Tuesday, September 20, 2022
"What is the medical profession doing to these people, particularly to adolescents? Are [they] ... being adequately briefed on the risks and adverse events of these surgical and medical treatments?"
This day in Herstory: Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone, born September 20, 1934, known professionally as Sophia Loren, is an Italian actress. She was named by the American Film Institute as one of the greatest female stars of Classical Hollywood cinema. As of 2022, Loren is one of the last surviving major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema and is the only remaining living person on AFI's list. (more)
US - Sen. Tim Scott introduces legislation to withhold funding from schools with 'secretive' gender transitions
The bill would restrict federal funding from schools that conceal information about a students’ gender from their parents.
From Fox News (USA)
By Joshua Q. Nelson
September 20, 2022
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., on Tuesday pushed a bill to "combat indoctrination in schools" by cutting off federal funds from public elementary and middle schools whose staff addresses a student by a different pronoun or name without parental consent.
The South Carolina senator introduced the Parental Rights Over the Education and Care of Their Kids (PROTECT) Act, to ensure parental rights over their child’s education by "preventing schools from concealing information about students’ gender from their parents."
The PROTECT Kids Act, received the backing from conservative groups like Parents Defending Education Action and Independent Women’s Voice. … read full article
‘My Blood Still Boils’: Father Recalls School’s Secret Attempt to Transition Daughter
From The Daily Signal (USA)
By Marjorie Jackson
September 20, 2022
At the beginning of this year, Wendell Perez got a call that no father ever wants to receive—his elementary-aged daughter had attempted to hang herself in the school bathroom. Perez and his wife rushed to the school, where their daughter was whisked away by a police car to stay in a mental institution for a week.
Searching for answers, the couple found out from school administrators that their “son” had been struggling with “his” gender identity. On top of that, the school had remained quiet about the issue as the student was concerned that “he” would not be accepted at home because of the family’s faith. … read full article
US - 5-Year-Olds Shouldn’t Learn About Sexuality, Gender Ideology In Schools, Majority Of Voters Say
From Daily Caller (USA)
By Reagan Reese
September 20, 2022
Nearly 70% of voters oppose elementary school students learning about sexual orientation and gender identity, according to a September New York Times and Siena Poll.
Roughly 58% “strongly oppose” and 12% “somewhat oppose” educators teaching gender identity and sexual orientation to elementary school students, according to a New York Times and Siena Poll. Those between the ages of 45-64 years strongly opposed sexual orientation curriculums for elementary school students the most at 63%, with 43% of 18-29 year olds opposing the teaching of sexual orientation to children. … read full article
US - Michels Attacks Evers on Preschool Transgender Resources
DPI says it’s not part of curriculum. Governor says he trusts parents to make decisions.
From Urban Milwaukee (USA)
By Rich Kremer
September 19, 2022
Republican Tim Michels is attacking Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction over a 2018 document regarding transgender preschoolers. The agency says the information is aimed at creating inclusive spaces for all children, and an advocate says the Republicans are “scoring political points off the backs of trans and queer youth.”
In a Wednesday press release, the Michels campaign railed against a document on the DPI’s website titled “Resources for Gender Expansive Preschoolers,” that consists of links to YouTube videos of parents talking about their transgender children. It also includes links to transgender youth advocacy groups and books for adults and kids.
Michels, the GOP candidate for governor, said Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has “betrayed parents across Wisconsin” for staying silent while the DPI “uses our public schools to indoctrinate 3-year-olds with radical gender ideology.” … read full article
US - Ohio State Board of Education to vote in October on resolution opposing Title IX protection for LGBTQ students
From Cleveland.com (USA)
By Jeremy Pelzer
September 20, 2022
COLUMBUS, Ohio—The Ohio State Board of Education heard hours of public testimony Tuesday about a resolution opposing a Biden Administration attempt to expand protections for gay and transgender students, even at the risk of losing federal funding for a variety of programs.
