Wednesday, August 31, 2022
"A textbook ordered by the Newport-Mesa [California] School District called *Comprehensive Health Skills for High School* claims that there are eight different gender identities"
This day in Herstory: Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori, born August 31, 1870 (died May 6, 1952), was an Italian physician and educator best known for the philosophy of education that bears her name, and her writing on scientific pedagogy. At an early age, Montessori enrolled in classes at an all-boys technical school, with hopes of becoming an engineer. She soon had a change of heart and began medical school at the Sapienza University of Rome, becoming one of the first women to attend medical school in Italy; she graduated with honors in 1896. Her educational method is in use today in many public and private schools globally. (more)
US - California district curriculum claims there's 10 sexual orientations, including skoliosexual and gynesexual
California's Newport-Mesa district curriculum listed eight gender identities, such as bygender, gender-nonconforming, gender questioning and nonbinary
From Fox News (USA)
By Hannah Grossman
August 31, 2022
A California district called Newport-Mesa's health education textbooks claimed there are over 10 sexual orientations and eight genders, Fox News Digital has learned.
A textbook ordered by the Newport-Mesa district called "Comprehensive Health Skills for High School" claims that there are eight different gender identities, including androgynous, bygender, gender-nonconforming, gender questioning and nonbinary. … read full article
US - America, Exporter of the Gender Revolution
The Biden administration may begin pressuring other countries to push vulnerable youth into hormones and surgeries.
From City Journal (USA)
By Leor Sapir
August 31, 2022
Is the U.S. State Department about to classify Sweden, Finland, and the U.K. as human rights abusers? According to an internal memo from Secretary Antony Blinken (leaked to me by an officer in the department’s Foreign Service) and circulated among employees last week, the answer might be yes.
The memo represents an effort by Secretary Blinken to carry out President Biden’s Executive Order 14075 from last June. That order instructs agencies of the federal government to do what they can to stop “conversion therapy” for “LGBTQI+” people. Following its release, Biden appointed Jessica Stern as Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Persons, a position created by the Obama administration but left unfilled under Donald Trump. … read full article
US - The Transgender Umbrella Casts Its Shadow Over Gender Nonconformity
Why are we pretending we don’t know why kids think they’re trans?
From Reality’s Last Stand (USA)
By Colin Wright
August 31, 2022
Last June the New York Times published an article summarizing a report on new CDC survey data demonstrating a “sharp rise in transgender young people in the U.S.” Indeed, data indicate between a 20- to 40-fold rise in the last decade. As to its cause, the report’s lead author Dr. Jody Herman calls it a “bewildering question.” Commenting on the report, leading clinical psychologist and gender specialist Dr. Erica Anderson tweeted that this surge “defies explanation,” adding that “something is going on that we don’t yet understand.” … read full article
US - Florida Medicaid sees 'soaring increase' of kids receiving puberty blockers, hormones, irreversible surgery
Rates of children taking puberty blockers increased nearly 270%, according to Florida Medicaid data
From Fox News (USA)
By Jon Brown
August 31, 2022
Rates of pharmaceutical and surgical treatments for gender dysphoria have markedly increased among children receiving Medicaid in Florida in recent years, according to data from the state's Medicaid regulator.
Statistics provided to Fox News Digital by Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA), which oversees the state's $36.2 billion Medicaid program, show that the number of children on Medicaid receiving behavioral therapy to treat gender dysphoria increased from 143 in 2017 to 233 in 2021, or nearly 63%. Meanwhile, children receiving puberty blockers spiked from 15 children in 2017 to 55 in 2021, a percentage increase of nearly 270%. … read full article
US - ‘There Is No Youngest Age At All’: California Doctor Admits To Performing ‘Affirming Surgeries’ On Transgender Children As Young As 13
From The Daily Wire (USA)
By Amanda Harding
August 31, 2022
A California doctor who reportedly makes millions performing sex changes told a conference last year no child is too young to consider for “gender affirming” operations and said he has performed them on kids as young as 13.
