Tuesday, May 24, 2022
This day in Herstory: Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria), born May 24, 1819 (died January 22,1901), was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Known as the Victorian era, her reign of 63 years and seven months was longer than any previous British monarch. (more)
Ricky Gervais Dares to Joke about Transgenderism
From The National Review (USA)
By Madeleine Kearns
May 24, 2022
Ricky Gervais’s Netflix comedy special SuperNature dropped last night and is already attracting criticism for “transphobic” jokes.
Gervais begins the special with jokes about women not being funny and not being able to take a joke, then swiftly moves on to transgenderism:
Not all women, I mean the old-fashioned ones. The old-fashioned women, the ones with wombs. … read full article
Ed. note: There have been several articles discussing Ricky Gervais’s jokes about trans-identified people. Many are critical - “how very dare he …” and you probably don’t want to see them anyway. But here are a few that don’t merely protest his gender cult heresy:
Vicky (not a typo) Gervais: SUPERNATURE, from Substack, by Kara Dansky
Ricky Gervais mocks transgender movement in Netflix special, prompting backlash, from The National Desk, by Zachary Rogers
Ricky Gervais praised for Netflix special 'SuperNature' mocking cancel culture with jokes about trans people, Hitler and AIDS - sparking Twitter pile on from woke brigade, from The Daily Mail, by Jamie Phillips
Bailey Tribunal: Lesbian Sexual Boundaries Like ‘Racial Segregation’
From REDUXX (USA)
By Shay Woulahan
May 24, 2022
A workshop to help trans-identified males overcome lesbians’ sexual boundaries “is similar to South Africa attempting to racially integrate society” the Central London Employment Tribunal heard today.
The shocking statement was made by Cathryn McGahey while providing evidence in the Allison Bailey v. Stonewall & Garden Court Chambers case. Bailey, a criminal defense barrister and LGB Alliance co-founder, has pursued legal action against her employer, Garden Court Chambers, and trans activist charity Stonewall. … read full article
Montana bars transgender people from changing birth certificates, even with surgery
From The National Desk (USA)
by EMMA WULFHORST, KECI and The Associated Press
May 24, 2022
MISSOULA, Mont. (KECI) — Montana health officials say transgender people can't change their birth certificates even if they undergo gender-confirmation surgery, in defiance of a court order that temporarily blocked the Republican-controlled state's bid to restrict transgender rights.
This is the latest move in an ongoing legal battle over new state law, Senate Bill 280. The law would require people present documentation of gender confirmation surgery in order to change the gender marker on their birth certificate. … read full article
$30K a Year, and My Kid Can’t Tell the Difference Between a Boy and a Girl
From Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) (USA)
May 24, 2022
Everything has a price.
Like every American family, our family runs a constant cost/benefit analysis on our lives. There are the small decisions: is it worth the time to drive to Target for the cheaper diapers? Or should I just get the pricier ones at the grocery store? And there are the bigger ones: like, should I live in the suburbs and pay lower taxes but more for car expenses and gas? Or flip that decision? … read full article
Hannah Tubbs: Child Molester To Stand Trial on Murder Charges
From REDUXX (USA)
By Anna Slatz
May 24, 2022
A trans-identified male currently serving a sentence for sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl has now been ordered to stand trial on first-degree murder charges as evidence has emerged connecting him to the past crime.
Hannah Tubbs, born James, came to widespread notoriety in February of this year after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a young girl in the bathroom of a family restaurant in 2014. … read full article
No, Conservatives Did Not Inflame Trans Ideology In The Culture War
Leftists push their gender ideology on children, yet conservative parents complaining about Drag Queen Story Hour are blamed for starting a culture war.
From The Federalist (USA)
By CASEY CHALK
May 24, 2022
Can the gaslighting on gender and sexual identitarianism from the left get any more absurd? The Washington Post last month ran a story about how a decision by the community center in McLean, Virginia to co-sponsor a “Drag StoryBook Hour” for children during Pride Month has, in their awkward wording, “set off culture wars.”
The May election for three open seats at the community center has attracted nine candidates, including Katharine Gorka, a former Trump administration official who has criticized the diversity, inclusion, and equity policies that resulted in the drag event. WaPo reporter Antonio Olivo observed, with editorial flourish, that this is “an example of how nothing is safe from the nation’s raging culture wars.” … read full article
"Similar to South Africa attempting to racially integrate society"
An extraordinary statement made regarding the "cotton ceiling" in evidence at Bailey v Garden Court Chambers & Stonewall
From Kavanagh's Substack (USA)
By Dennis Noel Kavanagh
May 24, 2022
Apart from setting out the the background to the case drawn from publicly available papers, I’ve not commented on the parties’ respective cases in Bailey v Garden Court Chambers & Stonewall because proceedings are ongoing and the gender borg do rather have a tendency to misrepresent what one says for gain.
