OPINION & ANALYSIS

PLANNED PARENTHOOD’S FEDERALLY FUNDED MESS, by Emma Fuentes. “Defunding Planned Parenthood is now an attainable goal for the pro-life movement. President-elect Donald Trump aimed to do so during his first time in office, and the pressure remains for his coming term. The case is nondiscriminatory: Planned Parenthood uses its funding poorly and dishonestly. A look into the rampant unionization and various substandard working conditions makes the case itself. That is not to say Planned Parenthood is corrupt and greedy; case closed — its executives really are partial to abortion and feel responsible for it, so they maneuver accordingly and do not care about much else.” Read more here.

TIME FOR JUSTICE FOR PRO-LIFE PRISONERS AND THE DC 5, by Jamie Dangers. “Can you imagine being thrown in jail for peacefully protesting the deaths of babies in the womb? Well, you don’t have to, because it has happened. Today, the Left’s weaponization of a federal law called the FACE Act has led to exactly that, unjustly persecuting pro-life advocates who are its ideological opponents. But finally, after years of this form of persecution from the Biden-Harris administration, a much-needed airing will occur this week. A House subcommittee’s hearing Wednesday on the FACE Act will seek to get to the bottom of President Joe Biden’s weaponizing of the government against pro-life advocates and expose how they were harmed.” Read more here.

IT’S ‘PRIME’ TIME TO DISCUSS TRANSGENDER MEDICINE AS A NATION OF PARENTS, NOT PARTISANS, by Taylor Reece. “On Dec. 20, 2022, Brokenhearted Films released the indie documentary ‘Dead Name’ on Vimeo. It lasted there less than 60 days before Vimeo smote us, deplatforming the film after trans-activists raised hell because the film dared to question how a child’s transitioning can impact parents and the parent-child relationship. Vimeo told us, and the world, it pulled the film because it contained ‘hate speech.’ It even tried to withhold funds we’d earned from the sale of the film on its platform.” Read more here.

‘BUY A SPINE’: SEN. KENNEDY GETS NCAA PREZ TO BEND KNEE ON KEY POINT IN HEATED EXCHANGE ON TRANS ATHLETES, by Sister Toldjah. “Riley Gaines, a champion former University of Kentucky swimmer, has also emerged as a leading voice on this topic after having to share the trophies podium (and locker room) with former University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, who identifies as a woman but who was born a man. Gaines has testified countless times before members of Congress on Capitol Hill and also before various state legislatures on the issue, and is currently part of a lawsuit against the NCAA.” Read more here.

TRANSGENDER SKEPTICISM FROM THE WASHINGTON POST, by Jack Butler. “Over the weekend, I argued that transgender activists, who so often claim to speak on behalf of troubled minors, do not deserve the moral high ground. I focused on the form of extortion they have encouraged in young people. According to it, to deny distressed youth puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and even genital surgery is to deny their very beings, thus leading them to suicide. This notion started to become mainstream ten years ago, in reaction to the suicide of Cincinnati-area teenager Joshua Alcorn. And it was invoked in oral arguments earlier this month in United States v. Skrmetti, a Supreme Court case centering on the constitutionality of a Tennessee law restricting these treatments for minors.” Read more here.

SPAIN IS FINALLY SEEING SENSE ON TRANS, by Raquel Rosario Sanchez. “The surprising news broke earlier this month that Spain’s ruling Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) plans to ban transwomen from female sporting competitions. At the party’s 41st congress in Seville, delegates approved a resolution to limit participation in women’s sports to ‘people with a female biological sex.’ …This glimpse of sanity represents a drastic change of tack for Spain’s governing party. It follows years of internal pressure from feminists against trans-activist lobbying inside the PSOE. As part of Contra el Borrado de las Mujeres (Against the Erasure of Women), an international, Spain-based feminist organisation that campaigns heavily on the importance of protecting women’s sports, I have had a front-row seat to this unfolding drama.” Read more here.

MAJOR MEDICAL ASSOCIATION CASTS DOUBT ON ‘GENDER TRANSITION’ RESEARCH, by Dustin Hobbs. “One of the most effective weapons that proponents of radical gender ideology have wielded in support of their cause has been ‘consensus.’ When pressed to explain how blocking a young boy’s puberty or removing a teenage girl’s healthy breasts provide any medical or mental benefit, they often cite ‘experts’ or refer to a ‘consensus’ of medical organizations and government agencies. But there’s a problem with that strategy. Recent research has shown the glaring flaws in the argument that transition drugs and procedures are appropriate or helpful for minors.” Read more here.

BLOCKERS BLOCKED, by Bernard Lane. “In a draft good practice guideline, the French National Authority for Health … (HAS) has proposed that minors from the age of 16 be given the same swift access to fully subsidised gender medicine as adults, according to the newspaper Figaro. ‘This includes surgical procedures, particularly thoracic surgery [mastectomy],’ the newspaper reported. ‘Only genital surgery (which is not currently performed in France before the age of 18) is subject to a slight reservation, with the HAS recommending that healthcare professionals should not decide on their own to operate on a minor, but should take this decision during a multidisciplinary consultation meeting.” Read more here.

NICOLA STURGEON IS TO BLAME FOR ‘TOXIFYING’ THE TRANS DEBATE, by Tim Black. “Displaying a brass neck that is surely visible from space, Nicola Sturgeon has claimed that ‘right-wing media’ and ‘populist voices’ have created a ‘toxic, divisive and unpleasant’ political environment. The former Scottish first minister claimed in comments reported in today’s Guardian that the backlash to the SNP’s ill-fated Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill – which would have introduced gender self-identification north of the border – showed that ‘civilised debate’ is impossible today.” Read more here.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD ABORTIONIST: KILLING BABIES IN ABORTIONS IS ‘BORING,’ by Sarah Terzo. “During my research on Planned Parenthood, I stumbled across a quote from a Planned Parenthood clinic director that I’d like to share. It is from an old article, but the quote is so revealing of Planned Parenthood’s attitude towards abortion that I thought it deserved a mention. Irving S. Rust, director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in the South Bronx, was asked about the declining number of doctors committing abortions. He said that abortions are ‘boring’ to perform, and that is why many doctors won’t do them. It’s an argument I have seldom encountered.” Read more here.

THE TRUTH ABOUT ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE,’ by Joseph Burgo, Ph.D. “When I first encountered the apparently benign euphemism ‘gender-affirming care,’ I assumed it meant taking at face value claims to have been ‘born in the wrong body’ made by dysphoric teens and facilitating their access to hormones and surgery. Working as an expert witness gave me a chance to look ‘under the hood’ of GAC, so to speak, and confirmed my initial impressions. In reviewing years of therapy case notes from affirmative therapists, I found their ‘biopsychosocial assessments’ to be cursory; minimal efforts were made to identify comorbid mental health issues (and only to ensure that they were separately managed), but claims to trans-identification were always validated.” Read more here.

ABORTION FACILITIES COULD FACE MASS CLOSURES IF TRUMP DEFUNDS PLANNED PARENTHOOD, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Donald Trump has committed to vetoing any federal abortion law that makes it to his Oval Office desk, but there are other ways to cripple America’s booming abortion industry. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, Trump’s appointees to head the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), have already noted their commitment to defund Planned Parenthood, America’s largest abortion provider.” Read more here.

IN THE FIGHT AGAINST TRANSGENDER EXPERIMENTS ON KIDS, WHERE ARE ALL THE DADS?, by Fritz Steiger. “I am blessed to be the father of six grown children. …That process of growing up was not always easy. I watched each of them go through the often-difficult pre-teen years. Puberty, even in a healthy and morally upright nation (which ours is not) is challenging. It is absolutely normal for a kid to feel like everyone else knows how to do something you don’t know how to do. In those painful moments, kids need moms and dads who will guide them, reassure them, and lead them to understand a divine plan for their lives. What they don’t need is a father who will happily pump his kid full of hormones.” Read more here.

FBI MUST STILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR TARGETING PRO-LIFE AMERICANS, by Joshua Mercer. “Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray announced Dec. 11 that he is resigning his post. The news comes in the wake of numerous scandals involving the agency seeking to spy on Catholic church communities as well as target Catholic and pro-life Americans for prosecution. …Under Wray’s leadership, the FBI in September 2022 raided the house of pro-life Catholic Mark Houck at gunpoint in front of his wife and seven children and arrested him. The arrest was in connection with an incident when Houck shoved a pro-abortion clinic escort who had reportedly harassed Houck’s 12-year-old son.” Read more here.

NATIONAL SPELLING BEE RE-SPELLS ‘WOMEN’ ‘WOMYN,’ by Justine Brooke Murray. “Can you spell ‘in-doc-tri-na-tion?’ The Scripps National Spelling Bee competition is the latest academic program to re-educate America’s youth into adopting a re-written and re-spelled dictionary of newspeak. In its latest move, third graders competing next spring will still advance to the next round if they spell ‘women’ with a ‘y’ instead of an ‘e,’ an alternate spelling that intentionally omits ‘men’ from the word as a verbal thumbing against ‘sexism.’ The competition’s study guide of ‘properly’ spelled words now lists both spellings as acceptable.” Read more here.

THE FIGHT TO STOP PUBERTY BLOCKERS IS FAR FROM OVER, by Carrie Clark. “Imagine for a moment that you are a doctor who specialises in treating eczema. …You have at your disposal a range of safe, evidence-based treatments that enable patients to manage their symptoms and get on with their lives. Sometimes the condition resolves by itself even without treatment. One day, you become aware that a new treatment for eczema is being developed. It’s radical and highly invasive, with multiple unpleasant side effects and no data on long-term outcomes. Around a quarter of patients treated say their symptoms get better in the short term, but the remaining three-quarters either get worse or experience no change at all. There is emerging evidence that some people have been permanently harmed by undergoing treatment and deeply regret doing so. …Change ‘eczema’ to ‘gender-related distress’ and this is exactly what has happened with regards to puberty-blocking drugs.” Read more here.

LANDMARK TRANSGENDER SCOTUS CASE COULD RESHAPE A DOCTOR’S OATH TO ‘DO NO HARM,’ by Aida Cerundolo. “During oral arguments before the Supreme Court last week in U.S. v. Skrmetti, it became clear that the dispute is over more than just gender medicine — it’s about a realignment of medicine’s purpose. The case examines the constitutionality of Tennessee’s law banning gender-affirming treatments for minors. The prosecution claims such treatments are medically necessary, and banning them constitutes sex discrimination against children seeking such treatments to align their bodies more closely to their chosen gender.” Read more here.

THE U.S. HAS NO EXCUSE FOR FAILING TO PROTECT KIDS FROM THE DANGERS OF RADICAL GENDER IDEOLOGY, by Jordan Boyd. “The U.S. has no excuse for failing to protect kids from the irreversible damage caused by chemical castration — especially after the United Kingdom’s Department of Health and Social Care indefinitely banned puberty blockers for those under 18 years old this week. The U.K.’s decision to protect gender-confused minors from the drugs that effectively guarantee permanent physical alterations came after an independent review, published earlier this year, concluded there is ‘no good evidence’ that opposite-sex hormones ‘reduce suicide risk.’ The kicker is there was never any good evidence that permanently manipulating a child’s body would salvage his mental health.” Read more here.

DATA SHOW THERE’S NO ‘EPIDEMIC OF VIOLENCE’ AGAINST TRANS PEOPLE, by Chad Felix Greene. “In 2024 there were no reported murders of a trans-identifying person due to anti-trans bias in the United States. This might be a surprise, based on the routine headlines declaring that violence against transgender Americans is only getting worse. The Human Rights Campaign, one of the more prominent LGBT advocacy organizations, provides a list each year of reported murders of trans-identifying people.” Read more here.

WHY THE BATTLE OVER HUNGARY’S CHILD PROTECTION LAW MATTERS FOR EUROPE, by Rodrigo Ballester. “The European Commission, supported by no fewer than 16 Member States (an unprecedented fact), is suing Hungary over its child protection law. This national legislation recognizes identity based on biological sex and prohibits exposing minors to pornographic content, inappropriate sexuality, homosexuality, gender ideology, and sex changes. Just hours after its adoption, Ursula von der Leyen labeled the law a ‘shame’ and immediately announced the launch of an expedited infringement procedure that, a year later (a record timeframe), culminated in a lawsuit against the Hungarian government. Read more here.

THE TRANS DELUSION NEEDS TO END, by Robert Knight. “About half of America’s 50 states arguably care more about children’s wellbeing than about being sufficiently ‘woke.’ That’s why they don’t embrace gender insanity and instead ban giving minors puberty-blocking drugs, cross-sex hormones and irreversible surgeries that cut off healthy body parts. The U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 4, 2024, heard arguments over Tennessee’s law barring trans treatments for minors. Some justices blew wide holes in the case for creating ‘trans kids.’ But it’s by no means a lock that this allegedly conservative court will restore sanity on this issue.” Read more here.

NEW PRO GOLF POLICY WILL LET MEN COMPETE AS WOMEN IF THEY LOOK GIRLY ENOUGH, by George M. Perry. “While Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson compared sex mutilation surgeries for minors to racial segregation and Justice Sonia Sotomayor mused about girls who ‘don’t want … breasts’ last week, some women’s sports advocates applauded the Ladies Professional Golf Association’s new ‘gender eligibility’ policy. Even a golf clap is more than the LPGA deserves, as the new policy is riddled with bogeys.” Read more here.

REBIRTH OF SEX, by Bernard Lane. “The carrot Among Tennessee’s challengers is ‘John Doe,’ a 12-year-old girl who takes puberty blockers and identifies as a boy. She says: ‘I’ve gone through a lot to finally get to the happy, healthy place where I am, and I desperately hope that doesn’t all get taken away from me.’ That happy, healthy place is the carrot dangled by ‘gender-affirming care.’ In the Supreme Court on Wednesday, after listening to challenger-in-chief US Solicitor-General Elizabeth Prelogar, Justice Samuel Alito nibbled away at the carrot—'[C]an I ask you a question about the state of medical evidence at the present time?’” Read more here.

TRANSGENDER ACTIVISTS REMAIN A POWERFUL FORCE DESPITE SOME RECENT SETBACKS, by Jonathon Van Maren. “The transgender movement has faced a series of losses in the UK over the past several years, including the ongoing impact of the Cass Review, the new proposed NHS guidelines restoring female-only private spaces, and the high court upholding a ban on puberty blockers for minors. High-profile opponents like JK Rowling have made it increasingly difficult to maintain control over the narrative. These losses have been significant and may indicate a highwater mark for the transgender agenda.” Read more here.

UN ‘GENDER’ TREATY WOULD WAGE INTERNATIONAL LAWFARE AGAINST PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE MEN AND WOMEN ARE DIFFERENT, by Stefano Gennarini. “In one of his parting gifts to the United States and the world, President Joe Biden agreed to advance a new United Nations treaty that weaponizes international criminal law against opposition to transgender policy. Under its provisions, politicians who deliberately ‘misgender’ someone or advocate for female-only private spaces would be guilty of ‘gender-based persecution,’ a crime against humanity. In November, the General Assembly agreed to a timeline for finalizing the treaty by 2029.” Read more here.

‘QUEERING BABIES’: A DISTURBING CASE STUDY IN ACADEMIC DECLINE, by Colin Wright. “In the surreal landscape of modern academia, it seems there is no idea too outlandish to be wrapped in the veneer of intellectualism and published in a peer-reviewed journal. Enter Balázs Boross’ paper, ‘Queering babies: (Auto)ethnographic reflections from a gay parent through surrogacy,’ published in Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, a journal under the reputable Springer Nature banner. The paper masquerades as scholarship while offering little more than the author’s subjective musings dressed up in the jargon of postmodern theory. As its title suggests, the paper relies heavily on ‘autoethnography,’ a method that is essentially a diary entry trying to pass as rigorous analysis.” Read more here.

IN TRANSGENDER CASE, CAN SUPREME COURT CUT TO THE MORAL HEART OF THE ISSUE?, by Josh Hammer. “The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in this term’s marquee case, United States v. Skrmetti. The case, out of Tennessee, nominally involves a state law banning minors’ use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for purposes of so-called gender-affirming care—which, stripped of all euphemism, means genital mutilation and chemical castration. And the justices will indeed have to resolve the narrow legal question before them in this case: namely, whether or not Tennessee’s commonsense protection of vulnerable youth from the predations of the billion-dollar transgender industry offends the 14th Amendment’s injunction that no state ‘deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.’” Read more here.

MAJOR TEXTBOOK PUBLISHER CAUGHT SPREADING LGBTQ AND DEI IDEOLOGY IN SCHOOLS, by Jonathan Butcher. “‘Pretty disgusting’ and ‘grotesque.’ That’s how a Florida parent described an online session for students on ‘gender’ provided by two K-12 virtual public schools in November—a session that virtual school officials held without first informing parents. These schools’ attempt to sidestep families is just the latest in a long list of examples demonstrating that some educators and academic publishers will simply go around parents to push lewd content on K-12 students. Yet this particular incident has implications for local, state, and even federal policymakers.” Read more here.

HOLLYWOOD ACTRESS SAYS THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD ABOUT WHY SOME PARENTS ‘TRANS’ THEIR KIDS, by Madeline Leesman. “Actress Annette Bening issued remarks in front of the United States Supreme Court [building] this week where she said that having a transgender child makes her ‘much more interesting.’ Bening took part in a protest organized by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in our nation’s capital during oral arguments for a case surrounding so-called ‘gender-affirming health care’ for kids. This encompasses hormone therapy, puberty blockers, and sex reassignment surgery. The case, United States v. Skrmetti, centers around restricting this so-called ‘transgender care’ for gender dysphoric minors in Tennessee.” Read more here.

DETRANSITIONER SUES JOHANNA OLSON-KENNEDY, A TOP PEDIATRIC GENDER MEDICINE DOCTOR, FOR MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE, by Benjamin Ryan. “Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, a prominent pediatric gender medicine physician-researcher … is being sued by a former patient who is indeed seeking to have her breasts reconstructed after receiving a double mastectomy at age 14 while under Dr. Olson-Kennedy’s care. Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, who is one of the most prominent and influential physician-researchers in pediatric gender medicine, has been hit with a damning lawsuit by a former patient.” Read more here.

PROPONENTS OF TRANSGENDER PROCEDURES MAKE SHOCKING ADMISSIONS BEFORE SCOTUS, by Leif Le Mahieu. “Proponents of transgender procedures on children made three stunning admissions on Wednesday as they argued against a Tennessee law protecting children from the irreversible procedures before the Supreme Court. The admissions — that cross-sex hormones can cause infertility, that people regret the procedures, and that transgender procedures aren’t associated with lower suicide rates — undercut leftist activists’ core arguments that the procedures are necessary and lifesaving.” Read more here.

TRANSGENDER FEVER IS BREAKING, by Zachary Faria. “The public tide is finally turning against the incoherent, destructive ideology of transgender activists and toward the side of sanity and protecting women and children from disastrous policy decisions. The Supreme Court is on the verge of upholding Tennessee’s ban on child sex changes, or, as they are euphemistically called, ‘gender-affirming care,’ with both the justices for and against clearly laying out how delusional transgender activist talking points are. Justice Samuel Alito made it clear that if gender is ‘fluid’ and can change on a whim, it is not an immutable characteristic like skin color and, therefore, not subject to the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause.” Read more here.

SPEAKERS WARN CONSERVATIVES OF EU ATTACKS TO DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM, by Austin Ruse. “’The greatest threat to life and family in the world today is the European Union,’ C-Fam Vice President for Legal Studies, Stefano Gennarini, told conservatives from around the world at the tenth Transatlantic Summit. Gennarini explained that through a common foreign policy, the European Union, and the U.S. State Department are exporting not just gender ideology, but also an ‘anti-democratic, untransparent model of governance through bureaucratic and judicial mechanisms.’” Read more here.

TEXAS NEWS OUTLET FALSELY LABELS MISCARRIAGE TREATMENT AS ‘ABORTION-RELATED CARE,’ by Bridget Sielicki. “As the media continues to exploit tragic maternal deaths by blaming them on pro-life laws, it’s trying a new tactic: twisting words and using false, inflammatory language to mislead and deceive. This is evident in a recent article by KVUE Austin about the death of 35-yearold Porsha Ngumezi, who was offered a treatment for miscarriage that did not resolve her situation; instead, it exacerbated her hemorrhaging and led to her death. Though Ngumezi had miscarried her preborn baby – the baby did not have a heartbeat when she reported to the hospital – the KVUE headline claims she died ‘after being denied abortion-related care.’” Read more here.

6 FALSE CLAIMS BACKING ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE’ IN KEY SUPREME COURT CASE, by Tyler O’Neil. “The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on the pivotal transgender case U.S. v. Skrmetti, and both the lawyers arguing against a Tennessee ban on ‘gender-affirming care’ and three Supreme Court justices made dubious claims and stated outright falsehoods in support of experimental transgender ‘treatments.’ Tennessee’s SB1 bans medical procedures on minors for the purpose of ‘enabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex’ or ‘treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor’s sex and asserted identity.’” Read more here.

STUDY SHOWS MARRIAGE PROTECTS AGAINST SUICIDE, DRUG DEATHS, by Dan Hart. “A new study has revealed that even as deaths from alcohol, drug overdoses, and suicides continue to rise in the U.S., those who are married are less likely to succumb to these deaths of despair. The research examined data between 2000 and 2021, which showed that mortality rates for drug overdose, alcohol abuse, and suicide all rose among those 25 and older. But the study found a striking difference between single and married Americans: ‘[T]he nonmarried exhibit mortality rates 2 to 3 times higher in alcohol and suicide deaths and 4 to 5 times higher in drug-related deaths compared to the married population.’” Read more here.

SJSU TRANS VOLLEYBALL PLAYER’S CAREER ENDS—SO SHOULD MALE PARTICIPATION IN WOMEN’S SPORTS, by Gabrielle Temaat. “Transgender athlete Blaire Fleming on San Jose State University’s women’s volleyball team likely played the last game of his career after losing to Colorado State University on Saturday. Fleming was San Jose State’s top performer in the Mountain West Tournament match, leading the team with 17 kills. However, he also made nine errors and struggled with his hitting in the first two sets, Fox News reported. … While the NCAA and other organizations claim that their rules ensure fair competition, the results of recent events suggest otherwise. From high school track meets to professional swimming competitions, biological men have dominated women’s sports.” Read more here.

JUDGMENT DAY, by Bernard Lane. “The province of Alberta has passed legislation to prohibit trans surgery for minors and stop new prescriptions of puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones for gender-distressed children under age 16, as foreshadowed in February by United Conservative Party Premier Danielle Smith. ‘These policies are designed and intended to help preserve the choices children have before they make serious decisions about their bodies or the ability to have children of their own one day or undergo potentially permanent procedures where the benefits and risks are not yet fully understood,’ Premier Smith said on October 31.” Read more here.