The comments and slideshow that came from Dr. Robert Mosser, the founder of the Gender Confirmation Center in San Francisco, were part of a presentation at the Philadelphia Trans Wellness Conference, which took place virtually in July 2021. . The shocking remarks, first reported by Manhattan Institute senior fellow Christopher Rufo, drew fresh scrutiny after former Tennessee congressional candidate Robby Starbuck tweeted about them Wednesday. … read full article
US - Woman, 30, who lived as a trans man for 15 years after coming out aged 15 has 'detransitioned' after testosterone caused 'nausea and heart palpitations' - and says she's 'surprised' by how easily she was given the hormone
Cat Cattinson, from Santa Cruz, Northern California, grew up as a female
The 30-year-old singer started to transition to become a man in March 2020
But she began to feel nausea and heart palpitations when taking testosterone
She chose to stop transitioning and stopped the injections in September 2020
From Daily Mail (UK)
By JESSICA GREEN
August 31, 2022
A woman has detransitioned after identifying as a transgender man for 15 years - due to experiencing 'nausea and heart palpitations when taking testosterone'.
Singer Cat Cattinson, 30, from Santa Cruz, Northern California, grew up as a female but identified as male from the age of 13. … read full article
US - VA Families, Teachers Fight For Parents’ Right To Direct Upbringing, Education of Children
From The Roanoke Star (USA)
August 31, 2022
Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Kate Anderson, director of the ADF Center for Parental Rights, offered the following statement regarding a brief that ADF attorneys filed Tuesday in the Rockingham County Circuit Court in Virginia on behalf of a group of parents and teachers in D.F. v. Harrisonburg City Public School Board. Anderson asked the court to temporarily halt the school board from usurping parents’ right to direct the upbringing of their children and forcing teachers to violate their religious beliefs … read full article
US - Hanover School Board passes policy to give board final say over each transgender student's access to bathroom
From Richmond Times-Dispatch (USA)
By Anna Bryson
August 30, 2022
The Hanover County School Board voted 5-2 to adopt a policy that will require transgender students to submit a written request to school administration asking for access to the schools’ facilities that align with the students’ gender identities. The School Board will have final say in the decision.
The policy suggests that students and their parents submit documents including students’ disciplinary or criminal records, among other personal documents. … read full article
US - Wisconsin parents outraged over inappropriate sex education curriculum for elementary schools: 'Really bad'
Curriculum calls for discussions on sexual orientation and pronouns with third-graders
From Fox News (USA)
By Taylor Penley
August 31, 2022
Parents are outraged over a Wisconsin school district's decision to adopt a new sex education curriculum for students as young as kindergarten
Concerned parents Ted Barthel and Michele Hughes joined "Fox & Friends Weekend" Saturday to lambast the content they consider age-inappropriate. … read full article
US - Louisiana schools don’t have to implement Biden’s new transgender protections, official says
From The Advocate (USA)
By WILL SENTELL
August 31, 2022
State Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley is telling local school leaders they are under no obligation to implement a proposal by the Biden administration that would expand access for transgender students to girls sports teams and bathrooms.
Brumley spelled out his stance in a message sent Tuesday to local school leaders, school board members and the state athletics' association. … read full article
US - The left’s goal of creating a ‘new generation of drag kids’
Childhood innocence is worth protecting
From The Washington Times (USA)
By Kevin Roberts
August 30, 2022
There’s no stronger instinct than a parent’s need to protect his or her child.
Last year, a California woman fought off a mountain lion — with her bare hands. Why? Because the predator was dragging away her 5-year-old son. She heard a commotion, ran outside and immediately began punching the mountain lion. It fled, and she saved her son’s life. … read full article
US - Progressivism Colonizes the Science Journals
From National Review (USA)
By Wesley J. Smith
August 31, 2022
The scientific establishment moans that it is no longer trusted. True. But there is good cause. The leadership of the hard-science sector has grown increasingly ideological — undermining the science’s overall credibility.
Here are two recent examples. Earlier this month, Science, one of the most prestigious scientific journals in the world, published an editorial that could have appeared in the Nation or Washington Post on . . . how to fix the United States Supreme Court that has grown too conservative. … read full article
US - Brittany Aldean says transgender comments 'were taken out of context' as she launches charity clothing line
Aldean received backlash after thanking her family for not changing her gender during her 'tomboy phase'
From Fox News (USA)
By Lauryn Overhultz
August 31, 2022
Brittany Aldean said her comments comparing her "tomboy phase" to transgenderism have been taken out of context, and used the controversy to inspire a new charity clothing line.
"Per usual, my words have been taken out of context over the last week," she captioned photos of the new tops Wednesday before including an eye roll emoji.
