OPINION & ANALYSIS

MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONS SILENT AFTER REVIEW FINDS WEAK EVIDENCE FOR RECOMMENDING PUBERTY BLOCKERS TO KIDS, by Katelynn Richardson. “Major medical associations have remained silent after the results of a four-year review commissioned by the National Health Service (NHS) England undermined their recommendations for giving puberty blockers to children with gender dysphoria. The Cass report, conducted by former Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health Dr. Hilary Cass and released April 10, found that there is ‘weak evidence’ for offering puberty blockers to children. It concluded that its findings ‘raise questions about the quality of currently available guidelines’ offered by associations like the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and the Endocrine Society, yet neither organization has committed to reviewing their guidelines.” Read more here.

 

THE PROBLEM OF DETRANSITIONERS, by Charlie Bentley-Astor. “There are two accusations leveled at those of us who identify and live as trans but later return to living in accordance with our natal sex: either we suffer from ‘internalized transphobia’ and are trying to escape our ‘queer destiny’ or we were ‘never really trans in the first place.’ The first accusation supposes that one is born trans, and no amount of talking oneself out of it will change that fundamental reality. The second accusation supposes that one can be (falsely) convinced into believing that one is trans when one is not. To suppose that one is ‘born trans’ and that said trans-ness is immutable throws a bucket of water on the idea that gender is fluid—and to say that gender is fluid in some and not in others is to push a bit too hard at the boundaries of plausibility.” Read more here.

 

MORE MADNESS IN SCOTLAND, by Madeleine Kearns. “The Telegraph reports that Scottish elementary schools are being asked to appoint children as ‘LGBT champions’ and ask children as young as four if they are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender. The organization behind this, LGBT Youth Scotland, received … taxpayer money last year. I trained as a teacher in Scotland in 2015 and was required to sit through a presentation by a member of this organization. As I wrote previously: ‘Our LGBT Youth Scotland trainer also told us that we should avoid “outing” transgender children to their parents and, if the child so wished, exclude parents from the process entirely. This approach has the full backing of the Scottish government.’” Read more here.

 

EVEN NOTORIOUS LEFTIST BILL MAHER IS CALLING OUT THE LGBT GROOMING OF CHILDREN, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Real Time host Bill Maher may be one of the strangest anomalies on late night TV. He is an environmentalist who is staunchly pro-abortion – chillingly, he openly admits that pro-lifers are right, that feticide is murder, but says he supports it anyway because he’s concerned about overpopulation. He is an atheist who has made an enormous amount of money sneering about religion, most famously in his documentary Religulous. He was a good friend of Hugh Hefner, the porn king recently exposed as a sexual predator. But he is also beginning to openly question the LGBT agenda.” Read more here.

 

PLANNED PARENTHOOD PUTS 86% OF ITS ABORTION CENTERS IN BLACK COMMUNITIES TO ABORT BLACK BABIES, by Catherine Davis. “392,715. It’s just a number until you realize it is the number of abortions completed by Planned Parenthood according to their 2023 annual report. When that realization sinks in one can’t help but wonder if 70-75% of those abortions were on Black women. Why? Because in 2012, Protecting Black Life published information revealing that 78% of Planned Parenthood’s surgical facilities were within a two-mile radius of black and Latino neighborhoods.” Read more here.

 

THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT HAS A STORYTELLING PROBLEM, by Carrie Gress. “In the pro-life movement, messaging can often be like my friend’s simple mistake where we think we are doing one thing, but with unintended results. For decades, pro-lifers have tried to communicate rich and important truths about babies, motherhood, and the family, yet the polls and the culture continually show these efforts are falling upon deaf ears. We make impassioned and intellectually rigorous arguments, and then they dissolve in the red robes and bonnets of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ activists. That one image instantly conveys more than words can say. What, then, do the red-robed, bonneted handmaids communicate?” Read more here.

 

BUTLER DID IT, by Bernard Lane. “Australia’s Health Minister Mark Butler has a track record of dismissing calls for an inquiry into gender clinics by relying on the opinion of a medical association which suppressed expert concerns about hormonal treatment of minors. Endocrinologists, the key experts for the life-altering hormonal interventions used by gender clinics, had cited a lack of evidence for the claim that puberty blockers are reversible, but this warning never reached the federal government. The release this month of England’s 388-page Cass report—which says ‘there is no evidence that puberty blockers buy time to think, and some concern that they may change the trajectory of psychosexual and gender identity development’—has led to renewed calls for an inquiry in Australia.” Read more here.

 

DOES THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT HOLD LESSONS FOR PRO-LIFERS?, by Shawn Carney. “Same-sex marriage advocates lost 32 times in a row before November 2012, when several states then voted in their favor. Yet at no point during that extensive losing streak did they settle for a “compromise,” like civil unions or domestic unions, as their ultimate goal. Neither should we, pro-life Americans, settle for a compromise—in this case, a 15-week abortion ban that (in the words of a prominent presidential candidate) ‘everybody can live with.’” Read more here.

 

EXPERT PUSHES BACK ON NEW UN ‘INTERSEX’ RESOLUTION, by Rebecca Oas. “Dr. Jay Richards says the new UN Human Rights Council resolution on people born with disorders of sexual development is an attempt to obscure the reality of biological sex. Richards, who directs the DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family at the Heritage Foundation, is a leading figure in countering the gender agenda nationally and internationally. His work is focused largely on protecting minors from attempts to change their sex through drugs and surgery. He says the resolution is a ‘classic operation of gender ideologues, using a noble cause — in this case, the universality of human rights’ to advance their own agenda.” Read more here.

 

PRO-ABORTION JUDGE DISAPPOINTED TO FIND PRO-LIFE JOURNALIST HAS FREE SPEECH RIGHTS, by Cassy Fiano-Chesser. “A pro-abortion judge with ties to Planned Parenthood has ‘reluctantly’ admitted that a pro-life journalist might not actually have violated an injunction against him when he shared video footage from a congressional hearing. Earlier this month, the National Abortion Federation (NAF) asked Judge William Orrick to issue an injunction against pro-life journalist David Daleiden for reposting a subpoenaed video on X (formerly known as Twitter) from a congressional hearing. Orrick agreed, and ordered Daleiden to remove the video; Daleiden, project lead for the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) immediately hit back after NAF filed a motion asking for him to be held in contempt of court, pointing out that airing footage from a congressional hearing is allowed.” Read more here.

 

TRANS ACTIVISTS PRIORITIZE PREDATORS OVER WOMEN’S SAFETY, by Chad Felix Greene. “On April 15, a woman noticed strange behavior from a male customer walking around Target, seemingly following women. He held his phone at odd angles near women and seemed to be sneaking around. With her suspicions raised, she turned on her camera and followed him where she caught him stalking a woman who was squatting to look at children’s books. The video she took shows him carefully watch the woman, position himself behind her, and then slide his phone under her skirt while her back was turned to him. …For many women, this isn’t an isolated incident. It represents a growing concern surrounding predator men targeting them in public, especially in restrooms and other vulnerable spaces, and their voices being dismissed. Read more here.

 

FEDERAL APPEALS COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF ALLOWING BOYS IN GIRLS SPORTS, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “What does it take for a federal court to reach the outcome it wants—instead of the outcome that the law demands? Apparently, just some creative judicial gymnastics. That’s what happened Tuesday with a panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit when it overturned a lower court decision and struck down West Virginia’s Save Women’s Sports Act, a law that keeps scholastic sports in the state separated by biological sex. The appeals court’s rationale? Biological girls and transgender ‘girls’ (biological males) are exactly the same.” Read more here.

 

INSTAGRAM’S SELECTIVE BLURRING OF NUDITY FALLS WOEFULLY SHORT OF PROTECTING KIDS, by Sarah Wilder. “Instagram is finally taking action against sexual exploitation on its platform, just one day after being called out in the National Center on Sexual Exploitation’s (NCOSE) Dirty Dozen List. Instagram, which is owned by Meta, will use artificial intelligence to automatically blur images of nudity in the direct messages (DMs) of users under 18 years old. While the new policy may seem like a welcome step in the right direction, it’s far from enough. Minors may still click ‘view image anyway’ and easily surpass the blurring on an explicit direct message.” Read more here.

 

BIDEN’S OUTRAGEOUS TITLE IX REWRITE, by Madeleine Kearns. “On Friday, the Department of Education announced its final Title IX regulations, broadening the definition of sex-based discrimination to include “gender identity.” This effectively prohibits all educational entities in receipt of federal funds from acknowledging biological reality when individuals dispute it. As well as undermining free speech and due-process rights, the new rule will have sweeping and disastrous consequences for women and girls, the very people Title IX was supposed to protect.” Read more here.

 

THE KIDS AREN’T ALRIGHT, by Harry Readhead. “Here is a paradox: a generation whose members get more psychological therapy than any generation before them is more stressed, more anxious, and more depressed than any age group since records began. How can this be? Abigail Shrier, an author and Wall Street Journal columnist,has a suggestion: perhaps there is no paradox. Perhaps it is all this therapy that is the problem. Such a claim will ruffle a few feathers, not least among the therapists, parents, and teachers who take it as read that therapy can only help a child’s emotional growth. But Shrier is used to swimming against the tide. In her 2020 book, Irreversible Damage, she proposed that the rise in trans-identifying teenagers was due not to the march of progress but to social contagion.” Read more here.

 

A DAMNING INDICTMENT OF GENDER ‘AFFIRMATION,’ by National Review Editors. “Over the past 15 years, the number of patients seen annually at NHS England’s gender youth clinic has increased from 50 to 5,000 young people. At the same time, childhood gender dysphoria, once a condition primarily affecting small boys, began appearing in a new population in unprecedented numbers: adolescent females with no prior history of gender distress. The shift in patient population coincided with the British gender clinic’s embrace of the activist-driven ‘gender affirmation’ model of treatment. …Sometimes it is the most obvious statements of truth that are the most powerful. As victims of ‘gender affirmation’ continue to come forward, it is becoming ever clearer that we are living through one of the most shameful chapters in the history of Western medicine.” Read more here.

 

PRO-ABORTION BIDEN AD PROMOTES THREE BIG LIES, USING WOMAN WHO DIDN’T NEED OR HAVE AN ABORTION, by Nancy Flanders. “Amanda Zurawski, the woman at the center of a heated debate over the false idea of ‘medically necessary’ abortions, did not need or have an induced abortion. Though most Americans have likely heard Zurawski’s story at this point, they most likely haven’t heard the truth. Zurawski’s widely known story is tragic — but not for the reasons that she and abortion advocates claim. It’s tragic because, due to cervical insufficiency … and preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM), she lost her daughter … and now she and the Biden campaign are using her daughter’s unpreventable death to promote the elective, active, and intentional killing of other babies. Read more here.

 

FUMBLING IN THE DARK, by Bernard Lane. “Nine of the 15 gender clinics in a landmark international survey for the Cass review have admitted they do not routinely collect outcome data on their young patients. This survey, together with a new evaluation of treatment guidelines for gender dysphoria, gives unprecedented insights into the workings of gender clinics around the world offering puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to minors. In the 2022-23 survey, six clinics said they ‘routinely collected some outcome data’: one of these clinics gave no further detail; one noted the number of patients discontinuing treatment; another used measures of quality of life; two were taking part in cohort studies; and the sixth clinic repeated some baseline assessments. Nine clinics acknowledged ‘not routinely collecting outcome data.’” Read more here.

 

WHY THE TRANS LOBBY IS SO ALLERGIC TO DEBATE, by Brendan O’Neill. “Has there ever been a movement as allergic to scrutiny as the trans lobby? Analysis is to the trans activist as sunlight is to the vampire. Even the mildest questioning of their claims is likely to induce a fit of the vapors. Wonder out loud if it’s wise to pump confused kids with drugs that might render them infertile, or to allow a bloke to parade around a women’s changing room with his tumescent knob hanging out, and you’ll instantly be added to their blacklist of transphobes. These are epic levels of touchiness, irascibility turned up to 11. Why are they like this?” Read more here.

 

TYLENOL VS. TRANSGENDERISM: SCHOOLS NEED PARENTS’ PERMISSION FOR ONE, BUT NOT FOR OTHER?, by Thomas Jipping. “Schools across the country routinely inform parents—and often must obtain their written permission—about all sorts of things, from a trip to the zoo to taking a Tylenol. A field trip might make Johnny’s day, and a Tylenol might make his headache go away, but they won’t profoundly change the way he understands the world or the entire trajectory of his life. If gender activists have their way, however, parents will be shut out of efforts to turn Johnny into Janie.” Read more here.

 

WHY WAS GENDER IDEOLOGY ALLOWED TO RUN AMOK FOR SO LONG?, by Tom Slater. “Just like that, a trickle becomes a flood. After years of gender-critical voices being dismissed or ignored by mainstream media, they can be dismissed and ignored no longer. The landmark Cass Review into gender-identity services in England, published today, has laid bare the scandal of the NHS’s treatment of ‘gender confused’ kids. There was never any evidence for subjecting troubled, often gay, often autistic, youngsters to life-altering hormones, drugs and treatments. But clinicians did it anyway, in thrall as they were to gender ideology.” Read more here.

 

IDAHO GOVERNOR SIGNS BILLS DEFINING ‘MAN’ AND ‘WOMAN’ AND BARRING PRONOUN REQUIREMENTS, by Sarah Holliday. “The state of Idaho is on a roll when it comes to pushing against LGBT ideology. … House Bill 538 was signed on Monday, which stipulates that schools cannot require staff or students to use preferred pronouns or names. The second, signed on Tuesday, was House Bill 421. It states, ‘In human beings, there are two, and only two, sexes: male and female. In no case is an individual’s sex determined by stipulation or self-identification.’ Most notably, in addition to ruling that sex and gender were synonymous, this bill ‘codifies in state law biological definitions for “woman,” “man,” and other sex-based terms, making [Idaho] the fifth to exclude men who identify as women from being legally recognized as female.’” Read more here.

 

SOME GOOD NEWS ABOUT MARRIED FERTILITY IN THE U.S., by Patrick T. Brown. “How hard do we have to look for a silver lining to the birth dearth? For those who care about the share of children growing up with the ‘privilege’ of a two-parent household, maybe not that far at all. New 2022 data confirm a trend that has been slowly evolving since 2007; namely, that the great decoupling of marriage and parenthood that exploded in the second half of the 20th century is starting to be rolled back. That’s because while America is having fewer babies, the babies that are being born are more likely to be born to married parents.” Read more here.

 

UNDER SCOTLAND’S HATE CRIME AND PUBLIC ORDER ACT, CITIZENS MAY BE PROSECUTED FOR SPEECH IN THE PRIVACY OF THEIR OWN HOME, by David Thunder. “Scotland’s Hate Crime and Public Order Act 2021 came into effect on April 1st 2024. Given how egregiously it violates the principles of free expression and limited government, it seems especially apt that it came into effect on April Fool’s Day, like a cruel joke. …Two features of the 2021 Act stand out as cutting against the ideal of individual freedom and limited government. First, it creates an offence of ‘stirring up hatred’ against individuals or groups based on protected characteristics, namely age, disability, race, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity, and ‘variations in sex characteristics,’ punishable by up to 7 years in prison. Second, it invites the State to police speech within the privacy of the home, by removing a clause of earlier hate crime legislation exempting communications within a ‘dwelling’ or private residence from the scope of incitement to hatred. Read more here.

 

THE CASS REPORT SHOULD BE THE END OF GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE, by John Sexton. “In 2020 the British National Health Service commissioned a report on pediatric gender care. The job of sifting the evidence was given to Dr Hilary Cass. … The gist appears to be that the case for hormones and other gender-affirming care is very weak. … ‘There are few other areas of healthcare where professionals are so afraid to openly discuss their views, where people are vilified on social media, and where name-calling echoes the worst bullying behavior.’ … In general, Dr. Cass’s conclusions are that treatment should slow down so permanent decisions are made by adults rather than kids: ‘Under-25s should not be rushed into changing gender, but should receive ‘unhurried, holistic, therapeutic support,’ Dr. Cass concluded.” Read more here.

 

THE DANGEROUS DR WEBBERLEY, by James Esses. “When it comes to the world of gender ideology, Dr Helen Webberley is infamous. She is the Founder of GenderGP, an online private gender clinic, which has prescribed puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to thousands of children (charging hundreds of pounds a pop), since it was first established. It has been plagued with safeguarding concerns and controversies. In 2018, Webberley was convicted of running an independent medical agency without being registered. GenderGP is currently registered in Singapore, in order to avoid UK regulation. Webberley was also suspended from medical practice on the grounds of misconduct after safeguarding concerns were raised regarding a number of her former patients.” Read more here.

 

POLAND MUST REFUSE TO FOLLOW FRANCE IN COMPROMISING ON THE SANCTITY OF LIFE, by Tomasz Rowiński. “The anti-life projects proposed by Poland’s ruling coalition are only the beginning of a political process leading to the normalization of the mass killing of unborn children. … There have been ongoing attempts in France to introduce abortion on demand up to the very birth of the child. This relaxation of the legal protection of life has had the effect of demoralizing both the political elite and society in France. … One of the greatest illusions that a segment of Polish public opinion is succumbing to nowadays is the conviction that the adoption by Parliament of any of the ruling coalition’s statutory proposals, de facto destroying the legal protection of life in our country, will establish a new, permanent, and compromise foundation regarding this topic in Poland.” Read more here.

 

CRIME SCENE, by Bernard Lane. “An audit of the gender clinic of Italy’s Careggi hospital in Florence has found breaches of rules on the administration of puberty blocker drugs to minors, according to the newspaper La Repubblica. A criminal investigation has been opened and work has started on a new guideline for gender dysphoria treatment. The Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) requires dysphoric patients to be given psychiatric support before hormone suppression begins, including specialist child neuropsychiatry. It appears this was not properly done.” Read more here.

 

AT THIS WA SCHOOL, YOU CAN HAVE A PRIDE CLUB, A GREEN TEAM—JUST NOT A FAITH GROUP, by Bob Hoge. “An 11-year-old Creekside Elementary student in Sammamish, Washington—20 miles east of Seattle—had her request to start a prayer group denied, despite the fact that the school allows a Pride group, a ‘Green’ team, and many more ‘non-religious clubs’ to meet. The student’s hope was to ‘start an interfaith prayer club so that students like her could have a place after school where they feel safe and welcome, and where they can bring students together to serve their community.’ … First Liberty Institute, a group that describes itself as ‘a non-profit public interest law firm and the largest legal organization in the nation dedicated exclusively to defending religious freedom for all Americans,’ took notice and is threatening legal action against the Issaquah School District, which Creekside is a part of.” Read more here.

 

THE ’CHILD PENALTY,’ by David Strom. “Did you know that the National Bureau of Economic Research keeps a database called the ‘Child Penalty Atlas?’ In principle, what it tracks is a phenomenon worth measuring: what impact does having a child make on work habits, income, and other variables? OK. I am all for doing social science and all that. We should gather and keep all sorts of data. But child PENALTY? Last I checked having a child is one of God’s greatest blessings, and the idea that somehow it is a punishment for not using a rubber is a pretty awful way of looking at things. Here’s how NBER describes the database:… ‘Most countries display clear and sizable child penalties: men and women follow parallel trends before parenthood, but diverge sharply and persistently after parenthood.’” Read more here.

 

WHAT THE NCAA’S BLOCKBUSTER ADMISSION SAYS ABOUT THE FUTURE OF WOMEN’S SPORTS, by Doreen Denny. “Two years after University of Pennsylvania trans athlete Lia Thomas won a national title in women’s swimming, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) continues to brazenly throw females athletes to the curb to make way for trans-identifying males to take their place on the podium, not to mention their scholarships and their opportunities. Champion swimmers like Riley Gaines who had to step aside for Thomas to appear on the winners podium or Kylee Alons who had to dress in a storage closet to protect her privacy and dignity from a biological male in the locker room have never received a hearing by NCAA executives about what they went through or what other female athletes face going forward.” Read more here.

 

INSIDE THE HORRIFYING WORLD OF TRANSGENDER SURGERY, by Faith Kuzma. “WPATH, or the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, is respected as the peak body for transgender medicine. Its ‘standards of care’ (SOC) were once regarded as a benchmark for ethical and effective treatment for minors and adults. …Its prestige, however, has been tarnished by the leak of hundreds of posts from an internal messaging forum. These are evidence of doctors basing their surgery, even on young people, on trial and error, not on medical research. The internet went wild over the leak. The Times of London called WPATH quack medicine, and Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Lauren Schwartz, MD, stated: ‘WPATH has evolved into one of the most egregious disfigurements of medical practice our profession has ever encountered.’” Read more here.

 

A VICTORY FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN VIRGINIA, by John Stonestreet and G. Shane Morris. “At the heart of many culture war issues is the question of whether religious organizations and individuals have the right to order their lives around their deeply held beliefs. While most Americans grant that we all have a right to believe what we do, the First Amendment guarantees the ‘free exercise’ of religion. It’s essential to understand what exactly that entails. Over the last 15 years, the constitutional guarantee of free exercise has been tested again and again, mostly by a new set of so-called ‘rights’ associated with abortion, homosexuality and transgenderism that have been written into state and federal law.” Read more here.

 

SEX-ED IN SCHOOLS IS ALWAYS A TROJAN HORSE FOR LGBT INDOCTRINATION, by Jonathon Van Maren. “It has happened again, and it will continue to happen until parents realize that ‘sex education’ in schools is actually an attempt to eliminate moral boundaries and normalize any sexual preferences. The latest incident has triggered an investigation by the South Australian Department for Education after a third-party presenter delivered a presentation on sexuality to 13- and 14-year-old girls and allegedly asserted that bestiality was ‘accepted by the LGBTQIA+ community.’” Read more here.

 

‘INCLUSIVE’ SEX EDUCATION PUTS KIDS AT RISK, by Tony Kinnett. “As suicide rates, sexual assaults, mass depression, and anxiety grip America’s youth, the Biden administration, state legislatures, and public school districts have begun usurping science education with ‘transgender and gender-nonconforming’ curriculum. Students in over a dozen states no longer have access to biologically based sex education; that’s been replaced by liberal laws and policies requiring classrooms to exchange biologically proven facts with pseudo-scientific advocacy of gender fluidity.” Read more here.

