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Feminists Wear Pink to Support Trans Man Who Killed Ex-Girlfriend

All it takes to get feminists to support a rapist and abuser is a change of pronouns.

“I’m f____ killing that bitch,” Scott McLaughlin bragged. He came back covered in Beverly’s blood. When he led the police to his ex-girlfriend’s body, they found her naked from the chest down with her bra stained red. Scott admitted to stabbing his victim over and over again.

The autopsy found evidence that he may also have strangled her and scratches on her “chest and pubic area”. There was reason to believe that he had raped her.

The vicious murderer had previously served time for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl.

While dating Beverly Guenther, the murder victim, he had repeatedly assaulted her, and later stalked her, broke into her home and threatened her. Beverly obtained an order of protection against him. A police officer had walked her from her job to her car for a week.

Once feminists would have condemned the system for failing her, instead they’re denouncing it for executing her killer. Scott not only killed a woman, he stole her gender. His prison makeover into Amber, mouth decorated with an uneven slash of rose pink lipstick and hair held back in ringlets, began with an official taxpayer-funded gender transition three years ago. Now that same grotesque serial killer visage stares from pro-crime posters brandished by sympathizers.

“Save Amber,” they beg.

On social media, feminists took selfies wearing pink nail polish to protest Scott’s execution. A number of them gathered in the rain outside waving pink signs, “#ClemencyforAmber.”

According to leftist pro-crime activists, the killer had asked them “to wear pink in solidarity” with him. Women, and a few ‘men’, made sad faces and held up pink fingernails to the camera, demanding that Scott, who is now going by Amber, should be spared the death penalty.

Outside the prison where he was executed, they formed a circle and held up candles.

All it took to get feminists to rally to the defense of a woman’s killer was stealing her pronoun.

Rep. Cori Bush, of the racist Squad, co-signed a letter urging Missouri’s governor to save Beverly’s killer because while raping and stabbing a woman to death, “she was also silently struggling with her identity, grappling with what we now understand is gender dysphoria”.

“Ms. McLaughlin’s cruel execution would mark the state’s first use of the death penalty on a woman since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976,” Rep. Bush claimed, in defense of a man who had cruelly executed an actual woman.

Bethany Mann, the Democrat congressional candidate for the 3rd district, along with the Missouri Democratic LGBTQ Caucus fussed, “we resoundingly reject the violence in executing a member of the LGBTQIA+ community during a time of increased attacks and hateful rhetoric across America.”

Spare a murderer because some states are banning the sexual mutilation of kids.

“Amber is a gentle human,” Elyse Max, an anti-Israel activist who previously denounced the Jewish State’s campaign against Hamas, and now serves as the co-director of Missourians for Alternatives, insisted. “Everyone who knows her knows that Amber is not of future harm.”

Beverly’s former neighbor might disagree.

After Scott/Amber butchered his ex-girlfriend, he called her neighbor and told her, “you’re next.”

Calls to save Scott have come in from the Missouri Democratic LGBTQ Caucus, LGBTQ Commission of Kansas, the Missouri Catholic Conference and assorted pro-crime Democrats.

The media has loudly taken up Scott’s case, branding him the “first transgender woman to be executed in America.” That makes up for Dennis Rader, the BTK killer, Hadden Clark, the cross-dressing cannibal, and Jerry Brudos, who killed and raped four women, some after death, who inspired the fictional transgender serial killer in Silence of the Lambs, never facing justice.

Rader, who killed, among others, an 11-year-old girl, and reportedly inspired the Idaho murders, has been given added privileges in prison for good behavior. Clark, who drank a six-year-old girl’s blood, is at no risk of being executed in California, and Jerry Brudos died on his own.

Scott’s days of hanging around prison and playing dress up are over. Media puff pieces profile Scott’s relationship with James Hickling, another ‘transgender’ man, who was involved in a drug killing, gathering together for “girl talk” and dealing with “rude comments”.

Now the ‘girl talk’ is all done.

“It is extremely unusual for a woman to commit a capital offense, such as a brutal murder, and even more unusual for a woman to, as was the case with McLaughlin, rape and murder a woman,” a Missouri Corrections Department spokeswoman noted.

It’s so unusual because it’s impossible. The only woman in this case is the victim.

Beverly has been ignored by all the leftists who declare a “war on women” every time abortion is in some way restricted, and then go back to celebrating men as the real women. Replacing women in sports has been bad enough, but the abuser displacing an abused woman shows how perverted feminism has become by sexual identity politics and pro-crime activism.

Gov. Michael L. Parson turned down pleas to spare Scott. “McLaughlin’s conviction and sentence remains after multiple, thorough examinations of Missouri law. McLaughlin stalked, raped, and murdered Ms. Guenther. McLaughlin is a violent criminal,” a press release stated.

And the media and activists fumed that the governor hadn’t called him, “Amber”.

“We would expect elected officials across all levels of government to respect a person in life and in death. Using a person’s correct name and pronouns is the very basic level of decency we can show towards each other,” PROMO, a local LGBTQ group, fumed.