‘THE PRIDE POLICE’ KNOW HOW TO USE THEIR TRUNCHEONS, by James Parker. “Last week, the Human Rights Tribunal (HRT) of Ontario ruled that the township of Emo in the far west of Ontario, Canada be fined C$10 000 for refusing to celebrate Pride Month. Its officials have also been ordered to complete mandatory ‘human rights’ training. … Where have we come to? I was a gay activist in London in the 80s and engaged in discussions which shaped The Gay Agenda. (Yes, it does exist, and it is nearing fulfilment, which includes overturning heteronormativity once and for all.) One major aspect of the plan includes using psychological warfare to silence and ultimately convert any person who might fail not merely to tolerate but to celebrate homosexuality and sexual deviancy.” Read more here.

STATES CAN AND SHOULD PROTECT MINORS FROM TRANSGENDER IDEOLOGY, by John Bursch. “There’s a trend sweeping through America, especially among susceptible teenagers. Thanks to social media and peer influencers, teenagers and even adolescents are pumping their bodies with chemicals; the secret is often kept from their parents until it’s too late. I’m talking, of course, about . . . energy drinks. Last year, Senator Chuck Schumer warned that one brand’s 200 milligrams of caffeine ‘could endanger the health of kids,’ causing them to be moody and ‘suffer headaches.’ …That’s pretty rich considering that Schumer fully supports giving children hormones and even performing experimental surgeries on them — what he calls ‘gender-affirming health care’ — to make those children look more like the opposite sex. In Schumer’s world, the federal government should intervene when a young girl consumes caffeine equivalent to about two cups of coffee but cheer her on if she takes enough testosterone to make her infertile, increase her risk of heart attacks and strokes, and irreversibly alter her body. So much for public health.” Read more here.

SUPREME COURT CASE EXPOSES MEDICAL SCANDAL OF EPIC PROPORTIONS, by Tyler O’Neil. “It’s hard to wrap your head around just how grotesque it is that many medical associations and the federal government have adopted the idea that it’s healthy to sterilize children in an attempt to ‘affirm’ a stated transgender identity. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will shed much-needed sunlight on this medical scandal of epic proportions. Tennessee Solicitor General Matt Rice will explain how activists conspired to flip the Hippocratic Oath on its head. Meanwhile, U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar and American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Chase Strangio—a female who says she identifies as male—will argue that Tennessee’s law banning Frankensteinian medical experiments on kids violates federal law by discriminating on the basis of sex.” Read more here.

WOKE LANCET TRADES SCIENCE FOR RADICAL GENDER IDEOLOGY, by Thomas D. Williams. “The once-important Lancet medical journal has gone all in on gender ideologues’ redefinition of sexual differentiation, abandoning any pretense of ‘science’ along the way. It is important to ‘ensure that individuals whose gender differs from their sex are visible in study data,’ the Lancet solemnly pronounces in its latest issue. ‘Sex encompasses chromosomes, anatomy, and endogenous hormones and gender is a multidimensional construct that can be captured in terms of gender identity, gender expression, or gender modality (i.e., whether a person is cisgender or transgender),’ the journal explains. Gender ‘refers to an aspect of a person’s identity,’ it continues.” Read more here.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD CAUGHT AGAIN TREATING UNBORN BABIES AS ‘COMMODITIES TO BE TRADED,’ by Sarah Holliday. “New information has recently surfaced providing more evidence of Planned Parenthood’s involvement in the selling of fetal tissue from aborted babies. In 2018, a ‘Research Plan’ was sent to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Institutional Review Board. In it was some shocking information. The plan, conducted by scientists, stated: ‘We will collect tissues from fetuses ranging from 4 to 23 weeks gestational age from subjects undergoing elective surgical pregnancy termination at Planned Parenthood in San Diego.’ …But, in short, these ‘scientists were in search of 2,500 fetuses aborted up until about the sixth month of pregnancy for experimental purposes.’” Read more here.

TRUMP SHOULD END LGBTQ BIDEN ADMINISTRATION FOSTER CARE RULE, by Virginia Allen. “The Biden-Harris administration finalized a rule in April requiring foster parents to affirm a child’s gender ideology. ‘The provider must commit to establishing an environment that supports the child’s LGBTQI+ status or identity,’ according to the rule issued by the Department of Health and Human Services. The policy, says Herbie Newell, president and executive director of Lifeline Children’s Services, ‘made people of faith into a different category of foster and adoptive parent, saying that because they didn’t give in to this pro-radical LGBTQ+ agenda, that they couldn’t foster any child with gender dysphoria or any child that might be having any questions about their LGBTQ status.’” Read more here.

HERE’S HOW A SMALL BAND OF PEDIATRICIANS PUSHED FOR ENDING AGE MINIMUMS FOR CHILD ‘SEX CHANGES,’ by Megan Brock. “A handful of pediatricians who perform ‘sex-change’ procedures on children led a successful pressure campaign to push a major transgender medical organization to remove age minimums for life-altering sex-change surgeries from its clinical guidance, according to emails exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Emails reveal the American Academy of Pediatrics asked just four doctors—all of whom are considered leaders in the field of pediatric sex changes and have performed various transgender procedures—to review and provide feedback on an embargoed copy of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health’s clinical guidance, called the Standards of Care version 8, or SOC-8, weeks before its expected publication.” Read more here.

‘GENDER VOODOO,’ by Bernard Lane. “An Australian politician trained in paediatrics has declared medicalised gender federal politics as a National Party member, said he had been ‘flabbergasted’ to be in Australia’s parliament when ‘eminent doctors and professors’ whom he had thought ‘sensible change for minors to be lacking in evidence, a breach of the rule ‘First, do no harm,’ and ‘a blot on the medical profession.’ Dr David Gillespie, who spent 33 years in medical practice before he entered people’ declared their support for ‘gender-affirming care.’” Read more here.

SCIENTISTS DEMAND BAN ON BOILING LIVE CRABS BECAUSE THEY FEEL PAIN, BUT ABORTING BABIES STILL OK, by Brittany Hughes. “Bringing a nice little storm cloud to rain all over your next summer seafood boil are these scientists, who have now declared that it’s cruel to boil live shellfish like crabs and lobsters because, they say they’ve recently learned, these little bottom-skitterers can feel pain, meaning they don’t appreciate being roasted alive next to your potatoes and corn on the cob. …Interestingly, while finding out that crabs might feel pain has led to an immediate outcry from the scientific community demanding a ban on live crab and lobster boils, abortion in Sweden is legal for any reason up through the 18th week of pregnancy, well after an unborn baby’s nervous system has developed to be able to feel pain, studies have shown. Read more here.

‘HELL OF A VINDICATION’: DETRANSITIONER SPEAKS OUT AFTER BEING SILENCED BY COLLEGE, THREATENED BY CLASSMATES, by Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell. “Threats and bullying from peers and censorship from his college couldn’t stop detransitioner Simon B. Amaya Price from sounding the alarm on so-called gender transitions for children. Amaya Price, 20, was tasked with creating an event about social change for a class at Berklee College of Music, a private music college in Boston. He decided to host a presentation Oct. 20 titled ‘Born in the Right Body: Desister and Detransitioner Awareness’ to share his own struggles with gender dysphoria in high school and how he overcame them.” Read more here.

NO HORMONES ON CHILE’S PUBLIC PURSE, by Bernard Lane, “Chile’s Ministry of Health is prohibited from funding poorly evidenced hormonal or surgical treatments for gender-distressed minors following a historic vote by legislators in the National Congress. On November 20, senators of the upper house of Chile’s bicameral congress voted 22-19 to block any allocation of funds for puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones in the 2025 health ministry budget, rejecting a government attempt to override a similar veto by deputies of the lower house.” Read more here.

TUGGING A STRAND OF HISTORY: FEMINISM, COMMUNISM, AND TRANSGENDER BATHROOMS, by Joshua Arnold. “Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) was ‘considered an LGBT ‘ally,’ observed Family Research Council Action President Jody Hice, but ‘her latest move has supporters of the movement now labeling her as ‘anti-trans.’ Mace filed a resolution last week to protect women’s restrooms in the U.S. Capitol from male intrusion after a man identifying as a woman won election to the U.S. Congress. ‘How in the world did we even get to this point?’ Hice wanted to know. One contributing factor is feminism, Dr. Carrie Gress answered on ‘Washington Watch,’ the very ideology Mace declared was her reason for preserving women-only spaces.” Read more here.

THE GROTESQUE HOLLOWING OUT OF WOMANHOOD, by Brendan O’Neill. “First they came for women’s bathrooms. Then their rape shelters. Then their sports. Now they’re coming for their prizes. The BBC has announced the winner of its Women’s Footballer of the Year Award and you won’t believe who it is. Actually you will. It’s someone who once failed to meet gender-eligibility rules for the women’s game. It’s someone who was excluded from a major tournament after failing ‘gender-verification tests’. It’s someone with such elevated levels of testosterone that they were told to take hormone suppressants if they wanted to kick a ball again. Yes, the BBC’s female footballer of 2024 is someone whose femaleness has been called into question by some experts. … It’s Barbra Banda of Zambia.” Read more here.

BEWARE OF THE TROJAN HORSES IN THE ABORTION DEBATES, by Susan Cyre. “A Trojan Horse is a trick or strategy that causes something to appear benign or even good, and therefore be accepted and welcomed, while in reality it is deadly and brings defeat. As a result of the Dobbs decision in 2022, abortion is now largely a state issue being decided by laws passed by locally elected officials or by voters in the case of a constitutional amendment. …Every voter needs to be informed and aware of the deceptions being promoted by abortion advocates.” Read more here.

TRANSGENDER MOVEMENT HAS OVERPLAYED ITS HAND AND THE WORLD IS FINALLY GETTING WISE TO IT, by Jonathon Van Maren. “It is too early to declare victory just yet, but the transgender movement is definitely having a very bad year. As I noted recently, there is a good case to be made that transgender activists won the election for Donald Trump — and Democrats know it. In fact, many more moderate liberals are on the warpath, demanding to know why the Left is beholden to a handful of men in skirts and LGBT extremists.” Read more here.

TRANS MONTANA REP: ‘TRANSWOMEN’ ARE ‘EVERY BIT AS BIOLOGICALLY FEMALE AS CIS WOMEN,’ by Brittany M. Hughes. “Zooey Zephyr, a man who believes himself to be a woman who serves as a state representative in Montana, responded to Congresswomen Nancy Mace’s efforts to protect women-designated spaces from mental [sic] ill men this week by claiming that ‘transwomen’ – i.e, men – are ‘every bit as “biologically female” as cis women.’ With ‘cis’ women being the leftist made-up term for actual women, which also happen to be the only women, as there are no other varieties of women in existence.” Read more here.

MIKE DEWINE SHOULD SIGN THE OHIO TRANSGENDER BATHROOM BILL, by National Review editors. “Just before 2023 ended, Mike DeWine, the Republican governor of Ohio, disappointed his state. On the last Friday of the year, Governor DeWine vetoed the SAFE Act, a bill sent to him with clear majorities in both houses of the Ohio general assembly. The bill banned so-called gender-affirming therapies and surgeries for minors, and forbade athletes from participating in sports as their asserted gender identity, in defiance of their actual sex. DeWine’s rationale was dubious, as we observed at the time. He applied a hands-off approach to these procedures that was notably absent in other executive actions he had taken.” Read more here.

NYT JUMPS INTO DEMOCRAT CIVIL WAR OVER TRANSING KIDS–GUESS WHICH SIDE THEY PICK, by David Strom. “Did you know that the increasingly popular and already supermajority movement to reverse the alphabet ideology insanity is a Putinesque plot to advance cisgender White Supremacy? I didn’t. …M. Gessen, an opinion columnist for The New York Times and transgender activist, carefully lays out her argument that if children want to be sterilized and mutilated, it is just one of many choices they may come to embrace or regret and that the movement to protect them from sadistic ideologues bent on imposing their ghoulish ideology are stifling the freedom of children to be their authentic selves in the service of a Christian nationalist agenda.” Read more here.

ARIZONA GOVERNOR KATIE HOBBS CELEBRATES AMENDMENT TO KILL BABIES IN ABORTIONS, by Cathi Herrod. “Today, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs ‘celebrates’ the passage of Proposition 139 to amend the Arizona Constitution to enshrine a constitutional, fundamental right to an abortion. It is not a time to celebrate. It is a time to mourn the legal taking of unborn children’s lives and the resulting harm to their mothers. Within days, Arizona will see one or more lawsuits that will prove the real intent of Proposition 139: to overturn up to forty of Arizona’s common sense safety standards. Standards that not only protect the viability of unborn children but also the well-being and lives of their mothers.” Read more here.

HOW THE NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT AUTHORITY IS INFECTED BY WOKE IDEOLOGIES, by Matt Goodwin. “A few months ago, I published an exposé about the National Health Service (NHS), revealing how it’s been fully captured by radical gender ideology. …Not long after, I was contacted by a longstanding member of staff from NHS Blood and Transplant. The importance of the work of this branch of the NHS cannot be understated – they are responsible for the donation of blood, organs, tissues and stem cells to save the lives of those in need. For this reason, one would have thought that the basics of biological reality would be at the forefront of their practice model. If only. Instead, as I’m going to show you in this exclusive post, they too have been fully captured by radical ideological dogma.” Read more here.

EXCLUSIVE: PHILLY KIDS HOSPITAL ‘LEADING THE NATION’ IN ‘SEX CHANGES,’ by Mary Margaret Olohan. “Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is one of the top offenders in the United States when it comes to irreversible sex change procedures for children, according to a digital campaign launching Tuesday. The hospital, known as ‘CHOP,’ boasts that it is the first United States hospital devoted exclusively to the care of children. It has programs devoted to helping children explore and attempt to change their gender — and according to the advocacy group Do No Harm, the hospital is ‘leading the nation’ in offering ‘life-altering sex related interventions for minors.’” Read more here.

REALITY WINS: TRANSWOMEN ARE MEN, by Meg Kilgannon. “We have reached the tipping point on the gender issue. If I had known that electing a trans-identifying man to Congress would so definitively advance the discussion of safety and privacy in women-only spaces, I might have donated to the campaign myself. For over a decade now, women have been speaking out about the problem of men who believe they are women seeking ‘refuge’ in our bathrooms, locker rooms, college dorms, prison cells, and even sometimes our beds. The pressure has grown as more and more Americans were confronted by the very real demands required by the ‘inclusion’ of ‘gender diverse’ people on their terms.” Read more here.

YES, KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPACES — IN CONGRESS AND EVERYWHERE ELSE, by Kimberly Ross. “Rep. Nancy Mace‘s (R-SC) resolution requiring members of Congress to use the bathrooms and other single-sex facilities that correspond with their biology caused quite a stir. Less than two days after it was introduced, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson announced a change to the facility rules, saying: ‘All single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office Buildings — such as restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms — are reserved for individuals of that biological sex. Women deserve women’s only spaces.’ On Jan. 3, Sarah McBride, a biological male, will be sworn into the 119th Congress.” Read more here.

WHY A ‘LIVING ROOM FAMILY’ IS WHAT MANY MODERN PARENTS ARE STRIVING FOR, by Taylor Andrews. “In today’s world of digital distractions and personalized spaces, it’s easier than ever for young children to disappear into their rooms with an iPad or some toys. But for families that prioritize time together in the living room, connection becomes part of the daily routine. Experts refer to this kind of dynamic as a ‘living room family,’ and it’s exactly what it sounds like: a family that makes it a point to spend time together in a living room or other shared space. Instead of retreating into their own rooms, family members may gather on the couch to read books together, work on a puzzle at the coffee table, or watch a show on Netflix.” Read more here.

BRAVE AFRICAN DELEGATES FIGHT ABORTION IN LANDMARK UN FAMILY RESOLUTION, by Stefano Gennarini. “Traditional countries removed a reference to ‘reproductive health’ in the final draft of a resolution on the family. The resolution was unanimously adopted in the third committee of the General Assembly yesterday. Work behind the scenes from Burundi and other delegations from Africa ensured the removal of the term and a unanimous adoption. Powerful Western countries howled and accused traditional delegations of acting in bad faith, but ended up joining the resolution, nonetheless. Traditional countries were shocked when the first draft of the resolution in October contained the pro-abortion term ‘reproductive health.’” Read more here.

OUR AUTOGYNEPHILIA PROBLEMS, by Michael Bailey. “No issue in the transgender wars ignites as much division as autogynephilia (AGP). Beginning with the 2003 campaign against me and my book, The Man Who Would Be Queen, transgender activists have tried to ruin the reputations and lives of those who openly endorse the relevance of AGP for explaining gender dysphoria among many natal males. The other—’gender critical’—side recognizes the most florid manifestations of AGP, blaming it for much of the excesses of transgender activism and the epidemic of youth transition. Read more here.

POLISH PARLIAMENT VOTES TO ADVANCE BILL THAT DECRIMINALIZES ABORTION, by Jerzy Kwaśniewski. “On November 8, the Polish Sejm (parliament) voted on a bill decriminalizing both the performance and the aiding and abetting of illegal abortions. The Left (Lewica) party’s radically pro-abortion bill was thus sent for further parliamentary work. Thanks to the efforts of the great coalition of pro-life advocates, 11 Members of Parliament (MPs) of the government coalition voted against it. However, supporters of a debate on the legalization of killing won the vote this time. We are facing the most difficult time in years for the defense of life.” Read more here.

RUSSIAN WOMEN SAY NYET TO CHILDREN, by Michael Cook. “The world’s population is becoming greyer, getting sicker, and growing fewer. …There will be shortages of workers and – this must be giving generals everywhere nightmares – soldiers. So governments are experimenting with schemes to boost the number of babies. There have been all sorts: subsidized IVF, baby bonuses, generous parental leave, and awards for fertile mothers. Singapore even experimented with a government dating service. None of these carrots has worked. So Russia is trying a stick. A new law criminalising ‘child-free propaganda’ passed the lower house of parliament earlier this month. It still have to be passed by the upper house and signed by President Putin.” Read more here.

REPORT: CORPORATE AMERICA WANTS TO DELAY WOMEN WORKERS HAVING KIDS, by Breccan F. Thies. “A report from the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) shows that while some pro-family policies have been adopted at top corporations, the balance weighs heavily in favor of delaying or destroying families. ‘In addition to offering praiseworthy parental-leave policies and assistance with the costs of adoption or child care, a significant number of these corporations have simultaneously begun promoting and incentivizing options such as surrogacy, in vitro fertilization, egg freezing, and travel for abortions — options that encourage female employees in particular to postpone or even forego motherhood in order to advance in their careers.’” Read more here.

I THOUGHT BEING A GAY MAN WOULD SAVE ME FROM WOMANHOOD (IT DIDN’T), by Laura Becker. “It’s been seven years since I had my breasts removed. Eight years since injecting testosterone. Almost eleven years since I learned about the concept of ‘gender identity’—a discovery (if that is the right word) that set me on the road to believing I was transgender. It was 2014. … I learned the hard way that ‘queering’ oneself is (at best) a semantic exercise. It doesn’t lead to any kind of endpoint of acceptance or emotional growth. Rather, its purpose is to validate a posture of defiance and alienation.” Read more here.

KEEP OUT: HOW I LED THE SUCCESSFUL FIGHT TO BAR TRANS ‘WOMEN’ FROM MY ALL-FEMALE COLLEGE, by Macy Gunnell. “It was just another Tuesday at my campus job in the admissions office at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana, when I overheard something startling. A new policy had slipped through the cracks of my all-women’s college, a policy that would admit applicants who ‘consistently live and identify as women,’ in other words, biological men. …I knew that something had to be done, and I knew that I had to do it. I could not sit back and watch something so insulting destroy the very fabric of what made my women’s Catholic college so special. I knew the battle would not be easy, but that didn’t stop me.” Read more here.

REFLECTIONS ON HARVARD’S SEX WEEK, by Richard Y. Rodgers. “In the once-hallowed halls of Harvard University, we were confronted with a disappointing spectacle: the 12th annual event known as Sex Week. It was disheartening to see a purportedly educational initiative promoting a culture that leans toward excess and encourages an unsettling disregard for the traditional virtues of intimacy and self-respect. The discussions that unfolded during Sex Week—a week filled with explicit explorations of disordered, harmful sexual acts that blurred the line between intimacy and perversion—signalled a capitulation to the basest instincts of human nature.” Read more here.

DOCTORS PERFORMING TRANS EXPERIMENTS SHOULD PREPARE TO BE SUED IN TEXAS AND ELSEWHERE, by Ashley Bateman. “In Texas, cases are mounting against physicians who broke state law by prescribing puberty blockers and hormones to minors under the guise of ‘gender affirming care.’ On Oct. 17, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Dr. May Lau, a pediatrician and professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. The suit claims that Lau treated 21 children with hormone blockers after the practice became illegal in the state and then ‘falsified’ medical and billing records and prescriptions to manipulate the appearance of the care she provided.” Read more here.

WASHINGTON D.C. ABORTION CLINIC THAT KILLS BABIES IN ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH MAY CLOSE SOON, by Ben Johnson. “Among the constituencies that views itself as hardest hit by the 2024 presidential election is the abortion industry, especially those who carry out late-term abortions. But a fascinating, pre-election article in a liberal news outlet shows independent abortion facilities face their greatest economic squeeze, not from the incoming Trump administration, but from competitors in the abortion industry.” Read more here.

SOON, A MAJORITY OF OLDER ADULTS WILL HAVE NO GRANDCHILDREN BECAUSE THEIR CHILDREN ARE REFUSING TO HAVE KIDS, by Grace Porto. “An article in the New York Times outlined the hidden pain of parents who will never become grandparents, due to the choices of their children. Journalist Catherine Pearson wrote, ‘A growing number of Americans are choosing not to have children. Their parents are grappling with what that means for them.’ Pearson stated that in 2014, 60% of adults 50 and older had at least one grandchild. In 2021, that rate fell to slightly over 50%. The author added that many adults in the United States are not having children, and one of the top reasons is that ‘they just don’t want to.’” Read more here.

ARGENTINA STANDS ALONE AT THE UN/HUNGARY STANDS WITH THE LEFT, by Stefano Gennarini. “Argentina stood alone against censorship in the General Assembly this week. Close to sixty countries opposed transgenderism. And the Hungarian government of Victor Orbán gaslit everyone on behalf of the European Union. Argentina voted against a resolution on violence against women in digital spaces because it included ‘broad and undefined terms such as hate speech, misinformation, and disinformation, which are easily abused to restrict free speech.’” Read more here.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND RELATIONSHIPS: 1 IN 4 YOUNG ADULTS BELIEVE AI PARTNERS COULD REPLACE REAL-LIFE ROMANCE, by Wendy Wang and Michael Toscano. “Gen Zers and Millennials are the most active users of generative AI. Many of them, it appears, are turning to AI for companionship. ‘We talk to them, say please and thank you, and have started to invite AIs into our lives as friends, lovers, mentors, therapists, and teachers,’ Melissa Heikkilä wrote in MIT Technology Review. After analyzing 1 million ChatGPT interaction logs, a group of researchers found that ‘sexual role-playing’ was the second most prevalent use, following only the category of ‘creative composition.’” Read more here.

