Gender
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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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 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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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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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 4, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Two days after Audrey Hale’s mass murder in Nashville last year, Joe Biden proclaimed March 31 “Transgender Day of Visibility,” as he did again this year, taking no note that the date fell on Easter. As Steve noted, “it is not as though there aren’t enough official opportunities to recognize the alphabet people.” For example, in April we have International Asexuality Day, International Day of Pink, the Day of Silence,
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March 31, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Let me be the first to wish you a Happy Transgender Day of Visibility. I understand that Easter is the holiest day of the year for Christians. The spirit of transgression moved Papa Joe. In honor of the day he formally added a new canon to the Democrat orthodoxy. On Good Friday Papa Joe issued A Proclamation on Transgender Day of Visibility, 2024 — so it shall be written, so
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March 26, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Last March 27, in the run-up to the April 1 “Trans Day of Vengeance,” Audrey Hale shot her way into the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. There Hale murdered Evelyn Dieckhaus, 9, Mike Hill, 61, William Kinney, 9, Katherine Koonce, 60, Cynthia Peak, 61, and Hallie Scruggs, nine years old and the daughter of Covenant Presbyterian pastor Chad Scruggs. The victims died of multiple gunshot wounds and Hale also applied
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January 5, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
If Dave Chappelle was convicted of a crime, the comedian said in his new Netflix special The Dreamer, he would claim to identify as a woman so he could be sent to a women’s prison and there make special demands of the girls. Chappelle is a highly original performer, but that has already been done. Back in 1980 in Los Angeles, Rodney Quine gunned down Shahid Ali Baig, a father
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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 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 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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April 20, 2023 — John Hinderaker
The Daily Wire’s brilliant documentary What Is a Woman? stars Matt Walsh and was produced and directed by my friend Justin Folk. One might think that, after all this time, liberals would be prepared to answer that simple question. Not so. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona appeared before a House committee on Tuesday, and Congressman Andrew Clyde asked him that elementary question. Clyde couldn’t get an answer, although, to be
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March 29, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Yesterday I posted video of the remarks of newly elected Republican Rep. Walter Hudson opposing the DFL bill seeking to establish Minnesota as a “trans refuge.” I posted the video here. It warrants viewing if you haven’t watched it yet. At about 1:00 of the video, Walter mentions “this interesting Venn diagram between what is considered gender-affirming care and what is elsewhere to be considered crime….” The author of the
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March 28, 2023 — Scott Johnson
The trans moment seems to me the culmination of the culture war. The denial of nature and reality, the destruction of the family, and the demand for our submission are what it’s all about. Minnesota’s manifestation as a “trans refuge” captures the moment perfectly, as does the utter capitulation of regnant institutions such as big business and the media. Newly elected Republican Rep. Walter Hudson has distinguished himself by his
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March 27, 2023 — Steven Hayward
Whenever there is a mass shooting it is usually wise to wait until full details are available, as early reports are often wrong or incomplete. I did think it odd this morning that the mass shooter at the Christian school in Nashville was reported to be a female, as female mass shooters are extremely rare—only four in U.S. history according to one report I’ve seen. Then it was reported that
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March 27, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Minnesota Democrats now control the political branches of state government and they have lost no time advancing the agenda of their crazed base. It is difficult to keep up with the madness. Most recently, they have made the national news with a “trans refuge” bill that is making its way through the legislature. The bill passed the Minnesota House early Friday morning last week. (John addressed the executive order that
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