CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE OF THE GENDER WARS, by Travis Brown. “There is no subject more toxic or radioactive today than all that falls under the umbrella term ‘trans.’ Countless friendships have been lost over disagreements, families have been torn apart, and young children harmed, all in the name of gender identity. Even among those who oppose so-called ‘gender medicine,’ bitter infighting, factionalism, and personal attacks are rampant.” Read more here.
THE WEST’S ASSAULT ON THE AFRICAN FAMILY, by Travis Weber. “Perhaps no subject loomed larger over the Pan-African Conference for Family Values, held May 12-14 in Nairobi, Kenya, than what the West has done to target the African family in recent years. This gathering was the second such one hosted by the Africa Christian Professionals Forum, convening Christian faith leaders and advocates for biblical values in law and policy from around the continent. The focus was the family and key contested areas of life, marriage, family, sexuality, and religious freedom.” Read more here.
LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY IS ‘FEARFUL’ … BUT BEATS GIRLS IN SPORTS AND FIGHTS FOR PORN IN SCHOOLS?, by Dave Huber. “A piece in The Daily Princetonian, Princeton’s student paper, got me pondering a few things this past week. Titled ‘This Is When We Get Louder’: Resistance and queer joy at a small Princeton center,’ the premise is since the current political climate is ‘precarious’ — it’s (allegedly) focusing on ‘LGBTQ+ topics, including trans athletes, banned books, and civil rights of LGBTQ+ couples’ — those in the queer+ community and beyond need to, well, resist and experience ‘joy.’” Read more here.
POPE LEO BACKS POPULIST PRO-FAMILY POLICIES TO PROMOTE ‘STABLE UNION BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN,’ by Kurt Zindalka. “In an address to members of the Vatican’s Diplomatic Corps, Pope Leo XIV stressed the fundamental importance of the union between men and women as the bedrock of civilisation. The Pontiff argued that governments should invest in family formation to foster more ‘harmonious and peaceful’ civil societies, echoing the message of populist leaders like Hungarian PM Viktor Orban and Vice President JD Vance.” Read more here.
THEY KNEW, by Bernard Lane. “A report revealing that Chile’s health authorities knew there was no good evidence for gender medicalisation of minors has been approved by a historic vote of the country’s Chamber of Deputies. The report from a special investigative commission of the chamber—the lower house of the Chilean Congress—calls for the immediate suspension of the government’s ‘Gender Identity Support Program (PAIG),’ which refers children for hormonal treatment. The chamber endorsed the report on Thursday by 56 votes to 31.” Read more here.
FEDERAL JUDGE ALLOWS FLORIDA DRAG SHOW TO TAKE PLACE NEAR CHILDREN DESPITE STATE LAW, by Sarah Holliday. “The Naples Pride organization was told they couldn’t host a drag show near a children’s playground, so instead, they dragged the city to court. Naples Pride planned to host a drag show near a children’s playground in Naples, Florida. But in April, CBN reported, ‘the Naples City Council voted 5-2 to move the proposed drag show indoors away from Cambier Park, which is frequented by children, and to restrict the event to adults only.’ As a result, Naples Pride, alongside the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), sued the city, claiming their right to free speech was violated.” Read more here.
MINNESOTA SUPREME COURT SIDES WITH PUBLIC NUDITY, AGAINST FAMILIES AND SANITY, by Auguste Meyrat. “In another blow to common decency and protecting innocence, the justices of the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled earlier this month in favor of a woman being topless in a public space. Even though the state has laws against exhibitionism, the justices reasoned in their opinion that the woman, a stripper named Eloisa Plancarte, did not necessarily meet the standard for lewdness mentioned in the law.” Read more here.
HOW MEDICAL GROUPS TWIST THE TRUTH ABOUT GENDER MEDICINE, by Joseph Figliolia. “The Department of Health and Human Services’ new report on best practices for treating pediatric gender dysphoria is a dispassionate and evenhanded analysis of an extraordinarily complex issue. …Yet, mere hours after the release of this 409-page report on May 1, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued a press release condemning it for relying on a ‘narrow set of data and perspectives’ and for ‘misrepresent[ing] the current medical consensus and fail[ing] to reflect the realities of pediatric care,’ among other alleged faults.” Read more here.
THE ABORTION LANDSCAPE IS CHANGING. SO IS THE PRO-LIFE RESPONSE, by Andrea Trudden. “According to research from the University of California’s Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, there were 758 brick-and-mortar abortion facilities in the United States in 2020. By 2023, that number had dropped slightly to 741. But what’s been largely overlooked is this: 226 new virtual abortion ‘clinics’ opened during that same period. The net result? There are now more access points for abortion in America than at any time in the past decade — 967 in total.” Read more here.
CALIFORNIA CONSIDERS DOWNGRADING SOLICITING MINORS FOR SEX TO MISDEMEANOR, by Victor Davis Hanson. “Recently, a rather bizarre topic came up here in California. There was a bill introduced in the California Legislature not to have a felony designation for men who solicit minors 16 and 17 years old for sex. In other words, the interest is in favor of the solicitor, the person who is trying to buy sex from a young person 16 or 17. Why anybody in the world would consider that’s not a terrible thing and it’s not a felonious act I don’t know. But I do know I live in California and anything’s explicable. In fact, the people in the Legislature made it a civil rights issue: This is unfair to gay men that they shouldn’t be able to experiment, search for, solicit young boys—I think 16 and 17 is a young boy—for sex.” Read more here.
PUT DOWN THE KNIFE, by Bernard Lane. “‘You don’t cut off young women’s breasts based on feelings!’ is the title of a petition to the French National Authority for Health, whose leaked draft treatment guideline would allow gender-distressed girls to undergo double mastectomies from the age of 16. ‘It is young girls and young women who identify as transgender who are directly exposed to this surgery, which has been trivialised by some surgeons working in so-called ‘gender medicine’ services and euphemised as ‘torsoplasty’ to make it sound like a cosmetic operation, thus obscuring the fact that it is an irreversible mutilation of healthy individuals,’ the petition says.” Read more here.
COLORADO’S TRANSGENDER SANCTUARY STATE BILL IS TOO RADICAL FOR CALIFORNIA, by Glenn T. Stanton. “Trans sanctuary states? Colorado is barreling toward becoming the first. Two monstrous gender bills to facilitate this transformation have just passed through the Colorado legislature. They now sit on Gov. Jared Polis’ desk for his likely signature, even though California Gov. Gavin Newsom refused to sign a similar bill in California because it was so radical.” Read more here.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A TRANS TODDLER, by Joanna Williams. “What will it take to end the lie of the ‘transgender child’? Children’s charity Mermaids, the disseminator of so many trans myths, has long since fallen from grace. Malpractice at the NHS’s Tavistock gender-identity clinic was exposed and the centre closed. The Cass Review’s finding that puberty blockers pose ‘very substantial risks’ to children led to an indefinite ban. And then there has been the recent UK Supreme Court ruling that men are not women. Yet, incredibly, despite all of these developments, it has emerged this week that toddlers and very young children who think they are transgender are still receiving gender treatment on the NHS.” Read more here.
NEW UN TREATY ALLOWS FOR VIRTUAL CHILD P*RN, by Stefano Gennarini. “A new UN treaty to combat cybercrimes would allow predators and tech giants to profit from the sexual exploitation of children, including through images created using AI. These new threats are emerging while the United Nations launches a new treaty to address cybercrime, but the new treaty only addresses some of the threats from sexual exploitation. While the new treaty calls for criminalizing non-consensual sharing of intimate pictures, it still allows for a broad swath of sexualized content involving children.” Read more here.
I LOST MY JOB FOR MOCKING THE TRANS FLAG, by Amy Gallagher. “I can’t quite describe the feeling of having people you worked well with for years suddenly look at you like you are a monster. This is what I experienced just over a year ago when I was pulled into a meeting with my manager and asked to explain my social media posts, as though I had] done something criminal.” Read more here.
PARENTS OF BOYS ‘WRONGFULLY ACCUSED’ FOR OBJECTING TO GIRL IN LOCKER ROOM SLAM LOUDOUN SCHOOLS: ‘SYSTEMIC FAILURE,’ by Jordan Boyd. “The last thing Renae Smith, a busy mother to a newborn, toddler, and teen, needed on her plate this year was a national scandal manufactured by her sophomore son’s school district to ‘wrongfully accuse’ him of a Title IX violation. Yet, that’s exactly what happened when Loudoun County Public Schools took a group of high school boys’ concerns about a female in their locker room and turned it into a full-blown ‘sexual harassment’ investigation at those boys’ expense. Read more here.
MEN CAN’T GET PREGNANT—NO MATTER WHAT YALE SAYS, by Jennifer Lahl. “At some of the most prestigious universities in the world, ideas once confined to fringe online communities and personal blogs are now published in academic journals and treated as legitimate scholarship. These aren’t just strange thought experiments—they’re full-blown efforts to ‘queer’ biology, reimagine pregnancy without women, and reshape medical ethics in ways that downplay the health of unborn children.” Read more here.
A LONG OVERDUE RETURN TO REALITY IN PEDIATRIC GENDER MEDICINE, by Colin Wright. “‘Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices’ … is already being described as America’s Cass Review, the landmark gender-medicine review published last year in the United Kingdom. This report is long overdue. While European health authorities in countries like Sweden, Finland, Norway, and the U.K. have moved away from the ‘gender-affirming’ model and toward cautious psychological support for gender-dysphoric children, American institutions have only become more entrenched in the model despite growing evidence of the harm and weak benefits.” Read more here.
OPINION: KEEP FIRING AT THE PORNOGRAPHY INDUSTRY, by The Deseret News editorial board. “In a blistering column last week, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof exposed the cavalier attitude employees at porn companies have about videos featuring children. His reporting centered on the vilest form of evil afflicting this visual cancer on society, concluding that various ‘tube’ sites on the internet carry hundreds of thousands of videos with children as the main subjects. He interviewed a victim who, at age 15, had been unwittingly drugged at a stranger’s house and sexually abused while being filmed.” Read more here.
TIM TEBOW EXPOSES DISTURBING DETAILS OF AMERICA’S CHILD EXPLOITATION CRISIS, by Sarah Arnold. “Tim Tebow is not just a former NFL quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner— no, he has used his platform to fight human trafficking and child sexual exploitation. He began the Tim Tebow Foundation and has so far rescued over 2,000 victims and assisted in the prosecution of more than 500 traffickers across 30 countries. The foundation operates 20 safe homes, with an additional 22 under development, providing refuge and rehabilitation for survivors. Now, he’s telling the terrifying reality that still lurks amid human trafficking.” Read more here.
AMERICAN LIFE LEAGUE DISPARAGES PLANNED PARENTHOOD’S INAPPROPRIATE ‘MOTHER’S DAY GIFT,’ by American Life League. “One of the key reasons that the Planned Parenthood watchdog organization labels the report as disingenuous is the absence of any mention of abortion pill numbers, which in some states make up a staggering 80 percent of all abortions. ‘Leave it to reveal their billions of dollars in abortion income on the heels of Mother’s Day weekend,’ remarked American Life League Director Katie Brown Xavios, calling the move ‘horrifically inappropriate.’” Read more here.
COLORADO GROWS EVER LOONIER: WOMEN OBJECT TO A DUDE IN THE CAPITOL WOMEN’S ROOM, ARE TOLD TO SHUT UP, by Ward Clark. “Remember when the notion of a dude entering a women’s bathroom would have been derided as a scandal? When any dude who attempted this would be subject to cries of outrage and possible (likely) arrest? Now, of course, all the dude has to do is ‘identify’ as a woman, and any actual women who object are told to mind their place. At least, that seems to be the state of affairs in Colorado.” Read more here.
ABORTION, GOVERNMENT FUNDING FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD AT AN ALL-TIME HIGH, by Melanie Israel. “Planned Parenthood released its latest annual report the day after Mother’s Day. For 2023-2024, abortions are at an all-time high. So is government funding. Nearly three years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and many states enacted strong pro-life protections, business is still booming. Congress and President Donald Trump can take action—but will they?” Read more here.
THE EU COMMISSION’S FAKE CONSULTATION TO JUSTIFY LGBT POLICY, by Benno Zuidam. “In a less ideologically-orientated society, a consultation process would have indeed meant getting feedback from the populace on a controversial topic before a policy is drawn up, so that the politicians responsible would be able to carefully weigh the evidence and develop a strategy that addresses actual needs. But this is not the case in the EU anno 2025. For its LGBT policy, the European Commission has opted for an ideology-based approach. The consultation starts from the premise that alternative sexual orientations are unfairly discriminated against, and asks for evidence to this effect.” Read more here.
PERSPECTIVE: MOTHERHOOD IS THE GREATEST POWER IN THE WORLD, by Jenet Jacob Erickson, Emily Ekins. “On a recent hunt for the right Mother’s Day card, one of us rifled through dozens that lined the store shelf. The words were sweet, even beautiful, sometimes inspiring. But something became strikingly apparent. No card could ever adequately capture the meaning and experience of motherhood. From the moment of conception, the blood and bones of a mother’s body will build the blood, bones, heart, brain, and body of another life. When that soul emerges from her womb, he or she will look for her, knowing her smell, her voice, her heartbeat.” Read more here.
BRAVE STUDENT DEMANDS CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD PROTECT GIRLS’ PRIVACY AND SPORTS AMID JEERING CROWD OF LEFTIST ADULTS, by Brittany M. Hughes. “In the face of a jeering crowd of anti-woman lobbyists, one bold female student at Arroyo Grande High School in California took to the mic during a recent school board meeting to complain about being forced to change her clothes and share her sex-specific private facilities with a gender-confused boy, who she testified likes to stand in the locker room and watch her and her fellow female students undress. Not, of course, that leftists care.” Read more here.
NO, BEING RAISED BY A ‘GROUP OF PALS’ ISN’T BETTER THAN HAVING A MOM AND DAD, by Joshua Monnington. “In the week leading up to Mother’s Day weekend, The Atlantic thought it would be the perfect time to run a piece on pro-natalism policies arguing that being raised by ‘a group of friends’ ‘might be even better’ than being raised by a mother and father. Perhaps this should be unsurprising considering The Atlantic’s atrocious track record of hoax-peddling and left-wing bias. It should be even less of a shock in light of the fact that the author, Faith Hill, has touted the virtue of skipping family holiday gatherings, argued for spouses maintaining a stranglehold on their individual autonomy, and advised readers to ‘take yourself on a date’ ‘to honor [your] aloneness.’” Read more here.
LGBT ACTIVISTS SHOW US WHY ‘PRIDE’ FLAG BANS ARE HARDLY A MINOR ISSUE, by Jonathon Van Maren. “The LGBT movement is revolutionary, but they understand the profundity and necessity of symbols—especially flags. One of the key culture war clashes between normie culture and LGBT activists has been the battle over flagpoles. Progressives claim to be ‘decolonizers,’ but they also understand that colonizers have always hoisted their banner over conquered territory—which is why they fight so fiercely to have their own flags flown from government and school flagpoles.” Read more here.
THE SAME TRANSGENDER PROCEDURES THAT FAILED CHILDREN FAILED ADULTS FIRST: HHS REPORT, by Ben Johnson. “The explosive growth of carrying out transgender medical procedures on children came only after researchers found the same medical interventions had failed to improve the lives of adults. Even after full surgery, ‘improvement’ in their actual life situation is not always observed,’ noted a transgender psychologist. While adults who underwent transgender procedures described their subjective feelings as improving, ‘objective measures told a different story.’” Read more here.
WHAT WENT WRONG, by Allison Clayton. “How is it that the untrustworthy treatment guidelines of the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) Melbourne were approved by the hospital’s governance processes, endorsed by health departments and medical bodies across the nation and are still to this day used to guide clinical practice at virtually all of Australia’s public youth gender clinics? Those clinics practise the ‘gender-affirming treatment’ model of care, which is underpinned by the Australian Standards of Care and Treatment Guidelines for Trans and Gender-Diverse Children and Adolescents, first published by RCH Melbourne in 2018.” Read more here.
GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN, by Bernard Lane. “Our gender clinic is ‘one of the world’s best’ and our interventions to help children with gender dysphoria ‘adhere to strict clinical governance standards.’ Our treatment guideline has been ‘peer reviewed at the highest level, published in the Medical Journal of Australia [MJA] and adopted by healthcare providers across Australia and the globe.’ ‘As a public institution we expect and welcome public scrutiny that is fair, objective and factual.’ Such was the tone of the open letter issued by the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) Melbourne on 13 December 2019, the year in which international concern about experimental, ‘gender-affirming’ medicine for minors reached Australia.” Read more here.
DISNEY PICKS ANTI-LGBTQ MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRY FOR NEW PARK, by Katrina Trinko. “Disney, which once dared to attack Florida Republicans for the sin of wanting to preserve kindergarteners’ innocence, is now opening a new park in a nation where homosexuality is a crime. Hypocrisy much? Disney announced Wednesday it would be opening its seventh park in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. …Left unmentioned is that Abu Dhabi’s ‘vibrant culture’ bans same-sex marriage, adoption of children by same-sex couples, production of or sharing of pro-LGBTQ material, and well, homosexual sex, according to Equaldex, which tracks countries’ laws on LGBTQ matters.” Read more here.
THE FERTILITY CRISIS ISN’T JUST HAVING FEWER KIDS, IT’S WOMEN NOT HAVING ANY, by Erika Ahern. “As a mother of eight, I approach every Mother’s Day with mixed feelings. I look forward to the burned French toast, illegible handmade cards, and sweet (if clumsy) gestures from my children. But I also feel sadness. As a 40-something mom of a large, happy family, I am an endangered species. The United States is on track to surpass Switzerland as the global leader in childless women in their 40s.” Read more here.
WAR ON CHILDREN, by Tom Knighton. “I live in Southwest Georgia, but my head has spent the last week in Buffalo, New York. The allegations leveled against the public school system there by an SVU detective on a popular podcast just keep getting worse. For me, as a parent and a survivor of childhood sexual assault, this hits close to home, as does the fact that my late father spent most of my life with a police uniform on. But let’s not get things twisted. This isn’t unique to Buffalo.” Read more here.
PERSPECTIVE: THE ‘MANOSPHERE’ CAN’T GIVE BOYS WHAT THEY NEED THE MOST, by Naomi Schaefer Riley. “What do boys need? According to the bloggers and podcasters in the ‘manosphere’ — the often misogynistic, conspiracy minded, and sometimes bigoted men who have attracted millions of readers and listeners in recent years — boys need to be tougher. They must learn how to be physically fit, more domineering over women and less emotionally vulnerable. Boys are attracted to these messages, according to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal by a high school student, because they help cut through the ‘mixed messages’ he and his classmates receive.” Read more here.
TOP CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS FIGHT TO PROTECT PURCHASING SEX WITH KIDS, by Calvin Sherman. “Should it be a felony to purchase an underage minor for illegal sex? For most of us, the answer is a very easy yes. This is not a hard one. You will likely encounter three dozen questions today or tomorrow that will be considerably more difficult to answer. Generally, if someone is asked if there should be severe legal penalties for underage sex trafficking, the response is an immediate, unhesitating affirmative. Democrats in California feel differently.” Read more here.
JUDGE BLOCKS SCHOOL BOARD FROM REMOVING EXPLICIT BOOKS, SAYING IT’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL TO FOLLOW ‘CONSERVATIVE VALUES,’ by Tyler O’Neil. “A school board in Colorado cannot remove sexually explicit, profane, and ‘transgender’ books from school libraries because the school board is conservative, according to a federal judge touted as the first openly lesbian judge west of the Mississippi. The ACLU’s Colorado chapter filed a suit on behalf of two minors, the NAACP Wyoming State Area Conference, and the Authors Guild, claiming that the school district engaged in viewpoint discrimination when removing the books.” Read more here.
SEE THE ‘AIRTIGHT’ METHODOLOGY SHOWING 11% OF PILL ABORTIONS CAUSE MATERNAL INJURY, by Jordan Boyd. The most comprehensive U.S. study of the abortion pill excluded tens of thousands of insurance claims from its analysis of mifepristone-linked complications to ensure it did not exaggerate the harms the abortion drug could inflict on women. The exclusion of those data points further legitimizes findings that 10.9 percent of women suffered sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or other serious complications within 45 days of a chemical abortion. Read more here.
US HEALTH SWEARS OFF GENDER MEDS FOR KIDS, by Gender Clinic News. “The norms of medicine require clinicians to protect and promote the health and well-being of their patients. This means they must abstain from providing non-beneficial interventions even when such interventions are requested by patients. Clinicians must ensure, insofar as reasonably possible, that any interventions they offer to patients have clinically favourable risk/benefit profiles relative to the set of available alternatives, which includes doing nothing.” Read more here.
WHERE TODAY’S SEX ED CAME FROM… AND WHY IT MATTERS, by Sheena Rodriguez. “Many parents believe sex education is simply part of a standard education, but a closer look at its origins paints a disturbing picture of its true nature. Few are aware that some of the power players in sex education today have an extensive history with the porn industry, direct ties to a researcher who recruited pedophiles for his ‘research,’ and ties to a man who wanted to destigmatize bestiality. Many of the founders and originating leaders of SIECUS (originally known as the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States) — a member of the Future of Sex Education (FoSE) coalition of sex-miseducators —may be surprising.” Read more here.
MOST MOMS ARE HAPPY—DESPITE WHAT PARENTHOOD CRITICS CLAIM, by Autumn Zeoli. “Chappell Roan caused quite a stir on social media following her appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast, where she made a few bold remarks about parenthood. ‘All of my friends who have kids are in hell,’ she said, adding: ‘I don’t know anyone who’s happy and has children at this age . . . anyone who has light in their eyes, anyone who has slept.’ Her viral quotes have garnered much criticism, especially from moms, who report that since having children, they have been happier and more fulfilled.” Read more here.
THE TRUTH ABOUT MARRIAGE AND COHABITATION, by John Stonestreet, G. Shane Morris. “Even as the American marriage rate has steadily declined, the cohabitation rate has steadily grown. According to a 2019 Pew Research study, more Americans have cohabitated at some point than have been married. Fifteen times more couples live together outside of marriage today than in 1960. Rather than being an option among many, cohabitation is a cultural norm when it comes to romantic relationships, one that reflects the belief that marriage is ‘just a piece of paper,’ and all that matters for a couple is that they ‘live together and love each other.’” Read more here.
HOW TRANS EXPOSED THE STUPIDITY OF OUR ELITES, by Patrick West. “If there’s one lesson to be learnt from this month’s Supreme Court ruling on what a woman is, it is surely this: never again should we trust the wisdom and authority of our supposed betters and superiors. The paradox of the stupidity of clever people may be age-old, but it’s come to the fore with a gruesome absurdity in recent years. Ever since the Great Awokening of around 10 years ago, our intellectual elite, in government and in our institutions, has abetted in the fantasy that a man can become a woman – either through undergoing cosmetic surgery or even through performative utterance alone.” Read more here.
HOW THE CANADIAN BORDER HAS BEEN CAPTURED BY TRANSGENDER IDEOLOGY, by Jonathon Van Maren. “The Canada Border Services Agency has a range of policies to ensure the privacy and security of travelers crossing the border. One is that any strip searches—which can be conducted if the border guards believe people are hiding something on their persons—must be conducted by an officer of the same sex as the traveler or, if an officer of the same sex is not available, another suitable person of the same sex. It is fair to wonder how this policy might be impacted by the Canada Border Services Agency’s new, LGBT-informed” policies.’” Read more here.
JANET MILLS AND HER FAMILY GET RICH OFF THE MAINE GOVERNOR’S TRANSGENDER STANCE, by Amanda Prestigiacomo and Mary Margaret Olohan. “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. …MaineHealth — where Mills’ sister, Dora Anne Mills, is chief health improvement officer — was a top donor to Mills’ 2022 gubernatorial run. The healthcare system offers damaging and irreversible “treatments” for gender-confused minors, such as puberty blockers, ‘gender affirming hormone therapy,’ and ‘menstrual suppression.’” Read more here.
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: HHS RELEASES NEW REPORT REVEALING THE DANGERS OF ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE’ FOR MINORS, by Tyler O’Neil. “The Department of Health and Human Services released a report Thursday detailing the dangers of experimental transgender medical interventions euphemistically referred to as ‘gender-affirming care.’ The report marks a sea change from the Biden administration, which forcefully advocated for off-label use of hormones to make males appear female and vice versa, and surgical interventions to remove healthy body parts to ‘affirm’ a person’s gender identity that is at odds with the person’s biological sex.” Read more here.
AI CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE IMAGES WOULD NORMALIZE PEDOPHILIA, NOT CURE IT, by Gage Klipper. “For decades, Democrats have thrown us down a slippery slope on marriage, sexuality, and the sexes — but for those who said pedophilia would always be a bridge too far, well, guess again. AI-generated child pornography (AICP) is exactly what it sounds like: sexually explicit depictions of children that, in the age of deepfakes, are virtually identical to the real thing. Yet since no children are directly harmed in its production, proponents argue it’s a safe, even ethical, way to satiate would-be pedophiles and reduce harm to children.” Read more here.
NON-BINARY SCALPEL, by Bernard Lane. ‘“Non-binary’ people who suffer no distress in their bodies should be allowed access, without mandatory mental health screening, to a suite of 28 ‘gender-affirming’ surgeries subsidised by Australia’s taxpayers, according to an application to the federal government. The operations on the wish list from the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons include radical procedures to create a pseudo-penis for transgender-identifying females, and to use a section of the colon to fashion a neo-vagina for males whose genital growth was stunted by puberty blockers in childhood. The outcome of the society’s application, which has been in the works since 2023, will not be known until after Saturday’s federal election.” Read more here.
HERE’S HOW TRUMP CRIPPLED RADICAL GENDER IDEOLOGY IN HIS FIRST 100 DAYS, by Mairead Elordi. “President Donald Trump mounted an offensive against gender ideology as soon as he took office in January, and his administration shows no signs of letting up as it hits the 100-day mark. Gender ideology became a hot-button issue in the years leading up to the November election. Parents across the country became outraged over transgender indoctrination by public school teachers, while female students protested being forced to let males use their bathrooms and play on their sports teams, and detransitioners raised the alarm about doctors pushing children toward puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and transgender surgeries.” Read more here.
MR BUTLER’S PUBERTY BLUES, by Bernard Lane. “To block or not to block? Australia’s federal Health Minister Mark Butler sought urgent advice on the case for ‘a pause or ban’ on puberty blockers. Citing new safety restrictions in the UK, Mr Butler’s office asked health bureaucrats last December for a briefing on ‘the weight of evidence in support of a pause or ban in the Australian context,’ according to documents obtained under Freedom of Information (FOI) law. The revelation implies a level of concern behind the scenes not reflected in Mr Butler’s generally reassuring public commentary on youth gender clinics as a matter under the competent control of state governments and health practitioners.” Read more here.
HOW COMMON IS DETRANSITIONING?, by Benjamin Ryan. “If anything is clear about the profoundly messy and politicized subject of detransitioning, one should never trust someone if they claim to have clarity on precisely how common this phenomenon is. The correct answer is: ‘We’re not sure.’ More specifically, the available research on the prevalence of detransitioning provides a general sense that at most, a fraction of people who medically transition genders ultimately cease treatment with cross-sex hormones.” Read more here.
A CLOSER LOOK AT TRANSGENDER PRONOUNS WITHIN THE MILITARY, by Christopher W. Love. “On February 18, U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes heard arguments surrounding the Trump administration’s executive order ‘Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness,’ …The judge even issued the following challenge: ‘If you can get me an officer of the United States military to get on the stand and say that because of pronoun usage, we are less prepared, I will be the first to buy you a box of cigars.’ …I am writing to meet this challenge. Importantly, I do so not out of “animus”—a common accusation surrounding this case—but with a sincere belief in the intrinsic worth of people who identify as transgender, with whom I have worked both personally and professionally, and whom I wish well.” Read more here.
‘BRIDGE TOO FAR’: COLORADO HOUSE MINORITY LEADER WARNS TRANSGENDER CUSTODY BILL IS ‘HUGE VIOLATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS,’ by Tyler O’Neil. “The minority leader of the Colorado House of Representatives warned that a bill making its way in the Colorado Senate represents a ‘huge violation of parental rights.’ The state Senate will hear testimony about House Bill 1312, which would remove kids from parents’ custody for behaviors like ‘misgendering’ and ‘deadnaming,’ on Wednesday. The bill passed the state House earlier this month 36-20, with nine members absent, in a largely party-line vote.” Read more here.
THIS WEEK’S POLITICO PLAYBOOK ‘JOURNALISM’ WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY PLANNED PARENTHOOD, by Elle Purnell. “Planned Parenthood, the largest executor of abortions in the United States, is sponsoring Politico’s Playbook newsletter this week, despite the fact that the media outlet routinely covers Planned Parenthood without a disclaimer. Politico author Jack Blanchard did not respond when asked how much Planned Parenthood had paid for the spot. But in 2016, weekly sponsorships were ‘expected to cost in the range of $50,000 and $60,000,’ according to The Washington Post.” Read more here.
THE LEFT HAS DESTROYED OUR EMOTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS, by Itxu Díaz. “Postmodern feminism has reached a dead end. Since Judith Butler led feminists to their demise, diluting what it means to be a woman and making it so even any man can be one, feminism has been mired in constant contradiction. This has all unfolded in an era of singular thought and cancellation, where the few feminists who remained loyal to late-20th-century ideas and critiqued queer theories have been excluded from the debate or even branded as misogynists. Thus, traditional feminism, possessed by the demons of the woke Left, has been left with only one outlet—hatred of men.” Read more here.
CONGRESS SHOULD PASS A PRO-MARRIAGE BABY BONUS, by Patrick T. Brown, “Congress is currently trying to figure out which tax cuts it can get across the finish line this year, and expecting large across-the-board increases to the Child Tax Credit (CTC) is probably unrealistic. But focusing new efforts around childbirth is much cheaper than other options. And a baby bonus would be a salutary, highly salient way of demonstrating support for new parents.” Read more here.
THIS STORY ABOUT AN ALABAMA ABORTION CLINIC IS SUPPOSED TO BE SAD, by John Sexton. “Yesterday the Washington Post published a story about a Tuscaloosa, Alabama abortion clinic that isn’t an abortion clinic any longer. I think we’re supposed to feel bad about this. … Unlike the others, this clinic didn’t close but it can’t do abortions anymore. In fact, soon it will have midwives to help women give birth. Does this sound like a negative outcome to you?” Read more here.
GENDER IDEOLOGY SO ENTRENCHED NOW THAT SURGICAL MUTILATION IS NO LONGER CONSIDERED FRINGE, by Jonathon Van Maren. “If you’d like a glimpse of what 10 years of progressive rule has done to Canada in a single sentence, I submit to you this April 24 headline: ‘Ontario must pay for surgery to give trans resident both penis and vagina: appeal court.’ Imagine reading a headline like that in, say, 2010. You’d wonder what country you were living in — that is, if you weren’t trying to figure out what you just read. But in Canada in 2025, this stuff isn’t fringe. It’s establishment.” Read more here.
PERSPECTIVE: THE CASE FOR EARLY PARENTHOOD, by Matt Rich. “When my wife and I found out we were expecting, I was ecstatic. I had always dreamed of being a father. But as the initial excitement faded, fear and anxiety set in. I was 25 and in the middle of my first year of law school — buried in outlines, case law, job interviews and exams. If I was already struggling to balance my current responsibilities, how could I possibly take on the added challenge of raising a child? How would I support my wife and baby without a steady income? …The more I thought about it, the more I struggled with the outlook of my new life. And then my son was born. It was the happiest day of my life, and my perspective quickly changed.” Read more here.
UK SEX EDUCATION CLASS PROMOTED ‘CHOKING’ TO TEENAGERS, by Jonathon Van Maren. “The experts agree: Pornography is driving a crisis of sexual violence and sexualized violence. But most still avoid the obvious answer to this crisis: Pornography must be enormously restricted, if not banned entirely as a genuine threat to our society and certainly to the health, safety, and well-being of young people in general and young women and girls (as the recipients of this violence) in particular. …A council-funded sex education PowerPoint shown to teenagers referenced asking for consent before choking a partner. The material … was shown to pupils studying PSHE lessons at a range of secondary schools.” Read more here.
NANCY MACE BLASTS CLEMSON’S 15-GENDER LUNACY, by Sarah Arnold. “Republican Rep. Nancy Mace (S.C.) is turning up the heat on Clemson University after the school reportedly rolled out a form that offered 15 different gender identity options. Mace didn’t mince words, declaring that South Carolina would follow the science and ‘not some radical, woke, leftist, lunatic ideology.’ She also blasted the taxpayer-funded institution for promoting radical gender politics instead of focusing on academic excellence. In a social media post on Friday, Mace put Clemson on the map for offering a health portal menu that included terms such as ‘genderqueer,’ ‘two-spirit,’ ‘cis female,’ and ‘cis male.’” Read more here.
THE NEW ORTHODOXY SHOWS UP IN COURT, by Tony Perkins. “The title ‘prophet’ isn’t on my business card, but you don’t need to be a prophet — just a student of history — to have predicted the cultural and legal conflicts unleashed by the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell decision. That ruling overturned the laws of nearly 30 states and imposed same-sex marriage on the entire country. In the immediate aftermath of the court’s redefinition of marriage — back when cable news still allowed organizations that supported biblical marriage to appear — I said plainly: the court could make same-sex marriage a legal right, but it could not make it morally right.” Read more here.
THE RADICALIZATION OF UN YOUTH FORUM, by Iulia-Elena Cazan. “The recently concluded UN Youth Forum platformed young voices advocating for some of the most controversial UN policies and programs, promoting young people as key agents for the achievement of the abortion and gender ideology agendas. Panelists asked for the development of technologies that promote abortion access, AI systems that normalize non-conventional gender roles and sexual identities, and apps that offer widespread access to sexuality education.” Read more here.
NEW GERMAN PRIORITY: TRANS IDEOLOGY FIRST, JUSTICE SECOND, by Sabine Beppler-Spahl. “A headline in Germany’s left-liberal Spiegel magazine couldn’t be more misleading: ‘Woman stabs man in a refugee shelter—more than twelve years’ prison sentence.’ The ‘woman’ in this case is actually a man. This bizarre and tragic incident involving a South African failed asylum seeker who identifies as transgender exposes the dangerous absurdity of Germany’s self-identification law and its broken asylum system.” Read more here.
THE LAWYERS PROMOTING CHILD INDOCTRINATION TO SCOTUS WERE ABSOLUTELY HUMILIATED, by Matt Walsh. “If you talk to any experienced and honest teacher these days, from elementary school on up, one of the first things they will tell you is how quickly gender ideology has taken hold. Virtually overnight, students began adopting fake pronouns and made-up genders. To call this phenomenon ‘unnatural’ would be a vast understatement. It’s obviously engineered. Teachers and school boards are pushing this nonsense on children who are far too young to know any better. The public school system has committed itself to indoctrinating children, in many cases without their parents’ knowledge or consent. But after what happened yesterday at the Supreme Court, it’s very clear that accountability is finally coming for these ghouls.” Read more here.
FAIRFAX COUNTY DOUBLES DOWN ON KEEPING SECRETS FROM PARENTS, by Laura Bryant Hanford. “Recent votes to continue secret gender ‘transitions’ in schools and to remove public access to the Fairfax County, Virginia sex education committee cap years of deceit by Fairfax elected officials. For a decade now they have inserted themselves between parents and children where they should most defer: in sensitive areas of mental health and sexuality. On April 2, Virginia Democrats evaded a vote on Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s ‘Sage’s Law’ amendment requiring schools to notify parents before ‘transitioning’ or counseling a child at school to ‘transition.’” Read more here.
TOO MUCH TIME ONLINE AND DETACHMENT FROM FAMILY EXPOSES KIDS TO PREDATORS AND TERRORISTS, by Kathy Athearn. “Young children and teenagers are spending more and more time online — especially playing games and interacting on social media platforms such as TikTok, Snapchat, and Instagram. …If kids spend too much time playing video games and on social media and not enough time building close relationships with their family members, they can become detached and lonely. This leads to anxiety and depression, and as previously reported in The Washington Stand, the rate of suicide has increased — even for kids as young as 11 years old.” Read more here.
IN FIGHT BETWEEN MARYLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT AND PARENTAL RIGHTS, U.S. SUPREME COURT SHOULD PROTECT RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, by William C. Duncan. “Can schools tell parents they cannot direct how their children are taught about sensitive topics in public schools, even when the law gives parents that right? The U.S. Supreme Court held oral arguments in a case, Mahmoud v. Taylor, that raised that question on Tuesday morning. The court should now clarify that depriving parents of a widely recognized right is the type of burden the Constitution is intended to prevent. The questions asked during the argument suggest that the justices are inclined to do that.” Read more here.
