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AT HOME IN ROME: THE APOSTASY; THE BEREAN CALL; TBC~Pope Francis hosts members of local trans group at papal table for annual Vatican lunch; LifeSite
Pope Francis' guests were from a transgender group in Torvaianica, a seaside town south-west of Rome infamous for its sex workers and drug trade, thanks also to the actions of the local priest Father Andrea Conocchia.
Pope Francis with Salas (L, in gray) at the Vatican lunch.CNS/X screenshot
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis made headlines Sunday when he invited a group of transgender “women” to take part in a Vatican-hosted lunch for the poor and sat opposite a “transgender” former sex worker.
The following morning Mass, Pope Francis hosted the seventh annual World Day of the Poor at the Vatican, with over 1,200 people filling the Paul VI Audience Hall for a lunch with the Pontiff.
But, as revealed by the Associated Press, Pope Francis invited a group of men who present themselves as women as special guests to the event.
BREAKING: @APNews reports that #PopeFrancis has invited a local group of “trans women” to his lunch for World Day of the Poor today.
The group comprises many working as prostitutes: they’re already regular special guests at weekly #Vatican audience.https://t.co/HlxrGWcbuk pic.twitter.com/4aPBDNRGFe— Michael Haynes 🇻🇦 (@MLJHaynes) November 19, 2023
The guests were from a transgender group in Torvaianica – a seaside town south-west of Rome infamous for its sex workers and drug trade – and came with their local priest Father Andrea Conocchia.
READ: Pope Francis calls woman with sex-change operation a 'man' and calls partners ‘married’
The 50-strong group Conocchia brought with him to the lunch included three men living as women: “Carla” Segovia and “Claudia” Vittoria Salas from Argentina, along with “Andrea” Paola Torres Lopez from Colombia.
Salas was given a place directly opposite Pope Francis during Sunday’s lunch.
Reuters reported that “Carla” Segovia stated of the Vatican invitation: “This is a fantastic opportunity for all of us transsexuals [sic]. I sent the pope a big kiss.”
“We transgenders [sic] here in Italy feel a bit more human because the fact that Pope Francis brings us closer to the Church is a beautiful thing,” Segovia added, speaking to Reuters prior to the Vatican lunch.
Louisiana federal judge blocks Biden protections for trans students under Title IX in four states
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/06/louisiana-federal-judge-blocks-biden-protections-for-trans-students-under-title-ix-in-four-states; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:
“Those states had argued that unless the rule was blocked, schools would be required to allow transgender students to use restrooms and locker rooms conforming to their gender identities.” It is not “discrimination” to consider the rights and privacy of ALL students.
Texas State Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton argued that the changes were Joe Biden’s “effort to weaponize Title IX for his extremist agenda.” Paxton also said that “Threatening to withhold education funding by forcing states to accept ‘transgender’ policies that put women in danger was plainly illegal.”
Under Biden’s extension of Title IX regulations, trans activists have also been pushing for trans sports participation to be included. Interpretations of “discrimination” may also end up including the use of incorrect pronouns.
In another development involving trans youth this week, the American College of Pediatricians condemned underage gender transition.
“U.S. A judge blocks Biden's protections for transgender students in four states,” by Nate Raymond, Reuters, June 13, 2024:
A federal judge in Louisiana on Thursday blocked President Joe Biden’s administration from enforcing in four states a new rule that bars schools and colleges that receive federal funding from discriminating against students based on their gender identity.
U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty in Monroe issued a preliminary injunction barring a U.S. Department of Education rule that extended sex discrimination protections under Title IX to LGBT students from taking effect in the Republican-led states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana and Idaho.
The ruling by Doughty, an appointee of Republican former President Donald Trump, appeared to be the first nationally to block the rule in response to one of the many lawsuits filed by Republican-led states and conservative litigants challenging it.
The Education Department in issuing the rule said it clarified that the prohibition against sex-based discrimination in schools and colleges that receive federal funding contained in Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 also includes discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
The department cited a 2020 U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that a ban against sex discrimination in the workplace contained in a different law, Title VII, covered gay and transgender workers….
Biden Nominates Activist Judge Who Put Trans Rapist in Women’s Prison; State Judiciary Hearing Erupts
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/05/biden-nominates-activist-judge-who-put-trans-rapist-in-womens-prison-state-judiciary-hearing-erupts; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:
The radical left agenda, fully adopted by the Biden administration and Biden’s cronies, is an increasing danger to Americans. According to the group Citizens Renewing America, Netburn is a radical leftist judge who “has a history of inserting her radical gender ideology in the court room.” The group further reported about Netburn being questioned at a Senate Judiciary hearing:
When questioned by Senators during the hearing, Judge Netburn was not able to answer why she recommended that a male serial rapist who was convicted of molesting a 9-year boy and sexually assaulting a 17-year old girl and was later convicted of possessing and sending child pornography, be sent to a women’s prison.
The Courthouse News Service described the Senate Judiciary Committee as descending “into a screaming match.”
Watch Senator Cruz question Netburn:
Netburn became Biden’s 200th federal court nominee, “putting the White House well on track to surpass the number of lifetime judges appointed by former President Donald Trump.”
That’s not all Netburn is known for. In 2020, after Biden was declared president but while Trump was still in office, Netburn signed an order “that compelled Google to secretly hand over to criminal investigators information from the email account” of the Project Veritas journalist “who had obtained Ashley Biden’s diary.” At the same time, Netburn forbade Google from letting the journalist know anything about the order, thus preventing Project Veritas “from fighting the move.”
Now Netburn gets nominated for the lifetime position.
“Biden nominates judge who put transgender rapist in women’s prison,” by Susan Ferrechio, Washington Times, May 28, 2024:
Judge Sarah Netburn, nominated by President Biden to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, faces a rocky path to confirmation after Republicans exposed her decision to move a sex offender from a transgender woman to a women’s prison.
Judge Netburn, who has served as a magistrate judge for 12 years, disregarded the recommendation of the Bureau of Prisons and ordered prison officials to move July Justine Shelby, who was imprisoned under the name William McClain, to a women’s prison.