As such, I won’t be commenting here on the merits of Allison’s claim or the cases put forward by the defendants, but I will comment on what I consider to be an extraordinary aspect of today’s evidence - regarding the so-called “cotton ceiling” - in defence of lesbians and homosexuality more generally, as I feel compelled to. I do so on the basis that the evidence reported below is a true and accurate account of what was given in evidence. … read full article
Parents push back against elementary school's transgender bathroom policy
From The National Desk (USA)
by ELISSA SALAMY
May 24, 2022
WASHINGTON (TND) — A Central Ohio mother says her two elementary school-aged daughters felt uncomfortable when a transgender student entered the girl's restroom.
“They went into the restroom and there was a little boy in the restroom, dressed like a little girl,” said Julie Szymanski. “And they immediately felt very uncomfortable.”
She said at an Olentangy Local School District board meeting that her daughters are afraid to use the restroom at school. … read full article
State Farm Abandons LGBTQ Children’s-Book Program after Whistleblower Email Leak
From The National Review (USA)
By CAROLINE DOWNEY
May 23, 2022
State Farm, the household-name insurance company, has abandoned its program to distribute LGBTQ-themed books to teachers, community centers, and libraries, explicitly targeting children as young as kindergartners, after a media exposé based on a whistleblower email caught the company by surprise on Monday.
In an email to all State Farm agents and staff members sent just hours after multiple news outlets revealed the book initiative, Victor Terry, chief diversity officer and vice president of public affairs, announced the cancellation of its collaboration with GenderCool, an organization that promotes LGBTQ teaching via speaking events, mentorship programs, DEI/HR consulting, and advising for parents of transgender children. … read full article
Montana bars birth certificate sex changes, even with surgery
From WCAX3 (USA)
By MATTHEW BROWN
May 24, 2022
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana health officials say transgender people can’t change their birth certificates even if they undergo gender-confirmation surgery, in defiance of a court order that had blocked the Republican-controlled state’s bid to restrict transgender rights.
The state health department said late Monday in an emergency order that it would no longer record the category of “gender” on people’s birth certificates, replacing that category with a listing for “sex” that can be changed only in rare circumstances.
Sex is “immutable,” the order said, while gender is a “social ... construct” that can change over time. … read full article
Research Does Not Support the Adage “Boys Will Be Boys”
From Neuroscience News (USA)
May 24, 2022
A research article published in the European Journal of Personality demonstrates that girls and boys who were girlish and boyish with regard to a specific domain, such as grades, were not, on average, more so in terms of another domain, such as personality.
Among Finnish adolescents completing their basic education, the study investigated gender differences in terms of personality, values, school grades, cognitive ability and educational track. … read full article
Bill Maher Joins the Coalition Of Imperfect Allies
From Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) (USA)
By Volunteer Writer
May 24, 2022
Social media has been abuzz with the news that Bill Maher dedicated his enormously popular “New Rule” segment to highlighting some of the biggest absurdities in “gender identity” activism, with a particular focus on the Wild West-style of “affirmative medical care for trans kids.” As a well-known TV commentator, Maher built a reputation for calling out the beliefs and tactics of some evangelical religious right-wingers, while also criticizing the ridiculous antics of the American political left.
With this, radical feminists once again find ourselves gratefully cheering on the increased exposure of this problem, while quietly wincing at the fact that some of Maher’s analysis is inconsistent, and potentially in conflict, with our own. He lumps LGB sexual orientation in with the other letters, advancing the forced-teaming inherent in the “LGBTQIA+” concept. He promotes the idea that some people really are “transgender,” and are coming out in greater numbers only because they feel safe or because it’s trendy. … read full article
The process of my social detransition
Accepting my biological reality without compromising my personality
From magiruuvelvet (USA)
By magiruuvelvet
May 24, 2022
My detransition was a long and shameful process. But it was needed to move on with life. Detransitioning isn’t something you complete in one day. For me, it was a process which took several months. The most difficult part was to admit to myself that I made a huge mistake. I really thought that transitioning was a magical fix for all my problems and self-hatred. I constantly needed to remind myself that I was indeed a woman. That everything is fine as it is right now. Once I stopped lying to myself, I was finally able to wake up from my delusion.
Detransitioning took me some time. I detoured through a non-binary phase first. After that I was finally able to accept myself. … read full article
Wild Womyn Workshop Censored Across Social Media
The popular radical feminist merch shop was locked out of Twitter and censored on Instagram and Facebook
From 4W (USA)
By Andreia Nobre
May 24, 2022
Angela C Wild, the lesbian artist and activist behind the popular radical feminist merchandise store, Wild Womyn Workshop, has been censored across Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. On May 18, Angela replied to a tweet by writer, J. K. Rowling, saying that “All men should be banned from women’s spaces. And they are.”
