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DETRANSITION’ AND DESISTANCE AMONG PREVIOUSLY TRANS-IDENTIFIED YOUNG ADULTS, by Lisa Littman, Stella O’Malley, Helena Kerschner and J. Michael Bailey. “Participants reported that their psychological health had improved dramatically since detransition/desistance, with marked decreases in self-harm and gender dysphoria … The most common reason given for initial trans-identification was confusing mental health issues or reactions to trauma for gender dysphoria. Reasons for detransition were more likely to relfect internal changes (e.g., the participants’ own thought processes) than external pressures (e.g., pressure from family). Results suggest that, for some transgender individuals, detransition is both possible and benefcial. …Detransitioned participants reported that they had become much less gender dysphoric, and much happier, than they were during their period of trans-identification.” Read morhere.

 

PARENTING IS THE KEY TO ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH, by Jonathan Rockwell. “After a decade of surging adolescent mental health problems and suicide, the nation’s leading public health authorities have declared an emergency. Unfortunately, the solutions proposed by organizations like the CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics—such as increased funding for diagnostic and psychiatric services—do not meet the challenge and ignore what are likely to be the most important causes. Adolescent biology hasn’t changed.” Read more here.

 

NO, BABIES DO NOT HAVE ‘GENDER IDENTITIES,’ by Lauren Smith. “Doctors at some NHS hospitals are now being asked to fill in forms to indicate whether patients have a penis, vagina, uterus, cervix, breasts, prostate, testes and ovaries. It’s probably useful for doctors to know that a patient’s organs are all present and correct. But this bizarre ‘organ inventory’, as it’s been called, isn’t really about checking whether a patient is missing a bit or two – it’s yet another confusing and ham-fisted attempt on the part of the NHS to appease the trans lobby. So fearful is management of using old-fashioned biology-based terms like ‘male’ or ‘female’ that it is having to resort to lists of body parts instead.” Read more here.

 

SCHOLARS EXPLORING GENDER DISPARITIES FORGET ABOUT BIOLOGY, FREE WILL, by Micaiah Bilger. “Two recent studies set out to discover why huge gender disparities exist among students who play chess and choose to study philosophy. Although they were separate studies by different researchers, both concluded that misconceptions about ‘brilliance’ are what keep women from participating. But there is another factor that neither set of researchers considered: human biology. Men and women are different and have different proclivities and preferences, but that simple fact rarely gets mentioned in higher education these days. Worse, some people have been fired for saying it.” Read more here.

 

GENDER ON STEROIDS, by Bernard Lane. “New data shows that more than 1,400 girls and young women in Australia started taking taxpayer-subsidized testosterone last year supposedly to treat the male disorder of androgen deficiency, which is typically caused by the testicles not doing their job. This surprising trend follows a little-known rule change in 2015 removing the requirement that patients ‘must be male’, thereby enabling females who identify as the opposite sex or non-binary to get a public subsidy to masculinize their bodies with synthetic testosterone. The change was requested by an LGBTIQ+ lobby group, which complained of discrimination. … This use of testosterone is off label, meaning the drug is not approved as a gender treatment by the Therapeutic Goods Administration, which would need to be presented with studies showing the efficacy and safety of testosterone for gender dysphoria.” Read more here.

 

SOME EUROPEAN COUNTRIES STERILIZE DISABLED PEOPLE WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT, by Jonathon Van Maren. “According to a report by The New York Times on November 25, many people with disabilities are being sterilized without their consent. According to Sarah Hurtes, who reports from across Europe and spent over a month in Iceland working on the investigation: ‘Forced sterilization, with its history of racism and eugenics, is banned under multiple international treaties. Thirty-seven European nations and the European Union have ratified the Istanbul Convention, which declares, without exception, that nonconsensual sterilization is a human rights violation. But a New York Times investigation found over a third of those countries have made exceptions, often for people that the government deems too disabled to consent.’” Read more here.

 

EXCLUSIVE: HERE’S A LOOK AT HOW REPORTERS PUSH TRANSGENDER IDEOLOGY, by Mary Margaret Olohan. “Local media outlets have come under fire in recent years for buying into activists’ framing and talking points on so-called gender-affirming care — attempted transgender sex-change operations, hormonal interventions, and social affirmations, even for minors. [A reporter] did not mention that UW Health is removing the healthy breasts of five to 10 young women every year. She did, however, emphasize that UW Health does not perform “bottom surgeries” on minors.” Read morhere.

 

I OWE MY FAMILY TO BRAVE WOMEN WHO CHOSE ADOPTION OVER ABORTION, by Rose Carlson. “As I reflect upon our two adoptions this National Adoption Month, I am left teary-eyed remembering the beauty of the journeys for me and my husband, as well as the strength and generosity of their biological mothers — women who went above themselves in choosing life and hope for their children. Twenty-four years ago, doctors diagnosed me with endometriosis and told me I would likely never be able to have children. My husband and I were devastated. As I coped with my grief, I had no idea that a 19-year-old girl named Elizabeth was grieving nearby for the opposite reason: She was pregnant out of wedlock with a baby she was terrified to raise on her own.” Read more here.

 

WASHINGTON POST SPREADS PRO-ABORTION PROPAGANDA ABOUT LATER ABORTIONS, by Carole Novielli. “Propaganda is a strong weapon which banks upon the ignorance of the public. As the saying goes, ‘he who controls the language controls the masses’ — and nothing exemplifies this more than the collaboration which exists between Big Abortion and Big Media when they join ranks to mask the torturous act of abortion perpetrated against a living human baby in the womb. The most recent example of abortion propaganda comes from the Washington Post, which downplayed the heinous way abortion targets viable preborn children by claiming in their opening line: ‘Abortions after 21 weeks are rare and usually the result of tragedy.’” Read more here.

 

DO GENDER-QUESTIONING KIDS NEED PSYCHOTHERAPY RATHER THAN HORMONES?, by Michael Cook. “If you consult the ‘Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy’ page of the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts (PPLM), you will discover that you can get a prescription for testosterone or estrogen after your first visit or online consultation. Of course, 16 and 17-year-olds need parental consent. If you are under 16, PPLM will be happy to refer you to another provider. American gender specialists are processing their clients on an assembly line. But a brief consultation – or even two or three – is not enough to determine whether a person is ready for life-changing ‘gender affirmation’, says Australian psychiatrist Robert D’Angelo in the Journal of Medical Ethics. He proposes psychoanalysis as an appropriate way for doctors to explore issues with gender-questioning patients. It is slower but it respects their autonomy and informed consent, and it yields more accurate diagnoses.” Read more here.

 

SHOULD WE BE FEARFUL OF THE ACP-EU AGREEMENT?, Letter to the editor of the Jamaica Observer by Dr. Daniel Thomas. “To put it frankly, this partnership agreement is a global poison pill for truth and family aimed at forcing destructive European ideas around sex, abortion and gender identity into the schools and legal structures of 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries under threat of economic sanctions. Legally binding for 20 years, this agreement would hold Jamaica to poorly defined human rights principles, placing us culturally and ideologically under the rule of the EU. It is, therefore, most appropriate for a sovereign nation like ours, which holds its culture and values in high esteem, to delay the signing of this dangerous partnership agreement indefinitely.” Read more here.

 

THERE IS NO ‘TRANS GENOCIDE,’ by Wilfred Reilly. “Why do respected institutions continue to propound verifiably wrong conspiracy theories about how dangerous America is? It is around 35 times more dangerous to be black than to be transgender in America – and at least an order of magnitude more dangerous to be a young and work-class white guy, a southerner, or a Yank of Hispanic origin. This seems relevant given that a national event titled ‘Transgender Day of Remembrance’ took place just a few days ago. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre took the occasion to the mount the podium for a formal press briefing attended by many national media outlets – during which she declares that the United States ‘grieves’ for the all of 26 transgender Americans killed in 2023.” Read more here.

 

WHAT EVERY PARENT SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE TRANSGENDER INDUSTRY’S THREAT TO KIDS, by Doug Mainwaring. “Gender Transformation: The Untold Realities is an excellent video resource for parents who want to understand the forces pushing the transgender movement and the unimaginable harm awaiting teens and their families who fall prey to the movement’s deceits. Produced by Epoch TV, the film explores the roles that our nation’s education system, pharmaceutical and medical industries, major banks, government and others with powerful financial interests play in promoting the impossible notion of physically transitioning to the opposite sex.” Read more here.

 

FOR KIDS, MARRIAGE STILL MATTERS, by W. Bradford Wilcox. “The science could not be clearer: On average, the children of married parents are more likely to experience happier, healthier and more successful lives. Brookings Institution scholar Melissa Kearney powerfully underscores this truth in her new book ‘The Two-Parent Privilege,’ writing, ‘The decline in the share of U.S. children living in a two-parent family over the past 40 years has not been good — for children, for families or for the United States.’” Read more here.

 

4 THINGS YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO FORGET ABOUT ‘TRANS DAY OF REMEMBRANCE,’ by Ben Terangi. “For a third year in a row, the Biden Administration has laid it on thick in marking November 20 as ‘Transgender Day of Remembrance’ (TDoR). …In a press statement on the same day, Secretary of State Antony Blinken described the event as ‘a day to commemorate the transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming persons who are targeted and killed for living authentically and courageously.’ …In recent times, Mercator has taken considerable interest in TDoR, in particular noting the exaggerated claims regularly made about a supposed transgender murder epidemic.” Read more here.

 

25% OF MOMS WHO WOULD HAVE HAD ABORTIONS CHOSE LIFE THANKS TO ABORTION BANS, by Dave Andrusko. “When even the endlessly pro-abortion New York Times admits that ‘The first estimate of births since Dobbs found that almost a quarter of women who would have gotten abortions carried their pregnancies to term,’ you know the evidence for the pro-life impact of the decision that overturned Roe v. Wade must be solid. Coming from the other end of the political spectrum Michael New, writing for the pro-life National Review Online, confirms Margot Sanger-Katz’s and Claire Cain Miller’s conclusion: A new analysis of birth data published by the Institute of Labor Economics in Germany [‘The Effects of the Dobbs Decision on Fertility’] provides powerful statistical evidence that post-Dobbs pro-life laws have saved tens of thousands of lives.’” Read more here.

 

SURGERY WITHOUT A SCALPEL: HOW META’S PHOTO FILTERS FUEL TRANSGENDER DELUSIONS, by Faith Kuzma. “Even as social media addiction accelerated under Covid lockdowns, Meta jettisoned internal alarms about mental health dangers. Following Frances Haugen’s 2021 whistleblower testimony, attorneys general from 42 states filed consumer protection lawsuits against Meta. The ‘Facebook Files,’ a Wall Street Journal investigation based on Meta’s internal documents, showed that the social media company ‘ignored their own studies revealing Instagram’s photo-sharing and editing app harms girls.’ Capitalizing on the need to connect during lockdown, Meta helped propel young women into gender facilities.” Read more here.

 

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MARRIAGE: WHAT MAKES COUPLES STICK TOGETHER? by Harry Benson. “If you want to stick at doing something, you need two things. You need to want to do it. In a relationship, that means you want to be a couple with a future. You have chosen one another. You have rejected all the other choices. You have become an ‘us with a future.’ And that’s crucial because clarity about the future allows forgiveness and sacrifice to prosper, vital characteristics of successful relationships. This is the inner bond of commitment that researchers call interpersonal commitment or dedication. We want to be together. But there’s another aspect of commitment that goes with the grain of human nature and helps us stick at things when we don’t feel like it. It’s called constraints.” Read more here.

 

THE 2023 DUTCH DEBATE OVER YOUTH TRANSITIONS, by The Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine. “The Netherlands, like the rest of the Western world, has experienced an unprecedented increase in the number of youth seeking to undergo gender transition. Like the rest of the West, this sharp increase has been driven largely by adolescent females. Unlike the rest of the Western world, where this dramatic epidemiological shift has led to scientific debate about the practice of youth transition, the Netherlands practice has been insulated from scrutiny—until now.” Read more here.

 

THE HARMS OF ‘CONVERSION THERAPY’ ARE FAKE NEWS, by Michael Cook. “First, there is no agreed definition of conversion therapy. Even the name changes. A more precise term used by academics is “sexual orientation change efforts” (SOCE). Nowadays ‘conversion therapy’ is a catch-all term used in the media. A generation ago some counselling centres did use aversive techniques, electric shock, or ‘boot camp’ punishments to ‘cure’ homosexuality – but also juvenile delinquency and drug abuse. Those methods proved counterproductive and were rejected long ago. Perhaps they are still being used in Saudi Arabia or Ghana – but not in the US or the UK.” Read more here.

 

WHY ARE SO MANY CELEBRITIES SUDDENLY REVEALING THEY ABORTED THEIR CHILDREN?, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Celebrities are telling their abortion stories to normalize a ‘procedure’ that is the focal point of fierce political fights across post-Roe America. But their stories are actually revealing in a different way. In almost every instance, money was not an issue. The parents were financially secure – some even wealthy. Each of these children died because the parents insisted that they were ‘not ready’ in some way despite being financially well-off adults. Each engaged in the baby-making act while not wanting babies; each had succumbed so thoroughly to the contraceptive mindset that the children which naturally arrived after acts of reproduction were treated as an unwelcome shock, as if it were somehow unnatural that sex frequently results in babies.” Read more here.

 

LEGALIZING ABORTION MAKES AFRICAN WOMEN LESS SAFE. MATERNAL MORTALITY STATS PROVE IT, by Everhart LSN Africa. “A common argument for legalizing abortion is that women will get abortions either way, and if abortion is illegal it is unsafe, and women will die as a result. Therefore, it is better to legalize abortion even if you oppose it morally. This argument is supposed to be powerful because it doesn’t rely on any controversial position regarding the rights of the child or the moral permissibility of abortion. … Legalizing abortion is neither sufficient nor necessary to reduce the burden of unsafe abortion or maternal mortality.” Read more here.

 

ABORTION CONCERNS ONCE DELAYED A MAJOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM LAW. NOW THEY’RE BACK IN THE SPOTLIGHT, by Kelsey Dallas. “On Sept. 18, 1992, the Senate Judiciary Committee and dozens of invited guests gathered to consider, among other things, the link between religious freedom and abortion. The focus of the hearing was the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a bill designed to restore religious exercise protections that recently had been severely limited by the Supreme Court. The act enjoyed broad support from faith groups, politicians and civil rights organizations like the ACLU. … There was just one problem: A few very powerful groups thought the Religious Freedom Restoration Act might one day be used to defend abortion rights, and they had successfully halted the bill’s forward momentum.” Read more here.

 

LACK OF ‘AFFIRMATION’ IS CHILD ABUSE: NEW BIDEN RULE APPLIES TRANSGENDER STANDARD TO FOSTER CARE, by Tyler O’Neil. “Transgender orthodoxy may soon become a litmus test for parenthood, according to the logic of a new policy working its way through the Department of Health and Human Services under President Joe Biden. A new rule in HHS’ Administration for Children and Families would apply the idea that any lack of ‘affirmation’ constitutes a form of child abuse to foster care placements. Once that idea takes root in foster care, child protective services agencies might start applying it more broadly.” Read more here.

 

THIS MINNESOTA GROUP IS DISMEMBERING 62% MORE BABIES … AND BLAMES PRO-LIFE LAWS, by Nancy Flanders. “Whole Women’s Health Alliance, a chain of abortion businesses, tweeted that it has been killing more babies by dismemberment abortion (D&E) — and used that horrific information to call for more abortion. On November 14, 2023, Whole Woman’s Health Alliance tweeted, ‘We have seen a 62% increase in second trimester abortions in our Minnesota clinic.’ …Likewise, on November 1, 2023, Whole Woman’s Health Alliance tweeted, ‘We have seen a 56% increase in second trimester abortions in our Virginia clinic. More abortion seekers are facing delays to care due to managing costs and having farther to travel for their appointments. Abortion bans have been and will continue to cause them.’ To blame pro-life laws for an increase in second-trimester D&E dismemberment abortions is disingenuous.” Read more here.

 

HERE WE GO AGAIN: AMERICANS PREPARE TO TEACH TARGET ANOTHER LESSON OVER LGBTQ CHRISTMAS, by Tony Kinnett. “Target Corp., the popular American department store chain, may be in for another round of lessons in the consequences of annoying its consumers with “Pride” merchandising. With the Christmas season approaching quickly, Target has a special gift for Americans: a woke Christmas. Shoppers can expect to see ‘gay Santas and LGBTQ-themed nutcrackers’ on Target’s shelves of this season.” Read more here.

 

HOW UN UNDERMINES PARENTAL RIGHTS BY PUSHING GENDER IDEOLOGY, by Grace Melton and Emily Kao. “The texts of these foundational U.N. documents point to the family. Under the influence of far-left activists, however, the U.N. bureaucracy for decades pointed to the state. This view of the child diminishes the role of parents, puts children at greater risk of harm, and threatens the integrity of families. There are many examples, but this threat is no more obvious than with the recent incursions of gender ideology in various U.N. bureaucracies—where it now enjoys almost credal status.” Read more here.

 

25 YEARS OF HEALTHY MARRIAGE IN UTAH: STATE COMMISSION STRENGTHENS INSTITUTION, by Rachel Sheffield. “Utah just celebrated the 25th anniversary of its healthy marriages initiative, a statewide effort to help people build and maintain strong marriages. There’s a great need to strengthen marriage in the U.S., given its decades-long decline and the many consequences of family breakdown, particularly among lower-income communities. Utah’s initiative is an example other states’ leaders can follow to foster a culture of healthy marriage. Since the inception of Utah’s healthy marriage initiative back in 1998 under then-Gov. Mike Leavitt, state leaders have worked with private organizations and community leaders to provide educational resources to bolster marriage.” Read more here.

 

TRANSGENDER FAUX FEMALES HAVE NO PLACE IN MISS UNIVERSE PAGEANT, by Peter Parisi. “How humiliating and disheartening must it be for a Miss Universe pageant contestant to lose to a ‘woman’ with [male anatomy]? That, regrettably, is not a hypothetical question. That’s exactly what happened to real young women earlier this year in preliminary pageants in two European nations, Portugal and the Netherlands. On Saturday night, those countries [were] represented by a pair of transgender faux females at the 72nd annual Miss Universe pageant. To borrow a vintage 55-year-old advertising line from Virginia Slims cigarettes, ‘You’ve come a long way, Baby.’ Just not in the way Phillip Morris envisioned it in 1968.” Read more here.

 

LIVED EPERTISE: GENDER SOLOPSISM IN CONFERENCEVILLE, by Anonymous. “The quality of research presented at the AusPATH conference was surprisingly poor. There was a small number of professionals who demonstrated sound methodology, objectivity, critical thinking and deep knowledge of their fields. These papers focused on service provision models and data analysis, and tended not to concentrate on the feelings or identities of their subjects, or of the authors themselves. … Most papers, panels and workshops, however, focused on personal, emotional and subjective accounts of lived experience and/or superficial accounts of studies with poor research bases, methods and analysis.” Read more here.

 

THE MYTH BEHIND ‘TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE,’ by Jo Bartosch. “As the season of goodwill approaches, spare a thought for the group that considers itself the most vulnerable in the UK. No, I’m not talking about the poor, sick or homeless. I’m talking about the trans people who, occasionally, might have to deal with funny looks, [or] being misgendered. … Although trans people claim to be a marginalized minority, their events are supported by a marketing machine and infrastructure of powerful international agencies. Bodies like the International Lesbian, Gay Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) and even the United Nations have come out in support of Transgender Awareness Week.” Read more here.

 

MALE MALAISE IS NOT JUST ABOUT THE CULTURE, by Brad Wilcox and Elizabeth Self. “You are familiar with the litany of ills blighting our society: declining rates of work and marriage; rising rates of obesity and loneliness; soaring deaths of despair. All of these trends reflect the falling fortunes of the American male, a malaise magnified when we look at boys and men in poor and working-class communities. When the male malaise is raised among conservatives, too often the blame is assigned to ‘culture,’ that most nebulous of forces.” Read more here.

 

WHY THERE CAN BE NO ‘MIDDLE GROUND’ ON INTENTIONALLY KILLING INNOCENT HUMAN BEINGS, by Bettina di Fiore. “On November 12, Dr. Tim Johnson, a Protestant minister and the former medical editor at ABC News, published an opinion piece for CBS News in which he promotes what he describes as a ‘compromise’ and a ‘middle-ground’ position on the issue of abortion. It is riddled with logical inconsistencies and factual inaccuracies. Johnson claims: ‘Most of us are instinctively anti-abortion. I personally have never met anyone who thinks it is a trivial procedure.’ He apparently has blinders on, because abortion advocates frequently trivialize and even celebrate the homicide of preborn children, likening it to wisdom tooth extraction, or having a cavity repaired.” Read more here.

 

‘STOP THE SCANDAL,’ by Anonymous. “I’d like to share with you my experience with the [Women’s and Children’s Hospital] gender clinic here in Adelaide. Between 2019 and 2021, my once very happy and girly daughter had started to become withdrawn and very conscious of her changing body, wearing baggy clothes. Nothing her older sister hadn’t done; seemingly normal pre-pubescent behavior. Around March 2021, then 10-years-old, she came out as trans—identifying as a boy, wanting to use a boy’s name and pronouns. When I asked why she felt this way, she said it was because she didn’t like the way women are treated. My concern was this wasn’t about gender identity, it was a response to learning what it can mean to be a woman.” Read more here.

 

MISGUIDED: A GENDER TREATMENT GUIDELINE IN NEW ZEALAND APPEARS TO HAVE ACHIEVED INFLUENCE BEYOND ITS MERITS, by Bernard Lane. “New Zealand’s 2018 ‘gender-affirming’ treatment guideline cannot justify the extreme medicalization it recommends and would never have been promoted by the country’s Ministry of Health had there been a proper assessment of its robustness. This is the opinion of retired public servant Jan Rivers, who reviewed the document drawing on her career concerned with management of accurate information and knowledge.” Read more here.

 

DON’T TRANS THE TOMBOYS, by Anonymous. “These days, when she gets ready for school, the hair will be done. Perhaps it will be a braid of some sort, perhaps it will be curled. Earrings will be selected. A light and subtle application of age-appropriate makeup usually follows. The only constant is that she will always put on a skirt. It didn’t used to be this way. When younger, she was quite the tomboy. There were the fights over getting her hair cut short, fights she lost not because we’re that controlling, but because short hair has to be cut more frequently and we didn’t want to add monthly visits to the stylist to the calendar. …She never suffered from dysphoria. She always knew she was a girl.” Read more here.

 

WHAT IS A DIAMORIC SEXUAL ORIENTATION? ASK MARYLAND’S LARGEST SCHOOL DISTRICT, by Haley Strack. “An established LGBTQ student group is no surprise in Montgomery County (Maryland) — where students as young as kindergarten can join Rainbow Clubs or Gender and Sexuality Alliances, and where the district requires students to read and discuss lewd LGBTQ books — but MoCo pride is of particular interest. First are its comprehensive pronoun and orientation guides that chronicle innovative terms. ‘Achillean’ describes a ‘man or enby who is attracted to other men and enbies, but who may or may not be attracted to other genders,’ MoCo pride says. Read more here.

 

WASTE NOT, WANT NOT: SERBIAN SURGEON WANTS TO PERFORM GENITALIA SWAPS IN NEW YORK HOSPITAL, by Michael Cook. “Urologist Miroslav Djordjevic, one of the world’s leading ‘sex-reassignment’ surgeons, has a nightmare and a dream when he thinks about the estimated 1.5 million transgender people in Western Europe. The nightmare is throwing into the garbage the penises and testicles of 700,000 men and the uteruses and ovaries of 700,000 women. The dream is a tissue bank which will allow doctors to access compatible body parts and swap these precious organs. ‘Now we are in a final step,’ Dr Djordjevic said in the latest episode of Doctor Podcasts, on YouTube. ‘The final approach will be to transplant the penis. This is my main goal of my career. And I hope that this future started yesterday.’” Read more here.

 

RAMPANT TRANSGENDER PROPAGANDA IS ERODING SOCIAL BOUNDARIES, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Reduxx, a feminist outlet consistently reporting on the takeover of women’s spaces by trans-identifying men, noted on October 27 that ‘Multiple female athletes dropped out of a women’s martial arts tournament last week after being matched up to fight trans-identified males. In one of the women’s divisions, the only participants left competing were men.’ That’s right – in a division of women’s sports, the only remaining competitors were men.” Read more here.

 

POLISH RESEARCH AND THE FIGHT OVER THE ABORTION PILL, by Katarzyna Gęsiak. “The U.S. government’s National Library of Medicine website lists a number of possible serious side effects of mifepristone: foetal death, anaphylactic reactions, toxic epidermal necrolysis, angioedema, and teratogenesis, as well as numerous moderate and mild side effects. Although this is quite an extensive list, it should not be forgotten that the other active ingredient in abortion pills, misoprostol, also has its own health consequences. Given the severity of the risks, there can be no justification for the claim that these products can be safely taken by women without medical supervision, even if that claim is made by the World Health Organisation, FDA, or other such organisations.” Read more here.

 

AFTER 30 YEARS OF THE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM RESTORATION ACT, THE LAW—AND OUR LIBERTY—ARE UNDER ATTACK, by Thomas Jipping. “Thirty years ago today, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or RFRA, to protect what he called ‘the most precious of all American liberties.’ Presidents of both parties have declared religious freedom to be one of our most fundamental freedoms, a ‘critical foundation of our nation’s liberty,’ and ‘a fundamental human right.’ Congress has unanimously recognized that religious freedom ‘undergirds the very origin and existence of the United States.’ Yet only three decades after RFRA passed Congress with a total of only three votes against it and grassroots support from across the ideological spectrum, religious freedom is once again in danger.” Read more here.

 

EVEN THE CENSUS BUREAU IS TRYING TO PROMOTE RADICAL GENDER IDEOLOGY, by Mike Gonzalez. “The Census Bureau is asking Congress for $10 million to figure out how best to promote the fiction that sex is assigned at birth, rather than the scientific fact that it is present at conception. It is part of a new set of questions on sexual orientation and gender identity that the bureau wants to ask residents even as young as 15. This expansion beyond race and ethnicity represents a new foray into sexual identity — one more step in the bureau’s decades long degeneration into an agency completely captured by the identity-mongering industry, and which produces the supposedly ‘victim’ categories that the industry requires.” Read more here.

 

PRO-LIFERS MUST FIGHT FOR THE CULTURE, NOT JUST THE LAW, by Tim Busch. “Is the pro-life movement doomed to failure? That’s the inevitable question since last Tuesday’s disastrous elections in Ohio and Virginia have dashed hopes for meaningful protections of mothers and unborn children in each state. Since Roe v. Wade was overturned last year, seven states have put abortion to the voters, and in all seven, life lost — including in deep-red Ohio, Kentucky and Kansas. People who’ve devoted decades to the cause are wondering how, or even whether, to carry on. Yet there’s still hope. Pro-life laws in many states have already saved tens of thousands of innocent lives. We can save even more, but only if we realize a critical truth. We need to win over the culture if we hope to start winning at the ballot box.” Read more here.

 

CRUELTY CLOAKED IN COMPASSION, by Jonathon Van Maren. “A November 3 post on X (formerly Twitter) from J.K. Rowling caught my eye recently. It was her comment on the decision of an Australian court to mandate that the ‘preferred pronouns’ of people identifying as transgender be used as a ‘matter of respect’ to ensure ‘public confidence in the proper administration of justice.’ As Rowling noted: ‘Asking a woman to refer to her male rapist or violent assaulter as ‘she’ in court is a form of state-sanctioned abuse. Female victims of male violence are further traumatized by being forced to speak a lie.’ Indeed, forcing a woman to refer to the man who abused and raped her as ‘she’ seems a particularly grotesque form of gaslighting. Rowling’s comment gets to the heart of something that is not commented on often enough: the manifest cruelty of the transgender movement.” Read more here.

 

IT’S TIME FOR PRO-LIFERS TO SCRAP THEIR ELECTORAL STRATEGY AND ADOPT THE LINCOLN METHOD, by Jeffrey H. Anderson. “With Tuesday’s relatively easy passage of an Ohio constitutional amendment that effectively bars that state’s legislature from regulating abortion in the state, abortion advocates are now convinced that they not only have the public on their side but have found political gold. They now view abortion as such a winning issue that they think it can pave the way to enacting a wide range of other leftist goals. They are largely mistaken, as abortion mercifully remains a highly contentious issue in America. Still, abortion advocates will continue to prevail until pro-life leaders and politicians learn the political lessons that have arisen in the aftermath of their puzzling failure to prepare for a post-Roe world.” Read more here.

 

THE POLICE ARE STILL WITCH-HUNTING GENDER-CRITICAL WOMEN, by Lauren Smith. “What century is it again? In the UK, in 2023, the police are apparently still harassing feminists for standing up for women’s rights. Even just accurately describing what a woman is can now land you in trouble with the Old Bill. On Friday, officers from Northumbria Police turned up at the doorstep of a 34-year-old gender-critical lesbian. They asked the woman (who is currently remaining anonymous) to attend a voluntary interview at Forth Banks Police Station in Newcastle. According to campaign group Fair Cop, the woman was told by officers that if she refused to be questioned they would have no choice but to arrest her.” Read more here.

 

MIKE JOHNSON IS RIGHT: NO-FAULT DIVORCE DESTROYS KIDS, SEX, AND SOCIETY, by Paige Hauser. “The left-wing media think the new speaker of the House is ‘a sinister little creep’ with ‘strong incel energy.’ Why? He is happily married and intends to remain so. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and his wife, Kelly, have a covenant marriage, not unlike millions of Christians all over the world, the only difference perhaps being that theirs is recognized in law. Louisiana is one of the few states (Arizona and Arkansas are the other two) where couples can enter a legally binding marriage that is not subject to the typical no-fault divorce laws.” Read more here.

 

TRANS-ADVOCATE PROFESSOR DOESN’T UNDERSTAND ‘EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE,’ SCHOLAR SAYS, by Maggie Kelly. “A medical professor and paid expert witness for a transgender advocacy seems to lack knowledge of principles of evidence-based medicine, according to one researcher and scholar. Child and adolescent psychiatry professor Dr. Jack Turban miscategorized the fundamental scientific concept of ‘systemic review’ in his Oct. 16 deposition on behalf of the ACLU, challenging an Idaho law passed this year prohibiting child access to transgender drugs and surgeries, political theorist and Manhattan Institute fellow Leor Sapir wrote Monday in City Journal.” Read more here.

 

CLAUDIA GOLDIN’S WORK IS FOUNDATIONAL FOR UNDERSTANDING 21ST CENTURY FAMILIES, by Anna Claire Flowers. “The functions and activities of families continue to fascinate many social scientists. Families are a unique grouping of individuals, governed by different rules and expectations than other social attachments. In the past, discussions of family life were implicit rather than explicit among classical economists. … Enter Claudia Goldin, investigative labor and gender economist. … Goldin’s work in economic history began on the topic of reconstruction-era economic development, which led her to recognize huge economic changes that were being driven by women and the work they did.” Read more here.

 

CALIFORNIA JEOPARDIZES PHARMACISTS’ LIVELIHOODS TO EXPORT ABORTIONS OUT OF STATE, by Mary Curtis. “Dishonest abortion activists sidestepped the will of the Ohio Legislature last week, overriding the red state’s laws with Issue 1’s radical protections for abortion. But California Gov. Gavin Newsom has a different tactic for forcing unwanted abortions on red states. Recently, Newsom signed into law what are supposedly protections for California-based doctors and pharmacists who break other states’ laws by distributing chemical abortion pills.” Read more here.

 

10,000 AFRICAN SEMINARIANS HAVE BEEN TRAINED TO COUNTER WESTERN-BACKED ABORTION CAMPAIGNS, by Human Life International. The future looks bright for pro-life Catholics in Africa, thanks to the dedicated training of seminarians conducted by Human Life International, a U.S.-based Catholic pro-life organization. Africa is a shining beacon of hope to those pursuing a culture of life. As Human Life International continues its counteroffensive against the abortion promotion campaigns of the West, one of many fertile fields bearing fruit in Africa is the organization’s training programs, which have reached more than 10,000 African seminarians in the last 20 years.” Read more here.

 

UN HUMAN RIGHTS TREATY BODIES CONTINUE TO VIOLATE THEIR MANDATES, by Dr. Rebecca Oas. “UN human rights experts do not have the authority to press governments to change laws. But they do. And they are getting even more aggressive in doing so. Recent sessions of several UN human rights treaty monitoring bodies demonstrate this, especially on controversial issues like abortion and sexual orientation and gender identity. The Human Rights Committee, which monitors adherence to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, ordered the United States to ‘provide legal, effective, safe and confidential access to abortion’ and harmonize its laws and policies with the abortion guidance of the World Health Organization (WHO).” Read more here.

 

CHINA REVERSES COURSE ON ITS DISASTROUS POPULATION PLANNING POLICY, by Peter Jacobsen. “The 20th century was full of attempts to centrally plan population. Scientists like Paul Ehrlich and businessmen like Hugh Moore spent their lives putting direct pressure on politicians and citizens into addressing the looming specter of ‘overpopulation.’ Population doomer language was often dramatic and often included predictions of mass death within just decades. The predictions never got anywhere close to happening. Humanity never ran out of food—or any other resources for that matter—before the turn of the century.” Read more here.

 

THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION MUST RETURN TO FIGHTING ABORTION ‘IN ALL ITS HIDEOUS DEFORMITY,’ by Dr. Fritz Baumgartner. “In the immediate years prior to the Dobbs decision’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, the official policy of the American Medical Association (AMA) with regard to abortion was generally, though not overwhelmingly, positive. The organization stated that, ‘The Principles of Medical Ethics of the AMA permit physicians to perform abortions in keeping with good medical practice.’ However, following the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the official response of the AMA was one of complete disapproval of the decision and overwhelming anger that the supposed ‘right’ to abortion would be threatened.” Read more here.

 

YET ANOTHER STORY SHOWS MEDICAL ‘INCOMPETENCE’  NOT PRO-LIFE LAWS – HURTS WOMEN, by Nancy Flanders. “Tragic stories of pregnancy complications have been making headlines in the last year, blaming pro-life laws in pro-life states for situations in which pregnant women were denied the care they needed. But a case out of New York — one of the most pro-abortion states in the nation — is further evidence that the problem isn’t pro-life laws, but negligent doctors. Kathleen Szekely sent an email to the pro-life organization Secular Pro-Life detailing her story. Szekely is a registered nurse and wrote that what happened to her ‘illustrates the absurdity of stringing together assumed political relevance with real emergency practice.’” Read more here.

 

TRANS ANOMALY: NASHVILLE SHOOTER’S MANIFESTO SUGGESTS AN INCONVENIENT ASPECT OF ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE,’ by Tyler O’Neil. “The vast majority of mass shooters are male, and male biochemistry helps to explain why. Yet the person who opened fire at Nashville’s Covenant School (on March 27) was biologically female. …Police discovered a manifesto at the scene of the shooting, but unlike in so many other mass shootings where authorities publish a shooter’s white nationalist screeds almost immediately, authorities sought to keep Hale’s manifesto secret. …This anger, resolve, and hatred hint at something the coroner would not confirm—it seems likely that Audrey Hale had taken cross-sex hormones, probably testosterone, before the shooting.” Read more here.

 

WOMEN ARE BEING FORCED OUT OF THEIR OWN SPORTS, by Lauren Smith. “Trans ideology is destroying women’s sport in more ways than one. Not only are men taking women’s places in sporting competitions – women are also being forced out of their sports if they dare to speak out against this. In August this year, Canadian powerlifter April Hutchinson took to social media to criticize a decision to allow biological males to compete in women’s competitions. She was talking specifically about the case of Anne Andres, a trans-identifying male who had broken the Canadian women’s national powerlifting record by 200 kilograms a few days earlier. …A few weeks after Hutchinson stated the bleeding obvious about Andres’s participation, she received a stern letter from the CPU. It told her that she could not refer to Andres as a biological male and criticized her for campaigning to keep women’s sport, er, women-only. The CPU is now said to be considering hitting Hutchinson with a two-year suspension.” Read more here.

 

‘OFF-THE-WALL ABORTION POLICIES’ ARE ACTUALLY COMMON SENSE WIDELY SUPPORTED, by Connor Semelsberger. “Pro-choice Republicans in Congress are back. What had become a dying breed in the past couple of years, Republicans who consistently vote against basic pro-life protections have taken the House appropriations process hostage. This group of about eight to 10 Republicans have now helped to sink two appropriations bills over policies that are commonsense solutions to the government’s increasingly pro-abortion priorities.” Read more here.

 

MISS UNIVERSE OWNER FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY AFTER ACCEPTING TRANSGENDER CONTESTANTS, by Tierin-Rose Mandelburg. “For your weekly dose of comical news, the Thai-based owner of Miss Universe, JKN Global Group, has filed for bankruptcy. This comes after accepting multiple transgender contestants for the 2023 pageant set for November 18. True comedy if you ask me. Transgender activist Anne Jakrajutatip, who’s transgender as well, runs the pageant and is part of JKN Global Group who bought the organization for $20,000,000 in 2022. JKN Global Group insisted it is trying to resolve a ‘liquidity problem’ and filed for bankruptcy with the Thai Bankruptcy Court.” Read more here.

 

ALARM AT GENDER DYSPHORIA TREATMENT, by Joanna Panagopoulos and Natasha Robinson. “A growing number of doctors have expressed ‘serious professional concerns’ about a NSW government framework for the treatment of gender dysphoria in children, and say it ignores the ‘cautious’ models adopted by the United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, Finland and France. In an open letter to NSW MPs, more than 35 psychiatrists, psychologists and doctors also criticized the government’s decision to appoint the Sax Institute to undertake a review which formed the basis of the NSW framework, questioning the ‘validity and reliability’ of the evidence they used to support the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for children and young people. Read more here.

 

OHIO IS A POLITICAL SETBACK, BUT PRO-LIFERS MUST CONTINUE TO DEFEND LIFE, by Michael J. New. “On Tuesday, pro-lifers encountered a setback when Issue 1 passed in Ohio by a margin of 56.6 to 43.4 percent. This places legal abortion in Ohio’s state constitution and jeopardizes many commonsense pro-life laws in the Buckeye State. Pro-lifers had some reasons for optimism going into this election. Ohio has a more conservative electorate than Michigan and some other states where pro-abortion ballot propositions prevailed. Ohio pro-lifers got off to an earlier start and had the public support of popular Governor Mike DeWine. Unfortunately, the [money] spent by supporters of legal abortion was too much for pro-lifers to overcome.” Read more here.

 

STANDARD VARIATION: WPATH’S TREATMENT GUIDELINE CANNOT JUSTIFY THE DOGMATIC PRACTICE OF ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE,’ by Sandra Pertot. “Scott Leibowitz, the co-lead author of the adolescents chapter for the latest standards of care (SOC-8) from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), has described SOC-8 as ‘consensus- and evidence-informed clinical guidelines to help distinguish those who would benefit from treatment versus those who would not.’ This claim is starkly at odds with reality. Disagreement about the assessment and management of gender-questioning people has led to the most toxic and divisive conflict in health services that I have experienced in 50 years as a clinical psychologist.” Read more here.

 

VIRGINIA, OHIO AND ABORTION, by Cal Thomas. “Instead of being put on the defensive for pregnancies due to rape, incest or the life of the mother, Republicans and pro-lifers need to go on the offensive. USA Today has reported that according to the Guttmacher Institute, ‘Just one percent of women obtain an abortion because they became pregnant through rape, and less than 0.5 percent do so because of incest.’” Read more here.

 

HOW DO WE RIGHTLY HONOR MARRIAGE IN A CULTURE THAT DOESN’T CARE?, by Auguste Meyrat. “Few institutions are more misunderstood in the 21st century than marriage. Even among devout Christians, it has come to have a multitude of different meanings. Setting aside the usual controversy of the last two decades of whether marriage must be between a man and a woman or simply any combination of people who claim to ‘love’ one another, there are many other ongoing debates on the topic. Is marriage a contract or a sacrament? What are the rules on chastity? What role do children play in the marriage?” Read more here.

 

WHEN I DO BECOMES MAYBE: THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF MARRIAGE IN SPAIN, by Cecilia Serrano. “For years, Spain has quietly held significant rankings in areas such as its high gross divorce rates and a notably late average age for first marriages, age 36 for men and 34 for women. These facets of Spanish society often remain underemphasized in both academic research and public discourse. Along with the decline in fertility rates and the rise in alternative relationship models, these trends may imply a departure from Spain’s traditionally ‘familistic’ social framework. These trends call for a deeper exploration into the changing social norms and beliefs about marriage, and how these shifts are reshaping behaviors and life choices in Spain.” Read more here.

 

POPE FRANCIS SAYS ‘TRANS’ PEOPLE CAN BE GODPARENTS, HOMOSEXUAL ‘PARENTS’ CAN HAVE CHILDREN BAPTIZED, by Michael Haynes. “Pope Francis has approved a text drawn up by Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández attesting that ‘transgender’ individuals can be godparents for the sacrament of Baptism, as well as allowing homosexual ‘parents’ to have their children baptized. Pope Francis’ latest document comes despite the fact that the Catholic Church teaches that deliberate bodily mutilation and homosexual acts are gravely sinful, and that those requesting Baptism for children must intend to raise the children in the Catholic faith.” Read more here.

 

PORNOGRAPHY IS FUELING A DEVASTATING RAPE CULTURE AMONG CHILDREN, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Holly Bourne is a best-selling British author who has several critically acclaimed novels to her name – all of them in the category of youth fiction. She is also a whistleblower, and in a recent column for the Daily Mail, Bourne details how ubiquitous porn use among young people is creating a toxic rape culture that makes life unbearable for teenage girls. The connection between pornography and sexual violence is a subject I have been reporting on in this space for nearly ten years, but the full reality of what it means to see a generation raised on a diet of sexual violence is still sickening to watch.” Read more here.

 

BEST WAY TO CHANGE TRANS POLICIES IN SPORTS? WOMEN REFUSE TO PLAY, by Nicole Russell. “As more youth experience gender confusion and join athletics in the name of political correctness, sports associations often allow males who ‘identify’ as females to compete alongside females. These male athletes then beat the female athletes because of their physiological advantages. If sports associations won’t change their policies to make the playing field level again, the best course of action for now is for females to refuse to play.” Read more here.

 

CALIFORNIA TAXPAYERS BANKROLLING TRANS SURGERIES FOR DEATH ROW INMATES, by Jazz Shaw. “As everyone already knows, everything costs more in California thanks to state government policies that seek to pay for endless social programs. …It turns out that Californians are footing the bills for prisoners who request transgender surgical procedures behind bars. Over the past seven years, the cost of these procedures has added up to millions of dollars while the prisoners themselves are charged nothing. Four million dollars may seem like a drop in the bucket compared to California’s roughly $310 billion annual budget, and it is. But just as a matter of principle, you’d think that people would want to draw a line in the sand on this nonsense.” Read more here.

 

WHY ARE LIBRARIES HIDING GENDER-CRITICAL BOOKS?, by Carrie Clark. “Does being a gender-critical writer put you on par with Hitler? According to Calderdale Council in West Yorkshire, the answer is yes. Earlier this year, Helen Joyce’s bestselling book, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality, was deemed so offensive by a member of Calderdale Council that human resources insisted it be removed from public-library shelves and hidden in storage. Joyce wasn’t the only gender-critical author to be treated in this way – Kathleen Stock, Abigail Shrier and Heather Brunskell-Evans also had their books removed from public view, while still being available for order.” Read more here.

 

POLYAMOROUS ‘FAMILY’ JUSTIFIES SEXUAL CHOICES BY CLAIMING IT BENEFITS THEIR CHILDREN. IT DOESN’T, by Nancy Flanders. “A polyamorous quad of two married couples has gained a large following on social media as they promote their lifestyle and the erroneous idea that DNA is not important in a family structure. Decades of research show it is. And despite their choice to broadcast their lives on social media, they slam viewers who ask questions about their group dynamic. But questions — and concerns — abound.” Read more here.

 

WHY THE EU’S LGBT TREATY SPELLS DOOM FOR AFRICAN, CARIBBEAN, AND PACIFIC COUNTRIES, by Everhart LSN Africa. “November 15, 2023, might be a tragic day for Africa and the entire Caribbean and Pacific region. It is the day set aside by the European Union (EU) to pressure or coax African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries into signing the deceptively and euphemistically crafted LGBT agreement between the EU and ACP countries.The pertinent questions are: Have ACP heads of government compromised their earlier stance on this matter and now agreed to sign the controversial ACP-EU agreement? If so, why? Did African leaders consult their respective parliaments and their people before agreeing to sign the agreement? Why has the African media not reported the negotiations between the EU and the ACP countries since 2021?” Read more here.

 

MASSACHUSETTS PROVES AGAIN WHY BOYS CAN’T PLAY GIRLS’ SPORTS, by Jazz Shaw. “The day may come when we stop seeing headlines about the undermining of girls and women’s sports, but that day is not today. Out in Massachusetts … two high school field hockey teams met on Thursday, pitting Swampscott and Dighton-Rehoboth against each other. Swampscott had at least one boy on its team, and he fired off a shot that struck one of the Dighton-Rehoboth girls in the face. The shot resulted in ‘significant facial and dental injuries’, including the girl having two of her teeth knocked out. She was taken from the field and hospitalized. … The boys are, on average, bigger and stronger than the girls. They can drive that ball far faster and harder. The girls aren’t used to dealing with that sort of speed. How does anyone see this situation as being fair to the girls?” Read more here.

 

DRAG IS NEVER APPROPRIATE FOR KIDS, by Chad Felix Greene. The art of drag relies on exaggerated sexuality and female stereotypes. Drag queens, through dazzling performances, over-the-top humor, and a cultural dedication to irreverent commentary, have long acted as a release valve for the LGBTQ community. They could say and do things that others would never dare to express … This, however, has always remained within the private walls of adult entertainment and for good reason. Although many have argued this charisma can be redirected into child-appropriate entertainment, education and advocacy, the reality demonstrates otherwise … Far too many have chosen to disregard the concept of appropriateness altogether, performing dance routines, wearing costumes and portraying the same bombastic, and overtly sexual characters in front of kids as they would in front of adults. Read more here.

 

TRANS IDEOLOGY IS MESSING WITH CHILDREN’S MINDS, by Pam Spurr. “The rise of gender ideology in British schools has me fearing for my three young granddaughters. You might think that is excessive, but the trans takeover of British schools is no small matter. An unscientific belief system is now being pushed as fact, and our children are being bombarded with two ludicrous ideas – namely, that a person can ‘change sex’ and that there are countless made-up genders to choose from.” Read more here.

 

HAVING BABIES IS PROFOUNDLY IMMORAL. WE SHOULD MOVE TOWARDS EXTINCTION, SAY BIOETHICISTS, by Michael Cook. “Joona Räsänen and Matti Häyry believe that it is arguably ‘morally wrong to have children.’ If there were no children, suffering would disappear in a few generations. Severe problems such as climate change would find a resolution if humans ceased to exist, thus eliminating environmental destruction. It appears clear that numerous problems plaguing humanity—such as wars, famine, crime, discrimination and cruel treatment of animals, to name a few—would vanish if humans would not exist. The adoption of antinatalism would, therefore, truly solve ‘everything.’” Read more here.

 

COLLEGES RESISTING THE TRANS HEGEMONY, by James M. Sequeira. “It is a difficult time to be a parent in America if you do not want your child to consider chemical sterilization and so-called ‘gender reassignment surgery.’ All the institutions of learning seem to be against you. Kindergartners in Seattle are taught about transgenderism by a man with a high-pitched voice wearing a purple hat and earrings. ‘Drag Queen Story Hours’ are ubiquitous across American libraries. And I can tell you from personal experience that local children’s events in my own (politically conservative) town have explicitly encouraged my toddler to check out the bouncy house at our local Pride Day celebration.” Read more here.

 

WHY ARE ABORTIONS RISING POST-DOBBS?, by Kayla Bartsch. “The New York Times has been gathering data that should make every fan of the Dobbs decision take a moment of silence. After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, abortion restrictions have been passed in dozens of (conservative) states, ranging from total bans to gestational limits. And yet, the number of abortions across the U.S. in the first six months of 2023 has increased by nearly 50,000 when compared with the first six months of 2020. Despite the decreased number of abortions in states with firm restrictions, the surge in states with lax policies has contributed to an overall increase in abortions across the country.” Read more here.

 

GENDER COUP, by Bernard Lane. “A successful citizens’ referendum to outlaw medicalized gender change for minors in the progressive heartland of California would reverberate nationally and internationally, according to parents’ activist Erin Friday. ‘It’s so important that we kill gender ideology in California,’ Ms. Friday told Genspect’s sold-out Bigger Picture conference in Denver, Colorado, on Sunday. ‘And we can, oddly, even though California is so crazy liberal. The people can do it. We’ve got a [referendum] ballot initiative that will stop boys in girls’ sports. It’ll stop the secret transition of children at school, and it will stop gender [medicine] interventions on children. This is a ballot initiative that is polling between 64 and 75 per cent in California.’” Read more here.

 

ONE OF FINLAND’S LEADING GENDER MEDICINE DOCTORS ON ‘GENDER AFFIRMING CARE,’ by John Sexton. “I’ve written about Dr. Riittakerttu Kaltiala before. She was one of the leading doctors who dealt with pediatric gender identity patients in Finland and recently she’s become a critic of the model known as gender-affirming care. Monday, the Free Press published a lengthy essay by Dr. Kaltiala in which she outlines her personal involvement in this issue and what she believes about it now.” Read more here.

 

EVERY STATE WITH AN ABORTION BAN ALLOWS TREATMENT FOR MISCARRIAGE AND ECTOPIC PREGNANCIES, by Mary E. Harned and Dr. Ingrid Skop. “Twenty-five states have one or more strong gestational limits on abortion that are either in effect or are enjoined while in litigation. Each of these states permits abortion in those rare and heartbreaking circumstances when it is necessary to save the life of a pregnant woman. Physicians can make this determination based on their ‘reasonable medical judgment,’ a standard very common in the medical profession and used for any case involving medical malpractice litigation … Meanwhile, abortion advocates are spreading the dangerous lie that life-saving care is not or may not be permitted in these states, leading to provider confusion and poor outcomes for women.” Read more here.

 

REVIVING THE EUROPEAN FAMILY, by Balázs Hidvéghi. “Europe, including Central Europe, is faced with a tendency toward an aging society and a demographic decline: fewer children are being born while an increasing proportion of society is entering old age. This tendency does not only threaten our welfare system, but puts the future of our entire civilization at risk.” Read more here.

 

FOR WESTERN COUNTRIES FREEDOM OF RELIGION ENDS WHERE LGBT RIGHTS BEGIN, by Iulia Cazan and Stefano Gennarini. “Western governments expressed support for religious freedom in the General Assembly last week even as they attacked traditional religious beliefs about marriage and family around the world. In the social policy committee of the General Assembly last week, the European Union promised ‘strong support’ for religious freedom and said, ‘everybody has a right to believe and not to believe.’ The United States agreed and encouraged governments to work with people of faith as ‘partners.’ These statements cannot be taken at face value because for years, Western governments have supported only one kind of religious freedom, and it is the kind that celebrates and promotes homosexual/trans issues.” Read more here.

 

HEALTHY FAMILIES SHOULD BE AT THE CENTER OF ECONOMIC POLICY, by Erika Bachiochi. “But if human beings really are to flourish, then we can’t imagine that they simply ‘emerge from the earth like mushrooms’ in Thomas Hobbes’ telling, and then go on to voluntarily join associations. No, the health of our families where infants are nurtured—and both children and their parents are formed—must be at the very center of our politics and economics. Of course, ‘focusing on the family’ is not a new idea for social conservatives. The religious right, in particular, has long bemoaned the deleterious impact of the sexual revolution on the family. Now, some rather articulate thinkers from the left are coming around to the idea. As well they should.” Read more here.

 

BANNING ABORTION WOULD HELP CANADA REVERSE ITS ALARMING POPULATION CRISIS, by Pete Baklinski. “Over the past 50 years, Canada has been spiraling out of control to a catastrophic demographic demise. Put simply, Canadian women are not having enough children to replace themselves and their partners. What this inevitably spells is disaster on so many levels, especially socially and economically, as the population ages and a younger population is simply not there to fill empty workspaces, pay taxes and keep the nation’s social and economic systems alive and healthy. Ancient civilizations rose and fell. Extinction can happen to our modern civilizations too.” Read more here.

 

CONSTITUTIONAL JUSTICE UNDER THREAT IN OHIO DUE TO ABORTION BALLOT INITIATIVE, by Danielle G. Pimentel. “The pro-life movement has accomplished many victories in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, while also facing new challenges. Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade and returned the abortion issue to the democratic process, abortion activists have sought to enshrine a ‘right’ to abortion in state constitutions across the country. These efforts pose a serious threat to pro-life laws and the protection of preborn human beings, women and young girls.” Read more here.

 

PRO-FAMILY GROUPS TAKE A STAND AGAINST EU PARENTHOOD CERTIFICATE, by Bridget Ryder. “Europe’s pro-family groups are organizing against the EU Commission’s push for a certificate of parenthood. Last year, the Commission proposed an EU-wide certificate recognizing a parent-child relationship. This would help to ease the administrative burden for families caught in cross-border situations where legal documents certifying the relationship of a minor to a parent may not be easily recognized between member states. However, family law is not a competency of the EU, and opponents warn that it could also facilitate surrogacy arrangements made by European families in other countries, force member states to recognize same-sex marriages and diminish protections for children.” Read more here.

 

DYSTOPIA BEGINS HERE: PARENTS WOULD NEED A LICENSE TO RAISE CHILDREN TO SCREEN OUT HOMOPHOBES, TRANSPHOBES AND RACISTS, by Kimberly Ells. “A handful of philosophers through the years have trotted out the idea that parents should be required to get a license to raise their own children. After all, doctors and plumbers get licenses. Why not license the most important job of all: Parents. But Connor Kianpour, a doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado, Boulder, has just taken the idea a bold step further. …He writes: ‘Individuals have no right to rear their biological children, nor do they have any interests weighty enough to justify a right to rear children generally. Since these rights do not exist, regulated parenting policies cannot be said to jeopardize them.’” Read more here.

 

LEGISLATOR CONDEMNS ABORTION: MARGARET SANGER WANTED TO ‘EXTERMINATE’ BLACK PEOPLE, HER WISH IS COMING TRUE, by Sen. Michele Reynolds. “Abortion is killing the black community. The abortion industry has nefarious roots in hatred and racism. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was a eugenicist who systematically targeted ‘inferior races’ for decades. She opened her first clinic in a black neighborhood in Brooklyn. This horrific moment was just the beginning. Abortion is still a lucrative business scheme in America. Since 1973, this predatory industry has claimed the lives of 20 million black children in the nation. Ohio’s black women and babies have felt this evil year after year. And it continues today.” Read more here.

 

MILLENNIAL CULTURE LOVES ABORTION BECAUSE IT’S OBSESSED WITH SEX AND SHUNS MARRIAGE, by David Closson. “Over the summer, the Thriving Center of Psychology published an explosive study that found a shift in marriage expectations among Gen Z and millennials. According to the study, two in five young adults (41 percent of men and 52 percent of women) think marriage is an outdated tradition. The study also found that 61 percent of unmarried couples live with their partners. Although these statistics are not altogether surprising for a post-Christian culture, the survey’s findings demonstrate how modern sexual mores represent a significant challenge to the pro-life movement. Simply put, the values of a post-Christian culture, particularly sexual licentiousness, undermine pro-life efforts to foster a culture that honors life.” Read more here.

 

A CASE OF ANTI-LIFE LIBERALISM, by Sven Larson. “In the brave new world of liberalism, women have been reduced to ‘uterus carriers.’ Life is created in factories. Babies can be bought and sold like merchandise. No, this is not science fiction. It is not some dystopian image of an extreme future. This ‘vision’ of our future is found in a legislative bill introduced in the Swedish national parliament, the Riksdag. The sponsor is Mr. Joar Forssell, a member of parliament for the liberal party. He proposes that taxpayers’ money be spent ‘on research about artificial uteri’ for the purposes of extending ‘reproductive freedom’ to ‘uterus carriers.’ In other words, Mr. Forssell wants the Swedish government to sponsor the development of machines that can grow a baby from conception to birth, so that no woman will ever have to be pregnant again.” Read more here.

 

THE MYTH OF LGBT CONVERSION THERAPY, by Malcolm Clark. “The myth of conversion therapy may just be the biggest yarn yet spun by the UK’s LGBT lobby. Since 2018, the Conservative Party has been flip-flopping back and forth on whether or not it wants to outlaw conversion therapy for gay and trans people. As of last week, Rishi Sunak appears to be having second thoughts about a ban. Meanwhile, Labour is committed to one. All this has pitched a poorly understood subject back into the headlines. The issue will likely be fiercely argued about right up to the next General Election.” Read more here.

 

BRITISH CROSS-DRESSSING ACTOR EDDIE IZZARD DENIES ENGAGING IN ‘CULTURE WARS’ WHILE PUSHING TRANSGENDERISM, by Jonathon Van Maren. “By now, we are all used to classics of the Western canon getting cancelled, from Cambridge compiling literary blacklists, book-burnings in Quebec and Canadian libraries eliminating all books not published recently. Those classics that are not discarded completely are being reinterpreted. LGBT characters are magically being discovered as if the books exist entirely independently of their creators. An LGBT activist rewrote Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women with Jo March as a lesbian. The BBC’s recent screen adaption of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations included foul language and, more disturbingly, BDSM-themed sex scenes. (It was widely condemned even by critics with the stomach for that sort of thing.)” Read more here.

 

SCIENCE CONFIRMS HUMAN LIFE BEGINS AT CONCEPTION DESPITE WHAT THE MEDIA THINKS, by Dave Andrusko. “The more pro-lifers are victorious—see the Dobbs decision overturning Roe—the more pro-abortionists are intent on revisiting topics that are already long since settled. So we get stories from the reliable pro-abortion National Public Radio with the headline ‘When does life begin? As state laws define it, science, politics and religion clash.’ Sarah Varney uses a familiar tactic. Argue that since the definition of death is now (‘more or less’) settled, then we ask ‘when exactly does human life begin? At conception, the hint of a heartbeat, a first breath, the ability to survive outside the womb with the help of the latest technology?’” Read more here.

 

THESE BC CONSERVATIVES ARE COURAGEOUSLY OPPOSING LGBT INDOCTRINATION IN SCHOOLS, by Jack Fonseca. “I have some encouraging pro-family news to share with you from one of the unlikeliest places in Canada. British Columbia (aka, the ‘Left Coast’) is a hot bed of progressive, socialist policies, led by a radical NDP government. …It all started the week before Thanksgiving as MLAs returned to work for the start of the Fall Session in the legislature. The first courageous politician I want to tell you about is B.C. Conservative Party Leader, MLA John Rustad. During his first-ever Question Period opportunity since taking over as Conservative leader, and with all eyes on him to see what he might ask the NDP Premier, MLA John Rustad, stunned the government and media, by using the moment to speak out against the evils of gender ideology being taught in the province’s classrooms.” Read more here.

 

WARNING BELLS: JAPAN’S DEMOGRAPHIC DECLINE, by Louis T. March. “Visitors to Japan usually don’t see the dying towns with abandoned homes, shuttered schools and absence of children. While being feted in the big city, you would have no idea of the severe demographic crisis enveloping the country. But the Japanese government saw fit to brief the 63-member (New Jersey East Asia Economic Mission) delegation about it. Interesting.” Read more here.

 

IN THE DARK: A MAJOR DOCUMENTARY IN THE NETHERLANDS SHAKES THE FOUNDATIONS OF GENDER MEDICINE, by Bernard Lane. “Experts in research methodology in the Netherlands, the country that gave the world puberty blockers, have identified fundamental flaws in pioneering Dutch studies crucial to the evidence base for youth gender clinics internationally. ‘There is no comparison group [in these 2011 and 2014 studies from the famous Amsterdam gender clinic], and all patients who received puberty blockers also received psychological counselling at the same time, so two treatments were running side by side,’ Maastricht University research methodologist Gerard van Breukelen said in a new documentary, ‘The Transgender Protocol,’ broadcast by the Dutch investigative journalism program Zembla.” Read more here.

 

THOUSANDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE REGRET THEIR ‘GENDER TRANSITIONS’ AND THEIR STORIES ARE GUT-WRENCHING, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Over the past several years, the mainstream press has been working overtime to debunk the testimonies of ‘de-transitioners’ – the men and women, most of them very young, who underwent various ‘transgender interventions,’ such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and ‘sex change’ surgeries. Those of you who read this blog regularly will have read many of their stories; there are now so many ‘de-transitioners’ speaking out that an entire genre of dissident documentaries has sprung up featuring their stories (I reviewed one of them at length here).” Read more here.

 

ABORTION FACILITIES, NOT CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTERS, DEAL IN MISINFORMATION, by Theresa Bonopartis. “On Oct. 23, Attorney General of California Rob Bonta along with 15 other attorneys general, including Letitia James of New York and Matthew Platkin of New Jersey, made public an open letter calling crisis pregnancy centers (CPC) sources of ‘misinformation and harm.’ As crime runs rampant in our cities, these 16 elected officials are spending taxpayer-funded resources harassing life-saving crisis pregnancy centers for not being what they never claimed to be: full-service ‘reproductive health clinics.’” Read more here.

 

3 THINGS TO CONSIDER ABOUT #WECOUNT’S LATEST REPORT SHOWING ABORTION INCREASE, by Bettina di Fiore. “#WeCount –- a project of the pro-abortion Society of Family Planning (SFP) … recently released updated data which purports to compare the number of U.S. abortions before and after the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade. Although the organization’s previous report showed an overall decline in the number of abortions committed post-Dobbs, its current report shows the opposite, claiming a cumulative increase of 2,200 abortions per month. This has been spun by various media outlets as evidence that pro-life laws are not effective. But is this conclusion supported by the evidence?” Read more here.

 

DOCTORS PERFORMED A SEX CHANGE OPERATION ON ME AT TWO-DAYS-OLD. I FOUND OUT DECADES LATER, by Sophie Ottaway. “At age 22, during a routine trip to the doctor’s office, my entire reality changed in the blink of an eye. I learned I was born wholly male — an XY chromosome — and doctors made the decision at my birth to remove my split penis and testes and directed my parents to raise me as a female. Under the guise of psychological protection, the doctors told my parents I must never be told of my birth sex. Now, at 37, I want to share the learnings from my search for answers and the journey I undertook to make peace with myself and my body.” Read more here.

 

SCHOLASTIC BOOKS PUTS KIDS LAST, BENDS KNEE TO WOKE RAGE MOB, by Teri Christoph. “It seemed for a moment that an act of sanity was actually going to prevail. Scholastic Books, purveyors of every kid’s favorite book fair, announced they were going to give greater control over book fair book selections to parents, schools, teachers and librarians. Let me make an important note here: This decision was to affect elementary school book fairs. We’re talking about kindergarten through fifth or sixth grade. Babies, really. … In a world where kids are regularly used as political pawns, and the left’s radical agenda is constantly being shoved down their throats, it seemed like Scholastic Books was trying to protect kids in an unexpected moment of clarity. Silly me.” Read more here.

