Arizona Republicans are applauding a recent court decision that helps to protect females.
Late last week, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky dealt a significant blow to a Final Rule from the Biden administration on Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The court ruled that “the Final Rule and its corresponding regulations exceed the Department’s authority under Title IX, violate the Constitution, and are the result of arbitrary and capricious agency action.”
According to the press release issued by the Arizona Senate Republicans, this Biden administration rule “required schools to allow boys and men in girls’ and women’s private spaces like restrooms and locker rooms, on their female-only sports teams, and to disregard other sex-based protections created for the safety, security, and well-being of biological females within federal law.”
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In a written statement, Senate President Warren Petersen said, “We are grateful for the conservative attorneys general nationwide who are working tirelessly to protect women and girls from bigger, stronger boys and men, while the radical Left continues to ignore not only science, but common sense. Women and girls are fighting an uphill battle as progressives try to undo the protections created for them, including Arizona’s Save Women’s Sports Act, which the Republican-led Arizona Legislature is currently litigating while Arizona’s own Attorney General refuses to do so.”
Senator Sine Kerr added, “This is a big victory for the women and girls who’ve had athletic and educational opportunities stripped from them at the hands of biological males posing as females, but there is still much more work to be done. While Governor Hobbs vetoed last year the Arizona Women’s Bill of Rights, Senate Republicans have vowed to continue to push legislation that safeguards women and girls on the playing field, in their bathrooms, their locker rooms, and anywhere else carved out specifically for them. Our daughters, granddaughters, nieces, and neighbors deserve to feel safe and supported, and it is our duty as elected officials to ensure their protection.”
After receiving the news of the court order, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, who led the coalition of attorneys general against the new rule on Title IX, said, “This is a huge win for Tennessee, for common sense, and for women and girls across America. The court’s ruling is yet another repudiation of the Biden administration’s relentless push to impose a radical gender ideology through unconstitutional and illegal rulemaking. Because the Biden rule is vacated altogether, President Trump will be free to take a fresh look at our Title IX regulations when he returns to office.”
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, one of the attorneys general in the coalition also weighed in, saying, “I’m proud to have successfully defended Title IX from the federal government’s power grab that threatened to upend half a century of landmark protections for women and punish States for following their own laws.”
Petersen continues to use his office as the leader of Senate Republicans to help stand in the gap for Arizona in major state and federal legal fights in the absence of Democrat Attorney General Kris Mayes. He promises more intervention into legal matters in 2025 as legislative Republicans work toward protecting their state from government overreach and special interests that attempt to take Arizona in radical directions.
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On Thursday, Joe Rogan and Marvel megastar Josh Brolin traded stories about the preponderance of Covid vaccine injuries among their friends. Brolin even described contracting “a mild case of Bell’s palsy” earlier this year, which Rogan attributed to the vaccine, noting he knew several people who suffered facial paralysis following Covid vaccination.
There is no perfect medicine. The benefits and harms of any treatment must be carefully considered in order to prescribe the safest, most effective course of action for a patient. While the FDA and CDC continue to extol the benefits of the Covid vaccines, they have ignored a growing body of evidence that these products can also be harmful. The code of medical ethics demands a transparent and balanced accounting of their impact on the American people. Only then can we set the best course for healthcare policy and future pandemics.
An honest accounting begins with clinical trials, supposedly “the most rigorous in history.” Pfizer’s own legal arguments suggest otherwise. Responding to a whistleblower lawsuit alleging major deviations from protocol, Pfizer’s lawyers noted that the company’s “Other Transactions Authority” agreement (OTA) with the Pentagon didn’t require clinical trials to comply with FDA regulations because the vaccine was a military prototype for “medical countermeasures.” This agreement allowed Pfizer to “grade its own homework,” so to speak — a point emphasized by DOJ lawyers in a separate filing in Pfizer’s support.
