Wednesday, September 14, 2022
The Michigan Department of Education "promotes gender 'fluidity' beginning in elementary school and encourages teachers to facilitate the sexual transition of minors without parental consent."
This day in Herstory: Margaret Higgins Sanger, born Margaret Louise Higgins on September 14, 1879 (died September 6, 1966), also known as Margaret Sanger Slee, was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term "birth control", opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. (more)
US - Concealing Radicalism
Michigan’s Department of Education encourages teachers to facilitate child sexual transitions without parental consent.
From City Journal (USA)
By Christopher F. Rufo
September 14, 2022
The Michigan Department of Education has adopted a radical gender theory program that promotes gender “fluidity” beginning in elementary school and encourages teachers to facilitate the sexual transition of minors without parental consent.
I have obtained videos and internal documentation from the state’s training program, which first took place in 2020 and was repackaged for public school employees for the 2021–2022 school year. The training program mimics the basic narrative of academic queer theory: the presenters claim that the West has created a false notion that “gender is binary” in order to oppress racial and sexual minorities. In response, the department encourages teachers to adopt the principle of “intersectionality,” a key tenet of critical race theory, in order to “dismantle systems of oppression,” which are replicated through the culture and institutions of education. (In a statement, the Michigan Department of Education defended the program as “respecting all children” and “meet[ing] the needs of their LGBTQ+ students.”) … read full article
US - How Big Tech Turns Kids Trans
Digital spaces are ever more designed to promote sexual and transgender content.
From The American Conservative (USA)
By Jared Eckert, Mary McCloskey
September 14, 2022
The short version of my detransition story...is that when I was fifteen, I was introduced to gender ideology on Tumblr and began to call myself nonbinary.” So writes 23-year-old American Helena Kirschner in her heart-wrenching autobiographical piece, “By Any Other Name.” In her testimony, Helena traces her pursuit of gender transition back to her adolescent obsession with Tumblr’s pastel-colored icons of waifish androgyny. The time spent on these blogs began to distort her self-perception. Eventually they led her to virtual haunts where her “friends” blamed her teenage angst on being born in the wrong body.
Helena’s story is not an anomaly. Other detransitioners, such as Keira Bell and Grace Lidinsky-Smith, were also exposed to gender ideology online. Today, research shows that the majority of those who transition were persuaded to do so online through social media, blogs, and YouTube.
The spike in teens using social media and identifying as transgender is no mere coincidence. … read full article
US - Sweetwater School Board Defends Teachers Hiding Students' Transgender Status From Parents
From Cowboy State Daily (USA)
By Clair McFarland
September 14, 2022
A Wyoming school board on Monday defended its teachers’ ability to hide students’ transgender identities a secret from parents, if the school believes student safety is in question.
The school board’s attorney also told the public that it is sexual harassment for a teacher or staff member to “misgender” students.
The board for Sweetwater County School District No. 1 at a regular meeting on Monday featured a presentation by its attorney, Kari Moneyhun, regarding current case law on transgender issues in schools. … read full article
Gender Identity Indoctrination in U.S. Schools
A Call to Action
From Carol Dansereau's Substack (USA)
By Carol Dansereau
September 14, 2022
No one can sit this one out. Throughout the U.S., full-blown Gender Identity Indoctrination is happening in K-12 schools. The negative implications for children, for women’s rights, for LGB rights, and for social justice organizing on other issues are too huge for anyone to ignore. (For a comprehensive account from a Left perspective of the damage being done by Gender Identity Ideology, see my Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Transgender Galaxy.)
If you thought that discussions of Gender Identity in K-12 classrooms in the U.S. were benign or at least uncommon, think again. Having just spent months reading through Gender Identity lessons, books, and policies from public schools across the U.S., I can reach only one conclusion: we are in a crisis situation. From the earliest years of schooling onward through high school, children are being hit from all sides over and over again with messages intended to indoctrinate them into this regressive ideology. This is happening across the U.S. and things are getting worse by the day as Biden Administration policies punish schools that don’t join in. … read full article
US - Education versus Mind Control
From National Review (USA)
By George Leef
September 14, 2022
The “progressive” project of controlling education continues apace. Rather than producing knowledgeable people who can think for themselves, progressives envision education as a means of conditioning young minds to accept their beliefs, which don’t include individual success. They’re all about collectivism, and the goal of schooling is to produce lots of worker bees.
One American who understands the danger is Daniel Buck of the Fordham Institute. In today’s Martin Center article, he explains “Why the Canon Wars Still Matter.”
