Gender Follies
January 6, 2026 — John Hinderaker
You may have seen the news story about an attack on J.D. Vance’s Ohio home. Someone smashed windows with a hammer. There was no danger of physical injury, as Vance and his family were not at home. Still, this is the kind of thing that not long ago would have been unthinkable. The perpetrator, no master criminal, has been apprehended. William DeFoor is the son of left-wing parents who are
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December 28, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The culture wars are raging, but on at least one front the forces of good are winning. The “trans” ideology is crumbling fast. The latest evidence is this piece in Newsweek, written by two of the authors of the Department of Health and Human Services’ recent paper, “Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices.” The authors begin with a ritual denunciation of HHS and an assurance
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December 18, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Today Secretary Robert Kennedy announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will propose rules that will bar hospitals that receive Medicare or Medicaid funding—i.e., all of them— from performing “sex-rejecting procedures on children that expose young people to irreversible harm.” Banned procedures will include chemical treatments as well as surgery. While the proposed rules do not appear to be public yet, Kennedy’s Declaration in support of the rules
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November 26, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Last night, Rita Panahi included me in her wildly popular “Lefties Losing It” segment on Sky News. We talked about Democrats’ claims that the Trump administration is deporting American citizens, how a man became the world’s strongest woman, liberals’ disinformation about illegal immigration being a crime, the Seditious Six, dismissal of the indictments of Comey and James, and prospects for peace in Ukraine. My part starts at around 5:33 and
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November 10, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The Democrats’ signature issue is their demand that men be allowed to participate in women’s sports. But around the world, opinion is moving in the opposite direction, on this and other “trans” issues. Thus, it was reported today that the International Olympic Committee will ban men from women’s competitions: The International Olympic Committee is set to announce a ban on transgender women in female competition early next year after a
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November 6, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Today the Supreme Court issued an order in Trump v. Orr, the case that challenges Trump’s executive order to the effect that a person’s sex as shown on his or her passport will be the sex at birth. This order was challenged in the federal court in Massachusetts, and a Democratic Party judge issued an injunction barring implementation of the order while the case proceeds through the federal courts. This
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October 23, 2025 — Scott Johnson
On the local front I have sought to draw attention to the case of JayCee Cooper v. USA Powerlifting in several posts over the past two years. The case raised the question whether USAPL’s separation of men from women in USAPL’s Minnesota competitions violates the Minnesota Human Rights Act and must yield to Cooper’s self-identification as a woman. The case gestated for nearly a year at the Minnesota Supreme Court
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October 20, 2025 — John Hinderaker
As the November election approaches, Virginia’s Democratic Party is in disarray. Their candidate for attorney general, Jay Jones, is best known for his expressed desire to murder Republicans and their children (“little fascists”). Yet no one in the Democratic Party can disown him. Their candidate for governor, Abigail Spanberger, not only supports Jones but is fanatically dedicated to inserting boys into girls’ showers in the public schools. This is the
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October 15, 2025 — John Hinderaker
One of the strangest phenomena of recent years is the remarkable number of young people who tell pollsters they are bisexual, transsexual, asexual, nonbinary, or otherwise “queer.” Since human biology has not likely changed, what explains this literally perverse trend? Whatever it was, it now may be drawing to an end. A new report, based on surveys from multiple sources, finds “queer” identification in steep decline: From the text of
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October 11, 2025 — Scott Johnson
If we want to humiliate a party stupidly expressing its disapproval of us, we can take a lesson from J.K. Rowling. The Vancouver Parks and Recreation board voted unanimously to apologize for the Harry Potter: A Forbidden Forest Experience event set to open on November 7 in Vancouver’s Stanley Park after hearing from members of Vancouver’s 2SLGBTQ+ Advisory Committee. In the X post below, Ms. Rowling advises the board how
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October 8, 2025 — Scott Johnson
I wrote about Minnesota’s statutory ban on so-called “conversion therapy” in columns for the Free Beacon and Alpha News. As it applies to minors, the law bans therapy “that seeks to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity, including efforts to change behaviors or gender expressions…” If a teenager is troubled by the feelings that conflict with his sex and wants to mitigate them or reconcile himself to his
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October 4, 2025 — Scott Johnson
On Thursday the New York Post reported that Harvard has hired drag queen LaWhore Vagistan as a visiting professor. On Friday Post columnist Kirsten Fleming reiterated the story with an attitude “When it comes to ‘LaWhore Vagistan’ at Harvard, I’m not even outraged — it’s hilarious.” Over the past two years Harvard has spinelessly tolerated the tormenting of its Jewish students by Hamas supporters on campus. It deserves to be
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September 17, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The Washington Free Beacon has produced a video compilation of the media doing what it does best as it instructs us in the meaning of public events. We wouldn’t know what to think unless they told us. With past experience as our guide, we can infer the opposite. In this case we have the press commenting on Charlie Kirk’s assassination. ABC News reporter Matt Gutman probably takes the cake with
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September 16, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Governor Walz is still threatening to call a special session of the Minnesota legislature in the aftermath of last month’s mass shooting by Robin (formerly Robert) Westman at Annunciation Church in Minneapolis. He wants them to do something about “gun violence” and to adopt an “assault weapons” ban. Walz has been threatening to call the special session for a while. Something has caused him to pause. Perhaps it’s the fact
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September 7, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Malcolm Gladwell recently made news by expressing shame and regret over his previously stated defense of male “trans” athletes in women’s sports. Matt Taibbi commented harshly in the Racket News post “Malcolm Gladwell conquers Mt. Suck” (behind the Racket News paywall). Taibbi’s commentary is now accessible via the video below. Taibbi’s commentary reminds his audience of the December 2022 debate pitting Taibbi and Douglas Murray against Gladwell and Michelle Goldberg
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September 3, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Referring to “a man who once worked with her and now declares himself saddened by her beliefs on gender and sex” — I think that would be director Chris Columbus — J.K. Rowling has stated her beliefs in the form of questions. She asks which of her beliefs make actors and directors who aren’t involved with the HBO reboot of Harry Potter so miserable. I have restated the list she
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September 2, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Governor Walz announced this morning that he will call a special session of the legislature to address “gun violence” with the usual Democrat nonsolutions, including an “assault weapons” ban. I don’t believe that there is such a thing as an “assault weapon,” but Democrats will insist there is. Would such a ban have done anything to prevent Robin Westman’s shooting spree at Annunciation Church in Minneapolis last week? It’s probably
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