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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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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