 

WILL THE ‘INVISIBLE HAND’ FINALLY STOP DOCTORS FROM PUTTING KIDS ON EXPERIMENTAL GENDER DRUGS?, by Tyler O’Neil. “Doctors across the country have seemingly thrown caution to the wind, prescribing experimental drugs to block puberty and to chemically alter young people’s bodies in the name of a nebulous gender identity. Rising rates for medical malpractice insurance may cause them to think twice, however. ‘Clinics that are getting into this kind of work … were surprised at the rates they were being quoted for malpractice insurance,’ Latham Watts, vice president of public affairs at the nonprofit law firm Alliance Defending Freedom, told ‘The Daily Signal Podcast.’” Read more here.

 

SCIENTIFIC STUDY SOUNDS ALARM OVER PUBERTY BLOCKERS FOR BOYS, by S.A. McCarthy. “A major medical center is warning that puberty blockers may actually be harmful and irreversible, with possible links to cancer, especially in boys. The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory published a preprint study late last month based on samples from the Mayo Clinic’s Pediatric Testicular Biobank for Fertility Preservation, examining the effects of puberty blockers on testicular specimens from boys under the age of 18. According to the study’s findings, boys who have been prescribed puberty blockers evince ‘mild-to-severe sex gland atrophy …’” Read more here.

 

MIT, HARVARD PROFESSORS SLAM PRO-LGBT PHRASE ‘SEX ASSIGNED AT BIRTH’ IN NEW YORK TIMES COLUMN, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Instead of asking for a person’s sex, some medical and camp forms these days ask for ‘sex assigned at birth’ or ‘assigned sex’ (often in addition to gender identity). The American Medical Association and the American Psychological Association endorse this terminology; its use has also exploded in academic articles. The Cleveland Clinic’s online glossary of diseases and conditions tells us that the ‘inability to achieve or maintain an erection’ is a symptom of sexual dysfunction, not in ‘males,’ but in ‘people assigned male at birth.’ In short, this shift in language has been real, discernable, and imposed from the top down.” Read more here.

 

SIDE EFFECTS OF TRANSGENDER ‘MEDICINE’ SHOW IT ISN’T JUST JUNK SCIENCE, IT’S MALPRACTICE, by Nathanael Blake. “Science has confirmed that men squashing their junk is, in fact, painful and unhealthy. A new study found that a supermajority of gender-confused men who ‘tuck’ their genitalia in an effort to avoid a telltale bulge ‘experienced at least 1 side effect,’ with ‘gonad pain reported most frequently.’ The more a man tucked, the more he risked ill effects, some of which (infection, testicular torsion, infertility) are severe. …You don’t say. This study demonstrates the reality of so-called gender-affirming medicine, which is that it is not actually medicine. As the study and follow-up reporting demonstrate, tucking is painful and risky while providing no physical benefits whatsoever. …Instead of healers, doctors are expected to be facilitators of each patient’s whims, no matter how illusory and unhealthy they are. Read more here.

 

WHEN LEARNING ABOUT PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT BECOMES ‘RESTRICTING REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS,’ by Kelli. “It seems the recent uproar from the abortion industry and its friends in the media over legislation requiring the viewing of a computer-generated fetal development video in some public schools wasn’t enough. Now, an article in The 19th has taken the hyperbolic hand-wringing to a whole new level. The article begins with an ominous tone: “Aftyn Behn hoped that this would be the year the Tennessee legislature was free of bills related to the anti-abortion movement. Since it is now illegal to terminate pregnancies in the state, the Democrat figured her Republican counterparts in the Tennessee House would concentrate their efforts on causes other than restricting reproductive rights. But she was mistaken.” Read more here.

 

WE WILL NEVER STOP CHILD ABUSE IF WE DON’T STOP ABORTION, by Susan Ciancio. “Picture this: A man yanks so hard on a child’s arm or leg that it detaches. But he doesn’t stop there. He grabs another limb and pulls it off. And another. And another, until he has detached all four limbs. Yet he’s still not done. To finish this violence, he crushes the baby’s head, assuring her death. What kind of monster abuses a child in this manner? He’s called an abortionist. And men and women just like him do this thousands of times a day all over the world.” Read more here.

 

NOW CLAIMS KEEPING BIOLOGICAL MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS IS ‘WEAPONIZING WOMANHOOD,’ by John Simmons. “The National Organization for Women (NOW) was founded in 1966 with the intent of ending discrimination against women in America. Nearly 60 years later, they’ve given up on that mission entirely. NOW has taken issue with a lawsuit funded by the Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS) that will demand the NCAA make a change on its policies allowing transgendered females (biological males) to compete in women’s sports. Marshi Smith … believes her organization’s lawsuit is critical to protecting women’s sports for future generations. ‘This lawsuit against the NCAA isn’t just about competition; it’s a fight for the very essence of women’s sports,’ ICONS co-founder and former national Smith said.” Read more here.

 

GOOD PARENTING?: TEX. COURT PERMITS UN-CHECKED TRANS ‘CARE’ FOR KIDS, by Tierin-Rose Mandelburg. “This is the absolute furthest thing from what’s in the best interest of kids. On Friday, just two days before the left obnoxiously celebrated Transgender Day of Visibility instead of Easter, a Texas appeals court upheld a lower court’s injunction blocking the state from investigating parents who help their kids transition with ‘gender-affirming care.’ The decision is contrary to Governor Greg Abbot’s plea to stop these procedures and hold parents accountable for abusing their kids.” Read more here.

 

ABORTION PILLS ENABLE PREDATORS AND VICTIMIZE WOMEN. HERE’S 24 YEARS OF PROOF, by Ben Johnson. “The Biden administration’s efforts to increase abortion pill ‘access’ primarily benefit the abortion industry, but they will also prove invaluable to one of that industry’s key demographics: abusive husbands and boyfriends. Too little of the feminist movement’s commentary has ‘centered’ their victims: the women and girls deceived or forced to abort their babies against their will.” Read more here.

 

SPANISH HETEROSEXUALS BECOME SECOND CLASS CITIZENS, by Carlos Perona Calvete. “It is ironic, perhaps, that it is Spain’s progressive government, and not some authoritarian Right-wing boogeyman, that is trying to get its ‘LGBTQI’ citizens to officially register their sexual preferences. The Spanish government has activated a voluntary registry, set up by the Labor Ministry, allowing persons with gender dysphoria and non-heteronormative orientations to notify the authorities of their gender and sexual identity. …This would allow it to prioritize the assignment of public funds to help citizens who identify as transgender or homosexual to find employment. Consequently, the ‘cis-gender’ heterosexual—despite being more likely to start a family and, therefore, to need the income—will be treated as a second-order employment-seeker.” Read more here.

 

SCIENTISTS REFUTE OLYMPIC COMMITTEE’S MISGUIDED POLICIES ON ‘FAIRNESS’ AND TESTOSTERONE LEVELS, by George Perry. “The IOC’s sophistic gymnastics to deny sex-based categories in sport prompted 26 researchers from around the world to rebut the IOC’s framework. Their paper, published last week in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, is the latest peer-reviewed study providing evidence of the obvious about sex in sports. The researchers reviewed studies from ‘evolutionary and developmental biology, zoology, physiology, endocrinology, medicine, sport and exercise science, [and] athletic performance results within male and female sport’ to refute the IOC’s position that male athletes warrant ‘no presumption of advantage’ over female athletes based on ‘biological or physiological characteristics.’ Read more here.

 

THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION BENCHES FEMALE ATHLETES, by Robert S. Eitel. “The Biden administration is poised to complete its radical rewrite of the U.S. Department of Education’s regulations on Title IX, the 1972 law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education. To label the administration’s proposed changes as highly controversial would be an understatement. One seismic change would expand Title IX’s prohibition on sex discrimination in education to include ‘gender identity’—a fundamental reworking of Title IX that would be catastrophic for female athletes.” Read more here.

 

WE MUST BE FREE TO BLASPHEME AGAINST THE GENDER CULT, by Brendan O’Neill. “So we can now add Britain to the list of countries where you can be sacked for refusing to bow down to the state religion. Only where in Iran it’s Muhammad you must venerate if you wish to dodge officialdom’s long finger of judgment, in the UK it’s the gender ideology. How else to explain the sacking of a schoolteacher for refusing to use a student’s ‘preferred pronouns.’ This is a clear case of someone being punished for failing to profess a doctrine, for refusing to embrace a faith. Agnosticism, it seems, is a sackable offense under the gender cult.” Read more here.

 

BIDEN’S BIG BET ON MILITARY ABORTIONS FALLS FLAT, by Connor Semelsberger. “Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, President Joe Biden has made it a top priority to use any and all administrative actions to promote and pay for abortions with taxpayer money. No single related action garnered more attention than Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin‘s announcement that the Defense Department would use taxpayer funds to pay for abortion travel. Now, a new Pentagon report finds that the Biden administration’s abortion travel policy for service members and dependents was used only 12 times from June through December.” Read more here.

 

CAPITOL COMMENTS: COULD YOUR VOICE BE SILENCED?, by Peggy Bennett. “Until last year, the Minnesota Human Rights Act included protections for religious institutions related to liability claims for gender identity issues. Last session, Democrats in both the House and Senate made adjustments to certain human rights definitions. In doing so, this long-held religious protection was lost. As a result, religious groups of many faiths are now at risk of facing legal consequences for operating within their sincerely held religious beliefs. The changes were pushed through so quickly that these repercussions were not realized until after the bill was signed into law.” Read more here.

 

UN COMMISSION ADOPTS FINANCING FOR GENDER IDEOLOGY, BARELY, by Stefano Gennarini. “The UN Commission on the Status of Women concluded in dramatic fashion last week as Nigeria came close to blocking the adoption of the commission’s annual agreement. With eight minutes left before the scheduled end of the conference, Nigeria protested covert language related to abortion and homosexual/transgender issues. At this point, everyone thought the agreement was doomed. Feminist activists at UN headquarters held their breath. …Feminists were already disappointed because of the lack of progress on their sexual agenda. For the most part, this year’s agreement preserved the longstanding UN stalemate on social issues.” Read more here.

 

THE DOOMERS ARE WRONG. MARRIAGE IS GETTING MUCH BETTER, by Jim Dalrymple. “There are certainly bad marriages out there. But this wave of anti-marriage discourse does the public a grave disservice. In the same way that climate doomism exaggerates the threat of apocalypse, marriage doomism completely misses the long arc of history; in fact, the institution of marriage has over the last century become vastly more equitable, inclusive, and aligned with the centrist values of today’s modern Americans. That doesn’t mean the institution is perfect or not facing challenges, but thanks to tireless work across multiple generations, marriage has become decidedly less prison-like. The trajectory is not downward. The edifice is doing the opposite of crumbling.” Read more here.

 

DEMOCRATS CLAIM MEN ‘DON’T COMPETE IN WOMEN’S SPORTS’ AS STOLEN ATHLETIC TITLES NEAR 300, by Suzanne Bowdey. “Does Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., really live in New York or an alternate universe? People certainly wondered after a House Judiciary Committee hearing where the 76-year-old declared, ‘Men do not compete in women’s sports.’ Is the president’s senility contagious or is Nadler living in complete denial of a global phenomenon that’s plunged communities into chaos? Not only are men competing in women’s sports, they’re winning women’s titles—a fact Riley Gaines was more than happy to point out.” Read more here.

 

OBGYN: I KNOW ABORTION HURTS WOMEN BECAUSE I’VE TREATED WOMEN INJURED BY ABORTIONS, by Dr. Christina Francis. “‘I’m very sorry, but you have an ectopic pregnancy.’ As an OB/GYN hospitalist I find myself delivering these painful words to patients increasingly often. An ectopic pregnancy—when an embryo implants outside the uterus—is fatal for the baby and can threaten the mother’s life if it isn’t swiftly treated. It is the leading cause of maternal death in the first trimester. Rising ectopic pregnancy rates are more dangerous in light of the widespread use of the abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol, whose side effects include pelvic pain and bleeding—also the symptoms of an ectopic pregnancy.” Read more here.

 

‘GENDERBREAD PERSON’ CAUSES CONTROVERSY IN HIGH SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY CLASS, by Marya Dunning. “Asking minors about their sexual orientations is wrong. Even when the ‘Genderbread Person’ does it. Some teachers at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas don’t seem to understand this, however. One student, 17-year-old Shay Cundiff, is taking a dual enrollment psychology class. She said that the teacher gave her an assignment depicting a gingerbread man, known as the ‘Genderbread Person, asking students about their sexual and romantic orientations, among other things. …The Genderbread Person lesson plan instructs teachers to ask students questions such as, ‘How much woman-ness do you identify with? How much man-ness? Maybe neither?’” Read more here.

 

LONG-TERM STUDY LOOKS AT HOW URBAN-BORN BABIES ARE DOING AT AGE 22, by Lois M. Collins. “Sociologists and other family experts often ponder a link between unmarried parenthood and poverty. They debate how family structure strengthens or weakens the chance that families will flourish or falter. And they discuss and write about the ‘success sequence,’ which says poverty is less likely if parents earn a high school diploma, work, get married and only then have children, to ensure the soundest footing for family stability.” Read more here.

 

‘GENDER IDENTITY’ LAW SPELLS THE END OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN MINNESOTA, by Allen Quist. “In 2023, the Minnesota Legislature and governor added a new category of so-called human rights, ‘gender identity,’ to the Minnesota Human Rights Act. They included no corresponding religious exemption, however, demonstrating their intent to deny religious freedom to Minnesota citizens, churches, and schools and to engage in persecuting Christians and some other religious bodies. If the state can tell churches and schools what they cannot say or do on ‘gender identity,’ then it can tell churches and schools what they cannot say or do on other subjects too.” Read more here.

 

YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY QUEERS CHILDREN, by Stephen Scaer. “Publisher’s Weekly praises Grandad’s Pride, a children’s book for ages 4-8, available at local libraries, for how its ‘Bustling, bright-hued images with a rainbow motif’ portrays various ‘gender expressions,’ including men in bondage costumes with codpieces and a bearded woman with mastectomy scars. Even more troubling is an illustration featuring pink heart-shaped Lolita sunglasses, an allusion to the 1962 film about a man’s sexual relationship with his 14-year-old stepdaughter. Prominently displayed near the Lolita sunglasses is a MAP, spelled out in capitals, which happens to stand for ‘Minor Attracted Person,’ a euphemism for ‘pedophile.’” Read more here.

 

SAFETY OF WOMEN HANGS IN BALANCE AFTER ORAL ARGUMENTS ON ABORTION PILL REGULATION, by Thomas Jipping and Sarah Parshall Perry. “The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in two combined cases regarding the Food and Drug Administration’s regulation of abortion drugs. …Discussions on standing—the legal doctrine enacting Article III of the Constitution and giving federal courts the power to adjudicate only live ‘cases or controversies’—occupied most of the oral arguments. To establish standing, a plaintiff must demonstrate three things: a concrete legal injury, one that was caused by the defendant, and that a court can remedy.” Read more here.

 

TRANS ZEALOTS ARE A THREAT TO KIDS’ WELFARE, by Jo Bartosch. “People attending medical conferences don’t usually need police protection to get through the door. But on Saturday, when delegates met at the headquarters of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) in London, they had to push past a jeering, seething mob who let off smoke bombs and tried to force their way into the building. Lines of uniformed officers struggled to keep the entrances clear and to keep attendees safe. The supposedly controversial event? It was called ‘First Do No Harm,’ and was held to discuss how to provide evidence-based treatment for patients with gender dysphoria. By now, it hardly needs spelling out that the protesters were trans-rights activists.” Read more here.

 

ELITE WOMEN IN BRITISH SPORTS ARE UNCOMFORTABLE COMPETING WITH TRANS WOMEN BUT FEAR SAYING SO, by John Sexton. “The BBC conducted a survey of 615 elite women athletes in Britain to ask them how they felt about competing against trans women. Of the 143 who responded, more than 100 said they were uncomfortable with the idea. …One woman who did respond told the BBC that trans women create and ‘unfair playing field.’ Another expressed frustration that just as women’s sports seemed to be gaining in visibility, the trans issue was leaving women athletes ‘marginalized again.’ A third woman said allowing trans women to compete with women would ‘be the end’ and compared it to ‘going back in time.’” Read more here.

 

BACK TO BEST, by Bernard Lane. “British clinical psychologist Anna Hutchinson, a former senior clinician at the Tavistock gender clinic, has called for a return to ‘ordinary best practice’ to help minors who present with gender distress, the BMJ has reported. At the First Do No Harm conference in London on March 23, Dr. Hutchinson recommended non-invasive methods such as counselling, saying the practices at the Tavistock had been ‘extraordinary.’” Read more here.

 

THE EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL OF ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE,’ by Pamela Garfield-Jaeger. “One of the most common lies told by therapists and clinicians to colleagues, the general public, the media, and ultimately hurting families is that if parents don’t affirm their child’s new identity, their child will die by suicide. These emotional statistics are found on the Trevor Project Website: Top-Line Statistics (note that most statistics group Trans with the entire LGB+ population): Suicide is the second leading cause of death among young people aged 10 to 24 (Hedegaard, Curtin, & Warner, 2018)—and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth are at significantly increased risk. …But is this true?” Read more here.

 

WILL NEW YORK STAND UP FOR GIRLS?, by Maud Maron. “Resolution #248, passed by District 2’s CEC, calls upon NYCPS to ‘convene a committee’ that would include ‘female athletes, parents, coaches, relevant medical professionals’ to review the district’s policies. This benign proposal prompted several overwrought condemnations from New York City’s progressive ruling elite. The city council’s LGBTQIA+ caucus, for example, said that it was ‘enraged and appalled’ by the CEC’s ‘disgraceful resolution.’ …All this because the CEC dared ask that female athletes have a seat at the policy table.” Read more here.

 

ABORTION GROUP TARGETS AFRICA, by Rebecca Oas. “An organization with a singular focus on abortion is targeting the African continent. Two events at the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York this week illustrate how they are insinuating themselves into health ministries by using disability rights. They also hope to ensure that increased budgets for ‘reproductive health’ will ensure a steady stream of government funding for abortion. Among the feminist groups present at CSW, Ipas stands out because it exists for only one purpose: to promote and provide abortion internationally.” Read more here.

 

THE TRANSGENDER MOVEMENT IS MORPHING INTO THE TRANSHUMANIST MOVEMENT AND THE RESULTS ARE HORRIFIC, by Matt Walsh. “It’s been more than two weeks since the WPATH files demonstrated very clearly that so-called ‘transgender medicine’ is the single most unethical and barbaric practice that the medical industry has ever endorsed. It’s a coordinated effort to permanently destroy the bodies of thousands of young children. The doctors who are involved in this butchery understand very well that children cannot consent to permanent sterilization and amputation. They’ve said it on tape, as the WPATH files prove, and yet, despite these revelations, no major hospital has announced that they’re cutting ties with WPATH. In fact, they haven’t responded to the WPATH files at all.” Read more here.

 

ARE RELIGIOUS PEOPLE HAPPIER? THE SCIENCE IS PRETTY CLEAR, by Stephen Cranney. “Debates about the impact of religion in the world have been going on for a long time. There is one facet of that debate, however, which, scientifically speaking, is largely settled. From the standpoint of statistics and empirical evidence, how much do we know about whether religious or nonreligious people are happier? A lot, it turns out. The literature on health in general and religion is vast. An Oxford University Press book summarizing the research on the subject, for example, comes in at almost 900 pages. In the analysis in this ‘Handbook of Religion and Health,’ … 79% of those studies reported that religious people were happier, while only 1% reported that they were less happy (the rest found no or mixed findings). Read more here.

 

MADNESS, by Bernard Lane. “The dominant ‘gender-affirming’ treatment approach—which promotes puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and mastectomy for minors—is ‘fundamentally incompatible with competent, ethical medical practice.’ That is the conclusion of a new paper by academic psychiatrist Andrew Amos in the journal Australasian Psychiatry. Dr. Amos says treatment guidelines from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne (RCH) ‘assert without evidence that pathology plays no part in the development of gender diversity,’ which is said to be part of nature.” Read more here.

 

PUBERTY BLOCKERS CANNED: IS THE DOWNFALL OF THE TRANS INDUSTRY IMMINENT?, by Kurt Mahlburg. ‘“Quack Medicine.’ That’s how The Times has labeled puberty blockers, one of the cornerstones of the treatment popularly known as ‘gender-affirming care,’ as the sun sets on a scandal-ridden month for transgender ideology. Earlier in March, NHS England made the bombshell announcement that puberty blockers — controversial drugs that are also used to chemically castrate criminals — will mercifully no longer be prescribed to children at gender identity clinics across the country. Read more here.

 

HOW A HANDFUL OF BILLIONAIRES CREATED THE TRANSGENDER ‘MOVEMENT,’ by Jonathon Van Maren. “I first came across investigative journalist Jennifer Bilek’s work in 2020, when her essay ‘The Billionaires Behind the LGBT Movement’ was published in First Things. It was a stunning piece—there are several journalists committed to exposing the transgender ‘movement’ (or industry, as Bilek calls it), but nobody has peeled away the façade of civil rights, pink-and-blue flags, and ‘trans kids’ like Bilek. If we had a mainstream press truly committed to uncovering and reporting the truth about the forces driving our culture today, her work would be cited by them across the board.” Read more here.

 

THE NIHILISM OF NONBINARY, by Malcolm Clark. “Some things make less sense the more you study them. The idea of ‘nonbinary’ is a bit like that. Nonbinary is an umbrella term used to describe those people who believe they are outside the gender binary. They believe that they are neither male nor female. When you ask nonbinaries what they mean by this, the response usually boils down to men saying they feel kinda feminine sometimes, and women saying they kinda don’t. When you point out that some men and women have felt this way since time immemorial, without feeling the need to turn it into a political cause, they become aggressive or sulky. All of which suggests that this nonbinary LARP may require some more thought.” Read more here.

