June 20 - 26, 2025: SCOTUS upholds porn ban in Texas, UK organization ignore recent supreme court ruling on sex vs gender ID, California ignores Title IX mandates to give girls access to fair sports
Youth boys team beats Swiss women's pro football team in practice, India takes men's side again, Delaware doubles down on harming children, Rape increases in Scotland dramatically recently
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June 27 - Supreme Court upholds Texas law requiring age verification for porn sites
The Supreme Court sided with Texas over a law requiring pornographic websites to verify the age of users before allowing them to access the sites. Writing for the court, Justice Clarence Thomas said age verification is part of a state's authority to prevent children from accessing sexually explicit content.
"Adults have no First Amendment right to avoid age verification, and the statute can readily be understood as an effort to restrict minors’ access," Thomas said. "Any burden experienced by adults is therefore only incidental to the statute’s regulation of activity that is not protected by the First Amendment."
Erasing Women and Women’s Safe Spaces
Hampstead Heath Ladies’ Pond is facing legal action for allegedly failing to ban transgender women despite the landmark Supreme Court gender ruling. The famed women-only bathing spot has maintained its trans-inclusive policy pending a ‘review’ in spite of the UK’s highest court ruling in April that trans women are not legally female. Women’s rights campaigners sent a legal letter to the City of London Corporation, which manages the ponds, last week warning they intend to bring a legal challenge unless the policy is revoked with 'immediate effect’. The legal letter, seen by the Mail, says that the current policy ‘violates the dignity of women using the Ladies’ Pond’ and that the Corporation is ‘operating it unlawfully by allowing trans identifying males to access it’.
June 25 - Men claimed to be women to access bigger trades grants, says federal review
A federal grant meant to help women break into male-dominated trades was quietly abused by men who claimed to be female in order to qualify for double the cash, according to a newly-released government review. The Apprenticeship Incentive Grant for Women, launched by the Trudeau government in 2018, offered up to $8,000 in funding to women pursuing careers in trades like plumbing, electrical work, welding, and carpentry, twice the amount men could receive under equivalent programs. The idea was to close the gender gap in skilled trades. But there was a loophole: all you had to do to qualify was check a box saying you identified as female. No questions asked.
June 24 - Ed. Dept. launches investigation into U. Wyoming for allowing male in sorority
They can’t have it both ways. The US Department of Education launched an investigation into the University of Wyoming for allowing a male to be admitted to Kappa Kappa Gamma, a female sorority.
“A school receiving federal funding that supports, sponsors, or promotes a sorority or fraternity must meet its obligations under Title IX to protect its students from sex-based harassment and sexual assault, regardless of the sorority or fraternity’s policy,” the department stated.
“A sorority that admits male students is no longer a sorority by definition and thus loses the Title IX statutory exemption for a sorority’s single-sex membership practices.”
June 22 - When prompted to show a female investor, here's what AI created!
AI, with its inability to weigh the importance of some details against others, shows how biased the data is when used by AI. Women simply don’t exist in the internet space in the context of investors.
Artificial intelligence (AI) struggles to imagine women as investors. When asked to create images of investors, AI tools overwhelmingly depicted men. Even when asked to portray an investor with traditionally feminine characteristics, such as a skirt or painted nails, they still showed men, just with those features.
Silencing Girls, Women, and Their Supporters
June 22 - I was ordered to post 30 apologies on X for calling trans politician a biological man.
Gabriel Quadri, a Mexican conservative politician, was convicted of being a “political violator against women” and ordered to apologise for his actions on X twice a day for 15 days as part of his punishment. He criticised two sex mimic politicians for winning women’s seats in Mexico’s House of Representatives. He has since faced numerous legal battles and was threatened with having his right to stand for office taken away.
Since 2019, Mexican political parties have been required to put forward equal numbers of male and female candidates in order to tackle a historic gender imbalance. Mr Quadri posted about the election result on X, warning that biologically male politicians were taking advantage of the law to gain access to political positions designated for women.