"Instead of getting twisted about the twisting of my words, I’ve chosen to bring some good out of it," Brittany added. … read full article
US - Professor sues SUU, argues requirement to use student’s they/them pronouns violates free speech
The professor said he is “politically and educationally opposed” to using “plural” pronouns, according to the lawsuit.
From The Salt Lake Tribune (USA)
By Kolbie Peterson
August 31, 2022
A Southern Utah University theater professor is suing university leaders after he was instructed to use they/them pronouns when referring to a nonbinary student or face sanctions, according to a civil rights lawsuit filed Tuesday.
Richard Bugg, a tenured professor at the public university in Cedar City, alleges that his right to free speech is threatened by SUU’s request that he engage in “politically sensitive speech to which the professor is politically and educationally opposed,” the complaint filed in federal court in Utah states. … read full article
US - The Honest Guide to College
College students' mental health is suffering. Downplaying challenges of living away from home for the first time won’t make it any better.
From Common Sense (USA)
By Lee Burdette Williams
August 31, 2022
About three million first-time college students will soon be arriving on campus—most of them coming directly from high school. About one million of them won’t make it through their first year or return as sophomores. This attrition is financially and emotionally devastating for families, and destabilizing for colleges. What goes wrong for so many students? And how can we stop the bleeding? … read full article
US - Can College Cultivate Habits of a Free Mind?
Tenure is meaningless. Academia has been captured by ideology. Teenagers are unwell. Is there any hope?
From Habits of a Free Mind (USA)
By Pamela Paresky, PhD
August 31, 2022
At the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), we monitor online contagions of all kinds, including extremism like Q-Anon, Antifa, and antisemitism. More recently, however, we reported on a contagion of self-harm among teens, mostly girls, and probably on the younger side. Our report prompted articles in the Washington Post, The Hill, and elsewhere. The report contains graphic images of knife and razor blade injuries posted by troubled teens, accelerated by Twitter, and resulting in a “community” of self-harmers and predators who give positive encouragement to young women and girls for cutting themselves more and more deeply.
Our conclusion: Twitter is not an appropriate platform for anyone under 18. … read full article
US - MLB’s Unseemly Support for Youth Gender Transitions
At least 20 teams have promoted or funded groups that advocate or are directly involved in child gender transitions, an NR analysis finds.
From National Review (USA)
By Nate Hochman
August 31, 2022
Like most of the nation’s major sports leagues, Major League Baseball (MLB) has embraced a number of left-wing causes in recent years. The league’s website now boasts a “social justice” section that promotes texts such as the 1619 Project and White Fragility — as well as authors such as Ibram X. Kendi and Angela Davis — and a number of players knelt for the national anthem during the George Floyd protests in summer 2020. … read full article
US - Hanover County School Board passes new bathroom access policy for transgender students
From WRIC News (USA)
By Dean Mirshahi
August 30, 2022
ASHLAND, Va. (WRIC) — The Hanover County School Board approved a policy requiring transgender students to submit a request to use school bathrooms that align with their gender identity and giving the board the authority to approve or deny the requests.
The new policy, passed during a special meeting Tuesday, comes after the county’s school board voted last year not to adopt policies, as Virginia school divisions were required to under legislation passed by the state legislature, allowing students to use bathrooms and school facilities aligning with their gender identity. … read full article
US - Will class politics make a comeback?
Middle-class identity politics has never looked more elitist and irrelevant.
From Spiked (USA)
By Lisa McKenzie
August 31, 2022
Few things have done more damage to left-wing politics and activism than the rise of identity politics.
Over the past 10 years or so, I have witnessed first-hand how identitarian activists, churned out by elite universities, have come to occupy the dominant positions in left-leaning and liberal activist circles. And they have used their positions to marginalise class politics. They have sought to reduce it to a footnote in the history of political activism. Or they treat class as merely one ‘intersecting’ form of oppression among many. … read full article
UK - J.K. Rowling’s New Book Features a Character Murdered After Being Accused of Transphobia: I Wrote It Before My Own Backlash
From Variety (USA)
By Zack Sharf
August 31, 2022
J.K. Rowling recently told Graham Norton that her new novel, “The Ink Black Heart,” is not based on her own experience being slammed as transphobic despite featuring a character who finds herself in a similar social media firestorm (via Rolling Stone). The new book, published under Rowling’s pseudonym Robert Galbraith, is part of Rowling’s “Cormoran Strike” crime thriller series and includes a character named Edie Ledwell, a “creator of a popular YouTube cartoon who sees internet trolls and her own fandom turn on her after the cartoon was criticized as being racist and ableist, as well as transphobic for a bit about a hermaphrodite worm.” … read full article
UK - Furious JK Rowling threatens Twitter user with legal action over 'fake and defamatory tweet' claiming to be written by the Harry Potter author, saying people should 'live in a closet'
JK Rowling in 'defamatory' fake tweet row with a Florida-based activist
Harry Potter author threatened legal action against poster of a doctored image
It shows a rainbow-coloured Harry Potter tattoo that read: 'No one should live in a closet' and was altered to look as though Rowling replied: 'Yes they should'
From Daily Mail (UK)
By JACOB THORBURN
August 31, 2022
JK Rowling today threatened a Twitter user with legal action after they shared a fake and defamatory tweet claiming the Harry Potter author said people should 'live in a closet'.