 

TRANS IDEOLOGY IS FAR FROM DEFEATED, by Joanna Williams. “It is great news that England’s gender-confused children will no longer be pushed on to puberty blockers. As Jo Bartosch wrote on Spiked, last week’s declaration from NHS England that there is ‘not enough evidence to support the safety or clinical effectiveness’ of these drugs was long overdue. Sadly, the same guidance does not apply to children growing up in other parts of the UK. In Scotland and Wales, children struggling with their gender identity are still being encouraged down an irreversible path towards drugs and surgery.” Read more here.

 

WORLD DOWN SYNDROME DAY IS AN OCCASION TO REMEMBER THE VALUE OF EVERY LIFE, by Jeanne Mancini. “While in the womb, every baby develops the unique characteristics that make each one different from every other human. For some, this comes in the form of an extra chromosome in their DNA and a condition known as Down syndrome. A Down syndrome diagnosis is misunderstood by many as a tragic disability, but those who know someone with the condition can attest to the joy and value these individuals bring to the world. And people living with Down syndrome themselves say life is one big celebration! Research confirms that those with Down syndrome experience life to the fullest.” Read more here.

 

NOT SO FAST, by Bernard Lane. “France’s center-right Republican Party is proposing a law to stop the momentum towards easier and faster medicalized gender transition of minors, which it fears may prove to be an ‘ethical scandal.’ The Republicans (LR) plan to introduce a draft law before the northern summer to impose a national ban on puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery for under-18s following a historic report to the Senate. The leader of a working group involving 18 LR senators, Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio, warns in the report that ‘the sexual transition of young people will be considered one of the greatest ethical scandals in the history of medicine’ if it turns out that advocates for early medicalization have underestimated the role of social influence and associated risks.” Read more here.

 

WHY DID IT TAKE SO LONG TO BAN PUBERTY BLOCKERS?, by Patrick West. “NHS England’s decision to ban the routine prescription of puberty blockers to children came as welcome news to many last week. Welcome, that is, for those who have campaigned for years against this awful practice. For too long, these drugs were handed out to mentally troubled youths, to confused young gay people caught up in vortices of social contagion and to children pressured into potentially life-ruining decisions by ideologically driven adults.” Read more here.

 

[MARYLAND] DEMOCRATS PUSH ‘DECENCY AGENDA’ FOCUSED ON PORN FOR KIDS, by Jeffrey Trimbath. A few weeks ago, the speaker of the House of Delegates, Adrienne Jones, D-Baltimore County, announced what she calls her ‘decency agenda.’ What could be wrong with that? After all, American politics could certainly use more decency. …In reality, Jones’ ‘decency’ agenda is merely clever marketing. … The ‘decency agenda’ includes several ‘nondiscrimination’ bills. One is the Freedom to Read Act, which would take away the ability of local libraries that receive state funds to regulate or restrict access to pornographic materials. I’m not exaggerating. Anyone paying attention to debates about the content of public school libraries over the past several years—including all the allegations of “book banning”—is familiar with the caliber of smut that the radical progressives are trying to foist upon our kids. … After all, if exposing school-age children to sexually explicit materials is now the “decent” thing to do in Maryland, then words have no meaning anymore.” Read more here.

 

MEMORY HOLES AND INSIDER RULES, by Bernard Lane. “The human rights commission in Australia’s state of Victoria has quietly disappeared its public claim that a parent refusing to support a child’s request for puberty blocker drugs is breaking the law. Until recently, the website of the Victorian Equal Opportunity & Human Rights Commission stated that such a refusal would be illegal under the state’s draconian Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Act 2021.” Read more here.

 

PORNOGRAPHY PREVALENCE MERITS PUBLIC DISCUSSION, by Jason Osborne. “A study into pornography use among Ireland’s young adults has returned very interesting results that merit public discussion, not least among them the fact that 64% of young men report using it. Other stand-out findings included the fact that male users were found to have poorer well-being than non-users, being less satisfied with their lives, and reported having a poorer self-image and more depressive symptoms.” Read more here.

 

CONSERVATIVE LAWS AGAINST GENDER IDEOLOGY DON’T LEAD TO MORE LGBT ‘HATE CRIMES,’ by Matt Lamb. “Conservatives are to blame for a rise in reported LGBT hate crimes at K-12 schools, so says the Washington Post. Here’s the headline media outlets have begun to spread: ‘In states with laws targeting LGBTQ issues, school hate crimes quadrupled.’ …But those claims tell an incomplete picture, according to Dr. Michael New, a social scientist at the Catholic University of America. He said one possible reason for the increase is there are more students identifying as LGBT. Dr. New notes the analysis looked at ‘reported hate crimes’ not ‘actual hate crimes.’” Read more here.

 

RADIO-CANADA JOURNALIST DEFENDS REPORT EXPOSING ‘GENDER CLINICS’ FOR ‘TRANSITIONING’ CHILDREN, by Clare Marie Merkowsky. “A Radio-Canada journalist is defending her investigative report that exposed a ‘gender’ clinic in Quebec for prescribing potentially sterilizing hormones to an actress posing as a young teen in less than ten minutes. In a March 3 interview on Tout le Monde en Parle, Radio-Canada journalist Pasquale Turbide revealed that concerns from parents were what originally sparked her investigative report on the gender ‘transitioning’ of children, and that she stands by her work despite backlash.” Read more here.

 

POPPING ABORTION PILLS IS WAY MORE DANGEROUS THAN BIG PHARMA WANTS WOMEN TO KNOW, by Dr. Lloyd Holm. “As I have previously reported, ingesting mifepristone and misoprostol unsupervised carries definable risks. The risk of hemorrhage and possible death from an ectopic pregnancy is not just theoretical. In a 2019 mifepristone post-marketing report released by the FDA, there were 97 ectopic pregnancies and 24 deaths reported in the 18-year period following the release of mifepristone in 2000. In addition, 4,195 adverse events were reported from 2000-2018. During that same time frame, 599 women required blood transfusions after ingesting mifepristone to induce an abortion.” Read more here.

 

GENDER IDEOLOGY LEAVES COACHES WITH NOTHING TO SAY, by George MJ Perry. “’Did anyone say anything?’ ‘What can you say?’ A few days earlier, the issue of males competing in women’s sports stopped being an over-the-horizon concern for me. This shift occurred after 13 years of coaching and seven years since I first became involved with the issue. For the first time, I witnessed a man compete in a women’s sporting event—a semi-pro women’s soccer game. I was not merely a spectator … My role with the team, though relatively brief and in an adjunct capacity, allowed me to form deep relationships with and responsibilities toward our athletes that extended beyond the CV bullets of athletic performance and injury prevention. The opposing team’s trans-identifying male player wasn’t accelerating towards other players, he wasn’t racing for loose balls against other players, he wasn’t using his male advantages to jostle, tackle, out-jump or shoulder other players off the ball. He was doing those things to our players. To my players.” Read more here.

 

UNPACKING THE GEN Z LGBTQ NUMBERS, by Katrina Trinko. “Almost 30% of Generation Z women identify as LGBTQ, according to a new Gallup survey. Could that possibly be true? Well, the Gallup survey, which also found that 22% of Gen Z overall identifies as LGBTQ, is no outlier. …What is driving this huge surge? One possibility is societal acceptance. Same-sex marriage was legalized nationwide by the Supreme Court in 2015, the same year former Olympian and reality TV star Bruce Jenner announced that he now identified as a woman and wanted to be known as Caitlyn.” Read more here.

 

‘I FEEL LIKE I KILLED A CHILD, AND IT WAS ME.’ I WAS VICTIMIZED BY GENDER TRANSITION, by Prisha Mosley. “I was born female and grew up in North Carolina. I discovered the transgender community online as a teenager and was persuaded to socially transition. I was only 17 when doctors started injecting me with testosterone. In retrospect, I was the perfect victim. I was young, impressionable, isolated and suffering from severe mental health issues, including anorexia, self-harm and attempts to end my life. Doctors told me transitioning was the cure for my emotional pain.” Read more here.

 

NEW POLL CLAIMING AMERICANS ARE PRO-ABORTION IS VERY BIASED, by Steven Ertelt. “Last week, the Kaiser Family Foundation released the results of a new survey on sanctity-of-life issues. They polled over 1,300 adults in late February through both phone surveys and online surveys. The results purportedly show strong support for legal abortion in certain circumstances. The results show that those voters who are prioritizing abortion in 2024 are disproportionately supportive of legal abortion. …That is because the wording of some questions is skewed to elicit responses in favor of legal abortion.” Read more here.

 

THE TRANS AGENDA IS CRUMBLING UNDER THE WEIGHT OF ITS OWN LIES, by Libby Emmons. “The UK banned puberty blocking drugs for minors seeking sex changes. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health has been exposed as fetishistic frauds and liars. Detransitioners are suing their doctors, hospitals and mental health providers for peddling the lie that they can change sex. States are banning sex change drugs and surgeries for minors. Trans celebs like Dylan Mulvaney and diversity hires like Rachel Levine who make their living off of perpetrating trans are being exposed for the grifters that they are. The lies are being laid bare.” Read more here.

 

UNICEF IGNORES PARENTAL CONSENT IN MUTILATING SURGERY FOR KIDS, by Stefano Gennarini. “UNICEF has ‘no position’ on whether or not parents should consent or even know if their children are provided ‘gender-affirming’ care and powerful hormonal drugs like puberty blockers and contraception. Lauren Rumble, Associate Director of the UNICEF Gender Equality Programme Group, said this speaking to the Friday Fax after an event co-hosted by UNICEF with the United Kingdom titled ‘What Adolescent Girls Want.’” Read more here.

 

FDA LIED TO WOMEN. NOW ABORTION PILLS ARE KILLING AND INJURING THEM, by Erin Hawley. “It’s always interesting when something that shouldn’t be all that interesting suddenly becomes extremely interesting to people who are not easily interested. Recently, the academic publisher Sage retracted three studies from one of its journals. Ordinarily, retractions like these would not be newsworthy outside of the scholastic community, but in this case, some media outlets jumped at the chance to cover them. Why? Because the studies were about abortion drugs — in fact, the exact drugs the U.S. Supreme Court will be hearing a case about on March 26. The media will be happy to tell you all about the retractions, but they may not tell you one crucial fact: None of these studies will be at issue as the Supreme Court considers the case.” Read more here.

 

SILENCED PRO-LIFERS HOLD COUNTER EVENT AT UN, by Iulia-Elena Cazan. “The feminists at the UN who run the Commission on the Status of Women have largely shut out pro-life groups from running events during the commission. CSW is a progressive feminist conference that promotes abortion services as essential for women’s wellbeing and prime solutions to unplanned pregnancies. This year’s official CSW event roster featured dozens of talks normalizing and encouraging widespread access to abortion. Yet, the conference was virtually silent on the topic of supporting women to overcome the challenges that stand in the way of carrying their pregnancies to term.” Read more here.

 

US MUST FOLLOW THE UK’S LEAD AND ABANDON THE GENDER EXPERIMENT, by Kaylee McGhee White, “The United Kingdom’s National Health Services announced this week it will no longer routinely prescribe gender-confused children puberty blockers, admitting the hormonal treatments are experimental in nature and can have lasting physical and mental consequences. … This should be a wake-up call for the U.S. healthcare system, which hands out puberty blockers to children like they’re candy.” Read more here.

 

EXPOSING SEX PSEUDOSCIENCE IN AMERICAN SCIENTIST, by Alex Byrne. “’Computing is not binary’ would be a silly slogan—binary computer code underpins almost every aspect of modern life. But other kinds of binaries are decidedly out of fashion, particularly where sex is concerned. ‘Biology is not binary’ declares the title of an essay in the March/April issue of American Scientist, a magazine published by Sigma Xi, the science and engineering honor society. Sigma Xi has a storied history, with numerous Nobel-prize-winning members, including the DNA-unravellers Francis Crick and James Watson, and more recently Jennifer Doudna, for her work on CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing. The essay is well-worth critical examination, not least because it efficiently packs so much confusion into such a short space.” Read more here.

 

SCHOOL’S OUT, by Sandra Pertot. “For many young gender-questioning people, gender-affirming care began long before they arrived at a gender clinic. The first public expression of the belief they are transgender is often at their school, and in countries that have embraced modern gender ideology, schools have adopted gender-affirming policies allowing immediate social transition.” Read more here.

 

THE ‘DETRANSITION’ TIME BOMB, by Wilfred Reilly. “We need to talk about ‘trans kids.’ In all likelihood, we are currently witnessing one of the biggest medical scandals in modern history, and a tidal wave of regrets and lawsuits will soon follow in its wake. Over the past few years, several moss-backed and socially disagreeable conservatives and normie libs — including this very writer — have bemusedly noted that very high percentages of high-school and college students have begun to describe themselves as ‘transgender’ or otherwise ‘queer.’” Read more here.

 

A NEW STUDY SHOWS THAT THE U.S. MATERNAL-MORTALITY RATE IS OVERESTIMATED, by Michael New. “On Wednesday, a study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology found that high and rising rates of maternal mortality in the United States are due to flawed data. Starting in 2003, a pregnancy checkbox was included in the national death certificates. Researchers found that this box was checked for many deaths unrelated to either pregnancy or childbirth. While previous data found that the U.S. maternal-mortality rate increased by a whopping 143 percent since 1999, these new data found that there was only a 2 percent increase since that time.” Read more here.

 

THE RISE OF TRANSGENDERISM, by Armstrong Williams. “Over the past decade, the United States has seen a rise in the power of the transgender movement. Once a fringe, left-wing movement premised on the idea that gender is a social construct and that it can be changed at a whim, it has now become mainstream. Today, the question ‘Can you provide a definition for the word “woman”?’ is now political. … Today, despite the small numbers of transgender people in the United States, the movement has permeated nearly all facets of life.” Read more here.

 

TRANSGENDER ACTIVISTS SAY YOUR KIDS HAVE A ‘RIGHT’ TO CARVE UP THEIR BODIES, by John Daniel Davidson. “If you pay attention to the transgender debate, it’s been obvious for a while now that the trans movement is interested in children. The specter of state lawmakers or even parents hindering or discouraging children from ‘transitioning’ seems to haunt trans activists, who view recent political efforts to ban so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ in some states as the worst sort of tyranny. Children, in their view, have a right to transition, and any obstacle placed in their way, even by parents, is a gross injustice crying out for redress. Read more here.

 

BEWARE THE NEW TREND OF DECRIMINALIZING PROSTITUTION, by Valerie Hudson. “The research team I work with is currently knee-deep into categorizing the legal approach that each nation takes with regard to prostitution. …In some countries, buying sex is perfectly legal but providing that sex for money is strictly illegal. …There’s a lot of complexity here, and the legal approach taken depends on how you view prostitution. You can tackle this from the philosophical level, of course — is prostitution merely another form of work? Is prostitution inevitable, ineradicable? Is this a ‘my body, my choice’ situation? Or is prostitution one of the only socially sanctioned gross human rights violations remaining?” Read more here.

 

TRUDEAU’S ‘ONLINE HARMS’ BILL COULD CRIMINALIZE THE PRO-LIFE, PRO-FAMILY MOVEMENT, by David Cooke. “With the introduction of the ‘Online Harms Act’ (Bill C-63) on February 26, the Trudeau Liberals, with the support of the New Democratic Party (NDP), have unveiled the next step in their devious plan to create a powerful online censorship regime. This ideologically-driven regime undoubtedly targets people like you and me – people who hold to traditional values on human life, marriage, gender, faith, and family.” Read more here.

 

AUTISTIC PEOPLE NEED COMPASSION — NOT GENDER IDEOLOGY, by Brian Birmingham. “According to a recent study published by the journal Pediatrics, ‘Youth with autism are three times as likely to have a co-occurring diagnosis of gender dysphoria than peers who do not have autism.’ The researchers studied over 900,000 autistic youth over a period of more than ten years and this is the conclusion that was arrived at. Simply put, it was found that people who are on the autism spectrum are statistically more likely to deal with gender dysphoria and are therefore more vulnerable to the manipulations of activists who pose themselves as being in a position to ‘help’ such youth.” Read more here.

 

THE NEXT STEP IS HERE: ANYBODY AT ANY AGE HAS RIGHT TO CHANGE SEX, by David Strom. “Should a child be allowed to medically alter their body if she decides one day that she wants to be a boy? According to the author of a new piece in New York Magazine, the answer is ‘Yes, absolutely.’ And if she wants to do it several times or ruin her body, the answer is still ‘Yes.’ The piece, written by Andrea Long Chu, a transgender author, explains to us that anybody at any age should be given the freedom (and the resources at public expense) to change their sex at any age.” Read more here.

 

RADICAL ABORTION ACTIVISTS CELEBRATED NATIONAL HUG YOUR ABORTIONIST DAY, by Janet Morana. “In 2003, abortionist Charles Rossman gave a handful of abortion pills to a 23-year-old who was beyond 30 weeks pregnant. He then locked the door of his Valdosta, Georgia, abortion mill – trapping the woman inside – and disappeared, leading authorities on an 11-year chase spanning two continents. The woman, frantic and in labor, called 911 and police arrived in time to see her deliver a son. As for Rossman, Interpol finally found him in Germany and extradited him to the U.S. He pleaded guilty to criminal abortion and served five years in prison. It’s my hope that people will keep this bizarre story in mind as the abortion cartel reminds Americans that March 10 was the National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers.” Read more here.

 

GENDER DYSPHORIA AND ANOREXIA IN ADOLESCENT FEMALES, by The Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine. “A new publication in Sexuologie (the journal of the German Society for Sexual Medicine, Sexual Therapy and Sexual Science/DGSMTW) takes on the issue of the sharp rise in transgender identification in adolescent females, which remains poorly understood. The authors, Korte and Gille, present an intriguing hypothesis for this novel phenomenon, comparing and contrasting gender dysphoria to anorexia nervosa, and finding a number of important similarities.” Read more here.

 

ASSIGNED AT BIRTH?, by Terence Sweeny. “There is a troubling unreality to the discourse around ‘assigning’ that corrodes our ability to publicly deliberate about sexual difference, feminism, and issues related to trans identity. When we say that we “assign” sex, we employ language to describe a biological reality that simply does not exist. Philosophers since Socrates have worked hard to pay attention to how we speak. For Aristotle, paying attention to endoxa—what is commonly said—is a necessary step toward accessing and understanding reality. In what follows, I want to call out the deep untruth of the ‘assigning’ discourse, then explain the merits, and wisdom, of ‘finding out.’” Read more here.

 

SCOTLAND’S WOKE SCHOOLS ARE ROBBING KIDS OF THEIR FUTURES, by Stuart Waiton. “Just over a year ago, a group of parents, teachers and academics founded the Scottish Union for Education. Committed to ‘education, not indoctrination,’ we were concerned over the impact of identity politics on Scottish schools. But few of us at the time realized just how bad the situation had become. My own concerns over the state of Scottish education were piqued in 2022, when hundreds of parents and teachers in Glasgow protested against the increasingly ‘pornographic’ nature of sex education lessons. Kids were being given graphic illustrations of sex acts and questionnaires asking about their own sexual activity.” Read more here.

 

STIS CONTINUE TO SKYROCKET AFTER DECADES OF SO-CALLED ‘SEX EDUCATION,’ by Jonathon Van Maren. “Some of you may be old enough to remember a time when governments were demanding that people ‘socially distance’ from one another in order to ‘stop the spread’ of infection. Unsurprisingly, there are no such calls as Western countries see massive surges of sexually transmitted diseases – now referred to as ‘STIs,’ or ‘sexually transmitted infections,’ since that sounds far less serious. From the New York Post on March 7: Sexually transmitted infections skyrocketed across Europe in 2022 – with reported gonorrhea cases alone nearly doubling.” Read more here.

 

PARENTS COULD DRAW LESSONS FROM UPHEAVAL ABOUT SEXUAL EDUCATION, by Joe-Lize Kruijsse-Brugge. “Several countries draw attention to sexual education by organizing a national week in which schools are encouraged to pay attention to the topic. However, wherever that happens, there is upheaval to some extent. We have seen that in Norway in January, and last year, there was much upheaval in the Netherlands. Parents worry that their children are shown pornographic images or learn at school about masturbation and gender identity – the idea that there are many different genders and that you can change your gender.” Read more here.

 

CONSTITUTIONALIZING ABORTION: A TRAGIC DAY FOR FRANCE, by Hélène de Lauzun. “On Monday, March 4th, French deputies and senators gathered in Versailles voted by an overwhelming majority to enshrine ‘guaranteed freedom of access to abortion’ in the Constitution of the Fifth Republic. Progressives are delighted by what they see as a victory in a universal and titanic battle against the forces of obscurantism and are already preparing their next offensive.” Read more here.

 

THE ABORTION DRUG IS NOT SAFER THAN TYLENOL, by Dave Andrusko. “One of the largest studies to date, which analyzed high-quality registry data obtained from nearly 50,000 women in Finland, found that the overall incidence of immediate adverse events is four-fold higher for medical abortions than for surgical abortions. The same study showed that nearly 7% of women will need surgical intervention — a significant number when you consider there are nearly 900,000 abortions per year in the U.S., 40% of which are medication abortions.” Read more here.

 

BATTLE LINES AT UN COMMISSION: POVERTY REDUCTION V. SEXUAL RIGHTS, by Stefano Gennarini. “The Biden administration faces an uphill battle to promote ‘sexual rights’ at this year’s UN Commission on the Status of Women. Many delegations anticipate a change in U.S. administration in November and may be more willing to defy what they perceive to be a lame duck administration as a result. Biden and the European Union will push the UN system to the brink in long and difficult negotiations that are expected over the next two weeks to impose ‘sexual rights’ on African, Asian, and Middle Eastern countries in the commission’s annual agreement.” Read more here.

 

AS THE FAMILY GOES, SO GOES THE STATE. UTAH GETS THIS, by Rick Larsen and Brad Wilcox. “When it comes to realizing the nation’s most important ideals — from the American dream to the ‘pursuit of happiness’ — Utah has a well-deserved reputation for leading out. The state has a pioneering record when it comes to maximizing the odds that poor kids make it in America and that its citizenry is happy. And the research tells us that the fact that no state in America has stronger families than Utah is a big reason why this state does so well on so many national rankings.” Read more here.