 

FEMALE DETRANSITIONER SUES PEDIATRIC ACADEMY, by Jazz Shaw. “Another detransitioner who was abused by the medical industry as a child has come forward. And Isabelle Ayala isn’t just telling her story in an effort to help others. She is taking her doctors and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to court for endorsing an ‘affirmative model’ for diagnosing and treating pediatric gender dysphoria and subjecting her to medical procedures that they knew or should have known would lead to long-term harm. This is just one of multiple lawsuits currently being brought by detransitioners against a multi-billion-dollar industry that pushes dangerous and unscientific practices on patients leading to irreversible damage.” Read more here.

 

THE LEMON TEST IS DEAD. RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IS ALIVE, by Mat Staver. “It’s a new day for religious freedom in America. You won’t hear about this on the news. In recent years, the Supreme Court of the United States has become the catalyst for a positive sea change in just a 14-month period, which reversed decades of detrimental legal precedent and cleared the way for positive, multigenerational impact. After a string of losses through Supreme Court decisions in the 1970s that sought to sanitize the public square of our Judeo-Christian heritage, the decades-long fight swiftly shifted.” Read more here.

 

NOT ROBUST: ANOTHER GENDER CLINICIAN ADMITS THE SCARCITY OF GOOD EVIDENCE, by Bernard Lane. “An Australian psychiatrist featured in a TV program showcasing puberty blockers for non-binary teenagers has acknowledged to colleagues that the evidence for ‘gender-affirming’ treatment is not robust. At a psychiatry conference on October 14 Dr. Georgie Swift, who was involved in setting up the gender clinic at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital (WCH) in Adelaide, South Australia, gave a talk titled, ‘We’re here, we’re queer and we’d like to say hello: the mental health and wellbeing of gender-diverse and same-sex attracted people.’ ‘I’m reasonably confident to say that no matter where you stand on ‘gender-affirming’ health care for children and adolescents, that you agree that we need more evidence—our evidence isn’t robust, it isn’t good enough,’ Dr Swift told the conference.” Read more here.

 

TRANSGENDER ACTIVISTS ARE USING THIS CLASSIC STRATEGY TO NUMB THE PUBLIC TO THEIR RADICAL AGENDA, by Jonathon Van Maren. “If you want the public to believe something, simply hammer their senses with the same stories, over and over again. This leads to what is known as ‘the illusory truth effect,’ which ‘refers to the human tendency to believe a claim or a piece of information to be true after being exposed to it multiple times.’ The more we hear or read something, the more likely we are to believe it. This is one of the tactics currently being utilized by the transgender movement. Even in countries with aggressively pro-transgender laws – such as Canada, the UK, and the United States – most people do not accept most of the premises of the transgender movement.” Read more here.

 

DETRANSITIONER WHO STRUGGELD WITH MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES SUES DOCTORS WHO RUINED HER LIFE, by Tierin-Rose Mandelburg. “According to an exclusive report from DailyMail, Layton Ulery just sued a number of medical professionals who facilitated her ‘gender transition’ as a young woman. Ulery, who described herself as a ‘fractured and unstable’ adolescent at the time, is suing her former doctors for malpractice after saying they treated her mental health with scarring, life-altering drugs. According to the report, Ulery said she was part of a cult since she was six years old. As a result of the abuse at the hands of said cult, Ulery said she began experiencing symptoms of multiple personality disorder, claiming that ‘her mind and body’ were inhabited by eight separate identities,’ DailyMail reported.” Read more here.

 

AMERICAN DADS ARE MORE INVOLVED THAN EVER – ESPECIALLY COLLEGE-EDUCATED OR MARRIED DADS, by Wendy Wang. “American fathers are more involved in their children’s lives than ever. Fathers in America now spend an average of 7.8 hours per week taking care of their children at home, up by 1 hour per week in just about two decades. (Mothers’ child care time remains stable during this period.) However, this rise in fathers’ parenting time does not apply to all dads. New time diary data from the federal government show that fathers’ time with their children has increased the most in the past two decades among college-educated, partnered, white, or Asian dads.” Read more here.

 

KILLING A BABY AFTER BIRTH IS WRONG, SO IS KILLING A BABY BEFORE BIRTH, by Samuel Sey. “Is it ever okay to kill a baby? I know the question is absurd. Basically, everyone has the same answer: No, it’s never okay to kill a baby. But what if I added more context? What if the baby sleeps in his mother’s womb, instead of a crib? What if the baby is still a few days or hours away from being born? What if I changed my wording? What if instead of asking ‘Is it ever okay to kill a baby?’, I said: ‘Is it ever okay to abort a fetus?’ Keep in mind that the meaning of the words hasn’t changed. The word ‘abortion’ means terminating or killing a fetus. And the word ‘fetus’ means a pre-born baby. So, though the meaning of the words hasn’t changed — have your answers changed? Do you still believe it’s never okay to kill a baby? Ignore the euphemisms, pro-abortion people believe it’s okay to kill babies. It’s as simple as that.” Read more here.

 

SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE SHOWS UNBORN BABIES FEEL PAIN, POSSIBLY AS EARLY AS 12 WEEKS, by Dr. David Prentice. “Even still in the womb, a few weeks old, our hearts are beating rhythmically and blood courses throughout our tiny, still-developing bodies. Prick us then, and we will bleed. But what if the question is phrased, ‘If you prick us, do we not feel pain?’ Again, for those of us already born, barring some pathological neural syndrome, the answer is certainly ‘yes.’ But what about those still-developing humans in the womb?” Read more here.

 

WHY CHILDREN OF MARRIED PARENTS DO BETTER, BUT AMERICA IS MOVING THE OTHER WAY, by Pallavi Gogoi. “The economist Melissa Kearney has been both vilified and praised for her new book, The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind. In the book, released last month, Kearney points out a rather obvious fact: Children raised by two parents have a much higher chance of success than those raised by one. Yet she goes even further to argue that whether parents are married or not impacts their children’s success. Her argument goes against the trend in the U.S.; American children are increasingly being born and raised by single mothers.” Read more here.

 

INCLUSION: SCHOOL DISTRICT DITCHES HALLOWEEN, VALENTINE’S DAY BUT NOT LGBT+ PRIDE, by Dave Huber. “A Wisconsin school district sent out a letter to families informing them that any celebrations for the upcoming Halloween and February’s Valentine’s Day are a no-no — due to diversity and inclusion concerns. … Back in June, however, the Monona Grove School Board formally recognized June as ‘LGBT+ Pride Month,’ noting in a statement the district is ‘committed to supporting visibility, dignity, and equality for LGBTQ+ people in our diverse community.’” Read more here.

 

MOST WOMEN ARE PRESSURED TO HAVE ABORTIONS, THAT’S WHY SO MANY REGRET THEM, by Andrea Trudden. “Britney Spears, an iconic pop sensation, recently unveiled a deeply personal chapter of her life in her upcoming memoir, ‘The Woman in Me.’ In this memoir, she candidly shares her experience of being pressured into having an abortion during her relationship with Justin Timberlake. Britney’s revelation has sparked a conversation about the emotional and psychological consequences of abortion, which often go unnoticed and unaddressed. In her memoir, Britney Spears opens up about the anguish she felt, saying, ‘To this day, [abortion] is one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life.’ Her statement shines a light on the profound emotional impact that abortion can have on women.” Read more here.

 

THE WOKE CANADIAN MEDIA IS LOSING ITS WAR AGAINST PARENTAL RIGHTS IN EDUCATION, by Jonathon Van Maren. “This time, it appears that the Canadian parental rights movement may be more than a flash in the pan. There have been sporadic protests over aspects of public school sex education for years across the country – with more sustained protests organized by groups such as Campaign Life Coalition in Ontario during the 2010s – but this level of organization, interfaith cooperation and political backing has been lacking. If momentum continues to build, there will be a collision course between a growing movement and consolidated opposition from progressive politicians, the press, the powerful LGBT lobby and teachers’ unions (which have more or less merged in recent years).” Read more here.

 

LIKE BRITNEY SPEARS, MANY WOMEN FEEL PRESSURED INTO ABORTIONS THEY DO NOT WANT, by Maureen Collins Comer. “… (W)ith the upcoming publication of Spears’ memoir, The Woman in Me, what could be another disturbing reason for the singer’s decline has come to light. According to People Magazine, which broke the story, Spears felt pressure to have an abortion during her relationship with Justin Timberlake in the late 1990s and early 2000s. From an excerpt of her memoir obtained by People, it sounds like it was not Spears’ idea to undergo an abortion.” Read more here.

 

OBGYN CONFIRMS ‘ABORTION IS THE DIRECT AND INTENTIONAL KILLING OF AN UNBORN CHILD,’ by Dr. Michael Parker. “In Ohio this election cycle, voters are being asked to enshrine two falsehoods into the laws of their state: that abortion is health care and that Ohioans’ elected representatives have no role in abortion-related decisions. Abortion was illegal in most states until the 1970s, and the medical field understood why. The American Medical Association opposed abortion in most circumstances. The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists viewed pregnancy as having two patients … The sexual revolution, the feminist movement and the introduction of birth control pills changed the public’s view on pregnancy termination.” Read more here.

 

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AGAIN IN LEGAL PERIL IN FINLAND, by Sam Brownback. “’It is not for the district court to interpret biblical concepts.’ Such was the judgment of the Finnish court tasked with ruling on the case of Päivi Räsänen, a 28-year member of the Finnish Parliament, former minister of the interior, medical doctor, grandmother and Christian prosecuted for ‘hate speech.’ Her ‘crime?’ Publicly sharing her faith-based views of human sexuality.” Read more here.

 

ABORTIONIST DEFENDS ABORTING BABIES: THEY’RE SMALL, SO WHO CARES, by Dave Andrusko. “In a fascinating essay, written a while back for the New York Times, Dr. Alison Block tells her readers why she proudly performs second trimester abortion and how abortionists should be congratulated for overcoming their ‘ambivalence.’ But first she tells us that previously ‘the vast majority of abortions that I perform in my California practice are at six, seven or eight weeks of pregnancy — a period during which the gestational sac, a tiny piece of tissue that resembles a cotton ball, is about the size of a coin.” Read more here.

 

PLANNED PARENTHOOD IS AN ABORTION BUSINESS AND TAXPAYERS SHOULD NOT BE FORCED TO FUND IT, by Lisa Bourne. “While out for a local community festival this summer I encountered this unpleasant advertisement affixed to the sidewalk in the downtown metro area near where I live. Pictured strewn about in the ad were an IUD, a condom, two PrEP HIV pills, and a urine sample cup. Above these items was the claim: EXPERT SEXUAL HEALTH CARE. IT’S WHAT WE DO. Below the items the entity behind the all-caps claim and accompanying distasteful images was named, Planned Parenthood. If there is one thing Planned Parenthood is an expert at, it is marketing sexual activity precisely so that when the tools it pushes to do so fail, it is positioned to provide the supposed remedy, whether that is STD testing, or importantly, abortion.” Read more here.

 

DOJ’S TARGETING OF SO-CALLED ‘VIOLENT’ PRO-LIFERS IS MISLEADING AND DANGEROUS, by Bridget Sielicki. “In the aftermath of the overturn of Roe v. Wade, attacks against pro-life facilities and pregnancy resource centers have been at an all-time high. Despite this reality, a recent Washington Post article highlights the greater push by the Biden administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) to target pro-lifers, with the misleading claim that such prosecutions are ‘urgent’ due to the pro-life movement’s ‘extremely dangerous behavior.’” Read more here.

 

PLANNED PARENTHOOD USES AFTERMATH OF HAMAS ATTACK TO FUNDRAISE FOR ITS OWN KILLING OPERATIONS, by Evita Duffy-Alfonso. “The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) reported last week that its Palestinian Family Planning and Protection Association (PFPPA) building in Gaza was demolished by an Israeli airstrike. In response, IPPF came out with a fundraising request. That’s right, baby-killing Planned Parenthood is shamelessly using unspeakable human suffering and death occurring in Gaza and Israel to unironically raise money.” Read more here.

 

FACT CHECK: BIDEN’S SPEECH TO LGBTQ GROUP WAS FRAUGHT WITH FALSEHOODS, FABLES, by Joshua Arnold. “President Joe Biden spoke Saturday at the Human Rights Campaign’s annual national dinner. Biden said it was his fourth appearance at the annual event, which is billed as ‘a national gathering for champions of LGBTQ equality.’ … From downright false testimony to invented stories, from ideological falsehoods to absurd non-sequiturs, the president’s speech had it all. Perhaps it would even have been comedic if the stakes weren’t so deadly serious. Biden was introduced by his wife, Jill, and the false testimony began with her. But the president added his own false claims.” Read more here.

 

GOSNELL PHOTO EXHIBIT ASKS OHIOANS TO RECKON WITH THE HORRORS OF ABORTION RIGHT BEFORE THEY VOTE ON IT, by Jordan Boyd. Issue One in Ohio says that ‘every individual has a right’ to ending life in the womb and other ‘reproductive decisions’ regardless of age or trimester. ACLU, Planned Parenthood and LGBT groups are counting on Ohioan’s confusion and ignorance about the language of the ballot measure to enact their radical abortion and anti-parent agenda in the state without pushback from Ohio’s Republican legislature, governor and attorney general.” Read more here.

 

PENNSYLVANIA MARCH FOR LIFE SEES THOUSANDS OF PRO-LIFE PEOPLE STAND AGAINST ABORTION, by Frank Pavone. “Pennsylvania has been suffering the pro-abortion policies of its recently-elected Governor, Josh Shapiro. One of his acts has been to unilaterally slash the funding of ‘Real Alternatives,’ a statewide program that has been in place for decades and helps fund pregnancy centers. The theme of the pregnancy centers, which have recently organized a statewide advocacy group, was front and center in the speeches. I spoke with some pregnancy center staff who said that as of the end of this year, they will no longer receive the [money] that the statewide program was providing them each year.” Read more here.

 

TRANS ACCESS TO GIRLS’ RESTROOMS AND RELATED LEGAL CLAIMS FAIL IN FEDERAL COURT, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “A federal district court in Idaho just declined to halt the operation of a state law mandating that public schools separate their bathrooms and housing accommodations by biological sex. The commonsense decision Thursday comes as more and more federal courts across the country conclude that state laws preventing the expansion of ‘gender identity’ rights are constitutional.” Read more here.

 

POLAND’S PRO-LIFE AND FAMILY PARTY HAS LOST THE GOVERNMENT, BUT THERE’S NO REASON TO DESPAIR, by Filip Mazurczak. “Poland’s pro-family party has lost its majority government, but this does not mean the country will suffer a nightmarish social revolution. For the past eight years, Poland has had the most genuinely socially conservative government in Europe, led by the Law and Justice party. On Sunday, parliamentary elections were held in the east-central European nation, and the results were officially proclaimed this morning. Despite receiving more votes than any other party, Law and Justice lacks the required number of mandates to form a parliamentary majority.” Read more here.

 

BABIES IN THE WOMB DESERVE MEDICAL CARE, NOT ABORTION, by Chuck Donovan and Tara Sander Lee. “In today’s America, political controversy rages over when—or whether—legal protections should begin for children in the womb. The arguments are intense, and tend to focus on milestone events in fetal development, like the onset of the child’s brainwaves, heartbeat or capacity to feel pain. At the same time, however, developments in fetology and prenatal medicine are pressing strongly for recognition of the baby as a patient in his or her own right ever earlier in pregnancy.” Read more here.

 

RETURN OF THE GROWNUPS, by Lisa Selin Davis. “If there’s one sentence I hope every attendee of the Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine’s conference last week took to heart, it’s this: No treatment with such low-quality evidence can be described as evidence-based, life-saving, and/or medically necessaryAn international group of clinicians and academics presented at a series of panels over four days in New York City at SEGM’s conference. The location, I believe, is important: it signaled to critics that those concerned about the treatment of youth with gender dysphoria are feeling more emboldened to speak up and less apt to hide. The presenters included gay, lesbian and one trans participant and plenty of liberals.” Read more here.

 

DC LIBRARY DIDN’T DO BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR, by Mike Howell. “The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in the nation’s capital hosted a ‘Drag Story Hour’ last month as part of so-called Family Pride Day activities without conducting background checks on the male performers, who dressed and wore makeup like women. King Library, the central location of the D.C. Public Library system, described the event as a ‘fun-filled afternoon’ of drag queen performances, crafts, and ‘a variety of family-friendly books all about Pride.’ The D.C. library listed “birth to 5” as the age range for the event.” Read more here.

 

YOUR MIDDLE SCHOOL CHILD IS NOT TRANSGENDER, by Zachary Faria. The exploitation of children by left-wing activists is always grotesque, but the worst of it is how children are being convinced they should pursue sex changes and be used as political vessels to force the government to allow it. Such is the case in North Carolina, where a 9-year-old child is being used as the crux of a lawsuit against the state for correctly banning sex change surgeries and procedures for children. According to the lawsuit, which is being pushed by the child’s parents and transgender activists, the child ‘knew from a very young age that his gender identity did not match his sex assigned at birth, and he generally lives as the boy he is in every aspect of life. However, with his puberty approaching, Victor will soon need medical care that is prohibited by the Health Care Ban.’” Victor, of course, is a girl. Read more here.

 

THE PROBLEMS WITH ‘GENDER IDENTITY,’ by Lisa Selin Davis. “The fact that gender identity is now vague, unmeasurable, completely subjective, and becomes true by declaration—not by objective evaluation—makes it easier for kids to claim a newfangled gender identity, and perhaps to feel special and seen by doing so. They may find community, solidarity, and social capital—especially those who feel intense pressure not to be part of privileged ‘oppressor’ groups. They can climb the social ladder by claiming to be stranded at the bottom of it. It’s the only identity one can opt into, manifest from magical thinking to reality by way of speaking aloud. Because only the child can know his/her/their/xir gender identity, and all the parent or doctor can do is wait for it to emerge, it’s the ultimate in child-led parenting, in patient-centered care.” Read more here.

 

A DRIVER OF INEQUALITY THAT NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, by Melissa Kearney. “Earlier this year, I was at a conference on fighting poverty, and a member of the audience asked a question that made the experts visibly uncomfortable. ’What about family structure?’ he asked. ‘Single-parent families are more likely to be poor than two-parent ones. Does family structure play a role in poverty?’ The scholar to whom the question was directed looked annoyed and struggled to formulate an answer. The panelists shifted in their seats. The moderator stepped in, quickly pointing out that poverty makes it harder for people to form stable marriages. She promptly called on someone else.” Read more here.

 

CNN DISCOVERS A HORMONE IT DOESN’T WANT TEACHERS GIVING KIDS, by Rich Cromwell. “A special education teacher in Humble, Texas, gave melatonin gummies to a few of her students, and CNN is mad. Not only were the students’ parents not informed, the outlet tells us, but the teacher didn’t even alert the school nurse or administrators either. It’s shocking, really, a teacher giving kids a hormone supplement without parental consent. We should really demand better of our educational system … Are there any similar risks to transgender interventions — that is, years of wrong-sex hormones and genital mutilations? Read more here.

 

A REAL WOMAN REACTS TO DYLAN MULVANEY’S ‘WOMAN OF YEAR’ SPEECH, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “Dylan Mulvaney said, ‘No matter how hard I try, or what I wear, or what I say, or what surgeries I get, I will never reach an acceptable version of womanhood by those hateful people’s standards.’ Dylan, we don’t hate you. Far from it. But what we want is an apology. In fact, you yourself even admitted that there are not enough surgeries and not enough clothing options in the world for us to believe that you have an acceptable version of womanhood. You’re right, and that’s never going to change. That’s because the only version of womanhood is the biological version.” Read more here.

 

WILL OHIO ENSHRINE A RIGHT TO ABORTION?, by Jack Butler. “One record looms large for Ohio pro-life activists: oh-and-six. That figure represents the fate of their cause in voter-decided state ballot initiatives since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in June 2022. It includes both failed pro-life initiatives and, as in neighboring Michigan, successful pro-abortion ones. As Ohio prepares to vote this November on Issue 1, a pro-abortion constitutional-amendment initiative, that oh-for-six record underscores the challenge pro-lifers face. They are up against a well-resourced pro-amendment campaign. But they believe Ohio can defy the national trend if they make clear the radical implications of a yes vote.” Read more here.

 

THERE IS NO ROOM FOR PORNOGRAPHY IN A SOCIETY THAT CARES ABOUT ITS CHILDREN, by Jonathon Van Maren. “I want to begin by noting that I realize some people will begin reading this column and think: ‘Here we go again. Another article beating the drum about how porn fuels sexual violence – again.’ And on one hand, I get it. I’ve been writing about this subject for over 10 years and have published many columns in this space on the rape culture that has been metastasizing all around us as entire generations get addicted to digital sexual violence that has normalized deviant, degrading, and destructive sexual practices – normalized them.” Read more here.

 

WITH THE ADVENT OF TRANSGENDERISM, FEMINISM HAS KILLED ITSELF, by Eva Kneifel. “With the advent of transgenderism, feminism has effectively killed itself. Its advocates are now surprised that their theory was radically enforced and they are now falling under the wheels. After all, does anyone remember this? ‘You are not born a woman, you become one.’” Read more here.

 

PRO-ABORTION RESEARCHER BEHIND MISLEADING STUDY AWARDED FAMOUS ‘GENIUS’ GRANT, by Cassy Fiano-Chesser. “Diana Greene Foster, the pro-abortion researcher behind the much-touted (yet heavily debunked) Turnaway Study, has been chosen for a 2023 MacArthur Fellowship, along with a no-strings-attached $800,000 ‘Genius Grant, which is awarded to people who have ‘shown extraordinary creativity and dedication in their fields.’ Foster is a University of California San Francisco (UCSF) professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences, as well as a professor and researcher at the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) program. Currently, she is studying the ‘health and economic consequences’ of the end of Roe v. Wade — but judging by her past work, as well as the organizations she works for — her research is bound to be biased in favor of abortion. And with an $800,000 grant, she will surely be even more capable of creating and spreading pro-abortion propaganda.” Read more here.

 

PLATO DIDN’T THINK THAT PARENTS MATTERED. THESE ACADEMICS DON’T EITHER, by Michael Cook. “In the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Connor Kianpour, of the University of Colorado at Boulder, argues from a libertarian perspective that parents have no natural right to raise their children. Parents should prove their fitness for parenting by obtaining a license. His article is headlined: ‘The Kids Aren’t Alright: Expanding the Role of the State in Parenting.’ … One of the main requirements for obtaining this license would be to prove that mum or dad is not homophobic, racist or sexist. ‘Parental licensing, unlike public parenting support and parental monitoring, can insulate children from being raised by those who are objectionably intolerant, such as racists, sexists, and homophobes.’” Read more here.

 

PARENTAL RIGHTS IS ON THE BALLOT; GAVIN NEWSOM’S VETO OF SB 596 PROVES IT, by Jennifer Oliver O’Connell. “California Governor Gavin Newsom is not stupid. He’d be a horrible choice as a presidential candidate, but he knows how to play the margins politically, which is what he has been doing in his veto of particular bills that, six months to a year ago, assuredly would have been part of his platform. Take Senate Bill 596. Another under-the-radar bill written by Democrat state Senator Anthony Portantino. Alarms were raised by a parental rights blogger in Portantino’s district concerning this ‘parent silencing’ measure.” Read more here.

 

COURT BLOCKS SCHOOL DISTRICT POLICY FORCING PRONOUN ‘RESPECT,’ by Tierin-Rose Mandelburg. “A St. Louis federal appeals court halted Iowa’s Linn-Mar Community School District policy that would force students to comply with others’ transgender delusions. With the help of concerned parents in the district, as it stands now and according to everyone’s First Amendment rights, students will no longer have to ‘respect’ others’ gender delusions. A group of concerned parents represented by the Parents Defending Education (PDE) insisted that kids who are forced to say and acknowledge pronouns and genders that don’t exist, are having their First Amendment rights violated.” Read more here.

 

SAN FRANCISCO’S ‘GUARANTEED INCOME FOR TRANS PEOPLE’ PROGRAM DISCRIMINATES ON BEHALF OF RACIAL MINORITY APPLICANTS, by Evan Poellinger. “Judicial Watch disclosed on Thursday that it has acquired almost two thousand pages of records from the City of San Francisco related to its taxpayer-funded Guaranteed Income for Trans People (GIFT) program, which reveal that the city has given priority to program applicants from racial minority backgrounds. The program, which was announced by the city on November 16, 2022, was intended to ‘provide low-income transgender San Franciscans with $1,200 each month, up to 18 months to help address financial insecurity within trans communities.’” Read more here.

 

THE WAR ON MEN IS A WAR ON CIVILIZATION, by Owen Strachan. “At basically every level, men are disappearing. One minute, they’re here; the next minute, they’re gone. You can track this trend in one metric after another. As I write in my brand new book, ‘The War on Men’, for every one woman who drops out of college, seven men drop out. Men have left the workforce in almost unprecedented numbers; the current employment rate of men in prime working years mirrors that of the Great Depression. Men are also dropping out of church. For decades, women have filled roughly 60 percent of the pews.” Read more here.

 

WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY 2023 AND GENDER DYSPHORIA, by James Esses. “In aid of World Mental Health Day, here are some crucial facts (with references) about gender dysphoria, a globally recognized mental health condition, and the unethical medicalization of children who suffer from it. There is no other mental health condition in which you can tell a doctor you have something wrong with you, with no objective test, and receive irreversible medication or surgery on your say-so. This goes squarely against the Hippocratic Oath. Gender dysphoria is the only mental health condition in which treatment affirms the highly distressing thoughts inside someone’s head or encourages them to physically change their body. The treatment for anorexia or body dysmorphia is not liposuction.” Read more here.

 

SAFER SEX MEANS LESS PROMISCUITY, NOT MORE, by Debra Soh. “STIs have been steadily rising in the United States, something the CDC referred to as an ‘epidemic’ … and it seeks to improve the health of gay and bisexual men and transgender women who are at an increased risk of these STIs. Public health interventions can be both powerful and effective, but let’s not forget the amount of relevance and sway that cultural messaging also holds. The proposal mentions the importance of discussing risk reduction strategies, but I question, in today’s day and age, how many healthcare practitioners would feel comfortable advising their patients to have sex with fewer people.” Read more here.

 

WHY MEN ARE TURNING TO PORN AS A MENTAL HEALTH COPING STRATEGY, by Tom Ward. “While male loneliness is nothing new – published in 2017, the Jo Cox Commission found that eight million men feel lonely every week. With the coronavirus lockdowns of 2020 heightening the problem and leading to a rise in suicidal thoughts, the government even launched a £750 million campaign titled #Let’sTalkLoneliness to get people to open up. But, for many men, opening up remains a difficult task, especially so when we’re cut off from our friends and colleagues. It’s no surprise, then, that instead of dealing with our emotions, we search out distractions. Distractions like pornography.” Read more here.

 

THE FEDS AND THESE 37 STATES HIT PARENTS WITH MARRIAGE PENALTIES, by Preston Brashers. “There are many factors that have contributed to the decline in marriage, but federal and state tax systems that often penalize marriage—especially for lower-income Americans with children—exacerbate matters. The federal income tax, plus the state income taxes of at least 37 states and the District of Columbia, impose marriage penalties in some situations.” Read more here.

 

NO, PRO-LIFE LAWS ARE NOT TO BLAME FOR ‘MATERNITY CARE DESERTS,’ by Susan B. Anthony List. “Leave it to corporate media to make the simple complicated and the complicated simplistic. Once again, NBC is pushing a debunked claim that pro-life protections are responsible for maternity wards closing (specifically, Bonner General in Sandpoint, Idaho, which discontinued services back in March). ‘Maternity care deserts’ are defined as ‘counties where there’s a lack of maternity care resources, where there are no hospitals or birth centers offering obstetric care and no obstetric providers.’ This topic is worthy of deeper analysis. Unfortunately, NBC’s latest pro-abortion jeremiad doesn’t provide it.” Read more here.

 

MORE EVIDENCE OF PORN POISONING CHILDREN IS A DISTURBING WAVE OF SEX CRIMES AMONG MINORS, by Jonathon Van Maren. “For decades, porn industry executives and their lobbyists have been claiming that ‘adult content’ is a human right and that it is not only harmless but beneficial. One of their key claims has been that violent porn does not groom people for violence but provides a harm-free outlet for those who might otherwise act out physically on their disordered lusts. That claim has always been false due to the fact that the women being assaulted and degraded in porn videos are, in fact, being harmed — but as I’ve written many times in this space, a growing mountain of data is leading to a new consensus among experts that violent porn does not provide a ‘harm-free outlet’ but rather encourages and cultivates these desires.” Read more here.

 

HOUSE REAUTHORIZES AFRICA AIDS RELIEF PROGRAM WITH SAFEGUARDS AGAINST PROMOTING ABORTION, by Amanda Vicinanzo. “The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program, established during the Bush era, has been instrumental in saving countless lives in the fight against AIDS … Last week, in a 216-212 vote, the House of Representatives passed the State Foreign Operations Appropriations bill (HR 4665) reauthorizing PEPFAR, with robust provisions aimed at protecting preborn children and their mothers. ‘Regrettably, PEPFAR has been reimagined—hijacked—by the Biden Administration to empower pro-abortion international non-governmental organizations, deviating from its life-affirming work,’ said Rep. Chris Smith, Chair of the House Global Health Subcommittee.” Read more here.

 

THE LEFT’S CULTURE OF DEATH: ABORT BABIES UP TO BIRTH, EUTHANIZE PATIENTS AND MUTILATE CHILDREN, by Robert Henneke. “A culture of death is stalking our nation. Yet as some states work to expand assisted suicide, make abortion limitless (and free), and to ensure that children are able to be sterilized with surgeries and hormone treatments, Texas is creating—and celebrating—a culture of life. In some states, activists are working to expand physician-assisted suicide laws to cover more and more potential suicides. New Jersey, for example, has an assisted suicide law, but it’s restricted to residents of the state. That law led a Pennsylvania woman to file a lawsuit demanding access to the ‘service.’ One New Jersey doctor supports her fight against the residency law. … A couple of points here; this argument flips the script completely, by making assisted suicide a right, and any denial of access to a quick death is considered discrimination; this turns the Declaration’s self-evident truth and unalienable right—the right to life—upside down.” Read more here.

 

TRANSGENDER LAWYER WHO WANTED TO ‘CORRECT THE ERRORS’ OF JACK PHILLIPS’ THINKING MAY HAVE HIS OWN CASE ‘CORRECTED,’ by Tyler O’Neil. “The First Amendment prohibits the government from acting with hostility against sincere religious beliefs, yet Colorado twice prosecuted Christian baker Jack Phillips with such hostility. This week, Phillips got another chance to defend himself against another kind of hostility—the anger of a male lawyer named Autumn Scardina, who identifies as female and said he wanted to ‘correct the errors of [Phillips’] thinking.’” Read more here.

 

SEXUALIZING CHILDREN, by Janet Levy. “Do you believe that human beings are sexually aware right from birth? That children should know about masturbation at 0-4 years, and about hugging, kissing, and sexual behavior at 5-9 years? Or that children aged 9-12 years should know about sexual attraction, stimulation, and using pornography because by then they are ready for their first sexual experience? If your answer on all counts is a shocked and emphatic No, you have reason to be very much worried. For the globalist agenda to upend western civilization strikes at our most vulnerable members. Is there a plan to sexualize children, promote pornography, and normalize pedophilia involving the World Economic Forum (WEF), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the U.N. as part of Agenda 2030? The possibility exists.” Read more here.

 

PROBE THE CLINICIANS, by Bernard Lane. “An inquiry into gender medicine in Australia would scrutinize the clinicians who promote these life-altering medical interventions, not the children who are their patients, pediatrician Dr. Dylan Wilson has pointed out. ‘There is nothing to be lost by an inquiry,’ Dr. Wilson told a historic forum on the implications of medicalizing children with gender dysphoria held this week in the Australian state of Victoria. ‘The scrutiny only needs to be placed on the medical professionals advocating for this treatment, there is no need to scrutinize children,’ he said.” Read more here.

 

MS. MAGAZINE’S ABORTION STORIES PROVE WOMEN NEED SUPPORT, NOT ABORTION, by Nancy Flanders. “Ms. Magazine has collected a series of abortion stories in order to prove that abortion is ‘critical’ to women and girls. ‘Our Abortion Stories’ shares the abortion experiences of Ms. readers and appears to be an ongoing project of the magazine. Many of the stories show that women and girls don’t need abortion – they need support. That support exists, but the pro-abortion media and politicians are attempting to conceal it and disparage it.” Read more here.

 

FLORIDA SUPREME COURT SHOULD RULE THERE’S NO RIGHT TO KILL BABIES IN ABORTION, by Thomas Jipping. “For 50 years, the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe vWade, which invented a fictional ‘right to abortion,’ prevented most efforts to protect human lives before birth. Last year’s decision in Dobbs vJackson Women’s Health Organization corrected that egregious error, lifting that impediment to pro-life efforts in state legislatures and Congress. Pro-abortion forces, however, are relentless and are trying to use state constitutions to create a state-level ‘right’ to abortion and shut down pro-life legislation. The latest conflict is in Florida.” Read more here.

 

4 BILLBOARDS IN OHIO AND PENNSYLVANIA: WHATEVER IT TAKES TO GET AMERICANS TALKING ABOUT ‘TRANSING’ CHILDREN, by Taylor Reece. “In the 2017 movie ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,’ the character Mildred Hayes, played by the always-gripping Frances McDormand, is a driven mother seeking justice for her slain daughter. Feeling ignored, and with no arrests after seven months, Mildred puts up three roadside signs to prod Ebbing’s police chief to find her daughter’s killer. As the makers of ‘Dead Name’, a new documentary film about the gender ideology targeting our children, we’ve taken a page from Mildred by using four two-sided digital billboards in Pennsylvania and Ohio to promote our movie through year’s end.” Read more here.

 

DEADLY ‘SEXTORTION’ SCAMS THREATEN TO RUIN A GENERATION OF YOUNG BOYS, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Almost every day, a scam email lands in my spam folder that is some derivative of the following: ‘I have hacked your computer’s camera and recorded you while you were watching porn. If you do not send me X amount of dollars, I will send the video to all of the email addresses on your contact list.’ Because I know it’s a scam and I don’t watch porn, it’s easy for me to simply delete the emails. But because I know how many people do struggle with porn – a majority of teen boys, even in Christian communities – I’ve often wondered how many people panic when they receive these emails, and how many end up sending money.” Read more here.

 

EUTHANASIA IS REJECTION OF A FUNDAMENTALLY IMPORTANT ETHICAL NORM AGAINST INTENTIONAL TAKING OF A LIFE, by Dr. Thomas Finegan. “The main points I wish to make involve the moral logic underpinning the legalization of assisted suicide and, or voluntary euthanasia. I use the term ‘euthanasia’ to refer to both, and by that term I mean the deliberate medical co-operation in a competent person’s autonomous choice to end his or her own life. My remarks here are explained and defended in greater detail in my written submission. The unique, distinguishing feature of euthanasia is the consensual, intentional [ending of] the patient[‘s life.] Introducing death as a legitimate healthcare intention would not be a mere expansion of healthcare. Rather, it could only be introduced by disavowing a primary healthcare norm, that of no intentional [taking of a life].” Read more here.

 

A NEW BOOK ARGUES TWO-PARENT HOMES ARE BEST FOR CHILDREN. IS IT RIGHT?, by Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje. “In the realm of uncomfortable truths, there’s one that many people — especially, it would seem, liberals — don’t want to talk about, even though statistics inarguably prove its substance: children do best when raised in two-parent homes. Specifically, two-parent homes where the adults are married. This taboo topic is the focus of a freshly published book presently causing all manner of punditry, pontificating and cultural handwringing.” Read more here.

 

AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION HELPED CREATE LEGISLATION TO KEEP SEXUAL MATERIAL IN SCHOOL LIBRARIES, by Jeff Charles. “The American Library Association (ALA), a once-respected entity, has been at the forefront of progressive efforts to use the education system to indoctrinate young children into far-leftist ideas on race, sexual orientation and gender identity. Its leadership has openly stated that its objective is to influence young minds into embracing progressive ideology. A recent report revealed that the ALA helped draft legislation that would stop school libraries from removing sexually inappropriate material from its shelves.” Read more here.

 

STUDY SHOWS AMERICANS ARE CONFUSED ABOUT WHAT ‘ABORTION’ IS. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS, by Cassy Fiano-Chesser. “How Americans feel about abortion continues to be a complicated issue. While polling has long found that Americans grapple with the morality of abortion, regardless of whether they feel it should be legal, the abortion industry continues to push for abortion to be legal across the country, for any reason, at any time, with no restrictions or safeguards. This has long been an unpopular position, which is perhaps why abortion activists have so frequently misrepresented the reality of what abortion is. Now, a new poll shows that there is widespread confusion about what constitutes an ‘abortion.’” Read more here.

 

NO, PUBERTY BLOCKERS ARE NOT THE SAME AS THE PILL, by James Esses. “Last Thursday, the Metro published an article by Ugla Stefanía Kristjönudóttir Jónsdóttir, an Icelandic ‘transwoman.’ The article was entitled: ‘We accept teenagers taking the pill – why don’t we feel the same about puberty blockers?’ This title, in and of itself, was disingenuous, dangerous and disgraceful. I immediately wrote to one of the lead editors at the Metro, expressing my concern with the piece, and requesting that they allow me to write a response piece, in the interests of balance. After a few days, I finally heard back, being told: ‘it wouldn’t be one for us on this occasion.’ This was disappointing but not surprising, given the Metro’s increasing tendency to push partisan gender ideology on its readers.” Read more here.

 

WASHINGTON STATE POLICY BOARD CONSIDERING ROLLING BACK SEX OFFENDER PUNISHMENTS, by David Strom. “What is it about the Pacific Northwest? Is it the proximity to Vancouver? Is there something in the water? Did we empty our insane asylums and install the former residents as government officials in charge of social policies? Whatever the reason, Oregon and Washington policies regarding anything alphabet-related are becoming more insane by the day. I have detailed before, Washington and Oregon have been on a rampage when it comes to overturning any policy that protects civilization. Rampant drug use, homelessness, gender-related policies and a host of other civilization-destroying decisions have been imposed on the residents of those states, resulting in the rapid decline of Seattle and Portland.” Read more here.

 

SILENCER: GENDER IDENTITY ACTIVISTS ARE QUICK TO FIRE OFF COMPLAINTS TO A REGULATOR WITH QUESTIONABLE IMPARTIALITY, by Bernard Lane. “Australia’s health profession regulator has been warned not to allow activists to misuse the complaints process to silence legitimate concerns about the dominant ‘gender-affirming’ treatment approach. ‘Many health professionals have told me about their disturbing experiences of being accused by [‘gender-affirming’] colleagues of trying to deny clients ‘lifesaving’ interventions, of being transphobic, or being incompetent because [‘gender-affirming’] care is ‘best practice,” clinical psychologist Dr Sandra Pertot said in a letter to the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra) earlier this year. ‘When all dissent is shut down, it is easy to make the case that ‘the science is settled.’” Read more here.

 

PLANNED PARENTHOOD IS HELPING TEENAGERS TRANSITION AFTER A 30 MINUTE CONSULT. PARENTS AND DOCTORS ARE SOUNDING THE ALARM, by Aaron Sibarium. “Fred arrived at his local clinic, on North Fullerton Ave. in Montclair, New Jersey, at around 11:00 a.m., according to phone tracking data his parents used to monitor his whereabouts. By 11:39, they received a text message from CVS: Fred’s estrogen prescription was on its way. Instead of a months-long evaluation by expert psychiatrists, a nurse practitioner had, in little over 30 minutes, prescribed their special-needs son a powerful drug without their knowledge or consent. ‘It’s criminal what Planned Parenthoods all over the country are doing,’ Fred’s mother, a New Jersey pediatrician, said. ‘And most people have no idea this is happening.’” Read more here.

 

ABORTION IS NOT HEALTHCARE IN AFRICA, by Mathew Otieno. “In any case, the fact that African countries lose so many women to pregnancy-related complications is one of the biggest scandals of modern medicine. The major causes of, and solutions to, maternal mortality have been figured out for a century, and many countries in the developed world now have maternal mortality rates within the single digits. Still a tragedy, yes, but not nearly as scandalous. Unfortunately, most of the attention paid to African mothers has been focused a lot more on reducing the number of children they bear, rather than on stemming the loss of our women, hence the frenzy of activity and funding for the promotion of abortion and contraception.” Read more here.

 

TRANSGENDER INQUISITION: NEWSOM WEAPONIZES SCHOOLS AGAINST NON-‘AFFIRMING’ PARENTS, by Tyler O’Neil. “It’s official: California Gov. Gavin Newsom has launched the transgender inquisition against non-‘affirming’ parents that I warned about earlier this month. Yet the Democrat found a cunning way to hide it: He made news by vetoing a horrible bill he was expected to sign. When conservatives brand Newsom a radical opponent of parental rights, he will point to his veto of AB 957—a bill that would require family courts to consider parental stances on ‘gender affirmation’ in custody disputes—as evidence that he’s no radical. Yet the Democratic governor’s full record on the issue remains extreme—if not downright horrifying.” Read more here.

 

RECLAIMING BIOLOGICAL FACT: THE IMPORTANCE OF SCIENTIFIC GENDER DEFINITIONS, by Matt Staver. “Some stark moments have marked the gender confusion debate that’s been raging in the U.S. Few were as stunning as the response of Ketanji Brown Jackson, a mother of two daughters and a sitting judge, after Sen. Marsha Blackburn asked her for the definition of the word ‘woman’ during her confirmation hearing. The now-sitting justice of the United States Supreme Court stated she didn’t know because she’s ‘not a biologist.’ How did something that is an objective reality, confirmed by science, and just plain common sense become controversial or indefinable?” Read more here.

 

OUR SCHOOL HAS A PRIVATE TRANSGENDER TRANSITION PLAN … BUT THERE’S A PROBLEM, by Kira Davis. “My California school district — Capistrano Unified School District (CUSD) — is in an unusually conservative voting area. Even so, our board is owned by progressive union-supported representatives. Our proximity to wealth in Orange County has largely insulated us from the controversies that have traditionally plagued public school systems, not because they didn’t exist, but because as long as education standards were holding steady not many parents felt the need to bother with keeping tabs on our school board. That all changed when the pandemic hit… At the moment we are struggling mightily to press our board into adopting a parental notification measure similar to the (currently) seven other school boards across the state that have already done so. You may have heard our attorney general has chosen to threaten tax-paying parents and is suing at least one district for violating state policy. It’s a mess, to say the least, and the more digging we do the worse it gets. Read more here.

 

GROWING UP IN INTACT FAMILIES MATTERS MORE THAN EVER, by W. Bradford Wilcox and David Bass. “Stable, two-parent families have always mattered for kids. But today, we have new evidence that they may matter more than ever. A new study from the Institute for Family Studies (IFS) indicates that an intact family is increasingly tied to the educational, financial and social welfare of children. Meanwhile, family instability appears to harm kids more than it used to. Growing up with two parents made a bigger difference for Millennials than for Boomers. This new report co-authored by one of us (Wilcox) comes on the heels of an important new book by Brookings Institution economist Melissa Kearney, The Two-Parent Privilege, showing that American kids do better when raised in a two-parent family.” Read more here.

 

REPORTER KICKED OUT OF TRANS EVENT AFTER ASKING ‘WHAT IS A WOMAN’?, by Tierin-Rose Mandelburg. “Timcast news reporter Elaad Eliahu was escorted out after asking the panel to define the word ‘woman’ during an event at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. The event, entitled ‘Trans Rights in America,’ was set up by Georgetown College Democrats in protest of The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles’ speech that was taking place the same night, and featured trans activists from across the country. Panelists included Montana State Representative Zooey Zephyr (a biological man who pretends to be a woman), former Hillary Clinton Press Secretary Charlotte Clymer (another biological man who pretends to be a woman), Oklahoma State Representative Mauree Turner (a girl who wants to be referred to as more than one person), and journalist and activist Erin Reed (a biological man who pretends to be a woman who is in a ‘lesbian’ relationship with Zephyr.) Let’s just say the bunch was as wild as a zoo.” Read more here.

 

ANTHROPOLOGY CONFERENCE CANCELED PANEL SUGGESTING SEX IS BINARY, by John Sexton. “The panel was going to be called ‘Let’s Talk About Sex Baby: Why Biological Sex Remains a Necessary Analytic Category in Anthropology’ and it was set to be held at an annual conference in Toronto this November. The panel got a preliminary approval this summer, but this week it was abruptly canceled. The American Anthropological Association (AAA) put out a statement titled ‘No Place For Transphobia in Anthropology: Session pulled from Annual Meeting program.’” Read more here.

 

AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SPORTS MEDICINE PUTS OUT THE ‘NO DUH’ STATEMENT OF THE CENTURY, by Amber Harding. “The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) has published an expert consensus statement regarding the difference in athletic ability between males and females. And you’re never going to guess what they came up with. Just kidding. It’s exactly what we’ve been saying all along. ‘Biological sex is a primary determinant of athletic performance because of fundamental sex differences in anatomy and physiology dictated by sex chromosomes and sex hormones,’ the statement reads. And to this we all say: DUH.” Read more here.

 

LAWSUIT OF PHYSICIAN’S ASSISTANT FIRED FOR REFUSING TRANSGENDER DIRECTIVES GETS JUDGE’S GO-AHEAD, by Nicole Russell. “In Kloosterman v. Metropolitan Hospital, et al., Judge Jane Beckering ruled in favor of allowing the lawsuit of Valerie Kloosterman, a physician’s assistant formerly employed at University of Michigan Health-West, to proceed after the medical organization sought to dismiss the nine claims Kloosterman made in her complaint. (According to the complaint, Metropolitan Hospital does business as the University of Michigan Health-West.) Kloosterman was fired in August 2021 after she sought to receive a religious accommodation not to have to use pronouns that match a person’s gender identity different from his or her biological gender and to have to refer patients for gender-’transition’ surgeries, among other things.” Read more here.

 

NI’S ABORTION CENSORSHIP ZONES WILL FURTHER FOSTER CULTURE OF SILENCE AND SECRECY, by Maria Maynes. “Northern Ireland’s Department of Health on Monday confirmed that ‘Safe Access Zones’ will be enforced at hospitals and centers offering abortion across the North, starting September 29. … The Abortion Services Safe Access Zones Bill, a private members Bill, had been introduced by Clare Bailey of the Greens, a former abortion center escort, who dramatically lost her seat in the last election. … Her choice of words and the caricature of pro-life people at abortion centers is interesting, and it’s one which is repeated tirelessly, and without questioning, by the media. Those who simply pray or try to provide information on the development of the baby in the womb are accused of having a ‘vicious vendetta’ against women, and stirring up ‘fear’. It’s a narrative which has become prevalent.” Read more here.

 

HOW TRUSTWORTHY ARE MEDICAL ORGANIZATIONS THAT RABIDLY SUPPORT UNTIL-BIRTH ABORTION?, by Nathanael Blake. “The American medical establishment is going all-in on abortion on demand until birth. A recent column in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine is a perfect example of how activists are capturing the institutions of American medicine and corrupting its soul. The article was written by Duke-affiliated Beverly Gray, M.D., and Jonas J. Swartz, M.D., who agitate for unrestricted abortion on demand. These two doctors try to strike a righteous pose over having refused to assist North Carolina legislators in drafting medical exceptions to restrictions on abortion after the first trimester, a refusal based on their opposition to any restrictions on abortion, at any point in pregnancy.” Read more here.

 

GOOD RIDDANCE TO THE ‘CONVERSION THERAPY’ BILL, by Freddie Attenborough. “There was speculation last week that the UK government’s bill to ban ‘conversion therapy’ has been quietly killed off, given that time had all but run out to publish draft legislation before the King’s Speech in November. When Lib Dem MP Wera Hobhouse asked on September 14th if the bill would be ready in time for the King’s Speech, Leader of the House Penny Mordaunt deftly sidestepped the question. Now, however, ‘sources’ have told the Sunday Times that the government is expected to formally announce the legislation will no longer be brought forward, five years after Theresa May’s government first vowed to make conversation therapy a criminal offence, with ministers concluding it has proved problematic or ineffective in other countries (most notably Australia and Canada).” Read more here.

 

OUR PUBLIC SCHOOL PUT MAN WITH FAKE BREASTS IN OUR 10-YEAR-OLD’S CLASSROOM, by Stacy Manning. “Last Tuesday morning, a male substitute teacher, wearing what were likely prosthetic breasts under his dress, walked into my son’s 5th-grade classroom. My son immediately walked out. My son located the principal … explained that his parents wouldn’t want him to stay in class because the substitute ‘was a man, dressed as a woman with fake boobs and everything.’ He was right. I immediately collected him and, the very next evening, dressed down the school board at their conveniently timed meeting.” Read more here.

 

OBGYN WHO HAS DELIVERED 5,000 BABIES: ABORTION BANS DON’T STOP DOCTORS FROM TREATING PREGNANT WOMEN, by Dr. Ingrid Skop. “From the first time I experienced the miracle of birth, I knew I had found my calling as an obstetrician and gynecologist. Thirty years and more than 5,000 deliveries later, it has been an honor and privilege to help bring new life into the world, while caring for mothers as they navigate pregnancy, delivery and the postpartum period. I know most of my peers share a similar story. We take pride in the quality of care we provide in each case for both of our patients, and we strive to ensure that both mother and baby thrive. Like approximately 90 percent of obstetricians, I do not perform elective abortions, yet I have always been willing to provide the care necessary to protect a mother’s life in an obstetric emergency. This is why I’m saddened to read stories of obstetricians left confused about how to help pregnant mothers in states with laws limiting elective abortions.” Read more here.

 

ABORTION INDUSTRY’S POST-ROE STATE STRATEGY: ESTABLISHING ABORTION AS A CONSTITUTIONAL ‘RIGHT,’ by Bridget Sielicki. “The reversal of Roe v. Wade in June 2022 gave each state more freedom in legislating abortion laws and protections for preborn children. In the 15 months that have followed, the abortion industry has gone on the attack and revealed its top strategy for promoting abortion and protecting its bottom line: changing state constitutions. These state constitutional amendment campaigns are designed to look as though they are part of grassroots efforts; at first glance, groups with names like ‘Ohioans for Reproductive Rights,’ ‘Floridians Protecting Freedom,’ and ‘New Yorkers for Equal Rights’ appear to be campaigns spearheaded by local citizens. But behind this façade, the campaigns are part of a larger, targeted effort driven by abortion industry stalwarts like Planned Parenthood, NARAL (which is now changing its name again, this time to ‘Reproductive Freedom for All’), and the ACLU.” Read more here.

 

GOOD NEWS: CHILE ON THE WAY TO ADOPTING A PRO-LIFE CONSTITUTION, by Carlos Polo and Carlos Beltramo. “On September 20, the group in charge of drafting a new constitution for Chile, the Constitutional Council, approved language protecting ‘the right to life of those who are about to be born.’ The approval of ‘Article 16,’ as it is called, is a great victory for the cause of life. The final text of the new Constitution still has to be approved by the voters in an upcoming referendum, to be held this December. But make no mistake: The vote to include strong pro-life language in the Constitution constitutes an important milestone in the ongoing cultural and political battle taking place in that country.” Read more here.

 

ONTARIO CITY COUNCILORS COULD BAN PARENTAL RIGHTS PROTESTS AGAINST LGBT INDOCTRINATION, by Jeff Gunnarson. “Last Wednesday, about 2,000 parents, grandparents and concerned citizens from the Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge area gathered at Kitchener City Hall to peacefully protest classroom indoctrination in LGBT ideology and gender identity theory during the #1MillionMarch4Children. People carried signs against gender ideology, sexual grooming of children and the unwelcome incursion of LGBT activists into the private lives of parents and their kids. Well, on Wednesday, September 27th, Waterloo Regional Councilors will vote on a proposed bylaw that would prohibit any communication, word, sign or gesture on publicly owned property that makes persons who identify as LGBT ‘feel harassed,’ ‘offended’ or ‘troubled.’” Read more here.

 

NO, PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE BABIES IN ABORTIONS ARE NOT EXTREMISTS, by Ryan Bomberger. “The Chicago Tribune lied its way through a sloppily written op-ed that unapologetically defends the violence of abortion. In ‘Abortion Pill Extremists Are Disingenuous Absolutists,’ the editorial board sounded like abortion industry spokespeople instead of objective journalists. According to the male-dominated Board, abortion ensures the ‘smooth functioning of American society.’ Things go soooo smoothly when we kill our children. Ok. Got it.” Read more here.

 

UK PROMOTES PARENTAL RIGHTS IN SCHOOLS AS CANADA’S LEFT-WING LEADERS ATTACK THEM, by Jonathon Van Maren. “For several months, we’ve seen Canada’s progressive leaders demonize Canadian parents concerned about schools ‘transitioning’ their children behind their backs with the worst sort of rhetoric, enabled by the vast majority of this country’s press corps. In that context, this headline in the Guardian – a very left-wing publication – seems significant: ‘Involve parents before pupils ‘socially transition’ at school’, says NHS England. …Here’s what they had to say: ‘Schools should not allow gender-questioning children to “socially transition” without their parents’ involvement, according to NHS training and guidance on how staff should respond to pupils exploring their gender identity. The new online module published by NHS England represents the first national guidance on how to support children with gender-related questions or distress in education settings.’” Read more here.

 

WORLD UNDERPOPULATION CRISIS IS SO BAD, NATIONS DESPERATELY URGE WOMEN TO HAVE MORE BABIES, by Louis March. “If current demographic trends continue, homo sapiens is on the path to extinction. Many cannot fathom the notion of human extinction, dismissing it as the disjointed imaginings of a ‘conspiracy theorist’ mindset. How could something like that happen to the most intelligent critters ever? Ask Mother Nature. Extinction is an equal opportunity employer. No species is exempt, not even Man almighty. Per fertility, things will get worse before they get better – if they get better. A few countries, notably Hungary, China and Russia, are implementing measures to entice people to do what comes naturally, to reproduce.” Read more here.

 

THE PUBLIC’S IDEAL FAMILY SIZE IS A FULL BABY GREATER THAN THE ACTUAL FAMILY SIZE, by Timothy P. Carney. “While the American family shrinks in size, the ideal family size is growing. If you ask people the ideal number of children for a family to have, the answers will vary mostly from two to four. Gallup has been asking this question annually, and to the surprise of some, the average answer has been going up, hitting 2.7 this year, up 50 percent from the early 1980s and the highest number on record since the birth control pill took up wide usage in the early 1970s. About half the population says two or fewer is the ideal number of children, while the other half says three or more is best. Almost nobody thinks one or no children is best for a family.” Read more here.

 

LYFT’S GIFT TO GENDER IDEOLOGY’S CRITICS, by Douglas Blair. “Thank you, Lyft. You just made debunking transgenderism that much easier. The rideshare operator recently announced a new policy in certain cities called Women+ Connect, where female and so-called nonbinary drivers can prioritize bookings with female and nonbinary riders. Nonbinary is a made-up term for people who think they’re neither male nor female. The move comes on the heels of multiple complaints surrounding female safety in recent years. Between 2017 and 2019, the company reported 4,158 cases of sexual assault. Lyft said it hoped this new program would help women feel safer using the app.” Read more here.

 

‘PRO-CHOICE’ IS OUT AS ABORTION INDUSTRY REBRANDS, MARKETING ABORTION AS ‘FREEDOM,’ by Nancy Flanders. “There’s a new pro-abortion message circulating through both the media and social media. For abortion advocates, abortion is no longer about ‘choice’ — it’s about ‘freedom.’ This new marketing tactic — propaganda if you will — has even taken over the name of one of the most vocal pro-abortion groups in the nation. NARAL Pro-Choice America has rebranded itself (for the fourth time) and will now be known as ‘Reproductive Freedom for All.’ NARAL’s name change isn’t about true freedom or honesty, it’s about manipulation.” Read more here.

 

MOST YOUNG MEN ARE SINGLE. MOST YOUNG WOMEN ARE NOT, by Daniel De Visé. “More than 60 percent of young men are single, nearly twice the rate of unattached young women, signaling a larger breakdown in the social, romantic and sexual life of the American male. Men in their 20s are more likely than women in their 20s to be romantically uninvolved, sexually dormant, friendless and lonely. They stand at the vanguard of an epidemic of declining marriage, sexuality and relationships that afflicts all of young America. ‘We’re in a crisis of connection,’ said Niobe Way, a psychology professor and founder of the Project for the Advancement of Our Common Humanity at New York University. ‘Disconnection from ourselves and disconnection from each other. And it’s getting worse.’” Read more here.

 

CLINTON CONFERENCE GAVE A GLIMPSE INTO THE RADICAL MINDSET OF AMERICA’S TRANSGENDER ACTIVISTS, by Jonathon Van Maren. “This past week, celebrities, politicians, and global leaders met in New York for the 2023 Clinton Global Initiative. Unsurprisingly, LGBT issues were at the top of the agenda. One panel discussion … included writer and comedian Alok Vaid-Menon, who identifies as ‘gender non-conforming,’ ‘transfeminine,’ and (in case you’re not confused yet) uses ‘singular they third person pronouns.’ … The panel was an illuminating and disturbing glimpse into the mindset of America’s trans activists. According to Alok, ‘trans and gender non-conforming people’ are ‘being attacked and scapegoated so heavily right now’ specifically because the rest of society is jealous.” Read more here.

 

CANADIAN PARENTS (FINALLY) PUSH BACK AGAINST GENDER CULTISM, by Jonathan Kay. “I sometimes get asked why I devote so much bandwidth to challenging the movement that I’ve described as gender cultism—a faddish ideology whose adherents (1) claim that all humans are infused with a soul-like ether known as gender identity; and (2) insist that the self-reported nature of this spirit trumps the objective reality of biological sex. The most obvious answer is that this movement does real, observable harm, by forcing women to share prisons, rape-crisis centres, athletic leagues, locker rooms, and other vulnerable spaces with men. It also encourages children, many of them gay, autistic, or psychologically fragile due to bullying and underlying mental-health challenges, to indulge the gothic horror-movie delusion that they were ‘born in the wrong body,’ and to embark on a lifetime regime of (dangerous and untested) drug treatments and body-disfiguring surgeries.” Read more here.

 

NO, BIG TECH DOESN’T HAVE A RIGHT TO SPEAK TO KIDS WITHOUT THEIR PARENT’S CONSENT, by Adam Candeub, Clare Morell and Michael Toscano. “Future generations will wonder why, when parents and legislators tried to use the democratic process to end Big Tech’s massive experiments on America’s children, the judicial system said ‘no.’ The experiment results are in — they are not good. In a recent advisory, the Surgeon General has declared a ‘national youth mental health crisis,’ as both sexes report unprecedented levels of depression, loneliness and anxiety — not to mention large spikes in the rates of self-harm and suicide among teens.” Read more here.

 

ONLY WOMEN CAN GET PREGNANT, by Jo Bartosch. “The idea that men can also get pregnant, or have periods and go through the menopause, is the sort of bonkers thing you might expect to hear from a students’ union, not from respected medical professionals. The fact that the body that effectively sets the standard for healthcare in Britain has jettisoned basic biological facts shows how far the trans virus has eaten into the brains of those at the top of British institutions.” Read more here.

 

HOW TRANS IDEOLOGY IS UNDERMINING THE FAMILY, by Stella O’Malley. “The number of children who identify as trans has exploded in recent years. When a child announces they are struggling with their gender, parents are often at a loss as to where to turn. They know that most doctors and specialists will look to ‘affirm’ a child’s chosen identity, placing them on a pathway towards medical ‘transitioning’. And when kids have been bombarded with gender ideology from a young age – in schools, online and in the media – this can often drive a wedge between them and their families.” Read more here.

 

‘QUEER MR. ROGERS’ WRITES ‘PAW PATROL’ SPIN-OFF FEATURING NON-BINARY CHARACTER, by Tierin-Rose Mandelburg. “In today’s episode of the left’s latest attempt to come for your kids: Word just broke that creators of a ‘Paw Patrol’ children’s show spinoff, ‘Rubble & Crew,’ will feature non-binary characters. To make matters worse, the writer of the spinoff, Lindz Amer, is an extreme LGBTQ activist and hosts a Youtube channel called ‘Queer Kid Stuff.’ Normally when there are predators like this, we try to keep them away from kids. Nickelodeon pays them to indoctrinate children.” Read more here.

 

DODGING A BULLET: HOW A REPORT RECOMMENDING ‘CHESTFEEDING’ AND INCLUSIVE PRONOUNS ALMOST BECAME THE NORM IN BRITISH MATERNITY WARDS, by Michael Cook. “A transgender maternity report commissioned by public health authorities in the UK last year made headlines by recommending the use of more inclusive language such as ‘chestfeeding’ and of ‘visible markers of inclusion such as posters, badges, including name badges with pronouns, and lanyards’. It was based on research by the LGBT Foundation which found that trans and non-binary users of NHS maternity services were being mistreated and ignored. … Now a searing article in the British Journal of Midwifery has demolished the report.” Read more here.

 

ROE’S REPEAL HAS ENERGIZED AFRICA’S ANTI-ABORTION MOVEMENT, by Erica Hellerstein. “Anti-abortion groups, meanwhile, see Dobbs as a signal that it may not be so difficult to roll back the gains made by abortion advocates. ‘The opposition has tasted blood in the water,’ Lori Adelman, the acting executive director of Planned Parenthood Global, told me. In India, anti-abortion activists took to the streets of Delhi in the months after Dobbs, calling on the Indian government to repeal its 1971 law legalizing abortion. In Italy, pro-choice gynecologists are facing a fresh wave of harassment by an emboldened anti-abortion movement riding a post-Roe high. But nowhere has the anti-abortion movement been more energized by Roe’s overturning than on the African continent.” Read more here.

 

PUBLIC MUST PAY FOR GENDER-AFFIRMATION SURGERIES ABROAD, SAYS ONTARIO REVIEW BOARD, by Jamie Sarkonak. “When a public health authority is asked to subsidize a novel, understudied medical procedure, it can say ‘no.’ If it says ‘yes,’ it better have good reasons, because the rest of us have to pay for it. Those being made to pay for unproven treatments have the right to question why exactly they’re being forced to pony up the cash. Those questions are now justifiably being asked by Ontarians about publicly funded sex-change operations.” Read more here.

 

‘TRIFECTA OF HARM,’ by Bernard Lane. “A school policy in California that forces teachers to conceal from parents a student’s gender change threatens ‘a trifecta of harm’ for the child, parents and teachers. So said a US District Court judge when granting the preliminary injunction request of two public school teachers, Elizabeth Mirabelli and Lori Ann West, who potentially faced disciplinary action because of their belief that parents had ‘a God-ordained right to know’ if their children were socially transitioning at school.” Read more here.

 

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRO-ABORTION MDS REFUSED TO HELP CRAFT INFORMED HEALTH EXCEPTIONS TO LATER-TERM BAN, by Wesley J. Smith. “It is no secret that the medical establishment is chock full of abortion absolutists who loathe the idea of any meaningful limitations on abortion. But when North Carolina legislators reached out to Duke University OBGYN experts to target potential health exceptions to a post-twelve-weeks prohibition — in other words, to be nuanced — the self-righteous professors refused to help. And now they are bragging about it in the New England Journal of Medicine.” Read more here.