The very basic level of decency we can show to each other is to use a killer’s chosen pronouns.

Transgender activists call this “deadnaming”.

But Scott McLaughlin doesn’t have to worry about “deadnaming” anymore. He’s dead.

Feminists Wear Pink to Support Trans Man Who Killed Ex-Girlfriend
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Planned Parenthood told us what it was going to do: Matt Walsh flags 1969 depopulation memo

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Botched Abortion Almost Kills Woman, “Doctors Were Shocked” I Didn’t Die

A British woman said she almost died after a botched abortion left tissue, likely parts of her baby’s body, inside her womb and caused her to bleed for more than three months.

The 37-year-old from Middlesbrough, Teesside, England, shared her story with Teesside Live after she noticed two recent failed inspection reports at the abortion facility. She said she does not want the same thing — or worse — to happen to other women.

In early 2018, the woman, who is not named in the report, said her doctor referred her to a BPAS abortion facility in Middlesbrough after she found out she was pregnant. The woman said she wanted an abortion because she was struggling with health problems.

At eight weeks of pregnancy, she said BPAS gave her an abortion pill at the facility and another to take later at home. Over the next two weeks, she said she felt like something was not right and kept calling the abortion facility. However, she said they repeatedly reassured her that what she was going through was normal, and eventually she felt something pass, according to the report.

She kept bleeding for three months, but the abortion facility dismissed it as an “extra long period,” she continued.

Here’s more from the report:

After she started to feel ill, she went back and she was scanned at the clinic, she says. The weather was very bad at the time and she says she was told some staff hadn’t been able to get in so a sister would look at the scan results later. They called and told her there was some retained tissue but nothing to worry about. But then things took a turn for the worse.

“… I continued bleeding but I had polycystic ovaries anyway and thought it was maybe that. Then I was shopping one day in Asda and I started shaking, sweat was dripping off my face, I didn’t feel right. I went and sat in the car, phoned my GP … My blood pressure was through the roof so they sent me straight to hospital.”

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Doctors discovered that she still had “tissue” with “its own blood supply” in her womb, meaning her unborn baby possibly was still alive or parts of the baby’s body were still inside her, the report continues.

“The doctor said they were surprised I wasn’t critically ill in hospital. It had just been left all that time, it could have caused sepsis,” she said.

They referred her back to BPAS, which gave her more abortion drugs, according to the report.

Though all that happened four years ago, the woman said she felt compelled to share her story now after noticing that the same BPAS that botched her abortion recently failed two inspections.

According to Teesside Live, inspectors from the British Care Quality Commission found multiple deficiencies at the abortion facility within the past year.

In one particularly alarming finding, last August, inspectors said BPAS staff gave the abortion drug mifepristone to five women and then made them travel to another abortion facility because no doctor was available to finish their abortions, according to the report.

Another more recent inspection found other deficiencies, including a lack of adequate staff and failures to properly label medication, the report states. The inspectors did note that the facility has made several improvements since the August inspection.

Botched Abortion Almost Kills Woman, “Doctors Were Shocked” I Didn’t Die
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Radical pro-abortion group ‘Jane’s Revenge’ threatens Catholic diocesan office in Florida

HOLLYWOOD, Florida (LifeSiteNews) – Abortion extremists have left threatening graffiti at a Catholic archdiocesan office.  

Just before midnight on May 28, the abortion activist group Jane’s Revenge spray-painted a wall of the Archdiocese of Miami’s Respect Life office with the message  “If abortions aren’t SAFE, then niether (sic) are you” and anarchist symbols, Florida Catholic Newspaper reported. 

“This threat is similar to those received by numerous pregnancy help centers around the country in the wake of the national news regarding the Dobbs case before the Supreme Court, and the possible overturning of Roe v. Wade,” said Rebecca Brady, the director of the archdiocese’s Respect Life ministry. 

The vandalism was found by the cleaning crew the following morning, who notified local police and provided them with video footage of the crime. The office holds the South Broward Pregnancy Help Center and serves as the Respect Life Ministry’s main office.  

Respect for Life provides public information and education exposing the reality of abortion. It also offers care to women who are having trouble carrying out their pregnancies or women who have suffered abortions in the past. 

“We believe the intention of this vandalism was to scare and intimidate us,” said Brady. “Respect Life Ministry will not back down; we will continue extending the love and mercy of Christ to all regardless of creed. We also now have the opportunity to learn what it means to love our enemies.” 

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Oklahoma becomes first state to ban nonbinary gender X option on birth certificates 

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed into law a bill that bans nonbinary identification of residents on their government-issued documents, making his state the first in the nation to require birth certificates to indicate only male or female as a person’s biological sex.

The bill, SB 1100, “requires the biological sex designation on a birth certificate to be either male or female and prohibits a nonbinary or any symbol representing a nonbinary designation.”

“People are free to believe whatever they want about their identity, but science has determined people are either biologically male or female at birth,” Oklahoma Rep. Sheila Dills, the House sponsor of the bill, said in a statement, according to The Associated Press. “We want clarity and truth on official state documents. Information should be based on established medical fact and not an ever-changing social dialogue.”

