on the policy will be sent back to a circuit court. ... read full article
US - Our kids' schools told us to 'cease and desist' but we're fighting back
We are two mothers who were concerned about materials being used in our kids' classrooms. But the education establishment just wanted to silence us
From Fox News (USA)
By Alexandra Schweitzer and Julia Zaccaria
July 12, 2022
For years, as parents, we wrongfully assumed the public schools were on our side—that they were doing their best to teach our kids to read and write and leave personal politics out of it. But for many parents across the U.S., the pandemic exposed that public schools were teaching critical race theory, progressive sexual and gender agenda materials and other age-inappropriate concepts to our kids.
While some parents were struggling before the pandemic, virtual education enlightened many parents about where the public-school establishment’s loyalty really lies. What is most alarming for us is that as we tried to get involved and pushback against our districts in Wisconsin—Oconomowoc and Elmbrook—they attempted to silence us and went as far as having their attorneys send us cease-and-desist letters.
... read full article
US - Los Angeles Unified School District Provides Lesson Plans that Promote Child Transgenderism
America’s second-largest school district is teaming up with various left-wing organizations to promote child transgenderism.
From Breitbart (USA)
By Spencer Lindquist
July 11, 2022
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has teamed up with a number of leftwing organizations to provide teachers with children’s books that promote transgenderism and corresponding lesson plans.
Open Books, previously named Gender Nation, is an organization that aims to “validate children with LGBTQ+ storytelling” by furnishing public schools with books that endorse child transgenderism. The LAUSD Human Relations, Diversity and Equity website explains that the district received “an enormous donation of LGBTQIA-themed books that are developmentally appropriate for elementary and span schools” from the organization. ... read full article
US - Planned Parenthood Offers Transgender Hormone Therapy to Minors
Planned Parenthood is providing transgender hormone therapy across the country, with certain locations even serving minors who are attempting to change their sex.
From Breitbart (USA)
By Spencer Lindquist
July 12, 2022
America’s largest provider of abortions is also providing “gender affirming hormone therapy” to minors in California and Nevada and to those 18 years and older across the country.
Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, which oversees a region spanning from mid-California to northern Nevada, offers “gender affirming hormone therapy” to those ages 16 and 17 with parental consent. For those under the age of 16, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte directs “transgender and gender diverse youth” to external clinics that do not have an age limit. ... read full article
US - Dave Chappelle nominated for 2022 Emmy despite ‘The Closer’ backlash
From New York Post (USA)
By Brooke Kato
July 12, 2022
The Emmys refuse to cancel Dave Chappelle.
For his 2021 special “The Closer,” the 48-year-old comedian received a nomination for both variety special and directing for a variety special. ... read full article
US - Anger, shame and then pure happiness
From Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) (USA)
July 12, 2022
Anger and shame: these two emotions have become part of me since my son announced he was trans quite a few years ago. The anger emerged when I discovered that the entire world had been captured by this gender nonsense. The doctors, the therapists, the schools, friends and family all believing that girls could be boys and boys could be girls. I tried to explain to some of the believers what I have learned in my many hours of research, but they had made up their minds. They would listen politely but I could read their expressions of doubt and then they would say something about me having to accept my son. I’ve had too many of these conversations over the last few years and the anger has multiplied with time. Nobody was listening! ... read full article
Canada - Don't let sissy-porn addicts redefine what it means to be a woman
From gender:hacked by Eliza Mondegreen (Canada)
By Eliza Mondegreen
July 12, 2022
Redefining women from a sex class to a mixed-sex class based on male sexual projections reifies sex-role stereotypes and requires actual women and girls to dissociate body and mind. After all, we’re not allowed to say we’re women because we’re female anymore. We’re supposed to look inside ourselves and find something else that makes us women—something that has nothing to do with female embodiment—that a man can experience, too, like getting turned on by the idea of your own sexual defilement. If some men want to wear ‘women’ as masks, then women must be masks, nothing more. ... read full article
UK - 'Sex is NOT limited to male or female': Fury over new World Health Organization gender guidance which 'dismisses basic biology'
EXCLUSIVE: New WHO guidance will go 'beyond' binary approach, it says
Health experts have slammed the move, saying it is 'unscientific' and 'worrying'
Comes amid concerning rise in use of woke gender-neutral language in the NHS
From Daily Mail (UK)
By JOHN ELY
July 12, 2022
Sex is 'not limited' to being male or female, the World Health Organization (WHO) will say in new guidance.