 

WE NEED BOTH FEDERAL AND STATE LAWS TO PROTECT BABIES FROM ABORTIONS, by Jeanne Mancini. “Dobbs was an essential step forward, but our country is still far from recognizing the inherent dignity of every life. In some states, such as Michigan and Minnesota, there are now fewer protections for the unborn than there were under Roe. And tragically, there are even some with no protections at all. Six states plus the District of Columbia offer no protections for the unborn — no limits on abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, including up until the moment of birth.” Read more here.

 

CHILDREN FOR SALE ONLINE, by Emmanuele da Ponte. “Lori Cohen of PACT (Protect All Children from Trafficking) testified before the Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance. The hearing, ‘Children are Not for Sale: Examining the Threat of Exploitation of Children in the U.S. and Abroad,’ noted the rise of child pornography within the United States, child sex trafficking, and how social media companies are a big part of the problem.” Read more here.

 

‘ACCEPTABLE’ VIOLENCE AGAINST PEACEFUL PRO-LIFERS IS UNACCEPTABLE, by Lauren Muzyka. “In a tumultuous culture where the emotional temperature seems to be ever-rising after the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court decision on abortion, it’s perhaps not surprising that violence is being reported more frequently outside facilities that perform abortions — which, ironically, is a violence of its own. These are situations in which people engaged in sidewalk counseling, or people who are simply praying quietly, are being attacked.” Read more here.

 

PENTAGON’S ‘CLARIFICATION’ ON GENDER PRONOUNS? WHEN YOU’RE IN A HOLE, QUIT DIGGINGby Cully Stimson and Dakota Wood. “Earlier this week, after we exposed the Pentagon’s woke gender-pronoun policy for the top joint military awards and the ensuing political firestorm it caused, the Pentagon issued a ‘clarification.’ But here’s the problem: The clarification only confirms our worst fears and raises other related questions.” Read more here.

 

ENOUGH WITH OUR HORRIBLE MEDIA BOOSTING WOMEN WHO PUBLICLY REGRET THEIR CHILDREN’S EXISTENCE, by Elle Purnell. “There’s a disgusting genre in our rabidly pro-abortion media that’s intensified since the Supreme Court struck down federal prohibitions on laws protecting an unborn baby’s right to live. It involves finding some sad, stressed mother whose child escaped the abortionist’s pincers, and getting her to tell the internet she wishes that inconvenient, needy, Play-Doh-chucking toddler didn’t exist — or at least that her life would be a whole lot easier without it.” Read more here.

 

SEX ON TRIAL, by Colin Wright. “On August 25, Texas judge Maria Cantú Hexsel temporarily blocked Senate Bill 14, which limits sex-trait modification procedures—euphemistically called ‘gender-affirming care’—to adults only. In her decision, Hexsel stated that the law ‘interferes with Texas families’ private decisions and strips Texas parents … of the right to seek, direct, and provide medical care for their children.’ In response, the Texas attorney general’s office swiftly filed an appeal with the state’s Supreme Court to halt Hexsel’s injunction, highlighting the ‘unproven’ nature of pediatric sex-trait modification procedures being ‘pushed by some activists in the medical and psychiatric professions.’” Read more here.

 

PRO-ABORTION ACTIVISTS ARE LYING: MEXICO’S SUPREME COURT DID NOT DECRIMINALIZE ABORTION, by Carlos Beltramo. “The September 6 headlines in the international press seemed to leave no doubt: the Supreme Court of Mexico had issued a ruling decriminalizing abortion throughout the country. The stories that followed went even further, insisting that the ruling compelled all hospitals to provide abortions and that no doctor who performed an abortion could be punished for doing so. Who could doubt that the abortion movement had won a great victory in Mexico? …Don’t fall for the lie.” Read more here.

 

OUR MEDIA COMMIT THE SIN OF OMISSION REGARDING YOUTH TRANSGENDER ISSUES – REALITY EMERGES IN BRITAIN, by Brad Slager. “This summer in Great Britain, some significant changes to that country’s medical approach to transgender surgeries and treatments took place. Based on medical studies, new data arrived that basically shook the foundations of ‘transgender care’, and it led to deeply serious alterations of the practice in that country. This should be an area of extreme focus, but instead, we have been met largely with radio silence as the Biden administration pushes forward with an accelerated transgender agenda.” Read more here.

 

JOE BIDEN’S JUSTICE DEPARTMENT IS UNJUSTLY PERSECUTING PRO-LIFE ACTIVISTS, by Lila Rose. “In the picturesque neighborhood of Foggy Bottom in northwest Washington, D.C., a feeling of history and purpose follows you. The State Department and the Federal Reserve buildings line the streets. George Washington University occupies over 40 acres in the center of the community. But on F street, on the same block as GW dormitories, sits the Washington Surgi-Clinic, an abortion facility run by Cesare Santangelo, who performs gruesome late-term abortions on nearly full-term children. At this facility an investigator from my organization, Live Action, recorded Santangelo describing—in his own words—his willingness to withhold medical care from infants born alive after a botched abortion, a violation of federal law.” Read more here.

 

THE BATTLE OVER NOTIFYING PARENTS ABOUT THEIR CHILD’S GENDER IDENTITY IS HAPPENING IN NEW JERSEY TOO, by John Sexton. “Last week I wrote about the school district in Orange, California which voted to notify parents any time a child under the age of 12 signals a ‘change of gender’ identity. Orange is actually the 6th district in California which has instituted such a rule. The first district to do so was sued by the state’s attorney general. Opponents of these rules call it ‘forced outing’ and don’t believe parents have a right to know even when their very young children announce they are trans.” Read more here.

 

OKAY, GROOMERS: PROJECT VERITAS EXPOSES NON-PROFIT AIMING TO ELIMINATE PARENTS OPT-OUT FOR LGBTQ CURRICULUM, by Nick Kangadis. “It seems that the number of sick people teaching — I mean grooming — young students in school is increasing. And much like politicians, they also look for loopholes to circumvent the law and institute their agendas into the lexicon, or in this case, the curriculum. A non-profit group called HiTOPS has been infiltrating schools in New Jersey — and virtually in states across the country — to inform children as young as second-graders about the LGTBQ lifestyle and influence them to make decisions that they might not otherwise have made. Oh, and their aim is to do this without the consent of parents.” Read more here.

 

BOOKS THAT ARE INAPPROPRIATE FOR THE SENATE DON’T BELONG IN SCHOOLS, by Kimberly Ross. “During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) read from two sexually explicit books titled Gender Queer and All Boys Aren’t Blue. The passages, which discuss anal and oral sex, were shocking to hear as they were read aloud by a 71-year-old congressman. But Kennedy made his point. The books in question rank No. 1 and No. 2 respectively on the American Library Association’s list of ‘Top 13 Most Challenged Books of 2022.’ Social media users recoiled at Kennedy, but many concluded: If it’s inappropriate for a senator to read to an audience, it shouldn’t be available to children in school libraries.” Read more here.

 

ABORTIONIST PUFF PIECE SAYS PREBORN ‘NEARLY IDENTICAL TO SURGICAL WASTE,’ LIES ABOUT ABORTION PILL, by Nancy Flanders. “In a pro-abortion puff piece … STAT News interviewed long-time abortionist Dr. Wesley Adams, who last year opened a new abortion facility in Bristol, Virginia, on the Tennessee border after Tennessee passed laws protecting preborn children from abortion. The article holds Adams up as ‘a conservative, gun-toting doctor’ who ‘defends’ ‘abortion access in Appalachia.’ The tone of the article is reminiscent of that of Vice President Kamala Harris when she tries to convince pro-life Christians that they can be pro-abortion without ‘abandoning their faith.’” Read more here.

 

WHAT HAPPENS IF THE RADICAL OHIO ABORTION AMENDMENT PASSES? JUST LOOK AT MICHIGAN, by Spencer Brown. “Pro-abortion and anti-parent groups have been working to pass a measure amending Ohio’s constitution this November to roll back important protections for women and children in the name of ‘women’s rights.’ These groups have made no secret of their desire to abolish parental rights in general, meaning minors having an abortion or undergoing irreversible treatments and surgeries in attempts to ‘change their sex’ would no longer need to inform their parents or obtain consent.” Read more here.

 

DEFENDING REALITY: MY EXPERT TESTIMONY ON THE BIOLOGY OF SEX, by Colin Wright. “My journey to Austin to present elementary biological truths in full suit before a judge and courtroom was nothing short of surreal. To my understanding, this is the first time a biologist had been summoned to defend reality of male and female as distinct, natural biological groups in a legal setting. Defending the binary nature of sex in court will become increasingly important as more states consider implementing age restrictions on hormonal and surgical sex-trait modification. This is because the depiction of sex as a haphazard collection of sex-related traits—instead of being tied to reproductive function—forms a central tenet of gender ideology. Read more here.

 

ACCURATE GENDER TRANSITION REGRET AND DETRANSITION RATES ARE UNKNOWN, by the Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine. “Detransition and regret have varied presentations. Sometimes individuals embrace their ultimately regretted transition as part of the ‘gender journey’ they felt was inevitable for them. Other times, individuals openly express devastating regret. As one detransitioner stated, ‘Some of us will now never be able to have children and many of us live with great distress and regret every day.’ Nearly two-thirds of detransitioners in a recent convenience sample survey said they would not have had medical intervention had they known what they know now. For such individuals, medical and surgical ‘gender-affirming’ interventions constituted iatrogenic harm.” Read more here.

 

HERE’S WHY BIOLOGICAL MEN DON’T BELONG IN WOMEN’S SPORTS: OBERLIN COACH, by Kim Russell. “A male — no matter how they self-identify — should not be allowed to compete in a women’s sporting event. This is my opinion, based on biological truth that I’m well aware of as a former D1 two-sport athlete turned college lacrosse coach with over 27 years of coaching experience. I have been inducted into three halls of fame for coaching and contributing to the growth of lacrosse. But I was ‘burned at the stake’ by Oberlin College for expressing that belief. I have always considered myself pro-woman. Over the course of my coaching career, I have been a mentor to many women and girls, sharing advice both on and off the field. My office has always been a gathering place. My athletes, including several who have identified as transgender, have always known that they can come to me—to laugh, to cry, or anything in between.” Read more here.

 

LAWS PROTECTING MINORS IN GENDER DEBATE LIKELY HEADED FOR SUPREME COURT: ‘I FEEL LIKE A MONSTER,’ by Charlene Aaron. “The battle over transgender medical procedures on children is becoming a top issue nationwide. Trans activists are challenging state bans on gender-altering efforts in federal courts across the country. If these courts reach different conclusions, the U.S. Supreme Court may ultimately have to weigh in. Kristie Sisson recalled the emotional pain she felt when her college daughter decided she wanted to become a man. ‘She started taking testosterone and within six months her voice dropped,’ Sisson told CBN News. ‘She started growing facial hair.’ Eventually, her daughter chose to undergo a double mastectomy. A new report in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) shows transgender surgeries nearly tripled in the U.S. between 2016 and 2019, rising from about 4,500 to an astounding 13,000, although researchers estimate those numbers may be even higher. And almost eight percent of those patients were children between the ages of 8 and 12 years old.” Read more here.

 

CANADA MUST OPEN THE LONG OVERDUE DEBATE ON GENDER DYSPHORIA IN CHILDREN, by John Sikkema. “Last week, delegates at the Conservative Party’s National Convention voted in favor of a Policy Declaration supporting a ban on ‘treating’ gender dysphoria in children with pharmaceutical and surgical interventions. Sadly, many children today experience distress about their bodies – about being male or female and about sexually maturing into a man or woman. They may say they feel stuck in the ‘wrong’ body. A technical term for this is ‘gender dysphoria.’ It has risen exponentially in children in the past decade, especially among teen and pre-teen girls. There is plenty of evidence to suggest that this rise is a largely a social phenomenon or ‘social contagion.’” Read more here.

 

X (TWITTER) PUNISHES AAF FOR EXPOSING SEXUAL MATERIALS IN SCHOOLS & LIBRARIES, by American Accountability Foundation. “As we battle the radically woke American Library Association, we are working to expose the full truth. But after we posted images of the LGBTQ books they are pushing on our children, X (Twitter) hit our account with a ‘sensitive content’ warning on ALL OUR MEDIA POSTS, and shadow banned our account so that you won’t find us in a search on X. It is the height of absurdity! If these images are too inappropriate for social media, why on earth are they being shown to children???” Read more here.

 

21 WOKE MANDATES REVEAL CALIFORNIA’S RADICAL EDUCATION BENDER, by Anna Miller and Scott Yenor. “In less than 12 years, California has passed more than 20 education mandates with the goal of sowing radical gender theory and critical race theory into the state’s education practices. It is easy to get numb to California’s single-minded pursuit of wokeness in K-12 education. When all of California’s actions are collected in one place (as we show in a recent report from the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life and the Idaho Freedom Foundation), the ambitions are truly breathtaking. Since 2011, California has gone on a social justice bender.” Read more here.

 

CANADIAN MEDIA DISTORTS CONSERVATIVES’ RESOLUTIONS TO PROTECT KIDS, WOMEN FROM TRANS AGENDA, by Jonathon Van Maren. “The idea that children should be given sex changes or cross-sex hormones before they are legally permitted to vote, drink, smoke, or drive is delusional and dangerous, especially considering the fact that these treatments render most recipients incapable of both conceiving children and experiencing sexual pleasure long before minors can understand the lifelong implications of these decisions. And most people understand that to allow trans-identifying males into female sports (not to mention changing rooms) is unfair and risky.” Read morhere.

 

WHO IS HAPPIEST? MARRIED MOTHERS AND FATHERS, PER THE LATEST GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY, by W. Bradford Wilcox and Wendy Wang. “The 2022 edition of the General Social Survey (GSS)—the nation’s preeminent social barometer—reveals that marriage and family are strongly associated with happiness. The GSS shows that a combination of marriage and parenthood is linked to the biggest happiness dividends for women. Among married women with children between the ages of 18 and 55, 40% reported they are “very happy,” compared to 25% of married childless women, and just 22% of unmarried childless women. Nevertheless, it is important to note that unmarried mothers are the least likely to be very happy: with just 17% of them indicating they are very happy.” Read morhere.

 

MEDIA FAWNS OVER MEXICAN SUPREME COURT’S ABORTION DECISION – BUT DID IT DO WHAT THEY CLAIM?, by Nancy Flanders. “The media has been heaping praise upon Mexico’s Supreme Court this week, claiming that its recent court ruling decriminalized abortion across the nation. A CNN correspondent even went so far as to claim that Mexico might now qualify as more of a ‘beacon of human rights and women’s rights’ than America because some U.S. states have laws protecting the lives of preborn human beings.” Read more here.

 

BIG TECH KNOWS THAT AGE VERIFICATION IS NECESSARY, by Adam Candeub, Clare Morell and Michael Toscano. “State legislatures are leading a revolution to transform the experience of the internet, and with it, American childhood. In the past year, starting with Utah’s Social Media Regulation Act, S.B. 152, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas and Virginia have all passed laws requiring parental consent and age verification for minors to open social media accounts or access pornography. By giving parents greater control over their kids’ exposure to social media and pornography, with their documented ill effects, these laws will improve kids’ lives.” Read more here.

 

CA ASSEMBLY PASSES AB957, THE ‘AFFIRM YOUR CHILD’S GENDER CHOICES OR ELSE’ LAW, by Beege Welborn. “Welp. This abomination is headed to Newsom’s desk for his signature. Just so we’re clear on this, once Hair Gel signs it, your ‘duty to affirm your child’s gender, whatever that is’ will be THE LAW in California. ‘…What’s mentioned in the law is the child’s gender identity and expression. And the parents’ affirmation of that. whatever it is. Because that is our duty as parents, to affirm our children…’ Those are State Rep Lori Wilson’s words, the representative who authored this monstrosity. Custody disputes are no longer going to be ‘disputes’ – the legislature has taken parental rights out of parents’ hands.” Read more here.

 

MIAMI SCHOOL DISTRICT DECIDES TO NOT DECLARE OCTOBER ‘LGBTQ+ HISTORY MONTH,’ by Tierin-Rose Mandelburg. “After a 12-hour-long marathon meeting, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the third largest school district in the country, decided that it will not be recognizing the month of October as LGBTQ+ history month…School board member Lucia Baez-Geller said … ‘I cannot believe I have to say this out loud, but this item does not indoctrinate our students into any sort of lifestyle.’ I don’t know Geller, but I beg to differ. Dedicating a whole month of school to rainbow-washed classrooms, teaching about queer history and learning about all the left’s different delusions seems pretty indoctrinating to me.” Read more here.

 

THE SEX TRAFFICKING, TORTURE OF THIS TEENAGE GIRL IS A DAMNING INDICTMENT OF SCHOOL TRANSGENDER POLICIES, by Jonathon Van Maren. “In Canada, progressive politicians and the LGBT movement are currently claiming that it should be against the law for parents to be informed when their child decides to ‘transition,’ and that school staff and kids should keep secrets from mothers and fathers. A fear campaign has been launched to emphasize the alleged danger of including parents in serious, life-altering decisions about their children.” Read more here.

 

SUNAK PRIORITIZES IMAGE OVER PARENTAL RIGHTS, by Michael Curzon. “British parents are increasingly concerned by the prospect of being kept in the dark while their children ‘change gender identity’ at school. Yet Rishi Sunak appears more preoccupied by his image. There has been some talk in recent months of the prime minister barring schoolchildren from ‘changing gender’ without consent from home; for example, by preventing the unapproved use of new names at school. This inevitably hit a stumbling block when the government’s most senior lawyer said it was currently unlawful to hamper the ability of children to act as though they are the opposite sex with their peers and would require a change to the law.” Read more here.

 

THE LEFT’S COLONIAL MISSION, by Jonathon Van Maren. “On August 29, a CNN headline went viral: ‘Two men in Uganda are facing separate charges of “aggravated homosexuality,” an offense punishable by death under the country’s controversial new anti-gay laws.’ The clarifying community note attached to the tweet provided important context: ‘One man is accused of having a sexual relation with a disabled man, the other of a sexual act with a 12-year-old child. Both are charged with “aggravated homosexuality,” defined as same-sex relations with someone who is HIV-positive, a child, an elderly person, or disabled.’ Consider the difference between the narrative provided by CNN and the reality behind the headline. Now consider the fact that the mainstream press has been doing this for years—and the impact that has had on the public perception of many issues. They’re doing this to us on purpose.” Read more here.

 

LA LECHE LEAGUE ELIMINATES MOTHERS?, by Fawn Brickel. “La Leche League was established in 1956 as a support group for mothers who chose to breastfeed their babies in a world where it was often not supported, and even actively discouraged. Today, the La Leche League U.S. website does not even mention the word ‘mother’ in their mission statement, or just about anywhere on their website. In 2014, the LLL USA internet site proclaimed that LLL ‘believes that mothering through breastfeeding deepens a mother’s understanding and acceptance of the responsibilities and rewards of her special role in the family.’ …Today, LLL USA ‘helps parents, families, and communities to breastfeed, chestfeed, and human milk feed their babies through parent-to-parent support.’” Read more here.

 

‘HATE SPEECH’ LAWS THREATEN FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS, by Ladislav Ilčić. “Europe is facing a free speech crisis. Although it is codified in the EU’s charter of fundamental rights, member states are undermining freedom of speech through the unchecked proliferation of ‘hate speech’ laws. …Censorship is a dangerous path that leads to repression and fear. Sadly, this is a lesson we thought we had already learned in Europe’s previous century. Democracy requires the freedom to share and discuss ideas. It also entails being exposed to some views we might disagree with. Although it is Räsänen who stands in the Helsinki court, freedom of speech is on trial. Time will tell how much Europe still values this fundamental right.” Read more here.

 

GOVERNOR KAY IVEY DIVES INTO THE ALABAMA LIBRARY LGTQ-GENDER BOOKS DRAMA, by Jennifer Oliver O’Connell. “The assumption by Conservative Inc. and certain people who live in a liberal bubble that red states are safe bastions from the woke nonsense of CRT, gender ideology and LGBTQ madness is dead wrong. The Left is intent on their agenda being everywhere, and they will do whatever it takes to see it done. Often, it is the red states that are easiest to infiltrate and overtake because people feel as though they do not have to be concerned about such things and, therefore, let their guard down.” Read more here.

 

UTAH’S ECONOMIC PROSPERITY ILLUSTRATES THE IMPORTANCE OF MARRIAGE, FAMILY AND RELIGION, by Arthur Goldberg. “A recently released report says that Utah’s economy ranks No. 1 among all 50 states and attributes this top ranking to the influence of the state’s dominant culture of heterosexual marriage and the strength and stability of its families. Authors Brad Wilcox, Jenet Erickson, and Patrick T. Brown conclude in the Sutherland Institute report that marriage and families have proven to function as effective anti-poverty programs. Higher levels of marriage—and in particular, higher levels of married-parent families—are strongly associated with greater economic growth, more economic mobility, less child poverty and higher median family income.” Read more here.

 

MASSACHUSETTS’ RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY LEAVES FOSTER KIDS WITHOUT HOMESby Thomas Jipping. “Religious freedom, Congress said unanimously in 1998, ‘undergirds the very origin and existence of the United States.’ Today, however, an obsession with gender ideology is driving governments to ignore the First Amendment, defy clear Supreme Court precedent, and even violate their own laws and regulations to root out those with the ‘wrong’ religious views about sexuality. This bigotry not only violates fundamental rights, but it also puts vulnerable children at risk.” Read more here.

 

WHY AMERICA’S BIRTHRATE IS IN DECLINE, by Virginia Allen. “In 1960, the birthrate in America was 3.65, meaning most women had between three and four kids. Fast forward to 2000, and the birthrate had fallen to 2.06. As of 2020, the birthrate was 1.6, meaning women now have between one and two children. Factors such as the economy, changes in cultural priorities and political agendas can all be cited as reasons for the decline in childbirths, but practically speaking, a source of the decline is not that women are having fewer children, but that more women are having no children.” Read more here.

 

DIVORCE ISN’T FASHIONABLE, by Haley Strack. “Cat-eye sunglasses are chic. Pointed-toe pumps are chic. The dissolution of what should be a permanent bond is not. Branding divorce as a fashionable event trivializes the institution of marriage—a husband or wife isn’t something to replace once they go out of style.” Read more here.

 

PRO-ABORTS OFFER A LITANY OF MISINFORMATION AS JUSTIFICATION FOR THEIR ATTACKS ON PREGNANCY HELP CENTERS, by Dave Andrusko. “It’s not hard—in facts [sic] it’s self-evident—why the Abortion Industry should loathe Pregnancy Help Centers. Every woman or girl who turns right—toward a PHC—instead of left, into the tender arms of an industry that makes a living off the blood of unborn children and the desperation of their clientele—is money out of the pockets of Planned Parenthood.” Read more here.

 

MARYLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS’ RELIGIOUS SHOWDOWN HIGHLIGHTS NEED FOR MORE CHOICE, by Neal McCluskey. “Like most states, Maryland is seeing clashes in public schools between people with differing worldviews. Things are especially hot in Montgomery County, where parents from various religious backgrounds are fighting children’s forced exposure to readings they believe advance pro-LGBT ideology. Unlike many states, Maryland has not done the right thing for a free, diverse society: expanding educational freedom. Indeed, it has gone backward.” Read more here.

 

TAXPAYER-FUNDED HANDOUTS TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL, by Reilly Stephens. “Last year, after the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked, the Albuquerque City Council rushed to donate [hundreds of thousands] in taxpayer money to Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, New Mexico’s regional affiliate of the nation’s largest abortion provider. Councilwoman Tammy Fiebelkorn explained that she sponsored the donation ‘to provide vital support for Planned Parenthood.’ There was just one problem: the donation was illegal.” Read more here.

 

LANGUAGE LEARNING APP DUOLINGO IS INDOCTRINATING YOUR CHILDREN WITH LGBT PROPAGANDA, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Duolingo is an American educational tech company that has exploded in popularity over the past several years. …Due to its user-friendly apps, Duolingo has also become very popular in the homeschooling community. A concerned parent emailed recently and noted that while her son was using Duolingo, an LGBT storyline was featured, so I dug into the app a bit more. As regular readers of this blog will know, virtually every entertainment platform and large corporation has worked to include LGBT content under pressure from groups like the Human Rights Campaign, and so parents have to use both oversight and discernment in order to ensure that their children are not being exposed to propaganda without their knowledge.” Read more here.

 

CRACKDOWN, by Bernard Lane. “America’s drug regulator, the FDA, has been asked to take urgent action on the unapproved use of hormone suppression drugs to block the natural but unwanted puberty of transgender-identifying children. ‘Although this use has not been approved by the [Food and Drug Administration], the FDA must not turn its back on the potential harm to children,’ says a citizen petition filed with the agency. ‘Despite the widespread—and rapidly growing—use of these drugs in this population [of children with the distress of gender dysphoria], and despite serious known and potential risks from these drugs, this use has never been evaluated for safety and effectiveness by the FDA.’” Read more here.

 

YES LATE-TERM ABORTIONS ARE REAL AND THEY KILL 10,000 BABIES EVERY YEAR, by Jeanne Mancini. “There is a concerted effort from the abortion lobby and its allies in media to convince Americans that there is no such thing as late term abortion. It isn’t true. Just recently, Planned Parenthood President Alexis McGill claimed that: ‘Like Nessie and Bigfoot, the term “late-term abortion” is completely made up. It’s anti-abortion propaganda with no basis in medicine, intended to confuse people.’ Likewise, former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki echoed that ‘no one supports abortion up until birth,’ and then later defended this claim on her MSNBC show: ‘This claim that Democrats support abortion up until the moment of birth is entirely misleading,’ she said. But the truth is that 10,000 babies’ lives are lost every year to late-term abortions, the majority of which take place for elective reasons.” Read more here.

 

THE LGBT MOVEMENT IS WAGING A FEAR CAMPAIGN IN RESPONSE TO GROWING SUPPORT FOR PARENTAL RIGHTS, by Jonathon Van Maren. “With New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba backing parental rights policies; Ontario’s education minister indicating his support; and federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, who is currently riding high in the polls, also stating that he backs parental rights, LGBT activists are ramping up a fear campaign designed to a) demonize those who wish to include parents in essential discussions about their children and b) insist that these policies will literally result in dead Canadian kids. This campaign is enabled by Canada’s press, which is fully supportive of every aspect of the LGBT agenda. Activist fears have been exacerbated by the fact that as it turns out, many Canadian parents are pretty happy with policies that do not treat them as if they are a danger to their own children. Read more here.

 

THE MYTH OF GENDER AS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT, by John Mac Ghlionn. “There is a concerted effort underway to dismantle the idea of sex, the idea that actual differences between males and females exist. Take the idea that gender is a social construct, for example, something Irish children are most definitely being told — for those who haven’t been told, they should expect to receive the memo very soon. The National Council For Curriculum and Assessment (NCAA), the statutory body of the Department of Education, recently announced that lessons under relationship and sexuality education (RSE) will be taught in a way that fully supports the LGBTQ+ agenda. I don’t use the word ‘agenda’ lightly.” Read more here.

 

CALIFORNIA TRIES TO PUT THE STATE ABOVE PARENTS, by The National Review editors. “Adults who keep secrets with other people’s children violate commonsense safeguards of minors and must be stopped. Shamefully, this is exactly the kind of behavior California’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, seeks to enable. Last Monday, Bonta sued a Southern California school district over its new policy that sensibly requires schools to notify parents within three days when their child requests to be treated as the opposite (or neither) sex.” Read more here.

 

HOW TRANS IDEOLOGY IS HELPING PEDOPHILES WALK FREE, by Lauren Smith. “Is being transgender now a get-out-of-jail-free card? In the past few years, there has been a worrying trend of sex offenders receiving lesser or suspended sentences, seemingly on account of their trans identity. Dominic Carter (now ‘Sophie’) is the latest example. Last month, Carter pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children back in 2021. He appeared in court wearing a pink t-shirt, pink headband and pink nail polish. Apparently, Carter had discovered his trans identity in the time between getting arrested and standing before the judge. Carter’s lawyer requested a suspended jail sentence, on account of his defendant’s childhood traumas, long-standing alcohol abuse and mental-health issues. Despite Carter’s five previous convictions, this was granted.” Read more here.

 

ALLOWING ‘TRANSWOMEN’ TO COMPETE IN WOMEN’S CHESS WOULD BE JUST AS PROBLEMATIC AS ANY OTHER SPORT, by Barbara Kay. “Two years ago, with regard to male athletes identifying as female, the competitive sport world presented a smoothly unified commitment to the principle of inclusion over fairness. Today we see fractures everywhere. Female athletes who had felt ‘gaslit into silence’ are no longer afraid to speak out. World Aquatics (formerly FINA) launched an open category to welcome swimmers of both sexes, while restricting the women’s category to females. World Athletics now prohibits post-puberty males from participating in female world rankings competition. Likewise, World Cycling. These changes represent erosion in acceptance of the promoted fiction that post-puberty males have no significant advantage over females.” Read more here.

 

REAL HARM, by Bernard Lane. “A misguided law purporting to ban attempts to convert someone’s ‘gender identity’ will in reality push more children into risky medicalized ‘gender change,’ increase treatment regret in the future and expose government to litigation for negligence. This is the warning strongly expressed in a letter to Ryan Park, the health minister of Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), where the government has just finished secretive consultation on a proposal to ‘criminalize conversion therapy’ intended to ‘change’ sexual orientation or the novel concept of gender identity.” Read more here.

 

HOW THE GENDER LOBBY HIJACKED THE EU’S POLICY AGENDA, by Ashley Frawley. “Should transgender ‘women’ be allowed to compete in women’s sports? Should a male rapist who identifies as a woman be sent to a female prison? What is a woman, anyway? It is astonishing how quickly this issue has become public and policy orthodoxy in the EU and elsewhere. When it comes to the trans debate, there is no room for different opinions. Any dissent is deemed an ‘offensive statement,’ for which people are shamed and canceled. The tactic of silencing and shaming is an effective response to disagreement. This is because discourse is not an option for gender hardliners.” Read more here.

 

IF YOU WANT TO BE HAPPY, GET MARRIED, by John Sexton. “The Atlantic published a story yesterday about happiness and marriage and how there is pretty strong evidence that the two are, dare I say it, intimately related. The story is built around a chart which shows American happiness began to decline around the year 2000. …After slicing the demographic data every which way—income, education level, race, location, age and genderUniversity of Chicago Professor Sam Peltzman found that this happiness dip is mainly attributable to one thing: Married people are happier, and Americans aren’t getting married as much.” Read more here.

 

WE CANNOT SAY WE WEREN’T WARNED, by Rod Dreher. “Believe it or not, the Trial of the Century just happened in a courtroom in Helsinki. The Finnish parliamentarian and physician Päivi Räsänen this week returned to the dock to face hate crimes charges for having quoted the Bible in defense of Scripture’s teaching on homosexuality. While it is not altogether surprising that yet another Christian has been brought up on charges of blaspheming against LGBTs—who have been elevated from ordinary people, as equal as anybody else, into liberalism’s divinities—a statement the Finnish prosecution made in the trial’s opening raised the proceedings from an ordinary example of post-Christian liberalism’s contempt for the faith and free speech, into something epochal. Attention must be paid. In her opening statement on Thursday, the Finnish prosecutor said, of a 2004 pamphlet authored by Dr. Räsänen, ‘The point isn’t whether it is true or not, but that this is insulting.’ Think about that: The point is not whether these words true or not, but that someone’s feelings were hurt by them.” Read more here.

 

NBC SAYS CANADA WARNS 2SLGBTQI+ PEOPLE ABOUT TRAVELING THE U.S.; IT’S PROPAGANDA, by David Strom. “There is amateur-level virtue signaling, and then there is Justin Trudeau-level virtue signaling. In a move that should surprise nobody … the government of Canada has issued a travel advisory to its LGBTQ citizens to be cautious while visiting the United States. Why, exactly? It takes a second to realize it given how gobsmackingly stupid this is, but the Canadian government doesn’t give any specific reasons other than the fact that some US states have passed some laws or something.“ Read more here.

 

CANADIAN POLITICIANS STANDING UP FOR PARENTAL RIGHTS FACE SERIOUS BACKLASH FROM TRANS ACTIVISTS, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Canada finally appears to be having something of a cultural breakthrough moment. New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs decided to stake his career on support for parental rights — specifically, that parents must be informed before school staff can refer to their children by new names and pronouns. Two attempts to oust him as premier have failed, and the widespread support for his position has not gone unnoticed. Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Ontario have followed suit, with federal Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre also announcing that he supports parental rights.” Read more here.

 

NEW CDC DIRECTOR MANDY COHEN THINKS PREGNANCY IS A DISEASE AND ABORTION IS THE CURE, by Gavin Oxley. “The director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Dr. Mandy Cohen was recently given a platform to preach ‘reproductive health access’ in an interview with TIME Magazine — and her choice to comment on the matter is almost as strange as her actual comments. Why is any member of the CDC, let alone the director, making statements about abortion access? Pregnancy isn’t a disease, and abortion is definitely not a cure. Perhaps the CDC’s newly minted director is confused because the Food and Drug Administration has been working for years to change the narrative of pregnancy to a disease, an essential requirement for the Chemical Abortion Pill, mifepristone, to be pushed through the accelerated new drug approval process for ‘life-threatening’ conditions in late 2000.” Read more here.

 

WHAT IS A WOMAN? A QUESTION EVEN THE COURTS ARE AFRAID TO ANSWER, by Kaylee McGhee White. “The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh published a viral documentary last year that summed up the absurdity of the gender ideology debate with one simple question: What is a woman? This week, that question made its way into a court case, further exposing just how logically bereft this ideology and its adherents have become. The case in question involves a Wyoming sorority, which was sued by six of its members after admitting a biological male who claims to identify as a girl. The girls alleged in their suit that Kappa Kappa Gamma betrayed its own bylaws, which state that ‘a new member shall be a woman,’ and put at risk their safety by allowing 6-foot, 2-inch, 260-pound Artemis Langford inside their home and intimate spaces.” Read more here.

 

APPEALS COURT HANDS FATHER LEGAL WIN AFTER HE WAS JAILED FOR ‘MISGENDERING’ HIS CHILD, by Kevin Haggerty. “A Canadian father’s personal fight against authoritarian transgenderism marked a minor victory in an appeals court: ‘My conscience is clean on that.’ For some, the Orwellian mania of alphabet activists could be contained within a passive boycott of Bud Light, an end to shopping at Target or cancelation of a Disney+ subscription. For Robert Hoogland, the issue literally hit home and had landed him behind bars for ‘misgendering’ his own daughter. Featured anonymously in their documentary ‘What is a Woman?’ the father recently spoke with The Daily Wire to report his early release from jail following a win in the British Columbia Court of Appeal.” Read more here.

 

JAPAN’S ‘MIRACLE TOWN’ WHERE THE BIRTH RATE IS TWICE THE NATIONAL AVERAGE, by Louis T. March. “Nagi is an out-of-the-way town of 5700 folks in Okayama Prefecture (southwestern Japan). Known for wagyu beef, satoimo, and as the birthplace of the creator of the popular Naruto anime series, it has a salubrious subtropical climate and hosts a small military base. The town is a perfectly normal little place, with one glaring exception: children abound. That’s highly unusual in Japan, where the spectre of demographic collapse looms large.” Read more here.

 

RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION HURTS KIDS WAITING TO BE ADOPTED, by Johannes Widmalm-Delphonse. “In the United States, approximately 391,000 children are in foster care. Of those, over 113,000 children are waiting to be adopted. With such a great need, you would think that all 50 states would be eager to place children with loving and qualified parents. But this isn’t so. The problem? Some state officials are imposing an ideological litmus test to determine who is ‘qualified’ to parent a child. In some states, if you don’t agree to adopt the government’s views on gender and sexuality, your application to adopt a child will be denied. This is exactly what happened to Jessica Bates.” Read more here.

 

OUR SPIRALLING ABORTION RATE IS A NATIONAL TRAGEDY THE MEDIA WANT YOU TO IGNORE, by Niamh Ui Bhriain. “It’s an inconvertible fact that the number of abortions in Ireland has shot up dramatically since it was first made legal in the final days of 2018, despite assurances … that it would be ‘rare.’ Those assurances helped to repeal the 8th amendment, leading to the nauseating cheering and triumphalist conga lines celebrating the victory over helpless babies in Dublin Castle.” Read more here.

 

NEW EDUCATION STANDARDS FORCE GAY HISTORY, CLIMATE ALARMISM AND ‘MATH IDENTITY RAINBOWS’ ON STUDENTS, by Angela Morabito. “While most schools were closed for summer break, several state education departments were hard at work crafting new curricular frameworks that will shape what students learn in K-12 schools for years to come. What should be a straightforward exercise in setting high academic standards has devolved, in several states, into a free-for-all of cramming woke nonsense into every corner of curriculum.” Read more here.

 

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CHILD IN VIDEO OPENLY QUESTIONING HIS ‘TRANSITION’ AND CRYING DURING THE SURGERY?, by Jennifer Van Laar. “Over the weekend we covered the heartbreaking story of a child whose medical ‘transition’ was captured on video. One clip that was posted to X/Twitter, which is from a 2012 NBC News story, shows an 11-year-old child who was a biological boy preparing to have hormone blockers implanted. In one clip the child, whose name had been legally changed from Joseph to Josie, asks his mother, ‘Sometimes I think I’m a boy kinda. Will you love me if I’m a boy?’ In another, filmed at the doctor’s office, shows Josie crying and clearly uncomfortable as the hormone blockers are implanted.” Read more here.

 

TRAGIC KINGDOM: MEN IN DRAG ARE NOW GREETING KIDS AT DISNEY’S PRINCESS BOUTIQUES, by Brittany Hughes. “Cinderfella, indeed… It seems Disney’s found itself hard-pressed to find enough pretty women to dress as princesses and fairy godmothers at their children’s theme parks. Either that, or the company has lost what little is left of its mind. If you’re betting on the latter, the line for this House of Funhouse Mirrors and Abject Horror starts behind me.” Read more here.

 

THE TRANS THREAT TO FREEDOM, by Mark Glendening. “The UK was historically a bastion of free speech. Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin were once rightly given safe haven in London. Here, they were totally free to publicly articulate their desire to see capitalism violently overthrown – including within the very nation that had taken them in. Compare and contrast that with today. Now in the UK, it is near impossible to challenge the idea that a man cannot be a woman, and vice versa. Anyone who objects to gender ideology can be cancelled, have their bank account closed, be subject to police harassment or even potentially prosecuted.” Read more here.

 

[IRISH] GOVERNMENT ADMITS: WE DON’T WANT A ‘DIVISIVE DEBATE’ ON GENDER, by John McGuirk. “If one was to ask Leo Varadkar what his greatest achievement in politics have been, what do we think he might say? I would hazard a guess, personally, that the marriage equality and abortion referenda would make it into any top five. The government never tires of reminding people how brave it was to take those fights on, and about how the results were not a foregone conclusion, and how divisive topics require brave leadership, and so on.” Read more here.

 

GENDER IDEOLOGY IS A THREAT TO THE MOST VULNERABLE, by Lauren Smith. “The case of this young woman, known only as ‘AI,’ is unbearably tragic. Now 22 years old, she was born female and began identifying as transgender as a teenager. AI has a total of 14 medical diagnoses, including ‘mild mental retardation,’ ADHD, autism, PTSD, dyslexia and severe anxiety. She had a troubled childhood, born to a recovering drug addict. She eventually ended up in the care system. Medical professionals do not believe that AI is able to live independently without 24-hour support. She cannot read or write. Yet despite all this, AI has been approved for gender-reassignment surgery.” Read more here.

 

THOUSANDS OF MINORS HAVE RECEIVED ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING SURGERIES,’ by Wesley J. Smith. “A new study has been published by the Journal of the American Medical Association about the number of people who have had ‘gender-affirming’ surgeries — including minors — between 2016-2019. The numbers are startling: A total of 48,019 patients who underwent GAS were identified, including 25,099 (52.3%) who were aged 19 to 30 years. The most common procedures were breast and chest procedures, which occurred in 27,187 patients (56.6%), followed by genital reconstruction (16,872 [35.1%]) and other facial and cosmetic procedures (6,669 [13.9%]).” Read more here.

 

‘TRANS WIDOW’ DESCRIBES HARROWING MARRIAGE WITH EX-HUSBAND WHO BECAME ‘FAKE WOMAN’, by Peter LaBarbera. “The hour-and-a-half long interview with Tracy Shannon by Daily Wire radio and podcast host Michael Knowles offers one of the most in-depth media looks to date into two core groups victimized by ‘male-to-female’ trans-activists: the woman and wife whose marriage is turned into a nightmare as her husband pursues his ‘trans’ fetish; and their children, who did nothing to deserve their father’s narcissistic descent into a lifestyle celebrating sexual and gender deviance. She was married to the man for 15 years, and they had three children together.” Read more here.

 

CHERISHING THE SANCTITY OF LIFE CAN HELP OVERCOME OUR CULTURE’S CRISIS OF MEANING, by J. B. Shurk. I will not pretend to know what form of wickedness so contorted that British nurse’s heart that she could maliciously betray her most sacred professional duties, but it is difficult not to wonder whether a Western culture that celebrates abortion and euthanasia as exemplars of ‘freedom’ might have had something to do with the blight on her soul. When ordinary people are force-fed a media diet in which ‘shouting your abortion’ is glorified as female empowerment and suicide is condoned as a moral choice, they lose sight of the precious sanctity of every life.” Read more here.

 

LIBRARY ASSOCIATION’S PRESIDENT WANTS TO STOCK KIDS’ SHELVES WITH LGBT PROPAGANDA AND PORN, by Rebeka Zeljko. “The American Accountability Foundation, a conservative nonprofit, published a video and memo this month compiling radical quotes from Emily Drabinski, the president of the powerful American Library Association (ALA), a nonprofit that receives some of its money from member libraries, many of which are taxpayer-funded. The ALA, the oldest and biggest library association boasting nearly 50,000 members, coordinates programs at local libraries across America. The report documents Drabinski, a self-described lesbian Marxist, attacking conservatives and parents as ‘far right, white supremacist, fascist,’ an ‘angry white mob,’ and the ‘Christo-fascist right.’” Read more here.

 

BLOWBACK, by Bernard Lane. “The World Professional Association for Transgender Health and American medical societies have sacrificed child safety and standards of scientific evidence in pursuit of fashionable causes and financial self-interest. This is the charge levelled in a blistering court brief filed last week by Alabama’s Attorney General Steve Marshall and 15 other Republican states in defense of Missouri’s law restricting medicalized ‘gender change’ for minors. A county court judge is to decide whether the law—under challenge from transgender-identifying plaintiffs—is put on hold or goes into effect as scheduled on August 28.” Read more here.

 

ABORTION IS NECESSARY TO AVOID STRAIN ON HEALTH CARE, ARGUES MEDICAL JOURNAL, by Wesley J. Smith. “The legalization of euthanasia and abortion means that some members of the medical profession have become more than willing to take human lives as opposed to saving them. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecology supports radical access to abortion, including later in pregnancy. Its journal, Obstetrics and Gynecology, just published a study, [supported] by a Stanford Medical School institute, arguing that abortion limits post-Dobbs will stress health-care-system resources because more babies with a particular heart defect will be born.” Read more here.

 

HUFFPOST PROMOTES ABORTION PILL WITH BIASED REPORTING THAT IGNORES RISKS, by Sam Dorman. “HuffPost published a glowing article about the abortion pill while sidestepping its dangers and downplaying the potential for hospitalization. Published earlier this month … it repeatedly used language framing the pill as an act of ‘resistance’ or way of taking back control since the reversal of Roe v. Wade. It also drew heavily from the pro-abortion group Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) and its director, Dr. Daniel Grossman, who dismisses safety concerns while refocusing on the potential for legal action against women who undergo the pill regimen.” Read more here.

 

SOUTH DAKOTA CONTINUES MARCH TOWARD ZERO, by Bradley N. Kehr. “South Dakota … is continuing to push toward zero abortions. In the state’s most recent report on abortion statistics, the number of abortions decreased to 137 for 2022. That is down from 414 abortions in 2019, a 67-percent decrease. The state’s policy approach is proving to be highly effective in welcoming and protecting its residents from the moment of conception. In fact, the number of abortions in South Dakota following the Dobbs decision fell from 28 in June to 0 in July and the following months. It is expected that the number in 2024 will be zero.” Read more here.

 

EXCLUSIVE: BIDEN ADMIN HONORS ‘CHESTFEEDING MONTH,’ NO HALF-STAFF FLAG ORDER FOR MAUI FIRE VICTIMS, by Randy Clark. “U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees received an agency email honoring ‘National Breast/Chestfeeding Month.’ However, employees say they have yet to receive any significant message regarding the department’s relief/recovery efforts in the deadly Maui wildfire.” Read more here.

 

NEW YORK TIMES CONFIRMS ST. LOUIS GENDER CLINIC CLAIM THAT ADOLESCENTS WERE RUSHED INTO ‘AFFIRING’ CARE, by Ari Blaff. “Seven months after former pediatric gender clinician Jamie Reed blew the whistle on unquestioning ‘affirming’ care at Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, The New York Times has confirmed core elements of her story. Speaking with patients, employees, local health-care providers and parents, the Times investigation corroborated many of Reed’s central allegations, most notably that a substantial number of adolescent patients were prescribed testosterone treatments before their underlying mental health issues were addressed.” Read more here.

 

THERE, I FIXED IT!, by Lisa Selin Davis. “Although The New York Times is slowly getting better at nuance, this article needed some correcting. Had I read it before publication, these are the notes I would have given. The small Midwestern gender clinic was buckling under an unrelenting surge in demand. Opened in 2017 inside a children’s hospital affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis, the prestigious [what made it prestigious?] clinic was welcomed by many families as a godsend. It was the only place for hundreds of miles where distressed adolescents could see a team of experts to help them transition to a different gender. [What’s a different “gender”? What does gender mean here? Why does someone need help transitioning to a different one? Do you mean getting medicine to alter their secondary sex characteristics?]” Read more here.

 

DENMARK JOINS THE LIST OF COUNTRIES WHO HAVE SHARPLY RESTRICTED YOUTH GENDER ‘TRANSITIONS,’ by The Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine. “A major medical journal Ugeskrift for Læger, the Journal of the Danish Medical Association, confirmed that there has been a marked shift in the country’s approach to caring for youth with gender dysphoria. Most youth referred to the centralized gender clinic no longer get a prescription for puberty blockers, hormones or surgery—instead they receive therapeutic counseling and support.” Read more here.

 

‘PARENTS NEED TO ASSUME THEY WILL BE DECEIVED BY THEIR SCHOOL,’ by Bob Unruh. “In a report in the Washington Stand, Meg Kilgannon, senior fellow for Education Studies at Family Research Council, explained, ‘I am grateful to Parents Defending Education for their attempt to quantify this problem. It is important to support with evidence what many parents know by instinct or experience: our educational system that is supposed to work with parents will often work around parents instead. At this point, parents need to assume they will be deceived by their school if their child makes a gender identity declaration to a teacher or counselor at school.’” Read more here.

 

COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW SMEARS COWBOY STATE DAILY AS ‘DEHUMANIZING’ FOR ACCURATE PRONOUN USE, by Tristan Justice. “Refusal to follow the corporate media’s bow to transgenderism has earned the Cowboy State Daily a 2,600-word reprimand by the Columbia Journalism Review. Last week, the bi-annual publication sponsored by Columbia University published an article that vilified one of Wyoming’s largest publications, the Cowboy State Daily, as an engine of right-wing propaganda. The State Daily’s crime? The website’s use of biological pronouns contradictory to the far-left’s orthodoxy on transgender coverage, which, according to the university paper, is an exercise in ‘dehumanizing’ discrimination.” Read more here.

 

‘GENDER IDENTITY’ CLAIMS FOR FINANCIAL GAIN EXPOSE THE IDIOCY OF TRANSGENDERISM, by Jonathon Van Maren. “LGBT activists are running into a bit of a problem: when you tell people that they have the human right to identify however they like and that society has to accept and affirm that self-identification, many are going to take you seriously. In some cases, the consequences are horrifying – such as male rapists and murderers getting locked up in women’s prisons because prison officials are legally obligated to accept their fresh new claims of womanhood.” Read more here.

 

CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF ‘LONG-TERM REGRET AND SATISFACTION WITH DECISION FOLLOWING GENDER-AFFIRMING MASTECTOMY,’ by The Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine. “Recent research published in JAMA Surgery evaluated satisfaction and regret among individuals who had undergone chest masculinizing mastectomy at the University of Michigan hospital. … The participants reported high levels of satisfaction and low levels of regret at an average of 3.6 years following mastectomy. The study authors lauded the ‘overwhelmingly low levels of regret following gender-affirming surgery’ … The study suffers from serious methodological limitations, which render the findings of high levels of long-term satisfaction with mastectomy among adults at a ‘critical risk of bias’—the lowest rating according to the Risk of Bias (ROBINS-I) analysis. … The ‘critical risk of bias’ rating signals that the results reported by the study may substantially deviate from the truth. Read more here.

 

AS STUDENT SCORES PLUMMET, TEACHERS UNIONS PLAY POLITICS AND MAKE THEM WORSE, by Washington Examiner editors. “Teachers unions keep pushing contentious racial and gender agendas, try to conceal what they are really doing, seek to block parental involvement in education, and push disciplinary laxity at the cost of classroom safety. … This all comes at the expense of a focus on improving teaching, which should be the top priority after recent calamitous drops in national education scores. Consider a resolution on transgender issues that the AFT passed; it advocates ‘inclusive policies relating to … bathrooms and locker rooms.’ It also commits the union and its teachers to work with activist groups that, among other things, demand that staff should avoid telling parents when calling students by ‘pronouns’ that do not fit their biological sex.” Read more here.

 

DETRANSITIONERS SEEK JUSTICE IN COURT, by Jordan Campbell, Ron Miller, Josh Payne and Daniel Sepulveda. “‘Gender-affirming care’ is a big business. ‘Gender-affirming’ centers servicing children have proliferated: There are now more than 400 pediatric gender clinics in North America, according to the Gender Mapping Project. … Against this backdrop, there now appears to be the first wave of young women, and some men, who have undergone ‘gender-affirming’ treatments and now realize that they were misled and deeply harmed. They recognize that they could never have become the opposite sex and that they were rushed into life-altering procedures when their underlying mental-health issues should have been addressed instead.” Read more here.

 

TRUDEAU LIBERALS CONTINUE TO LIE ABOUT ABORTION BECAUSE THE CONSERVATIVES ALLOW THEM TO, by Jonathon Van Maren. “For pro-lifers in Canada, one of the most frustrating aspects of our political debate is that on the issue of abortion, there is none. Trudeau’s Liberal Party and the other leftist parties are 100 percent pro-abortion and support the status quo, which is no restrictions on feticide throughout all nine months of pregnancy, with even gruesome late-term abortions supported by the government and funded by the taxpayer. The Conservative Party of Canada formally supports this status quo as well, with some notable dissenting MPs who are willing to consistently and courageously speak out. Thus, despite the fact that there is almost no formal opposition to Canada’s radical abortion regime – the most permissive of any democracy – Trudeau’s Liberals must consistently lie to the Canadian public in an attempt to divide the Conservative base.” Read more here.

 

THE TEEN MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS IS SHOWING UP IN DROVES IN HOSPITAL ERS, by John Sexton. “There was a pretty dramatic story published by NBC News about a surging mental health crisis among teens. Teens are said to be overwhelming local ERs which aren’t really equipped to provide the level of support that seems to be needed. ‘The scope of this problem is really great,’ said Dr. Mohsen Saidinejad, a professor of emergency medicine and pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. ‘But our ability to solve it is not there.’” Read more here.

 

THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS IS BROKEN, by Zachary Faria. “The transgender craze and the irreversible damage being done to children as a result have one grim silver lining: They expose the people and institutions that destroyed their credibility and must not be allowed to influence society anymore. That list starts with the American Academy of Pediatrics. Fresh off of its failures during the pandemic to advocate children properly in the face of anti-science restrictions, the AAP has thrown its lot in with transgender activists. The organization is fully in favor of permanent ‘sex changes’ for children, who cannot reasonably consent to such a life-changing decision that is brought on by gender confusion or mental anguish and will have debilitating effects on those children for the rest of their lives.” Read more here.

 

DENMARK CONFIRMS THAT THEY ARE RESTRICTING ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING’ MEDICAL CARE, by David Strom. “Denmark has already signaled growing skepticism about the medicalization of gender confusion, and the picture is becoming clearer by the day. As you likely know England, Finland, Sweden and Norway have all pulled back from their ‘full speed ahead’ approach to medicalized gender treatments due to systematic reviews that show that there is no good evidence that the treatments have benefits and substantial evidence that they may be harming children. So it is no surprise that Denmark is following the trend that has been well-established in Europe.” Read more here.

 

THE TRAGEDY OF JAZZ JENNINGS, by Malcolm Clark. “Jazz Jennings was sold to us by the LGBTQ+ lobby as a shining example of the success of early gender reassignment for children. In truth, he’s been left sexless, sterilised and physically mutilated. Jazz is not an example to follow. His tragic life is an indictment of the trans movement.” Read more here.

 

STATES SHOULD WELCOME RELIGIOUSLY MOTIVATED FOSTER PARENTS, by William C. Duncan. “Massachusetts’s recent decision to deny a Catholic couple the ability to foster children due to their religious beliefs stands at odds with Supreme Court precedent, lower federal court decisions, and the needs of children. Leaders in Massachusetts and other states should swiftly enact legislative protections for religiously motivated foster and adoptive parents. The need for more homes for foster children is striking. The latest available data show close to 400,000 children across the United States are living in foster care.” Read more here.

 

WATCH OUT!, by Dr. Jillian Spencer. “As a community, we’ve been increasingly worried about health and safety. Bike helmets became compulsory, cigarettes became expensive and put behind the counter. We’re used to hearing safety announcements at the airport to hold on to the handrail or not to let your kids stand up in the supermarket trolley. So, it’s understandable that many parents have been blindsided by the realization that there are dangerous ideas about gender identity being pushed at their children. If parents seek help, they may be unable to prevent their children from suffering harm from treatments claimed to be ‘lifesaving.’” Read more here.

 

BACK TO (WHAT KIND OF) SCHOOL: EDUCATION OR INDOCTRINATION?, by Cal Thomas. “As millions of children return to public school, it’s a good idea to again examine what they are being taught and what is being left out. It also offers an annual opportunity for parents to ask if their kids are being educated or indoctrinated. At the recent convention of the National Education Association in Orlando, Florida, reports told of delegates waving rainbow signs proclaiming: ‘freedom to teach’ and ‘freedom to learn.’ The demonstrators oppose parental concerns over what they regard as pornography in certain books, an opposition that has tarred them as ‘book banners.’ Peculiar how it’s ‘academic freedom’ to introduce books that promote behavior and ideas many parents oppose, but ‘censorship’ to object to them.” Read more here.

 

PERSPECTIVE: HOW TO STRENGTHEN THE ‘SUCCESS SEQUENCE’ IN UTAH, by W. Bradford Wilcox, Derek Monson and David Bass. “Growing numbers of young adults across America … are moving into adulthood without a durable connection to two benchmarks strongly connected to human well-being: work and marriage. Taking the second benchmark first, a record-high 25 percent of 40-year-olds in the United States were never married as of 2021, according to new data from Pew Research Center. That compares to 5 percent of never-married 40-year-olds in 1980. And in Utah, the marriage rate has fallen more than 15 percent since 2012 alone. Put simply, the necessary (though not sufficient) precursor to family stability is losing ground.” Read more here.

 

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE WON’T EVEN PASS A LAW MAKING CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING A FELONY, by Bob Hoge. “You’d think that child sex trafficking would be a pretty serious crime, and that anybody caught doing it would be in big-time trouble. You might even think such an act would be a felony, and that it would count as a ‘strike’ if your state had a three-strikes law. Not so in the Golden State. Their overwhelmingly Democrat legislature can’t even be troubled to pass a no-brainer law that would make child sex trafficking a felony. First, Democrats in the Assembly’s Public Safety committee voted it down in July, then after outcry and pressure from Governor Gavin Newsom (who only weighed in because he’s interested in running for president), legislators reconsidered and passed it out of committee. Has common sense returned to Sacramento?” Read more here.

 

WHAT YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT THE DRAG QUEEN AT CHILDREN’S LIBRARY, by Michael Brown. “The scene is as heartbreaking as it is infuriating, as a drag queen swishes his hips for the toddlers and little children who fill the library room, asking them, ‘Who wants to be a drag queen when they grow up?’ It is heartbreaking to think that some of these impressionable little ones will want to emulate this gay man’s perverse outfit and presentation.” Read more here.

 

MOTHERS OR ‘EGG PRODUCERS’? TOP HHS OFFICIAL RACHEL LEVINE PRAISES CLINIC FOR ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING’ LANGUAGE, by Haley Strack. “Rachel Levine, a transgender woman and Joe Biden’s assistant secretary of health, visited what Levine called an ‘inspiring’ Alaska gender clinic that refers to mothers as ‘egg producers’ this month. Identity Alaska is an Anchorage nonprofit and healthcare clinic that aims to ‘advance Alaska’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, asexual, two-spirited + community through advocacy, education, healthcare and connectivity.’ Levine thanked the clinic for providing ‘lifesaving medical care.’” Read more here.

 

HOW PORNOGRAPHY FORGED THE TRANS MOVEMENT, by Genevieve Gluck. “It is impossible to separate the influence of pornography from the gender-identity movement, as both are aspects of the sex industry. The gender-identity industry sells ‘sex’ as a noun – supposedly allowing a male to ‘become’ a female (and vice versa) through surgeries and hormones. Whereas the pornography industry sells ‘sex’ as a verb. Gender identity conceptually reduces women to sexist stereotypes, or a fantasy in a man’s head. It is also an ideology that uniquely redefines womanhood – and to a lesser degree, manhood – as the living embodiment of pornography.” Read more here.

 

HOW GENDER ACTIVISTS DEFACED PEDIATRIC MEDICINE: AN INTERVIEW WITH MIRIAM GROSSMAN, MD, by Devorah Goldman and Dr. Miriam Grossman. “I was alarmed as a child psychiatrist. We want people, especially young people, to have a stable sense of identity. When you don’t have a stable identity, it’s a handicap. Part of the role of the psychiatrist is to help people develop and sustain that stability, which can be challenged in so many ways. … Yet here we are, my own profession of psychiatry and psychology, endorsing a bizarre belief system that punctures something at the core of our humanity. Are we male or female—what could be more core to identity? Yet we are telling young people it is normal to question that established fact, over and over again.” Read more here.

 

PEDIATRICIANS’ STATEMENT ON TRANSGENDER KIDS IGNORES THREE WORDS THAT HAVE GUIDED DOCTORS FOR MILLENNIA, by Marion Mass and Nikki Johnson. “The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recently reaffirmed its 2018 position on youth who suffer from gender dysphoria while simultaneously calling on a systematic review of the evidence of how to treat such children. Looking back on the AAP’s 2018 statement, as pediatricians, we both agree with the 2018 report that we ‘must protect youth who identify as transgender and gender diverse from discrimination and violence.’ It’s our job to protect children. However, we do not think the 2018 report is following the millennia-old tenet of ‘do no harm.’” Read more here.

 

WITH THE ‘SUICIDE CARD,’ TRANSGENDER ACTIVISTS WEAPONIZE KINDNESS, by Stephanie Lundquist-Arora. “When public school counselors meet with parents to discuss cases of gender identity confusion, they often warn that a transgender child is better than a dead child. This is not just a weaponization of kindness and sympathy. It is extortion. When Kobe as 13, for example, adults online reportedly told him to ‘play the suicide card’ to get chemical trans interventions. Read more here.

 

GEN Z SHOULDN’T DISMISS MARRIAGE SO LIGHTLY, by W. Bradford Wilcox and Wendy Wang. “A viral TikTok video doesn’t pull any punches in depicting the so-called negatives of marriage and motherhood for young women. The video, that has been racking up millions of views, shows a Generation Z woman seeming to accept a marriage proposal before switching to a series of shorts showing the same woman toiling away in domestic drudgery — washing dishes, caring for a newborn baby and cleaning the house. The clip ends with the woman rejecting the proposal, daunted by the future life of domestic servitude that just flashed before her eyes.” Read more here.

 

TRANSGENDER MOVEMENT’S LAST DEFENDERS: PARENTS WHO ‘TRANSITIONED’ THEIR CHILDREN, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Across Europe, the so-called ‘affirmative model’ approach to gender dysphoria, with its brutal regimens of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex change surgeries, is being abandoned. Study after study reveal that medical authorities have, at the behest of the transgender movement, been perpetrating one of the ugliest medical scandals since eugenics. Young people—children, some of them—are being castrated, mutilated by the amputation of healthy breasts, and deformed by dangerous drugs prescribed to them by medical ideologues.” Read more here.

 

ONLY ‘LGBTQ-AFFIRMING’ FOSTER PARENTS NEED APPLY, by Ryan Bomberger. “Funny how ‘tolerance’ turns to totalitarianism. America has undergone a massive moral ‘transitioning’ thanks to an incredibly well-funded LGBTQIA+++ movement. They enjoy a privilege that no other ‘marginalized’ group has: a virtual total immunity from criticism. Mainstream media, public education, academia, professional sports, the entertainment industry, the Democratic Party, judges, legislators, the medical field, biblically illiterate churches, RINOs and child welfare workers all demand we bow to LGBTQ dogma. We must butcher language, deny basic science and worship a co-opted rainbow worldview or face the consequences.” Read more here.

 

A CHILD NEEDS BOTH A MOTHER AND A FATHER, by Hunter Baker. “I have a special connection to my daughter. We joke that we are clones and have a whole catalogue of inside jokes. I have enough love for her for two parents. But it is more than clear to me that she still needs her mother. My wife brings things to the table that I absolutely can’t. There’s a reason every child has a biological mother and father. You need the male and the female contribution. In the teen years, it is so clear to me that my daughter benefits from having a safe, protective and supportive man in her life while also being able to turn to her mother for guidance in becoming a woman. There are so many things my wife knows and intuits that I do not. As mother and father, we fulfill different roles.” Read more here.

 

‘GENDER-NEUTRAL’ LAVATORIES ARE AN INVASION OF WOMEN’S PRIVACY, by Kemi Badenoch. “I would never have guessed when I first became an MP how much time I would spend looking at toilet policy. But, increasingly, my job is spent legislating for common sense and stopping people determined to do destructive things. A decade ago, there was no need to clarify who could use which toilet. However, in today’s world, some are trying to redefine biological sex to mean however one chooses to identify. This has led to multiple instances of organizations, from schools to music venues, removing single-sex (male only or female only) toilets and replacing them with ‘gender-neutral’ versions.” Read more here.

 

WORLD SPORTS ORGANIZATIONS WAKE UP TO THE ABSURDITY OF TRANS-ATHLETE POLICIES, by Madeleine Kearns. “Fairness for women athletes doesn’t consist in simply suppressing testosterone levels in male athletes. Male advantages over females persist, to say nothing of the insulting suggestion that male mediocrity is equivalent to female excellence. This ought to be obvious, but it has taken several high-profile cases of male athletes disrupting female competitions for sports-governing bodies to confront the absurdity of their policies.” Read more here.