While many states only allow the sex designation of male or female on birth certificates, the law makes Oklahoma the first to prohibit nonbinary identification for those who don’t want to identify as their birth sex and instead self-identify as the opposite sex or claim to be gender fluid.

State Rep. Mauree Turner, a Democrat, who publicly identifies as nonbinary, called the law “extreme and grotesque.”

“I find it very extreme and grotesque use of power in this body to write this law and try to pass it — when literally none of them live like us,” Turner tweeted. “Some of our fate, for now, lies in the hands of some people who claim to get it and some people who absolutely don’t.”

Last October, the state issued its first nonbinary birth certificate, which led Republican lawmakers to pass legislation banning the misidentification of residents’ sex on the document.

The governor said at the time he would take “whatever action necessary” to prohibit the practice.

“I believe that people are created by God to be male or female. Period,” Stitt said at the time. “There is no such thing as nonbinary sex, and I wholeheartedly condemn the purported [Oklahoma State Department of Health] court settlement that was entered into by rogue activists who acted without receiving proper approval or oversight.”

https://www.christianpost.com/politics/oklahoma-bans-nonbinary-gender-x-option-on-birth-certificates.html

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Kellen D. Nicholson, a male to female transgender person, has just been arrested in Portland & charged with 12 felonies related to grooming a child for sex & possessing child sex abuse imagery.

After a month-long investigation led by Portland Police Bureau’s Internet Crimes Against Children Unit, a suspect has been arrested and charged with 12 felony crimes related to child pornography and luring a minor.

In March of 2022, the Portland Police Bureau became aware of a suspect who may be in possession of child sex abuse imagery. After an investigation, they determined that Kellen D. Nicholson, 18, of Portland, possessed and duplicated child pornography, and then connected online to a 13-year-old victim and engaged in illegal conduct. Nicholson was grooming the victim using online chat rooms and appears to have purposely targeted the victim based on many factors including their LGBTQ2S+ identity. The family of the minor victim was not aware of this online behavior and was grateful for PPB’s intervention.

On April 29, 2022, Nicholson was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center on charges including:

-Five counts of Encouraging Sex Abuse in the First Degree (duplication of child sex abuse imagery)
-Five counts of Encouraging Sex Abuse in the Second Degree (possession with intent to view)
-Luring a minor (inducing the minor or purported minor to engage in sexual conduct)
-Online Sexual Corruption of a Child In the Second Degree (knowingly uses an online communication to solicit a child to engage in sexual contact or sexually explicit conduct)

April is Child Abuse Awareness month. For current resources on online safety, child abuse awareness, age appropriate education, and to make a report of suspicious online behavior, please visit https://www.missingkids.org/HOME .

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Biology Denying designer is accused of ‘child abuse’ for selling pants that seek to ‘flatten’ the genitals of boys as young as four – as doctors warn the underwear could cause infertility

A transgender underwear designer has been accused of child abuse for selling pants that seek to ‘flatten’ the genitals of boys as young as four.

Doctors warned that the underwear, which is made to ‘flatten the side profile of the pelvic area’, could cause infertility. 

A leading peer claimed the sale of the product amounted to a criminal offence.

The garments are sold by Carmen Liu, an eponymous company established by a transgender former ballet dancer that describes itself as ‘the UK’s first brand to design flattening and tucking underwear’.

The cotton briefs, which cost £35.70 for a pack of three, come in black or white and are decorated with pink, blue and blue satin bows. 

They are available in seven sizes – the smallest for those with hips measuring between 58cm (23in) and 61cm, which would include children as young as four. The largest, at up to 97cm, would fit a teenager.

Under a dedicated ‘Kids’ section on its website, the company says: ‘Carmen Liu Kids is here for trans girls and non-binary children in their journey. We are the world’s first company (you heard!) to listen to the children that need us. 

‘Each product is here to provide children with the stepping stones to finding themselves, in a supportive, validating experience.’

It adds: ‘We are here to provide gender expression products for trans girls and non-binary children in aim [sic] of finding their true, authentic self.’

But Tory peer Baroness Nicholson said: ‘I am truly horrified. The makers, sellers and distributors of these items are breaking the Children’s Act and are heavily abusing the NHS health criteria for children. 

‘Children have an absolute unbreakable right to health and these wretched items are against that. I will report them and go to the wire to gain children their rights against this seemingly criminal behaviour.’

Doctors said putting sustained pressure on the genitals could cause permanent damage to young boys. 

‘Testicles need to be at a lower temperature, a couple of degrees lower than the body,’ said consultant paediatrician Dr Shiban Ahmed. 

‘That is why they are in the scrotum, outside of the body. At a young age, if they continue to remain in a high position, the cells that produce sperm eventually die off.’

He said that could destroy the chances of fatherhood for boys who later changed their minds about becoming female. 

Stephanie Davies-Arai, of campaign group Transgender Trend, said: ‘The fact that a child is sexualised in this way and their sexual parts are treated according to adult ideas, is abuse of the child. It feels barbaric to actually interfere with a child’s genitals in that way.’