NATIONAL ABORTION TOLL FOR 2024 REMAINS ABOVE 1 MILLION, by Chuck Donovan. “A new report from the Guttmacher Institute, a longtime advocate for legally unlimited abortion, estimates that total U.S. abortions increased in 2024. The report covers the more than two-thirds of states that have not revived or enacted pro-life laws in the wake of the June 2022 Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Altogether, using a combination of survey samples of abortion facilities and historical methods, Guttmacher concluded that some 1,038,100 abortions took place in 2024, a little less than 1% more than occurred in 2023.” Read more here.
TIME FOR A SHIFT IN THE ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE’ DEBATE, by Colin Wright. “As the U.S. enters an era of legal warfare over pediatric ‘gender-affirming’ care, it’s time to shift the terms of debate from outcomes to the foundational premises of the practice. I have served as an expert witness for several court cases on gender-affirming care. These courtroom debates fixate almost entirely on whether the treatments show evidence of benefit. This is a mistake. True, the evidence is almost nonexistent. …But while it’s not wrong to highlight this evidentiary void, focusing solely on outcomes cedes too much ground to proponents by implying that outcomes alone could legitimize the practice of gender transition. Read more here.
DON’T FORCE SEX AND GENDER IDEOLOGY ON LITTLE KIDS, by National Review Editors. “Parents should have the greatest possible choices and control regarding how their children are educated. While the state has legitimate interests in raising children to be good citizens, those interests should nearly always be secondary to those of their parents. Deference to parents should be especially pronounced at the ages when children are young and impressionable, and especially on matters of cultural, social, and moral education. Parental interests are never more urgent than when the government is teaching children things that conflict with their faith.” Read more here.
DURING ORAL ARGUMENTS, SUPREME COURT SEEMS TO SUPPORT PARENTAL OPT-OUTS FOR LGBT COURSEWORK, by Tyler Arnold. “During oral arguments Tuesday, most of the justices on the United States Supreme Court appeared sympathetic toward parents in their lawsuit against a Maryland school board that refused to let them opt their children out of coursework that promotes gender ideology. Catholic, Ethiopian Orthodox, and Muslim parents sued the Montgomery County Board of Education in May 2023 after the body ended its policy of notifying parents of coursework promoting homosexuality and transgenderism and allowing the parents to opt out.” Read more here.
COHABITATION IS POPULAR, BUT IT’S STILL NO REPLACEMENT FOR MARRIAGE, by Rachel Sheffield. “Marriage rates continue to decline, with every succeeding generation seeing lower marriage rates than the previous one. In a new report by Delano Squires and myself, Crossroads: American Family Life at the Intersection of Tradition and Modernity, we note that marriage used to be a common part of young adulthood, but that is no longer the case. Given the trends, researchers project that roughly one-third of Gen Zers will have never married by age 45 and may never marry at all. But is part of the reason for the decline in marriage because more couples are just opting to live together instead of getting married?” Read more here.
THE TWO-COAST WAR ON GIRLS’ SPORTS, by Suzanne Bowdey. “It may feel like the country is finally embracing sanity on girls’ sports, but not everyone has boarded the bipartisan bandwagon. While Americans of all political stripes loathe the idea of biological boys competing against their daughters, there are still some powerful holdouts making life absolutely miserable for the brave voices demanding justice. And on both coasts, they’re paying a steep price for it. Across California and Maine, the winds of change that blew in with Donald Trump are facing stiff resistance in the form of far-left local and state leaders.” Read more here.
THE UK VICTORY IS NOT THE END OF THE TRANSGENDER CULTURE WARS, by Jonathon Van Maren. “The central claim of the transgender movement was repudiated by headlines emblazoned across the front pages of nearly every major newspaper in the United Kingdom after the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a woman is defined by biological sex under equalities law on April 17. From the Metro, the free daily newspaper given out on trains and buses to thousands of commuters: ‘Transwomen ‘not women’. The Daily Telegraph: ‘Trans women are not women’ The Guardian: ‘Legal definition of woman ‘is based on biological sex’ The Times: ‘Equality policies in chaos as court defines a woman.’” Read more here.
CANADA’S PRESS TRIES TO TURN THE GENDER DEBATE INTO A NON-ISSUE, PRETEND IT’S NOT HAPPENING, by Jonathon Van Maren. “By any traditional journalistic standard, the reconstitution of reality by transgender ideology is one of the biggest stories of our generation. Indeed, in the middle of the Canadian election campaign, the UK Supreme Court ruled that ‘transwomen’ are not women, triggering a massive backlash from the transgender movement and widespread celebration from those still possessed of common sense. In Canada, however, the press — with the exception of the National Post and several independent outlets — has more or less collectively agreed to ignore the topic and to treat the matter as if it is settled. Read more here.
TRANS ACTIVISTS AREN’T ON SIDE OF SCIENCE, by Tim Graham. “Liberals love to claim conservatives don’t have a firm grip on ‘reality,’ but they also insist reality has a liberal bias—‘facts’ and ‘science’ are always on their side. In the last election, voters responded to advertisements pointing out that then-Vice President Kamala Harris was firmly committed to using taxpayer money to pay for gender-bending amputations, including for prisoners. MSNBC host Katie Phang calls this kind of advocacy a ‘war on transgender Americans.’ By that logic, MSNBC is endlessly waging a ‘war on conservative Americans.’” Read more here.
DO WE NEED A PRONATAL APPROACH TO SEX EDUCATION?, by Amber Adrian. “In March, I attended the first annual conference of The Guiding Star Project, a growing network of holistic women’s health centers. Their vision is ‘a future where no woman fears pregnancy.’ I’m a mother of three in my 40s. I’ve never exactly feared pregnancy, but I know what they mean. In our culture, pregnancy is often treated as a liability, something embarrassing to have to admit to, something to ‘deal with.’ And in many circles, motherhood, or even parenthood more generally, isn’t aspirational: it’s an afterthought, something to fit in when you think the time is right, maybe.” Read more here.
CALIFORNIA HS GIRL GIVES TESTIMONY ON ‘TRAUMATIZING’ EFFECT OF TRANS-IDENTIFYING MALE IN LOCKER ROOM, by Katie Jerkovich. “California high school female track athlete, Celeste Diest broke down in tears while bravely recounting the horror of having to change in front of a trans-identifying male, while the school board members listening showed zero empathy. During the recent Lucia Mar Unified School District board meeting, Diest, a junior at Arroyo Grande High School, took to the podium to plead with the board to stop allowing biological males in their locker rooms, saying her privacy and that of other girls was being violated.” Read more here.
ALERTING PARENTS: THE HORRIFIC BILL PASSING THROUGH COLORADO’S LEGISLATURE, by Zachary Mettler. “A horrific bill is making its way through the Colorado legislature as we speak. Radical legislators are rushing HB 1312 through the General Assembly under the guise of providing ‘legal protections for transgender individuals.’ But far from protecting an allegedly discriminated-against minority, this bill could facilitate Child Protective Services kidnapping children from parents who refuse to affirm their child’s ‘gender identity.’ Since 2016, in various states, Child Protective Services has removed children from homes where parents refuse to ‘transition’ their child — either ‘socially’ through a new name and pronouns or ‘medically’ through damaging, experimental drugs, hormones and surgeries.” Read more here.
WE ARE NOT HELPING BOYS GET THROUGH PUBERTY, by Joseph Burgo. “Most people tuned to the zeitgeist recognize at some level young men coming of age today are struggling, particularly those from working class backgrounds but across all socio-economic levels. Their college enrollment and graduation numbers have fallen well behind those of women. Many can’t find or hold down jobs. They’re addicted to drugs or pornography. They make unreliable relationship partners, and alarming numbers have shirked their responsibilities as fathers. Some who self-identify as involuntarily celibate (“incel”) have succumbed to the lure of manosphere misogynists like Andrew Tate. The ones who have completely given up on life commit suicide at disturbing rates, or they die from a fentanyl overdose, commonly referred to as a ‘death of despair.’ Read more here.
RESEARCH CONFIRMS 95.9% OF ABORTIONS ARE KILLING BABIES AS BIRTH CONTROL, JUST .4% FOR RAPE, by Elyse Gaitan, Mia Steupert, M.A., and Tessa Cox. “After the Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, states across the country have enacted laws that limit abortion. Frequently, these state laws make exceptions for abortions for certain reasons, such as rape and incest, risk to the mother’s life or health, or a fetal abnormality. Assessing the number of abortions performed for various reasons can be challenging due to the poor quality of U.S. abortion data resulting from inconsistent reporting requirements. …Overall, common exceptions to abortion limits are estimated to account for less than 5% of all abortions.” Read more here.
‘BONKERS’ RULING: JUDGE WRONGLY RULES FATHERS CAN’T WEAR PINK WRISTBANDS TO PROTEST BIOLOGICAL MALES IN GIRLS’ SPORTS, by Hans Bader. “A federal judge ruled that two fathers can’t wear pink wristbands that say ‘XX’ to silently protest the inclusion in women’s sports of biologically-male transgender students. Bizarrely, the judge wrote, ‘The message generally ascribed to the XX symbol, in a context such as that presented here, can reasonably be understood as directly assaulting those who identify as transgender women.’ The ruling is ‘bonkers,’ notes former deputy assistant attorney general Ed Whelan. Peacefully wearing a wristband to express your views is the very opposite of ‘assaulting’ someone.” Read more here.
THE UK SUPREME COURT’S TRANSGENDER RULING SHOULD BE A WAKE-UP CALL FOR THE US, by Azeem Ibrahim. “In an era where biological reality has become almost taboo, the U.K. Supreme Court has delivered a ruling that cuts through the ideological fog with refreshing clarity. By affirming that transgender women — biological males who identify as female — cannot, in law, be treated as women in all circumstances, the court has done something many Western institutions have long been too afraid to do: It told the truth.” Read more here.
ANALYSIS: TRUMP CHANGES PARADIGM FOR PRO-LIFE CAUSE GLOBALLY, by Stefano Gennarini. “The Trump administration upended decades of UN social policy diplomacy last week at the UN Commission on Population and Development. A UN agreement on population policies that should have been adopted without a glitch was rejected by U.S. officials because of concerns about gender, global government, and abortion. The U.S. sent a strong message that it was not willing to adopt language about sexual and reproductive health, gender, and UN development goals.” Read more here.
THE DANGEROUS AND MUDDLED LOGIC OF GENDER MEDICINE, by Joseph Figliolia. “Gender medicine is riddled with contradictions. On the one hand, clinicians frame ‘gender dysphoria’ as a clinical diagnosis that demands ‘medically necessary’ treatments. On the other, they often adhere to the ‘gender incongruence’ model, which holds that having a cross-sex identity is not a medical problem, but instead a normal expression of ‘human diversity.’ Consequently, they argue, access to surgeries and hormones should not be conditioned on the experience of ‘sex distress.’ These contradictions have human costs.” Read more here.
LGBT ACTIVISTS PANIC AFTER THIS HUGE MOVE IN THE FIGHT TO PROTECT CHILDREN, by Matt Walsh. “Before it’s possible to discuss any policy position that’s supposedly ‘progressive,’ the first step is always to escape the world of euphemisms and start talking, in explicit detail, about what’s actually happening. This might sound straightforward, but every single organ of the Left is committed to making sure you don’t do this. They would much rather you debate the abstract concept of ‘a woman’s right to choose,’ for example, than discuss how children are dismembered and discarded like trash. They would also prefer that you use terms like ‘gender-affirming care,’ instead of discussing chemical castration. And on and on. ” Read more here.
WOMEN ARE WOMEN: A VICTORY FOR TRUTH AND TENACITY, by Ellen Fantini. “The UK Supreme Court’s ruling on April 16, 2025, that transgender ‘women’ are not legally women is a triumph of common sense and a resounding victory for women across Britain. The terms ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010, the court ruled, refer to biological women and biological sex. Five justices, led by Lord Hodge, unanimously declared that a woman is someone born biologically female, rejecting the notion that biological men (‘trans women’) with gender recognition certificates (GRCs) qualify as women under the law. This landmark decision, sparked by the tireless campaign of For Women Scotland (FWS), is simple, really: truth cannot be rewritten by ideology.” Read more here.
THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE IS STILL PROMOTING GENDER IDEOLOGY, ALFRED KINSEY, by Brenda Hafera. “Around this time of year, parents are starting to think about their summer vacation plans. Where will they take their children to experience natural wonders, discover their heritage, or learn about their country? One of the go-to resources is the National Park Service website. Sadly, parents will find that the National Park Service continues to promote gender ideology and the work of substantially discredited sex researcher Alfred Kinsey. … In 1948, Alfred Kinsey published ‘Sexual Behavior in the Human Male.’ The infamous tables in the book were drawn from data that was scientifically and morally perverse, involving the molestation of 317 boys, beginning at the age of two months.’’ Read more here.
DETRANS HORIZON, by Bernard Lane. “Almost 40 per cent of the female patients who were under age 18 when referred to Norway’s national gender clinic from 2000 to 2020 went on to have mastectomies as adults (338/861 or 39.3 per cent), according to an analysis of ‘treatment trajectories.’ Of the 1,258 patients of both sexes referred over that period, 11 (0.9 per cent) were registered as dead by the end of 2023; the registry did not record the cause of death. Of 783 patients who began cross-sex hormones as minors at the Oslo University Hospital-located clinic, 18 females (2.3 per cent) detransitioned, stopping testosterone.” Read more here.
MAINE AG WILDLY CLAIMS ‘NO CONCERNS OF SAFETY’ WITH MEN IN WOMEN’S SPORTS, by Breccan F. Thies. “After the U.S. Department of Justice sued Maine for putting women and girls at risk by allowing males to compete in their sports, the state’s attorney general claimed — with zero evidence — that Maine’s ideology poses ‘no concerns of safety.’ ‘There are no concerns about individuals who are just choosing which gender they want to give themself in order to participate,’ Democrat Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey said in an interview with CNN. ‘So that, that too is really after a lot of work on whether or not there’s any issue here that warrants this intrusion by the federal government into what’s going on in Maine schools.’” Read more here.
ABORTION FACILITIES ARE LESS REGULATED THAN TATTOO PARLORS, AND IT KILLS WOMEN, by Dr. Catherine Wheeler. “An 18-year-old woman died this year after complications from her 22-week abortion at a Planned Parenthood in Fort Collins, Colorado. A recent testimony given to the state’s Health and Human Services committee noted she lost a significant amount of blood — a known risk of later abortions — and that she was transported too late for the emergency care she needed. She deserved prompt diagnosis and critical care in her moment of need. But blue-state legislators, instead of showing concern and protecting women from preventable complications and deaths, are more interested in pushing abortion access than they are in ensuring women’s safety.” Read more here.
‘BORN IN THE RIGHT BODY’: WHY I SHARE MY DETRANSITION STORY, by Simon Amaya Price. “I told my parents I was really a girl inside at 14. But three years later, at 17, I stopped transitioning, returned to living as my birth sex again, and adjusted my appearance accordingly. Now 20, I am one of the few who has dared to speak publicly about my experience. Today, as a gender apostate, I’m no stranger to hate comments, death threats, doxxing attempts, loss of professional opportunities, and harassment on the streets of my own home city of Boston. I won’t be silenced. I testify across the country in support of bills about the dangers of child gender transition, together with the LGB Courage Coalition.” Read more here.
WOMEN EXIST. GET OVER IT!, by Jo Bartosch. “The UK Supreme Court has just confirmed what anyone with a grasp on reality has always known: that women are adult human females. In a unanimous and refreshingly rational judgement, the justices in For Women Scotland Ltd vs The Scottish Ministers make clear that the word ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 means exactly what it says – male and female, as determined by biology. It’s a landmark victory for women’s rights, and a resounding humiliation for the Scottish ministers who thought they could rewrite reality.” Read more here.
A SURVEY OF POLISH PARENTS HIGHLIGHTS THE REWARDS AND COSTS OF RAISING KIDS, by Dorota Gizicka, Michał A. Michalski, Krzysztof Szwarc. “Parenting is a multi-dimensional experience that positively affects men and women’s skills, competence, and attitudes in ways that are useful in their work outside the home, according to a report from the Polish think-tank, the Institute for Family and Society Studies. The 2024 report is based on a nationwide representative survey of parents in Poland. … The majority of Polish parents claim that it’s worth being a parent. Nearly three-fourths of parents in our study (72%) claim that the intangible benefits of being a parent outweigh the financial costs of raising children.” Read more here.
MAINE’S TRANSGENDER TUG-OF-WAR WILL BE COMING TO A STATE NEAR YOU, by Nicole Neily. “By pushing its flagrant extremist agenda to the detriment of its predominantly rural, blue-collar residents, Maine’s Democrat majority reveals a deep-seated disrespect for Maine residents and an ideological misalignment with voter preferences, federal guidelines, and the timeless democratic principles that this country was built upon. In the name of bolstering the state’s culture of equity, inclusion, and social justice, Maine Democrats have destroyed these virtues by forcing their progressive redefinition and implementation at the expense of Maine voters — a disturbing trend that is plaguing the country at large in a widespread cultural decline.” Read more here.
DEBRIEF OF THE SUPREME COURT ORAL ARGUMENT IN MEDINA V. PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC, by Carolyn McDonnell. “The Supreme Court in the case of Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, heard oral arguments on April 2, 2025. The case centers on whether the Medicaid Act’s ‘any-qualified-provider’ provision grants beneficiaries an enforceable right under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to sue in federal court, following South Carolina’s 2018 defunding of Planned Parenthood as a Medicaid provider. South Carolina and the United States argued the provision lacks explicit rights-creating language, typical of Spending Clause statutes, while Planned Parenthood contended it mandates individual choice of providers, requiring enforceability to prevent state interference.” Read more here.
LETTER: HHS SHOULD DEFUND TOP OB-GYN ORG FOR USING TAX DOLLARS TO ADVANCE RADICAL AGENDA, by Jordan Boyd. “The nation’s largest obstetrician and gynecologist organization receives millions of American tax dollars to aid various government public health initiatives. A new letter to the Department of Health and Human Services, however, suggests that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) does not deserve continued federal funding after it repeatedly used taxpayer money to promote radical gender ideology, abortion until birth, and racist guidelines for doctors.” Read more here.
OUTRAGE ERUPTS AS CBS DOWNPLAYS CHILD SACRIFICE AS ‘CULTURAL PRACTICE,’ by Sarah Arnold.” CBS News is facing backlash for a bizarre attempt to downplay the horrors of ancient child sacrifice, suggesting that the ritual killings practiced by pre-Columbian civilizations were ‘not violent’ but rather a means of ‘connecting with celestial bodies.’ In a shocking display of moral relativism, the outlet framed the gruesome act of child sacrifice not as the barbarism it clearly was but as a ‘culturally significant’ practice—sparking outrage from critics who say this is just the latest example of the corporate media bending over backward to excuse evil in the name of academic spin.” Read more here.
UNIVERSITIES SHOULD EMBRACE THE BENEFITS OF MARRIED AND PARENTING STUDENTS, by Matt Lamb. “Married and parenting students can bring a benefit to universities – and higher ed institutions would be wise to embrace them. While colleges may be rightly concerned with the drop in enrollment from the traditional group of 18-year-olds, fresh out of high school, they should consider reorienting to focus on bringing in older, married students. While there are certainly young married college students, here I am assuming most are older. The Daily Princetonian recently highlighted the struggles of some married students to fit in on Princeton University’s campus. One questioned the need to attend a ‘Safer Sexpo’ event, and when he showed up with his wife, he was excused from attending.” Read more here.
THE LEFT NOW THINKS THAT WOMEN ARE PHYSICALLY STRONGER THAN MEN, by Mark Judge. “If you have a young daughter, here’s some advice. Drive to a remote location and leave her in the woods for a few weeks. She could emerge as the next Olympic athlete — and smoke LeBron James in basketball. That’s the thinking behind The Stronger Sex: What Science Tells Us about the Power of the Female Body, a forthcoming book by Starre Vartan. It argues that women are actually the psychically stronger sex, but that culture brainwashes them to think they are weak.” Read more here.
BRAZIL’S DOCTORS HIT THE BRAKES, by Bernard Lane. “The Federal Council of Medicine in Brazil has reportedly adopted a more cautious position on gender medicalisation of young people. The council, the main professional association for doctors, has approved a resolution banning puberty blockers for gender-distressed minors, lifting the minimum age for cross-sex hormones to 18, and not allowing transgender surgery that sterilises until 21, according to an April 10 report in Folha de São Paulo.” Read more here.
SOME COMPANIES START GETTING THE MEMO: PRIDE, DEI DON’T PAY, by Michael Reagan. “During the next approximately six short weeks, plus or minus, you’ll be told, no make that lectured to, ad nauseum in the print and broadcast media, that June is PRIDE month. Not to be confused with HIV Is Not a Crime Awareness Day, Transgender Day of Visibility, Asexuality Day, Lesbian Visibility Day, Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, Harvey Milk Day, International Drag Day, LGVBTQ History Month or National Coming Out Day. In fact, there are so many public observances of sexual, and other alternative lifestyles, one wag on Twitter/X observed they now have their own liturgical calendar!” Read more here.
ONLYFANS STAR’S STORY ILLUSTRATES HOW PORNOGRAPHY HAS NORMALIZED SEX IN YOUNG MINDS, by Jonathon Van Maren. “In my presentations on pornography to parents, I always emphasize one key fact: If you don’t teach your children about healthy sex and sexuality, the internet will. In today’s hypersexualized digital culture in which sexual imagery and information is almost omnipresent, we must teach our children — or the pornographers will. A recent BBC interview with the infamous OnlyFans star Lily Phillips, who made her name through gut-wrenching, horrific stunts such as sleeping with more than 100 men in a single day, makes that fact crystal clear once again.” Read more here.
BREAKING: EUROPEANS FURIOUS THE US HAS BLOCKED NEW UN DOCUMENT, by Stefano Gennarini. “The U.S. government has blocked the adoption of the final agreement of the just-concluded UN population commission over ‘gender ideology.’ This is seen as a loss for the left at the UN, including the European Union. Traditional countries were grateful. Spencer Chretien, a Trump administration official at the U.S. State Department, expressed frustration that U.S. positions were not incorporated in the final draft. As a result, the Dutch chairman of the commission withdrew the draft agreement from consideration.” Read more here.
UN BIG BERATES PRO-LIFER FOR ‘MISINFORMATION,’ by Rebecca Oas. “The head of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) berated a Canadian pro-lifer for her comments on abortion. This happened at an event in conjunction with the just-concluded UN Commission on Population and Development. Pro-life advocate Josie Luetke of Campaign Life Coalition said, ‘If our goal is peace, how can we be perpetuating violence against preborn human beings through abortion, which sometimes involves the dismemberment of human beings in the womb?’ Dr. Natalia Kanem, Executive Director of UNFPA, denounced her comment as ‘a very dangerous thing to say,’ adding that she had ‘never heard or seen [dismemberment abortion] happening’ and that it would be ‘the opposite of what my noble profession tries to do, which is to uphold the sanctity of life.’” Read more here.
HERE ARE THE TOP 5 FACTORS DAMAGING SOCIETY BY KILLING MARRIAGE, by Andrea Mrozek and Peter Jon Mitchell. “While recently sharing a meal with a group of Gen Z and Millennial young adults, we discussed whether marriage is still relevant. Marriage was once almost a given, but the pathway to family life is far less straightforward today. Over pasta and salad, our dinner companions raised questions about what women and men want out of relationships and why the prospect for marriage seems so uncertain today. What happened? How did so many developed countries shift away from a culture where young people once confidently said ‘I do?’” Read more here.
ALL OPTIONS OPEN, by Bernard Lane. “On Wednesday, an Australian Family Court judge, Andrew Strum, ruled in the case of ‘Devin,’ who is 12 years old. Living with his mother, the boy had attended an unnamed Children’s Hospital Gender Service (CHGS) for almost four years. Puberty blockers were on the agenda. His father disputed the diagnosis of gender dysphoria or gender incongruence, and opposed any early medicalisation. Justice Strum agreed that Devin was not dysphoric, just exploring gender. He gave orders to prevent the boy being taken to the CHGS, being given puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones.” Read more here.
SAN FRANCISCO STATE U. OPENS FAMILY STUDY ROOM FOR PARENTING STUDENTS AND KIDS, by Micaiah Bilger. “A new room at San Francisco State University filled with toys and games for young children and a studying space for their parents is a refreshing example of pro-family values that are too often lacking in academia. The Family Study Room, which opened this spring in the J. Paul Leonard Library, is designed to be a welcoming, supportive space where parenting students can study while their children play, the Golden Gate Express reports. Photos of the colorful room show toys, stuffed animals, children’s books, crayons and coloring pages, a white board and markers, and games, along with adult and children-sized chairs and tables.” Read more here.
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THREE MASSIVE RELIGIOUS LIBERTY CASES BEFORE SCOTUS, by Tim Goeglein. “This month could be historic for the future of religious liberty in America as the Supreme Court will be hearing three important cases this month. The first case, which was heard earlier this month, deals with whether a Catholic social service charity in Wisconsin is eligible to receive a tax exemption like other faith-based non-profit organizations. … The second case concerns the constitutionality of whether or not a Catholic charter school should be allowed to open in Oklahoma.” Read more here.
THE DAY I FELL ON THE BATTLEFIELD OF ABORTION, by Tammy De Armas. “April is Abortion Recovery Awareness Month. The goal is to provide healing and support to people who have had an abortion and to educate the public on the negative impact of abortion. The moral, emotional and physical injuries sustained as the result of an abortion can last a lifetime, and healing is necessary. I can write that statement as part of my lived experience. … In my second year of college, I found myself in an unplanned pregnancy. Seeing the positive confirmation on the pregnancy test triggered my ‘survival mode’ response I had learned years earlier. What was I going to do?” Read more here.
WHY CAN’T THE UN DEFINE WHAT A WOMAN IS?, by Faika El-Nagashi and Anna Zobnina. “Among the many uncertainties the United Nations is facing, a surprisingly basic question appears to be absorbing a lot of its time: what is a woman? Almost everyone at the UN seems confused about what a woman is – from the Human Rights Council, and its many special rapporteurs, right down to UNICEF, its agency focused on children’s rights. Even UN Women, the organisation supposedly dedicated to women’s rights, struggles to tell the difference between actual women and men claiming to be women.” Read more here.
CHANGE OF GUARD, by Bernard Lane. “The Trump administration has directed the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to focus on studies of regret after gender transition, according to a news report in the journal Nature. An email from then acting NIH director Matthew Memoli described the new priority as ‘regret and detransition following social transition as well as chemical and surgical mutilation of children and adults’ and ‘outcomes from children who have undergone social transition and/or chemical and surgical mutilation.’” Read more here.
PARENTS VERSUS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: SUPREME COURT TO CONSIDER TRANSGENDER INSTRUCTION, by Leonard Sax. “I launched my family medical practice in Montgomery County, Maryland, in March 1990. The practice grew to over 7,000 patients before I sold it to my associate in 2008, when my family and I moved to Pennsylvania. I knew my 7,000 plus patients well. They confided in me and shared their secrets. Many were gay or lesbian. How many were transgender? Not one. Today, transgender individuals are common. But as recently as 17 years ago, they were rare. In 1994, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) noted that, ‘There are no recent epidemiological studies on prevalence of Gender Identity Disorder [in the United States].” Read more here.
DIG DEEPER, by Bernard Lane. “Independent MP Frank Pangallo has called for a more searching review of the youth gender clinic at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in the state of South Australia (SA). On Friday, Women’s and Children’s Health Network chief executive Rebecca Graham cited an issue with pre-treatment assessment of young people at the Gender Diversity clinic and announced an internal review of uncertain scope. Mr Pangallo, whose campaign for an SA parliamentary inquiry into gender medicalisation of minors was frustrated last year by the state’s centre-left Premier Peter Malinauskas, told GCN he feared ‘another whitewash.’” Read more here.
IN COLORADO, ‘MISGENDERING’ YOUR KID COULD LOSE YOU CUSTODY, by Colin Wright. “Earlier this year, I testified before the Colorado legislature in opposition to House Bill 25-1109, which would have required death certificates to reflect decedents’ ‘gender identity,’ rather than their sex. The proposal was self-evidently absurd—death certificates are legal documents, not tributes to decedents’ subjective sense of self. …Now, Colorado lawmakers have gone a step further. A new proposal, House Bill 25-1312, would make ‘deadnaming’ and ‘misgendering’ children—that is, not using their preferred name or pronouns—a factor in child-custody disputes.” Read more here.
WHY PROTECTING GIRLS’ SPACES SHOULD NEVER BE UP FOR DEBATE, by Alleigh Marre. “Men and women are different. This biological reality was once universally understood. Now, however, radical activists are trying to bully women into believing that merely a public declaration of your gender makes you a woman. Thankfully, we are coming to a tipping point. More and more brave, strong, authentic women are rising to the bizarre challenge of our day. Women like Stephanie Turner. At a collegiate fencing competition last weekend, she removed her mask and took a knee before her bout, refusing to compete against a male who had competed on the men’s team just a year earlier.” Read more here.
ASSOCIATED PRESS CALLS THE TERM ‘BIOLOGICAL MALE’ ‘MISLEADING’ IN EDITOR’S NOTE, by Justine Brooke Murray. “A long time ago, the Associated Press (AP) appointed its own guidelines as the gold standard for objective journalism, establishing a set of rules for the vocabulary everyone else is expected to regurgitate. …The outlet was never objective in the first place, and maintains a track record for rewriting the dictionary to enforce its own newspeak. How much reality must they rewrite before the rest of us stop hailing them as the purveyors of truth? The AP has decided that recognizing basic biology is apparently ‘misleading.’ That’s why they published an editor’s note above a local lawmaker’s op-ed, disavowing her use of the term ‘biological male.’” Read more here.
DESPITE MEASURES TO PROTECT WOMEN’S SPORTS, GIRLS ARE STILL BEING FORCED TO PLAY SPORTS AGAINST BOYS, by Logan Washburn. “Even after various states have passed legislation to protect women’s sports and President Donald Trump signed an executive order to enforce federal protections, girls are still being forced to compete against boys. Kim Jones hears ‘floods’ of stories from girls who are forced to compete with, or share inappropriate spaces with, boys who identify as girls. Jones is co-founder of the Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS), a ‘network and advocacy group’ for protecting women’s sports. ‘Their parents call, and there’s generally a lot of tears. ‘What can I do? Can you please help me? No one’s listening,’ Jones said.” Read more here.
WHAT WILL IT TAKE FOR EUROPEANS TO REJECT TRANSGENDER IDEOLOGY?, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Despite high-profile dissidents like J.K. Rowling wielding their cultural influence in defense of sanity, scarcely a week goes by without some eye-popping headline that should remind everybody that the fundamental premises of the transgender movement have logical, predictable, and indeed predicted consequences. Consider just a few recent examples. A 40-year-old Dutch pedophile who, according to Reduxx, ‘amassed one of the largest child pornography collections in the history of the Netherlands,’ decided to ‘transition’ to female after his arrest. Local reports indicate that he ‘may now be in a women’s prison awaiting trial.’” Read more here.
THE LEFT CAN’T QUIT LYING ABOUT GENDER IDEOLOGY, by Caroline Downey. “California Governor Gavin Newsom has already grabbed a life raft to escape the sinking ship, making a major concession on one of the most explosive issues of the last election: men in women’s sports. Newsom, who has a reputation for being a political chameleon, didn’t want to get caught in the minority of what is basically an 80-20 issue. Departing from the party line, he conceded the point to right-wing firebrand Charlie Kirk that trans-identifying male athletes are disenfranchising women.” Read more here.
EDITORIAL: THE TRUTH ABOUT TRANSGENDERISM, by Austin Ruse. “Sometimes, it takes fiction to tell the truth about fact. …Social scientist Ray Blanchard developed a taxonomy for ‘transgenderism’ in men years ago. He says there are essentially two types: men who get a sexual thrill out of being seen as a woman and homosexuals who want to attract straight males. All the rest about ‘feeling’ like a woman and ‘feeling’ like a woman trapped in a man’s body is bosh, political bosh developed by the left to hide what ‘transgenderism’ really is.” Read more here.
EVERYONE ELSE IS WRONG, RIGHT?, by Bernard Lane. “Someone in the health department of NSW, Australia’s most populous state, wanted to know why. Both NSW Health and England’s NHS had commissioned reviews of the evidence for paediatric gender medicine. It’s the same evidence base internationally. The result of England’s 2020-24 Cass review—which found the evidence ‘remarkably weak’—was an end to routine use of puberty blockers for gender-distressed children. In NSW, the 2023-24 Sax Institute’s review said the evidence showed blockers to be ‘safe, effective and reversible.” Read more here.
ABORTION HORROR STORIES REVEAL MALPRACTICE AND THE PAIN INFLICTED ON MOTHERS AND UNBORN BABIES, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Priscilla Dray, a 35-year-old mother of three, walked into the Pellegrin University Hospital in Bordeaux, France on July 22, 2011, to procure an abortion. Within the week, she developed a serious infection; within a month, she developed necrosis. Before the year was out, both of Dray’s legs, her left hand, and her right forearm were amputated. This abortion nightmare is at the center of a case that unfolded in France last month, as the two doctors responsible for the abortion and her subsequent maiming faced charges of having caused Dray involuntary injuries ‘through clumsiness, imprudence, inattention, negligence, or failure, (which) voluntarily or involuntarily caused incapacity for more than three months.’” Read more here.
VIOLATIONS OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN EUROPE ‘A DISGRACE’: FRC EXPERT, by Ben Johnson. “Perhaps no words in recent political history have so rapidly proven correct as Vice President J.D. Vance’s warning that European religious liberty faces a toxic and growing ‘threat from within,’ according to a new expert analysis of government infringements on Christians. In his Valentine’s Day address to the Munich Security Conference, Vice President Vance cited a crackdown on free speech and conscience rights to conclude that Europe’s ‘backslide away from conscience rights’ and ‘deterioration of fundamental freedoms’ has ‘placed the basic liberties of religious [believers] in the crosshairs.” Read more here.
A WIN FOR PRIVACY AND SAFETY, by Erin Hawley. “In what could signify a huge shift in how the federal courts analyze legal issues involving policies and legislation on gender ideology, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed its position and upheld a commonsense Idaho law that requires public school students to use restrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their biological sex. Despite the fact that the Ninth Circuit had put the Idaho law on hold while it reviewed the law, the court issued a unanimous decision in Roe v. Critchfield, setting an important precedent for upholding state privacy laws against constitutional challenges.” Read more here.
NOTORIOUS CANADIAN TRANSGENDER ACTIVIST SUES BEAUTY PAGEANT FOR BARRING GENDER-CONFUSED MEN, by Jonathon Van Maren. “For those of you who don’t remember (or are trying to forget), Yaniv is the trans-identifying man who refers to himself as ‘Jessica Simpson’ and several years ago sued a number of female beauty technicians for declining to wax his genitals on the premise that, as a woman, he was entitled to be served by them. …Yaniv, however, is an enterprising fellow, and now another of his cases – filed almost five years ago – is set to appear before the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal. This time around, his targets are the owners of a family-run beauty pageant called Canada Galaxy Pageants, which is based in Toronto.” Read more here.
PLANNED PARENTHOOD ORAL ARGUMENTS WILL FURTHER EXPOSE ABORTION GIANT’S FILTH, by Tim Goeglein. “This Wednesday, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, a case that exposes how Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest provider of abortions, has become increasingly cavalier with taxpayer dollars. The court will look at how Medicaid funds are funneled toward promoting and performing abortions, all while putting the lives of vulnerable women at risk.” Read more here.
THE MOUNTAIN STATE TRAILBLAZED A NEW FRONTIER WITH PRO-LIFE ANTI-TRAFFICKING EFFORTS, by West Virginia State Senator Virginia Rucker and Kristan Hawkins. “The recent fight between Louisiana, a pro-life state, and New York, America’s abortion capital, started with a pregnant, underage girl in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Any excitement she may have had planning her baby’s gender reveal party disappeared as the savage pain set in from the Chemical Abortion Pills her mom reportedly forced on her. She called 911 and was rushed to the emergency room. The girl’s mother allegedly plotted her grandchild’s death by ordering out-of-state mail-in Chemical Abortion Pills she bought online with the help of a New York abortionist.” Read more here.
DEPT. OF EDUCATION INVESTIGATES CALIF., MAINE FOR PARENTAL NOTIFICATION VIOLATIONS, by Joshua Arnold. “The Student Privacy Policy Office (SPPO) of the U.S. Department of Education is investigating the states of California and Maine for alleged violations of the Family Educational Rights Privacy Act (FERPA), the department announced last week. The investigations are part of the Trump administration’s efforts to vigorously protect parents’ rights and ensure that students do not fall victim to a radical transgender ideology that often leads to family alienation and irreversible medical interventions,’ said Secretary of Education Linda McMahon.” Read more here.