 

WANT HELP FOR SUICIDAL THOUGHTS? WE’LL KILL YOU FOR FREE, by David Strom. “Dystopia with a smiley face. That is what Canada has turned into. Every day you read a story about the government or the health care system (one and the same) offering death as a public service. Vancouver is the suicide capital of the world these days, which is ironic because it is also an idyllic locale. It is just the sort of place I like to visit, except that now I am likely to be faced with advertisements from funeral homes that offer suicide services with a smile.” Read more here.

 

NEW BIDEN POLICY TIES FOREIGN POOR TO GENDER IDEOLOGY, by Emmanuele Da Ponte. “The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has released its first LGBTQI+ Inclusive Development Policy, the purpose of which is to spread controversial gender ideology through foreign assistance. The policy also refers to ‘comprehensive sexuality education’ and ‘reproductive rights,’ which are widely understood to include abortion in addition to issues of sexual orientation and gender identity. Critics expressed concern about tying this controversial agenda to crucial foreign assistance to poor countries.” Read more here.

 

GALLUP: NEARLY 70 PERCENT POLLED DON’T THINK BIOLOGICAL MALES SHOULD COMPETE ON GIRLS’ TEAMS, by Brett T. “This Gallup poll is being reported on by NBC News, which as we like to point out, has special categories like NBC BLK and NBC OUT. This story is filed under NBC OUT, which is dedicated to pumping out pro-LGBTQ news stories. We’re pretty certain NBC OUT has reported on ‘experts’ saying that biological males have no physical advantages in sports at some point.” Read more here.

 

CHILD PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION REFUSES TO HEAR SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE CRITICAL OF ‘GENDER AFFIRMING CARE,’ by Wesley Smith. “Slowly, it is becoming clear that the scientific data behind what is called ‘gender-affirming care’ is sorely lacking. Consequently several countries in Europe have hit the brakes on immediate social affirmation, puberty blocking and surgeries in children. Yet much of the American medical establishment (and the Biden administration) continues to resist changing treatment guidelines. Why? Because medical science in this sensitive field has been polluted by a fervent gender ideology that it not only resists considering contrary data but even the expression of differing opinions.” Read more here.

 

EUROPEAN PSYCHIATRISTS ARE BEING SHUNNED OVER CHILD PROTECTIONS, by David Strom. “The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry no longer wants to hear from their European counterparts. Why? Europe is beginning to set guardrails to protect children from dangerous and questionable gender ‘transition’ practices, and American psychiatrists don’t want to hear any evidence against their preconceived notion that sterilizing and mutilating children is an unalloyed good.” Read more here.

 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S PAINFUL MESSAGE FOR THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT, by Josh Hammer. “Pro-lifers waited 49 grueling years to see the judicial barbarism of Roe v. Wade finally overturned in last year’s blockbuster Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. That ruling, delivered by Justice Samuel Alito, merely re-politicized a hotly contested issue that had been erroneously accorded the status of ‘constitutional right’ in Roe. Unfortunately, it seems perhaps likely, based on rapidly accumulating data points, that pro-lifers’ patience could be similarly tested as we push onward toward the only logical endpoint in this defining struggle for substantive justice and human dignity: abortion abolition in America.” Read more here.

 

DON’T DEFEND PLANNED PARENTHOOD’S ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE.’ DEFUND IT, by Melanie Israel, Macy Petty, and Trey Boyd. “In post-Roe America, Planned Parenthood is shifting gears. To make up for its lost abortion revenue, it’s expanding its reach into what it calls ‘transgender hormone therapy.’ The recent spike in these services is telling. According to their most recent annual reports, most of the nearly 600 Planned Parenthood centers now dispense cross-sex hormones. In 2016, only 32 Planned Parenthood clinics provided similar services.” Read more here.

 

THE ABORTION LOBBY SHOULDN’T CELEBRATE TOO QUICKLY IN OHIO, by Hudson Crozier. “President Joe Biden and abortion advocates are cheering after Ohioans rejected a ballot proposal that would make it harder for voters to pass amendments to the state constitution. The proposal threatened a pro-abortion amendment that will be on a November ballot, and many have declared Tuesday’s vote a ‘win for abortion rights.’ By itself, the vote is not a win for or against abortion. It is a step in a broader plan by the abortion lobby that, as a whole, faces difficult political odds.” Read more here.

 

CANADA’S SUICIDAL SLIDE, by John Stonestreet and G. Shane Morris. “If it is true, as Richard Weaver famously put it, that ‘ideas have consequences,’ it is also true that bad ideas have victims. On no other contemporary issue today is the connection between a bad idea and its victims clearer than assisted suicide. In no other nation today are the bad ideas and their victims more aggressively embraced than in Canada.” Read more here.

 

SCHOOLS ARE DONE HIDING RADICAL AGENDAS, by Haley Strack. “Parents vehemently oppose the [Montgomery County Public Schools’] English Language Arts curriculum that instructs teachers to read aloud and discuss LGBTQ books in class. Families request only that the district reinstate an opt-out policy for these lessons; they aren’t asking MCPS to remove books from classrooms or dismantle the curriculum. Parents can already opt their children out of similar sexual themes being taught in MCPS health lessons. A resolution seems simple — give parents the right to opt their child out of all sensitive lessons and leave the rest as is.” Read more here.

 

NOW YOU HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL YOU’RE 7 TO GET TRANS TREATMENT IN THE UK, by Jazz Shaw. “For more than a year now, we’ve been praising the health services in Great Britain over their decision to pull back from ‘gender transition care’ for children, starting with the closing of the Tavistock gender clinic last summer. (And there were many very good reasons to shut that clinic down.) The Brits were following a pattern that’s been showing up in other European nations, including Sweden and Denmark, where nearly all transgender ‘care’ for children has been put on hold while clinical studies are conducted. That’s why I was rather surprised to see a headline yesterday suggesting that the British National Health Service would be funding ‘transgender treatments’ for children provided they are at least seven years old.” Read more here.

 

HOUSE PANEL HEARS FROM GENDER MEDICINE’S ‘DR. FRANKENSTEIN’ ON HIS INSANE SURGICAL OPTION FOR MINORS, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “Light may be breaking through the darkness of gender ideology, as revealed by a recent hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on ‘due process violations and gender-affirming care.’ During the hearing, Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., showed part of a video interview with Dr. Blair Peters … That interview proved just how experimental and unstudied ‘gender-affirming’ medical care is. … The interview with Peters exposes much more than the barbarism of ‘gender-affirming’ surgery. It also proves that the house that gender ideology built is constructed on sinking sand.” Read more here.

 

THE CALLOUS AUTHORITARIANISM OF THE TRANS IDEOLOGY, by Jenny Holland. “The gender ideologues have found yet another arena in which to bully, frighten and punish women who speak out about their rights. Now they are coming for our medical care. Two recent reports – one from Portland, Oregon and the other from London – describe how two women, one with breast cancer and the other requiring an operation, were dropped by the medical facilities tasked with treating them, as punishment for expressing their gender-critical beliefs.” Read more here.

 

MOST WOMEN WHO HAVE ABORTIONS SAY THEY WISH THEY HADN’T, by Maureen Ferguson. “In the post-Roe era, the messy democratic process has begun to sort out abortion policy and politics across the country. But another important task also lies ahead. Support for women experiencing unplanned pregnancies has always been at the heart of the pro-life movement. … Legislation that focuses on supporting mothers, connecting them to the vast network of pregnancy resource centers and other aid, will empower vulnerable women to choose life for their babies and avoid the tragedy of abortion.” Read more here.

 

LIBERALS’ ASSAULT ON CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTERS FACES A MAJOR SETBACK: THE LAW, by Tom Joyce. “After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, many blue state politicians and special interest groups decided to go after crisis pregnancy centers. These pro-abortion activists wanted to penalize pregnancy resource centers for supposedly disseminating misleading information, which is to say, information about fetal development or the negative effects of abortion that liberals in government find inconvenient. Yet, efforts to crack down on crisis pregnancy centers have stalled. These politicians and special interest groups are facing a setback: the law.” Read more here.

 

TRANS-ING KIDS: THESE CONGRESS MEMBERS NEED TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE, by Brandon Showalter. “A national reckoning is underway over the chemical and surgical trans-ing of children and teens. And while many players are culpable, ignorance is no excuse because they cannot say they were not warned. If the July 27 Congressional hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on ‘gender-affirming care’ was any indication, some politicians are digging in their heels in denial because for them to admit the awful truth likely means facing paralyzing shame. In order to avoid that profound regret, they must continue refusing to acknowledge that gruesome medical atrocities are presently occurring nationwide and instead defend them as ‘care,’ even when living breathing evidence in the form of a teen victim of such atrocities is right there under their noses.” Read more here.

 

BORIS, WE REALLY DO NEED MORE BABIES, by Lois McLatchie. “In the summer of Barbenheimer, everybody is now a professional movie critic. Even Boris Johnson wrote his own film review of Barbie in the Daily Mail last week. As delightfully bemusing as it is to imagine Britain’s former PM scratching his head over the feminist challenges of Miss Plastic Fantastic, I was nevertheless pleased to see him pick out one of the major challenges to modernity nestled amongst the bubblegum pink hues: ‘[Barbieland] has children, but no babies. It is a parable about the destiny of humanity.’ He’s right. Aside from the fact that plastic dolls have no genitals, the film depicts the war of the sexes which has ultimately contributed to a baby drought.” Read more here.

 

PORNHUB CHOOSES TO BLOCK STATES RATHER THAN PROTECT KIDS, by John Nolte. “Rather than comply with a state’s age verification laws, Pornhub chose to block everyone from those states from accessing its site. Why? Several states, including Utah, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Virginia have passed age verification laws. According to various reports, Pornhub won’t allow anyone from those states to access its site. Why? Well, the company claims its opposition to age verification laws is based on lofty principles about protecting children.” Read more here.

 

A GREAT WAY TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST PORNOGRAPHY IN SCHOOLS, by David Strom. “Parents and activists fighting the invasion of pornography into schools face a big problem: they run up against the usually good American impulse to reject attempts to censor books. Americans rightly have a kneejerk reaction against suppressing ideas (although, ironically, the same people pushing pornography in the schools are also pushing for censorship of ideas they don’t like!), and without direct evidence that something truly unacceptable is being provided to children, they are inclined to side with those who are more permissive when it comes to speech.” Read more here.

 

LILA ROSE: WE NEED TO ‘COMPLETELY END ABORTION’ AND ‘MAKE IT UNTHINKABLE AND ILLEGAL,’ by Steven Ertelt. “Leading pro-life advocate Lila Rose has been on the front lines of the pro-life movement for many years. Like millions of pro-life Americans, she’s delighted that the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs case and is now allowing states to legally protect babies from abortions. So what’s next for the pro-life movement? Rose says pro-life Americans still have a lot of work to do, especially since most states still have legalized abortions.” Read more here.

 

NBC NEWS ACCIDENTALLY DEBUNKS TRANSGENDER IDEOLOGY, By Kurt Mahlburg. “Even broken clocks are right twice a day. This trusty proverb has proven right again thanks to NBC News, which last week published an in-depth, 2,000-word article that completely obliterates transgender ideology. You read that correctly. Sanity has prevailed. One of the wokest news outlets on the planet has just offered a comprehensive rebuttal of the idea that a person can ‘change their gender’ simply by wishing it be so.” Read more here.

 

THE AAP NEEDS TO LISTEN TO PARENTS, by Lisa Selin Davis. “When Melissa’s 17-year-old son was hospitalized for anorexia at a well-respected residential facility for kids with eating disorders, she was sure they would help make him well. The next day, Melissa (not her real name) received a call from the therapist making the rounds on the ward—not about her son, but about her daughter. ‘Your child is transgender,’ the therapist said. ‘She needs to start hormones right away.’ Melissa was flabbergasted. Her son had not only never come out to her, but he’d shown no signs of gender nonconformity throughout his childhood, other than recently having long hair.” Read more here.

 

CULTURAL GLOBALISM: USAID ENGAGES IN IDEOLOGICAL IMPERIALISM WITH LGBTI INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT POLICY, by Robert Semonsen. “As a part of an unrelenting effort to export the cultural globalists’ left-liberal, LGBT-gender ideology to the rest of the world, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which funds media outlets across the globe that promote the same ideological worldview, last week unveiled its first-ever LGBTQI+ Inclusive Development Policy. … USAID—a federal agency which in 2023 received [billions] in taxpayer funding for its worldwide endeavors—listed the goals and outcomes being pursued by the policy, including ‘comprehensive sexuality education’ and ‘reproductive rights’—another way to say LGBT and gender ideological indoctrination and access to abortion.” Read more here.

 

THE SHAMELESS JOYS OF FATHERHOOD, by Frank Haviland. “There is, I believe, something utterly sacred about fatherhood, which cannot be understood by any other soul but a father’s. This is not of course to demean the labors of single mothers, who courageously and thanklessly perform the function of both parents (nor to suggest that maternity is not similarly exclusive). I merely suggest that the role of father is so primordial, that it can transform even the most effete pansy into a hero; and it is here that I speak from experience.” Read more here.

 

ON ABORTION WE SHOULD GUARD AGAINST ‘TYRANNY OF THE MAJORITY,’ by Frank Pavone. “In November of 2023 voters will decide whether to amend the Ohio Constitution to explicitly include a right to abortion. This, of course, would put into the Ohio Constitution a ‘right’ which the Supreme Court, in its decision, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, just pointed out was never asserted in American constitutional history, in any of the 50 states, until Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973). Now it’s possible, through the slick ads and soundbites that can make citizens believe they are voting for their very survival, that the abortion lobby could get more than 50% of the citizens to vote ‘Yes’ on such an amendment.” Read more here.

 

TRANSGENDER INSANITY HAS INCREASINGLY HORRIFYING REAL-WORLD CONSEQUENCES, by Jonathan Van Maren. “The decadence of our elites has become so pronounced it is hard not to see the moment we are living through as the end of a civilization. Dylan Mulvaney, the famous gay man cosplaying as a female social media influencer who recently tanked Bud Light, is now launching a college speaking tour where he will speak about ‘female empowerment.’ … The scale of the grift is epic – a man playing a woman in public is not only accepted as a woman by the elites and those too cowed to point out the obvious, but is actually fleecing his credulous public to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars to tell people how women can be empowered. You couldn’t make this stuff up. You wouldn’t want to.” Read more here.

 

ANALYSIS: WASHINGTON POST GETS PEPFAR STORY WRONG, by Rebecca Oas. “A recent article in the Washington Post discussed how abortion has roiled the U.S. government’s international HIV/AIDS program. Missing from the story is any reckoning with the way that abortion has infiltrated an ever-growing list of international policy areas, including the fight against HIV, and why Republicans say new protections are needed.” Read more here.

 

THE PRO-TRANS MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT DOES THE VERY THING IT FALSELY ACCUSES CONSERVATIVES OF DOING, by Tyler O’Neil. “Transgender activists often claim that when their opponents want to outlaw medical experiments on children, they are not opposing a grotesque alteration of the body, but forbidding doctors to provide any kind of medical care for a class of people—namely, those who identify as transgender. Yet we conservatives and our gender-critical allies wholeheartedly support requiring hospitals to serve all patients who suffer from physical maladies—people who claim to identify as transgender very much included. We merely oppose the unproven and frankly insane medical alterations that go by the euphemism ‘gender-affirming care.’” Read more here.

 

HOW THE LIA THOMAS SCANDAL COULD SAVE WOMEN’S SPORTS, by Jo Bartosch. “Sane people across the world owe a debt of gratitude to American swimmer Lia Thomas. This is the six-foot-one man who was first allowed to compete on the University of Pennsylvania women’s team in March last year. The sight of this hulking male, standing in first place on the winning podium at a top-level college competition, forced pundits and politicians to face the consequences of the lie that ‘transwomen are women.’” Read more here.

 

SECOND OPINION, by Bernard Lane. “The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) should include sceptics of the gender-affirming treatment approach as it updates treatment advice for gender dysphoria, according to pediatrician Dr. Julia Mason. On August 3, The New York Times reported that the AAP had re-endorsed its 2018 affirmative-only position statement on dysphoria, but also decided to commission a systematic review, which is the gold standard for weighing the evidence for medical interventions. The 2018 policy was not preceded by a systematic review.” Read more here.

 

THE MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT HAS SUCCUMBED TO GENDER MADNESS, by Miriam Grossman. “David [is] a [gender-confused] patient in Colorado with whom I worked directly. The medical establishment, the DSM-5, and the state of Colorado say the only permissible response is to act as if he was a girl. David must be in the driver’s seat—forget about ‘do no harm.’ … I am to instruct parents to tell everyone—family members, school staff, his piano teacher and dentist—to do the same. His mom, dad, and I are all supposed to celebrate what doctors at Johns Hopkins call David’s ‘evolving sense of self.’ Celebrating an evolving sense of self sounds fine and dandy … He could end up disfigured and infertile and still not be satisfied with his body.” Read more here.

 

YES, OUR EVIDENCE IS WEAK, by Bernard Lane. “Dr. Stephen Stathis appears to be one of the first ‘gender-affirming’ clinicians to publicly accept the findings of systematic reviews in Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom since 2019 that the evidence base for ‘medical transition’ of minors is of low quality and very uncertain. These reviews challenging the mantra that ‘the science is settled in favor of ‘gender-affirming care’ have been ignored by ‘gender-affirming’ clinicians, who rely instead on low-quality treatment guidelines and position statements by medical societies open to activist capture.” Read more here.

 

THE REAL MESSAGE OF TRANS IDEOLOGY: HATE YOURSELF, by David Strom. “The most powerful rhetorical argument for embracing transgenderism is that it is cruel to make people feel bad simply for being different from everybody else. People are who they are, and it is cruel to punish them for being who they are. It’s a good point, although ironically it also is exactly the explanation for why the current promotion of transgender ideology is so evil and cruel. Transgender ideology, after all, is all about reinforcing people’s hatred for who they were born to be. If your prescription for happiness is the radical alteration of your body because you are unhappy with how it is, then you are not affirming somebody as they are; you are insisting the opposite.” Read more here.

 

PRO-LIFERS SEEK INJUNCTION FROM ILLINOIS’ ANTI-PREGANCY CENTER LAW MEANT TO SHUT DOWN PREGNANCY CENTERSby Sam Entile. “SB 1909’s title, ‘Deceptive Practices of Limited Services Pregnancy Centers Act,’ shows how state abortion proponents aim to put pregnancy centers under suspicion. But the evidence tells a different story. Pregnancy centers have a record of providing critical medical help to thousands of women experiencing unexpected pregnancies. Detractors have failed to demonstrate why these centers require special fraud laws beyond what already exists.” Read more here.

 

THE BUTCHER OF LOUTH, by James Esses. (***READER DISCRETION ADVISED: THIS ARTICLE INCLUDES GRAPHIC PHOTOS) “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.” Read more here.

 

THE BEST PREDICTOR OF HAPPINESS IN AMERICA? MARRIAGE, by W. Bradford Wilcox and David Bass. “Americans who are married with children are now leading happier and more prosperous lives, on average, than men and women who are single and childless. Is that statement surprising? In an age that prizes individualism, workism, and a host of other self-centric ‘isms’ above marriage and family, it may well be. But the reality is that nothing currently predicts happiness in life is better than a good marriage. This truth is borne out yet again in new research from the University of Chicago, which found that marriage is the ‘the most important differentiator’ of who is happy in America, and that falling marriage rates are a chief reason why happiness has declined nationally.” Read more here.

 

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS TAKES A HALF-STEP BACK FROM ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE,’ by Wesley Smith. “The problem for practitioners of transgender ideological medicine is that there is now significant pushback from doctors who practice in relevant specialties and from socially progressive countries such as the UK, Sweden, Norway, Finland and France that can’t be accused credibly of pushing social conservatism as policy. That makes the adamant assistance insistence that ‘gender-affirming care’ is the only and best approach far more difficult to maintain. So the American Academy of Pediatrics has taken a half-step back – validating its previous support but also willing to engage in deeper studies.” Read more here.

 

THE SELF-DEFEATING LEGACY OF BLINKEN’S LGBT DIPLOMACY, by Michael Rubin. “Secretary of State Antony Blinken has put LGBT issues at the forefront of United States diplomacy. Embassies fly pride flags alongside the American flag. Diplomats lecture their foreign counterparts not only to ensure basic human rights, but also to advocate that they embrace a gender ideology the Democrats’ progressive base embraces (and for which there is no consensus in American society). … [M]ost Africans see [this] as tone-deaf, if not cultural imperialism. Rather than further American influence, it makes the United States a subject of ridicule.” Read more here.

 

I THOUGHT I WAS NONBINARY. NOW I HELP DETRANSITIONERS, by Camille Kiefel. “It wasn’t until I got into college that I heard about the idea of being nonbinary. It really appealed to me because although I didn’t want to be a man, I was having issues with being a woman. It was this in-between state that allowed me to be who I thought I was. It felt safer to me, but I still felt like a bit of a failure when it came to my femininity. … I’m currently the president of Detrans Help. We connect people to find the resources and legal help they need. We are currently working on a self-advocacy program for detransitioners with doctors because I believe that a lot more people are going to ‘detransition’ in the next few years.” Read more here.

 

DEI IS FAILING BECAUSE IT ‘PROMOTES DIVISION INSTEAD OF UNITY,’ by Rikki Schlott. “Corporate America’s rush to hire diversity, equity, and inclusion executives is slowing to a standstill — with Chief Diversity Officers exiting at Disney … Warner Bros., Discovery and other corporations. ‘They’re starting to see the emperor has no clothes,’ Tabia Lee, herself a former DEI professional, told The Post.” Read more here.

 

GENDER SURGERY AND MAID IN ONE SAD STORY, by David Strom. “I fear that we will be hearing a lot of stories similar to this one in the coming years. I was saddened but not shocked to hear about the tragic story of Lois Cardinal, an indigenous man who was led astray into gender ideology and now is seeking Medical Assistance in Dying. He sought out ‘gender-affirming surgery’ as a cure for his unhappiness, and now is seeking MAiD as a cure for the pain and anxiety caused by that very ‘treatment.’” Read more here.

 

NEW TRANSGENDER STUDY SHOWS PAINFUL, LONG-LASTING SIDE EFFECTS OF ‘SEX-CHANGE’ SURGERIES, by Jonathan Van Maren. “A new study on the side effects of transgender ‘sex change’ surgeries has revealed, once again, that we are currently in the midst of the greatest medical scandal of the past several centuries. Conducted by researchers at the University of Florida and the health nonprofit Brooks Rehabilitation, the study found that 81 percent of those who had undergone ‘sex change’ surgeries in the past five years reported experiencing pain simply from normal movement in the weeks and months that followed — and that many other side effects are manifesting themselves as well.” Read more here.

 

THE WORLD MEDICAL ASSOCIATION SUBTLY EVISCERATES CONSCIENCE RIGHTS, by Wesley Smith. “The World Medical Association has published a revised ‘International Code of Medical Ethics’ that is intended as ‘a canon of ethical principles for the members of the medical profession worldwide.’ Most of it is fine. For example, the code states that ‘the physician must provide care with the utmost respect for human life and dignity, and for the autonomy and rights of the patient,’ and that doctors are not to have sexual relations with their current patients. But problematically, the WMA has eviscerated medical conscience rights in a way that would compel doctors to engage in interventions and actions to which they are morally or religiously opposed.” Read more here.

 

HUMAN TRAFFICKING: AN AMERICAN TRADITION OF SILENCE, by Armstrong Williams. “In the hushed corners of our society, a sinister industry flourishes, largely hidden and unspoken of. It’s an issue so shocking and perplexing that people tend to ignore it when brought to light. This is the pandemic of sex trafficking and child sex trafficking.” Read more here.

 

FEMINIST AUTHOR CLAIMS ‘FEMALE’ WASN’T INVENTED ‘TIL THE 1800S, by Alex Parker. “We’re living in a time of clarified history — or, as the woke seem to prefer, ‘histories.’ Example: a recent assertion about the origin of ‘female.’ … In a July 26th piece penned for The New Statesman, Jacqueline Rose tackles a tall topic of our time: What, exactly, is a woman? The question, she says, implies there isn’t an answer.” Read more here.

 

UBC PROFESSOR ADVOCATES EXPOSING ‘LITTLE CHILDREN’ TO ADULT GENITALIA TO PREPARE THEM FOR ‘TRANSEXUALS’ IN THEIR LOCKER ROOMS, by Jonathan Van Maren. “A young man with a fully functioning penis identifies as a woman, joins the girls’ swim team, and starts cleaning house in competitions while changing with the girls. Some girls—those who dare speak out at all—object. And the response of this journalism professor is to condemn the girls as ‘transphobes’ and insist that the girls are vile for noticing that there is a man with a penis changing with them.” Read more here.

 

WISCONSIN OFFICIALS TRY TO FORCE CATHOLIC HEALTHCARE SYSTEM TO PERFORM ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING’ SURGERIES, by Jeff Charles. “Apparently, it is not enough for progressives to use social pressure to browbeat us into accepting their twisted ideas on gender. These people also seek to wield the power of the government to force people and religious organizations into helping to advance their agenda. SSM Health, a Catholic healthcare system in Wisconsin, recently discontinued providing ‘gender-affirming’ surgeries because of the system’s Catholic affiliation, according to local news reports. Now, county officials are trying to look at other ways to compel the organization to begin offering these procedures again.” Read more here.

 

PLANNED PARENTHOOD’S DEPRAVED MARKETING GIMMICKS, by Elise McCue. “Planned Parenthood’s history of depravity extends long before its representatives brought cards describing sexually explicit terms to a high school event in June, effectively getting the organization banned from Canadian high schools. For Planned Parenthood, nothing is off limits, from promoting abortion gift cards at Christmas to offering free abortions after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.” Read more here.

 

SOUND OF FREEDOM: GLOBAL OBSTACLES TO FIGHT SEX TRAFFICKING OF CHILDREN, by Stefano Gennarini. “The greatest obstacle to protecting women and children from sex-traffickers may be the governments that protect pornography and prostitution. The unexpected blockbuster movie ‘Sound of Freedom’ has … [put] a spotlight on sex trafficking of children. But what is the international community doing to fight sex trafficking and what are some of the obstacles to ending child sex trafficking?” Read more here.

 

THE HIDDEN RADICALISM OF OHIO’S ABORTION AMENDMENT, by the National Review editors. “Direct democracy is a bad way to write a constitution. Consider the deceptive ballot measure to change Ohio’s constitution that will be put to voters this November. Special-interest groups like the ACLU and Planned Parenthood have officially succeeded in gathering enough signatures for a vote on an amendment creating a right to abortion in Ohio’s constitution, but the proposed amendment is extreme in ways the average voter would not know simply from reading the text.” Read more here.

 

PARENTS SUING SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR REFUSING TO PROVIDE TEACHER’S SPEECH ANNOUNCING ‘GENDER’ TRANSITION TO KIDS, by Jeff Charles. “As supporters and opponents of parental rights clash all over the country, a Wisconsin school district’s conduct related to a transgender teacher has caused a stir in the community. This district is no stranger to controversy, having staked out a distinct position against the notion that parents should be intimately involved in how their children are educated.” Read more here.

 

THERE IS NO CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING’ CARE, by Sarah Marshall Perry. “The U.S. House Judiciary Committee held a hearing Thursday on ‘The Dangers and Due Process Violations of “Gender-Affirming Care” for Children’ and exposed how children are being coerced by adults in positions of authority into life-altering and medically questionable ‘gender transition’ drugs and procedures without anyone having a full understanding of their impact, including the doctors who prescribe and perform them.” Read more here.

 

LEFTISTS PANIC NOW THAT UK TEACHERS CAN’T HIDE KIDS’ GENDER CONFUSION FROM PARENTS, by Jonathan Van Maren. “I wonder when parents will wake up to the absolute contempt the mainstream media has for their role in the lives of their children. In the U.K., as I’ve consistently documented in this space, a correction seems to be underway. Here is how the Guardian described the latest (very positive) news: ‘Teachers will be forced to tell parents that their child is questioning their gender even if the young person objects under new guidance for schools in England, the equalities minister has indicated. Kemi Badenoch said that the guidance, which is expected to be published this week, will ensure that parents know what is ‘going on with their children’ at school.’” Read more here.

 

SIX STATE BALLOT MEASURES WOULD LEGALIZE ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH, WE MUST STOP THEM, by Micaiah Bilger. “The pro-abortion movement is trying to create a so-called ‘right’ to abort unborn babies through state constitutions all across the country. They recently launched petition drives and misleading ad campaigns in six states to convince voters to support their radical pro-abortion amendments. Through campaigns and positive press, the proposed changes are being portrayed to voters as reasonable ‘reproductive health’ protections. But pro-life leaders warn that the measures would allow unborn babies to be aborted up to birth, eliminate parental involvement laws and prevent lawmakers from passing even modest, common-sense limits on abortion.” Read more here.

 

HOW FAR DOES RELIGIOUS FREEDOM STRETCH AND WHERE DO LGBT RIGHTS GET THE UPPER HAND?, by Tineke van der Waal. “For four and a half years, Victor Madrigal-Borloz has been writing reports, attending digital meetings and travelling the world to stand up for LGBT rights. The ideas of the independent UN expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) are clear. Chief among them: gender matters more than sex. Gender is a spectrum. A child of three can know his gender identity.” Read more here.

 

I WAS PRESCRIBED A PUBERTY BLOCKER FOR CANCER TREATMENT. I CAN’T FATHOM GIVING IT TO HEALTHY KIDS, by Erica Moshtahedian. “Today, Lupron is prescribed as a ‘puberty blocker’ for children with ‘gender dysphoria.” As someone who has taken it, I am appalled. I cannot fathom how using Lupron on otherwise healthy bodies, knowing its long-term side effects, isn’t criminal. More appalling is that this strong pharmaceutical is used in children with a psychiatric condition that will resolve in up to 90 percent of children if left unmedicalized. This is akin to prescribing hysterectomies for ‘hysteria’ in the 20th century.” Read more here.

 

THE FACADE OF GENDER IDENTITY IS FAILING OUR STUDENTS, by Elizabeth Grace Matthew. “According to the National Education Association, each American school child has ‘a multitude of identities that shape how they feel entering school each day.’ The organization goes on to ask, ‘How can we, as educators, ensure our schools support each of those identities so that each of our students can learn and flourish?’ This focus on students’ ‘identities’ is both misplaced and misleading — misplaced because the only relevant identity of any school-age child as far as a public educational institution is concerned should be ‘young person learning to read, write, reason, and do arithmetic,’ and misleading because it’s really the multitudinous identities of adults, not those of children, that are the driving force behind today’s troubling educational trends.” Read more here.

 

OUTSIDE OF THE GAY MARRIAGE DEBATE, EVERYONE IS AGAINST COMPELLED EXPRESSION, by Timothy P. Carney. “It violates a person’s dignity to compel someone to express a sentiment or belief one may not hold. Even more fundamental than the freedom to speak your mind is the freedom to not violate your own conscience. Almost everyone seems to understand this. … But in the gay marriage debate, somehow, this freedom of conscience gets tossed out the window. Nearly all of the largest media outlets, which otherwise believe in freedom of conscience, hated the Supreme Court’s ruling in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis. Read more here.

 

THE GREAT FLIGHT FROM HETEROSEXUALITY, by Brendan O’Neill. “For centuries people were ashamed to be gay. Now they’re ashamed to be straight. To the switched-on Gen Z’er there is no curse more twisted than heterosexuality. No blight more undesired than that most vanilla and normative of sexual identities. Straight – even the word is drab, literally meaning ‘to move uniformly in one direction only.’ And so they hide their straightness. They’re getting into the straight closet. ‘I’m queer, I swear!,’ they protest, convincing no one except their fellow blue-haired pansexual pretenders. Welcome to the great flight from heterosexuality.” Read more here.

 

THE NEA IS NOW OFFICIALLY A CULT, by David Strom. “For decades it has been clear that the teachers’ unions have been a disaster for America’s public schools. Despite being at the very top of the charts in spending per student in the world (#2 after tiny Lichtenstein), the United States does rather badly on educational performance compared to our peer countries. There are a lot of explanations and excuses, but the simple fact is that the educational bureaucracy–including government officials in addition to the teachers’ unions–seems utterly indifferent to the fact that they are failing students.” Read more here.

 

US IS A TOP DESTINATION FOR CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING, AND IT’S HAPPENING IN YOUR COMMUNITY, by Emma Waters. “On average, a child enters the U.S. sex trade at 12 to 14 years old. Many are runaway girls who were sexually abused as children. Most of the time, victims are trafficked by someone they know, such as a friend, family member, or romantic partner. Predators can rent a child for a single sex act for an average of $90. Often, that child is forced to have sex 20 times per day, six days a week. Trafficking usually occurs in hotels, motels, online websites, and at truck stops in the U.S. About 50,000 people, primarily from Mexico and the Philippines, are trafficked into the U.S. annually. According to the Federal Human Trafficking Report, ‘In 2018, over half (51.6%) of the criminal human trafficking cases active in the U.S. were sex trafficking cases involving only children.’” Read more here.

 

IT’S TIME TO IMPLEMENT THE EU GUIDELINES ON THE PROMOTION OF FREEDOM OF RELIGION OR BELIEF, by Bert-Jan Ruissen. “Freedom of religion, despite being enshrined in all major human right treaties including the EU’s own fundamental rights charter, appears to have been anything but a priority in recent years. It is telling that the guidelines themselves call for their implementation to be evaluated three years after their adoption. Ten years on, no report on the matter has been issued by the competent EU institutions. It took the Commission up to three years to effectively renew the position of the EU special envoy for the promotion of freedom of religion or belief. No reason has been provided for why it took so long or why no staff or resources have been made available to support this position.” Read more here.

 

A DEPARTMENT OF FRIENDSHIP CAN’T FIX THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION’S LONELY FALLOUT, by Nathanael Blake. “The sexual revolution places self-indulgence at the center of relationships between men and women, rather than commitment and self-sacrifice. This emphasis on adult autonomy denigrates the dependence of children. It sacrifices their interests and even their lives (nowhere are children more dependent than in the womb) on the altar of adult individualism and indulgence.” Read more here.

 

CAN WE ALL AGREE THAT CHILD TRAFFICKING IS WRONG AND EVIL?, by Jeff Davidson. “You would think that amidst countless disagreements between the Left and the Right, one vital area might see agreement: the welfare of children. You also would think that both sides would concur that luring children, grabbing them off the street, or snatching them at the border by those who sell them into sexual slavery, is truly abominable. Alas, you’d be wrong.” Read more here.

 

FOLLOWING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION’S DEMISE, SLAY THE DEI LEVIATHAN, by Josh Hammer. “On Thursday, Stanford Law School Dean Jenny Martinez announced that the embattled associate dean for ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion,’ or DEI, Tirien Steinbach, has resigned. Steinbach’s all but assuredly forced ‘resignation’ followed an outpouring of disgust from Americans revolted by her disgraceful antics during the Stanford Federalist Society student chapter’s attempted hosting in March of a speech by U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan, which was constantly disrupted by outlandish student behavior and ultimately canceled.” Read more here.

 

THE LIVES SAVED FROM ABORTION SHOULD BE CELEBRATED, by Jeanne Mancini. “A recent study conducted by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that Texas ’s heartbeat bill, which became law in 2021, has saved approximately 10,000 lives from abortion in the state. Senate Bill 8 protects unborn children after 6 weeks gestation, once their beating hearts can be detected. At the time of S.B. 8’s passing two years ago, it was the most protective law in the nation.” Read more here.

 

GENDER IDEOLOGY HAS CAPTURED THE STATE, by Joanna Williams. “Rishi Sunak is late with his homework. This week, the UK prime minister was supposed to present schools with updated guidance on how to deal with the growing number of pupils questioning their gender identity. But, once again, its publication has been delayed. And Sunak already has his excuse prepared: government lawyers have warned that his plans could be illegal.” Read more here.

 

THE GLOBAL FERTILITY INDUSTRY SEEKS TO ERASE WOMEN FROM PROCREATION ONE MANUFACTURED EGG AT A TIME, by Jordan Boyd. “The campaign to erase women has officially escalated to leaving them out of the sacred act of reproduction. For years, researchers, celebrities, and OB-GYNs have touted making babies outside of the bedroom as a novelty attraction available for anyone willing to pay. Millions of test tube babies and a million more frozen embryos later, the global fertility industry has found a new way to create life without a key natural component: women.” Read more here.

 

FACT CHECK: IS PBS RIGHT TO CLAIM THAT ABORTION REDUCES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE?, by Bettina de Fiori. “PBS NewsHour recently claimed that ‘researchers have noticed a link between abortion access and a reduced risk for being the target of violence from men.’ No valid research demonstrating such a link was cited by the author, nor were these alleged ‘researchers’ identified. The author further implied that states with post-Roe protections for preborn children will see a spike in domestic violence. But is there a connection between abortion laws and domestic violence? According to the most recent domestic violence statistics, the answer appears to be no.” Read more here.

 

CASTRATED TEEN BEGS PEERS: DO NOT ‘TRANSITION,’ by Tiffany Layne. “At least one teenager realizes that body dysmorphia is a mental illness that requires treatment, not ‘transitioning.’ Too bad he realized it too late. Kobe, the young man facing facts, actually said, ‘I was expecting it to help me help my mental health, and it didn’t do anything. I just wasted so much time and all I did really was become a medical patient for life.’ Sadly, Kobe was actually CASTRATED as part of his ‘gender-affirming care’ when he identified as a trans woman. Now, he wants to be a voice of reason in the cloud of leftist-haze.” Read more here.

 

SHINE A LIGHT ON YOUTH GENDER MEDICINE, by Bernard Lane. “A rising star of Australia’s center-right Liberal Party, Claire Chandler, has called for an independent expert inquiry into medicalized ‘gender change’ for minors. Senator Chandler suggests a national inquiry into the evidence for treatment of young patients diagnosed with gender dysphoria could be modelled on England’s independent review led by pediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass following controversy over the London-based Tavistock gender clinic.” Read more here.

 

I BEGAN ‘GENDER TRANSITION’ AT 16. I WAS LIED TO IN A TERRIBLE WAY, by Prisha Mosley. “My name is Prisha Mosley and I’m a 25-year-old woman and ‘detransitioner.’ Since childhood, I have struggled with my mental health. As is the case for many girls, my teen years were particularly difficult. Tragically, at age 14, I suffered from a sexual assault. At age 15, I was hospitalized for depression. By age 16, I was diagnosed with major depressive disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and an eating disorder. I engaged in self-harm by cutting myself, which became so serious that I was taken to the emergency room.” Read more here.

 

THE LGBT MOB IS SLIDING TOWARDS ACCEPTING PEDOPHILIA, BUT POINTING IT OUT HAS CONSEQUENCES, by Jack Fonseca. “Mike Del Grande, a Toronto Catholic District School Board Trustee, is being persecuted by the LGBT lobby and the anti-Catholic trustees on his own board. What did he do to draw the rainbow mob’s ire? Motivated by his Catholic faith, Trustee Del Grande dared to oppose the addition of ‘Gender Identity’ and ‘Gender Expression’ to the school board’s Code of Conduct as ‘protected grounds from discrimination.’” Read more here.

 

SEXUAL PREDATORS WHO IDENTIFY AS ‘TRANSGENDER’ ARE GETTING NO JAIL TIME, EVEN FOR HORRIFIC ABUSE, by Jonathan Van Maren. “Some of you may recall the debate in Scotland over ‘self-identification,’ a policy championed by Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon that likely ended her career. Critics of ‘self-ID,’ which would permit people to change their gender simply by declaring that they were something other than their sex, pointed out that this policy had many horrific but predictable consequences, such as male criminals deciding to identify as female in order to get locked up with ladies. Sturgeon refused to budge and ended up resigning in large part due to the transgender issue.” Read more here.

 

WHAT THE SURGE IN LGBTQ SELF-IDENTITY MEANS, by Mark Regnerus. “We are now a year removed from the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. In the flurry of protests that followed the late June 2022 decision, LGBTQ-identified persons and organizations paid a surprising amount of attention to the Court’s decision. The rainbow flag was a mainstay at Dobbs protests. Even a shallow dive into written backlash against the Court’s decision revealed that LGBT people were concerned about Dobbs at least as much as women in heterosexual relationships were, despite the latter’s lopsided contribution to actual abortion numbers. The most obvious reason for the former’s concern was Justice Clarence Thomas’s reference, in his concurring opinion, to reconsidering other ‘substantive due process precedents,’ like those in the Obergefell and Lawrence v. Texas decisions.” Read more here.

 

YOUTH GENDER MEDICINE IS POLITICALLY NONBINARY, by Lisa Selin Davis. “Last month, Shawn Thierry, a black woman and Democratic state representative for Houston’s 146th House district, voted in favor of Senate Bill 14. The bill prohibits procedures ‘to transition a child’s biological sex’—in other words, a ban on what’s known as ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors. She did so, she said in a statement, for the ‘safety and well-being of all young people’ after ‘hearing from constituents, listening to stakeholders, and reviewing the scientific data.’” Read more here.

 

CULTURAL ‘INCLUSION’ IS ACTUALLY ABOUT ‘EXCLUSION,’ by Jane M. Orient. “Corporations, universities, and medical societies talk constantly about diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). But the other side of inclusion is exclusion, and the two always go together. According to a Twitter post, a 16-year-old girl complained about a naked man in the girls’ locker room. When not parading around naked, he allegedly sat on a bench in a woman’s bathing suit and watched the girls change. Or some would say that she did, since the person claims to identify as a woman, and therefore ‘she’ is a woman and must be included in the girls’ locker room. The girl making the complaint, however, is to be excluded from the girls’ swimming team and possibly punished in other ways.” Read more here.

 

FIVE WAYS TO FIGHT TRANS ACTIVISTS IN EVERYDAY CONVERSATION, by Madeleine Kearns. “Here are five ways to fight transgender activists in everyday conversation: 1. Reject jargon … 2. Refute misnomers … 3. Puncture euphemisms … 4. Correct mischaracterizations … 5. Showcase harms.” Read more here.

 

TRUDEAU TO MUSLIMS: QUIT LISTENING TO AMERICAN ‘RIGHT WING’ ON GENDER, by David Strom. “If only the Muslim parents of Canada would quit listening to the American Right Wing they would fall in love with Canada’s gender ideology teaching in schools. Uh-huh. Seems likely. According to Mr. Castro…I mean Trudeau…opposition to Canada’s insane Social and Emotional Learning curriculum is being artificially spread by the American Right Wing through the strategic use of mis- and disinformation. The reality is that there is nothing to see, so move along, move along.” Read more here.

 

SINCE WHEN DID THE PENTAGON BECOME A CHAPTER OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD?, by Rich Lowry. “No one noticed over the years that, on top of its other supposed benefits, Roe v. Wade was protecting the readiness of the U.S. military. Yes, in a major war we’d want to make sure we have secure supply lines, overwhelming force — and free and easy access to abortion. Alabama senator Tommy Tuberville has become Public Enemy No. 1 for blocking all military promotions and nominations over a Pentagon policy that could have been drafted by a committee of Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.” Read more here.

 

WHAT ON EARTH IS THE ‘2SLGBTQQIA+’ MOVEMENT?, by Malcolm Clark. “The LGBT movement is beginning to behave more like a religious cult than a human-rights lobby. It’s not just the Salem-like witch hunts it pursues against its critics. It’s also its flight from reason and its embrace of magical thinking. This irrationalism is best illustrated by its recent embrace of the term ‘two-spirit’ (often shortened to ‘2S’), which in North America has been added to the lobby’s ever-growing acronym, meaning we are now expected to refer to – take a deep breath – the ‘2SLGBTQQIA+ community.’” Read more here.

 

NEW CYCLING TRANSGENDER POLICY IS GOOD BUT NOT GOOD ENOUGH, by Tom Joyce. “The Union Cycliste International updated its transgender athlete policy last week, and while it is an improvement over the previous version, it is not good enough. The UCI barred male athletes who identify as women from competing against women if they ‘transitioned’ after puberty. While this is better than allowing these men to compete against women, the policy’s support for early gender ‘transition’ needs revising.” Read more here.

 

IS IT A CRIME NOT TO AFFIRM YOUR PARTNER’S GENDER [IN THE UK]?, by Sarah Phillimore. “The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which oversees almost all criminal prosecutions in England and Wales, has become the latest public body to fall prey to gender ideology. This is all too clear from its new domestic-abuse guidance, which was originally published in December last year. Prosecutors have been told that withholding money for a family member to transition, or sharing pre-transition images of them, could constitute ‘criminal coercive control.’” Read more here.

 

HUNGARY AND POLAND SHOULD STAND AGAINST THE EU’S SEXUAL IMPERIALISM, by Austin Ruse. “Conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic look to Poland and Hungary with great hope as examples of countries that are defending sovereignty and fighting anti-family forces in Europe. Their clashes with the European Commission over national laws reflecting Judeo-Christian values are well known and admired. What isn’t widely known, however, is how Hungary and Poland are unwilling to challenge the monolithic, radical position of the European Union at the UN on what writer John O’Sullivan calls ‘the moral issues.’” Read more here.

 

IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE?, by Jennifer Lahl and Kallie Fell. “In recent years, a striking paradigm shift in medical ethics has emerged, driven by progressive political ideologies purporting to champion ‘Social Justice.’ This shift has precipitated a surge in initiatives centered around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The resulting effects have varied considerably; they include the introduction of explicit racial bias in treatment protocols in a quest for ‘health equity,’ and an unsettling disregard for biological sex as an important variable in both medical research and patient care. Instead, the new radical movement favors categorizing individuals based on their self-identified and medically irrelevant ‘gender identity.’” Read more here.

 

SOMEBODY TELL PLANNED PARENTHOOD SUMMER CAMP IS FOR GOOD CLEAN FUN, NOT SEX ED, by Caroline Wharton. “For many Americans, the idea of summer camp evokes warm, fire-lit memories of outdoor adventures, new friends, and the simple pleasure of enjoying God’s creation. As a former camper, my favorite activities were archery, educational nature hikes, and any sport involving water. After experiencing such delights, it’s hard to believe Planned Parenthood recently had the audacity to market a children’s sex education program as ‘summer camp’ — but then, it’s already ruining families via abortion and future fertility through sex-suppressing hormones. Why not add summer camp to its list of spoilers?” Read more here.

 

BIOLOGICAL MALE RAGING ABOUT ‘TRANSPHOBIC POLICY’ FORCING HIM TO COMPETE AGAINST MEN, by Sam J. “In an actual win for women in sports, Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) has decided men can no longer compete in women’s races. Right? We were shocked as well. Common sense is so RARE these days. Seems they’ve figured out that regardless of what a man thinks he is or isn’t, he is as a rule faster and stronger than a woman.” Read more here.

 

PARENTS, DON’T LET WASHINGTON STATE TAKE YOUR CHILDREN, by Dawn Land. “Awkwardness and puberty go hand in hand. Adolescence is filled with varying degrees of discomfort for most young people and it’s common for kids to have disagreements with their parents. Yet no matter how many arguments a family has, a child’s parents are his or her strongest advocates. But a new bill in Washington state, signed by the governor on May 9, seeks to come between minors experiencing gender dysphoria and their parents. SB 5599 is the most shocking and extreme bill I have ever seen, and that’s why I have spearheaded Referendum 101, in keeping with the Washington state Constitution’s allowances, to revoke this horrible legislation.” Read more here.

 

PRO-LIFE STATES PUT THEIR MONEY WHERE THEIR MOUTHS ARE, by Abigail Adams and Chuck Donovan. “Media outlets on the Left constantly berate pro-lifers and accuse them of forgetting about children after they’re born. They push false narratives that the pro-life movement wants to deprive women of opportunities and prevent children from obtaining a safe and fair upbringing. In actuality, pro-lifers have a long history of assisting women and families with options, materials, and a hopeful message that supports their lives. Concretely, pro-life states across the country have spent the first six months of 2023 enacting a wide array of measures to support mothers and their children, especially in the post-Roe v. Wade era.” Read more here.

 

FROM PRIDE MONTH TO PRIDE SEASON, by Jonathan Van Maren. “On June 8, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined other dignitaries on Parliament Hill for a formal raising of the ‘Pride’ flag, a solemn ceremony in which he promised yet more taxpayer money to the LGBT movement and insisted, once again, that the activists who own the country are facing a ‘rising tide of hate.’ Last month, elites celebrated Pride across the West—the White House flew the LGBT flag alongside the Star and Stripes; in the UK, the Union Jack was taken down and replaced with the Pride flag—but Trudeau’s commitment to the movement is second to none. His government spent a ton of money in 2022 on ‘LGBTQ’ ideology in 2022 alone.” Read more here.

 

The Left’s Comprehensive, Long-term Plan to Come for Our Children, by Jeff Davidson. “It’s no secret that one of the continuing chants at LGBTQ marches, activities, and pride events is to chant, ‘We’re coming for your children.’ There are three reasons to utter this chant, which has been going on for years: recruitment, pedophilia and intimidation. Unless they recruit into their ranks, their numbers will diminish. After all, two men in a relationship, two women in a relationship, or any other combination that does not have a sperm-fertilizing egg will not create offspring.” Read more here.

 

German Government Turns Values Upside Down, by David Wengenroth. “In concrete terms … while the killing of unborn children is being ‘decriminalised.’ peaceful expressions of opinion by pro-life activists are to be criminalised. This turns the values of the Constitution upside down. The state will then no longer protect the right to life … but a right to kill – which does not exist in our legal system.” Read more here.

 

What Do Transgendering Kids, ‘Gay Marriage’ & Abortion Have In Common?, by Richard Blakley. “So, what do transgendering children, homosexual marriage and abortion have in common? They are all forms of population control. Transgender people, mutilating their bodies with drugs and surgery, will not be having children. This is population control. The Biden administration is not teaching the confusion of transgenderism because of Biden’s great benevolence for people to have the right to mangle their bodies. This is population control. Same-sex marriage is not about allowing homosexuals to marry, but is facilitating a commitment that doesn’t produce children. This is population control. Abortion is not about a ‘woman’s right to choose’ to kill her baby. This is population control.” Read more here.

 

Let Kids Be Kids and Let Barbie Be Barbie, by Kathryn Lopez. “Gender dysphoria is a real thing, and agonizing. But children need healthy cultural and educational signals, not adults working out their own confusion — or making money at their expense. Adults, do we remember being adolescents? Who among us was not physically unhappy in some, or many, ways? Adults, including toy corporations and the entertainment industry, need to stop exacerbating growing pains.” Read more here.

 

Abortion Activists Push Women To Do ‘Self-Managed’ Abortions, but It Could Kill Them, by Dave Andrusko. “It was only a matter of time. With more than half of abortions in the United State [sic] chemically induced, along comes a convenient ‘study’ supposedly demonstrating that women can not only just use one of the two drugs to chemically abort, they can do so well past the 10 weeks of pregnancy and without the supervision of a health care provider, as recommended by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). And, oh by the way, they can ‘self-manage’ their abortions, which is the #1 goal of the Abortion Industry. Read more here.

 

The Abortion Pill is Not Safe for Women, Here’s Why, by Bradley Evans. “After Alliance Defending Freedom announced a first-of-its-kind lawsuit challenging the FDA’s approval of chemical abortion drugs, many in the establishment media panicked. In the months that have followed, the public has been inundated with claims about how safe these drugs are. We’re routinely told that chemical abortion drugs are safer than Tylenol, that side effects of the drugs are exaggerated, and that serious complications almost never occur. These claims are categorically false. Chemical abortion drugs are dangerous, and claims to the contrary are not supported by the evidence.” Read more here.

 

When Gender Transition Becomes a Free-for-All, by Debra Soh. “It is a common narrative that gender dysphoria can be cured by allowing a person to tailor their body as they wish, that this should be allowed at younger ages, and that denying this is emotionally cruel. Considering that bans on gender-affirming care for minors continue to face opposition, the last thing we should want is for children to gain access to these procedures.” Read more here.

 

How Androgynous Fashion Tricked Me Into Being Transgender, by Laura Becker. “Along with my highest goals of creating a loving family and healing fully, articulating the disastrous myths of gender ideology for young women and girls is my priority. I speak on these topics despite how painful and complicated they are because I refuse to submit to lies, illusions, or manipulations any longer. I cannot look at my inner child and want to take away a future of adult wholeness for her by removing her feminine organs before she even matured enough to appreciate their significance. My message to girls like me? You can be a funky spirit as a woman. You can be even funkier by accepting truth and creating a life based on authentic expression.” Read more here.

 

Child Sex Changes Are the Real ‘Conversion Therapy,’ by Hudson Crozier. “Studies have confirmed for decades that transgenderism in children, like other childhood proclivities, is fleeting and unreliable. More recently, researchers found in 2008 that 88% of girls with gender dysphoria end up desisting from it later on. A 2012 study concluded the same for about 88% of boys with gender dysphoria. A seasoned psychiatrist who worked with gender-dysphoric children also estimated in February that ‘four out of five’ will ‘grow out of’ the condition.” Read more here.

 

Programs Should Put Family First, by W. Bradford Wilcox. “The state of our unions in the United States is not strong. The marriage rate has fallen more than 60 percent since 1970. Fertility rates reached a record low in 2020, well below the replacement rate. The falling fortunes of marriage and family life have hit the working class especially hard … The fragility of American family life, especially among the working class, demands a strong public policy response. This response must strengthen the economic and cultural foundations of marriage and child-rearing in America, especially for working-class families.” Read more here.

 

Tucker Carlson Goes There on Transgenderism, and Nails Some Uncomfortable Truths, by Bonchie. “Tucker Carlson is back with another episode of his ongoing Twitter series, and this time he dove into the topic of transgenderism. Specifically, Carlson zeroed in on US Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine, the “trans-woman” who recently proclaimed this to be a ‘summer of pride’ from his official perch. Yes, apparently 30 straight days of rainbow flags and public indecency isn’t enough. We are now expected to dedicate four months to the absurdity that is the idea of ‘pride.’” Read more here.

 

Biden Regime Spending Your Tax Money on LGBTQ Madness Abroad, by Robert Spencer. “Why is the Biden regime so obsessively preoccupied with promoting sexual deviance and transgender delusion and fantasy? Not only is it aggressively promoting ‘Pride’ inside the United States, but it is also sending your tax dollars abroad to make sure that young Ecuadorians see their fair share of drag queens, and that Polish boys can decide they’re really girls after all. Imagine what George Washington, John Adams, or Thomas Jefferson would make of this: is this really what the republic they constructed and bequeathed to us should be spending its money on?” Read more here.

 

The Definition of ‘Diversity’ is Now ‘Perversity,’ by Michael Brown. “…In my 2011 book ‘A Queer Thing Happened to America,’ I devoted a whole chapter to the subject of ‘Diversity or Perversity,’ noting the degree to which an overt, often perverse sexual agenda was attached to gay pride events and gay activism. And it was defended under the rubric of ‘diversity.’ Today, with more and more June ‘pride’ events being marked by open displays of nudity and sexual perversion, we must ask the question again: Why are these events marked by such displays? Could you imagine seeing such displays at any other ethnic or national pride event? Surely not.” Read more here.

 

Riley Gaines Defends Women Athletes, Offers Hope, Inspiration, by Callista Gingrich. “This week marks the 51st anniversary of the enactment of Title IX, the historic federal civil rights law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex at federally funded educational institutions. The passage of Title IX in 1972 significantly expanded opportunities for women in education and in competitive sports. As a result, participation in female sports greatly increased. … Today, these advancements are under threat as the Biden administration works to expand Title IX by putting forward a new Department of Education regulation requiring that schools allow biological males who identify as females to compete in women’s athletics.” Read more here.

 

Yes, Trans Exhibitionists Showing Their Junk to Kids Is Directly Downstream of Redefining Marriage, by Nathanael Blake. “Of course the slope was slippery. As naked men parade in front of kids and pride marchers chant ‘we’re coming for your children,’ a few LGBT activists are beginning to worry that things have gone too far. For example, Andrew Sullivan, an early and ardent advocate for same-sex marriage, is unhappy about reaping what he has sown. And he should be — from sterilizing and mutilating children via ‘gender-affirming care’ to flashing children at pride festivities, the LGBT movement is proving social conservatives right.” Read more here.

 

Does Abortion Really Constitute Healthcare?, by Michael Miller. “Healthcare for some should not involve paying for the death of others. As America marks the first anniversary of the Dobbs v. Jackson ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, many pro-abortion advocates still claim that ‘abortion is healthcare.’ This erroneous phrase misses the mark when it comes to what healthcare truly is.” Read more here.

 

Biden Admin’s Greatest Foe? ‘It’s the Moms, Stupid,’ by Mike Gonzalez. “The Biden administration is making clear once again whom it fears the most. It is not China, Russia, or, needless to say, Republicans. No. Enemy No. 1 is America’s mothers and fathers. They stand athwart the administration’s mad dash to remake America, yelling, ‘Stop!’” Read more here.

 

Dobbs a Year Later, by Hadley Arkes. “We’re at the first anniversary now of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Center, when six conservative justices fulfilled the hopes nurtured over 50 years and finally overruled Roe v. Wade. I was as pleased as any of my friends to see the Court slay that Great White Whale. But I was working and writing in the pro-life movement, along with friends such as Michael Uhlmann and John Noonan, before Roe v. Wade. And even my friends on the Supreme Court will acknowledge that the Court did not accomplish, in Dobbs, what we had set out 50 years ago to accomplish.” Read more here.

 

Conservatives Are Responding More Forcefully on Sex Ed Because the Left is Pushing Crazier Stuff, by Timothy Carney. “Some commentators, reporters and activists seem to sincerely believe that conservatives are making some sort of culture war offensive against gay and transgender people or their ideology. Everywhere you look, you see stories about rising tides of ‘anti-lgbtq laws’ or rising anti-LGBT sentiment. If cultural conservatives are reacting more forcefully to the cultural Left, it’s because the cultural Left is pushing more harmful stuff and more ruthlessly wielding its power to push it.” Read more here.

 

Why Are Sexual Revolutionaries Trying to Destroy Women?, by David Kupelian. “Americans – at least those who are neither hypnotized nor overly intimidated by insane ‘woke’ religious ideology – know their beloved country is in serious trouble. They watch in horror and sadness as it rapidly morphs into a pagan playground for sexual revolutionaries masquerading as freedom fighters. At the same time, everything good, decent, wholesome and moral is, for some strange reason, now demonized.” Read more here.

 

British Columbia Conservatives Deserve Applause for Taking a Brave Stand Against LGBT Ideology, by Jack Fonseca. “For those of you who haven’t been following British Columbia politics, I want to share an exciting development about the socially conservative direction that one of the main political parties is taking. It’s something we’ve been waiting for and hoping to happen, in some Canadian province, somewhere. Finally, a mainstream party is pushing back against the trans insanity that has been unravelling our society! And it’s no surprise that Marxist, pro-LGBT politicians are going nuts.” Read more here.

 

Anatomy of a Scientific Scandal, by Colin Wright. “The activist playbook here was simple: get the Diaz and Bailey paper retracted over a technicality, then spin the retraction as an invalidation of the study’s main findings. Such a tactic was successfully used on Littman’s 2018 [Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria] paper; the journal’s decision to re-review the paper and issue a ‘correction’ has been repeatedly and disingenuously leveraged by proponents of ‘gender-affirming’ care to declare the study ‘debunked.’” Read more here.

 

Gender Ideology Has No Place in Our Public Schools, by Rev. Tucker York. “I write on behalf of those unfairly targeted in a column (‘Faith leaders call for support for public schools, libraries’) published in the Dec. 18, 2022, LancasterOnline. The column misrepresented the good-faith concerns of parents and others in our community. The apparent effort of the author and co-signers was to silence, shame and even intimidate people who question the gender policies being implemented in our public schools. Parents have the right to know if pro-transgender ideologies are being presented to their children and they have the right to challenge values that are opposed to their own.’’ Read more here.

 

No Child Should Be Forced To Affirm a Classmate’s Identity as a Cat, by Gillian Keegan. “This week we have seen a surreal debate about whether teachers should enforce a child’s desire to identify as a cat. Obviously, the answer to that question is absolutely not. I have been clear that doing so is totally inappropriate. We must inject some common sense back into the classroom and society more generally. The classroom is a place where fact should be taught as fact and opinion as opinion.” Read more here.

 

Dobbs, Year One: Despite Hyperbole and Hysterics, This Sound SCOTUS Decision Has Rendered More Life, Hope, by Jennifer Oliver O’Connell. “One year ago today, on June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its landmark decision which overturned Roe v. Wade and removed 50 years of federal precedent over abortion, returning that decision-making power back to the states. Federalism for the win. Sanity for the win. Life for the win,” Read more here.

 

Time To Reject the Extreme Trans Lobby Harming Our Society, by Liam Fox. “It is incredible how many public figures, including our own Leader of the Opposition, have struggled to answer the simple question, ‘What is a woman?’. Of course, the truth is that they are almost certainly able to answer the question but are afraid to do so lest they unleash the rage of the increasingly aggressive trans-lobby. I believe that, in a free society, people are entitled to live their lives in the way that they want, as long as it does not interfere with the freedom, safety and rights of others, particularly those younger and more vulnerable than themselves.” Read more here.

 

Pride Is the Flag of American Occupation, by Joy Pullman. “The United States is undergoing an attempted regime change, and the pride flag is its emblem. This regime change has been more than a century in the making. Initially, it flew under the Stars and Bars while hollowing out its meaning. Now it has its own emblem, the pride flag. This year we witnessed the American government’s elevation of that pride flag to a place of competition and sometimes dominance over the American flag. Notoriously, the White House participated earlier this month.” Read more here.

 

‘Fetus on Board!’ Focus on the Family Pro-Life Ad Is Hysterical—Yet Profound, by Bob Hoge. “Focus on the Family dropped a powerful one-minute video that perfectly encapsulated the hypocrites of the abortion crowd by illustrating how they celebrate life when it’s convenient, but when it’s not, suddenly the baby-to-be becomes just a ‘fetus.’ The spot, titled ‘It’s a Baby,’ is actually quite funny, although in a deep way. It starts with a worried-looking man looking up as a young woman emerges from the restroom. She is bursting with excitement as she announces, ‘It’s positive!’” Read more here. View the video here.

 

Gender Cultists Make a Move for California’s Children, by Abigail Shrier. “How far must a parent go in pursuit of “affirmation”? … Is it enough if you’re willing to call your 12-year-old daughter “Ethan”? Will allowing your middle-school daughter to shave her head suffice, or must you also consent to her medically unnecessary double mastectomy? In a state where these chemical and surgical options are possibilities for minors, parental endurance becomes the only limiting factor. How much damage will you countenance for the chance to hold your daughter’s hand in recovery?” Read more here.

 

Promising Trends in Marriage-Friendly Hungary, by Laurie DeRose. If I had to bet which country is poised for better trends in the coming decade, I’d go with Hungary for three reasons. 1) Hungary’s marriage and divorce trends are good for the economy and for children, 2) its birth rate has recovered somewhat, and 3) the tension between its anti-immigration policy and other facets of its national character may undermine internal support for the policy. Nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban has introduced a number of tax benefits and other programs to favor married families. For instance, couples marrying before the bride’s 41st birthday will be loaned [a signigicant amount of money], and the loan doesn’t even have to be repaid (depending on the number of children born to the marriage). By the end of 2019, the consensus was that the policies had in fact promoted marriage. Read more here.

