May 2 - 8, 2025 : Colorado passes bill that allows courts to sever parental rights over misgendering and deadnaming, Trump protects access to abortion pill, English FA bans men from women's teams
JK Rowling says she will fund any woman's strip search by male case, ECB bans men from women's cricket, German man attempts to censor media regarding his lawsuit against a women only gym
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Colorado passed a law HB 25-1312 creating what is called the “Kelly Loving Act,” removing parental rights and making “misgendering” and “deadnaming” grounds for declaring a parent abusive and severing parental rights, and a violation of the Colorado anti-discrimination act. I’m featuring this because not only is Colorado my home but this legislation is receiving national attention and will inform how the rest of the country moves forward on this issue. The opposition to the bill broke records in attendance and requests to testify against it. Over 600 people signed up to give testimony in opposition to the bill and only 70 signed up to testify in support of it.
Democrats imposed an 8 hour limit on testimony. In spite of the hearings going until 1 AM, many were unable to speak. However, many were able to testify in opposition.
The bill has language that is so far reaching as to require education institutions to change their dress codes to be “gender neutral.”
Due to the strong opposition, the legislature struck out the most troublesome parts of the bill but what remained that was passed is still a nest of constitutional grey area and a draconian hell scape for family courts, parents, children and educational institutions. The legislation directs family courts to give custody, care and control of children seeking a trans identity to the parent that affirms the child’s trans identity. It declares misgendering and deadnaming as coercive control and a violation of the Colorado anti discrimination act. Legal penalties for deadnaming and misgendering have been removed due to their direct violation of 1st amendment rights. But the 14th amendment that protects parents’ rights to make medical decisions for their children is potentially violated. The media is in support of the bill and inaccurately labels opponents as “far right.”
You may contact Colorado’s Governor Polis for comment here.
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Your Board of Douglas County Commissioners is taking a stand for families and parental rights by passing a resolution opposing Colorado House Bill 25-1312, a bill they believe oversteps government authority and harms the very people it claims to protect: kids and their parents.
The bill, which was introduced to the Senate on April 22, would classify “deadnaming and misgendering” as discriminatory acts and add rules to schools regarding chosen names and dress code policies. Douglas County Commissioners voiced serious concerns about the bill’s long-term impact on families and schools.
May 6 - Heavily amended bill adding legal protections for transgender people passes Colorado Senate
The Colorado Senate gave final approval Tuesday to a heavily amended bill adding legal protections for transgender people in a 20-14 vote after hours of debate and opposition from Republican senators.
House Bill 25-1312 would make it a discriminatory act to intentionally not refer to a transgender person by their chosen name. It also requires school policies be “inclusive of all reasons” that a student changes their name, and it says schools must allow students to choose from any variation contained in dress code policies.
May 5 - Last minute changes of language in bill
May 2 - Nearly 700 Coloradans Sign Up to Oppose Transgender Bill HB25-1312 in Marathon Capitol Hearing
April 9 - Colorado bill could strip parents of custody for misgendering their children
Erasing Women and Women’s Safe Spaces
The family of a woman who was brutally murdered in a mental hospital by a male patient is seeking further legal action. Kamilla Nagy was murdered by Jayson David B, a man who identified as transgender who was placed in the women’s space in the clinic after being determined to be a threat to others.
May 1 - Julie Bindel, The trans erasure of lesbians : Podcast episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show
Julie Bindel – author of Lesbians: Where Are We Now? – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Julie and Brendan discuss why the Supreme Court’s gender ruling is so vital for lesbians, why gay rights and trans rights have nothing in common, and why being a lesbian used to be fun.
Silencing Girls, Women, and Their Supporters
May 6 - Nursing home pronouns law viewed positively at state Supreme Court hearing
The California Supreme Court appeared likely Tuesday to uphold a state law that makes it a crime for nursing home workers to deliberately and repeatedly refer to a transgender resident with a name or pronoun that differs from the one they prefer.
The 2017 law by Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, was declared unconstitutional in 2021 by a state appeals court, which ruled that it violated freedom of speech. But in a one-hour hearing Tuesday, the high court’s seven justices all seemed to agree, for differing reasons, that the law could be enforced.
Males in Female Sports
May 9 - Video of testimony of girl student forced to change in locker room with boy watching.
"I went into the women's locker room to change for track practice, where I saw a biological male watching not only myself, but the other young women undress. This experience was beyond traumatizing."