… read full article
US - Wisconsin Gov. Evers Silent Over Government-Sanctioned Gender Resources For Preschoolers
From Daily Caller (USA)
By HENRY RODGERS and CHRISSY CLARK
September 14, 2022
Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ office declined to say if he supports the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, the education arm of the state government, promoting transgender video resources and suggested reading explicitly aimed at preschoolers.
The Daily Caller first reported Tuesday about the government-sanctioned gender resources for preschool students stemming from a guide titled “Resources for Gender Expansive Preschoolers.” The guide includes a litany of resources for children aged three to five, including videos that discuss transgender ideology. One video tells the story of a biological girl whose parents transitioned her to a boy. Another video encouraged parents to allow young boys to dress as Wonder Woman for Halloween. … read full article
US - Display Of Gay, Transgender Flags In Camdenton Classroom Draws Nearly 100 To Board Meeting
From LakeExpo (USA)
By Janet Dabbs & LakeExpo Staff
September 14, 2022
CAMDENTON, Mo. — A dust-up over the presence of gay and transgender flags in a Camdenton Middle School teacher's classroom brought a large crowd to Monday night's Camdenton School Board meeting.
Camdenton R-3 School District parents, students and staff attended the meeting on Sept. 12 to express their support or opposition to the presence of those flags and see what action the district would take. … read full article
US - In My Own Words: Responding to the Forbes Hit-Piece
Dawn Ennis shouldn’t be regarded as a credible journalist, much less an informed voice on medical transition in youth.
From Reality's Last Stand (USA)
By Chloe Cole
September 14, 2022
Dawn Ennis, a trans-identified male, concocted quite the hit piece on me for the Los Angeles Blade on Sunday, titled “California ex-trans teen is national right-wing media’s darling.” The article then showed up in Forbes with a new title that many felt to be mocking of my autism—“Ex-Trans Activist Chloe Cole In Her Own Words: ‘I’m Autistic.’” It generated a lot of backlash on Twitter not only for its title, but also for its many statements that ranged from misleading, false, to the outright absurd. On Monday evening the Forbes article suddenly vanished, though a web archive remains for your viewing pleasure (popcorn/preferred snack of choice required).
I started speaking on Twitter about my detransition and my ill-fated medical transition experience in April, 2022, when I was 17. I have since testified in the California State Senate Judiciary Committee against Senator Weiner’s harmful, anti-American, and anti-family bill, SB 107. … read full article
US - Our Opposition To Biden’s Plan to Gut Campus Due Process and Free Speech, and Impose Gender Ideology
Legal Insurrection Foundation files comment letter: “we oppose the Department’s (a) efforts to gut due process protections for persons accused of sexual harassment, (b) threats to free speech posed by dramatic expansion of its definition of harassment, and (c) imposition of gender identity ideology into Title IX, in a way that would undermine the statute’s language, purpose, and goals of providing equal opportunities to women.”
From Legal Insurrection (USA)
By Johanna Markind
September 13, 2022
President Biden’s Department of Education (DOE) is trying to revive and expand upon Obama-era administrative rules regulating how schools define and punish sexual harassment.
The Obama Administration eviscerated due process protections during school adjudications of sexual harassment claims. The Trump Administration restored them (rather late in the game), but now the Biden Administration is moving to gut them all over again. Under its 190-page proposed rulemaking, published July 12, 2022, the DOE plans to water down rights to have a live hearing and cross-examine opposing witnesses, uses a reduced proof standard (preponderance standard), and otherwise makes basic rights toothless. … read full article
US - Harvard Tells Students: ‘Using Wrong Pronouns’ Constitutes ‘Abuse’
Mandatory Title IX training tells Harvard undergrads they may be subject to disciplinary proceedings for 'sizeism,' 'fatphobia,' 'cisheterosexism,' 'ableism'
From The Washington Free Beacon (USA)
By Abigail Anthony
September 14, 2022
Welcome to Harvard!
"Fatphobia" and "cisheterosexism" perpetuate "violence." "Using the wrong pronouns" constitutes "abuse." And "any words used to lower a person’s self-worth" are "Verbal Abuse." Those are just a handful of the things the school told all undergraduate students in a mandatory Title IX training session, according to materials reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.
The online training, which all undergraduates were required to complete in order to enroll in courses, includes a "Power and Control Wheel" to help students identify "harmful" conduct. Outside the wheel are attitudes that "contribute to an environment that perpetuates violence," a voiceover from the training states, including "sizeism and fatphobia," "cisheterosexism," "racism," "transphobia," "ageism," and "ableism." … read full article
US - Boston Marathon adds nonbinary runner option for 2023 race
From Reuters (USA)
September 13, 2022
Nonbinary athletes will be able to compete in next year's Boston Marathon without having to register in either the men's or the women's divisions, organisers for the United States' most popular running event said.
