Gender Follies
December 6, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
In U.S. v. Skrmetti, the Biden-Harris administration seeks to strike down Tennessee’s law restricting “transgender” procedures for minors. As Steve noted the case has revealed that the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH), has taken direction from Admiral Rachel Levine, Biden’s Assistant Secretary For Health. The admiral is on record that cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers, are gender reassignment surgeries are “medically necessary, safe, and effective for trans and non-binary youth.”
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December 5, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The Supreme Court hearing in United States v. Skrmetti featured several highlights. As framed by the Biden administration, the case raised the question: Whether Tennessee Senate Bill 1 (SB1), which prohibits all medical treatments intended to allow “a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex” or to treat “purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor’s sex and asserted identity,”
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December 4, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Oral argument is underway at this hour at the Supreme Court in the case of U.S. v. Skrmetti, in which the Biden Administration is seeking strike down a Tennessee law restricting transgender treatment of minors. The case will be argued along the traditional lines of whether minors suffering from “gender dysphoria” constitute a “protected class” under civil rights law, and related questions of whether “strict scrutiny” review applies, etc. I’ll
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December 4, 2024 — Scott Johnson
On the local front I have sought to draw attention to the case of JaycCee Cooper v. USA Powerlifting in several posts accessible here. Filed in Ramsey County District Court and assigned to Judge Patrick Diamond, the case raises the question whether USAPL’s separation of men from women in USAPL’s Minnesota competitions must yield to Cooper’s self-identification as a woman. Although a biological male, Cooper seeks to compete with the
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December 1, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Actual women such as Riley Gaines, Paige Spiranac, J. K. Rowling, and the female Israeli soldiers Steve helpfully displays each week, just got the news from the New York Times that they should be known as “non-transgender women.” This drew flak from tennis great Martina Navratilova, British Olympian Sharron Davies, and Rep. Nancy Mace, among others. The dynamics going on here will be of interest to all people. NYT reporter
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November 27, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Steve is right that stories about the mysterious San Jose State (SJSU) volleyball player are on the strange side. So is everything that takes place under the Dictatorship of the Subjunctive Mood (DSM), the imposition and enforcement of unreality, biological and otherwise. Under DSM, Elizabeth Warren can claim to be a Cherokee and continue her political career even after exposure as a fraud. William Thomas, a bust on the men’s
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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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