 

Dobbs Turns One, by National Review Editors. “The first birthday of Dobbs is something to celebrate not only because it ended Roe’s grotesque distortion of our Constitution but also because the laws that have taken effect after Dobbs have very likely already saved tens of thousands of human lives … Each life deliberately destroyed is an incalculable loss. Each life saved is priceless.” Read more here.

 

More Marriage, Better Educational Outcomes, Even in Utah, by Nicholas Zill and W. Bradford Wilcox. “Despite spending less on public education than the average U.S. state, and much less than states like New York, Vermont, or Massachusetts, it has a higher-than-average high school graduation rate. Utah pupils also score above-average on tests of reading, math, and science achievement administered by the National Assessment of Educational Progress … Yet even within Utah, school districts that have higher proportions of married, two-parent families also have better educational outcomes.” Read more here.

 

UN Population Report Prioritizes Fertility Messaging Over Policy, by Lyman Stone. “When a country’s leaders look at very high or low fertility rates, or sudden spikes in immigration, and they want guidance on how to respond, there is one place many will turn: the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) … In the new 2023 State of the World Population report, … a very clear message comes through: ‘changing the narrative’ about population is more important than changing policies.” Read more here.

 

Why Gutting Title IX Is Psychological Warfare, by Andrea Mew. “By fostering an environment where women must lower their defenses, allow men to infiltrate their once-sacred single-sex facilities, and be gaslit into affirming the false claim that there are no legitimate differences between the two sexes, there is now a war of nerves being fought by unwilling soldiers.” Read more here.

 

For Detransitioners, There’s No Going Back, by Caroline Downey. “Before the patients I interviewed went under the knife for mastectomies or began taking cross-sex hormones, they already carried deep scars from childhood. They had experienced intense psychological trauma at a young age. From exposure to hardcore pornography at four years old to rape by a father at five years old to homelessness following domestic abuse in adolescence, the horrors they endured would be enough to break anyone. Their developing minds were so utterly shocked by what they’d experienced that they felt incongruity with their bodies. Suicidal ideation and self-harm were common themes. They weren’t just questioning their gender; they were questioning their very reality.” Read more here.

 

The Pill Increases Risk of Depression Among Young Women by 130%, by Michael Cook. “Planned Parenthood’s website has two pages entitled ‘What are the side effects of the birth control pill?’ and ‘What are the disadvantages of the pill?’ Depression is not mentioned. MSI Reproductive Choices (which used to be known as Marie Stopes International) has a page called “Q&A: Answering your questions on contraception”. Depression is not mentioned … The latest research shows that depression is a real danger for some women who use the contraceptive pill.” Read more here.

 

They Are Scared, by Pamela Garfield-Jaeger. “It was interesting to hear people who promote the sterilization of children and vulnerable adults attempt to defend their faulty ideas. Most of what I heard were blatant lies and the bending or omission of truth. They openly said they were afraid of the ‘attacks’ on trans people (which are simply bills to protect minors from high-risk procedures) and they tried unsuccessfully to discredit the thoughts, ideas, and experience of many outspoken critics of transgender medicine … For those opposed to the gender transition of minors and vulnerable adults, this means your voices are being heard and making a difference. Continue standing up for your beliefs; it’s causing those pushing these transitions to reassess their stance. Read more here.

 

Woke Went Gloriously Broke at This Weekend’s Box Office, by John Nolte. “Grooming Disney’s Elemental, Mr. They/Them’s The Flash, and the gay, Black Lives Matter-inspired The Blackness all tanked at the box office, to which I can only say, God Bless America ..The latest products of Hollywood’s Woke Reich, debuted on Friday, and all three bombed both at home and abroad. In fact, all three came in well below even their most pessimistic projections.” Read more here.

 

If ‘Banned’ Books are Harmless, Joe Biden Should Read Them to Kids, by David Harsanyi. “Joe Biden recently hosted a Pride Month event for families with LGBTQ kids on the White House South Lawn. Ahead of the event, he announced that he’ll appoint a ‘banned book’ czar whose job it will be to try to compel local communities to stock their libraries with race-obsessed pseudohistories and books depicting [high risk sexual behavior], rape, violence, and gender dysphoria.” Read more here.

 

On Dangerous Puberty Blockers, It’s Time to Follow Britain’s Lead, by Mary Vought. “When two respected scientists — one of whom has a daughter with gender dysphoria — published research in the Archives of Sexual Behavior suggesting many adolescents declared a new sexual identity in response to social media influence and/or peer pressure, a group of activists demanded — and got — the journal to retract the study. This illustrates the radical nature of transgender activists, who insist that sexual identity is innate and will not accept any evidence otherwise. In addition to denying biology, they also deny the scientific process when it conflicts with their political goals.” Read more here.

 

10 Sports That Put Cross-Dressing Men Ahead of Women’s Fair Play, by Elle Purnell. “So many men who claim to be women are forcing their way into women’s sporting competitions these days, it’s becoming hard to keep track of all the athletic institutions that sacrifice fairness and the dignity of their female athletes to avoid offending sexually deviant men.” Read more here.

 

This Picture Book Tells Kids They’ll Be Depressed if They’re Not Transgender, and It’s in a Public Library, by Eddie Scarry. “It’s worth repeating that she had no idea her child had chosen this book until after she and her family had gotten home. She had assumed that when her daughter came back to her with a vibrant picture book plucked from the kids’ section that it was harmless literature for children. But as we’ve seen, the kids are no longer off limits. The militant transgender activist lobby is out to get them and this is how they’re doing it.” Read more here.

 

Same-Sex California Couple Sues Fertility Clinic Because Their ‘Gestational Carrier’ Had a Girl Baby, by Streiff. “This case is a prime example of a lot that can go wrong when babies become commodities. Parents don’t treat them as gifts from God. They treat them as a consumer product. It isn’t hard to imagine a couple like this, having carefully screened the ‘egg donor’ for intelligence, taking the IVF company and the egg donor to court if the kid doesn’t turn out bright enough to impress their friends.” Read more here.

 

Government Overreach Finds Its Way into Girls’ Dorms, Showers, by Matt Bowman. “When President Joe Biden took office in 2021, he overstepped his executive authority almost immediately. On his very first day Biden issued an order redefining “sex” in all federal laws to include sexual orientation and gender identity. This change would substantially alter the meaning of many federal laws, and that is not something the president has power to do.” Read more here.

 

Now California Is Criminalising Parental Love, by Brendan O’Neill. “Let’s put this into plain English. If your seven-year-old son tells you he’s a girl and you do not instantly treat him as a girl, you could lose him. He could be taken away from you. If your 11-year-old daughter tells you she doesn’t want to go through puberty, and you make her go through it anyway, you could be branded ‘abusive.’ Simply for ensuring your child experiences the perfectly natural hormonal transition into adulthood.” Read more here.

 

Juneteenth Celebrates End of Slavery, Now We Need to End Abortion So Babies Can Celebrate, by Dr. Alveda King. “We are expecting that as many as 200,000 babies will be spared from abortion thanks to the Supreme Court decision a year ago overturning Roe v. Wade, but we also know that Black babies have a much higher risk of being aborted than White babies. The abortion industry, founded by eugenicists, still seems hell bent on annihilating Black Americans.” Read more here.

 

We Need More Babies, by Robert Whaples. “When I was born near the Baby Boom’s peak, many people worried that the population was growing too fast. Today, the shoe is on the other foot. All over the world, birth rates have collapsed, and we face the prospect of a shrinking population. Over two-thirds of the world’s population lives in countries with birth rates below replacement, including India, China, the U.S., Brazil, and all of Europe.” Read more here.

 

Most American Teens Are Watching Porn, Says Disturbing Report, by Thomas Lickona. “Anybody who cares about the healthy sexual and character development of children should read the report, Teens and Pornography issued earlier this year by the organization Common Sense Media. The report was based on a representative national survey of 1,300 teenagers ages 13 to 17. Some of its troubling findings: 73 percent of the respondents (75 percent of boys and 70 percent of girls) said they had watched online pornography. The average age they started was 12. Many began younger. Seven in 10 who admitted they had watched porn intentionally said they had done so in the past week. Four in 10 said they had watched pornography, including nudity and sexual acts, during the school day. Almost half said they had done so on school-owned devices. Of those who watched the past week, 80 percent said they had seen ‘what appears to be rape, choking, or someone in pain.’” Read more here.

 

Adolescent Gender Transitioning as a Dangerous Fad, by Tom Patterson. “We now live in an era in which mutilating surgeries are done routinely as part of the preferred treatment for gender dysphoria, which is the belief that the gender “assigned’ to you at birth does not reflect your true self. Modern science has developed solid evidence that gender is determined at conception, not birth, and is not assigned by anybody, but is fixed for life. So until recently, sufferers from gender dysphoria were thought to be confused and maybe need educational counseling while simply waiting for adulthood, when over 80% seamlessly settled into their ‘birth gender.’” Read more here.

 

University Erases ‘L’ in LGBTQ, Redefining Lesbians as ‘Non-Men,’ by Jarrett Stepman. “The woke well is bottomless. Johns Hopkins University recently updated the ‘LGBTQ Glossary’ in its so-called inclusive language guide with a new definition for ’lesbian.’ A lesbian, according to the famed Baltimore university’s guide, should be referred to as a ’non-man attracted to non-men.’ A broad definition, right? … In the war on women, isn’t it ironic that the latest shots are being fired by that fanatical campus Left? One wonders how much longer the ‘G’ has to keep its place in the gender ideology pantheon before the new letters come for the old.” Read more here.

 

California is Dismantling Women’s Hard-Won Rights – in the Name of Progressivism, by Julie Bindel. “Are there still women in California? They seem to have ceased to exist – at least as far as the state’s laws are concerned. A new raft of legislation currently under consideration seeks to both criminalise parents who wish to protect their children from harmful medical interventions, and further entrench the notion that it is possible to change sex.” Read more here.

 

Government-Funded Pseudo-Research Reveals the Costs of ‘Gender Affirmation,’ by Kaylee McGhee White. “The New England Journal of Medicine published the results of a government-funded study on experimental medical interventions for gender-confused youths. The results were alarming: two subjects committed suicide, 11 others experienced suicidal ideation, and the rest are at risk for permanent bodily damage as a result of the hormonal drugs they were given.” Read more here.

 

California Is Losing Its Mind, by National Review Editors. “Already we have seen the toxic effects of gender ideology infiltrating family law. Across the country, activist-minded judges are penalizing parents who don’t accept the claims of trans activists. Judges in California, Illinois, and Texas have denied custody rights to divorced parents opposed to, or even skeptical of, their child’s transition. In some cases, judges have received special ‘training’ on these matters from transgender activists.” Read more here.

 

More Terrible News for Bud Light as It Tries to Turn Things Around, by Spencer Brown. “It’s been a rough few months for Anheuser-Busch and its Bud Light product line thanks to an entirely unforced error on the part of its leaders who thought it would be a good idea to celebrate the one year anniversary of biological male Dylan Mulvaney deciding to be a ‘girl.’ As a result of its little Mulvaney stunt, Bud Light has lost its place at the top of U.S. sales charts. The resulting boycott of Bud Light and other Anheuser-Busch brands was swift, severe, and hit its mark.” Read more here.

 

When LGBT Activists Flood Target With Bomb Threats, Media Pretend Conservatives Did It, by Kylee Griswold. “The shameless corporate media are so desperate for a narrative about LGBT victimhood, they’re pretending threats of violence from angry pro-‘pride’ perpetrators are instead threats against them. The latest examples are pure propaganda from The Hill and The Washington Post on Monday, which led with scaremongering — ‘bomb threats over Pride items’ — while completely burying the lede: The bomb threats against culturally embroiled retail giant Target came from pro-LGBT activists.” Read more here.

 

Off the Trans Train, by Bernard Lane. “There are reasons to expect an increasing number of detransitioners to emerge in coming years, although nobody is systematically tracking how many adolescents regret medicalised gender change, according to a new journal article. ‘Given the novelty of the gender-affirmation model and a “honeymoon” period of up to 10 years, the full extent of regret and detransition in young people transitioning today, under vastly different circumstances than in the past, will not be known for many years,’ says the author, Dr Sarah C. J. Jorgensen of Toronto University’s Institute of Medical Science. Read more here.

 

“Will Pride Ever End?,” by Meghan Murphy. “In Canada, displaying the rainbow flag is no longer optional, it’s effectively mandatory. Public schools, for instance, have Pride displays in their libraries, where kids can read books like Seeing Gender: An Illustrated Guide to Identity and Expression and Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen … Pride has become big business, too. Every bank, corporation, sports team and charity now drapes itself in the rainbow flag to celebrate an invented ‘community’ of people subsumed under the ever-lengthening umbrella of ‘2SLGBTQI+’ (short for two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex). In truth, this has gone far beyond the celebration of these identities, as those who fail to submit to the rainbow doctrine are vilified as hateful and dangerous, much like those heretics who were once cast out, executed and burned by the church.” Read more here.

 

ABC News Promotes Claims That it is ‘Genocidal’ Not to Transition Your 3-Year-Old, by Zachary Faria. “Establishment media have allowed gender ideology to entirely corrupt their journalistic practices, with outlets trying to incite fear in the same parents they have convinced to put their children through irreversible sex changes. ABC News … is the latest to take the baton, publishing a wildly irresponsible piece about how ‘laws restricting gender-affirming care have prompted some families to move.’” Read more here. here.

 

Jordan Peterson Tweets Full ‘Trans Ideology’ Video Banned by YouTube as ‘Hate Speech,’ by Mike Miller. “Question: What happens when world-renowned clinical psychologist and best-selling author Jordan Peterson gets together with Elon Musk, owner, chief technical officer, and chairman of Twitter? Answer: Just like Tucker Carlson, Peterson can provide unique commentary to his audience on the platform, bypassing other platforms that are hostile to him and his ideas. When YouTube banned Peterson’s video, titled “Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality,” due to an alleged violation of the platform’s “hate speech” policy, the renowned psychologist hotfooted it over to Musk’s Twitter, and promptly tweeted the complete video.” Read more here.

 

Europe Wakes Up to The Harms of ‘Transgender’ Affirmation as the US Races Off the Cliff, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Transgender identity has spread like wildfire among young adults, especially those with preexisting mental conditions and those who do not fit the criteria for actual gender dysphoria. The UKOM [an independent government watchdog over Norway’s healthcare system] doesn’t come right out and say it, but I will: Transgender ideology is a social contagion, and to treat it medically with irreversible, experimental drugs and surgeries is an affront to both science and common sense. Read more here.

 

‘2SLGBTQIA+’: What’s in an Acronym?, by Frank Haviland. “The alphabet soup in its current form stands for ‘two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex and asexual.’ The ‘+’ is there to highlight ‘all other identities that have yet to be captured by the acronym, making it clear that all forms of gender and sexuality are valid.’ If all identities are valid, it kind of makes you wonder why you need an acronym in the first place?” Read more here.

 

Target is Now Selling ‘Pride’ Toys and Treats for Your Pets, by Christopher Tremoglie. “Pets don’t care about the orientation of who is feeding and taking care of them. And if you’re that desperate to use pets to tell everyone your sexual orientation — or that you support people of a particular sexual orientation — maybe it is a sign there is no need for such a thing to exist in the first place. Such propaganda goes beyond just being proud of your sexual orientation. There are no corresponding treats or dog toys showcasing heterosexuality. This whole thing is silly and weird but also indicative of the depths that some radicalized supporters of the LGBT movement will go to try to alter and change cultural norms.” Read more here.

 

Bisexual America, by Nicholas H. Wolfinger. “Who’s gay? Social scientists have long known that the answers to this question are very different if you ask about self-identified sexual orientation, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior. Alfred Kinsey’s groundbreaking work on sex midway through the 20th century introduced the idea that 10% of the population was gay or lesbian, but rigorous subsequent analysis with national data put the true number closer t 2 or 3 percent. But that was then. More recent data from Gallup suggest an explosion in the number of Americans who identify as LGBT, up to 7 percent. For Zoomers (Generation Z; anyone born between 1997 and 2012), a full 20% identify as LGBT. That’s a big jump. Read more here.

 

5 Things I Saw at DC Library’s Children’s Pride Parade, by Gigi De La Torre. “The Children’s Pride Parade held on a sunny Saturday by the D.C. Public Library drew fewer than 100 parents, children, and other adults in a metropolitan area of 5.5. million. As I found out, the parade celebrating ‘LGBTQ Pride’ lasted no more than 10 minutes along the third of a mile from the District of Columbia’s Montrose Park to Georgetown Neighborhood Library. A relative few spectators watched as mostly white participants walked the parade route beginning at 11 a.m. to celebrate the ‘pride of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and those who identify as transgender or ‘queer.’ … The parade and festival weren’t shy about pushing the LGBTQ+ agenda on children in attendance, I noticed.” Read more here.

 

Iconic Children’s Show Shoving ‘Pride Month’ Down Kids’ Throats: ‘Happy Pride! Elmo Loves You,’ by Warner Todd Huston. “…[I]conic children’s TV series ‘Sesame Street’ went all-in once again for June’s ‘pride month’ with several tweets celebrating the sexuality-based month of recognition. And the gay lobby claims they aren’t targeting our kids? While the show did not refashion its logo in rainbow ‘pride month’ colors like so many other entities have, the show did post several tweets pushing the left-wing celebration onto its tiny fans.” Read more here.

 

Orwellian: Associated Press Forbids Even Discussing Transgenderism as an Ideology, by Tyler O’Neil. “Forget debates over bathrooms or pronouns. The Associated Press recently released new guidelines suppressing the very concept of transgenderism as an ideology that can be debated, while forcing that ideology on reporters in the name of promoting good journalism … The most recent update to the AP style guide is quite clear: ‘Do not use the term transgenderism, which frames transgender identity as an ideology.’ Yet the entire document is dripping with this ideology.” Read more here.

 

Backlash Grows Over Male Transvestite Greeting Children at Disneyland, by John Nolte. “On top of grooming your underage children through its movies and TV shows, Disney is allowing transvestites to greet your children at Disneyland … My tolerance vanishes the moment adult sexuality and outright perversion (like cross dressing) is aimed at kids. No decent parent does business with a demonic company like Walt Disney. This is all about targeting your children for destruction, exploitation, and abuse.” Read more here.

 

Yes, Pedophilia is Being Normalized, by David Strom. “Civilization exists because we learn to harness and suppress our worst instincts, not because we give them free rein. As with so many degeneracies the powers that be declare we are being alarmist when we warn of the normalization of pedophilia. They will continue to do so until the very moment when they do a 180 and declare that, yes, pedophilia has been normalized and this it is a wonderful thing it has been. So it goes.” Read more here.

 

As ‘Pride Month’ Approaches, the LGBT Mob is Ramping Up Its Attacks on Dissenters, by Jonathon Van Maren. “As we approach a month of public, orgiastic celebration of weird sexual fetishes, Canadian institutions are competing to see who can grovel lowest and flag-wave the hardest.” Read more here.

 

No, Idaho Doesn’t Ban Pregnant Women From Traveling; It Protects Babies From Abortion, by Micaiah Bilger. “…[T]he Idaho law does not ban interstate travel any more than kidnapping laws do. Rather, it protects young girls from being taken, potentially by force or coercion, to another state to have her unborn baby [sic] aborted without her parents’ knowledge or consent. Abusers and human traffickers often rely on abortion to cover up their crimes. To protect young girls and their babies, the Idaho law creates a crime called ‘abortion trafficking’…” Read more here.

 

Biden Administration Demands Georgia Schools Show Pornography to Kids, by Jordan Boyd. “Bureaucrats in President Joe Biden’s Department of Education just put their thumb on the scale of a book dispute in Georgia by not only smearing parents’ concerns about sexually explicit books in schools but also leveraging their federal power to intimidate districts that have successfully purged porn from campuses.” Read more here.

 

Major Children’s Clothing Retailers Poured Money Into LGBT Group That Promotes Secret Gender Transitions for Children, by Laurel Duggan. “Target and Kohl’s, two major children’s clothing retailers, have both made sizable donations to GLSEN… GLSEN’s goal is to make K-12 schools a safe place for LGBT students by preventing bullying and harassment, according to its website. In practice this has meant encouraging teachers to use children’s preferred names and pronouns while keeping students’ transgender identity a secret from parents, along with numerous other policy recommendations supporting youth gender transitions.” Read more here.

 

UCI Must Follow British Cycling’s Lead and Change Transgender Policy Before World Championships, by Nicole-Cooke. “What garnered less coverage, but was very insightful, were the post-race comments made by the organiser of the race, Michael Engleman, a long-time supporter and promoter of women’s sport. He was critical of the UCI’s position on transgender participation that had tied his hands. When individuals such as him are contemplating the effect of the UCI policy, saying that ‘this may kill the sport’ and are considering leaving cycling, that threat is real.” Read more here.

 

Australian Judges Need to Review Standards for Gender Dysphoria Treatment, by Michael Cook. “Australian ‘standards of care’ are based on the ‘gold standard’ Dutch model. However, she writes: ‘there are significant concerns about quality and applicability of the [Dutch] studies to the current cohort of children presenting at gender clinics.’ Alarmingly, she asserts that: ‘The Dutch studies would not meet the standards of evidence-based medicine today.’” Read more here.

 

Biden Admin Tells Adults How to Discuss Sex With Teens Behind Parents’ Backs, by Ben Johnson. “Federally funded guidelines instruct adults to pause before discussing sex with minors and to ask, ‘Are you alone in the room?’ These instructions specify tactics to follow ‘if you’re really having a hard time getting a parent’ to leave the room during the sex talk. They suggest children as young as 13 discuss sex with groups like Planned Parenthood in a parked car or communicate in writing, so their parents cannot hear the adults’ side of the conversation.” Read more here.

 

‘Between a Woman and Her Doctor?’ Not With Mail Order Abortion Pills, by Ingrid Skop. “The reality is that these mail order abortions may be completely medically unsupervised: no ultrasound to confirm gestational age or rule out a potentially deadly ectopic pregnancy. No labs to determine need for RhoGAM to prevent future pregnancy complications. No testing and treatment for concurrent sexually transmitted infections to prevent future infertility. No verification that the person requesting the pills is a woman, rather than a sex trafficker, incestuous abuser, or coercive boyfriend.” Read more here.

 

Legalization of Polygamy Was Always the Logical Consequence of Obergefell, by Jonathan S. Tobin. “If marriage is possible between any two individuals of the opposite or the same sex, then why not three, four, or any number of consenting adults, regardless of their sex? And if Somerville is the harbinger of a growing movement to legalize polyamorous and inevitably polygamous marriages by cities and ultimately states, then those who will defend such laws are on firm ground declaring that the logic of Obergefell demands that all non-traditional ideas about marriage must be treated equally under the law. This is the choice America made in 2015.” Read more here.

 

The ACT’s Takeover of Calvary Hospital Overrides Conscientious Objection and Threatens Religious Freedom, by Joanna Howe. “The fundamental problem with first attacking and then forcibly acquiring Calvary Hospital because it won’t perform abortions is that it overrides Australia’s longstanding tradition of freedom of religion and freedom of conscience. Freedom of conscience is a foundational principle of a pluralist democracy like Australia. It is a commitment that values human dignity and integrity and promotes a society in which a healthy diversity of views is tolerated.” Read more here.

 

‘They’re Wanting to Play God,’ by Christopher F. Rufo. “’We have a generation of kids with mental health problems. It’s very sad. And we need to treat those problems correctly, not by recommending that they change genders to fix their mental health problem. That’s never worked. It never will work… They’re going to wake up in ten years and discover that they’re infertile, that they can’t have children, that their sexuality is completely dysfunctional. That they can’t function as a normal human being. And ultimately, I believe that that realization is going to cause them to harm themselves – when they wake up and realize that they’ve already been ruined.’” Read more here.

 

Abortion Activists Try to Fool Ohioans Into Constitutional Amendment Threatening Unborn Lives and Parental Rights, by Jordan Boyd. “One advertisement … specifically asserts that the amendment’s language barring the state from interfering with an individual’s ‘right to make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions’ could easily ‘cut’ parents ‘out of the biggest decision’ of their child’s life, including abortion or even the deforming genital surgeries and chemical castration that transgender activists promote to vulnerable teens.” Read more here.

 

Ontario Bill Would Banish Freedom of Speech From LGBT ‘Safety Zones,’ by Thomas Jipping. “Bill 94, titled the ‘2SLGBTQI+ Community Safety Zones Act,’ requires the attorney general to make three decisions: whether to designate a particular location as a safety zone, whether to charge someone with uttering the wrong words within 100 meters of that safety zone, and, if so, whether to seek a fine of up to $25,000. All three decisions would be completely up to the attorney general’s unfettered, and unreviewable, discretion.” Read more here.

 

Federal Officials Have No Right to Order Schools to Carry Indecent Books, by Washington Examiner. “…[T]his is not ‘book banning’ or authoritarian. Nobody is trying to block the publication of these sexually explicit books. Nobody is trying to stop their sales. Nobody is trying to stop ordinary libraries from carrying them, although they might be labeled to give notice of their contents. Nobody is saying parents can’t buy or borrow books from libraries if they deem them appropriate for their children.” Read more here.

 

Texas Children’s Hospital Pursued Transgender Procedures With ‘Religious-Like Fervor,’ by Breccan F. Thies. “Medical records show some doctors at TCH were providing these procedures and drugs to extremely young children. One assistant professor at Baylor who practices medicine at TCH has provided procedures to patients as young as 11 years old, according to medical records. Another TCH doctor said he privately asks children about other names or pronouns they might use but does not tell the child’s parents because ‘not every patient who is gender-diverse may have that safe environment at home.’” Read more here.

 

Target Partnered With Satan Supporter Who Wants to ‘Eradicate’ Critics of Transgenderism, by Jordan Boyd. “One quick glance at the designer’s website and Instagram shows dozens of designs featuring satanic and sacrilegious symbols such as pentagrams, ‘Satan respects pronouns’ T-shirts, ‘gay as hell’ stickers, and stained glass windows covered up by ‘trans bodies are holy…’ One particularly graphic image on the designer’s Instagram shows a naked demonic creature with a horned skull and mutilated breasts.” Read more here.

 

Florida and Texas Defend Kids Against Gender Madness, by the Editors of National Review. “There is no shortage of examples to illustrate the madness to which DeSantis is referring. Gender clinicians openly promote their cavalier attitude to ‘top surgery’ (i.e., breast amputation), advertising the procedure to young prospective patients on TikTok. Drag queens strip and pole-dance in front of audiences made up of children, much to the delight of grown men and women. Pornographic materials too obscene to detail here are distributed in school libraries.” Read more here.

 

Kid-Free Zones: How Low Birth Rates Cause Even Lower Birth Rates, by Timothy P. Carney. “…[C]hildren cry, take up space, sometimes run around, and sometimes smell bad. A culture based on ‘personal space,’ autonomy, and minding your own business is a culture that pretends children don’t exist. The more people who go through their daily lives not seeing kids, or seeing only very few, the easier it is to uphold this myth of a childless world – and then that childless world becomes reality.” Read more here.

 

Teacher Pushes Gay Pornography on Middle Schoolers, NBC Provides Smokescreen for It, by Timothy P. Carney. “…Bonner thought it was a good idea to include this porn-book encouraging stranger-sex in her middle school book tasting. At best, this is a total abandonment of all decency and common sense in pursuit of an ideological culture war. At worst, the teacher is grooming children – introducing them to totally inappropriate sexual material in order to destroy their natural aversion to perversion and reticence about sex. That’s why parents called the police on this teacher.” Read more here.

 

Trans Sex Attacker Case Exposes Yet More Holes in Nicola Sturgeon’s Gender Bill, by Alan Cochrane. “Throughout the passage of the Bill at Holyrood, its supporters had insisted that there was no evidence men ‘ever had to pretend to be anything else’ to prey on girls. That assertion was killed stone dead by what happened to the little girl in this case because she had only gotten into Miller’s car because she felt safe as he had been dressed as a woman… What will shock people most about these cases would be the ease with which Miller and Graham appeared able to switch gender virtually at will.” Read more here.

 

A Win for Pro-Life Pragmatism in North Carolina, by the Editors of National Review. “With no margin for error, North Carolina Republican legislators prudently went as far as they could go to protect life. Representative Tricia Cotham recently switched from being a Democrat to a Republican but was unwilling to vote for an abortion limit earlier than twelve weeks of pregnancy… None of these bills is perfect. But each bill would save some lives, and it would be a grave error to insist that no lives should be saved until all lives can be saved.” Read more here.

 

Scientific American Editor-in-Chief Gets Biology Wrong for Both Humans and Birds, by Zachary Faria. “…[T]he other problem this argument has, aside from being wrong, is quite clear. Believe it or not, humans are not white-throated sparrows. Even if it were true that one species of birds had four different sexes (which, again, is not the case here), that would mean nothing… The science around humans is very clear: Sex is binary, and it is not something that can be changed with hormones and surgeries.” Read more here.

 

Sex Change Procedures at Texas Children’s Hospital, by Christopher F. Rufo. “The executives at Texas Children’s appear to be playing a duplicitous game. They announced that the hospital had stopped performing transgender medical interventions on minors, but this is simply untrue. TCH doctors administered such procedures days after the announcement, and they have continued to perform them… If ‘gender-affirming care’ is truly the gold standard in medicine, TCH should defend it openly, not perform it in secret.” Read more here.

 

Fertility Rates Are Collapsing – and It’s Not ‘Backward’ to Be Concerned, by Miriam Cates. “Politics works on the basis that society will go on and on into the future… But can we really be so sure that there will be future generations to benefit from our endeavours – or even to look after us in our old age? The short answer is no: the evidence suggests that the very existence of future society hangs in the balance. The current UK fertility rate – the average number of children per woman – stands at 1.6. This is significantly below the ‘replacement rate’ of 2.1 and continues to fall.” Read more here.

 

Proud Abortionist Kills Democratic Talking Points About Late-Term Abortions, by Zachary Faria. “…[P]oliticians and abortion activists insist that late-term abortions only occur if medically necessary or if the unborn child is going to die anyway… But, according to the Atlantic, ‘Hern estimates that at least half, and sometimes more, of the women who come to the clinic do not’ have a diagnosis that their lives would be in danger or that their babies will not be born alive. Over half of the late-term abortions Hern performs … are elective.” Read more here.

 

Colorado School District Hosts Drag Show Amid Teachers Union Embrace of Gender Ideology, by Maddie Dermon. “Muse, rated for children aged eight and above, focused on an adult male transitioning to a female and featured provocatively dressed men performing sexual dances for an audience full of children. Young audience members were clearly disturbed. One student expressed his concern by interrupting the show: ‘This is wrong,’ he cried. ‘Don’t you know we’re in third grade?’” Read more here.

 

The World Health Organization Has a Message for Parents: ‘Sexuality Education Starts at Birth,’ by Malcolm Roberts. “By age 6, the WHO wants the education industry … to expose children to the concepts of intercourse, masturbation, and pornography. By age 9, they are expected to reach an ‘adult’ knowledge of sex including teaching of masturbation and viewing of online pornography. At age 12 … the WHO wishes the official European education course to explore political and emotional responses to sex, puberty, and gender.” Read more here.

 

Parents Forced to Sue School District for Compelling Student to Read Sexually Explicit Monologue in Class, by Jeff Charles. “The case raises concerns about the appropriateness of educational materials and assignments in public schools. It highlights the delicate balance between freedom of speech and protecting minors from exposure to explicit content. As the legal proceedings continue, the outcome of the lawsuit will likely have implications for similar cases and potentially impact the development of guidelines and policies regarding the use of explicit material in educational settings…” Read more here.

 

Wake Up, Lawmakers! Protect Girls and Women and Restore Their Rights, by Eileen J. O’Connor. “Transradical sympathizers rail that it is cruel to exclude from women’s spaces a person who feels he belongs there. Rarely, if ever, and certainly not in the Biden administration’s proposed Title IX regulations, is consideration given to how cruel it is to the girls and women who are confronted not only by the sight of a male in female-only spaces, but also by being viewed by a male stranger in violation of their deeply ingrained, self-protective modesty.” Read more here.

 

If You Can Perform Surgery on Fetuses, Then Maybe They Have Value After All, by Madeline Fry Schultz. “…[T]he American Heart Association called it the ‘first in-utero brain surgery.’ Now seven weeks old, Denver Coleman is a marvel of medical technology and a testament to the value of the unborn… Even CNN, no bastion of pro-life thought, was eager to characterize baby Denver as a person. Notable as well is that the doctors, realizing fetuses’ capacity for pain, provided her with pain relief during the surgery.” Read more here.

 

Teen Sexting and Sexually Explicit Music, by Christine Lee and Jane Shawcroft. “…[I]t is easy to treat music, and highly sexual and sexually objectifying lyrics in particular, as white noise in the background of more important activities, despite research suggesting that music contains more messages about sex than any other media content except pornography. It is easy to dismiss the lyrics and messages in a three-minute song as inconsequential, but our research … suggests that listening to highly sexual music influences teenagers’ sexual risk-taking, specifically sexting.” Read more here.

 

The Media Are Campaigning to Deprive Parents of Their Rights, by Kaylee McGhee White. “The root of the problem … is this idea that parents can somehow be a threat to their children simply for disagreeing with the state’s prescribed orthodoxy. …[T]o compare an ideological disagreement to actual abuse is despicable. Parents have the right to raise their children as they see fit, and the state does not get to come along and take that right from them just because they happen to believe that their 13-year-old son is not, in fact, a girl.” Read more here.

 

Why Are We Ignoring Family as a Solution to Loneliness? by Jim Dalrymple. “A widely cited 1998 study … found that both marriage and parenthood were associated with lower levels of loneliness. Significantly, the study found that simply cohabitating didn’t offer the same benefits. There’s something unique about marriage. It’s not just about companionship. Subsequent research has repeatedly confirmed, to quote economist and policy advisor Christos A. Makridis, that ‘the unmarried are substantially more likely to feel lonely,’ while ‘married Americans have much lower rates of loneliness.’” Read more here.

 

The Next Frontier for the Hypersexualized Left: Normalizing Pedophilia, by Jane Robbins. “The end game of normalizing pedophilia has been hinted at for some time. A critical step, as always, is to distort language. ‘Pedophile’ has become ‘minor-attracted person’ (MAP), which certainly takes the edge off. TED talkers insist that MAPs should not be stigmatized for their attractions as long as they exercise self-control around children (a talent for which pedophiles are not famous). These and other ‘experts’ … describe pedophilia as a sexual orientation to be protected under state nondiscrimination law.” Read more here.

 

Corporate Media Wants to Help Democrats Separate Supposedly ‘Trans’ Children From Their Parents, by Zachary Faria. “There is no … attempt to report anything even resembling questions about such irreversible procedures for children. Instead, you see things like the Associated Press’s headline from Tuesday: ‘Trans minors protected from parents under Washington law…’ Yes, keeping parents in the dark about their runaway children and instead handing them off to a state bureaucracy that will let them harm themselves is apparently not an utterly insane policy. It is simply ‘protecting’ transgender children from their own parents.” Read more here.

 

Biden’s Bizarre View of Women’s Sports Puts Female Athletes at Risk, by Alexandra Caro Campana and Ryann McEnany. “What seems to be forgotten in this proposed rule is all the harm that will be done to the millions of female students when they are forced to compete against men and share intimate spaces with them. Being a competitive athlete takes as much mental strength as physical ability. Sharing a bathroom, changing room and/or hotel room with a biological male ahead of a competition will potentially cause severe emotional, mental and even physical harm to female athletes.” Read more here.

 

Just Like the Transgender Industry, PornHub Relies on Targeting Kids, by Allison Schuster. “PornHub’s willingness to boycott the state entirely shows who the target demographic is: children… PornHub’s reliance on showing its content to minors can be easily understood in the context of its addictive nature. Young people are easily taken advantage of and starting them young provides PornHub with an audience more susceptible to long-term addiction and abuse.” Read more here.

 

What Are They Hiding? Pro-Transgender Groups Refuse to Hand Over Internal Documents Even as They Move to Oppose Florida’s Medicaid Rule, by Tyler O’Neil. “…[T]he groups went to court trying to quash the subpoenas. They argued that they should not be forced to hand over documents, in part because they are not direct parties to the case. Yet not only are these groups the medical authorities by which Lambda Legal aims to torpedo the Florida rule, but most of the groups themselves filed the amicus brief April 28 that highlights their interest in the case.” Read more here.

 

The Legal Case That Could Force Abortion Upon El Salvador Is Based on a Lie, by Nancy Flanders. “Beatriz Garcia, the woman at the core of the case, did not die from a lack of access to induced abortion. In fact, she never had life-threatening pregnancy complications, doctors never advised abortion, and she died four years later in a vehicle accident. And the more than 50 women allegedly jailed for miscarriages and obstetric emergencies due to El Salvador’s pro-life laws … were not actually convicted for abortion but for infanticide.” Read more here.

 

Don’t Forget Men in the Abortion Debate, by Sara Scarlett Wilson. “Support After Abortion … found that 71 percent of men suffered issues after abortion … and that 82 percent of men did not know where to find help. Men struggled regardless of their involvement in the abortion decision, and even men who fully supported their partner’s decision found themselves with anger, grief, and other negative emotions when thinking about the child or children they never got to know.” Read more here.

 

Utah Benefits as Porn Peddlers Block Access, by Timothy P. Carney. “America would be better off if every pornographer went out of business and every web hosting service, internet provider, and web browser cut off access to pornography. That’s unlikely ever to happen, but Utah scored a minor victory this week when porn-peddler MindGeek … announced it would block access to its websites from all IP addresses within Utah. This was MindGeek’s protest against Utah’s new law requiring age verification for everyone visiting pornographic websites or other sites with sexually explicit material.” Read more here.

 

New Jersey Will House Two More Male Sexual Predators With Female Inmates, by Zachary Faria. “What do you do with two male pedophiles who claim that they are women? According to liberal gender ideology, and the state government of New Jersey, you put them in a women’s prison because even child abusers must have their gender identities ‘affirmed,’ even if it endangers female inmates… The messages here from the state of New Jersey are clear. The most abhorrent men convicted of heinous crimes can simply claim they are women and be housed alongside female inmates. The safety of women does not matter.” Read more here.

 

Biden’s ‘Transgender’ Rule Mandating Schools Treat Biological Males as Females Gets Tested, by Sarah Parshall Perry & Caroline Heckman. “How are schools and colleges going to balance the interest of competing civil rights complaints? If a biological male sexually assaults or harasses a female in a bathroom that’s no longer sex-specific due to the new Title IX rule, and a female files a Title IX complaint – who prevails? According to the Biden administration’s rule, any transgender-identified male is ‘entitled’ to be in that bathroom, but any female is granted the benefit of the doubt in a sexual harassment or assault proceeding.” Read more here.

 

North Carolina’s 12-Week Abortion Ban Is Popular, Enforceable, and Pro-Life Without Political Poison, by Tiana Lowe Doescher. “In short, a 12-week ban allows the state to begin to crack down on the worst abortion offenders, mainly in-person clinics likely to perform later-term abortions, while avoiding interfering with that politically near-sacrosanct relationship between a woman and her doctor. In practice, this also means that the state isn’t stuck going to war with the Food and Drug Administration or regulating interstate commerce of abortion pills, which also have legitimate medical uses unrelated to terminating pregnancies.” Read more here.

 

Yes, the Trans Movement Is Coming for Your Kids, by John Daniel Davidson. “Recently a group of Democrat legislators in Minnesota, led by the state’s first transgender lawmaker, introduced a bill that would have removed language in Minnesota’s Human Rights Act that explicitly says pedophilia is not a ‘sexual orientation’ as defined by state statute. By removing that language, the bill would have opened the door to widening the definition of sexual orientation to include pedophilia as a protected class alongside other minorities.” Read more here.

 

Kansas Law Defending Biological Sex and Women’s Rights Is Vital, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Which part of the law do gender activists find so offensive? The part that says women have the right to privacy and safety or the part that rebuffs the Left’s efforts to turn sex into a meaningless free-for-all? … Do women’s rights matter or don’t they? Kansas’s law makes it clear that they do. The gender activists who oppose it, on the other hand, would subject every single sex-exclusive space in the country, and every woman who depends on them, to male intrusion. That is bigotry.” Read more here.

 

The Biden Admin Is Still Withholding Taxpayer-Funded Abortion Data From Lawmakers, by Spencer Brown. “The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) said last fall that it would work toward providing abortion services for veterans and their dependents via its taxpayer-funding [sic] health care system. As Tuberville … noted at the time, and since then, such a policy would be a violation of federal law… Yet Tuberville’s questions about how such an illegal policy would be implemented and his ongoing attempts to provide oversight for taxpayers have seen no response from the VA or others in the Biden administration.” Read more here.

 

India Same-Sex Marriage Case Tests Judges, by Geeta Pandey. “…[A]s the hearings have continued, the five-judge bench has been conceding that tweaking one law may not really work, since it’s a complex web of 35 laws that govern issues of divorce, adoption, succession, maintenance and other related issues – and that many of them do spill over into religious personal laws. And during Thursday’s hearing, the top court appeared to agree with the government that granting legal sanction to same-sex marriage was parliament’s domain.” Read more here.

 

Biden HHS Using Language Meant to Protect Abortion Survivors to Exclude Preborn as ‘Persons,’ by Cassy Fiano-Chesser. “This is a brazenly cruel twisting of the intention of the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, legislation that abortion supporters continue to argue is unnecessary on the claim that abortion survivors do not exist. Additionally, it’s a complete and utter denial of scientific fact. Based on all basic biological principles, preborn children are alive, even before their hearts start beating. At the moment of fertilization, the child … already has his or her own unique DNA, with traits like sex, hair color, eye color, and countless more already determined.” Read more here.

 

Colorado Law Seeks to Prevent and Hide Information About Medication Abortion Reversal, by Harry Scherer. “The new law is full of inconsistencies. For example, it permits the administration of progesterone for women facing miscarriage, but it explicitly forbids the same medication for women seeking to reverse an abortion. The law also does not offer any distinction between patients who seek progesterone after ingesting mifepristone willingly or unwillingly, with the latter being an all-too-common practice among sex traffickers.” Read more here.

 

Indiana Health Department Sits on Records Showing Two Babies Born Alive After Abortions, Three Women Dead, by Joy Pullmann. “Indiana abortion records … indicate that in 2022 three women died after abortion procedures and two babies were born alive after chemical abortions. They also suggest Indiana abortionists failed to report four abortions on girls aged 15 and younger, as legally required. One of the minors not referred for a state abuse investigation after her abortion, a violation of state law, was just 13 years old, the records say.” Read more here.

 

Biden DOJ Says Mutilating Children Is ‘Medically Necessary,’ by Zachary Faria. “This is not ‘civil rights’ or ‘acceptance’ or ‘inclusivity.’ It is reckless, dangerous, and, most of all, unnecessary. Chemically and physically mutilating children is not going to save their lives or make them happier. It is only going to saddle them with even more physical health problems to go along with the unaddressed mental health problems that are being ignored. It is an attempt to medicalize them permanently… Yet that is precisely what Biden’s Justice Department is fighting for.” Read more here.

 

Leftist Minnesota Just Gave State Power to Take Kids Away If Parents Don’t Approve Gender Surgery, by Hank Berrien. “The new law gives state courts temporary emergency jurisdiction over any child in Minnesota who has been abandoned, is in need of protection from abuse, or has ‘been unable to obtain gender-affirming health care.’ The law defines such care as … puberty blockers and chemical and surgical procedures ‘to align the patient’s appearance or physical body with the patient’s gender identity.’” Read more here.

 

Planned Parenthood Steps Deeply Into Transgender Hormones, Including for Minors, by Ben Johnson. “Planned Parenthood’s latest annual report reveals that the multi-billion-dollar business has diversified its portfolio beyond abortion, pushing deeply into the transgender industry by offering puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to young adults and minors – often while explicitly withholding this information from parents.” Read more here.

 

Attempts Underway to Redefine ‘Forced Pregnancy’ in International Law, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “The term ‘forced pregnancy’ is back on the UN agenda as nations begin to negotiate a treaty on crimes against humanity… In its just-released ‘State of World Population Report,’ the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) asserted that the ICC definition of ‘forced pregnancy’ has ‘been more widely interpreted by advocates to include, for instance, situations in which a pregnant person is denied an abortion.’” Read more here.

 

School District Prompts Parents to Enter Children’s ‘Preferred Pronouns’ When Registering for Kindergarten, by Christopher Tremoglie. “It’s a concerning discovery given the extremely young age of kindergarten students who are unfamiliar with pronouns or mature enough to know anything about gender transitioning. It’s a disturbing revelation showing just how radicalized education officials have become in the country, even in a state like Florida. It should also put parents on high alert throughout the country.” Read more here.

 

How to Stop the Gender Cult in Education, by Debra Soh. “There is an assumption that poor mental health is the result of gender dysphoria, as opposed to the other way around. In actuality, high rates of co-morbidity abound in individuals with gender dysphoria, with 70% or more of such youth presenting with an additional diagnosis… From what I’ve witnessed in the years I’ve been fighting this cultural battle, even when presented with evidence to the contrary, trans activists and their allies happily disregard this information in favor of plowing forward with their preferred narratives.” Read more here.

 

The Myth of Sexual Experience, by Jason S. Carroll and Brian J. Willoughby. “In the report, we review a series of recent studies … that show that having multiple sexual partners during the dating years leads to higher divorce rates in future marriages… Overall, we found that ‘sexually inexperienced’ individuals, or those who have only had sex with their spouse, are mostly likely to be flourishing in marriage. These ‘sexually inexperienced’ individuals report the highest levels of relationship satisfaction, relationship stability, sexual satisfaction, and emotional closeness with their spouses.” Read more here.

 

Woman Whose Chemical Abortion Has Haunted Her for 23 Years: ‘Don’t Make the Same Mistake,’ by Margot Cleveland. “I started having intense cramping. At one point I went to the toilet, and a baby came out. It looked exactly like the pictures of seven- to 9-week-old babies you see in photos. It was rounded. There was a black eye. My husband fished it out of the toilet and held the dead baby in his hand. I remember looking at it and wondering what it was. But I also knew what it was. I remember going completely numb.” Read more here.

 

West Coast Shuts Parents Out of ‘Gender-Affirming’ Decisions as Swedish Research Urges Caution, by Greg Piper. “America’s West Coast is separated by a continent and an ocean from Europe. Their policy gap on ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors … is becoming similarly wide… In a new ‘systematic review’ of research on hormone treatment for gender-confused children in the peer-reviewed Acta Paediatrica, Swedish researchers … found so little evidence on its effects that they recommended a ban except for clinical trials.” Read more here.

 

Arrogant Western Countries Outplayed by Developing Member States at the UN, by Lisa Correnti. “The EU and the UN wanted to force sexual ideology for children into a resolution on education. This effort failed due to smart tactics by a united Africa group and delegates from other parts of the world… The lack of consensus including from diverse countries took Western delegates by surprise, many pivoting to damage control to try and save the document they so desperately wanted.” Read more here.

 

Detransitioner Laura Becker Exposes the Dark Truth Behind Transgender ‘Transitioning’ of Children in Texas Senate Hearing, by Jeff Charles. “What is truly unfortunate about situations like Becker’s is that progressives have convinced the nation to believe that there are only few people who regret having ‘transitioned’ to the opposite sex. The issue is that we do not yet have enough credible data to prove this. Moreover, there is evidence that many of those who go through this process as minor children end up suffering from additional mental issues caused by the use of puberty blockers and surgical treatments.” Read more here.

 

Zero House Democrats Respected Americans’ Wishes by Voting to Protect Women’s and Girls’ Sports, by Jordan Boyd. “If the White House gets its way, female athletes will no longer be entitled to federal protection against sex discrimination on the field or in the locker room. Instead, teams of girls as young as kindergarten are forced to accept males on their roster. It’s only in high school and college that the Biden administration concedes males have an advantage that could be disqualifying under a set of extreme criteria. As the vote … showed, Democrats in Congress are all too willing to help the Biden administration erase women.” Read more here.

 

Marriage Makes Women Happier and Healthier, Harvard Scholars Say, by Kira Mautone. “The researchers found that the women that became married and stayed married over the course of the study showed a 35 percent decrease in risk of all-cause mortality, lower risks of cardiovascular diseases, and ‘greater psychological wellbeing on multiple indicators including greater positive affect, purpose in life, hope and optimism.’” Read more here.

 

White House Endorses Discrimination Against Female Athletes, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Allowing men, who have undeniable, significant physical advantages, to compete on teams created specifically for women is exactly the kind of discrimination that Title IX was meant to redress. Democrats, however, do not seem at all bothered that women are being deprived of their right to equal competition. Better for women to lose this right than the men who claim to identify as women, according to the White House.” Read more here.

 

Why Progressives Should Support the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, by Kara Dansky. “Our society has been taught a vicious and unscientific lie: that some men can be women, and that some women can be men, on the basis of their ‘gender identity…’ Men aren’t women, even if they say they are, and even if they claim to ‘identify’ as such… There is no credible scientific evidence to support the proposition that a person born with a Y chromosome can be a woman. It should not be considered ‘conservative’ or even remotely controversial to say so.” Read more here.

 

Your Doctor Asking for Your Pronouns Isn’t Just Annoying, It’s a Sign of the Industry’s Decline, by Elle Purnell. “…[H]aving doctors ask about your pronouns isn’t just an obnoxious chore, it’s a sign of the health-care industry’s willingness to forego medical reality for a few ideological brownie points… Just wait until trans activists insist on making women with breast cancer wait for mastectomies so that other women who want to cut off their healthy breasts to look more like men can go first. (Oh wait, that’s already happening.)” Read more here.

 

Unborn Children Deserve the Right to Trust Their Mother, by Mark Zimmerman. “Indeed, there are many different angles from which to criticize abortion: that it’s a sin in the sight of God; that it’s a cruel and violent way to die; that personhood begins at conception, and therefore abortion kills a person; that prenatal screening puts us on a slippery slope toward eugenics; that killing a person isn’t therapeutic. These things are all true, in my view. But I have come to believe there is another reason abortion is wrong: It denies a child the right to trust her mother.” Read more here.

 

Common Sense Is Finally Returning to the Trans Debate, by Mo Lovatt. “New government guidance [in England] on how schools handle the rise in transgender pupils is currently being drawn up and is due to be issued within weeks. It means that single-sex schools will no longer be required to accommodate pupils who identify as transgender for fear of legal action, nor will they have to affirm a pupil’s preferred pronoun simply because a child demands it.” Read more here.

 

Colorado’s New ‘Trans Tourism’ Law Beckons Red-State Kids for Trans Interventions and Abortions, by Tristan Justice. “Senate Bill 23-188, signed into law Friday, opens the door for ‘trans tourism’ in the state, allowing minors to seek abortions or ‘gender-affirming health care services.’ In other words, teens seduced by transgender ideology in Kansas, where lawmakers are preparing to ban interventions for minors, may travel to Colorado for sterilizing procedures under Polis’s protection with parental consent.” Read more here.

 

Washington State Declares Transgender War Against Parents, by Quin Hillyer. “Washington … passed a bill regarding children’s gender transitions that borders on unadulterated evil… Essentially, the bill allows licensed youth shelters to harbor a child against parents’ wishes while proceeding with sex-change procedures or abortions. Put another way, not only will parents have no say in the life-altering decision of girls and boys to defy their biological gender (or to kill a human life), but the children can be kept away from their parents and homes.” Read more here.

 

UNFPA: Restricting Online Abortion Is Violence, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “In the wake of Dobbs, online purveyors of abortion pills have proliferated widely, and with them the potential for women to be exposed to pills of dubious provenance and quality, either voluntarily or, as news reports have documented, administered through stealth by others. National governments have a role in protecting women and girls from exploitation by nefarious online businesses willing to risk their health for profit.” Read more here.

 

Fifth Circuit’s Ruling Proves the Case Against the Abortion Pill Is Legally Justified, by Kaylee McGhee White. “…[T]here is certainly a case to be made that the FDA’s decisions in 2016 and 2021 to abandon very basic safety precautions about the abortion pill call into question its ability to fairly regulate the pill at all. Indeed, the FDA’s watering down of nearly all restrictions on mifepristone is further proof that the agency is using the drug to push a political agenda.” Read more here.

 

MrBeast Is Introducing Millions of Children to Transgenderism Without Parental Consent, by Eoin Lenihan. “What MrBeast is doing is sinister and will have far-reaching consequences. He is grooming an unsuspecting generation of children into uncritically accepting transgender and trans activism at a vulnerable age. Due to the unrivaled reach of MrBeast and the unparalleled and often unmonitored access he has to millions of kids across the globe, he is now, without a shadow of a doubt, the leading source of child-focused, transgender content in the world.” Read more here.

 

Appeals Court Reinstates Safety Restrictions for Abortion Drug While Lawsuit Against Its FDA Approval Continues, by Thomas Jipping. “The result of the 5th Circuit’s decision is that … the FDA’s original approval of mifepristone remains and the safety restrictions that were repealed in 2016 and 2021 are reinstated. In other words, mifepristone can be used up to seven, not 10, weeks; using mifepristone will require three physician office visits; only doctors may dispense or administer the drug; doctors must report all medical complications to the FDA; and abortion drugs may not be dispensed through the mail or mail-order pharmacies.” Read more here.

 

Why the Latest Abortion Pill Ruling Is Both Good and Bad for Pro-Lifers, by Margot Cleveland. “…[U]ntil the Fifth Circuit considers the merits of the FDA’s appeal, distribution of the abortion pill will be governed by the 2000 FDA approval, not the changes the FDA adopted in 2016… No matter the outcome, however, the case is educating the public on the dangers of chemical abortions much beyond what the Planned Parenthood pill-pushers have been doing for the last 20-plus years.” Read more here.

 

Biden Administration Misses the Point on Transgender Sports Participation, by Tom Joyce. “The problem with transgender elementary schoolers playing on girls’ sports teams has little to do with sports participation. The problem is there are self-identified transgender elementary schoolers, and the government recognizes this delusion as a reality. Government policy should reflect the biological reality of two genders that people cannot change: male and female. It should not support the delusion that children who are young enough to believe in Santa Claus can choose their gender.” Read more here.

 

The Poison Pill Goes to Court, by the Editors of National Review. “From the beginning, the pill was given favored regulatory treatment, with accelerated approval under Subpart H, a program designed for emergency AIDS drugs. Utilizing this fast-track approval process required the FDA to characterize pregnancy, preposterously, as a ‘serious or life-threatening illness.’ A legal challenge was filed with the FDA in 2002 … and the agency sat on it for nearly 14 years in order to thwart judicial review while the pill expanded its market share. The mifepristone pill … now accounts for a majority of all U.S. abortions.” Read more here.

 

Even the Trans Lobby Can’t Override Biology in Sport, by Suzanne Moore. “The government has asked the Equality and Human Rights Commission to clarify that when we talk of sex in the Equality Act we mean biological sex. The blurring of sex and gender is what causes problems, and this may help stop this confusion. Women who say biological sex matters have been demonised and I am one of them… Any woman who tells the truth is met by an unthinking mob, online or in real life. And yet it has not stopped us saying it any more than it has stopped sports fans seeing it. For here we do have the advantage: being on the side of reality.” Read more here.

 

Why I, as a Former Abortionist, Support Florida’s Heartbeat Protection Act, by Kathi Aultman. “…[A]lthough I continued to do abortions while pregnant, after my daughter’s birth, I could no longer kill babies just because they weren’t wanted. I still believed abortion was a woman’s right, but my view changed as I saw young women in my OB-GYN practice with unplanned pregnancies, who kept their babies and did exceptionally well, in contrast to those women with psychological and physical complications from abortion. Later, I realized I was not only murdering innocent human beings but that I was also hurting women.” Read more here.

 

The Madness of Banning ‘Ladies and Gentlemen,’ by Ella Whelan. “The fact that judges are now pressured to be ‘respectful’ of identity and gender, and feel the need to self-censor, shows how intimidating the conversation around gender ideology has become. For fear of upsetting a tiny minority, we bore the majority with language that is stripped of all meaning. Instead of mothers we say pregnant people, instead of binman, we say wheelie-bin-operator. Sometimes we’re expected to simply invent words – Teen Vogue suggests using ‘folx’ instead of ladies and gentleman, and ‘nibling’ instead of niece or nephew.” Read more here.

 

Judge’s Abortion Pill Opinion Tells the Truth About ‘Unborn Humans,’ and the Left Can’t Stand It, by Margot Cleveland. “Calling an unborn human an ‘unborn human’ immediately triggered abortion activists, but as Kacsmaryk explained in a footnote, such terminology is scientifically correct… It is understandable that abortion activists want to hide the humanity of unborn humans, but that doesn’t make the science less real: It just means girls and women who have bought the ‘clump of cells’ narrative will suffer when faced with the truth, which chemical ‘at home abortions’ force.” Read more here.

 

In California, Parents May Soon Effectively Lose Custody of Kids 12 and Older, by Katrina Trinko. “California lawmakers know that plenty of parents have concerns about minors who pursue gender transition. These are valid concerns: gender transition medical procedures, even for minors, can be extensive – and some of it is irreversible… But California lawmakers don’t want parents to be able to stand in the way of their minor children making these life-changing decisions. ‘It is apparent that one result of this bill will be the removal of trans-identified children from the family home,’ Garfield-Jaeger said in her testimony.” Read more here.

 

Title IX Rule Change: Biden Is Determined to Force Gender Ideology Onto a Public That Doesn’t Want It, by Kaylee McGhee White. “More insulting than this administration’s blatant disregard for women’s rights … is its attempt to gaslight the public on this subject. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona’s statement announcing the rule, for example, included this astonishing claim: ‘Today’s proposed rule is designed to support Title IX’s protection for equal athletics opportunity.’ How, exactly, does allowing men with massive physical advantages to crush female competition advance ‘equal athletics opportunity’?” Read more here.

 

Court’s Ruling on FDA Approval of Abortion Drugs Is Huge Win for Women, Girls, by Julie Marie Blake. “The FDA, in collusion with pro-abortion politicians, never properly tested these drugs for safety in the first place and has continued to dismantle safety protections, so that it is now perfectly simple for a teenage girl, for example, to obtain chemical abortion drugs without a single physician visit or her parents’ knowledge – even though these drugs have been shown to cause intense pain and bleeding, and can often progress into worse complications, like hemorrhaging, life-threatening infection, and loss of fertility.” Read more here.

 

Biden Admin Concedes It’s Unfair to Let Men Compete in Women’s Sports With New Rules Allowing Men in Women’s Sports, by Tristan Justice. “The Biden administration is trying to have it both ways on transgender participation in women’s sports with new Title IX rules introduced Thursday… Under the long-anticipated proposal, the Department of Education outlined new guidelines that would invalidate bans on men in women’s sports currently implemented across 20 states. At the same time, schools that receive federal funding and therefore subject to Title IX stipulations may bar male athletes on female teams in competitive leagues.” Read more here.

 

Christians Must Take Children to Transgender Procedures or They Can’t Adopt, Oregon State Law Says, by Ben Johnson. “The policy potentially excludes faithful adherents of most major world religions and most Americans generally, experts say. ‘This isn’t just about excluding Christians: The state is effectively telling the growing majority of people that believe that sex is determinable by time of birth they need not apply to foster and adopt kids,’ González said. ‘It’s not enough to be neutral on the issue; prospective foster and adoptive parents must support the state’s radical gender ideology.’” Read more here.

 

New HHS Report Attacks SOGI Change Efforts, by Dan Hart. “Opponents of sexual orientation/ gender identity (SOGI) change efforts – which could encompass talk therapy, counseling, … or any other type of therapy designed to help people who have unwanted same-sex attractions or gender confusion – describe it with a negative connotation as ‘conversion therapy,’ often calling it ‘pseudoscience.’ However, dozens of individuals have testified to how SOGI change efforts have transformed their lives, leading them to happily walk away from homosexual and transgender lifestyles.” Read more here.

 

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly From the Latest CDC Survey of Youth Risk Behavior, by Dana Mack. “According to the survey, being a teenage girl carries with it another elevated risk – that of mental illness. Well more than half of teen girls (57%) reported feelings of sadness and hopelessness that were profound enough, over a two-week period, to interfere with their ability to complete their daily routines (as compared to 36% in 2011). Some of this extreme depression might be attributed to feelings of isolation caused by pandemic lockdowns but certainly not all of it.” Read more here.

 

One Mom’s Harrowing Story From Inside Whistleblower’s Trans Clinic, by Suzanne Bowdey. “Doctors insisted the puberty blockers were ‘standard procedure’ for anyone ‘experiencing discomfort with their sex.’ And yet, Caroline was shocked to learn that this ‘standard procedure’ would almost certainly lead to infertility. When the psychologist wanted to know if Casey wanted to bank his sperm before they started the drug Supprelin, she kept thinking: my son is only 14 years old.” Read more here.

 

Ireland’s Commonsense Three-Day Abortion Waiting Period Is Under Attack, by Eilis Mulroy. “In the 2018 legislation, an abortion is defined as ‘a procedure to end the life of the foetus.’ It is the only legal medical procedure in Ireland the sole aim of which is to end human life. This ought to place it apart from all other procedures and justify a far greater threshold in terms of reflecting on it before it is carried out. But the sad fact is that, to pro-abortion groups and political parties, an unborn child isn’t a human life – it’s just a ‘clump of cells,’ with no more significance than warts or skin lesions.” Read more here.

 

Biden and EU Gang Up on Africans at UN, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “Adding this controversial language to the annual resolution of the commission would give Western powers more political leverage to push sex-ed programs that promote homosexuality and transgender ideology among children. Western governments, led by the European Union and the Biden administration, are insistent that the resolution must include ‘comprehensive sexuality education’ because the theme of this year’s resolution is centered on education.” Read more here.

 

Putting Children at the Center of Family Policy, by Katy Faust. “Our culture has shifted drastically, but children haven’t changed. In fact, they continue to be victimized by practices and policies that prioritize adult desires above children’s rights. It’s past time to start putting them at the center of our national conversation. That begins with clearly and courageously defending children’s rights by shaping culture, reforming law, and rethinking our approach to technology.” Read more here.

 

Transgender Inc.: A Running List of Corporate Gender Insanity Insulting Women, Kids, and Reality, by The Federalist Staff. “Rather than highlight the dangerous and irreversible procedures associated with transgenderism, … many major corporations have opted to champion trans ideology – even for unsuspecting children. In order to help Americans hold these companies financially accountable, The Federalist has compiled a list of major businesses promoting and glorifying gender dysphoria.” Read more here.

 

The Surgeries Are Immoral, by Cole S. Aronson. “The real problem is more basic: the surgeries remove healthy organs without good reason. That’s not risky – it’s harmful and morally wrong. The people who seek such surgeries are trying to alleviate very real suffering, but whether surgery addresses such suffering humanely is not a question patients are automatically best positioned to answer. That’s true of any patient seeking any medical procedure.” Read more here.