ABORTION PILL REVERSAL SAVED MY SON’S LIFE. A PRO-LIFE COMMUNITY SAVED MINE, by Marisha Holley. “I held those two little pills in my hands for a long, long time. I had always wanted to be a mother and raise a beautiful family, but my circumstances before and at the beginning of my pregnancy were less than favorable and ultimately led me to this decision — a decision I very quickly regretted. I was seven weeks pregnant. The father of my child had helped me get a chemical abortion, and the time had come to start it. The moment I had taken the first pill, I ran to the bathroom to make myself vomit. I felt immediate, intense regret. I vomited over and over, but no pill appeared — and I started to panic.” Read more here.
CANADA DOUBLES DOWN ON SEX CHANGES FOR MINORS, by Jonathon Van Maren. “According to a new paper published in the Pediatrics & Child Health, the flagship journal of the Canadian Paediatric Society, Canadian pediatricians should push ‘full steam ahead’ with sex change ‘treatments’ for minors. These ‘treatments’ are referred to as ‘gender-affirming care,’ an Orwellian phrase which contains the premises of gender ideology under the guise of neutrality and ensures that coverage of the debate surrounding these ‘treatments’ is prejudiced towards the transgender agenda. As I’ve noted several times before, as far as the Canadian establishment is concerned, the four-year long Cass Review, initiated by the UK National Health Service, simply does not exist.” Read more here.
THE BUD LIGHT BOYCOTT WORKED: MAJOR CORPORATIONS ARE WALKING AWAY FROM LGBT PRIDE, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Pride comes before a fall – and as some major companies rethink previous “woke” policies, the corporate gravy train LGBT activists have relied on to fund their activism has finally begun to slow. According to NPR, both Anheuser-Busch – famous for beer brands like Beck’s and Budweiser – and the telecoms giant Comcast have both pulled funding from San Francisco Pride. Anheuser-Busch has also ended their sponsorship with St. Louis Pride.” Read more here.
CITATIONS FOR THE GAMETE-BASED DEFINITION OF MALE AND FEMALE, by Colin Wright. “In recent years, a concerted effort has emerged to obscure the basic biology of male and female, often under the guise of inclusivity or rethinking science. Activists and many scholars now frequently portray sex as a spectrum or claim that being male or female depends on a complicated mosaic of traits—chromosomes, hormones, anatomy, identity—with gamete type presented as merely one of many “sex characteristics.” This framing is scientifically inaccurate.” Read more here.
UK NURSERY SUSPENDS TODDLER OVER ‘TRANSPHOBIA.’ NO, THIS ISN’T SATIRE, by Jonathon Van Maren. “A toddler between the ages of two and four years old has been suspended from a nursery in the United Kingdom after being accused of ‘transphobia’ or ‘homophobia.’ If a writer had pitched this story to The Onion a decade ago, the satire site wouldn’t have touched it with a ten-foot pole. But in 2025, it is merely the latest episode in the insane cultural experiment that trans activists and their institutional allies have inflicted on the West.” Read more here.
WHAT HUNGARY PROTECTS CHILDREN FROM BY BANNING PRIDE PARADES, by Jonathon Van Maren. “On March 18th, Hungarian lawmakers passed a ban on Pride Parades and public events promoting LGBT ideology by a margin of 136 to 27. The ban amends the Child Protection Act passed in 2021, which forbade the promotion of LGBT ideology in middle schools and on primetime TV shows and resulted in an ongoing lawsuit against Hungary from the European Union. Like the 2021 law, the new measure is intended to protect children from ‘early exposure’ to LGBT ideology through public events that ‘promote and present gender nonconformity, gender reassignment, and homosexuality,’ and mandates fines ranging from €15 and €500 for organizers or attendees.” Read more here.
2025 GERMAN GUIDELINES FOR DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF GENDER INCONGRUENCE AND GENDER DYSPHORIA OF CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE, by the Society For Evidence Based Gender Medicine. “In March 2025, the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany (AWMF) published the final version of the Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Adolescent Gender Dysphoria and Gender Incongruence (hereafter Guidelines). Besides Germany, the Guidelines are intended to be used in Austria and Switzerland. Although originally intended as ‘evidence-based’ (S3) recommendations, the Guidelines failed to reach this status, and were downgraded to a lower rating of ‘consensus’ (S2k) in January 2024.” Read more here.
THE SULLIVAN REVIEW: HOW A FOCUS ON ‘GENDER’ CORRUPTED DATA IN THE UK, by John Sexton. “You’re probably familiar with the Cass Review which came out last year in the UK. That report, which was four years in the making, concluded that gender-affirming care and the medical pathway many kids with gender dysphoria were put on was not the best approach. It resulted in changes to the UK approach to trans issues including putting an end to the use of puberty blockers for pediatric patients. This month another report came out which identifies another nationwide problem with adopting the trans agenda wholesale. The Sullivan Review, written by sociology professor Alice Sullivan, looked at the ways in which careless use of the words sex and gender resulted in years of poor quality data collection.” Read more here.
FREE TO BE WHO YOU WEREN’T, by Bernard Lane. “Former UK MP Chris Davies delivered a sharp dissent from a gender ideology motion at the Liberal Democrat party conference in Harrogate last weekend. ‘Conversion therapy was used to try and persuade gays and lesbians that they were really straight,’ Mr Davies said. ‘Now, conversion therapy, too often, means persuading young people—still thinking through their sexuality—that they are trans and maybe they will feel happier with life-changing chemical or surgical treatment. How can it be right to actively encourage people to feel uncomfortable in the bodies with which they were born and in which biologically they will live all their lives?’ The motion—’Free to be who you are’—was passed, in defiance of the caution urged by England’s 2020-24 Cass review.” Read more here.
DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD: KILLING OVER A THOUSAND HUMANS DAILY ISN’T HEALTH CARE, by Nancy Flanders. “Planned Parenthood has long claimed to be a nationwide health care provider, but rapidly declining legitimate health services and patient numbers along with abortion-related injuries and financial struggles have shown that the self-proclaimed provider of choice for underprivileged women is largely an abortion advocacy group masquerading as a health provider. This so-called health care corporation kills more than 1,000 preborn babies every day.” Read more here.
SCOTUS COULD STOP MEDICAID DOLLARS FROM FUNDING PLANNED PARENTHOOD, by Abby Johnson. “For decades, pro-life conservatives have been trying to defund Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider. They receive hundreds of millions of dollars a year from taxpayers, and while DOGE may be looking into it, the Supreme Court could make a significant dent first after they hear Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic this Wednesday. The case out of South Carolina involves Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood, the funnel through which they rake in federal dollars. I worked at a Planned Parenthood in Texas for eight years, and that Medicaid money was a cash cow, even though it supposedly could not pay for abortions.” Read more here.
THIS WOMAN BELONGS IN PRISON, by James Esses. “Meet Dr. Sidhbh Gallagher, dubbed the Butcher of Louth (and with good reason). Gallagher is a surgeon who has made a name for herself in performing what she calls ‘gender confirmation surgery’ out of her private practice in Miami, Florida. Her website states, without a hint of irony, that she ‘always seeks to combine her artistic flair with the latest cutting edge techniques.” … Gallagher is clearly extremely experienced. This is precisely what makes her dangerous. Over the past number of years, she has performed thousands of surgical procedures on children and adults alike suffering from gender dysphoria.” Read more here.
THE “ANTI-RIGHTS” CAMPAIGN AT THE UN HEATS UP, by Rebecca Oas and Iulia-Elena Cazan. “As the successes of conservative movements at the UN have become impossible for progressives to ignore, gatekeepers throughout the UN system have increasingly closed ranks against what they derisively refer to as the ‘backlash’ and ‘pushback’ from so-called ‘anti-rights’ groups. For two years, conservative groups have been rejected by feminist UN bureaucrats to hold official events alongside the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). They have started hosting their own parallel conference across the street from UN headquarters.” Read more here.
LIFE WITH KIDS IS BETTER: ANALYZING PUBLIC WELL-BEING DATA, by Ken Burchfiel. “A few years ago, a Time Magazine cover on ‘the childfree life’ featured a happy, beautiful couple relaxing on the beach by themselves. This image implied that life is happier without kids. It’s a common refrain we hear these days, whether from news articles, childfree advocates on social media, or movies. However, a new IFS analysis of the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) suggests something most parents already know—everyday activities are actually more enjoyable when children are present.” Read more here.
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PUSHES BACK AS UN MEETING ON WOMEN EMBRACES ABORTION, GENDER IDEOLOGY, by Grace Melton. “The UN Commission on the Status of Women concluded its annual meeting in New York last week. As always, sex radicals from the developed world did their best to push their agenda—under the cover of women’s equality—on rightly resistant countries in the developing world. The meeting marked the thirtieth anniversary of the Fourth World Congress on Women, which took place in Beijing, China in 1995. …It was there that then-First Lady Hillary Clinton issued her rallying cry, ‘human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights,’ ushering in decades of debate on the world stage over the proper meaning of that claim.” Read more here.
MAINE MELTDOWN MAY COST THE STATE EDUCATIONAL FUNDING, by Moira Gleason. “Maine is putting it all on the line in the name of ‘transgender rights.’ The state has gone so far as to risk federal funding for education and to strip some Maine residents of representation in the state capital. The ongoing dispute between the state and the federal government over Title IX violations is set to cost Maine $250 million in federal funding if relevant state institutions do not comply with federal law by agreeing to limit women’s sports to biological women only. It appears the state won’t budge.” Read more here.
PUBERTY PANIC MERCHANTS, by Sandra Pertot. “My postgraduate clinical psychology training in the early 1970s included a strand on human sexuality and its problems, based on the groundbreaking work of William Masters and Virginia Johnson. This led me to specialise in the broad topic of human sexuality, not just sexual problems, although I always maintained a caseload in the general area of mental health; understanding the whole person is critical to good mental health care. What fuelled my focus on this area was the extraordinary ignorance about sex at that time. … Fifty years on, there are health professionals who apparently don’t know how babies are made or the difference between a female and a male.” Read more here.
OF (TRANSGENDER) MICE AND (‘FOOD JUSTICE’) ‘MEN!’, by Kevin McCullough. “If George Orwell were alive today, he wouldn’t be writing 1984, he’d be updating Animal Farm. Only this time, the pigs wouldn’t be walking on two legs—they’d be cross-dressing mice advocating for ‘food justice’ in federal grant applications. Yes, you read that correctly. According to a blistering new report from the Trump-aligned USDA, over $1.5 billion in Biden-era woke nonsense contracts have been canceled—money that was being set ablaze in the name of everything from ‘indigenous food pathways’ to ‘food systems equity,’ whatever that means. My personal favorite? A grant funding a study on the dietary impact of hormones on transgender mice.” Read more here.
COURT: NJ SCHOOL DISTRICTS CAN SCRAP SECRETIVE TRANS STUDENT POLICY THAT EXCLUDED PARENTS, by Sarah Holliday. “Who gets to call the shots when it comes to a child at school: the parent or some faceless state bureaucrat? In New Jersey, it seems that question has been a vexing gray area. That is, until now. A seismic ‘win for parental rights and common sense’ just crashed into the Garden State, allowing three school districts to drop a controversial transgender student policy. In the years-long legal tug-of-war with the state, the school districts contended that parents should be kept in the loop of their children’s identity, while the state appeared dead set on allowing trans-identifying students to hide their altered identities from their moms and dads.” Read more here.
PRO-ABORTION WEBINAR: PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION IS ‘CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST INDOCTRINATION,’ by Live Action Newsroom. “On March 19, The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) hosted a live webinar, reacting to the passage of prenatal education bills in multiple states requiring videos depicting the development of human life in the womb — which may include Live Action’s ‘Baby Olivia’ video — to be shown to students in public schools. The webinar’s featured speakers — representing the pro-abortion groups SIECUS, Planned Parenthood, and Reproaction — claimed that the inclusion of prenatal development education and ultrasound videos in sex education is ‘misinformation’ and amounts to an ‘anti-abortion’ campaign.” Read more here.
WITHHOLDING FEDERAL FUNDS IS THE RIGHT RESPONSE TO UNIVERSITIES THAT IGNORE REALITY, by Colin Wright. “The Trump administration has suspended $175 million in federal funding for the University of Pennsylvania, citing the school’s past policies allowing a male athlete—Lia Thomas—to compete in women’s swimming. The funding freeze involves discretionary money from the Department of Defense and the Department of Health and Human Services and is separate from an ongoing Education Department investigation into Penn’s handling of transgender athletes in its sports programs. While some may argue that this action is politically motivated, the underlying principle is clear: institutions that disregard fairness and biological reality should not expect continued financial support from the federal government.” Read more here.
DYLAN MULVANEY GETS A DOSE OF TRUTH, by Kimberly Ross. “Ever since he burst onto the scene, Dylan Mulvaney, a biological male, has been a poster child for the transgender movement. Except that Mulvaney is not interested in the ‘live and let live’ mentality. Instead, the social media influencer is determined to rub his ideology in our faces. His popular ‘Days of Girlhood’ TikTok series documenting the transition process, which thrust Mulvaney into the spotlight, is just one example. It’s one thing if a person desires to live as the opposite sex with no expectation for the rest of society to show vocal support. It’s another thing altogether if they believe they are the opposite sex while demanding others accept their attempt at ‘womanface.’” Read more here.
APOSTLES OF THE NO-KID MOVEMENT ARE CRAFTING AN UNLIVABLE WORLD, by Hélène de Lauzun. “The ‘no-kid’ trend—that idea that a woman, to truly flourish and be free, should refrain from having children—has become, in France as elsewhere, a real mania. Young women publish an increasing number of essays, more or less inspired, in which they try to convince themselves and others that the world would be so much better if we did not reproduce. The press piles on, explaining with a lot of statistical arguments why it is not a good idea to have kids.” Read more here.
TRUMP ADMIN CUTS FUNDING OF AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES THAT PROMOTE GENDER IDEOLOGY, by Jonathon Van Maren. “According to the Guardian, the U.S. government has cut off research funding at six Australian universities, including Monash University, Australian National University, the University of Melbourne, the University of Sydney, the University of South Wales, and the University of Western Australia. The reason? The Trump administration has informed researchers that the ‘temporary’ funding pause was due to the new U.S. policy of avoiding ‘DEI, woke gender ideology, and the green new deal.’” Read more here.
OHIO COULD BE THE NEXT STATE TO PROTECT KIDS ONLINE, UNLESS THE PORN INDUSTRY GETS ITS WAY, by Logan Washburn. “Ohio could become the next state to protect children from obscene content online if legislation introduced last month becomes law. ‘We’re just trying to protect kids who are in the state of Ohio from adult content and the prevalence of obscene material in our society,’ Republican state Rep. Josh Williams told The Federalist. ‘The idea is to make sure that parents have a voice in the room when it comes down to what their children are exposed to on a daily basis.’” Read more here.
VALLEY GIRL FEDERAL JUDGE CITES BROADWAY PLAY, RIPS UP CONSTITUTION IN TRANS SOLDIERS SCREED, by Joy Pullmann. “On March 18, another D.C. Circuit judge seized executive branch powers, enjoining the commander-in-chief from disqualifying military recruits with gender dysphoria. District Court Judge Ana Reyes, who identifies as some variety of LGBT, is a longtime Democrat Party donor and, as a lawyer, litigated against the first Trump administration. We knew she’d rule this way, not only because of her bio, but also because in oral arguments she insisted forcing soldiers to lie about reality couldn’t possibly affect military readiness.” Read more here.
ABORTION DECRIMINALISATION WILL ENABLE ABUSIVE MEN TO KILL MORE UNBORN BABIES, by Alithea Williams. “Last week, Labour MPs threatened to use the Government’s Crime and Policing Bill to achieve the cherished goal of the pro-abortion lobby – full decriminalisation of abortion. If we weren’t so used to this almost monomaniacal desire to push ‘abortion rights’ as far as they can go, we might find the timing of this surprising. After all, there is a lot going on politically already – the Government are having to stave off a rebellion on cuts to welfare spending, all while trying to keep the peace between warring factions abroad.” Read more here.
WHAT DOES MARK CARNEY THINK ABOUT GENDER IDEOLOGY?, by Jonathon Van Maren. “It has been several days since Juno News broke the story that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s eldest daughter is a trans activist, and no mainstream Canadian outlets have covered the revelations or followed up. The Daily Mail is the only publication to have mentioned that the prime minister’s daughter identifies as non-binary in a story titled ‘Who is Mark Carney? Everything we know about Canada’s next Prime Minister and his family.’ It is understandable that most journalists want to avoid the story.” Read more here.
TRANS VIOLENCE IS A REAL THING, AND IT IS OUT OF CONTROL, by David Strom. “People who are genuinely gender dysphoric and not just enjoying erotic Autogynephilia (getting sexually aroused by imagining themselves to be a female and playing out that fantasy) suffer from a potentially debilitating mental illness, and they do need treatment. Not medical treatment in most cases, but serious psychiatric or psychological care. As with depression or anxiety, ‘just get over it’ is not helpful advice. But there is a new class of violent trans activism, and it is waaaayyyyy out of control. Mass murders, sexual assaults, vandalism, and threats of or actual use of violence have become quite common, and are far outside the normal parameters of violent behavior in other population cohorts.” Read more here.
U.S. REFUSES TO JOIN DECLARATION AT UN COMMISSION ON WOMEN, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “Feminists likely paid by Western governments booed when U.S. and Argentinian diplomats defended women’s rights and opposed gender ideology at the end of the annual UN conference on women’s issues today. They cheered for an EU statement in favor [of] gender ideology instead. The boos erupted after a U.S. diplomat said it was ‘impossible’ for the U.S. to support a political declaration adopted by the UN Commission on the Status of Women because it contained “gender” terminology.” Read more here.
THE TOP THREATS TO MARRIAGE AND HOW THRIVING COUPLES AROUND THE WORLD OVERCAME THEM, by Christian Heim and Caroline Heim. “Infidelity, mental illness, and financial pressures can spell the end to many marriages, but how do thriving couples overcome these threats? How do they stand united while others fall apart? Our new study sheds light on these questions and highlights an important principle to keep relationships resilient. The main reasons for divorce include a lack of commitment, an affair, too much conflict, financial pressure, substance abuse, and partner violence. But many couples face at least some of these issues in a long-term marriage, and some couples manage to work through them.” Read more here.
AT LEAST 32 RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICTS LIE ABOUT CHILDREN’S GENDER DYSPHORIA, by Breccan F. Thies. “At least 32 public school districts in Rhode Island have parental exclusion policies and refuse to notify parents if their child begins identifying as a gender different from their own. According to a report from Parents Defending Education (PDE), 113,452 Rhode Island students (83%) attend schools that actively hide this information from parents. PDE noted the number is likely higher, as the 32 have their policies publicly available, but the state actually enacted guidance to get all school districts to keep the critical medial information secret.” Read more here.
THE MET’S NEW WAR ON WOMEN, by Jo Bartosch. “In March 2023, nearly 100 Metropolitan Police officers were crammed into a special seminar at New Scotland Yard. They were there to mark Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) and to listen to presentations from several trans-activist speakers. This ‘celebration’ is now the focus of allegations that the Met have been captured by trans activists. This is the claim of detective constable Melanie Newman, who has bravely taken the Met to a tribunal on the grounds they discriminated against staff with gender-critical views.” Read more here.
‘DECEIVING WOMEN IS WHAT THEIR BUSINESS IS ALL ABOUT,’ by Grant Atkinson. “Mayra Rodriguez first started working at Planned Parenthood because she believed she would be helping women, particularly those of Hispanic descent like herself. When the human resources director asked Mayra how she felt about abortion, she said she responded how she believed a good Christian should: ‘I wouldn’t have one, but if someone else does, who am I here to judge?’ But after many years working for the largest abortion business in the nation, Mayra learned that Planned Parenthood doesn’t prioritize helping women. The organization prioritizes abortion, even when it comes at the expense of patients’ health and well-being.” Read more here.
AT UN WOMEN’S CONFERENCE, ABORTION RIGHTS RULE, by Anna Farrow. “The chatter that has dominated both coffee-break discussions and high-level pronouncements at the 69th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is of a global and orchestrated ‘backlash’ against women’s rights. The new Trump administration, and recent sweeping cuts to USAID program funding, has undoubtedly contributed to the heightened level of concern among many of the CSW69 participants at this global gathering of diplomats, activists and policy makers taking place at UN headquarters in New York from March 10-21.” Read more here.
DOES THE U.S. HAVE ABORTION POLICIES SIMILAR TO COMMUNIST CHINA?, by Sarah Prentice. “This month is Women’s History Month and highlights International Women’s Day. An important conversation American feminists would do well to have is about the ethics surrounding the United States’ abortion laws. They seem to mirror, of all nations worldwide, that of China’s. China is one of the few nations with extremely liberal abortion laws, where abortions are widely performed and can take place at any stage of pregnancy. It also has no bans against sex-selective abortion, a practice that is a leading cause of gendercide in the country.” Read more here.
PREDATORS ARE HIDING BEHIND PRIDE, by Jo Bartosch. “Sexual predators don’t come with a flashing neon sign, but there are often clues. Adults who seek to blur boundaries around children’s safety – particularly those who are quick to dismiss concerns over safeguarding as ‘transphobia’ – deserve to be heavily scrutinised. The conviction of Stephen Ireland, co-founder of Pride in Surrey, is a stark reminder of why such vigilance is necessary. This week, proud trans activist Ireland was convicted of raping a 12-year-old boy he met on Grindr, a gay dating app.” Read more here.
CHELSEA CLINTON CLAIMS ABORTION IS NECESSARY FOR A HEALTHY ECONOMY. SHE COULDN’T BE MORE WRONG, by Nancy Flanders. “Chelsea Clinton, along with Center for Reproductive Rights President and CEO Nancy Northup, online dating platform Bumble’s Chief Legal Officer Elizabeth Monteleone, and President and CEO of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research Jamila K. Taylor, appeared on a pro-abortion panel at South by Southwest (SXSW) 2025. The women spoke about what they consider to be the negative impacts of the overturning of Roe v. Wade – and the anti-feminist and discriminatory reasons they think abortion, the direct and intentional killing of preborn children, should be legal.’” Read more here.
‘A IS FOR ABORTION’: PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL TEACHES ABCS FOR WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH, byStephanie Lundquist-Arora. “America’s public high schools are strange places to find displays of the alphabet. Perhaps with plummeting standardized test scores and a substantial increase in English-as-a-second-language students in sanctuary districts, high school educators feel the need to review kindergarten basics. In Fairfax County, Virginia’s West Springfield High School … school administrators and teachers have decorated the history hallway this month with a special, leftist rendition of the alphabet. The display, titled ‘The ABCs to ME,’ is decorated with the school’s colors: a blue background lined with an orange border. Featured in the display is a sign that reads, ‘A is for Abortion’ with an image of a coat hanger with a positive pregnancy test.” Read more here.
REMEMBER TRUMP’S PLAN TO REMOVE TRANSGENDERS FROM THE MILITARY? WELL…, by Madeline Leesman. “The Department of the Navy is reportedly offering so-called ‘transgender’ sailors and Marines the option to voluntarily separate by March 28, according to a memo obtained by Fox News. If these service members do not take this offer, they risk being kicked out of the Navy and Marines altogether. In a statement, acting secretary of the U.S. Navy, Terence Emmert, said that the Department of the Navy will recognize only male and female as the sexes.” Read more here.
U.S. TAKES STRONG STAND ON GENDER IDEOLOGY AT UN PANEL, by Austin Ruse. “The U.S. Mission to the United Nations sponsored an event on the dangers of gender ideology this week. …The panel was significant because it was the first ever U.S. event against gender ideology at the UN. …The Trump administration is committed to protecting ‘the great American values of family, truth, well-being, and freedom’ and opposing policies that ‘seek to erase the category of sex and the unique characteristics that define women as female and men as male’ including by ‘preserving the integrity of women’s spaces, from our schools to our sports, and ensuring that biological males do not infringe upon the rights of women and girls.’” Read more here.
‘CONVERSION THERAPY’ BANS ARE AN OUTRAGEOUS ATTACK ON FREE SPEECH, by Matt Walsh. “There are few weapons in politics that are more effective than mass disorientation. If you can confuse people about obvious truths, then they become much easier to control. This is a familiar tactic to most living Americans at this point. We are, after all, the first generation in the history of the world to have to grapple with the absurdity that men can change their gender at will. But there’s really a whole art form to mass disorientation. It’s not just about spreading big lies. It also involves confusing people at every possible opportunity.” Read more here.
NEW BRUNSWICK’S LIBERAL PREMIER IS GOING FULL STEAM AHEAD ON ABORTION, GENDER IDEOLOGY, by David Cooke. “Prior to the provincial election last fall, Susan Holt didn’t talk a lot about her radical plan to expand abortion killings and LGBT debauchery. She kept it pretty low-key, knowing that many New Brunswickers couldn’t stomach her views. She was eager to ride the wave of popular discontent over former Premier Blaine Higgs without rocking the boat. We worked hard, here at Campaign Life Coalition, to expose Ms. Holt’s nefarious plan, sending out informative postcards to hundreds of thousands of homes. But the media, the Liberals, and many left-wing groups mocked our warnings, slandered us as haters, and dismissed our concerns.” Read more here.
OUTLIER, by Bernard Lane. “Germany’s new ‘affirmation-only’ treatment guideline for the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones goes beyond the weak evidence base, may lead to vulnerable young people suffering harm and should be withdrawn, according to prominent child and adolescent psychiatrist Professor Florian Zepf. The new S2k German-language guideline—on Gender Incongruence and Gender Dysphoria in Childhood and Adolescence—was published earlier this month and is intended for use in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.” Read more here.
PERSPECTIVE: WHAT SCIENCE TELLS US ABOUT FATHERHOOD, MARRIAGE AND THE STRUGGLES OF YOUNG MEN, by Samuel Wilkinson. “Males are struggling. According to a recent report, a concerning number of young men say they feel aimless and isolated. They are much more likely than their female counterparts to be living with mom and dad in their 20s and 30s. Girls now graduate from high school at higher rates than boys. For college, the same pattern emerges: The graduation rate for four-year institutions is 68% for women and 61% for men. Several solutions have been offered to ameliorate what some call a crisis of masculinity.” Read more here.
LINDA MCMAHON MEETS WITH DETRANSITIONERS TO DISCUSS SCHOOLS PUSHING GENDER TRANSITION, by Breccan F. Thies. “Education Secretary Linda McMahon met with a group of detransitioners Wednesday to discuss how schools, teachers, administrators, and others play a major role in pushing young, vulnerable students toward irreversible gender transition procedures. McMahon met with the detransitioners at the Department of Education headquarters in recognition of DeTrans Awareness Day to talk about the pervasiveness of gender ideology, how America’s schools are often a breeding ground for coaxing children into believing they are a different gender than they really are, and what the department can do about it.” Read more here.
LEAKED: TRANS-CARE TRAINING VIDEOS BY BELEAGUERED TOP GENDER-CLINIC DOCTOR, PART 1, by Benjamin Ryan. “I have obtained 12 hours of videos of top pediatric-gender-clinic physician Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy and her colleagues, including her husband, providing training to mental-health providers on how to treat minors who have gender dysphoria or otherwise identify as transgender or nonbinary. A 19-year veteran of the pediatric gender medicine field and one of its leading physician-researchers and advocates, Dr. Olson-Kennedy is the medical director of the gender clinic at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. According to figures she provided during this particular video, annual referrals to her clinic surged from just 25 in 2010 to 436 in 2022—following a similar pattern seen in clinics throughout the Western world. Read more here.
AMERICA’S PARENTS ARE CIVIC SUPERHEROES, by Daniel Cox. “Signs of America’s civic malaise are everywhere. In The Atlantic, Derek Thompson meticulously documented our ‘self-imposed solitude,’ dubbing the current moment ‘the antisocial century.’ With good reason. Fewer Americans are spending time in public spaces, joining clubs, and being active in community organizations. We have become a nation of homebodies. A New York Times analysis of the American Time Use Survey found that since 2003, Americans are spending an extra 1 hour and 39 minutes a day in their house or apartment.” Read more here.
IS GAVIN NEWSOM FINALLY SEEING SENSE ON TRANS?, by Jenny Holland. “With the reaction he received from the Democrats, you would think that California governor Gavin Newsom had admitted to something truly heinous on his podcast last week. In reality, all he did was utter words that are entirely in line with what the majority of Americans think – that is, that boys should not compete in girls’ sports, because it is unfair to girls. Incredibly, to date, Newsom is the only high-profile Democrat to acknowledge this reality, while his party keeps doubling down in the opposite direction.” Read more here.
THE SAD OUTCOME OF THE ‘TRANSGENDER’ BOY FEATURED ON THE COVER OF NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, by Jonathon Van Maren. “For a decade, the media and the entertainment industry have worked hand-in-glove with the transgender movement to create the phenomenon of the ‘transgender’ child star. Rarely, however, do we get to hear how those stories turned out. …Avery Jackson no longer uses ‘she/her’ pronouns, and no longer identifies as female. Instead, he identifies as ‘they/them.’ The ‘trans girl’ used as a poster child to make the case for transgender surgeries is, in fact, a poster child for precisely the opposite.” Read more here.
GENDER AGENDA: THE BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY, by James Esses. “In 2020, the BPS published an article by Canadian researcher, Reubs J Walsh, entitled: ‘A blow to the rights of transgender children’. Crucially, the article remains live even after the final Cass Review Report, which clearly set out the risks of medically transitioning children and the harm caused by gender clinics in the preceding years. Walsh begins with a patronising demand of readers: ‘I always refer to girls and boys based on their identities, not assigned sex; please do the same!’” Read more here.
BLOCK THE PUBERTY BLOCKER TRIAL, by Telegraph View. “In the wake of the Cass Review’s report on the use of puberty blockers in treating children presenting with confusion and distress over their gender, the [UK] government rightly acted to ban their use. The evidence of benefits was too slim, and the safety risk to those taking these drugs too great, to justify their continued prescription to vulnerable children. A temporary ban put in place in May last year was accordingly made permanent in December. While this policy remains in place, however, there now appears to be a potential backdoor to their continued use in Britain.” Read more here.
OREGON LIES ABOUT TRANSGENDER TREATMENTS FOR KIDS, by Paul Terdal. “Who cares about truth — or protecting kids — when gender ideology is on the line? That’s the best way to understand Oregon’s decision on February 7 to join a court case against the Trump administration’s new limitations on transgender treatments for children and teenagers under 19 years old. The lawsuit was filed by Attorney General Dan Rayfield as one of his first acts in office, but state records reveal the suit rests on a foundation of falsehoods.” Read more here.
UN HAS PUSHED ABORTION WORLDWIDE FOR 30 YEARS AND WOMEN AREN’T ANY BETTER OFF, by Raimundo Rojas. “The 1995 Beijing Conference on Women, hailed as a landmark moment for advancing women’s rights worldwide, produced an outcome document that has been used for nearly three decades to shape global policies. Though its stated goals included improving health outcomes, enhancing economic opportunities, and securing fundamental human rights for women and girls, much of its implementation has instead been weaponized by Western nations and abortion advocates to push abortion on demand rather than provide tangible solutions to the issues affecting the developing world.” Read more here.
PLANNED PARENTHOOD TELLS COURT THAT RIGHT TO LIFE ACTUALLY MEANS A RIGHT TO ABORTION, by Shawn Carney. “By toppling Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court restored the right to protect unborn babies to we the people. That freedom is in jeopardy in Wisconsin, where a Planned Parenthood lawsuit before the state Supreme Court argues that the right to life and liberty guaranteed by Wisconsin’s constitution actually means a right to abortion. You can’t make this stuff up.” Read more here.
‘THEY FAILED HIM’—CROSS-SEX HORMONES KILLED HER GENDER-CONFUSED SON, by Megan Brock. “Dominick Dunlap began taking female hormones at age 26 after just one visit to a gender clinic to have a ‘more feminine appearance.’ Less than two years later, he was dead. Despite having a family history of blood clotting disorders, a gender clinic in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, put Dominick on estrogen after just one visit, his mother, Natalie Dunlap, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. ‘My son was crying out for help, and the people he reached out to failed him.” Read more here.
FORGIVE ME IF I’M NOT SAD TO SEE GENDER CLINICS IN INDIA CLOSE BECAUSE THEY’RE FINALLY LOSING MY TAX DOLLARS, by Tyler O’Neil. “Did you know that the very first gender clinic—established to pump people full of experimental drugs to make their bodies resemble those of the opposite sex—in India opened thanks to your tax dollars? Meanwhile, ‘independent media outlets’ in Ukraine have been forced to shut down because President Donald Trump froze U.S. foreign aid. Don’t buy the Democratic hype—this foreign aid pause isn’t about blocking food from starving children in Africa.” Read more here.
BLOCKED, by Bernard Lane. “A prominent gender clinician and board member of the Australian Professional Association for Trans Health has abandoned his claim that it is legal for parents to import into Australia cut-price puberty blockers for their children. Dr Darren Russell’s claim that parents can save almost $1000 a year with perfectly legal imports of puberty blockers has vanished from the website of his national online gender clinic Prism Health.” Read more here.
ITALIAN TRANSFEMINISTS FIGHT PATRIARCHY WITH BOARD GAME, by Ildikó Bíró. “Just when you’d think progressivism can’t get any weirder, you inevitably meet some next-level irrationality. A (radically) new version of the popular board game Monopoly entitled ‘Pink’ will soon hit the shelves in Italy. … The game was developed by three Siena-based transfeminists … and is described as ‘gay-friendly’ in the Italian press. … Apparently, Pink (sometimes branded Pink*) is not just a game, but a complex project of activism (and indoctrination) that has been around at least since 2021.” Read more here.
DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD: CORPORATION TELLS WOMEN THEIR BABIES ARE UNDEVELOPED ‘BLOBS,’ by Nancy Flanders. “Planned Parenthood has a long history of deceiving women about prenatal development, often telling women that their preborn babies in the first trimester are not actually ‘babies’. However, even in the embryonic stage of life, a human being is still a human being. When a woman named Tommie was pressured by her husband to abort their child, the first abortion facility they visited sent her away, telling her she was too far along for an abortion — but then her husband took her to Planned Parenthood.” Read more here.
FALSE PROMISE, by Bernard Lane. “The use of puberty blocker drugs with gender-distressed minors will be reviewed by Belgium’s Federal Health Care Knowledge Centre (KCE), according to the newspaper De Standaard. The coalition agreement for the country’s new government under Prime Minister Bart de Wever stipulates that the scientific evidence for transgender puberty suppression be examined. ‘There is a broad debate taking place in our society, but also among doctors, about the use of hormone inhibitors,’ a spokesman for the social democratic Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke told De Standaard last month.” Read more here.
I WATCHED MINNESOTA POLITICIANS DEBATE TRANS IN WOMEN’S SPORTS; IT WAS NAUSEATING, by Dan Zaksheske. “On Monday, a bill (HF 12) came up for a vote in the Minnesota House of Representatives. The bill, aptly titled ‘Preserving Girls’ Sports Act’, sought to have the state come into compliance with President Donald Trump’s recent executive order that keeps males out of women’s sports. The bill was brought by Rep. Peggy Scott who said, ‘It’s called common sense. The girls in my school never had to consider the injustice of a male taking our place on the team, or the prospect of serious injury that could come while competing against a stronger, bigger male.” Read more here.
WHY IS THE MEDIA CONTINUING TO CLAIM MALE ‘TRANSGENDER’ CRIMINALS ARE WOMEN?, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Despite Donald Trump’s executive order reaffirming the sex binary, the press is plunging forward with the transgender delusion. By that I mean that they are still covering stories about male criminals as stories about female criminals, which is not only deceiving the audience – but it is challenging readers and viewers to suspend disbelief and acknowledge their identification of obvious males as females despite what our eyes tell us.” Read more here.
BUFFER ZONES ARE SILENCING PRO-LIFE FREE SPEECH IN AMERICA AND WORLDWIDE, by Katie Glenn Daniel. “Vice President JD Vance began his recent remarks at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast by noting a deeply concerning trend: ‘The last administration liked to throw people in jail for silently praying’ outside abortion centers. The problem Vance speaks of is not uniquely American, and he raises it persistently. In a speech before the Munich Security Conference that has created a stir, Vance warned, ‘In Britain, and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat.’” Read more here.
HOW THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION CAN SUPPORT HEALTHY MARRIAGE, by Rachel Sheffield. “The most pro-life and pro-child institution that exists is marriage. Healthy marriage is the bedrock of healthy families and children. Declining marriage rates drive down birth rates. Married women are far less likely to have an abortion. And children raised by their married parents have on average the best outcomes on a host of factors: physical and emotional health, educational achievement, and poverty risk. Fewer and fewer Americans are marrying, though, particularly those from lower-income and working-class communities, meaning that more Americans are deprived of the benefits marriage provides.” Read more here.