The proposed resolution, introduced by board member Brandon Shea of Madison County, will be voted on by board members during their next meeting on Oct. 11-12, according to State Board of Education President Charlotte McGuire. … read full article
US - Legal Group Looks to Pressure Schools into Enforcing Trans Agenda
From The Tennessee Star (USA)
By Evan Stambaugh
September 20, 2022
A pro-LGBT legal group based in St. Paul has released a “public education toolkit” to pressure schools into promoting transgender ideology.
In a September 12 news release, Gender Justice announced its “Cool 4 School” initiative to “inform students, their families, and their schools about legal protections for transgender, non-binary, two-spirit and other gender non-conforming students returning to Minnesota classrooms.” … read full article
US - The Left Targets Youngkin’s Transgender Education Reform Prioritizing Parental Rights
From The Daily Signal (USA)
By Tyler O’Neil
September 19, 2022
Many on the Left appear appalled at the idea that parents should have the right to know and intervene if their children “identify” as the opposite sex or seek controversial transgender medical interventions that may irreversibly harm their bodies.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, on Friday announced a new model policy on students who identify as transgender in schools, prioritizing parental rights and upholding sex-based policies while directing the Virginia Department of Education to enforce federal and state laws protecting children from discrimination on the basis of gender identity. … read full article
US - Detransitioner Chloe Cole Gives Powerful Testimony Against ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ At White House
From Daily Wire (USA)
By Christina Buttons
September 20, 2022
An 18-year-old detransitioned woman gave a powerful testimony on Tuesday against the “gender affirming” model of care that led to her irreversible medical transition as an adolescent.
Chloe Cole spoke at a press conference in front of the White House in support of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) new bill, the Protect Children’s Innocence Act, that aims to shield minors from accessing the permanent, body- and life-altering medical treatments they may later come to regret. … read full article
US - Transgender Surgery- Common Sense and Decency are Needed
Big business: the advertising, lobbying and the experimental surgeries/procedures must stop.
From Who is Robert Malone (USA)
By Robert W Malone MD, MS
September 20, 2022
Having read what is apparently a “spoof” article entitled “Encourage women to smell their poop to be more inclusive to Trans women” (or is it a spoof - you decide, I have read both points of view). I decided to look more carefully into the scientific and medical literature concerning the procedures and adverse events associated with what has come to be known as gender “affirmation” surgery (otherwise known as gender reassignment surgery), as well as delving into all of the other medical procedures, drugs and “therapies” that physicians are using to “transition” people. And based only on the actual peer reviewed scientific literature, what I found deeply disturbed me from a medical ethics point of view as well as from a clinical health perspective. What is the medical profession doing to these people, particularly to adolescents? Are adults and adolescents (and their parents) being adequately briefed on the risks and adverse events of these surgical and medical treatments? Is full disclosure and unbiased informed consent being performed? … read full article
US - There’s an Ideological Grooming Problem on America’s Military Bases
From The Daily Signal (USA)
By Ryan P. Williams
September 20, 2022
Educators and administrators running K-12 education on America’s military bases are indoctrinating the children of military personnel in radical gender ideology, critical race theory, and left-wing activism. In a new Claremont Institute investigative report, my colleague Scott Yenor and I document this latest evolution in America’s culture war.
This development at military-run schools tracks broader trends in American education. In recent months, Chris Rufo has exposed the rampant woke indoctrination occurring in our nation’s K-12 schools, with striking examples from Los Angeles, Portland, and San Diego. In 2020, Rod Dreher wrote about the creeping woke rot at America’s oldest military academy. … read full article
US - Republicans Accuse State Department of ‘Radical Gender Imperialism’
From The Daily Signal (USA)
By Mary Margaret Olohan
September 20, 2022
Republican lawmakers are accusing the State Department of “radical gender imperialism” and of seeking to push other nations to “normalize and encourage transgenderism among youth.”