Last night, Carmen Liu said: ‘Your claims are absurd, unfounded and without merit.’ She said the criticism came ‘at a convenient time when legislation to ban conversion therapy to exclude transgender people is in the media and subject to wide outrage and protest. 

‘This… is an attempt to cast contempt on the community at a time when support and understanding is needed most.’

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10746809/Transgender-designer-accused-child-abuse-selling-pants-flatten-genitals-boys.html

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Ohio public university to pay $400,000 in damages after punishing professor over preferred pronoun controversy

A public university in Ohio will pay $400,000 in damages and attorney fees after punishing a professor for declining a male student’s demand to be referred to as a female.

Nick Meriwether, a philosophy professor at Shawnee State University, responded to a male student’s question during a January 2018 political philosophy class by saying “Yes, sir.” When the class ended, the student identified to the professor as transgender, and demanded to be referred to as a woman in the future, along with “feminine titles and pronouns,” according to the Alliance Defending Freedom, which represented the professor in court. Doing so, Meriwether maintained, would have violated his convictions as a Christian.

Meriwether didn’t agree to the student’s request, and court documents state that the student became belligerent and told the professor that he would be fired.

The student filed a complaint with the university, launching an investigation which eventually determined that Meriwether “effectively created a hostile environment” for the student because he would not use the preferred pronouns. Meriwether did offer to call the student by any name requested, but the student did not accept the offer.

Shawnee State University would then place a written warning in Meriwether’s personnel file, which stated that “further corrective actions” would be taken if a similar incident occurred.

The professor sued Shawnee State University, claiming that it violated his “right to free exercise of religion under the First Amendment.”

In March 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled in favor of Meriwether, reversing a district court’s prior dismissal of the lawsuit and allowing the professor to continue his lawsuit against the university.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/ohio-public-university-to-pay-400000-in-damages-after-punishing-professor-for-misgendering-student

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The Gender Cultists Meet Resistance

On March 28, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law Florida’s House Bill (HB) 1557, which disallows or limits schools from instructing children in certain sexual matters. The heart of the new law states, “Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.”

The news was met in many quarters with histrionic outrage. The American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten groused that the law will “single out certain kids and families for derision and denigration. It is just wrong. Its intent is to divide our communities and make political hay, but it hurts children, hurts families and makes it hard for teachers to do their jobs.”

Hardly. It simply doesn’t allow teachers to discuss certain sexual identity issues with young children. Weingarten also inanely insisted that the law would shame “LGBTQIA+ people back into the closet by policing their identity.”

Following the signing of the bill, a gay teacher in Parish, Florida, creepily bemoaned the fact that he can’t talk about his love life with his kindergarteners anymore.

No one was more outraged than Joe Biden, however. On March 31 – the day that some celebrate as the “International Transgender Day of Visibility” – the president insisted that his administration is “standing up” for transgender Americans “against ‘hateful bills’ being passed at the state level” and assured them, “You’re so brave. You belong. And we have your back.”

To show that Biden is really, really serious about his stance, his administration’s Department of Health and Human Services raised the pink, white and blue striped “Transgender flag” at its D.C. headquarters.

Frighteningly, the Department of Justice got into the act, issuing a press release on the Transgender Day of Visibility in which it proclaims that it sent a letter to all state attorneys general “reminding them of federal constitutional and statutory provisions that protect transgender youth against discrimination, including when those youth seek gender-affirming care.” The missive advises states that laws and policies that prevent individuals from receiving gender-affirming medical care may infringe on federal constitutional protections under the Equal Protection Clause and Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Not surprisingly, the word “parent” never once appeared in the document.

And California – of course – is doing what it can to maintain its reputation as the nation’s wackiest state. Democratic lawmakers are proposing to make California a haven for transgender youth and their parents who are fleeing other states. State Senator Scott Wiener said – apparently with a straight face – “They have a safe place to go if they’re threatened with prosecution. California will not be a party to this new wave of deadly L.G.B.T.Q. criminalization.”

It’s fascinating how a bill which doesn’t allow for sexual identity issues to be discussed in grades k-3 can morph into “deadly L.G.B.T.Q. criminalization.” How could the Babylon Bee possibly satirize this?

In fact, California is actually the anti-Florida, and has done much do disempower parents. To wit:

  • AB 2119, which passed in September 2018, provides that the “rights of minors and nonminors in foster care…include the right to be involved in the development of case plan elements related to placement and gender affirming health care, with consideration of their gender identity.” At the time, the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) filed testimony against the bill, urging legislators to reject it. “Children with gender dysphoria believe they are not their biological sex,” the group’s March 2018 testimony read. “A delusion is a fixed false belief. This bill proposes that foster children with gender dysphoria be socially affirmed into their delusion, and allowed to obtain experimental puberty blockers, and dangerous cross-sex hormones and surgery without parental consent.”
  • In September 2021, AB 1184, a bill cosponsored by Planned Parenthood, became law. As the California Family Council explains, this diktat “prohibits insurance companies from revealing to the policyholder the ‘sensitive services’ of anyone on their policy, including minor children (starting at age 12), even though the policy owner is financially responsible for the services.” The term “sensitive services” refers to all health care services related to mental or behavioral health, sexual and reproductive health, sexually transmitted infections, substance use disorder, gender affirming care, etc. The bill doesn’t detail the kindly sounding “gender affirming care,” but as defined by the University of California, San Francisco, it’s hormone therapy and a laundry list of surgeries including vaginectomy, scrotoplasty, voice modification, etc., ad nauseam.
  • At a California Teachers Association conference in October 2021, teachers were advised on “best practices for subverting parents, conservative communities and school principals on issues of gender identity and sexual orientation.”
  • The Los Angeles Unified School District’s Office of Human Relations, Equity and Diversity hosted a 10-week online club for LGBT elementary schoolers, including children as young as four years old in the fall of 2021.

And then there’s Disney, which is in a state of rage over the passage of Florida’s parental rights bill. As Christopher Rufo explains, Disney executives immediately organized a “Reimagine Tomorrow Conversation Series” meeting for its leaders and “pledged to mobilize the entire corporation in service of the “LGBTQIA+ community.” Those recruited included a “black, queer, and trans person,” a “bi-romantic asexual,” and “the mother [of] one transgender child and one pansexual child,” and “announced ambitious new initiatives—seeking to change everything from gender pronouns at the company’s theme parks to the sexual orientation of background characters in the company’s films.”

Also, speaking in blunt terms, Disney executive producer Latoya Raveneau laid out the company’s game plan. She said her team was implementing a “not-at-all-secret gay agenda” and regularly “adding queerness” to children’s programming. Production coordinator Allen Martsch, said his team has created a “tracker” to ensure that “they are creating enough ‘canonical trans characters, canonical asexual characters, [and] canonical bisexual characters.’” Corporate president Karey Burke said she “supported having ‘many, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories’ and reaffirmed the company’s pledge to make at least 50 percent of its on-screen characters sexual and racial minorities.”

The gender obsession has also extended to Disney’s theme parks in Anaheim and Orlando. Diversity and inclusion manager Vivian Ware explains that Disney made the decision last year to eliminate all mentions of “ladies,” “gentlemen,” “boys,” and “girls” in order to create “that magical moment” for children who do not identify with traditional gender roles.

It must be noted that Disney, whose name evokes warm and fuzzy images of Mickey, Donald, Goofy and Tinkerbell has been over the years the corporate equivalent of a heavy-breathing, sweaty guy in a trench coat lurking in a park. For example, a six-month investigation in 2014 revealed that “at least 35 Disney employees had been arrested for sex crimes against children, attempting to meet minors for sex, and possession of child pornography over the previous eight years.” Additionally, other Disney employees were found to have exhibited an abiding interest in kiddie porn on the internet.

The transgender movement is cultish, and can have dire consequences. Brown University physician and researcher Lisa Littman released a study in 2018, which showed that “rapid-onset gender dysphoria” in young people may be driven in part by “social and peer contagion.” She stresses that nearly 70 percent of the teenagers were involved with a peer group in which at least one friend had identified as transgender. In some groups, the majority had done so. Nearly 65 percent of teens had spent an increased amount of time online and on social media, and “parents reported that pro-transgender YouTube videos and blogs might have been influential.” It is unclear how many of the kids who have joined the cult took it to the next level and actually engaged in hormone blockers and self-mutilation.

In reality, “Sex is determined at conception by our DNA and is stamped into every cell of our bodies,” asserts Dr. Michelle Cretella, President of the American College of Pediatricians. “Human sexuality is binary. You either have a normal Y chromosome and develop into a male, or you don’t, and you will develop into a female. There are at least 6,500 genetic differences between men and women. Hormones and surgery cannot change this.” Nor can Disney, Joe Biden, Randi Weingarten or any other gender zealot.

The good news is that a poll taken in late March reveals that when Americans are presented with the actual language of the new Florida law, 61% are in favor, while just 26% oppose. Importantly, there is bipartisan support. Republicans are in favor by a 70%-23% margin, while Democrats support it by 55%-29%. And, indeed states are acting. Georgia lawmakers have already introduced a bill that would similarly restrict “classroom discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity,” and other bills targeting related content in schools are pending in Indiana, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Kansas. Hopefully, the other 44 states will get aboard soon.

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Larry Sand, a former classroom teacher, is the president of the non-profit California Teachers Empowerment Network – a non-partisan, non-political group dedicated to providing teachers and the general public with reliable and balanced information about professional affiliations and positions on educational issues. The views presented here are strictly his own.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/04/gender-cultists-meet-resistance-larry-sand/

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Concerned Women for America files Title IX complaint against UPenn over Lia Thomas

Concerned Women for America (CWFA) has filed a Title IX complaint against University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) after UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas won a national title at the 2022 NCAA Women’s Swimming Championship.

CWFA is a public policy organization that “protects and promotes Biblical values and Constitutional principles through prayer, education, and advocacy.”