WOMAN LOSES FOUR LIMBS AFTER BOTCHED ABORTION, by Ashlynn Lemos. “‘I was massacred,’ a French woman said after losing all four limbs due to a botched abortion. Priscilla Dray, who was 35 at the time, acquired a severe staph infection after the killing of her child, but when she went into the hospital due to pain, no one would believe her. …The day after undergoing the abortion in 2011, Dray went to the emergency room at the hospital ‘suffering from fatigue and fever,’ but was sent home without antibiotics. …By the time Priscilla returned to the hospital two days after the abortion, her condition had become critical. Read more here.
NOT JUST IN CITIES: COHABITATION HAS BECOME A RURAL PROBLEM, by Timothy Goeglein. “When we think about rural communities we tend to conjure up images of faith, large families, friendly neighbors, and conservative values—the exact opposite of the trends that mark our nation’s urban centers these days. Unfortunately, as Bob Dylan once famously sang, ‘The times they are a-changin … ‘ And just as the times changed in urban America several decades ago regarding marriage and family, they have changed in rural communities, as well.” Read more here.
WHISTLEBLOWER: BIDEN TURNED THE NSA INTO ‘A CULT HELLBENT ON PUSHING GENDER IDEOLOGY,’ by Ben Johnson. “The Trump administration promptly ordered the firing of roughly 100 federal employees whom whistleblowers exposed for turning the nation’s intelligence agencies into ‘a cult that was hellbent on pushing gender ideology,’ creating ‘a counterintelligence risk’ that is ‘going to get people killed in the field.’ The employees produced messages from an online forum dedicated to government work items in which agents promoted transgender surgery, sexual fetishes and polyamory, while cheering the death of evangelical leader Pat Robertson. ‘They hate capitalism. They hate Christians.” Read more here.
HOW GAY ARE GABLES? IVY LEAGUE SCHOOL’S ARCHITECTURE PROGRAM GOES ‘TRANS*’, by Alex Parker. “Have you ever ached to combine building blueprints with the sense that you and your sex are egregiously at odds? This can be done — if you’re able to afford an Ivy League education. The Princeton University School of Architecture is enlightening Spring 2025 students on how alternative lifestyle elements intersect with structural style. Specifically, the college is deconstructing cisgender architectural analysis. Gone are heteronormative oppression and patriarchal norms; these days, delving into design means drafting dimensions of diversity. Hence, the school is serving up ARC 317: Queer Spaces in the World.” Read more here.
MODERN FEMINISM MAKES WOMEN MISERABLE, by Victor Joecks. “The best thing modern feminists could do for women is tell them to reject feminism. The Institute for Family Studies recently analyzed findings from the annual American Family Survey. It found 37% of conservative women ages 18-40 said they were completely satisfied with life. But only 12% of liberal women that age were. That’s a shocking disparity, but it’s not an outlier finding. In 2021, Columbia University professors put out a study on depression among 12th graders, looking at data from 2005 to 2018. They found ‘female liberals reported worse internalizing symptom scores over the study period than all other groups.’” Read more here.
SAFETY GAP, by Bernard Lane. “The rationale for a research project linked to Australia’s most influential gender clinic admits that ‘critical gaps’ in the scientific understanding of puberty blockers ‘undermine their safe and effective use.’ This warning, as yet unreported in mainstream media, is at odds with widely publicised claims that puberty blockers—routinely prescribed off-label by Australia’s gender clinics to stop the normal sexual development of children as young as 9-13—are safe and beneficial, even ‘lifesaving.’” Read more here.
PORNOGRAPHERS BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT, by Adeline A. Allen. “Justice Potter Stewart famously offered this to define pornography: ‘I know it when I see it.’ That may have worked fine for Justice Stewart, but how about for the rest of us? And in particular, could we keep at least the kids from seeing it and knowing it? Texas is trying. The state’s legislature passed a law, H.B. 1181, which requires porn sites to verify the ages of their users. Requiring age verification to access online pornography has become a popular move: eighteen other states have similar laws on the books, covering approximately 130 million Americans. But the pornographers sued Texas and recently brought their argument to the U.S. Supreme Court in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton. They argued that the Texas law violates the First Amendment.” Read more here.
UN COMMISSION WILL TEST TRUMP’S RESOLVE ON GENDER IDEOLOGY, by Stefano Gennarini. “The United Nations is soon to mark the 30th anniversary of the landmark 1995 United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. The Commission on the Status of Women will be a key occasion for Trump to undermine or otherwise disrupt the UN gender agenda. Negotiations are already underway for a political declaration recommitting countries to the 1995 conference. It is expected to be adopted on the first day of the Commission. The Trump administration, in the customary negotiating style of this U.S. president, is putting all options on the table, including asking UN delegations to delete all mentions of ‘gender’ in the draft declaration.” Read more here.
COURT RULES SCHOOLS CAN HIDE KIDS’ GENDER IDENTITY FROM PARENTS, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “As further evidence of a sweeping national trend in constitutional analysis gone awry, yet another federal court has ruled that parents have no right to information related to the gender that their minor child chooses to identify as at public school. In Foote v. Ludlow, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit determined that the state’s interest in providing a ‘safe and inclusive’ learning environment for students did not infringe upon parental rights and satisfied the lowest tier of judicial review.” Read more here.
57 [MAINE] SCHOOL DISTRICTS HIDE KIDS’ GENDER DYSPHORIA FROM PARENTS, by Breccan F. Thies. “In Maine, where gender and queer theories reign supreme, at least 57 of its 192 school districts have policies that exclude parents from knowing whether their children start identifying as transgender. According to documents reviewed by The Federalist and obtained by Parents Defending Education through public records requests, a significant portion of Maine’s public school districts — including its most populous ones — hide students’ critical medical and social information from parents if they are unwilling to allow their child to ‘transition’ genders.” Read more here.
MAKE MARRIAGE A GUIDING PRIORITY: A REVIEW OF ‘SEX AND THE CITIZEN,’ by Beverly Willett. “Conn Carroll’s new book, Sex and the Citizen: How the Assault on Marriage is Destroying Democracy, is a must read for anyone on the front lines defending marriage. For decades, policymakers and cultural elites have been steering marriage on a collision course backwards with reckless policies and misinformation—their voices amplified by the media, and the publishing and entertainment industries. They frequently accuse marriage advocates of hindering freedom and progress by waxing nostalgic for a time when women were oppressed.” Read more here.
BRITAIN CREEPING TOWARD LEGALIZING CHILD RAPE, by David Strom. “Tommy Robinson is sitting in solitary confinement as I write. He is there for 18 months because he aired a documentary. Let that sink in. Whatever you think of Robinson–I think he is a brave truth-teller, others think he is a rabble rouser–the sentence is cruel and unusual. Pedophiles and child rapists, on the other hand, are getting off very lightly or not punished at all in the UK. There are countless stories like Robinson’s and Thomas Becton’s. People enjoying a bit of fun with kids who should be in playgrounds is apparently no big deal anymore, but sending out tweets that offend the powers that be can land you in jail or at the very least get you a threatening visit from the police.” Read more here.
TAMPON COMPANY CEO STOOD AGAINST GENDER IDEOLOGY MOVEMENT. HER BUSINESS IS THRIVING, by Virginia Allen. “Macy Maxson did not intend to become a lightning rod pushing back on the gender ideology agenda that has infiltrated so much of society—even feminine hygiene products. But when Maxson founded Garnuu, a tampon subscription service, in 2022, she chose to affirm biological reality. ‘From the beginning,’ Maxson says, she decided her company would stand firm on the fact ‘that only women can get periods.’” Read more here.
STRING OF PRO-LIFE PROSECUTIONS IN UK ‘PROVE JD VANCE TO BE CORRECT,’ by Ben Johnson. “Just days after Vice President JD Vance warned Europe against imposing Orwellian laws criminalizing free speech and silent prayer, police in Scotland arrested a 74-year-old grandmother for silently offering to speak to women outside an abortion facility, if they wished. Rose Docherty stood outside the abortion wing of Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow holding a sign that read, ‘Coercion is a crime, here to talk, only if you want.’ Two police officers insisted she desist, handcuffed the elderly woman, and charged her with violating the abortion facility’s ‘buffer zone’ barring free speech within a wide radius of any abortion facility.” Read more here.
BOOKS BANNED IN PRISONS, BUT ALLOWED IN SCHOOLS? TEXAS MOM WANTS THEM OUT, by R.E. Wermus. “A Texas mother is looking to pass several bills through the state legislature this session after discovering what she calls ‘vulgar,’ ‘profane,’ and ‘indecent’ books in public school libraries across the state. Bonnie Wallace, a member of the Llano County Library Advisory Board and mother to a former Llano County Independent School District student, began warning parents, school officials, and lawmakers about the inappropriate content available to children in public schools after she found dozens of ‘bad books’ at her local high school library.” Read more here.
A COLORADO SCHOOL HELPED A TEACHER GROOM A STUDENT AND SEPARATE HER FROM HER PARENTS, by Madeline Leesman. “The mother of a student at Columbine High School in Jefferson County, Colorado said that the school’s ‘woke’ policies allowed her daughter to be groomed by one of her teachers for years. According to the New York Post, an investigation by the police and the school allege that former social studies teacher Leann Kearney, 37, alienated the underage student from her parents to control her and help her ‘navigate her sexuality.’ ‘This was years of grooming.” Read more here.
A SLIVER OF HOPE, AS OTTAWA DECIDES NOT TO FUND ABORTION ACTIVISTS, by Jonathon Van Maren. “As the Trump administration cuts through federal funding in Washington, D.C. like a combine through a wheat field, scores of influencers have taken to X to highlight ludicrous projects the taxpayers were paying for. These projects included … a transgender comic book in Peru, … a transgender opera in Colombia, and … DEI programs in Serbia. Conservatives have been alternatively amused and appalled. Of course, Canadian conservatives having nothing to chuckle about. The Trudeau government has been fire-hosing taxpayer money into perverse projects for a decade.” Read more here.
COUNTER DIRECTIVE, by Bernard Lane. “A government ban on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for new patients in Queensland, Australia, is reportedly under challenge from within the system by the statewide Queensland Children’s Gender Service. On January 28, the state government department Queensland Health issued a directive immediately halting all new prescribing of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for gender-distressed minors in the public system, pending an independent review of the contested evidence for these interventions.” Read more here.
TOP FIVE REASONS PLANNED PARENTHOOD DOESN’T DESERVE OUR TAX DOLLARS, by Eva Cooley. “For too long, Planned Parenthood has gotten away with destroying millions of unborn lives while benefiting from a slush fund of billions in taxpayer dollars their political allies have funneled their way. But thanks to the persistence of pro-life leaders and advocates, over time, the corruption beneath the abortion giant’s pink fonts and progressive spokeswomen has been exposed. Enough is enough. Here are five main reasons Planned Parenthood doesn’t deserve a cent of American taxpayers’ hard-earned money.” Read more here.
BLUE STATE LEADERS KEEP GIRLS LOCKED IN TRANS SPORTS NIGHTMARE, by Suzanne Bowdey. “When Donald Trump signed the executive order on Title IX, he insisted the war on women’s sports was over. What he didn’t count on were states brazen enough to defy him. So far, a string of rebellious governors and athletic boards have spurned the White House’s guidance, leading to exactly what the president was trying to prevent: more girls cheated out of titles. In Maine, where the state principals’ association and department of Education have both vowed to ignore the order, a biological boy has already made local girls pay for their decision — stealing first place in women’s pole vaulting at a Class B state championship this week.” Read more here.
SPEAK, HIPPOCRATES!, by Bernard Lane. “The centre-right French newspaper, Figaro, has devoted a full page to a new book, The Sermon of Hippocrates: Medicine in the Grip of Identity Ideologies. Its authors, clinical psychologist Dr Céline Masson and child psychiatrist Dr Caroline Eliacheff, are co-founders of the gender medicine watchdog group the Little Mermaid. Their book is described by Figaro as ‘precise and gripping,’ an interrogation of ‘a form of medicine that, under the guise of benevolence, no longer treats, but validates desires, at the risk of causing irreversible damage.’” Read more here.
STONEWALL, UK’S LARGEST TRANS RIGHTS ORGANIZATION, TURNED OUT TO BE A USAID FRONT, by David Strom. “Stonewall UK, which in recent years has been at the tip of the spear in the fight to transify the UK, is slashing their staffing by 50% and even then may be in trouble. Why? USAID cuts. Stonewall UK is a USAID front with some outside donors. Stonewall could be forced to cut up to half of its staff after President Trump’s decision to freeze foreign aid, The Times understands. Workers at the LGBTQ+ charity were told on Thursday that restructuring would take place, and that only roles with dedicated funding would be safe.” Read more here.
STUDIES CLAIMING ABORTION IS AWESOME FOR WOMEN ARE TOTALLY BOGUS, HERE’S HOW, by Randall O’Bannon, Ph.D. “It seems to occur every month or so. …The media touts the latest abortion study purporting to show that chemical abortions cannot be reversed; … that aborting women are better off socially and economically; that abortion laws have no impact on the incidence of abortion; that abortion funding decreases abortion, etc., etc. …Most of these “studies” look super-scientific …But if you look closely, study those charts, follow those citations, learn how to read between the lines, do some critical analysis and apply basic logic and common sense, you may find that their claims and conclusions don’t always withstand scrutiny. Sometimes, read carefully enough, you’ll see they even prove the opposite of what they claim!” Read more here.
COACH FIRED FOR DEFENDING WOMEN’S SPORTS, by Jacob Huebert. “President Donald Trump recently issued an executive order called “Keeping Men out of Women’s Sports.” Among other things, it stops the federal government from subsidizing institutions that allow athletes born male to compete against females. It’s a popular cause. Author J.K. Rowling approvingly posted an iconic image of Trump at his desk proudly holding up the executive order while surrounded by happy young girls, which has gone viral and received nearly 40 million views.” Read more here.
AVOID THE ‘INTERSEX TRAP,’ by Colin Wright. “In these debates [about gender], sophistry is often employed to push ideological agendas and silence opposing viewpoints. One of the most effective and prevalent bits of sophistry in this arena is what I call the ‘Intersex Trap.’ This strategy, frequently employed by those who seek to undermine the biological basis of sex in favor of subjective notions of ‘gender identity,’ involves pointing to the existence of irrelevant intersex conditions to deflect criticism away from the central issue at hand. The Intersex Trap employs a twofold approach to dismissing the sex binary: one that relies on sowing confusion, and another that manipulates emotions.” Read more here.
ANALYSIS: USAID TARGETED FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS AND AMERICANS AT HOME, by Stefano Gennarini. “Many Americans are reeling after the White House Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) revealed in recent weeks that USAID spent hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to influence foreign elections and instigate revolutions in other countries. They are only now realizing what most of the world already knew. For decades, the U.S. foreign aid agency has used a variety of social engineering programs to undermine foreign regimes considered hostile to America. These covert political operations were carried out around the world, in many cases to effect regime change, under the guise of promoting democracy, gender equality, LGBT rights, climate change and reproductive health.” Read more here.
GROTESQUE: JUDGES FORCE TRUMP ADMIN TO FUND EXPERIMENTAL TRANSGENDER INTERVENTIONS, by Tyler O’Neil. “Did you know that your tax dollars have been funding experimental ‘transgender’ medical interventions that leave kids stunted, scarred, and infertile? Did you know that when President Donald Trump tried to put a stop to it, activist groups and Democrat attorneys general sued, and judges ordered the administration to keep funding these Frankensteinian ‘treatments’? It’s hard to overstate just how egregious a medical scandal this is. Activists use the gaslighting term ‘gender-affirming care’ to hide the ugly truth. In the name of medicine, doctors are altering the chemistry of boys and girls to prevent them from undergoing the natural process of puberty.” Read more here.
THE NCAA POLICY ‘PROTECTING’ WOMEN’S SPORTS IS A HEAD FAKE. DON’T FALL FOR IT, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “President Donald Trump has issued a flurry of executive orders, but few have received as much media attention as his directive protecting women’s sports. And few subsequent developments were as gratifying as the National Collegiate Athletics Association’s about-face on women’s athletics, which reversed the NCAA’s previously trans-inclusive policy and relegated women’s collegiate athletics to biological women, alone. Or did it?” Read more here.
NEW COALITION SEEKS TO UNITE A FRAGMENTED PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT, BACKS EFFORT WITH $30M, by Moira Gleason. “A new coalition backed by a $30 million venture fund from pro-life philanthropists will seek to unify the fragmented pro-life movement in America. 40 Days for Life co-founder David Bereit launched the Life Leadership Conference on Tuesday. The collective seeks to unite pro-life think tanks, ministries, and policy leaders under one umbrella so the movement can win more and compromise less, according to a memo to pro-life leaders from the initiative’s architects. ‘This was born out of a lot of frustration in the pro-life movement, particularly since the overturn of Roe v. Wade,’” Read more here.
INDOCTRINATION ON TRIAL, by Erin Hawley. “The Supreme Court has agreed to review whether a school board can compel public elementary school students to participate in LGBTQ storybook time without giving parents prior notice or an opportunity to opt out. The case, Mahmoud v. Taylor, challenges the Montgomery County (Md.) Board of Education’s requirement that elementary school teachers read books celebrating gender transitions to children to disrupt what the board calls “cisnormativity.” Several parents filed suit claiming that the inability to opt their children out of instruction contrary to their religious beliefs violates the Free Exercise Clause. The Supreme Court will hear the case this spring.” Read more here.
NEW YORK TIMES ADMITS PLANNED PARENTHOOD INJURES WOMEN IN BOTCHED ABORTIONS, by Marjorie Dannenfelser. “A New York Times article published over the holiday weekend proves the adage that if it weren’t for double standards, corporate media would have no standards at all. …’The case of the botched abortion in New York is one of scores of allegations reviewed by The Times that accuse Planned Parenthood of poor care.’ …Their explanation this time: Planned Parenthood is poor.” Read more here.
STERILIZATION IN A CULTURE OF FEAR: THE DEEPENING CRISIS OF ANTI-FAMILY IDEALS, by Herbie Newell. “Earlier this year, a Michigan state representative admitted to having surgery in order to prevent herself from conceiving children. Fearing the fate of her ‘reproductive freedom’ under the Trump Administration, she chose to have the sterilization surgery. She claims to worry about things such as insurance coverage and access to contraceptives, but the main issue is that she is part of a culture that doesn’t want children and idolizes self. Why would our culture take such drastic measures to avoid having children?” Read more here.
TRANS IDEOLOGY IS IN RETREAT, BUT WE MUST FIGHT UNTIL IT’S DESTROYED, by Nathanael Blake. “The New York Times is very upset that President Trump is not respecting transgender identities. The editorial board disapproves of his executive orders rolling back gender ideology, and a piece by Amy Harmon accused him of ‘undermining the very idea that transgender identities are legitimate and should be recognized. Good. ‘Gender identities’ that are disconnected from our embodiment as male and female are nonsense.” Read more here.
CURING TRANS DELUSION: ‘GYNECOLOGISTS ARE TRAINED TO TREAT WOMEN’S GENITALS,’ by Jonathon Van Maren. “A French gynecologist has been suspended from practicing medicine for one month and penalized with an additional five months of probation by the French Medical Council for declining to treat a 26-year-old man who identifies as a woman. In August 2023, a trans-identifying man and his partner showed up at Dr. Victor Acharian’s office in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the Pau region of southwestern France. Acharian, naturally, treats only women, and after several moments, his secretary told the man that Acharian wouldn’t see him.” Read more here.
NEW FRENCH SEX ED PLAN OPENS GATE TO GENDER IDEOLOGY, by Hélène de Lauzun. “The arrival of the Bayrou government in office coincided with the accelerated implementation of a new, openly militant sex education programme in French schools, completely excluding parents from the process. Despite the mobilisation of parents’ associations, there is no indication that the Ministry of Education intends to back down. All the indicators are red; the skill level of young French children is plummeting year after year; the basics—reading, writing, arithmetic—are not mastered by the time they start secondary school; but the stated priority of the Ministry of Education is ‘relational, sexual and emotional’ education.” Read more here.
TRUMP’S TRANSGENDER ORDERS ARE WELL WITHIN EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY, by Sarah Parshall Perry and Paul J. Larkin. “In two short weeks, President Donald Trump has issued scores of executive orders, many of them related to gender identity. Outraged critics claim that he lacks the authority to do so. Do they have a case? Consider first the orders themselves. In addition to recognition of a formal two-sex policy for the whole of government, Trump issued executive orders barring trans-identified individuals from service in the military, requiring the removal of preferred pronouns in all government communiques, and directing all federally funded educational institutions to maintain athletic programs separated by biological sex, rather than gender identity.” Read more here.
‘IT DOESN’T HAPPEN OFTEN’ IS NOT A REASONABLE DEFENSE FOR MEN IN WOMEN’S SPORTS, by Stephanie Lundquist-Arora. “Americans are gaining ground in the fight to protect women’s sports. This week, for example, the Department of Education sent a letter to the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the National Federation of State High School Associations, urging them to restore female athletes’ records. The demand comes on the heels of President Donald Trump’s executive orders to protect women’s sports and to restore biological truth to the federal government.” Read more here.
BETTER OPTIONS THAN MARRIAGE? THINK AGAIN, by Betsy VanDenBerghe. “One of America’s leading academic marriage experts, Brad Wilcox, professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, points out that Andrew Tate, ‘the biggest voice in the online manosphere today — with more than 12 billion views on TikTok alone — is no fan of marriage.’ But Tate and his male followers are not alone in feeling apprehensive about lifelong commitment. Growing numbers of young women likewise want to decenter, even exclude, men from their lives. Others form partnerships only as long as they’re personally fulfilling.” Read more here.
PRO-LIFE ENGLISHMAN CONVICTED FOR PRAYING THANKS VP FOR ‘EXPOSING THE REALITY’ OF UK CENSORSHIP, by Bob Hoge. “Vice President JD Vance took to the stage in Germany on Friday for the annual Munich Security Conference and promptly eviscerated the European continent for a variety of failures. As RedState’s BONCHIE wrote, it was ‘a blistering speech that drew groans from the crowd, [in which] Vance ripped European hypocrisy on democracy and freedom of expression, pleading with them to get their houses in order.’” Read more here.
LIVE ACTION ASKED THE PUBLIC IF PLANNED PARENTHOOD SHOULD GET TAXPAYER FUNDING. THEY ANSWERED, by Bridget Sielicki. “Would you keep paying for a service like cable or internet if the cost went up 245%, but the service decreased? That’s the question Live Action asked to passersby for its latest ‘man on the street’ video. At the onset, nearly everyone asked was in agreement: it doesn’t make sense to pay for a service if the cost goes sky-high while the services received decrease. But some people began to bristle when the scenario was swapped, and instead of a cable provider, the entity in question was Planned Parenthood.” Read more here.
1942 SUPREME COURT CASE SUPPORTS TRUMP’S BAN ON ‘GENDER TRANSITIONS’ FOR KIDS, by Bob Marshall. “The 1942 Supreme Court decision Skinner v. Oklahoma ex rel. Williamson invalidating a 1935 Oklahoma mandatory criminal sterilization statute successfully challenged by a chicken thief may give President Donald Trump unexpected constitutional support for his recent executive order to protect America’s children from chemical and surgical mutilation resulting from so-called medical professionals, who ‘are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions.’” Read more here.
ONE WOMAN IS ON A MISSION TO BRING THE WORLD’S LARGEST PORN SITE TO ITS KNEES, by Jonathon Van Maren. “For four years, the world’s most popular porn site – Pornhub – has been dealing with a non-stop public relations crisis largely due to a campaign started by one woman. Activist Laila Mickelwait of the Justice Defense Fund founded the #Traffickinghub movement in 2020 with an army of supporters. With 33.5 billion visits in 2018, Pornhub features sexual violence and the degradation of women. Some of those assaults are criminal, a fact horrifyingly highlighted when a mother of a 15-year-old girl from south Florida who had been missing for almost a year discovered that her daughter was still alive when pornographic photos and videos of the missing teen surfaced.” Read more here.
WARNING ON BLOCKER IMPORTS, by Bernard Lane. “A prominent gender doctor, who serves on the board of gender medicine lobby the Australian Professional Association for Trans Health (AusPATH), has set up an online clinic where his legal advice on access to hormonal treatment for minors has been challenged as inaccurate. Dr Darren Russell’s new Australia-wide clinic, Prism Health, also highlights savings of almost $1,000 a year if puberty blockers are imported from overseas suppliers, which his website says is legal with a doctor’s prescription. Asked about this, federal regulator the Therapeutic Goods Administration urged people to take ‘extreme caution before importing unapproved medicines into Australia for personal or family members’ use.’” Read more here.
STUDY FALSELY CLAIMS ABORTION BANS INCREASE INFANT MORTALITY, by Steven Ertelt. “A new study falsely claims abortion bans are increasing infant mortality. A recent study published in JAMA Pediatrics claims a significant increase in infant mortality rates in U.S. states that enacted abortion bans or severe restrictions following the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs.The research indicates that between September 2021 and August 2022, these states experienced an estimated 478 additional infant deaths that might have been avoided without the bans. But that time period is mostly before the June 2022 Dobbs decision, rendering the analysis faulty.” Read more here.
THE DARK MONEY BEHIND THE TRANS MOVEMENT: INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST JENNIFER BILEK, by Jonathon Van Maren. “For the first time in a decade, the seemingly invincible transgender movement is on the run. In the United States, the Trump administration is purging gender ideology from government institutions and issuing a string of executive orders targeting everything from sex change surgeries for minors to LGBT indoctrination in schools. Europe’s medical institutions—in Norway, Finland, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and France—are pushing back against ‘gender affirming care’ for minors or banning it entirely. Populists in Canada, the Netherlands, and Germany have caught the mood and are increasingly unequivocal in their condemnations of aspects of gender ideology.” Read more here.
A STUDY SHOWS THAT NEW PRO-LIFE LAWS HAVE SAVED THOUSANDS OF LIVES, by Michael J. New. “On Thursday, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) released a study on the impact of recently enacted pro-life laws. It analyzed state level fertility data from all 50 states and the District of Columbia from 2012 to 2023. It found that state level abortion bans and heartbeat acts resulted in statistically significant increases in state fertility rates. Overall, it estimates that over 22,000 lives have been saved by recently enacted pro-life laws. Good news! It is heartening to see an analytically rigorous study demonstrate the lifesaving effects of pro-life laws.” Read more here.
WHY SO BLUE: LIBERAL WOMEN ARE LESS HAPPY, MORE LONELY. BUT WHY?, by Grant Bailey and Brad Wilcox. “Young liberal women are especially prone nowadays to reporting poor mental health. This was the discovery that Zach Goldberg made almost five years ago pouring over Pew data in the spring of 2020. Further research in 2022 found that depression had surged among liberal high school girls in the last decade-and-a-half, and much more so for them than other high schoolers, especially conservatives. Is this ideological gap in the mental health of liberal and conservative women still present? Yes, new evidence from 2024 American Family Survey indicates it is.” Read more here.
TROJAN HORSE OF GENDER IDEOLOGY THREATENS AFRICAN TREATY ON PROTECTING WOMEN, GIRLS FROM VIOLENCE, by Laura Bryant Hanford and Grace Melton. “Member states at an African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, are poised to adopt an ‘African Union Convention on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls.’ Its goal is laudable, but as the African Bar Association has revealed, a number of the provisions of the draft treaty reflect an entirely different purpose: radical gender ideology. To protect women from violence and from this toxic imperialism of ‘queer’ activism, the African Union should postpone adoption of the treaty until these provisions can be worked out.” Read more here.
THE UK LABOUR PARTY QUIETLY DROPS TRANSGENDER PLANS, by Jonathon Van Maren. “There has been plenty of good news from the frontlines of the fight against gender ideology recently, but despite the pizzazz of the Trump executive orders, the developments I am most interested in are coming from the United Kingdom. The U.K., like Canada, has a political situation in which both major parties have been largely agreed on the correct approach to social issues for years: Avoid them at all costs.’’ Read more here.
STERILISATION AND SURGICAL MUTILATION OF CHILDREN ‘PAUSED’ BY QLD GOVT, by John Morrissey. “The questionable practice of subjecting minors to puberty-blocking drugs is usually met with government indifference and little attention in the local media. However, Queensland Health’s recently-announced restriction on this treatment for all new child and adolescent patients has clearly provoked the Albanese Labor government’s health minister Mark Butler into action.” Read more here.
SUPER BOWL COMMERCIALS IGNORE A MASSIVE CULTURAL SHIFT, PIT MEN AGAINST WOMEN IN SPORTS, by Daily Wire Shop. “On Super Bowl Sunday, two ads — one from the NFL and another from Nike — were promptly blasted by social media users. In the NFL’s commercial, the league suggests that girls can play football just as well — or even better — than boys. The ad begins with some nostalgia, taking place in a typical high school in 1985, but the viewer quickly realizes that this commercial isn’t about the nostalgia of the ’80s — it’s about making fun of how people thought about sex and gender in the ’80s.” Read more here.
WHAT EITHAN HAIM’S VICTORY TEACHES US, by Bunni Pounds. “Eithan Haim is not just a legal victory for one person, but a crucial moment in the fight to protect children from harm. It is also another example of the real fact that if we, as American citizens, speak up loudly and consistency against injustices and pray, vote, and engage — electing leaders who are pursuing justice — that we can see victories on the issues that we care about. The 34-year-old surgeon, who bravely exposed Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) for continuing transgender procedures on minors despite publicly stating otherwise, should never have been prosecuted in the first place.” Read more here.
TRUMP’S EXECUTIVE ORDER ON WOMEN’S SPORTS WILL RESOUND ACROSS THE GLOBE, by Nicole Russell. “If a picture is worth a thousand words, President Donald Trump’s photo of him in the Oval Office, surrounded by women and girls of all ages, signing an executive order protecting women’s sports, is surely worth a screed in the history books. Among many things, it signals to the rest of the world that America will no longer participate in leftist ideology that hurts women and girls in the name of inclusivity. And the rest of the world should continue to follow.” Read more here.
ARGENTINA’S JAVIER MILEI BANS SEX CHANGES FOR MINORS, by Jonathon Van Maren. “On January 24, Dutch PVV leader Geert Wilders endorsed Donald Trump’s executive order affirming that there are two biological sexes. On February 5, Argentina’s presidential office announced that President Javier Milei would be signing a ban on sex change ‘treatments’ for minors under the age of 18 – including puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones – and taking some steps to ensure that trans-identifying male convicts are not incarcerated in male prisons.” Read more here.
TRUMP SIGNALS HE’LL FIGHT FOR REALITY AT UNICEF WITH MOTION TO NUKE DEI AND TRANS IDEOLOGY, by Iulia-Elena Cazan and Stefano Gennarini. “In an unexpected move Friday, the Trump administration issued a series of amendments to the UNICEF executive board that would have effectively rooted out transgender ideology and so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion programs from the United Nations’ children’s agency. Though the amendments failed to pass, they demonstrated that even at the U.N., the Trump administration intends to fight on all fronts.” Read more here.
FROM THE OLYMPICS TO THE NCAA, THE GROUND UNDER TRANS SPORTS CRUMBLES, by Suzanne Bowdey. “There are lots of questions about what the 2028 Olympics will look like after California’s wildfires, but one thing isn’t in doubt about the Los Angeles Games: men will not be stealing women’s medals. At least not if Donald Trump can help it. On the same day that the president set fire to the radical trans sports agenda of the Biden administration, he announced that the Olympics would no longer be a gender free-for-all where women watch helplessly as men shatter their lifelong hopes and dreams.” Read more here.
HOW NOT TO DO AN EVIDENCE CHECK, by Jillian Spencer and Patrick Clarke. “In July 2023, the NSW state government in Australia unveiled its blueprint for gender treatment services for children and youth. The document, titled ‘NSW Framework for the Specialist Trans and Gender Diverse Health Service for People Under 25 Years’, outlined the expansion of the ‘affirmation model’ for young people suffering gender distress, in line with guidelines endorsed by the Australian Professional Association for Trans Health (AusPATH) and from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health guidelines (WPATH).” Read more here.
WHY THE DOUBLE-MINDEDNESS ABOUT MARRIAGE, by Matt Sharp. “As a child, I had a clear sense that there were milestones in life that not only marked one’s passage to adulthood but that epitomized the ‘pursuit of happiness’: getting your first car, graduating high school, moving into your own place, getting married. But for many young people, at least one of those milestones is no longer perceived as a measure of success. Over the last 50 years, the marriage rate in America has dropped by 60%, and a survey of both Gen Zers and Millennials found that two in five consider marriage ‘an outdated tradition.’” Read more here.
NEW C-FAM ANALYSIS SHOWS HOW FORMAL LEFT-WING POLICIES HAVE GOVERNED USAID, by Rebecca Oas. “Under the Obama administration, and even more aggressively under the Biden administration, the U.S. government used USAID to promote controversial gender ideology and employed language used to promote abortion such as ‘sexual and reproductive health.’ Of the policies surveyed, 40 percent included language pertaining to gender ideology, while some specifically promoted ‘comprehensive sexuality education’ abroad. An example of how this type of social engineering has been woven into USAID’s work is its gender equality and women’s empowerment policy, which was updated under former President Joe Biden in 2023.” Read more here.
CORPORATIONS THAT PUSHED GENDER IDEOLOGY OWE AMERICA AN EXPLANATION, by Isaac Willour. “As the human costs of selling ‘gender-affirming care’ en masse continue to rack up, the zeitgeist has decidedly shifted against activist organizations like the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). Only a few short years ago, the tenets of the HRC were considered an indispensable part of the conversation for any politician or corporation looking to claim the mantle of ‘inclusivity.’ ‘History will be brutal to those responsible [for gender ideology]. But almost certainly not brutal enough,’ wrote Andrew Sullivan last year, in a withering assessment of how sharply the cultural tides turned on the extremes of the transgender movement.” Read more here.
GOP REP. CONDEMNS OVER $10M IN ‘DEI GRANTS’ FOR UNIVERSITIES TO STUDY TRANSGENDER LAB ANIMALS, by Ward Clark. “Representative Nancy Mace (R-SC) has been in the news quite a bit lately, in no small part because of her running feud with a certain Texas Democrat (yes, there are some.) While Rep. Mace freely engages this other representative, she also has time to engage in uncovering wasteful spending by the government in her role as a member of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee. In the committee’s latest find, Mace revealed that millions of taxpayer dollars have gone into the creation of ‘transgender’ monkeys, mice, and rats.” Read more here.
A VICTORY FOR WOMEN ATHLETES, by the National Review editors. “As long as we’ve had organized sports, no one thought it would be a good idea for men to compete against women, until the last several years. As part of the trans craze, male athletes infiltrated women’s competitions, teams, and locker rooms. The consequences were woeful, and sometimes, men claimed a spot on each rank of the podium in women’s divisions. Now, President Trump has intervened with his aptly named executive order, ‘Keeping Men out of Women’s Sports.’ Trump has already been fighting the pervasive gender ideology through his executive actions. On Inauguration Day, he signed an order on ‘gender ideology extremism’ that directed all ‘federal agencies and employees to operate on sex-based definitions of words like ‘male,’ ‘female,’ ‘men,’ ‘women,’ ‘boys,’ and ‘girls.’” Read more here.
ARGENTINA JOINS A GROWING NUMBER OF COUNTRIES FIGHTING AGAINST GENDER IDEOLOGY, by Jonathon Van Maren. “On January 24, Dutch PVV leader Geert Wilders endorsed Donald Trump’s executive order affirming that there are two biological sexes. On February 5, Argentina’s presidential office announced that President Javier Milei would be signing a ban on sex change ‘treatments’ for minors under the age of 18 – including puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones – and taking some steps to ensure that trans-identifying male convicts are not incarcerated in male prisons. ‘Gender ideology taken to the extreme and applied to children by force or psychological coercion simply constitutes child abuse,’ Milei government said in a published statement.” Read more here.
VIRGINIA SCHOOL DISTRICT STANDS BY ‘INCLUSIVE’ POLICIES AFTER ALLOWING MALE SEX OFFENDER IN GIRLS’ LOCKER ROOM, by Haley Strack. “When Jen McDougal escorted her nine-year-old daughter to the locker room after swim practice in the early evening on September 9, 2024, she expected to see the usual changing-room scene: moms drying their giggling, teeth-chattering daughters. Instead, the room, full of about a dozen girls, was silent. Everyone was focused on the naked man who stood in the middle of their space.” Read more here.
HOW DO YOU SPELL INDOCTRINATION?, by Lisa Selin Davis. “What is gender identity? Most likely, it’s a cognitive phase during which preschool-age kids understand that there are sex categories, and that they belong to one or the other. Those kids adumbrate the boundaries of the categories based on stereotypes, believing long hair and pink makes one a girl, or that sports shorts and short hair equal boy. Around age six or seven, they understand gender constancy: sex is fixed, and not dependent on stereotypes. Teaching gender identity as a “sense of your own gender” is not only nonsensical, but based on the same stereotyped vision of sex that preschoolers cling to.” Read more here.