Republicans tore into her decision at a heated hearing this month, labeling Judge Netburn a political activist who twisted the Constitution to justify moving the prisoner and put vulnerable women in danger.
Sen. John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican, scoffed at Judge Netburn’s reasoning for moving the prisoner, who she said had “serious medical needs” that were not being met at the men’s facility.
“The Board of Prisons said, ‘What planet did you parachute in from?" "You're going to a male prison with this kind of record," Mr. Kennedy said in response. “And you sent him to a female prison, did you? You said that the Board of Prisons was trying to violate Ms. Shelby, former Mr. McClain’s, constitutional right, didn’t you?”
Judge Netburn’s nomination now hinges on a Senate committee vote that hasn’t been scheduled and, if she clears that hurdle, a Senate floor vote…..
“That’s something that the voters need to make clear that this is something that they’re going to hold them accountable for, that we’re not going to allow judges to be activists and staff men into women’s prisons under the guise of the Constitution,” May Mailman, director of Independent Women’s Law Center, told The Washington Times.
“She says that the Constitution requires men to be housed with women, which is just absurd,” Ms. Mailman said….
The Gold Report: Ep. 25 ‘The Truth About Transgenderism’ with Walt Heyer
Biden’s Trans-Easter Was WORSE Than I Thought! A Deep Dive into It’s History
Biden Shields Transgender Day of Violence
In context, the betrayal is much worse than it seems.
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On March 29, Good Friday, Joe Biden declared March 31, Easter Sunday, a “Transgender Day of Visibility.” To appreciate the depravity in play, the Delaware Democrat’s action should be seen in context.
Back on March 15, federal judge Aleta Trauger “ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation to hand over documents for a private review in an ongoing Freedom of Information Act case that will decide if the public will see documents related to the Covenant School shooter’s motives.” The documents did not emerge before March 27, one year since Audrey Hale, shot dead nine-year-olds Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney and Hallie Scruggs, along with Covenant headmaster Katherine Koonce, custodian Mike Hill and teacher Cynthia Peak. Hale killed them in the run-up to the April 1 “Trans Day of Vengeance.”
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said “our hearts go out to the trans community as they are under attack right now.” Joe Biden failed to identify or condemn the shooter, failed to name a single murder victim, and did not attend any of the funerals. This year, Biden made no statement on Hale’s mass atrocity, which received mixed coverage from national and local media.
The Tennessee Star named all the victims and noted that the shooting “was carried out by Audrey Elizabeth Hale, who identified as transgender.” The Tennesseean named the victims “gunned down in a mass shooting,” but the shooter was not identified. The Associated Press story failed to name any victims or identify Audrey Hale, 28, whose possible motive also escaped notice.
A former student at the school, Audrey Hale carefully planned the attack for months. She compiled a massive “manifesto,” which police, the FBI, and trans activists sought to keep suppressed. According to the Trans Resistance Network (TRN), Audrey Hale had “no other effective way to be seen than to lash out by taking the lives of others.” That evokes the deadly dynamics behind the Nashville murder spree.
As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn explained, the line between good and evil runs straight down the middle of the human heart, and all human hearts. For the left, that line runs between social classes, nobles and peasants, workers and bosses, rich and poor, blacks and whites, and so forth. Trans ideology, the anti-scientific belief that women can become men and vice versa, takes this division to another level.
“Homosexuality and transgenderism are two utterly different phenomena,” explains Bruce Bawer, author of "A Place at the Table: The Gay Individual in American Society," but both groups are now enlisted in “the LGBTQ+ family.” That construct makes about as much sense as VBTPTA, the Vegetarian Butcher Terrorist Pacifist Teetotaler Alcoholic “family” or “community.”
Bawer outs the trans movement as a “revolution against reality itself,” a division that pits those who recognize reality against those who don’t. Trans types believe they are under attack from those who recognize reality. Those people, the trans types who have convinced themselves, are guilty of “genocide.” They thus qualify for deadly violence, fueled by another dynamic.
“Nothing is more dangerous than a general idea in narrow, empty minds,” explains Hippolyte Taine, historian of the French Revolution. “As they are empty, it finds no knowledge there to interfere with it; as they are narrow it is not long before it occupies the place entirely. Henceforth they no longer belong to themselves but are mastered by it; it works in them and through them, the man, in the true sense of the word, being possessed.”
Government education and the onslaught of wokeness have left many minds empty and narrow, Audrey Hale’s prominent among them. The general idea that women can become men occupied her entirely, to the point that she was literally possessed. Hale fired more than 150 rounds, killing some children at point blank range and applying blunt force trauma to several victims.
Even in Washington, it’s hard to think of anybody with a narrower or emptier mind than Joe Biden, in Conrad Black’s phrase a wax-works effigy of a president. Biden is all-in with the general idea, the killer construct, and the revolt against reality. For that cause, the Delaware Democrat is hardly alone.
Last year, two months after the Nashville massacre, the Biden White House marked the anniversary of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Kamala Harris named all the Uvalde victims but last year failed to name the Nashville victims or condemn Audrey Hale. An online search revealed no statement by Harris on the anniversary of Audrey Hale’s attack.
According to Nashville police, in 20 journals and assorted writings Hale documented, “her planning over a period of months to commit mass murder at the Covenant School,” and Hale “considered the actions of other mass murderers.” In portions of the manifesto leaked last November, Hale wrote “wanna kill all you little crackers,” and expressed hope for a “high death count.” Custodian Mike Hill was black, but Harris has not charged that Hale could have been motivated by racism.
Despite Judge Trauger’s order, Hale’s full manifesto is yet to be revealed. With uncritical support from the “Biden-Harris” administration, don’t be surprised if the Transmaid’s Tale gets a repeat performance.
Tapson Video: Happy Trans Visibility Day! Gender ideology is the new reigning religion in America.
SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/tapson-video-happy-trans-visibility-day; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:
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In this short video commentary, Freedom Center Shillman Fellow and host of The Right Take podcast Mark Tapson addresses the Biden administration’s outrageous announcement that Easter Sunday would be designated “Transgender Visibility Day.”
