Weekly News Roundup: November 18-24

A condensed version of our usual roundup. Because it's a holiday, and we can all use a break.

To those in the US (where all our admins are based), Happy Thanksgiving! We’re only going to cover the top headlines this week because there’s no need to sour a time of gratitude with doom and gloom. For our sisters in the rest of the world, we hope you appreciate the break from rage-inducing headlines as well.

We start with a special report by Reuters taking an unusually critical look at how the trans trend is disproportionately adopted by teen girls. This is as significant as The New York Times article about puberty blockers published four days earlier because it marks a striking shift from the mainstream media’s long held “don’t ask questions” position on gender ideology. Almost one week after the Reuters article, The Guardian followed suit by publishing its own article that very gently asks if maybe there’s more to the trans trend than just regular people finding their “authentic” selves.

There have been at least 607 mass shootings this year in the United States. That is an unfathomably high number, and speaks volumes about our culture and the wellbeing of our fellow citizens. One very unwell man added to that statistic last weekend when he opened fire in a Colorado nightclub, tragically killing five and injuring more than a dozen others. Because no newsworthy event in our country can be discussed without becoming politicized, mainstream and social media immediately jumped to blaming the shooting on “the far right,” which to them describes anyone who is not a liberal or anyone who dares to question gender ideology, because the shooter (a white man) committed his heinous crime at a LGB/TQ nightclub. The shooter has since claimed that he is “non-binary.” Trans Rights Activists object to his claiming this “identity.” These activists have since been struggling to justify why it’s okay for them gatekeep “gender identities” and to explain how, if he is indeed faking his identity, the shooter isn’t proof that men can use self-ID for nefarious purposes (in this case avoiding a hate crime charge).

In other news, Balenciaga is distancing itself from its disgusting ad campaign that sexualized young children. A co-founder of the band Mumford & Sons (the band behind Little Lion Man and I Will Wait) has openly defended JK Rowling. Women in Australia, Scotland, and China are forming groups that meet to scream their hearts out. A special rapporteur of the UN said the same thing we’ve been saying all along: Scotland’s plans for self-ID are dangerous for women and girls. And Elon Musk’s Twitter is responsible for cleaning up child sexual exploitation content on the platform, a change from the non-interest that Twitter staff previously took on the mater.

Finally, April Morrow, a fierce gender critical activist, is asking for help to cover the costs of an injury from being assaulted by Trans Rights Activists at a protest.

We’ll be back to our regular format next week. Have a restful weekend!