TAKE COVER, by Bernard Lane, “Health services in the US have begun to restrict poorly evidenced hormonal and surgical interventions in response to President Trump’s January 28 executive order seeking to radically curtail the gender medicalisation of young people. Hospitals and other providers in New York, Rhode Island, Washington DC, Virginia and Colorado have reportedly taken actions to avoid threatened sanctions and loss of federal funds by suspending these medical treatments for patients under 19 or cancelling appointments. One high-profile hospital took down a webpage that offered puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.” Read more here.
NY ABORTIONIST AND MOTHER INDICTED FOR FORCING TEEN TO KILL HER PRE-BORN CHILD, by Justine Brooke Murray. “You’ll always hear the ‘my body, my choice’ types hype up fantastical stories about women who were supposedly forced to give birth, in an attempt to make abortion a feminist issue. They never tell you or care about the rights of women forced into killing their pre-born babies. But one Louisiana teenager’s voice is finally being heard after a grand jury indicted the people responsible for coercing her into ending her baby’s life. When the girl found out she was pregnant, she not only intended to keep her baby, but had planned a reveal party to celebrate, according to an interview given by the District Attorney of West Baton Rouge Parish. Her mother, however, had different plans.” Read more here.
YES, THERE IS A CLEAR PATH TO VICTORY FOR THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT THIS YEAR, by Ashley Bateman. “This year, pro-life organizations across the country are poised to fight abortion by defunding Planned Parenthood, restoring necessary safeguards on the abortion pill, challenging free-speech buffer zones, and more. Pro-life leaders are confident several major cases will win back legal protections for the unborn and cut funding to abortion providers this year. The largest grassroots pro-life organization in the world, 40 Days for Life, stood up an enhanced legal arm, the Institute of Law and Justice (ILJ), in Aug. 2023 to address increasing aggression against pro-lifers. To date, the ILJ has lost no cases and is taking one to the Supreme Court.” Read more here.
MEN DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT TO SEE A GYNAECOLOGIST, by Jo Bartosch. “When a man walks into a gynaecologist’s office and demands an examination, it’s safe to say that the problem lies between his ears, and not necessarily his legs. Yet when Dr Victor Acharian, a French gynaecologist with decades of experience, refused to examine a male transgender patient, he was suspended from practising for a month. The incident took place in August 2023, when a male patient sought an appointment at Acharian’s practice in Pau, south-western France. Recognising the limits of his medical training, Acharian declined to perform an examination, offering instead to refer the patient to a more suitable specialist – to which the patient allegedly shouted, ‘You’re transphobic!’, and stormed out of the consulting room.” Read more here.
ABORTION PILLS OVER THE COUNTER? THIS COULD BE A TERRIBLE REALITY, by Sarah Terzo. “More and more telehealth providers are springing up throughout the country. And these telehealth providers, protected by shield laws, are even mailing abortion pills into states where abortion is illegal. In a telehealth abortion, the pregnant person meets with the abortionist either over Zoom or a similar platform, or over the phone. The abortionist could be many miles away. After a brief conversation, the abortionist mails the abortion pill to the pregnant person. The person who is pregnant takes it. She never sees a doctor, never gets an exam, and never has an ultrasound.” Read more here.
FULL STEAM AHEAD, by Bernard Lane. “The first Australian state to restrict paediatric gender medicine and propose its own independent review of the evidence should go ahead with its plans despite intervention by the federal government, according to emeritus professor of law Patrick Parkinson and prominent psychiatrist Dr Philip Morris. On Tuesday, the state of Queensland announced an immediate halt to new prescriptions of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for gender-distressed minors in the public health sector, pending a review of the evidence base.” Read more here.
HOW J.K. ROWLING DEFEATED THE TRANSGENDER MOVEMENT, by Jonathon Van Maren. “The past six months have been tough for the transgender movement; the past week has been terrible. President Donald Trump has signed a string of executive orders targeting gender ideology, affirming that the U.S. government recognizes only the male-female sex binary, protecting minors ‘from chemical and surgical mutilation,’ and targeting LGBT indoctrination in schools. In Canada this week, two large-scale studies highlighted, once again, that evidence for the efficacy of cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers is weak to the point of non-existence.” Read more here.
HOW THE GENDER FEVER FINALLY BROKE, by Abigail Shrier. “When the history of 21st-century gender mania is written, it should include this signal entry: In 2020, a website called GoFundMe, usually a place to find disaster-relief appeals and charities for starving children, contained more than 30,000 urgent appeals from young women seeking to remove their perfectly healthy breasts. Another entry, from June 2020: The New England Journal of Medicine, America’s platinum medical publication, published a piece explaining that biological sex is actually ‘assigned at birth’ by a doctor—and not a verifiable fact, based on our gametes, stamped into every one of our chromosomes. In fact, biological sex ought to be deleted from our birth certificates—the authors claimed—because a person’s biological sex serves “no clinical utility.” Breaking news to gynecologists.” Read more here.
ARE WE ABOUT TO SEE RAMP UP OF TRANS VIOLENCE?, by David Strom. “Ten years ago I would never have thought that I would be writing about an uptick in violence from trans activists. In fact, if you asked me, I would have told you that while I had no data, I would think that transgender people were more likely to be victims of bigoted violence than to commit it. On that latter point, I would have been mostly wrong–it turns out from the statistics that, statistically speaking, transgender people are victims of murder at a lower rate than the general population, although the numbers are so small that it is hard to trust that the statistics are significant. I also would have assumed that transgender people were not especially likely to commit violent crimes, and for all I know, that is still the case, although the recent rush of men in prison ‘transing’ to get into women’s prisons probably skews the statistics.” Read more here.
UNRESOLVED DEBATE ABOUT ABORTION: ABUSE OF LANGUAGE, by Jerry Newcombe. “Fifty-two years ago, seven out of nine robed men in Washington, D.C. banged the gavel and declared a death sentence upon what would turn out to be 65 million (and counting) human beings in America. I refer to the infamous Roe v. Wade decision of the Supreme Court on January 22, 1973. And they twisted plain language to usher in this death sentence. Although it was finally overturned in the Dobbs v. Jackson decision of 2022, the nation still bears the scars of this Supreme Court decision which gave us abortion on demand. What’s fascinating about this unresolved debate about abortion is the abuse of language in order to hide the grisly reality of the deliberate killing of preborn babies.” Read more here.
CANADIAN MEDIA MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO IGNORE NEW STUDIES ON HARMFUL GENDER TRANSITIONS FOR MINORS, by Jonathon Van Maren. “As I have noted many times here at LifeSiteNews, when the UK National Health Service’s bombshell Cass Review condemning gender ‘transition’ for minors was published, virtually the entire Canadian press engaged in a voluntary blackout. Unless you were reading an alternative news source, an international news source, or the National Post, it was as if Cass Review — and its findings — had simply never existed. Many media outlets did not run a single story; the state-funded CBC ran precisely one, and it was a laughable hatchet job claiming that the massive study was ‘biased.” Read more here.
DAVOS AND THE GLOBAL MOVEMENT TO STOP GENDER IDEOLOGY, by Iulia-Elena Cazan. “Argentinian President Javier Milei shocked global leaders at the World Economic Forum when he announced the downfall of the woke, gender-ideology, and abortion agendas. He announced new alliances, including with the Trump administration, that seek to ‘remove this abhorrent ideology from our culture, our institutions, and our laws.’ ‘What once seemed like the absolute global hegemony of the woke left in politics and educational institutions, in the media, in supranational organizations, or even in forums like Davos, has begun to crumble,’ said Milei.” Read more here.
IS THE HORROR OF CHILD TRANSITIONING FINALLY COMING TO AN END?, by Andrew Doyle. “One of the core tenets of faith in the woke movement is that of ‘gender identity’, the notion that we each have an innate ‘essence of male or female’, as one trans campaigner explained to me, which may be misaligned with our anatomy. This patently religious belief has formed the basis for medical policies throughout the Western world when it comes to children who are expressing confusion about their sex. Since the publication of the Cass Review by NHS England last April, the idea that there is any evidential basis for the prescription of puberty blockers has been discredited. Yet children around the world are still being medicalised for what is clearly a problem that requires a psychotherapeutic approach.” Read more here.
ARE OUR EXPECTATIONS OF MARRIAGE TO BLAME FOR OUR DIVORCE?, by Haley Scully. “Every year, divorce rates peak in January and are so high that the industry has coined it ‘Divorce January,’ with the first working Monday of the month colloquially dubbed ‘Divorce Day’ due to the high number of divorce filings. While some of us may associate the holiday season with love, happiness, and family, it is a time of extreme pressure and relational animosity for many. When reality fails to meet our high hopes, many marriages experience a post-Christmas crash and consider it the final straw. In our day, America has the 13th highest rate of divorce in the world, with around 86 divorces happening every hour.” Read more here.
PROTECTING OUR CHILDREN AGAINST IDEOLOGY AND IRREVERSIBLE HARM, by Walker Wildmon. “The debate over gender-related surgeries and treatments for minors is not just another ideological skirmish — it’s a turning point in how we define humanity, responsibility and the role of government. Across the nation, courts and legislatures are grappling with questions that would have been unthinkable just a generation ago: Should minors — whose brains are not even fully developed — be allowed to make permanent decisions about their bodies that could haunt them for the rest of their lives?” Read more here.
TO GOP: PLANNED PARENTHOOD IS NOT YOUR FRIEND. DEFUND IT NOW, by Ryan Bomberger. “With a new Trump administration, comes a new breath of life into our national leadership and a clearer, more focused vision. Hopefully, the Republican Party can see what’s so obvious. Taxpayer-funded Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is not their friend. It needs to be defunded and replaced. And if not for moral reasons (as in they killed 392,715 innocent human lives in their last reported year), do it for political ones.” Read more here.
CHILD ACCESS TO PORNOGRAPHY IS A WORLD-WIDE CRISIS, by Michael Cook. “On the docket of the US Supreme Court is a case that is bound to have a huge impact upon parents battling to protect children from pornography. Last week the justices heard oral arguments about a Texas law which requires ‘adult sites’ to use age-verification technology to keep minors to accessing pornographic images and videos. A Federal appeals court has allowed the law, but the pornography industry contends that it violates a constitutional right to free speech. The justices ruefully acknowledged that pornography is a big problem for American parents.” Read more here.
DAVID DALEIDEN WAS TARGETED BECAUSE HE KNEW TOO MUCH ABOUT THE HORRORS OF THE ABORTION INDUSTRY, by Jonathon Van Maren. “This summer it will be 10 years since the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) released its bombshell undercover videos exposing the traffic in baby body parts by the abortion industry. David Daleiden, Sandra Merrit, and other unnamed members of their investigative team exploded to prominence overnight as America was gripped by the horror they had exposed in their reporting: abortionists casually discussing the sale of baby body parts over wine and salad, haggling over the price of tiny human organs, describing how they would crush the baby ‘above’ and ‘below’ the organs they wished to sell.” Read more here.
SCOTUS TO DECIDE IF PARENTS CAN REJECT LGBT BRAINWASHING FOR THEIR CHILDREN, by Roy Askins. “On Jan. 17, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Mahmoud v. Taylor, the case of three families against the Montgomery County Board of Education in Maryland: a Muslim family, a Roman Catholic family, and a mixed Roman Catholic–Ukrainian Orthodox family. This isn’t the start of a bad joke, but parents fighting to teach their children according to their sincerely held religious beliefs.” Read more here.
AFTER THAILAND SUCCUMBS TO SAME-SEX ‘MARRIAGE,’ LGBT ACTIVISTS HOPE OTHER ASIAN NATIONS WILL FOLLOW, by Jonathon Van Maren. “On January 23, Thailand’s same-sex ‘marriage’ law, which was passed by the Thai Senate on June 18, came into effect. ‘The rainbow flag is flying high over Thailand,’ Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra wrote from Davos, where she is attending the World Economic Forum. Thailand is only the third Asian country to redefine marriage; Taiwan did so in 2019, and Nepal legalized homosexual ‘marriages’ last April. Last November in South Korea, more than a million people protested against the LGBT agenda in Seoul, making it clear that they did not want the rainbow flag ‘flying high’ over their country.” Read more here.
ABORTION ‘SHIELD’ LAWS: THE NEXT FRONT IN THE BATTLE FOR LIFE, by Thomas Jipping. “When it overruled Roe v. Wade in 2022, the Supreme Court eliminated the biggest legal obstacle to advancing the pro-life cause. But our fight has never been a fight against Roe v. Wade. It’s a fight for life – one that is only just beginning. In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court said that regulating abortion belonged in the hands of the people and their elected representatives. Since then, nearly half the states have passed pro-life laws of different kinds – while others have doubled down on their pro-abortion policies. Pro-abortion states and activists, however, are not content with legally protecting abortion where they live. They are now passing so-called abortion ‘shield’ laws designed to undermine the ability of pro-life states to enforce their own laws.” Read more here.
THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE ABORTION UNTHINKABLE IS TO WIPE OUT THE FEMINISM FUELING IT, by Carrie Gress. “Like so many other pro-lifers, I always thought that the real enemy we were fighting was Roe vs. Wade and once it was gone, a pro-life America could be restored. A few years out from the Dobbs decision, most pro-lifers have woken up to the fact that overturning Roe wasn’t the silver bullet we had hoped for. Over the last few years, we have watched as state after state has adopted radical abortion policies, with only a few victories in the most recent November elections. What or who, then, are pro-lifers fighting? Planned Parenthood? The sexual revolution? Like Roe, these abortion edifices are not the real enemy, but products of it.” Read more here.
EYE ON THE TARGET: MAJOR CORPORATION TURNS ON WOKE AND THE LGBTQ MAFIA, by Tyler O’Neil. “In a shocking blow to the woke establishment and the LGBTQ mafia, Target has rejected the diversity, equity, and inclusion movement. In a blog post titled ‘Target’s Belonging at the Bullseye Strategy,’ the corporation laid out a new path forward that effectively disavows the woke movement. …The company announced new actions moving away from DEI and removing itself from the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index. Read more here.
NCAA KEEPS TOUTING ‘FAIRNESS’ WHILE REFUSING TO BAN MEN FROM WOMEN’S SPORTS, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Last week, thousands of collegiate athletic officials gathered for the NCAA’s annual convention, where they touted their latest fundraising tactics, debated how to be “more inclusive” of non-athlete and LGBT students, and argued over the effects of sports betting. The most important and pressing topic — whether female athletes have the right to play on sex-exclusive teams — was barely mentioned and even avoided. It’s this question, however, that will determine the NCAA’s credibility as an athletic governing body.” Read more here.
REJOINING THE GENEVA CONSENSUS DECLARATION WILL SOLIDIFY TRUMP’S PRO-WOMAN LEGACY, by Valerie Huber. “Last week, ahead of his inauguration, Congress submitted a bicameral resolution, led by Sen. Steve Daines (MT) and Rep. Ronny Jackson (TX), urging Trump to fulfill one of his key campaign promises: Rejoining the Geneva Consensus Declaration (GCD). Launched under Trump’s leadership in 2020, the GCD is a first-of-its-kind global coalition of 39 nations committed to improving women’s health, strengthening families, agreeing there is no international right to abortion, and protecting the sovereign right of nations to govern free from ideological colonialism – in which external mandates are imposed under threat of negative consequences.” Read more here.
ADF COMMENDS TRUMP FOR PARDONING PRO-LIFE ADVOCATES WRONGLY IMPRISONED, by Erin Hawley. “The Biden administration politicized and abused the FACE Act to target and discriminate against peaceful pro-life advocates. While they received harsh prison sentences, vandals who violently attacked pro-life pregnancy centers got off scot-free. Now, President Trump has rightly restored equal protection of the law by pardoning the peaceful pro-life advocates, including Eva Edl, an 89-year-old Soviet concentration camp survivor who sat in her wheelchair at the entrance to an abortion facility.” Read more here.
TRUMP BOLDLY RESTORES THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND GIRLS, by Libby Emmons. “We’ve come a long way from when Joe Biden urged all American parents to ‘affirm your kids,’ Congress wiped out the word ‘mother,’ trans influencers bared their breasts on the White House lawn, and two men in women’s clothes headed up the roundtable on Lesbian Day of Visibility. On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on ‘Defending women from gender ideology extremism and restoring biological truth to the federal government.’ In so doing, he rolled back the excessive gender orders implemented by the Biden administration, orders which forced gender ideology into every crevice of federal government from college athletics, to free school lunches, to federal prisons, workplace bathrooms, and beyond.” Read more here.
THE DEMOCRATS’ BORN-ALIVE DESSEMBLING, by Ramesh Ponnuru. “Liberals have never been able to decide why they are against legislation that protects newborns who survive attempted abortion. Half the time they say it’s because the legislation is unnecessary, since existing law already requires doctors to give these newborns the same medical attention as other newborns in the same medical condition. Half the time they say it’s because the law interferes with ‘reproductive rights’ or parental authority to make medical decisions. At no point do they confront the contradiction between these arguments” Read more here.
TRANSGENDER CULTURE WAR COMING ACROSS THE BORDER TO CANADA IN ELECTION YEAR, by Jonathon Van Maren. “With U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order reaffirming that there are only two sexes — male and female — he guaranteed that gender ideology will be a prominent issue in the upcoming Canadian election. Canadian politicians are already being called on to respond. For the last decade, Canadian LGBT activists have taken over our institutions almost entirely unopposed. Having redefined marriage, the LGBT movement now redefined biological sex.” Read more here.
DUTCH MP SILENCED FOR EXPOSING REALITY OF ABORTION RELEASES POWERFUL PRO-LIFE VIDEO, by Jonathon Van Maren. “A Dutch parliamentarian who was prevented from speaking about abortion during a committee meeting on medical ethics held in the Dutch House of Representatives released a viral video explaining why he was silenced—and laying out the barbarism of abortion in detail. It is easily one of the most honest and powerful denunciations of abortion delivered by a European politician in recent years.” Read more here.
LOVE, FORGIVENESS AND BOUNDARIES, by Kirralie Smith. “When my eldest daughter, Grace, told me in tears that she was trans, I was confused. When she later told me in a hollow robotic voice with glassy eyes that she needed to have ‘top surgery’ and start taking testosterone to live an authentic life, I was terrified. Terrified of failing in my most sacred duty as a mother. To protect my children from harm. My fears are well founded. And our family’s situation is far from unique. Both my daughters have fallen victim to the modern mania of transgenderism. The last three years have been a plodding kind of hell lit by spotlights of hope.” Read more here.
50 YEARS OF ABORTION IN FRANCE: TIME TO TAKE STOCK, by Hélène de Lauzun. “Fifty years ago, on January 17th, 1975, the Veil law was passed by the French National Assembly, decriminalising abortion for women and for the doctors who perform them. In 2024, abortion was enshrined in the Constitution. Although the measure passed in 1975 was initially intended to be temporary, it ended up being set in stone in the constitution of the French state. The moral pressure of progressivism is making it increasingly difficult to question these issues. At a time when the birth rate is plummeting every year, is it possible to reverse the trend?” Read more here.
JUSTICE DELAYED AND OVERDUE IN CANADA, by Paul Coleman. “Around the world, governments are enacting so-called ‘buffer zones’—restricted areas where the state dictates what can and cannot be said. These designated zones—incorporating public footpaths, bus stops, and even people’s homes—prohibit otherwise perfectly lawful activity from taking place within them. They’re even being used to criminalize silent prayer in public places, as in the cases of Isabel Vaughan-Spruce and Adam Smith-Connor—two courageous UK citizens we’ve stood alongside. As we’ll see, these restrictions on our lawful right to freedom of thought and expression have been going on for a long time.” Read more here.
HEY DOGE, WHAT ABOUT DEFUNDING PLANNED PARENTHOOD TO SAVE MONEY?, by Elizabeth Johnson. “As Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene take center stage in confronting government waste, the opportunity arises to highlight one of the most egregious examples of misuse of taxpayer dollars: funding an organization that profits from the destruction of innocent lives. As a mother of 10 and a pro-life activist for over 25 years, I have witnessed how Planned Parenthood has embedded itself into the American financial and political framework under the guise of healthcare. This must end” Read more here.
JUSTICES SKEPTICAL OF PORN WEBSITES’ FIRST AMENDMENT CLAIMS IN AGE-VERIFICATION CHALLENGE, by GianCarlo Canaparo and Jack Fitzhenry. “Free speech online is ‘imperiled’ by a Texas law requiring multinational pornography websites to verify that their users are at least 18 years old, the lawyer representing them at the Supreme Court said Wednesday. Most of the Supreme Court justices seemed skeptical, although the pornographers appeared to have found two zealous defenders on the bench. Pornography companies don’t want to have to verify their users’ ages because they fear that it will ‘burden’ their users’ ability to look at porn, which the Supreme Court has held is ‘protected free speech.’” Read more here.
PLANNED PARENTHOOD IS INVADING SCHOOL BOARDS TO PUSH ITS ABORTION AGENDA, by Stefano Forte. “Planned Parenthood failed to pass its abortion agenda. Now, the so-called “health” organization is entering Pennsylvania’s school board elections — and their fight has to do with everything besides bettering students’ lives. While parents worry about test scores, school safety, quality-of-life issues and helping teachers perform their jobs, Planned Parenthood wants to fill students’ minds with their radical agenda. Our students may struggle to read, but that is okay with Planned Parenthood, so long as their school board candidates push more robust sex-ed, gender ideology and pro-abortion talking points to our vulnerable children.” Read more here.
THE GENDER IDEOLOGY MOVEMENT IS NOW EXPLOITING THE DISABLED FOR CLOUT, by Matt Walsh. “One of the ways that trans activists have been able to sell gender ideology to mainstream audiences is by hiding its consequences. They would rather use sanitized terms like ‘gender-affirming surgery’ and ‘gender-affirming care,’ as opposed to actually showing people what these procedures entail in real life. In that sense, gender activists have something in common with abortion advocates. They’ll throw a million euphemisms at you but they definitely don’t want you to see an abortion in practice, because once any moral, sane person witnesses something as grotesque and abhorrent as an abortion, they’ll oppose it immediately.” Read more here.
LETTING PEOPLE SELF-IDENTIFY GENDER RAISES SECURITY CONCERNS, by Simon Hankinson. “The social media site Twitter now ‘identifies’ as ‘X.’ A different kind of ‘X’ now marks the spot where radical gender ideology has trumped national security under the Biden administration. Over the past decade, encouraging people to be their ‘authentic selves’ has left us with no clear and agreed upon terms for sex, gender, and so on. But in official matters, we still need a shared reality. Or let’s just call it ‘reality.’ As of April 2022, the State Department’s U.S. passport application was changed to include options for three ‘genders,’ male, female, and X.” Read more here.
RISING PORN USE AMONG TEENS CONTRIBUTES TO INCREASING TRANSGENDERISM, SAY EXPERTS, by Dan Hart. “As new reports confirm the startlingly pervasive exposure of pornography among children and teens, a growing number of experts and parents are pointing out that the increasingly deviant, violent, and traumatizing content depicted in pornography is likely contributing to the rise in minors identifying as transgender. In a newly released report from Brigham Young University’s Wheatley Institute, the authors note that upwards of 90% of teens have been exposed to online pornography. They also note a recent study finding that ‘almost 1 in 4 teenage boys reported that they view pornography every day — a rate of habitual use that is more than twice as high as 10 years earlier.’” Read more here.
WHO AM I, by Sandra Pertot. “Until recent times, the WHO’s definitions covered the accepted understanding of who were girls, boys, women and men; the terms ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ were used interchangeably. From the 1990s on, because of the concerted campaign to ‘challenge heteronormativity’ by the new queer theorists, children are now being taught it is possible to be ‘born in the wrong body’, that their sex was ‘assigned at birth’, and they may not be the girl or boy they were told they are, meaning that a child may be born in the sexed body of a female but have the gender identity of a male, and vice versa.” Read more here.
PIXAR’S LGBT REVERSAL SHOULD BE A LESSON FOR ALL OF US, by John Stonestreet and G. Shane Morris. “If this were a movie trailer, I might begin this commentary with the line, ‘In a world where Dylan Mulvaney almost destroyed Bud Light …’ As it turns out, the 2023 incident when a transgender activist crashed sales of America’s best-selling beer was a turning point. Since then, we’ve seen a number of companies respond to public pushback on gender ideology. In fact, the latest example may be the most surprising. A couple of weeks ago, Hollywood Reporter revealed that the animation giant Pixar’s new original streaming series Win or Lose ‘will no longer include’ a planned transgender storyline.” Read more here.
UN GROUP SAYS GOVERNMENT MUST FORCE MEDICAL PERSONNEL TO PROVIDE ABORTIONS, by Stefano Gennarini. “A group of UN human rights experts have called for governments to clamp down on conscientious objection to abortion by hospitals, doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel. In a report published this week, the UN working group on discrimination against women and girls claims that governments have an international obligation to force all hospitals to provide abortions, including religious hospitals. The report goes as far as describing institutional conscientious objection as ‘impermissible’ and a ‘human rights violation.’” Read more here.
DETRANSITION: AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH FOR THE LEFT, by Laura Becker. “I am a woman with no breasts. I haven’t had a normal female body since I was 20-years-old, but it’s not because of a tragic accident, birth defect, or cancer. My body was born healthy, my breasts grew fine, and in most ways I am a normal 28-year-old. As developmentally appropriate, I dream of finding a mate, getting married, and having children, but this natural ambition has been delayed because instead of learning the necessary life skills to mature into adulthood, my teens and early twenties were spent in hell. I grew up in a spiritual body modification cult: transgenderism.” Read more here.
TRANSGENDER CONGRESSMAN TELLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KIDS IT’S ‘SOCIETY’S’ FAULT FOR CALLING HIM A BOY, by Justine Brooke Murray. “America’s first gender-deluded congressman apparently believes it’s his job as a public representative to make his sexual dysphoria the problem of impressionable young children. A viral video shows ‘transgender’ Rep. Tim ‘Sarah’ McBride (D-Del.) telling elementary school kids it’s ‘society’s’ fault that people considered him a boy when he ‘knew’ he was ‘really a girl.’ In a classroom reading event sponsored by the so-called ‘Human Rights Campaign,’ children circled McBride prepared for a session of sexual confusion.” Read more here.
DISTURBING VIDEO OF DISABLED GIRL WITH DOUBLE MASTECTOMY EXPOSES THE HORROR OF GENDER IDEOLOGY, by Jonathon Van Maren. “A horrifying video posted to X by activist ‘Billboard’ Chris Elston of a young girl in a wheelchair with bright red mastectomy scars has gone viral. He titled it simply: ‘This is gender ideology.’ I have seen plenty of disturbing things in my coverage of the culture wars, but this video is truly stunning. The young disabled girl in the video is named ‘Micah Leroy,’ and she posted the video to Instagram under her handle, ‘disabled_trans_boy.’” Read more here.
HOW LEGALIZING SURROGACY HELPS ACTIVISTS ‘QUEER BABIES,’ by Katy Faust. “In December, gay father Balázs Boross published ‘Queering babies: (Auto)ethnographic reflections from a gay parent through surrogacy’ in the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society. The essay ‘explores how encounters with [a surrogate baby] disrupt or confirm normative expectations about the ‘babyness’ of babies, the ‘parentness’ of parents.’ Boross suggests ‘surrogate babies are queer creatures by default,’ ‘given their prenatal history,’ and ‘that queerness can serve as a window into the queerness of all babies.’” Read more here.
1 IN 1,000 PRIVATELY INSURED 17-YEAR-OLDS WERE TAKING CROSS-SEX HORMONES PRIOR TO STATE BANS, by Benjamin Ryan. “By age 17, about 1 in 1,000 privately insured minors were receiving gender-transition hormones between 2018 and 2022. This broke down to about 140 per 100,000 natal girls taking testosterone and 82 per 100,000 natal boys taking estrogen by this final year before teens hit the age of majority. Compared with cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers were prescribed to adolescents with a transgender-related diagnosis at a much lower overall rate during this five-year period.” Read more here.
OHIO’S NEW PARENTAL RIGHTS LAW PROTECTS STUDENTS AND EDUCATORS, by Auguste Meyrat. “As the saying goes these days, nature is healing. Aside from the waning of woke culture and the renewed hope Americans have in the future, state leaders are finally restoring parental rights in public education, most notably in Ohio. Recently, the Buckeye State’s legislature passed the Parents’ Bill of Rights that would require school officials to [among other things] … notify parents about any ‘sexually explicit materials’ and give parents permission to ‘request alternative instruction.” Read more here.
PERSPECTIVE: THE PORNOGRAPHY INDUSTRY SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED THIS MUCH ACCESS TO OUR CHILDREN, by Jason Carroll, Brad Wilcox, Brian Willoughby and Michael Toscano. “Imagine someone drove a white van into your neighborhood, opened up the panel door, and invited children and teens from the neighborhood, including yours, to watch sexually explicit videos of men and women doing the most degrading things possible. In most of our neighborhoods, such a man would be arrested in minutes, and we would make sure that no such vans came cruising for our children again. But in the virtual neighborhoods most of our teens now traverse on their smartphones, it’s a very different story.” Read more here.
TRANS SURGERIES LIKE MINE WERE WRONG THEN AND ARE WRONG NOW, by Walt Heyer. “In 1981 at 40 years of age, I was diagnosed as suffering from ‘gender dysphoria’ by a world-leading gender therapist, Dr. Paul Walker. Sitting across from Dr. Walker in his San Francisco Union St. office, I explained that when I was only 4 years old, I started cross-dressing in my grandma’s clothes at her house. To encourage me, she used her dress-making skills to fashion a made-to-fit full-length purple chiffon evening dress for my 4-year-old body. The imagery of that purple chiffon dress was more like a hot branding iron on the hindquarters of ranch livestock than a loving gift to a 4-year-old grandson.” Read more here.
LEFTISTS OUTRAGED AFTER MINN. SCHOOL DISTRICT REMOVED GAY SEX BOOK FROM ELEMENTARY LIBRARIES, by Justine Brooke Murray. “You can tell how depraved our society has become simply by the fact it is now controversial to remove pornography from the hands of 5- and 6-year-olds. A Minnesota public school district had to defend its decision to pull a gay ‘children’s’ book that includes illustrations of naked people from its library shelves after angry perverts complained – perverts who also seem to include the district’s school librarians.” Read more here.
THE STAYING POWER OF THE TRADITIONAL WEDDING VOW, by Dana Mack. “Sometime in the 1970s, after two decades of rising divorce rates, a group of professionals had the bright idea of offering marriage education to the young. The courses were to go beyond engaged couples to public high school students in the throes of first dates and the rapture of first romances. It was—and still is—a good idea, in principle. Divorce rates remain high (though not as high as they once were)—hovering around 41% for first marriages. Providing the models and skills that encourage marital stability fulfills a fundamental public good.” Read more here.
DEMOCRATS INVENT A NEW TERM FOR BIRTH CERTIFICATES OR DNA SWABS: GENITAL INSPECTIONS, by David Strom. “Did you know that protecting women and girls from men invading their locker rooms and sports requires genital inspections? Neither did I. And back in the olden days of…yesterday?–it didn’t seem to bother anyone that there were girl’s sports and boy’s sports or that pervs were kept out of girl’s locker room. Now, though, the Progressives have decided that sex differentiation is a myth and that recognizing that women exist means that you are obsessed with examining in detail the anatomy of little girls.” Read more here.
NOT IN OUR NAME, by Bernard Lane. “The newspaper Le Point has published an open letter from cautious clinicians and researchers protesting against a draft ‘gender-affirming’ guideline that would allow minors from the age of 16 to be given the same swift access to gender medicine as adults. The letter ‘Not in our name,’ organised by the watchdog group The Little Mermaid, says the guideline position adopted by the French National Authority for Health (La Haute Autorité de Santé, HAS) is ‘almost identical to that of the trans-activist associations’ and includes recommendations ‘even more radical’ than those of the scandal-plagued World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).” Read more here.
PUBLIC OPINION ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, by M.D. Perkins. “It doesn’t take a sociologist to tell you a lot has changed in the United States over the past ten years. Having watched the capture of corporate America by LGBT, the stuffing of gay characters into all kinds of media by woke Hollywood, the celebration of drag queens in libraries, schools and churches, and the overall normalization of transgenderism, America has seen major cultural shifts since the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges case. But where exactly is public opinion on the issues of homosexuality and same-sex ‘marriage’?” Read more here.
NO-FAULT DIVORCE PAVED WAY FOR NY’S ENDORSEMENT OF INFIDELITY, by Beverly Willett. “Before the enactment of no-fault divorce, plaintiffs were required to state a cause of action just like in every other lawsuit. Standard reasons for the breach of the marriage contract included adultery, cruelty, and abandonment. Indeed, research shows a high association between infidelity and divorce, with estimates of marital infidelity ranging from 20 to 40 percent. Only betrayed spouses had the right to file for divorce, however, for the simple, logical reason that they were the aggrieved party. But here’s the rub. No-fault divorce laws empowered cheaters to sue for divorce and leave the marriage with impunity, thus rewarding them for their wrongdoing.” Read more here.
THE BIG SORT: AMERICANS ARE MOVING TO STATES THAT SUPPORT THEIR VIEWS ON ABORTION, GENDER, by Jonathon Van Maren. “In 2009, journalist Bill Bishop sounded the alarm in a book titled The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart. Increasingly, Bishop observed, Americans ‘sorting themselves’ into ‘alarmingly homogenous communities,’ with people choosing to move in neighborhoods where they could live alongside likeminded people. According to Bishop, this has created a country that has become ‘so ideologically inbred that people don’t know and can’t understand those who live just a few miles away.’” Read more here.
TRIAL AND TRIBULATION, by Bernard Lane. “Gender care reviewer Hilary Cass has reaffirmed her support for a clinical trial of puberty blockers in the United Kingdom, insisting that any treatment offered to gender-distressed children must be tested by the normal, rigorous standards of medical science. …In March last year, as a consequence of the Cass review, England’s National Health Service (NHS) announced the end of routine use of puberty blockers for gender distress, confining this off-label treatment to an ethically approved clinical trial, which is expected to begin recruiting participants in the northern Spring.” Read more here.
BIDEN AWARDS CHAMPION OF ABORTION, SOGI, AND CENSORSHIP, by Rebecca Oas. “U.S. President Joe Biden has given the United States’ highest civilian honor to George Soros, the investor and philanthropist who has used his influence to promote abortion and gender ideology internationally while working to censor his opposition and label them as ‘anti-rights.’ Biden credits Soros with having ‘focused on global initiatives that strengthen democracy, human rights, education, and social justice’ through his Open Society Foundations.” Read more here.
WHY PRO-LIFERS ARE ‘THRILLED’ BY NM SUPREME COURT’S RULING AGAINST ‘SANCTUARY CITIES FOR THE UNBORN,’ by Carole Novielli. “The New Mexico Supreme Court has ruled against Lea and Roosevelt counties and the cities of Clovis and Hobbs, claiming their passage of pro-life ‘Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn‘ ordinances ‘exceeded their authority by enacting ordinances preempted by state law.’ However, despite the apparent loss, the decision has ‘thrilled’ legal representatives of the Cities and Counties who passed the pro-life measures, as well as pro-life activists who supported the ordinances.” Read more here.
ZUCKERBERG ABANDONS SHIP: THE TRANS MOVEMENT IS LOSING BIG TECH, by Jonathon Van Maren. “The transgender movement captured the institutions of Big Tech almost overnight, and the cultural power this granted them was extraordinary. Now, they are losing that power — and fighting back desperately. When both Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, and Twitter (now X) enforced their ideology, the terms of the cultural debate over gender ideology became not only incredibly narrow but was essentially limited to vocabulary pre-approved by the transgender movement.” Read more here.
WHAT’S REALLY BEHIND ABORTION ADVOCATES’ CONTINUED ATTACKS ON SAFE HAVEN LAWS, by Kelli Keane. “Texas was the first state to enact a ‘Baby Moses’ or infant Safe Haven law (signed in 1999 by then-Governor George W. Bush), allowing parents to anonymously and legally surrender an infant to designated authorities if they felt they could not care for that child. Today, as a result of what began in Texas 25 years ago, every state in the U.S. now has a Safe Haven law to allow for anonymous, legal infant surrender. But you’d never know this based on a recent Salon article penned by Amanda Marcotte, who feels that Texas just isn’t doing enough to save babies’ lives. Babies who are already born, that is.” Read more here.