Registration for the April race opened on Monday. The Boston Athletic Association (BAA) said the application allows runners to select nonbinary with regard to gender, making the race the latest nationwide to open such an option. … read full article
US - Burning Down the House
The friction that threatens ROGD parents
From Felice J. Killer (USA)
By felice
September 14, 2022
Is Trans-a-palooza coming for my marriage?
We never used to disagree on much. I think he’s messy. He thinks I spend too much. We’re both right. But now, Evan disagrees with me on a couple fundamental levels that frankly scare the shit out of me. For one thing, he did not sign his name to the last letter I wrote to the teachers, principal and school board.
“Teachers have it hard enough,” he said. “If I were them, I’d toss that letter in the garbage.” … read full article
UK - Gay rights group claims 'anti-lesbian prejudice' is making homosexual teenagers wrongly think they have 'gender identity issues' - as it defends its charitable status challenged by trans organisation
Trans charity Mermaids is challenging the charity status given to LGB Alliance
Mermaids is appealing the Charity Commission's decision to award legal status
It is first time a charity has issued a legal challenge to remove status of another
LGB Alliance co-founder Bev Jackson today gave evidence at the tribunal
From Daily Mail (UK)
By STEWART CARR
September 14, 2022
The co-founder of a gay rights group claims 'anti-lesbian prejudice' and 'fear' is making many teenagers wrongly believe they have 'gender identity issues' when they are in fact grappling with their emerging sexuality, a tribunal heard.
The LGB Alliance has defended its views 'that sexual orientation is about biological sex' after its charitable status was challenged by a transgender rights group.
… read full article
UK - The Little Mermaid, updated
From Kathleen Stock (UK)
By Kathleen Stock
September 14, 2022
When it comes to typing out what is now happening in our institutions thanks to lunatic LGBT pressure groups, there are just too many sentences that make your brain scream. “The council’s menopause strategy was reviewed by two external agencies, producing the decision to remove the word ‘woman’”... “The violent male sex offender was placed in a women’s prison on the grounds of her vulnerability”... I tell you, it’s all too much. Trying to process it mentally, you feel the pull of the gin bottle at 10 in the morning.
Hats off to those who can still face it, but personally I don’t think I can write one more straight-faced sentence about the ludicrous, off-the-charts batshittery of mainstream LGBT organisations. And believe me, I’ve tried. I’ve just spent the morning attempting a serious piece on the current legal attack on the charity status of the LGB Alliance by Mermaids. This case has reached court this week, reportedly providing some jaw-dropping moments from Mermaids’ witnesses along the way. But really, there’s only so long you can spend trying to be bland and measured about a situation this insane. … read full article
UK - Are they taking the piss?
The EHRC piss protest is the perfect example of how gender functions
From The Critic (UK)
By Victoria Smith
September 14, 2022
Here is a quick quiz: what’s your first thought when you see a masked male person outside the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, surrounded by bottles of piss and pouring another bottle over themselves?
Is it: a) what a remarkable expression of anger at the arbitrary boundaries enforced by cisheteronormative society, perchance referencing Kristeva’s concept of the abject and Bakhtin’s carnivalesque?
Or is it b) what a boorish expression of male entitlement, referencing The Boy Who Piddled in His Grandfather’s Slippers? … read full article
UK - Smoke and Mirrors: The Fallacy of 'Non-Binary'
Why the opaque concept of ‘non-binary’ encourages regressive stereotyping and poses real risks to wider society.
From TRANSparency (UK)
By James Esses
September 14, 2022
One of the most common questions that I get asked in interviews is to explain the term ‘non-binary’.
This has become a much more commonly used identity label within our society over recent years. We have seen numerous celebrities ‘come out’ as ‘non-binary’ and introduce their new ‘they/them’ pronouns. We have witnessed debates in Westminster as to the potential legal recognition of ‘non-binary’ as an additional gender. Just today, it was announced that the next London Marathon will allow non-elite competitors the option to sign up as ‘non-binary’. … read full article
UK - London Marathon will include non-binary gender option for mass-participation runners in bid to make the race 'truly inclusive'
It is the first time a non-binary gender option has been made available in race
The ballot opens on October 1 and will have male, female and non-binary options
Event director Hugh Brasher said: 'We continue to make our event truly inclusive'
From Daily Mail (UK)
By STEWART CARR
September 14, 2022
Runners planning to take part in next year's London Marathon will be offered an option to identify themselves as non-binary for the first time in their ballot application.