Check it out below and follow Mark Tapson at Culture Warrior:
Joe Biden Announces Transgender Day Of Visibility On Easter!
"DEVOUT CATHOLIC"? JOE BIDEN IS OPENLY BLASPHEMOUS, DEMONIC, & CORRUPT
First in Alaska, Now PA teen spots possible man in Planet Fitness women’s locker room
DO NOT DELETE: Important Update! Be Aware; Need to reach you about this, it affects every Delaware child.
We've been warning about HB 230, the gender transition bill which would allow the state to use the emergency jurisdiction of minors to "transition" them! The bill was quietly removed last week, but was replaced with HB 346!
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The new bill, HB 346, will shield medical doctors from any liability for prescribing highly experimental, irreversible hormone drugs and performing horrific "gender reassignment" surgeries. Already 22 states have banned these procedures. More are expected in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, DELAWARE is running towards it. Let that sink in.... |
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HB 346 affects kids being sold the gender transition line as young as 4-5 years old, and adults struggling with significant mental issues - they are "consenting" to lifelong pharmaceutical use, becoming sterile, and going under the knife... all without fully understanding their own biology, or knowing what questions to ask. |
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*IMPORTANT: Just this month, documents were leaked from WPATH, the leading transgender "experts" that the sponsors of HB 346 rely on for their information. The documents show that although WPATH publicly advocates for gender transitioning, they privately recognize that minors and vulnerable adults cannot fully consent to gender transition treatment. We may be witnessing the greatest medical scandal in our country's history. Left-leaning journalist Michael Shellenberger is exposing the scandal - see it for yourself with a quick search on YouTube. There are lawsuits across the country from young adults who are suffering the consequences of their gender transition. They were lured into it as minors, before they had even taken high school biology, and yet recommended this experimental "treatment" that left them sterile, sexually dysfunctional, and lifelong dependents on the pharmaceutical industry. There are disproportionately high concentrations of autism, severe mental health struggles, and histories of sexual abuse among individuals who transition, further preventing their ability to give informed consent. Delaware activists, in the name of "care," are leaving this vulnerable population completely defenseless against the harms of their radical agenda, which results in sterilization, sexual dysfunction, and complications for life. |
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The transgender industry gives billions of dollars to pharmaceutical companies who manufacture drugs for puberty blockers, cross sex hormones, and drugs needed for surgeries. These are drugs that individuals who transition have to take for the rest of their lives. Puberty blockers have not been FDA approved for use in minors for gender transition. WPATH admitted that there are no long-term studies on the benefits or harms of gender transition drugs and surgeries. European countries such as the UK, Norway, and Finland, as well as 22 US states, have restricted or banned these surgeries and drugs for minors. Delaware is on the wrong side of history. Children are being sold the gender lie through media, social media, and even curricula in public schools. If they feel uncomfortable with their changing bodies, or don't fit the "stereotype" for manhood or womanhood, they are told that they were born in the wrong body. The number of children who have attempted to "transition" their gender has tripled in just five years! Delaware law demands that those licensed counselors can only counsel these children toward gender transition. This is irresponsible! But if HB 346 passes, the victims will have no legal recourse. Don't delay; send in your comments today, and then share this email in your sphere of influence. ***We need thousands of comments before Wednesday!*** John, this is a new bill that needs new action today. Your legislators must hear from you - tell them to vote NO to HB 346! - Then PLEASE forward this info to a friend and ask them to send in their comments also. |
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HB 346 sells out children and vulnerable adults to secure the interests of this $4 billion pharmaceutical industry. |
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Your comments advance the truth when they're done effectively. Use the super easy link in this email to ask the committee and your State Representative to Vote NO on HB 346. When we each do this, our voices together are AMPLIFIED. Take Action today and MAKE THIS TOXIC for any legislator who votes for it! |
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The Media Is Covering Up Key Facts About the Lakewood Church Shooter’s Motivations
And that was just the beginning. Moreno also referred to Osama bin Laden as “uncle” and “made several posts in which she expressed a desire to kill Jews and wage jihad.” These included one on Oct. 21, 2023, when “she posted a video of herself shooting at a target that included a drawing of a Star of David.” Then on Dec. 23, 2023, she wrote: “I always knew I had a purpose to do for Islam and Christianity. We must all come together Christians need the heart that they had back in the day back in the revivals of the old age. But this time to kill all Jews. #warjihad #mywarjihad.”
In the same vein Moreno wrote on Jan. 3, 2024, “I call on all Muslim college people [to] invite me to the next pro-Israel rally I will have two surprises in support of PALESTINE.” The marginal coherence of this sentence is in line with Moreno’s schizophrenia, but her threat is nevertheless clear.
Nor was it isolated. On the same day, Moreno also wrote: “ALLAH is willing, I will .... Jews to send my message to Walli Carranza. Don't worry my MUSLIMS brothers I am pass [sic] the threat phase. I'm in planning mode. Please don't message me private trying to stop me.” This suggests that as recently as last month, Moreno still thought of herself as a Muslim, not a Christian. Carranza’s statement that Moreno was a Muslim when she first met her implies that the shooter later discarded Islam, but if she had done so, she had apparently taken it up again.
Five days after that, Moreno wrote, “Death to Jews in America!” She meant it: on Jan. 15, 2024, Moreno posted a photo that indicated she was planning an attack. It showed her, looking determined and angry, holding her “Palestine” AR-15. The caption read: “In a month they going to get polished.”
The ADL notes that she “also shared content from Resistance News Network (RNN), a radical anti-Zionist English-language Telegram channel that promotes violence against Israel. RNN’s posts include the explicit promotion of U.S. State Department-designated foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs) such as Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), as well as many images of individuals with guns and the depiction of rockets being fired at Israel. RNN also provides English translations of communiques from Hamas’ Al Qassam Brigades and the Iranian-funded Hezbollah terrorist group.”