Males in Female Sports
June 26 - IOC’s Kirsty Coventry announces ‘scientific approach’ to protect ‘female category’
Kirsty Coventry has said there is now “overwhelming support” among International Olympic Committee members to protect the female category in a significant shift in its gender eligibility policy. Coventry said that a taskforce of scientists and international federations would be set up within weeks to come up with a new policy. Announcing the shift in policy, Coventry said: “There was overwhelming support that we should protect the female category. And with that, we will set up a working group made up of experts and international federations. Coventry says they will use a scientific approach.
We look forward to seeing what policies are developed.
The Swiss women's national football team suffered a heavy 7-1 defeat in a friendly match against the Lucerne under-14 boys' team, in a match that was closed to the public. Although such matches are part of regular preparations for major competitions like the upcoming European Championship, the result has caused heated reactions. At the training camp where Pia Sundhage was selected in preparation for the match against the Czech Republic next Thursday, a match was played against the youth team of Lucerne. The only goal for Switzerland was scored by Alaia Pilgrim. The Swiss Football Association did not release details of the result and the public learned about it from those present. According to media reports, one of the most famous female footballers in the world was also on the pitch, Alicia Lehman.
June 25 - California found in violation of Title IX in clash with Trump officials over transgender athletes
The Trump administration has found that the California Department of Education and the state’s high school sports federation violated civil rights law by allowing transgender girls to compete on girls sports teams. The federal Education Department announced the finding Wednesday and proposed a resolution that would require California to bar transgender women from women’s sports and strip transgender athletes of records, titles and awards. It’s the latest escalation in the Republican administration’s effort to bar transgender athletes from women’s sports teams nationwide. If California rejects the proposal, the Education Department could move to terminate the state’s federal education funding.
Sex Discrimination
June 25 - Fact Check: British MPs have not voted to legalise abortion up to birth
MPs backed a Crime and Policing Bill amendment on June 17 that would mean criminal penalties would no longer apply in England and Wales to women who abort their own pregnancies. The Abortion Act 1967 allowed abortions in the first 28 weeks - reduced to 24 weeks in 1990 - if two doctors agree that continuing with the pregnancy poses a greater risk to the woman's physical and mental health than terminating. The act only allows abortions after 24 weeks, in cases where the woman's life is in danger, there is a risk of grave permanent injury to the physical or mental health of the woman or there is a severe foetal abnormality.
Currently, anyone - including a medical professional - who helps a woman obtain an abortion outside the law could be prosecuted. The woman undergoing the abortion can also be pursued. The approved amendment - brought forward by Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi - removes women from the criminal law, namely sections 58, and 59, of the Victorian-era Offences Against the Person Act 1861 and the Infant Life Preservation Act 1929, to stop them being criminally investigated by police and prosecuted for ending their pregnancies in all circumstances. The amendment does not propose changing the Abortion Act, which sets out the conditions for abortions to be carried out both up to and beyond 24 weeks.
Medical professionals who assist women in ending their pregnancies could still face prosecution if they breach the conditions of the Abortion Act. The approved amendment says: "This new clause would disapply existing criminal law related to abortion from women acting in relation to her own pregnancy at any gestation, removing the threat of investigation, arrest, prosecution, or imprisonment.
June 23 - 3 years after abortion rights were overturned, contraception access is at risk
A national survey conducted in 2024 asked women ages 18 to 49 if they have changed their contraception practices “as a result of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.” It found that close to 1 in 5 women began using contraception for the first time, switched to a more effective contraceptive method, received a sterilization procedure or purchased emergency contraception to keep on hand. A study in Ohio hospitals found a nearly 16% increase in women choosing long-acting contraception methods or sterilization in the six months after the Dobbs decision, and a 33% jump in men receiving vasectomies. Another study, which looked at both female and male sterilization in academic medical centers across the country, also reported an uptick in sterilization procedures for young adults ages 18 to 30 after the Dobbs decision, through 2023.
Ironically, banning or severely restricting abortion statewide may also diminish capacity to provide contraception. The most significant drop in contraceptive services likely comes from the closure of abortion clinics in states with the most restrictive abortion policies. That’s because such clinics generally provide a wide range of reproductive services, including contraception. The 12 states with near-total abortion bans had 57 abortion clinics in 2020, all of which were closed as of March 2024. One study reported a 4.1% decline in oral contraceptives dispensed in those states.