The author, 57, shared a screenshot of a doctored image posted online that showed a rainbow-coloured tattoo that read 'No one should live in a closet'. … read full article
UK - Priti Patel tells ‘woke’ police to get back to basics
Focus on traditional policing, says Home Secretary, as report calls for end to ‘partisan’ causes
From The Telegraph (UK)
By Charles Hymas
August 31, 2022
Police are being told to focus on the basics by Priti Patel, as a report found that the public feels officers are distracted from solving crime by “woke” causes.
The paper by the Policy Exchange think tank called for police to be barred from taking the knee or wearing campaign badges on their uniform, because of the risk of appearing to have partisan political views. … read full article
UK - Why it's time to take the L out of LGBT - JULIE BINDEL says it time to break from the ever-growing list of identities that make up the current acronym
Last weekend, police removed a group of lesbians calling themselves ‘Get The L Out’ from the Pride Cymru procession in Cardiff
Julie Bindel has been labelled ‘homophobic’, ‘biphobic’ and ‘transphobic’ for asking when lesbians will get attention from LGBT organisation
She has been beaten up in gay clubs by fascists whilst gay men turned away
From Daily Mail (UK)
By JULIE BINDEL
August 31, 2022
Last weekend, police removed a group of lesbians calling themselves ‘Get The L Out’ from the Pride Cymru procession in Cardiff, claiming that the women were causing a ‘confrontation’ with trans activists and supporters.
In recent decades, we have become used to the idea that such Pride marches are something we can all be part of to celebrate diversity. But this incident tells me, loud and clear, that for lesbians like me this is simply no longer true. … read full article
UK - Parents seek 11th hour High Court injunction to stop new curriculum in Wales
Parents opposed to teaching young children about gender identity and sex in primary schools across Wales are attempting to stop a new curriculum beginning next week.
From Powys County Times (UK)
By Thom Kennedy
August 31, 2022
Campaigners against the Welsh Government’s new Relationships and Sexuality Education curriculum are seeking a High Court injunction to prevent the policy being taught to children aged three to 11.
They are seeking a temporary ban until a judicial review to the curriculum is heard later this year, or an opt-out for parents to remove their children from the mandatory classes. … read full article
UK - Swift swoops for BBC journalist Barnes' 'gripping' Tavistock gender service investigation
From The Bookseller (UK)
By RUTH COMERFORD
August 31, 2022
Swift Press has acquired Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children by BBC "Newsnight" journalist Hannah Barnes. …
"Time to Think draws upon thousands of pages of documents, including internal emails and unpublished reports, and over a hundred hours of personal testimonies, to tell the inside story. Why had the patients changed so dramatically? Were all these distressed young people actually best served by taking puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones?" … read full article
UK - Stonewall's Cop Coup Backfires
Throwing lesbians off a Pride March is just the latest evidence Stonewall's relentless capture of the cops has come back to haunt the gay community.
From Malcolm’s Newsletter (UK)
By Malcolm Richard Clark
August 31, 2022
It wasn't supposed to be like this was it? Lesbians in Cardiff being thrown off Pride….by rainbow-flag waving cops.
The events in Cardiff and Lincoln, where cops danced a macarena they’d carefully rehearsed between not investigating burglaries, are only the most startling examples recently of how the police are being used to promulgate the new LGBTQ+ orthodoxy. This despite the fact the gender identity theories at the heart of that orthodoxy negate same-sex attraction. … read full article
Scotland - Why the SNP have got it so very wrong on transgender issues
From The Herald (Scotland)
By Stuart Waiton
August 31, 2022
FOLLOWING the humiliating closure of the Tavistock clinic in London, calls have been made by David Bell, a former governor of Tavistock, and by the feminist activist group For Women Scotland, for Glasgow’s own Sandyford gender clinic to be closed. So far, the Scottish Government appears to be dragging its feet about whether to close Sandyford.