RUSSIAN LAW TO CRIMINALIZE ‘CHILD-FREE PROPAGANDA’ MOVES AHEAD AMID DEMOGRAPHIC CRISIS, by Hayden Cunningham. “Amid a demographic crisis marked by declining births and an aging population, Russia is moving to counter ‘child-free propaganda’ with new legislation that criminalizes advocacy for not having children. According to the Washington Post, the broad language of the law could impact content on television, social media, and advertising, as it does not clearly define what constitutes ‘propaganda.’ This ambiguity raises concerns that media portraying childless individuals as content or large families as unhappy could face repercussions. The Russian government’s push for the bill is part of a broader campaign to promote ‘traditional Russian values’ and encourage larger families.” Read more here.

FDA MAKES COSTCO RECALL BUTTER FOR MISLABELING, WON’T RECALL ABORTION PILLS FOR KILLING WOMEN AND BABIES, by Jordan Estabrook. “People relentlessly mocked Costco for its recent recall of 80,000 pounds of butter because it failed to list its main ingredient, ‘milk,’ despite it being labeled cream and named…well, butter. Behind this comical recall is none other than the U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA), an administration that’s more concerned with the ‘mislabeling’ of butter ingredients, enough to recall 80,000 pounds of a perfectly safe product, than recalling Chemical Abortion Pills over PROVEN dangers to women and children.” Read more here.

MEDICAL GROUPS BECOME THE NEW ‘SCIENCE DENIERS’ IN ATTEMPT TO MAKE ABORTION ACCEPTABLE, by Nancy Flanders. “It takes years of propaganda to convince women that they need to intentionally kill their preborn children in order to be equal members of society. It takes even more lies to convince them their babies aren’t even human beings, don’t have heartbeats, and are not alive. As science advances and exposes the truth about human development, life in the womb, and what an abortion does to an innocent living human, even pro-abortion medical groups will not hesitate to deny the science.” Read more here.

PERSPECTIVE: TRUMP ANNOUNCES PLANS TO ELIMINATE GOVERNMENT SUPPORT OF GENDER IDEOLOGY, by Valerie Hudson. “Two days after his decisive win in the presidential election, Donald Trump made an important video announcement. Though Trump has previously spoken about his opposition to men in women’s sports, in his announcement he goes much further in explaining the steps he will take on ‘day one’ of his presidency to eliminate governmental support for gender ideology, which asserts that sex is mutable through medical treatment and that it is possible to be born in the ‘wrong’ body in terms of sex.” Read more here.

GERMANY’S GENDER SELF-ID LAW IS DANGEROUS AND REGRESSIVE, by Sabine Beppler-Spahl. Just days before Germany’s deeply unpopular and chaotic government coalition collapsed, a new gender ‘self-identification’ law came into force. On 1 November, it became legal for people aged 14 and over to change their gender simply by making a declaration to a registry office, which they can do once per year. While minors will need the consent of their parents or legal guardians to alter their legal gender, they can seek recourse in the family courts should their parents or legal guardians refuse. …The so-called Self-Determination Act clearly shows how woke authoritarianism is the default mode for this failing, ineffective government. Read more here.

THE DISPARATE EFFECTS OF HOUSEHOLD INSTABILITY ON CHILDREN’S EDUCATION, by Laurie DeRose. “In contrast to evidence that family instability and parental divorce have sizable negative effects on white children’s education, the effects on black children’s education have been shown to be small or even absent. But are black children’s educational careers uniformly immune to family instability? Kristin Perkins’ work published earlier this year shows differences among black children, which means the disparate effects are not just black and white.” Read more here.

THE GOOD, BAD, AND UGLY OF 2024’S ABORTION BALLOT REFERENDUMS, by Shawn Fleetwood. “With most ballots tabulated in each state, the projected outcomes of these referendums produced some wins and losses for America’s pro-life movement. Here’s a breakdown of these proposed amendments and whether voters have approved or rejected them. There were several significant wins for pro-lifers and unborn babies in several states throughout the country.” Read more here.

SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY WORKING WITH WHITE HOUSE SECRETLY TRACKS KIDS’ GENDER IDENTITY, by Kathy Athearn. “The Daily Caller has released exclusive information, revealing that in Ohio, the Cuyahoga County Division of Children and Family Services (DCFS) has been tracking kids’ sexual identity in a secret database. They not only track kids in foster care, but those still living with their parents as well. Some of the kids are as young as five years old.” Read more here.

COLLEGE GIRLS STANDING UP FOR FAIR PLAY GIVES HOPE TO YOUNGER ATHLETES, by Nicole Russell. “I’m a mother of daughters (and sons). It’s heartbreaking to think of my daughters practicing hard in a sport only to lose to a team with a transgender person playing on the opposing girls’ team, bolstered by that athlete’s inherent physiological advantages. Women at the collegiate level are standing up for fair play, but they’re still facing an uphill climb. Over this past weekend, players on the University of Nevada, Reno women’s volleyball team were standing up for their right to safety and fair play on the volleyball court.” Read more here.

LIFE WINS IN FLORIDA, by the National Review editors. “Election Night 2024 was never going to be a great night for pro-lifers. But one bright spot came in Florida, where the pro-abortion Amendment 4 went down to defeat. Credit goes first of all to Florida’s sensible requirement that ballot measures to amend the state constitution should require the assent of 60 percent of the electorate. Amendment 4 garnered 55 percent support, which would have been enough to win in other states. But that itself reflects the fact that it lacked the broad consensus that ought to be required before taking an issue out of the ordinary legislative process.” Read more here.

BILLIONAIRE MONEY STILL POSES THE BIGGEST THREAT TO THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Politics aside, the past two years have given us a good look at the biggest challenges facing the [pro-life] movement. First and foremost is the fact that the pro-life movement simply does not have access to the kind of cash that abortion activists do. In fact, when you consider what the pro-life movement was up against, it is incredible that three abortion referendums were beaten considering the nonstop storm of propaganda voters were faced with. Abortion activists have a large network of organizations, big-bag donors like the Gates family and the Soros foundations, and of course, Planned Parenthood’s war chest.” Read more here.

TRUMPING GENDER, by Bernard Lane. “Florida’s Surgeon General, Dr Joseph Ladapo, an opponent of irreversible gender medicalisation for minors, would be a good appointment as the next secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HSS), according to the state’s Republican governor Ron DeSantis, whose November 7 tweet suggesting this has had more than one million views. In April 2022, Dr Ladapo criticised Biden-era HHS guidance for a misleading claim that, ‘Research demonstrates that gender-affirming care improves the mental health and overall well-being of gender diverse children and adolescents.” Read more here.

IS MARRIAGE GOOD FOR YOUR MENTAL HEALTH? SHOCKING STUDY REVEALS HOW HAVING A SPOUSE IMPACTS HAPPINESS, by Asia Grace. “Put a ring on it — not for the heck of it, but for your health. Singletons around the globe are in greater danger of experiencing mental health issues than their hitched peers, a new study has found. ‘Our analysis revealed that unmarried individuals had a higher risk of depressive symptoms than their married counterparts across all countries,’ wrote the authors of the new study, published Tuesday in the Nature Human Behavior journal.” Read more here.

BIDEN ADMIN PRAISED UN REPORT CALLING FOR ELECTION OBSERVERS ON LGBT ISSUES, by Stefano Gennarini. “The day before election day in the United States, the UN Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity presented a report to the General Assembly arguing that elections around the world are not gay and trans-friendly enough. Graeme Reed said that in order to fight against ‘hate speech’ and ‘gender persecution’ countries must censor opponents of the homosexual/transgender agenda. He even argued for ‘international election observers on LGBT rights issues.’” Read more here.

CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS CLAIM TO PROTECT KIDS WHILE HIDING GENDER ‘TRANSITIONS’ FROM PARENTS, by Andrew Davenport. “While Governor Gavin Newsom touts his new social media law as a landmark achievement for protecting kids online, California Democrats’ recent voting record indicates that safeguarding kids is not a priority for Newsom or his party. Senate Bill 976 (introduced by Democrat Nancy Skinner), which Newsom signed into law last month, bans online platforms from ‘knowingly providing’ addictive content feeds to minors ‘without parental consent.’” Read more here.

JUDITH’S STORY DEMONSTRATES HOW COMPASSION, NOT HOSTILITY, IS NEEDED TO REACH ABORTION WORKERS, by Sarah Terzo. “It’s important to reach out to abortion workers with compassion. Those who gather outside of abortion facilities and yell at workers, tell them they are going to hell, or shout bible verses at them, only increase their commitment to the abortion industry. After all, would you want to listen to someone who is hostile, judgmental, and belligerent? Or who loudly condemns you to hell? I know I wouldn’t. Even when workers are dissatisfied with their jobs and want to quit, harsh words and insults from pro-lifers can cause them to stay in the abortion industry.” Read more here.

THE RACE TO SAVE GIRLS’ AND WOMEN’S SPORTS IS WORTH RUNNING, by Alliance Defending Freedom. “Ensuring equal opportunity and fairness is the cornerstone of all sport. However, local, national, and international policies increasingly allow males who identify as female to compete in sports reserved for women and girls. The whole reason sex-based sports categories exist is to ensure fair competition by accounting for physiological differences, therefore enabling sports to reward genuine merit and excellence. And yet, gender ideology is playing a significant role in the attempt to erode this biological foundation by claiming that gender identity—how one personally experiences one’s gender—may not necessarily align with one’s biological sex.” Read more here.

WHEN THE PRO-ABORTION NARRATIVE JUST DOESN’T MATCH THE FACTS, by Laura Nicole. “ProPublica attributes the missteps in Nevaeh Crain’s care to Texas’ pro-life law protecting preborn children from abortion after a heartbeat can be detected. She was pregnant and showed up to the ER, and later died of sepsis because (they seem to imply) the hospital did not abort her wanted baby. This and previous ProPublica articles seek to push one narrative: laws that protect preborn babies result in the death of pregnant women because doctors can’t or won’t treat them. They state it in no uncertain terms: ‘[Death] is what many pregnant women are now facing in states with strict abortion bans, doctors and lawyers have told ProPublica.’” Read more here.

ONE PLACE IN JAPAN WHERE FERTILITY IS SKY-HIGH, by Louis T. March. “Tokunoshima is an island off the southern tip of Japan, a 96-square-mile volcanic outcrop, 800 miles as the crow flies from Tokyo, not far from Okinawa. Home to roughly 25,000 people, Tokunoshima … has the highest total fertility rate (TFR) in Japan. This is significant because Japan is in a demographic death spiral. They’ve been losing population for 15 years with a below-replacement TFR of 1.33. …Tokunoshima needn’t worry about that. The TFR is 2.25, 40 percent above the national average. The people and culture are Japanese like the rest of Japan. Why the shockingly differential TFR? Is there something in the water?” Read more here.

‘TRANS MAN’ GETS HER OWN DOCUMENTARY FOR GETTING PREGNANT BY HER MALE PARTNER, by Justine Booke Murray. “You can’t get much weirder than this. A ‘gay transgender man’ and ‘his’ male partner (in other words, a straight couple) recently gave birth to their son. Now they’re being rewarded with a TV documentary. After suffering years of miscarriages (Gee, I wonder why), gender-deluded Frankie and her male partner, Rāwā, finally gave birth to their baby boy, Hiwa-i-te-Rangi at their New Zealand home in 2023. Now, in a documentary set to air on Television New Zealand on November 11, the Frankensteinian couple will be sharing their story to ‘raise visibility around carrying a child as a trans man.’” Read more here.

MAPPING THE HARM, by Bernard Lane. “The rise of rights-driven gender medicine and ill-defined laws discouraging exploratory psychotherapy run counter to the welfare of the distressed young people supposedly championed by the ‘affirmative’ worldview. This is the warning from a landmark paper charting the adoption of the ‘Dutch protocol’ for medicalised gender change of minors across 13 Western nations since 1999, with a weakening of normal safeguards over time in most cases, but also a reassertion of cautious, evidence-based treatment policy begun by Finland in 2019 and followed by Sweden and the United Kingdom.” Read more here.

WE ASKED WOMEN WHY THEY AREN’T HAVING AS MANY KIDS. TURNS OUT, IT’S COMPLICATED, by Emily Williams. “Lately, you might be hearing more people talk about why people aren’t having enough kids. From economists to politicians and entrepreneurs, it’s become a more pressing issue for people around the globe. According to Statistics Canada, in 2023 there were 1.26 children born in Canada per woman. Alongside South Korea, Spain, Italy and Japan, Canada falls into a group of countries with the ‘lowest low’ birth rates — all below 1.3 children per woman. In comparison, the rate in the United States in 2023 was 1.62. Is this a problem? Canadians are divided.” Read more here.

THOSE DASTARDLY BRITISH CRIMINALS WHO PRAY SILENTLY OUTSIDE ABORTION CLINICS, by Ann Farmer. “From October 31, abortion clinics in the United Kingdom will be protected against protesters by 150-metre ‘safe access buffer zones’. …Now, in this country, we have a situation where we are not allowed to flush a baby wipe down the toilet but we can flush a baby and where killing the unborn is presented by supporters as a “healthcare” choice, the equivalent of removing a diseased appendix, although the aim is to kill, not to cure, to facilitate the death of a unique, separate human being.” Read more here.

PROPUBLICA EXPLOITS ANOTHER MOTHER’S DEATH BY ‘SUBSTANDARD MEDICAL CARE’ IN ATTEMPT TO BLAME PRO-LIFE LAW, by LiveAction editors. “ProPublica has continued its ‘Life of the Mother’ series in which it highlights the tragic deaths of pregnant women whom they claim died because of pro-life laws in certain states. …Perhaps the problem isn’t pro-life laws at all; perhaps the problem is that ‘women’s health care’ has come to mean nothing beyond handing women hormonal birth control or abortion pills to solve whatever ails them. Perhaps the problem is that even in women’s deepest pain, bleeding, weakness, and desperation, much of the medical profession still chooses to minimize, downplay, or even ignore what women (and their loved ones) are telling them about what they experience.” Read more here.

COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL’S SPARTAN MELTDOWN, by Johnathan Kay. “[The University of Nevada, Reno] is the fifth women’s volleyball team whose players have chosen to forfeit against SJSU this season—all for the same reason—which is described in a media statement put out by members of the UNR squad: We, the University of Nevada Reno women’s volleyball team, forfeit against San José State State University, the University of Wyoming, and Utah State University. We demand that our right to safety and fair competition on the court be upheld. We refuse to participate in any match that advances injustice against female athletes.” Read more here.

UN MEMBER STATES CRITICIZE CALL TO DECRIMINALIZE DRUGS, PROSTITUTION, ABORTION, by Stefano Gennarini. “In a rare moment of candor, several UN delegations expressed disappointment with a UN human rights expert who called on countries to decriminalize drugs, prostitution, abortion, and intentional exposure to HIV. The UN rapporteur on the right to health, Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng, argued such legal changes are necessary as part of a ‘human rights approach to harm reduction.’ The delegate from Cameroon directly confronted the rapporteur’s approach as ‘downplaying the seriousness of drug and substance abuse and other crimes such as HIV exposure, abortion, same-sex relations, and sex work.’” Read more here.

ABORTION IS BUILT ON FRAUD: A RESPONSE TO THE NEW YORK TIMES, by Thomas Jipping and Sarah Parshall Perry. “In an essay published by The New York Times and titled ‘Abortion Pills Are Safe. Post-Roe America Isn’t,’ Dr. Chavi Eve Karkowsky, a physician who practices maternal-fetal medicine, demonstrates that the campaign for unlimited abortion is as fraudulent and deceptive as ever. From the beginning, the ‘right’ to abortion was built on fraud. Abortion advocates pushed states to repeal their pro-life laws with baseless claims about illegal abortions. The claim that ‘thousands’ of women died from illegal abortions began in the 1960s and persists even today.” Read more here.

HIDE THE DATA, by Bernard Lane. “The Dutch Health Council, an independent scientific advisory body, has confirmed that in 2025 it will ‘map what is scientifically known about the (long-term) consequences of puberty inhibitors and gender-affirming hormone treatments on physical and mental health.’ Earlier this year, the Netherlands parliament approved two motions seeking research into medicalised gender change for minors and advice from the Health Council on the medico-legal implications. The ‘Dutch protocol’ for ‘juvenile transsexuals’ led to international adoption of puberty blockers for gender distress. In a webpage statement, the Health Council notes that it has also been asked to compare the Dutch model ‘with the approach in other countries and with care standards and applicable laws and regulations.’” Read more here.

YES, GENDER CONFUSION IS SOCIALLY CONTAGIOUS, by John Stonestreet and G. Shane Morris. “Psychologist and author Jean Twenge explained a new paper she and two colleagues published on the explosion of gender confusion. Analyzing government data on nearly two million adults since 2014, Twenge and her colleagues found that transgender identification in the general population has increased by nearly 70%. For Americans 18-25, trans identity skyrocketed from just over half a percent of the population in 2014 to over 3% of the population in 2023. In other words, in less than a decade, the share of American young people identifying as transgender quintupled, with the vast majority of that increase among women and girls.” Read more here.

‘SHOCKING’ AND ‘RECKLESS’: TOP GENDER CLINIC ASSESSES CHILDREN FOR GENDER-ALTERING MEDICAL TREATMENTS IN JUST 2 HOURS, LAWSUIT LAYS BARE, by Benjamin Ryan. “The world-renowned Boston Children’s Hospital is being denounced by leading psychologists for drastically reducing the time it allocates for mental-health professionals to determine whether children identifying as transgender should receive gender-transition treatment. Shocked and dismayed by the hospital’s policy, these experts in pediatric-gender medicine have called the shortened assessment period woefully inadequate — considering the complexity of gender-related distress in minors and the fact that these medications are life-altering and, in the case of testosterone and estrogen, cause irreversible effects.” Read more here.

THE GLOBAL PEDIATRIC MEDICINE FIELD HAS A CLEAR HABIT OF HIDING—AND DISCOURAGING—INCONVENIENT RESEARCH FINDINGS, by Benjamin Ryan, “Some of the biggest names in the pediatric gender medicine field are part of an entrenched global trend in which they prioritize the transgender advocacy mission over honest and direct science. They hide inconvenient research findings. And they seek to prevent other researchers from even asking questions that might yield inconvenient answers. Supporting them is a cabal of activists and LGBTQ nonprofits standing at the ready to bully and cancel any scientists or journalists who might bring to light any of the more questionable aspects of pediatric gender medicine.” Read more here.

‘THE STAKES ARE HIGH’: HOW FLORIDA BECAME THE ABORTION BATTLE GROUND OF 2024, by Mary Margaret Olohan. “Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his administration are waging war on a pro-abortion ballot amendment backed by radical leftist groups. If they win, they’ll have proven that Republicans really can defeat the Left’s new abortion mechanisms, if only they fight hard enough. If they lose, Florida will become what DeSantis calls the ‘abortion mecca’ of the South.” Read more here.

THE BIG GENDER LIE IS COMING UNDONE, by Robert Knight. “The Washington Post this past week ran an article entitled, ‘Youths highly content with gender-affirming care.’ The piece cites a survey of about 200 people taken by the Trans/Youth Project and published in JAMA Pediatrics that said only 4% of transitioned kids voice any regret. This is similar to the media-hyped, advocacy ‘science’ by researchers in the 1980s and 1990s that pushed the idea that people are born gay and that therefore any refusal to approve of homosexual acts is a form of bigotry. Those much-publicized studies were unreplicated, deeply flawed, and had researcher bias, self-selected subjects, tiny sample sizes, and suppressed conflicting evidence within the studies.” Read more here.

HOW ‘RARE’ ARE SEX-TRAIT MODIFICATION SURGERIES ON CHILDREN?, by Jay Greene. “As recently as two years ago, only three states banned surgeries on children to address gender dysphoria, up from just one a year earlier. Today, exactly half the states have such bans, and more are considering them. …These procedures, advocates insist, almost never happen and are largely a myth concocted by the Right to scare people. As the LGBTQ+ magazine Them put it, ‘Contrary to modern conservative propaganda, gender-affirming surgeries for minors are exceptionally rare.’ Similarly, the Human Rights Campaign rebuts what it alleges is a ‘concerted disinformation campaign’ by declaring that with ‘rare exceptions,’ ‘transgender and nonbinary people typically do not have gender-affirming surgeries before the age of 18.’” Read more here.

THE SHAME OF ABORTION NEARLY BURIED ME, by Gigi Davis. “Shame will bury you, burden you, and lead you nowhere. For years, abortion buried me in shame and regret, but through healing and faith I discovered the power to reclaim my life and help others do the same. It took years of soul-searching, brokenness, and ultimately my surrender to faith to learn I wasn’t alone in this journey — that healing was not only possible but was available to me all along. At just six-years-old, I witnessed shame for the first time when my pregnant teenage sister stood before our church confessing her sins. That moment was traumatic — not only for her but for me, too” Read more here.

FEMALE ATHLETES FINALLY STAND UP TO ‘MEN’ INVADERS, by Michael Reagan. “First there is outrage that this absurd and unfair situation has continued long enough to blight the athletic careers of so many women and girls; balanced by the apathy on the part of the female competitors who have allowed it to continue, without taking action. That inertia was catching. It was tough for us to be exercised about hemales in female sports when the females themselves didn’t care enough to do something. This apathy appears to be ending. And a trans athlete going under the name of Blaire Fleming appears to be the catalyst.” Read more here.

TRANS ACTIVISTS ARE FLOUTING THE BAN ON PUBERTY BLOCKERS, by Jo Bartosch. “Susie Green, former chief executive of disgraced trans-youth charity Mermaids, has returned to the field of so-called trans healthcare. Worryingly, she appears to have found a way to circumvent the UK’s ban on puberty-blocking drugs. Her latest venture, Anne Trans Healthcare, known as ‘Anne’, is a service that promises to provide ‘personalised gender-affirming healthcare’ to both adults and children. After being dismissed from Mermaids in 2022, Green teamed up with fellow trans activist and HIV campaigner Lizzie Jordan to found Anne. Predictably, their approach is informed not by science, but by ideology.” Read more here.

SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY SLAMMED FOR CLAIMING THERE ARE ’24 GENDERS,’ by by Jonathon Van Maren. “As the U.K.’s Labor Party doubles down on opposition to puberty blockers and other transgender surgeries for minors, the Scottish National Party is going, once again, in the opposite direction. The SNP released a handy definitive list of ‘genders’ attached to their guidance for public bodies in Scotland who collect data on sex and gender. Included in this list of very real, not at all made-up genders are: ‘Cisgender,’ ‘trans man,’ ‘trans woman,’ ‘non-binary,’ ‘trans-not otherwise specified,’ ‘genderfluid,’ ‘genderqueer,’ ‘pangender,’ ‘autigender,’ and ‘questioning.’ My favorite of these (are we allowed to have favorites?) is ‘agender,’ which the SNP defines as ‘a person who does not identify as having a gender.’” Read more here.

THE LEFT’S NEW APPROACH: HIDE THE SCIENCE, by Katrina Trinko. “Forget following the science. Now it’s about hiding the science—at least when it comes to experimental gender transition medical procedures for children. ‘U.S. Study on Puberty Blockers Goes Unpublished Because of Politics, Doctor Says,’ blares a New York Times headline earlier this week. This study, which involved putting 95 children struggling with gender dysphoria on puberty blockers, was led by Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, a physician at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles who has long been involved in promoting experimental medical treatments for minors.” Read more here.

CUSTOM VAGINOPLASTY ‘FOR YOUR INNER WELL-BEING,’ by Jennifer Bilek.’“Most people in mainstream culture, not privy to the internal workings of the trans agenda, have no real understanding of what is transpiring in the medical community advancing macabre and dangerous procedures they term “healthcare for transgender people,’ or where all this ‘care’ is leading. Since 2013, when I began tracking the money behind the transgender social engineering project, I have watched as what is framed ‘medical care’ for people with extreme body dysphoria, morph into an unethical and completely abject attitude by medical professionals willing to perform almost any and all kinds of insane bodily alterations on people’s sex characteristics.” Read more here.

TO THE 3 STATES DECIDING MARRIAGE: ‘WILL YOU HAVE THE GUTS TO PUT CHILDREN FIRST?,’ by Suzanne Bowdey. “It’s hard to believe that it’s been nine years since the Supreme Court took a torch to man-woman marriage, rewriting the institution for every state in the union. Not surprisingly, the justices’ activism — which was supposed to ‘settle the issue’ — did anything but. Millions of voters, who’d flooded the polls in the early 2000s to protect marriage in 30 state constitutions, were completely disenfranchised. Worse, they were forced to watch as the Left used the ruling as cover to push a much more radical agenda that includes everything from transgender ‘rights’ to religious persecution.” Read more here.

‘EVERY ISSUE MUST BE UNDERSTOOD FIRST AS A FAMILY ISSUE,’ by Christina Lewis. “’The fight for our nation is ultimately a fight for our families,’ Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts says. A culture besieged by anti-family elite institutions drives Americans who are raising kids to the political right, he said. Roberts made his remarks in a speech aired on this week’s episode of his podcast, The Kevin Roberts Show.’ … ‘We need to turn a party of moms, dads, and kids, into a party for moms, dads, and kids, and the way we do that is to recognize and insist that in this movement—and especially in this moment—every issue must be understood first as a family issue, one that is centered around the dinner table, not some basement in Delaware,’ the Heritage Foundation president said.” Read more here.

RAPE IS VIOLENCE. ABORTION IS PAID VIOLENCE, by Ryan Bomberger. “Imagine for a moment, watching repeated news stories where someone says that a person like you shouldn’t exist. Imagine hearing, over and over again, that you should be dead. Imagine someone telling you on TV or in real life, that you should have been aborted. That’s been my experience nearly my whole life. I was conceived in rape. …Lately, the tragedy of rape is being pervasively and politically exploited in order to justify all abortions. It’s not because there’s some sudden surge of compassion for rape victims, but because it’s a useful fear tactic that bizarrely pretends the vast majority of abortions are due to rape and incest; it’s less than 1%.” Read more here.

UN EXPERT SAYS COUNTRIES MUST LEGALIZE DRUGS, PROSTITUTION AND ABORTION, by Stefano Gennarini. “Governments must decriminalize drug use, prostitution, abortion, and HIV non-disclosure to sexual partners, according to a UN report on the human right to health. But when it comes to alcohol, tobacco, and unhealthy food, governments must adopt strict regulations. The claims were made by Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng, the UN Rapporteur on the Right to Health, in her latest report on a ‘human rights based approach to harm reduction.’” Read more here.

FREE SPEECH: AS PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CENTER SPEAK LIFE, STATES WORK TO CENSOR THEM, Erin Hawley. “’If it wasn’t for the information about Abortion Pill Reversal online, I would have completed the abortion and [my baby] would not be alive today.’ Maranda Halstead’s baby was saved because of speech — information that told her about an option to save her baby’s life after she had taken, and regretted taking, the first abortion drug. But if blue-state attorneys general have their way, that life-saving speech will be censored, and mothers like Maranda will never know about abortion pill reversal.” Read more here.

THE CASS REVIEW, THE ‘YALE’ REPORT, AND THE IMPORTANCE OF KEEPING SPECIAL INTERESTS AT BAY, by the Society For Evidence Based Gender Medicine. “[A] paper, written by Meredithe McNamara, and co-authored by some of the most prominent figures in gender medicine activism … alleged that the Cass Review ‘repeatedly misuses data and violates its own evidentiary standards,’ was ‘rife with misapplications of the scientific method,’ and failed to evaluate the evidence ‘in a neutral and scientifically valid manner.’ … In response to growing national and international attention to the McNamara et al. paper, Archives of Disease in Childhood (ADC) … concluded that the paper … is not a credible scientific effort, but rather, an attempt to influence U.S. litigation while masquerading as scientific critique.” Read more here.

GET YOUR PROGRESS PRIDE POPPY, by Lauren Smith. “Have you ever wanted to signal your commitment to veterans and your undying allegiance to trans ideology? Well now, for just eight British pounds, you can purchase your very own Progress Pride poppy pin, just in time for Remembrance Day. The badge, sold by the Royal British Legion (RBL), features the traditional red remembrance poppy, attached to the ubiquitous eyesore that is the Progress Pride flag. This is the flag that includes not only the standard gay-rights rainbow, but also the trans flag, the intersex flag (yes, they both have flags now) and two black and brown stripes, apparently to represent ethnic minorities.” Read more here.

TEENAGE HORMONE PUSH, by Bernard Lane. “A contentious change to Australian treatment guidelines was ‘carefully crafted’ to discourage medical insurers from denying cover to general practitioners in primary care (GPs) who are willing to start minors on cross-sex hormones with no specialist backup, according to an insider’s account. The November 2023 change encouraging GP-driven hormones calls into question the ‘multidisciplinary team’ rhetoric of the 2018 ‘Australian standards of care’ treatment guidelines for minors issued by the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) Melbourne.” Read more here.

WOMEN’S RESEARCH GROUP: IF MOMS CAN’T KILL PREBORN CHILDREN, THE ECONOMY WILL BE KILLED, by Nancy Flanders. “The pro-abortion Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) argues that states with laws protecting preborn children from abortion are costing the nation $68 billion a year. It also claims pro-abortion states are helping the economy by allowing unlimited killing of babies. These pro-abortion assertions are not new, but they do prove that pregnancy and parenting discrimination still exist in the American workforce. Abortion advocates have been claiming for years that babies hurt the economy.” Read more here.

THE SEXISM OF THE TRANS AGENDA, by Tom Knighton. “I’m not exactly the youngest writer here at Townhall. I’m not the oldest, either. I am, however, old enough to remember tomboys. These were the girls who would play war with the boys, climb trees, play baseball and football in the middle of the street, wear jeans and t-shirts, and otherwise fail to look particularly feminine. They might also prefer hunting and fishing with Dad to a spa day with Mom. As they grew up, most would embrace some degree of femininity in their lives, though many never completely abandoned their more traditionally masculine pursuits.” Read more here.

PORN CULTURE HAS OUR GIRLS BY THE THROAT, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Pornography consumption has become the norm in every Western democracy, and sexual violence has become a routine part of dating in the 21st century. I have been speaking and writing about this subject for over a decade, and the stories I hear from students are, frankly, chilling. Many normalized behaviors are not so much sexual violence as sexualized violence, in that young people are increasingly aroused simply by inflicting pain or fear on their partner. One example of a porn-driven behaviour that has become ubiquitous almost overnight is strangulation or ‘choking.’ When I began speaking to students about pornography over ten years ago, this behavior was almost unheard of. Not anymore.” Read more here.

THE HOSTILE MALE TAKEOVER OF WOMEN’S SPORTS, by Lauren Smith. “No sport, it seems, is safe from trans ideology. Darts has become the latest to be rocked by a trans-related controversy. At the weekend, biological male Noa-Lynn van Leuven became the first transgender player to book a spot in the PDC World Darts Championships, which will take place later this year. In doing so, van Leuven will take one of just two places that are reserved at the championships for women. …It’s not really surprising that van Leuven was able to secure the win. Sex differences might matter much less in darts than, say, boxing or athletics. But any athlete or sportsperson who has gone through male puberty still has a significant advantage when it comes to strength, power and arm length.” Read more here.

THE NEW NORDIC PARADOX: HOW FAMILY-FRIENDLY WELFARE STATES BURDEN PARENTS THE MOST, by Pieter Vanhuysse. “Around most of the world, low fertility has become an urgent challenge for policymakers. This is the case even in the Nordic societies, which—until not so long ago—were widely seen as a policy model to be adopted by other countries aiming to increase fertility levels. What is happening? And what might be done? … In a study in Royal Society Open Science, demographer Robert Gal, sociologist Marton Medgyesi, and I suggest that any comprehensive answer requires us to shine a broader light on all the resources it really takes to raise a newborn all the way to productive adulthood today.” Read more here.

QUESTIONS REMAIN OVER NHS YOUTH GENDER CARE, DESPITE CASS REVIEW, by Hannah Barnes. “When NHS England’s national youth gender identity clinic closed earlier this year, it had a caseload of around 650 children and young people. Amid controversy over how the clinic was run, the Gender Identity Development Service (Gids) – part of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, and the only such centre for those under 18 in England and Wales – was shut down on 28 March, to be replaced by a number of regional healthcare centres. Some of the young people on its books were sent to two new NHS England gender identity hubs, based in London and Liverpool. The majority – around 400 – however, had their care moved elsewhere.” Read more here.

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU THINK: IN BRITAIN, IT MIGHT BE A CRIME, by Paul Coleman. “It seems oddly mediaeval to convict a man for his prayers. But the British courts have defied all reasonable expectations of modern democracy by convicting a man for doing just that on the streets of Bournemouth. Adam Smith-Connor is a military veteran who served his country in the reserves in Afghanistan. As part of his medical training, he participated in 30 abortions in 2003—actions he now deeply regrets. Adam converted to Christianity in later life, and is now deeply committed to prayer on the issue.” Read more here.

PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE GENDER ACTIVIST BEHIND THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CURTAIN, by Thomas Jipping & Sarah Parshall Perry. “As if Nevada parents didn’t already have their hands full, including helping their children navigate the waters of adolescent sexuality. Now gender activists increasingly are using the public schools to lead students down a path their parents may know nothing about. … Nevada is hardly alone. Nearly 20,000 public schools across the country, attended by 11.5 million students, now have policies that cater to kids’ current sense of ‘gender identity’ but that deliberately keep parents in the dark about that same thing.” Read more here.

DETRANSITIONERS ARE SUING DOCTORS FOR MISLEADING THEM AND DAMAGING THEIR BODIES FOR LIFE, by Grant Atkinson. “’Your daughter is a boy, and if you want to save her life, you’ll refer to her by her preferred name and male pronouns.’ This was the advice a mental health provider gave Tammy Fournier when she sought help for her daughter’s anxiety, depression, and feelings of discomfort with her body. Thankfully, Tammy chose not to treat her daughter as a boy, and with support and love, her daughter grew comfortable with her sex. But many doctors have used similar tactics to pressure parents and their children to pursue harmful transition efforts – efforts that often extend far beyond names and pronouns.” Read more here.

CBS PROMOTES RADICAL LGBTQ ACTIVIST WHO CLAIMS HER 13-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER IS TRANS, by Justine Brooke Murray. “CBS is turning more Orwellian by the day. Last month, the network reprimanded their own journalist for being a journalist. This week, they’re re-defining gender. To celebrate ‘Trans Empowerment Month,’ ‘CBS Mornings’ invited leaders of the ‘support’ group, ‘Stand with Trans’ on their show to air their gender delusions. The group’s founder is a mother who transitioned her 13-year-old biological daughter. Joining her on the panel was her ‘non-binary’ ‘trans-empowerment month program coordinator.’” Read more here.

WHOOPS: NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION CEO DEBUNKS MEDIA REGARDING LATE ABORTIONS, by Bridget Sielicki. “The media continues to spread the lie that late abortion is rare, that no one would get an abortion extremely late in pregnancy, and that if late abortions happen, they’re only done for the most serious reasons. Live Action News has debunked these claims many times, but now we’re getting a little help from the CEO of the National Abortion Federation (NAF) herself, who admitted that women ‘need’ abortion ‘care’ well into the later stages of pregnancy, because… well, really, any reason will do.” Read more here.

A COLOSSAL BACKFIRE AGAINST THE TRANS INDUSTRY, by Brandon Showalter. “Rarely do I read legal opinions that make my jaw drop in amazement, but an unequivocal amicus brief for an upcoming Supreme Court case involving the trans-ing of children has done just that. In what I consider to be a colossal backfire against the transgender industry, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall’s friend of the court brief in the Skrmetti matter — which the U.S. Supreme Court will hear on December 4th and centers around Tennessee’s ban on gender medicalization for minors — spells out in considerable detail the maddening shenanigans of an organization that belongs on the ash heap of history, the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH).” Read more here.

DO PRO-LIFERS COMMIT CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY?, by Stefano Gennarini. “A new treaty on crimes against humanity is proving more controversial than expected, as it hit roadblocks in the General Assembly. The treaty could make denial of abortion a crime against humanity and expand the international crime of ‘gender persecution’ to cover advocacy, laws and policies that protect man-woman marriage and deny transgender policies. The draft of the treaty enshrines an open definition of ‘gender’ as a social construct that includes sexual orientation and gender identity.” Read more here.

HOW KIDS ARE PAYING THE PRICE FOR AN ‘ADULT-CENTRIC POLICY’ AGENDA, by Virginia Allen and Kristen Eichamer. “Kids are not running for public office, enacting laws, litigating policy, or even voting, and yet children often bear the weightiest consequences for the bad policies adults implement. ‘I get angry when kids are victimized because adults refuse to do the right thing,’ says Katy Faust, the founder and president of the pro-children advocacy organization Them Before Us. ‘It’s an injustice at the individual level and at the national level.’” Read more here.

THE REAL-WORLD HARMS OF MISLEADING WOMEN ABOUT PRO-LIFE LAWS, by Laura Nicole. “An unfortunate trend of misinformation and disinformation has been adopted by abortion advocates since the Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade. One recent Newsweek piece gives a perfect example of the media’s failure on this front. Spreading easily-debunked falsehoods is not a victimless crime, and the people who pay for it are women seeking medical care.” Read more here.

WE NEED A NEW FEMINISM THAT EMBRACES MOTHERHOOD AS MEANINGFUL, by Erica Komisar. “The myths spread by the original feminist movement were that all women were oppressed victims of men and that every woman was eager to leave home and compete with men in the workforce. Work outside the home was presented as more meaningful or valuable. Feminism touted that children were resilient from birth and any caregiver, in an setting, would suffice. Women were told they could ‘do it all’—have children and a career—at the same time without sacrifices.” Read more here.

BRITISH MAN SENTENCED FOR PRAYING OUTSIDE ABORTION CLINIC, by Jazz Shaw. “Even George Orwell probably never had a clue just how right he would turn out to be when he wrote 1984. Then again, good old George never had any idea that he would live to see times such as these. He would likely scoff at the suggestion that a story such as the one playing out in Poole, England involving Adam Smith-Connor could be taking place in the modern era. Mr Smith-Connor was recently convicted at Poole Magistrates Courts on charges of ‘disapproval of abortion’ after he was found to have been praying in front of his abortion clinic.” Read more here.

EXPERT DERANGEMENT, by Bernard Lane. “‘Lest anyone mistake it for a scientific medical organization, WPATH [the World Professional Association for Transgender Health] devoted an entire chapter in Standards of Care 8 to ‘eunuchs’—individuals ‘assigned male at birth’ who ‘wish to eliminate masculine physical features, masculine genitals, or genital functioning’. In a brief intended for the judges of the US Supreme Court, the state of Alabama’s Attorney General Steve Marshall does not hold back. The case is a constitutional challenge to a Tennessee law that prohibits puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones or trans surgery for minors; a hearing date is yet to be set.” Read more here.

LIBRARIES ARE INDOCTRINATING YOUR KIDS, NOT FIGHTING CENSORSHIP, by Kathryn Pluta. “Move aside, Goodnight Moon. The newest children’s classics are hitting library shelves near you … and they’re kinky in all the colors of the rainbow. I walked into my local Chicago Public Library (CPL) branch, heading over to the holds section to pick up my newest read. Book secured, I went to check out, passing by the children’s section on the way. The front display caught my eye. ‘I’M WITH THE BANNED: BANNED BOOKS WEEK’ was proudly emblazoned on a cardboard sign in an edgy, stenciled font.” Read more here.

HOW A PREGNANCY CLINIC RESCUED ME FROM ABORTING MY DAUGHTER, by Kyla Smith. “At 20 years old, I learned that I was unexpectedly pregnant. I immediately thought that I couldn’t be a mother and be successful at the same time. My uncertainty was only compounded when the father of my child told me I should have an abortion and that he wanted nothing to do with me and our unborn child. I had no idea how to be a mother, so the easiest route was to follow his wishes. I believed the cultural lie that in order to succeed in life, I would need to have an abortion.” Read more here.

IN THE SHADOW OF THE CULTURE OF DEATH, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Across the Western world, the Culture of Death is expanding its borders, casting its grim shadow across an ever-growing population of weak, vulnerable, and disabled peoples. Norway is proposing to expand abortion to include babies up until 18 weeks gestation; Denmark has just done the same. After Poland’s legislators voted down a plan to legalize abortion, the nation’s rogue coalition government simply changed the rules by fiat to facilitate feticide anyway. France made abortion a “constitutional right” earlier this year”. Read more here.

NEW YORK’S ‘EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT’ SERIOUSLY THREATENS WOMEN’S SPORTS, by Tom Joyce. “The so-called Equal Rights Amendment is on the ballot this November in New York, and advocates, including Planned Parenthood, claim it will protect abortion and “LGBTQIA+ people.” On those subjects, it’s a solution in search of a problem. New York legalized elective abortion in 1970, and it has never had a law prohibiting transgender-identifying residents from using their preferred bathrooms, for example. When it comes to women’s sports, however, the ERA would create problems for women and girls. The Equal Rights Amendment would enshrine gender identity as a protected class, strengthening the rights of transgender athletes to compete in girls’ sports, but it is much worse than that.” Read more here.

NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOLERS PLAN STATEWIDE WALKOUT, PROTESTING BOYS IN GIRLS’ SPORTS, by Justine Brooke Murray. “High school students across New York, of all states, are about to put the so-called ‘Women’s’ March to shame. New York’s ‘Walk for Fairness Day’ plans to advocate for real women’s rights by leading a statewide school walkout against men in girls’ sports. ‘Girls are being systematically canceled in this state, and ‘Walk Off for Fairness Day’ will give them a safe opportunity to make their voices heard, said a spokeswoman for NY Coalition to Protect Kids, the group organizing the march.” Read more here.

LIBERTY UNIVERSITY SET UP BY TRANS EX-EMPLOYEE, ACLU, By Mat Staver. “The nation’s premier Christian university is being sued for remaining true to its doctrinal statement and Christian mission after terminating an individual from his position for intentionally setting up the university to advance his LGBT agenda. In response, we are fighting for the case to be dropped and for religious liberty to be upheld to ensure religious institutions are able to operate in accordance with their Christian faith and doctrine, a right secured by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, federal Title VII employment law, and the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act.” Read more here.

MONEY IS DRIVING MEDICINE’S EMBRACE OF CHILD TRANSGENDERISM, by Stanley Goldfarb and Roy Eappen. “Before his debate with Governor Tim Walz, Republican vice-presidential nominee Senator J. D. Vance slammed his Democratic counterpart for making Minnesota a ‘trans refuge’ for children. Vance is right to highlight the medical and moral monstrosity of an establishment that encourages young boys and girls who feel that they must change their gender. But it’s also true that massive amounts of money are at stake. Medical providers stand to earn a windfall from children’s gender-transition procedures, which helps explain why the industry has endorsed the most aggressive treatments for gender dysphoria.” Read more here.

IN SCOTLAND, ABORTION ACCESS MAY SUPERSEDE YOUR RIGHT TO PRAY IN YOUR HOME, by Beege Welborn. “Hey, how about that creeping state fascism thing in socialist-leaning ‘democratic’ countries? Here you thought having your knuckles rapped for misgendering someone was outrageous. … The SNP government has warned that praying at home may be illegal under new Scottish abortion laws. People living within these areas have been cautioned that they may violate the Abortion Services Act (Scotland) 2024 if they engage in any behaviour that could ‘harass, alarm, or distress’ clinic staff or patients.” Read more here.

COLORADO’S ATTEMPT TO ENSHRINE UNLIMITED ABORTION, by Bradley N. Kehr and Danielle G. Pimentel. “Unlike citizens of other states facing abortion ballot initiatives, Coloradans are being asked to declare not only that the state may not discriminate against the termination of a human life in the womb, but that every Coloradan must pay to extinguish that life with their tax dollars. Further, the Amendment also declares that a person’s decision to terminate a human life in the womb rises to the level of a protected class – meaning any action by the state, such as ensuring a woman is fully informed about the procedure or crafting health and safety requirements for abortion facilities, would be an act of discrimination.’’ Read more here.

THANKS TO LIBERAL STATES, ‘CONVERSION THERAPY’ STRAWMAN STILL HAS LEGS, by Bob Kellogg. “Kentucky recently became the latest state to ban so-called ‘conversion therapy’ when Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear issued an executive order prohibiting the counseling practice. …‘Conversion therapy rests on the premise that an LGBTQ+ individual’s identity is pathological and can be ‘repaired’ or ‘fixed.’ But Dr. Quentin Van Meter, the former president of the American College of Pediatrics, says progressives’ criticism is based on the cruel and misguided shock treatments that were used in the 1950s – a treatment he argues ‘does not exist anywhere today.’” Read more here.