This effort revealed 1,233 deaths in the first three months of the vaccine rollout, and a litany of injuries: “industrial-scale blood diseases: blood clots, lung clots, leg clots; thrombotic thrombocytopenia, a clotting disease of the blood vessels; vasculitis, dementias, tremors, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, epilepsies.”
These harms are echoed by data from V-safe, a smartphone-based tool created by the CDC. Among 10.1 million registered V-safe users, 7.7 percent reported side effects so serious they were compelled to seek medical care, many more than once.
The main culprit is the Covid spike protein encoded in the vaccine’s mRNA technology. This protein is an antigen, or foreign immunogenic substance, located on the outer coat of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, that triggers an immune response. The mRNA in the shots instructs the body’s cells to produce identical spike proteins, inducing the immune system to create antibodies that bind to them, theoretically protecting vaccinated individuals against the virus. Unfortunately, this plan has a fatal flaw: The spike itself is toxic and potentially deadly.
Hundreds of peer-reviewed articles have demonstrated the spike’s potential for harmindependentof the rest of the virus. Potential complications include myocarditis, blood clots, neurological injuries, and immune dysfunction. Pfizer’s own pre-market biodistribution studies show that vaccine components leavethe injection site in the arm and penetrate every major organ system within hours, where mRNA can linger for weeks, forcing cells to churn out more and more of the toxic spike protein, which can persist for months. There is no way to predict how much spike protein the mRNA injections will produce in any individual, and there is no “off switch.”
These trends coincided with mass Covid vaccination, including an unaccountable 59 percent surge in deaths among Americans ages 15-44 in the third quarter of 2021 compared to 2019. Crucially Covid contributed only part of this excess mortality: in that quarter the US suffered around 201,000 excess deaths, with Covid officially accounting for 123,000, leaving 78,000 excess deaths — 39 percent of the total — still unexplained.
Medical ethics demand a balanced approach to every intervention, weighing potential benefits against potential harms. However, in the case of the Covid vaccines, federal agencies have chosen only to proclaim benefits. By surfacing data that bear upon both the positive and negative impacts of the Covid vaccines, and evaluating the pandemic performance of CDC, FDA, and other health agencies, the new administration can restore confidence and integrity in medicine and public health.
Harvey Risch, Senior Scholar at Brownstone Institute, is a physician and a Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine.
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Those following the news these days will note that President Joe Biden has been generously doling out Presidential Medal of Freedom Awards to some of the major heroes of the so-called Progressive Left. Among the recipients are Liz Cheney, Hillary Clinton and George Soros. Also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Biden is Cecile Richards, a past president of Planned Parenthood.
More appropriate awards for these individuals are as follows:
For Liz Cheney, 30 pieces of silver. (For those unfamiliar with the Bible, consult Matthew 26:14-16). Regrettably, the rope Judas Iscariot used to hang himself is no longer available.
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For Hillary Clinton: A broomstick, a black pointed hat and a DVD of the movie Rosemary’s Baby.
For George Soros: Three consecutive life sentences in a federal prison.
For Cecile Richards, the Heinrich Himmler and Adolf Eichmann Award for Extinguishing Innocent Human Life.
More seriously, the Presidential Medal of Freedom (established by President John F. Kennedy in 1963 prior to his assassination) has been awarded to individuals who are distinguished in their field, be it athletics, religion, music, architecture, science, journalism and an entire host of other disciplines. The award can be given posthumously and is not restricted to U.S. citizens. Past United States Presidents have generally refrained from using the award to make a political statement or to intentionally antagonize large sectors of the U.S. population.
Thus, the awards have been given to Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Mother Teresa, architect Mies Van Der Rohe, James Watson (discoverer of DNA), and Edward R. Murrow (TV journalist). Awards have also been bestowed on U.S. Senators, past U.S. Presidents and other distinguished public servants.
Joe Biden, when he took office as President following inauguration, made a point that he was going to be a great unifier for the United States. This was one of his first Big Lies as President. Throughout his tenure, he frequently went out of his way to antagonize large portions of the U.S. population — primarily conservatives, Republicans and MAGA supporters. He sicced the Justice Department on parents attending Board of Education meetings and on pro-life activists praying at abortion clinics. The Presidential Freedom Medal awards are yet another instance Biden’s “in your face” taunting of millions of Americans.