The complaint outlines the unfairness of allowing a biological male to compete against biological females in women’s sports. According to the complaint, allowing Thomas to compete on the women’s swim team has resulted in the displacement of female teammates.

“Thomas is anatomically/biologically a male who should not be eligible to compete in women’s sports, depriving anatomically/biologically female athletes of the opportunities afforded to them by law,” the complaint states.

[RELATED: Due process under fire: Biden’s nominee calls for “possibility” of innocence in Title IX cases]

Furthermore, the complaint criticizes the UPenn swim coach and the university administration for creating a “hostile environment” for female athletes within the school.

“Female athletes are being forced to forfeit their rightful privacy and dignity in sex-specific locker rooms in direct violation of Title IX,” the complaint states. “Worse yet, they do not feel free to speak up in disagreement with the policy without creating adverse effects on their dreams of an athletic college career.”

CEO and President of CWFA Penny Nance asserted in a Mar. 16 statement that any school that “defies federal civil rights law” by infringing on the right to equal opportunity of female athletes must be “held accountable.” 

“We filed a formal civil rights complaint against UPenn in response to this injustice,” she assured.

CWFA Press Secretary Katie Everett told Campus Reform, “A great injustice is being committed against women student athletes at UPenn and beyond in direct violation of federal law.” 

“The violations are compounded in that colleges and universities are allowing a hostile environment to fester which threatens female athletes’ entire college careers and even future earning opportunities if they dare to speak out against these unfair policies,” Everett added. 

Everett also stated that the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is obligated to investigate the organization’s allegations within the complaint.

“We expect them to do their job and protect women athletes from discrimination based on their sex,” she said. “We expect them to push UPenn and other colleges and universities to provide a safe and fair environment for women athletes to have the equal opportunities afforded to them by law.”

A club swimmer at UPenn who wishes to remain anonymous told Campus Reform that he believes the concerns of CWFA are valid, but that its complaint should be directed at the NCAA.

“I do not think that transgender women should be participating in women’s sports,” he explained. “The numbers simply prove (especially in swimming) that these athletes have an unfair advantage.”

The student also pointed out the irony of people who support the NCAA’s policy that allows transgender women to compete in women’s sports, but claim to also be supportive of women’s rights, when this policy actively harms “thousands of women who have been training for years to compete.”

[RELATED: A look at 5 transgender college sports controversies]

However, one UPenn student told Campus Reform that he disagrees with the CWFA’s complaint. 

“Thomas is a great asset to our swim team here at Penn, but she by no means dominates it. My friends on the women’s swim team have plenty of opportunities to demonstrate their talents and abilities in the pool and out of it,” the student said, also requesting anonymity. 

According to the student, the team is “more than happy to have Lia on their team and they are always excited to compete alongside her.”

On Mar. 17, Thomas became the first transgender athlete to win a Division I national championship in any sport after finishing first in the 500-yard freestyle, beating competitor Emma Weyant, a Florida native whom Governor Ron DeSantis declared the true winner. 

Thomas was previously ranked #462 when competing in the men’s division.

The American Principles Project shared pictures of Emma Weyant on Twitter, asserting that she is the “true winner to all of us.”

Campus Reform has reached out to the University of Pennsylvania for comment. This article will be updated accordingly.

https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=19275

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University Caught Storing Bags of Aborted Babies and Aborted Baby Parts

Pro-life advocates made a disturbing discovery earlier this month in a lab at the University of Washington Department of Pediatrics: a freezer full of rows and rows of aborted babies’ body parts.

Pro-life advocates with Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU), Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, Pro-Life San Francisco and Rehumanize International said they gained access to the freezer March 9 after confronting university leaders about its unethical practices as the largest and most active fetal organ bank in the nation.

“The American people must be made aware of the mass dehumanization of these unborn children who are violently killed and thrown into a freezer, whose body parts are then portioned out to researchers in pursuit of federal funding,” said Terrisa Bukovinac, founder and executive director of PAAU.

This week, the pro-life groups published a photo of the freezer, which they said contained row after row of bags and containers of aborted babies’ body parts, labeled and prepared to be shipped to scientific researchers across the country.

“It is my hope that this photograph reminds us all that there are real victims being lethally oppressed by UW and traded like property,” Bukovinac said. “Fetal trafficking is abhorrent and it must end.”

University Caught Storing Bags of Aborted Babies and Aborted Baby Parts
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Biden’s Supreme Court nominee refuses to define the word ‘woman’

Did President Biden keep his promise to nominate a black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court? At first glance, that seems like an absurd question. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is a black woman. However, this past week’s interaction between Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Judge Jackson makes that point confusing.

Supreme Court confirmation hearings can be heady affairs. Although the topics of judicial philosophy, legal principles, and how to interpret the Constitution are vitally important to the functioning of our legal system, most Americans do not often consider them. Stare decisis, unenumerated rights, and originalism are simply not part of most people’s daily conversations with their friends or family members. As a result, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s four-day-long hearing on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court has likely proven dull for many people. 