May 5 - New Poll Reveals 75% of Americans Oppose Trans Women in Female Sports
A new poll from NBC News reveals that 75% of Americans oppose transgender women participating in female sports. NBC news claims that the presence of males in female sports is a “non-issue” and that the number of males who identify as transwomen is marginal. According to Hewon.org in 2025 there were over 300 men and boys who identify as female competing in women and girls sports. It is likely there are more as He won collects information submitted by the community. “NCAA President Charlie Baker testified that he was aware of fewer than 10 transgender athletes out of more than 500,000 total NCAA college student-athletes, which would equal 0.002% of this college student-athlete population.”
Well Charlie Baker, even one male competing in the female category is too many. Women and girls sports are important and this dismissive attitude and argument are deeply sexist. Seventy-five percent of Americans agree that any male in female sports is unfair.
May 2 - ECB bans transgender women MEN from women's cricket
Men have been banned from competing in all levels of women's cricket with immediate effect, the England and Wales Cricket Board has announced. In an update to its transgender regulations, the ECB said "only those whose biological sex is female" will be able to participate in women's and girls' cricket. The ECB says transgender women and girls can continue playing in open and mixed cricket categories.
May 1 - English FA to ban trans players from women's football next season
The English Football Association (FA) has said it will ban men from women's football from next season, starting on June 1.
Sex Discrimination, Reproductive Choice
May 5 - Trump Administration Asks Court to Dismiss Abortion Pill Case
The Trump administration asked a federal judge on Monday to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks to sharply restrict access to the abortion pill mifepristone — taking the same position as the Biden administration in a closely watched case that has major implications for abortion access. The court filing by the Justice Department is striking, given that President Trump and a number of officials in his administration have forcefully opposed abortion rights. Mr. Trump often boasts that he appointed three of the Supreme Court justices who voted in 2022 to overturn Roe v. Wade, which had guaranteed the national right to abortion. The filing is the first time the Trump administration has weighed in on the lawsuit, which seeks to reverse numerous regulatory changes that the Food and Drug Administration made over the past decade that greatly expanded access to mifepristone.
May 5 - Missouri’s voters restored abortion rights. Their leaders are trying to overrule them.
Clinics are rebuilding services, patients are returning and Republicans in the state are moving quickly to take protections away — again.
On November 5, 2024, voters approved Amendment 3 recognizing reproductive freedom, including abortion care, as a fundamental right in Missouri.[26] The Missouri Constitution now reads:
The Government shall not deny or infringe upon a person’s fundamental right to reproductive freedom, which is the right to make and carry out decisions about all matters relating to reproductive health care, including but not limited to prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, birth control, abortion care, miscarriage care, and respectful birthing conditions.[27]
Pornography, Sexual Harassment & Sexual Assault
May 9 - UK woman loses jail term appeal after killing man as he sexually assaulted her
A woman who stabbed a man to death as he sexually assaulted her has lost an appeal against her 17-year jail term.
Martyna Ogonowska was handed a life sentence aged 18 after being convicted of the 2018 murder of Filip Jaskiewicz, 23, in a Peterborough car park, using a knife she said she carried for self protection. Sentencing her at Cambridge crown court in 2019, Judge Farrell QC told Ogonowska that Jaskiewicz “undoubtedly touched you sexually and was violent to you shortly before he was killed”. But he said it did not qualify as self-defence because Ogonowska, who he accepted suffered from some mental disability and had experienced previous trauma, had taken a knife to the scene.
A 24-year-old brutally killed a young woman as she enjoyed a morning hike because he believed he was a transgender woman and was jealous of her beauty, according to police. Zion Teasley is accused of stabbing 29-year-old Lauren Heike 15 times after stalking her on an Arizona hiking trail in April, 2023. Police narrowed in on him thanks to DNA found in her show at the murder scene. Police now say Teasley had been writing in his journal about his gender identity in the months leading up to the esthetician's murder, as reported by ABC 15.
News Impacting Society and Children
Man who pretends to be a woman, Nicole Murray is finally jailed for his sexual abuse against children. This man ran a support group for domestic abuse survivors, inflicting himself further on women seeking healing.
People protesting a Turning Point USA (TPUSA) event at the University of Washington in Seattle on Tuesday allegedly threw "literal human feces" at students checking in to hear a speech advocating against biological men competing in women's sports. Local media outlets reported that approximately 150 people were near the building protesting the speech. Many could be seen in social media videos waving transgender flags and holding signs – some vulgar – expressing opposition to Gaines and Krolczyk.