Pornography, Sexual Harassment & Sexual Assault
June 24 - 'Staggering' increase in reports of rape and attempted rape
Rape Crisis has described a "staggering" 15% rise in the number of rapes and attempted rapes recorded in Scotland last year as "alarming". Official statistics published on Tuesday, show sexual crimes increased by 3% overall to the second highest level since 1971. Sandy Brindley, chief executive of Rape Crisis Scotland, said much more needed to be done "to tackle the attitudes that underpin sexual violence".
She told BBC Scotland News the figures should be a wake-up call and added that she was particularly concerned about online pornography "and the depiction of sex that young people, particularly young boys, are being exposed to". She said this included videos that normalised violence, normalised non-fatal strangulation and depicted women as enjoying violence.
"I think we need to do much more to counter that and to be really clear that this behaviour is criminal and there are serious consequences," she said.
She called on the government to invest "much more heavily" in prevention work with young people.
June 24 - Over a dozen women hospitalised after 145 syringe attacks at French music festival
Upwards of a dozen women and underaged girls have been hospitalised after being targeted in a string of syringe attacks at a music festival in France. The festival took a turn for the worse when 145 women and teenage girls reported being pricked with syringes. The majority of the victims were minors aged between 14 and 20, 17 of whom were transported to the Mercy Hospital for toxicology testing. Authorities have yet to confirm if the syringe attacks involved the use of date-rape drugs to render victims vulnerable to sexual assault.
News Impacting Society and Children
June 26 - NH lawmakers give final OK to bills banning transgender health care for minors
New Hampshire lawmakers gave final passage to a pair of bills Thursday that ban most gender-affirming care for transgender minors in the state. One of the bills forbids doctors from administering puberty blockers or hormone treatments to patients younger than 18. Patients already receiving those treatments before the end of this year would still be allowed to continue. The other bill prohibits gender-affirming chest surgeries for people before the age of 18. The bills now pass to Governor Kelly Ayotte for her signature. A spokesperson for the governor did not say whether she planned to sign them.
An anonymous researcher behind a bombshell Trump-ordered review of transgender treatments on minors has outed himself as a liberal MIT professor — as he doubled down on the report’s findings that medical intervention on underage kids isn’t “empirically or ethically justified.”
June 26 - Is the Toronto Zoo trying to hide drag queen events for children?
Recently, a Toronto mother, Sarah (she did not want her surname used) reached out to Rebel News. Sarah and her two young children are members of the Toronto Zoo. And they were not happy to discover that the zoo is promoting adult entertainment aimed at children in a supposedly family-friendly facility.
One of the performers at the Toronto Zoo is someone called “Juice Boxx.” Along with “Carlota Carlisle”, this duo, according to the zoo’s website, read “animal-themed children's stories that teach lessons of inclusion, diversity, self-love, and respect for others.”
Sarah discovered that Juice Boxx had allegedly posted pornographic pictures on social media. She reached out to this man who presents himself as a grotesque caricature of a woman. Sarah aired her concerns, and before she was blocked, Sarah received the following reply from Juice Boxx: “I hate your kids.”
June 26 - Shocking one in 4 young women have self harmed...while suicide attempts reach record highs
More than a quarter of young women and one in 10 of all adults in England have self-harmed, shocking NHS figures have suggested. Both numbers are a dramatic rise from those recorded in 2000, when only about one in 20 women aged 16-to-24 and one in 50 adults reported self-harming. The survey—which measures the prevalence of mental health conditions in the adult population—also showed a harrowing increase in the proportion of people attempting to end their own life. One in 100 people in England attempted suicide within the 12 months up to July last year, according to the report, the highest figure ever recorded.
This was equivalent to almost 4million people trying to end their life in a single year, charities estimated. It also represents a dramatic increase from the one in 200 people in England who attempted suicide in the year 2000. Overall, one fifth of all adults aged 16 to 74 had symptoms of a common mental health problem such as depression, anxiety or obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). But this rose to about one in four among women and to one in three females aged under 24.
June 25 - BMA in turmoil over ‘abysmal’ handling of Cass Review critique
The British Medical Association has failed to produce a promised “critique” of the Cass Review, amid a bitter internal row over its “abysmal” handling of gender policy. The doctors’ union prompted anger by announcing last year that it would lobby against Baroness Cass’s report into gender services for children without consulting its members. The British Medical Association (BMA) then set up its own “task and finish group” to evaluate the methodology used by Cass, a paediatrician, and write a critique which they said would be completed by January. Six months on, the report has still not been produced. More than 1,000 BMA members have signed a letter demanding that it “abandons this pointless exercise”.