A PROPOSED MODEL FOR STATE POLICY INITIATIVES TO STRENGTHEN MARRIAGE, by Alan J. Hawkins. “As a new administration is beginning to take the reins of federal power, there is a lot of buzz from more conservative elements about a pro-family policy agenda. Much of this buzz focuses on policies such as more generous child tax credits. In a post-Dobbs society, some conservative pro-life advocates are calling for a new vision of family policy that is as much pro-child and pro-parenting as it is pro-life, better supporting the choice to have and rear children. Some even optimistically argue that much of this agenda could bring conservatives and progressives together.” Read more here.
PRO-LIFERS HAVE A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD WITH THE NEW TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, by Susan Ciancio. “President Donald Trump and pro-life legislators have promised to defund Planned Parenthood, and as taxpayers, it is our duty to hold them to this promise. Planned Parenthood is the country’s number one abortion business. But they also target children with ‘sex ed’ in schools, push hormones to gender-confused teens, and have recently created a program to target youth in prisons. And they do it all with money from donors, grants, and taxpayers… This is an egregious waste of funds – funds that should be building up communities, strengthening infrastructure, and taking care of the needy. There are over 2,700 pro-life pregnancy centers that don’t commit abortions, while there are just under 600 PP facilities throughout the U.S. Imagine the good that 700 million could do if it went to helping families, single moms, and children instead of funding programs that kill.” Read more here.
CITY COUNCIL IN MISSOURI CONSIDERS SANCTUARY CITY FOR THE UNBORN ORDINANCE, by Mark Lee Dickson. “Last night, in the City of Rolla, Missouri (pop. 20,423), the Rolla City Council discussed passing an ordinance requiring compliance with federal laws on abortion and declaring Rolla to be a Sanctuary City for the Unborn (SCFTU). My involvement in Rolla came after I was reached out to by several citizens who had an interest in seeing their city pass an ordinance protecting unborn children and their moms… As of Monday, January 6, 2024, a total of 70 cities and 8 counties throughout the U.S. have passed ordinances going as far as they possibly can to protect pregnant mothers and their unborn children.” Read more here.
WILL 2024 GO DOWN AS THE YEAR TRANS RADICALISM GOT NEUTERED?, by Jason Mattera. “When it comes to the staying power of evil, it would be naïve to declare the grotesque push to mutilate and sterilize America’s youth under the guise of ‘gender-affirming care’ completely dead. Evil doesn’t take coffee breaks. But if, five or 10 years from now, we’re identifying the moment when the trans movement hit a brick wall, the year 2024 will be the clear frontrunner. Why? Because this year, the most unlikely allies started giving pushback: legacy media outlets. Yes, the same outlets that usually carry water for progressive propaganda began to call out the madness.” Read more here.
LOOK AT THE FACTS ON PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTERS, by Dr. John Worden. “In our commonwealth we are fortunate to have many pregnancy resource centers, also known as crisis pregnancy centers, providing care and counsel to women with unexpected pregnancies and women struggling with pregnancy decisions. Unfortunately there is an effort to paint these centers as evil purveyors of lies and misinformation. Some of the PRCs have been here for 50 years. Some of these centers are state-licensed medical clinics staffed daily with nurses and which have a physician medical director. Each PRC is unique in its setup and specific approach, but all are similar in that they provide free and supportive services to whomever comes to them.” Read more here.
THE HORRORS OF TRANSGENDERISM ARE STILL PLAGUING OUR CHILDREN DESPITE GROWING PUSHBACK, by Jonathon Van Maren. “As 2025 begins, trans activists are preparing for a grim fight. 2024 ended with a flurry of headlines emphasizing how much cultural ground they have lost. …Opposing gender ‘transition’ or boys in girls’ spaces, they claim, is ‘bullying trans kids.’ They demand to know: who does it hurt if a ‘transgender girl’ – that is, a boy – is permitted to use the bathroom he is most comfortable with? And of course, the answer to that question is obvious to sane and reasonable people: it hurts the girls, of course. Evidence of this is everywhere, but rarely makes the big media outlets. It is, however, often reported by smaller, local news outfits.” Read more here.
PUBERTY BLOCKERS STILL A WORRY, by Bernard Lane. “The new centre-right Liberal National Party government in the Australian state of Queensland has reaffirmed concerns about puberty blockers and put on the record its rejection of the former Labor administration’s plan to expand the state’s gender clinic. ‘We do not support the expansion of gender services for children in Queensland,’ Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie said on Sunday, adding that the state health department had been told to ‘halt any further delivery’ on the recommendations of an audit of the clinic appointed by Labor in 2023. ‘Our priority is safeguarding children and ensuring they receive appropriate and balanced care,’ Mr Bleijie said.” Read more here.
GENDER WARS: WHY 2024 WAS THE YEAR WE WENT ROGUE, by Jennifer Strickland. “While every serious study on gender confusion proves that most children grow out of it as they become adults, the progressive Left still hails gender transition as a viable, heroic choice for kids. Never has the opportunity been greater for us to model the powerful forces of masculinity and femininity. In an image-driven society that claims womanhood is an outfit, the definition of ‘male and female’ remained under fire in 2024, and I’m proud to be one of the fiery women who beckoned to the call. It only took a few brave soldiers to reveal the dangers of weakness.” Read more here.
FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS PUSH RADICAL TRANS ACTIVISM, by Stephanie Lundquist-Arora. “Some Democrats at the national level seem to recognize that their extremist positions on so-called ‘transgender rights’ at the expense of all others have cost them significantly. But Fairfax County’s public school officials, including Superintendent Michelle Reid and the district’s 12 Democrat-endorsed school board members, are continuing their efforts to force gender ideology indoctrination at increasingly earlier ages.” Read more here.
ABORTION ACTIVISTS ANTICIPATE PARIAH STATUS UNDER MEXICO CITY POLICY, by Rebecca Oas. “In the weeks leading up to the second inauguration of President Donald Trump, international abortion groups are ringing alarm bells about the anticipated return—and likely expansion—of a policy that would render them ineligible for U.S. funding unless they agree to stop promoting or providing abortions. Introduced by President Ronald Reagan as the Mexico City Policy, the pro-life executive order has been in place under Republican presidents ever since, up to the first Trump administration. Trump expanded it to cover all global health assistance.” Read more here.
THE PEOPLE CARVING UP ‘TRANS’ KIDS HAVE ‘BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS,’ by Casey Chalk. “One of the most insidious assertions of the pro-trans left is that those who oppose puberty blockers, wrong-sex hormones, and other pseudo-scientific medical interventions for trans-identifying youth have ‘blood on their hands.’ This is because, such ideologues claim, children deprived of this purported “medical care” are more likely to kill themselves. The fallaciousness of such declarations, however, is becoming more evident in light of acknowledgments from some unlikely sources in the media and medical establishment. The ‘blood on the hands’ slander of the pro-trans left has become predictably commonplace in recent years.” Read more here.
NO, GENDER DOCTORS, KIDS DON’T HAVE ‘AUTONOMY’ TO SELF-STERILIZE, by Brandon Showalter. “A new paper argues that children should undergo so-called “gender-affirming care” even if it’s ineffective at alleviating their distress. If they want it, that’s reason enough, the authors suggest. At this rate, nothing surprises me in this space but yes, appallingly, there are doctors actually making this point and it seems that they are saying the quiet part out loud, that the mask has fully slipped. As many truth-tellers have long said, the field of “trans medicine” is about ideology, not science — and some are finally admitting it. But I believe its proponents are doing so very stealthily and with sinister ulterior motives. Read more here.
THE UN’S WORST OF 2024, by Stefano Gennarini. “It may take years to find out all the damage inflicted on life and family by the Biden administration and the European Union over the past year. Several bad agreements moved forward through the UN. Here are the five worst. 1. New UN Cybercrime Treaty Opens Door to Pedophilia and Legalizes Child Sexting … 2. UN Summit of the Future Adopts Agreements for Global Governance and Censorship … 3. WHO Adopts Pandemic Censorship Rules … 4. Hungary Attacks Brave African Countries for Opposing Transgender Ideology … 5. Biden State Department Officially Launches Global Campaign Against Pro-Life/Family Groups.” Read more here.
DEFENDERS OF TRANS ATHLETES’ INVASION OF WOMEN’S SPORTS NEED TO SEE THIS NEW DOCUMENTARY, by Peter Parisi. “What do Charlie Baker, president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and Washington Post sports columnist Sally Jenkins have in common? They’re both in deep denial about the inherent unfairness of transgender faux females competing in collegiate (and, by extension, high school) athletics against real girls and women. … Baker and Jenkins—and other apologists for this transgender madness—would do well to watch a sobering minidocumentary on McNabb released Dec. 17 by Independent Women’s Forum, a conservative nonprofit. ‘Kill Shot: How Payton McNabb Turned Tragedy Into Triumph,’ a 15-minute video that may be seen on YouTube and Instagram, includes harrowing footage of the incident that left McNabb permanently injured.” Read more here.
CA JUDGE FORCES FEMALE PRISONERS TO REFER TO ALLEGED MALE RAPIST WITH ‘SHE/HER’ PRONOUNS, by Justine Brooke Murray. “The ‘feminists’ of the Democrat party have gone full circle from accusing every man of rape to incentivizing men to rape women as long as they identify with the opposite gender. In the name of ‘equality,’ California has now apparently prioritized ‘misgendering’ rapists as a greater sin than rape itself. A Madera County judge established the precedent in a ruling last week, requiring that female prisoners who allege they were raped by a ‘transgender’ inmate in Central California’s Women’s Facility must refer to him with ‘she/her’ pronouns.” Read more here.
BIOLOGY IS NOT BIGOTRY, by Jerry Coyne. “In the Freethought Now article “What is a woman?” author Kat Grant struggles at length to define the word, rejecting one definition after another as flawed or incomplete. Grant finally settles on a definition based on self-identity: ‘A woman is whoever she says she is.’ This of course is a tautology, and still leaves open the question of what a woman really is. And the remarkable redefinition of a term with a long biological history can be seen only as an attempt to force ideology onto nature. Because some nonbinary people—or men who identify as women (‘transwomen’)—feel that their identity is not adequately recognized by biology, they choose to impose ideology onto biology and concoct a new definition of ‘woman.’ Read more here.
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CLAIMS IT’S CLOSING GENDER, WOMEN’S STUDIES DEPARTMENT – BUT IT’S JUST A RESHUFFLING, by Ward Clark. “The University of Iowa announced that it would close its Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies department as public universities in the state continue to respond to a changing DEI landscape. ‘Under the proposed plan, the college would close the departments of American Studies and Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies, as well as the current majors in American Studies and in Social Justice, which have fewer than 60 students combined, and create a new major in Social and Cultural Analysis.” Read more here.
I SURVIVED CHINA’S ONE-CHILD POLICY, NOW I FIGHT TO SAVE BABIES FROM ABORTION, by Emily Hundley. “When I was 13, my mom gave me a note from my birth mother that read, ‘I hope you can give my baby a better life than I can.’ Since China had a one-child policy when I was born, my birth mother must have felt so scared when she saw her positive pregnancy test. She could have chosen to get rid of ‘this problem’ by getting an abortion. In fact, the government would have encouraged it, but instead, my mother chose Life. She chose me. By choosing adoption, my birth mother showed the greatest form of love: sacrifice.” Read more here.
END AMERICA’S GENDER CONFUSION EPIDEMIC BY EMBRACING COMPLEMENTARITY OF THE SEXES, by Kathy Athearn. “Have you noticed how many of society’s problems are rooted in gender confusion? Kids are pressured by television, movies, books, teachers, counselors, and social workers to question their gender at a very early age. Kids and adults are undergoing gender transition surgeries to try to conform their bodies to how they feel. Congress continues to consider drafting women into the military. Men and boys are accused of being ‘toxic’ and oppressors simply because they’re males. Gender-confused boys are insisting on the ‘right’ to use girls’ bathrooms and vice versa.” Read more here.
UN OFFICE PROPOSES LABELING ABORTION-RELATED DEATHS AS FEMICIDES, by Rebecca Oas.“As the UN carries out a sixteen-day campaign against ‘gender-based violence,’ its Western European regional office proposed a definition of ‘femicide,’ historically understood as the intentional murder of women, usually by men, to include deaths related to ‘unsafe abortion.’ The term ‘femicide’ dates to 1976, and was coined by feminist activist Diana Russell, but as the UN Western European office notes, the concept has ‘grown increasingly complex’ since then, leading to ‘a lack of standardization’ and ‘inconsistent definitions across regions and countries.’” Read more here.
THE FUTURE OF THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT DEPENDS ON MOTHERS WITH LARGE FAMILIES, by Ashley Bateman. “In 2018, French President Emmanuel Macron made the dubious observation that educated women don’t choose to have many kids. ‘I always say: ‘Present me the woman who decided, being perfectly educated, to have seven, eight, or nine children,’ he said. Catherine Pakaluk, a Harvard Ph.D. and Catholic University professor, immediately posted a picture of herself with her six children and started a viral hashtag #postcardsformacron, urging educated women with large families to send photos to Macron letting him know how wrong he was.” Read more here.
A POPULISM WITHOUT A PEOPLE, by Chuck Donovan. “The headlines are everywhere now, but the story has been building for decades: ‘U.S. fertility rate dropped to lowest in a century…’ (CNN); ‘South Korea’s Plan to Avoid Population Collapse’ (Think Global Health); and ‘New Report on Germany’s Birth Rate Causes Alarm for Experts’ (Newsweek). Others include: ‘Russia Birth Rate Plummets to Lowest in 25 Years’ (The Hindu) and ‘China attempts to boost birth rate amidst mounting challenges’ (Reuters). As even this small sampling of recent stories attests, the problem of sharply fallen birth rates is a global one, with few exceptions, and it prevails irrespective of the political constitution of the nations ensnared in it.” Read more here.
WILL THE TRUMP JUSTICE DEPARTMENT PUT A STOP TO THE TRANS WHISTLEBLOWER PROSECUTION?, by David Zimmermann. “Dr. Eithan Haim is set to go on trial in February for blowing the whistle on transgender procedures performed on minors at Texas Children’s Hospital, but the surgeon could be vindicated by the incoming Trump Department of Justice before he even heads to court. Haim became something of a hero to conservatives when he risked his surgical career — and his freedom — by revealing that Texas Children’s Hospital continued performing trans procedures on minors even after publicly announcing that they had discontinued the practice in response to a directive from the state attorney general.” Read more here.
2024: YEAR THE TIDE TURNED ON RADICAL GENDER IDEOLOGY, by Brent Leatherwood. “What is a woman? This is the question that was posed by U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn to then-nominee for the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, during her Supreme Court confirmation hearings. …As a woman herself, no one reasonably thinks Justice Jackson is unable to offer a definition of what constitutes a woman. But feeling the need to avoid responding in a direct fashion was a signal that Jackson, personally in that moment, had prioritized bowing to the bizarre and ever-changing cultural definitions of gender instead of a straightforward acknowledgement of what we all know to be true about the two sexes.” Read more here.
NOT ETHICAL, by Bernard Lane. “The National Bioethics Committee of Italy has recommended that puberty blockers be restricted to independent clinical trials, expressing doubt about the capacity of minors to give informed consent and stressing the role of psychological methods as first-line treatment. ‘In view of the uncertainty about the risk/benefit ratio of blocking puberty with [the drug] triptorelin, the [committee] hopes that prescriptions will only be made within the framework of trials promoted by the Ministry of Health,’ said the committee.” Read more here.
HOW THE CASS REVIEW CHANGED EVERYTHING, by Jo Bartosch. “It’s a new festive tradition for me. Sometime in December, an editor will ask, ‘Can I have 800 words on whether next year will be the end of trans?’ Having spent much of the past decade writing articles explaining the obvious – that men can’t give birth and lesbians don’t have penises – I’ve learned neither to credit our political leaders with common sense, nor to make predictions about their actions. This year, however, feels different. There have been many false starts before now.” Read more here.
ARIZONA ABORTIONISTS ‘THRILLED’ TO KILL BABIES OLD ENOUGH TO SURVIVE BIRTH, by Bridget Sielicki. “After an Arizona constitutional amendment allowing abortion past 15 weeks was recently certified, abortion businesses in the state announced they can’t wait to kill preborn children later in pregnancy, with at least one admitting that it is already committing abortions up to about 24 weeks, even though the 15-week law is still in effect until overturned by the courts. Dr. Atsuko Koyama, an abortionist at Camelback Family Planning in Phoenix, told The Copper Courier that her facility is now committing abortions up to the point of ‘fetal viability’ because they are ‘confident’ the current law restricting abortions after 15 weeks will soon be overturned.” Read more here.
CANADA’S LGBT ACTIVISTS DON’T WANT TOLERANCE. THEY WANT DOMINATION, by Jonathon Van Maren. “For decades, the LGBT movement demanded ‘toleration.’ As I have noted in this space many times, that was never the goal; it was just the pitch, carefully curated for public consumption. The truth is that the LGBT movement sought—and seeks—cultural dominance. They seek to have every level of government positively affirm their agenda, to have their flags fly in front of government buildings, to enforce speech codes that constitute compelled speech (‘preferred pronouns’), and to use whatever mechanisms available to punish those who oppose or stand in the way of these goals.” Read more here.
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION ATTACKS IDAHO’S PRO-LIFE LAW WITH LIES, by Kelsey Pritchard. “The Biden-Harris administration isn’t easing up on their abortion agenda. In their last 30 days, the federal government is continuing its quest to dismantle Idaho’s pro-life law by twisting the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). Democrats went all in on the issue of abortion this election. According to AdImpact, Democrats spent [millions] on abortion-focused TV ads for federal races during the general election.” Read more here.
THINK AGAIN, by Bernard Lane. “South Africa’s Health Minister, Dr Pakishe Aaron Motsoaledi, has faced formal questions in the country’s National Assembly about the extent of the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery among young people and whether parental consent is required. ‘[T]his area is currently being reviewed, particularly for children and adolescents, to ensure that all recommendations are in the best interest of this vulnerable population,’ Dr Motsoaledi said in a brief reply to the questions concerning cross-sex hormones.” Read more here.
THE BEST (AND WORST!) BOOKS TO BUY KIDS THIS CHRISTMAS, by Kimberly Ellis. “Jean the Book Dragon is a rising star on Instagram, garnering over 50,000 followers in just the past year. What are her followers hungry for? Clean books: Books without steamy sex scenes, raunchy language, or explicit content. And that’s exactly what Jean delivers. This sassy bookworm reviews books and tells her audience which ones to avoid like the plague and which ones are safe to devour with wild abandon.” Read more here.
THE LEFT’S TAKEOVER OF ‘SCIENCE’ IS OBVIOUS WHEN IT COMES TO SEX DIFFERENCES, by Robert Gagnon. “Comedian Bill Maher’s exchange with science commentator Neil deGrasse Tyson on male-female ‘inequity’ in sports underscores how unscientific scientists can be when captured by a ‘woke’ agenda. Tyson has used his astrophysicist credentials to spout absurd views about day-to-day changes in gender identity while ignoring the dangers to women in private spaces, minors who get chemical castration, and free speech. Though the spat between Maher and Tyson may be a flash in the pan, the issues at stake matter.” Read more here.
MEN ARE IN TROUBLE BECAUSE MARRIAGE IS IN TROUBLE, by Conn Caroll. “After decades of focusing exclusively on boosting female success, many on the Left are finally realizing that many young men are now significantly behind their female counterparts. …In Wednesday’s New York Times, under the headline, ‘If Men Are in Trouble, What Is the Cause?’ Thomas B. Edsall acknowledges this burgeoning problem by highlighting a recent paper … finding that ‘family socioeconomic status particularly influences boys’ relative to girls’ outcomes at the lower tails of the outcome distribution … In other words, whether or not a boy had a married father in the home at birth was the largest predictor of that boy’s academic success.” Read more here.
GENDER IDEOLOGY HAS COMPLETELY TAKEN OVER THE TORONTO CATHOLIC SCHOOL BOARD, by Josie Luetke. “As Maya Angelou says, ‘When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.’ The Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB)’s Equity Department and 2SLGBTQ+ Advisory Committee are wolves in sheep’s clothing that’s frayed and two sizes too small. We see through it. The gig is up—hide yo’ kids! Allow me to review some of the alarming events and material from the past year, with an eye towards mounting a resistance in 2025.” Read more here.
GROUNDBREAKING TROOP BILL HEADS TO BIDEN’S DESK WITH FIRST-EVER REBUKE OF TRANS IDEOLOGY, by Suzanne Bowdey. “After a frustrating and bitterly divided year in Congress, one thing that will go down as a bright shining success for the GOP is the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). On Wednesday, the Senate voted to send the 1,800-page behemoth to President Joe Biden’s desk, where he will be forced to do something neither side ever thought possible: sign a bill protecting children from his radical transgender agenda.” Read more here.
PLANNED PARENTHOOD’S FEDERALLY FUNDED MESS, by Emma Fuentes. “Defunding Planned Parenthood is now an attainable goal for the pro-life movement. President-elect Donald Trump aimed to do so during his first time in office, and the pressure remains for his coming term. The case is nondiscriminatory: Planned Parenthood uses its funding poorly and dishonestly. A look into the rampant unionization and various substandard working conditions makes the case itself. That is not to say Planned Parenthood is corrupt and greedy; case closed — its executives really are partial to abortion and feel responsible for it, so they maneuver accordingly and do not care about much else.” Read more here.
TIME FOR JUSTICE FOR PRO-LIFE PRISONERS AND THE DC 5, by Jamie Dangers. “Can you imagine being thrown in jail for peacefully protesting the deaths of babies in the womb? Well, you don’t have to, because it has happened. Today, the Left’s weaponization of a federal law called the FACE Act has led to exactly that, unjustly persecuting pro-life advocates who are its ideological opponents. But finally, after years of this form of persecution from the Biden-Harris administration, a much-needed airing will occur this week. A House subcommittee’s hearing Wednesday on the FACE Act will seek to get to the bottom of President Joe Biden’s weaponizing of the government against pro-life advocates and expose how they were harmed.” Read more here.
IT’S ‘PRIME’ TIME TO DISCUSS TRANSGENDER MEDICINE AS A NATION OF PARENTS, NOT PARTISANS, by Taylor Reece. “On Dec. 20, 2022, Brokenhearted Films released the indie documentary ‘Dead Name’ on Vimeo. It lasted there less than 60 days before Vimeo smote us, deplatforming the film after trans-activists raised hell because the film dared to question how a child’s transitioning can impact parents and the parent-child relationship. Vimeo told us, and the world, it pulled the film because it contained ‘hate speech.’ It even tried to withhold funds we’d earned from the sale of the film on its platform.” Read more here.
‘BUY A SPINE’: SEN. KENNEDY GETS NCAA PREZ TO BEND KNEE ON KEY POINT IN HEATED EXCHANGE ON TRANS ATHLETES, by Sister Toldjah. “Riley Gaines, a champion former University of Kentucky swimmer, has also emerged as a leading voice on this topic after having to share the trophies podium (and locker room) with former University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, who identifies as a woman but who was born a man. Gaines has testified countless times before members of Congress on Capitol Hill and also before various state legislatures on the issue, and is currently part of a lawsuit against the NCAA.” Read more here.
TRANSGENDER SKEPTICISM FROM THE WASHINGTON POST, by Jack Butler. “Over the weekend, I argued that transgender activists, who so often claim to speak on behalf of troubled minors, do not deserve the moral high ground. I focused on the form of extortion they have encouraged in young people. According to it, to deny distressed youth puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and even genital surgery is to deny their very beings, thus leading them to suicide. This notion started to become mainstream ten years ago, in reaction to the suicide of Cincinnati-area teenager Joshua Alcorn. And it was invoked in oral arguments earlier this month in United States v. Skrmetti, a Supreme Court case centering on the constitutionality of a Tennessee law restricting these treatments for minors.” Read more here.
SPAIN IS FINALLY SEEING SENSE ON TRANS, by Raquel Rosario Sanchez. “The surprising news broke earlier this month that Spain’s ruling Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) plans to ban transwomen from female sporting competitions. At the party’s 41st congress in Seville, delegates approved a resolution to limit participation in women’s sports to ‘people with a female biological sex.’ …This glimpse of sanity represents a drastic change of tack for Spain’s governing party. It follows years of internal pressure from feminists against trans-activist lobbying inside the PSOE. As part of Contra el Borrado de las Mujeres (Against the Erasure of Women), an international, Spain-based feminist organisation that campaigns heavily on the importance of protecting women’s sports, I have had a front-row seat to this unfolding drama.” Read more here.
MAJOR MEDICAL ASSOCIATION CASTS DOUBT ON ‘GENDER TRANSITION’ RESEARCH, by Dustin Hobbs. “One of the most effective weapons that proponents of radical gender ideology have wielded in support of their cause has been ‘consensus.’ When pressed to explain how blocking a young boy’s puberty or removing a teenage girl’s healthy breasts provide any medical or mental benefit, they often cite ‘experts’ or refer to a ‘consensus’ of medical organizations and government agencies. But there’s a problem with that strategy. Recent research has shown the glaring flaws in the argument that transition drugs and procedures are appropriate or helpful for minors.” Read more here.
BLOCKERS BLOCKED, by Bernard Lane. “In a draft good practice guideline, the French National Authority for Health … (HAS) has proposed that minors from the age of 16 be given the same swift access to fully subsidised gender medicine as adults, according to the newspaper Figaro. ‘This includes surgical procedures, particularly thoracic surgery [mastectomy],’ the newspaper reported. ‘Only genital surgery (which is not currently performed in France before the age of 18) is subject to a slight reservation, with the HAS recommending that healthcare professionals should not decide on their own to operate on a minor, but should take this decision during a multidisciplinary consultation meeting.” Read more here.
NICOLA STURGEON IS TO BLAME FOR ‘TOXIFYING’ THE TRANS DEBATE, by Tim Black. “Displaying a brass neck that is surely visible from space, Nicola Sturgeon has claimed that ‘right-wing media’ and ‘populist voices’ have created a ‘toxic, divisive and unpleasant’ political environment. The former Scottish first minister claimed in comments reported in today’s Guardian that the backlash to the SNP’s ill-fated Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill – which would have introduced gender self-identification north of the border – showed that ‘civilised debate’ is impossible today.” Read more here.
PLANNED PARENTHOOD ABORTIONIST: KILLING BABIES IN ABORTIONS IS ‘BORING,’ by Sarah Terzo. “During my research on Planned Parenthood, I stumbled across a quote from a Planned Parenthood clinic director that I’d like to share. It is from an old article, but the quote is so revealing of Planned Parenthood’s attitude towards abortion that I thought it deserved a mention. Irving S. Rust, director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in the South Bronx, was asked about the declining number of doctors committing abortions. He said that abortions are ‘boring’ to perform, and that is why many doctors won’t do them. It’s an argument I have seldom encountered.” Read more here.
THE TRUTH ABOUT ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE,’ by Joseph Burgo, Ph.D. “When I first encountered the apparently benign euphemism ‘gender-affirming care,’ I assumed it meant taking at face value claims to have been ‘born in the wrong body’ made by dysphoric teens and facilitating their access to hormones and surgery. Working as an expert witness gave me a chance to look ‘under the hood’ of GAC, so to speak, and confirmed my initial impressions. In reviewing years of therapy case notes from affirmative therapists, I found their ‘biopsychosocial assessments’ to be cursory; minimal efforts were made to identify comorbid mental health issues (and only to ensure that they were separately managed), but claims to trans-identification were always validated.” Read more here.
ABORTION FACILITIES COULD FACE MASS CLOSURES IF TRUMP DEFUNDS PLANNED PARENTHOOD, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Donald Trump has committed to vetoing any federal abortion law that makes it to his Oval Office desk, but there are other ways to cripple America’s booming abortion industry. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, Trump’s appointees to head the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), have already noted their commitment to defund Planned Parenthood, America’s largest abortion provider.” Read more here.
IN THE FIGHT AGAINST TRANSGENDER EXPERIMENTS ON KIDS, WHERE ARE ALL THE DADS?, by Fritz Steiger. “I am blessed to be the father of six grown children. …That process of growing up was not always easy. I watched each of them go through the often-difficult pre-teen years. Puberty, even in a healthy and morally upright nation (which ours is not) is challenging. It is absolutely normal for a kid to feel like everyone else knows how to do something you don’t know how to do. In those painful moments, kids need moms and dads who will guide them, reassure them, and lead them to understand a divine plan for their lives. What they don’t need is a father who will happily pump his kid full of hormones.” Read more here.
FBI MUST STILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR TARGETING PRO-LIFE AMERICANS, by Joshua Mercer. “Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray announced Dec. 11 that he is resigning his post. The news comes in the wake of numerous scandals involving the agency seeking to spy on Catholic church communities as well as target Catholic and pro-life Americans for prosecution. …Under Wray’s leadership, the FBI in September 2022 raided the house of pro-life Catholic Mark Houck at gunpoint in front of his wife and seven children and arrested him. The arrest was in connection with an incident when Houck shoved a pro-abortion clinic escort who had reportedly harassed Houck’s 12-year-old son.” Read more here.
NATIONAL SPELLING BEE RE-SPELLS ‘WOMEN’ ‘WOMYN,’ by Justine Brooke Murray. “Can you spell ‘in-doc-tri-na-tion?’ The Scripps National Spelling Bee competition is the latest academic program to re-educate America’s youth into adopting a re-written and re-spelled dictionary of newspeak. In its latest move, third graders competing next spring will still advance to the next round if they spell ‘women’ with a ‘y’ instead of an ‘e,’ an alternate spelling that intentionally omits ‘men’ from the word as a verbal thumbing against ‘sexism.’ The competition’s study guide of ‘properly’ spelled words now lists both spellings as acceptable.” Read more here.
THE FIGHT TO STOP PUBERTY BLOCKERS IS FAR FROM OVER, by Carrie Clark. “Imagine for a moment that you are a doctor who specialises in treating eczema. …You have at your disposal a range of safe, evidence-based treatments that enable patients to manage their symptoms and get on with their lives. Sometimes the condition resolves by itself even without treatment. One day, you become aware that a new treatment for eczema is being developed. It’s radical and highly invasive, with multiple unpleasant side effects and no data on long-term outcomes. Around a quarter of patients treated say their symptoms get better in the short term, but the remaining three-quarters either get worse or experience no change at all. There is emerging evidence that some people have been permanently harmed by undergoing treatment and deeply regret doing so. …Change ‘eczema’ to ‘gender-related distress’ and this is exactly what has happened with regards to puberty-blocking drugs.” Read more here.
LANDMARK TRANSGENDER SCOTUS CASE COULD RESHAPE A DOCTOR’S OATH TO ‘DO NO HARM,’ by Aida Cerundolo. “During oral arguments before the Supreme Court last week in U.S. v. Skrmetti, it became clear that the dispute is over more than just gender medicine — it’s about a realignment of medicine’s purpose. The case examines the constitutionality of Tennessee’s law banning gender-affirming treatments for minors. The prosecution claims such treatments are medically necessary, and banning them constitutes sex discrimination against children seeking such treatments to align their bodies more closely to their chosen gender.” Read more here.
THE U.S. HAS NO EXCUSE FOR FAILING TO PROTECT KIDS FROM THE DANGERS OF RADICAL GENDER IDEOLOGY, by Jordan Boyd. “The U.S. has no excuse for failing to protect kids from the irreversible damage caused by chemical castration — especially after the United Kingdom’s Department of Health and Social Care indefinitely banned puberty blockers for those under 18 years old this week. The U.K.’s decision to protect gender-confused minors from the drugs that effectively guarantee permanent physical alterations came after an independent review, published earlier this year, concluded there is ‘no good evidence’ that opposite-sex hormones ‘reduce suicide risk.’ The kicker is there was never any good evidence that permanently manipulating a child’s body would salvage his mental health.” Read more here.
DATA SHOW THERE’S NO ‘EPIDEMIC OF VIOLENCE’ AGAINST TRANS PEOPLE, by Chad Felix Greene. “In 2024 there were no reported murders of a trans-identifying person due to anti-trans bias in the United States. This might be a surprise, based on the routine headlines declaring that violence against transgender Americans is only getting worse. The Human Rights Campaign, one of the more prominent LGBT advocacy organizations, provides a list each year of reported murders of trans-identifying people.” Read more here.
WHY THE BATTLE OVER HUNGARY’S CHILD PROTECTION LAW MATTERS FOR EUROPE, by Rodrigo Ballester. “The European Commission, supported by no fewer than 16 Member States (an unprecedented fact), is suing Hungary over its child protection law. This national legislation recognizes identity based on biological sex and prohibits exposing minors to pornographic content, inappropriate sexuality, homosexuality, gender ideology, and sex changes. Just hours after its adoption, Ursula von der Leyen labeled the law a ‘shame’ and immediately announced the launch of an expedited infringement procedure that, a year later (a record timeframe), culminated in a lawsuit against the Hungarian government. Read more here.
THE TRANS DELUSION NEEDS TO END, by Robert Knight. “About half of America’s 50 states arguably care more about children’s wellbeing than about being sufficiently ‘woke.’ That’s why they don’t embrace gender insanity and instead ban giving minors puberty-blocking drugs, cross-sex hormones and irreversible surgeries that cut off healthy body parts. The U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 4, 2024, heard arguments over Tennessee’s law barring trans treatments for minors. Some justices blew wide holes in the case for creating ‘trans kids.’ But it’s by no means a lock that this allegedly conservative court will restore sanity on this issue.” Read more here.
NEW PRO GOLF POLICY WILL LET MEN COMPETE AS WOMEN IF THEY LOOK GIRLY ENOUGH, by George M. Perry. “While Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson compared sex mutilation surgeries for minors to racial segregation and Justice Sonia Sotomayor mused about girls who ‘don’t want … breasts’ last week, some women’s sports advocates applauded the Ladies Professional Golf Association’s new ‘gender eligibility’ policy. Even a golf clap is more than the LPGA deserves, as the new policy is riddled with bogeys.” Read more here.
REBIRTH OF SEX, by Bernard Lane. “The carrot Among Tennessee’s challengers is ‘John Doe,’ a 12-year-old girl who takes puberty blockers and identifies as a boy. She says: ‘I’ve gone through a lot to finally get to the happy, healthy place where I am, and I desperately hope that doesn’t all get taken away from me.’ That happy, healthy place is the carrot dangled by ‘gender-affirming care.’ In the Supreme Court on Wednesday, after listening to challenger-in-chief US Solicitor-General Elizabeth Prelogar, Justice Samuel Alito nibbled away at the carrot—'[C]an I ask you a question about the state of medical evidence at the present time?’” Read more here.
TRANSGENDER ACTIVISTS REMAIN A POWERFUL FORCE DESPITE SOME RECENT SETBACKS, by Jonathon Van Maren. “The transgender movement has faced a series of losses in the UK over the past several years, including the ongoing impact of the Cass Review, the new proposed NHS guidelines restoring female-only private spaces, and the high court upholding a ban on puberty blockers for minors. High-profile opponents like JK Rowling have made it increasingly difficult to maintain control over the narrative. These losses have been significant and may indicate a highwater mark for the transgender agenda.” Read more here.
UN ‘GENDER’ TREATY WOULD WAGE INTERNATIONAL LAWFARE AGAINST PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE MEN AND WOMEN ARE DIFFERENT, by Stefano Gennarini. “In one of his parting gifts to the United States and the world, President Joe Biden agreed to advance a new United Nations treaty that weaponizes international criminal law against opposition to transgender policy. Under its provisions, politicians who deliberately ‘misgender’ someone or advocate for female-only private spaces would be guilty of ‘gender-based persecution,’ a crime against humanity. In November, the General Assembly agreed to a timeline for finalizing the treaty by 2029.” Read more here.
‘QUEERING BABIES’: A DISTURBING CASE STUDY IN ACADEMIC DECLINE, by Colin Wright. “In the surreal landscape of modern academia, it seems there is no idea too outlandish to be wrapped in the veneer of intellectualism and published in a peer-reviewed journal. Enter Balázs Boross’ paper, ‘Queering babies: (Auto)ethnographic reflections from a gay parent through surrogacy,’ published in Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, a journal under the reputable Springer Nature banner. The paper masquerades as scholarship while offering little more than the author’s subjective musings dressed up in the jargon of postmodern theory. As its title suggests, the paper relies heavily on ‘autoethnography,’ a method that is essentially a diary entry trying to pass as rigorous analysis.” Read more here.
IN TRANSGENDER CASE, CAN SUPREME COURT CUT TO THE MORAL HEART OF THE ISSUE?, by Josh Hammer. “The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in this term’s marquee case, United States v. Skrmetti. The case, out of Tennessee, nominally involves a state law banning minors’ use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for purposes of so-called gender-affirming care—which, stripped of all euphemism, means genital mutilation and chemical castration. And the justices will indeed have to resolve the narrow legal question before them in this case: namely, whether or not Tennessee’s commonsense protection of vulnerable youth from the predations of the billion-dollar transgender industry offends the 14th Amendment’s injunction that no state ‘deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.’” Read more here.