DO NO HARM INTRODUCES FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND DATABASE TO PINPOINT ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING’ HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN, by Madeline Leesman. “In recent years, transgender ideology has permeated the medical industry. In many cases, this harmful ideology is being pushed onto children. In many cases, doctors are told to ‘affirm’ a child’s gender identity, especially if there are other issues, like depression and suicidal ideation, involved. Some children, like de-transitioner Chloe Cole, undergo irreversible, life-altering ‘gender-affirming’ surgery as minors and live to regret it as adults. Read more here.

10 U.S. STATES WILL VOTE ON ABORTION THIS FALL. HERE’S WHAT’S AT STAKE, by Ben Johnson. “With all eyes on this November’s elections for president and Congress, voters risk losing sight of the pivotal battlegrounds where the issue of protecting — or sacrificing — innocent life is on the ballot nationwide. Voters in 10 states will vote on 11 ballot initiatives, nearly all of which would open the door to expanding the taking of innocent life as late as the third trimester. Voters this November will decide on abortion-related ballot initiatives in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, and South Dakota.” Read more here.

THE LONG ROAD TO FREEDOM FOR JACK PHILLIPS, by National Review Editors. Few living Americans have stood longer against government persecution for their freedoms than Colorado baker Jack Phillips. He has been repeatedly targeted under Colorado anti-discrimination law for adhering to his Christian faith. At long last, his third legal saga is over after the Colorado supreme court on Tuesday rejected the latest lawsuit against him on procedural grounds. After twelve years, Phillips is free of the courts. We can only hope he stays free — and that his fellow citizens will, too. Read more here.

AT LEAST 14,000 U.S. MINORS HAVE RECEIVED GENDER-TRANSITION TREATMENT OR SURGERIES IN 5 YEARS, WITH DOCS BILLING $120 MILLION, by Benjamin Ryan. “At least 14,000 minors underwent gender-transition treatment, surgeries, or both between 2019 and last year. This five-year tally is a conservative estimate, meaning that the true figure is likely higher, if not quite a bit higher. The figure is the product of a new analysis of national insurance-claims data that was released on Tuesday by Do No Harm. …‘We feel very strongly that the science behind using these treatments in children is extraordinarily flawed and suggests that children are being harmed,’ said the chair of Do No Harm’s board, Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, in a press briefing on Monday.” Read more here.

DEVALUING CHILDREN AND MOTHERHOOD, by Nadya Williams. “In July 2023, I walked away from academia and tenure after 15 years as a professor. This decision in and of itself was not so unusual. It is the 21st century, and plenty of people change careers, after all—especially in this post-2020 age of the Great Resignation. What shocked both friends and strangers alike, however, was what I decided to do instead. Instead of opting for the more typical alternative career choice for ex-academics, such as a consultant or UX researcher, I decided to stay at home full time (aside from some freelance writing and editing) to homeschool my children.” Read more here.

THE GRISLY TRUTH ABOUT KIDS TRANSITIONING, by Spiked. “Trans activists claim that access to ‘gender-affirming care’ is a basic human right. Even children, they say, must be free to medically ‘transition’. What this really means is providing children with powerful, sterilising drugs, followed by a lifetime of hormone treatment and irreversible surgery. And as we now know, following the landmark Cass Review into gender medicine, these children tend to be deeply vulnerable – often struggling with their sexuality, sometimes autistic or suffering from trauma – and most would grow out of their ‘gender distress’, if we allowed them to.” Read more here.

TRANSGENDER FEVER WILL EVENTUALLY BREAK: HERE’S WHY, by Jonathon Van Maren. “A recent exchange on X perfectly highlighted the growing impatience many people have for the demands of transgender activists. ‘Trans women are not men. Why don’t you understand this basic truth about us?’ a trans-identifying person demanded. J.K. Rowling responded with devastating succinctness: ‘Maybe because the only prerequisite for being a trans woman is being a man.’ Her takedown has accrued over 11,000 reposts and 104,000 likes. People are getting fed up.” Read more here.

THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT NEEDS MEN, by Benjamin Watson. “For a lot of men, speaking out in defense of life can seem impossible. How could we possibly presume to know better than a woman what pregnancy means? But you don’t have to be a woman to know that pregnancy means a new life. And you don’t have to be a woman to know that women deserve our love, respect and protection. Knowing the truth is important. But so is the way you carry and share the truth. And compassion is the best on-ramp to pro-life advocacy. It centers the person or people you’re working to protect, rather than yourself.” Read more here.

PRO-LIFERS MUST FOLLOW THESE 5 RULES OF SOCIAL REVOLUTION TO SAVE THE UNBORN, by Randall Terry. “Three ‘pro-life’ articles were recently released offering ‘guidance’ to the pro-life movement on current and future efforts to criminalize the murder of unborn babies. This is a formal rebuttal and rebuke of those men and their articles: ‘The Way Forward After Dobbs’ by Ryan T. Anderson (First Things, October 2024), ‘What is Pro-Life Realism’ by Ross Douthat (New York Times, 9/13/2024) and ‘Pro-Life Realism Post-Dobbs’ by Michael Brendon Dougherty (National Review, 9/3/2024). They are a trifecta of folly, a medley of mediocrity, passionless and visionless.” Read more here.

FORBIDDEN, by Bernard Lane. “Australia’s federal Health Minister Mark Butler has rejected the first state government-level request for a national review of medicalised gender change for minors. The federal minister dismissed the proposal, put to him on May 31 by the state of Tasmania’s Health Minister Guy Barnett, with Mr Butler relying on discredited 2020 advice from a medical college that reportedly suppressed expert concerns about the poorly evidenced hormonal treatment of gender-distressed children. Mr Butler did not make his response public.” Read more here.

‘EXPOSING THE ABORTION PILL DRUG CARTEL,’ by S.A. McCarthy. “Violence, crime, and drug-related deaths in the U.S. have been on the rise for some time now, thanks to Mexican drug cartels, but a new report is revealing that a different kind of cartel is flooding the U.S. with a different kind of drug—namely, abortion pills. A new in-depth study, ‘Beneath the Surface: Exposing the Abortion Pill Drug Cartel,’ published by the American Life League, dives into how abortion pill companies ship the deadly drugs to states with stringent pro-life laws. The American Life League observed, ‘To the casual observer, this pill network is modeled after the drug cartel, creating an abortion pill crisis similar to our nation’s narcotics crisis.’” Read more here.

DOCTOR LEFT THIS BABY TO DIE AFTER HE SURVIVED LATE-TERM ABORTION, by Raimundo Rojas. “I became Executive Director of Miami Right to Life in June 1989—a small but well-funded and incredibly organized group affiliated with Florida Right to Life. I was in my 20s, and it was my first foray into pro-life advocacy. On Thursday, September 14, 1989, I was alone at the office when I received an anonymous call from a labor and delivery nurse at Miami’s Baptist Hospital. She began the conversation by emphatically stating, ‘I’m pro-choice, but what I witnessed last night was wrong.’” Read more here.

THE EVIL OF ABORTION MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO TRIUMPH THROUGH OUR INACTION, by Martin W. Howe. “My college history professor used to say, ‘Everyone wants to sleep well at night.’ The messaging from the abortion industry over the last 50 years is a good example of exploiting that desire. Led by Planned Parenthood, abortion providers have reinvested their profits (and taxpayer funding) into brainwashing millions of Americans into believing that the torture and murder of an unborn child is ‘a woman’s right’ and ‘her body, her choice.’” Read more here.

ABORTIONIST GOES OFF SCRIPT, QUESTIONS SAFETY OF ‘SELF-MANAGED’ ABORTION PILLS, by Carole Novielli. “Well-known late term abortionist Warren Hern recently questioned the care women receive when they are sold abortion pills by asking the obvious: Who is doing ‘follow-up exam[s]’ and ‘tak[ing] care of … a complication’? In a recent interview with the New Yorker, ‘America’s Abortion Doctor’ stated: ‘My issue with medication abortion is—is there a follow-up exam? Do you know if the uterus is empty or not? Who’s going to take care of them if there’s a complication? Because of political oppression, people are afraid to take care of the patient.’” Read more here.

IN UGANDA, LGBT ACTIVISTS PRIORITIZE S*X OVER STARVATION, By Emmanuele Da Ponte. “A coalition of activists are urging the World Bank to withhold loans from Uganda, one of the poorest countries in the world, over its Anti-Homosexuality Act. This could set up a tension between sex and starvation. Pro-homosexual activists protested outside the World Bank and the Uganda mission to the UN in opposition to the World Bank’s recent decision to restart much-needed loans to the African nation. ‘There can be no business as usual between the World Bank and the Government of Uganda while this law remains in force,’ said a spokeswoman for Convening for Equality.” Read more here.

GEORGIA JUDGE FLUNKS BIOLOGY IN OVERTURNING THE STATE’S HEARTBEAT LAW, by Christina Cirucci. “In Monday’s ruling finding Georgia’s pro-life law unconstitutional, Judge Robert McBurney says that ‘designating the embryonic “heartbeat” as the start of life’ is an ‘arbitrary’ delineation. In a footnote, McBurney argues that it is not accurate to describe embryonic cardiac activity as a heartbeat: ‘A true human heartbeat requires an actual four-chambered heart, something which does not develop until 17–20 weeks of gestation,’ not six weeks, which is when cardiac activity can first be detected. This claim is false on multiple levels.” Read more here.

EVIDENCE OVER IDEOLOGY: GENDER-DISTRESSED CHILDREN DESERVE NOTHING LESS, by Dr. Jill Simons. “Once again, the United Kingdom is leading the way in choosing evidence over ideology for gender-distressed kids. Over the summer, the UK’s high court deferred to science over activism and upheld an emergency ban on puberty blockers for children under age eighteen. Many European countries—like Norway, Denmark, England, Wales, Scotland, Sweden, and Finland—are moving away from life-altering hormonal and surgical interventions for children experiencing distress over their biological sex.” Read more here.

‘STOP TRANSING GAY KIDS!’ BIDEN ADMIN HEALTH OFFICIAL RACHEL LEVINE INTERRUPTED BY PROTESTER DURING PEDIATRICS CONFERENCE KEYNOTE IN ORLANDO, by Benjamin Ryan. “‘Stop transing gay kids!’ That’s what a collection of pediatricians heard today when an activist who opposes pediatric gender-transition treatment interrupted the keynote address that Biden health official Dr. Rachel Levine gave at the American Academy of Pediatrics’ conference in Orlando, Florida. ‘I have no time for intolerance,’ Dr. Levine eventually said in response to a room that appeared less than half full. The activist, Lauren Leggieri, who traveled to Orlando from her home in Philadelphia, was swiftly apprehended by security and escorted out of the conference hall.” Read more here.

THE MEDIA IGNORES THE TRAGIC STORIES OF WOMEN ‘WIDOWED’ BY THE TRANSGENDER CULT, by Frank Wright. “Amidst a deepening civilizational and spiritual crisis, there is a growing realization that the stories we are told are at best incomplete. At worst, the narratives marketed in our mass media exclude the truth and present a popular fiction in its place. The stories of ‘trans widows’ is one undeniable example of this feature of our system. In Behind the Looking Glass, a new documentary by Vaishnavi Sundar, we hear from women whose husbands have ‘transitioned,’ leaving them alone – and in a silence whose breaking comes at a predictable cost.” Read more here.

THE SERIOUS CRISIS GRIPPING AMERICA THAT NO ONE WANTS TO TALK ABOUT, by Corey Brooks. “Children growing up without fathers in the home is one of the most serious crises facing America today. The impact is devastating on spiritual, religious, and material levels. Over 80 percent of the children in my neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago do not have a father, but this not something that can be just dismissed as a ‘Black thing.’ It is an American epidemic. Across the nation, 56 percent of Black children do not have a father in the home. For Latinos that number has risen to 31 percent and for whites, 21 percent. Those figures are only snapshots and the reality is that they are getting worse, not better, with every passing year.” Read more here.

HOW SCHOOLS ARE TURNING KIDS AGAINST THEIR FAMILIES, by Joanna Williams. “Education in the UK has become ever more politicised in recent years. …In May 2024, in one of its final acts in office, the Conservative government announced new guidance for the teaching of RSE. Children were not to be taught about sex before the age of nine and contested ideas about gender identity were not to be taught as facts. This was an important first step towards altering a curriculum that had come to be perceived as overly sexualised and highly politicised. In order to appreciate the concerns of parents, and the lack of trust some have for teachers, we need to consider what schools were offering children prior to the most recent government intervention.” Read more here.

CAN WE SURVIVE THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN HEART?, by Doug Wilks. “There is a marriage paradox, says Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. On the one hand, about 1 in 3 young adults today will never marry. And that’s bad news because the science — the data on the benefits of marriage — overwhelmingly reveal the benefits of marriage. ‘It looks like marriage matters you know, more than ever, for both kids and for adults. And so that’s the paradox, that we have this institution that’s kind of incredibly valuable on the one hand. And then we also see at the same time, people are not heading into marriage at the same rates as they were 30, 40, 50 years ago,’” Read more here.

PRIMED FOR REGRET, by Bernard Lane. “Young people with ADHD and autism, already over-represented in gender clinic caseloads, are at higher risk of poor decisions and treatment regret because their capacity for mature judgment is delayed, the US paediatrician and medical scientist Dr Julia Mason has warned. She pointed out that the brains of adolescents generally are still undergoing development towards the age of 25 and that ‘when conditions like ADHD or autism are present, full maturation can be delayed even past age 25, more like 30.’” Read more here.

SWEDISH TRANSGENDER TREATMENT GUIDELINES FOR YOUTH, by the Society for Evidence Based Medicine. “U.S. courtrooms have become the main arena for debating scientific evidence for puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgery as treatments for youth gender dysphoria—and court disclosures have become a valuable source of evidence not available elsewhere. One such example is a recent submission of an English translation of Sweden’s official 2022 national practice guideline for children and adolescents with gender dysphoria. …The summary provided highlighted the most salient points, such as the conclusion that, for most affected youth, the risks of the medical and surgical interventions outweigh any benefit.” Read more here.

COLORADO BANNED ‘ABORTION PILL REVERSAL’… BUT THIS WOMAN IS GLAD SHE HAD ACCESS TO IT, by Nancy Flanders. “There’s a legal battle taking place in Colorado, as lawmakers there banned the use of ‘abortion pill reversal’ (APR) in April of 2023. Now, one woman in the state, who used APR to successfully stop the effects of the abortion pill and save her baby’s life, is speaking out in defense of the life-saving protocol. …Studies have shown that 64% of women who obtained abortions felt at least some form of pressure to abort — whether that was from their boyfriend or family members, or it was due to educational or financial pressures they felt at the time.” Read more here.

THE SUCCESS SEQUENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH: HOW FOLLOWING THE SEQUENCE HELPS YOUNG ADULTS FLOURISH, by Wendy Wang and Samuel T. Wilkinson. “Some argue that the emotional state of young adults today is related to their financial precarity. Economic pressures such as student loans add stress in young adults’ lives, and Millennials have also encountered many obstacles in the workforce, including a challenging job market and longer work hours. Meanwhile, there is a path that young adults who aspire to move up the economic ladder and establish a financially secure foundation should follow: Get at least a high school education, work full-time, and marry before having children. Among Millennials who followed what is known as the Success Sequence, 97% are not poor when they reach adulthood, and 90% reach the middle class or higher. Young adults who manage to follow this sequence—even in the face of various disadvantages—are much more likely to flourish financially.” Read more here.

DINKS AND THE AMERICAN DREAM, by Oliver Olsen. “As I received my undergraduate diploma and turned to face the crowd, I noticed a classmate’s mouth hanging open in disbelief. I suspected the cause of his astonishment was not my recognition as an alumnus; rather, his eyes were fixed on the drooly, googly-eyed three-month-old pulling my tassel. I wondered what he was thinking. Undoubtedly, he thought the same about me. The idea of being a married father at age 22 is quite jarring to my generation. A few decades ago, it would not have been so incredible. The story of a classmate falling in love and marrying his high school sweetheart was not out of the norm for many Americans. Now, it certainly raises eyebrows, with fewer young Americans choosing to [get] married and [have] kids.” Read more here.

PRO-LGBT MEDIA HEAVILY DISTORTS THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TRANSGENDER MOVEMENT, by Jonathon Van Maren. “PinkNews bills itself as ‘the world’s largest and most influential LGBTQ+ led media brand,’ and boasts that their allegedly ‘multi-award winning content leads the cultural zeitgeist, created through a uniquely inclusive lens.’ In reality, the website is the most extreme propaganda arm of the LGBT movement, and its ‘journalists’ serve as attack dogs for delusional and increasingly violent transgender activists.” Read more here.

A LOOK AT PLANNED PARENTHOOD’S NEFARIOUS INFILTRATION OF AMERICAN SCHOOLS, by Susan Ciancio. “It’s a truth not widely told or covered in mainstream media, but it’s one that deserves telling and repeating until every parent and teacher understands. Planned Parenthood’s sex education has infiltrated public schools across the country, and the only way to drive this organization out is for you and me to step up, speak out, and protect the innocence of our children. …Not only is Planned Parenthood the nation’s number one abortion chain, but its far-reaching tentacles are in classrooms across the country teaching its perverted brand of sex education—one that normalizes abortion, teaches that boys can become girls (and vice versa), and that no-strings-attached sex is an acceptable and harmless way of life. Read more here.

NEW ‘DRAGON AGE’ VIDEO GAME INDULGES TRANS DELUSION WITH AVATAR ‘TOP SURGERY SCARS’ OPTION, by Douglas Blair. “Video games are a portal to a world of fantasy and escapism. They give players the potential to be whomever they want, from a swaggering swordsman to an arcane sorcerer. Thus, when activists insist on playing transgender characters, complete with body modification scars, rather than male or female characters, it calls into question just how sincere the radical gender ideology movement is. “Dragon Age: The Veilguard” cranks the identity politics obsession in gaming up to 11 with a series of utterly bizarre character customization decisions. In addition to the pronoun and gender options that seem to come standard with all woke games these days, players can add chest surgery scars to their characters to indicate they’ve had their breasts removed.” Read more here.

IS THE WOKE MADNESS BEGINNING TO EBB?, by Michael Cook. “Like the Emperor’s new clothes, people are beginning to open their eyes to some of the absurdities of woke campaigns. Even the woke-est of the woke mainstream media, the New York Times, is beginning to acknowledge that the high tide of wokeness is receding. Earlier this year columnist Michelle Goldberg wrote an elegiac obituary entitled: ‘Wokeness Is Dying. We Might Miss It.’ She saw the writing on the wall months ago. … It’s too early to toll the bells for woke’s funeral. After all, there are plenty of people who are still obsessed with pronouns.” Read more here.

9TH CIRCUIT AGAIN DROPS BALL ON TITLE IX, MALES IN WOMEN’S SPORTS, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “Women and girls seeking equal opportunity in scholastic athletics have notched a few significant wins this year against the Department of Education over its massive rewrite of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Title IX is the brief, 50-plus-year-old civil rights law that prevents sex discrimination in any publicly funded education program. The Biden-Harris administration, however, has expanded the meaning of ‘sex’ in Title IX to include ‘gender identity or expression.’ But based on a plain reading of the text of Title IX, and with an eye toward the congressional history of the law as geared toward ensuring women’s equality in education, the rewrite is more than a little illegal.” Read more here.

NATION’S TOP OB-GYN ORG COULD COMBAT LIES ABOUT PRO-LIFE LAWS, BUT THAT WOULD HURT THEIR AGENDA, by Jordan Boyd. “The nation’s largest organization of obstetricians and gynecologists has a chance to put patients first by offering clarity and education about pro-life laws to its more than 60,000 members, but it likely won’t because it hurts their abortion agenda. American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) CEO Dr. Christina Francis penned a letter to American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) CEO Dr. Sandra E. Brooks on Monday asking her to join the fight against media-led misinformation that seeks to demonize lifesaving laws in dozens of states.” Read more here.

FACT CHECK: DID 2 WOMEN DIE BECAUSE OF GEORGIA’S ABORTION LAW?, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “The pro-abortion lobby and legacy media are lying to you again. This week, shocking headlines portrayed the deaths of two women incorrectly, blaming a new Georgia law that had nothing to do with their tragic deaths. Here’s what really happened: Amber Nicole Thurman died after she took the abortion pill, deregulated by the FDA (with multiple safety restrictions eliminated), which caused complications and left parts of her twin unborn babies inside her. Thurman legally obtained abortion pills in North Carolina to end the lives of her unborn twins, but without an ultrasound (something required by the FDA only a few years prior), she couldn’t possibly know.” Read more here.

SHOULDN’T DOCTORS KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NATURAL DEATH AND INTENTIONAL KILLING?, by Nancy Flanders. “A Care Post-Roe Study released last week by an Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH), led by abortionist Dr. Daniel Grossman at the University of California San Francisco, revealed confusion among pro-abortion doctors over pro-life laws and the basic difference between an induced abortion and actual health care. The report claimed that doctors are feeling distress, now that they can’t commit abortions in pro-life states, and patients are afraid that they won’t get the health care they need because of pro-life laws protecting preborn children from induced abortion.” Read more here.

KENTUCKY GOV. BANS ‘CONVERSION THERAPY’ IN ATTEMPT ‘TO SILENCE THE EXPRESSION’ OF DIFFERENT VIEWS, EXPERT SAYS, by Sarah Holliday. “In Kentucky, Governor Andy Beshear (D) decided it’s okay for children to undergo gender transition procedures but that it’s not okay to allow a way for kids to talk it out first. ‘Conversion therapy,’ as the Daily Caller wrote, ‘has historically referred to clinical attempts to stop patients from experiencing same-sex attraction.’ However, far-left activists and organizations have characterized the practice as ‘dangerous and discredited,’ claiming it causes ‘depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and suicidality.’” Read more here.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA PUTS SPOTLIGHT ON ‘POLYAMORY’ AS LATEST TREND IN SEXUALLY DEVIANT BEHAVIOR, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Keen observers will have noted a trend of late: The mainstream media is suddenly very, very fascinated with the subject of “polyamory.” For those blessedly unaware of what that is, ‘polyamory’ is a cluster of people who are collectively intimate — so instead of couples, you have ‘throuples’ and ‘quads’ and beyond that, presumably, a harem or whatever. The term was coined around 1990, and with the success of the LGBT movement in redefining marriage and the natural family, the polyamorists are now beginning the push for state recognition of their weird arrangements.” Read more here.

OFF THE TRANS TRAIN, by Bernard Lane. “Young people with immature brains cannot grasp the consequences of irreversible gender medicalisation, a prominent Swedish child and adolescent psychiatrist has warned. ‘It is my opinion that the irreversible measure of sterilisation should not be carried out until the age of 25, and it is therefore appropriate to have the same age limit for gender-reassignment treatment for gender dysphoria,’ the psychiatrist, Dr Sven Roman said.” Read more here.