May 6 - How schools can be front lines against child sex trafficking
Human trafficking is now the second-most-profitable criminal activity in the U.S. and our school children are the commodity traffickers seek. Some schools already have responsibility for teaching school children about sex trafficking. In 2018, California, Tennessee, Florida and Virginia became the first states to mandate human trafficking education for public school students. However, this training is often too brief and general, making it difficult for students to understand how it could happen to them or their peers. Schools can do better.
Schools need to recognize that their students are being targeted for exploitation by sophisticated criminals. While any student can be targeted, students with a history of child abuse or neglect are most vulnerable. Research has shown that 41.4 percent of system-involved youth (including child welfare and juvenile justice) had clear or possible signs of being exploited. Students who frequently miss school, run away or are homeless are at very high risk, as are those with intellectual or developmental disabilities, unaccompanied migrant youth and gay, lesbian and transgender youth.
May 6 - Supreme Court allows Trump to implement transgender military service ban for now
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration can move forward with a ban on transgender military service members for now, lifting a lower court injunction against the policy after a judge ruled it was an "unsupported, dramatic and facially unfair exclusionary policy." During Trump's first term, the high court took a similar course, lifting an injunction against a ban on transgender service members after it was challenged. President Joe Biden ended the policy. The Pentagon has estimated more than 4,200 active service members have a diagnosis of gender dysphoria which is the military's metric for tracking the number of transgender troops. Advocacy groups have put the actual number of trans service members much higher, around 15,000.
May 5 - Janet Mills And Her Family Get Rich Off The Maine Governor’s Transgender Stance
Maine is set to lose federal funding for its Department of Education and school meal program over Governor Janet Mills’s refusal to conform to the Trump administration’s transgender policies. But the network of transgender groups surrounding Mills and her family — and paying them handsomely — could shed some light on why Maine’s leadership seems unwilling to budge.
May 5 - Americans are having fewer kids due to money concerns: Survey
According to a recent LendingTree survey, almost half (46%) of parents with young children said they have fewer kids due to financial constraints. And 77% said raising children has been far more expensive than they expected. Over the past two years, the annual cost of raising a small child has surged from $21,681 to $29,419 — a 36% jump, LendingTree found. Much of that increase is due to skyrocketing day care costs, which rose more than 50% over the same period.
A 29-year-old trans-identified male is suing a women-only gym in Erlangen, Germany, after being denied membership. Laura Holstein, formerly known as Nicolas, has filed a discrimination lawsuit against Doris Lange, the owner of Lady’s First Fitness Studio, after repeated rejections of his membership. A court hearing is expected to take place in the near future. In addition to the fitness studio lawsuit, Holstein is also taking legal action against several German media outlets. With support from the publicly funded nonprofit organization HateAid, he is seeking to prohibit the publication of his former name, any photographs of him, and what he describes as “misgendering” in press coverage.
May 2 - Evidence for Pediatric Gender Transitions ‘Very Low,’ Says U.S. Government Report
A rigorous new U.S. study comes to the same conclusion as many other countries: The medical case for pediatric transitions is alarmingly weak.
The Department of Health and Human Services has released a much-anticipated report on the “treatment for pediatric gender dysphoria”—that is, a feeling of distress over one’s biological sex. In a review of studies of how to treat the disorder, the report finds that “the overall quality of evidence concerning the effects of any intervention on psychological outcomes, quality of life, regret, or long-term health, is very low.”
The report, published Thursday, was commissioned by President Donald Trump in one of his early actions as president, a January 28 executive order titled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation.”
May 2 - This Group Wants to “Affirm” Pedophilia
Pedophiles have a movement that endeavors to re-define their pedophilia as an identity that must be validated and not a psychiatric disorder. They claim it is unethical for treatment programs to recondition them to diminish their attraction to children even using medications to accomplish this. They seek to have their behavior labeled as a sexual orientation. Leading this effort is B4U-ACT, a Maryland-based organization founded in 2003 to support pedophiles, or as they call them, “Minor-Attracted Persons” (MAPs). This approach abandons clinicians’ traditional risk-management focus when treating pedophiles and raises serious concerns about public safety.
Historically, mental-health professionals have classified pedophilia as a paraphilia, a psychiatric disorder characterized by an abnormal or harmful sexual interest in anyone or anything other than a legally consenting adult. For decades, clinicians treating pedophilia have sought to manage clients’ harmful impulses, prevent abuse, and protect potential victims. This group and all its supporters need to be listed as dangerous to minors.