However, likely lost among the hours of questioning in Tuesday’s confirmation hearing was a fascinating exchange between Judge Jackson and Sen. Blackburn.  During her questioning, Blackburn asked the nominee to define the word “woman.”

“Can you provide a definition of the word ‘woman’?” Blackburn asked. After a brief pause, Jackson answered, “No, I can’t.” Incredulous, Blackburn replied, “You can’t?” “Not in this context; I’m not a biologist,” the judge responded.

Initially, few news outlets reported on the exchange, and even most conservative court-watchers have focused on questioning by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) about critical race theory and Sen. Josh Hawley’s (R-Mo.) contention that Judge Jackson has been too lenient when sentencing sex offenders. But the exchange between Blackburn and Jackson is a massive cultural moment and reflects how deeply gender identity ideology has taken root in our national subconscious. In short, those pushing gender identity ideology that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago have been so successful in promoting their views that it is now deemed too risky to define a woman as an adult biological female. 

The promotion and acceptance of transgender ideology have accelerated the rampant gender confusion in our nation, and the events of the past few weeks underscore just how successful LGBTQ activists have been in converting the news media, Big Tech, the business community, and now, apparently, the judicial community, to their cause. Just within the past few weeks, we’ve seen a biological male crowned an NCAA champion in women’s swimming and USA Today declared Rachel Levine, a biological male serving in the Biden administration, as one of the newspaper’s “Women of the Year.” 

But even though there have been several stories in the news lately featuring those who identify as transgender, it is remarkable that someone nominated to the nation’s highest court is unwilling to define the word “woman.”  It raises the question of how Americans can trust someone to faithfully interpret the U.S. Constitution and apply the nation’s laws who lacks the courage to simply state biological facts. Nevertheless, here we are.

https://www.christianpost.com/voices/bidens-supreme-court-nominee-refuses-to-define-the-word-woman.html

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Here’s why asking for gender pronouns is like a religious test

They’re written on name tags, sported on Twitter bios, mandated by language guides and used by at least one college mascot.

I’m referring to preferred, or self-chosen pronouns, and if you haven’t been asked for yours yet, you probably will be soon, Andrew Doyle stated in Unherd.

“Sooner or later,” he wrote, “your employer will suggest that you sign off emails with them, or announce them along with your name at the beginning of meetings.”

The same might be true for your university professor.

Not long ago, people seemed to get along fine with using “he,” “she” and “they” without prior permission or advice. Pronouns weren’t considered “mine” or “yours”; they were understood as a linguistic shorthand denoting our sex, which wasn’t usually hard to figure out.

Bespoke pronouns are now in vogue, however, because many want the concept of “gender identity” to replace sex as the determinant of whether someone is a man, a woman, or neither.

Here’s a definition of “gender identity” offered by journalist Helen Joyce in 2018: “an innate sense of being a man or woman [or neither] that usually, but not always, aligns with biological sex.”

Even more, there is a “deceptively simple, quasi-mystical idea,” Joyce stated, that everyone has a “gender identity.”

Joyce described this concept further as a ​​“radical notion” that is “sweeping across the Western world, with English-speaking countries in the vanguard.”

“The brainchild of a few sexologists, trans-activists and academics, it has spread via lobby groups and the internet, and on liberal campuses. It is now becoming consolidated in practice and codified into law, with profound consequences—not just for people who wish they had been born the opposite sex, but for everyone.”

“According to this theory, no one can determine a person’s gender identity except that person, and no one else can challenge it,” Joyce pointed out.

And if your gender identity makes you a man or a woman, only you can know whether you’re one or the other – so only you can know what pronouns are “yours.”

When you ask someone for their pronouns, as Andrew Doyle stated, “You are doing one of two things. You are either saying that you are having trouble identifying this person’s sex, or you are saying that you believe in the notion of gender identity and expect others to do the same.”

Mammals such as humans are usually good at inferring the sex of others, for good reasons. As evolutionist Richard Dawkins explained about lions:

When a male lion wants to mate, he looks for a female, for nearly every lion is a member of one of the two sexes. And since animals have no “social constructs,” their innate recognition of whom they should reproduce with is a sign of the objectivity of male versus female lions.

Our initial recognition of sex isn’t always right, of course. But the recognition of sex by observing secondary sex characteristics and other attributes is a valid, if not infallible, inference, just as it’s valid – but not foolproof – to infer that a man is married because he is wearing a ring on the third finger of his left hand, as philosopher Kathleen Stock writes in her book Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism.

So asking for pronouns probably doesn’t mean that someone doesn’t know your sex. Rather, it means that the person believes that gender identity, not sex, is what makes you a man or a woman – and since gender identity is internal, you can only know by asking.

“Gender identity” became normalized because it is a way to distinguish between the biological sex of transgender people and their internal sense that they are male or female.

But the idea that everyone has a “gender identity” isn’t a scientific concept. As Joyce and others have stated, it is a philosophical, quasi-religious idea promulgated by powerful groups.

As Doyle writes, it is “akin to a religious conviction, and we would be rightly appalled if employers were to demand that their staff proclaim their faith in Christ the Saviour or Baal the Canaanite god of fertility before each meeting.”