‘STUMBLING TOWARD UTOPIA’: HOW THE 1960S TOOK A WRECKING BALL TO AMERICAN FAMILY, by Timothy Goeglein. “Up until the 1960s, the traditional nuclear family—one man, one woman, and at least one child—was seen as the societal ideal. But in the 1960s, the American family came under withering attack and has never been the same since—resulting in myriad societal problems that seem to spiral increasingly downward with each passing year. …Coupled with legalized abortion, men could simply walk away from a woman they impregnated because the ‘problem’ of a child could just be disposed of by going to the local Planned Parenthood office.” Read more here.

LA TIMES AGENDA PUSH: ‘IT’S ALMOST SHAMEFUL TO WANT TO HAVE CHILDREN,’ by Justine Brooke Murray. “Having children now makes you selfish, according to ivory tower academics and the 20-year-olds we’re all supposed to pay college tuition for. Leave it to a Gender and Sexuality Studies professor to recruit a group of adult children to lecture us NOT to have children. In fact, ‘It’s almost shameful to want to have children,’ reads the headline to a book excerpt published by U.C. Irvine professor Jane S. Sasser for the Los Angeles Times.” Read more here.

ABORTION: HOW TO BEGIN TO WIN, by Steve McKee. “One of the great mysteries in most polling on abortion is the small percentage of those surveyed who are fully committed to either a pro-life or pro-choice position. One study of swing states across the country found that only 31% of adult Americans said they put a stake in the ground on one viewpoint or another, with the balance being somewhere in the middle. It doesn’t make sense not to have your mind made up on abortion—the life developing in the womb is either a human being deserving of protection or it’s not.” Read more here.

CP DOCU-PODCAST SEASON 4: GENDER IDEOLOGY MEETS RESISTANCE, by Brandon Showalter. “For decades, what we have come to know as gender ideology seemed to be confined to esoteric areas of study in niche academic departments in universities. But the ideology soon stealthily began taking the world by storm until it reached a social eruption over the past decade — one that has destroyed families and threatened the very fabric of society. Today, the devastating havoc that transgenderism has wrought on countless children, teenagers, young adults, families, and on society at large is no longer hidden, and a reckoning is underway both at home and abroad.” Read more here.

IT’S TIME FOR THE SUPREME COURT TO REPUDIATE GENDER IDEOLOGY, by Sarah Parshall Perry and Seth Lucas. “Supreme Court justices seldom get an opportunity to fix a botched decision. But as the Court takes up a Tennessee transgender case, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch has that chance. His fumble came four years ago, when the Court declared in Bostock v. Clayton County that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the federal law that forbids sex discrimination in employment, also bans employment discrimination based on transgender status. Critics have charged that Gorsuch, an avid textualist and the author of the majority opinion, botched his ‘textual’ analysis in that case.” Read more here.

GUESS WHO WANTS TO DISCUSS ‘CONSENT’ WITH FOURTH GRADERS?, by Bronson Woodruff. “Thanks to its sex-education curriculum, which is nationwide, Planned Parenthood has sunk its radical claws deep in numerous schools and classrooms across the country. One of the sex-ed lessons is ‘Sex Ed To-Go,’ a free online course that states it informs students about human anatomy, sexually transmitted diseases, and pregnancy prevention. …Planned Parenthood is sneaking its courses into schools, with the cooperation of principals and teachers, but without parental knowledge or approval. …The free sex-ed courses are offered to students as young as fourth graders, who are typically 9 or 10 years old.” Read more here.

CAN A DACHSHUND BE ‘GENDERFLUID’?, by Lauren Smith. “How would you react if your coworker told you his dog is transgender? With laughter? Confusion? Denial? For one unfortunate social worker, this very situation landed her in hot water with her employer and kick-started an absurd legal battle. Sixty-two-year-old Elizabeth Pitt was employed as a social worker by Cambridgeshire County Council. …Pitt, who is a lesbian, attended a meeting of the council’s LGBT employee group. A colleague piped up to say that his dog is ‘genderfluid’. …Somehow, this Dachshund with a brain the size of a walnut was able to not only understand and define its own ‘gender identity’, but also convey that to its owner. …Pitt decided to call this out as nonsense. …Pitt’s trans-Dachshund-owning co-worker lodged a formal complaint with the council. He described her remarks as ‘offensive’ and ‘nasty opinions’. Another colleague who had been present at the meeting said she had a ‘really aggressive tone.’” Read more here.

ABORTION IS THE #1 CRISIS FACING BLACK AMERICA TODAY, by Walter Hoye. “According to our government’s “National Vital Statistics Reports,” here is the TFR for Black Americans over the following years:

• In 2017 it was 1.824.
• In 2019 it was 1.774.
• In 2021 it was 1.675.
• In 2022 it was 1.460.

…Historically, no culture has reversed a 1.9 fertility rate. A fertility rate of 1.3 is impossible to reverse, because it would take 80 to 100 years to correct itself, and there is no economic model that can sustain a culture during that time. In other words, if two sets of parents each had one child, there are half as many children as parents. If those children had one child, then there are one-fourth as many grandchildren as grandparents. As writer Mark Steyn argued, ‘If only a million babies are born in 2006 it’s hard to have two million adults enter the work force in 2026.’” Read more here.

DEEPFAKE PORN: WHERE AI GOES TO DIE, by Karl D. Stephan. “Calling deepfake porn the nadir of how artificial intelligence is used expresses my opinion of it, and also the opinion of women who have become victims of having their faces stolen and applied to pornographic images. A recent article by Eliza Strickland in IEEE Spectrum shows both the magnitude of the problem and the largely ineffective measures that have been taken to mitigate this evil—for evil it is. With the latest AI-powered software, it can take less than half an hour to use a single photograph of a woman’s face to produce a 60-second porn video that makes it look like the victim was a willing participant in whatever debauchery the original video portrayed.” Read more here.

PRO-LIFE LAWS DIDN’T KILL AMBER THURMAN, THE ABORTION INDUSTRY DID, by Teri Christoph. “The thing is, the pro-abortion cabal are extremely anti-woman. Take the very sad case of Amber Thurman, a woman from Georgia who died in 2022 after suffering complications from the abortion pills she was given by a ‘reproductive health’ facility. The first pill, mifepristone, was given to Thurman at a clinic in North Carolina; she was given the second pill, misoprostol, to take at home. Within a few days of taking the second pill, Thurman went to a local hospital seeking treatment for a number of issues, including bleeding, vomiting up blood, fainting spells, a high white blood cell count, and low blood pressure.” Read more here.

WHY DOES BIG TECH OPPOSE THE KIDS ONLINE SAFETY ACT?, by Wesley Hodges. “Imagine driving your kids through a city plastered with graphic, inappropriate billboards—images that assault their innocence at every turn. You’d try everything to protect them: blacking out car windows, taking detours. But no matter how hard you try, you can’t shield them entirely. Now, imagine families petitioning their city council to restrict public obscenity, simply asking for a chance to move through public spaces without fear of exposing their children to harmful imagery. How do you think the billboard companies would respond? If they’re anything like Big Tech’s reaction to proposed legislation in Congress, they’d unleash a storm of exaggerated claims, lobbyists, and manufactured outrage.” Read more here.

THE WAY FORWARD AFTER DOBBS,by Ryan T. Anderson. “It has been two years since the Supreme Court decided Dobbs v. Jackson, overturning Roe v. Wade. It is worth taking stock of where the pro-life movement finds itself now. Over the past few months, children have been born, and some have celebrated their birthdays, because Dobbs allowed their states to provide them with legal protections against the lethal violence of abortion. Some of these little ones are already walking, talking, and giggling, thanks to fifty years of work by pro-life activists. But every time abortion policies have appeared on state ballots since Dobbs, the people have voted against life. Public opinion has shifted drastically in favor of abortion in the past decade. Read more here.

FREQUENT PORN USE IS LINKED TO NEGATIVE MENTAL HEALTH AMONG GEN-Z AND MILLENNIALS, by Wendy Wang and Michael Toscano. “A swathe of laws in states across the country have been adopted to require that individuals who wish to access pornography sites provide verification of age. These laws are premised upon the fact that pornography is inappropriate for children and profoundly harmful to the mental health of users, especially with frequent use. The former claim is not a matter of controversy. But what about the latter claim—that porn use is damaging to the mental health of many impressionable young Americans?” Read more here.

TAKE THE D WORD OFF THE TABLE, by Brett and Kate McKay. “When the sociologist Brad Wilcox came on the podcast to talk about the extensive research he’s done on marriage, he discussed some of the habits and qualities shared by the happiest and most thriving couples. One of them, he said, is a strong commitment that manifests itself in ‘not putting the D word in a conversation when you’re having an argument or there’s some problem in your marriage.’ Thriving couples don’t think of divorce as an option.” Read more here.

‘MY HEART BREAKS’: FORMER TRANS CHILD SHARES HOW SHE HEALED FROM TRAUMA, GENDER DYSPHORIA, by Samantha Kamman. “Erin Brewer started identifying as a boy after she was sexually assaulted at the age of 6, which led to feelings of self-loathing that eventually resulted in her turning to pornography before she found peace through God and accepted His unending love. After the assault, Brewer wore her brother’s hand-me-downs and cut her hair short, thinking that if she were a boy, the violation would never have happened.” Read more here.

CELEBRITIES ARE TELLING THEIR ABORTION STORIES IN AN ATTEMPT TO NORMALIZE ABORTION, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Celebrities are telling their abortion stories to normalize a ‘procedure’ that is the focal point of fierce political fights across post-Roe America. But their stories are revealing in a different way. In almost every instance, money was not an issue. The parents were financially secure, even wealthy. Each of these children died because the parents insisted that they were ‘not ready’ in some way, despite being financially well-off adults.” Read more here.

THE DARK TRUTH ABOUT LGBT YOUTH SCOTLAND, by Malcom Clark. “The biggest LGBT organisation in Scotland is in trouble again. In the past few years, LGBT Youth Scotland has been accused of pushing gender-identity ideology on severely autistic primary-school kids. It has been caught promoting the idea of being nonbinary to disabled youngsters. It has even faced calls to be banned from classrooms altogether, after it lobbied to reverse Scotland’s ban on puberty blockers. Incredibly, these are not even the worst scandals to have hit LGBT Youth Scotland.” Read more here.

IDENTITY CRISIS: CALIFORNIA KEEPS PARENTS IN THE DARK ABOUT THEIR CHILDREN’S GENDER CONFUSION, by Nicole Russell. “California has increasingly become the national model for implementing progressive policies that waste money, weaken the economy, and splinter the family. A new law is the latest in the list of examples of California’s leftward drift. It created controversy in the legislature, has already spurred lawsuits, and has been blamed for Elon Musk’s decision to desert the state.” Read more here.

THE OVERLOOKED, FATAL FLAW OF RESEARCH PROMOTING THE ‘BENEFITS’ OF NONMONOGAMY, by Jacob Hess. “A social trend of open relationships, polyamory and ‘swinging’ has swept across the nation — tantalizing an already sexualized American public with a steady drumbeat of media-hyped stories featuring couples embracing what is euphemistically called ‘consensual,’ ‘ethical’ or ‘responsible’ nonmonogamy. Although statistically only a small fraction of couples are involved, these glamorous portrayals make it seem like this is happening everywhere.” Read more here.

WAVE OF PRO-ABORTION BALLOT INITIATIVES CONTAIN VAGUE LANGUAGE, HIDDEN AGENDAS, EXPERTS SAY, by Dan Hart. “As the November election approaches in eight weeks, abortion will be front and center with 10 ballot initiatives in states across the country asking voters to enact or reject measures addressing the issue. While most of the proposed measures are pro-abortion and would dramatically expand the practice, experts say that some also have hidden agendas that could impact parental rights and controversial gender transition procedures for minors, among other issues.” Read more here.

INSIDE JOB, by Bernard Lane. “‘The research shows that these [puberty blocker] medications are safe and work well to delay puberty, and their effects can be reversed if stopped.’ … So says the headline-grabbing summary for an ‘evidence check’ of medicalised gender change for minors commissioned by government health authorities in NSW, Australia’s most populous state. … How does the report itself characterise the evidence for puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and transgender surgery, such as double mastectomy? In ways that repeatedly undermine the reassuring summary, for example—’Weak due to poor study designs, low participant numbers and single-centre recruitment.’ ‘[C]onsiderable flaws remain in the evidence’. “[T]he strength of the evidence remains poor.’” Read more here.

‘THE SUN WILL RISE TOMORROW AND MEN STILL WON’T BE WOMEN,’ by Spiked. “The question ‘What is a woman?’ ought to have an obvious answer – an adult, human female. For millennia, sex has been understood as a matter of biology. But in Australia, womanhood has effectively been redefined in law to be inclusive of men. When Sall Grover set up Giggle for Girls in 2020, she intended for it to be a women-only social-media app. But last month, an Australian court ruled that it had indirectly discriminated against a man who identifies as a woman when it barred him from the platform. Tickle vs Giggle essentially established that women have no right to establish single-sex spaces in Australia.” Read more here.

VOTER, DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW ABORTION AMENDMENT CHANGES YOUR STATE FOR GOOD?, by Parrish Alford. “With the abortion fight shifting to states and state governments, now 10 states – one-fifth of the country – face abortion measures on their November ballots. Since the fall of Roe, several states have enshrined a right to abortion in their constitution or advanced abortion protections in some other way. Two of those so far are blue-state Michigan and red-state Ohio, where abortion rights won the day. Many of these measures have been organized by Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion groups, according to The Family Research Council.” Read more here.

THE SURGEON GENERAL’S DOUR PICTURE OF PARENTHOOD MISSES THE MARK, by Brad Wilcox, Alysse El Hage, Wendy Wang. “My experience … dovetails with some aspects of Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s new advisory on parental stress, which is getting a lot of attention and for good reason: Many parents can relate to its argument that parenting today seems more stressful than ever and that some things need to change to make raising a family easier. In his report, Murthy rightly recognizes the ‘sacred work’ of parenthood and acknowledges that it matters not only to individuals but all of society.” Read more here.

HOW THE CARE ACT WOULD PROTECT PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CENTERS TO CONTINUE THEIR CRUCIAL WORK, by Denise Burke. “As the executive director of a pro-life pregnancy center in Sacramento, California, Heidi Matzke should be able to focus on providing much-needed care for pregnant women, new mothers, and their families. But after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in the summer of 2022, she was forced to dedicate much of her attention to protecting her pregnancy center and employees from targeted attacks. ‘We have been forced to hire 24-hour on-site security,’ Matzke testified at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in July 2022. ‘We’ve had to reinforce doors and bulletproof our walls.’” Read more here.

‘CANNIBALISM’ AND ‘FORCED BREEDING CAMPS’: PROFESSORS FEARMONGER ABOUT FUTURE WITHOUT ABORTION, by Cassy Fiano-Chesser. “In a world where abortion advocates have frequently compared pregnancy to slavery, and claimed that protecting preborn children with pro-life laws will lead to a real-world ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ scenario, two professors are upping the ante. An Arizona State University event regarding abortion recently featured two professors who claim that ‘cannibalism’ and ‘forced breeding camps’ are in our future if pro-life laws continue to be instituted.” Read more here.

WE NEED TO FIGHT THE MISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN WAGED BY THE TRANS LOBBY, by Dianna Kenny. “Several key medical journals, including JAMA, have identified the profound harms caused by medical and health misinformation. They assert that health misinformation on social media disproportionately harms female adolescents, racial and ethnic minority youth, LGBQT+ youth, and other marginalized groups.” Read more here.

WILL ABORTION BE ON THE BALLOT IN MISSOURI IN NOVEMBER? LATEST COURT RULING CALLS THAT INTO QUESTION, by Susie Moore. “There’s good news out of Missouri on the pro-life front, compliments of a late Friday ruling issued by Cole County Circuit Judge Christopher Limbaugh (yes, cousin of Rush and David) regarding proposed Amendment 3, which would amend the state constitution to establish a constitutional right to abortion up to the point of fetal viability. … Limbaugh ruled that Amendment 3 did not properly comply with both constitutional and statutory requirements that all constitutional and statutory measures that will be repealed by the proposed amendment be disclosed.” Read more here.

ABORTION PILL REVERSAL: MY EXPERIENCE TRYING TO UNDO ABORTION PILL, by Krystle Arce. “When my boyfriend and I found out I was pregnant, we were terrified. Even though we had successful jobs, we enjoyed the flexibility we had, and we were scared to give up the life we knew. I consulted a friend who told me she had an abortion as a teenager, and it had been a good decision for her. I thought maybe it would be a good decision for me, too. I called a Planned Parenthood that was within driving distance but outside of the city where I lived.” Read more here.

THE RAINBOW PRIVILEGE, by Rodrigo Ballester. “In Spain, companies with more than fifty employees are required to establish inclusion plans for ‘queer’ workers, while the public employment service gives them the same preference as abused women or people facing social exclusion. Additionally, the law reverses the burden of proof, forcing the accused to prove their innocence in cases of homophobic and transphobic accusations—a radical departure from the legal principles established by Roman law and a significant blow to the presumption of innocence.” Read more here.

BREAKING THE POWER OF THE LGBTQ MAFIA, by Tyler O’Neil. “While transgender orthodoxy seems rooted ever deeper in American education, entertainment, and society, the LGBTQ lobby’s stranglehold over big business is finally loosening. A key organization that uses mafia-like tactics to pressure companies to toe the line on gender ideology has faced setbacks. Molson Coors Beverage Co., the company that produces Coors Light beer, announced to employees Tuesday that it will no longer participate in the Human Rights Campaign’s corporate equality index.” Read more here.

FEDERAL COURTS PROTECT WOMEN’S RIGHT TO SAFELY REVERSE CHEMICAL ABORTIONS, by Thomas A. Glessner. “Despite vicious attacks from leftist politicians and legislative losses in states since the overturning of Roe in June of 2022, a major court victory in New York is being celebrated by pro-life pregnancy centers and their allies all over the country. The recent federal court ruling in NIFLA v. James protected pregnancy centers in New York against the rabidly pro-abortion attorney general, Letitia James, who sued eleven of these centers, along with Heartbeat International, seeking penalties for ‘deceptive advertising’ of a medical procedure known as Abortion Pill Reversal (APR). The judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking James’ hostile attack from going into effect.” Read more here.

KIDS ARE SCARED OF DRAG QUEENS (& OTHER STORIES), by Jonathon Van Maren. “Fantastic news out of the UK: the government’s emergency ban on puberty blockers has been upheld by the High Court after a transgender activist group launched a legal challenge to the ban. This is once again an affirmation of a growing consensus—one that has not yet dented the dangerous advocacy of progressive politicians elsewhere in the anglosphere—that sex change ‘treatments’ for minors are incredibly dangerous and cause irreversible and life-altering damage.” Read more here.

SORCERER’S APPRENTICE, by Bernard Lane. “Doctors are ‘playing sorcerer’s apprentice’ by giving gender-distressed youth puberty blockers with unknown effects, the Geneva paediatrician Dr Daniel Halpérin has warned. ‘We’re playing sorcerer’s apprentice with young brains and young bodies at an age when we’re imbued with desires, attractions and sometimes contradictory sexual needs. By blocking puberty, we do all sorts of things whose long-term consequences we don’t measure.’” Read more here.

THE BIZARRE ALLIANCE BETWEEN THE TRANS AGENDA AND ABORTION, by Shawn Carney. “At first glance, the issues of abortion and LGBTQ appear unrelated. …But the homosexual movement has actively inserted itself into the abortion debate because both the trans and pro-abortion movements are built on a shared philosophy: sexual license that accepts no sexual limitations from church, state, or culture. Abortion advocates and LGBTQ advocates alike generally believe that sex should be free for any reason, with anyone, and with zero consequences. And they demand that this philosophy be accepted by everyone. The two movements are locked arm-in-arm, not only in principle but financially. This is why you see so many ‘Pride’ flags at pro-abortion events and abortion rights signs at ‘Pride’ parades.” Read more here.

HHS PUSHES CHILD GENDER TRANSITIONS WITH THREATS OF SUICIDE, by Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell. “The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is using ‘Suicide Prevention Awareness Month’ this September to push the lie that transgender medical interventions stop children from committing suicide. ‘Lack of access to gender affirming care may have negative effects on LGBTQIA2S+ youth, including exacerbating gender dysphoria, creating feelings of social isolation and depression, and contributing to suicidal thoughts and behaviors,’ one of the linked resources reads. But an April study revealed that transgender surgeries actually increase the risk of suicide.” Read more here.

PRO-WOMAN POLICIES ARE PRO-LIFE POLICIES, by Jeff Bradford. “When my wife and I chose so many years ago to quietly abort our first child, we thought the government couldn’t possibly allow legal murder. We assumed that, because abortion was legal, it must be morally licit. We couldn’t have been more wrong. That tragic, irreversible mistake has haunted us our whole lives. It took decades of hidden grief — and then years of heart-wrenching healing, repentance, and reunification as a married couple — for us to begin to move forward from the destruction wrought by that decision. It’s also a very important demonstration of the weight of responsibility our lawmakers carry. In crafting laws, they actively shape the perceived moral stakes of all sorts of behaviors, especially abortion.” Read more here.

AS GLOBAL UNDERPOPULATION CRISIS CONTINUES, CHINA’S ONE-CHILD POLICY HAS DESTROYED ITS POPULATION, by Athanasius Clark. “Steven Mosher, President of the Population Research Institute, has issued a stark warning in the New York Post. In his article ‘Baby Doom,’ Mosher highlights the alarming global decline in birth rates. ‘The big story comes from China, home to one-sixth of the world’s population,’ Mosher writes, ‘the decades-long devastation wrought by the one-child policy has sent that country, for centuries the pacesetter in population, into absolute decline.’” Read more here.

ARE ABORTION FUNDS RUNNING OUT OF MONEY… AND DO THE FUNDS EVEN PAY FOR WOMEN’S ABORTIONS?, by Carole Novielli. “The abortion industry and pro-abortion media have been busy claiming that abortion funds are drying up, just two years after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned the decades-old Roe v. Wade court decision. The media claims the purported lack of funding is a ‘crisis,’ a ‘perfect storm,’ and ‘pure hell,’ which is allegedly forcing ‘the abortion access movement’ to stare ‘down a cliff.’ ‘According to leaders of Planned Parenthood affiliates and abortion funds, there simply aren’t enough dollars right now to support the need [for abortion] at any level.’” Read more here.