Related: CNN Worries That Muslim Migrant Gang Rape in Italy Will Bolster the ‘Far Right’
Moreno also posted commentary from “Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Ansar Allah (The Houthis) and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).” This material included “a propaganda poster from Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades depicting a wounded Israeli soldier along with the caption, written in both Arabic and Hebrew: ‘We warned you and you did not take heed.’ The text of the Telegram message, which according to Moreno’s channel appears to be translated from Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, reads, ‘There is no safety for you on our land.’”
Genesse Moreno appears to have been genuinely mentally ill. This should not, however, prevent authorities from acknowledging that she also thought of herself as an Islamic jihadi. The two categories are not mutually exclusive. Yet while we would be hearing no end of it if Moreno had turned out to be a “right-wing extremist,” as it is, we’re unlikely to hear very much about her ever again.
WHO Appoints Transgender Majority for Panel on Raising Children
The World Health Organization (WHO) has steadily worked toward achieving total incompetence. Their mishandling of the “pandemic” is legendary, as is their leftist position on the climate change hoax and their insistence on the necessity to eat bugs rather than meat.
The head of this “health organization” is Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, an Ethiopian. But he is not a doctor in the conventional sense; he is an academic, having earned a Ph.D. in philosophy, not a degree in medicine.
Within the realm of philosophy, there are two distinctions. One is objectivity, which is a philosophical opinion or method that believes that reality exists outside of the human mind. People can separate their own ideas and opinions from the observations they make. Objective observations are true no matter who makes them. The other is subjectivity, which means making assumptions and interpretations based on personal opinions without any verifiable facts.
In the WHO's case under Ghebreyesus, subjectivity definitely rules. Reality and common sense are secondary to personal feelings and delusion. Facts don’t come into play; it’s all about leftist ideals, right or wrong. The question we need to ask ourselves is obvious: should an organization with the power of the WHO be dictating policy on a subjective platform? Perhaps the “World Health Organization” should be led by an experienced professional with a degree in medicine, and the approach should be objectively fact-based.
Unfortunately, for now, it isn’t. As a result, we can expect more unorthodox, irrational, and dangerous recommendations to be leveled by this leftist union of subjective ideals.
Recently, according to a report by the Daily Mail, the WHO has formed a 21-member panel to create healthcare guidelines on how to treat “gender dysphoric” children. On this “respected” panel, eleven appointees have no formal medical training, seven are transgenders, ten have medical experience, and only eight are doctors. The rest are either social justice advocates, human rights lawyers, STD researchers, or policy advisors.
Does any of this sound objective to you? The majority of this panel has no medical experience, and a third are transgenders. As a reminder, trangenderism is a mental delusion and has nothing to do with science, reality, or biology.
One of the transgenders, a trans woman, who uses the elegant pronouns they/them and bi*tch, is just what you would expect from a leftist choice for this supposedly “serious” panel. This piece of work also has a tattoo that reads, “Be Gay, Do Crimes.”
He believes that mental health checks on gender-dysphoric children seeking puberty blockers and hormones should be scrapped; ignore reality and rush them into the process. This man pretending to be a woman (yes, I am deliberately not using his pretend name) is a Canadian with a large TikTok following. He believes puberty blockers should be prescribed to all children, regardless of their gender identity, so they can “choose” their gender rather than being assigned one by society. (Sounds scientific to me.)
When discussing an “academic” paper the panel co-authored on the subject:
Is there any reason to ask people to go through a lengthy and complex gender assessment in order to access gender-affirming care, or is that useless and should the time best be put in supporting decision-making?
And what our article concludes is that there's really no evidence that gender assessments work... it's just a lengthier process for no real reason. Gender assessments are really an unnecessary form of gatekeeping that trans communities have been opposing for a while.
Oh, and another member believes that transitioning causes no health problems and claims the only “actual side effects” of getting a sex change are a “significantly improved quality of life and trans joy.”
Allow me to remind you that the World Health Organization is the United Nations healthcare agency. This group of clowns from the island of misfit toys is a disgrace to objective thought. The very idea that this is the selected group of “experts” to sit on this panel is not only an abomination of social reasoning, it’s a humiliation of rational reasoning.
Naturally, those who assembled this imbecilic cocktail party want to try and defend it. WHO spokesperson Tarik Jašarević insists the guidelines on trans issues would focus on “adults only” and not the use of hormones, suppressants, and surgeries on children. This contradicts what some of the panel members have professed. Some are vocal about their support for letting children, some as young as 13, undergo these medical procedures.
In an interview with the Daily Mail, Reem Alsalem, the United Nation’s special rapporteur on violence against women, said that the new WHO panel is too "one-sided” and that the committee contains “significant unmanaged conflicts of interest. Stakeholders whose views differ from those held by transgender activist organizations do not appear to have been invited. Such stakeholders include experts from European public health authorities who have taken the lead on developing an evidence-based and consequently cautious approach to youth gender transitions (England, Sweden and Finland).”
Stella O’Malley, psychotherapist and executive director of Genspect, told Daily Mail, "The WHO panel is made up mostly of social justice and human rights lawyers who believe the gender affirmative approach is the only option." This is a narrow-minded and heavily biased approach. They are making a grave mistake and should pause this process and consult with the many professionals who take different approaches.
These are implants into a system of deception. Any reports that are circulated will seem authoritative and knowledgeable. Most will not know the makeup of the panel. Many will be deceived. This is a fallacy on a grand scale that, backed by the United Nations, will condemn our children to the delusions of the left.
If any of you doubt the bias and disdain that the left holds us in, just look at the makeup of this panel. This is the confused, drug-induced stupor that the left wants our children to exist in so that plucking them into leftist purgatory is easy.
The WHO is no longer relevant, and until reality seeps in, it needs to be ignored.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine Signs Executive Order Banning Gender Surgeries For Minors
OAN’s Abril Elfi
8:07 AM – Sunday, January 7, 2024
SEE: https://www.oann.com/newsroom/ohio-gov-mike-dewine-signs-executive-order-banning-gender-surgeries-for-minors/; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has issued an executive order banning hospitals from performing gender-affirming surgeries on minors.
