Gender Follies
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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May 21, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Women’s sports developed in a major way, beginning in the 1970s, for obvious reasons: it would be unfair to force women to compete against men who are generally bigger, stronger and faster, while at the same time, there is value in women’s athletic skill and in promoting fitness generally. Pretty much everyone understood this at time, and women’s athletics have enjoyed broad public support for two generations. But that was
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May 1, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
California’s government school monopoly is imposing trans ideology on students and keeping it secret from parents. When the Chino Valley School District established a policy of notifying parents, Attorney General Rob Bonta sued the district, charging that the district “placed students in danger of imminent, irreparable harm from the consequences of forced disclosures,” and so on. Parents across the state pushed back with the “Protect Kids of California Act of
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April 30, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Britain’s National Health Service is aligning itself with reality by acknowledging that sex is a biological fact: The NHS is to declare that sex is a matter of biology in a landmark shift against gender ideology. Changes to the health service’s written constitution proposed by ministers will for the first time ban trans women from women-only wards, and give women the right to request a female doctor for intimate care.
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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 18, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Yesterday we noted the exchange in the House hearing with Columbia University president Minouche Shafik in which she was asked about the use of the term “folx” in Columbia University’s School of Social Work. President Shafik professed ignorance of the term, but this is very likely an outright lie, as the term has been catching on in academia for a long time, like “Latinx.” Here, perhaps, is a clue to
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April 14, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The “trans” fad continues to make waves around the Western world. In the U.K., the National Health Service commissioned pediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass to investigate and report on the treatment of gender-confused children and young people in that country. Her report is long and measured, and I am still making my way through it. But it has been seen as a watershed moment in the pushback against the “trans” ideology
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