Weekly News Roundup Sept 16 to 22
This week, a lot of ripples affecting children and society at large.
Erasing Women
09/22/22 - Support falls for trans people to change sex on birth certificate
Let’s start off with some news that should give all gender critical women hope. One survey of those in the UK has found that support for trans people changing their birth certificates has dropped about 20 points, from 53% in 2020 to 32% today. This puts it near even with the 33% of people who believe that trans activism has gone too far. Keep it up, gyns! Genderists are so hellbent on stamping out dissenters because they know that our voices are impactful. We speak reason; and while the genderists may not operate in reason, the general public does and hears us.
09/21/22 - Domestic abuse protection orders “absolutely pointless” say victims
Prosecutors are failing women in the UK, as they have neglected to pursue perpetrators in breach of protection orders. It’s true that a protection order is just a piece of paper, but police, prosecutors, and judges hold a lot of power in enforcing that those pieces of papers are meaningful.
Reproductive Rights
09/21/22 - These male politicians are pushing for women who receive abortions to be punished with prison time
This article covers the men in political office in the US who support an “abolitionist” approach to abortion law. They don’t believe abortion should be legal under any circumstances - even when it’s a measure that could save the pregnant woman’s life - and believe that getting an abortion should be treated the same as murdering someone. Shit like this is why a growing number of female citizens feel politically homeless. Who can we trust to advocate for us?
Males in Female Spaces
09/20/22 - World Rugby refuses to review trans player ban despite risk of legal action
Three cheers for the Rugby Football Union and its chief executive, Alan Gilpin, who says the federation will not bend the knee to Trans Rights Activists attempting to threaten the sports union with a lawsuit, and will instead continue to base its decisions on current science.
09/20/22 - Dori: Washington state school sports now have a ‘Lia Thomas situation’
A high school boy who competed as a boy last year has chosen to compete as a girl this year. To the surprise of no one, he’s dominating.
09/19/22 - Miriam Cates MP condemns trans woman’s victory in hospital changing room case
The UK continues to show the rest of the West that there is a light at the end of this tunnel. A few weeks ago we shared a headline about a case where a trans-identifying man successfully sued NHS for discrimination, claiming that he was bullied by his female colleagues for being a sex pest walking around naked in the locker room. Cates encouraged the hospital to appeal (spoiler alert: it did not), and expressed her concern that women are being forced “to deny reality in order to be inclusive and keep their jobs.”
News Impacting Society and Children
09/22/22 - Big Tech gangs up on wrongthinkers
PayPal has cancelled the accounts of UsForThem, Gays Against Groomers, and Free Speech Union. Google has also revealed itself to cut off accounts of what the media uncritically deems “hate campaigns.”
This article briefly summarizes the change in the recommendations by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) for “gender-affirming care” for children. It’s not based on new information around child development, but rather protecting medical providers and makng sure insurance covers the “care.” Disclaimer: The Daily Wire, who published this article, is a conservative outlet, so it’s worth doing a deep-dive into the WPATH guidelines yourself to be fully informed.
More from the WPATH conference:
09/16/22 - Seventh Circuit sides with religious rights over gender expression rights in prison strip-search
The good news: this ruling gives hope that we may be able to rely on conservative judges to view gender ideology-related lawsuits with skepticism. The bad news: it was a conservative-leaning court that made this ruling, so it’s no surprise that it was so sympathetic to this plaintiff because the plaintiff is 1) a man and 2) arguing about religious rights. What kind of rulings will we see when the plaintiff is a woman and the issue is protecting a woman’s dignity?
09/16/22 - Woman assaulted outside heated Conway school board meeting; bullet hits window later
This vague article promotes the idea that “transphobes” intend to violently suppress the queer brigade and its allies. After a school board meeting about cross-sex bathroom use, a queer-identifying woman and a man described only as her “acquaintance” got into a fight that ended with him hitting her outside the meeting. Later, in the wee hours of the morning, a bullet went through her window. We don’t want to deliberately leave out headlines that paint trans activists as victims, which is why included this article. It shouldn’t need to be stated, but violence is never an appropriate response to politics that one doesn’t like. Although in this case, I seriously doubt the man who shot through her window (if it was even that man who did it) is a gender critical feminist.