About a week after vetoing a bill that would have banned all gender-affirming care for minors, including hormone therapy and puberty blockers, DeWine (R-Ohio) announced an executive order on Friday that will immediately prohibit transition-related surgeries for minors in the state.
“A week has gone by, and I still feel just as strongly as I did that day,” DeWine said at a news conference, reaffirming his decision to veto the broader ban. “I believe the parents, not the government, should be making these crucial decisions for their children.”
In addition to announcing his new executive order at the press conference, DeWine expressed concern about “fly-by-night” clinics that offer hormone therapy to transgender adults “without the lead-in psychiatric care that we know is so very, very important.”
Consequently, he declared that the Ohio Department of Health and Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services would adopt and implement new administrative guidelines for adults and minors seeking transition-related care following a public comment period.
These regulations would apply to those receiving transition-related care and include that informed consent must be given by patients before beginning treatment and after being informed of the risks associated with receiving gender-affirming care.
Patients must also undergo psychological counseling prior to beginning hormone therapy or other treatments for gender dysphoria, which is the distress caused by a mismatch between an individual’s assigned sex at birth and their gender identity.
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health, a nonprofit professional organization devoted to transgender health care, has generally discouraged surgery for minors.
When minors do undergo surgery, it is typically a double mastectomy, sometimes referred to as top surgery, and they stated that minors are never eligible for genital surgery.
A three-fifths majority vote in the Ohio General Assembly, which is led by a Republican supermajority, would be required to override the veto of the governor.
According to reports, the Ohio House intends to vote on the override as soon as it reconvenes from its early winter break.
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All-Girls Catholic College Reverses Trans Decision After Well-Earned Backlash
The Daily Signal obtained an email from President Katie Conboy of St. Mary’s College in Indiana. While the report in November was that the college was going to allow men who pretend to be women to enroll in fall 2024, the understandable anger the policy change garnered made the administration rethink its woke strategy. Unsurprisingly, women were a little concerned about having to share dorms, bathrooms, etc., with dudes in dresses.
“This has weighed heavily on our minds and in our hearts,” Conboy said in the Thursday email. “There have been many voices responding to us from many places and perspectives. We have listened closely, and we have heard each of you.” Despite the fact that the Catholic Church doctrinally condemns transgenderism as gravely evil, the college president made the puzzling claim that the proposed policy change was a “reflection of our College’s commitment to live our Catholic values as a loving and just community.” I guess she missed the part of Genesis where God created humans as male and female—from the moment of their existence, based on biology. Conboy did admit that “the position we took is not shared by all members of our community.”
In fact, she added, “Some worried that this was much more than a policy decision: they felt it was a dilution of our mission or even a threat to our Catholic identity.” No kidding. “Moreover, we clearly underestimated our community’s genuine desire to be engaged in the process of shaping a policy of such significance. As this last month unfolded, we lost people’s trust and unintentionally created division where we had hoped for unity. For this, we are deeply sorry,” she continued.
“Taking all these factors into consideration, the Board has decided that we will return to our previous admission policy,” she said. “Although this has been a challenging time for our community, we believe that the College should continually grapple with the complexity of living our Catholic values in a changing world.”
Alumnae and students were excited about the victory against wokeness, as were several Catholic leaders. As Bishop Kevin Rhoades, in whose diocese the college is located, previously said, “The desire of Saint Mary’s College to show hospitality to people who identify as transgender is not the problem. The problem is a Catholic woman’s college embracing a definition of woman that is not Catholic.”
Teacher Who Was Fired For Refusing To Use Trans Student’s Pronouns Has Lawsuit Reinstated
OAN’s Abril Elfi
2:14 PM – Friday, December 15, 2023
REPUBLISHED, SEE: https://www.oann.com/newsroom/teacher-who-was-fired-for-refusing-to-use-trans-students-pronouns-has-lawsuit-reinstated/
A lawsuit filed by a Virginia teacher who was fired for refusing to use a transgender student’s preferred pronouns was reinstated.
The student in question is a biological woman who identifies as a transgender man.
On Thursday, the state’s Supreme Court announced the reinstatement of the lawsuit.
After being fired in 2018, Peter Vlaming, a former French teacher at West Point High School, filed a lawsuit against the school board and its administrators.
Before any evidence was considered in the case, a judge dismissed the lawsuit. However, the Supreme Court reversed that decision and declared that the lawsuit could go to trial.
Vlaming had used the student’s masculine name but refrained from using their preferred pronouns of “he” and “him,” according to his claims in the lawsuit.
Later, the student’s parents and the school informed him that he must use the student’s preferred male pronouns and that there would be problems if he ignored their request.
Because of his “sincerely held religious and philosophical” views that “each person’s sex is biologically fixed and cannot be changed,” Vlaming asserted that he was morally unable to use the student’s pronouns. Additionally, Vlaming claimed that using the student’s pronouns “would be a lie.”
Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian legal advocacy group, filed the lawsuit on his behalf, alleging that the school had violated his constitutional rights to free speech and religious practice.
Vlaming, according to the school board, broke the anti-discrimination policy of the institution.
Two of Vlaming’s claims, namely that his right to freely exercise his religion was violated under the Virginia constitution and his claim of breach of contract against the school board, should go to trial, which the seven justices of the state Supreme Court agreed upon.
Justice D. Arthur Kelsy wrote in the majority opinion that “absent a truly compelling reason for doing so, no government committed to these principles can lawfully coerce its citizens into pledging verbal allegiance to ideological views that violate their sincerely held religious beliefs.”
However, the court disagreed on a few points regarding the lawsuit.
Along with two other justices, Justice Thomas Mann dissentingly stated that the majority’s ruling on Vlaming’s claim of freedom of religion was expansive and “establishes a sweeping super scrutiny standard with the potential to shield any person’s objection to practically any policy or law by claiming a religious justification for their failure to follow either.”
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Parents speak out after daughter reportedly assigned to share bed with transgender student
Parents Joe and Serena Wailes joined 'The Ingraham Angle' to discuss the actions they are taking against Jefferson County Public Schools in Colorado after their daughter was reportedly assigned to share a bed with a transgender student during a trip.