In a letter first obtained by The Daily Signal, members of the Republican Study Committee point to a leaked memo reportedly circulated by Secretary of State Antony Blinken indicating that the Biden administration may begin pushing other countries to endorse youthful “gender affirming care”—a euphemism used by the media, activists, and Democrats to describe the more grisly-sounding transgender surgeries, hormones, and puberty blockers. … read full article
US - On ‘Gender,’ the Left Is Shooting Itself in the Foot
Rarely have the special accommodations demanded by one group been so deleterious for others.
From Reality's Last Stand (USA)
By Bruce Lesnick
September 20, 2022
Picture an ouroboros eating its own tail, an own goal at a critical point in a soccer match, or a serious self-inflicted wound. These are all apt descriptions of the Left when it comes to gender ideology.
At present, gender ideology—a denial of material reality akin to creationism—is enthusiastically embraced by the left, from bourgeois liberals and putative progressives to self-described socialists and revolutionaries. Gender ideology posits that biology has nothing to do with what sex you are, and that the undefinable and entirely subjective notion of “gender identity” is more tangible and fundamental way to categorize people both socially and legally. Gender activists go even further in asserting that the two sexes—male and female—are not real biological categories, but are instead arbitrary “social constructs” that were created solely to oppress women and racial minorities. These beliefs are maintained despite the fact that over 99.98 percent of humans are immediately categorizable as unambiguously male or female at birth. … read full article
US - Trans-Identified Male Sentenced to Life Plus 75 Years for the Abuse, Murder of 7-Year-Old Daughter
From Reduxx (USA)
By Anna Slatz
September 20, 2022
A trans-identified male who beat his 7-year-old daughter to death has been handed life plus 75 years after pleading guilty to her murder.
The Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney has announced that Michael Deon Wash pleaded guilty to the abuse and murder of his 7-year-old daughter, Kamarie. Wash now goes by the name “Milan” and has recently come out as a transgender “woman.”
Kamarie’s body was found floating in Lake Allatoona by two fishermen on June 29, 2016. When examined, investigators found that the girl’s head had been shaved and her hands had been burned in an apparent effort to make it more difficult for her to be identified. … read full article
US - Veteran gay rights protester, 74, who was at 1969 Stonewall Riots is attacked by pro-trans mob at Pride event for sign dismissing transgenderism as 'Woman Face'
Fred Sargeant, 74, was attacked at the 39th Burlington Pride Parade in Vermont, after showing up to protest the 'misogyny' and 'homophobia' of the trans community
Sargeant is famously known in the gay rights movement and was a co-founder of the first 1970 pride parade in New York City known as the Christopher Street Liberation Day march
He also participated in the 1960 Stonewall Riots in New York City that broke out after police raided a gay club in Greenwich Village
Fans were quick to support Sargeant, especially those who have recently detransitioned and others who have been pressured to transition
From Daily Mail (UK)
By VANESSA SERNA
September 20, 2022
A gay rights protestor and co-founder of the first Gay Pride Parade in New York City was attacked by a pro-trans group at a Vermont Pride event for holding an anti-woke sign that dismissed transgenderism.
Fred Sargeant, 74, was attacked after holding a sign with a red line through the phrases 'Woman Face' and 'Black Face,' at the 39th Burlington Pride Parade in Vermont.
Sargeant is against the recent 'gender ideology movement' which he says is 'homophobic' and 'exclusive.' … read full article
US - Elderly Gay Activist Assaulted by Trans Protesters at Vermont Pride Parade
From National Review (USA)
By Ryan Mills
September 20, 2022
A prominent gay rights leader who helped organize New York City’s first gay pride march in 1970 claims he was attacked by radical transgender activists over the weekend while he protested their movement during a gay pride parade in Vermont.