 

A Double Mastectomy at 13? How Can President Biden Possibly Overlook That? by Michael Cook. “It’s painfully obvious that the President is ignoring the growing number of detransitioners – don’t they deserve to be safe and supported as well? He ended his speech with these stirring words: ‘You’re each made in the image of God, and deserve love, dignity, and respect. You make America stronger, and we’re with you.’ But that’s all they are – words. Or does he mean that ‘love, dignity, and respect’ mean amputating the healthy breasts of a 13-year-old girl?” Read more here.

 

This Is How Schools Are Trying to Gender-Transition Children Without Parents’ Knowledge, by Christopher Tremoglie. “Another report surfaced yesterday detailing how a school district in Colorado also focused on deceiving parents about children transitioning… Their thoughts have progressed into what should be considered criminal actions. Any school district, school, or teacher enabling a student’s transition without notifying and consulting their parents should be charged with child abuse by law enforcement.” Read more here.

 

Last Students Graduate: School Closures Spread in Aging Japan, by Eimi Yamamitsu, Tom Bateman, and Issei Kato. “Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has pledged ‘unprecedented measures’ to boost the birthrate … and says maintaining the educational environment is crucial. But little has helped so far. Births tumbled below 800,000 in 2022, a new record low, according to government estimates and eight years earlier than expected, dealing a knockout blow to smaller public schools that are often the heart of rural towns and villages.” Read more here.

 

Women Deserve to Be Empowered by Doctors, Not Rushed to Medical Abortion Without Them, by Susan Bane. “…[T]he Department of Justice announced the U.S. Postal Service can continue to deliver prescribed abortion drugs… Similarly, the FDA changed a rule to allow abortion drugs to be dispensed at retail pharmacies… These developments do a great disservice to women by removing the opportunity for them to receive information that can empower them to make informed decisions. This is especially true when the dangers of self-administered abortion are considered.” Read more here.

 

Democrats Reintroduce Radical Abortion Bill in GOP-Controlled House, by Rebecca Downs. “Lest you think the bill’s name means Democrats have acknowledged the biological reality that only women can get pregnant, a quick glance of the text dashes any hope. ‘This Act is intended to protect all people with the capacity for pregnancy – cisgender women, transgender men, nonbinary individuals, those who identify with a different gender, and others – who are unjustly harmed by restrictions on abortion services,’ it reads.” Read more here.

 

Liberal Media Champion Leftist Crusaders ‘Against Book Bans,’ by Tim Graham. “One uproar is over books – assigned books in the classroom and available books in the school library. Disagree with the content of the books? You’re for ‘book bans.’ Technically, this is accurate inside the school, but the leftist press makes it sound like you’re banning books entirely from public view. They get to pose as the defenders of books and ‘book learning’ and as compassionate defenders of the book-reading needs of the ‘marginalized.’” Read more here.

 

Pumping Gender-Bending Drugs Into Kids Is Even More Dangerous Than We Thought, by Samuel Silvestro and Jay W. Richards. “Lupron stops the body’s normal hormonal process, including the development of ovaries and testes, by ‘blocking’ the brain’s ability to communicate with the pituitary gland… Lupron’s side effects are so severe that doctors tend not to prescribe it for even mild (non-metastatic) cases of prostate cancer. Would you be shocked to learn it might not be great for young girls, either?” Read more here.

 

I Was a Public School Teacher, and I’m Blowing the Whistle on Transgenderism Before Its Too Late, by Stephen Schultz. “One 8th grade boy arrived at school in high heels, a short skirt, open blouse, make-up, and women’s jewelry. He demanded to use the girls’ restroom… Too many Americans too often think that these sorts of bizarre things cannot possibly be happening because they were not remotely part of their own personal school experience. Unfortunately, they are very real, they are increasingly common, and now they are not only protected but promoted.” Read more here.

 

Holy See Foils Western Push for Abortion/Sex Ed at UN Commission, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “Western countries kept negotiations going on comprehensive sexuality education, abortion-related terms, and homosexual/trans issues deep into the night, well past the deadline for agreement… These are common tactics to break down opposition through a combination of political pressure, tiredness, and discomfort. The idea is to make it so difficult that by the time agreement comes only the most dutiful and tenacious of diplomats are left in the negotiating room.” Read more here.

 

Why States Must Define Sex Precisely, by Jay W. Richards. “Until recently, no precise legal definition of sex … was needed because no one contested it. Unfortunately, because of gender ideology’s growing influence on our laws and institutions, states no longer have this luxury. Gender activists are now working to redefine sex in federal laws and regulations, such as Title IX, to include ‘gender identity.’ If this succeeds, it will subvert all preexisting legal references to sex, contrary to their original intent.” Read more here.

 

Abortion Giant Lies About Outcome of Recent UN Negotiation, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “The international abortion giant issued a press release following the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) claiming that ‘the text includes a standalone paragraph on comprehensive sexuality education (CSE).’ In fact, the term CSE was not included anywhere in the document. The paragraph referred to by IPPF included language insisting that education must be ‘age appropriate,’ ‘relevant to cultural contexts’ and ‘with appropriate direction and guidance from parents and legal guardians.’” Read more here.

 

There Are No Banned Books, by David Harsanyi. “For the left, the banned book claim is a political racket, allowing them to feign indignation over the alleged ‘authoritarianism’ of Republicans who don’t want kids reading identitarian pseudohistories or books depicting oral sex, rape, violence, or gender dysphoria in their schools. Yet, major media now regularly contend, as indisputable fact, that ‘book bans’ are in place.” Read more here.

 

The Government Should Not Bully People Into Supporting ‘Gender Transitions,’ by Matt Lamb. “Religious institutions have First Amendment rights to refuse to be involved with medical procedures that violate their teachings and beliefs… The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, which represents Catholics across the country, recently admonished efforts by the federal government to force hospitals to assist in transgender procedures, such as surgeries that remove healthy organs and can permanently make someone sterile or infertile.” Read more here.

 

Belgium to Allow Repeated Gender Changes, by Wesley J. Smith. “The Belgium supreme court previously ruled that requiring people to identify as male or female violated the equality of people who don’t see themselves as exclusively either. So, a new law will be passed allowing ongoing fluidity of gender identity which will be officially recognized by submitting a simple form… This is civilization-destroying stuff. Not because of the transgender issue per se, but because it represents the triumph of the subjective.” Read more here.

 

Sex Education Is Now How-to in Schools – Parents, Beware, by Betsy McCaughey. “The facts of life haven’t changed, but sex ed is entirely different from what you took in school. Sex ed in middle school now includes graphic lessons on anal sex, oral sex and masturbation, with stick figures to illustrate body positions. Supplemental reading in middle school libraries includes ‘Sex, Puberty, and All That Stuff,’ a book explaining foreplay and how to rub the clitoris to produce pleasure… Planned Parenthood, the largest producer of sex-ed curriculum for public schools, argues children are entitled to know how to ‘experience different forms of sexual pleasure.’” Read more here.

 

FDA Stonewalled Abortion Drug Concerns to Escape Responsibility for Their Dangers, by Julie Marie Blake. “When the FDA first approved the chemical abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol in 2000, it sidestepped the required studies – including studies that look specifically at risks for teenage girls – and wrongly categorized the drugs as offering a ‘meaningful therapeutic benefit.’ The FDA justified its reckless approval by claiming that pregnancy is a ‘life-threatening or serious illness.’” Read more here.

 

Parents Are Fed Up With Public Schools Secretly Transitioning Children, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “Could these clandestine transition policies and practices be the reason for the alarming spike in the number of high schoolers identifying as transgender? The U.S. saw a nearly five-fold increase in gender transition surgeries for teens from 2016 to 2019 alone. And a new report indicates that approximately 300,000 adolescents between the ages of 13 and 17 now identify as transgender. It is not surprising, then, that disenfranchised parents have finally had it.” Read more here.

 

Maternity Wards Are Closing Everywhere Because of a Lack of Babies; the Media Desperately Want to Make It a Story About Abortion Bans, by Timothy P. Carney. “Maternity wards have been closing all over the United States for more than a decade, primarily for a simple reason: People have been having fewer babies every year since 2007. There were fewer children in America at the 2020 census than there were in the 2010 census. Of course, a country with less maternity will be a country with fewer maternity wards… The closure of rural hospitals’ obstetrics and maternity wards has nothing to do with laws that protect the unborn…” Read more here.

 

Why Is Netflix Teaching Preschoolers to Come Out as Nonbinary? by Madeline Fry Schultz. “In the show, which is targeted toward preschoolers, ‘Fred’ the bison is reunited with her grandmother and realizes that she hasn’t told her that she now goes by ‘Fred’ instead of ‘Winifred’ and uses ‘they/them’ pronouns… The story is pure propaganda, but don’t take my word for it: Series creator Chris Nee called the episode ‘a road map for coming out but also for having someone else tell you they’ve changed their pronouns and/or name.’” Read more here.

 

DeSantis Goes There, Shows Graphic Video of Effects of ‘Gender-Affirming’ Surgeries Alongside Biden Comments, by Bob Hoge. “Tuesday afternoon, the Florida Governor’s response team … was it at again, taking footage of President Joe Biden lambasting the state for its policies on transgender surgeries and putting in a split-screen with videos showing some of the more benign steps of ‘gender-affirming surgery.’ WARNING: some of the images are graphic, so if you’re squeamish, beware. It’s hard to watch.” Read more here.

 

Vermont Bans a High School From Athletics for Objecting to Boys in Girls’ Sports, by Zachary Faria. “The [Vermont Principals’ Association] alleged that Mid Vermont Christian violated the organization’s policy on discrimination and harassment by refusing to force its girls to play basketball against a boy… This wasn’t done to uphold the sanctity of VPA’s policies. It was done as a warning to other schools that recognize how unfair it is to force its girls’ teams to play against boys. Bend the knee to gender ideology, or you too will be banned from all sports.” Read more here.

 

With ‘Abortion Provider Appreciation Day,’ Democrats Openly Celebrate Executioners, by Nathanael Blake. “…[A]bortion advocates believe that without abortion, women cannot be sexually and economically – and therefore socially and politically – equal to men. But this perceived remedy to the injustice and inequality of nature is itself unjust and unequal. In this age of ultrasound, we can no longer effectively lie to ourselves about the lives violently ended by abortion. We have all seen the pulsing heartbeats and the tiny fingers. There is no justice in ending these developing human lives.” Read more here.

 

If Biden Gets His Way, Using Correct Pronouns Could Be a Human Rights Violation, by Cherise Trump. “With Title IX enforcing gender ideology, what will happen to students who disagree with this dangerous dogma? What will happen to students who believe in basic biology, namely the notion that there are two sexes, that a man can’t become a woman, and vice versa? What will happen to students who have traditional values and remain true to their faith? The answer is alarming. Under this butchered version of civil rights law, these students will be vulnerable to an array of punishments, including suspension and even expulsion.” Read more here.

 

Yes, the State Has Both the Right and the Responsibility to Restrict Gender Ideology, by Kaylee McGhee White. “He points out that giving the state additional authority over familial relationships is a slippery slope, arguing that this authority could easily be used against, say, homeschooling families. …[T]here is no question at all that surgically and chemically mutilating children … is morally reprehensible. This reality must take priority over any concern of a slippery slope, no matter how legitimate it might be.” Read more here.

 

From California to South Carolina, Abortion Extremists Pollute Public Policy, by Quin Hillyer. “Enough is too much. On both sides. Abortion is a matter so fraught with conflicting emotions, conflicting values and beliefs, and still even conflicting ‘science’ that there’s no way a pluralistic society will ever reach a perfect consensus on it. For the foreseeable future, there will be plenty of facets of abortion policy to argue about, battle politically about, and maybe prayerfully compromise over, all in a very broad range. In that light, shouldn’t we all at least renounce the absolute extremes?” Read more here.

 

No, Age-Appropriate Library Restrictions Are Not ‘Book Bans,’ by Raheem Williams. “The issue is primarily a cultural tug-of-war taking place in public school libraries. The discovery of sexually explicit books on school bookshelves nationwide has sparked controversy… There’s an assumption that the government has a responsibility to produce and distribute every book in existence to school children free of charge. This may sound great until you consider that books often contain inaccurate, poorly sourced, or controversial information.” Read more here.

 

Four Things to Know About Major Texas Court Case Against Abortion Pill Access, by Kaelan Deese. “The case surrounds a challenge brought by anti-abortion physicians and medical associations to the Food and Drug Association’s 2000 approval of the drug mifepristone, the first drug in the medication abortion process. If the judge grants the request to block access to the drug nationwide, it could make the abortion pills more difficult to obtain even in states where such procedures are legal.” Read more here.

 

Exposing the Lie of ‘Gender-Affirming Care,’ by Doreen Denny. “…[W]hat didn’t receive that kind of attention is a recent statement by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, that the practice of so-called ‘gender-affirming care,’ convincing impressionable teenagers that feeling like the opposite sex means you are the opposite sex, is extremely damaging. In a seven-part statement, AAPS exposes this heresy – ‘changing physical appearance does not change biological sex’ – and takes direct aim at the medical industry promoting destructive ‘transgender’ medical procedures on youth…” Read more here.

 

Declaring a Public Health Emergency Over Abortion Would Be Reckless, by Jeanne Mancini. “A public health emergency declaration would expand distribution of these pills and eliminate safeguards at the expense of women’s health. It would allow the Biden administration to simply ignore any unfavorable ruling in the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine’s lawsuit and to promote the chemical abortion pill even more. But it wouldn’t stop there. The declaration would also direct emergency federal resources towards advancing the pro-abortion agenda overall and force Americans to fund it against their consciences.” Read more here.

 

VA House Stops Democrats From Putting a Right to Partial-Birth Abortion in the State Constitution, by Ashley Bateman. “The amendment would have … legalized abortion up to and during birth… That bill would have given abortionists license to choose an alternative method of killing through a provision of ‘Method not listed’ with almost no limitations. The so-called Right to Abortion Amendment would have made unborn babies vulnerable to these assaults up until birth. Advocates made no apologies for their gruesome stance.” Read more here.

 

Norway Offers a Stop Forward in Eliminating Gender Ideology, by Debra Soh. “Common sense and science are gradually prevailing. Last week, the Norwegian Healthcare Investigation Board announced it would be revising its current guidelines regarding so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors because it no longer considers them to be evidence-based. The board also acknowledged that the growing number of teenage girls identifying as male post-puberty remains under-studied.” Read more here.

 

Make Women Female Again, by Christopher Tremoglie. “The joint forces of the radical Left and the transgender lobby have appropriated the day to adhere to the insanity that is contemporary left-wing political ethos. Once a day to celebrate all things feminine, International Women’s Day now actually celebrates men pretending to be women… Women must not submit to left-wing cultural extremism that would debase them and embrace a counterfeit womanhood.” Read more here.

 

Outdated State Laws Don’t Address Common Practice of Teenage Sexting, by Christine Queally. “Cases involving child sexual abuse material have risen in the last two decades with the advent of new technologies to capture and share explicit imagery… While it is illegal for teenagers to send explicit images of their peers to others in all states and of themselves to others in almost all states, many of them still do. In fact, according to a 2018 study, more teenagers are sending and receiving explicit imagery than ever before.” Read more here.

 

FDA Absurdly Claims There’s ‘Therapeutic Benefit’ to Killing Unborn Babies With Drugs, by Terence Jeffrey. “…[T]he Biden administration’s argument for the alleged ‘therapeutic benefit’ of a chemical abortion focuses entirely on the ramifications for the human being seeking the abortion, not the human being who is aborted… The administration completely ignores the fact that not only is there a death associated with the use of these drugs, it is the very purpose of these drugs. An unborn child is a human being. A drug that is designed to abort the life of that unborn child is a drug designed to kill a human being.” Read more here.

 

The Realities of Transition Regret, by Debra Soh. “She grieved the inability to breastfeed her baby after giving birth and wanted to raise awareness about the difficulties detransitioned women experience. She also spoke about the poor maternity care she encountered during her pregnancy because practitioners didn’t understand her situation or what detransitioning had entailed… Considering that girls as young as 12 are undergoing this procedure, I anticipate a huge uptick in the number of new mothers presenting with this issue in the future.” Read more here.

 

How Undemocratic Democrats Force Gender Ideology on Unsuspecting Families, by Washington Examiner. “The committee’s report justifying its recommendations explains that ‘when students are separated by boys and girls, it affirms a rigid binary based on anatomy.’ Apparently, this affirmation of biological reality is bad. The committee adds, ‘Separation of students into boys and girls does not create an inclusive environment for instruction to occur.’ Inclusion, in this rationale, excludes the opinion of the vast majority, which also happens to accord with reality rather than the Left’s preferred fantasy.” Read more here.

 

Pro-Lifers Issue Warnings After Ohio’s ‘Radical’ Abortion Amendment Clears First Hurdle, by Sarah Arnold. “The proposed constitutional amendment would pose risks for women by removing current health and safety protections for women, abolish parental consent and notification laws, and enable abortion on demand up until the moment of birth… SBA Pro-Life America’s State Affairs Director Sue Liebel cautioned against the amendment, saying it would endanger women’s lives by doing away with basic health regulations.” Read more here.

 

Sending the Wounded to the Front, by Nathanael Blake. “Transgenderism is culturally powerful and financially lucrative – every troubled teenage girl who identifies as trans is worth a fortune to the medical–pharmaceutical complex. Greed and ideology are a potent combination, so it is no wonder that almost all safeguards have been abandoned when it comes to transitioning children. But this greed may be their undoing. …[L]awsuits may bring down the medical and pharmaceutical cartels that profited from hurting them. The transgender monolith will fall as its victims stand up to it.” Read more here.

 

Major Doctors’ Organization Publicly Embraces Dismembering Babies Until Birth, by Jordan Boyd. “…[T]he American College of Physicians (ACP) announced its official stance on abortion is that ‘individuals have the right to make their own decisions, in partnership with their physician or health care professional’ without legal consequences… The ACP also used the brief … to formally condemn life-saving pro-life laws for banning the barbaric practice of in-utero dismemberment abortion and punishing anyone who illegally ends unborn lives.” Read more here.

 

TikTok Influencers Are Trying to Turn Your Kids Trans Behind Your Back as This Must-See Exposé Shows, by Brandon Morse. “…White points out that some of these influencers talking to your kid are actively encouraging your child to keep their ‘conversations’ a secret from you, the parent. This doesn’t just mean random transgendered people, but medical professionals as well who give out phone numbers they can call for a secretive consultation… None of this should be surprising but it’s absolutely integral to see what your kids may very well be seeing whenever they log onto TikTok, if you let them on the app at all.” Read more here.

 

The Powerful LGBT Group Behind California’s Most Radical Laws Is Setting Its Sights on Washington, by Susannah Luthi. “Powerful organizations in Sacramento often team up on bill sponsorship to add to the pressure. Unions, several of which donate to Equality California, are a particularly important ally, as are Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union. Together, this coalition overhauled California schools’ sex education curriculum to include instruction about gay sex and gender identities. Planned Parenthood and Equality California consult with districts on how to teach the program.” Read more here.

 

Parents Defended Embattled Child Gender Clinic. Their Stories Confirm Critics’ Worst Fears, by Laurel Duggan. “About two dozen parents disputed recent claims that the Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital was rushing mentally ill children onto cross-sex medical interventions … but their stories highlight some of the clinic’s controversial practices… Parents who were supportive of the clinic reported that their children had numerous mental health comorbidities and transitioned at young ages, sometimes without a history of gender identity issues, and that doctors used suicide risk to pressure families into medical transitions.” Read more here.

 

Washington State AG: Abortion Pill Is ‘Safer Than Tylenol,’ by Dan Hart. “As noted previously by Szoch and Dr. Ingrid Skop, chemical abortions also pose a unique challenge for the woman, who is expected to carry out the abortion at her home. ‘Chemical abortions are uniquely traumatic in that a mother must personally dispose of the remains of her aborted child, who may be visibly recognizable as a baby. At eight to 10 weeks gestation when chemical abortions are often carried out, the baby is approximately the size and shape of a gummy bear with easily recognizable head, hands, feet, fingers, and toes.’” Read more here.

 

Washington State Would Destroy Both a Homeless Shelter and Religious Freedom, by Quin Hillyer. “The Washington Supreme Court, ignoring copious U.S. Supreme Court precedent, recently decided that the Union Gospel Mission may not adhere to its faith-based hiring practices, and state officials now threaten the charity with considerable punishment for doing so. As in many other similar cases, the homeless shelter in question will serve anybody in need but just not hire nonbelievers to serve them.” Read more here.

 

NSW Must Not Repeat the Mistakes of Other States About Conversion Therapy Legislation, by John Steenhof. “The NSW Parliament must resist pressure to repeat the same mistakes. It should open an evidence-based parliamentary inquiry. It should hold public hearings. It should listen to the voices of dissenting gays and lesbians. It should protect the right of people to seek whatever help they want, from whoever they want, in accordance with the human rights of all concerned.” Read more here.

 

Busting Five Myths of Gender Ideology, by Madeleine Kearns. “Scrutinizing the claims of gender ideology, it soon becomes apparent how incoherent they are. On the one hand, we’re told that men and women are the same – that the differences we observe in professional outcomes and sexual behavior are the result of sexist stereotyping. And yet, they are different; and men can really be women and women can really be men, by appropriating opposite-sex stereotypes.” Read more here.

 

Actually, Most People Love Being Parents, by Jim Dalrymple. “Specifically, 36% of Pew’s respondents said that being a parent is enjoyable all the time. Another 44% said it’s enjoyable most of the time. That’s a total of 80% of respondents who described parenting as enjoyable… More surprising still, lower-income parents are actually more likely to see parenting as enjoyable and rewarding all the time than parents with higher and middle incomes.” Read more here.

 

The Abortion Pill Turns Every Woman’s Home Into a Potential Site of Trauma, by Abby Johnson. “I have counseled many former abortion workers as well as women who have had abortions. The anguish they suffer is almost unbearable. Abortion workers see a side of abortion almost no one else does – they have to put together the pieces of the baby in the lab to make sure nothing is left inside the woman… They have images inside their heads they can never forget. Now women who go the medication abortion route are going to see these same things, and like many abortion workers, they aren’t trained to deal with it.” Read more here.

 

With 3D Body-Image Avatars and Fake Voices for Trans People, Biden’s NIH Goes to New Extremes, by Anonymous. “The NIH is wasting taxpayer dollars on a project titled ‘Personalized 3D avatar tool development for measurement of body perception across gender identities,’ which purports to help people with gender dysphoria by mapping the difference between their actual physical embodiment and what they believe their body to be. But instead, it indulges their illness by defying science and denying the immutability of sex.” Read more here.

 

Biden Seeks to Strip Health Care Professionals of Conscience Protections, by Melanie Israel. “In 2019, the Trump administration issued a regulation empowering the Department of Health and Human Services to robustly enforce federal conscience protection laws. But now, the Biden administration is proposing to gut those rules, which would ultimately leave people more vulnerable to being forced to participate in controversial procedures that violate their conscience.” Read more here.

 

The Left’s Transgender Agenda for Children Is at a Tipping Point, by Sarah Weaver. “A large number of key studies used to justify sex-change treatments for minors have fallen apart under scrutiny. One study, which outlets like NBC, U.S. News and The Hill touted as disproving the theory that ‘social contagion’ contributes to the rise in transgender-identified youth, was methodologically flawed… What studies do appear to show, however, is that in cases of children experiencing gender dysphoria, the vast majority will desist.” Read more here.

 

The Scientific Revolt Against Gender Ideology Has Begun, by Kaylee McGhee White. “To be clear, gender activists don’t really care whether the science backs up their agenda or not. But it does give them a claim to authority on this issue, which they have used aggressively in recent years to convince every one of our powerful institutions, from the education establishment to the healthcare sector to the White House, to accept gender ideology as fact. Debunking their bogus scientific claims brings us one step closer to breaking this ideological grip.” Read more here.

 

Want to Protect Life? Oppose Revival of the Equal Rights Amendment, by Emma Waters. “…Democrats have looked for new ways to secure an absolute right to abortion. If Congress votes to remove the expiration date of the Equal Rights Amendment, and if the amendment is ratified later by the specified number of states, then the ERA could anchor a supposed right to abortion in the Constitution itself… To protect the lives of women and their unborn children, lawmakers must oppose the national Equal Rights Amendment.” Read more here.

 

As Porn Gets Worse and Democrats Embrace It, One Newer Group Has a Novel Approach to Combat It, by Rachel Alexander. “The left promotes the attitude of doing whatever you want sexually by labeling it ‘freedom’ but completely ignores all the damage porn does to its victims. Many of the women exploited are fooled into thinking it’s harmless… Brain scans have shown that pornography has the same effect on the brain as cocaine. FTND states that there are ‘35 neuroscience-based studies using a variety of brain imaging technologies … that provide solid support for the reality of internet porn addiction.’” Read more here.

 

Washington State Teacher ‘Says the Quiet Part Out Loud’ on Parental Rights in Education, by Tyler O’Neil. “’On one hand, it’s utterly frightening that a teacher would hold the views that she is a better judge of children than their own parents and then publicly say so on Twitter,’ Prior said. ‘On the other hand, having people in positions of authority say the quiet part out loud gives parents the opportunity to understand what is actually happening at their schools and take appropriate action.’” Read more here.

 

Biden Pentagon Orders Military Chaplains to Bless Putting Male Soldiers in Female Showers and Bedrooms, by Elaine Donnelly. “Military commanders, doctors and nurses, chaplains, and military men and women at all levels must endorse and act on this ideological belief or suffer career penalties if they don’t. Alleged ‘biases against transgender individuals,’ which are prohibited, could include anything from ‘misgendering’ people with the wrong pronouns to expressions of concern about medically questionable hormone treatments or surgeries for adults or military-dependent children.” Read more here.

 

Citizens Request Treaty Change for Abortion, by Bridget Ryder. “A European Citizen’s Initiative (ECI) to add access to abortion to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union has – for the moment – been rejected by the European Commission… As the commission has made it clear, it does not have the power to move forward with citizens’ proposals on treaty change, so the initiative may be a dead end for abortion advocates. But … pro-life supporters should keep an eye on such proposals. They are one more way abortion proponents will continue their attempts to create a right to abortion.” Read more here.

 

Incredible … UN Women Refused to Hear WYA’s CSW67 Recommendations, by Sofia Piecuch. “Our participant from Tunisia spoke against the inclusion of CSE but was not allowed to finish. ‘They cut me off saying that they have no time and mentioned going back to the main room…’ As WYA experienced, the space provided by UN Women to gather youth and adolescent inputs was not open, inclusive, accessible or transparent for WYA members, who were either removed from the platform or silenced by moderators.” Read more here.

 

How the LGBT Movement Is Making Young Women Depressed, by Conn Carroll. “…[I]f you dig into the numbers a little deeper, you’ll quickly see that almost all of the growth in LGBT identification is coming from young adults identifying as ‘bisexual,’ and almost all of the growth in young Americans identifying as ‘bisexual’ is coming from young women specifically… One recent study found that bisexual females and females questioning their sexuality had significantly higher scores for depression, anxiety, and traumatic distress than female heterosexuals.” Read more here.

 

Teenage Girls Are in Trouble. It’s Time to Acknowledge Social Media’s Role, by Jean Twenge. “Although not all teens are negatively affected by social media, some are very negatively impacted. If 38% of girls who ate a new-to-the-market candy got a stomachache, compared to only 11% who ate other candy, the new candy would immediately be pulled from the market even though the majority were not adversely affected. Yet those are the exact statistics for social media and depression for girls in one of the best-designed studies, and social media is still available to children and teens with no age verification required.” Read more here.

 

UN Commission Considers AI Crackdown on Homosexual/Trans Critics, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “The first artificial intelligence programs have only just begun to emerge, but progressive countries already have plans to use the new technology to silence … anyone who objects to abortion and homosexual/trans demands. Progressive Western governments are pushing for global censorship through artificial intelligence to fight ‘technology-facilitated sexual and gender-based violence,’ a new term that can be used to re-cast opposition to abortion and homosexual/trans rights as a form of online violence and quash it.” Read more here.

 

The Evils of ‘Gender-Affirming’ Care, by Isabella DeLuca. “The issue that we are facing now is medical professionals, such as doctors and therapists, who are put in place to protect children, are spreading this propaganda that all gender dysphoria has one root cause: being born in the wrong body and that there is one solution to this: complete gender transition. This supposed ‘cause’ does not account for any other potential internal or external factors within the child’s life, and this ‘treatment’ does nothing but harm the child.” Read more here.

 

Taxpayer-Funded NPR Uncritically Promotes Mutilation for ‘Transgender’ Children, by Zachary Faria. “NPR is the best propaganda outlet that taxpayer money can buy. The outlet has joined in on the transgender craze, publishing a completely uncritical piece about ‘gender-affirming care’ for children in Florida, one of the states that have wisely moved to ban it. ‘Gender-affirming care’ is nothing more than chemical manipulation and surgical mutilation, and such procedures have permanent effects on children that can never be reversed.” Read more here.

 

Beyond Binary: New and Old Models of Fatherhood Can Work Together, by Alan J. Hawkins. “The missing second part of his statement is a clear acknowledgement that quality and quantity are highly correlated, that the quality of the parental relationship is strongly associated with positive father involvement, and that co-residence supports quality father engagement, while not living with the child and the child’s mother inhibits it, even among fathers who have a strong desire to be good dads. Yes, non-residential fathers can be good fathers … but the empirical reality … is that the odds are heavily stacked against fathers when the romantic partnership with his child’s mother goes south.” Read more here.

 

The Associated Press Joins the War on Crisis Pregnancy Centers, by Ashley McGuire. “Calling pregnancy centers, many of which have names that are in no way identified with abortion or the politics surrounding it, ‘anti-abortion,’ jeopardizes the vulnerable women that turn to them for help… But the AP’s mischaracterization of these centers does more than push incendiary language. It’s flat-out biased and unfair – and that would be true coming from anyone, much less from an enterprise claiming to be the literal vanguard of journalistic integrity.” Read more here.

 

There’s a New Battlefield in the Fight Over Abortion, and Conflict Is Heating Up, by Katelynn Richardson. “In 2000, when the FDA approved mifepristone, …it did so under accelerated approval regulations intended for drugs that ‘have been studied for their safety and effectiveness in treating serious or life-threatening illnesses and that provide meaningful therapeutic benefit to patients over existing treatments,’ forcing the agency to categorize pregnancy as an ‘illness,’ according to the lawsuit.” Read more here.

 

Reforms Could Change Ethos of Australia’s Religious Schools, by Angela Shanahan. “The ALRC says a school would have control over the curriculum, as far as the state’s curriculum guidelines. Fair enough, but how can you have control over curriculum, especially in religion, when at the same time there is a proviso to present ‘alternative views’ that ignore the fundamental nature of Judaeo-Christian teaching on marriage, family and sex that is at the moral core of belief on human sexuality and procreation of human life?” Read more here.

 

Leave Pregnancy Resource Centers Alone, by Matt Lamb. “…[T]here are efforts from Big Tech, politicians, and legacy media to harm these groups that provide low-cost or free services to help families choose life and either raise their children in a healthy environment or place them for adoption… While Big Tech silences within the private sector, political efforts work to use the weight of the government to stop these pro-life nonprofit organizations.” Read more here.

 

The Child Sex Change Industry Is Exploding in the U.S., by Laurel Duggan. “About 300,000 children in the U.S. identify as transgender, according to the University of California Los Angeles Williams Institute, though not everyone who adopts a transgender identity seeks a medical transition. While many of these children undergo surgical procedures, particularly mastectomies, a larger portion receive puberty blockers and/or hormones, which provides a continuous stream of revenue to pharmaceutical companies and medical providers.” Read more here.

 

Spain: Study Links Increased Transgender Cases With Laws, by Bridget Ryder. “The study found that in Valencia, the number of transgender cases grew by more than 10,000 percent between 2016 and 2021. In Catalonia, it grew by 7,000 percent between 2012 and 2021, with the number of new cases increasing by 40 percent between 2020 and 2021. In Madrid, between January and August of 2022 alone, the endocrinology departments of the city’s six public hospitals received a total of 848 visits from referrals by the gender identity units, almost half of which were first consultations.” Read more here.

 

By Accusing Pregnancy Centers of False Advertising, Pro-Abortion Politicians Prove They Can’t Handle the Truth, by Jor-El Godsey. “If every state already has laws against deceptive advertising and if pregnancy centers are, in their opponents’ words, advertising deceptively, why is another law required? You’d think … the current laws would have been easy to use to stop the ‘deceptive advertising’ practices the abortion proponents rail against… Perhaps pregnancy centers are really only guilty of standing against Big Abortion and its deep pockets and bought-off politicians.” Read more here.

 

Can States Stop Do-It-Yourself Abortion Pills? by Sarah Parshall Perry. “State or local governments can regulate matters related to health and safety without violating the supremacy clause. And, as my Heritage Foundation colleague Tom Jipping and I have written, that means, with Roe v. Wade now overruled, the states may again exercise their traditional police power to restrict or prohibit abortion – including particular methods of abortion, such as by pill.” Read more here.

 

How Autogynephilia Is Fueling Today’s Transgender Activism, by Debra Soh. “There exists an overlap between [autogynephilia] and narcissistic and antisocial personality disorders, but the most aggressive individuals with AGP, who demand that trans women be considered indistinguishable from women, and who are overriding social boundaries and requiring policy to facilitate this, don’t represent everybody. Many of those experiencing AGP do so quietly and don’t transition to female full-time.” Read more here.

 

End the Horrors of the Pediatric Gender-Industrial Complex, Now, by Post Editorial Board. “…[A]ll it took to get these kids on hormones was one letter from a therapist plus a single medical consultation. Those hormones have potentially life-altering and irreversible consequences, including sterility, liver toxicity and severe sexual issues. Worse yet, intakes came in from a mental health unit at the hospital. Yes, kids with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder were put on hormones as a cure for their mental illness…” Read more here.

 

Trained to Hate Their Sex and Selves, 1 in 3 Teen Girls Now Considers Suicide, by Auguste Meyrat. “What has changed in the last decade and in the last few years that has driven young women ever further to despair? From what I’ve witnessed as a high school teacher, this would probably be the rise of social media and transgenderism… Related to the problem of social media is the transgenderism movement, which argues that sex is fluid and that changing one’s sex will make someone happier. This idea has been incredibly destabilizing for female identity and has led to the wide-scale invasion of women’s spaces.” Read more here.

 

The Associated Press Has Lost Its Brain to Gender Ideology, by Zachary Faria. “The delusions go far beyond the scientifically illiterate assertion that men can become women and women can become men. The AP bemoans the lack of ‘recognition’ for ‘nonbinary or gender-fluid people,’ two completely fabricated categories that mean nothing… This is really all just a form of disinformation. The AP is taking sides in the culture war, and unfortunately, that means that its reporting on this topic cannot be trusted.” Read more here.

 

As Book Battles Erupt Across the Country, Idaho Turns to Legislation, by Abigail Olsson. “If this bill passes, parents would have the ability to sue agencies that expose children to inappropriate content, adding an additional layer of accountability to the education system. Allowing parents to sue is a good step forward, Kilgannon says, but ‘the only reason we need a bill like this is because librarians, teachers, and school administrators are ignoring parents.’” Read more here.

 

Six Reasons Why Alex Greenwich’s Gay Conversion Therapy Bill Will Be Bad for New South Wales, by Michael Cook. “A ban on criticism of LGBTQIA+ will stop parents, pastors, and therapist [sic] from offering advice to teenagers who are confused about their sexuality. A ban is a conversion rachet which moves only in one direction – towards assimilation in the LGBTQIA+ community. It will allow therapists to offer affirming advice to teens but stop anyone from discouraging them. The ultimate effect of this will be to hand over the care of troubled teens to government-funded counsellors.” Read more here.

 

‘Queer’ Whistleblower Exposes Evils of the School-to-Scalpel Pipeline, by Ian Prior. “The whistleblower’s story … reveals the endgame of drugs and surgery to chemically castrate and irreversibly damage children physically and mentally. That endgame does not happen in isolation. It begins at school… Students who ‘identify’ as a different sex are effectively given rights above and beyond everyone else. It’s no wonder young adolescents would deal with their growing pains in a way that gives them a feeling of acceptance, validation, and being part of a new ‘civil right.’” Read more here.

 

Red States Should Lead Way in Reforming Anti-Marriage Welfare Policies, by Benjamin Paris and Jamie Bryan Hall. “Twenty-six state-level preschool programs contain penalties that discourage marriage. The vast majority of those programs will allow a single mother to send her child to preschool free of charge but eliminate the entire preschool benefit if she marries a man of equal or even lower income… Because of this program structure, a typical working-class couple is incentivized to remain unmarried and raise their children as single parents in order to retain their preschool benefits.” Read more here.

 

Prayer Is Becoming Criminal in the UK, by Elyssa Koren. “Prayer, even silent prayer, could be a prosecutable offense in the United Kingdom, thanks to recent developments. Catholic priest Father Sean Gough from Birmingham, England finds himself in the midst of a legal battle for allegedly violating a censorship zone banning prayer on public streets around an abortion facility. This marks the latest in a string of thought crime cases rocking fundamental freedoms in the UK.” Read more here.

 

No, Being a Mother to Your Unborn Baby Is Not the Same as Slavery, by Nathanael Blake. “No one at the time the 13th Amendment was written and ratified thought it included unwanted pregnancy as a form of involuntary servitude. And they were right. It is madness to regard a developing human in the womb as an intrusive stranger with no claim upon a woman. It is crazy to believe that the ordinary, natural processes of human reproduction are the moral and legal equivalent of slavery.” Read more here.

 

Detransitioners Are Being Abandoned by Medical Professionals Who Devastated Their Bodies and Minds, by Kelsey Bolar. “After being swarmed by health providers who enabled her to medically transition as a minor, Prisha Mosley now says she’s been abandoned by the medical community as she attempts to navigate a complicated and painful detransition… Prisha doesn’t know why she’s been turned away from so many doctors and medical providers – whether it’s about money, politics, or a lack of knowledge to help.” Read more here.

 

Religious Schools Will Be Forced to Embrace Transgender Ideology, by Kirralie Smith. “The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has released a paper that seems intent on destroying religious schooling in Australia… Balancing clauses that have, until now, allowed religious schools and colleges to operate in accordance with their faith, are to be abolished. The propositions require the schools, even religious studies classes, to include ‘alternative views,’ and staff cannot be restricted in any way regardless of their sexual orientation or identity.” Read more here.

 

The United Nations’ Agenda to Sexualize American Children in the Name of Equality, by Kimberly Ells. “…UNESCO, UNICEF, UNFPA, WHO, and their partners including IPPF have proven themselves to be tenacious advocates of CSE and/or sexual rights for children. Since this is the case, the global education structure being mounted by them is poised to spread sexual rights ideology like a contagion to children everywhere. UN-directed, tech-based education is the syringe through which comprehensive sexuality education is poised to be administered to the children of the world.” Read more here.

 

State Hearings on Gender Transitions for Minors Draw Large Crowds, by Chantel Hoyt. “The contentious debate surrounding gender transition procedures for minors continued unabated in statehouses across the nation this week, with several states moving bills meant to shield youth from the physical and emotional harms of such procedures… State lawmakers seem more determined than ever to address the trauma and permanent scars experienced by people like Chloe Cole from occurring to minors in their state.” Read more here.

 

I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle, by Jamie Reed. “During the four years I worked at the clinic as a case manager … around a thousand distressed young people came through our doors… I left the clinic in November of last year because I could no longer participate in what was happening there. By the time I departed, I was certain that the way the American medical system is treating these patients is the opposite of the promise we make to ‘do no harm.’ Instead, we are permanently harming the vulnerable patients in our care.” Read more here.

 

The FBI’s Slander of ‘Radical’ Traditionalist Catholics, by the Editors of National Review. “The Richmond office of the FBI prepared a memo on what it called ‘Radical Traditionalist Catholics’ and the threat they posed… The memo accuses such Catholics of ‘adherence to anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ and white supremacist ideology.’ It contains several references to Catholic hostility to ‘abortion rights.’ And it recommended with some optimism that containing the threat posed by such Catholics can be accomplished by cultivating sources and assets within the Catholic Church itself.” Read more here.

 

We Must Protect Minors From Gender Transition Procedures, by Matt Sharp. “We must be clear: the experimental gender transition procedures foisted on our children are often irreversible. They prevent healthy puberty, radically alter the child’s hormonal balance, and may even remove healthy external or internal organs and body parts. And not only are such drugs and procedures dangerous, but they are also experimental and unproven. In fact, multiple long-term studies show that when young children who experience gender dysphoria are allowed to mature naturally, most of them … grow out of their dysphoria.” Read more here.

 

Prostitution Bill Moves to Parliament, by Errol Naidoo. “This is not new legislation but rather the repeal of existing laws that criminalise the sale and purchase of adult sexual services. Essentially, this Amendment will legalize all aspects of the sex industry in South Africa – effectively legitimizing pimps, brothels and criminal syndicates. The impact of a legalized sex industry on society will be dire and far-reaching. Decriminalised prostitution significantly expands the sex trade and increases child prostitution and trafficking.” Read more here.

 

No Room for Debate: Parents, Not Schools, Must Direct Children’s ‘Gender’ Decisions, by Quin Hillyer. “The horrors inflicted upon Sage as a consequence comprise an extreme case, of course. But even if Sage had not been removed from her own home or abused, the school was way off base in hiding her ‘identity change’ from her parents to start with. No matter what school officials think about their own power, parents, not the officials, ordinarily have ultimate authority over how to raise children. Absent a court finding of abuse or severe abandonment, parental authority is sacrosanct.” Read more here.

 

Abortion-Inducing ‘Period Pills’ Come to the U.S., by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “…[P]roponents of so-called ‘period pills’ are trying to appeal to an audience that is uncomfortable with abortion for moral reasons.  A website promoting the pills quotes women’s reasons to prefer this method to a standard abortion following a pregnancy test. ‘It would be easier on my emotional well-being to not know I was actually pregnant,’ one woman said.  Another said, ‘I wouldn’t feel I am a bad person.’” Read more here.

 

Biden Paints Lifesaving, Pro-Life Laws as ‘Extreme,’ by Mary Margaret Olohan. “The president’s reference to ‘extreme abortion bans’ refers to laws that protect unborn babies from being killed. Almost 70% of Americans support limiting abortions to the first three months of a pregnancy… The states with strong pro-life laws on the books allow timely medical treatments for miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, and other medical procedures needed to save the life of a pregnant woman, contrary to the claims of many high-profile Democrats.” Read more here.

 

How to Combat Gender Theory in Public Schools, by Christopher Rufo. “As radical gender theory has made its way into public schools across the United States, children as young as five have been exposed to ideas that encourage them to question their gender identities, sometimes with life-changing and irreversible results. Despite Americans’ broadly shared skepticism about gender identity curricula and practices in schools, many ideologically motivated teachers and administrators have not relented in their mission to advance radical gender theory…” Read more here.

 

No, Mr. President, the Equality Act Harms Women and Children, by Emma Waters. “Biden encouraged Congress to pass the Equality Act ‘to ensure LGBTQ Americans, especially transgender young people, can live with safety and dignity.’ But we know what this is code for… The Equality Act harms women, children, and all those who understand mammalian biology. While he spoke in lofty terms about ‘our duty to protect all the people’s rights and freedoms’ last night, Biden’s address failed to protect the rights and freedoms of women and children – the two groups most harmed by his radical agenda.” Read more here.

 

Puberty Blockers Fast-Track Children Toward Full Gender Transition, by the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine. “The authors did find a low rate of detransition during the puberty blocker phase: 93% – 98% of youth who started puberty blockers … proceeded to start cross-sex hormones. This finding led the authors to appropriately conclude that puberty blockers may not serve as a diagnostic tool, but rather represent the first step in medical gender transition – and they even suggest that treatment with puberty blockers may contribute to the high incidence of subsequent treatment with cross-sex hormones.” Read more here.

 

Indiana Lawmakers Fight Back Against Schools’ Hidden Transgender Policies, by Tony Kinnett. “Teshka condemned what he called ‘emotional blackmail’ in which ‘…anyone who questions any of these “affirmation policies” is immediately confronted by this idea that “you hate transgender youth because transgender youth are going to commit suicide [without] these policies.”’ ‘Suicide is nothing to throw around lightly,’ the Indiana lawmaker said.” Read more here.

 

Biden Administration Trying to Force Doctors to Perform Abortions, by Alliance Defending Freedom. “[The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act] explicitly states that hospitals are required to provide treatment to stabilize emergency medical conditions for both a pregnant mother and her ‘unborn child.’ The act clearly outlines the need to protect unborn children, not harm them. But following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe, the Biden administration is attempting to redefine EMTALA to mandate the performance of abortions.” Read more here.

 

The Right to Life Will Be Constitutionally Protected When the Truth About Abortion Is Acknowledged, by James Sherley. “The leading provider of abortions in the U.S., Planned Parenthood, earns the majority of its revenue by stopping pregnant mothers from being parents. Pro-choice protesters pronounce abortion to be healthcare, although every abortion kills a child… Pro-choice marchers claim to want to give their daughters a future with abortion rights, but current abortion practice will end the lives of millions of those daughters, along with their brothers, long before their childbearing years.” Read more here.

 

Leftist Lunacy Means Being ‘Transgender’ Is More Important Than Being the ‘Right’ Gender, by Douglas Blair. “In a video game set in a world where magic exists and can make you into whatever version of yourself you want to be, why would you choose to be transgender and not just the sex you feel you are? The insistence that video games must give players the option to be transgender is yet another piece of evidence that transgenderism can be an identity adopted for social cachet and is not always an actual desire to be the opposite sex.” Read more here.

 

Virginia Senate Votes Today on Bill to Put Abortion Until Birth in State Constitution, by Ashley Bateman. “On Feb. 6, the Senate will vote on SJ 255, a ‘Right to Abortion Amendment’ that would make abortion a ‘fundamental right’ in the commonwealth. This state constitutional amendment would allow abortion to be performed until birth and require taxpayers to pay for it. The amendment would be codified into law if it passes both chambers for two consecutive years and then passes a statewide ballot referendum. It would effectively nullify any pro-life laws in the state…” Read more here.

 

The Double Whammy Making Italy the West’s Fastest Shrinking Nation, by Jason Horowitz. “Italy’s population is aging and shrinking at the fastest rate in the West, forcing the country to adapt to a booming population of the elderly that puts it at the forefront of a global demographic trend that experts call the ‘silver tsunami.’ But it faces a demographic double whammy, with a drastically sinking birthrate that is among the lowest in Europe. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said Italy is ‘destined to disappear’ unless it changes.” Read more here.

 

Why Comprehensive Sexuality Education Is Not the Answer, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “Both the U.S.-based and international reviews looked at the sustainability of effects … and whether sexual activity, sexually transmitted infections, teen pregnancies, and condom use rose or fell among students who were taught according to the different programs. Overall, the researchers concluded that the much-hyped successful outcomes of CSE were based on weak evidence, unsustainable results, and, likely, some degree of motivated reasoning by those conducting the evaluations.” Read more here.

 

Female Athletes Sound the Alarm About Trans Athletes in Women’s Sports, by Madeline Leesman. “February 1 marks the 37th annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day, which celebrates the achievements and progression in women’s athletics since the implementation of Title IX. In the past few years, however, women’s sports have been threatened, as male-bodied ‘transgender’ athletes have made their way onto women’s sports teams, and in some cases, even into their locker rooms.” Read more here.

 

Montana Senate Hears Testimony for the ‘Youth Health Protection Act,’ by Chantel Hoyt. “The proponent side of the argument featured parents and grandparents, medical and mental health experts, researchers, and individuals who have ‘detransitioned.’ It was clearly challenging for witnesses to confine their testimony concerning their knowledge and personal experience on this important subject to the three-minute timeframe provided.” Read more here.

 

With Mark Houck, as With Jack Phillips, the Persecution Is the Whole Point, by Kaylee McGhee White. “I doubt the Biden DOJ thought they’d actually win this case. But that wasn’t the goal anyway. The goal of the charges against Houck and the raid on his family was intimidation. The DOJ wanted to send Houck – and the rest of the pro-life movement, for that matter – a message: interfere with our abortion agenda in any way, and we will come for you. It’s a tactic the Left has been using with increasing fervor over the past several years.” Read more here.

 

Even Progressive Europe Won’t Go as Far as America in Child Transgender Treatments, by Dr. Stanley Goldfarb and Dr. Miriam Grossman. “The American approach, ‘gender affirmation,’ assumes gender identity is knowable from as early as toddlerhood, fixed as soon as it is declared and should be medicalized into permanence as soon as possible. It insists merely questioning a minor’s gender self-definition before often-irreversible interventions is harmful… Europeans generally see affirmation leading to rapid medical interventions as unethical and dangerous.” Read more here.

 

When Study Shows Transgender Medicine Hurts Kids, Activists and Media Allies Slant the Science, by Nathanael Blake. “Despite the suicides, null results for males, and questionable (at best) results among female subjects, the researchers reported their findings as though they were positive results that supported giving children wrong-sex hormones. And the corporate media bought this spin… Thus, this study will be cited as scientific evidence proving the benefits of transitioning children, even though it shows nothing of the kind.” Read more here.

 

The Biden Administration’s Proposed Changes to Title IX Threaten Parental Rights, by Kate Anderson and Emilie Kao. “…[T]he Biden Administration’s proposed rule seems to adopt policies that treat parents with suspicion until parents prove that they will support their child’s gender transition… Parents know their children best and have the constitutional right to direct treatment of their children’s mental health. Policies made pursuant to the new Title IX rules could keep parents in the dark and prevent them from exercising their fundamental rights.” Read more here.

 

Sage’s Law: Protecting Vulnerable Children From the Ideological Fervor of the State, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Sage’s … school should never have hidden the information about her ‘gender identity’ and ailing mental health from her grandparents. The court should never have taken temporary custody of Sage, and it certainly should not have placed her in a male dormitory. All of this could have been prevented, but the state’s relentless desire to force gender ideology onto the public left it blind to a child’s suffering…” Read more here.

 

Abusing Religious Freedom for Abortion Access, by Tal Fortgang and Howard Slugh. “Allowed to stand, this ruling would have ghastly consequences for religious liberty. States would have to choose between religious liberty laws and every other law they would enforce, nearly all of which burden someone’s conscience and limit behaviors some people consider obligatory. Faced with such a choice, states will have to give up protecting religious liberty altogether. What appears to be a victory for religious liberty … is really just the opposite.” Read more here.

 

Get Married Before Having Children, and Other Recipes for Reducing Poverty, by James Rogan. “One solution to this catastrophe affecting the nation is to teach the success sequence. The data say that millennials who graduate from high school, get a job, get married, and only then have children will escape poverty, with 97% of those who do so not ending up poor… Studies show demonstrably that the structure of the family is the most important factor in educational and economic success. Schooling has only a limited impact on later life success.” Read more here.

 

Music Teacher Forced Out for His Religious Beliefs, by Alliance Defending Freedom. “Religious freedom has been one of America’s most cherished rights since the Founding. …[T]he right to exercise our religion is a hallmark of a free society. But over the past few decades, employers have been slowly chipping away at protections for religious exercise in the workplace. Now, some companies are trying to tell their employees that they must set aside their religious beliefs as a condition of employment. This is exactly what happened to one orchestra teacher in Indiana.” Read more here.

 

The Persecution of Jack Phillips Should End, by the Editors of National Review. “The liberal promise of anti-discrimination laws is that they secure the same rights to all in a neutral fashion. The illiberal reality of their deployment by progressives in clashes between sex-based identity and faith-based identity is to demand that the faithful kneel before favored identity groups. A decent and liberal society would leave Jack Phillips alone. The Colorado government’s pursuit of him has sent a public message that it is neither decent nor liberal.” Read more here.

 

You Can Expedite Your Nursing License Application in California … If You Plan to Commit Abortions, by Anne Marie Williams, RN, BSN. “A recent nursing school graduate from California was ‘shocked, horrified, and disgusted’ when she applied to take the national licensing exam for registered nurses (NCLEX) and learned that her home state will expedite the application of any healthcare professional willing to assist with or perform abortions… California’s blatant preferential treatment of abortion is particularly egregious considering the massive nursing shortage the state faces.” Read more here.

 

Biden’s Abortion Mandates Threaten Pro-Life VA Nurse’s Job, but She Isn’t Giving Up, by Danielle Runyan and Holly Randall. “…[T]he [Department of Veterans Affairs] announced that it would begin offering abortion services at VA facilities nationwide. The VA brazenly issued this edict without first engaging the legislative branch, as it is required to do. Ignoring 30 years of congressional authority expressly prohibiting abortions at VA facilities, the VA was to immediately begin offering abortion services regardless of the unborn child’s gestational age and in spite of any state laws which might prohibit such a procedure.” Read more here.

 

Leftist Lawyers Try to Protect Killing the Unborn by Calling It a Religion, by Sarah Parshall Perry and Thomas Jipping. “The Supreme Court’s decision last summer in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that ‘the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion’ did not stop the attacks on legal protection for the unborn. Going forward, most challenges will make familiar arguments but shift the venue from federal to state courts. Abortion lawyers are also launching less conventional attacks, including that pro-life laws violate the right, under state constitutions or statutes, to freely exercise religion.” Read more here.

 

Supreme Court’s Cowardice Allows Colorado to Keep Persecuting Christians, by Joy Pullmann. “In 2018, the Supreme Court rebuked the Colorado judicial apparatus for expressing clear animus against Phillips’ Christian beliefs. It did not, however, back the clear First Amendment protections that ought to allow Phillips to worship God peaceably and bake whatever he wants for any reason whatsoever. So Phillips has been made an example by the rapacious LGBT lobby whose end goals are erasing Americans’ free speech and religious exercise rights as well as inserting government meddling into every personal relationship, all marks of totalitarianism.” Read more here.

 

Woke Activists Promote Drag Shows, Transgenderism in East Tennessee, by Spencer Lindquist. “A report out of east Tennessee’s Blount County reveals that ‘all ages’ drag shows and other forms of LGBT activism are not limited to liberal areas but instead are spreading into conservative strongholds… A report from Misrule of Law documents how drag shows have been organized in the conservative community by a small but dedicated handful of woke activists.” Read more here.

 

NIH-Funded Study Claims Trans Hormones Improve Mental Health – Despite Patient Suicides, by Laurel Duggan. “A National Institutes of Health-funded study published Jan. 19 in the New England Journal of Medicine claimed to find that cross-sex hormones caused improvements in psychosocial functioning for transgender and nonbinary adolescents. However, two participants committed suicide while another 11 developed suicidal ideation, according to the study.” Read more here.

 

Christian Cake Artist Gets Persecuted Again, by Quin Hillyer. “Not content to let him get away with refusal to serve same-sex weddings, a leftist lawyer demanded that Phillips make a cake to celebrate a gender transition and another one depicting Satan. These were clearly not good-faith requests but mere harassment… Of course, Phillips refused, which kick-started another Colorado attempt to nail up Phillips as a sacrifice to their gender gods. Naturally, Colorado’s courts … again held Phillips responsible for illegal discrimination based on gender, his religious objections notwithstanding.” Read more here.

 

Oregon’s Unhinged ‘LGBTQ2SIA+’ Guidance Spells the Death of Education, by Emily Mangiaracina. “The Oregon Department of Education’s new ‘transgender’ guidance, now written for ‘LGBTQ2SIA+’ students …, may not have made more than a quiet splash upon its release – perhaps in part due to the numbing ‘boiling frog’ syndrome. However, it signals something monumental: that the state education department and the culture that shaped it have, perhaps unwittingly, completely subverted the very purpose of education.” Read more here.

 

The Pro-Life Movement Still Deserves a National Strategy, by Alexandra DeSanctis. “Up until now, thanks to Roe, calling oneself a pro-life politician hasn’t required much at all. This is the moment for pro-lifers to prove those tepid leaders wrong and insist that any candidate who calls himself pro-life must do more than gesture vaguely to state lawmakers. As the March for Life demonstrated, pro-life Americans still have momentum. They would be wise not to give it up.” Read more here.

 

The Trans War on Tomboys, by Nina Power. “Today, the boyish girl is in danger of being told she was ‘born in the wrong body’ and whisked off to a gender clinic to begin the journey from puberty blockers to breast removal to reproductive surgery and, ultimately, infertility. Setting children on this path – one that many regret – is an obvious, grotesque harm. We have taken a terribly wrong turn in allowing pharmaceutical companies to construct lifelong patients out of healthy children.” Read more here.

 

A Predator’s Paradise, by Abigail Shrier. “[I]f some of Wiener’s bills seek to protect LGBTQ youth, they also represent a golden opportunity for a different group: adults who would take advantage of them… Consider the Wiener-authored SB 145, a 2020 measure that amended the sex-offender registration laws in California, so that an adult having anal or oral sex with a minor could avoid getting placed on the sex-offender registry, as long as the child was at least 14 and the adult was no more than a decade older.” Read more here.

 

Transgender Ideology Is Putting Male Rapists Into Women’s Prisons, With Predictable Results, by Zachary Faria. “Men are not women. Men do not belong in women’s spaces, especially if that space is a confined one, such as a prison. Men who are convicted rapists belong nowhere near any women, even if they claim to think they are women… The insanity of transgenderism is having real consequences when it is adopted by the government, and the harm will continue unless people reject this nonsense.” Read more here.

 

A Public School District Took Middle Schoolers to a Drag Show Without Telling Their Parents, by Patrick Miller and Keith Simon. “When school officials in a diverse community treat their solemn responsibility to seek parental consent as a light matter … they not only jeopardize the welfare of children, they tear at the fabric of our pluralistic social order… When school leaders minimize the problem, they make concerned parents out to be reactionaries. When they betray the trust of parents, they rupture a vital relationship.” Read more here.

 

The Cultural Abomination of Drag Queen Story Hour Came to Baltimore, by Christopher Tremoglie. “Make no mistake, drag queen story hour has no business in front of children. Much like people would reject exotic dancers reading stories to children because of the mature content of their hypersexualized nature, so, too, should drag queen story hour. They shouldn’t receive special privileges or exemptions (mainly) because they’re part of the LGBT community. Inappropriate is inappropriate regardless of the sexual orientation of most actors involved.” Read more here.

 

How Not to Regulate Pediatric Gender Medicine, by Leor Sapir and Colin Wright. “State efforts to restrict the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries to address (apparent) gender-related distress in youth make for good public policy. Yet even lawmakers on the morally and scientifically correct side of an issue risk overstepping by unintentionally proposing harmful or strategically counterproductive regulations. We write to warn of three such mistaken efforts.” Read more here.

 

Dobbs Dealt a Blow to the Supply Side of Abortion; Now Pro-Lifers Should Focus on the Demand Side, by Marvin Olasky. “Going forward, pro-lifers need to emphasize compassionate approaches that can reduce demand for abortions. Prime among them: pregnancy resource centers that offer free material, psychological, and spiritual help to women (and men) in need. They provide 3D or 4D ultrasounds so pregnant women and the fathers of their unborn children can make an informed choice, and they provide a new support community for women when their old one has rejected them. They don’t abandon women who choose abortion, and instead offer post-abortion counseling.” Read more here.

 

The Weird New Era of Abortion Debate, by Kathryn Lopez. “In this new moment after Roe, there needs to be an examination of our national conscience. Why is abortion so commonplace? Why is it considered freedom and health care when it’s often posited as the only solution, with no consideration of other options for women? There are very hard cases and painful sufferings. Most abortions in America do not involve horrific stories that necessitate babies being born alive in the latest stages of pregnancy – most abortions are birth control.” Read more here.

 

Minnesota Poised to Legalize Infanticide, Nuke Protections for Women and Babies in Radical Abortion Bill, by Jordan Boyd. “’Viable’ as defined in Minnesota law means ‘able to live outside the womb even though artificial aid may be required,’ which could be as early as ‘the second half of [the] gestation period.’ The [Protect Reproductive Options Act] doesn’t just rid the state of that definition in an attempt to expand abortion for all through birth. It also quashes provisions that abortions performed beyond the first trimester must be done in hospitals and only executed if a mother’s life is at risk.” Read more here.

 

Virginia Teen Sex-Trafficked Twice After School Hides Gender Identity From Her Parents, by Laura Bryant Hanford. “When the FBI found Sage … in Maryland, where she was victimized by a sexual predator, a judge refused to return her to her parents on the grounds they were abusing her in not affirming her as male. Housed in the boys’ quarters of a children’s home away from her parents, she told her mother, she was assaulted again. The girl soon fled, then was brutally sex-trafficked again until her rescue in Texas by law enforcement.” Read more here.

 

New Abortion Numbers Don’t Show the Whole Picture, by Melanie Israel. “…[T]he growing use of abortion pills at home makes it harder to count actual abortions. Guttmacher counts chemical (abortion pill) abortions that ‘occurred in clinical settings’ but points out that during their census, roughly 55,000 people requested abortion pills online without going to a facility, according to one study. How many of these women got pills and went through with an abortion? And how many more women got abortion pills from unscrupulous foreign and domestic sources? We don’t know.” Read more here.

 

The Orwellian World of the Pro-Abortion Movement, by Christopher Tremoglie and Michael Tremoglie. “The issue of ‘reproductive rights’ is not semantical. It makes the issue sound like one of government interfering in the lives of individuals. But this clashes with the fact that abortion advocates most certainly do want laws that interfere with private lives. The most arrant interference is the elimination of parental notification. This means that a minor can legally be taken by some other adult – often an adult sexual abuser, covering up his crime – to have an abortion without her parent’s knowledge.” Read more here.

 

Washington Laws Now Allow Teen Gender Reassignment Surgery Without Parental Consent, by Jason Rantz. “Unfortunately, unless a parent immediately and unquestionably accepts their kid’s feelings at the time, the Left deems them to be unfit parents. And they believe that if a child even suspects their parents might say no to a life-altering surgery, the child should have the right to move forward on their own. It’s an easy position for politicians or activists to take when they don’t have to deal with the consequences the way a child and his or her family would.” Read more here.

 

Study Claims Abortion Restrictions Are Linked to Suicide but Ignores Crucial Data Showing Otherwise, by Thomas Kelly. “The authors are claiming that there is an expected 5 percent increase in suicide rates in states that have restrictive abortion laws. But the upward bias in their recorded suicide rates for some states is multiple times the estimated effect of abortion restrictions on suicide rates. This data cannot demonstrate that abortion restrictions are associated with suicide increases because the bias in their data is so extreme.” Read more here.

 

Team Biden Joins School Library Wars, Launching Federal Investigation, by Suzanne Bowdey. “Glenn … convey[ed] through district spokesman Jeff Meador that all the titles they’d pulled from shelves are ‘sexually explicit and not age-appropriate.’ That said, the libraries ‘continue to house a socially and culturally diverse collection of books for students to read, including,’ he pointed out, ‘books that analyze and explore LGBTQ+ issues.’ Naturally, that didn’t satisfy the ACLU, whose lawyers decided to involve the federal government in a local dispute that could have a chilling effect nationwide.” Read more here.

 

Medical Experts, Not Activists, Must Lead Discussion of Puberty Blockers, by Kate Anderson. “…[M]any school districts have adopted the activist line that the only way to support children with gender dysphoria is to adopt an ‘affirmative’ response that immediately puts a child onto a treatment pathway that ends with medical intervention… Schools that have enacted these radical policies should take a hard look at the very serious harms that children are exposed to in pursuit of an ‘affirmative’ approach.” Read more here.

