Weekly News Roundup 12/30/22 to 1/5/23
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Call to Action
Help make prominent the names of the rightful winners of women’s sports competitions. A growing number of trans-identified men are interfering in women’s sports. SheWon.org is a website dedicated to naming the women who should have received the medals stolen by these men. If you know of more names to add to the list, please shoot us a comment so that we can get you in contact with the site admins.
PETITION (UK): Remove references to 'gender identity' from relationships education guidance
PETITION (US): Tell the NCAA: Stop Discriminating Against Female Athletes
Erasing Women and Women’s Spaces
1/4/23 - Sex offender identifying as a female seeks housing in women’s prison
Man who is most likely lying about being intersex tries to get himself housed in a women’s prison in Connecticut. This man is in prison for grooming and assaulting a 15 year old.
12/30/22 - Trans woman sues female social media site
A trans-identified man who goes by “Roxanne Tickle,” is suing female-only social media site Giggle for discrimination. Sall Grover, owner of the site, is a JK Rowling-tier defender of single-sex spaces, so we have faith she’ll prevail. Follow her on Twitter!
Males in Female Sports
1/5/23 - Federal judge finds West Virginia's transgender sports law constitutional
In a win for people tuned into reality, a federal judge has ruled that the state of West Virginia can continue to bar boys and men from participating in girls’ and womens’ sports categories.
12/30/22 - Trans-identified Man steals medals from female runners
Reproductive Rights
1/3/23 - Abortion Pills Can Now Be Offered at Retail Pharmacies, F.D.A. Says
Previously, women needed to go in-person to a clinic to receive medication to end a pregnancy. The FDA has lifted that rule so that any pharmacy that agrees to carry the medication as a prescription to dispense to patients in need.
Sex Discrimination
1/2/23 - The Marines are supposed to fully open boot camp to women but continue to resist
The Marines are the only branch of the US military that has not completely desegregated boot camp training. In this interview, the arguments for and against desegregation are discussed.
Beyond the West
The headline summarizes this article pretty succinctly. Ms. Khadem and her family are being threatened because Ms. Khadem was photographed without a hijab.
1/3/23 - How mushrooms could mean economic independence for Benin’s women
Mushroom foraging may provide a way for women to easily make their own money.
12/29/23 - Behind the women billionaires: China receding on gender equality
A longform article explaining how, despite the state-sponsored feminism of the past, there is now a growing gender gap in the Chinese economy.
News Impacting Society and Children
1/5/23 - Oklahoma ‘Millstone Act’ seeks to ban gender-affirming care under age of 26
Oklahoma is going one step further than other conservative states by attempting to prohibit the administration of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and “gender-affirming” surgeries to anyone under the age of 26. This bill will obviously be challenged, but the positive of legal cases against bills like this is that more expert evidence against transing is brought to light in court.
I look forward to the day that this asshole stops showing up in the news.
1/2/23 - US Government looking to use articifical intelligence to monitor “biased” speech
1/2/23 - ‘Transgender issues should be part of primary curriculum,’ says Children’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman
No, they should not. Come on, Ireland, keep up! Just as other nations are beginning to realize that the trans trend is indeed a social contagion and that children are easily swayed into believing they should change sex, politicians in Ireland are thinking up ways to incorporate gender ideology into school curriculums. In the US as well, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is trying to pull the same shit.
1/2/23 - NHS trusts accused of failing to ensure same-sex intimate care
The NHS is called out for prioritizing gender ideologues over the sex-based rights and needs of patients.
1/1/23 - Social media triggers children to dislike their own bodies, says study
No surprises here. What would be a surprise is if 2023 is the year that the public collectively decides to disengage from social media as it exists today.
It’s always satisfying to see karma find surgeons who perpetuate the myth that a person can change sex. What’s interesting about this story is how we can see the way that mainstream media continues to obscure the realit of sex change surgery. Compare the Daily Mail article above, which talks about the kinds of procedures the doctor was doing, to this article by the Seattle Times, which leaves out what kind of surgery the doctor was performing.
12/30/22 - Anger as EU project sees Police Scotland rebrand paedophiles as 'Minor-Attracted People
In more fuckery from Scotland, people are rightfully outraged by Police Scotland using the language “Minor-Attracted People” as non-stigmatizing langauage to describe pedophiles. Thankfully, the public at least seems to be much more sensitive to attempts to normalize pedophilia than attempts to erase women.
12/30/22 - U.S. Appeals Court Upholds Florida High School's Transgender Bathroom Ban
This time the lawsuit was brought by a trans-identified girl who was offended that she had to use either the girl’s bathroom and locker room or a gender-neutral one. The article lays out the arguments of TRAs through the opinions of the dissenting judges.
Entertainment
1/3/23 - Harry Potter Alum Harry Melling Reacts to J.K. Rowling's Controversial Transgender Comments
We debated including this headline because it’s so boring at this point. But here we go again, another Harry Potter actor grovels to Trans Rights Activists.
thank you for all these resources. i have friends who refuse to educate themselves on these issues because they don't want to risk falling out with their kids who seemed to suddenly become automatically strongly pro trans. it's disturbing. how quickly these attitudes were adopted. and how powerfully.