Fred Sargeant, 74, an early advocate for gay rights in the U.S. who participated in the 1969 Stonewall riots, said trans activists at Sunday’s parade in Burlington grabbed his signs, shoved him, poured coffee on his head, smacked him, knocked him to the ground, and stole his property because he held a sign and handed out pamphlets critical of the trans movement. … read full article
US - The Atlantic succumbs to magical thinking on sport
The magazine is the latest to deny that men are stronger than women
From The Post By Unherd (UK)
By Joan Smith
September 20, 2022
I’m average height for a woman. Men tend to be taller than me, by about 15 centimetres, but it has never occurred to me that I could do anything about it. This, it turns out, is sheer laziness on my part: I just haven’t tried hard enough to overcome my socialisation. It all started at school, when I meekly accepted ‘the idea that boys are inherently bigger, faster, and stronger than girls in a competitive setting’.
Now I learn from an article in The Atlantic that this is ‘a notion that’s been challenged by scientists for years’. If only I hadn’t been so conformist, I could have challenged ‘this binary in youth sports’, played football with the boys and I might now be playing left-back for Chelsea. (The men’s team, not the women’s, because enforcing segregation by sex in sport is so last century.) … read full article
US - Re: Administrative Regulation 259
From Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) (USA)
September 20, 2022
TRANSGENDER & GENDER DIVERSE STUDENTS – ENSURING EQUITY AND NONDISCRIMINATION
Dear Principal ——, Superintendent —— and School Board Members,
I am writing to contest Administrative Regulation 259, with which I fundamentally disagree. Advised by proponents of gender ideology, and ironically under the guise of safety, the school has chosen to drive a wedge of secrecy and distrust between students and their families.
It is my constitutional right to raise my daughter how I see fit. Furthermore it is my privilege, honor and duty to guide her into adulthood to the best of my abilities. My child is not yours to raise, and she is certainly not yours to perform a psychological, social experiment upon. Because of policies and practices like yours, her emotional well-being, critical thinking skills and safety are undermined. … read full article
Canada - Challenge Accepted: Why Giant Prosthetic Breasts with Protruding Nipples Are Not Appropriate Workwear
From The 21st Century Salon (USA)
By The 21st Century Salonnière
September 20, 2022
Not much is known about this teacher, but according to the Toronto Sun, the unnamed teacher works for one of the Halton District Schools, on the fringes of the Greater Toronto Area.
The linked article shows several photos of the teacher, who apparently teaches shop class. The article states:
“Pre-transitioning the teacher was known to students and faculty as a male and went by a man’s name. But the teacher now identifies as a woman and is referenced with a female name. … read full article
Canada - School trustee continues fight against LGBT ideology in case before Canada’s Supreme Court
Barry Neufeld first came under attack in 2017 when he disagreed with the school board’s efforts to push gender ideology on children.
From LifeSite (USA)
By Mary Zwicker
September 19, 2022
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – A Canadian school board trustee is taking his fight against LGBT ideology to the nation’s Supreme Court.
Barry Neufeld of Chilliwack, British Columbia, will appear before Canada’s highest court on October 11, 2022, to combat defamation made against him when he spoke out against the mutilation of gender confused children. In a recent newsletter to supporters, he asked for prayers on his journey, saying that “the enemies who afflict me are certainly multiplying.” … read full article
UK - Trans ideology is a threat to children
New guidance calls for minors to have access to sex-reassignment surgery. This is unbelievably reckless.
From spiked (UK)
By James Esses
September 21, 2022
Earlier this month, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) published the latest edition of its guidance for policymakers and clinical practitioners, titled ‘Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People’. These new guidelines are deeply concerning and could pose a serious risk to child safeguarding.
WPATH was founded in 1979. Its stated purpose is to ‘promote evidence-based care, education, research, advocacy, public policy and respect in transgender health’. The guidelines it produces have been used to inform policy and clinical practice around the world. But many argue that WPATH effectively acts as a partisan lobby group for the trans movement, rather than a disinterested body. Many of its senior members themselves identify as trans or nonbinary, or are known to be trans-rights activists.