 

NEW BOOK REVEALS SORDID HISTORY OF UN POPULATION CONTROL, by Rebecca Oas. “A project of several UN agencies has not only developed contraceptive drugs and devices as well as chemical abortion but also leverages its findings to influence global policy and the laws within UN member nations. This sordid history is explored in a new book authored by Louis-Marie Bonneau and Grégor Puppinck of the well-respected European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ).” Read more here.

 

MARRIAGE AND FAMILY, NOT CAREER, ARE THE KEY TO A FULFILLING LIFE, by Tim Goeglein. “The late James Q. Wilson, professor of government at Harvard University, wrote in his book, The Marriage Problem, back in 2002, ‘It is not money, but the family that is the foundation of public life. As it has become weaker, every structure built upon that foundation has become weaker.’ Over the past 50-plus years, we have heard a constant stream of rhetoric from secular elites that ‘you can have it all’ — career, money, marriage, and family. The result has been sadly the opposite. You cannot ‘have it all,’ and two of these eventually trump the other two in taking up our time and energy. Increasingly, for many Americans, it has been money and career, and our society, and we as individuals, are suffering the consequences.” Read more here.

 

LGBTQ+ INQUISITORS PURSUE DOCTOR IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA, by James Parker. “In the city of Albany, Western Australia, Dr Thomas Brough works in emergency medicine. Outside of saving lives – irrespective of his patients’ creeds, sexual attractions, criminal records, or cultural backgrounds – he also serves as a local councillor. This brave and decent man is the latest victim of LGBTQ+ inquisitors. The lobby group Just.Equal has submitted a formal complaint against him… An unfavourable outcome could wreck Dr Brough’s career. But his ‘crime’ had nothing to do with his medical acumen. Instead, he claimed at a council meeting that people ought to be aware that the ‘+’ in LGBTQIA+ could include paedophiles, or, to use the less inflammatory term, ‘minor-attracted persons.’” Read more here.

 

‘LET THE RECKONING BEGIN’: DETRANSITIONERS VINDICATED BY EXPOSÉ OF WPATH EXPERIMENTATION ON MINORS, by Mary Margaret Olohan. “Detransitioners have been trying to warn the public that so-called gender-affirming care—transgender surgeries, hormones, and puberty blockers—is both experimental and dangerous, especially for minors. Now, thanks to the efforts of journalist Michael Shellenberger, we know that World Professional Association for Transgender Health doctors and medical experts pushing these practices were well aware of the experimental and lasting nature of the procedures they were recommending. Yet these so-called health professionals pushed forward, despite alarming awareness of tumors developing from hormones, reduced sexual function, lack of proper informed consent for minors, and more.” Read more here.

 

UNDER PRESSURE, by Bernard Lane. “The puberty blocker-driven ‘Dutch protocol’ of medicalized gender change—administered to ever more teenagers around the world—appears more likely to come under serious scrutiny in its home country. The parliament of the Netherlands has now passed two motions this year calling for a closer look. On February 27, with a majority of 101 out of 150 votes, the parliament approved a motion asking the government to commission research.” Read more here.

 

SEX PSEUDOSCIENCE AND THE WPATH FILES, by Colin Wright. “The field of ‘gender medicine’ has been under intense scrutiny in recent years. This attention arises from the sharp increase in the number of children and adolescents—predominantly girls—seeking treatment, with some estimates indicating more than a 40-fold rise since 2010 in many Western countries. Critics are particularly concerned with this previously overlooked branch of medicine because it treats what is fundamentally a psychological condition with extreme and irreversible body modification procedures that often result in infertility. This practice would be alarming enough if it were limited to adults, but its widespread application to children has prompted widespread alarm.” Read more here.

 

CANADIANS FINALLY FIGHT BACK AGAINST THE TRANS AGENDA, by Jonathon Van Maren. “For the better part of a decade, Canada remained one of the only Western countries where gender ideology remained entirely unquestioned, promoted as state dogma by the Trudeau government, and passively accepted by conservative politicians skittish about social issues. Protests against radical sex education in public schools had occasionally flared but promptly fizzled. Opposition to any aspect of the LGBT agenda was condemned by progressives as fundamentally ‘unCanadian’; the silent majority of Canadians who opposed many of these changes were voiceless. Last June, that began to change.” Read more here.

 

THANKS TO ONE WOMAN’S VISION, THE WORLD’S BIGGEST PORN SITE IS A SHELL OF ITS FORMER SELF, by Kurt Mahlburg. “Laila Mickelwait is a woman on a mission. For over a decade she has been involved in anti-sex trafficking advocacy. But it was the ‘Traffickinghub’ campaign she launched in February 2020 that has really made a mark on the world. …Mickelwait describes her crusade as ‘a decentralized global movement of millions of individuals and hundreds of survivors, organizations and advocates from across a broad spectrum of political, faith and non-faith, economic, and ideological backgrounds, all uniting together for the single purpose of shutting down Pornhub and holding its executives accountable for enabling, distributing and profiting from rape, child sexual abuse, sex trafficking, and criminal image-based sexual abuse.’ Three years later, over 2.3 million people have signed the petition to shut down Pornhub.” Read more here.

 

ABORTION IN THE FRENCH CONSTITUTION: MORE THAN A SYMBOL, A DANGEROUS TEXT, by Jérôme Lejeune Foundation. “Today, there is no threat to the freedom to resort to abortion in France; therefore, there is no justification for its inclusion in the constitution. However, the consequences on the freedom of conscience of physicians can be disastrous. With its constitutionalizing, abortion becomes de facto enforceable, and the conscience clause no longer has its place. …Indeed, why sanctify a right that is not threatened, if not to forbid the existence of a debate? The recent example of attacks against the French channel CNews, following the televised debate ‘En quête d’esprit’ on February 25, serves as a striking illustration. Therefore, the Foundation congratulates the senators and deputies who courageously dared to oppose this bill.” Read more here.

 

BIAS AT THE BBC, by Sex Matters. The BBC’s director of complaints has ruled that the presenter Justin Webb broke the BBC’s rules on impartiality when he commented, in a discussion about a women’s chess tournament on Radio 4’s Today programme, that “trans women” are male. This is shocking behaviour from the BBC: the national broadcaster, funded by public money and obliged by its charter to be accurate and without bias. The BBC ruling said that Webb “gave the impression of endorsing one viewpoint in a highly controversial area.” This is extraordinary. Some people think the earth is flat, but to say that it is round is not an endorsement of one viewpoint – it’s a statement of fact. “Trans women” by definition are people born male who now identify as women. Since sex cannot change, they remain male. Read more here.

 

SUICIDE MORTALITY AMONG GENDER-DYSPHORIC ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS IN FINLAND, by the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine. A recent study published in BMJ Mental Health … found that suicide among young people [under the age of] 23 (“youth”) seeking gender services in Finland is an unusual event …Further, in comparing gender-referred youth to a cohort of matched controls (n=16,643), the study found no convincing evidence that gender-referred youth have statistically significantly higher suicide rates as compared to the general population, after controlling for psychiatric needs. The study also did not detect a statistically significant association between gender reassignment and the risk of suicide.” Read more here. Read more here.

 

TIGHTEN UP, by Bernard Lane. “The medical directors of Norway’s four health regions have determined that puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for gender-distressed minors are experimental treatments and should be restricted to clinical trials. The Directorate of Health will be asked to revisit its 2020 ‘gender-affirming’ treatment guidelines and ‘clearly state’ the experimental nature of these hormonal and surgical treatments, according to a February 29 news report in the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang (VG). If these proposals are implemented, Norway would join Sweden, Finland and England in formally adopting new, cautious treatment policies for gender distress based on confirmation that the evidence for medicalized gender change in minors is very weak and uncertain.” Read more here.

 

IN THRALL TO ABORTION, RICH COUNTRIES SIDETRACK UN RESOLUTION ON WOMEN AND POVERTY, by Iulia-Elena Cazan. “Western countries are trying to shift the focus of an upcoming UN resolution away from lifting women out of poverty to promoting abortion and gender ideology agendas. Developing countries have pushed back. Every year, the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) hosts a conference-type gathering at the UN where it invites diplomats, UN personnel, and civil society for interactive dialogues and round tables on themes related to women’s equality. The session culminates with a resolution adopted by UN member states. This year progressive countries proposed a text that prioritizes abortion access and gender ideology as key determinants of women’s empowerment.” Read more here.

 

CHRISTIAN PARENTS ARE LOSING THEIR GENDER-CONFUSED CHILDREN TO THE STATE. HOW SHOULD WE RESPOND?, by Denise Schick. “To illustrate the dangerous direction our country is taking, a bill has been introduced in the Illinois House that would amend the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act by changing the definition of abused child to include a minor who has been denied ‘gender-affirming’ services. The bill would also amend the Consent by Minors to Health Care Services Act to allow a minor to consent to their own ‘gender-affirming services’ while protecting health care professionals from punishment for providing them.” Read more here.

 

WHY ARE HISTORIANS SUDDENLY DISCOVERING SO MANY TRANSGENDERS?, by Jonathon Van Maren. “When new ideological movements seize power in institutions, it is always necessary to rewrite history. As an old Soviet joke mocking the communist overhaul of Russian history put it, ‘The future is certain—it’s only the past that’s unpredictable.’ We saw this when the gay rights movement began to gain dominance. Suddenly, it was claimed that plenty of married men were, in fact, homosexual, including Abraham Lincoln and William Shakespeare. The historical closet turned out to be packed with fictional gays.” Read more here.

 

THE ‘CAT KILLER’ CASE REVEALS THE DEPRAVITY OF TRANS IDEOLOGY, by Lauren Smith. “The gruesome case of Scarlet Blake really should have been the last straw. We have become all too numb to the way the police, the courts and the media have adopted the preferred pronouns of dangerous and predatory men. How male perverts, pedophiles and rapists are now routinely treated as women, based on their self-declared identities. You might have hoped that the sheer depravity of Blake’s crimes, and the depths of his mental delusions, would jolt our elites into sanity. But you’d be wrong. In the wall-to-wall coverage of Blake’s crimes, he is consistently referred to as a ‘woman.’” Read more here.

 

WHO DECIDES IF UNBORN LIVES MATTER?, by Mehmet Ciftçi. “Recent news stories reveal a contradictory attitude to how we treat unborn lives in our society. It was reported in the news last week that parents in England who have experienced the devastation of losing a baby before 24 weeks of pregnancy can apply for a ‘baby loss certificate.’ …The very next day, however, the Health Secretary revealed she would support an amendment to decriminalize women who procure an abortion beyond 24 weeks, on which MPs will get a free vote next month along with another amendment to lower the ‘upper’ legal abortion limit from 24 to 22 weeks. Is an unborn baby to be cherished and mourned if it is lost, or it is something that can be terminated up to birth? We cannot have it both ways.” Read more here.

 

IS NO PUBLIC SPACE SAFE FOR OUR CHILDREN?, by James Parker. “Orange City Council in rural New South Wales is planning to spend nearly $126,000 on a three-day Rainbow Festival where every event involves drag queens engaging with children as young as three, and the use of books which encourage children to question their identity. Many citizens of Orange are rightly concerned for their children.” Read more here.

 

WOMEN INJURED BY THE ABORTION PILL ARE FLOODING ERS, FDA CONCEALED THE RISKS, by Erin Hawley. “When the federal agency responsible for ensuring the safety of the food we eat, medication we take, and products we use decided to remove critical safeguards that it originally deemed necessary for abortion drugs, it knew there’d be a problem. By the FDA’s own admission, its actions sent more women and girls to the emergency room. Yet the Food and Drug Administration recklessly plowed ahead anyway and disregarded the harms it would cause when it eliminated the few, crucial safety measures that had been in place for years.” Read more here.

 

A LANDMARK FINNISH STUDY IS CHANGING HOW WE APPROACH TRANSGENDER KIDS, by Benjamin Ryan. “The movement backing gender-transition treatment for children is built on the claim that pediatric medical interventions are not only ‘medically necessary’ – but truly ‘life saving.’ However, no researchers have ever tried to figure out whether this claim is true. Until now. A major new study out of Finland found that providing cross-sex hormones and gender-transition surgeries to adolescents and young adults didn’t appear to have any significant effect on suicide deaths. What’s more, gender distress severe enough to send young people to a gender clinic wasn’t independently linked to a higher suicide death rate either. Read more here.

 

YES, TRANS IDEOLOGY EVEN SANCTIONS THE ABUSE OF INFANTS TOO, by Brandon Showalter. “Every time you think that the gender ideology rabbit hole cannot grow any darker, somehow something else emerges and proves, yet again, that there is no bottom to this particular moral filth. This time it’s an utterly revolting form of abuse of infants through male ‘chestfeeding’ which, according to the UK’s NHS Trust, is just as good as a mother’s breast milk. …According to British health officials, a recently leaked letter from the University of Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust maintains that the substance produced by trans-identifying males who claim to be women after taking a combination of drugs and hormones is “comparable to that produced [by a mother] following the birth of a baby.” Read more here.

 

TASMANIA SHOULD SCRAP ITS GAY CONVERSION BILL, by James Parker. “Tasmania could follow Queensland, the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and Victoria in banning conversion therapy – which includes therapeutic or spiritual interventions linked to sexuality and identity. I have a deep interest in this issue as I have struggled with same-sex attraction. The observer who makes the most sense on this incendiary issue is Patrick Parkinson, a nationally respected law professor. In a submission commenting on the consultation draft of Tasmania’s Justice Miscellaneous (Conversion Practices) Bill 2024, he writes: … ‘I would rather this Bill not be enacted. I see no reason for it, given that reprehensible forms of so-called “conversion therapy” died out more than 30 years ago. In my view, the Bill is being introduced for political reasons.’” Read more here.

 

REPUBLICAN SENATORS AUTHOR BILL AIMED AT PROTECTING PARENTAL RIGHTS: PRO-FREEDOM GROUPS JOIN FORCES, by Megan Benton. “Under the Biden administration, it’s clear that the government doesn’t respect the rights of parents. Whether it’s the Biden administration’s Title IX rewrite, which takes rights away from parents by allowing children to change their gender without parental knowledge, or it’s Attorney General Merrick Garland and his attacks on concerned parents who show up at school board meetings. Their attitudes are apparent. Story upon story pile up of parents who have had their rights infringed on by the government for holding traditional beliefs on gender and sexuality.” Read more here.

 

SCHOOL BOARDS ARE SILENCING PARENTS WHO OBJECT TO PORNOGRAPHIC MATERIALS IN THEIR CHILD’S EDUCATION, by Jonathon Van Maren. “As battles over LGBT curriculums rage not only in the United States but in Canada and Europe as well, a perverse irony has emerged: books too pornographic to be read in public meetings or even quoted in full in media reports are, somehow, appropriate for children in schools. Indeed, LGBT activists and progressive politicians consistently insist that it is a far-right conspiracy theory merely to claim that children are being indoctrinated or ‘groomed’ by sexually explicit material – and when gaslit parents desperately try to prove their case by bringing the offending books to school board meetings to read aloud, they are silenced.” Read more here.

 

FEMININITY BREATHING LAST GASPS IN SCHOOL SPORTS, by Michael Reagan and Michael Shannon. “We recently had a serious case of assault during a basketball game between two Massachusetts high schools. Fox News reports, ‘Some have expressed concern after the girl for Collegiate Charter was injured on the play after hitting the court, grabbing her back in pain.’ Concern is warranted since the girl was knocked to the floor by a six-foot male with a beard. …Unfortunately, for the injured girl, this assault has the approval of both schools, the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association and the state of Massachusetts. How can this be sane readers ask? It’s simple. The male bully is a member of a protected class in blue states. He’s a ‘hemale’ — a boy pretending to be a girl.” Read more here.

 

CANADIAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE TARGETS ANTI-TRANS ACTIVISTS, by Jonathon Van Maren. “In 2019, Shelly Bruce, then-chief of the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), and David Vigneault, current director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), led a contingent of Canadian security and intelligence officials in the Ottawa Pride Parade, hoisting an LGBT rainbow banner. For those unaware, CSIS is Canada’s rough equivalent to the CIA; the contingent was made up of those tasked with keeping Canada safe from threats, both foreign and domestic. Thus, the recent revelation that CSIS and Canada’s Integrated Terrorism Assessment Centre (ITAC) believe that the growing parental rights movement is a ‘violent threat’ to Canada and that the supporters of ‘parental rights’ and the ‘anti-gender movement’ are likely connected to neo-Nazi and white nationalist groups is unsurprising.” Read more here.

 

IRISH REFERENDA TO REMOVE WOMEN AND REDEFINE THE FAMILY, by Dualta Roughneen. “In a decade where successive Irish governments have successfully navigated significant changes to the Irish constitution—becoming the first country to introduce same-sex marriage by popular vote in 2015 and removing the constitutional prohibition on abortion in 2018—the progressive movement may be about to meet its first defeat. This time the issue at stake is how Ireland’s constitution recognizes the contribution women make to society and the very definition of the family. Read more here.

 

CRIMINALIZE ‘GENDER APARTHEID’ SAYS AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION, by Rebecca Oas. “UN human rights experts recently called for ‘gender apartheid’ to be considered a crime against humanity. The American Bar Association adopted a similar resolution, pledging to support international and national efforts to criminalize and oppose ‘gender apartheid.’ The term ‘gender apartheid’ has been used by activists to criticize the Catholic Church and other religious institutions that have all-male clergy. To date the term has been used with regard to the situation of women in Afghanistan and Iran, which are governed by Islamic law. It is clear where the term is headed and that is to attack all faiths deemed ‘conservative’ by the feminist international.” Read more here.

 

NCAA WILLFULLY ENABLES THE NEXT LIA THOMAS, by Doreen Denny. “Most Americans continue to react in disgust to another photo of a smiling male standing proudly with a women’s medal, and the first ‘out trans’ to stand on an NCAA podium since University of Pennsylvania’s Lia Thomas in 2022. It’s only evidence of the insanity that continues to infect the wide world of women’s sports. This year, New Jersey’s Ramapo College, an NCAA Division III institution, moved Cortez-Fields to the women’s roster after he swam three years on its men’s team. From the opening of the season, Cortez-Fields brought glory to the fledgling program, clocking new school record times in the 100-yard butterfly, 50-yard freestyle, and 200-yard individual medley. Cortez-Fields was quick to credit Thomas with inspiration.” Read more here.

 

RADICAL DEMOCRATS AND COURTS ARE KIDNAPPING GENDER-CONFUSED KIDS FOR IDEOLOGICAL RANSOM, by B.L. Hahn. “Two parents in Indiana continue to fight for custody after a court yanked their child from their home because they refused to accept his ‘gender identity.’ …When ideological zealots steal children from their parents based on these imaginary offenses, it is de facto kidnapping. ‘They are coming for your children’ in the most literal sense — this was always the endgame of gender ideology.” Read more here.

 

I PRETENDED TO BE ‘NON-BINARY’ TO EXPOSE A MEDICAL SCANDAL AT KAISER PERMANENTE, by Beth Bourne. “On September 6, 2022, I received mail from my Kaiser Permanente Davis Ob-Gyn reminding me of a routine cervical screening. The language of the reminder stood out to me: ‘Recommended for people with a cervix ages 21 to 65.’ When I asked my Ob-Gyn about this strange wording, she told me the wording was chosen to be ‘inclusive’ of their ‘transgender’ and ‘gender fluid’ patients. Based on this response, several thoughts occurred to me. Could I expose the medical scandal of ‘gender-affirming care’ by saying and doing everything my daughter and other trans-identifying kids are taught to do? …I was prepared for failure. I wasn’t prepared for how easy success would be.” Read more here.

 

UNHINGED HEALTH ‘EXPERTS’ CLAIM MEN CAN BREASTFEED TOO, by Madison Ayers. “Breastfeeding isn’t just for women anymore, says a British National Health Services (NHS) trust in a leaked letter reported by The Telegraph. Men who identify as women can now take off-label drugs to produce breast secretions that are ‘comparable to that produced [by a woman] following the birth of a baby,’ according to the trust. This statement comes just months before the ninth edition of breastfeeding nonprofit La Leche League’s landmark book, The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, is set to release. Except this time, it’s only titled The Art of Breastfeeding. Just forget the word ‘womanly’ was ever included.” Read more here.

 

BIDEN STATE DEPARTMENT LAUNCHES GLOBAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST PRO-LIFE/FAMILY GROUPS, by Stefano Gennarini. “The Biden administration plans to investigate, intimidate, and silence opponents of abortion and the homosexual/trans agenda. The State Department published an ‘Equity Action’ report last week with plans to combat what it dubbed ‘regressive anti-rights movements.’ The open-ended catchall is a technical term of art for pro-life and pro-family organizations. Organizations that have been dubbed anti-rights include Family Watch International, ADF International, the Heritage Foundation, and C-Fam, publisher of the Friday Fax. …The Equity Action report commits the U.S. government to go beyond mere threats.” Read more here.

 

‘TRANSWOMEN’: MILKING IT FOR ALL IT’S WORTH, by Frank Haviland. “It’s funny how times change. I can remember when Michael Jackson was black, Des O’Connor was white, and a man pretending to be a woman was the subject of comedy rather than a test of one’s bona fides. Cast-iron certainties have become somewhat corroded in the age of wokeness, and few remnants now survive from the past 200,000 years of collective human wisdom. Nonetheless, one thing I definitely didn’t have on my 2024 Bingo card was the denial that mothers might be slightly better equipped to breastfeed than fathers.” Read more here.

 

CHILDREN WHO SURVIVED ABORTION TELL THEIR STORIES, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Perhaps no issue divides Westerners like abortion; we cannot even agree on who the main characters in this great moral drama are. For abortion supporters, it is about female bodily autonomy, without which sexual liberation is impossible. For pro-lifers, it is about the fundamental right to life of children in the womb, without which a society rooted in coherent human rights is impossible. For one side, the child is incidental or, delusionally, non-existent. For the other, abortion is violence perpetrated against the youngest and weakest members of our society. The stories of abortion survivors are a powerful testament to the fact that abortion is not about a what, but about a who.” Read more here.

