Aug 22-28, 2025 : Mass shooting at Catholic School by man who identified as trans, Alberta Canada protects girls sports in defiance, High school boy dominates girls sports ignoring Title IX,
Abortion access in the US continues to be challenged in multiple states. Some legislators use bills to end trans medicine as vehicle to limit abortion access
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Top News: Gunman at Minnesota Catholic School identifies as a trans woman who had a disturbing manifesto
Aug 27 - Minnesota school shooting gunman kills 2 children, injures 17 others during Catholic mass
A man named Robert Westman, who changed his name to Robin Westman and has identified as a woman since he was a teen killed 2 students and wounded 17 more when he shot into a church at a Catholic school where the students were having mass. Media has been mixed in how they report Rob Westman either as a man or a transwoman. Westman had a manifesto that expressed a lot of anger at a lot of different people and frustration with his gender transition efforts. The manifesto expresses why he targeted the school Annunciation, where he previously attended and his mother previously worked. This is yet another mass murder committed by a person who identifies with being transgender, a trend that is disturbingly high.
Efforts to Silence Girls, Women, and Their Supporters
Aug 28 - Australian court rules against Kirralie Smith for calling an adult male “a man.”
Kirralie is the director and spokeswoman for Binary Australia, an organization that provides resources and information about the importance of pushing back on the harms of gender ideology, especially when focused on children.
Erasing Women and Women’s Safe Spaces
Aug 27 - Reform council hosts violence against women summit
At first, this sounded like a good thing. Then, reading down the article, they discuss the problem of rising violence, and then dismiss the evidence of who is responsible for the rise in violence. They plan to create messaging to target boys in school to reduce negative stereotypes about women and girls. One can only hope something useful came from this summit.
Aug 24 - Judge dismisses lawsuit to remove transgender sister from UW sorority
Sororities are free to induct whomever they want, including transgender sisters MEN. That's according to the final ruling in a federal lawsuit that started at the University of Wyoming (UW) more than two years ago.
"Having considered the issues presented (again), we find that the majority of the claims must be dismissed on the grounds that this Court still may not interfere with [the sorority's] contractually valid interpretation of its own Bylaws," writes U.S. District Court Judge Alan Johnson in the final ruling.
In 2023, a few members of Kappa Kappa Gamma’s UW chapter sued their national organization, seeking to force the removal of a transgender sister MAN.
“I wish people would remember that women in jails have no choice: they cannot get away.”
Sex Discrimination
Aug 27 - Missouri judge weighing whether new abortion ban should appear on 2026 ballot
A Cole County judge heard arguments Wednesday over whether a proposed ban on abortion set to go to voters next year should be thrown out or revised over a provision targeting gender-affirming care for minors. Some say the proposal violates the state constitution because it includes multiple subjects. If the courts decide to keep the measure on the ballot, plaintiffs are asking that the ballot summary be revised to explicitly state that the measure would ban abortion. If approved by a simple majority of voters, the abortion ban amendment would repeal a citizen-led reproductive rights amendment that passed last November, legalizing abortion in Missouri up until the point of fetal viability and enshrining other reproductive rights in the constitution, including in-vitro fertilization and contraceptives. The new amendment would reinstate an abortion ban, allowing limited exceptions for medical emergencies, fatal fetal anomalies and for survivors of rape and incest in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.
Aug 27 - Anti-abortion groups have a new strategy to end telehealth abortion
Conservatives are testing a new argument in their legal efforts to end telehealth abortion: People using mail-order medication are being coerced into ending their pregnancies. Two wrongful death lawsuits out of Texas, both filed this past month in federal court, allege that women were forced to take abortion pills prescribed by out-of-state telehealth providers. In one case, a woman alleges that abortion medications were secretly mixed into her hot chocolate and caused her to miscarry. (The local police department investigated those allegations and said they were unfounded.) In the other, a man claims his girlfriend was forced to take medications by her mother and estranged husband. Both plaintiffs are represented by Jonathan Mitchell, a leader in crafting Texas’ anti-abortion policies and the state’s former solicitor general.