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So let’s review the four awards described above. Liz Cheney served a mere three terms in the House of Representatives. She authored no distinguished legislation. Her main “achievement” is betraying the Republican Party of which she purported to be a member. Giving the award to her would be as if George Washington gave a presidential medal of freedom to Benedict Arnold.
Hillary Clinton’s “achievements” are (1) jeopardizing national security by routing tens of thousands of government-related emails through a personal router in her private residence, and (2) failing to take appropriate steps to defend Americans in the Benghazi Affair, who ended up paying for her negligence with their lives. Additionally, she has characterized millions of Americans as “deplorables” and has fostered an atmosphere of hatred toward those on the Right.
Soros earned vast sums of money by shorting the British pound. It’s a good guess that he’s roundly hated by those across the pond in Great Britain. He then used this money with the objective of destroying the West, particularly the United States. One of his latest campaigns is to finance left-wing prosecutors who decline to prosecute the criminals who are ruining our cities.
Cecile Richards is a past president of Planned Parenthood, an organization dedicated to extinguishing the lives of millions of unborn babies in their numerous Death Camps across the nation that masquerade as abortion clinics. One can imagine Satan as grinning widely as Biden bestowed the award on her.
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Editors Note: As details begin to leak out about the situation in England, the scale of these crimes, spanning several decades, shows deep corruption in the English government. Progressive thinking Labour and the ineffectual Conservatives have always been on the outlook to be multicultural and concerned about the feelings of Muslim immigrants. They not only covered up these crimes, they participated in them. Moreover, they have lied about this problem, up and down the political chain of authority. Once you are taught that all cultures are equal and that all formerly colonized countries have been “marginalized,” and thus due special dispensation, society has no protection from cultural usurpation. If you have been taught your country is always wrong, and your culture is indefensible, a government will no longer defend itself or its people. Lying becomes chump change when a government fails in its most basic function: the protection of the rights and safety of its people. What did Muslim leadership know or do about this catastrophe? You must read this complete story. It is a cautionary tale for us in the US. We should not allow mass immigration of people who do not fit into the basic precepts of Western Civilization. Clearly, governments cannot be trusted. Elon Musk deserves the world’s thanks for his insistence on opening this cesspool of political lying and depravity.
The serial rape of thousands of English girls went on for many years. Few in power cared. Then Elon Musk started tweeting.
The grooming and serial rape of thousands of English girls by men of mostly Pakistani Muslim background over several decades is the biggest peacetime crime in the history of modern Europe. It went on for many years. It is still going on. And there has been no justice for the vast majority of the victims.
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British governments, both Conservative and Labour, hoped that they had buried the story after a few symbolic prosecutions in the 2010s. And it looked like they had succeeded—until Elon Musk read some of the court papers and tweeted his disgust and bafflement on X over the new year.
Britain now stands shamed before the world. The public’s suppressed wrath is bubbling to the surface in petitions, calls for a public inquiry, and demands for accountability.
The scandal is already reshaping British politics. It’s not just about the heinous nature of the crimes. It’s that every level of the British system is implicated in the cover-up.
Social workers were intimidated into silence. Local police ignored, excused, and even abetted pedophile rapists across dozens of cities. Senior police and Home Office officials deliberately avoided action in the name of maintaining what they called “community relations.” Local councilors and Members of Parliament rejected pleas for help from the parents of raped children. Charities, NGOs, and Labour MPs accused those who discussed the scandal of racism and Islamophobia. The media mostly ignored or downplayed the biggest story of their lifetimes. Zealous in their incuriosity, much of Britain’s media elite remained barnacled to the bubble of Westminster politics and its self-serving priorities.
They did this to defend a failed model of multiculturalism, and to avoid asking hard questions about failures of immigration policy and assimilation. They did this because they were afraid of being called racist or Islamophobic. They did this because Britain’s traditional class snobbery had fused with the new snobbery of political correctness.
