Gender Follies
June 18, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Institutions of many kinds sponsor “pride” events. “Pride” is one of those words that no longer needs any explanation. Everyone understands that it means pride in being a homosexual (or otherwise “queer,” as leftists put it). Of course, there are many people–a large majority I should think–who don’t think being gay is cause for public celebration. But almost all of us grin and bear it. A few, though, have deeper
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June 1, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Last night on the Rita Panahi show, we had a wide-ranging conversation that started with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wearing a hijab, covered Zohran Mamdani scorning Israel Day in New York, the status of a deal (or not) in Iran, and Graham Platner, including this post on Platner’s anti-Semitism. We finished up with the City of Boston’s “Trans Period Pride” event. All in all, an entertaining segment. The video starts with Lefties
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April 29, 2026 — Scott Johnson
We have covered 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 only to be delivered as Rosemary’s baby (the
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April 9, 2026 — John Hinderaker
The State of Minnesota requires schools to allow boys to compete in girls’ sports. It also requires schools to allow teenage boys to shower with the girls, and otherwise avail themselves of girls’ locker rooms. This is not, to put it mildly, a popular policy, especially with the parents of teenage girls. But Minnesota’s DFL party defends it doggedly. It gets worse: the federal government has sued Minnesota, alleging that
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March 31, 2026 — Scott Johnson
As John notes in the adjacent post, the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 today in Chiles v. Salazar that Colorado’s law banning “conversion therapy” was unconstitutional under the First Amendment. Only Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented. Justice Jackson opined that the Court’s decision “opens a dangerous can of worms.” In addition to thinking unclearly, Justice Jackson apparently can’t write well either. She inclines to cliché and redundancy. Or she thinks in
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March 30, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Today Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon announced a new civil rights lawsuit against the State of Minnesota. The Department of Justice alleges that the State of Minnesota and the State High School League have violated Title IX by allowing boys to compete in girls’ sports and to shower with the girls, whether the girls like it or not. Buckle up MN — more incoming! https://t.co/VVUjMlWF3Z — Harmeet K. Dhillon (@HarmeetKDhillon)
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March 13, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Judge Lawrence VanDyke sits on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Alliance for Justice pays this backhanded tribute to him: Throughout his career, Lawrence VanDyke has shown his dedication to serving partisan interests at the expense of clean air, clean water, reproductive rights, LGBTQ equality…” and so on. I could stop right there and say that’s good enough for me. But Judge VanDyke has dissented from the Ninth Circuit’s
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March 6, 2026 — John Hinderaker
It has been estimated that through human history, around two to three percent of people have been homosexual. There appears to be a biological basis, as yet undiscovered, for that phenomenon. In recent years, we have seen an extraordinary explosion of people telling pollsters they are gay, or queer, or bisexual, or transexual. But only among young people in certain Western countries, which suggests a social rather than a biological
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March 3, 2026 — John Hinderaker
For parents, and for sanity. Today the Court issued a Per Curiam order granting a motion by parents to vacate a stay on an injunction ordered by a California district court. The stay had been imposed by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The case arises out of a California law that requires schools to pursue gender transitions by children without notifying their parents. What that means in practice was
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February 24, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Around the world, “trans” ideology has collapsed and medical professionals are stepping back from chemical and surgical interventions on young people. This is obviously a good thing, in my opinion, but there is much gnashing of teeth on the Left. The New York Times runs a piece by a liberal that focuses on how the purported scientific consensus on behalf of child mutilation fell apart: American advocates for youth gender
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February 22, 2026 — John Hinderaker
On issue after issue, the Democrats are staking out bizarrely radical positions. Everything relating to gender is in this category. Here in Minnesota, the DFL Party is perhaps the nation’s most left-wing. Thus, on all issues relating to gender, state policy is dictated by Leigh Finke, a man (XY chromosomes) who wears dresses. Here, Finke explains why he opposes a proposed law that would require age verification for pornographic web
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February 21, 2026 — John Hinderaker
I usually do a couple of radio shows a week, and I don’t normally post them here. But I am making an exception for this appearance yesterday morning on Chicago’s Morning Answer, with John Anthony filling in for Dan Proft. John is a radio host in Detroit, on whose show I have also been a guest. We talked about the silliness of the Epstein List, Iran, AOC’s venture into foreign
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February 15, 2026 — Scott Johnson
This past week the Wall Street Journal’s Free Expression site published two excellent columns on the crumbling consensus on “gender-affirming care” — one by Louise Perry and one by James Meigs. Perry called her column “Gender-Affirming Care Needs a Lobotomy.” Even though the columns are behind the Journal’s paywall, the video below gives you the gist of what they have to say (after the advertisement). Tim Walz and his fellow
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February 11, 2026 — John Hinderaker
A murderer initially described as a “woman in a dress” attacked a secondary school in a small town in British Columbia, killing seven and wounding many more. Two additional people were killed in a nearby house, and “[p]olice believe the shootings are connected.” The murderer reportedly committed suicide. It’s an interesting question: has a mass shooting ever been carried out by a woman wearing a dress? Maybe, but it is
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January 31, 2026 — John Hinderaker
The Trump administration is striking a blow against pediatric genital mutilation through its proposed order barring hospitals that perform such surgeries from receiving Medicaid reimbursements. That means that for the duration of the administration, such procedures will cease. Of course, the order can be reversed if a Democrat is elected president in 2028. I think the truly fatal blow to the pediatric mutilation industry is this: A woman who received
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January 13, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Today the Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases that raise the question whether a state can bar boys from participating in girls’ sports. The answer is obvious: it can, and in fact all states did so, until about 15 minutes ago. Nevertheless, the Court is in a position of having to correct error, since in both of those cases, the Court of Appeals held that states must permit boys
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January 11, 2026 — John Hinderaker
When you think you have plumbed the depths of liberal insanity, and you believe nothing they might do would surprise you, something happens that makes you realize that liberals are not just living in another country, they are on an entirely different planet. Thus, this casual assertion by a lib that is greeted with the only possible response by a conservative (sane) tweeter: It takes balls to make such a
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