Moreover, he wrote, “declaring our pronouns has become the most common way in which we are expected to pledge allegiance to the new identity-obsessed religion that has captured most of our major institutions.”

Similarly, journalist Abigail Shrier stated that when you give “your pronouns,” you “participate in the catechism of Gender Ideology – the belief that there are ineffable genders, unknowable to all but the subject.”

So the next time a university language guide, professor, or student leader asks you for “your pronouns,” you might consider following Shrier’s model.

“Whenever anyone asks me to use their preferred pronouns, and I can do so without confusing my audience or muddying an argument, I do so and I think this is an important courtesy,” she said.

“But – when asked,” she stated, “I will not state my pronouns and if you don’t believe in Gender Ideology, you shouldn’t either.”

Instead, Shrier simply stated, “When asked for my pronouns, I say: ‘I am a woman.’”

https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=19174

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French politician calls out EU parliament for voting on gender neutral bathrooms during Ukraine war

STRASBOURG, France (LifeSiteNews) — A French member of the European Parliament (MEP) has come out strongly against her colleagues for voting on gender neutral bathrooms in the middle of an international crisis triggered by the war in Ukraine.

Annika Bruna, an MEP for the French nationalist party Rassemblement National (RN), posted a video on Twitter Thursday, accusing MEPs at the European parliament of wasting the taxpayer’s money by spending their time discussing gender ideology and gender-neutral bathrooms rather than the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

“As war rages in Eastern Europe, as the consequences of the pandemic are felt everywhere, as the price of gas reaches records high, and inflation looms, the EU parliament talks about its bathrooms,” she said.

Bruna was referring to a text circulated in parliament regarding the design of the EU parliament’s bathrooms, which was the object of a vote among EU MEPs on Wednesday.

Specifically, the vote was about assessing the necessity to adapt the bathrooms to “other genders” and put in place “gender-neutral” bathrooms.

“Hasn’t the EU parliament got anything better to do, do we not have anything better to do with the taxpayers’ money than to re-design the parliament’s bathrooms to make them gender-neutral?” asked Bruna rhetorically. “With the other members of the Rassemblement National we think that there are much more pressing matters to address for the French people and the European people.”

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/french-politician-calls-out-eu-parliament-for-voting-on-gender-neutral-bathrooms-during-ukraine-war/?utm_source=top_news&utm_campaign=canada
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LSE is an ‘orgy of debauchery’, top economist claims: Male professor is seeking £4million in compensation from top university ‘after he was sexually harassed by two female colleagues’

A professor has called one of Britain’s most prestigious universities an ‘orgy of debauchery’ after alleging he was sexually harassed by two female colleagues.

Dr Theodore Piepenbrock told a tribunal there was a culture of heavy drinking and affairs between academics at the London School of Economics (LSE).

He claims he was the victim of a ‘campaign of vengeance’ there after making complaints.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10604713/LSE-orgy-debauchery-economist-claims-seeks-4million-compensation.html

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Planned Parenthood Injures Two Women in Botched Abortions, Now The 911 Call Records are Missing

The Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Hempstead, New York, was involved in two medical emergencies last month.  The first took place on February 11, 2022, with the second one just six days later on February 17.

During the first incident, which appeared to the the more serious of the two emergencies, pro-life activists witnessed the arrival of four emergency units. A Northwell Health ambulance arrived at Planned Parenthood at around 10:30 a.m., followed by one EMS supervisor and a second ambulance. A Hempstead Police unit also responded.

The emergency was caught on video by pro-life activist Mike Sweeney and ProBikersForLife.org.

The woman was transported to a hospital affiliated with Northwell Health about a half hour later.

The second emergency on February 17 was not caught on camera, but a witness told Operation Rescue that one ambulance with two employees of Northwell Hospital arrived at the Planned Parenthood at 12:32 p.m. with lights and sirens running.

The single ambulance pulled around to the side of the Planned Parenthood office and left with a patient on board after about 15 minutes, according to the witness, who also noted that the ambulance did not run lights or sirens as it left the Planned Parenthood parking lot.

Planned Parenthood Injures Two Women in Botched Abortions, Now The 911 Call Records are Missing
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Bay City woman charged with filing false report of rape

BAY CITY, Mich. (WJRT) – A Bay City woman is facing felony charges after making a claim of false rape. 

Police say 24-year-old Emily Larner filed a police report two years ago, claiming a man she knew had raped her.

In a police report, she indicated she had been kicked out of her house after an argument with her mother, went to male friend’s home and he started to make unwanted advances.

Police say the same man had called them before Larner’s report was filed after he learned she had a sexually transmitted disease and did not tell him, so he then asked her to leave.

Larner later recanted the story and admitted to lying. She was arraigned last month on one count of false report of a felony, which carries up to four years in prison and a $2,000 fine.

https://www.abc12.com/news/crime/bay-city-woman-charged-with-filing-false-report-of-rape/article_e79d29de-9b0c-11ec-8c0e-8fcd4c4f6ee9.html