Aug 22 - Bill that would expand abortion pill restrictions gets OK in Texas House
The Texas House on Thursday evening approved a bill that would allow private citizens to sue anyone who manufactures, distributes, mails or provides abortion medication to or from Texas. Successful plaintiffs would be awarded at least $100,000 in damages. Women taking abortion pills would not be eligible to be sued under the bill, nor would women who take them after miscarriages. The lower chamber voted 82-48 in its final approval of House Bill 7, which now heads to the Texas Senate. Similar legislation sailed through the Senate during this year’s regular legislative session, but died on the House floor.
Women’s Health
Aug 27 - Health professionals and students say abortion restrictions in Wisconsin diminish care
Following a recent state Supreme Court decision that upheld legal abortion in Wisconsin, medical students and health care professionals say Wisconsin laws and the Trump administration’s attacks on reproductive health still make care inaccessible for many patients and that physicians still face significant challenges in providing care. During a Tuesday panel discussion hosted by the advocacy organization Free & Just, Dr. Abigail Cutler, a practicing OB/GYN at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health, said the decision provided a “reason to celebrate” but ultimately it brought the state “back to a pretty low bar.”
Cutler said the “most insidious restriction” to her is the restrictions on insurance coverage for abortion care. “If you cannot pay for the care that you need, then you’re not going to get the care. You’re going to choose to provide food for your kids, you’re going to choose to keep going to your job and not taking time off from work,” Cutler said.
Aug 20 - Women who give birth before 21 are at higher risk of these conditions
Women who give birth before the age of 21 are twice as likely to suffer from type 2 diabetes, heart failure, and obesity, a new study has found. It also reveals they are four times more likely to develop severe disorders that affect the metabolism. The research also shows that later childbirth and puberty are genetically tied to longer lifespans and a reduced risk of age-related diseases such as type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer’s.
Males in Female Sports
Aug 28 - ‘Fairness and Safety in Sport Confirmation’
Alberta, Canada, has implemented a measure to protect female sports in the province of Alberta. Female athletes in Alberta will be required to complete a ‘Fairness and Safety in Sport Confirmation’ form to verify that they are of the female sex at birth, not transgender, beginning September 1, 2025.
Aug 26 - Trans-Identified Male Seizes Women’s Golf Tournament Honor In Canada
A man who pretends to be a woman seized the top honor at a women’s golf tournament in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, this past weekend. Veronica Ivy, 43, dominated the competition despite only having taken up competitive golfing in February of this year.
Aug 25 - California high school explains decision to forfeit volleyball match against team with trans athlete
"After thoughtful discussions our student-athletes had with coaching staff, it was decided to cancel our upcoming Girls’ Varsity volleyball match against Jurupa Valley High School. This decision was made in conjunction with the athletic directors at both Orange Vista and Jurupa Valley," the statement read. "Our priority is always the well-being of our students. We are proud of our athletes for bringing their thoughts forward and for supporting one another to make this a team decision."
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares' findings of an investigation into Roanoke College were released by complainants, Fox News Digital learned on Monday. Miyares' investigation was in response to a biological male transgender swimmer who competed on Roanoke's women's team in 2023. Miyares concluded that the college denied the female swimmers accommodations, advantages, and privileges on the basis of sex, caused the women emotional, physical, and dignitary harms and violated the Virginia Human Rights Act (VHRA). Miyares also suggested the female swimmers who were discriminated against are eligible to seek financial damages because the school’s policy violated the VHRA, as per state code.
Aug 24 - California Schools Fighting Back Against Transgender Insanity
A male high school student AB Hernandez continues to dominate girls’ athletics in multiple sports. California is one of the many states in America that refuses to comply with President Donald Trump's Executive Order 14201, "Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports," signed Feb. 5, 2025. Although Governor Gavin Newsom has called males competing in women's sports "deeply unfair," he's taken no steps to resolve the problem. Because of that, some schools are taking matters into their own hands. Earlier this month, Riverside Poly High School forfeited a girls' volleyball match against Jurupa Valley High School because Jurupa Valley rosters AB Hernandez, a male athlete who claims to identify as a female and competes in multiple girls' sports. Hernandez won two California state track & field titles earlier this year.
