Gender Follies
November 26, 2024 — Steven Hayward
This has to be the strangest news headline and strangest-written news story I’ve seen in many an age, from Inside Higher Education: Judge Says Reportedly Trans Volleyball Player May Compete A federal judge has ruled that a San José State University women’s volleyball player, who some of her teammates and competitors have said is transgender, can continue to play on the team, ESPN reported. Players on other teams in the
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November 20, 2024 — Scott Johnson
If you don’t watch ABC News, you may need help identifying the gentleman whom Rep. Nancy Mace bludgeons on the issue of men using the ladies’ congressional bathrooms. His name is Jay O’Brien. O’Brien identifies as an Emmy Award-winning reporter currently covering Capitol Hill, where he has been since the November midterms. He’s covered notable stories, such as the transition of power to Republicans in the House. Speaking of trans…
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November 10, 2024 — Steven Hayward
You know things are bad for the identity politics faction of the Democratic Party when even Bernie Sanders is down on you. From the NY Times a few days ago: Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the longtime progressive standard-bearer, blamed what he called a party-wide emphasis on identity politics at the expense of focusing on the economic concerns of working-class voters. “It’s not just Kamala,” he said. “It’s a Democratic
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October 29, 2024 — John Hinderaker
After an initial round of enthusiasm, Tim Walz has faded from the headlines. Following his disastrous debate performance and his virtual invisibility since then, he is probably viewed as an embarrassment by most Democrats. But this lets him, and Kamala Harris, off the hook too easily. The New York Post editorializes: “Tim Walz is now a walking warning about Kamala Harris’ decision-making.” The editorial recites some of Walz’s failings, but
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October 23, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The most interesting thing about this story is that the New York Times is willing to publish it: “U.S. Study on Puberty Blockers Goes Unpublished Because of Politics, Doctor Says.” This was the study: The researchers followed the children for two years to see if the treatments improved their mental health. An older Dutch study had found that puberty blockers improved well-being, results that inspired clinics around the world to
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September 29, 2024 — John Hinderaker
A society can reach a point where it is literally too stupid to survive. Are we getting close to that fatal juncture? Here is one of many thousands of data points: a judge in Indiana has ordered that state to pay for sex-change surgery on a convicted murderer. Not just any murderer, but Jonathan Richardson, who is serving a 55-year sentence for strangling his own stepdaughter. He now goes by
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September 16, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Minnesota’s Democrats have been around the bend for a while, but not many people noticed until Kamala Harris (or someone) selected Governor Tim Walz as the Democrats’ vice presidential nominee. Now national attention has focused, among other things, on the “trans refuge” bill that the Democrats passed in the 2023 legislative session, and Tim Walz signed into law. The intent of the bill was to make Minnesota a “trans refuge”
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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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September 12, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Just a few years ago, there was no such thing as a transsexual movement. Gender dysphoria, in which a person believes that his or her body is not of the correct sex, has long been recognized as a severe, but thankfully extremely rare, mental health condition. But now, the “trans” movement is political, and there is a global effort to vastly overstate the number of people who suffer from this
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August 21, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
The Biden-Harris administration, Fox News reports, has appointed Sneha Nair as a special assistant at the National Nuclear Security Administration. Prior to the appointment, Nair served as a research analyst with the Nuclear Security Program at the Stimson Center. The special assistant earned a masters in geography and international relations from the University of St. Andrews, but there’s more to her. Sneha Nair is co-author of “Queering nuclear weapons: How
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August 19, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Via InstaPundit, it appears that the Democrats are continuing to erase women. At least men get their own bathroom; I suppose that is consistent with the fact that it is always men trying to use the ladies’ room, not the other way around: In the press filing center at the DNC, organizers took away the ladies room. pic.twitter.com/YsnVbacjEW — Susan Ferrechio (@susanferrechio) August 19, 2024 To be fair, it isn’t
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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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