 

BANNING ‘CONVERSION THERAPY’ IS A THREAT TO RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, by Jacob Williams. “Religious freedom is central to the liberal tradition. You don’t even have to be religious to benefit from it. Everyone has the right to believe or disbelieve what they like about life’s meaning, the universe and our place in it. Crucially, everyone also has the right to change their mind about those beliefs. The campaign to ban LGBT ‘conversion therapy’ in the UK threatens this vital freedom.” Read more here.

 

GENDER IDEOLOGUES STACK DECK ON WHO PANEL ON TRANS ‘HEALTH,’ by Grace Melton. “A who’s who of transgender activists was scheduled this week to meet in Geneva at the World Health Organization to develop new guidelines on ‘the health of trans and gender-diverse people.’ We can presume the meeting took place, even though public notice of it didn’t appear on the U.N. website listing meetings and conferences. Until recently, the international classification system of diseases treated gender confusion as a mental or behavioral disorder. But in 2019, the new edition of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11) replaced ‘transsexualism’ with the concept of ‘gender incongruence.’” Read more here.

 

TRANSGENDERISM IN PRISONS ISN’T DISCUSSED ENOUGH. SOME GROUPS ARE TRYING TO CHANGE THAT, by Sarah Holliday. “There are criminals, such as Andrew Franklin, who were sentenced to 270 years in prison for sexually abusing children. Or Donald A. Moyer, who was sentenced to 132 years on the same charges. Historically speaking, the judicial system was designed to deliver justice to those wronged by evildoers in our society. Or that’s what it’s supposed to do, that is. In recent times, transgenderism has become the exception, bypassing any sense of justice.” Read more here.

 

ALARMING BUT FALSE, by Bernard Lane. “‘Gender-affirming’ hormonal and surgical interventions do not reduce the risk of suicide for transgender-identifying adolescents, according to an unusually comprehensive and rigorous study. The landmark research from Finland, an international leader in the shift away from medicalized gender change, found that suicide risk in a large group of adolescents was predicted by the psychiatric problems that often accompany gender distress, not by the gender distress itself.” Read more here.

 

CBC CAN’T STOP DEFENDING CHILD ‘TRANSITIONS’ EVEN AS LEFTISTS AROUND THE WORLD BACK AWAY, by Jonathon Van Maren. “On February 14, the CBC published an article – notably, with no byline – titled ‘How hormone blockers put puberty on pause.’ The subtitle: ‘For adolescents with gender dysphoria, puberty blockers can buy them more time to explore their identity.’ Among other false claims, the article claims that the changes wrought by puberty blockers are entirely reversible.” Read more here.

 

‘SELF-ID HAS BEEN A COMPLETE DISASTER,’ by Spiked. “The trans-rights movement is often presented as the civil-rights cause of our times. We are told that policies like gender self-identification will liberate trans people, letting them live as their ‘true selves,’ free from judgement and oppression. But not all trans people agree. Debbie Hayton – a transsexual writer and author of Transsexual Apostate: My Journey Back to Reality – has long campaigned against self-ID and has sharply criticized the direction of the trans lobby. This is a movement, Hayton says, that not only harms women and children – it is also hurting trans people.” Read more here.

 

WOMEN’S HEALTH SHOULDN’T MEAN ABORTION, IT SHOULD BE ABOUT PROVIDING WOMEN LEGITIMATE HEALTH CARE, by Valerie Huber. “Few realms of public policy are as politically charged as that of women’s health. That’s a problem. In fact, I’d go much further: It’s a tragedy. We’ve abandoned the wealth of evidence offered to us by science. We’ve abandoned women. We’ve become parochial and combative, altering the definition of ‘women’s health’ until it is nearly unrecognizable. But scientific inquiry has shown us what optimal women’s health looks like, and what is necessary for its establishment.” Read more here.

 

ORWELLIAN: TRANSGENDER EFFORTS TO SILENCE BIOLOGICAL TRUTH REACH THE STATE DEPARTMENT, by Tyler O’Neil. “Someone needs to tell the Biden administration that George Orwell’s novel ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ isn’t an instruction manual. The administration, and the Left more broadly, has adopted a form of totalitarian ‘newspeak’ that aims to make criticism of transgender orthodoxy unthinkable by eliminating gendered words from the English language. This echoes the totalitarian government of ‘Nineteen-Eighty-Four,’ which systematically seeks to destroy words in order to render criticism of the government unthinkable.” Read more here.

 

RECENT STUDY ON ABORTION DRUG PANNED FOR ‘POOR QUALITY RESEARCH’ BY EXPERT, by Sarah Holliday. “Planned Parenthood, the leading proponent of abortion in America, has written on their website, ‘Medication abortion is really safe and effective. It’s a super common way to have an abortion, and millions of people have used it safely.’ Planned Parenthood broadcasts that abortion is a ‘right,’ that any method of terminating a baby in the womb is safe, and that complications are ‘extremely rare.’ However, several experts have pointed out that Planned Parenthood — along with other businesses that carry out abortions — are especially prone to dressing up poor or false data, research, and arguments to serve their agenda.” Read more here.

 

LETTING TRANS PLAYERS PARTICIPATE IN GIRLS’ AND WOMEN’S SPORTS IS A TICKING TIME BOMB, by Kirsten Fleming. Another day, another example of how our illiberal ‘inclusivity’ mandates are taking a jackhammer to the integrity and fairness of female athletics. We’ve seen it in golf, swimming, skateboarding, cycling, surfing and volleyball. The latest entry for the women’s sports hall of shame happened on the hardwood. During a girls’ hoops game earlier this month in Massachusetts, Collegiate Charter School in Lowell forfeited a game against KIPP Academy at halftime because they had three players go down with injuries. …An official statement from the school read, ‘In an effort to maintain safety for his team, [the coach] decided to forfeit.’ There was no mention that KIPP’s squad … has a biological male player standing ‘more than 6 feet tall with facial hair’ who identifies as female.” Read more here.

 

LGBT ACTIVISTS TOUT SURVEY ON ‘SATISFACTION’ AFTER GENDER TRANSITIONS. THERE’S JUST ONE PROBLEM, by Kate Anderson. “A recent survey promoted by trans activists found that over 90% of transgender Americans reported higher ‘life satisfaction’ after transitioning genders. …However, medical experts who spoke to the [Daily Caller News Foundation] criticized the survey’s methods, arguing that it appeared to exclude individuals who no longer identified as transgender, a demographic that would presumably be most likely to be dissatisfied with their gender transition” Read more here.

 

NATIONAL MS SOCIETY FIRES 90-YEAR-OLD VOLUNTEER OVER ‘PRONOUN’ CONTROVERSY, by Todd Starnes. “Fran Itkoff volunteered at the National Multiple Sclerosis Society for 60 years. She got involved because her late husband had MS. But the other day the 90-year-old volunteer was forced to step down because she ran afoul of the Alphabet Activists. Fran was confused when she saw that people were listing their preferred pronouns at the bottom of emails. So, she asked why – and that was a fatal mistake. …The manager of community engagement at MS told Fran that she was not inclusive enough. ‘At the end of the day, end of the week, I got an email from her saying “they were sorry, but they had to ask me to step down as a volunteer for the MS society,” Itkoff claimed.” Read more here.

 

NOT TRANS, BUT JUST GAY OR LESBIAN?, by John Stonestreet and Jared Hayden. Recently, The New York Times published an opinion column describing stories of people who, we’ve long been told, don’t exist. According to transgender activists and their allies in media, those who ‘detransition’ are either legends or are so rare that they’re viewed as right-wing pawns and talking points. They have also been described as people with ‘a lot of internalized transphobia.’ At best, they are viewed with suspicion because they complicate the narrative that ‘gender-affirming care’ — a phrase that actually refers to social, chemical, and surgical rejections of biology — will bring peace and contentment with one’s true identity.” Read more here.

 

DEMAND FOR TRANS TREATMENTS OVERWHELMING MINNESOTA CLINICS, by David Strom. “During the last legislative session, Minnesota declared itself a ‘trans refuge’ state, inviting children from around the country to travel to the state to get ‘gender-affirming care’ here if they were no longer able to get treatment to medically transition in their home state. The law was specifically targeted to get children to come to Minnesota for treatments including hormones and surgery.” Read more here.

 

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC’S ‘TRAVELER OF THE YEAR’ IS A DRAG QUEEN, by Karen Townsend. “National Geographic magazine has named nine people as its Travelers of the Year. One of those travelers is Wyn Wylie of Bend, Oregon. Wylie is a drag queen who goes by the name Pattie Gonia. He is a photographer and outdoor enthusiast. … Pattie Gonia is a self-described ‘intersectional environmentalist, drag queen, and advocate for inclusivity in the outdoors’ who works to ‘uplift LGBTQIA+ people and other underrepresented groups in the outdoors.’” Read more here.

 

THESE WOMEN’S DEATHS DEMONSTRATE THAT LEGAL ABORTION DOESN’T MEAN ‘SAFE’ ABORTION, by Carole Novielli. “Legal abortion doesn’t mean ‘safe’ abortion, despite scare tactics from abortion advocates suggesting that injuries take place only when abortion is illegal or ‘banned.’ The public has been fed lies for decades, which cited fabricated numbers suggesting that the number of women who died from illegal abortions prior to Roe v. Wade ranged between 5,000 and 10,000 annually. But Live Action News previously debunked these false claims, including debunking Planned Parenthood on this subject multiple times.” Read more here.

 

C-FAM EVENT CONNECTS THE FAMILY WITH POVERTY REDUCTION, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “On the sidelines of the Commission on Social Development at the United Nations, an event highlighted the traditional family’s role in reducing poverty and contributing to healthy societies. ‘The family is the most powerful predictor of upward economic mobility and the most important social safety net,’ said moderator Lisa Correnti, Executive Vice President of C-Fam, publisher of the Friday Fax. The event, co-sponsored by C-Fam, the Mission of Belarus to the United Nations, a coalition of countries known as the Group of Friends of the Family, Family Watch International, and Campaign Life Coalition, commemorated the 30th anniversary of the International Year of the Family in 1994. Read more here.

 

RESIST WHO’S TRANSGENDER TROJAN HORSE, by Louis-Marie Bonneau. “The World Health Organization (WHO) is poised to promote extreme transgender ideology the same way it once endorsed abortion-on-demand. Starting on February 19, a college of 21 experts will gather at WHO’s headquarters to develop global guidelines governing how doctors respond to people who identify as transgender. This project aims to create international standards for the issue by relying on a two-pronged strategy of ‘science’ and ‘human rights.’ The process is biased, as numerous national and international media outlets have pointed out. However, this strategy might work, because it already has in the past.” Read more here.

 

LOST BOYS: TRANSGENDER ‘CARE’ IS CASTRATION BY ANOTHER NAME, by Jonathon Van Maren. “In a recent interview with Brandon Showalter of The Christian Post, Forrest Smith told his story. After a struggle with mental illness and complicated family circumstances, Smith began hormone therapy at age 20 and lived for five years identifying as a woman in Portland, Oregon, relying largely on subsidized housing to survive. At that point, he went the rest of the way. He got breast implants ‘which permanently damaged my chest’ and a double orchiectomy (the surgical removal of both testicles) ‘which permanently sterilized me—it is surgical castration.’ He regretted the decision immediately and began to ‘detransition’ months later.” Read more here.

 

NCAA OFFICIAL RESIGNS OVER TRANSGENDER TAKEOVER OF WOMEN’S SPORTS: THIS IS ‘MASSIVE … AUTHORIZED CHEATING,’ by Suzanne Bowdey. “Whatever hopes people had for a new day at the NCAA have officially died out. A year into Charlie Baker’s reign and the wildfire threatening to burn down women’s sports still rages—no thanks to the unsympathetic man at the helm. If anything, Mark Emmert’s successor has proven to be coldly indifferent to the plight of collegiate women, refusing to even meet with victims of his transgender policy until Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Ariz., demanded it.” Read more here.

 

READERS RESPOND: RAPE CULTURE, TRANSGENDERISM, AND GROWING UP IN PORN WORLD, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Last week, I posed a question in this space: ‘Is Violent Porn Making Girls Identify as Transgender?’ Quoting parents, experts, and my own research, I observed one of the reasons that many girls are rejecting femininity is because of the rape culture created by predominantly violent digital pornography. If our culture is answering the question ‘What is a woman?’ with the front page of Pornhub, it is not surprising that some girls will want no part of it. Porn culture teaches girls that to be a woman is to be a target.” Read more here.

 

SAVING MARRIAGE AT SCALE, by Seth Kaplan. “Areas with more one-parent families tend to have lower rates of upward mobility. ‘Even if your own parents are married,’ economist Raj Chetty notes, ‘if you grow up in an area where a lot of kids are being raised by single parents, you are less likely to climb the income ladder.’ While there are exceptions, extensive data show that children raised in two-parent households, even when their parents are not legally married, do better emotionally physically, academically and economically over their lifetimes.” Read more here.

 

SHIFT IN MARITAL TRENDS IS REFLECTED IN VALENTINE’S DAY CELEBRATIONS, by Rachel Sheffield. “Fewer Americans are planning to celebrate Valentine’s Day in 2024 than in years past. America isn’t totally losing its love for the saccharine holiday, though. In fact, spending Valentine’s Day gifts—for everyone from a significant other to one’s cat—has increased. Russell Stover and Hallmark may not need to worry then. Declining celebration of the day may be because fewer Americans are married or in committed relationships, though—particularly younger adults. And that’s something we should be concerned about, given marriage’s connection with happiness and human thriving.” Read more here.

 

SPANISH PARADE FEATURES CHILDREN DRESSED IN LINGERIE & PASTIES, by Brittany M. Hughes. “A local parade in Spain featured very young children dressed in lingerie with gay ‘pride’ flags strapped to their backs. … Children sported rainbow ‘pride’ flags on their backs as they gyrated in pantyhose, garters, wigs and full makeup in front of an audience full of adults, children and even infants. This is the sick, degenerate, perverted foulness that is the LGBTQ agenda. This is the war that is on your doorstep, hellbent on devouring your kids.” Read more here.

 

DATING CRISES FUELS MARRIAGE CRISIS, by Katrina Trinko. “If you’re not looking to date this Valentine’s Day, be grateful. It’s a disaster out there. Pair the lingering effects of the sexual revolution, of a world where too often sexual pleasure is prioritized over relationships founded on love and giving, with Big Tech’s noxious dating apps, where algorithms seem far better at perpetuating singledom than finding people soulmates, and you’ve got a hellscape.” Read more here.

 

WHY MOTHERS LEAVE THEIR CHILD BEHIND IN A ‘BABY BOX,’ by Joe-Lize Kruijsse-Brugge. “A child should grow up with his mother. That’s the theory. But in the real world, some new mothers are in panic and try to hide their baby. That is where the baby hatch seems to be an outcome. The number of them is growing in Europe. The baby hatches provide a space where women can abandon their child anonymously and safely. For example, women who are desperate after rape, or because of honor crimes or homelessness, sometimes do not know what to do with their child.” Read more here.

 

‘GENETIC SEX’ IS A MISNOMER, by Colin Wright. “Biology is under siege from activists trying to undermine our long-established, universal understanding of what constitutes male and female organisms. These are not merely cloistered academic debates; this ideologically motivated pseudoscience is having a profound impact on society. It affects the existence of female-only spaces such as bathrooms, dressing rooms, rape shelters, and jails/prisons, as well as the safety and fairness of female-only sports leagues and events. It also shapes the debate over ‘gender-affirming care,’ which seeks to alter the bodies of sex-nonconforming children so that their physical features align with their self-proclaimed ‘gender identity.’ Read more here.

 

NOT ONE SINGLE PRO-LIFE LAW IN AMERICA PUTS WOMEN IN PRISON FOR HAVING ABORTIONS, by Amanda Stirone Mansfield. “A legal analysis of states’ current laws, statutes, and opinions demonstrates that women will not be prosecuted in their state for seeking or obtaining abortion. Most state laws regulating or prohibiting abortion contain explicit carve outs exempting women from criminal or civil liability, others exempt women implicitly by specifically targeting physicians or others who perform abortions rather than the women who undergo them.” Read more here.

 

THE TRANS MOVEMENT CONQUERS IRISH DANCING, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Is there any phrase that sums up liquid modernity’s destruction of tradition better than ‘transgender Irish dancing?’ Somehow, I doubt it—yet here we are. A recent headline in the Irish Independent announced the latest heritage-flattening victory for trans activists: ‘Transgender Irish dancers allowed to compete in categories matching their gender identity.’ To translate that from gender ideology into non-Orwellian English: ‘Boys are now allowed to compete against girls in Irish dancing competitions.’” Read more here.

 

WOMEN SHARE THEIR ABORTION STORIES: ‘THE LIFE WAS JUST SUCKED OUT OF ME, TOO,’ by Samantha Kamman. “Three women have opened up about their past abortions and how they eventually forgave themselves after struggling with indescribable emotions and, in some cases, addictions. For those who have had an abortion, many women have described feeling as if abortion was their only option at that moment. Women who spoke with The Christian Post discussed how they found healing after their abortions and have been inspired to help other women facing similar situations they experienced.” Read more here.

 

WANT TO LEAD A HAPPY LIFE? GET MARRIED, by John Sexton. “Adults who are married report being far happier than those in any other relationship status, according to a Gallup Poll published Friday. ‘Any way you analyze those data, we see a fairly large and notable advantage to being married in terms of how people evaluate their life,’ said poll author Jonathan Rothwell, principal economist at Gallup.” Read more here.

 

RIP CURL’S WIPEOUT SHOWS THAT FED-UP AMERICANS ARE WINNING, by Suzanne Bowdey. “It’s been a week to forget for surf company Rip Curl, the latest brand to risk consumers’ wrath with a pro-transgender marketing campaign. Their January post urging people to meet ‘waterwoman’ Sasha Lowerson, a biological man in a bikini, lit a literal fire under fans, who took to the internet to burn everything from surf booties to boards. Days after deleting the reel, with international outrage at a peak, headquarters decided to do something that Bud Light still hasn’t: apologize.” Read more here.

 

THIS ONE ABORTION STORY CHANGED MEDICINE FOREVER, BUT PRO-LIFERS HARDLY TALK ABOUT IT, by Dr. Alan Moy and Jay Kamath. “At the March For Life rallies and events, the pro-life community and representatives from various churches gather to protest the practice and legality of abortion. While the pro-life movement and the Catholic Church proclaim the dignity of every human life by confronting the practice of abortions, there has been a lack of similar zeal from those organizations to address the exploitation and continued and growing use of aborted fetal cell lines and tissue in biomedical research.” Read more here.

 

SCIENCE DENIAL: LIA THOMAS’ BIOLOGICAL EDGE ‘IS NOT THE PROBLEM,’ by Sarah Parshall Perry. “A favorite tactic of the anti-biology crowd is to force a convolution of the sexes and paint immutable differences as artificial, ensuring that women’s equality can be decimated sport by sport, bathroom by bathroom, program by program. Shaw strains to argue that we ‘can’t even define biological sex all that well.’ Of course we can.” Read more here.

 

GRISWOLD: LETTING MEN PLAY WOMEN’S SPORTS STARTED ‘TRANSGENDER ARMS RACE,’ by The Federalist Staff. The effect of letting men play women’s sports has been a ‘transgender arms race,’ said Federalist Editorial Director Kylee Griswold on Newsmax after a women’s college volleyball game in Canada featured five male players. ‘If a team wants to win, they basically have to get as many men as possible onto their women’s team.’” Read more here.

 

ON DEMAND, by Andrew Amos. “The most important thing to realize about ‘gender-affirming care’ is that it is not a medical model of care at all. …It doesn’t require a diagnosis to justify treatment, as it relies upon patients’ subjective reports, which healthcare workers are advised not to challenge. It isn’t based on high-quality evidence, a fact which the RCH-AusPATH guidelines explicitly acknowledge, as they state that their recommendations are based on clinician consensus because of the absence of evidence. Not only do the guidelines acknowledge the lack of evidence, they consider it unethical to look for high-quality evidence at all, which of course prevents the discovery of harms.” Read more here.

 

MARRIED PEOPLE ARE LIVING THEIR BEST LIVES, by Jonathan Rothwell. “At least since humans could read and write and likely earlier still, people have debated the merits of marriage. Anthropologists have shown that marriage is a cultural universal, found in every society from hunter-gatherers to ancient empires. Lectures from the Roman stoic philosopher Musonius Rufus contain much on the subject of marriage, including its benefits to individuals (saying no union is more necessary or agreeable), its proper aim (procreation as well as companionship and love), and its effects on society, saying: ‘Anyone who deprives people of marriage destroys family, city, and indeed, the whole human race.’” Read more here.

 

IS VIOLENT PORN MAKING GIRLS IDENTIFY AS TRANSGENDER?, by Jonathon Van Maren. “For millions of young people, masculinity and femininity are being defined by online pornography—with profound and ugly consequences. Porn addiction is now ubiquitous among young people, and a generation has grown up with their view of sexuality shaped by the extreme and violent content found on major porn sites such as Pornhub. An increasingly toxic sexual environment in which sexual violence has been normalized has been the result. … A new UK report indicates that ‘nearly half of all girls aged 16 to 21 say they’ve had a partner expect sex to involve physical aggression such as slapping and choking.’” Read more here.

 

‘THE LOST BOYS’ ON GRISLY HELLSCAPE OF TRANS SURGERY, by Brandon Showalter. “Not long after the contemporary transgender revolution besieged the Western world, the alarm that subsequently arose mostly centered around dysphoric teen girls and young women, often to the exclusion of boys and hurting young men. While there is reason for greater concern for the girls given the dizzying statistics — over 4400% increase in referrals of females to gender identity services in the UK from 2009-2018, for example — males are suffering too. A new documentary film highlights several of these boys and young men and examines why and how they wound up traveling down the road of gender medicalization.” Read more here.

 

WOMAN DESCRIBES ‘NIGHTMARISH’ ABORTION PILL EXPEREINCE: ‘NO ONE HAD WARNED ME,’ by Bridget Sielicki. “Author Elizabeth Gillette says she went to Planned Parenthood and was given the abortion pill, even though the doctor never looked at her medical history or told her about potential complications or risk factors (of which there are many). A ‘no test’ protocol in dispensing the abortion pill has become common. ‘Nothing was said about any side effects,’ Gillette writes. ‘Or of needing to see me for a follow-up appointment with the doctor. Or about what to do in an emergency. We talked more about billing than the impact of these drugs on my body, or my physical and emotional health.’” Read more here.

