Gender
August 27, 2025 — John Hinderaker
This morning there was a mass shooting at a church school in south Minneapolis. It took place in a neighborhood where I once lived. The school that was attacked, Annunciation, is where we would have sent our youngest child if we had stayed in the city. Reports on the shooting here. Two children were killed and 17 were wounded. The murderer shot through a stained glass window into the church,
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June 6, 2025 — Scott Johnson
I commented yesterday on the Minnesota state girls’ softball tournament with reference to Bill Shipley’s column “How One Young Man Altered The Landscape of Girls’ High School Softball In Minnesota.” John added: “It has been reported that when Charles Rothenberger was nine years old, his mother had his birth certificate altered to change his name to Marissa and his sex from male to female. As far as I have seen,
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April 16, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Certain U.S. Supreme Court justices may be unable to answer that question, but the Supreme Court of the U.K. has concluded that a woman is–well, you know–a woman. The London Times reports: Every organisation in Britain has been told to revisit their equality policies after the country’s highest court ruled that trans women were not legally women. Women’s rights campaigners celebrated as the Supreme Court declared on Wednesday that the
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March 9, 2025 — Steven Hayward
We noted here the other day that Gavin Newsom had his own “Sister Souljah moment” over transgender women in women’s sports (and several other issues), which has ignited a predictable new front in the civil war inside the Democratic Party. Democrat grandee Debbie Wasserman Schultz has dissented already, saying “We have to stand on principle and make sure that everyone is treated equally. I’m not shrinking away from this issue.”
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January 26, 2025 — Steven Hayward
A few propositions on the present moment: • Someday we’ll look back on this period as we do 1950, with some demagogue saying, “I have in my hand a list of 57 genders and pronouns. . .” (With the due caveat that the first guy was more right than wrong. . .) • What prompted this was an amazing self-own by Bruce Bartlett, a once-sound supply-side economist who succumbed somehow
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September 15, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Back in February, the Biden-Harris administration appointed Sneha Nair as a “Special Assistant” at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Nair is co-author with Louis Reitmann of “Queering nuclear weapons: How LGBTQ+ inclusion strengthens security and reshapes disarmament,” and as the authors contend: Governments cannot afford to lose out on the human capital and innovation potential of queer people. Informed by their life experiences, queer people have specific skills to
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June 29, 2024 — Steven Hayward
We’ve been told that anyone who says a cross thing about transgenderism, and especially doubts about “gender-affirming care” for minors, is a hater and a bigot. I guess that includes the Biden Administration as of today. From the New York Times: Biden Administration Opposes Surgery for Transgender Minors The Biden administration said this week that it opposed gender-affirming surgery for minors, the most explicit statement to date on the subject
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June 16, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
The Tennessee Star has released more excerpts from the diary of mass murderer Audrey Hale, who on March 27, 2023, gunned down nine-year-olds Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, along with Katherine Koonce, 60, Cynthia Peak and Mike Hill, both 61. Hale wrote of her “imaginary penis,” proclaiming “I am such a pervert” wasting “too much time in my fantasies,” and so forth. See here, and here and here,
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May 23, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Last month Joe Biden nominated magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. In 2022, Netburn recommended that serial child rapist William McClain, who calls himself July Justine Shelby, be sent to a women’s prison. Netburn described the six-foot-two rapist as “sober and entirely a female,” which piqued the interest of Sen. John Kennedy. “That phrase struck me as remarkable,” Kennedy said.
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April 22, 2024 — John Hinderaker
On Friday, Joe Biden’s Department of Education released its final rule amending the regulations that implement Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. What is it all about? This is how the Department of Education described the changes: The Department therefore issues these final regulations to provide greater clarity regarding: the definition of “sex-based harassment”; the scope of sex discrimination, including recipients’ obligations not to discriminate based on sex
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April 4, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Two days after Audrey Hale’s mass murder in Nashville last year, Joe Biden proclaimed March 31 “Transgender Day of Visibility,” as he did again this year, taking no note that the date fell on Easter. As Steve noted, “it is not as though there aren’t enough official opportunities to recognize the alphabet people.” For example, in April we have International Asexuality Day, International Day of Pink, the Day of Silence,
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March 31, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Let me be the first to wish you a Happy Transgender Day of Visibility. I understand that Easter is the holiest day of the year for Christians. The spirit of transgression moved Papa Joe. In honor of the day he formally added a new canon to the Democrat orthodoxy. On Good Friday Papa Joe issued A Proclamation on Transgender Day of Visibility, 2024 — so it shall be written, so
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March 26, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Last March 27, in the run-up to the April 1 “Trans Day of Vengeance,” Audrey Hale shot her way into the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. There Hale murdered Evelyn Dieckhaus, 9, Mike Hill, 61, William Kinney, 9, Katherine Koonce, 60, Cynthia Peak, 61, and Hallie Scruggs, nine years old and the daughter of Covenant Presbyterian pastor Chad Scruggs. The victims died of multiple gunshot wounds and Hale also applied
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January 5, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
If Dave Chappelle was convicted of a crime, the comedian said in his new Netflix special The Dreamer, he would claim to identify as a woman so he could be sent to a women’s prison and there make special demands of the girls. Chappelle is a highly original performer, but that has already been done. Back in 1980 in Los Angeles, Rodney Quine gunned down Shahid Ali Baig, a father
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May 27, 2023 — Steven Hayward
You would think a team named “Dodgers” would know how to dodge a culture war battle they can’t win (see: Target, Bud Light), but no, the Los Angeles Dodgers managed to get picked off in the most embarrassing fashion in a pickle-style rundown entirely of their own ineptitude. Surely the conservative (and Catholic) O’Malley family that used to own the Dodgers—before the onerous estate tax forced the family to sell
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May 20, 2023 — Steven Hayward
I don’t know whether it is an overstatement to suggest people with “gender dysphoria” have a mental illness, or whether there is a social contagion at work (like the anorexia epidemic among young women a couple decades ago that ultimately faded out to a large extent), but scenes like this state legislator in Nebraska aren’t reassuring that there’s a rational defense of the trans-phenomenon. (Wonder what she will do when
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May 5, 2023 — Steven Hayward
Maybe the Bud Light marketing disaster—sales are down by about 25 percent since the Mulvaney Miscalculation—ought to be taken as an indicator of the larger capitulation of our culture to the nihilist left. Because once upon a time, about 30 years ago, Budweiser had a different perspective on the trans thing with this ad: Imagine the uproar if Budweiser used this ad today. Actually you don’t have to imagine at
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