The WHO, an international authority on all things health, said it was 'going beyond' the use of binary terms to 'recognise gender and sexual diversity'. ... read full article
UK - Tories are wrong to think woke is weak
A rallying cry on gender politics from Conservative candidates risks turning another generation against the party
From The Times (UK)
By Hugo Rifkind
July 11, 2022
Maybe some identities are easier to change than others. On my Times Radio show on Saturday morning, the comedian Elf Lyons pointed out Penny Mordaunt’s popularity with younger Conservative voters, due to her knack of allowing them to feel both Tory and socially liberal. And I was reminded that, at the despatch box in 2018, Mordaunt delivered the mantra, “trans men are men and trans women are women”.
By Sunday morning, though, Mordaunt was trying to self-identify a bit differently. In, it seemed, something of a panic. On social media, above a panel which read “DO I KNOW WHAT A WOMAN IS?” she listed all she has done to protect female-only spaces and combat what she regards — and, indeed, I regard, too — as some of the more upsetting consequences of trans normalisation. “Some want to damage my reputation,” she wrote. “They want to depict me as ‘woke’.” ... read full article
UK - The case for a culture warrior PM
The Tories should take a punt on Kemi Badenoch.
From Spiked (UK)
By Tom Slater
July 12, 2022
To say that Kemi Badenoch is the best bet for the Tories is a profound understatement. It’s not even close. In this Conservative Party leadership race, among a parade of grinning Blairites and tragic Thatcher tribute acts, the former equalities minister and MP for Saffron Walden is the insurgent candidate who most seems to ‘get it’. Namely, that the culture war is very real and needs to be fought. That it is the key dividing line in modern politics. That those seeking to divide Brits by race and gender and identity are not well-meaning progressives but are among the most pernicious people in public life today. … read full article
UK - Down the pan: Almost 98% of British public wants to keep single-sex changing rooms and separate toilets for men and women, poll suggests
A near-unanimous 98 per cent of respondents said they wanted separate toilets
Around 7,000 people were surveyed in a poll by campaign group Sex Matters
The poll showed 95 per cent would want gendered toilets to help elderly people
Sex and gender have become key issues in the Conservative leadership race
From Daily Mail (UK)
By MARTIN BECKFORD
July 12, 2022
The public overwhelmingly wants to keep separate toilets, changing rooms and sports competitions for men and women, a report reveals today.
A poll of 7,000 people found that an overwhelming 98 per cent wanted to be able to get undressed, shower or use the lavatory away from members of the opposite sex.
... read full article
UK - Toilets matter
Women and girls deserve a safe space
From The Critic (UK)
By Raquel Rosario Sánchez
July 12, 2022
In May 2016, the Obama administration issued a federal guidance instructing public schools that students should be allowed to use whatever bathroom they felt comfortable with, regardless of their sex. The Obama administration was threatening schools that if they did not allowed students to choose whatever bathroom they wanted to use based on their internal feeling of “gender identity”, they would be at risk of expensive lawsuits or of losing vital aid from the federal government.
The guidance was not legally binding, but it sparked a firestorm across the United States, fuelling concerted pushback from Republicans just in time for the election months afterwards. ... read full article
EU - 'Tell the truth'
A pan-European petition calls for accurate media coverage of youth gender medicine
From Gender Clinic News (Australia)
By Bernard Lane
July 12, 2022
A fast-growing European petition is warning the public that they are being denied the truth about medicalised gender change for minors.
“Too many [media] programs and reports [simply] convey the unfounded claims of trans-affirmative activists,” the petition says. ... read full article
EU - German Self-ID to Allow Changing Legal Sex Once a Year
Until the end of 2022, Germany plans to pass a bill so anyone aged 14 years old and up can change their legal sex by filling out a form.
From 4W (USA)
By Dana Vitalosova
July 12, 2022
Until the end of the year, the coalition plans to pass a bill that would allow anyone aged 14 years old and up to change their legal sex and first name by simply filling out a form at the registry office. At a June 30 press conference, two German Ministers presented these first key points of a “Transsexual Act” reform.
In the case of minors aged 14 - 18, the new law allows them to change their sex markers in documents with the consent of their legal guardians. The parents of children under 14 would have the right to file the form on their child’s behalf.
... read full article
Brazil - Trans-Identified Male Assaults Teen Girls For Advocating for Single-Sex Bathrooms
From REDUXX (USA)
By Reduxx Team
July 12, 2022
A video out of Brazil showing a trans-identified male student assaulting two female classmates is going viral, with the attack reportedly taking place following the girls expressing concern about males being able to access the female washrooms within the school.
The disturbing video depicting the attack, which took place at Colégio Instituto de Educação in Maringá, Brazil, has been viewed over 200,000 times as of this article’s writing. While the footage has been blurred to protect the juvenile’s identities, the incident is said to have taken place on July 7. ... read full article