Cheating male boxer Imane Khelif insists he has not retired. He says he will skip the upcoming World Championships because they introduced sex testing. He blames his manager for falsely claiming he had retired.
We will take back what has been stolen from us at the alter of so-called “gender identity.” video
Pornography, Sexual Harassment & Sexual Assault
Aug 28 - Chinese victims of online sexual abuse face uphill battle in finding justice
A Telegram channel with hundreds of thousands of subscribers that offered revenge porn, hidden-camera videos and other non-consensual content of Chinese women has highlighted gaps in laws protecting victims of sexual abuse in China. The uproar over the online group comes after Chinese authorities have silenced public activism over women's rights in recent years, even sentencing some activists to prison for promoting #MeToo. The Telegram channel called MaskPark, which offered pornographic content in Chinese, came to national attention in recent weeks and was quickly shut down by Telegram. But activists say alternate channels have already emerged, with only some being shut down.
News Impacting Society and Children
Aug 28 - Former Kansas teacher used hidden camera to produce child sex abuse images
A former western Kansas elementary school teacher has pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges of producing child sexual abuse material. Ryan-Roy Benjamin Beach pleaded guilty Aug. 13 in U.S. District Court in Topeka to two counts of sexual exploitation of a child — production of child pornography.
"I am 'GUILTY' and do not believe I am innocent," Beach said in a signed petition.
Beach has a Kansas teaching license that expires in October 2026, according to online Kansas State Department of Education records. The records indicate he taught from 2019 to 2024 at Wheatland Elementary School in Wheatland USD 292 at Grainfield in Gove County.
Aug 27 - Them before us: the needs of babies should matter more than the desires of adults From robot incubators to surrogacy, we push mothers out of the picture at humanity’s peril
In this age of pervasive alienation and loneliness, it is worth remembering the root of all human connection and the template for human love: that is, the mother-child dyad. That connection begins in the womb, and modern science has brought to light the many different forms in which the in utero connection manifests itself, whether in epigenetics, microchimerism or a dozen other ways. Newborns come into the world recognizing their mother’s voice and scent, and the hormones of attachment produced in both the mother and the neonate cement the bond built over nine months of pregnancy. Arguably, all human social connections are derived, one way or the other, from this original connection of mother and baby. The dyad is, if you will, the very first human society we join. When this foundational attachment is rendered weak or insecure, or is severed, lasting damage to the child’s ability to form relationships with others may result.
Mother who fought for child against trans ideology, Minnesota state and child protective services.
Aug 22 - Trump's DOJ Probes Providers of Trans Healthcare
In July, the Justice Department (DOJ) announced it had issued subpoenas to medical providers that had provided gender-affirming care to minors. Washington Post reporter Casey Parks discusses one of those subpoenas, which was newly made public, and what it means for transgender healthcare.
Aug 22 - Alaska medical board seeks to restrict abortion, transgender medical care
The politically appointed board that regulates health care in Alaska voted unanimously Friday to recommend that the state restrict medical care for transgender youth in the state and approved a letter asking Alaska lawmakers to end access to abortion in the late stages of pregnancy. On transgender care, the board approved a draft regulation that, if made final, would declare that providing gender transition care for someone younger than 18 amounts to “unprofessional conduct” equivalent to drunkenly practicing medicine. Someone violating that regulation could be subject to disciplinary action. In the most extreme cases, the board has revoked medical licenses after a disciplinary investigation.