WE NEED TO KICK MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S FOOTBALL, by Lauren Smith. “It’s a shame that whenever women’s sport makes the headlines these days, it’s often because a man has ruined it. Over the weekend, a South East Regional Women’s League football match became national news not due to the hard work and dedication of the players, but because of a biological male intruding on their sport. On Sunday, Sutton United’s women’s team [was] due to play an away game against Ebbsfleet. But just a few hours before kick-off, Sutton called the match off, citing their inability to field enough players.” Read more here.

HOW TO COMBAT GENDER IDEOLOGY IN SCHOOLS, By Daniel Buck and Cory Brewer. “California isn’t the only locality to bring radical gender ideology into its schools. Urban and rural public-school districts nationwide are doing the same. Last year, Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS), for example, updated their Gender Identity Guidance document, and it is a progressive wish list of troubling policies. Perhaps most glaringly, but not at all uncommon, the MPS guidance document ensures that ‘individuals are allowed to have access to restrooms and locker rooms that correspond to their gender identity.’” Read more here.

IT’S COME TO THIS: SCHOOL GIRLS LABELED ‘TRANSPHOBIC’ FOR OPPOSING BOYS IN THEIR LOCKER ROOMS, by Jonathon Van Maren. “The transgender war on women has come to Nevada’s Washoe County School District. From a local news station: Parents and students are pushing back against transgender students being allowed to change in girls’ locker rooms in the Washoe County School District. ‘He also gets a front-row seat to view naked females,’ said a woman, whose granddaughter attends Spanish Springs High School. ‘Girls feel uncomfortable in locker rooms under any circumstances, but especially when they have to share the space with someone who is biologically different from them at birth’” Read more here.

MEET THE DETRANSITIONER SUING PLANNED PARENTHOOD, by Kelsey Bolar. “Cristina Hineman grew up in a happy, healthy, loving home. She was homeschooled from kindergarten through the eighth grade and had close relationships with her parents and younger sister. Though Hineman knew by the age of 12 that she was attracted to other girls and experienced some confusion over this, she never experienced any discomfort with her female sex. But after enrolling in public school her freshman year and making friends with a social group, all of whom embraced ‘gender identities’ different from their biological sex, Hineman’s life took a dramatic turn.” Read more here.

CONVERT, YOU BIGOT!, by Sandra Pertot. “Unlike the gay rights movement, trans activists favoured an aggressive and, dare I say, unethical approach, including labelling any research that contradicted their claims as unscientific, shutting down any opposition using claims of “bigotry” or “transphobia”, and piggy backing on gay rights which had made substantial gains in the last decades of the twentieth century. Trans activists insisted “the science is settled” and there could be “no debate” over their claims.” Read more here.

‘WHAT DID YOU LEARN IN SCHOOL TODAY?,’ by Armstrong Williams. “Despite its status as one of the lowest-performing school districts in the nation, Baltimore County Public Schools allocates approximately $22,424 per student. Most problems in Baltimore County can be attributed to cyclical poverty and the prevalence of single-parent households. … We have … witnessed unsettling phenomena such as drag story time, in which men, dressed in revealing attire, read books while in close proximity to children. We have seen situations where pornographic literature has been made mandatory reading material for children in kindergarten. We have observed a range of LGBTQ propaganda disguised as fundamental education for our children.” Read more here.

GOING SOLO WITH SOLOGAMY: THE STRANGE RISE OF PEOPLE MARRYING THEIR OWN SELVES, by Steven Tucker. “Back in the days when I was still an English teacher, one of the novels I taught my students was Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd. During an early chapter, it is said of the book’s main female character, Bathsheba Everdene, that she would rather have a wedding than a marriage. …Lamentably, this very idea, generally known as ‘sologamy’ or sometimes ‘selfcest,’ is a small but growing trend in today’s West. The practice seems to have begun in 1993 when a Californian (obviously) lady named Linda Baker married herself before a gathering of 75 friends and family in order to celebrate her 40th birthday.” Read more here.

YALE ‘QUEER SCIENCE’ CLASS RESEARCHES IF ‘FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY’ CAN TELL IF ‘YOU’RE QUEER,’ OBSESSIONS OVER GAY PENGUINS, by Katie Daviscourt. “Yale University is offering a new course titled ‘Queer Science’ this upcoming fall semester. Ivy League students, who are said to be some of the world’s top academic performers, have the opportunity to learn the science behind being queer. Introductory questions to gauge student interest featured in the course description include: ‘Can facial recognition technology really tell if you’re queer? Why is everyone so obsessed with gay penguins? And how did science come to be the right tool for defining and knowing sex, gender, and sexuality at all?’” Read more here.

STOP CALLING YOUR KID ‘SON’ OR ‘DAUGHTER,’ VERMONT TELLS PARENTS, by Craig Bannister. “The same state that introduced terms like ‘person who produces sperm’ into the classroom is now telling the general public to stop referring to their children as sons and daughters. ‘The language we use matters!’ the Vermont Department of Health declared Wednesday in a social media post titled ‘Inclusive Language for Families’: …’When talking about family, it’s important to use terms that cover the many versions of what family can look like.’ The post then directs the public to stop saying ‘daughter’ or ‘son’ and replace those terms with the ‘gender neutral’ descriptors ‘child’ or ‘kid.’” Read more here.

CEDAW COMMITTEE ORDERS POLAND TO RECOGNIZE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO ABORTION, by Rebecca Oas. “The UN treaty body that focuses on women’s rights published a report this week accusing Poland of violating women’s rights by restricting abortion. The CEDAW Committee called on Poland to support ‘the right to abortion as a fundamental right’ and adopt standards in line with the guidelines of the World Health Organization, including ‘total decriminalization and legalization of abortion.’” Read more here.

I ABSOLUTELY REFUSE TO PLAY THEIR STUPID ENGLISH LANGUAGE GAMES, by Mark Lewis. “Pardon my above facetiousness. However, preposterous Leftists are now making it very complicated to teach the English language to foreign students. Pronouns are especially difficult. Even without Leftist stupidity, English pronouns can be challenging to master for foreigners: ‘I, me, my,’ ‘he, his, him,’ ‘she, her, hers.’ We used to teach that those are singular forms, applying to individual people. ‘You, your, yours’ can be either singular or plural and is as confusing to native speakers as it is to foreigners. But at least we knew the difference between singular and plural pronouns. Well, we once did.” Read more here.

CHILDREN’S NATIONAL HOSPITAL IGNORES TEEN’S MENTAL HEALTH TO INDULGE GENDER IDEOLOGY, by Joshua Arnold. “Children’s National Hospital (CNH) in Washington, D.C. has found itself embroiled in controversy after its staff took a child from his parents and transitioned him, without addressing the child’s obvious mental health needs. A Christian family sued the hospital after they sought help for their autistic teenager who was committing acts of self-harm, and the hospital devoted more energy to transitioning the boy than to helping him.” Read more here.

‘TRANS’ KIDS REALLY DO DESERVE BETTER, by Jo Bartosch. “In a protest that’s been ongoing for six days now, 14 members of a group called Trans Kids Deserve Better (TKDB) have been camped outside the Department for Education (DfE). They are everything the stereotypical teenage activist should be: passionate, melodramatic and spectacularly misguided. According to TKDB’s (curiously well-crafted) media release, the protesting teens are demanding the ‘right to a safe and inclusive education, as well as the overall rights of trans youth and adults.’” Read more here.

EXPOSING THE TRANSGENDER MONEY MACHINE, by Michael Cook. “Last month the American Principles Project published an eye-opening study of the facts and figures for trans medicine, ‘The Gender Industrial Complex.’ It had commissioned a market research company, Grand View Research, to estimate the cost of the drugs and surgical procedures involved in transitioning, the estimated current and future revenue growth of the market, and the most significant players. After reading the report, it’s hard not to conclude that ‘the gender industrial complex’ is a factory of cruelty and misanthropy.” Read more here.

OUT IN THE OPEN, by Bernard Lane. “For the first time, it has been officially admitted that an Australian children’s hospital is referring patients to the private sector for transgender surgery such as removal of a girl’s healthy breasts. The public gender clinic of the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) Melbourne, which takes gender-distressed patients up to age 16, ‘may refer adolescents to a private specialist clinician to consider the appropriateness and need for surgery,’ Mary-Anne Thomas, Minister for Health in the state of Victoria, said.” Read more here.

INTERNATIONAL ‘EQUITY’ SCHOLARS CAN’T DEFINE ‘GENDER’ AFTER 5 YEARS OF RESEARCH, by Colleen Dean. “International scholars concluded a five-year ‘equity’ project by determining the concept of ‘gender’ cannot be defined but could be incorporated into all aspects of scientific research nonetheless. Funded by the European Union, their research was part of a project called GENDER-NET Plus. Launched in 2017, it brought together scholars from various countries to overcome ‘challenges in achieving gender equality and gender mainstreaming in research and innovation.’” Read more here.

THE VISCERAL POWER OF ABORTION MEMORIALS AROUND THE WORLD, by Jonathon Van Maren. “On the green lawn of Resurrection Cemetery in Madison, Wisconsin, surrounded by gravestones, stands a breathtaking sculpture. It depicts a translucent, ethereal little girl of perhaps four years old walking, arms outstretched, towards a man and a woman. They are on their knees; the woman’s head is bowed, and her hand clutches her face. The man has one arm around her and reaches longingly towards the little girl with the other, his face gaunt, haunted, and stricken with grief. Created by Slovakian sculptor Martin Hudáček and placed in the graveyard in 2020, it is called ‘The Memorial of Unborn Children II’ and was created as a place for parents who have had abortions to come and mourn and remember.” Read more here.

PRO-LIFE LAWS ARE NOT DRIVING AWAY DOCTORS OR CLOSING HOSPITALS, by Dr. Ingrid Skop and Tessa Cox. “Two years after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, 24 states have pro-life laws in effect or in litigation. These states’ efforts to protect life have been met with immense pushback, including widespread claims that the laws are contributing to hospital closures and driving doctors away. Pro-abortion think tanks like the Commonwealth Fund have implied that pro-life efforts will directly worsen such outcomes, ‘driv[ing] more maternal and reproductive health care providers to shut down or leave their states, deepening the crisis of access to maternity care.’ …However, a close look at the data and national trends shows that these claims are unjustified and the resulting concerns unnecessary.” Read more here.

THE TRANSGENDER PRISONER MADNESS, by The National Review Editors. “The trans insanity has come to prisons across the United States. In her reporting on this phenomenon, our own Caroline Downey has found that at least eleven male convicts — many of whom committed violent crimes against women and children — are currently housed at Washington State’s women’s prison, colloquially called ‘Purdy,’ where they can be transferred without ever undergoing surgery or hormonal treatment. Under the guise of ‘inclusion,’ in other words, male felons with violent criminal histories have been granted access to vulnerable women to prey upon.” Read more here.

IT’S JAW-DROPPING HOW MUCH SEX ED HAS CHANGED IN 50 YEARS, by Maureen Mullarkey. “Sex education was simpler when I was a girl. There were only two sexes back then, and the word gender had not yet leaped from the declension of nouns to an identity. Sr. Edmund Marie, the biology teacher in the girls’ department of our parish high school, visited the grammar school every year. She spent a day talking to us about plant biology and brought a black portfolio of oversized botanical posters. …Place any one of these prints — any botanical from the eras that produced them — next to today’s teaching tool: the Genderbread Person. The descent in quality of mind and in the character of hand between then and now requires no words. You have only to look.” Read more here.

HOW HARVARD TEED UP THE FALSE CLAIM THAT THE ‘VAST MAJORITY OF MINORS GETTING GENDER-AFFIRMING SURGERIES ARE CIS KIDS,’ by Benjamin Ryan. “Readers of the LGBTQ media outlet Them could be excused for harboring the false belief that out of all surgeries that affirm the gender of minors in the U.S., the vast majority are gynecomastia operations on ‘cisgender’ (non-transgender) boys to remove breast growth. (The idea is that by surgically removing a physical characteristic that makes boys appear more feminine, the operation affirms their male identity.) A Them article published June 28 falsely claims that for minors, what are known as ‘gender-affirming’ surgeries among these boys with gynecomastia dwarf those among people under age 18 who identify as transgender.” Read more here.

LOAD-BEARING WALLS: HOW DENYING BIOLOGICAL REALITY HARMS US ALL, by Emilie Kao. “Man-made positive laws should follow the laws of nature. This once seemed like common sense. For example, construction codes follow the law of gravity. Home builders must build walls that can withstand the weight of the floor or roof above. Load-bearing walls protect a home’s inhabitants by preventing rooms from collapsing under the force of gravity. Similarly, education policies should follow the laws of biology. Legislators and administrators must ensure that males and females are kept separate in certain spaces and activities. Sex-specific policies protect a school’s students by preventing safety, privacy, and order from collapsing under the force of biology.” Read more here.

‘WHERE DO THE BREASTS GO AFTER TOP SURGERY?’ PRO-TRANSGENDER SURGEON FLAUNTS PATIENTS’ AMPUTATED BREASTS, by Mary Margaret Olohan. “A surgeon who specializes in performing attempted transgender transitions on people who think they were born in the wrong body posted a photo Friday of her patients’ amputated breasts. ‘This is how breasts look after they have been removed (after 3 top surgeries in this case) they are carefully packed up and sent off to the lab,’ wrote Dr. Sidhbh Gallagher in an Instagram caption on Friday. The picture she posted featured the caption: ‘Where do the breasts go after top surgery?’ alongside a photo of several buckets in which something peach-colored is slightly discernible.” Read more here.

TEARFUL MIDWIFE RECOUNTS HOW ABORTION SURVIVORS ARE LEFT TO DIE IN AUSTRALIAN HOSPITAL AS THEY GASP FOR BREATH, by Society for the Protection of Unborn Children. “Louise Adsett has worked as a midwife in the Australian state of Queensland for 14 years, during which time she saw abortion survivors left alone to die for up to five hours. ‘These babies deserve better. They deserve to have the same rights that all of us human beings have’, said a tearful Adsett. This week, Ms Adsett provided evidence to a state parliamentary inquiry regarding the Termination of Pregnancy (Live Births) Amendment Bill 2024 – seeking to provide legal protection for babies born alive post-abortion, as is already the case in South Australia and New South Wales.” Read more here.

PRO-FAMILY VICTORIES IN POLAND, BULGARIA, ITALY, AND THE UK, by Jonathon Van Maren. “First, on July 12, Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s attempt to decriminalize abortion during the first three months of pregnancy failed after almost the entire caucus of the Polish People’s Party, the most conservative faction of his shaky coalition government, voted against it. Since his ascension to power last year, Tusk has been using the full force of the state to target conservatives in the media and the judiciary as well as his political opponents. He had promised to reverse the policies of the previous government, Law and Justice, by spearheading a rollback of Poland’s pro-life regime. Thus far, he has failed.” Read more here.

CASS ON TRIAL, by Bernard Lane. “The UK Court of Appeal has agreed to take a case where the mother, Ms A, seeks to prevent her 16-year-old daughter, Q, who identifies as male, from accessing a private clinic, London’s Gender Plus, for cross-sex hormones. Ms A invokes England’s Cass report in arguing that a judge should override the normal medical autonomy of a 16 year old to protect her daughter from poorly evidenced and irreversible hormone treatment. In May, the High Court trial judge in the case, Mrs Justice Judd, declined to intervene in this way, but left open the possibility of such oversight where a child is ‘extremely vulnerable’ or where a clinic, such as GenderGP, operates outside UK regulation.” Read more here.

AUSTRALIA HAS ABOLISHED WOMANHOOD, by Jo Bartosch. “The courts Down Under have gone topsy-turvy. At 9am Sydney time, a judge handed down a ruling that eradicated the category of sex in law, finding in favour of a man who was denied access to a women-only app. Justice Robert Bromwich stated that according to Australian law, sex is ‘changeable and not necessarily binary’. The case, known as Tickle vs Giggle, has set a dangerous legal precedent that the world may now follow.” Read more here.

BEING PRO-LIFE: THE LONG ROAD AHEAD, by Richard D. Land. “I have been pro-life since my first encounter with a preborn baby as a high school sophomore in a biology class in 1963. From that moment onward, I have not been able to comprehend how any rational person could credibly deny that we are looking at a fellow human being. Consequently, I was profoundly shocked as several liberal states began increasing legal access to abortion in the late ’60s and early ’70s. I was, along with tens of millions of my fellow Americans, dismayed when the U.S. Supreme Court tried to take the abortion issue out of the hands of the American people in the infamous Roe v. Wade (1973) decision legalizing abortion in the first two trimesters of pregnancy.” Read more here.

HUNDREDS OF BABIES ARE SURVIVING ABORTIONS AND BEING LEFT TO DIE IN CANADA, BUT NO ONE SEEMS TO CARE, by Jonathon Van Maren. “In Canada, not a single federal leader will discuss abortion – except to affirm their support for feticide in all its forms. Thus, there has been no response to a gut-wrenching new study by medical statisticians at the University of Montreal that found that one in four babies aborted at 23 weeks gestation in Quebec are born alive. One of the “complications” of later-term abortions is known as “live birth,” and “live birth rates” after abortion have increased in Quebec, most noticeably in abortions between 20 and 24 weeks.” Read morehere.

5 REASONS TO BELIEVE ABORTION PILL PHARMACY PROTESTS AREN’T JUST AFFECTING CVS AND WALGREENS, by John Pisciotta. “‘Do you think protests will impact decisions of national pharmacy chains?’ I’ve heard this question many times. Favorable initiatives other than those at the sidewalks of CVS and Walgreens have strengthened my ‘yes’ to the question. The battle over pharmacy-provided abortions has two fronts. The most direct is opposition to CVS and Walgreens, which launched abortions by prescription in March of 2024. …A less apparent battlefront involves pharmacy chains that remain on the sidelines, such as Walmart, Costco, and Kroger.” Read more here.

WHAT LA TIMES CALLS ‘HARASSING’ TRANS KIDS IS SIMPLY A REQUEST FOR PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “More than 100 years ago, the Supreme Court recognized that the right to direct the care, education, and upbringing of one’s children is both fundamental and predates the Constitution itself. In 2000, it reiterated this premise, saying that the parental right was perhaps ‘the oldest of the fundamental liberty interests’ ever recognized by the court. …Roughly 11.5 million students attend nearly 20,000 schools in 1,100 school districts across the country that have instituted policies hiding a minor’s gender identity from his or her parents. Schools require parental permission for field trips, sports participation, and dispensing Tylenol. But somehow, in what has become the upside-down world of American education, they can hide critical mental health information from parents simply on a minor’s say-so.” Read more here.

CAN BABIES BE NONBINARY? DEMOCRATS THINK SO, by Tom Joyce. “Massachusetts will likely see an uptick in ‘theybies’ next year. An amendment included in the Massachusetts fiscal 2025 budget orders all state documents to include a ‘gender X’ option, giving each department of state government until the start of next year to implement a plan to make it happen. The changes ‘enable parents and caregivers to choose a nonbinary option on their child’s birth certificate,’ …So, [the] amendment will let parents legally identify their newborn babies as nonbinary from the moment of birth.” Read more here.

GENDER GYMNASTICS, by Dianna Kenny. “I believe that society has developed the ‘gender yips’—the loss of the automatic comprehensibility of gendered language that was once universally accepted to define and describe our scientifically acquired knowledge of biological sex and the fundamental concept of sexual dimorphism—men, women, ova, sperm, mother, father, husband, wife, son, daughter, brother, sister. Now we have gobbledygook language—penis haver, cervix haver, pregnant person, birth giver, chest feeder, body feeder, fae/fem and ze/hir.” Read more here.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD CAME FROM THE ‘SAME RACIST, ELITIST PSEUDOSCIENCE THAT BIRTHED THE HOLOCAUST’: EXPERT, by Sarah Holliday. “In an article published on the Ohio State Senate’s website, Michele Reynolds wrote, ‘Abortion is killing the black community.’ Abortion ‘is not health care,’ it ‘is extermination.’ And Reynolds is right — this industry is not only murderous, but its origins are inherently racist. Margaret Sanger, the founder of the infamous abortion hub Planned Parenthood, was an open believer in eugenics …When Sanger put her ‘birth control’ plan into action, she had her eyes set on decreasing the amount of black people that walked the earth. And interestingly enough, Planned Parenthood does not hide this disturbing history.” Read more here.

WHEN THE PRO-ABORTION NARRATIVE CHANGES, THE ‘SAFETY’ OF ‘SELF-MANAGED ABORTION’ CHANGES TOO, by Carole Novielli. “Big Abortion has dusted off the false talking points they used years ago, before Roe v. Wade became the law of the land — the claims that pro-life laws cause women to die. But today, those abortion advocates have updated their messaging by infusing it with new propaganda: that self-managed abortion — which they once claimed was deadly to women — is now ‘safe.’ Today’s self-managed abortion (SMA), set in motion by Big Abortion years before Roe fell, is largely accomplished through the use of legally obtained abortion pills at home (mifepristone).” Read more here.

IT’S TIME TO PUSH BACK AGAINST BIOLOGICAL MALES COMPETING IN WOMEN’S SPORTS, by Joseph Mannarino. “Alright, folks, it’s time to address the glaringly obvious: the integrity of women’s sports is under attack, and it’s not coming from where you’d expect. We’re talking about biological men competing in women’s events. This isn’t just a matter of fairness; it’s an outright assault on the hard-won rights and achievements of female athletes. ESPN just fired a female announcer who was critical of men competing in women’s sports, male cyclists continue to dominate in women’s events, and the Olympics is so confused that they couldn’t figure out what a woman is even after biological testing.” Read more here.

NY TIMES: ABORTION CLINICS EVERYWHERE ARE GOING BROKE, by John Sexton. “A couple weeks ago there was some surprising news out of New York. Planned Parenthood announced it would stop doing late-term abortions (those after 20 weeks) and also planned to close four clinics in the state. The problem in New York wasn’t the legality of their business, it was the profitability. PP’s president wrote in an opinion piece that because of inflation they were in trouble unless the state started directing more public money their way. Today, the NY Times published a follow-up in the business section which makes the case that the business of abortion is not going well almost anywhere you look around the country.” Read more here.

ALLOWING TRANSGENDER PARTICIPANTS DEMEANS WOMANHOOD, PAGEANT CONTESTANT SAYS, by Frances Floresca. A talented and attractive Miss USA was crowned last week, and she deserves accolades, but we shouldn’t forget that there was a biological man who competed against her and the 49 other young women in the pageant. While conservatives are vocal in speaking out about biological men invading women’s sports, especially with the Olympics having wrapped up Sunday, we cannot forget pageantry, a platform that allows women like me to embrace our femininity and be role models for young girls.” Read more here.

THE ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE’ RACKET IS COLLAPSING IN FRONT OF OUR EYES, by Matt Walsh. “‘Consensus’ is a word you hear a lot these days. And when you hear it, there’s a good chance you’re being told to keep quiet about something. … That’s been the case with so-called gender-affirming care, which is the established euphemism for the sterilization and butchery of men, women and children in order to affirm their misguided conception of their own identity. …This week, that trend finally came to an end. It turns out that all journalists needed to do was ask some professional medical associations about their views on gender surgeries for adolescents, and the facade of ‘consensus’ would come crashing down.” Read more here.