MAJOR TEXTBOOK PUBLISHER CAUGHT SPREADING LGBTQ AND DEI IDEOLOGY IN SCHOOLS, by Jonathan Butcher. “‘Pretty disgusting’ and ‘grotesque.’ That’s how a Florida parent described an online session for students on ‘gender’ provided by two K-12 virtual public schools in November—a session that virtual school officials held without first informing parents. These schools’ attempt to sidestep families is just the latest in a long list of examples demonstrating that some educators and academic publishers will simply go around parents to push lewd content on K-12 students. Yet this particular incident has implications for local, state, and even federal policymakers.” Read more here.
HOLLYWOOD ACTRESS SAYS THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD ABOUT WHY SOME PARENTS ‘TRANS’ THEIR KIDS, by Madeline Leesman. “Actress Annette Bening issued remarks in front of the United States Supreme Court [building] this week where she said that having a transgender child makes her ‘much more interesting.’ Bening took part in a protest organized by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in our nation’s capital during oral arguments for a case surrounding so-called ‘gender-affirming health care’ for kids. This encompasses hormone therapy, puberty blockers, and sex reassignment surgery. The case, United States v. Skrmetti, centers around restricting this so-called ‘transgender care’ for gender dysphoric minors in Tennessee.” Read more here.
DETRANSITIONER SUES JOHANNA OLSON-KENNEDY, A TOP PEDIATRIC GENDER MEDICINE DOCTOR, FOR MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE, by Benjamin Ryan. “Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, a prominent pediatric gender medicine physician-researcher … is being sued by a former patient who is indeed seeking to have her breasts reconstructed after receiving a double mastectomy at age 14 while under Dr. Olson-Kennedy’s care. Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, who is one of the most prominent and influential physician-researchers in pediatric gender medicine, has been hit with a damning lawsuit by a former patient.” Read more here.
PROPONENTS OF TRANSGENDER PROCEDURES MAKE SHOCKING ADMISSIONS BEFORE SCOTUS, by Leif Le Mahieu. “Proponents of transgender procedures on children made three stunning admissions on Wednesday as they argued against a Tennessee law protecting children from the irreversible procedures before the Supreme Court. The admissions — that cross-sex hormones can cause infertility, that people regret the procedures, and that transgender procedures aren’t associated with lower suicide rates — undercut leftist activists’ core arguments that the procedures are necessary and lifesaving.” Read more here.
TRANSGENDER FEVER IS BREAKING, by Zachary Faria. “The public tide is finally turning against the incoherent, destructive ideology of transgender activists and toward the side of sanity and protecting women and children from disastrous policy decisions. The Supreme Court is on the verge of upholding Tennessee’s ban on child sex changes, or, as they are euphemistically called, ‘gender-affirming care,’ with both the justices for and against clearly laying out how delusional transgender activist talking points are. Justice Samuel Alito made it clear that if gender is ‘fluid’ and can change on a whim, it is not an immutable characteristic like skin color and, therefore, not subject to the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause.” Read more here.
SPEAKERS WARN CONSERVATIVES OF EU ATTACKS TO DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM, by Austin Ruse. “’The greatest threat to life and family in the world today is the European Union,’ C-Fam Vice President for Legal Studies, Stefano Gennarini, told conservatives from around the world at the tenth Transatlantic Summit. Gennarini explained that through a common foreign policy, the European Union, and the U.S. State Department are exporting not just gender ideology, but also an ‘anti-democratic, untransparent model of governance through bureaucratic and judicial mechanisms.’” Read more here.
TEXAS NEWS OUTLET FALSELY LABELS MISCARRIAGE TREATMENT AS ‘ABORTION-RELATED CARE,’ by Bridget Sielicki. “As the media continues to exploit tragic maternal deaths by blaming them on pro-life laws, it’s trying a new tactic: twisting words and using false, inflammatory language to mislead and deceive. This is evident in a recent article by KVUE Austin about the death of 35-yearold Porsha Ngumezi, who was offered a treatment for miscarriage that did not resolve her situation; instead, it exacerbated her hemorrhaging and led to her death. Though Ngumezi had miscarried her preborn baby – the baby did not have a heartbeat when she reported to the hospital – the KVUE headline claims she died ‘after being denied abortion-related care.’” Read more here.
6 FALSE CLAIMS BACKING ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE’ IN KEY SUPREME COURT CASE, byTyler O’Neil. “The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on the pivotal transgender case U.S. v. Skrmetti, and both the lawyers arguing against a Tennessee ban on ‘gender-affirming care’ and three Supreme Court justices made dubious claims and stated outright falsehoods in support of experimental transgender ‘treatments.’ Tennessee’s SB1 bans medical procedures on minors for the purpose of ‘enabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex’ or ‘treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor’s sex and asserted identity.’” Read more here.
STUDY SHOWS MARRIAGE PROTECTS AGAINST SUICIDE, DRUG DEATHS, by Dan Hart. “A new study has revealed that even as deaths from alcohol, drug overdoses, and suicides continue to rise in the U.S., those who are married are less likely to succumb to these deaths of despair. The research examined data between 2000 and 2021, which showed that mortality rates for drug overdose, alcohol abuse, and suicide all rose among those 25 and older. But the study found a striking difference between single and married Americans: ‘[T]he nonmarried exhibit mortality rates 2 to 3 times higher in alcohol and suicide deaths and 4 to 5 times higher in drug-related deaths compared to the married population.’” Read more here.
SJSU TRANS VOLLEYBALL PLAYER’S CAREER ENDS—SO SHOULD MALE PARTICIPATION IN WOMEN’S SPORTS, by Gabrielle Temaat. “Transgender athlete Blaire Fleming on San Jose State University’s women’s volleyball team likely played the last game of his career after losing to Colorado State University on Saturday. Fleming was San Jose State’s top performer in the Mountain West Tournament match, leading the team with 17 kills. However, he also made nine errors and struggled with his hitting in the first two sets, Fox News reported. … While the NCAA and other organizations claim that their rules ensure fair competition, the results of recent events suggest otherwise. From high school track meets to professional swimming competitions, biological men have dominated women’s sports.” Read more here.
JUDGMENT DAY, by Bernard Lane. “The province of Alberta has passed legislation to prohibit trans surgery for minors and stop new prescriptions of puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones for gender-distressed children under age 16, as foreshadowed in February by United Conservative Party Premier Danielle Smith. ‘These policies are designed and intended to help preserve the choices children have before they make serious decisions about their bodies or the ability to have children of their own one day or undergo potentially permanent procedures where the benefits and risks are not yet fully understood,’ Premier Smith said on October 31.” Read more here.
‘THE PRIDE POLICE’ KNOW HOW TO USE THEIR TRUNCHEONS, by James Parker. “Last week, the Human Rights Tribunal (HRT) of Ontario ruled that the township of Emo in the far west of Ontario, Canada be fined C$10 000 for refusing to celebrate Pride Month. Its officials have also been ordered to complete mandatory ‘human rights’ training. … Where have we come to? I was a gay activist in London in the 80s and engaged in discussions which shaped The Gay Agenda. (Yes, it does exist, and it is nearing fulfilment, which includes overturning heteronormativity once and for all.) One major aspect of the plan includes using psychological warfare to silence and ultimately convert any person who might fail not merely to tolerate but to celebrate homosexuality and sexual deviancy.” Read more here.
STATES CAN AND SHOULD PROTECT MINORS FROM TRANSGENDER IDEOLOGY, by John Bursch. “There’s a trend sweeping through America, especially among susceptible teenagers. Thanks to social media and peer influencers, teenagers and even adolescents are pumping their bodies with chemicals; the secret is often kept from their parents until it’s too late. I’m talking, of course, about . . . energy drinks. Last year, Senator Chuck Schumer warned that one brand’s 200 milligrams of caffeine ‘could endanger the health of kids,’ causing them to be moody and ‘suffer headaches.’ …That’s pretty rich considering that Schumer fully supports giving children hormones and even performing experimental surgeries on them — what he calls ‘gender-affirming health care’ — to make those children look more like the opposite sex. In Schumer’s world, the federal government should intervene when a young girl consumes caffeine equivalent to about two cups of coffee but cheer her on if she takes enough testosterone to make her infertile, increase her risk of heart attacks and strokes, and irreversibly alter her body. So much for public health.” Read more here.
SUPREME COURT CASE EXPOSES MEDICAL SCANDAL OF EPIC PROPORTIONS, by Tyler O’Neil. “It’s hard to wrap your head around just how grotesque it is that many medical associations and the federal government have adopted the idea that it’s healthy to sterilize children in an attempt to ‘affirm’ a stated transgender identity. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will shed much-needed sunlight on this medical scandal of epic proportions. Tennessee Solicitor General Matt Rice will explain how activists conspired to flip the Hippocratic Oath on its head. Meanwhile, U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar and American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Chase Strangio—a female who says she identifies as male—will argue that Tennessee’s law banning Frankensteinian medical experiments on kids violates federal law by discriminating on the basis of sex.” Read more here.
WOKE LANCET TRADES SCIENCE FOR RADICAL GENDER IDEOLOGY, by Thomas D. Williams. “The once-important Lancet medical journal has gone all in on gender ideologues’ redefinition of sexual differentiation, abandoning any pretense of ‘science’ along the way. It is important to ‘ensure that individuals whose gender differs from their sex are visible in study data,’ the Lancet solemnly pronounces in its latest issue. ‘Sex encompasses chromosomes, anatomy, and endogenous hormones and gender is a multidimensional construct that can be captured in terms of gender identity, gender expression, or gender modality (i.e., whether a person is cisgender or transgender),’ the journal explains. Gender ‘refers to an aspect of a person’s identity,’ it continues.” Read more here.
PLANNED PARENTHOOD CAUGHT AGAIN TREATING UNBORN BABIES AS ‘COMMODITIES TO BE TRADED,’ by Sarah Holliday. “New information has recently surfaced providing more evidence of Planned Parenthood’s involvement in the selling of fetal tissue from aborted babies. In 2018, a ‘Research Plan’ was sent to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Institutional Review Board. In it was some shocking information. The plan, conducted by scientists, stated: ‘We will collect tissues from fetuses ranging from 4 to 23 weeks gestational age from subjects undergoing elective surgical pregnancy termination at Planned Parenthood in San Diego.’ …But, in short, these ‘scientists were in search of 2,500 fetuses aborted up until about the sixth month of pregnancy for experimental purposes.’” Read more here.
TRUMP SHOULD END LGBTQ BIDEN ADMINISTRATION FOSTER CARE RULE, by Virginia Allen. “The Biden-Harris administration finalized a rule in April requiring foster parents to affirm a child’s gender ideology. ‘The provider must commit to establishing an environment that supports the child’s LGBTQI+ status or identity,’ according to the rule issued by the Department of Health and Human Services. The policy, says Herbie Newell, president and executive director of Lifeline Children’s Services, ‘made people of faith into a different category of foster and adoptive parent, saying that because they didn’t give in to this pro-radical LGBTQ+ agenda, that they couldn’t foster any child with gender dysphoria or any child that might be having any questions about their LGBTQ status.’” Read more here.
HERE’S HOW A SMALL BAND OF PEDIATRICIANS PUSHED FOR ENDING AGE MINIMUMS FOR CHILD ‘SEX CHANGES,’ by Megan Brock. “A handful of pediatricians who perform ‘sex-change’ procedures on children led a successful pressure campaign to push a major transgender medical organization to remove age minimums for life-altering sex-change surgeries from its clinical guidance, according to emails exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Emails reveal the American Academy of Pediatrics asked just four doctors—all of whom are considered leaders in the field of pediatric sex changes and have performed various transgender procedures—to review and provide feedback on an embargoed copy of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health’s clinical guidance, called the Standards of Care version 8, or SOC-8, weeks before its expected publication.” Read more here.
‘GENDER VOODOO,’ by Bernard Lane. “An Australian politician trained in paediatrics has declared medicalised gender federal politics as a National Party member, said he had been ‘flabbergasted’ to be in Australia’s parliament when ‘eminent doctors and professors’ whom he had thought ‘sensible change for minors to be lacking in evidence, a breach of the rule ‘First, do no harm,’ and ‘a blot on the medical profession.’ Dr David Gillespie, who spent 33 years in medical practice before he entered people’ declared their support for ‘gender-affirming care.’” Read more here.
SCIENTISTS DEMAND BAN ON BOILING LIVE CRABS BECAUSE THEY FEEL PAIN, BUT ABORTING BABIES STILL OK, by Brittany Hughes. “Bringing a nice little storm cloud to rain all over your next summer seafood boil are these scientists, who have now declared that it’s cruel to boil live shellfish like crabs and lobsters because, they say they’ve recently learned, these little bottom-skitterers can feel pain, meaning they don’t appreciate being roasted alive next to your potatoes and corn on the cob. …Interestingly, while finding out that crabs might feel pain has led to an immediate outcry from the scientific community demanding a ban on live crab and lobster boils, abortion in Sweden is legal for any reason up through the 18th week of pregnancy, well after an unborn baby’s nervous system has developed to be able to feel pain, studies have shown. Read more here.
‘HELL OF A VINDICATION’: DETRANSITIONER SPEAKS OUT AFTER BEING SILENCED BY COLLEGE, THREATENED BY CLASSMATES, by Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell. “Threats and bullying from peers and censorship from his college couldn’t stop detransitioner Simon B. Amaya Price from sounding the alarm on so-called gender transitions for children. Amaya Price, 20, was tasked with creating an event about social change for a class at Berklee College of Music, a private music college in Boston. He decided to host a presentation Oct. 20 titled ‘Born in the Right Body: Desister and Detransitioner Awareness’ to share his own struggles with gender dysphoria in high school and how he overcame them.” Read more here.
NO HORMONES ON CHILE’S PUBLIC PURSE, by Bernard Lane, “Chile’s Ministry of Health is prohibited from funding poorly evidenced hormonal or surgical treatments for gender-distressed minors following a historic vote by legislators in the National Congress. On November 20, senators of the upper house of Chile’s bicameral congress voted 22-19 to block any allocation of funds for puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones in the 2025 health ministry budget, rejecting a government attempt to override a similar veto by deputies of the lower house.” Read more here.
TUGGING A STRAND OF HISTORY: FEMINISM, COMMUNISM, AND TRANSGENDER BATHROOMS, by Joshua Arnold. “Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) was ‘considered an LGBT ‘ally,’ observed Family Research Council Action President Jody Hice, but ‘her latest move has supporters of the movement now labeling her as ‘anti-trans.’ Mace filed a resolution last week to protect women’s restrooms in the U.S. Capitol from male intrusion after a man identifying as a woman won election to the U.S. Congress. ‘How in the world did we even get to this point?’ Hice wanted to know. One contributing factor is feminism, Dr. Carrie Gress answered on ‘Washington Watch,’ the very ideology Mace declared was her reason for preserving women-only spaces.” Read more here.
THE GROTESQUE HOLLOWING OUT OF WOMANHOOD, by Brendan O’Neill. “First they came for women’s bathrooms. Then their rape shelters. Then their sports. Now they’re coming for their prizes. The BBC has announced the winner of its Women’s Footballer of the Year Award and you won’t believe who it is. Actually you will. It’s someone who once failed to meet gender-eligibility rules for the women’s game. It’s someone who was excluded from a major tournament after failing ‘gender-verification tests’. It’s someone with such elevated levels of testosterone that they were told to take hormone suppressants if they wanted to kick a ball again. Yes, the BBC’s female footballer of 2024 is someone whose femaleness has been called into question by some experts. … It’s Barbra Banda of Zambia.” Read more here.
BEWARE OF THE TROJAN HORSES IN THE ABORTION DEBATES, by Susan Cyre. “A Trojan Horse is a trick or strategy that causes something to appear benign or even good, and therefore be accepted and welcomed, while in reality it is deadly and brings defeat. As a result of the Dobbs decision in 2022, abortion is now largely a state issue being decided by laws passed by locally elected officials or by voters in the case of a constitutional amendment. …Every voter needs to be informed and aware of the deceptions being promoted by abortion advocates.” Read more here.
TRANSGENDER MOVEMENT HAS OVERPLAYED ITS HAND AND THE WORLD IS FINALLY GETTING WISE TO IT, by Jonathon Van Maren. “It is too early to declare victory just yet, but the transgender movement is definitely having a very bad year. As I noted recently, there is a good case to be made that transgender activists won the election for Donald Trump — and Democrats know it. In fact, many more moderate liberals are on the warpath, demanding to know why the Left is beholden to a handful of men in skirts and LGBT extremists.” Read more here.
TRANS MONTANA REP: ‘TRANSWOMEN’ ARE ‘EVERY BIT AS BIOLOGICALLY FEMALE AS CIS WOMEN,’ by Brittany M. Hughes. “Zooey Zephyr, a man who believes himself to be a woman who serves as a state representative in Montana, responded to Congresswomen Nancy Mace’s efforts to protect women-designated spaces from mental [sic] ill men this week by claiming that ‘transwomen’ – i.e, men – are ‘every bit as “biologically female” as cis women.’ With ‘cis’ women being the leftist made-up term for actual women, which also happen to be the only women, as there are no other varieties of women in existence.” Read more here.
MIKE DEWINE SHOULD SIGN THE OHIO TRANSGENDER BATHROOM BILL, by National Review editors. “Just before 2023 ended, Mike DeWine, the Republican governor of Ohio, disappointed his state. On the last Friday of the year, Governor DeWine vetoed the SAFE Act, a bill sent to him with clear majorities in both houses of the Ohio general assembly. The bill banned so-called gender-affirming therapies and surgeries for minors, and forbade athletes from participating in sports as their asserted gender identity, in defiance of their actual sex. DeWine’s rationale was dubious, as we observed at the time. He applied a hands-off approach to these procedures that was notably absent in other executive actions he had taken.” Read more here.
NYT JUMPS INTO DEMOCRAT CIVIL WAR OVER TRANSING KIDS–GUESS WHICH SIDE THEY PICK, by David Strom. “Did you know that the increasingly popular and already supermajority movement to reverse the alphabet ideology insanity is a Putinesque plot to advance cisgender White Supremacy? I didn’t. …M. Gessen, an opinion columnist for The New York Times and transgender activist, carefully lays out her argument that if children want to be sterilized and mutilated, it is just one of many choices they may come to embrace or regret and that the movement to protect them from sadistic ideologues bent on imposing their ghoulish ideology are stifling the freedom of children to be their authentic selves in the service of a Christian nationalist agenda.” Read more here.
ARIZONA GOVERNOR KATIE HOBBS CELEBRATES AMENDMENT TO KILL BABIES IN ABORTIONS, by Cathi Herrod. “Today, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs ‘celebrates’ the passage of Proposition 139 to amend the Arizona Constitution to enshrine a constitutional, fundamental right to an abortion. It is not a time to celebrate. It is a time to mourn the legal taking of unborn children’s lives and the resulting harm to their mothers. Within days, Arizona will see one or more lawsuits that will prove the real intent of Proposition 139: to overturn up to forty of Arizona’s common sense safety standards. Standards that not only protect the viability of unborn children but also the well-being and lives of their mothers.” Read more here.
HOW THE NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT AUTHORITY IS INFECTED BY WOKE IDEOLOGIES, by Matt Goodwin. “A few months ago, I published an exposé about the National Health Service (NHS), revealing how it’s been fully captured by radical gender ideology. …Not long after, I was contacted by a longstanding member of staff from NHS Blood and Transplant. The importance of the work of this branch of the NHS cannot be understated – they are responsible for the donation of blood, organs, tissues and stem cells to save the lives of those in need. For this reason, one would have thought that the basics of biological reality would be at the forefront of their practice model. If only. Instead, as I’m going to show you in this exclusive post, they too have been fully captured by radical ideological dogma.” Read more here.
EXCLUSIVE: PHILLY KIDS HOSPITAL ‘LEADING THE NATION’ IN ‘SEX CHANGES,’ by Mary Margaret Olohan. “Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is one of the top offenders in the United States when it comes to irreversible sex change procedures for children, according to a digital campaign launching Tuesday. The hospital, known as ‘CHOP,’ boasts that it is the first United States hospital devoted exclusively to the care of children. It has programs devoted to helping children explore and attempt to change their gender — and according to the advocacy group Do No Harm, the hospital is ‘leading the nation’ in offering ‘life-altering sex related interventions for minors.’” Read more here.
REALITY WINS: TRANSWOMEN ARE MEN, by Meg Kilgannon. “We have reached the tipping point on the gender issue. If I had known that electing a trans-identifying man to Congress would so definitively advance the discussion of safety and privacy in women-only spaces, I might have donated to the campaign myself. For over a decade now, women have been speaking out about the problem of men who believe they are women seeking ‘refuge’ in our bathrooms, locker rooms, college dorms, prison cells, and even sometimes our beds. The pressure has grown as more and more Americans were confronted by the very real demands required by the ‘inclusion’ of ‘gender diverse’ people on their terms.” Read more here.
YES, KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPACES — IN CONGRESS AND EVERYWHERE ELSE, by Kimberly Ross. “Rep. Nancy Mace‘s (R-SC) resolution requiring members of Congress to use the bathrooms and other single-sex facilities that correspond with their biology caused quite a stir. Less than two days after it was introduced, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson announced a change to the facility rules, saying: ‘All single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office Buildings — such as restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms — are reserved for individuals of that biological sex. Women deserve women’s only spaces.’ On Jan. 3, Sarah McBride, a biological male, will be sworn into the 119th Congress.” Read more here.
WHY A ‘LIVING ROOM FAMILY’ IS WHAT MANY MODERN PARENTS ARE STRIVING FOR, by Taylor Andrews. “In today’s world of digital distractions and personalized spaces, it’s easier than ever for young children to disappear into their rooms with an iPad or some toys. But for families that prioritize time together in the living room, connection becomes part of the daily routine. Experts refer to this kind of dynamic as a ‘living room family,’ and it’s exactly what it sounds like: a family that makes it a point to spend time together in a living room or other shared space. Instead of retreating into their own rooms, family members may gather on the couch to read books together, work on a puzzle at the coffee table, or watch a show on Netflix.” Read more here.
BRAVE AFRICAN DELEGATES FIGHT ABORTION IN LANDMARK UN FAMILY RESOLUTION, by Stefano Gennarini. “Traditional countries removed a reference to ‘reproductive health’ in the final draft of a resolution on the family. The resolution was unanimously adopted in the third committee of the General Assembly yesterday. Work behind the scenes from Burundi and other delegations from Africa ensured the removal of the term and a unanimous adoption. Powerful Western countries howled and accused traditional delegations of acting in bad faith, but ended up joining the resolution, nonetheless. Traditional countries were shocked when the first draft of the resolution in October contained the pro-abortion term ‘reproductive health.’” Read more here.
OUR AUTOGYNEPHILIA PROBLEMS, by Michael Bailey. “No issue in the transgender wars ignites as much division as autogynephilia (AGP). Beginning with the 2003 campaign against me and my book, The Man Who Would Be Queen, transgender activists have tried to ruin the reputations and lives of those who openly endorse the relevance of AGP for explaining gender dysphoria among many natal males. The other—’gender critical’—side recognizes the most florid manifestations of AGP, blaming it for much of the excesses of transgender activism and the epidemic of youth transition. Read more here.
POLISH PARLIAMENT VOTES TO ADVANCE BILL THAT DECRIMINALIZES ABORTION, by Jerzy Kwaśniewski. “On November 8, the Polish Sejm (parliament) voted on a bill decriminalizing both the performance and the aiding and abetting of illegal abortions. The Left (Lewica) party’s radically pro-abortion bill was thus sent for further parliamentary work. Thanks to the efforts of the great coalition of pro-life advocates, 11 Members of Parliament (MPs) of the government coalition voted against it. However, supporters of a debate on the legalization of killing won the vote this time. We are facing the most difficult time in years for the defense of life.” Read more here.
RUSSIAN WOMEN SAY NYET TO CHILDREN, by Michael Cook. “The world’s population is becoming greyer, getting sicker, and growing fewer. …There will be shortages of workers and – this must be giving generals everywhere nightmares – soldiers. So governments are experimenting with schemes to boost the number of babies. There have been all sorts: subsidized IVF, baby bonuses, generous parental leave, and awards for fertile mothers. Singapore even experimented with a government dating service. None of these carrots has worked. So Russia is trying a stick. A new law criminalising ‘child-free propaganda’ passed the lower house of parliament earlier this month. It still have to be passed by the upper house and signed by President Putin.” Read more here.
REPORT: CORPORATE AMERICA WANTS TO DELAY WOMEN WORKERS HAVING KIDS, by Breccan F. Thies. “A report from the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) shows that while some pro-family policies have been adopted at top corporations, the balance weighs heavily in favor of delaying or destroying families. ‘In addition to offering praiseworthy parental-leave policies and assistance with the costs of adoption or child care, a significant number of these corporations have simultaneously begun promoting and incentivizing options such as surrogacy, in vitro fertilization, egg freezing, and travel for abortions — options that encourage female employees in particular to postpone or even forego motherhood in order to advance in their careers.’” Read more here.
I THOUGHT BEING A GAY MAN WOULD SAVE ME FROM WOMANHOOD (IT DIDN’T), by Laura Becker. “It’s been seven years since I had my breasts removed. Eight years since injecting testosterone. Almost eleven years since I learned about the concept of ‘gender identity’—a discovery (if that is the right word) that set me on the road to believing I was transgender. It was 2014. … I learned the hard way that ‘queering’ oneself is (at best) a semantic exercise. It doesn’t lead to any kind of endpoint of acceptance or emotional growth. Rather, its purpose is to validate a posture of defiance and alienation.” Read more here.
KEEP OUT: HOW I LED THE SUCCESSFUL FIGHT TO BAR TRANS ‘WOMEN’ FROM MY ALL-FEMALE COLLEGE, by Macy Gunnell. “It was just another Tuesday at my campus job in the admissions office at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana, when I overheard something startling. A new policy had slipped through the cracks of my all-women’s college, a policy that would admit applicants who ‘consistently live and identify as women,’ in other words, biological men. …I knew that something had to be done, and I knew that I had to do it. I could not sit back and watch something so insulting destroy the very fabric of what made my women’s Catholic college so special. I knew the battle would not be easy, but that didn’t stop me.” Read more here.
REFLECTIONS ON HARVARD’S SEX WEEK, by Richard Y. Rodgers. “In the once-hallowed halls of Harvard University, we were confronted with a disappointing spectacle: the 12th annual event known as Sex Week. It was disheartening to see a purportedly educational initiative promoting a culture that leans toward excess and encourages an unsettling disregard for the traditional virtues of intimacy and self-respect. The discussions that unfolded during Sex Week—a week filled with explicit explorations of disordered, harmful sexual acts that blurred the line between intimacy and perversion—signalled a capitulation to the basest instincts of human nature.” Read more here.
DOCTORS PERFORMING TRANS EXPERIMENTS SHOULD PREPARE TO BE SUED IN TEXAS AND ELSEWHERE, by Ashley Bateman. “In Texas, cases are mounting against physicians who broke state law by prescribing puberty blockers and hormones to minors under the guise of ‘gender affirming care.’ On Oct. 17, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Dr. May Lau, a pediatrician and professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. The suit claims that Lau treated 21 children with hormone blockers after the practice became illegal in the state and then ‘falsified’ medical and billing records and prescriptions to manipulate the appearance of the care she provided.” Read more here.
WASHINGTON D.C. ABORTION CLINIC THAT KILLS BABIES IN ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH MAY CLOSE SOON, by Ben Johnson. “Among the constituencies that views itself as hardest hit by the 2024 presidential election is the abortion industry, especially those who carry out late-term abortions. But a fascinating, pre-election article in a liberal news outlet shows independent abortion facilities face their greatest economic squeeze, not from the incoming Trump administration, but from competitors in the abortion industry.” Read more here.
SOON, A MAJORITY OF OLDER ADULTS WILL HAVE NO GRANDCHILDREN BECAUSE THEIR CHILDREN ARE REFUSING TO HAVE KIDS, by Grace Porto. “An article in the New York Times outlined the hidden pain of parents who will never become grandparents, due to the choices of their children. Journalist Catherine Pearson wrote, ‘A growing number of Americans are choosing not to have children. Their parents are grappling with what that means for them.’ Pearson stated that in 2014, 60% of adults 50 and older had at least one grandchild. In 2021, that rate fell to slightly over 50%. The author added that many adults in the United States are not having children, and one of the top reasons is that ‘they just don’t want to.’” Read more here.
ARGENTINA STANDS ALONE AT THE UN/HUNGARY STANDS WITH THE LEFT, by Stefano Gennarini. “Argentina stood alone against censorship in the General Assembly this week. Close to sixty countries opposed transgenderism. And the Hungarian government of Victor Orbán gaslit everyone on behalf of the European Union. Argentina voted against a resolution on violence against women in digital spaces because it included ‘broad and undefined terms such as hate speech, misinformation, and disinformation, which are easily abused to restrict free speech.’” Read more here.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND RELATIONSHIPS: 1 IN 4 YOUNG ADULTS BELIEVE AI PARTNERS COULD REPLACE REAL-LIFE ROMANCE, by Wendy Wang and Michael Toscano. “Gen Zers and Millennials are the most active users of generative AI. Many of them, it appears, are turning to AI for companionship. ‘We talk to them, say please and thank you, and have started to invite AIs into our lives as friends, lovers, mentors, therapists, and teachers,’ Melissa Heikkilä wrote in MIT Technology Review. After analyzing 1 million ChatGPT interaction logs, a group of researchers found that ‘sexual role-playing’ was the second most prevalent use, following only the category of ‘creative composition.’” Read more here.
RUSSIAN LAW TO CRIMINALIZE ‘CHILD-FREE PROPAGANDA’ MOVES AHEAD AMID DEMOGRAPHIC CRISIS, by Hayden Cunningham. “Amid a demographic crisis marked by declining births and an aging population, Russia is moving to counter ‘child-free propaganda’ with new legislation that criminalizes advocacy for not having children. According to the Washington Post, the broad language of the law could impact content on television, social media, and advertising, as it does not clearly define what constitutes ‘propaganda.’ This ambiguity raises concerns that media portraying childless individuals as content or large families as unhappy could face repercussions. The Russian government’s push for the bill is part of a broader campaign to promote ‘traditional Russian values’ and encourage larger families.” Read more here.
FDA MAKES COSTCO RECALL BUTTER FOR MISLABELING, WON’T RECALL ABORTION PILLS FOR KILLING WOMEN AND BABIES, by Jordan Estabrook. “People relentlessly mocked Costco for its recent recall of 80,000 pounds of butter because it failed to list its main ingredient, ‘milk,’ despite it being labeled cream and named…well, butter. Behind this comical recall is none other than the U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA), an administration that’s more concerned with the ‘mislabeling’ of butter ingredients, enough to recall 80,000 pounds of a perfectly safe product, than recalling Chemical Abortion Pills over PROVEN dangers to women and children.” Read more here.
MEDICAL GROUPS BECOME THE NEW ‘SCIENCE DENIERS’ IN ATTEMPT TO MAKE ABORTION ACCEPTABLE, by Nancy Flanders. “It takes years of propaganda to convince women that they need to intentionally kill their preborn children in order to be equal members of society. It takes even more lies to convince them their babies aren’t even human beings, don’t have heartbeats, and are not alive. As science advances and exposes the truth about human development, life in the womb, and what an abortion does to an innocent living human, even pro-abortion medical groups will not hesitate to deny the science.” Read more here.
PERSPECTIVE: TRUMP ANNOUNCES PLANS TO ELIMINATE GOVERNMENT SUPPORT OF GENDER IDEOLOGY, by Valerie Hudson. “Two days after his decisive win in the presidential election, Donald Trump made an important video announcement. Though Trump has previously spoken about his opposition to men in women’s sports, in his announcement he goes much further in explaining the steps he will take on ‘day one’ of his presidency to eliminate governmental support for gender ideology, which asserts that sex is mutable through medical treatment and that it is possible to be born in the ‘wrong’ body in terms of sex.” Read more here.
GERMANY’S GENDER SELF-ID LAW IS DANGEROUS AND REGRESSIVE, by Sabine Beppler-Spahl. Just days before Germany’s deeply unpopular and chaotic government coalition collapsed, a new gender ‘self-identification’ law came into force. On 1 November, it became legal for people aged 14 and over to change their gender simply by making a declaration to a registry office, which they can do once per year. While minors will need the consent of their parents or legal guardians to alter their legal gender, they can seek recourse in the family courts should their parents or legal guardians refuse. …The so-called Self-Determination Act clearly shows how woke authoritarianism is the default mode for this failing, ineffective government. Read more here.
THE DISPARATE EFFECTS OF HOUSEHOLD INSTABILITY ON CHILDREN’S EDUCATION, by Laurie DeRose. “In contrast to evidence that family instability and parental divorce have sizable negative effects on white children’s education, the effects on black children’s education have been shown to be small or even absent. But are black children’s educational careers uniformly immune to family instability? Kristin Perkins’ work published earlier this year shows differences among black children, which means the disparate effects are not just black and white.” Read more here.
THE GOOD, BAD, AND UGLY OF 2024’S ABORTION BALLOT REFERENDUMS, by Shawn Fleetwood. “With most ballots tabulated in each state, the projected outcomes of these referendums produced some wins and losses for America’s pro-life movement. Here’s a breakdown of these proposed amendments and whether voters have approved or rejected them. There were several significant wins for pro-lifers and unborn babies in several states throughout the country.” Read more here.
SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY WORKING WITH WHITE HOUSE SECRETLY TRACKS KIDS’ GENDER IDENTITY, by Kathy Athearn. “The Daily Caller has released exclusive information, revealing that in Ohio, the Cuyahoga County Division of Children and Family Services (DCFS) has been tracking kids’ sexual identity in a secret database. They not only track kids in foster care, but those still living with their parents as well. Some of the kids are as young as five years old.” Read more here.
COLLEGE GIRLS STANDING UP FOR FAIR PLAY GIVES HOPE TO YOUNGER ATHLETES, by Nicole Russell. “I’m a mother of daughters (and sons). It’s heartbreaking to think of my daughters practicing hard in a sport only to lose to a team with a transgender person playing on the opposing girls’ team, bolstered by that athlete’s inherent physiological advantages. Women at the collegiate level are standing up for fair play, but they’re still facing an uphill climb. Over this past weekend, players on the University of Nevada, Reno women’s volleyball team were standing up for their right to safety and fair play on the volleyball court.” Read more here.
LIFE WINS IN FLORIDA, by the National Review editors. “Election Night 2024 was never going to be a great night for pro-lifers. But one bright spot came in Florida, where the pro-abortion Amendment 4 went down to defeat. Credit goes first of all to Florida’s sensible requirement that ballot measures to amend the state constitution should require the assent of 60 percent of the electorate. Amendment 4 garnered 55 percent support, which would have been enough to win in other states. But that itself reflects the fact that it lacked the broad consensus that ought to be required before taking an issue out of the ordinary legislative process.” Read more here.
BILLIONAIRE MONEY STILL POSES THE BIGGEST THREAT TO THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Politics aside, the past two years have given us a good look at the biggest challenges facing the [pro-life] movement. First and foremost is the fact that the pro-life movement simply does not have access to the kind of cash that abortion activists do. In fact, when you consider what the pro-life movement was up against, it is incredible that three abortion referendums were beaten considering the nonstop storm of propaganda voters were faced with. Abortion activists have a large network of organizations, big-bag donors like the Gates family and the Soros foundations, and of course, Planned Parenthood’s war chest.” Read more here.
TRUMPING GENDER, by Bernard Lane. “Florida’s Surgeon General, Dr Joseph Ladapo, an opponent of irreversible gender medicalisation for minors, would be a good appointment as the next secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HSS), according to the state’s Republican governor Ron DeSantis, whose November 7 tweet suggesting this has had more than one million views. In April 2022, Dr Ladapo criticised Biden-era HHS guidance for a misleading claim that, ‘Research demonstrates that gender-affirming care improves the mental health and overall well-being of gender diverse children and adolescents.” Read more here.
IS MARRIAGE GOOD FOR YOUR MENTAL HEALTH? SHOCKING STUDY REVEALS HOW HAVING A SPOUSE IMPACTS HAPPINESS, by Asia Grace. “Put a ring on it — not for the heck of it, but for your health. Singletons around the globe are in greater danger of experiencing mental health issues than their hitched peers, a new study has found. ‘Our analysis revealed that unmarried individuals had a higher risk of depressive symptoms than their married counterparts across all countries,’ wrote the authors of the new study, published Tuesday in the Nature Human Behavior journal.” Read more here.