Beyond the West
Aug 29 - ‘Too many women choose death over divorce’: the Indian retreats taking the shame out of separation
India’s first “divorce camp”, founded by 31-year-old Rafia Afi for women who are divorced, separated, widowed or suffering in their relationships to come together at a healing retreat. “The idea is to normalise divorce and give it dignity,” she says. “Divorce can be beautiful too, when two people decide they do not want to be together,” Afi says. “I want to remind people it doesn’t have to mean the end of your whole life.” Afi says: “Suicides and murders linked to marital abuse are happening all around us, and I want parents to realise that walking out of a bad marriage is an act of courage.
“Too many people see separation as shameful, choosing death over divorce. Society romanticises silent suffering and that’s dangerous – I want to change that narrative.”
News & Entertainment
Normally, I avoid this kind of celebrity news. Given the strong reactions and sometimes puzzling reactions people have expressed, I thought it was worth a click.
Newly-engaged Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce sent fans into meltdown as they revealed their bombshell marriage announcement on Tuesday. The popstar and the NFL icon, both 35, dropped the announcement with a romantic photoshoot showing Kelce proposing in a rose garden, which Swift captioned: 'Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.'
Aug 23 - First trans comedian to win Edinburgh comedy award
The BBC keeps calling men women.
Op-Eds of Interest
Kara Dansky: Things Are Getting Interesting in Virginia
Suzanne Moore: If we can’t trust the BBC to stop calling obviously male criminals ‘women’, we will go elsewhere
Jo Bartosch: Why are feminists dismissing women’s fears about migrant crime?
EDITORIAL: Science? It’s whatever you want it to be
Kara Dansky: Must US and UK women be forced to change clothes in front of men?
Parting Shot
The state of affairs in the UK increasingly concerns me. Their courts have reasserted the rights of women to be protected as a sex class, while institutions continue to ignore women’s rights and needs, many doubling down on giving men special status. The crime rate in the UK related to their overly liberal immigration policies, the astonishing rise in the rate of harm done to women and girls, and the government’s refusal to protect its own people, much less recognize the problem, is alarming and deeply troubling to watch from abroad. Citizens of the UK are jailed or threatened with jail for speaking truth about the destruction of a once peaceful, high-trust society by demands of men invading women’s spaces, and an enormous new population of refugees who have no regard for the local customs and social norms and no intention on ever fitting in. Women and girls are being squeezed by ill-intentioned men on all sides. The focus on harming girls is the fast track to destroying the society that once existed. Even the US government has commented on this change because it is alarming.
The political will to save the UK doesn’t seem to exist when they continuously accuse complainants of bigotry, transphobia, and racism while ignoring a growing problem. The complete lack of free speech that my British and Scottish friends assured me in recent years was as strong as America’s just doesn’t exist. The government has suppressed speech protections without notice and without the consent of the people. The people of the UK have no right to criticize their government. Of all the countries to fall into this authoritarian hell scape, the UK seemed like one of the least likely to fall. The TRA was just a battering ram. Unchecked immigration of violent people who are unwilling to conform to the UK’s peaceful, free society has targeted the girls of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland with violence and rape.
Is this the end or a temporary lapse? What can be done? Electing a different party into power doesn’t seem to have helped, at least not yet. What does the future hold for the UK? I see dark days ahead for the near term.
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I was a bit surprised to read your final comment. I agree with much of it – our civil liberties are being restricted in frightening ways.
However, your take on our migrant issue is one I disagree with. The UK takes far less migrants than other European countries but makes a lot more fuss about it. Migrants can and do make hugely positive contributions in our society and should be welcomed (in other countries with a much larger influx of migrants, they are welcomed and celebrated and there is far less trouble).
In the UK, the government and media deliberately foment hatred amongst the Daily Mail-reading public and those who are incapable of critical thinking. It is a perennial political football. It is not the migrants who are the main problem - it is, as usual, our leaders and opinion formers.
Of course, in every community of people, there are going to be bad apples, but it is our countries who cause the trouble in the countries they come from and so, on the one hand, we reap what we sow, but on the other, it is our duty to help those affected, most of whom are just ordinary individuals who have suffered terribly and deserve our empathy and support.
https://www.menonpause.info/p/to-be-adored-to-be-respected-to-be