 

AUSTRALIAN CITY COUNCILWOMAN SUSPENDED FOR SAYING ‘TRANSWOMEN ARE BIOLOGICAL MEN,’ by David Strom. “Across the Anglo-American world, cities are standing up and speaking out about Israel’s conflict with Hamas. It’s a controversial topic, but when rapists, murderers, hostage-takers, and psychopaths need support, Leftists are there to stand with them. Standing up for women, though? That is a bridge too far. It’s Nazi-adjacent or something, and any politician who takes the side of women who insist on biological reality need to be driven out of office. That, at least, is the reality for one city councilor in Australia, who was suspended from her seat for uttering the hateful words that ‘transwomen are transwomen and remain biological men.’” Read more here.

 

GUTTMACHER CLAIMS ABORTIONS ARE INCREASING NATIONALLY, BUT IT CHANGED HOW IT GETS ABORTION DATA, by Randall O’Bannon. “Just days after National Right to Life issued a report saying available data appeared to show abortions going down in the U.S. since Dobbs, the Guttmacher Institute, the former special research affiliate of abortion giant Planned Parenthood, sent out a press [release] claiming new data shows abortions on the increase. …The abortion industry is clearly anxious to try to make the case that pro-life policies have not ultimately proven effective. They also want people to believe that it has, by clever legal and logistical maneuvering, been able to beat or blunt the impact of pro-life laws and keep the abortion industry humming.” Read more here.

 

TRANSGENDER SERIES PART 2: ‘TRUTHFUL THERAPIST’ EXPLAINS WHY PARENTS CAN’T TRUST MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS, by Tyler O’Neil. “Unfortunately, parents can’t trust mental health professionals on the issue of a transgender identity, a veteran social worker warns. Pamela Garfield-Jaeger, a therapist and social worker with decades of experience dealing with mental health professionals and vulnerable people, warns that the over-psychologizing of childhood is contributing to the rise of rapid-onset gender dysphoria and the trauma of kids mutilating their own bodies to pursue a transgender identity, rather than dealing with underlying psychological issues.” Read more here.

 

BIOETHICS JOURNAL ARTICLE: PREGNANCY EQUIVALENT TO CATCHING THE MEASLES, by Wesley J. Smith. “The Journal of Medical Ethics is one of the preeminent bioethics journals in the world. So, when an article appears in the publication that is subversive to human decency and basic morality, notice needs to be taken. ‘Is pregnancy a disease?’ the article’s title asks. Why yes, yes, it is, the authors answer. First, they depict pregnancy as if the gestating baby were a tumor: ‘Imagine a patient who visits the doctor having an abdominal mass that is increasing in size, causing pain, vomiting and displacement of other internal organs. Tests are booked, and investigations are planned. But when the patient mentions that she has missed her period, these alarming symptoms suddenly become trivial. She is pregnant!’” Read more here.

 

TAKE IT FROM AN EX-ABORTIONIST: MANY PRO-ABORTION ARGUMENTS ARE CYNICAL LIES, by Jonathon Van Maren. “‘Political language,’ George Orwell once wrote, ‘is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.’ There is perhaps no situation in which those words are more applicable than the rise of the ‘pro-choice’ worldview in North America. It is one based on ignorance, ideology, the repudiation of scientific evidence, and outright deceit. As a new wave of pro-abortion propaganda comes at us in a post-Roe America, it is worth remembering that their pre-Roe arguments were lies as well.” Read more here.

 

THE 3 PERILS OF PORNOGRAPHY, by Josh Buice. “The numbers regarding the pornographic industry are staggering. The industry generates billions of dollars annually and provides push-button access to images and videos that are consumed by millions of men and women, who are typing in words such as ‘adult’ and ‘sex’ into their smartphones, by the minute. Many monsters of society such as Bundy, Dahmer, Richard Ramirez and John Wayne Gacy all professed to an ongoing porn addiction. That should not be something we read over too quickly. While pornography doesn’t always lead to serial murder, it rarely if ever remains self-contained within the realm of personal lust and sexual immorality.” Read more here.

 

IT’S TIME TO PASS THE KIDS ONLINE SAFETY ACT, by Michael Toscano. “At one pivotal point in the Senate Judiciary Committee’s January 31 hearing on the sexual exploitation of children online, GOP Sen. Josh Hawley challenged Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, to stand up, turn around and apologize to all the parents packing the audience. Zuckerberg did—and as he turned, he was met with more than a dozen large photos held up by grieving parents of kids who had committed suicide in a bitter attempt to escape their bullying and victimization on social media.” Read more here.

 

PROBE THE PROTOCOL, by Bernard Lane. “The parliament of the Netherlands—the country whose experiments with ‘juvenile transsexuals’ inspired the global adoption of puberty blockers—has called for independent scrutiny of the ‘gender-affirming’ treatment approach. On January 25, the Dutch House of Representatives passed a motion asking the government to seek advice from the independent Health Council on the medico-legal implications of medicalized gender change for minors. ‘I hope this will cause a breakthrough in the gender debate [in the Netherlands] and that we will change course regarding gender treatments in children,’ said Diederik van Dijk, of the conservative Calvinist Reformed Political Party (SGP), who sponsored the motion.” Read more here.

 

AMERICA’S SEISMIC SHIFT IN MEDICAL ETHICS THREATENS RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, by Eric Patterson and Nathan Berkeley. “Until only a few years ago, medical ethics was preoccupied with what treatments were appropriate to preserve life. Today, the focus is on finding justifications to disfigure the body or even to destroy life altogether. While we need to reverse this harmful trend, we also need to ensure protection now for those who refuse to go along with it. We must recognize that safeguarding medical conscience rights is essential to defending America’s First Freedom in our present moment.” Read more here.

 

WHY BOYS ARE PULLING TAMPON DISPENSERS OFF THE WALLS IN MEN’S BATHROOMS, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Our culture has gone completely insane, and a perfect example of that is the fact that high school boys have more common sense than their teachers. There is something deeply insidious about what we are collectively doing to young people by forcing LGBT ideology on them from a young age … At Brookfield High School in Connecticut, for example, Principal Marc Balanda was enraged at an act of ‘vandalism’ that occurred in the boys’ bathrooms. At 9:30 a.m. on January 24, a tampon dispenser had been installed in the boys’ bathroom. By 9:52 a.m., it had been torn off the wall and chucked onto the floor, leaving tampons lying all over the place. The dispenser had been installed due to a Connecticut state law mandating that free menstrual products be provided in at least one male bathroom in each high school to accommodate students who identify as ‘transgender’ or intersex.” Read more here.

 

NEW YORK TIMES FINALLY ACKNOWLEDGES RISKS OF GENITALLY MUTILATING CHILDREN, by Ben Kew. “The New York Times has published a piece outlining some of the dangers of young, impressionable children or teenagers undergoing genital mutilations as part of their sex change surgery. In a piece clearly marked as ‘Opinion,’ the Times published a piece by columnist Pamela Paul with the headline: ‘As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do.’ Over the course of her article, Paul outlines the case of 23-year-old Grace Powell, who experienced feelings of gender dysphoria when she was a teenager.” Read more here.

 

‘PURE EVIL’: 11-YEAR-OLD CRIES IN PAIN WHILE GETTING PUBERTY BLOCKERS, by Tierin-Rose Mandelburg. “A sad video that shows a little boy getting puberty blockers is gaining lots of traction online. It’s a heartbreaking clip, and viewers are calling out the transgender ideology for what it really is: ‘pure evil.’ The video was in response to another video that Libs of TikTok shared in which a doctor explained that transgender ‘care’ for kids is ‘lifesaving.’ The video about the little ‘girl’ now has close to 2 million views. In it, a mother and her 11-year-old son Joseph, who they refer to as ‘Josie,’ visit a transgender specialist named Dr. Olsen, who insists that ‘Josie’ is at a ‘perfect place’ to begin puberty blockers to stop the young boy’s body from going through male puberty. … During the video, Josie gets the blockers implanted in his arm and cries out in pain from the injection.” Read more here.

 

‘SAFE, LEGAL, AND RARE’ IS GONE. NOW IT’S ‘MORE ABORTION, ALL THE TIME,’ by Cassy Fiano-Chesser. “Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has positioned herself as a pro-abortion politician and is cementing that legacy with a plea for the Biden administration to be doing more to push and promote the intentional killing of preborn human beings to the American public. Whitmer recently appeared on CBS’s ‘Face the Nation,’ where she said President Biden needed to not only speak about abortion more, but also needed to use more ‘blunt language.’” Read more here.

 

THERE WERE NO TRANS ANGLO-SAXONS, by Lauren Smith. “Trans ideologues are rewriting history. Activist historians are continually ‘discovering’ new examples of long-dead people who supposedly identified as trans. The aim of this exercise is to pretend that trans identities are as old as the hills – and that modern, batty ideas about gender have, somehow, withstood the test of time. The Anglo-Saxons are the latest target. Last week, new research made the bizarre claim that some ancient Saxon warriors might actually have been ‘transgender men’ – that is, women who identified as men. This is according to James Davison, a Ph.D. candidate and tutor at the University of Liverpool.” Read more here.

 

I WAS CONCEIVED IN RAPE. SOME PEOPLE SAY ABORTION’S OKAY IN CASES OF RAPE. BUT I’M GLAD I’M ALIVE, by Ryan Bomberger. “Years ago, a nationwide report determined 1% of abortions are due to rape-related pregnancies. Abortion advocates today use those tragedies to advocate for another travesty: ending the unborn child’s life because of the biological father’s evil act. I am the 1% used to justify 100% of abortions. I was conceived in rape but adopted in love. Because of a courageous birth mom and loving adoptive parents (yes, my real parents), I am proof that triumph can rise from tragedy. But I wasn’t a life worth saving. At least that’s what I’ve been told as a guest lecturer on college campuses, such as Harvard.” Read more here.

 

IT’S TIME FOR WOMEN ATHLETES, AND THE FANS WHO LOVE THEM, TO BOYCOTT ANY COMPETITIVE SPORT THAT ALLOWS MEN INTO FEMALE CONTESTS, by Libby Emmons. “Sasha Jane Lowerson was tapped by surf brand Rip Curl to boost the brand after they got rid of Bethany Hamilton, who had spoken out against men competing in women’s sports. Trans golfer Hailey Davidson is poised to gain a spot on the Ladies Professional Golf Association tour after two rounds of in the LPGA and Epson Tour Qualifying School in Palm Springs, California. …Nearly every women’s sport is facing infiltration by men who not only claim to be women, but who believe this claim gives them the right to take the place of women in competition.” Read more here.

 

RIKERS RAPE CASE SHOWS FEMALE PRISONERS ARE VOICELESS VICTIMS OF GENDER IDEOLOGY, by Jay Richards. “The first flashpoints to erupt in the gender wars have involved activists awakening a sleeping giant—millions of parents across the political spectrum. Mostly thanks to outraged parents, the resistance against gender ideology scored its first major victories in 2023. States passed dozens of laws prohibiting secret ‘gender-support plans,’ protecting women’s sports, or restricting gender drugs and surgery on kids. There are, as yet, no such victories for another class of victims who lack a natural political constituency to protect them: female prisoners.” Read more here.

 

THIS EPIDEMIC IS AMERICA’S MODERN CIVIL RIGHTS CHALLENGE, by Jack Brewer. “Distracted by controversial political debates and foreign affairs, most Americans are unaware of the fatherlessness epidemic permeating our nation – a serious problem we have neglected at our doorstep. It’s now six decades since the Civil Rights Movement, where icons fought for a better America and marched to ensure that families could leave their children with a better country than the one they inherited. Just as millions joined the fight for equality then, today we must recognize and address the civil rights epidemic of fatherlessness plaguing our nation.” Read more here.

 

RILEY GAINES TEAMS WITH ‘SOUL SURFER’ BETHANY HAMILTON IN BUILDING AN ARMY OF TRUTH, by Jennifer Oliver O’Connell. “’Brave Books’ latest wave of library Story Hours is taking on new life in 2024. On Friday, at the Library Center in Springfield, Missouri, professional swimmer and activist Riley Gaines and Bethany Hamilton—the champion surfer who survived a shark attack and continued to compete and win, partnered together to read from their Brave Books. … Both of these women are vocal opponents of transgender men participating in women’s sports, but they were also there to encourage and support families in building an Army of Truth in a culture that appears to want to traffic in lies and mistruths.” Read more here.

 

AS KIDS, THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE TRANS. THEY NO LONGER DO, by Pamela Paul. “Many transgender adults are happy with their transitions and, whether they began to transition as adults or adolescents, feel it was life changing, even lifesaving. The small but rapidly growing number of children who express gender dysphoria and who transition at an early age, according to clinicians, is a recent and more controversial phenomenon.” Read more here.

 

THE WHO CLARIFIES ITS PLANS TO ISSUE GUIDELINES ON ‘TRANS AND GENDER DIVERSE PEOPLE’ —SIGNIFICANT CONCERNS REMAIN, by The Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine. “On January 15, 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued an updated announcement regarding its plan to develop healthcare guidelines for ‘trans and gender diverse [TGD] people.’ … Various stakeholders—clinician groups, LGBT groups, parent groups and women’s rights champions—expressed alarm that the WHO seemed to be proceeding on the basis of an unproven assumption that expanded access to gender-affirming hormones is universally beneficial. In addition, these groups also objected to the WHO’s assumption that legal recognition of self-declared gender is a key human right and must be adopted by legal systems worldwide.” Read more here.

 

PRO-LIFERS TEMPORARILY BLOCK ALLIANCE BETWEEN WHO AND ABORTION EXTREMISTS, by Rebecca Oas. The World Health Organization (WHO) has put off a decision to admit a radical pro-abortion organization into official relations and launch a three-year collaboration. The proposed partnership with the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) drew sharp criticism from a coalition of pro-life groups led by C-Fam (publisher of the Friday Fax) that called upon the WHO Director-General to reconsider the alliance.” Read more here.

 

POLITICIAN’S PROMISE, by Bernard Lane. “Queensland’s Health Minister Shannon Fentiman has belatedly acknowledged that her state’s gender clinic is under review—a review she claims will examine treatment approaches and the latest scientific evidence. In recent comments reported by The Sunday Mail newspaper, Ms. Fentiman said that ‘on reflection’ a review was timely; in June last year the government had dismissed calls for an inquiry from whistleblower psychiatrist Dr. Jillian Spencer and pediatrician Dr. Dylan Wilson. On December 19, GCN (Gender Clinic News) reported that the gender clinic review had begun, although the government had not announced it and refused to answer any questions about it.” Read more here.

 

SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE HAS TRIGGERED AN INTERNATIONAL BLOODBATH, by Kimberly Ells. “One of the first headlines that greeted me at the turn of the new year was this: ‘Abortion Was the Leading Cause of Death Worldwide in 2023.’ This statistic grabbed my attention as if I had tripped over a landmine. The leading cause of death last year was the intentional killing of babies. And the total estimated number of babies killed last year alone was 73 million. This may be the biggest epidemic of death occurring from a single cause in one year ever recorded, except the flood documented in the book of Genesis, which left less than a dozen people on the face of the earth.” Read more here.

 

THE RED STATE V. BLUE STATE WAR OVER ‘TRANS-ING’ KIDS AND WHY CALIFORNIA IS PIVOTAL, by Brandon Showalter. “A brewing movement of California parents is underway that blue-state politicians would do well to watch. Growing concern about what is happening to children may be the issue that bridges the divide between liberals and conservatives because most people want their children to grow up to live long and healthy lives. The ideological push to transition them to another ‘gender identity’ by way of experimental medicalization is not landing well among the general public.” Read more here.

 

ABORTION PILL REVERSAL GAVE MY DAUGHTER AND ME A SECOND CHANCE AT LIFE, by Vanessa Taylor. “When I first heard that abortion pill reversal (APR) was controversial, I was shocked. I couldn’t believe that states like Colorado are fighting to prevent mothers and fathers from learning about, much less using, something that could save their unborn children. I know better than anyone because APR saved my daughter’s life.” Read more here.

 

SEX IS NOT A SPECTRUM, by Colin Wright. “As more and more people refer to themselves as trans, nonbinary, and gender-non-conforming, activists have been adamantly pushing the narrative that our common understanding of males and females existing as real biological entities is obsolete. Instead of male and female, some argue there are only varying degrees of ‘male-ness’ and ‘female-ness.’ Because of this, they assert that segregating any space or sports using binary sex categories is illegitimate, since if no definitive line can be drawn who’s to say a purported ‘male’ isn’t really female? Many even go so far as to claim that we should let people decide for themselves what sex they are, as though this were a matter of personal choice.” Read more here.

 

WHY IS A FULL-GROWN MAN COMPETING AGAINST TEENAGE GIRLS IN SWIMMING?, by Lauren Smith. “First they let men compete in women’s sports. Now they’re letting adult men compete against teenage girls – and wander into their changing rooms. As hard as it might be to believe, in Canada a 50-year-old man really is being allowed to compete in swimming competitions alongside 13- and 14-year-old girls. Melody Wiseheart, formerly Nicholas Cepeda, is a professor of psychology and behavioral science at York University in Toronto, specializing in children and young people. Concerned parents tipped off Rebel News, a right-wing website, about Wiseheart in October last year.” Read more here.

 

SEXUAL FIDELITY IS AT THE HEART OF A THRIVING CULTURE, by Jim Daly. “When it comes to culture’s slide concerning where it stands on the spectrum regarding respect and preservation of the institution of marriage and romance, consider the story of Marcus Porcius Cato, the ancient Roman soldier, senator and historian also known as ‘Cato the Elder.’ It was sometime in the 2nd century B.C. when Cato expelled from the Roman Senate a politician who kissed his wife in public within the gaze of their grown daughter. Plutarch, a Greek philosopher, condemned the display of affection as being ‘disgraceful.’ One need not wonder what Cato the Elder would think of today’s openly sexual and increasingly pornographic society, not to mention the rise in polyamory — the practice of having multiple sexual partners, all in full view.” Read more here.

 

PUBERTY BLOCKERS ARE DANGEROUS, by Dr. Pamela Williams. “We are currently witnessing what may be the greatest medical scandal in history: the use of Puberty Blockers (PBs) in providing what is termed ‘Gender Affirming Care’ (GAC). Unlike other medical scandals, such as the Opiate crisis, this scandal uniquely targets children. Astonishingly, practitioners and regulatory bodies who should be serving as gatekeepers and raising alarms, are fully complicit in this global, generational scandal. The stated purpose of PBs in GAC, which it is being used off-label for, is to act as a ‘pause button’ on puberty, supposedly giving children time to consider their gender identity while the development of secondary sexual characteristics is suspended by synthetic hormones such as Lupron, Zoladex, Trelstar, Supprelin, and Tiptodur.” Read more here.

 

LGBT ACTIVISTS ARE SCARED NEW BRUNSWICK’S PREMIER WILL WIN ON A PARENTAL RIGHTS PLATFORM, by Jonathon Van Maren. ‘On Thursday, January 25, New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs gave a ‘state of the province’ speech to a crowd in Fredericton, detailing his government’s accomplishments and laying out his administration’s plan. At several points, Higgs mentioned his government’s staunch support for parental rights, which has made him the target of LGBT activists and progressive politicians since his changes to Policy 713. The changes mandated that parental consent be obtained by school staff before the names or pronouns of their children are changed to the opposite gender at school, a practice that had been quietly brought in some years before.” Read more here.

 

NEW GROOMER BOOK TEACHES CHILDREN ABOUT SEX AND ‘WET DREAMS’ — WITH PICTURES, by Brittany M. Hughes. “A new groomer book just dropped, and it’s a doozy. Author Rachel Greener’s new children’s book ‘Growing Up’ teaches kids ages 6 to 8 all about masturbation, ‘wet dreams,’ vaginal intercourse and even sperm and egg donations — along, of course, with plenty of graphic imagery to go with it. The book also teaches kids that doctors may ‘assign’ a gender to a baby when he or she is born based on whether they have a penis or a vulva, but that gender designation might be wrong and not match the child’s ‘identity’ later in life (this identity realization can happen at any point, she claims, including when a person is a child, a teen or even an adult).” Read more here.

 

TRANSGENDER IDEOLOGY HAS MADE CHILDREN LESS SAFE FROM SEX PREDATORS, by Jonathon Van Maren. “A recent story from the Daily Mail provides yet another example of what seems to be a consistent trend: a trans-identifying male engaging in pedophilic public perversion. From report: A charity shop worker who is transitioning to become a woman has been cleared of flashing ‘her penis’ at two children but has been told she faces prison for child pornography offenses. Samantha Norris was alleged to have deliberately exposed herself in front of two 11-year-old girls and ‘glorying’ in her nakedness as they walked past her house in Ringwood, Hampshire, in July 2023. Again, stories like this have become common.” Read more here.

 

EU ASKS WHO TO GIVE RADICAL ABORTION GROUP SPECIAL INSIDER STATUS, PRO-LIFE GROUPS OPPOSE, by Stefano Gennarini. “The European Union is pushing the World Health Organization to enter into ‘official relations’ with the global abortion law firm Center for Reproductive Rights. Africans and other traditional delegations oppose the move. A decision to give the legal arm of the global abortion industry a special role within the international health body was expected Tuesday this week. It was postponed after pro-life groups alerted delegations of the group’s controversial advocacy for abortion and homosexual/trans issues.” Read more here.

 

DID THIS MOM IN A BIDEN CAMPAIGN AD ‘NEED’ TO DELIBERATELY ABORT HER PREBORN BABY? DOES ANY MOM?, by Cassy Fiano-Chesser. “A new campaign ad for the Biden administration features a Texas obstetrician-gynecologist (OB/GYN) making the now-familiar claim that she was denied a medically necessary abortion because her pregnancy with a child with a ‘fatal condition’ put her own ‘life at risk.’ But is this true? But did she actually need to have her preborn child with a disability intentionally killed? In the ad, Dr. Austin Dennard is featured. … Dennard argued in her Biden campaign ad that her life was at risk; however, carrying a child with a disability (like anencephaly, which was the diagnosis in this case) does not put the mother at risk any more than carrying an able-bodied child does.” Read more here.