 

An LGBTQ+ Conversion Therapy Ban Is Bound to Backfire, by Lottie Moore. “Of course, we would hope and expect that all MPs would be against persecution. But this amendment will have consequences that go far beyond that noble aim – with serious and dangerous results. If this amendment is passed, professionals simply trying to do their jobs could be accused of practising conversion therapy – because the amendment fails to define what it entails.” Read more here.

 

A ‘Botched Abortion’ Is the Birth of a Child, by Larry O’Connor. “The unanimous voice of Hakeem Jeffries’ Democrat caucus was that mothers and doctors should not be obliged to provide medical attention to an [sic] ‘survivor’ after a so-called ‘botched abortion…’ Think about that term for a moment. What happens when you ‘botch’ an abortion? …What happens when an abortion goes ‘wrong?’ A baby is born. A baby is born, alive. A ‘botched abortion’ is also known as ‘child birth.’” Read more here.

 

Oops! Democratic ‘Oversights’ Would Legalize Polygamy, Infanticide, by Ben Johnson. “Voters can glean the inner disposition of our lawmakers, learning which issues they consider vital and which never enter their minds, through … the ‘errors,’ omissions, and oversights politicians make when drafting legislation. Allegedly inadvertent ‘oversights’ and ‘drafting errors’ by Democratic lawmakers over the last year alone would have decriminalized infanticide, legalized polygamy, and suppressed sacred religious liberty rights enshrined in the First Amendment.” Read more here.

 

The Dutch Studies and the Myth of Reliable Research in Pediatric Gender Medicine, by Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine. “The authors assert that had the Dutch studies been published today for the first time, the ‘innovative practice’ of using hormones and surgery to gender transition children and young adults would never have been permitted to enter general medical settings due to the very low quality of the research and problematic outcomes experienced by several of the young people.” Read more here.

 

Democrats Can’t Help but Make the Case for Life, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) made a similar argument, saying, ‘The problem with this bill is that it endangers some infants by stating that that infant must immediately be brought to the hospital.’ Again, I fail to see how a bill that mandates immediate, life-saving care for born-alive infants puts them at any more risk. A hospital is surely a much safer place for them than an abortion clinic, considering the former exists to heal people and the latter exists to make sure they’re never born.” Read more here.

 

How a Public Library Used Third-Party Allies and ‘Listening Sessions’ to Dismiss Flak Over Pornographic Kids’ Books, by Casey Chalk. “A member of the Library Foundation … dismissed Horne’s complaints, challenging her to go out into the stacks and find something that was inappropriate. That same staffer also argued that young adult books with sexual content were ‘not pornographic’ and that different people had different standards of what material was too sexually explicit for adolescents (that’s not exactly true, given current U.S. federal law on obscenity).” Read more here.

 

West Virginia Wins Day on Fairness in Women’s Sports but Plot Thickens on Title IX, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “Recognizing that the administration’s attempts to redefine sex are suffering some notable legal defeats, the U.S. Department of Education recently issued a notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register, indicating that it intends to make a new rule on Title IX. That rule, however, in contrast to the Title IX rule announced last summer … will deal only with transgender participation in school sports.” Read more here.

 

Minnesota Will Soon Make Teachers Endorse Child Mutilation to Get a License, by Ryan MacPherson. “The state’s insistence that every teacher positively affirm homosexual behaviors and transgendered identities understandably aggravates consciences among moral traditionalists, but the issues run deeper than the ‘culture war.’ What is at stake is the nature of knowledge, the future of liberty, and the prospects for a sustainable social order. In a word: civilization.” Read more here.

 

Gender Ideology Is Losing in the Courts, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Goodwin’s ruling is significant for several reasons, the first being that Goodwin has previously sided with gender ideologues. Just 18 months ago, he held that the male middle school student in question had to be allowed to try out for the girl’s cross-country and track teams while the case was pending. But even he admitted in his final ruling that sex is an immutable characteristic, and that changing its definition would have devastating consequences for everyone.” Read more here.

 

State Department’s LGBT Virtue Signaling Is Unhelpful, by Michael Rubin. “While LGBT evangelicals demand the State Department fly their flag, such virtue signaling often does more harm than good. Flying the rainbow flag at the Vatican to troll the Catholic faith is bad enough, but to do so in Muslim-majority countries such as Kosovo and the United Arab Emirates simply stirs the hornet’s nest for little result… The State Department’s gay pride activism is setting back both LGBT rights and kneecapping our diplomats’ effectiveness.” Read more here.

 

‘Dead Name’ Documentary Shows Kids Aren’t the Only Victims of Trans Radicals – Their Parents Are, Too, by Nathanael Blake. “Parents who oppose so-called transitioning their children are not the bad guys. The bad guys are the transgender activists who have promulgated a false narrative labeling these parents as suicide-inducing bigots when these parents try to protect their kids from a destructive ideology pushing dangerous medical experiments.” Read more here.

 

Abortion Industry Seeks to End All FDA Abortion Pill Safety Regulations, by Carole Novielli. “Abortion pill safety regulations created by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), known as REMS, are the next target of the profitable abortion industry, which has historically bemoaned all regulations to protect women. The ultimate goal of these abortion advocates – many associated with Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) – is to allow over-the-counter dispensing of the abortion pill.” Read more here.

 

Transgenderism Is Experiencing a Crisis of Scientific Legitimacy, by David Gortler. “Today, almost every academic medical school, most prominent U.S. professional medical organizations, and the Biden administration are fully advocating both drugs and major surgeries, including the removal of healthy tissue and organs, in children, adolescents, and adults… The problem is that they all ignore the fundamentals of biology and make unsubstantiated claims without the conclusive, long-term clinical safety findings otherwise required for all other types of medical or pharmacological interventions.” Read more here.

 

Biden Justice Department Dishonestly Rewrites Law Against Sending Abortion Drugs by Mail, by Thomas Jipping. “The Biden administration keeps coming up with new tactics to keep abortions happening. The latest is Justice Department advice to the U.S. Postal Service that a federal law prohibiting using the mail to send abortion drugs doesn’t mean what it says… Far from offering a reasonable interpretation of §1461, the Office of Legal Counsel attempts to construct a fictional statute that would not interfere with the Biden administration’s pro-abortion agenda.” Read more here.

 

New Evidence From Finland That Partnership Instability Reduces Fertility, by Laurie DeRose. “The transition to below replacement fertility has happened at the same time as (and likely because of) the global ‘retreat from marriage,’ a phrase that captures the many ways that people spend fewer of their adult years married. Fewer enter marriage at all, and those who do marry typically do so later in life, often divorce, and either do not remarry or do not remarry quickly. The retreat from marriage takes many adult years away from the normative context for childbearing…” Read more here.

 

New York Is Violating Photographer’s Free Speech, by Alliance Defending Freedom. “The First Amendment guarantees to all Americans – including artists – the freedom to choose which messages to express. If the government can compel Emilee to convey a view of marriage that cuts against her beliefs, it can compel the speech of others… But a victory for Emilee and Lorie wouldn’t be just a win for them. The same protections that ensure they can promote messages consistent with their beliefs ensure that a lesbian cake artist can decline to create a custom cake criticizing same-sex marriage…” Read more here.

 

FDA Aids Biden’s Abortion-for-All Agenda by Letting Pharmacies Sell Dangerous Abortion Pill, by Jordan Boyd. “Already, pill-induced abortions account for more than half of them in the United States. Now that the FDA quietly scaled back its regulation of the abortion pill even further to match the Biden administration’s post-Roe activism, that number is only expected to rise as chains such as CVS and Walgreens agree to legally dispense the fatal drug in any state where chemical abortions are legal.” Read more here.

 

If States Followed the Science, They’d Emulate Europe to Protect Kids With Gender Dysphoria, by Sharon Supp. “After thoroughly reviewing the reliable evidence, these countries concluded that the risks of ‘gender-affirming care’ far outweigh any potential benefits. Instead, they are returning to psychological and psychiatric care as the starting point for addressing gender confusion in children – a model known as ‘watchful waiting’ – noting that gender dysphoria in teens could be just a ‘transient phase’ which should not be mishandled with radical, life-altering drugs and surgeries.” Read more here.

 

Hospital Surgery Dept ‘Proud’ to Announce App Targeting Children for Gender Transitions, by Joshua Arnold. “Under the guise of ‘offering counseling’ to a youth questioning his or her gender identity, gender activists often pressure them towards transitioning (in some jurisdictions, it’s illegal to counsel a child against transitioning). This counseling is often done privately, without the supervision or possibly even knowledge of the child’s parent. This strategy can manipulate children into agreeing to … procedures to which the child is totally incapable of giving mature, informed consent.” Read more here.

 

Biden’s FDA and Justice Department Are All-in on Abortion, by Ian Haworth. “…[I]n a society where every other product and service is available at the touch of a button – including meals, transportation, and narcotics – it’s apparently unconscionable that murdering your own unborn child should be any different. When medical abortions account for more than half of abortions in the United States, and with abortion becoming more difficult across the country, the only area of the economy booming under Biden’s leadership will apparently be abortion by mail.” Read more here.

 

Backlash Grows Over Male Transvestite Greeting Children at Disneyland, by John Nolte. “On top of grooming your underage children through its movies and TV shows, Disney is allowing transvestites to greet your children at Disneyland … My tolerance vanishes the moment adult sexuality and outright perversion (like cross dressing) is aimed at kids. No decent parent does business with a demonic company like Walt Disney. This is all about targeting your children for destruction, exploitation, and abuse.” Read more here.

 

Yes, Pedophilia is Being Normalized, by David Strom. “Civilization exists because we learn to harness and suppress our worst instincts, not because we give them free rein. As with so many degeneracies the powers that be declare we are being alarmist when we warn of the normalization of pedophilia. They will continue to do so until the very moment when they do a 180 and declare that, yes, pedophilia has been normalized and this it is a wonderful thing it has been. So it goes.” Read more here.

 

As ‘Pride Month’ Approaches, the LGBT Mob is Ramping Up Its Attacks on Dissenters, by Jonathon Van Maren. “As we approach a month of public, orgiastic celebration of weird sexual fetishes, Canadian institutions are competing to see who can grovel lowest and flag-wave the hardest.” Read more here.

 

No, Idaho Doesn’t Ban Pregnant Women From Traveling; It Protects Babies From Abortion, by Micaiah Bilger. “…[T]he Idaho law does not ban interstate travel any more than kidnapping laws do. Rather, it protects young girls from being taken, potentially by force or coercion, to another state to have her unborn baby [sic] aborted without her parents’ knowledge or consent. Abusers and human traffickers often rely on abortion to cover up their crimes. To protect young girls and their babies, the Idaho law creates a crime called ‘abortion trafficking’…” Read more here.

 

Biden Administration Demands Georgia Schools Show Pornography to Kids, by Jordan Boyd. “Bureaucrats in President Joe Biden’s Department of Education just put their thumb on the scale of a book dispute in Georgia by not only smearing parents’ concerns about sexually explicit books in schools but also leveraging their federal power to intimidate districts that have successfully purged porn from campuses.” Read more here.

 

Major Children’s Clothing Retailers Poured Money Into LGBT Group That Promotes Secret Gender Transitions for Children, by Laurel Duggan. “Target and Kohl’s, two major children’s clothing retailers, have both made sizable donations to GLSEN… GLSEN’s goal is to make K-12 schools a safe place for LGBT students by preventing bullying and harassment, according to its website. In practice this has meant encouraging teachers to use children’s preferred names and pronouns while keeping students’ transgender identity a secret from parents, along with numerous other policy recommendations supporting youth gender transitions.” Read more here.

 

UCI Must Follow British Cycling’s Lead and Change Transgender Policy Before World Championships, by Nicole-Cooke. “What garnered less coverage, but was very insightful, were the post-race comments made by the organiser of the race, Michael Engleman, a long-time supporter and promoter of women’s sport. He was critical of the UCI’s position on transgender participation that had tied his hands. When individuals such as him are contemplating the effect of the UCI policy, saying that ‘this may kill the sport’ and are considering leaving cycling, that threat is real.” Read more here.

 

Australian Judges Need to Review Standards for Gender Dysphoria Treatment, by Michael Cook. “Australian ‘standards of care’ are based on the ‘gold standard’ Dutch model. However, she writes: ‘there are significant concerns about quality and applicability of the [Dutch] studies to the current cohort of children presenting at gender clinics.’ Alarmingly, she asserts that: ‘The Dutch studies would not meet the standards of evidence-based medicine today.’” Read more here.

 

Biden Admin Tells Adults How to Discuss Sex With Teens Behind Parents’ Backs, by Ben Johnson. “Federally funded guidelines instruct adults to pause before discussing sex with minors and to ask, ‘Are you alone in the room?’ These instructions specify tactics to follow ‘if you’re really having a hard time getting a parent’ to leave the room during the sex talk. They suggest children as young as 13 discuss sex with groups like Planned Parenthood in a parked car or communicate in writing, so their parents cannot hear the adults’ side of the conversation.” Read more here.

 

‘Between a Woman and Her Doctor?’ Not With Mail Order Abortion Pills, by Ingrid Skop. “The reality is that these mail order abortions may be completely medically unsupervised: no ultrasound to confirm gestational age or rule out a potentially deadly ectopic pregnancy. No labs to determine need for RhoGAM to prevent future pregnancy complications. No testing and treatment for concurrent sexually transmitted infections to prevent future infertility. No verification that the person requesting the pills is a woman, rather than a sex trafficker, incestuous abuser, or coercive boyfriend.” Read more here.

 

Legalization of Polygamy Was Always the Logical Consequence of Obergefell, by Jonathan S. Tobin. “If marriage is possible between any two individuals of the opposite or the same sex, then why not three, four, or any number of consenting adults, regardless of their sex? And if Somerville is the harbinger of a growing movement to legalize polyamorous and inevitably polygamous marriages by cities and ultimately states, then those who will defend such laws are on firm ground declaring that the logic of Obergefell demands that all non-traditional ideas about marriage must be treated equally under the law. This is the choice America made in 2015.” Read more here.

 

The ACT’s Takeover of Calvary Hospital Overrides Conscientious Objection and Threatens Religious Freedom, by Joanna Howe. “The fundamental problem with first attacking and then forcibly acquiring Calvary Hospital because it won’t perform abortions is that it overrides Australia’s longstanding tradition of freedom of religion and freedom of conscience. Freedom of conscience is a foundational principle of a pluralist democracy like Australia. It is a commitment that values human dignity and integrity and promotes a society in which a healthy diversity of views is tolerated.” Read more here.

 

‘They’re Wanting to Play God,’ by Christopher F. Rufo. “’We have a generation of kids with mental health problems. It’s very sad. And we need to treat those problems correctly, not by recommending that they change genders to fix their mental health problem. That’s never worked. It never will work… They’re going to wake up in ten years and discover that they’re infertile, that they can’t have children, that their sexuality is completely dysfunctional. That they can’t function as a normal human being. And ultimately, I believe that that realization is going to cause them to harm themselves – when they wake up and realize that they’ve already been ruined.’” Read more here.

 

Abortion Activists Try to Fool Ohioans Into Constitutional Amendment Threatening Unborn Lives and Parental Rights, by Jordan Boyd. “One advertisement … specifically asserts that the amendment’s language barring the state from interfering with an individual’s ‘right to make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions’ could easily ‘cut’ parents ‘out of the biggest decision’ of their child’s life, including abortion or even the deforming genital surgeries and chemical castration that transgender activists promote to vulnerable teens.” Read more here.

 

Ontario Bill Would Banish Freedom of Speech From LGBT ‘Safety Zones,’ by Thomas Jipping. “Bill 94, titled the ‘2SLGBTQI+ Community Safety Zones Act,’ requires the attorney general to make three decisions: whether to designate a particular location as a safety zone, whether to charge someone with uttering the wrong words within 100 meters of that safety zone, and, if so, whether to seek a fine of up to $25,000. All three decisions would be completely up to the attorney general’s unfettered, and unreviewable, discretion.” Read more here.

 

Federal Officials Have No Right to Order Schools to Carry Indecent Books, by Washington Examiner. “…[T]his is not ‘book banning’ or authoritarian. Nobody is trying to block the publication of these sexually explicit books. Nobody is trying to stop their sales. Nobody is trying to stop ordinary libraries from carrying them, although they might be labeled to give notice of their contents. Nobody is saying parents can’t buy or borrow books from libraries if they deem them appropriate for their children.” Read more here.

 

Texas Children’s Hospital Pursued Transgender Procedures With ‘Religious-Like Fervor,’ by Breccan F. Thies. “Medical records show some doctors at TCH were providing these procedures and drugs to extremely young children. One assistant professor at Baylor who practices medicine at TCH has provided procedures to patients as young as 11 years old, according to medical records. Another TCH doctor said he privately asks children about other names or pronouns they might use but does not tell the child’s parents because ‘not every patient who is gender-diverse may have that safe environment at home.’” Read more here.

 

Target Partnered With Satan Supporter Who Wants to ‘Eradicate’ Critics of Transgenderism, by Jordan Boyd. “One quick glance at the designer’s website and Instagram shows dozens of designs featuring satanic and sacrilegious symbols such as pentagrams, ‘Satan respects pronouns’ T-shirts, ‘gay as hell’ stickers, and stained glass windows covered up by ‘trans bodies are holy…’ One particularly graphic image on the designer’s Instagram shows a naked demonic creature with a horned skull and mutilated breasts.” Read more here.

 

Florida and Texas Defend Kids Against Gender Madness, by the Editors of National Review. “There is no shortage of examples to illustrate the madness to which DeSantis is referring. Gender clinicians openly promote their cavalier attitude to ‘top surgery’ (i.e., breast amputation), advertising the procedure to young prospective patients on TikTok. Drag queens strip and pole-dance in front of audiences made up of children, much to the delight of grown men and women. Pornographic materials too obscene to detail here are distributed in school libraries.” Read more here.

 

Kid-Free Zones: How Low Birth Rates Cause Even Lower Birth Rates, by Timothy P. Carney. “…[C]hildren cry, take up space, sometimes run around, and sometimes smell bad. A culture based on ‘personal space,’ autonomy, and minding your own business is a culture that pretends children don’t exist. The more people who go through their daily lives not seeing kids, or seeing only very few, the easier it is to uphold this myth of a childless world – and then that childless world becomes reality.” Read more here.

 

Teacher Pushes Gay Pornography on Middle Schoolers, NBC Provides Smokescreen for It, by Timothy P. Carney. “…Bonner thought it was a good idea to include this porn-book encouraging stranger-sex in her middle school book tasting. At best, this is a total abandonment of all decency and common sense in pursuit of an ideological culture war. At worst, the teacher is grooming children – introducing them to totally inappropriate sexual material in order to destroy their natural aversion to perversion and reticence about sex. That’s why parents called the police on this teacher.” Read more here.

 

Trans Sex Attacker Case Exposes Yet More Holes in Nicola Sturgeon’s Gender Bill, by Alan Cochrane. “Throughout the passage of the Bill at Holyrood, its supporters had insisted that there was no evidence men ‘ever had to pretend to be anything else’ to prey on girls. That assertion was killed stone dead by what happened to the little girl in this case because she had only gotten into Miller’s car because she felt safe as he had been dressed as a woman… What will shock people most about these cases would be the ease with which Miller and Graham appeared able to switch gender virtually at will.” Read more here.

 

A Win for Pro-Life Pragmatism in North Carolina, by the Editors of National Review. “With no margin for error, North Carolina Republican legislators prudently went as far as they could go to protect life. Representative Tricia Cotham recently switched from being a Democrat to a Republican but was unwilling to vote for an abortion limit earlier than twelve weeks of pregnancy… None of these bills is perfect. But each bill would save some lives, and it would be a grave error to insist that no lives should be saved until all lives can be saved.” Read more here.

 

Scientific American Editor-in-Chief Gets Biology Wrong for Both Humans and Birds, by Zachary Faria. “…[T]he other problem this argument has, aside from being wrong, is quite clear. Believe it or not, humans are not white-throated sparrows. Even if it were true that one species of birds had four different sexes (which, again, is not the case here), that would mean nothing… The science around humans is very clear: Sex is binary, and it is not something that can be changed with hormones and surgeries.” Read more here.

 

Sex Change Procedures at Texas Children’s Hospital, by Christopher F. Rufo. “The executives at Texas Children’s appear to be playing a duplicitous game. They announced that the hospital had stopped performing transgender medical interventions on minors, but this is simply untrue. TCH doctors administered such procedures days after the announcement, and they have continued to perform them… If ‘gender-affirming care’ is truly the gold standard in medicine, TCH should defend it openly, not perform it in secret.” Read more here.

 

Fertility Rates Are Collapsing – and It’s Not ‘Backward’ to Be Concerned, by Miriam Cates. “Politics works on the basis that society will go on and on into the future… But can we really be so sure that there will be future generations to benefit from our endeavours – or even to look after us in our old age? The short answer is no: the evidence suggests that the very existence of future society hangs in the balance. The current UK fertility rate – the average number of children per woman – stands at 1.6. This is significantly below the ‘replacement rate’ of 2.1 and continues to fall.” Read more here.

 

Proud Abortionist Kills Democratic Talking Points About Late-Term Abortions, by Zachary Faria. “…[P]oliticians and abortion activists insist that late-term abortions only occur if medically necessary or if the unborn child is going to die anyway… But, according to the Atlantic, ‘Hern estimates that at least half, and sometimes more, of the women who come to the clinic do not’ have a diagnosis that their lives would be in danger or that their babies will not be born alive. Over half of the late-term abortions Hern performs … are elective.” Read more here.

 

Colorado School District Hosts Drag Show Amid Teachers Union Embrace of Gender Ideology, by Maddie Dermon. “Muse, rated for children aged eight and above, focused on an adult male transitioning to a female and featured provocatively dressed men performing sexual dances for an audience full of children. Young audience members were clearly disturbed. One student expressed his concern by interrupting the show: ‘This is wrong,’ he cried. ‘Don’t you know we’re in third grade?’” Read more here.

 

The World Health Organization Has a Message for Parents: ‘Sexuality Education Starts at Birth,’ by Malcolm Roberts. “By age 6, the WHO wants the education industry … to expose children to the concepts of intercourse, masturbation, and pornography. By age 9, they are expected to reach an ‘adult’ knowledge of sex including teaching of masturbation and viewing of online pornography. At age 12 … the WHO wishes the official European education course to explore political and emotional responses to sex, puberty, and gender.” Read more here.

 

Parents Forced to Sue School District for Compelling Student to Read Sexually Explicit Monologue in Class, by Jeff Charles. “The case raises concerns about the appropriateness of educational materials and assignments in public schools. It highlights the delicate balance between freedom of speech and protecting minors from exposure to explicit content. As the legal proceedings continue, the outcome of the lawsuit will likely have implications for similar cases and potentially impact the development of guidelines and policies regarding the use of explicit material in educational settings…” Read more here.

 

Wake Up, Lawmakers! Protect Girls and Women and Restore Their Rights, by Eileen J. O’Connor. “Transradical sympathizers rail that it is cruel to exclude from women’s spaces a person who feels he belongs there. Rarely, if ever, and certainly not in the Biden administration’s proposed Title IX regulations, is consideration given to how cruel it is to the girls and women who are confronted not only by the sight of a male in female-only spaces, but also by being viewed by a male stranger in violation of their deeply ingrained, self-protective modesty.” Read more here.

 

If You Can Perform Surgery on Fetuses, Then Maybe They Have Value After All, by Madeline Fry Schultz. “…[T]he American Heart Association called it the ‘first in-utero brain surgery.’ Now seven weeks old, Denver Coleman is a marvel of medical technology and a testament to the value of the unborn… Even CNN, no bastion of pro-life thought, was eager to characterize baby Denver as a person. Notable as well is that the doctors, realizing fetuses’ capacity for pain, provided her with pain relief during the surgery.” Read more here.

 

Teen Sexting and Sexually Explicit Music, by Christine Lee and Jane Shawcroft. “…[I]t is easy to treat music, and highly sexual and sexually objectifying lyrics in particular, as white noise in the background of more important activities, despite research suggesting that music contains more messages about sex than any other media content except pornography. It is easy to dismiss the lyrics and messages in a three-minute song as inconsequential, but our research … suggests that listening to highly sexual music influences teenagers’ sexual risk-taking, specifically sexting.” Read more here.

 

The Media Are Campaigning to Deprive Parents of Their Rights, by Kaylee McGhee White. “The root of the problem … is this idea that parents can somehow be a threat to their children simply for disagreeing with the state’s prescribed orthodoxy. …[T]o compare an ideological disagreement to actual abuse is despicable. Parents have the right to raise their children as they see fit, and the state does not get to come along and take that right from them just because they happen to believe that their 13-year-old son is not, in fact, a girl.” Read more here.

 

Why Are We Ignoring Family as a Solution to Loneliness? by Jim Dalrymple. “A widely cited 1998 study … found that both marriage and parenthood were associated with lower levels of loneliness. Significantly, the study found that simply cohabitating didn’t offer the same benefits. There’s something unique about marriage. It’s not just about companionship. Subsequent research has repeatedly confirmed, to quote economist and policy advisor Christos A. Makridis, that ‘the unmarried are substantially more likely to feel lonely,’ while ‘married Americans have much lower rates of loneliness.’” Read more here.

 

The Next Frontier for the Hypersexualized Left: Normalizing Pedophilia, by Jane Robbins. “The end game of normalizing pedophilia has been hinted at for some time. A critical step, as always, is to distort language. ‘Pedophile’ has become ‘minor-attracted person’ (MAP), which certainly takes the edge off. TED talkers insist that MAPs should not be stigmatized for their attractions as long as they exercise self-control around children (a talent for which pedophiles are not famous). These and other ‘experts’ … describe pedophilia as a sexual orientation to be protected under state nondiscrimination law.” Read more here.

 

Corporate Media Wants to Help Democrats Separate Supposedly ‘Trans’ Children From Their Parents, by Zachary Faria. “There is no … attempt to report anything even resembling questions about such irreversible procedures for children. Instead, you see things like the Associated Press’s headline from Tuesday: ‘Trans minors protected from parents under Washington law…’ Yes, keeping parents in the dark about their runaway children and instead handing them off to a state bureaucracy that will let them harm themselves is apparently not an utterly insane policy. It is simply ‘protecting’ transgender children from their own parents.” Read more here.

 

Biden’s Bizarre View of Women’s Sports Puts Female Athletes at Risk, by Alexandra Caro Campana and Ryann McEnany. “What seems to be forgotten in this proposed rule is all the harm that will be done to the millions of female students when they are forced to compete against men and share intimate spaces with them. Being a competitive athlete takes as much mental strength as physical ability. Sharing a bathroom, changing room and/or hotel room with a biological male ahead of a competition will potentially cause severe emotional, mental and even physical harm to female athletes.” Read more here.

 

Just Like the Transgender Industry, PornHub Relies on Targeting Kids, by Allison Schuster. “PornHub’s willingness to boycott the state entirely shows who the target demographic is: children… PornHub’s reliance on showing its content to minors can be easily understood in the context of its addictive nature. Young people are easily taken advantage of and starting them young provides PornHub with an audience more susceptible to long-term addiction and abuse.” Read more here.

 

What Are They Hiding? Pro-Transgender Groups Refuse to Hand Over Internal Documents Even as They Move to Oppose Florida’s Medicaid Rule, by Tyler O’Neil. “…[T]he groups went to court trying to quash the subpoenas. They argued that they should not be forced to hand over documents, in part because they are not direct parties to the case. Yet not only are these groups the medical authorities by which Lambda Legal aims to torpedo the Florida rule, but most of the groups themselves filed the amicus brief April 28 that highlights their interest in the case.” Read more here.

 

The Legal Case That Could Force Abortion Upon El Salvador Is Based on a Lie, by Nancy Flanders. “Beatriz Garcia, the woman at the core of the case, did not die from a lack of access to induced abortion. In fact, she never had life-threatening pregnancy complications, doctors never advised abortion, and she died four years later in a vehicle accident. And the more than 50 women allegedly jailed for miscarriages and obstetric emergencies due to El Salvador’s pro-life laws … were not actually convicted for abortion but for infanticide.” Read more here.

 

Don’t Forget Men in the Abortion Debate, by Sara Scarlett Wilson. “Support After Abortion … found that 71 percent of men suffered issues after abortion … and that 82 percent of men did not know where to find help. Men struggled regardless of their involvement in the abortion decision, and even men who fully supported their partner’s decision found themselves with anger, grief, and other negative emotions when thinking about the child or children they never got to know.” Read more here.

 

Utah Benefits as Porn Peddlers Block Access, by Timothy P. Carney. “America would be better off if every pornographer went out of business and every web hosting service, internet provider, and web browser cut off access to pornography. That’s unlikely ever to happen, but Utah scored a minor victory this week when porn-peddler MindGeek … announced it would block access to its websites from all IP addresses within Utah. This was MindGeek’s protest against Utah’s new law requiring age verification for everyone visiting pornographic websites or other sites with sexually explicit material.” Read more here.

 

New Jersey Will House Two More Male Sexual Predators With Female Inmates, by Zachary Faria. “What do you do with two male pedophiles who claim that they are women? According to liberal gender ideology, and the state government of New Jersey, you put them in a women’s prison because even child abusers must have their gender identities ‘affirmed,’ even if it endangers female inmates… The messages here from the state of New Jersey are clear. The most abhorrent men convicted of heinous crimes can simply claim they are women and be housed alongside female inmates. The safety of women does not matter.” Read more here.

 

Biden’s ‘Transgender’ Rule Mandating Schools Treat Biological Males as Females Gets Tested, by Sarah Parshall Perry & Caroline Heckman. “How are schools and colleges going to balance the interest of competing civil rights complaints? If a biological male sexually assaults or harasses a female in a bathroom that’s no longer sex-specific due to the new Title IX rule, and a female files a Title IX complaint – who prevails? According to the Biden administration’s rule, any transgender-identified male is ‘entitled’ to be in that bathroom, but any female is granted the benefit of the doubt in a sexual harassment or assault proceeding.” Read more here.

 

North Carolina’s 12-Week Abortion Ban Is Popular, Enforceable, and Pro-Life Without Political Poison, by Tiana Lowe Doescher. “In short, a 12-week ban allows the state to begin to crack down on the worst abortion offenders, mainly in-person clinics likely to perform later-term abortions, while avoiding interfering with that politically near-sacrosanct relationship between a woman and her doctor. In practice, this also means that the state isn’t stuck going to war with the Food and Drug Administration or regulating interstate commerce of abortion pills, which also have legitimate medical uses unrelated to terminating pregnancies.” Read more here.

 

Yes, the Trans Movement Is Coming for Your Kids, by John Daniel Davidson. “Recently a group of Democrat legislators in Minnesota, led by the state’s first transgender lawmaker, introduced a bill that would have removed language in Minnesota’s Human Rights Act that explicitly says pedophilia is not a ‘sexual orientation’ as defined by state statute. By removing that language, the bill would have opened the door to widening the definition of sexual orientation to include pedophilia as a protected class alongside other minorities.” Read more here.

 

Kansas Law Defending Biological Sex and Women’s Rights Is Vital, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Which part of the law do gender activists find so offensive? The part that says women have the right to privacy and safety or the part that rebuffs the Left’s efforts to turn sex into a meaningless free-for-all? … Do women’s rights matter or don’t they? Kansas’s law makes it clear that they do. The gender activists who oppose it, on the other hand, would subject every single sex-exclusive space in the country, and every woman who depends on them, to male intrusion. That is bigotry.” Read more here.

 

The Biden Admin Is Still Withholding Taxpayer-Funded Abortion Data From Lawmakers, by Spencer Brown. “The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) said last fall that it would work toward providing abortion services for veterans and their dependents via its taxpayer-funding [sic] health care system. As Tuberville … noted at the time, and since then, such a policy would be a violation of federal law… Yet Tuberville’s questions about how such an illegal policy would be implemented and his ongoing attempts to provide oversight for taxpayers have seen no response from the VA or others in the Biden administration.” Read more here.

 

India Same-Sex Marriage Case Tests Judges, by Geeta Pandey. “…[A]s the hearings have continued, the five-judge bench has been conceding that tweaking one law may not really work, since it’s a complex web of 35 laws that govern issues of divorce, adoption, succession, maintenance and other related issues – and that many of them do spill over into religious personal laws. And during Thursday’s hearing, the top court appeared to agree with the government that granting legal sanction to same-sex marriage was parliament’s domain.” Read more here.

 

Biden HHS Using Language Meant to Protect Abortion Survivors to Exclude Preborn as ‘Persons,’ by Cassy Fiano-Chesser. “This is a brazenly cruel twisting of the intention of the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, legislation that abortion supporters continue to argue is unnecessary on the claim that abortion survivors do not exist. Additionally, it’s a complete and utter denial of scientific fact. Based on all basic biological principles, preborn children are alive, even before their hearts start beating. At the moment of fertilization, the child … already has his or her own unique DNA, with traits like sex, hair color, eye color, and countless more already determined.” Read more here.

 

Colorado Law Seeks to Prevent and Hide Information About Medication Abortion Reversal, by Harry Scherer. “The new law is full of inconsistencies. For example, it permits the administration of progesterone for women facing miscarriage, but it explicitly forbids the same medication for women seeking to reverse an abortion. The law also does not offer any distinction between patients who seek progesterone after ingesting mifepristone willingly or unwillingly, with the latter being an all-too-common practice among sex traffickers.” Read more here.

 

Indiana Health Department Sits on Records Showing Two Babies Born Alive After Abortions, Three Women Dead, by Joy Pullmann. “Indiana abortion records … indicate that in 2022 three women died after abortion procedures and two babies were born alive after chemical abortions. They also suggest Indiana abortionists failed to report four abortions on girls aged 15 and younger, as legally required. One of the minors not referred for a state abuse investigation after her abortion, a violation of state law, was just 13 years old, the records say.” Read more here.

 

Biden DOJ Says Mutilating Children Is ‘Medically Necessary,’ by Zachary Faria. “This is not ‘civil rights’ or ‘acceptance’ or ‘inclusivity.’ It is reckless, dangerous, and, most of all, unnecessary. Chemically and physically mutilating children is not going to save their lives or make them happier. It is only going to saddle them with even more physical health problems to go along with the unaddressed mental health problems that are being ignored. It is an attempt to medicalize them permanently… Yet that is precisely what Biden’s Justice Department is fighting for.” Read more here.

 

Leftist Minnesota Just Gave State Power to Take Kids Away If Parents Don’t Approve Gender Surgery, by Hank Berrien. “The new law gives state courts temporary emergency jurisdiction over any child in Minnesota who has been abandoned, is in need of protection from abuse, or has ‘been unable to obtain gender-affirming health care.’ The law defines such care as … puberty blockers and chemical and surgical procedures ‘to align the patient’s appearance or physical body with the patient’s gender identity.’” Read more here.

 

Planned Parenthood Steps Deeply Into Transgender Hormones, Including for Minors, by Ben Johnson. “Planned Parenthood’s latest annual report reveals that the multi-billion-dollar business has diversified its portfolio beyond abortion, pushing deeply into the transgender industry by offering puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to young adults and minors – often while explicitly withholding this information from parents.” Read more here.

 

Attempts Underway to Redefine ‘Forced Pregnancy’ in International Law, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “The term ‘forced pregnancy’ is back on the UN agenda as nations begin to negotiate a treaty on crimes against humanity… In its just-released ‘State of World Population Report,’ the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) asserted that the ICC definition of ‘forced pregnancy’ has ‘been more widely interpreted by advocates to include, for instance, situations in which a pregnant person is denied an abortion.’” Read more here.

 

School District Prompts Parents to Enter Children’s ‘Preferred Pronouns’ When Registering for Kindergarten, by Christopher Tremoglie. “It’s a concerning discovery given the extremely young age of kindergarten students who are unfamiliar with pronouns or mature enough to know anything about gender transitioning. It’s a disturbing revelation showing just how radicalized education officials have become in the country, even in a state like Florida. It should also put parents on high alert throughout the country.” Read more here.

 

How to Stop the Gender Cult in Education, by Debra Soh. “There is an assumption that poor mental health is the result of gender dysphoria, as opposed to the other way around. In actuality, high rates of co-morbidity abound in individuals with gender dysphoria, with 70% or more of such youth presenting with an additional diagnosis… From what I’ve witnessed in the years I’ve been fighting this cultural battle, even when presented with evidence to the contrary, trans activists and their allies happily disregard this information in favor of plowing forward with their preferred narratives.” Read more here.

 

The Myth of Sexual Experience, by Jason S. Carroll and Brian J. Willoughby. “In the report, we review a series of recent studies … that show that having multiple sexual partners during the dating years leads to higher divorce rates in future marriages… Overall, we found that ‘sexually inexperienced’ individuals, or those who have only had sex with their spouse, are mostly likely to be flourishing in marriage. These ‘sexually inexperienced’ individuals report the highest levels of relationship satisfaction, relationship stability, sexual satisfaction, and emotional closeness with their spouses.” Read more here.

 

Woman Whose Chemical Abortion Has Haunted Her for 23 Years: ‘Don’t Make the Same Mistake,’ by Margot Cleveland. “I started having intense cramping. At one point I went to the toilet, and a baby came out. It looked exactly like the pictures of seven- to 9-week-old babies you see in photos. It was rounded. There was a black eye. My husband fished it out of the toilet and held the dead baby in his hand. I remember looking at it and wondering what it was. But I also knew what it was. I remember going completely numb.” Read more here.

 

West Coast Shuts Parents Out of ‘Gender-Affirming’ Decisions as Swedish Research Urges Caution, by Greg Piper. “America’s West Coast is separated by a continent and an ocean from Europe. Their policy gap on ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors … is becoming similarly wide… In a new ‘systematic review’ of research on hormone treatment for gender-confused children in the peer-reviewed Acta Paediatrica, Swedish researchers … found so little evidence on its effects that they recommended a ban except for clinical trials.” Read more here.

 

Arrogant Western Countries Outplayed by Developing Member States at the UN, by Lisa Correnti. “The EU and the UN wanted to force sexual ideology for children into a resolution on education. This effort failed due to smart tactics by a united Africa group and delegates from other parts of the world… The lack of consensus including from diverse countries took Western delegates by surprise, many pivoting to damage control to try and save the document they so desperately wanted.” Read more here.

 

Detransitioner Laura Becker Exposes the Dark Truth Behind Transgender ‘Transitioning’ of Children in Texas Senate Hearing, by Jeff Charles. “What is truly unfortunate about situations like Becker’s is that progressives have convinced the nation to believe that there are only few people who regret having ‘transitioned’ to the opposite sex. The issue is that we do not yet have enough credible data to prove this. Moreover, there is evidence that many of those who go through this process as minor children end up suffering from additional mental issues caused by the use of puberty blockers and surgical treatments.” Read more here.

 

Zero House Democrats Respected Americans’ Wishes by Voting to Protect Women’s and Girls’ Sports, by Jordan Boyd. “If the White House gets its way, female athletes will no longer be entitled to federal protection against sex discrimination on the field or in the locker room. Instead, teams of girls as young as kindergarten are forced to accept males on their roster. It’s only in high school and college that the Biden administration concedes males have an advantage that could be disqualifying under a set of extreme criteria. As the vote … showed, Democrats in Congress are all too willing to help the Biden administration erase women.” Read more here.

 

Marriage Makes Women Happier and Healthier, Harvard Scholars Say, by Kira Mautone. “The researchers found that the women that became married and stayed married over the course of the study showed a 35 percent decrease in risk of all-cause mortality, lower risks of cardiovascular diseases, and ‘greater psychological wellbeing on multiple indicators including greater positive affect, purpose in life, hope and optimism.’” Read more here.

 

White House Endorses Discrimination Against Female Athletes, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Allowing men, who have undeniable, significant physical advantages, to compete on teams created specifically for women is exactly the kind of discrimination that Title IX was meant to redress. Democrats, however, do not seem at all bothered that women are being deprived of their right to equal competition. Better for women to lose this right than the men who claim to identify as women, according to the White House.” Read more here.

 

Why Progressives Should Support the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, by Kara Dansky. “Our society has been taught a vicious and unscientific lie: that some men can be women, and that some women can be men, on the basis of their ‘gender identity…’ Men aren’t women, even if they say they are, and even if they claim to ‘identify’ as such… There is no credible scientific evidence to support the proposition that a person born with a Y chromosome can be a woman. It should not be considered ‘conservative’ or even remotely controversial to say so.” Read more here.

 

Your Doctor Asking for Your Pronouns Isn’t Just Annoying, It’s a Sign of the Industry’s Decline, by Elle Purnell. “…[H]aving doctors ask about your pronouns isn’t just an obnoxious chore, it’s a sign of the health-care industry’s willingness to forego medical reality for a few ideological brownie points… Just wait until trans activists insist on making women with breast cancer wait for mastectomies so that other women who want to cut off their healthy breasts to look more like men can go first. (Oh wait, that’s already happening.)” Read more here.

 

Unborn Children Deserve the Right to Trust Their Mother, by Mark Zimmerman. “Indeed, there are many different angles from which to criticize abortion: that it’s a sin in the sight of God; that it’s a cruel and violent way to die; that personhood begins at conception, and therefore abortion kills a person; that prenatal screening puts us on a slippery slope toward eugenics; that killing a person isn’t therapeutic. These things are all true, in my view. But I have come to believe there is another reason abortion is wrong: It denies a child the right to trust her mother.” Read more here.

 

Common Sense Is Finally Returning to the Trans Debate, by Mo Lovatt. “New government guidance [in England] on how schools handle the rise in transgender pupils is currently being drawn up and is due to be issued within weeks. It means that single-sex schools will no longer be required to accommodate pupils who identify as transgender for fear of legal action, nor will they have to affirm a pupil’s preferred pronoun simply because a child demands it.” Read more here.

 

Colorado’s New ‘Trans Tourism’ Law Beckons Red-State Kids for Trans Interventions and Abortions, by Tristan Justice. “Senate Bill 23-188, signed into law Friday, opens the door for ‘trans tourism’ in the state, allowing minors to seek abortions or ‘gender-affirming health care services.’ In other words, teens seduced by transgender ideology in Kansas, where lawmakers are preparing to ban interventions for minors, may travel to Colorado for sterilizing procedures under Polis’s protection with parental consent.” Read more here.

 

Washington State Declares Transgender War Against Parents, by Quin Hillyer. “Washington … passed a bill regarding children’s gender transitions that borders on unadulterated evil… Essentially, the bill allows licensed youth shelters to harbor a child against parents’ wishes while proceeding with sex-change procedures or abortions. Put another way, not only will parents have no say in the life-altering decision of girls and boys to defy their biological gender (or to kill a human life), but the children can be kept away from their parents and homes.” Read more here.

 

UNFPA: Restricting Online Abortion Is Violence, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “In the wake of Dobbs, online purveyors of abortion pills have proliferated widely, and with them the potential for women to be exposed to pills of dubious provenance and quality, either voluntarily or, as news reports have documented, administered through stealth by others. National governments have a role in protecting women and girls from exploitation by nefarious online businesses willing to risk their health for profit.” Read more here.

 

Fifth Circuit’s Ruling Proves the Case Against the Abortion Pill Is Legally Justified, by Kaylee McGhee White. “…[T]here is certainly a case to be made that the FDA’s decisions in 2016 and 2021 to abandon very basic safety precautions about the abortion pill call into question its ability to fairly regulate the pill at all. Indeed, the FDA’s watering down of nearly all restrictions on mifepristone is further proof that the agency is using the drug to push a political agenda.” Read more here.

 

MrBeast Is Introducing Millions of Children to Transgenderism Without Parental Consent, by Eoin Lenihan. “What MrBeast is doing is sinister and will have far-reaching consequences. He is grooming an unsuspecting generation of children into uncritically accepting transgender and trans activism at a vulnerable age. Due to the unrivaled reach of MrBeast and the unparalleled and often unmonitored access he has to millions of kids across the globe, he is now, without a shadow of a doubt, the leading source of child-focused, transgender content in the world.” Read more here.

 

Appeals Court Reinstates Safety Restrictions for Abortion Drug While Lawsuit Against Its FDA Approval Continues, by Thomas Jipping. “The result of the 5th Circuit’s decision is that … the FDA’s original approval of mifepristone remains and the safety restrictions that were repealed in 2016 and 2021 are reinstated. In other words, mifepristone can be used up to seven, not 10, weeks; using mifepristone will require three physician office visits; only doctors may dispense or administer the drug; doctors must report all medical complications to the FDA; and abortion drugs may not be dispensed through the mail or mail-order pharmacies.” Read more here.

 

Why the Latest Abortion Pill Ruling Is Both Good and Bad for Pro-Lifers, by Margot Cleveland. “…[U]ntil the Fifth Circuit considers the merits of the FDA’s appeal, distribution of the abortion pill will be governed by the 2000 FDA approval, not the changes the FDA adopted in 2016… No matter the outcome, however, the case is educating the public on the dangers of chemical abortions much beyond what the Planned Parenthood pill-pushers have been doing for the last 20-plus years.” Read more here.

 

Biden Administration Misses the Point on Transgender Sports Participation, by Tom Joyce. “The problem with transgender elementary schoolers playing on girls’ sports teams has little to do with sports participation. The problem is there are self-identified transgender elementary schoolers, and the government recognizes this delusion as a reality. Government policy should reflect the biological reality of two genders that people cannot change: male and female. It should not support the delusion that children who are young enough to believe in Santa Claus can choose their gender.” Read more here.

 

The Poison Pill Goes to Court, by the Editors of National Review. “From the beginning, the pill was given favored regulatory treatment, with accelerated approval under Subpart H, a program designed for emergency AIDS drugs. Utilizing this fast-track approval process required the FDA to characterize pregnancy, preposterously, as a ‘serious or life-threatening illness.’ A legal challenge was filed with the FDA in 2002 … and the agency sat on it for nearly 14 years in order to thwart judicial review while the pill expanded its market share. The mifepristone pill … now accounts for a majority of all U.S. abortions.” Read more here.

 

Even the Trans Lobby Can’t Override Biology in Sport, by Suzanne Moore. “The government has asked the Equality and Human Rights Commission to clarify that when we talk of sex in the Equality Act we mean biological sex. The blurring of sex and gender is what causes problems, and this may help stop this confusion. Women who say biological sex matters have been demonised and I am one of them… Any woman who tells the truth is met by an unthinking mob, online or in real life. And yet it has not stopped us saying it any more than it has stopped sports fans seeing it. For here we do have the advantage: being on the side of reality.” Read more here.

 

Why I, as a Former Abortionist, Support Florida’s Heartbeat Protection Act, by Kathi Aultman. “…[A]lthough I continued to do abortions while pregnant, after my daughter’s birth, I could no longer kill babies just because they weren’t wanted. I still believed abortion was a woman’s right, but my view changed as I saw young women in my OB-GYN practice with unplanned pregnancies, who kept their babies and did exceptionally well, in contrast to those women with psychological and physical complications from abortion. Later, I realized I was not only murdering innocent human beings but that I was also hurting women.” Read more here.

 

The Madness of Banning ‘Ladies and Gentlemen,’ by Ella Whelan. “The fact that judges are now pressured to be ‘respectful’ of identity and gender, and feel the need to self-censor, shows how intimidating the conversation around gender ideology has become. For fear of upsetting a tiny minority, we bore the majority with language that is stripped of all meaning. Instead of mothers we say pregnant people, instead of binman, we say wheelie-bin-operator. Sometimes we’re expected to simply invent words – Teen Vogue suggests using ‘folx’ instead of ladies and gentleman, and ‘nibling’ instead of niece or nephew.” Read more here.

 

Judge’s Abortion Pill Opinion Tells the Truth About ‘Unborn Humans,’ and the Left Can’t Stand It, by Margot Cleveland. “Calling an unborn human an ‘unborn human’ immediately triggered abortion activists, but as Kacsmaryk explained in a footnote, such terminology is scientifically correct… It is understandable that abortion activists want to hide the humanity of unborn humans, but that doesn’t make the science less real: It just means girls and women who have bought the ‘clump of cells’ narrative will suffer when faced with the truth, which chemical ‘at home abortions’ force.” Read more here.

 

In California, Parents May Soon Effectively Lose Custody of Kids 12 and Older, by Katrina Trinko. “California lawmakers know that plenty of parents have concerns about minors who pursue gender transition. These are valid concerns: gender transition medical procedures, even for minors, can be extensive – and some of it is irreversible… But California lawmakers don’t want parents to be able to stand in the way of their minor children making these life-changing decisions. ‘It is apparent that one result of this bill will be the removal of trans-identified children from the family home,’ Garfield-Jaeger said in her testimony.” Read more here.

 

Title IX Rule Change: Biden Is Determined to Force Gender Ideology Onto a Public That Doesn’t Want It, by Kaylee McGhee White. “More insulting than this administration’s blatant disregard for women’s rights … is its attempt to gaslight the public on this subject. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona’s statement announcing the rule, for example, included this astonishing claim: ‘Today’s proposed rule is designed to support Title IX’s protection for equal athletics opportunity.’ How, exactly, does allowing men with massive physical advantages to crush female competition advance ‘equal athletics opportunity’?” Read more here.

 

Court’s Ruling on FDA Approval of Abortion Drugs Is Huge Win for Women, Girls, by Julie Marie Blake. “The FDA, in collusion with pro-abortion politicians, never properly tested these drugs for safety in the first place and has continued to dismantle safety protections, so that it is now perfectly simple for a teenage girl, for example, to obtain chemical abortion drugs without a single physician visit or her parents’ knowledge – even though these drugs have been shown to cause intense pain and bleeding, and can often progress into worse complications, like hemorrhaging, life-threatening infection, and loss of fertility.” Read more here.

 

Biden Admin Concedes It’s Unfair to Let Men Compete in Women’s Sports With New Rules Allowing Men in Women’s Sports, by Tristan Justice. “The Biden administration is trying to have it both ways on transgender participation in women’s sports with new Title IX rules introduced Thursday… Under the long-anticipated proposal, the Department of Education outlined new guidelines that would invalidate bans on men in women’s sports currently implemented across 20 states. At the same time, schools that receive federal funding and therefore subject to Title IX stipulations may bar male athletes on female teams in competitive leagues.” Read more here.

 

Christians Must Take Children to Transgender Procedures or They Can’t Adopt, Oregon State Law Says, by Ben Johnson. “The policy potentially excludes faithful adherents of most major world religions and most Americans generally, experts say. ‘This isn’t just about excluding Christians: The state is effectively telling the growing majority of people that believe that sex is determinable by time of birth they need not apply to foster and adopt kids,’ González said. ‘It’s not enough to be neutral on the issue; prospective foster and adoptive parents must support the state’s radical gender ideology.’” Read more here.

 

New HHS Report Attacks SOGI Change Efforts, by Dan Hart. “Opponents of sexual orientation/ gender identity (SOGI) change efforts – which could encompass talk therapy, counseling, … or any other type of therapy designed to help people who have unwanted same-sex attractions or gender confusion – describe it with a negative connotation as ‘conversion therapy,’ often calling it ‘pseudoscience.’ However, dozens of individuals have testified to how SOGI change efforts have transformed their lives, leading them to happily walk away from homosexual and transgender lifestyles.” Read more here.

 

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly From the Latest CDC Survey of Youth Risk Behavior, by Dana Mack. “According to the survey, being a teenage girl carries with it another elevated risk – that of mental illness. Well more than half of teen girls (57%) reported feelings of sadness and hopelessness that were profound enough, over a two-week period, to interfere with their ability to complete their daily routines (as compared to 36% in 2011). Some of this extreme depression might be attributed to feelings of isolation caused by pandemic lockdowns but certainly not all of it.” Read more here.

 

One Mom’s Harrowing Story From Inside Whistleblower’s Trans Clinic, by Suzanne Bowdey. “Doctors insisted the puberty blockers were ‘standard procedure’ for anyone ‘experiencing discomfort with their sex.’ And yet, Caroline was shocked to learn that this ‘standard procedure’ would almost certainly lead to infertility. When the psychologist wanted to know if Casey wanted to bank his sperm before they started the drug Supprelin, she kept thinking: my son is only 14 years old.” Read more here.

 

Ireland’s Commonsense Three-Day Abortion Waiting Period Is Under Attack, by Eilis Mulroy. “In the 2018 legislation, an abortion is defined as ‘a procedure to end the life of the foetus.’ It is the only legal medical procedure in Ireland the sole aim of which is to end human life. This ought to place it apart from all other procedures and justify a far greater threshold in terms of reflecting on it before it is carried out. But the sad fact is that, to pro-abortion groups and political parties, an unborn child isn’t a human life – it’s just a ‘clump of cells,’ with no more significance than warts or skin lesions.” Read more here.

 

Biden and EU Gang Up on Africans at UN, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “Adding this controversial language to the annual resolution of the commission would give Western powers more political leverage to push sex-ed programs that promote homosexuality and transgender ideology among children. Western governments, led by the European Union and the Biden administration, are insistent that the resolution must include ‘comprehensive sexuality education’ because the theme of this year’s resolution is centered on education.” Read more here.

 

Putting Children at the Center of Family Policy, by Katy Faust. “Our culture has shifted drastically, but children haven’t changed. In fact, they continue to be victimized by practices and policies that prioritize adult desires above children’s rights. It’s past time to start putting them at the center of our national conversation. That begins with clearly and courageously defending children’s rights by shaping culture, reforming law, and rethinking our approach to technology.” Read more here.

 

Transgender Inc.: A Running List of Corporate Gender Insanity Insulting Women, Kids, and Reality, by The Federalist Staff. “Rather than highlight the dangerous and irreversible procedures associated with transgenderism, … many major corporations have opted to champion trans ideology – even for unsuspecting children. In order to help Americans hold these companies financially accountable, The Federalist has compiled a list of major businesses promoting and glorifying gender dysphoria.” Read more here.

 

The Surgeries Are Immoral, by Cole S. Aronson. “The real problem is more basic: the surgeries remove healthy organs without good reason. That’s not risky – it’s harmful and morally wrong. The people who seek such surgeries are trying to alleviate very real suffering, but whether surgery addresses such suffering humanely is not a question patients are automatically best positioned to answer. That’s true of any patient seeking any medical procedure.” Read more here.

 

A Double Mastectomy at 13? How Can President Biden Possibly Overlook That? by Michael Cook. “It’s painfully obvious that the President is ignoring the growing number of detransitioners – don’t they deserve to be safe and supported as well? He ended his speech with these stirring words: ‘You’re each made in the image of God, and deserve love, dignity, and respect. You make America stronger, and we’re with you.’ But that’s all they are – words. Or does he mean that ‘love, dignity, and respect’ mean amputating the healthy breasts of a 13-year-old girl?” Read more here.

 

This Is How Schools Are Trying to Gender-Transition Children Without Parents’ Knowledge, by Christopher Tremoglie. “Another report surfaced yesterday detailing how a school district in Colorado also focused on deceiving parents about children transitioning… Their thoughts have progressed into what should be considered criminal actions. Any school district, school, or teacher enabling a student’s transition without notifying and consulting their parents should be charged with child abuse by law enforcement.” Read more here.

 

Last Students Graduate: School Closures Spread in Aging Japan, by Eimi Yamamitsu, Tom Bateman, and Issei Kato. “Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has pledged ‘unprecedented measures’ to boost the birthrate … and says maintaining the educational environment is crucial. But little has helped so far. Births tumbled below 800,000 in 2022, a new record low, according to government estimates and eight years earlier than expected, dealing a knockout blow to smaller public schools that are often the heart of rural towns and villages.” Read more here.

 

Women Deserve to Be Empowered by Doctors, Not Rushed to Medical Abortion Without Them, by Susan Bane. “…[T]he Department of Justice announced the U.S. Postal Service can continue to deliver prescribed abortion drugs… Similarly, the FDA changed a rule to allow abortion drugs to be dispensed at retail pharmacies… These developments do a great disservice to women by removing the opportunity for them to receive information that can empower them to make informed decisions. This is especially true when the dangers of self-administered abortion are considered.” Read more here.

 

Democrats Reintroduce Radical Abortion Bill in GOP-Controlled House, by Rebecca Downs. “Lest you think the bill’s name means Democrats have acknowledged the biological reality that only women can get pregnant, a quick glance of the text dashes any hope. ‘This Act is intended to protect all people with the capacity for pregnancy – cisgender women, transgender men, nonbinary individuals, those who identify with a different gender, and others – who are unjustly harmed by restrictions on abortion services,’ it reads.” Read more here.

 

Liberal Media Champion Leftist Crusaders ‘Against Book Bans,’ by Tim Graham. “One uproar is over books – assigned books in the classroom and available books in the school library. Disagree with the content of the books? You’re for ‘book bans.’ Technically, this is accurate inside the school, but the leftist press makes it sound like you’re banning books entirely from public view. They get to pose as the defenders of books and ‘book learning’ and as compassionate defenders of the book-reading needs of the ‘marginalized.’” Read more here.

 

Pumping Gender-Bending Drugs Into Kids Is Even More Dangerous Than We Thought, by Samuel Silvestro and Jay W. Richards. “Lupron stops the body’s normal hormonal process, including the development of ovaries and testes, by ‘blocking’ the brain’s ability to communicate with the pituitary gland… Lupron’s side effects are so severe that doctors tend not to prescribe it for even mild (non-metastatic) cases of prostate cancer. Would you be shocked to learn it might not be great for young girls, either?” Read more here.

 

I Was a Public School Teacher, and I’m Blowing the Whistle on Transgenderism Before Its Too Late, by Stephen Schultz. “One 8th grade boy arrived at school in high heels, a short skirt, open blouse, make-up, and women’s jewelry. He demanded to use the girls’ restroom… Too many Americans too often think that these sorts of bizarre things cannot possibly be happening because they were not remotely part of their own personal school experience. Unfortunately, they are very real, they are increasingly common, and now they are not only protected but promoted.” Read more here.

 

Holy See Foils Western Push for Abortion/Sex Ed at UN Commission, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “Western countries kept negotiations going on comprehensive sexuality education, abortion-related terms, and homosexual/trans issues deep into the night, well past the deadline for agreement… These are common tactics to break down opposition through a combination of political pressure, tiredness, and discomfort. The idea is to make it so difficult that by the time agreement comes only the most dutiful and tenacious of diplomats are left in the negotiating room.” Read more here.

 

Why States Must Define Sex Precisely, by Jay W. Richards. “Until recently, no precise legal definition of sex … was needed because no one contested it. Unfortunately, because of gender ideology’s growing influence on our laws and institutions, states no longer have this luxury. Gender activists are now working to redefine sex in federal laws and regulations, such as Title IX, to include ‘gender identity.’ If this succeeds, it will subvert all preexisting legal references to sex, contrary to their original intent.” Read more here.

 

Abortion Giant Lies About Outcome of Recent UN Negotiation, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “The international abortion giant issued a press release following the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) claiming that ‘the text includes a standalone paragraph on comprehensive sexuality education (CSE).’ In fact, the term CSE was not included anywhere in the document. The paragraph referred to by IPPF included language insisting that education must be ‘age appropriate,’ ‘relevant to cultural contexts’ and ‘with appropriate direction and guidance from parents and legal guardians.’” Read more here.

 

There Are No Banned Books, by David Harsanyi. “For the left, the banned book claim is a political racket, allowing them to feign indignation over the alleged ‘authoritarianism’ of Republicans who don’t want kids reading identitarian pseudohistories or books depicting oral sex, rape, violence, or gender dysphoria in their schools. Yet, major media now regularly contend, as indisputable fact, that ‘book bans’ are in place.” Read more here.

 

The Government Should Not Bully People Into Supporting ‘Gender Transitions,’ by Matt Lamb. “Religious institutions have First Amendment rights to refuse to be involved with medical procedures that violate their teachings and beliefs… The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, which represents Catholics across the country, recently admonished efforts by the federal government to force hospitals to assist in transgender procedures, such as surgeries that remove healthy organs and can permanently make someone sterile or infertile.” Read more here.

 

Belgium to Allow Repeated Gender Changes, by Wesley J. Smith. “The Belgium supreme court previously ruled that requiring people to identify as male or female violated the equality of people who don’t see themselves as exclusively either. So, a new law will be passed allowing ongoing fluidity of gender identity which will be officially recognized by submitting a simple form… This is civilization-destroying stuff. Not because of the transgender issue per se, but because it represents the triumph of the subjective.” Read more here.

 

Sex Education Is Now How-to in Schools – Parents, Beware, by Betsy McCaughey. “The facts of life haven’t changed, but sex ed is entirely different from what you took in school. Sex ed in middle school now includes graphic lessons on anal sex, oral sex and masturbation, with stick figures to illustrate body positions. Supplemental reading in middle school libraries includes ‘Sex, Puberty, and All That Stuff,’ a book explaining foreplay and how to rub the clitoris to produce pleasure… Planned Parenthood, the largest producer of sex-ed curriculum for public schools, argues children are entitled to know how to ‘experience different forms of sexual pleasure.’” Read more here.

 

FDA Stonewalled Abortion Drug Concerns to Escape Responsibility for Their Dangers, by Julie Marie Blake. “When the FDA first approved the chemical abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol in 2000, it sidestepped the required studies – including studies that look specifically at risks for teenage girls – and wrongly categorized the drugs as offering a ‘meaningful therapeutic benefit.’ The FDA justified its reckless approval by claiming that pregnancy is a ‘life-threatening or serious illness.’” Read more here.

 

Parents Are Fed Up With Public Schools Secretly Transitioning Children, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “Could these clandestine transition policies and practices be the reason for the alarming spike in the number of high schoolers identifying as transgender? The U.S. saw a nearly five-fold increase in gender transition surgeries for teens from 2016 to 2019 alone. And a new report indicates that approximately 300,000 adolescents between the ages of 13 and 17 now identify as transgender. It is not surprising, then, that disenfranchised parents have finally had it.” Read more here.

 

Maternity Wards Are Closing Everywhere Because of a Lack of Babies; the Media Desperately Want to Make It a Story About Abortion Bans, by Timothy P. Carney. “Maternity wards have been closing all over the United States for more than a decade, primarily for a simple reason: People have been having fewer babies every year since 2007. There were fewer children in America at the 2020 census than there were in the 2010 census. Of course, a country with less maternity will be a country with fewer maternity wards… The closure of rural hospitals’ obstetrics and maternity wards has nothing to do with laws that protect the unborn…” Read more here.

 

Why Is Netflix Teaching Preschoolers to Come Out as Nonbinary? by Madeline Fry Schultz. “In the show, which is targeted toward preschoolers, ‘Fred’ the bison is reunited with her grandmother and realizes that she hasn’t told her that she now goes by ‘Fred’ instead of ‘Winifred’ and uses ‘they/them’ pronouns… The story is pure propaganda, but don’t take my word for it: Series creator Chris Nee called the episode ‘a road map for coming out but also for having someone else tell you they’ve changed their pronouns and/or name.’” Read more here.

 

DeSantis Goes There, Shows Graphic Video of Effects of ‘Gender-Affirming’ Surgeries Alongside Biden Comments, by Bob Hoge. “Tuesday afternoon, the Florida Governor’s response team … was it at again, taking footage of President Joe Biden lambasting the state for its policies on transgender surgeries and putting in a split-screen with videos showing some of the more benign steps of ‘gender-affirming surgery.’ WARNING: some of the images are graphic, so if you’re squeamish, beware. It’s hard to watch.” Read more here.