The Tavistock clinic has been closed following a report by Dr Hilary Cass that strongly condemned potentially harmful clinical practices that were driven by what she called “diagnostic overshadowing” – an anti-scientific approach based on a belief system of gender affirmation. … read full article
Scotland - LGBT activists set to march on Scottish Parliament over trans rights
From The National (Scotland)
By Abbi Garton-Crosbie
August 30, 2022
Members of the SNP, Scottish Greens, Scottish Labour and Scottish LibDem LGBT affiliates will take to the streets in Edinburgh on Monday, the first day of the Scottish Parliament resuming after the summer recess.
The groups say there has been a “huge disinformation campaign” surrounding the Gender Recognition Act, which was introduced to Holyrood during the last parliamentary term. … read full article
Northern Ireland - Stonewall funding: Stormont issued with writ for judicial review by Jamie Bryson
A legal writ for a judicial review has been lodged to challenge the Department of Finance’s continued funding of the controversial pro-trans charity Stonewall.
From News Letter (Northern Ireland)
By The Newsroom
August 31, 2022
The department confirmed this week that it has given a further £2,500 to the LGBTQI lobby group on top of almost £12,000 granted to it between 2019 and this year.
Sinn Fein Finance Minister Conor Murphy and his department received the proposed claim by the applicant, the loyalist activist Jamie Bryson, yesterday. … read full article
Australia - Detransitioner’s lawsuit will be the first of many
From Washington Examiner (USA)
By Debra Soh
August 31, 2022
A "detransitioner" in Australia is suing her former psychiatrist for professional negligence following her gender transition.
Jay Langadinos underwent hormonal therapy, a double mastectomy, and the removal of her ovaries and uterus between the ages of 19 and 22. Now 31 years old, she no longer identifies as male, citing autism and social phobia as the underlying reasons why she sought transition. … read full article
Australia - A serious case of buyer’s remorse
From Spectator | Australia
By Alan Benn
August 31, 2022
Buyer’s Remorse is commonly associated with purchasing something and then experiencing disappointment or unexpected consequences from the initial agreement.
Things like buying a house, car, even insurance are common culprits, especially if you thought you may have been selecting ‘peace of mind’. … read full article
Australia - Bizarre reason a white MALE executive is named as a finalist for Women in Technology award: 'LOL, is this a joke?'
Simon Button has been announced as a finalist for Women in Technology award
Peak industry body for women in technology introduced the new award in 2022
It said awards would recognise leaders regardless of gender, age or background
From Daily Mail (UK)
By OLIVIA DAY
August 30, 2022
A white male executive has been named as a finalist for a Women in Technology award because he 'inspires diversity' and empowers women, the organisation said.
Simon Button was announced as one of the four finalists in the running to win the 2022 Inspiring Diversity in STEM award. … read full article
Australia - Taking it to the streets in Victoria
From Binary Australia (Australia)
By Kirralie Smith
August 31, 2022
What a privilege it was to spend the day standing on the steps of the Victorian Parliament with Binary supporters on Tuesday. We were there to raise awareness of the atrocious Andrews government policy to transition children without parental knowledge or consent.
LGBTIQ Student Support: Policy | education.vic.gov.au clearly states that, “There may be circumstances in which students wish or need to undertake gender transition without the consent of their parent/s (or carer/s), and/or without consulting medical practitioners.” … read full article
EU - Advocates for “Whores’” Rights Shut Down Prostitution Suvivors' Event in Berlin
Prostitution survivors forced to find a new host in Berlin after pro-prostitution activists targeted their event
From 4W (USA)
By Róisín Michaux
August 31, 2022
On 29 August, a group called Sex Workers Action Group (SWAG), organizers of Berlin’s annual International Whores Day activities, called for protest against an open-air film event and discussion organized by a feminist group in Berlin that helps women exit prostitution.
The event, put together by the NGO Sisters eV, was to feature women speaking of their experiences in the sex industry. It was called off by the venue after SWAG organized a coordinated campaign where they asked supporters to spam the venue with a pre-written letter in which they denigrated former prostitutes as “alleged dropouts” and “showcase victims.” … read full article