All of which is why no one knows precisely how many thousands of young girls were raped in how many towns across Britain since the 1970s.
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What we do know is that the epicenter was the postindustrial mill towns of England’s north and Midlands, where immigrants from Pakistan and Bangladesh settled in the 1960s. White locals say the grooming and rapes began soon after. In Rotherham, the rundown Yorkshire city where the scandal first broke, local police and councilors were notified about systematic grooming and sex abuse by 2001. The first convictions did not occur until 2010, when five men of Pakistani background were jailed for multiple offenses against girls as young as 12 years of age.
These men targeted the most vulnerable girls—the poor and the fatherless, children in care homes—with candy, food, taxi rides, and drugs. They raped the girls, passed them around family and friendship networks, pimped them into similar networks in other cities, then discarded them as they reached the age of consent.
This pattern was repeated in as many as 50 cities across the country, including in leafy Oxford and liberal Bristol. A 2014 inquiry estimated that 1,400 girls had been serially raped in Rotherham alone.
The details are established beyond doubt in the small number of prosecutions that eventually made it to court. The suffering described in the court papers is sickening to read: The girls were drugged, beaten, sodomized, gang-raped, trafficked, and tortured…..
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It’s easy to grow desensitized to the threat of gender ideology in schools. It seems every day there is a fresh new outrage about kindergarteners getting indoctrinated into “trans joy” and school clinics offering transgender “medicine” for minors.
President-elect Donald Trump’s historic reelection victory represented a loud rebuke to the transgender movement—after all, one of his most effective ads slammed Vice President Kamala Harris, Democrats’ presidential nominee, as being “for they/them,” while Trump is “for you.” But this noxious ideology still has a stranglehold in many institutions, backed up in some cases by official state policy.
In fact, no fewer than 16 U.S. states have curriculum standards that force teachers’ hands on the issue, according to an important new report from The Heritage Foundation.
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The report, “Gender Ideology as State Education Policy,” highlights the state-level education standards and frameworks of 16 states that encourage gender ideology, which the report defines as “the subordination or displacement of factual, ideologically neutral lessons about biological sex with tell-tale notions such as ‘gender identity,’ ‘sex assigned at birth,’ and ‘cisgender.’”
This ideology rejects biology and tradition, promoting vague notions of identity that often rely on rigid sex stereotypes that feminists have rejected for decades.
Jay Richards, director of Heritage’s DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family, and Daniel Buck, senior visiting fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, analyzed the state-level education frameworks of all 50 states.
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Richards and Buck asked whether the frameworks “encourage a distinction between sex or sex organs, and gender, the latter of which is undefined or treated as a social construct?” The analysts also asked whether the policies promote the notion that sex is merely “assigned at birth” and whether they use terms such as “cisgender,” “transgender,” and “nonbinary.”
These tell-tale signs reveal the promotion of gender ideology, which not only contradicts basic biology and tradition but also poses a real danger to impressionable children.
By telling little boys that they may really be girls, schools prime them for experimental medical interventions that leave kids stunted, scarred, and infertile. The fact that medical societies endorse these interventions—despite the lack of evidence that they improve children’s lives and in the face of evidence that they carry severe side effects such as the risk of cancer in teens—is a scandal of epic proportions.
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Even simply teaching children that “gender identity” may be different from biological sex carries the risk of setting kids on a destructive path. These lessons are rightly controversial, and parents should be able to remove their children from any such indoctrination.
Below is a list of states and the specific state policy requiring each to teach gender ideology.
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Editors’ Note: The essay below is penned by Conlan Salgado, a recent college graduate and a contributor to The Prickly Pear. Conlan is an astute political observer and highly informed conservative. His essay deserves careful reading. We recommend reading Mr. Salgado’s excellent articles published in The Prickly Pear.
I was recently bemused at the indignation of retail pundits who breathlessly could not believe the Left’s ugly celebratory reaction across social media to the murder of United Health CEO Brian Thompson.