Angela’s tweet was reported by transactivists for “violating” the social media rules against “hateful conduct” which, according to Twitter Support, is applied when someone promotes “violence against, threaten or harass other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability or serious disease." On may 20, Angela was locked out of her business Twitter account, which has over 11k followers. … read full article
Wisconsin court can stop schools from lying to parents about transgender children
From Washington Examiner (USA)
By Quin Hillyer
May 24, 2022
By now, the war against parents by the political Left and the educational establishment must be labeled a deep sickness of the soul.
Witness yet another case, this one from Wisconsin, where a public school district actively “assists” children in experimenting with gender fluidity while refusing to tell parents about it. The Wisconsin Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in the case, which has lingered for two and a half years in procedural limbo. … read full article
US Air Force Base holds Drag Queen Story Hour for kids
"We're celebrating Pride Month at the Ramstein Library with Drag Queen Storytime!" The Ramstein Air Force Base event details read. "Be sure to wear your brightest and most colorful outfits!"
From The Post Millennial (USA)
By Libby Emmons
May 24, 2022
Ramstein Air Force Base is holding a Drag Queen Story Time for kids. The event, hosted by the Ramstein & Vogelweh Air Force Libraries, will be held on June 2.
"We're celebrating Pride Month at the Ramstein Library with Drag Queen Storytime!" The event details read. "Join us with special guest reader Stacey Teed! Be sure to wear your brightest and most colorful outfits!" … read full article
Minutes after lawmakers override veto of transgender sports ban, first lawsuit is filed
From Indianapolis Star (USA)
By Arika Herron
May 24, 2022
Just minutes after the Indiana General Assembly overrode Gov. Eric Holcomb’s veto of the state’s ban on transgender girls playing girls school sports, the first lawsuit against the measure was filed.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana is suing the Indianapolis Public Schools district on behalf of a 10-year-old transgender girl who will no longer be able to play softball on her school’s all-girls’ softball team. The child and her family were identified only by initials in the lawsuit. … read full article
Where are women in MSPs’ transgender sport talks, asks Olympian Mara Yamauchi
From The Times (UK)
By Mike Wade
May 24, 2022
An elite athlete and feminist activists have condemned MSPs for “rubber-stamping” controversial changes to gender laws which are said to override the interests of women in sport.
Holyrood’s equalities, human rights and civil justice committee was accused of “bias” against women after it heard evidence from two senior executives, both male, representing sports organisations funded or part-funded by the Scottish government.
The furore erupted as the committee continued its examination of the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill in one of up to six evidence sessions ahead of Holyrood’s summer recess. … read full article
MP states 'trans men are not men and trans women are not women'
Tory MP Mark Jenkinson has argued that the 'trans debate' is setting women's rights back more than 40 years
From GBN (UK)
By Jamie Micklethwaite
May 24, 2022
A Conservative MP has stated that trans men are not men and trans women are not women, as the debate around gender identity rumbles on.
MPs debated a public petition on making non-binary a legally-recognised gender identity in the UK.
The petition, which calls on the Government to “make non-binary a legally recognised gender identity in the UK”, attracted more than 140,000 signatures from across the country. … read full article
Gender reform Scotland: Majority of responders 'opposed to law reform'
From The Herald (Scotland)
By Jody Harrison
May 23, 2022
Controversial proposals to reform the process by which transgender people are legally recognised in their preferred gender are opposed by most of the people who responded to a Holyrood committee.
The Scottish Parliament’s Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee received more than 11,000 submissions when it asked for views on the Scottish Government’s plans. … read full article
Legal Recognition of Non-binary Gender Identities
From UK Parliament
Hansard
Volume 715: debated on Monday 23 May 2022
Nick Fletcher (Don Valley) (Con):
… Puberty is also a time of development, and many young people are now questioning their gender at that crucial time. If we stop that developmental process in its tracks, before puberty, the results can be life changing. I believe that making non-binary a legal identity … will have hugely detrimental effects on many young people …. They are children; they are not adults. Therefore, any such decisions for children below the age of 18 must be avoided.
I am also unsure who is to decide that a child is not a boy or a girl, and when. The child cannot decide when it is born, so who decides? Doctors have always decided the biological sex, and there are rules in place for that. What about a 10-year-old? Can a child decide at that age, or is it still a parental choice? …
Miriam Cates (Penistone and Stocksbridge) (Con)
“Non-binary” is a term for gender identities that are not solely male or female—identities that are outside the gender binary. So what do we mean by gender? The word “gender” used to be interchangeable with biological sex, and biological sex is indeed binary. Humans, like all mammals, have either male or female sex chromosomes in every cell. We are male or female; that is immutable and scientifically indisputable. … read full text
Washington state fights Tacoma therapist over conversion therapy
From KUOW (USA)
By Paige Browning
May 24, 2022
Lawyers with the Washington Attorney General’s office are in federal court defending the state's ban on conversion therapy.
A lawyer for a Tacoma therapist and Washington state attorneys argued their case in front of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals last Tuesday, May 17.
A panel of the 9th Circuit in Seattle is hearing the case. … read full article