 

THE TRANSGENDER ADMINISTRATIVE STATE, by Mike Howell. “Woodrow Wilson, the father of the American administrative state, once wrote: ‘Government does now whatever experience permits or the times demand.’ Well, the times now ‘demand’ the construction of a massive transgender architecture across the labyrinth of the federal government. Perhaps if Wilson were able to gaze a century into the future and see the absurd result, the 28th American president would have hesitated before unleashing this unconstitutional form of government. We weren’t so lucky, and now here we are.” Read more here.

 

‘WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL ABOUT LOSING IT?’ – PLANNED PARENTHOOD RELEASES VIDEO ABOUT VIRGINITY FOR KIDS, by Tierin-Rose Mandelburg. “Planned Parenthood has gone FULL groomer now. Last week Planned Parenthood tweeted out a video about virginity. The minute-long infomercial talked about the different types of sex and promoted the idea that ‘sex’ is basically whatever you want it to be. The video featured one groomer from the group who stood in what looked like a set of a sex ed classroom. ‘Sex Ed 101’ was in colorful letters across the top of the classroom scene. There was also a female and male reproductive system diagram, a poster that talked about consent, and a skeleton with a t-shirt that read, ‘sex ed is power.’” Read more here.

 

IAN COPELAND IS CONFUSED ABOUT THE BIOLOGY OF SEX, by Colin Wright. “Biology is under siege by activists attempting to undermine basic, long-standing and universal principles of what constitutes a male and female. These are not merely academic debates; the view that emerges victorious from these debates will have pervasive and profound impacts on society. This includes issues such as the rights of women and girls to access female-only spaces like bathrooms, dressing rooms, rape shelters and jails/prisons, and the integrity of female sports. It also affects the debate over so-called ‘gender-affirming care,’ which seeks to alter the bodies of sex-nonconforming children so that their physical features align with their self-proclaimed ‘gender identity.’” Read more here.

 

THE LIES BEHIND ‘CONVERSION THERAPY’ PANIC, by Malcolm Clark. “The Scottish government is refusing to learn from its mistakes. Its first flagship bill of the year will be a ban on conversion therapy – a proposal that is steeped in the same rhetorical obsession with trans rights that gave us the political disaster of the gender-recognition bill. Even more inexplicably, the government’s latest policy suffers from the same fatal flaw as that bill: it betrays a cavalier attitude towards facts and evidence.” Read more here.

 

HOLLYWOOD STAR WILL FERRELL HAS BECOME THE LATEST MOUTHPIECE FOR TRANSGENDER AGENDA, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Last year, I wrote an analysis of Hollywood’s campaign to make transgenderism mainstream, for The American Conservative, noting that big-name actors were starring in and producing dramas, romantic comedies, children’s entertainment and documentaries focused on transgender storylines. Much of this storytelling, I noted, was clever, potent propaganda – likely to be effective. Now, famed comedy actor Will Ferrell is leveraging his star power on behalf of the transgender movement in a documentary titled Will & Harper, which recently premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.” Read more here.

 

ALPHABET IDEOLOGY PROPAGANDA BEGINS AT THE ULTRASOUND NOW, by David Strom. “Alphabet ideologists want to begin educating parents to dismiss sexual differentiation at the first ultrasound so they don’t start thinking that their son or daughter is a boy or a girl. That is the message from Michelle Forcier, who famously asked Matt Walsh whether a chicken could cry. No, I am not kidding. Her explanation for why human beings are not sexually differentiated is that we can cry and chickens cannot. As a Planned Parenthood abortionist and gender specialist, I have to applaud her for not going straight to advocating for the murder of the preborn baby. Yet, she retains her anti-natal inclination by suggesting the possibility of sterilizing the child. She is happy as long as she can prevent the birth of children in some manner or another.” Read more here.

 

AMERICAN YOUTH ARE IN DESPERATE NEED OF PRO-LIFE EDUCATION, NEW POLL SUGGESTS, by Susan Ciancio. “A recent poll conducted by Students for Life of America and the Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement examined abortion beliefs held by registered voters between the ages of 18 and 42. They found that people in these age ranges aren’t as liberal about abortion ‘rights’ as the mainstream media would have us all believe. According to the article, ‘only 9% supported the Democratic Party’s radical agenda of abortion through all 9 months without limits, up to and including allowing infanticide.’” Read more here.

 

IS YOUR BABY WEARING DIAPERS MADE BY PRO-ABORTION COMPANIES?, by Nancy Flanders. “It should be evident that without babies, the companies that produce and sell infant diapers wouldn’t have a customer base. Yet the nation’s largest and most widely used diaper brands are made by companies that have spoken out against the overturning of Roe v. Wade or have donated to abortion businesses, displaying their pro-abortion stance. Coterie prides itself on providing ‘modern diapering essentials’ including its products ‘The Diaper’ and ‘The Pant.’ It markets its products as an ‘upgrade to your diapering routine’ and says its ‘high-performing products are dermatologist-tested, hypoallergenic, free of 200+ chemicals, cruelty-free and made with sustainably sourced plant-based materials’ (emphasis added). All good things.” Read more here.

 

DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR: ITS SUBVERSIVE ORIGINS AND HIDEOUS AGENDA, by Kurt Mahlburg. “When Western nations legalized same-sex marriage in the mid-2010s, few people were expecting a deluge of drag queens to follow — but somehow, that is what we got. Now drag queens are everywhere: in city libraries, at K-12 schools, in parades and just in case you can’t escape them elsewhere, on airlines. If you criticize this bizarre modern ritual, watch out — you might be fired, as happened to one unsuspecting UK university lecturer. Apparently, like the smart phone, microplastics or the nanny state, drag queens are just part of what it means to live in the modern world, and you will enjoy them.” Read more here.

 

NCAA MOCKS FEMALE ATHLETES WITH TRANS POLICIES, by Macy Petty. “As a senior in college where I just completed my final season as an NCAA athlete, my unique experiences culminated last week in a face-to-face interaction with the chair of the NCAA Board of Governors, Linda Livingstone. With this encounter, the brutal reality hit me: the biggest, most powerful collegiate sports organization in the world has no time or place for the female athletes they govern.” Read more here.

 

BREAKING: MAINE BILL THAT WOULD PROTECT KIDNAPPERS WHO TAKE ‘TRANSGENDER KIDS’ FOR ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE’ FAILS IN COMMITTEE, by Tyler O’Neil. “The Maine House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee voted that the transgender custody bill LD 1735 ‘ought not to pass’ Thursday. According to footage of the committee posted online, the motion that the bill ‘ought not to pass’ passed 12-0. Rep. Katrina Smith, a Republican on the committee, also confirmed to The Daily Signal that the bill had died in committee. ‘Today we won a victory for our children who have been fooled into thinking they are not perfect the way God made them,’ Smith told The Daily Signal. ‘With the death of LD 1735 we have proven that when evil is brought out of the darkness and exposed in the light, it can be vanquished. The people spoke loudly and it mattered.’” Read more here.

 

JO PHOENIX HAS STRUCK A BLOW FOR BIOLOGICAL REALITY, by Jo Bartosch. “A ruling handed down this week by an employment tribunal served as a 155-page-long slap across the chops of trans-activist bullies. The tribunal found that Jo Phoenix, a criminology professor, was unfairly dismissed from her position at the Open University (OU) because of her gender-critical beliefs. The judgment was clear that the OU’s discrimination against Phoenix was motivated by a ‘fear of the pro-gender-identity section’ of the university. This latest win for biological reality follows a number of victories in the UK for poorly treated gender-critical employees.” Read more here.

 

SHOULD DOCTORS AND NURSES BE DISCIPLINED FOR REPORTING ILLEGAL ABORTIONS?, by Michael Cook. “Between 1861 and November 2022, only three British women had ever been convicted of having an illegal abortion. But, writes Zoe Williams in The Guardian, since December 2022, one has been convicted; six are awaiting trial; and dozens have been investigated for late-term abortions. What is going on? Abortion, while readily available in the UK, has not been decriminalized. It is still possible to have an illegal abortion. Should doctors report women who have had an illegal abortion? This appears to be purely a hypothetical question, but the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has stepped in to clarify that it should never happen.” Read more here.

 

‘MRBEAST’ NORMALIZES TRANSGENDERISM, by Jonathon Van Maren. “When Bruce Jenner announced to ABC’s Diane Sawyer that he identified as a woman in April 2015, it was a global tipping point for the transgender movement. Nearly 17 million people watched, and headlines, newscasts and the internet exploded in its wake. Jenner, after all, is a member of the Kardashian clan, one of the wealthiest and most famous reality show families in the world. As one commentator observed, after Jenner’s interview, everyone knew a transgender person. The follow-up reality show I Am Cait, an LGBT activist noted, ‘put trans on the lips of everyone in the world.’” Read more here.

 

REMEMBERING ROE: WHAT 50 YEARS OF ABORTION PROPAGANDA DID TO AMERICAN CULTURE, by Nancy Flanders. “Fifty-one years ago, the Supreme Court of the United States forced every state to legalize abortion through at least the arbitrary age of ‘viability’ for any reason, and up until birth for so-called ‘health’ reasons. Abortion was supposed to be ‘legal but rare.’ But through decades of propaganda, Americans were slowly convinced that what was originally marketed as a necessary evil had become a right to be celebrated. Preborn children have been so dehumanized by euphemisms that women now joke about killing their babies.” Read more here.

 

3 RESOLUTIONS PRO-LIFERS SHOULD MAKE THIS YEAR, by Charlotte Pence Bond. “To change the narrative surrounding abortion and encourage mothers to give their children life, it is essential that we understand the challenges mothers face and come alongside them in their journeys. Take a moment to consider these three pro-life resolutions you should make in the new year. Pro-life people make comments about abortion that sometimes give me pause. Oftentimes, because pro-life advocates are especially aware of the moral and scientific tragedy of abortion, it is easy for them to make assumptions about their own lives.” Read more here.

 

THE ABORTION PILL IS NOT SAFER THAN VlAGRA, PENICILLIN, OR TYLENOL. HERE’S THE FACTS, by Randall O’Bannon, Ph.D. “Every time abortion pills are back in the news, you can count on some hot shot reporter taking the bait offered by the abortion industry and repeating carefully crafted but factually suspect claims that ‘mifepristone is safer than…’ What it is allegedly safer than will include whatever popular, common drug that millions of Americans use every year without any significant concern for safety. A while ago, it was Tylenol. We will review that claim momentarily, but we and others have answered that here.” Read more here.

 

IT IS TIME GOLF CRUSHED NOISY TRANS IDEOLOGY WITH SOME COMMON SENSE, by Oliver Brown. “There are times, in sport’s endless contortions, to prioritize inclusion over fairness, where the past can seem a more enlightened place than the present. Until 2010, the Ladies Professional Golf Association explicitly restricted membership to players who were ‘female at birth.’ So far, so uncontroversial, you might think. Except Lana Lawless, a long-drive competitor who, at 57, had undergone gender reassignment five years earlier, successfully argued in court that the body’s policy was discriminatory. Fast-forward 14 years and we now confront the absurd scenario of Hailey Davidson, who was born male, closing in on an LPGA tour card.” Read more here.

 

THE 2024 OLYMPIC GAMES MUST EXCLUDE MALES FROM FEMALE CATEGORIES, by Daniela Constantino Llaven. “The countdown has begun—only six months until the 2024 Olympic Games. And already we can anticipate the serious challenges that female athletes will face in their quest for success—most critically, including male athletes who identify as women in women’s competitions. Women competed for the first time in the Olympics at the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris. Now, 124 years later, with the Summer Games being held in Paris again, it would be a disastrous backslide if male athletes who identify as women are allowed to compete in female-only categories. Yet recent international pushes for so-called inclusion make this an all too real scenario for the upcoming Olympics.” Read more here.

 

THE SNP’S TRANS CRUSADE WILL TEAR FAMILIES APART, by Alex Cameron. “In Scotland today, conversion therapy is a bit like the Loch Ness monster. Some are obsessed with it, despite there being no evidence for its existence. There are no news stories of electric-shock therapy. No reports of people being sent away to camps to be ‘converted’ out of their sexual orientation. No priests caught keenly ‘praying the gay away.’ Conversion therapy simply isn’t a problem in 21st-century Scotland. Yet still the SNP-led Scottish government is seeking to prohibit what it calls ‘conversion practices.’” Read more here.

 

CAN OPPOSITION TO HOMOSEXUAL/TRANSGENDER ISSUES AND ABORTION BE CONSIDERED A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY?, by Stefano Gennarini. “The concept of ‘gender-based persecution’ in the draft articles of a new treaty on crimes against humanity presents a unique and unprecedented threat to the ability of traditional people and persons of faith to communicate freely what they believe about the nature of the human person, men, women, marriage and family, and to adopt laws consistent with such beliefs. The draft treaty discards the definition of gender as ‘male and female’ which was part of the definition of the crime of ‘gender-based persecution’ in the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Without that definition, the draft articles open the door to the criminal prosecution of anyone who objects to homosexual and transgender ideas, behavior or practices.” Read more here.

 

WHO ADMITS EVIDENCE SUPPORTING ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE’ IN CHILDREN IS ‘LIMITED AND VARIABLE,’ by Wesley J. Smith. “’The science’ is moving away from considering ‘gender-affirming care’ as the ‘settled’ and best way to treat children and adolescents experiencing gender confusion. In fact, even the World Health Organization (WHO) just admitted this truth. Here’s the background. WHO was preparing to push gender-affirming care as the standard of care for treating dysphoric children. But after getting intense pushback, it backed down — and made a cogent, and in my view crucial, admission that should materially impact this debate going forward.” Read more here.

 

CHINA IS FAILING TO PERSUADE WOMEN TO HAVE MORE CHILDREN. OR ANY CHILDREN, by Michael Cook. “China’s population has declined for the second year in a row, despite desperate government incentives to persuade women to have children. In 2023, the number of people fell by 2.08 million to 1.410 billion. The number of births fell by 500,000. This year, 2024, could see a temporary recovery. A demographer noted in the official newspaper, the Global Times, that this is the Year of the Dragon, a year in which couples traditionally try to conceive a child. But demographers agree that the trend downwards is unstoppable.” Read more here.

 

WHY IS BIG TECH CLAIMING THAT IT HAS A FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT TO VIOLATE YOUR KIDS’ PRIVACY?, by Mike Wacker. “Whenever they oppose age verification laws, Big Tech pretends that they genuinely care about your privacy. When they sue states that pass these age verification laws, however, they then claim that the First Amendment gives them the right to collect your kids’ personal information. Last year, Utah passed its own social media law. Utah’s law requires minors to obtain parental consent before they can create an account on social media—which in turn requires all users to verify their age. In addition to that, Utah’s law also includes commonsense requirements that bans social media companies from collecting and using kids’ personal information, and also bans advertisements for kids.” Read more here.

 

BRITISH CHILDREN UNDER 10 ‘SELF-GENERATING’ MORE SEXUAL ABUSE IMAGERY THAN EVER, by Michael Curzon. “Online watchdogs are having to remove more child sexual abuse imagery from the internet than ever before as pedophiles are able to gain easy access to minors who are in the supposed safety of their own homes. The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) said on Wednesday that it found 275,655 web pages containing child sex abuse imagery last year alone—an 8% rise on the 2022 figure. It added that each of these ‘can contain hundreds, or even thousands, of images or videos of child sexual abuse.’” Read more here.

 

DEFENDING SEX IN MISSOURI, by Colin Wright. “The biology of sex has been under siege by activists in recent years. These scientific distortions, which gradually moved from activist Tumblr blogs to ‘scholarly’ humanities journals, have now infiltrated biology journals, medicine and law. The consequences have been catastrophic, as one might expect when fundamental aspects of our biology are disregarded and inverted. The rights of women and girls to single-sex spaces and fair sports competition, along with children’s rights to bodily health and integrity, have all been sacrificed on the altar of a person’s self-declared ‘gender identity.’” Read more here.

 

I’VE BEEN AN OBGYN FOR 30 YEARS AND DELIVERED OVER 5,000 BABIES. I KNOW WOMEN DON’T NEED ABORTIONS, by Dr. Ingrid Skop. “The abortion industry … preys on women facing unintended pregnancies, promoting abortion as the only solution and promising it will reset the clock and erase the difficult circumstances. I have seen far too many women make the rushed decision of ending the lives of their unborn children, only to experience regret later, often accompanied by mental health complications such as anxiety, depression, substance and alcohol abuse, and even self-harm.” Read more here.

 

YOUTHANASIA? CANADA PROVINCE SUPPLIES FENTANYL TO MINORS WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT, by Ed Morrissey. “Canada appears to lead the world in finding new ways to kill off patients through its health-care system, but this may be its most cynical ‘innovation’ yet. A few days ago, the National Post reported that British Columbia’s provincial government had quietly approved a plan to supply minors with fentanyl without parental consent. Supposedly, the provision of ‘safe’ fentanyl tablets would allow children to get addicted in a slightly less-lethal manner, or something.” Read more here.

 

‘TRANSGENDERISM HAS BECOME A YOUTH SUBCULTURE,’ by Jo Bartosch. “Psychiatrist Dr. Az Hakeem, a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and honorary associate clinical professor at the University College London Medical School, cuts quite a dash. As we sit down to discuss his new book, his fingers are weighted with hefty silver skull rings and his tie is adorned with crossbones. But the reason he stands out isn’t simply his gothic sartorial elegance – it’s because, unlike most therapists who work in the field of gender dysphoria, Hakeem follows the evidence and refuses to go along with so-called affirming care.” Read more here.

 

THE SHIFTING PRO-LIFE LANDSCAPE IN A POST-ROE AMERICA, by Mat Staver. “Abortion is the leading cause of death in America and around the world, with more than 44.6 million abortion deaths worldwide in 2023. The most tragic part about this staggering statistic is that each of these deaths was unnecessary and entirely preventable. January is Sanctity of Human Life month, as well as the anniversary of January 22, 1973, the day the United States Supreme Court handed down the infamous Roe v. Wade opinion that led to the death of around 64 million unborn babies in America. This legal precedent that lasted nearly half a century was sanctioned by a nation founded on the promise of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. How can a country founded on these principles deem infanticide a constitutionally protected ‘right’?” Read more here.

 

‘NON-BINARY’ ACADEMIC WHO RESIGNED FROM OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY AFTER WRITING PRO-PEDOPHILE BOOK PUBLISHES PAPER ACCUSING GENDER IDEOLOGY CRITICS OF ‘MORAL PANIC,’ by Genevieve Gluck. “An academic who was forced to resign from a criminal justice assistant professorship after defending the ‘dignity’ of ‘minor attracted people’ has now published a paper accusing critics of gender ideology of engaging in a ‘moral panic.’ Allyn Walker, a female-to-male transgender who identifies as non-binary, had once entertained theories about giving pedophiles ‘high quality child pornography’ to stop offending. Walker’s new paper, titled ‘Transphobic discourse and moral panic convergence: a content analysis of by hate mail,’ was published by the journal Criminology in autumn of 2023 and incorporated outraged e-mails Walker had received as content.” Read more here.

 

SUPREME COURT DENIES REVIEW OF CRITICAL TRANS BATHROOM CASE THAT COULD HAVE CLARIFIED TITLE IX, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “The Supreme Court unceremoniously denied review Tuesday in a case that would have clarified once and for all whether separating bathrooms based on biological sex violates either Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 or the equal protection clause of the Constitution. Now, the nation must wait with bated breath for publication of the Department of Education’s final Title IX rule. That Biden administration rule promises to upend decades of sex equality in education by allowing students in a federally funded school to use the bathroom that corresponds to their gender identity, rather than their biological sex.” Read more here.

 

EVIDENTLY CORRECT, by Bernard Lane. “A leading Swedish clinician and researcher has welcomed neuropsychologist Sallie Baxendale’s new review paper as ‘a strong case’ for urgent studies of the effects of puberty blockers on the brain. ‘This is a much-needed review of the potential impact on cognitive function, given the surge of puberty-suppressing treatment for children with gender dysphoria,’ said Professor Mikael Landén, of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute and the University of Gothenburg, who was involved in Sweden’s 2021 systematic review of the evidence base for hormonal treatment of minors with gender dysphoria.” Read more here.

 

THE RESURGENCE OF THE TWO-PARENT FAMILY, by Nicholas Zill. “The latest readings from the U.S. Census Bureau show that in 2023, the proportion of children in two-parent families increased to 71 percent. The fraction in single-parent families decreased to 25%, while the proportion with neither birth parent declined slightly to under 4 percent. … The trends reviewed here show us that those who predicted a relentless increase in family instability or single parenthood were simply wrong. There seem to be growing numbers of young adults in all racial and ethnic groups who realize the economic, educational, and emotional benefits of marriage for themselves and their future children. As parenthood becomes more selective, the marriage-minded may have an advantage in childbearing.” Read more here.

 

THE GROWING IGNORANCE OF THE BENEFITS OF MARRIAGE—AND WHY IT’S DANGEROUS, by Rachel Sheffield. “A large percentage of Americans don’t know or outright disagree that marriage builds stronger families and is linked to better well-being for children, according to the annual American Family Survey. This is despite the fact that such benefits have been proven time and again. These attitudes may be due in part to nearly half of all U.S. children today spending at least part of their childhood in a non-intact family. Overall, the majority of U.S. adults have a positive view of marriage, agreeing it has benefits for individuals and society. Still, a significant portion of respondents seem unclear about the value of marriage.” Read more here.

 

FEAR, NOT CHOICE, DRIVES WOMEN TO ABORT ‘WANTED’ BABIES, by Nancy Flanders. “One of the common adjectives abortion advocates use in front of the word ‘child’ is ‘wanted.’ Since the American Birth Control League (now Planned Parenthood) first created its ‘Every Child, a Wanted Child’ motto in an attempt to control population, the idea that children shouldn’t exist unless they are ‘wanted’ by their parents has become widely accepted. Yet, research shows that women aren’t necessarily aborting because they don’t want their babies, but because they’ve been led to believe abortion is the only option they have.” Read more here.