June 25 - Colorado pledges not to enforce gender identity rules for Christian children's camp after lawsuit
The state of Colorado was trying to force religious summer camp IdRaHaJe to allow boys who have gender or trans identity into girls single sex facilities. IdRaHaJe has strict sex segregated facilities for children and adults and filed suit in response to demands from the new rules, issued by the Colorado Department of Early Childhood. The camp filed a legal complaint in May after allegedly being denied a request for a religious exemption last year. It argued that the state's new gender rules violate its religious beliefs.
Recently, Colorado has formally agreed to exclude religious children's camps from the state's transgender accommodation licensing requirements after the Christian camp filed a federal lawsuit. Colorado agreed to update the language in its licensing regulations, clarifying that "churches, synagogues, mosques or any other place that is principally used for religious purposes" are not considered "places of public accommodation" and are thus not beholden to the gender identity rules.
It also agreed not to "cite, suspend its license, revoke its license or otherwise take enforcement action" against Camp IdRaHaJe based on alleged noncompliance with these regulations.
June 24 - FBI launches probes into 3 children's hospitals for alleged genital mutilation of minors
Finally,
The FBI has initiated criminal investigations of three children's hospitals after commitments from Attorney General Pam Bondi that the Trump administration would enforce federal statutes outlawing female genital mutilation to protect children from often irreversible sex-change surgeries. The investigations target providers who work at Boston Children’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital Colorado and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. These hospitals have been among some of the foremost providers of sex change procedures for minors in America over the last several years.
June 24 - US Marshals Service operation recovers 60 missing children in Florida
A massive investigation into child sex trafficking resulted in the rescue of 60 "critically missing" children in the Tampa Bay area. Eight people were arrested, with charges ranging from human trafficking, child endangerment, drug possession, and drug trafficking. The children's ages ranged from 9 to 17.
June 22 - Judges advised to reject rape defendants’ chosen pronouns
In the UK, Judges will no longer have to refer to criminal defendants by the gender of their choice in an update after the Supreme Court’s transgender ruling. The revised guidance abandons self-identification language and reaffirms the binary definition of sex to state that the legal definition of a woman means biological female rather than sex attained by the acquisition of a gender recognition certificate (GRC).
June 22 - Pedophile Who Hoarded Videos Of Babies Being Raped Sentenced To 30 Years In Federal Prison
A man who had a collection of videos of horrifying crimes against infants and toddlers was sentenced to 30 years in prison in Kansas. Some of the pornographic images were of his own infant son. The man claims to be trans. Unlike in some countries and states, this pedophile did not experience leniency due to his claim of trans identity and gave him a sentence consistent with the crimes he committed.
The enormity of the collection of videos where infants were being raped is deeply disturbing.
June 21 - Delaware governor signs executive order protecting gender-affirming care
On Friday, Delaware Democratic Gov. Matt Meyer signed an executive order increasing protection for receivers and providers of gender-affirming care; ensuring that children can continue to be sterilized and have healthy body parts surgically removed.. The executive order prohibits any state agency from providing “medical records, data or billing information, or utilize state resources” that could help any criminal or civil investigation against someone receiving or providing gender-affirming care.
It also dictated that the state professional regulations board cannot disbar healthcare professionals only due to providing gender-affirming care.
June 21 - Medical professionals express concern as British lawmakers vote to decriminalize abortion
Right to Life United Kingdom, a pro-life group in the country, issued a press release Tuesday that explained some of the concerns of medical professionals who fear the proposed law, if passed, "would enable abortion providers to cover up the disastrous consequences of the pills by post scheme."
They further warned that the law could lead to "an increased number of viable babies' lives being ended well beyond the 24-week abortion time limit and beyond the point at which they would be able to survive outside the womb."
MP Tonia Antoniazzi, a member of the Labour Party, introduced one of the amendments and denounced the prosecutions of such women as cruel.
"Each one of these cases is a travesty enabled by our outdated abortion law," Reuters reported her saying in Parliament. "This is not justice, it is cruelty and it has got to end."