Nikki Haley Supports Transgenderism
Transgender people can be baptized Catholic, serve as godparents, Vatican says
SEE: https://www.reuters.com/world/transsexuals-can-be-baptized-catholic-serve-godparents-vatican-says-2023-11-08/;Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes
The Vatican Says Transgender Catholics Can Be Baptized, Following Years Of Critical Statements
The department, known as the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith, was vague however, in response to a question of whether a same-sex couple could have a Church baptism for an adopted child or one obtained through a surrogate mother.
Bishop Jose Negri of Santo Amaro in Brazil sent the doctrinal office six questions in July regarding LGBT people and their participation in the sacraments of baptism and matrimony.
The three pages of questions and answers were signed by the department's head, Argentine Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, and approved by Pope Francis on Oct. 31. They were posted on the department's website on Wednesday using the Italian word for "transsexuals".
Francis, 86, has tried to make the Church more welcoming to the LGBT community without changing Church teachings, including one saying that same-sex attraction is not sinful but same-sex acts are.
In response to a question of whether transgender people can be baptized, the doctrinal office said they could with some conditions and as long as there is "no risk of causing a public scandal or disorientation among the faithful".
It said transgender people could be godparents at a baptism at the discretion of the local priest as well as a witness at a Church wedding, but the local priest should exercise "pastoral prudence" in his decision.
Pope Francis leads the weekly general audience in Saint Peter's Square, at the Vatican, November 8, 2023. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane/file photo Acquire Licensing Rights
"This is an important step forward in the Church seeing transgender people not only as people (in a Church where some say they don't really exist) but as Catholics," Father James Martin, a prominent Jesuit priest and supporter of LGBT rights in the Church said on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Francis has met with transgender people and in July, he told a transgender person: "Even if we are sinners, he (God) draws near to help us. The Lord loves us as we are, this is God's crazy love."
The document said a person in a same-sex relationship could also be a witness at a Catholic wedding, the office said, citing current Church canonical legislation which contained no prohibition against it.
The response was less clear regarding persons in same-sex relationships and their role in baptism, which is the initiation into the Church for infants, children, or adults.
The Brazilian bishop sought guidance on whether a same-sex couple who had adopted a child or obtained it from a surrogate mother could have that child baptized in a Catholic ceremony.
The response said that for the child of a same-sex couple to be baptized, there had to be "a well-founded hope that it would be educated in the Catholic religion".
There was a similarly nuanced response to the question of whether a person in a same-sex relationship could be a godparent at a Church baptism. It said the person had to "lead a life that conforms to the faith".
Reporting by Philip Pullella; Editing by David Gregorio
Trump’s Shocking Answer to ‘Can a Man Become a Woman?’~What Happens when a Presidential Candidate still has no biblical faith
There’s been a lot of talk about Trump’s recent interview on SiriusXM’s “The Megyn Kelly Show,” but his answer to what may have been one of the most important questions was so horrifying awful, I can’t even wrap my head around it.
During the interview, Megyn Kelly asked Trump a very simple question: “Can a man become a woman?”
Easy, right? The answer is “No, absolutely not.” It’s not complex or complicated. There’s no room for nuance, different points of view, or interpretation. A man cannot become a woman. A woman cannot become a man. There’s no gender spectrum, nor are there more than two genders.
Yet, in response to the easy question, Trump first replied with an “Ummmmmm,” then a chuckle, before saying, “In my opinion, you have a man, you have a woman. I think part of it is birth. Can the man give birth? No, although they’ll come up with some answer to that also someday. I heard just the other day they have a way that now the man can give birth. No, I would say I’ll continue my stance on that.”
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What kind of an answer is that? Look, the sad reality is that there is no middle ground on this issue. Trump may be strongly against the mutilation of children by the transgender cult, but it feels like Trump is trying to have it both ways on this transgender nonsense, and you just can’t.
Sure, he banned transgender people in the military and is against giving children puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones and such, but at the root of this issue isn’t merely whether or not a kid has the mental capacity to consent to transitioning, whether biological men should be able to play in women’s sports, or whether someone on hormones should be in the military. The root of this issue is the fundamental and basic question of whether a man can become a woman or vice versa. And if you even give the slightest hint that maybe “someday” it might be possible, then you legitimatize the transgender movement and the entire industry behind it. To make matters worse, Trump also referred to Bruce “Caitlyn” Jenner by feminine pronouns.
Related: Megyn Kelly Has an Epiphany on ‘Preferred Pronouns’
It’s a horrifyingly disappointing answer from Trump. You can watch the entire portion of the interview on the subject of gender here:
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While Vets Wait for Care, VA Spends Millions on Transgenderism
While Vets Wait for Care, VA Spends Millions on Transgenderism
There’s money for transgender hormones, not cancer treatments.
SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/while-vets-wait-for-care-va-spends-millions-on-transgenderism/;
Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.
[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s masterpiece contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
The Veterans Affairs scandals that disgraced the Obama administration never went away. Instead, the VA has stonewalled groups like Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) who have been seeking information about wait times for veterans. It’s not that the VA doesn’t have the money to treat vets, but that the money continues to be wasted on radical woke agendas.
After a prolonged battle, Concerned Veterans for America uncovered documents showing that the VA has manipulated wait time numbers to misleadingly portray appointments a month and a half away as having a zero wait time. This is a continuation of the waiting lists scandal under the Obama administration a decade ago that we were told had been successfully resolved.
The Trump administration and a Republican Congress passed the VA Mission Act to allow veterans more access to health care outside the system, but the VA obstructed veterans from getting ‘community care’. Veterans who couldn’t get timely health care were warned against going outside the system and subjected to extra layers of obstruction by the VA bureaucracy.
The VA violated the VA Mission Act and its action likely led to illness and possibly deaths.
A USA Today investigation revealed that “VA administrators are overruling doctors’ judgments and preventing them from sending their patients outside the VA health care system.”
The VA’s goal is to keep veterans from leaving the system to save money.
