Gender Follies
June 18, 2023 — John Hinderaker
The ACLU was once a worthwhile organization, but now is just a shill for left-wing causes of the moment. How far the ACLU has lost its way is indicated by this tweet: The state of Florida never provided medically necessary gender-affirming care to Duane Owen — causing her enormous suffering and violating her right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment for the more than 30 years she was
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June 14, 2023 — Steven Hayward
The White House actually thinks this message from Creepy Joe, with its “It Takes a Village” presumption that your children belong to the state more than to their parents, will persuade anyone: To the LGBTQI+ Community – the Biden-Harris Administration has your back. pic.twitter.com/ZlUNwWOcch — The White House 46 Archived (@WhiteHouse46) June 13, 2023 And I doubt anyone in the mainstream media has reported on this devastating testimony before a
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June 14, 2023 — Steven Hayward
Yesterday we reported on how Johns Hopkins University had erased the existence of women by defining lesbians as “non-men.” To refresh your memory, here’s part of JHU’s “glossary” of terms: This absurdity got wide coverage beyond Power Line, and evidently Johns Hopkins was embarrassed. Today Johns Hopkins removed the glossary entirely, and now has this in its place: Even this got modified later in the day to this: In other
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June 13, 2023 — Steven Hayward
It used to be that the idea of Truth was based on the premise of objectivity, that is, there is a reality to nature and the world around us, and our individual freedom does not extand to disregarding or altering that reality because it conflicts with our will or dreams. I may claim that I can fly, but if I actually try to act on that premise I’ll end up
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June 13, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Pride Month is in full swing, and yesterday Joe Biden held a Pride event on the White House lawn, to which the White House invited several hundred gay and trans activists. One of them was Rose Montoya, a “trans woman” with a significant following on social media. Montoya met and chatted with Joe Biden and Jill Biden, and then pulled down her dress to expose her “breasts.” This is what
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June 4, 2023 — John Hinderaker
For reasons I can’t explain, the Left, including the Democratic Party, has made sex change operations on minors its signature issue. It has become a litmus test: in order to be considered progressive, one must now advocate the mutilation of children’s genitals. If there is a Democratic Party politician who dissents from this orthodoxy, I am not aware of it. Sex change operations on minors are massively unpopular. Opponents of
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June 3, 2023 — Scott Johnson
The documentary “What is a woman?” has been posted to Twitter, where it will remain available for viewing this weekend. The Daily Wire covers the appearance of the film on Twitter here. I have embedded the Daily Wire tweet embedding the video below. John Hinderaker posted the background to the film’s appearance on Twitter here along with his review: “[I]f you haven’t seen the movie, you should. It was produced
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June 2, 2023 — John Hinderaker
The “trans” lobby claims that genital mutilation of minors is necessary in order to prevent troubled teenagers from committing suicide. To my knowledge, there is no empirical basis for this claim, and suicide rates among those who have undergone sex change surgery are sky-high. But the claim persists, nevertheless. Now, it turns out that one of the key “studies” relied on to support sex change procedures has been withdrawn. Public
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June 2, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Elon Musk pledged to make Twitter a free speech zone, but it hasn’t always turned out that way. Yesterday a controversy unfolded over the Daily Wire’s plan to stream the movie “What Is a Woman?” for free on Twitter. First of all, if you haven’t seen the movie, you should. It was produced and directed by my friend Justin Folk and stars the Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh. Despite its depressing
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June 1, 2023 — John Hinderaker
In academia, if you say there are only two genders–sexes–you will get fired. In big business, if you say there are only two genders–sexes–your career may be derailed. If you say such a thing on Twitter or Facebook, God help you. But it turns out that, despite the intense “trans” propaganda of recent years, that is what just about everyone understands. From today’s Rasmussen Reports: By a 3-to-1 margin, Americans
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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 26, 2023 — John Hinderaker
The Left is attacking us with its most bizarre culture war yet, the “trans” fad that threatens the mental and physical health of our children and young people. So we have no choice but to fight back. To start with, let’s fight back against Target. Target’s sins go far beyond its “Pride” collection. Most attention has focused on the clothing line that included expanded-crotch “women’s” swimsuits and partnership with a
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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 8, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Minnesota Democrats enacted a so-called “trans refuge” bill — H.F. 146 — on April 21, effective April 28. It represents a leading edge of the “let’s go crazy” campaign waged by Democrats now that they control the political branches of state government. Fox News covered the enactment of the bill here. Among other things, the bill protects the provision of “gender-affirming health care” to children in the state regardless of
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May 7, 2023 — John Hinderaker
We are all being bombarded with propaganda on behalf of the trans movement, in which carving up children’s genitals is described as “gender affirming,” perhaps the most Orwellian turn of phrase of our time. But so far, at least, the people are not on board. In a widely reported poll, the Washington Post found, to its dismay, that an overwhelming majority oppose men competing in women’s sports: 62 percent opposed
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May 6, 2023 — Scott Johnson
I have sought to draw attention to the case of JaycCee Cooper v. USA Powerlifting. Filed in Ramsey County District Court and assigned to Judge Patrick Diamond, the case raises the question whether USAP’s separation of men from women in USAP’s Minnesota competitions must yield to Cooper’s self-identification as a woman. Although a biological male, Cooper seeks to compete with the ladies. Cooper alleges that USAP’s refusal to yield to
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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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