The three gender options - male, female and non-binary - will also be offered to those applying for the mass participation element of the TCS London Marathon via other entry routes, including charity entries. … read full article
Scotland - SNP MP branded a 'misogynist bigot' for statement against gay rights charity
LGB Alliance have been forced to back up their charity status after trans charity Mermaids accused them of being a hate group but it's an 'offensive' comment during the hearing that has a Nat MP in hot water.
From Scottish Daily Express (Scotland)
By Jessica North
September 14, 2022
SNP MP John Nicolson has been branded a "liar" and a "misogynist" for his contribution to an official hearing challenging the status of same-sex attraction charity, LBG Alliance.
The gay rights advocates separated from the likes of Stonewall over a belief that lesbian, gay and bisexual people had different needs than transgender-identified people but now face accusations of transphobia and "hate". … read full article
Scotland - Scotland’s Tavistock must fall
The Sandyford is failing vulnerable women
From UnHerd (UK)
By JULIE BINDEL
September 15, 2022
Sinéad Watson didn’t mean to become an activist for vulnerable women. At the age of 20, she began to identify as a man, binding her breasts and using the name Sean. But at 27, after four-and-a-half years on testosterone, she returned to living as a woman, realising that she had been incorrectly diagnosed as trans. Now 31, Watson has consulted lawyers about taking action against the Sandyford Clinic in Glasgow, which sanctioned her transition. “For me, the damage is done,” she tells me. “But I want to stop this happening to other girls and young women.” … read full article
Ireland - Teacher Enoch Burke to seek release from prison today
He has been in Mountjoy for nine days
From Independent.ie (Ireland)
By Shane Phelan
September 14, 2022
Enoch Burke will seek to be released from prison today when his challenge to a school’s decision to suspend him from work returns to the High Court.
The teacher is set to argue there is no lawful basis to a decision by Wilson’s Hospital School to place him on administrative leave. … read full article
Japan - Gender Counselors Hired to Convince Female Students to Accept Trans-Identified Males
From Reduxx (Canada)
By Genevieve Gluck
September 14, 2022
Female students at a women’s university in Japan are being asked to speak with “gender-specialist counselors” in order to convince them that men who identify as transgender are “female.”
Japan Women’s University (JWU) recently announced it would be adopting a self-identification policy that would allow men to apply for admission so long as they stated they were female. The policy will be implemented at the start of 2024, despite half of the female students currently enrolled expressing opposition or hesitation, as reported by the Asahi Shimbun. … read full article
Ed. Note: In my opinion, the most significant element of the following story appears at the end: “Notably, both resignees are Indigenous, with Rekmans having been celebrated only 12 months ago as “the first Indigenous woman to be president of a national political party in Canada.” They’re the ones having to resign because Kuttner was “misgendered,” which made her “feel hurt and isolated.”
Canada - 'Misgendering' incident plunges Green Party of Canada into renewed turmoil
In a Zoom appearance to kick off the party’s leadership contest, Interim Leader Amita Kuttner was identified by 'she/elle' pronouns instead of 'they/them'
From National Post (Canada)
By Tristin Hopper
September 12, 2022
Just one year after its partial meltdown during the 2021 federal election, the Green Party of Canada is once again in crisis over an incident of “misgendering.”
It all started at a Sept. 3 media event in Vancouver kicking off the party’s leadership contest. In a Zoom appearance, Interim Leader Amita Kuttner was identified using a caption bearing the pronouns “she/elle.” … read full article
Canada - Sliding Down the Pyramid
Evidence for gender affirming care in clinical practice, policy and law
From justdad7’s Newsletter (Canada)
By justdad7
September 13, 2022
A lot of the debate around gender affirming care turns on “the evidence.” This can be a source of confusion because evidence can mean different things and be used in different ways in medical practice, public policy and law.
The Pyramid of Evidence
The basic principles of assessment of evidence in medical studies are reviewed by Dr. James Cantor in an expert’s report prepared for a lawsuit in Texas. He refers to this diagram of the pyramid of evidence from Openmd.com.
At the top are systematic reviews which analyze the results of all available studies on an issue. The highest quality research study is a randomized control trial in which subjects are randomly assigned to two groups. One receives the treatment being tested and the other an alternate treatment or placebo. These studies are often double blind which means that neither the patients nor their doctors know who is receiving the treatment being tested. Next come cohort studies which follow a group of patients over a period of time. At the bottom of the pyramid is expert opinion based on clinical experience. … read full article