 

Vermont Bans a High School From Athletics for Objecting to Boys in Girls’ Sports, by Zachary Faria. “The [Vermont Principals’ Association] alleged that Mid Vermont Christian violated the organization’s policy on discrimination and harassment by refusing to force its girls to play basketball against a boy… This wasn’t done to uphold the sanctity of VPA’s policies. It was done as a warning to other schools that recognize how unfair it is to force its girls’ teams to play against boys. Bend the knee to gender ideology, or you too will be banned from all sports.” Read more here.

 

With ‘Abortion Provider Appreciation Day,’ Democrats Openly Celebrate Executioners, by Nathanael Blake. “…[A]bortion advocates believe that without abortion, women cannot be sexually and economically – and therefore socially and politically – equal to men. But this perceived remedy to the injustice and inequality of nature is itself unjust and unequal. In this age of ultrasound, we can no longer effectively lie to ourselves about the lives violently ended by abortion. We have all seen the pulsing heartbeats and the tiny fingers. There is no justice in ending these developing human lives.” Read more here.

 

If Biden Gets His Way, Using Correct Pronouns Could Be a Human Rights Violation, by Cherise Trump. “With Title IX enforcing gender ideology, what will happen to students who disagree with this dangerous dogma? What will happen to students who believe in basic biology, namely the notion that there are two sexes, that a man can’t become a woman, and vice versa? What will happen to students who have traditional values and remain true to their faith? The answer is alarming. Under this butchered version of civil rights law, these students will be vulnerable to an array of punishments, including suspension and even expulsion.” Read more here.

 

Yes, the State Has Both the Right and the Responsibility to Restrict Gender Ideology, by Kaylee McGhee White. “He points out that giving the state additional authority over familial relationships is a slippery slope, arguing that this authority could easily be used against, say, homeschooling families. …[T]here is no question at all that surgically and chemically mutilating children … is morally reprehensible. This reality must take priority over any concern of a slippery slope, no matter how legitimate it might be.” Read more here.

 

From California to South Carolina, Abortion Extremists Pollute Public Policy, by Quin Hillyer. “Enough is too much. On both sides. Abortion is a matter so fraught with conflicting emotions, conflicting values and beliefs, and still even conflicting ‘science’ that there’s no way a pluralistic society will ever reach a perfect consensus on it. For the foreseeable future, there will be plenty of facets of abortion policy to argue about, battle politically about, and maybe prayerfully compromise over, all in a very broad range. In that light, shouldn’t we all at least renounce the absolute extremes?” Read more here.

 

No, Age-Appropriate Library Restrictions Are Not ‘Book Bans,’ by Raheem Williams. “The issue is primarily a cultural tug-of-war taking place in public school libraries. The discovery of sexually explicit books on school bookshelves nationwide has sparked controversy… There’s an assumption that the government has a responsibility to produce and distribute every book in existence to school children free of charge. This may sound great until you consider that books often contain inaccurate, poorly sourced, or controversial information.” Read more here.

 

Four Things to Know About Major Texas Court Case Against Abortion Pill Access, by Kaelan Deese. “The case surrounds a challenge brought by anti-abortion physicians and medical associations to the Food and Drug Association’s 2000 approval of the drug mifepristone, the first drug in the medication abortion process. If the judge grants the request to block access to the drug nationwide, it could make the abortion pills more difficult to obtain even in states where such procedures are legal.” Read more here.

 

Exposing the Lie of ‘Gender-Affirming Care,’ by Doreen Denny. “…[W]hat didn’t receive that kind of attention is a recent statement by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, that the practice of so-called ‘gender-affirming care,’ convincing impressionable teenagers that feeling like the opposite sex means you are the opposite sex, is extremely damaging. In a seven-part statement, AAPS exposes this heresy – ‘changing physical appearance does not change biological sex’ – and takes direct aim at the medical industry promoting destructive ‘transgender’ medical procedures on youth…” Read more here.

 

Declaring a Public Health Emergency Over Abortion Would Be Reckless, by Jeanne Mancini. “A public health emergency declaration would expand distribution of these pills and eliminate safeguards at the expense of women’s health. It would allow the Biden administration to simply ignore any unfavorable ruling in the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine’s lawsuit and to promote the chemical abortion pill even more. But it wouldn’t stop there. The declaration would also direct emergency federal resources towards advancing the pro-abortion agenda overall and force Americans to fund it against their consciences.” Read more here.

 

VA House Stops Democrats From Putting a Right to Partial-Birth Abortion in the State Constitution, by Ashley Bateman. “The amendment would have … legalized abortion up to and during birth… That bill would have given abortionists license to choose an alternative method of killing through a provision of ‘Method not listed’ with almost no limitations. The so-called Right to Abortion Amendment would have made unborn babies vulnerable to these assaults up until birth. Advocates made no apologies for their gruesome stance.” Read more here.

 

Norway Offers a Stop Forward in Eliminating Gender Ideology, by Debra Soh. “Common sense and science are gradually prevailing. Last week, the Norwegian Healthcare Investigation Board announced it would be revising its current guidelines regarding so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors because it no longer considers them to be evidence-based. The board also acknowledged that the growing number of teenage girls identifying as male post-puberty remains under-studied.” Read more here.

 

Make Women Female Again, by Christopher Tremoglie. “The joint forces of the radical Left and the transgender lobby have appropriated the day to adhere to the insanity that is contemporary left-wing political ethos. Once a day to celebrate all things feminine, International Women’s Day now actually celebrates men pretending to be women… Women must not submit to left-wing cultural extremism that would debase them and embrace a counterfeit womanhood.” Read more here.

 

Outdated State Laws Don’t Address Common Practice of Teenage Sexting, by Christine Queally. “Cases involving child sexual abuse material have risen in the last two decades with the advent of new technologies to capture and share explicit imagery… While it is illegal for teenagers to send explicit images of their peers to others in all states and of themselves to others in almost all states, many of them still do. In fact, according to a 2018 study, more teenagers are sending and receiving explicit imagery than ever before.” Read more here.

 

FDA Absurdly Claims There’s ‘Therapeutic Benefit’ to Killing Unborn Babies With Drugs, by Terence Jeffrey. “…[T]he Biden administration’s argument for the alleged ‘therapeutic benefit’ of a chemical abortion focuses entirely on the ramifications for the human being seeking the abortion, not the human being who is aborted… The administration completely ignores the fact that not only is there a death associated with the use of these drugs, it is the very purpose of these drugs. An unborn child is a human being. A drug that is designed to abort the life of that unborn child is a drug designed to kill a human being.” Read more here.

 

The Realities of Transition Regret, by Debra Soh. “She grieved the inability to breastfeed her baby after giving birth and wanted to raise awareness about the difficulties detransitioned women experience. She also spoke about the poor maternity care she encountered during her pregnancy because practitioners didn’t understand her situation or what detransitioning had entailed… Considering that girls as young as 12 are undergoing this procedure, I anticipate a huge uptick in the number of new mothers presenting with this issue in the future.” Read more here.

 

How Undemocratic Democrats Force Gender Ideology on Unsuspecting Families, by Washington Examiner. “The committee’s report justifying its recommendations explains that ‘when students are separated by boys and girls, it affirms a rigid binary based on anatomy.’ Apparently, this affirmation of biological reality is bad. The committee adds, ‘Separation of students into boys and girls does not create an inclusive environment for instruction to occur.’ Inclusion, in this rationale, excludes the opinion of the vast majority, which also happens to accord with reality rather than the Left’s preferred fantasy.” Read more here.

 

Pro-Lifers Issue Warnings After Ohio’s ‘Radical’ Abortion Amendment Clears First Hurdle, by Sarah Arnold. “The proposed constitutional amendment would pose risks for women by removing current health and safety protections for women, abolish parental consent and notification laws, and enable abortion on demand up until the moment of birth… SBA Pro-Life America’s State Affairs Director Sue Liebel cautioned against the amendment, saying it would endanger women’s lives by doing away with basic health regulations.” Read more here.

 

Sending the Wounded to the Front, by Nathanael Blake. “Transgenderism is culturally powerful and financially lucrative – every troubled teenage girl who identifies as trans is worth a fortune to the medical–pharmaceutical complex. Greed and ideology are a potent combination, so it is no wonder that almost all safeguards have been abandoned when it comes to transitioning children. But this greed may be their undoing. …[L]awsuits may bring down the medical and pharmaceutical cartels that profited from hurting them. The transgender monolith will fall as its victims stand up to it.” Read more here.

 

Major Doctors’ Organization Publicly Embraces Dismembering Babies Until Birth, by Jordan Boyd. “…[T]he American College of Physicians (ACP) announced its official stance on abortion is that ‘individuals have the right to make their own decisions, in partnership with their physician or health care professional’ without legal consequences… The ACP also used the brief … to formally condemn life-saving pro-life laws for banning the barbaric practice of in-utero dismemberment abortion and punishing anyone who illegally ends unborn lives.” Read more here.

 

TikTok Influencers Are Trying to Turn Your Kids Trans Behind Your Back as This Must-See Exposé Shows, by Brandon Morse. “…White points out that some of these influencers talking to your kid are actively encouraging your child to keep their ‘conversations’ a secret from you, the parent. This doesn’t just mean random transgendered people, but medical professionals as well who give out phone numbers they can call for a secretive consultation… None of this should be surprising but it’s absolutely integral to see what your kids may very well be seeing whenever they log onto TikTok, if you let them on the app at all.” Read more here.

 

The Powerful LGBT Group Behind California’s Most Radical Laws Is Setting Its Sights on Washington, by Susannah Luthi. “Powerful organizations in Sacramento often team up on bill sponsorship to add to the pressure. Unions, several of which donate to Equality California, are a particularly important ally, as are Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union. Together, this coalition overhauled California schools’ sex education curriculum to include instruction about gay sex and gender identities. Planned Parenthood and Equality California consult with districts on how to teach the program.” Read more here.

 

Parents Defended Embattled Child Gender Clinic. Their Stories Confirm Critics’ Worst Fears, by Laurel Duggan. “About two dozen parents disputed recent claims that the Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital was rushing mentally ill children onto cross-sex medical interventions … but their stories highlight some of the clinic’s controversial practices… Parents who were supportive of the clinic reported that their children had numerous mental health comorbidities and transitioned at young ages, sometimes without a history of gender identity issues, and that doctors used suicide risk to pressure families into medical transitions.” Read more here.

 

Washington State AG: Abortion Pill Is ‘Safer Than Tylenol,’ by Dan Hart. “As noted previously by Szoch and Dr. Ingrid Skop, chemical abortions also pose a unique challenge for the woman, who is expected to carry out the abortion at her home. ‘Chemical abortions are uniquely traumatic in that a mother must personally dispose of the remains of her aborted child, who may be visibly recognizable as a baby. At eight to 10 weeks gestation when chemical abortions are often carried out, the baby is approximately the size and shape of a gummy bear with easily recognizable head, hands, feet, fingers, and toes.’” Read more here.

 

Washington State Would Destroy Both a Homeless Shelter and Religious Freedom, by Quin Hillyer. “The Washington Supreme Court, ignoring copious U.S. Supreme Court precedent, recently decided that the Union Gospel Mission may not adhere to its faith-based hiring practices, and state officials now threaten the charity with considerable punishment for doing so. As in many other similar cases, the homeless shelter in question will serve anybody in need but just not hire nonbelievers to serve them.” Read more here.

 

NSW Must Not Repeat the Mistakes of Other States About Conversion Therapy Legislation, by John Steenhof. “The NSW Parliament must resist pressure to repeat the same mistakes. It should open an evidence-based parliamentary inquiry. It should hold public hearings. It should listen to the voices of dissenting gays and lesbians. It should protect the right of people to seek whatever help they want, from whoever they want, in accordance with the human rights of all concerned.” Read more here.

 

Busting Five Myths of Gender Ideology, by Madeleine Kearns. “Scrutinizing the claims of gender ideology, it soon becomes apparent how incoherent they are. On the one hand, we’re told that men and women are the same – that the differences we observe in professional outcomes and sexual behavior are the result of sexist stereotyping. And yet, they are different; and men can really be women and women can really be men, by appropriating opposite-sex stereotypes.” Read more here.

 

Actually, Most People Love Being Parents, by Jim Dalrymple. “Specifically, 36% of Pew’s respondents said that being a parent is enjoyable all the time. Another 44% said it’s enjoyable most of the time. That’s a total of 80% of respondents who described parenting as enjoyable… More surprising still, lower-income parents are actually more likely to see parenting as enjoyable and rewarding all the time than parents with higher and middle incomes.” Read more here.

 

The Abortion Pill Turns Every Woman’s Home Into a Potential Site of Trauma, by Abby Johnson. “I have counseled many former abortion workers as well as women who have had abortions. The anguish they suffer is almost unbearable. Abortion workers see a side of abortion almost no one else does – they have to put together the pieces of the baby in the lab to make sure nothing is left inside the woman… They have images inside their heads they can never forget. Now women who go the medication abortion route are going to see these same things, and like many abortion workers, they aren’t trained to deal with it.” Read more here.

 

With 3D Body-Image Avatars and Fake Voices for Trans People, Biden’s NIH Goes to New Extremes, by Anonymous. “The NIH is wasting taxpayer dollars on a project titled ‘Personalized 3D avatar tool development for measurement of body perception across gender identities,’ which purports to help people with gender dysphoria by mapping the difference between their actual physical embodiment and what they believe their body to be. But instead, it indulges their illness by defying science and denying the immutability of sex.” Read more here.

 

Biden Seeks to Strip Health Care Professionals of Conscience Protections, by Melanie Israel. “In 2019, the Trump administration issued a regulation empowering the Department of Health and Human Services to robustly enforce federal conscience protection laws. But now, the Biden administration is proposing to gut those rules, which would ultimately leave people more vulnerable to being forced to participate in controversial procedures that violate their conscience.” Read more here.

 

The Left’s Transgender Agenda for Children Is at a Tipping Point, by Sarah Weaver. “A large number of key studies used to justify sex-change treatments for minors have fallen apart under scrutiny. One study, which outlets like NBC, U.S. News and The Hill touted as disproving the theory that ‘social contagion’ contributes to the rise in transgender-identified youth, was methodologically flawed… What studies do appear to show, however, is that in cases of children experiencing gender dysphoria, the vast majority will desist.” Read more here.

 

The Scientific Revolt Against Gender Ideology Has Begun, by Kaylee McGhee White. “To be clear, gender activists don’t really care whether the science backs up their agenda or not. But it does give them a claim to authority on this issue, which they have used aggressively in recent years to convince every one of our powerful institutions, from the education establishment to the healthcare sector to the White House, to accept gender ideology as fact. Debunking their bogus scientific claims brings us one step closer to breaking this ideological grip.” Read more here.

 

Want to Protect Life? Oppose Revival of the Equal Rights Amendment, by Emma Waters. “…Democrats have looked for new ways to secure an absolute right to abortion. If Congress votes to remove the expiration date of the Equal Rights Amendment, and if the amendment is ratified later by the specified number of states, then the ERA could anchor a supposed right to abortion in the Constitution itself… To protect the lives of women and their unborn children, lawmakers must oppose the national Equal Rights Amendment.” Read more here.

 

As Porn Gets Worse and Democrats Embrace It, One Newer Group Has a Novel Approach to Combat It, by Rachel Alexander. “The left promotes the attitude of doing whatever you want sexually by labeling it ‘freedom’ but completely ignores all the damage porn does to its victims. Many of the women exploited are fooled into thinking it’s harmless… Brain scans have shown that pornography has the same effect on the brain as cocaine. FTND states that there are ‘35 neuroscience-based studies using a variety of brain imaging technologies … that provide solid support for the reality of internet porn addiction.’” Read more here.

 

Washington State Teacher ‘Says the Quiet Part Out Loud’ on Parental Rights in Education, by Tyler O’Neil. “’On one hand, it’s utterly frightening that a teacher would hold the views that she is a better judge of children than their own parents and then publicly say so on Twitter,’ Prior said. ‘On the other hand, having people in positions of authority say the quiet part out loud gives parents the opportunity to understand what is actually happening at their schools and take appropriate action.’” Read more here.

 

Biden Pentagon Orders Military Chaplains to Bless Putting Male Soldiers in Female Showers and Bedrooms, by Elaine Donnelly. “Military commanders, doctors and nurses, chaplains, and military men and women at all levels must endorse and act on this ideological belief or suffer career penalties if they don’t. Alleged ‘biases against transgender individuals,’ which are prohibited, could include anything from ‘misgendering’ people with the wrong pronouns to expressions of concern about medically questionable hormone treatments or surgeries for adults or military-dependent children.” Read more here.

 

Citizens Request Treaty Change for Abortion, by Bridget Ryder. “A European Citizen’s Initiative (ECI) to add access to abortion to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union has – for the moment – been rejected by the European Commission… As the commission has made it clear, it does not have the power to move forward with citizens’ proposals on treaty change, so the initiative may be a dead end for abortion advocates. But … pro-life supporters should keep an eye on such proposals. They are one more way abortion proponents will continue their attempts to create a right to abortion.” Read more here.

 

Incredible … UN Women Refused to Hear WYA’s CSW67 Recommendations, by Sofia Piecuch. “Our participant from Tunisia spoke against the inclusion of CSE but was not allowed to finish. ‘They cut me off saying that they have no time and mentioned going back to the main room…’ As WYA experienced, the space provided by UN Women to gather youth and adolescent inputs was not open, inclusive, accessible or transparent for WYA members, who were either removed from the platform or silenced by moderators.” Read more here.

 

How the LGBT Movement Is Making Young Women Depressed, by Conn Carroll. “…[I]f you dig into the numbers a little deeper, you’ll quickly see that almost all of the growth in LGBT identification is coming from young adults identifying as ‘bisexual,’ and almost all of the growth in young Americans identifying as ‘bisexual’ is coming from young women specifically… One recent study found that bisexual females and females questioning their sexuality had significantly higher scores for depression, anxiety, and traumatic distress than female heterosexuals.” Read more here.

 

Teenage Girls Are in Trouble. It’s Time to Acknowledge Social Media’s Role, by Jean Twenge. “Although not all teens are negatively affected by social media, some are very negatively impacted. If 38% of girls who ate a new-to-the-market candy got a stomachache, compared to only 11% who ate other candy, the new candy would immediately be pulled from the market even though the majority were not adversely affected. Yet those are the exact statistics for social media and depression for girls in one of the best-designed studies, and social media is still available to children and teens with no age verification required.” Read more here.

 

UN Commission Considers AI Crackdown on Homosexual/Trans Critics, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “The first artificial intelligence programs have only just begun to emerge, but progressive countries already have plans to use the new technology to silence … anyone who objects to abortion and homosexual/trans demands. Progressive Western governments are pushing for global censorship through artificial intelligence to fight ‘technology-facilitated sexual and gender-based violence,’ a new term that can be used to re-cast opposition to abortion and homosexual/trans rights as a form of online violence and quash it.” Read more here.

 

The Evils of ‘Gender-Affirming’ Care, by Isabella DeLuca. “The issue that we are facing now is medical professionals, such as doctors and therapists, who are put in place to protect children, are spreading this propaganda that all gender dysphoria has one root cause: being born in the wrong body and that there is one solution to this: complete gender transition. This supposed ‘cause’ does not account for any other potential internal or external factors within the child’s life, and this ‘treatment’ does nothing but harm the child.” Read more here.

 

Taxpayer-Funded NPR Uncritically Promotes Mutilation for ‘Transgender’ Children, by Zachary Faria. “NPR is the best propaganda outlet that taxpayer money can buy. The outlet has joined in on the transgender craze, publishing a completely uncritical piece about ‘gender-affirming care’ for children in Florida, one of the states that have wisely moved to ban it. ‘Gender-affirming care’ is nothing more than chemical manipulation and surgical mutilation, and such procedures have permanent effects on children that can never be reversed.” Read more here.

 

Beyond Binary: New and Old Models of Fatherhood Can Work Together, by Alan J. Hawkins. “The missing second part of his statement is a clear acknowledgement that quality and quantity are highly correlated, that the quality of the parental relationship is strongly associated with positive father involvement, and that co-residence supports quality father engagement, while not living with the child and the child’s mother inhibits it, even among fathers who have a strong desire to be good dads. Yes, non-residential fathers can be good fathers … but the empirical reality … is that the odds are heavily stacked against fathers when the romantic partnership with his child’s mother goes south.” Read more here.

 

The Associated Press Joins the War on Crisis Pregnancy Centers, by Ashley McGuire. “Calling pregnancy centers, many of which have names that are in no way identified with abortion or the politics surrounding it, ‘anti-abortion,’ jeopardizes the vulnerable women that turn to them for help… But the AP’s mischaracterization of these centers does more than push incendiary language. It’s flat-out biased and unfair – and that would be true coming from anyone, much less from an enterprise claiming to be the literal vanguard of journalistic integrity.” Read more here.

 

There’s a New Battlefield in the Fight Over Abortion, and Conflict Is Heating Up, by Katelynn Richardson. “In 2000, when the FDA approved mifepristone, …it did so under accelerated approval regulations intended for drugs that ‘have been studied for their safety and effectiveness in treating serious or life-threatening illnesses and that provide meaningful therapeutic benefit to patients over existing treatments,’ forcing the agency to categorize pregnancy as an ‘illness,’ according to the lawsuit.” Read more here.

 

Reforms Could Change Ethos of Australia’s Religious Schools, by Angela Shanahan. “The ALRC says a school would have control over the curriculum, as far as the state’s curriculum guidelines. Fair enough, but how can you have control over curriculum, especially in religion, when at the same time there is a proviso to present ‘alternative views’ that ignore the fundamental nature of Judaeo-Christian teaching on marriage, family and sex that is at the moral core of belief on human sexuality and procreation of human life?” Read more here.

 

Leave Pregnancy Resource Centers Alone, by Matt Lamb. “…[T]here are efforts from Big Tech, politicians, and legacy media to harm these groups that provide low-cost or free services to help families choose life and either raise their children in a healthy environment or place them for adoption… While Big Tech silences within the private sector, political efforts work to use the weight of the government to stop these pro-life nonprofit organizations.” Read more here.

 

The Child Sex Change Industry Is Exploding in the U.S., by Laurel Duggan. “About 300,000 children in the U.S. identify as transgender, according to the University of California Los Angeles Williams Institute, though not everyone who adopts a transgender identity seeks a medical transition. While many of these children undergo surgical procedures, particularly mastectomies, a larger portion receive puberty blockers and/or hormones, which provides a continuous stream of revenue to pharmaceutical companies and medical providers.” Read more here.

 

Spain: Study Links Increased Transgender Cases With Laws, by Bridget Ryder. “The study found that in Valencia, the number of transgender cases grew by more than 10,000 percent between 2016 and 2021. In Catalonia, it grew by 7,000 percent between 2012 and 2021, with the number of new cases increasing by 40 percent between 2020 and 2021. In Madrid, between January and August of 2022 alone, the endocrinology departments of the city’s six public hospitals received a total of 848 visits from referrals by the gender identity units, almost half of which were first consultations.” Read more here.

 

By Accusing Pregnancy Centers of False Advertising, Pro-Abortion Politicians Prove They Can’t Handle the Truth, by Jor-El Godsey. “If every state already has laws against deceptive advertising and if pregnancy centers are, in their opponents’ words, advertising deceptively, why is another law required? You’d think … the current laws would have been easy to use to stop the ‘deceptive advertising’ practices the abortion proponents rail against… Perhaps pregnancy centers are really only guilty of standing against Big Abortion and its deep pockets and bought-off politicians.” Read more here.

 

Can States Stop Do-It-Yourself Abortion Pills? by Sarah Parshall Perry. “State or local governments can regulate matters related to health and safety without violating the supremacy clause. And, as my Heritage Foundation colleague Tom Jipping and I have written, that means, with Roe v. Wade now overruled, the states may again exercise their traditional police power to restrict or prohibit abortion – including particular methods of abortion, such as by pill.” Read more here.

 

How Autogynephilia Is Fueling Today’s Transgender Activism, by Debra Soh. “There exists an overlap between [autogynephilia] and narcissistic and antisocial personality disorders, but the most aggressive individuals with AGP, who demand that trans women be considered indistinguishable from women, and who are overriding social boundaries and requiring policy to facilitate this, don’t represent everybody. Many of those experiencing AGP do so quietly and don’t transition to female full-time.” Read more here.

 

End the Horrors of the Pediatric Gender-Industrial Complex, Now, by Post Editorial Board. “…[A]ll it took to get these kids on hormones was one letter from a therapist plus a single medical consultation. Those hormones have potentially life-altering and irreversible consequences, including sterility, liver toxicity and severe sexual issues. Worse yet, intakes came in from a mental health unit at the hospital. Yes, kids with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder were put on hormones as a cure for their mental illness…” Read more here.

 

Trained to Hate Their Sex and Selves, 1 in 3 Teen Girls Now Considers Suicide, by Auguste Meyrat. “What has changed in the last decade and in the last few years that has driven young women ever further to despair? From what I’ve witnessed as a high school teacher, this would probably be the rise of social media and transgenderism… Related to the problem of social media is the transgenderism movement, which argues that sex is fluid and that changing one’s sex will make someone happier. This idea has been incredibly destabilizing for female identity and has led to the wide-scale invasion of women’s spaces.” Read more here.

 

The Associated Press Has Lost Its Brain to Gender Ideology, by Zachary Faria. “The delusions go far beyond the scientifically illiterate assertion that men can become women and women can become men. The AP bemoans the lack of ‘recognition’ for ‘nonbinary or gender-fluid people,’ two completely fabricated categories that mean nothing… This is really all just a form of disinformation. The AP is taking sides in the culture war, and unfortunately, that means that its reporting on this topic cannot be trusted.” Read more here.

 

As Book Battles Erupt Across the Country, Idaho Turns to Legislation, by Abigail Olsson. “If this bill passes, parents would have the ability to sue agencies that expose children to inappropriate content, adding an additional layer of accountability to the education system. Allowing parents to sue is a good step forward, Kilgannon says, but ‘the only reason we need a bill like this is because librarians, teachers, and school administrators are ignoring parents.’” Read more here.

 

Six Reasons Why Alex Greenwich’s Gay Conversion Therapy Bill Will Be Bad for New South Wales, by Michael Cook. “A ban on criticism of LGBTQIA+ will stop parents, pastors, and therapist [sic] from offering advice to teenagers who are confused about their sexuality. A ban is a conversion rachet which moves only in one direction – towards assimilation in the LGBTQIA+ community. It will allow therapists to offer affirming advice to teens but stop anyone from discouraging them. The ultimate effect of this will be to hand over the care of troubled teens to government-funded counsellors.” Read more here.

 

‘Queer’ Whistleblower Exposes Evils of the School-to-Scalpel Pipeline, by Ian Prior. “The whistleblower’s story … reveals the endgame of drugs and surgery to chemically castrate and irreversibly damage children physically and mentally. That endgame does not happen in isolation. It begins at school… Students who ‘identify’ as a different sex are effectively given rights above and beyond everyone else. It’s no wonder young adolescents would deal with their growing pains in a way that gives them a feeling of acceptance, validation, and being part of a new ‘civil right.’” Read more here.

 

Red States Should Lead Way in Reforming Anti-Marriage Welfare Policies, by Benjamin Paris and Jamie Bryan Hall. “Twenty-six state-level preschool programs contain penalties that discourage marriage. The vast majority of those programs will allow a single mother to send her child to preschool free of charge but eliminate the entire preschool benefit if she marries a man of equal or even lower income… Because of this program structure, a typical working-class couple is incentivized to remain unmarried and raise their children as single parents in order to retain their preschool benefits.” Read more here.

 

Prayer Is Becoming Criminal in the UK, by Elyssa Koren. “Prayer, even silent prayer, could be a prosecutable offense in the United Kingdom, thanks to recent developments. Catholic priest Father Sean Gough from Birmingham, England finds himself in the midst of a legal battle for allegedly violating a censorship zone banning prayer on public streets around an abortion facility. This marks the latest in a string of thought crime cases rocking fundamental freedoms in the UK.” Read more here.

 

No, Being a Mother to Your Unborn Baby Is Not the Same as Slavery, by Nathanael Blake. “No one at the time the 13th Amendment was written and ratified thought it included unwanted pregnancy as a form of involuntary servitude. And they were right. It is madness to regard a developing human in the womb as an intrusive stranger with no claim upon a woman. It is crazy to believe that the ordinary, natural processes of human reproduction are the moral and legal equivalent of slavery.” Read more here.

 

Detransitioners Are Being Abandoned by Medical Professionals Who Devastated Their Bodies and Minds, by Kelsey Bolar. “After being swarmed by health providers who enabled her to medically transition as a minor, Prisha Mosley now says she’s been abandoned by the medical community as she attempts to navigate a complicated and painful detransition… Prisha doesn’t know why she’s been turned away from so many doctors and medical providers – whether it’s about money, politics, or a lack of knowledge to help.” Read more here.

 

Religious Schools Will Be Forced to Embrace Transgender Ideology, by Kirralie Smith. “The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has released a paper that seems intent on destroying religious schooling in Australia… Balancing clauses that have, until now, allowed religious schools and colleges to operate in accordance with their faith, are to be abolished. The propositions require the schools, even religious studies classes, to include ‘alternative views,’ and staff cannot be restricted in any way regardless of their sexual orientation or identity.” Read more here.

 

The United Nations’ Agenda to Sexualize American Children in the Name of Equality, by Kimberly Ells. “…UNESCO, UNICEF, UNFPA, WHO, and their partners including IPPF have proven themselves to be tenacious advocates of CSE and/or sexual rights for children. Since this is the case, the global education structure being mounted by them is poised to spread sexual rights ideology like a contagion to children everywhere. UN-directed, tech-based education is the syringe through which comprehensive sexuality education is poised to be administered to the children of the world.” Read more here.

 

State Hearings on Gender Transitions for Minors Draw Large Crowds, by Chantel Hoyt. “The contentious debate surrounding gender transition procedures for minors continued unabated in statehouses across the nation this week, with several states moving bills meant to shield youth from the physical and emotional harms of such procedures… State lawmakers seem more determined than ever to address the trauma and permanent scars experienced by people like Chloe Cole from occurring to minors in their state.” Read more here.

 

I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle, by Jamie Reed. “During the four years I worked at the clinic as a case manager … around a thousand distressed young people came through our doors… I left the clinic in November of last year because I could no longer participate in what was happening there. By the time I departed, I was certain that the way the American medical system is treating these patients is the opposite of the promise we make to ‘do no harm.’ Instead, we are permanently harming the vulnerable patients in our care.” Read more here.

 

The FBI’s Slander of ‘Radical’ Traditionalist Catholics, by the Editors of National Review. “The Richmond office of the FBI prepared a memo on what it called ‘Radical Traditionalist Catholics’ and the threat they posed… The memo accuses such Catholics of ‘adherence to anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ and white supremacist ideology.’ It contains several references to Catholic hostility to ‘abortion rights.’ And it recommended with some optimism that containing the threat posed by such Catholics can be accomplished by cultivating sources and assets within the Catholic Church itself.” Read more here.

 

We Must Protect Minors From Gender Transition Procedures, by Matt Sharp. “We must be clear: the experimental gender transition procedures foisted on our children are often irreversible. They prevent healthy puberty, radically alter the child’s hormonal balance, and may even remove healthy external or internal organs and body parts. And not only are such drugs and procedures dangerous, but they are also experimental and unproven. In fact, multiple long-term studies show that when young children who experience gender dysphoria are allowed to mature naturally, most of them … grow out of their dysphoria.” Read more here.

 

Prostitution Bill Moves to Parliament, by Errol Naidoo. “This is not new legislation but rather the repeal of existing laws that criminalise the sale and purchase of adult sexual services. Essentially, this Amendment will legalize all aspects of the sex industry in South Africa – effectively legitimizing pimps, brothels and criminal syndicates. The impact of a legalized sex industry on society will be dire and far-reaching. Decriminalised prostitution significantly expands the sex trade and increases child prostitution and trafficking.” Read more here.

 

No Room for Debate: Parents, Not Schools, Must Direct Children’s ‘Gender’ Decisions, by Quin Hillyer. “The horrors inflicted upon Sage as a consequence comprise an extreme case, of course. But even if Sage had not been removed from her own home or abused, the school was way off base in hiding her ‘identity change’ from her parents to start with. No matter what school officials think about their own power, parents, not the officials, ordinarily have ultimate authority over how to raise children. Absent a court finding of abuse or severe abandonment, parental authority is sacrosanct.” Read more here.

 

Abortion-Inducing ‘Period Pills’ Come to the U.S., by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “…[P]roponents of so-called ‘period pills’ are trying to appeal to an audience that is uncomfortable with abortion for moral reasons.  A website promoting the pills quotes women’s reasons to prefer this method to a standard abortion following a pregnancy test. ‘It would be easier on my emotional well-being to not know I was actually pregnant,’ one woman said.  Another said, ‘I wouldn’t feel I am a bad person.’” Read more here.

 

Biden Paints Lifesaving, Pro-Life Laws as ‘Extreme,’ by Mary Margaret Olohan. “The president’s reference to ‘extreme abortion bans’ refers to laws that protect unborn babies from being killed. Almost 70% of Americans support limiting abortions to the first three months of a pregnancy… The states with strong pro-life laws on the books allow timely medical treatments for miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, and other medical procedures needed to save the life of a pregnant woman, contrary to the claims of many high-profile Democrats.” Read more here.

 

How to Combat Gender Theory in Public Schools, by Christopher Rufo. “As radical gender theory has made its way into public schools across the United States, children as young as five have been exposed to ideas that encourage them to question their gender identities, sometimes with life-changing and irreversible results. Despite Americans’ broadly shared skepticism about gender identity curricula and practices in schools, many ideologically motivated teachers and administrators have not relented in their mission to advance radical gender theory…” Read more here.

 

No, Mr. President, the Equality Act Harms Women and Children, by Emma Waters. “Biden encouraged Congress to pass the Equality Act ‘to ensure LGBTQ Americans, especially transgender young people, can live with safety and dignity.’ But we know what this is code for… The Equality Act harms women, children, and all those who understand mammalian biology. While he spoke in lofty terms about ‘our duty to protect all the people’s rights and freedoms’ last night, Biden’s address failed to protect the rights and freedoms of women and children – the two groups most harmed by his radical agenda.” Read more here.

 

Puberty Blockers Fast-Track Children Toward Full Gender Transition, by the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine. “The authors did find a low rate of detransition during the puberty blocker phase: 93% – 98% of youth who started puberty blockers … proceeded to start cross-sex hormones. This finding led the authors to appropriately conclude that puberty blockers may not serve as a diagnostic tool, but rather represent the first step in medical gender transition – and they even suggest that treatment with puberty blockers may contribute to the high incidence of subsequent treatment with cross-sex hormones.” Read more here.

 

Indiana Lawmakers Fight Back Against Schools’ Hidden Transgender Policies, by Tony Kinnett. “Teshka condemned what he called ‘emotional blackmail’ in which ‘…anyone who questions any of these “affirmation policies” is immediately confronted by this idea that “you hate transgender youth because transgender youth are going to commit suicide [without] these policies.”’ ‘Suicide is nothing to throw around lightly,’ the Indiana lawmaker said.” Read more here.

 

Biden Administration Trying to Force Doctors to Perform Abortions, by Alliance Defending Freedom. “[The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act] explicitly states that hospitals are required to provide treatment to stabilize emergency medical conditions for both a pregnant mother and her ‘unborn child.’ The act clearly outlines the need to protect unborn children, not harm them. But following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe, the Biden administration is attempting to redefine EMTALA to mandate the performance of abortions.” Read more here.

 

The Right to Life Will Be Constitutionally Protected When the Truth About Abortion Is Acknowledged, by James Sherley. “The leading provider of abortions in the U.S., Planned Parenthood, earns the majority of its revenue by stopping pregnant mothers from being parents. Pro-choice protesters pronounce abortion to be healthcare, although every abortion kills a child… Pro-choice marchers claim to want to give their daughters a future with abortion rights, but current abortion practice will end the lives of millions of those daughters, along with their brothers, long before their childbearing years.” Read more here.

 

Leftist Lunacy Means Being ‘Transgender’ Is More Important Than Being the ‘Right’ Gender, by Douglas Blair. “In a video game set in a world where magic exists and can make you into whatever version of yourself you want to be, why would you choose to be transgender and not just the sex you feel you are? The insistence that video games must give players the option to be transgender is yet another piece of evidence that transgenderism can be an identity adopted for social cachet and is not always an actual desire to be the opposite sex.” Read more here.

 

Virginia Senate Votes Today on Bill to Put Abortion Until Birth in State Constitution, by Ashley Bateman. “On Feb. 6, the Senate will vote on SJ 255, a ‘Right to Abortion Amendment’ that would make abortion a ‘fundamental right’ in the commonwealth. This state constitutional amendment would allow abortion to be performed until birth and require taxpayers to pay for it. The amendment would be codified into law if it passes both chambers for two consecutive years and then passes a statewide ballot referendum. It would effectively nullify any pro-life laws in the state…” Read more here.

 

The Double Whammy Making Italy the West’s Fastest Shrinking Nation, by Jason Horowitz. “Italy’s population is aging and shrinking at the fastest rate in the West, forcing the country to adapt to a booming population of the elderly that puts it at the forefront of a global demographic trend that experts call the ‘silver tsunami.’ But it faces a demographic double whammy, with a drastically sinking birthrate that is among the lowest in Europe. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said Italy is ‘destined to disappear’ unless it changes.” Read more here.

 

Why Comprehensive Sexuality Education Is Not the Answer, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “Both the U.S.-based and international reviews looked at the sustainability of effects … and whether sexual activity, sexually transmitted infections, teen pregnancies, and condom use rose or fell among students who were taught according to the different programs. Overall, the researchers concluded that the much-hyped successful outcomes of CSE were based on weak evidence, unsustainable results, and, likely, some degree of motivated reasoning by those conducting the evaluations.” Read more here.

 

Female Athletes Sound the Alarm About Trans Athletes in Women’s Sports, by Madeline Leesman. “February 1 marks the 37th annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day, which celebrates the achievements and progression in women’s athletics since the implementation of Title IX. In the past few years, however, women’s sports have been threatened, as male-bodied ‘transgender’ athletes have made their way onto women’s sports teams, and in some cases, even into their locker rooms.” Read more here.

 

Montana Senate Hears Testimony for the ‘Youth Health Protection Act,’ by Chantel Hoyt. “The proponent side of the argument featured parents and grandparents, medical and mental health experts, researchers, and individuals who have ‘detransitioned.’ It was clearly challenging for witnesses to confine their testimony concerning their knowledge and personal experience on this important subject to the three-minute timeframe provided.” Read more here.

 

With Mark Houck, as With Jack Phillips, the Persecution Is the Whole Point, by Kaylee McGhee White. “I doubt the Biden DOJ thought they’d actually win this case. But that wasn’t the goal anyway. The goal of the charges against Houck and the raid on his family was intimidation. The DOJ wanted to send Houck – and the rest of the pro-life movement, for that matter – a message: interfere with our abortion agenda in any way, and we will come for you. It’s a tactic the Left has been using with increasing fervor over the past several years.” Read more here.

 

Even Progressive Europe Won’t Go as Far as America in Child Transgender Treatments, by Dr. Stanley Goldfarb and Dr. Miriam Grossman. “The American approach, ‘gender affirmation,’ assumes gender identity is knowable from as early as toddlerhood, fixed as soon as it is declared and should be medicalized into permanence as soon as possible. It insists merely questioning a minor’s gender self-definition before often-irreversible interventions is harmful… Europeans generally see affirmation leading to rapid medical interventions as unethical and dangerous.” Read more here.

 

When Study Shows Transgender Medicine Hurts Kids, Activists and Media Allies Slant the Science, by Nathanael Blake. “Despite the suicides, null results for males, and questionable (at best) results among female subjects, the researchers reported their findings as though they were positive results that supported giving children wrong-sex hormones. And the corporate media bought this spin… Thus, this study will be cited as scientific evidence proving the benefits of transitioning children, even though it shows nothing of the kind.” Read more here.

 

The Biden Administration’s Proposed Changes to Title IX Threaten Parental Rights, by Kate Anderson and Emilie Kao. “…[T]he Biden Administration’s proposed rule seems to adopt policies that treat parents with suspicion until parents prove that they will support their child’s gender transition… Parents know their children best and have the constitutional right to direct treatment of their children’s mental health. Policies made pursuant to the new Title IX rules could keep parents in the dark and prevent them from exercising their fundamental rights.” Read more here.

 

Sage’s Law: Protecting Vulnerable Children From the Ideological Fervor of the State, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Sage’s … school should never have hidden the information about her ‘gender identity’ and ailing mental health from her grandparents. The court should never have taken temporary custody of Sage, and it certainly should not have placed her in a male dormitory. All of this could have been prevented, but the state’s relentless desire to force gender ideology onto the public left it blind to a child’s suffering…” Read more here.

 

Abusing Religious Freedom for Abortion Access, by Tal Fortgang and Howard Slugh. “Allowed to stand, this ruling would have ghastly consequences for religious liberty. States would have to choose between religious liberty laws and every other law they would enforce, nearly all of which burden someone’s conscience and limit behaviors some people consider obligatory. Faced with such a choice, states will have to give up protecting religious liberty altogether. What appears to be a victory for religious liberty … is really just the opposite.” Read more here.

 

Get Married Before Having Children, and Other Recipes for Reducing Poverty, by James Rogan. “One solution to this catastrophe affecting the nation is to teach the success sequence. The data say that millennials who graduate from high school, get a job, get married, and only then have children will escape poverty, with 97% of those who do so not ending up poor… Studies show demonstrably that the structure of the family is the most important factor in educational and economic success. Schooling has only a limited impact on later life success.” Read more here.

 

Music Teacher Forced Out for His Religious Beliefs, by Alliance Defending Freedom. “Religious freedom has been one of America’s most cherished rights since the Founding. …[T]he right to exercise our religion is a hallmark of a free society. But over the past few decades, employers have been slowly chipping away at protections for religious exercise in the workplace. Now, some companies are trying to tell their employees that they must set aside their religious beliefs as a condition of employment. This is exactly what happened to one orchestra teacher in Indiana.” Read more here.

 

The Persecution of Jack Phillips Should End, by the Editors of National Review. “The liberal promise of anti-discrimination laws is that they secure the same rights to all in a neutral fashion. The illiberal reality of their deployment by progressives in clashes between sex-based identity and faith-based identity is to demand that the faithful kneel before favored identity groups. A decent and liberal society would leave Jack Phillips alone. The Colorado government’s pursuit of him has sent a public message that it is neither decent nor liberal.” Read more here.

 

You Can Expedite Your Nursing License Application in California … If You Plan to Commit Abortions, by Anne Marie Williams, RN, BSN. “A recent nursing school graduate from California was ‘shocked, horrified, and disgusted’ when she applied to take the national licensing exam for registered nurses (NCLEX) and learned that her home state will expedite the application of any healthcare professional willing to assist with or perform abortions… California’s blatant preferential treatment of abortion is particularly egregious considering the massive nursing shortage the state faces.” Read more here.

 

Biden’s Abortion Mandates Threaten Pro-Life VA Nurse’s Job, but She Isn’t Giving Up, by Danielle Runyan and Holly Randall. “…[T]he [Department of Veterans Affairs] announced that it would begin offering abortion services at VA facilities nationwide. The VA brazenly issued this edict without first engaging the legislative branch, as it is required to do. Ignoring 30 years of congressional authority expressly prohibiting abortions at VA facilities, the VA was to immediately begin offering abortion services regardless of the unborn child’s gestational age and in spite of any state laws which might prohibit such a procedure.” Read more here.

 

Leftist Lawyers Try to Protect Killing the Unborn by Calling It a Religion, by Sarah Parshall Perry and Thomas Jipping. “The Supreme Court’s decision last summer in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that ‘the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion’ did not stop the attacks on legal protection for the unborn. Going forward, most challenges will make familiar arguments but shift the venue from federal to state courts. Abortion lawyers are also launching less conventional attacks, including that pro-life laws violate the right, under state constitutions or statutes, to freely exercise religion.” Read more here.

 

Supreme Court’s Cowardice Allows Colorado to Keep Persecuting Christians, by Joy Pullmann. “In 2018, the Supreme Court rebuked the Colorado judicial apparatus for expressing clear animus against Phillips’ Christian beliefs. It did not, however, back the clear First Amendment protections that ought to allow Phillips to worship God peaceably and bake whatever he wants for any reason whatsoever. So Phillips has been made an example by the rapacious LGBT lobby whose end goals are erasing Americans’ free speech and religious exercise rights as well as inserting government meddling into every personal relationship, all marks of totalitarianism.” Read more here.

 

Woke Activists Promote Drag Shows, Transgenderism in East Tennessee, by Spencer Lindquist. “A report out of east Tennessee’s Blount County reveals that ‘all ages’ drag shows and other forms of LGBT activism are not limited to liberal areas but instead are spreading into conservative strongholds… A report from Misrule of Law documents how drag shows have been organized in the conservative community by a small but dedicated handful of woke activists.” Read more here.

 

NIH-Funded Study Claims Trans Hormones Improve Mental Health – Despite Patient Suicides, by Laurel Duggan. “A National Institutes of Health-funded study published Jan. 19 in the New England Journal of Medicine claimed to find that cross-sex hormones caused improvements in psychosocial functioning for transgender and nonbinary adolescents. However, two participants committed suicide while another 11 developed suicidal ideation, according to the study.” Read more here.

 

Christian Cake Artist Gets Persecuted Again, by Quin Hillyer. “Not content to let him get away with refusal to serve same-sex weddings, a leftist lawyer demanded that Phillips make a cake to celebrate a gender transition and another one depicting Satan. These were clearly not good-faith requests but mere harassment… Of course, Phillips refused, which kick-started another Colorado attempt to nail up Phillips as a sacrifice to their gender gods. Naturally, Colorado’s courts … again held Phillips responsible for illegal discrimination based on gender, his religious objections notwithstanding.” Read more here.

 

Oregon’s Unhinged ‘LGBTQ2SIA+’ Guidance Spells the Death of Education, by Emily Mangiaracina. “The Oregon Department of Education’s new ‘transgender’ guidance, now written for ‘LGBTQ2SIA+’ students …, may not have made more than a quiet splash upon its release – perhaps in part due to the numbing ‘boiling frog’ syndrome. However, it signals something monumental: that the state education department and the culture that shaped it have, perhaps unwittingly, completely subverted the very purpose of education.” Read more here.

 

The Pro-Life Movement Still Deserves a National Strategy, by Alexandra DeSanctis. “Up until now, thanks to Roe, calling oneself a pro-life politician hasn’t required much at all. This is the moment for pro-lifers to prove those tepid leaders wrong and insist that any candidate who calls himself pro-life must do more than gesture vaguely to state lawmakers. As the March for Life demonstrated, pro-life Americans still have momentum. They would be wise not to give it up.” Read more here.

 

The Trans War on Tomboys, by Nina Power. “Today, the boyish girl is in danger of being told she was ‘born in the wrong body’ and whisked off to a gender clinic to begin the journey from puberty blockers to breast removal to reproductive surgery and, ultimately, infertility. Setting children on this path – one that many regret – is an obvious, grotesque harm. We have taken a terribly wrong turn in allowing pharmaceutical companies to construct lifelong patients out of healthy children.” Read more here.

 

A Predator’s Paradise, by Abigail Shrier. “[I]f some of Wiener’s bills seek to protect LGBTQ youth, they also represent a golden opportunity for a different group: adults who would take advantage of them… Consider the Wiener-authored SB 145, a 2020 measure that amended the sex-offender registration laws in California, so that an adult having anal or oral sex with a minor could avoid getting placed on the sex-offender registry, as long as the child was at least 14 and the adult was no more than a decade older.” Read more here.

 

Transgender Ideology Is Putting Male Rapists Into Women’s Prisons, With Predictable Results, by Zachary Faria. “Men are not women. Men do not belong in women’s spaces, especially if that space is a confined one, such as a prison. Men who are convicted rapists belong nowhere near any women, even if they claim to think they are women… The insanity of transgenderism is having real consequences when it is adopted by the government, and the harm will continue unless people reject this nonsense.” Read more here.

 

A Public School District Took Middle Schoolers to a Drag Show Without Telling Their Parents, by Patrick Miller and Keith Simon. “When school officials in a diverse community treat their solemn responsibility to seek parental consent as a light matter … they not only jeopardize the welfare of children, they tear at the fabric of our pluralistic social order… When school leaders minimize the problem, they make concerned parents out to be reactionaries. When they betray the trust of parents, they rupture a vital relationship.” Read more here.

 

The Cultural Abomination of Drag Queen Story Hour Came to Baltimore, by Christopher Tremoglie. “Make no mistake, drag queen story hour has no business in front of children. Much like people would reject exotic dancers reading stories to children because of the mature content of their hypersexualized nature, so, too, should drag queen story hour. They shouldn’t receive special privileges or exemptions (mainly) because they’re part of the LGBT community. Inappropriate is inappropriate regardless of the sexual orientation of most actors involved.” Read more here.

 

How Not to Regulate Pediatric Gender Medicine, by Leor Sapir and Colin Wright. “State efforts to restrict the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries to address (apparent) gender-related distress in youth make for good public policy. Yet even lawmakers on the morally and scientifically correct side of an issue risk overstepping by unintentionally proposing harmful or strategically counterproductive regulations. We write to warn of three such mistaken efforts.” Read more here.

 

Dobbs Dealt a Blow to the Supply Side of Abortion; Now Pro-Lifers Should Focus on the Demand Side, by Marvin Olasky. “Going forward, pro-lifers need to emphasize compassionate approaches that can reduce demand for abortions. Prime among them: pregnancy resource centers that offer free material, psychological, and spiritual help to women (and men) in need. They provide 3D or 4D ultrasounds so pregnant women and the fathers of their unborn children can make an informed choice, and they provide a new support community for women when their old one has rejected them. They don’t abandon women who choose abortion, and instead offer post-abortion counseling.” Read more here.

 

The Weird New Era of Abortion Debate, by Kathryn Lopez. “In this new moment after Roe, there needs to be an examination of our national conscience. Why is abortion so commonplace? Why is it considered freedom and health care when it’s often posited as the only solution, with no consideration of other options for women? There are very hard cases and painful sufferings. Most abortions in America do not involve horrific stories that necessitate babies being born alive in the latest stages of pregnancy – most abortions are birth control.” Read more here.

 

Minnesota Poised to Legalize Infanticide, Nuke Protections for Women and Babies in Radical Abortion Bill, by Jordan Boyd. “’Viable’ as defined in Minnesota law means ‘able to live outside the womb even though artificial aid may be required,’ which could be as early as ‘the second half of [the] gestation period.’ The [Protect Reproductive Options Act] doesn’t just rid the state of that definition in an attempt to expand abortion for all through birth. It also quashes provisions that abortions performed beyond the first trimester must be done in hospitals and only executed if a mother’s life is at risk.” Read more here.

 

Virginia Teen Sex-Trafficked Twice After School Hides Gender Identity From Her Parents, by Laura Bryant Hanford. “When the FBI found Sage … in Maryland, where she was victimized by a sexual predator, a judge refused to return her to her parents on the grounds they were abusing her in not affirming her as male. Housed in the boys’ quarters of a children’s home away from her parents, she told her mother, she was assaulted again. The girl soon fled, then was brutally sex-trafficked again until her rescue in Texas by law enforcement.” Read more here.

 

New Abortion Numbers Don’t Show the Whole Picture, by Melanie Israel. “…[T]he growing use of abortion pills at home makes it harder to count actual abortions. Guttmacher counts chemical (abortion pill) abortions that ‘occurred in clinical settings’ but points out that during their census, roughly 55,000 people requested abortion pills online without going to a facility, according to one study. How many of these women got pills and went through with an abortion? And how many more women got abortion pills from unscrupulous foreign and domestic sources? We don’t know.” Read more here.

 

The Orwellian World of the Pro-Abortion Movement, by Christopher Tremoglie and Michael Tremoglie. “The issue of ‘reproductive rights’ is not semantical. It makes the issue sound like one of government interfering in the lives of individuals. But this clashes with the fact that abortion advocates most certainly do want laws that interfere with private lives. The most arrant interference is the elimination of parental notification. This means that a minor can legally be taken by some other adult – often an adult sexual abuser, covering up his crime – to have an abortion without her parent’s knowledge.” Read more here.

 

Washington Laws Now Allow Teen Gender Reassignment Surgery Without Parental Consent, by Jason Rantz. “Unfortunately, unless a parent immediately and unquestionably accepts their kid’s feelings at the time, the Left deems them to be unfit parents. And they believe that if a child even suspects their parents might say no to a life-altering surgery, the child should have the right to move forward on their own. It’s an easy position for politicians or activists to take when they don’t have to deal with the consequences the way a child and his or her family would.” Read more here.

 

Study Claims Abortion Restrictions Are Linked to Suicide but Ignores Crucial Data Showing Otherwise, by Thomas Kelly. “The authors are claiming that there is an expected 5 percent increase in suicide rates in states that have restrictive abortion laws. But the upward bias in their recorded suicide rates for some states is multiple times the estimated effect of abortion restrictions on suicide rates. This data cannot demonstrate that abortion restrictions are associated with suicide increases because the bias in their data is so extreme.” Read more here.

 

Team Biden Joins School Library Wars, Launching Federal Investigation, by Suzanne Bowdey. “Glenn … convey[ed] through district spokesman Jeff Meador that all the titles they’d pulled from shelves are ‘sexually explicit and not age-appropriate.’ That said, the libraries ‘continue to house a socially and culturally diverse collection of books for students to read, including,’ he pointed out, ‘books that analyze and explore LGBTQ+ issues.’ Naturally, that didn’t satisfy the ACLU, whose lawyers decided to involve the federal government in a local dispute that could have a chilling effect nationwide.” Read more here.

 

Medical Experts, Not Activists, Must Lead Discussion of Puberty Blockers, by Kate Anderson. “…[M]any school districts have adopted the activist line that the only way to support children with gender dysphoria is to adopt an ‘affirmative’ response that immediately puts a child onto a treatment pathway that ends with medical intervention… Schools that have enacted these radical policies should take a hard look at the very serious harms that children are exposed to in pursuit of an ‘affirmative’ approach.” Read more here.

 

An LGBTQ+ Conversion Therapy Ban Is Bound to Backfire, by Lottie Moore. “Of course, we would hope and expect that all MPs would be against persecution. But this amendment will have consequences that go far beyond that noble aim – with serious and dangerous results. If this amendment is passed, professionals simply trying to do their jobs could be accused of practising conversion therapy – because the amendment fails to define what it entails.” Read more here.

 

A ‘Botched Abortion’ Is the Birth of a Child, by Larry O’Connor. “The unanimous voice of Hakeem Jeffries’ Democrat caucus was that mothers and doctors should not be obliged to provide medical attention to an [sic] ‘survivor’ after a so-called ‘botched abortion…’ Think about that term for a moment. What happens when you ‘botch’ an abortion? …What happens when an abortion goes ‘wrong?’ A baby is born. A baby is born, alive. A ‘botched abortion’ is also known as ‘child birth.’” Read more here.

 

Oops! Democratic ‘Oversights’ Would Legalize Polygamy, Infanticide, by Ben Johnson. “Voters can glean the inner disposition of our lawmakers, learning which issues they consider vital and which never enter their minds, through … the ‘errors,’ omissions, and oversights politicians make when drafting legislation. Allegedly inadvertent ‘oversights’ and ‘drafting errors’ by Democratic lawmakers over the last year alone would have decriminalized infanticide, legalized polygamy, and suppressed sacred religious liberty rights enshrined in the First Amendment.” Read more here.

 

The Dutch Studies and the Myth of Reliable Research in Pediatric Gender Medicine, by Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine. “The authors assert that had the Dutch studies been published today for the first time, the ‘innovative practice’ of using hormones and surgery to gender transition children and young adults would never have been permitted to enter general medical settings due to the very low quality of the research and problematic outcomes experienced by several of the young people.” Read more here.

 

Democrats Can’t Help but Make the Case for Life, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) made a similar argument, saying, ‘The problem with this bill is that it endangers some infants by stating that that infant must immediately be brought to the hospital.’ Again, I fail to see how a bill that mandates immediate, life-saving care for born-alive infants puts them at any more risk. A hospital is surely a much safer place for them than an abortion clinic, considering the former exists to heal people and the latter exists to make sure they’re never born.” Read more here.

 

How a Public Library Used Third-Party Allies and ‘Listening Sessions’ to Dismiss Flak Over Pornographic Kids’ Books, by Casey Chalk. “A member of the Library Foundation … dismissed Horne’s complaints, challenging her to go out into the stacks and find something that was inappropriate. That same staffer also argued that young adult books with sexual content were ‘not pornographic’ and that different people had different standards of what material was too sexually explicit for adolescents (that’s not exactly true, given current U.S. federal law on obscenity).” Read more here.

 

West Virginia Wins Day on Fairness in Women’s Sports but Plot Thickens on Title IX, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “Recognizing that the administration’s attempts to redefine sex are suffering some notable legal defeats, the U.S. Department of Education recently issued a notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register, indicating that it intends to make a new rule on Title IX. That rule, however, in contrast to the Title IX rule announced last summer … will deal only with transgender participation in school sports.” Read more here.

 

Minnesota Will Soon Make Teachers Endorse Child Mutilation to Get a License, by Ryan MacPherson. “The state’s insistence that every teacher positively affirm homosexual behaviors and transgendered identities understandably aggravates consciences among moral traditionalists, but the issues run deeper than the ‘culture war.’ What is at stake is the nature of knowledge, the future of liberty, and the prospects for a sustainable social order. In a word: civilization.” Read more here.

 

Gender Ideology Is Losing in the Courts, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Goodwin’s ruling is significant for several reasons, the first being that Goodwin has previously sided with gender ideologues. Just 18 months ago, he held that the male middle school student in question had to be allowed to try out for the girl’s cross-country and track teams while the case was pending. But even he admitted in his final ruling that sex is an immutable characteristic, and that changing its definition would have devastating consequences for everyone.” Read more here.

 

State Department’s LGBT Virtue Signaling Is Unhelpful, by Michael Rubin. “While LGBT evangelicals demand the State Department fly their flag, such virtue signaling often does more harm than good. Flying the rainbow flag at the Vatican to troll the Catholic faith is bad enough, but to do so in Muslim-majority countries such as Kosovo and the United Arab Emirates simply stirs the hornet’s nest for little result… The State Department’s gay pride activism is setting back both LGBT rights and kneecapping our diplomats’ effectiveness.” Read more here.

 

‘Dead Name’ Documentary Shows Kids Aren’t the Only Victims of Trans Radicals – Their Parents Are, Too, by Nathanael Blake. “Parents who oppose so-called transitioning their children are not the bad guys. The bad guys are the transgender activists who have promulgated a false narrative labeling these parents as suicide-inducing bigots when these parents try to protect their kids from a destructive ideology pushing dangerous medical experiments.” Read more here.

 

Abortion Industry Seeks to End All FDA Abortion Pill Safety Regulations, by Carole Novielli. “Abortion pill safety regulations created by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), known as REMS, are the next target of the profitable abortion industry, which has historically bemoaned all regulations to protect women. The ultimate goal of these abortion advocates – many associated with Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) – is to allow over-the-counter dispensing of the abortion pill.” Read more here.

 

Transgenderism Is Experiencing a Crisis of Scientific Legitimacy, by David Gortler. “Today, almost every academic medical school, most prominent U.S. professional medical organizations, and the Biden administration are fully advocating both drugs and major surgeries, including the removal of healthy tissue and organs, in children, adolescents, and adults… The problem is that they all ignore the fundamentals of biology and make unsubstantiated claims without the conclusive, long-term clinical safety findings otherwise required for all other types of medical or pharmacological interventions.” Read more here.

 

Biden Justice Department Dishonestly Rewrites Law Against Sending Abortion Drugs by Mail, by Thomas Jipping. “The Biden administration keeps coming up with new tactics to keep abortions happening. The latest is Justice Department advice to the U.S. Postal Service that a federal law prohibiting using the mail to send abortion drugs doesn’t mean what it says… Far from offering a reasonable interpretation of §1461, the Office of Legal Counsel attempts to construct a fictional statute that would not interfere with the Biden administration’s pro-abortion agenda.” Read more here.

 

New Evidence From Finland That Partnership Instability Reduces Fertility, by Laurie DeRose. “The transition to below replacement fertility has happened at the same time as (and likely because of) the global ‘retreat from marriage,’ a phrase that captures the many ways that people spend fewer of their adult years married. Fewer enter marriage at all, and those who do marry typically do so later in life, often divorce, and either do not remarry or do not remarry quickly. The retreat from marriage takes many adult years away from the normative context for childbearing…” Read more here.

 

New York Is Violating Photographer’s Free Speech, by Alliance Defending Freedom. “The First Amendment guarantees to all Americans – including artists – the freedom to choose which messages to express. If the government can compel Emilee to convey a view of marriage that cuts against her beliefs, it can compel the speech of others… But a victory for Emilee and Lorie wouldn’t be just a win for them. The same protections that ensure they can promote messages consistent with their beliefs ensure that a lesbian cake artist can decline to create a custom cake criticizing same-sex marriage…” Read more here.

 

FDA Aids Biden’s Abortion-for-All Agenda by Letting Pharmacies Sell Dangerous Abortion Pill, by Jordan Boyd. “Already, pill-induced abortions account for more than half of them in the United States. Now that the FDA quietly scaled back its regulation of the abortion pill even further to match the Biden administration’s post-Roe activism, that number is only expected to rise as chains such as CVS and Walgreens agree to legally dispense the fatal drug in any state where chemical abortions are legal.” Read more here.

 

If States Followed the Science, They’d Emulate Europe to Protect Kids With Gender Dysphoria, by Sharon Supp. “After thoroughly reviewing the reliable evidence, these countries concluded that the risks of ‘gender-affirming care’ far outweigh any potential benefits. Instead, they are returning to psychological and psychiatric care as the starting point for addressing gender confusion in children – a model known as ‘watchful waiting’ – noting that gender dysphoria in teens could be just a ‘transient phase’ which should not be mishandled with radical, life-altering drugs and surgeries.” Read more here.

 

Hospital Surgery Dept ‘Proud’ to Announce App Targeting Children for Gender Transitions, by Joshua Arnold. “Under the guise of ‘offering counseling’ to a youth questioning his or her gender identity, gender activists often pressure them towards transitioning (in some jurisdictions, it’s illegal to counsel a child against transitioning). This counseling is often done privately, without the supervision or possibly even knowledge of the child’s parent. This strategy can manipulate children into agreeing to … procedures to which the child is totally incapable of giving mature, informed consent.” Read more here.

 

Biden’s FDA and Justice Department Are All-in on Abortion, by Ian Haworth. “…[I]n a society where every other product and service is available at the touch of a button – including meals, transportation, and narcotics – it’s apparently unconscionable that murdering your own unborn child should be any different. When medical abortions account for more than half of abortions in the United States, and with abortion becoming more difficult across the country, the only area of the economy booming under Biden’s leadership will apparently be abortion by mail.” Read more here.