After ‘Gays Against Groomers’ stunt, Colorado halts honorary flag program

At first glance, the certificates looked inconspicuous, appearing similar to the hundreds granted under a Colorado program that allows private citizens, public officials and other groups to request honorary flags flown over the state Capitol.

But these two certificates, dated Oct. 1, led state officials to pause the more than 20-year-old program this week.

“The people of Colorado present this flag to Gays Against Groomers with thanks and recognition for all their work to protect children,” the certificates read.

They are on the right side.

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Report: The Military’s Obsession With DEI Politics Is Hampering Its Readiness

The main mission of the U.S. military is to protect American lives and interests domestically and abroad with the most capable personnel available. But what happens when that objective gets sidelined in favor of advancing a neo-Marxist agenda?

According to a recently published report by Will Thibeau, director of the American Military Project at the Claremont Institute, the U.S. military’s embrace of radical left-wing orthodoxy is hampering its overall readiness and ability to respond to an increasingly volatile geopolitical environment. Titled, “Identity in the Trenches: The Fatal Impact of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion on U.S. Military Readiness,” the analysis explores how the military’s heightened obsession with racial and gender politics is contributing to these growing problems.

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Rape crisis centre CEO resigns over failure to protect single-sex spaces

So the feminists — the terfs, the bigots, the bullies — were right. According to a report commissioned by Rape Crisis Scotland, Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre (ERCC) has not been putting rape survivors first. For the past 16 months, women-only services have not been made available for those who need them. Meanwhile, ERCC’s former chief executive officer, Mridul Wadhwa, has now resigned after being accused of “not understand[ing] the limits of her role” and “fail[ing] to set professional standards of behaviour”.

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The week that sent trans fanatics into retreat

Aftershocks can occur days or even weeks after an earthquake. So it is, it seems, with the Cass Review.

Five months on from the “Big Bang” moment in April when Dr Hilary Cass’s findings reset the terms of the trans rights debate, some of the most significant reverberations were felt this week.

Cass’s report warned of a “toxic” debate in which parents felt forced to allow their children to change gender, fearing they would otherwise be labelled transphobic. At the time, the findings by Cass, a leading paediatrician, were roundly criticised by trans activists. But now the narrative is changing.

Hopefully Canada catches up one day.

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Breastfeeding expert facing legal action for criticising “trans” male who fed his baby chemically induced nipple secretions

Jasmine Sussex is being taken to the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT) for “vilification” over comments she made on X about a man who calls himself Jennifer Buckley and claims to be a “transgender” woman, but is refusing to back down and will defend the claim with the help of the Human Rights Law Alliance.

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Irish teacher jailed for third time after defying order to stay away from the school that fired him for questioning Transgender zealotry

LONDON (AP) — A teacher in Ireland who says he was fired for his views on gender has been jailed for a third time for refusing to stay away from the school where he used to work.

Enoch Burke was found in contempt by a High Court judge on Monday for violating a court injunction barring him from Wilson’s Hospital School in Mullingar, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) west of Dublin.

He was suspended by the school in 2022 after publicly objecting to what he called “transgender ideology” and refusing to address a trans student by their preferred name and pronoun. He was later fired, and has launched an appeal.

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Avoidable Valentina Petrillo debacle will rock Paralympics thanks to institutional cowardice

Bewilderment over how father-of-two, who won 11 Italian men’s titles, allowed to line up at Paralympics for T12 400m as a woman

“This was a dream,” says Valentina Petrillo, who today became a Paralympic sprinter at the age of 51, “that I had since I was a little girl.” Except this is an athlete who was never a little girl in the first place. The Italian is a father-of-two who was still competing at 45 as a male, who won national titles in men’s track and field, and whose self-portrayal in 2021 was of a “tough guy who would speak dismissively of women, who would have given you the idea he was sexist”. And yet on Monday morning at the Stade de France, Petrillo, courtesy of institutional cowardice at every level, lined up in the visually-impaired classification of the 400 metres as a woman.

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Australian court rules man is a woman

Oz Court Says This Guy Is A Woman

A transgender woman from Australia has won a discrimination case against a women-only social media app, after she was denied access on the basis of being male.

The Federal Court found that although Roxanne Tickle had not been directly discriminated against, she was a victim of indirect discrimination – which refers to when a decision disadvantages a person with a particular attribute – and ordered the app to pay her A$10,000 ($6,700; £5,100) plus costs.

Too many Kangaroo Kicks to the head?

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ESPN Axes Host Days After She Voiced Opposition To Men Competing In Women’s Sports

ESPN has fired a host who recently voiced opposition to female-identifying men competing in women’s sports.

On Thursday, The Athletic reported that ESPN has terminated the contract of “Sunday NFL Countdown” host Samantha Ponder, a longtime reporter for the network who previously covered college football. Former NFL quarterback Robert Griffin III was also fired by the Disney-owned outlet.

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Report: thousands of US girls underwent trans ‘top surgeries’

A report from the Manhattan Institute this week revealed that “gender-affirming” mastectomies for patients under 18 are more common than previously believed.

While cross-sex genital surgeries are rare in the US for both adults and minors, mastectomies — also known as “top surgery” in the context of transgender medicine — are widely available to minors and are the most common transgender surgery for this population. Around 5,000 to 6,000 girls underwent “gender affirming” double mastectomies in the US from 2017 to 2023, according to the Manhattan Institute, and at least 50 of those patients were younger than 12-and-a-half years old.

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A Consensus No Longer

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons becomes the first major medical association to challenge the consensus of medical groups over “gender-affirming care” for minors.

The main justification for “gender-affirming care” for minors in the United States has been that “all major U.S. medical associations” support it. Critics of this supposed consensus have argued that it is not grounded in high-quality research or decades of honest and robust deliberation among clinicians with different viewpoints and experiences. Instead, it is the result of a small number of ideologically driven doctor-association members in LGBT-focused committees, who exploit their colleagues’ trust. Physicians presenting different viewpoints are silenced or kept away from decision-making circles, ensuring the appearance of unanimity.

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Groundswell against gender-affirming care becoming too loud to ignore

Four years in the making, the final “Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People,” written by esteemed pediatrician Hilary Cass, was released back in April. It was commissioned by NHS England in the United Kingdom, following well-publicized whistle-blowing over allegedly reckless medical experimentation on gender-confused children at the National Health Service’s prestigious Tavistock gender clinic (which was closed following the Cass Review’s inculpatory interim report in 2022).

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Transgender civil servant sparks uproar after colleagues complain that he wears ‘fetish gear’ to the office

A government department is embroiled in a peculiar row over whether staff can wear ‘fetish gear’ to work following complaints from civil servants about a transgender colleague, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Pervert

Employees in the Department for Work and Pensions are objecting to the ‘highly inappropriate’ workwear of a fellow official which last week prompted a Tory peer to ask the Government about its ‘policy on civil servants wearing fetish clothing in the workplace’.

It is understood that Baroness Jenkin of Kennington tabled the unusual question to reflect her general concerns about the dress code and also in response to the specific issues raised by civil servants about one Whitehall diversity ambassador.

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Vox: If You Oppose Men Beating Up Women, You’re A Nazi

If you, like the majority of Americans, oppose men infiltrating and dominating women’s sports competitions, you might be falling for Nazi propaganda. At least, that’s what Vox’s latest article “Discrimination against trans Olympians has roots in Nazi Germany” implies.

Since the beginning of time, humans have recognized the fundamental differences between men and women. In recent years, the widely recognized distinctions between the sexes, however, have suffered attacks from a radical ideology that prioritizes the wishes of gender-bending men ahead of women and their protected spaces.

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