Gender Follies
August 15, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Anna Paulina Luna is a Congresswoman from Florida. I don’t claim to have followed her career closely, so maybe she has faults that are unknown to me. But she is, I believe, a solid conservative. As such, she can expect attacks from the vicious Left. But this one seems odd: she once posed in a MAGA swimsuit: The freshman Florida representative took to social media to address the controversy surrounding
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August 12, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Senator Vance appeared on the three network Sunday morning gabfests yesterday, including ABC’s This Week with Jon Karl. RealClearPolitics has posted video and transcript of the Vance segment here. Media Research Center has posted a clip of the interview focusing on Minnesota’s “trans refuge” law (below). The MRC clip is embedded in Jorge Bonilla’s story here. In substance, Senator Vance is an effective advocate of President Trump. One can infer
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August 10, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The reporters and editors at the Star Tribune serve as the public relations arm of Minnesota’s DFL and the national Democratic ticket. They would anyway, but with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on board they have expanded their efforts. The tweet below depicts Star Tribune publisher Steve Grove, Walz’s janissary at the paper. This is Steve Grove. He is the CEO/Publisher of the Star Tribune. He worked in Gov. Tim Walz's
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August 2, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
“Italian boxer Angela Carini pulled out of the Paris Olympics mid-fight on Thursday,” Reuters reports, “after she sustained a series of crunching blows from her Algerian opponent Imane Khelif, who last year failed a gender eligibility test at the World Championships.” Khelif and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan had been disqualified “after failing International Boxing Association (IBA) eligibility rules that prevent athletes with male XY chromosomes competing in women’s events.” The
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August 1, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Is there anything men can’t do? Increasingly, the best “women” are men. Take women’s boxing. I am not actually a fan of women’s boxing. I don’t think it is a step forward for women being hit to be a form of entertainment. And I don’t think that simply because men do something, women should do it too. Or vice versa. But if you are going to have women’s sports, it
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July 28, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The opening ceremonies of the Olympics have stirred a lot of controversy as a result of their tastelessness and offensiveness. Most notorious has been an apparent drag satire on the Last Supper, which by now everyone has seen: French Olympic authorities have not been able to keep their story straight on this one. Some have claimed that the tableaux had nothing to do with DaVinci’s painting or the Last Supper
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July 12, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Or, to be more specific, their left isn’t as crazy as our left. One instance among many is the United Kingdom’s relatively sane reaction to the “trans” hysteria that gripped the world’s leftists a few years ago. In America, “trans” ideology remains rampant, but in Europe it has been reined in. Thus, for instance, Britain has shut down its notorious Tavistock “child gender identity clinic.” In the last days of
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July 6, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Chancery court judge I’Ashea Myles has ruled that the writings of mass murderer Audrey Hale cannot be released to the public because the parents of her victims hold the copyright. Judge Myles agreed that this was a novel argument, but there’s more to it. The writings are evidence of Hale’s motive in the slaying of nine-year-olds Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney and adults Cynthia Peak, Katherine Koonce and
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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 25, 2024 — John Hinderaker
I don’t think we have written anything about Tyler Cherry, Joe Biden’s newly-appointed White House Associate Communications Director. Cherry is a worthy successor to Sam Brinton, the gay aide who augmented his wardrobe by stealing women’s suitcases from airport baggage carousels. Well, we all have our quirks. Here is Mr. (I take it) Cherry: You’ve got to hand it to Biden: when he really wants someone on his team, it’s
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June 18, 2024 — John Hinderaker
In April 2024, Joe Biden’s Department of Education, in response to an executive order by Biden, issued amended regulations implementing the Education Amendments Act of 1972, commonly known as Title IX, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in educational programs. These new regulations essentially incorporated the entire far-left “trans” ideology and imposed it as a matter of federal law. Among other things, the regulations force women to share
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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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June 8, 2024 — John Hinderaker
It is good to know that even in today’s anything-goes age, some things are inviolate. Like the “Pride” flag. (If anyone ever explains why being “queer”–their word, not one that I would ever use–is something to be proud of, let me know.) Thus we have kids being arrested for riding their scooters across a Pride flag that was…painted on a street: A group of five to six kids just starting
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June 2, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Spiked has posted the video by contributor Lauren Smith on J.K. Rowling with this introduction: If you’d have said 10 years ago that JK Rowling would soon become a hate figure among the cultural elites, people would have thought you were mad. Her Harry Potter series is beloved the world over. She is immaculately liberal-left. Why would she ever be demonised by the great and good? Well, because she believes
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May 27, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The case of Tickle v. Giggle sounds like it could have been conjured by Charles Dickens — the names of the parties, anyway. How can Tickle be adverse to Tickle? The funny thing is — there’s nothing funny about it. It’s yet another chapter in the gender wars. Might this one be a bridge too far? We need a satirist of the genius of Jonathan Swift to administer justice in
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May 25, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
As Senators John Kennedy and Ted Cruz noted, Biden nominee Sarah Netburn accepted the claim of William McClain that he was “entirely a woman” and sent the six-foot-two serial child rapist “July Justine Shelby” to a women’s prison. In similar style, Obama judge Jon Tigar believed convicted murderer Rodney Quine’s claim to be a woman, ordered sex-change surgery paid by taxpayers, and “Shiloh Heavenly Quine” duly landed in a women’s
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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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