… read full article
UK - Mermaids is a threat to gay rights
Trans activists are trying to destroy the LGB Alliance
From UnHerd (UK)
By JULIE BINDEL
September 21, 2022
I’ve been involved in the campaign against homophobia for forty years, and I’ve never seen anything like this. For the first time, a tribunal is taking place in which one charity is attempting to strip another of its legal status. Mermaids, which advocates for “gender variant and transgender youth”, has brought a case against LGB Alliance, the only UK-based organisation that focuses exclusively on same-sex attracted people.
Mermaids claims that LGB Alliance was not, in fact, established to support lesbians, gay men and bisexuals — but rather to discredit and disband Mermaids itself. The LGB Alliance, allegedly, “does not have charitable purposes”. If Mermaids wins this case, the consequences will be devastating for lesbians and gays. Any future charity set up to advocate specifically on our behalf will be wide open to legal challenge.
… read full article
UK - World Rugby refuses to review trans player ban despite risk of legal action
Chief executive Alan Gilpin says door remains open to all players but insists sport will continue to listen to scientific advice
From The Telegraph (UK)
By Charles Richardson
September 20, 2022
World Rugby chief executive Alan Gilpin says “nothing is ever a closed door” regarding the governing body’s stance on transgender women participating in full-contact women's rugby.
Global guidelines currently bar trans women from competing “because of the size, force and power-producing advantages conferred by testosterone during puberty and adolescence, and the resultant player welfare risks this creates”. The Rugby Football Union, Welsh Rugby Union and Irish Rugby Football Union have all banned any player from women’s contact rugby if their assigned gender at birth was not female.
… read full article
New Zealand - Women's Rights Campaigner Had Nursing License Suspended for 'Transphobia'
From 4W (USA)
By Dana Vitalasova
September 20, 2022
In September 2022, the Nursing Council of New Zealand suspended Jennifer Scott's practicing certificate, citing "transphobia" as the reason.
Before her suspension, Ms Scott had been working as a registered nurse for eight years. In 2021, during her stint at a Mental Health ward, she noticed an uptick in patients' trans-identification. … read full article
When, according to a poll, 70 per cent of US adults oppose teaching elementary school kids about sexual orientation and gender identity, we clearly see the backlash of conflating LGB and T. Or, in other words: Gays and lesbians are facing a backlash because the organisations that have previously represented them have fully embraced transideology.
There are age appropriate curricula for sexual education for elementary school kids. Many of them have included sexual orientation in one form or another for decades. Straight, gay, bisexual - that's part of what we are as humans and children can easily grasp that concept if it is taught age appropiately. I strongly support that approach, in fact.
"Gender identity" is another matter altogether. Teaching young kids about that is actually instilling the idea in their head that they can change sex or that they are "born in the wrong body". Much like teaching them about eating disorders at that point and time would. It directly contradicts everything we know about developmental psychology. Plus, the teaching material is very likely to be manipulative as well.
It would be one thing to tell kids, should the issue arise by whatever circumstance: "Look: There are men who think they are women and it's wrong to make fun of them or to call them names". But that's not what's happening. Kids are generally not only taught that these men actually ARE women, somehow or literally, they are also made to think about whether they might not, in fact, be "born in the wrong body". That at an age where they have barely figured out that sex is immutable and fixed and somehow understand gender roles.
And rather than tell 6 yos: There is no particular way a man or woman is supposed to be dressed or behave, they are taught the opposite. If you dress or act in a certain way, you are a man or a woman. So regressive gender stereotypes come in through the backdoor. Nothing progressive about that, I dare say.
Sadly, many former LGB orgs have morphed sexual orientation and transideology into one incoherent mess, and insist that it must be taught - and represented -together as one incoherent mess, and now we have a majority of US adults opposed to teaching kids about sexual orientation because they see it as an integral part of this incoherent mess.
This is detrimental to gays, lesbians and bisexual people - and to straight people as well, as I might add.