May 1 - California Democrats Reject Clause to Make Buying Sex From 16 and 17-Year-Olds a Felony
Democratic lawmakers in California stripped a new bill of a clause that would have made paying for sex with 16 and 17-year-olds a felony.
The legislation, AB 379, was authored by Democrat Maggy Krell, who spent 20 years overseeing human trafficking cases for the state. The original version would have extended existing laws that increase penalties for those who solicit minors under 16 for sex to include 16 and 17-year-olds. However, Democratic committee members insisted that this clause be removed before passing the bill. The revised version imposes stiffer penalties for “loitering with intent to purchase sex” and sets up a fund for sex trafficking victims.
It took 30 years for Dr Allan Josephson to establish himself as one of America's leading child psychiatrists but only seven weeks for a savage mob of woke critics to destroy him.
May 1 - Sex Offenders Make Up Large Share of Homeless Population, New Report Shows
Most Americans understand the link between homelessness and crime. But activists and academics reject the connection, insisting that the homeless pose no elevated crime threat. A new report from the Cicero Institute complicates their argument, revealing that a large share of the nation’s homeless population is composed of registered sex offenders.
The report, covering 41 states, compared counts of sex offenders listed as “homeless” or “address unknown” on state registries with the federal Point-in-Time Count database to determine what proportion of a state’s homeless population appears on its sex-offender registry.
Beyond the West
May 3- 20,000 Bangladeshi men protest women's rights proposal
20,000 Bangladeshi men turned out to protest a women’s rights proposal claiming it was against their religion. They framed the proposal as “western laws.”
Entertainment
J.K. Rowling said in a new post on X that she does not have the power to fire Paapa Essiedu from HBO’s “Harry Potter” television series, nor would she exercise such power if she had it. The actor recently signed an open letter condemning the U.K. Supreme Court for ruling that transgender women are not legally considered women and transgender men are not legally considered men.
“I don’t have the power to sack an actor from the series and I wouldn’t exercise it if I did,” Rowling wrote on X while sharing an article about Essiedu. “I don’t believe in taking away people’s jobs or livelihoods because they hold legally protected beliefs that differ from mine.”
JK Rowling has vowed to fund any women who choose to sue the police over being strip-searched by a transgender officer.
It comes after police chiefs sparked outrage after refusing to immediately ban trans officers from strip-searching women despite the UK's highest court ruling that sex is biological.
In a move branded a 'stunning lack of urgency,' forces across the country have said they 'will not rush' to change their policies, even after the Supreme Court's bombshell April 17 judgment clarified that legal sex is based on biology, not gender identity.
Op-Eds of Interest
Last night's town hall in Aurora, Colorado
Coverage of an incident exploded on T.V. and online May 8th as if it was the opening salvo of World War III. It was reported that a security guard questioned the sex identity of a person, Ansley Baker, who was using the women's bathroom at the Liberty Hotel in Boston. Ansley Baker, who looks more like a man than many men do, sports a short crew haircut, is six feet tall and favors stereotypical men's clothing. She also looks like she has a five o'clock shadow on her upper lip. Is she on testosterone? Ansley's companion, Elizabeth Victor, barely comes up to Ansley's shoulder making an even more suggestive contrast in their physical appearance. Of course Ansley Baker has to be aware of her own staged male performance. Looking at her, one would quickly assume she was a man. Still, this couple has publicized the incidence as if they were the victims of a mass murderer and the local media is playing it to the hilt. Although Ansley takes pains to look like a man, she is outraged at being mistaken for one. (Take a look at her online). Pity the poor security guard who has now been suspended from his job when he was only trying to protect the women who reported seeing a man in the Women's room. This is happening only because trans "women" insisting on using women's rooms have put many women on edge for fear of encountering a man in their bathroom. The actions of Ansley Baker and Elizabeth Victor look like nothing more than a scam to sue the hotel for big money - or a P.R. stunt to promote transgender goals. Maybe both. Why else go into a Ladies Room in Drag? This is a cruel, crude and cynical performance done knowing that people would be tricked into thinking that Ansley was a man and react accordingly.
The Attorney General of Massachusetts, Andrea Campbell (who is sympathetic to transgenderism), confirmed that they're processing complaints about the incident. The Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination did not comment on any ongoing investigations.
Nicola Murray actually is a woman though.