 

BIDEN WANTS TO FORCE DOCTORS AND NURSES TO DO ABORTIONS, BUT WE MUST RESPECT THEIR PRO-LIFE BELIEFS, by Kevin Burke and Theresa Burke. “A new directive announced Jan. 9 by Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services will largely undo a rule set in place by the Trump administration. The Trump policy affirmed the rights of medical workers to refuse to participate in medical services that violated their ethical and religious beliefs, such as dispensing abortion pills and performing abortions, sterilizations, and gender mutilation surgeries on minors. Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) Senior Counsel Matt Bowman told LifeNews, ‘In its rule, HHS suggests it will continue its misguided use of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act to require doctors to perform abortions even though that federal law has no abortion requirement, and conscience laws provide no exception allowing forced performance of abortion.’” Read more here.

 

WOMEN STOCKPILING ABORTION PILLS ARE ALSO STORING UP HEALTH RISKS, by Dr. Lloyd Holm. “As The Dallas Morning News recently reported, women in the United States are ‘stocking up’ on abortion pills out of fear these drugs (mainly misoprostol and mifepristone) will become hard to source due to looming restrictions. Indeed, the Supreme Court will be ruling later this year on an appeal by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals limiting access by mail to mifepristone. The appellate court overturned a portion of the lower court ruling rescinding the Federal Drug Administration’s long-standing approval of mifepristone. It left intact the ability for women to acquire the drug by mail until a SCOTUS ruling. Also left intact, however, were some restrictions, including the provision that mifepristone only be administered in the presence of a physician and only through the seventh week of pregnancy rather than the 10th.” Read more here.

 

CHURCH LADIES WERE RIGHT ABOUT SEX EDUCATION, by Michael Reagan and Michael Shannon. “A federal judge recommended by Iowa Senators Charles Grassley and Joni Ernst has decided that a law banning pornography from Iowa government school libraries and also banning homosexual grooming from elementary schools should be blocked. …This is the fruit from the introduction of ‘sex education’ in schools during the ’60s. And the Church Ladies that were so roundly reviled by the sophisticated people — and their wannabes — were exactly right in their prediction of how the nation was taking the first step down the slippery slope.” Read more here.

 

HOW A BALLOT INITIATIVE TO SAVE KIDS FROM TRANS MADNESS IN CALIFORNIA COULD SAVE THEM ELSEWHERE TOO, by Nathanael Blake. “The Democrats who run California love ‘transitioning’ kids, including chemically and surgically sterilizing them. But a courageous group of residents is betting California voters are less radical than their politicians and that the tide can turn against gender ideology even on the West Coast. A proposed ballot initiative by Protect Kids California would put the Golden State’s radical ‘trans kids’ agenda — which has previously been checked only by Gov. Gavin Newsom’s presidential ambition — before the people. Read more here.

 

CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS 3 HAVE BEEN REFERRED TO UK GENDER CLINIC, by Michael Cook. “What is an appropriate age to start on the transgender path? It has emerged that 3 or 4 is not considered too young by some healthcare workers. Reports from the United Kingdom about the now-defunct Tavistock Gender Identity Clinic show that 12 three-year olds, 61 four-year-olds, 140 five-year-olds and 169 six-year-olds were referred to Tavistock for consultations over the past decade, from 2010-11 to 2021-22.” Read more here.

 

WHY IS THE PUNDIT CLASS SUDDENLY SO MARRIAGE-OBSESSED?, by Joanna Weiss. “Marriage, at least in the U.S., isn’t what it used to be. Over the past 50 years, marriage rates nationwide declined by 60 percent. Forty percent of U.S. children are now born to unmarried mothers, twice as many as in 1980. One widely covered poll last year found that 2 out of 5 GenZ-ers and millennials consider marriage an outdated concept. Such stats have inspired a volley of columns, blog posts, think pieces and books, arguing why we should (or shouldn’t) care. The decline of marriage, after all, joins other social changes such as falling birth rates and a ‘loneliness epidemic’ — the new crusade of Surgeon General Vivek Murthy — that arguably could be solved by more marriage.” Read more here.

 

COGNITIVE CHALLENGE, by Bernard Lane. “The failure of gender clinic researchers to properly investigate obvious questions about the potentially damaging effect of puberty blockers on the brain means that minors cannot be supplied with the answers they need in order to give informed consent to this treatment, according to a new paper by British neuropsychologist Sallie Baxendale. ‘Vague hints from poor quality studies are insufficient to allow people considering these [hormone suppression] treatments to make an informed decision regarding the possible impact on their neuropsychological function,’ says her review paper published last week on the Authorea preprint website.” Read more here.

 

THE HARD TRUTH ABOUT PREGNANCY AND ILLNESS, by Carmel Richardson. “Yeniifer Alvarez-Estrada Glick and her child in utero died two weeks after Roe v. Wade was overturned. The mother’s death, according to pro-choice activists, was the result of anti-science abortion bans. Had she only been permitted to kill her unborn child, as the writer Stephania Taladrid argued in the New Yorker magazine this week, she may have survived. Glick’s history tells a different story. Glick had a three-thousand page long health history. It included diabetes, high blood pressure, and at least one prior hospitalization for pulmonary edema. Read more here.

 

MARKING THEIR OWN HOMEWORK: AN IDEOLOGICALLY CAPTURED WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION?, by James Esses. “When the WHO announced the development of guidelines on the health of trans and gender diverse people on the 18th December 2023, we at Thoughtful Therapists were taken aback by the pro-affirmation tone of the announcement and by the short time period (3 weeks) allowed for members of the public and interested organizations to access the biographies of the Guideline Development Group (GDG) and to inform WHO of our views about the members. The list comprises 21 members. When we began to carry out research on the members of the GDG, we discovered that the biographies published by WHO were selective and did not give a full picture.” Read more here.

 

HOW DEMOCRATS SET THE STAGE IN 2023 FOR AN LGBT ONSLAUGHT IN 2024, by Rachel N. Morrison. “In 2023, the Biden administration doubled down on its commitment to radical gender ideology. Federal agencies proposed a slew of regulations pushing the Biden administration’s extreme pro-LGBT agenda in education, employment, and health care at the expense of children’s interests and women’s rights. If you can’t even define what a woman is, how can you protect women’s rights? Below are the top — or should I say bottom? — five agency proposals.” Read more here.

 

‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE’ IS INCREASINGLY BEING RECOGNIZED AS UNSCIENTIFIC, by Ian Kingsbury. “American medical associations are doubling down on their support of so-called ‘gender-affirming’ care for children even as lawsuits mount and European countries reverse course. America’s public reckoning with the harms inflicted on kids by pediatric gender medicine ticks closer by the day, and indeed several studies published in recent weeks bring the tragic and profound risks into sharper focus.” Read more here.

 

GIVING A GREEN LIGHT TO MALE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, by Brendan O’Neill. “I’m old enough to remember when being progressive meant opposing male violence against women. When the decent liberal thing to do was to side with battered women against the gross blokes who beat them up. Not anymore. Now the right-on are giving a green light to male brutishness. They’re actively cheering men who fancy punching women in the face. As long as they do it in the boxing ring, that is. Courtesy of USA Boxing’s new trans rules, it is now permissible for boxers who were born male and who went through male puberty – that is, men – to compete against women.” Read more here.

 

I DON’T GET THIS SCOTTISH SOCIALIST PUSH TO PUT DANGEROUS MALE PRISONERS IN FEMALE PRISONS, by Beege Welborn. “Last year, there was a ‘gender bill’ – Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill – before the Scottish parliament that would have allowed men in women’s spaces, including prison, if they self-identified as such. The uproar from women and their defenders was deafening, as was the shrieking from alphabet soup sex activists and the Sturgeon administration, along with most of the SNP members, all of whom were using all the gaslighting and TERF hate in their repertoire.” Read more here.

 

IS THE MENTAL HEALTH COMMUNITY USING TRANS IDEOLOGY TO SWEEP REAL MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS UNDER THE RUG?, by Sara Higdon. “On Thursday, there was a school shooting in Perry, Iowa, where a 17-year-old male shot four people, killing one 6th grader. In the search to find out more about the shooter, it was discovered that he appears to belong to the queer community. The shooter’s social media post indicates that he likely identified as ‘gender fluid’ and used ‘he/they’ pronouns. According to trans activists, this would make him ‘transgender,’ or someone who identifies as a gender different from their sex at birth. Not to be confused with a transsexual who is diagnosed with gender dysphoria and ‘transitions’ to be perceived by society as the opposite sex.” Read more here.

 

UN HUMAN RIGHTS RAPPORTEUR ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN BLASTS WHO GENDER COMMITTEE, by David Strom. “[Reem Alsalem, United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls] is turning her ire at Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the current head of the World Health Organization and transnational tyrant. At issue is the formation of a committee to develop WHO guidelines on transgender “care,” the formation of which has followed an unusual (and unusually opaque) process that not coincidentally created a group in which all the members are hard-core alphabet ideologists.” Read more here.

 

EXPOSING 6 LIES ABORTION ACTIVISTS SAY ABOUT PRO-LIFE PEOPLE, by Tierin-Rose Mandelburg. “Ms. Magazine, which has a history of fabricating truths, straight-up lying, and being just about as pro-left as an outlet can be, released a piece last week titled ‘Punish, Torture, Kill: The Reality of Pregnancy in “Pro-Life” America.’ The piece aims to insist that the pro-life movement only exists to ‘force women to carry pregnancies against their will.’ The piece is penned by Jill Filipovic, one of the staunchest abortion supporters in existence. Filipovic, when not writing dramatized pieces for Ms. Magazine, writes for Cosmopolitan and CNN, two notoriously left-leaning, abortion-supporting outlets. It’s no wonder she went ham with all the lies on this piece.” Read more here.

 

FREE SEX CHANGES FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, by David Strom. “By now, you have probably heard that California has extended its version of Medicaid to include free health care for illegal immigrants. It’s a bold move, given that the state’s budget is nearly $70 billion in deficit. Nothing says ‘fiscal responsibility’ more than inviting the entire world into your state for free medical care. What most people don’t know is that Medi-Cal offers ‘gender-affirming care’ as part of its benefits package, meaning that any random person from anywhere in the world can cross our porous border and get a free sex change operation and ‘gender-affirming care’ at taxpayer expense.” Read more here.

 

THE DECLINE OF MARRIAGE: A GLIMPSE INTO AN UNSETTLING TREND, by Virgil Walker. “Finding a life partner has diminished in importance as couples increasingly delay or forgo marriage altogether. The decline in marriage rates can be attributed to the evolving societal roles of women, the perceived concerns that men associate with marriage, and the myriad of new options provided by social media that enable both genders to bypass the once obligatory rite of passage.” Read more here.

 

I’VE HAD 4 ABORTIONS. THE ABORTION PILL WAS THE WORST, BUT WOMEN AREN’T GETTING THE FULL STORY, by Kelly Lester. “I had four abortions in my life. My first was at 15-years-old and was a surgical abortion. I used the abortion pill for my second abortion at 19-years-old because my first abortion was traumatic. I thought the pill would be easier, less traumatic on my body, and well, it was cheaper than going the surgical route. The baby’s father was against the idea and didn’t put money towards it so overall, it seemed like the better option. But it wasn’t. It was one of the most horrific experiences of my life.” Read more here.

 

PLANNED PARENTHOOD OPPOSES CHILD SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY BILL, by Cassy Fiano-Chesser. “A New Jersey bill requiring parental approval before a minor can join social media has garnered opposition… from Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion business. Last November, Democrat Herb Conaway introduced a bill that would require children in New Jersey to have parental approval to use social media, including required verification of the adult’s age. …Numerous organizations, like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), oppose the bill, and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund of New Jersey likewise issued a press release condemning the bill. They argue that numerous at-risk children need access to social media.” Read more here.

 

WHY THE MEDICAL DEFINITION OF ‘GENDER DYSPHORIA’ IS A GET-RICH SCAM, NOT A REAL DIAGNOSIS, by Jennifer Bauwens, PhD, and Walt Heyer. “Last week, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, vetoed a measure that would have barred minors from receiving harmful transgender interventions such as puberty blockers and wrong-sex hormones. Amid intense backlash, he’s since tried to run damage control, signing an executive order on Friday that bans only trans surgeries for minors. We hope Ohio Republicans still override DeWine’s veto. There’s more going on behind the scenes of the medical establishment, however, especially as it relates to the ‘gender dysphoria’ diagnosis.” Read more here.

 

ARE MOST CHILDREN WITH GENDER DYSPHORIA GAY, AND NOT TRANSGENDER CANDIDATES?, by Jeff Davidson. “The issue of whether or not someone ought to change their sex is monumental. No longitudinal studies exist that reveal the satisfaction levels of those who have undergone radical surgeries and radical changes. Injecting children with hormones, hormone blockers, and other substances that the body did not generate poses great risks. The issue should not be left to anyone aged six to 16 years old. Evidence is now emerging that our medical establishment is influencing children to undergo drastic procedures that might not be justified. The notion of gender-affirming care ignores a critical issue. Are children who are confused about whether they should be boys or girls actually homosexuals? It’s a vital question that few within medicine or politics are willing to confront.” Read more here.

 

ANALYSIS: UN RIGHTS EXPERTS TAKE SIDE WITH PIMPS AGAINST PROSTITUTED WOMEN, by Stefano Gennarini. “The UN human rights office is aggressively moving forward with the full decriminalization of prostitution, including sidestepping UN protocols and procedures, the laws of the overwhelming majority of countries, and the UN General Assembly. Those who stand to benefit from such advocacy are traffickers and pimps, not sexually exploited women. As previously reported in the Friday Fax, the UN human rights office reacted quickly to undermine a groundbreaking resolution of the EU Parliament last summer. The resolution called on all EU countries to criminalize sex buyers and pimps. It was a heavy blow to those who want prostitution to be fully decriminalized worldwide.” Read more here.

 

THE WHY OF THE WHO, by Bernard Lane. “The World Health Organization’s new guideline project for transgender health has ignored the intense international debate about youth gender medicine and overlooked key reformist experts, according to the prominent American gender clinician Dr. Erica Anderson. ‘[The WHO] seem to be oblivious to the issues with transgender healthcare, particularly as they are playing out in the developed world,’ she told Gender Clinic News, adding that the agency had failed to draw on the expertise of leading clinicians who come informed by systematic reviews of the evidence base.” Read more here.

 

MORE PEOPLE ARE STANDING UP TO THE RADICAL LGBT MOVEMENT, AND IT’S WORKING, by Jonathon Van Maren. “On November 1, 2023, the Inner House of the Court of Session in Scotland informed the feminists that a man can, in fact, become a woman. In the case of For Women Scotland v. the Scottish Ministers on the meaning of ‘sex’ in the Equality Act, the court ruled that men cannot simply identify as women—but that if they obtain a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) that declares them to be a woman, then they can access to women’s facilities. The decision, ironically, was touted as a compromise—men don’t get to simply ‘self-identify’ as ‘transwomen’ and then gain access to women’s spaces; women must accept ‘transwomen’ who undergo the government process of having their sex ‘changed’ (which is not possible, but which the court clearly accepts as valid).” Read more here.

 

A COMMON ARGUMENT FOR LEGALIZING ABORTION IS WRONG, by Dr. Calum Miller. “Perhaps the most powerful argument for legal abortion throughout history has been the threat of what happens when it is banned: Countless women will die from backstreet abortions, we are told, because that is what used to happen before it was legalized. Legalization, so the received wisdom goes, put an end to all that. … Reality is, as usual, far more complex. Legalizing abortion might empower credible, skilled doctors — but it also often empowers quacks and reduces the perceived risk among women. Many women continue to seek less reputable sources of abortion for reasons of privacy, finance, or simply because they are unaware of any legal change. This leads to far more abortions in general, many of which remain unsafe. Read more here.

 

TRANS MURDERER SENT TO WOMEN’S PRISON, by Jazz Shaw. “In 2012 and 2013, a man named Steven Buchanan murdered two handymen he had hired to do some labor around his farm in Oregon. After killing them, he fed their corpses to his pigs. He was eventually discovered and arrested for the crimes. In 2015 he was convicted, with the judge telling him that he was ‘a cold-blooded killer’ who ‘valued pigs more than you value human life.’ Buchanan was sentenced to fifty years in prison. But then things reportedly took a turn for the strange. The killer was no longer Steven Buchanan. Instead, he was ‘Susan Monica,’ claiming to be a transgender woman. …Monica nee Buchanan is now being housed at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, a women’s prison located in Wilsonville, Oregon.” Read more here.

 

VERMONT GETS $4K IN GRANTS FOR MORE DRAG STORY HOURS IN RURAL AREAS, by Tierin-Rose Mandelburg. “New year, same grooming goals. The Vermont Community Fund just gathered four thousand dollars in funds to help expand Drag Story Hour events to rural libraries in the state. According to local Vermont News Channel 3, two drag queens are helping extend the opportunity to groom kids through books and storytelling at local libraries. Justin Marsh, whose drag name is Emoji Nightmare, said he wished for more drag shows when he was a child. ‘I was a queer kid in rural Vermont and this wasn’t available to me,’ he said according to the outlet, adding, ‘I think that’s what’s really important about not only story hour, but organizations like Outright Vermont. They’re really allowing space for youth to arm themselves with the knowledge of gender and sexuality.’” Read more here.

 

2024: THE YEAR REALITY WAS SAVED?, by James Esses. “Reality is under attack. This is not, however, a violent attack. It is an ideological one. The ideology responsible is ‘gender ideology’ – with its roots in postmodernism, suggesting that every human being has their own innate ‘gender identity’, which may or may not correspond with their sex. According to this ideology, sex is merely ‘assigned’ at birth and it is, therefore, possible for human beings to be ‘trapped’ in the wrong body. By this measure, it is possible for human beings to ‘transition’ to the other sex or (if your gender identity is ‘non-binary’) to no sex at all.” Read more here.

 

MAYBE THIS IS WHY GOV. MIKE DEWINE VETOED A BILL BANNING ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE’ FOR CHILDREN, by Jeff Charles. “A new report might shed some light on what motivated Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine to veto a bill that would ban ‘gender-affirming care’ for minor children. According to a Daily Caller investigation, the governor has received a considerable sum of money from medical organizations that provide puberty blockers, hormone treatments and even surgeries to kids. …OCHA (the Ohio Children’s Hospital Association) donated $10,000 to the Mike DeWine and Jon Husted Transition Fund on Dec. 28, 2018, and another $10,000 on Dec. 7, 2022, according to the report. A transition fund allows candidates to spend donations for ‘transition activities and inaugural celebrations,’ according to Ohio’s campaign finance handbook.” Read more here.

 

’GENERATION INDOCTRINATION’ SEASON 3: GROWING RESISTANCE TO TRANSGENDERISM AND WHAT’S AHEAD FOR 2024, by Brandon Showalter. “A critical mass of Americans finally seemed to wake up to the dire threat of gender ideology in 2023, and not a moment too soon. I’ve tracked and reported on these issues at CP for nearly seven years and I can say with confidence that in terms of public awareness, last year was like none other. It seems that, at long last, the atrocious medical scandal, so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors and young adults, is being seen for what it is: horrific, unmitigated child abuse and a grossly unethical experiment on the vulnerable.” Read more here.

 

THE WHO’S STEALTH CAMPAIGN TO AVOID PUBLIC SCRUTINY ON NEW GENDER GUIDELINES, by Justdad7. “The development process of the World Health Organization’s guideline on the health of trans and gender diverse individuals represents a significant missed opportunity. There’s a clear need for a reliable international guideline, especially considering the increasing global scrutiny of the affirming care model endorsed by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). In several countries, notably the United States, this debate has become entangled in partisan politics. Ideally, an international organization like the WHO would help steer this debate towards evidence-based medicine. However, WHO’s approach to developing this guideline reveals a concerning disregard for the principles of evidence-based guideline development, a problem that is particularly acute in gender medicine.” Read more here.

 

‘WE’RE HEADED FOR CONFLICT’: FIGHT TO PROTECT WOMEN’S SPORTS EXPECTED TO HEAT UP IN 2024, by Caroline Downey. “Since former University of Pennsylvania male swimmer Lia Thomas stole a title and trophy from then-University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines at the 2022 NCAA Women’s Championships, the fairness-in-women’s-sports issue has roiled American politics. It’s been two years of lobbying by advocacy groups and activists such as Gaines to protect women’s sports from male intrusion. More than 20 Republican states have passed laws prohibiting males from competing on K–12 and collegiate female teams. But overshadowing these strides is a convoluted mess of court rulings, federal statutes and regulations, and policies adopted by the various athletics governing bodies.” Read more here.

 

TRANS WOMAN (IN OTHER WORDS, A DUDE) SCHOOLED ON BIOLOGY AFTER CLAIMING MEN CAN GET PERIODS TOO, by Sam J. “In case you weren’t convinced that everything around us is getting dumber and dumber, we present to you this tweet/post from user @CaptAmazo claiming that men can get periods too because the entire process of having a period is only a symptom of the period. No, really. Forget that the entire point of the period is the ONE THING men cannot do as they do not have a uterus (and spare us the nonsense that women who think they’re men count because they’re still WOMEN), since trans women get abdominal cramps and act like unhinged hyenas on meth THAT somehow proves they get a period as well.” Read more here.

 

THE STORY OF LGBT ACTIVISTS AND A PLAYGROUND PROJECT IN SEATTLE WILL BLOW YOUR MIND, by Bonchie. “There is no doubt that the far left has produced a lot of insanity in 2023, but if you thought we had reached the peak as midnight approaches to ring in a new year, think again. A late entry has emerged, and it’s simply mind-blowing. I’m not being hyperbolic when I say the level of depravity I’m about to share is hard to believe. Let’s just begin with the headline of the story in question. LGBTQ Nation, a publication that promotes exactly what you’d expect, published an article in which it lauded activists for saving a so-called ‘queer beach’ from the building of a playground nearby. Your eyes are probably already darting nervously after reading that, but buckle up because things are going to get more nuts.” Read more here.