MEDICAL MISINFO, by Bernard Lane. “Treatment guidelines used by gender clinics in Australian children’s hospitals falsely claim a medical consensus and mislead parents, distressed young people and health professionals in the wider community. This claim has been put to Australia’s Health Minister Mark Butler by the National Association of Practising Psychiatrists (NAPP), which is calling for an independent federal inquiry, an audit of gender clinic medical records and a centralised registry tracking all minors treated for gender dysphoria.” Read more here.

WHAT NEWLY UNSEALED VIDEOS OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD REVEAL, by Amanda Sherzer. “Newly released footage from the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) shows what happens at Planned Parenthood behind closed doors. These videos took me back to 2015. At the time, I had been serving the vulnerable through my local church for years. I ministered to sex trafficking victims in jails and on the streets. …I thought Christians should stop harping on and on about abortion — in my mind, an unchangeable facet of our society — and instead care for those with desperate needs right in front of us. That all changed in 2015 when I saw a series of undercover videos produced by CMP’s David Daleiden that revealed Planned Parenthood’s alleged trafficking of fetal organs.” Read more here.

THE MICHIGAN CONVERSION THERAPY BAN VIOLATES HUMAN NATURE AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, by Nathan A. Berkeley. “The meaning of ‘conversion therapy’ that Michigan law now bans does not simply place some technical limit on those who work in the mental health profession. It instead validates and mandates a harmful conception of human nature and identity that is antithetical to the convictions of countless religious professionals who faithfully serve in this space. …As with similar laws around the country, this legislation ostensibly aims to provide a ‘shield’ for persons who claim an LGBTQ identity, but is really a ‘sword’ used against those who reject progressive ideology on matters of sex and gender.” Read more here.

‘GIRLS DON’T WANT IT’: STUDENT RIPS SORORITY FOR ALLOWING MALE MEMBER, by Emily McMichael. “A University of Kansas student is speaking out against her sorority for granting honorary membership to a male transgender activist who identifies as female during its 150th anniversary celebration. Sarah Green, … a junior at the University of Kansas and a member of the KU chapter of Sigma Kappa, said the national sorority is ignoring its members’ desire for women-only spaces. ‘The national board [of Sigma Kappa] is so obsessed with taking away this crucial women’s space when they don’t have to live with the consequences.’” Read more here.

RESOLVING CONFLICT: NEW STUDY SHOWS WHAT LONG-TERM COUPLES CAN TEACH US, by Christian Heim and Caroline Heim. “In a world of increasing conflict—where marriage rates are in sharp decline and technological change and social upheavals occur at unprecedented rates—perhaps we could be reminded of the benefits of a long-term life focus, specifically in marriage. One of the benefits of a long-lasting marriage, according to new research, is the development of skills in negotiating conflict. This is no small thing. Advocates for conflict resolution in the workplace, for example, now look to what can be learned about conflict resolution in couples.” Read more here.

THE UN AND EU ARE TARGETING BULGARIA FOR MOVING TO PROTECT CHILDREN FROM THE LGBT MOVEMENT, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Earlier this month, Bulgaria passed a bill banning LGBT propaganda in schools, with a supermajority of parliamentarians – 159 to 22 – voting in favor. In response, the LGBT movement has already swung into action. First, UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Liz Throssell ‘expressed deep concern’ over the law, urging Bulgarian authorities to ‘reconsider the law in light of the country’s international human rights obligations.’ …Translated, of course, this is a United Nations spokesperson insinuating that the Bulgarian law targeting gender ideology and other aspects of the LGBT agenda may actually be a violation of international human rights.” Read more here.

I’M A REGISTERED NURSE AND I’M SOUNDING THE ALARM ON GENDER IDEOLOGY DECEPTION IN MEDICINE, by Ivonne Rivera-Newberry. “As an experienced registered nurse and public health professional trained in the fundamental truths of anatomy and biology, I was surprised when conference speakers gave preemptive apologies for using the word ‘woman.’ When they used the word ‘woman,’ they explained it was only to mirror the older, less politically correct research they referenced. They even made it a point to say they were aware of the offense it may cause because it did not include members of the ‘trans’ community.” Read more here.

HOW GENDER IDEOLOGY IS RESHAPING OUR SCHOOLS AND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, by Jonathan Scruggs. “It’s back-to-school time. Of course, parents aren’t the only ones gearing up for school. So are teachers and school administrators, many of whom will make an enormous difference for the kids they love and educate this year. But as anyone paying attention knows, some officials care more about pushing harmful ideology than providing education. And governments across our country are backing these efforts with the force of law by pushing gender ideology on parents and children.” Read more here.

8.3 MILLION MINORS RECEIVED MENTAL CARE IN 2023, HIGHLIGHTING A ‘DECAYING CULTURE,’ by Sarah Holliday. “The family unit, social interaction, and politics are a few of the many variables that impact a developing adolescent. When a child’s family unit is broken, social life is in shambles, or the political public square becomes unavoidable, it can have consequences on who they become as their worldview takes shape. As evidenced by previous reports, as well as one published last month, mental health concerns are exploding in the younger generation.” Read more here.

LGBT ACTIVISM HAS GONE FROM A FRINGE MOVEMENT TO A MULTI-MILLION-DOLLAR PROPAGANDA INDUSTRY, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Eric Hoffer once wrote that ‘every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.’ This is not just true for ‘great causes’ – it also applies to the LGBT industry, which has been at war with the West’s founding values for over a half-century. The first wave of homosexual activists were street fighters (lionized for their brawls outside a mafia-run bar called the Stonewall Inn); the second wave were professionals and marketing strategists; now, the industry is run by fat cats who wield unprecedented cultural power pulling in massive salaries by claiming that things are worse for LGBT-identifying people than ever.” Read more here.

1,000 UK DOCTORS CONDEMN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION’S PUSH TO LIFT PUBERTY BLOCKER BAN FOR MINORS, by Jonathon Van Maren. “On August 1, the British Medical Association (BMA) – the United Kingdom’s doctors’ union – called on the government to lift the ban on puberty blockers for minors. Weirdly, the BMA also stated that in their view the implementation of NHS England’s Cass Review should be ‘paused’ despite the fact that, as the BBC noted, the review ‘took four years to carry out and was widely welcomed by the medical establishment in the U.K.’” Read more here.

YOUNG MEN NEED ENCOURAGEMENT TO GET MARRIED, by Steve Bateman. “Many competing theories attempt to explain our national mess, but few are as compelling as the one put forth by Brad Wilcox, sociology professor and Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. One of our central problems is that not enough Americans are getting and staying married. …In Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization, Wilcox charges the elite ruling class with publicly advocating ideas that devalue and demean the institution of marriage, which in turn destroys the conditions necessary for human flourishing and social order.” Read more here.

‘WOMEN’S SPORT IS NOT A CONSOLATION PRIZE FOR MEN,’ by Spiked. “At this year’s Paris Olympics, biological males punching women officially became a spectator sport. Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan, two boxers who have twice failed gender-eligibility tests in the past, entered the women’s category with little opposition. Both then went on to win every round in all three of their bouts to reach Olympic finals in their respective weight categories. In the end, Khelif won in the Welterweight final on Friday, while Yu-ting triumphed in Saturday’s featherweight final. At every stage of this charade, the safety of their female opponents were continually put at risk.” Read more here.

DESPITE DENIALS FROM CNN AND OTHER MEDIA, LATE ABORTION AND INFANTICIDE IS HAPPENING, by Cassy Fiano-Chesser. “The media continues to express skepticism that extremely late abortions and infanticide are occurring under certain circumstances in the United States. During a recent interview between Texas Governor Greg Abbott and CNN’s Jake Tapper, Tapper confronted Abbott about a study which claimed to find an increase in infant mortality in Texas, directly related to the state’s pro-life laws. (Despite this line of questioning, that study has been debunked.) Instead, Abbott drew attention to the extreme nature of supporting late abortions — and even infanticide.” Read more here.

DETRANS CLINIC, SOON, by Bernard Lane. “The high-profile TV investigations program Informe Especial has devoted a one-hour episode ‘Our trans children’ to the Chilean debate over paediatric gender change. Presented by Santiago Pavlovic, a well-known war correspondent, the episode cited the ‘worldwide repercussions’ of England’s Cass report and featured a range of views critical and supportive of the ‘gender-affirming’ treatment approach. ‘It is not a model in which children are allowed to freely explore their identity without any kind of label,’ said one critic, Nael Condell, a female who transitioned at age 18 and has taken testosterone as a transsexual man over the last two decades.” Read more here.

TRIED FOR A TWEET, by Päivi Räsänen. “I have been a member of the Finnish Parliament for twenty-nine years. During that time, I have witnessed a dramatic change in the value system undergirding our modern society. From the protection of life to the defense of marriage, the changes we are living through are undeniable, with far-reaching implications for us all. And it’s evident that the general atmosphere toward Christianity grows increasingly hostile every day. Only ten years ago, I could not have imagined that I would soon be summoned to my country’s Supreme Court to defend my religious convictions.” Read more here.

HOW DID PLANNED PARENTHOOD BECOME ONE OF THE COUNTRY’S LARGEST SUPPLIERS OF TESTOSTERONE?, by Jennifer Block. “For Cristina Hineman, the situation felt urgent: the 17-year-old needed treatment at Planned Parenthood, where she knew she wouldn’t be subjected to humiliating questions, or an unnecessary waiting period, or lectures, or prying about her certainty. But it wasn’t an abortion she sought. It was testosterone. … Planned Parenthood was founded a century ago to promote birth control. Today, its nearly 600 clinics nationwide make it the largest single provider of abortion, contraception, reproductive care, and sex education in the U.S. It has also, in less than a decade, become the country’s leading provider of gender transition hormones for young adults” Read more here.

‘ALLOWING THE DEATH OF A BABY AFTER IT’S BORN’: IS IT ACTUALLY HAPPENING, AND IS IT LEGAL?, by Nancy Flanders. “Many abortion advocates even insist that abortion survivors are simply a ‘myth’ invented by pro-lifers, but according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, between 2003 and 2014, at least 143 babies died after initially surviving abortions — and that number is considered a low estimate. Some of these babies might have survived if they had been given proper medical care. And there are other examples: Minnesota reported a total of 24 babies who initially survived their abortions from 2015-2021. Arizona saw reports of 37 survivors from 2017 through 2019. Florida reported 27 survivors from 2015-2020.” Read more here.

ON THE WARPATH AGAINST WPATH’S HARMFUL GUIDELINES FOR TREATMENT OF GENDER-CONFUSED TEENS, by Dianna Kenny. “In 2024 two significant events have occurred in gender medicine. The first came in March with the leak of documents from the internal chatboard of WPATH (the World Professional Association of Transgender Health). These shine an unflattering light on so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ (GAC) or ‘transgender medicine’ and suggest that it is leading to widespread medical malpractice on children and vulnerable young people. The second came in April with the release of the Cass Review in the United Kingdom. …Its conclusions questioned the professionalism and legitimacy of the whole field of gender medicine.” Read more here.

CORPORATE MEDIA CLAIM THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS LATE-TERM ABORTION BUT CRY WHEN IT IS PAUSED, by Jordan Boyd. “Despite their propensity for supporting ballot measures and bills that would codify killing babies until birth, abortion activists have long insisted that there is no such thing as late-term abortion. That propaganda went out the window this week, however, when the New York Times published a story mourning that the ‘Manhattan Planned Parenthood Will Stop Offering Abortions After 20 Weeks.’ New York allows abortion through all nine months of gestation as long as a medical provider decides the baby is ‘not viable’ or deems a woman’s ‘life, physical health, or mental health’ [is] at risk.” Read more here.

PORNOGRAPHY SHOULD BE BANNED BECAUSE OF ITS UNDENIABLE LINK TO SEXUAL VIOLENCE, by Jonathon Van Maren. “A decade ago, there was a fierce public debate about whether or not pornography was a significant contributor to sexual violence. I debated the subject on public radio and gave presentations on campuses on how pornography fueled rape culture. Every time I did, I got plenty of pushback. To claim that porn use was shaping sexual behavior, I was told – including by ‘porn profs’ such as Dr. David Ley, a porn advocate, user, and author – was a paranoid view derived from the fulminations of the 1980s Religious Right. The public consensus has now changed.” Read more here.

WOMEN ARE FIGHTING BACK AGAINST THIS OLYMPIAN TRAVESTY, by Raquel Rosario Sanchez. “The IOC is incredibly strict about compliance with the rules in other areas. It has already disqualified Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat moments before her battle for gold after she weighed in a mere 100g over the established weight limit. Yet when it comes to sex eligibility, the IOC is considerably more lax. It cannot even be bothered to do a cheek-swab test to confirm whether or not someone who has gone through male puberty is competing in the women’s sports categories. This is a spectacular blind spot. Male puberty confers clear physical advantages on an individual.” Read more here.

ANALYZING ABORTION ESTIMATES FROM THE SOCIETY OF FAMILY PLANNING, by Michael J. New. “Earlier this week, the Society of Family Planning released new abortion estimates for the first three months of 2024, as part of their #WeCount project. Their estimates indicate that abortion numbers continue to rise. Overall, they found that in the first three months of 2024, the number of abortions increased by 13.8 percent. Also, January 2024 marked the first month since the Dobbs decision when more than 100,000 abortions were performed. These abortion estimates have been covered by media outlets including the Hill, CNN, Axios, and the Associated Press.” Read more here.

WHY THE REASONING BEHIND UTAH SUPREME COURT’S RULING ON ABORTION IS SO ALARMING, by William C. Duncan. “The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2022 that the U.S. Constitution could not be read to create a right to abortion. Since then, lawsuits in state courts have argued that even though the U.S. Constitution does not create a right to abortion, state constitutions might. The Utah Supreme Court’s recent ruling on this topic opens the door to such a view, with alarming lines of argument that suggest a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of courts in our constitutional system.” Read more here.

GERMANY STIRS SEXUAL CONTROVERSY AHEAD OF SUMMIT OF THE FUTURE, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “The German Ambassador to the United Nations added the concept of ‘sexual and reproductive health and rights’ in a UN agreement ahead of the Summit for the Future next month. …Anyone familiar with the background of the term knows this was always highly unlikely. The term ‘sexual and reproductive health and rights’ has been rejected in dozens of negotiations over the last decade. The term is understood to represent policies that remain highly controversial in most countries, including ‘sexual rights,’ homosexual/trans issues, comprehensive sexuality education, and sexual autonomy for children. Read more here.

GENDER > BIOLOGY: A SOCIETAL SHAM, by Anonymous. “Thousands of US children are currently on puberty blockers; tens of thousands are on cross-sex hormones. Such drugs and surgeries – in minors, no less – would have been almost completely unheard of no more than 15 years ago. There is no way that his sudden increase in gender-questioning ‘trans’ kids and the now 80+ ‘gender identities’ that exist is biologically-driven. There do not exist 80+ different types of bodies that any one of us ‘should have been born as.’ You, like me, believe in evolution over Creationism, so you know this: we don’t evolve that quickly. Maybe this thought is creeping into your mind: something very wrong is happening in our society.” Read more here.

GASLIGHTING SCOTTISH RAPE VICTIMS IN THE NAME OF ‘TRANS INCLUSION,’ by Joan Smith. “Few countries have surrendered so completely to the maximalist demands of transgender activists as Scotland, where two former First Ministers, Nicola Sturgeon and Humza Yousaf, both recently had their careers cut short after they supported unpopular legislation permitting men to self-identify as women. And yet, even in Scotland, the latest example of men taking over women’s spaces has left jaws hanging open.” Read more here.

THE BMA’S SHAMEFUL SUPPORT FOR PUBERTY BLOCKERS, by Paul Sapper. “In response to Dr Hilary Cass’s scathing review of gender-identity services in England and Wales earlier this year, the then Conservative government banned puberty blockers for under-18s. Last week, the High Court rejected an appeal from trans activists against the ban, stating that it is lawful. New health secretary Wes Streeting welcomed the High Court’s decision, noting that there is ‘insufficient evidence that puberty blockers are safe and effective’ for gender-confused children. Yet it seems the British Medical Association (BMA), the influential UK doctors’ union, disagrees.” Read more here.

LGBT MOVEMENT IS GETTING AWAY WITH BLATANT INDECENT EXPOSURE, by Jonathon Van Maren. “I’m old enough to remember when liberals insisted that the LGBT movement was merely about ensuring that LGBT-identifying people could be treated precisely the same way as everyone else. It was a civil rights movement, not a sexual movement, we were told. Anyone who suggested otherwise suffered from paranoia and a plethora of phobias. When, exactly, can we start to admit that we have instead created a double standard, where you can get away with the maximum amount of indecency, sexual exhibitionism, and inappropriateness — even in front of children — as long as you identify as LGBT?” Read more here.

IT DOESN’T MATTER IF OLYMPIC BOXER IS INTERSEX—WOMEN SHOULD STILL BE PROTECTED, NOT THE MINORITY, by Margaret Clark. “One of the most iconic images that will be remembered of the Paris Olympics is the image of boxer Angela Carina on her knees in tears when she forfeited her match after 46 seconds in the ring with Imane Khelif, an opponent who previously failed a sex test. However, it didn’t take long after the initial viral wave of rage about the incident for virtue signalers to come out everywhere. The International Olympic Committee spokesperson, Mark Adams, made a statement defending Khelif, asserting, ‘Scientifically…this is not a man fighting a woman.’” Read more here.

WE INVESTIGATED A ‘TRANS KIDS’ CAMP. LOOK WHO’S FUNDING IT, by Mia Cathell. “Tens of thousands of tax dollars, earmarked for ending gun violence in the nation’s crime-infested capital, were instead squandered on socially programming children as young as six-years-old to identify as ‘transgender’ — and even take steps towards ‘transitioning,’ according to a months-long Townhall investigation. These indoctrination efforts include a so-called ‘trans kids’ summer camp. Meet the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL). …As an example of the program’s ‘efficacy,’ SMYAL shared a ‘success story’ of one of the ‘Unicorns,’ a little girl whom SMYAL, using a made-up male alias, identified as ‘Daniel.’ Evidently, the exalted eight-year-old, now a poster child for the program’s cause, was groomed into believing she’s a boy.” Read more here.

SELF-MANAGED ABORTIONS ARE RISING… AND BIG ABORTION IS GASLIGHTING THE PUBLIC, by Nancy Flanders. “A new study making the media rounds suggests that ‘self-managed’ abortions (SMA) have risen 40% since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in its 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. If accurate, then the abortion industry has achieved increased ‘self-managed’ abortions — which is exactly what it has wanted for over a decade. …The results of the study are being dishonestly used to attack pro-life laws as dangerous, as if they are the cause of the increase in self-managed abortion.” Read more here.

TO THE LA TIMES: GET A LIFE, I HAVE LIVES TO SAVE, by Chloe Cole. “I’m a survivor of a medical gender transition that began when I was only 12-years-old. I travel the country sharing my story in hopes of saving other children from the horrors of the ‘gender-affirming care’ I received. I advocate before state and federal governments to pass laws that will prevent kids from accessing these mutilating surgeries and drugs. According to a recent hit piece from the Los Angeles Times, this simply makes me a ‘right-wing icon.’ The rhetoric used in their so-called journalism is not only wrong but flat out dangerous.” Read more here.

UNDERSTANDING THE SEX BINARY, by Colin Wright. “Current debates over the fundamental nature of biological sex are not merely esoteric academic musings. They have direct implications for policy related to sex-based legal protections and medicine. It truly matters whether sex categories in humans are empirically real, immutable, and binary, or are instead outdated and oppressive ‘social constructs’ that should be abandoned. The claim that biological sex is not binary is often used to justify the inclusion of males in female sports, prisons, and other spaces that have historically been segregated by sex for reasons of fairness and safety.” Read more here.

XY ATHLETES IN WOMEN’S OLYMPIC BOXING: THE PARIS 2024 CONTROVERSY EXPLAINED, by Doriane Lambelet Coleman. “With the return of the Olympics, it’s time for another predictable global uproar about XY athletes competing in the female category. This is now a century-old problem in elite sport that we’ve somehow not yet managed to solve in a uniform way. …Social media has amplified all of this to the point that the story of the moment, about a boxer from Algeria and another from Taiwan, is top of the news worldwide. Provocative visuals—ubiquitous in boxing—elicit highly emotional responses from some, while others sell their misleading or uninformed political wares (‘There’s no evidence these fighters are not cis women!’)” Read more here.

THE OLYMPICS ARE PUTTING FEMALE ATHLETES IN DANGER, by Lauren Smith. “Last week, UK culture secretary Lisa Nandy made it plain that she had no objections to men competing in women’s competitions in this year’s Paris Olympics. The sporting bodies know best, she claimed, and should be allowed to make their own rules around sex and gender as they see fit. We have just seen the catastrophic results of this indifference to biology in the Olympic boxing match between Angela Carini and Imane Khelif. Earlier today, Italy’s Carini was forced to abandon her fight against Algeria’s Khelif after just 46 seconds. Carini took only a couple of hits from Khelif before withdrawing from the match and falling to her knees in tears.” Read more here.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN, by Alliance Defending Freedom. “The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) describes itself as ‘leading the fight for LGBTQ+ rights.’ The organization claims to have more than 3 million members and supporters and has been working since 1980. But there’s a lot more to know about the HRC than those three facts. … The Human Rights Campaign isn’t just a flawed organization; it’s a leading advocate of unjust causes in the courtroom, legislature, and public square. It takes divisive stances, makes radical demands of corporations, and has a track record of internal turmoil. It’s beyond time we recognized the HRC for what it is.” Read more here.

BIDEN’S ILLEGAL TITLE IX RULE IS SET FOR ENFORCEMENT. THE SCHOOL YEAR IS GOING TO BE COMPLICATED, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “On Aug. 1, President Joe Biden’s Department of Education is set to enforce its massive rewrite on Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972—the simple, 37-word statute that bars sex discrimination in any federally funded education program. But this simple, long-standing prohibition on sex discrimination has been manipulated by the Biden administration to undermine constitutional freedoms (including the freedom of speech) and to eliminate commonsense due process protections for students accused of sexual misconduct on campus. Also—and in perhaps what is the biggest change of all—the new Title IX rule expands the definition of ‘sex’ to include ‘gender identity or expression,’ thereby erasing the very women that Title IX was enacted to protect. These terms weren’t in the minds of the ratifiers of Title IX in 1972, but that’s of no concern to the Department of Education, which believes its vast expansion of the word ‘sex’ is legally sound.” Read more here.