Family Watch Newswire

MEXICO REVEALS WHAT’S AT STAKE IN THE PRONOUN DEBATE, by Grace Melton and Emma Green. “Free-speech defenders have long warned against government censorship, invoking the lessons of history. The suppression of dissent enables political power to consolidate and go unchecked. Brought on by the surge of pronoun policies in the 2010s, speech-related legislation in the Americas has expanded. The ongoing case of Rodrigo Iván Cortés, which is currently pending before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, involves an attack on freedom of speech and freedom of belief at the hands of gender ideology.” Read more here.

YES, GAY KIDS ARE BEING TRANSED, by Bernard Lane. “It’s happening. Gender clinics are ‘transing’ gay adolescents amid celebration of transgender identities and a surprising increase in homophobia especially among the young, according to Laura Edwards-Leeper, who served as the founding psychologist at America’s first specialist paediatric gender clinic. Responding to the accusation that youth gender clinics ‘trans away the gay’, Dr Edwards-Leeper said this was true in some cases and it was ‘a major problem’.” Read more here.

PEOPLE DIED. THE TREATMENT WAS DECLARED A SUCCESS, by Stella O’Malley. “In the Beyond Trans meetings I facilitate for detransitioners, a particular kind of silence sometimes takes hold over everyone. Someone new joins and describes being prescribed testosterone at fourteen, having their breasts removed at sixteen and undergoing a hysterectomy at eighteen. They were insecure, miserable and vulnerable, and their doctors assured them these interventions would help. Now they live with mature rage, regret and chronic pain.” Read more here.

BLUE WAVE ENSHRINES CHILD BUTCHERY IN STATE CONSTITUTIONS, by Ashley Bateman. “Constitutional amendments and statutes overwhelmingly favored radically unfettered rights for abortion and transgender proponents on Tuesday’s ballot, as federal efforts fight increasingly hostile legal landscapes to protect women and children.” Read more here.

SOCIETY NEEDS TO ADD DADS BACK INTO ‘SECRET SAUCE’ OF CHILDREN’S THRIVING, PROFESSOR WRITES, by Cooper Cobbs. “After 23 students were arrested in just three days at Southwood High School, the violence left the Louisiana school’s leaders with no choice: something had to change. A group of 40 fathers formed ‘Dads on Duty,’ and took shifts spending time at the school. They weren’t experts in counseling or de-escalation. They were simply fathers who showed up for a whole high school. And as a result, there were no more incidents.” Read more here.

WOMEN SUFFERED ‘SEVERE HARM,’ BLEEDING AT ALBERTA ABORTION CENTER, by Richard Dur. “There are two ways to leave an abortion facility. (For the unborn child, there is no such choice.) One is through the front door. The other is in an ambulance. The second is not an outcome that the abortion industry likes to advertise. It does not conform to the reassuring language of ‘reproductive healthcare,’ the arguments about ‘access,’ or the promises of ‘choice.’ It belongs to a less comfortable vocabulary: hemorrhage, emergency department, retained tissue, hospital transfer. And, occasionally, ‘severe harm’: permanent injury or death.” Read more here.

MY CLASSMATES PLAN FOR THEIR CAREERS. WHY NOT THEIR MARRIAGES?, by Srisha Raj. “Where do you see yourself in five years?” I was at a house party, where a few of us had drifted up to the roof to escape the noise. Someone threw out that classic icebreaker, and we went around the circle. One guy saw himself finishing a fast-tracked PhD, having squeezed four years of undergrad into two. A girl talked about an exit strategy for her startup, joking about the ‘bachelorette-pad’ life that would follow. When my turn came, I replied that I saw myself happily married, hopefully starting a family. The awkward silence that followed felt like it went on forever.” Read more here.