While the VA can’t seem to care for veterans, it is busy offering transgender procedures that include hormones, pre-op evaluation, and post-op care. The VA handles everything from using the right pronouns to storing sperm and eggs, and even hair removal and fake breasts.
Veterans with cancer are not being treated in a timely manner, but those whose mental problems lead them to think that they’re really women are getting fast-tracked to castration.
Chris Beck, a former Navy SEAL who was turned into the poster boy for transgenderism, described being fast-tracked after an hour-long meeting at the VA.
Even while the VA was fighting efforts to track accurate wait times, VA Secretary Denis McDonough announced that he planned to offer castration and other gender mutilation surgeries. McDonough is not a doctor and had not served in the military, he was an Obama aide, part of the administration that was responsible for the original VA wait-time scandal.
As a reward, Biden appointed him to head the VA. “Be they veterans of color or LGBTQ+ veterans, our job is to get them all the service and the care that they’ve earned,” McDonough explained his priorities. What about veterans who aren’t members of a minority group? They don’t matter.
McDonough estimated that transgender surgeries might cost as much as $71 million. And he was eager to move forward even at a time when the VA was back to playing musical chairs with medical appointments and putting veterans through hell to save a few thousand here and there.
Within the active duty military health care system known as ‘Tricare’, personnel are being hit with 10% fee increases even as Tricare now covers hormones and offers waivers for “medically necessary gender affirming surgery”. There have been over 250 transgender surgical procedures which have cost millions of dollars and deprived genuinely sick people of care.
It’s not just active duty military personnel at risk of dangerous, unproven, and permanently damaging procedures and medications, but also their family members.
In the final year of the Obama administration, the doors were thrown open to “gender-affirming care” for vulnerable children and teens from military families resulting in a quadrupling of the number of patients: many of them teenage girls who are at the worst risk of being mutilated.
There were 500 children as young as 10 years old who were potentially subjected to indoctrination leading them to dangerous hormones and procedures that could destroy their lives.
Rather than fighting our enemies and healing our troops, the military health care system for both active duty personnel and veterans had been warped into serving woke sexual identity politics.
The Department of Defense even dedicated $1.1 million to studying prostate cancer in transgender ‘women’.
The DOD’s promotion of transgender indoctrination is particularly destructive during a time when active duty personnel and veterans are suffering record rates of suicide and mental illness. Pushing them toward an identity and its associated procedures that have been shown to increase, rather than decrease, symptoms of mental illness and suicide rates is unforgivable.
The Biden administration has made identity politics into its north star and disloyal military brass have put that agenda ahead of warfighting capabilities, military readiness, and the welfare of the troops. While there’s no money to provide cancer treatments for veterans at the VA, there’s plenty of money for hormones, fake breasts, and transgender counseling sessions.
Veterans may have to wait months for an appointment to treat urgent medical problems, but appointments for transgender counseling are fast-tracked as medically necessary. Active duty personnel are being hit with more Tricare fee hikes at a time when military salaries are not keeping up with the inflationary cost of living, but someone has to pay for the hormones.
Biden and his disloyal military brass have betrayed the country at every opportunity. They have lost wars, empowered enemies, and undermined America. They have taken the military hostage to promote abortion and they are killing active duty personnel and veterans through their obsession with transgender identity politics.
Our veterans and active-duty military personnel deserve the best. Instead, they and their families are being treated like guinea pigs for a social experiment being performed on the country.
Federal Judge Blocks Part of Georgia’s Law That Protects Kids From Transgender Treatment
Federal Judge Blocks Part of Georgia's Law That Protects Kids From Transgender Treatment
By Chris Queen 2:44 PM on August 21, 2023
Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.
And now a federal judge has issued an injunction blocking part of the law after two physicians groups sued to dismantle it. United States District Judge Sarah Geraghty “announced earlier this month that she needed to ‘take some additional time to make sure I get this right,'” according to Fox 5.
“According to the court document, the motion was granted to halt part of the law until a trial can determine whether or not it is constitutional,” reports WSB Radio. However, the injunction only affects part of the law.
“The ban on surgery is still in place,” the WSB report continues. “The injunction only stops the law from preventing hormone therapy for transgender kids.”
The lawsuit states that the law, which took effect on July 1, undermines parents’ ability to make the right medical decisions for their kids and “singles out transgender minors for the denial of essential medical care.”
“It interferes with a parent’s right to govern their children’s medical care, for one, which is a pretty substantial right,” Ed Buckley, one of the attorneys involved in the suit, told WSB.
Related: Georgia Passes a Bill Against Transing Kids, but Does It Do Enough?
“This law unapologetically targets transgender minors and denies them essential health care,” read a statement from attorneys representing the plaintiffs. “The ruling restores parents’ rights to make medical decisions that are in their child’s best interest, including hormone therapy for their transgender children when needed for them to thrive and be healthy.”
Supporters of the bill maintain that the law is intended to save children from unnecessary medical treatments. State Sen. Carden Summers (R-District 13), who wrote the original bill, said, “We’re just trying to protect the children. That was the bill’s intent, and that’s where we’re at.”
“It’s major judicial overreach based on a false ideology,” Cole Muzio of Frontline Policy Council said of the ruling in a statement to PJ Media. “While Georgia’s SB 140 is both weak and poorly constructed, there is nothing unconstitutional about it.”
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Gavin Newsom’s Latest Attack on California Parents Is Pure, Unalloyed Evil
Nowhere is this evil more clear than in the way the state has gone after the Chino Valley Unified School District’s school board for having the audacity to support parents’ right to know if their children are being thunderstruck by the left’s latest social contagion: transgenderism.
California’s governor and Attorney General Rob Bonta are wielding their legal hammer and sickle to cleave children from their parents in the name of “civil rights.” Bonta sent a letter to the Chino Valley Unified School District on Friday to threaten that district’s school board with a “civil rights investigation” if it doesn’t walk back its recent policy to tell parents if their child is having weird ideations like if they think they were born in the wrong body.