09/16/22 - Michigan Education Department pushed transgender agenda in teacher trainings: Report
Another state has been revealed to be instructing teachers on “gender affirmation,” including the importance of not "outing” a trans-identifying child to his or her parent. Perhaps one of the biggest red flags of a wrong-headed movement is when it needs to operate in secret. Across the pond in Scotland, more thoughts on affirming student’s “gender identity.”
09/16/22 – Exclusive: Senators ask Biden to loosen restrictions on testosterone access
Massachusetts Democratic Senators Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren are advocating for testosterone to either be removed from categorization as a controlled substance or at least moved to a lower-level category. This, Trans Rights Activists say, is necessary so that patients don’t have to go to the doctor as frequently for written prescriptions and so that patients could even potentially purchase testosterone online without a prescription.
09/16/22 – Youngkin administration overhauls policy for Virginia transgender students
The state of Virginia has decided that parents get to have a say in how schools respond to issues arising around their child’s “gender identity.” Parents and other primary caregivers generally know their children better than anyone else, and it’s not crazy to argue that parents have a right to be part of decision-making around what kind of care and support their child receives.
09/16/22 – Catharine Leavy, Boston Children’s Hospital Suspect: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
37-year-old Catherine Leavy has been arrested for calling a bomb threat in to Boston Children’s Hospital. BCH has been in the spotlight after information surfaced suggesting that the hospital performs “gender-affirming” surgeries on minors. Leavy appears to be a supporter of far-right political ideology, as the website Heavy found evidence she aligns with groups like the MAGA crowd (for those not in the US, these are the diehard fans of Donald Trump’s president campaigns) and the Proud Boys. No, Trans Rights Activists, she is not an example of the overwhelmingly left-leaning gender critical feminists. It appears that Vanderbilt University Medical Center is another hospital with controversy.
09/15/22 – Canadian shop teacher subjects his students to his cross-dressing fetish
This teacher, a trans-identified male in a Canadian high school, has taken to wearing obscenely large prosthetic breasts as part of his everyday classroom wear. Nevermind that his whole getup is dangerous for operating heavy machinery, it’s absolutely outrageous that the school is protecting the “right” of this man to behave so outlandishly despite clearly making his students uncomfortable. The school swears up and down that kids love the teacher, but it should be clear that’s not true from the fact that students are secretly taping him and posting the videos to social media.
Beyond the West
09/17/22 – Fury in Iran as young woman dies following morality police arrest
22-year old Mahsa Amini was reportedly beaten by police after an arrest for not abiding by the country’s oppressive veiling laws. Police had detained Amini to “educate” her about how to properly wear a hijab. Protests have since erupted as women across the nation condemn the state for its oppression of women.
Iran unrest: Women burn headscarves at anti-hijab protests - BBC
Iran: CNN cancels interview with Iranian president over headscarf demand
09/15/22 – Female hummingbirds are mimicking as males to avoid aggression
About 20% of female White-necked Jacobin hummingbirds have adopted the vibrant coloration of their male counterparts, instead of the usual muted coloration of females. The bright blue and green hues of the males is meant to signal aggression as a warning to other hummingbirds, whereas the muted colors of the females helps to camouflage the females and their young from predators. Before Trans Rights Activists claim hummingbirds as a trans icon, I want to highlight this great quote from the article:
It’s likely [mimicking female hummingbirds] will continue to be a minority. That’s because, if less aggressive females adopt the brighter colors, which typically signals aggressive behavior, the meaning of the colors change. Once the meaning changes, there is no benefit in the females changing to the flashy colors.
Take note, genderists: try as you might to identify out of your birth sex, you’ll always ultimately remain categorized with the others of your sex. What you are is more than skin deep.
Entertainment
09/15/22 – ‘Saturday Night Live’ announces its first nonbinary cast member
Molly Kearney is joining the cast of SNL this season. She’s a woman who doesn’t want people to call her that. I suppose there’s enough competition in Hollywood that you have to make yourself stand out somehow.