There is a tiny rural township in Ontario, Canada, just over the border from the US state of Minnesota, that glories in the name of Emo. Emo has a population of just 1,300, and until fairly recently was known (though not by many) for its picturesque waterfront park, its annual Rainy River Agricultural Fair and its catch-and-release fishing tournament, the Emo Walleye Classic. It looks idyllic, with simple straggles of wooden houses and vivid verdure bordering the enormous Clearwater Lake.
A case on ‘gender-affirming care’ has the potential to unravel decades of legal protections for women and girls.
On Wednesday this week, the US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of United States v Skrmetti – a case during which the court will confront the question of whether women and girls exist as a sex class.
This is ostensibly a case about whether a US state (Tennessee) may constitutionally prohibit the provision of puberty blockers and opposite-sex hormones for under-18s. For that reason alone, it’s hugely important.
An Ontario teen who was suspended from his Catholic high school over his views on gender has had his request for a court review of the school’s decision dismissed.
Josh Alexander was in Grade 11 at St. Joseph’s Catholic High School in Renfrew, Ont., when he was suspended in 2022 for saying there are only two genders during a discussion in math class, as well as for organizing a student walkout protesting biological boys being allowed to use the girls’ washroom. He was also accused of bullying.
First they came for women’s bathrooms. Then their rape shelters. Then their sports. Now they’re coming for their prizes. The BBC has announced the winner of its Women’s Footballer of the Year Award and you won’t believe who it is. Actually you will. It’s someone who once failed to meet gender-eligibility rules for the women’s game. It’s someone who was excluded from a major tournament after failing ‘gender-verification tests’. It’s someone with such elevated levels of testosterone that they were told to take hormone suppressants if they wanted to kick a ball again. Yes, the BBC’s female footballer of 2024 is someone whose femaleness has been called into question by some experts. They’re taking the piss now, aren’t they?
A prominent woman in American public life was openly threatened with death last week. A man posted a sick video on Instagram in which he fantasised about grabbing her by her ‘ratty looking fucking hair’ and repeatedly bashing her face into the floor until ‘the blood’s everywhere and you’re dead’. How did the right-on respond to this vile act of misogynist rage? Did they offer the woman in question their solidarity, damn the man who menaced her, promise to stand firm against the scourge of violence against women? Nope. They went after the woman herself. They called her a bully, a ‘cunt’, ‘hormonal’, a pox on the republic and ‘one of the worst people in the country’. I guess #MeToo’s over then?
The world’s biggest retailer will no longer sell chest binders and books about transgenderism that are marketed towards children
Walmart has announced it will no longer sell chest binders and books about transgenderism that are marketed towards children in a major overhaul of its diversity policies.
Walmart, which is valued at $665 billion, said in a statement it would phase out terms such as “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) in company materials.
The world’s biggest retailer went on to announce it will prohibit third-party sellers from offering LGBTQ-themed items on its website that were being marketed to transgender children, such as chest binders and a number of books.
The state of Delaware has elected a dude in a dress to the House of Representatives. Sarah (formerly Tim) McBride is a man who pretends to be a woman, and he will be going to Congress next year, which has provoked a fight over where he will, well, go when he is in Congress next year.
Has Hell frozen over? Uncommonly for the UN (think Antonio Guterres with the global warming hyperbole), one of its recent reports is full of common sense. In the last three years, I have been critical of UN performance regarding some high-profile issues, including World Health Organisation failings in responding to the coronavirus pandemic and a power grab for future pandemic management; lawfare against Israel by the world court and International Criminal Court; and UN Women’s betrayal of the raison d’être for its creation and existence with a shamefully delayed acknowledgment of the weaponisation of mass rape, sexual violence, mutilation and public humiliation of Israeli women on October 7th 2023.
Police recorded a non-crime hate incident against a “suspect” for refusing to shake a person’s hand in a row over gender identity.
Officers in Britain are logging hate incidents against people with gender-critical views — who believe sex is immutable — despite guidance warning that their opinions are legally held.
A California school told students who wore t-shirts protesting trans athletes that they were akin to wearing Nazi swastika, a lawsuit claims.
Riverside Unified School District is being sued by two female Martin Luther King High cross-country runners and their parents over allegations their freedom of expression was infringed.
The girls, identified as ninth grader Kaitlyn and 11th grader Taylor, say they were rebuked over their shirts which bore the slogans, ‘protect girls’ sports’ and ‘It’s Common Sense XX ≠ XY’.
A Republican congresswoman claimed men are threatening to kill her after she called for a transgender colleague to be banned from using female bathrooms in the US Capitol.
Nancy Mace on Monday introduced a resolution to amend the rules of the US House of Representatives to prevent Sarah McBride, the first transgender congresswoman, from accessing women-only spaces.
Ms Mace has now alleged that people are “threatening to kill” her over the proposed legislation.
I never thought we would need a sign for this, but women's restrooms are for BIOLOGICAL women. Not men. pic.twitter.com/42lOMhqHFT
— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) November 19, 2024
As his disastrous presidency comes to a close, Joe Biden promoted several Air Force officials who have touted neo-Marxist ideology throughout the service.
According to a Pentagon press release, the Democrat president nominated Col. Patric D. Coggin and Brig. Gen. Barbra S. Buls to the ranks of brigadier general and major general, respectively. Coggin currently serves as a commander in the Arkansas Air National Guard, while Buls serves as a commander in the Air National Guard Readiness Center and is stationed at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.
Biden should be in a home.
The party’s handling of the issue played a key role in its defeat on November 5. Now, some voices are starting to speak out about it.
The Democrats’ catastrophic performance on November 5 showed their vulnerability on a number of key issues, but none perhaps as obvious as on transgender policy. So powerful is transgender activism’s chokehold on the Democratic Party that, when Kamala Harris was asked whether she would uphold her promise from 2019 to use taxpayer dollars to fund sex “change” procedures for incarcerated illegal immigrants, she did not disavow it. To repeat: Sex change surgeries for illegal immigrants in prison, paid for by taxpayers. Harris couldn’t have touched more third rails had she tried.
“We will defeat the trumpers” pic.twitter.com/MGxzyH4p57
— shellshock (@shellshockkk) November 14, 2024
You’ve probably heard plenty from Justin Trudeau and his progressive clones about conservative premiers “attacking” and “targeting” the so-called “LGBT community” for legislation protecting children from sex change surgeries. But you won’t hear a word about the victims of LGBT ideology – and you won’t hear a thing about the growing list of insanities inflicted on Canada by the policies they have passed and supported.