If you want to see a discussion by a real psychiatrist who treats children and their families, watch my interview on my Adult in the Room Podcast with Dr. Miriam Grossman below. Grossman, the author of “Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist’s Guide Out of the Madness,” tells me that there are generally two groups of people who make up the overwhelming number of transgenders. Older men, who derive sexual pleasure from dressing as a female, and people who have known they were gender confused from their earliest memories.
But all of a sudden young teenagers, mostly girls, who are egged on by peer groups and Dr. TikTok are the fastest-growing group of people who claim they were born in the wrong body. Strange timing, isn’t it, when the left’s political cause of the moment and a civil rights issue of our time cross streams? This 2024 election-year wedge issue will garner votes to be sure, but guess what’s getting disappeared? Parents.
It’s imperative to note that this all-out attempt to big foot local school board relies on a child’s self-diagnosis. It’s no coincidence that this self-diagnosis is helped along by their peer groups and the aforementioned and esteemed Dr. TikTok. You’d think these people who call themselves educators would recognize this sick fad for what it is, but apparently, they can’t get enough of monetizable dumb ideas.
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Both Newson and Bonta are tossing bean balls at the heads of school board members who don’t adhere to the church of the left’s tenets of beliefs. Those beliefs have been rearranged recently with transgenderism now eclipsing global warming “we’re all gonna die” predictions from these “educators” and that scowling foreign teenage girl. Speaking of which, kids on the autism spectrum are far more likely to be coaxed into believing they’re transgender for a variety of reasons.
Bonta’s letter is surreal for the way it presumes to subsume parents with the state as if they have no business knowing if their kid is so mentally ill that he or she thinks they’re now a she or a he.
Bonta proudly announces that he is “opening a civil rights investigation into potential legal violations by the Chino Valley Unified School District (CVUSD) [emphasis added].” Bonta is the attorney general, so you’d think a guy with that title would know if there’s a civil rights violation going on here, but that’s not his real message. Instead, he wants to conduct a rectal exam on the board and hopes members capitulate now.
The AG goes on to say that the policy of informing parents if their children want different pronouns, use the opposite sex bathroom, or have considered self-harm or suicide is “outing” the child and should be protected by state law. Because the unwritten part of his letter hints that the state cares more about your child and his/her mental problems than you do, Mom and Dad.
Doubt me? The next line states, “…even if such disclosure is against the student’s wishes or could expose a student to parental abuse or increase their risk of self-harm or suicide” [emphasis added]. Imagine that, Mom and Dad; you might do something against your “student’s wishes” like take them to a psychiatrist to find out why they hate themselves. The state, however, will stand with the child, based on the child’s self-diagnosis, against the parents who have known the child for his or her entire life.
It might be helpful to point out here that most teenagers who are part of this fad of the moment already have preexisting mental issues, such as eating disorders, and many, sadly, have suicidal ideations before they’ve glommed onto transgenderism. Yet the state uses this psychological blackmail against parents to shut them up.
The Chino Unified School District board isn’t shutting up.
Newsom even green-lighted his Education Secretary, Tony Thurmond, to go to Chino and pound on the podium in hopes of intimidating the board into icing parents out of crucial information about their own children.
He was cut off when his time to speak came to an end.
When he refused to leave the podium, he was escorted out of the building.
Board president Sonja Shaw was elected after she grew angry over Newsom and the schools’ mask mandate and other COVID-19 regulations. Now, she says that she, her kids, and even her animals are receiving death threats.
Death threats have come from crazy Berkeley lefties who don’t live in the district. Other death wishers are from out of state. They’re all leftists. This full-court press of intimidation from Newsom, his AG, and his schools chief has also popped up in another school district as I reported in a West Coast, Messed Coast™ report.
Watch them. This is the Gavin Newsom plan of intimidation he would take to the White House if Joe Biden is ousted.
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Trans Activists Scream in the Faces of Little Girls Who Attended Bill Signing in Texas
In attendance was former NCAA swimming champion Riley Gaines, who has become a fierce opponent of allowing transgender women to compete against biological women. A group of little girls — some as young as five — also showed up to witness the historic bill signing.
The transgender activists accosted those in attendance, getting in their faces and, in at least one instance, throwing water on Independent Women’s Network’s Austin chapter leader Michelle Evans, who told Fox News that the best word to describe the protesters was “rabid.”
In a statement to Fox News Digital, Gaines also shared her observations of the protest.
“Even in the great state of [Texas], protestors have tried to find a way to smear the celebration of Governor Abbott signing SB 15 which protects female collegiate athletics. But they can’t,” Gaines, host of OutKick podcast “Gaines for Girls,” told Fox News Digital in a statement.
“Today is a huge win and Gov. Abbott’s leadership is foundational and I’m hopeful more states will follow suit.”
Speaking of the protest, Gaines continued, “Bottles are being thrown, protestors are spitting in people’s faces, profanity is being yelled at children. Law enforcement has stepped in and provided protection.”
Former University of Pennsylvania swimmer, Paula Scanlan, shared on social media that protesters blocked the exits and were “spitting and yelling.”
Abbott issued a statement about the protesters:
How will they explain to Riley and Paula and to other women how they have been marginalized? They’re the ones who went through the training, not the protesters out there. They devoted their lives, working harder probably than anybody in this room. Longer days, longer nights, sacrificing so much to achieve a goal, only to have the goal erased by being forced to compete against a man.
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Incredibly, this CBS report on the demonstration lionized the protesters and didn’t even mention the screaming, cursing, spitting, and unhinged demonstrators.
Amid chants of “protect trans lives,” dozens of people—including members of the LGBTQ community—stood outside Texas Woman’s University with a message for Governor Greg Abbott about the new state law requiring athletes at public colleges and universities to compete on teams the same as their biological sex.
“I think he needs to realize trans people are people, trans Texans are Texans, and his legislation is supposed to protect Texans. But he’s not protecting trans people, he’s hurting trans people,” said one student named Eliot.
Abbott believes more needs to be done to protect the rights of biological women.
“Sports is the tip of the iceberg, but the iceberg is much bigger than people are giving it credit for,” he said.