BIDEN ADMIN PRAISED UN REPORT CALLING FOR ELECTION OBSERVERS ON LGBT ISSUES, by Stefano Gennarini. “The day before election day in the United States, the UN Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity presented a report to the General Assembly arguing that elections around the world are not gay and trans-friendly enough. Graeme Reed said that in order to fight against ‘hate speech’ and ‘gender persecution’ countries must censor opponents of the homosexual/transgender agenda. He even argued for ‘international election observers on LGBT rights issues.’” Read more here.
CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS CLAIM TO PROTECT KIDS WHILE HIDING GENDER ‘TRANSITIONS’ FROM PARENTS, by Andrew Davenport. “While Governor Gavin Newsom touts his new social media law as a landmark achievement for protecting kids online, California Democrats’ recent voting record indicates that safeguarding kids is not a priority for Newsom or his party. Senate Bill 976 (introduced by Democrat Nancy Skinner), which Newsom signed into law last month, bans online platforms from ‘knowingly providing’ addictive content feeds to minors ‘without parental consent.’” Read more here.
JUDITH’S STORY DEMONSTRATES HOW COMPASSION, NOT HOSTILITY, IS NEEDED TO REACH ABORTION WORKERS, by Sarah Terzo. “It’s important to reach out to abortion workers with compassion. Those who gather outside of abortion facilities and yell at workers, tell them they are going to hell, or shout bible verses at them, only increase their commitment to the abortion industry. After all, would you want to listen to someone who is hostile, judgmental, and belligerent? Or who loudly condemns you to hell? I know I wouldn’t. Even when workers are dissatisfied with their jobs and want to quit, harsh words and insults from pro-lifers can cause them to stay in the abortion industry.” Read more here.
THE RACE TO SAVE GIRLS’ AND WOMEN’S SPORTS IS WORTH RUNNING, by Alliance Defending Freedom. “Ensuring equal opportunity and fairness is the cornerstone of all sport. However, local, national, and international policies increasingly allow males who identify as female to compete in sports reserved for women and girls. The whole reason sex-based sports categories exist is to ensure fair competition by accounting for physiological differences, therefore enabling sports to reward genuine merit and excellence. And yet, gender ideology is playing a significant role in the attempt to erode this biological foundation by claiming that gender identity—how one personally experiences one’s gender—may not necessarily align with one’s biological sex.” Read more here.
WHEN THE PRO-ABORTION NARRATIVE JUST DOESN’T MATCH THE FACTS, by Laura Nicole. “ProPublica attributes the missteps in Nevaeh Crain’s care to Texas’ pro-life law protecting preborn children from abortion after a heartbeat can be detected. She was pregnant and showed up to the ER, and later died of sepsis because (they seem to imply) the hospital did not abort her wanted baby. This and previous ProPublica articles seek to push one narrative: laws that protect preborn babies result in the death of pregnant women because doctors can’t or won’t treat them. They state it in no uncertain terms: ‘[Death] is what many pregnant women are now facing in states with strict abortion bans, doctors and lawyers have told ProPublica.’” Read more here.
ONE PLACE IN JAPAN WHERE FERTILITY IS SKY-HIGH, by Louis T. March. “Tokunoshima is an island off the southern tip of Japan, a 96-square-mile volcanic outcrop, 800 miles as the crow flies from Tokyo, not far from Okinawa. Home to roughly 25,000 people, Tokunoshima … has the highest total fertility rate (TFR) in Japan. This is significant because Japan is in a demographic death spiral. They’ve been losing population for 15 years with a below-replacement TFR of 1.33. …Tokunoshima needn’t worry about that. The TFR is 2.25, 40 percent above the national average. The people and culture are Japanese like the rest of Japan. Why the shockingly differential TFR? Is there something in the water?” Read more here.
‘TRANS MAN’ GETS HER OWN DOCUMENTARY FOR GETTING PREGNANT BY HER MALE PARTNER, by Justine Booke Murray. “You can’t get much weirder than this. A ‘gay transgender man’ and ‘his’ male partner (in other words, a straight couple) recently gave birth to their son. Now they’re being rewarded with a TV documentary. After suffering years of miscarriages (Gee, I wonder why), gender-deluded Frankie and her male partner, Rāwā, finally gave birth to their baby boy, Hiwa-i-te-Rangi at their New Zealand home in 2023. Now, in a documentary set to air on Television New Zealand on November 11, the Frankensteinian couple will be sharing their story to ‘raise visibility around carrying a child as a trans man.’” Read more here.
MAPPING THE HARM, by Bernard Lane. “The rise of rights-driven gender medicine and ill-defined laws discouraging exploratory psychotherapy run counter to the welfare of the distressed young people supposedly championed by the ‘affirmative’ worldview. This is the warning from a landmark paper charting the adoption of the ‘Dutch protocol’ for medicalised gender change of minors across 13 Western nations since 1999, with a weakening of normal safeguards over time in most cases, but also a reassertion of cautious, evidence-based treatment policy begun by Finland in 2019 and followed by Sweden and the United Kingdom.” Read more here.
WE ASKED WOMEN WHY THEY AREN’T HAVING AS MANY KIDS. TURNS OUT, IT’S COMPLICATED, by Emily Williams. “Lately, you might be hearing more people talk about why people aren’t having enough kids. From economists to politicians and entrepreneurs, it’s become a more pressing issue for people around the globe. According to Statistics Canada, in 2023 there were 1.26 children born in Canada per woman. Alongside South Korea, Spain, Italy and Japan, Canada falls into a group of countries with the ‘lowest low’ birth rates — all below 1.3 children per woman. In comparison, the rate in the United States in 2023 was 1.62. Is this a problem? Canadians are divided.” Read more here.
THOSE DASTARDLY BRITISH CRIMINALS WHO PRAY SILENTLY OUTSIDE ABORTION CLINICS, by Ann Farmer. “From October 31, abortion clinics in the United Kingdom will be protected against protesters by 150-metre ‘safe access buffer zones’. …Now, in this country, we have a situation where we are not allowed to flush a baby wipe down the toilet but we can flush a baby and where killing the unborn is presented by supporters as a “healthcare” choice, the equivalent of removing a diseased appendix, although the aim is to kill, not to cure, to facilitate the death of a unique, separate human being.” Read more here.
PROPUBLICA EXPLOITS ANOTHER MOTHER’S DEATH BY ‘SUBSTANDARD MEDICAL CARE’ IN ATTEMPT TO BLAME PRO-LIFE LAW, by LiveAction editors. “ProPublica has continued its ‘Life of the Mother’ series in which it highlights the tragic deaths of pregnant women whom they claim died because of pro-life laws in certain states. …Perhaps the problem isn’t pro-life laws at all; perhaps the problem is that ‘women’s health care’ has come to mean nothing beyond handing women hormonal birth control or abortion pills to solve whatever ails them. Perhaps the problem is that even in women’s deepest pain, bleeding, weakness, and desperation, much of the medical profession still chooses to minimize, downplay, or even ignore what women (and their loved ones) are telling them about what they experience.” Read more here.
COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL’S SPARTAN MELTDOWN, by Johnathan Kay. “[The University of Nevada, Reno] is the fifth women’s volleyball team whose players have chosen to forfeit against SJSU this season—all for the same reason—which is described in a media statement put out by members of the UNR squad: We, the University of Nevada Reno women’s volleyball team, forfeit against San José State State University, the University of Wyoming, and Utah State University. We demand that our right to safety and fair competition on the court be upheld. We refuse to participate in any match that advances injustice against female athletes.” Read more here.
UN MEMBER STATES CRITICIZE CALL TO DECRIMINALIZE DRUGS, PROSTITUTION, ABORTION, by Stefano Gennarini. “In a rare moment of candor, several UN delegations expressed disappointment with a UN human rights expert who called on countries to decriminalize drugs, prostitution, abortion, and intentional exposure to HIV. The UN rapporteur on the right to health, Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng, argued such legal changes are necessary as part of a ‘human rights approach to harm reduction.’ The delegate from Cameroon directly confronted the rapporteur’s approach as ‘downplaying the seriousness of drug and substance abuse and other crimes such as HIV exposure, abortion, same-sex relations, and sex work.’” Read more here.
ABORTION IS BUILT ON FRAUD: A RESPONSE TO THE NEW YORK TIMES, by Thomas Jipping and Sarah Parshall Perry. “In an essay published by The New York Times and titled ‘Abortion Pills Are Safe. Post-Roe America Isn’t,’ Dr. Chavi Eve Karkowsky, a physician who practices maternal-fetal medicine, demonstrates that the campaign for unlimited abortion is as fraudulent and deceptive as ever. From the beginning, the ‘right’ to abortion was built on fraud. Abortion advocates pushed states to repeal their pro-life laws with baseless claims about illegal abortions. The claim that ‘thousands’ of women died from illegal abortions began in the 1960s and persists even today.” Read more here.
HIDE THE DATA, by Bernard Lane. “The Dutch Health Council, an independent scientific advisory body, has confirmed that in 2025 it will ‘map what is scientifically known about the (long-term) consequences of puberty inhibitors and gender-affirming hormone treatments on physical and mental health.’ Earlier this year, the Netherlands parliament approved two motions seeking research into medicalised gender change for minors and advice from the Health Council on the medico-legal implications. The ‘Dutch protocol’ for ‘juvenile transsexuals’ led to international adoption of puberty blockers for gender distress. In a webpage statement, the Health Council notes that it has also been asked to compare the Dutch model ‘with the approach in other countries and with care standards and applicable laws and regulations.’” Read more here.
YES, GENDER CONFUSION IS SOCIALLY CONTAGIOUS, by John Stonestreet and G. Shane Morris. “Psychologist and author Jean Twenge explained a new paper she and two colleagues published on the explosion of gender confusion. Analyzing government data on nearly two million adults since 2014, Twenge and her colleagues found that transgender identification in the general population has increased by nearly 70%. For Americans 18-25, trans identity skyrocketed from just over half a percent of the population in 2014 to over 3% of the population in 2023. In other words, in less than a decade, the share of American young people identifying as transgender quintupled, with the vast majority of that increase among women and girls.” Read more here.
‘SHOCKING’ AND ‘RECKLESS’: TOP GENDER CLINIC ASSESSES CHILDREN FOR GENDER-ALTERING MEDICAL TREATMENTS IN JUST 2 HOURS, LAWSUIT LAYS BARE, by Benjamin Ryan. “The world-renowned Boston Children’s Hospital is being denounced by leading psychologists for drastically reducing the time it allocates for mental-health professionals to determine whether children identifying as transgender should receive gender-transition treatment. Shocked and dismayed by the hospital’s policy, these experts in pediatric-gender medicine have called the shortened assessment period woefully inadequate — considering the complexity of gender-related distress in minors and the fact that these medications are life-altering and, in the case of testosterone and estrogen, cause irreversible effects.” Read more here.
THE GLOBAL PEDIATRIC MEDICINE FIELD HAS A CLEAR HABIT OF HIDING—AND DISCOURAGING—INCONVENIENT RESEARCH FINDINGS, by Benjamin Ryan, “Some of the biggest names in the pediatric gender medicine field are part of an entrenched global trend in which they prioritize the transgender advocacy mission over honest and direct science. They hide inconvenient research findings. And they seek to prevent other researchers from even asking questions that might yield inconvenient answers. Supporting them is a cabal of activists and LGBTQ nonprofits standing at the ready to bully and cancel any scientists or journalists who might bring to light any of the more questionable aspects of pediatric gender medicine.” Read more here.
‘THE STAKES ARE HIGH’: HOW FLORIDA BECAME THE ABORTION BATTLE GROUND OF 2024, by Mary Margaret Olohan. “Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his administration are waging war on a pro-abortion ballot amendment backed by radical leftist groups. If they win, they’ll have proven that Republicans really can defeat the Left’s new abortion mechanisms, if only they fight hard enough. If they lose, Florida will become what DeSantis calls the ‘abortion mecca’ of the South.” Read more here.
THE BIG GENDER LIE IS COMING UNDONE, by Robert Knight. “The Washington Post this past week ran an article entitled, ‘Youths highly content with gender-affirming care.’ The piece cites a survey of about 200 people taken by the Trans/Youth Project and published in JAMA Pediatrics that said only 4% of transitioned kids voice any regret. This is similar to the media-hyped, advocacy ‘science’ by researchers in the 1980s and 1990s that pushed the idea that people are born gay and that therefore any refusal to approve of homosexual acts is a form of bigotry. Those much-publicized studies were unreplicated, deeply flawed, and had researcher bias, self-selected subjects, tiny sample sizes, and suppressed conflicting evidence within the studies.” Read more here.
HOW ‘RARE’ ARE SEX-TRAIT MODIFICATION SURGERIES ON CHILDREN?, by Jay Greene. “As recently as two years ago, only three states banned surgeries on children to address gender dysphoria, up from just one a year earlier. Today, exactly half the states have such bans, and more are considering them. …These procedures, advocates insist, almost never happen and are largely a myth concocted by the Right to scare people. As the LGBTQ+ magazine Them put it, ‘Contrary to modern conservative propaganda, gender-affirming surgeries for minors are exceptionally rare.’ Similarly, the Human Rights Campaign rebuts what it alleges is a ‘concerted disinformation campaign’ by declaring that with ‘rare exceptions,’ ‘transgender and nonbinary people typically do not have gender-affirming surgeries before the age of 18.’” Read more here.
THE SHAME OF ABORTION NEARLY BURIED ME, by Gigi Davis. “Shame will bury you, burden you, and lead you nowhere. For years, abortion buried me in shame and regret, but through healing and faith I discovered the power to reclaim my life and help others do the same. It took years of soul-searching, brokenness, and ultimately my surrender to faith to learn I wasn’t alone in this journey — that healing was not only possible but was available to me all along. At just six-years-old, I witnessed shame for the first time when my pregnant teenage sister stood before our church confessing her sins. That moment was traumatic — not only for her but for me, too” Read more here.
FEMALE ATHLETES FINALLY STAND UP TO ‘MEN’ INVADERS, by Michael Reagan. “First there is outrage that this absurd and unfair situation has continued long enough to blight the athletic careers of so many women and girls; balanced by the apathy on the part of the female competitors who have allowed it to continue, without taking action. That inertia was catching. It was tough for us to be exercised about hemales in female sports when the females themselves didn’t care enough to do something. This apathy appears to be ending. And a trans athlete going under the name of Blaire Fleming appears to be the catalyst.” Read more here.
TRANS ACTIVISTS ARE FLOUTING THE BAN ON PUBERTY BLOCKERS, by Jo Bartosch. “Susie Green, former chief executive of disgraced trans-youth charity Mermaids, has returned to the field of so-called trans healthcare. Worryingly, she appears to have found a way to circumvent the UK’s ban on puberty-blocking drugs. Her latest venture, Anne Trans Healthcare, known as ‘Anne’, is a service that promises to provide ‘personalised gender-affirming healthcare’ to both adults and children. After being dismissed from Mermaids in 2022, Green teamed up with fellow trans activist and HIV campaigner Lizzie Jordan to found Anne. Predictably, their approach is informed not by science, but by ideology.” Read more here.
SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY SLAMMED FOR CLAIMING THERE ARE ’24 GENDERS,’ byby Jonathon Van Maren. “As the U.K.’s Labor Party doubles down on opposition to puberty blockers and other transgender surgeries for minors, the Scottish National Party is going, once again, in the opposite direction. The SNP released a handy definitive list of ‘genders’ attached to their guidance for public bodies in Scotland who collect data on sex and gender. Included in this list of very real, not at all made-up genders are: ‘Cisgender,’ ‘trans man,’ ‘trans woman,’ ‘non-binary,’ ‘trans-not otherwise specified,’ ‘genderfluid,’ ‘genderqueer,’ ‘pangender,’ ‘autigender,’ and ‘questioning.’ My favorite of these (are we allowed to have favorites?) is ‘agender,’ which the SNP defines as ‘a person who does not identify as having a gender.’” Read more here.
THE LEFT’S NEW APPROACH: HIDE THE SCIENCE, by Katrina Trinko. “Forget following the science. Now it’s about hiding the science—at least when it comes to experimental gender transition medical procedures for children. ‘U.S. Study on Puberty Blockers Goes Unpublished Because of Politics, Doctor Says,’ blares a New York Times headline earlier this week. This study, which involved putting 95 children struggling with gender dysphoria on puberty blockers, was led by Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, a physician at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles who has long been involved in promoting experimental medical treatments for minors.” Read more here.
CUSTOM VAGINOPLASTY ‘FOR YOUR INNER WELL-BEING,’ by Jennifer Bilek.’“Most people in mainstream culture, not privy to the internal workings of the trans agenda, have no real understanding of what is transpiring in the medical community advancing macabre and dangerous procedures they term “healthcare for transgender people,’ or where all this ‘care’ is leading. Since 2013, when I began tracking the money behind the transgender social engineering project, I have watched as what is framed ‘medical care’ for people with extreme body dysphoria, morph into an unethical and completely abject attitude by medical professionals willing to perform almost any and all kinds of insane bodily alterations on people’s sex characteristics.” Read more here.
TO THE 3 STATES DECIDING MARRIAGE: ‘WILL YOU HAVE THE GUTS TO PUT CHILDREN FIRST?,’ by Suzanne Bowdey. “It’s hard to believe that it’s been nine years since the Supreme Court took a torch to man-woman marriage, rewriting the institution for every state in the union. Not surprisingly, the justices’ activism — which was supposed to ‘settle the issue’ — did anything but. Millions of voters, who’d flooded the polls in the early 2000s to protect marriage in 30 state constitutions, were completely disenfranchised. Worse, they were forced to watch as the Left used the ruling as cover to push a much more radical agenda that includes everything from transgender ‘rights’ to religious persecution.” Read more here.
‘EVERY ISSUE MUST BE UNDERSTOOD FIRST AS A FAMILY ISSUE,’ by Christina Lewis. “’The fight for our nation is ultimately a fight for our families,’ Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts says. A culture besieged by anti-family elite institutions drives Americans who are raising kids to the political right, he said. Roberts made his remarks in a speech aired on this week’s episode of his podcast, The Kevin Roberts Show.’ … ‘We need to turn a party of moms, dads, and kids, into a party for moms, dads, and kids, and the way we do that is to recognize and insist that in this movement—and especially in this moment—every issue must be understood first as a family issue, one that is centered around the dinner table, not some basement in Delaware,’ the Heritage Foundation president said.” Read more here.
RAPE IS VIOLENCE. ABORTION IS PAID VIOLENCE, by Ryan Bomberger. “Imagine for a moment, watching repeated news stories where someone says that a person like you shouldn’t exist. Imagine hearing, over and over again, that you should be dead. Imagine someone telling you on TV or in real life, that you should have been aborted. That’s been my experience nearly my whole life. I was conceived in rape. …Lately, the tragedy of rape is being pervasively and politically exploited in order to justify all abortions. It’s not because there’s some sudden surge of compassion for rape victims, but because it’s a useful fear tactic that bizarrely pretends the vast majority of abortions are due to rape and incest; it’s less than 1%.” Read more here.
UN EXPERT SAYS COUNTRIES MUST LEGALIZE DRUGS, PROSTITUTION AND ABORTION, by Stefano Gennarini. “Governments must decriminalize drug use, prostitution, abortion, and HIV non-disclosure to sexual partners, according to a UN report on the human right to health. But when it comes to alcohol, tobacco, and unhealthy food, governments must adopt strict regulations. The claims were made by Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng, the UN Rapporteur on the Right to Health, in her latest report on a ‘human rights based approach to harm reduction.’” Read more here.
FREE SPEECH: AS PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CENTER SPEAK LIFE, STATES WORK TO CENSOR THEM, Erin Hawley. “’If it wasn’t for the information about Abortion Pill Reversal online, I would have completed the abortion and [my baby] would not be alive today.’ Maranda Halstead’s baby was saved because of speech — information that told her about an option to save her baby’s life after she had taken, and regretted taking, the first abortion drug. But if blue-state attorneys general have their way, that life-saving speech will be censored, and mothers like Maranda will never know about abortion pill reversal.” Read more here.
THE CASS REVIEW, THE ‘YALE’ REPORT, AND THE IMPORTANCE OF KEEPING SPECIAL INTERESTS AT BAY, by the Society For Evidence Based Gender Medicine. “[A] paper, written by Meredithe McNamara, and co-authored by some of the most prominent figures in gender medicine activism … alleged that the Cass Review ‘repeatedly misuses data and violates its own evidentiary standards,’ was ‘rife with misapplications of the scientific method,’ and failed to evaluate the evidence ‘in a neutral and scientifically valid manner.’ … In response to growing national and international attention to the McNamara et al. paper, Archives of Disease in Childhood (ADC) … concluded that the paper … is not a credible scientific effort, but rather, an attempt to influence U.S. litigation while masquerading as scientific critique.” Read more here.
GET YOUR PROGRESS PRIDE POPPY, by Lauren Smith. “Have you ever wanted to signal your commitment to veterans and your undying allegiance to trans ideology? Well now, for just eight British pounds, you can purchase your very own Progress Pride poppy pin, just in time for Remembrance Day. The badge, sold by the Royal British Legion (RBL), features the traditional red remembrance poppy, attached to the ubiquitous eyesore that is the Progress Pride flag. This is the flag that includes not only the standard gay-rights rainbow, but also the trans flag, the intersex flag (yes, they both have flags now) and two black and brown stripes, apparently to represent ethnic minorities.” Read more here.
TEENAGE HORMONE PUSH, by Bernard Lane. “A contentious change to Australian treatment guidelines was ‘carefully crafted’ to discourage medical insurers from denying cover to general practitioners in primary care (GPs) who are willing to start minors on cross-sex hormones with no specialist backup, according to an insider’s account. The November 2023 change encouraging GP-driven hormones calls into question the ‘multidisciplinary team’ rhetoric of the 2018 ‘Australian standards of care’ treatment guidelines for minors issued by the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) Melbourne.” Read more here.
WOMEN’S RESEARCH GROUP: IF MOMS CAN’T KILL PREBORN CHILDREN, THE ECONOMY WILL BE KILLED, by Nancy Flanders. “The pro-abortion Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) argues that states with laws protecting preborn children from abortion are costing the nation $68 billion a year. It also claims pro-abortion states are helping the economy by allowing unlimited killing of babies. These pro-abortion assertions are not new, but they do prove that pregnancy and parenting discrimination still exist in the American workforce. Abortion advocates have been claiming for years that babies hurt the economy.” Read more here.
THE SEXISM OF THE TRANS AGENDA, by Tom Knighton. “I’m not exactly the youngest writer here at Townhall. I’m not the oldest, either. I am, however, old enough to remember tomboys. These were the girls who would play war with the boys, climb trees, play baseball and football in the middle of the street, wear jeans and t-shirts, and otherwise fail to look particularly feminine. They might also prefer hunting and fishing with Dad to a spa day with Mom. As they grew up, most would embrace some degree of femininity in their lives, though many never completely abandoned their more traditionally masculine pursuits.” Read more here.
PORN CULTURE HAS OUR GIRLS BY THE THROAT, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Pornography consumption has become the norm in every Western democracy, and sexual violence has become a routine part of dating in the 21st century. I have been speaking and writing about this subject for over a decade, and the stories I hear from students are, frankly, chilling. Many normalized behaviors are not so much sexual violence as sexualized violence, in that young people are increasingly aroused simply by inflicting pain or fear on their partner. One example of a porn-driven behaviour that has become ubiquitous almost overnight is strangulation or ‘choking.’ When I began speaking to students about pornography over ten years ago, this behavior was almost unheard of. Not anymore.” Read more here.
THE HOSTILE MALE TAKEOVER OF WOMEN’S SPORTS, by Lauren Smith. “No sport, it seems, is safe from trans ideology. Darts has become the latest to be rocked by a trans-related controversy. At the weekend, biological male Noa-Lynn van Leuven became the first transgender player to book a spot in the PDC World Darts Championships, which will take place later this year. In doing so, van Leuven will take one of just two places that are reserved at the championships for women. …It’s not really surprising that van Leuven was able to secure the win. Sex differences might matter much less in darts than, say, boxing or athletics. But any athlete or sportsperson who has gone through male puberty still has a significant advantage when it comes to strength, power and arm length.” Read more here.
THE NEW NORDIC PARADOX: HOW FAMILY-FRIENDLY WELFARE STATES BURDEN PARENTS THE MOST, by Pieter Vanhuysse. “Around most of the world, low fertility has become an urgent challenge for policymakers. This is the case even in the Nordic societies, which—until not so long ago—were widely seen as a policy model to be adopted by other countries aiming to increase fertility levels. What is happening? And what might be done? … In a study in Royal Society Open Science, demographer Robert Gal, sociologist Marton Medgyesi, and I suggest that any comprehensive answer requires us to shine a broader light on all the resources it really takes to raise a newborn all the way to productive adulthood today.” Read more here.
QUESTIONS REMAIN OVER NHS YOUTH GENDER CARE, DESPITE CASS REVIEW, by Hannah Barnes. “When NHS England’s national youth gender identity clinic closed earlier this year, it had a caseload of around 650 children and young people. Amid controversy over how the clinic was run, the Gender Identity Development Service (Gids) – part of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, and the only such centre for those under 18 in England and Wales – was shut down on 28 March, to be replaced by a number of regional healthcare centres. Some of the young people on its books were sent to two new NHS England gender identity hubs, based in London and Liverpool. The majority – around 400 – however, had their care moved elsewhere.” Read more here.
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU THINK: IN BRITAIN, IT MIGHT BE A CRIME, by Paul Coleman. “It seems oddly mediaeval to convict a man for his prayers. But the British courts have defied all reasonable expectations of modern democracy by convicting a man for doing just that on the streets of Bournemouth. Adam Smith-Connor is a military veteran who served his country in the reserves in Afghanistan. As part of his medical training, he participated in 30 abortions in 2003—actions he now deeply regrets. Adam converted to Christianity in later life, and is now deeply committed to prayer on the issue.” Read more here.
PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE GENDER ACTIVIST BEHIND THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CURTAIN, by Thomas Jipping & Sarah Parshall Perry. “As if Nevada parents didn’t already have their hands full, including helping their children navigate the waters of adolescent sexuality. Now gender activists increasingly are using the public schools to lead students down a path their parents may know nothing about. … Nevada is hardly alone. Nearly 20,000 public schools across the country, attended by 11.5 million students, now have policies that cater to kids’ current sense of ‘gender identity’ but that deliberately keep parents in the dark about that same thing.” Read more here.
DETRANSITIONERS ARE SUING DOCTORS FOR MISLEADING THEM AND DAMAGING THEIR BODIES FOR LIFE, by Grant Atkinson. “’Your daughter is a boy, and if you want to save her life, you’ll refer to her by her preferred name and male pronouns.’ This was the advice a mental health provider gave Tammy Fournier when she sought help for her daughter’s anxiety, depression, and feelings of discomfort with her body. Thankfully, Tammy chose not to treat her daughter as a boy, and with support and love, her daughter grew comfortable with her sex. But many doctors have used similar tactics to pressure parents and their children to pursue harmful transition efforts – efforts that often extend far beyond names and pronouns.” Read more here.
CBS PROMOTES RADICAL LGBTQ ACTIVIST WHO CLAIMS HER 13-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER IS TRANS, by Justine Brooke Murray. “CBS is turning more Orwellian by the day. Last month, the network reprimanded their own journalist for being a journalist. This week, they’re re-defining gender. To celebrate ‘Trans Empowerment Month,’ ‘CBS Mornings’ invited leaders of the ‘support’ group, ‘Stand with Trans’ on their show to air their gender delusions. The group’s founder is a mother who transitioned her 13-year-old biological daughter. Joining her on the panel was her ‘non-binary’ ‘trans-empowerment month program coordinator.’” Read more here.
WHOOPS: NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION CEO DEBUNKS MEDIA REGARDING LATE ABORTIONS, by Bridget Sielicki. “The media continues to spread the lie that late abortion is rare, that no one would get an abortion extremely late in pregnancy, and that if late abortions happen, they’re only done for the most serious reasons. Live Action News has debunked these claims many times, but now we’re getting a little help from the CEO of the National Abortion Federation (NAF) herself, who admitted that women ‘need’ abortion ‘care’ well into the later stages of pregnancy, because… well, really, any reason will do.” Read more here.
A COLOSSAL BACKFIRE AGAINST THE TRANS INDUSTRY, by Brandon Showalter. “Rarely do I read legal opinions that make my jaw drop in amazement, but an unequivocal amicus brief for an upcoming Supreme Court case involving the trans-ing of children has done just that. In what I consider to be a colossal backfire against the transgender industry, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall’s friend of the court brief in the Skrmetti matter — which the U.S. Supreme Court will hear on December 4th and centers around Tennessee’s ban on gender medicalization for minors — spells out in considerable detail the maddening shenanigans of an organization that belongs on the ash heap of history, the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH).” Read more here.
DO PRO-LIFERS COMMIT CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY?, by Stefano Gennarini. “A new treaty on crimes against humanity is proving more controversial than expected, as it hit roadblocks in the General Assembly. The treaty could make denial of abortion a crime against humanity and expand the international crime of ‘gender persecution’ to cover advocacy, laws and policies that protect man-woman marriage and deny transgender policies. The draft of the treaty enshrines an open definition of ‘gender’ as a social construct that includes sexual orientation and gender identity.” Read more here.
HOW KIDS ARE PAYING THE PRICE FOR AN ‘ADULT-CENTRIC POLICY’ AGENDA, by Virginia Allen and Kristen Eichamer. “Kids are not running for public office, enacting laws, litigating policy, or even voting, and yet children often bear the weightiest consequences for the bad policies adults implement. ‘I get angry when kids are victimized because adults refuse to do the right thing,’ says Katy Faust, the founder and president of the pro-children advocacy organization Them Before Us. ‘It’s an injustice at the individual level and at the national level.’” Read more here.
THE REAL-WORLD HARMS OF MISLEADING WOMEN ABOUT PRO-LIFE LAWS, by Laura Nicole. “An unfortunate trend of misinformation and disinformation has been adopted by abortion advocates since the Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade. One recent Newsweek piece gives a perfect example of the media’s failure on this front. Spreading easily-debunked falsehoods is not a victimless crime, and the people who pay for it are women seeking medical care.” Read more here.
WE NEED A NEW FEMINISM THAT EMBRACES MOTHERHOOD AS MEANINGFUL, by Erica Komisar. “The myths spread by the original feminist movement were that all women were oppressed victims of men and that every woman was eager to leave home and compete with men in the workforce. Work outside the home was presented as more meaningful or valuable. Feminism touted that children were resilient from birth and any caregiver, in an setting, would suffice. Women were told they could ‘do it all’—have children and a career—at the same time without sacrifices.” Read more here.
BRITISH MAN SENTENCED FOR PRAYING OUTSIDE ABORTION CLINIC, by Jazz Shaw. “Even George Orwell probably never had a clue just how right he would turn out to be when he wrote 1984. Then again, good old George never had any idea that he would live to see times such as these. He would likely scoff at the suggestion that a story such as the one playing out in Poole, England involving Adam Smith-Connor could be taking place in the modern era. Mr Smith-Connor was recently convicted at Poole Magistrates Courts on charges of ‘disapproval of abortion’ after he was found to have been praying in front of his abortion clinic.” Read more here.
EXPERT DERANGEMENT, by Bernard Lane. “‘Lest anyone mistake it for a scientific medical organization, WPATH [the World Professional Association for Transgender Health] devoted an entire chapter in Standards of Care 8 to ‘eunuchs’—individuals ‘assigned male at birth’ who ‘wish to eliminate masculine physical features, masculine genitals, or genital functioning’. In a brief intended for the judges of the US Supreme Court, the state of Alabama’s Attorney General Steve Marshall does not hold back. The case is a constitutional challenge to a Tennessee law that prohibits puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones or trans surgery for minors; a hearing date is yet to be set.” Read more here.
LIBRARIES ARE INDOCTRINATING YOUR KIDS, NOT FIGHTING CENSORSHIP, by Kathryn Pluta. “Move aside, Goodnight Moon. The newest children’s classics are hitting library shelves near you … and they’re kinky in all the colors of the rainbow. I walked into my local Chicago Public Library (CPL) branch, heading over to the holds section to pick up my newest read. Book secured, I went to check out, passing by the children’s section on the way. The front display caught my eye. ‘I’M WITH THE BANNED: BANNED BOOKS WEEK’ was proudly emblazoned on a cardboard sign in an edgy, stenciled font.” Read more here.
HOW A PREGNANCY CLINIC RESCUED ME FROM ABORTING MY DAUGHTER, by Kyla Smith. “At 20 years old, I learned that I was unexpectedly pregnant. I immediately thought that I couldn’t be a mother and be successful at the same time. My uncertainty was only compounded when the father of my child told me I should have an abortion and that he wanted nothing to do with me and our unborn child. I had no idea how to be a mother, so the easiest route was to follow his wishes. I believed the cultural lie that in order to succeed in life, I would need to have an abortion.” Read more here.
IN THE SHADOW OF THE CULTURE OF DEATH, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Across the Western world, the Culture of Death is expanding its borders, casting its grim shadow across an ever-growing population of weak, vulnerable, and disabled peoples. Norway is proposing to expand abortion to include babies up until 18 weeks gestation; Denmark has just done the same. After Poland’s legislators voted down a plan to legalize abortion, the nation’s rogue coalition government simply changed the rules by fiat to facilitate feticide anyway. France made abortion a “constitutional right” earlier this year”. Read more here.
NEW YORK’S ‘EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT’ SERIOUSLY THREATENS WOMEN’S SPORTS, by Tom Joyce. “The so-called Equal Rights Amendment is on the ballot this November in New York, and advocates, including Planned Parenthood, claim it will protect abortion and “LGBTQIA+ people.” On those subjects, it’s a solution in search of a problem. New York legalized elective abortion in 1970, and it has never had a law prohibiting transgender-identifying residents from using their preferred bathrooms, for example. When it comes to women’s sports, however, the ERA would create problems for women and girls. The Equal Rights Amendment would enshrine gender identity as a protected class, strengthening the rights of transgender athletes to compete in girls’ sports, but it is much worse than that.” Read more here.
NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOLERS PLAN STATEWIDE WALKOUT, PROTESTING BOYS IN GIRLS’ SPORTS, by Justine Brooke Murray. “High school students across New York, of all states, are about to put the so-called ‘Women’s’ March to shame. New York’s ‘Walk for Fairness Day’ plans to advocate for real women’s rights by leading a statewide school walkout against men in girls’ sports. ‘Girls are being systematically canceled in this state, and ‘Walk Off for Fairness Day’ will give them a safe opportunity to make their voices heard, said a spokeswoman for NY Coalition to Protect Kids, the group organizing the march.” Read more here.
LIBERTY UNIVERSITY SET UP BY TRANS EX-EMPLOYEE, ACLU, By Mat Staver. “The nation’s premier Christian university is being sued for remaining true to its doctrinal statement and Christian mission after terminating an individual from his position for intentionally setting up the university to advance his LGBT agenda. In response, we are fighting for the case to be dropped and for religious liberty to be upheld to ensure religious institutions are able to operate in accordance with their Christian faith and doctrine, a right secured by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, federal Title VII employment law, and the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act.” Read more here.
MONEY IS DRIVING MEDICINE’S EMBRACE OF CHILD TRANSGENDERISM, by Stanley Goldfarb and Roy Eappen. “Before his debate with Governor Tim Walz, Republican vice-presidential nominee Senator J. D. Vance slammed his Democratic counterpart for making Minnesota a ‘trans refuge’ for children. Vance is right to highlight the medical and moral monstrosity of an establishment that encourages young boys and girls who feel that they must change their gender. But it’s also true that massive amounts of money are at stake. Medical providers stand to earn a windfall from children’s gender-transition procedures, which helps explain why the industry has endorsed the most aggressive treatments for gender dysphoria.” Read more here.
IN SCOTLAND, ABORTION ACCESS MAY SUPERSEDE YOUR RIGHT TO PRAY IN YOUR HOME, by Beege Welborn. “Hey, how about that creeping state fascism thing in socialist-leaning ‘democratic’ countries? Here you thought having your knuckles rapped for misgendering someone was outrageous. … The SNP government has warned that praying at home may be illegal under new Scottish abortion laws. People living within these areas have been cautioned that they may violate the Abortion Services Act (Scotland) 2024 if they engage in any behaviour that could ‘harass, alarm, or distress’ clinic staff or patients.” Read more here.
COLORADO’S ATTEMPT TO ENSHRINE UNLIMITED ABORTION, by Bradley N. Kehr and Danielle G. Pimentel. “Unlike citizens of other states facing abortion ballot initiatives, Coloradans are being asked to declare not only that the state may not discriminate against the termination of a human life in the womb, but that every Coloradan must pay to extinguish that life with their tax dollars. Further, the Amendment also declares that a person’s decision to terminate a human life in the womb rises to the level of a protected class – meaning any action by the state, such as ensuring a woman is fully informed about the procedure or crafting health and safety requirements for abortion facilities, would be an act of discrimination.’’ Read more here.