"This piece of legislation will only take women out of the criminal justice system because they are vulnerable and they need our help," she added. "Just what public interest is this serving? This is not justice, it is cruelty and it has got to end."
June 20 - California given deadline to overhaul sex education program
The Trump administration gave California a 60-day deadline to overhaul its sex education program or risk losing federal funding. California must eliminate “all gender ideology references” in its program and curriculum. The administration condemned the federally funded Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) for teaching gender identity as different from a child’s biological sex.
June 12 - Emerging and accumulating safety signals for the use of estrogen among transgender women
A recently released study confirms previous findings and finds the use of exogenous estrogen (often with anti-androgens) to alter secondary sex characteristics of males undergoing cross sex hormone therapy. Previously recognized side effects of infertility, testicular atrophy, reduced spermatogenesis and sperm abnormalities. Venous thromboembolism (VTE) risks are significantly elevated and increase with prolonged use in addition to cardiovascular disease, and cancer. Autoimmune diseases like systemic lupus and multiple sclerosis are presenting at higher than average rates. Insulin resistant diabetes is linked with estrogen use in men. Breast cancer and changes to the brain are measurably increased risks to men who take hormones designed for women.
Beyond the West
June 25 - Indian court rules a transgender woman is a woman
The Andhra Pradesh High Court on June 16 issued a landmark ruling that says Indian law cannot deny transgender women recognition as women solely because they cannot bear children. Justice Venkata Jyothirmai Pratapa, who presided over the case, rejected arguments that tie womanhood exclusively to reproductive capacity, declaring such views “legally unsustainable” and contrary to the Indian constitution’s guarantees of dignity, equality, and identity. The decision, rooted in the Supreme Court’s 2014 National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India ruling that recognized individuals as a “third gender” with equal fundamental rights, marks a significant step toward gender justice in India. “A trans woman, born male and later transitioning to female, is legally entitled to recognition as a woman,” Pratapa declared.
Entertainment
Trans activist Lilly (Nick) Contino has been condemned by trans women for putting the already marginalised community at risk of even greater ‘harm and malice’ by reinforcing negative stereotypes in ‘ragebait’ clips on TikTok. The most recent controversy stemmed from a viral post that included mirror selfies of the 31-year-old as he 'rated' the women's bathrooms at Disney World in Florida - and has spiralled into a call for Lilly to be 'banned' from TikTok and the amusement park. After this article was published a criminal investigation was launched, and Tino may be facing criminal charges.
Op-Eds of Interest
Guest Column by SheWon: The Impact of Male Inclusion in Female Sports
AI is hurtling us toward a child pornography crisis
How the Transgender Rights Movement Bet on the Supreme Court and Lost
FFS Friday: The Carrot Cottage Rabbit Rescue
African manhood is broken – and it’s costing women their lives
The BBC video that exposed our cowardly elite
For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance.
Judith Butler says the quiet parts out loud
Decriminalising Abortion Up to Birth Sets the UK Down a Dangerous Path
Parting Shot
I’m relieved to see the Department of Education go after the University of Wyoming over the sorority that allowed a male student to join and enjoy access to the private spaces of the women of Kappa Kappa Gamma. The national sorority organization had been using its status as a private organization to avoid the reach of the university's oversight while simultaneously providing housing and leadership opportunities exclusively for women students of the university. They were benefiting from both the public and private realms and inflicting what amounts to abuse and violations against the women in the sorority. UWyo keeps trying to avoid getting involved with this matter, but the Dept of Education investigation will make it necessary. University women and their parents deserve to know they will be safe in their housing from predatory males lurking around while benefiting from the unique opportunities provided in a sorority.
Several states are pushing back on the restoration of the original Title IX law and the more recent clarifications rolling out of the judicial system of late. They are determined to deprive girls and women of safe, fair access to sports and spaces, ensuring women and girls have a place in education and public life. Their priorities are noted. Make no mistake, this is a full-scale assault on women’s human rights. Our very definition of humanity is being attacked and reduced to an invisible, unimportant status that only exists to support men.
What a great compilation of incredible articles! Thanks for your work compiling them!
Hard to believe this crap passes by as some version of acceptable by many communities and constituencies?!