To illustrate my point, I compiled a list of categories of persons the Left has publicly and recently celebrated or would celebrate killing:
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1) Unborn children and unwanted infants 2) Donald Trump 3) Men 4) Donald Trump 5) White people 6) Donald Trump 7) Political figures one disagrees with 8) Donald Trump 9) CEOs 10) Donald Trump 11) Jews
Apparently, we had to reach no. 9 on the list for certain individuals to realize the left’s genocidal tendencies. In fact, on the far left, killing seems to be increasingly accepted as the preferredalternative to winning elections, reforming healthcare, marrying, engaging in responsible sex, tolerating natural inequality, and defeating the leader of the MAGA movement.
As regards the motives of the alleged murderer, I will not speculate, except insofar as to state that he probably did not like insurance companies. In the final analysis, motives are always private and always personal.
To the question of why the left considers murder as a legitimate form of resistance, several possible explanations might be offered. On the historical side of things, it would be useful topoint out the modern Left’s origins in the French Revolution. In an impressive debate against Christopher Hitchens, David Berlinski reminded us that after renaming Notre Dame Cathedral to the Temple of Reason, the French Revolutionists went out and killed 50,000 innocent people not DESPITE the fact that they considered themselves worshipers of reason, but BECAUSE they considered themselves worshipers of reason.
His point was that it becomes very easy to kill other people once you have decided that you are, by definition, reasonable; just as it is fairly easy to kill people once you have decided by definition that you are good, or just, or on the “right side of history.” For those of us who never believed the ridiculous proposition that fascism is a rightwing ideology, the industrialized murder regimes of the 20th century are a continuation of this historical argument.
My inclination, however, is to find the explanation in the Left’s ideology of power andresentment. On the one hand, it is a natural feature of human nature to scapegoat failures. An example is to blame black poverty and crime on white people.
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On the other hand, the postmodern Left’s philosophy of power has always been skeptical of the democratic premise that power can be delegated to others who will use such power to uplift others.
Power naturally tends to more uncouth ends—domination, control, the belittling of enemies or dangerous elevation of self. For the Left, the-will-to-power (an inherently selfish tendency) is the primal energy of human action—call it will, call it motivation, call it whatever you like.
Stretching all the way back to Nietzsche—greatest of postmodern philosophers—the idea was that power realized how ugly it was, and donned various aesthetics to justify itself: truth, beauty, goodness, rightness, etc. Nietzsche famously said that truth was a movable set of metaphors and conventions.
In other words, power disguises itself as beauty or righteousness in order to make itself both acceptable and appropriate. In the contemporary era, the postmodern Left would argue, “legitimacy” is the latest face paint that their power puts on to distract from its hideousness.
“Meritocracy” is another way of saying “White power is wholly legitimate”; or perhaps “male power”, or Jew power, or rich people power. The point being that the entire democratic process is a way for dominant ideological groups—white people, males, rich folks—to transfer power to trustworthy proxies who act appropriately in their interest alone while at the same time pretend those interests are both popularly supported and implemented in conjunction with the will of the whole.
It is likely that you’ve heard sexism and misogyny and racism as explanations for Mr. Trump’s win. Well, there you have it!
But where does violence fit into the leftist scheme? In one word, law . The Law is yet another bafflement, another sleight-of-hand by which power establishes itself as “proper”. Each new category of “justification” also expands the vocabulary of censorship used by those in power. Criminal, ugly, false are all registered as ad hominem attacks by which the social elites delay confrontation with the ideological proletariat.
Criminal behavior is anti-establishment activism. Ugliness is an aspect of revolution. Falsehood is the eloquence of the marginalized.
Do you see? For the Left, the justification of power is just a rhetorical strategy.
The alleged killer of CEO Brian Thompson is a hero precisely because he challenges the normal exercise of power. The entire history of capitalism is violence justified by various aesthetics: Luigi Mangione is a hero because he used violence-as-violence to fight a system of organized violence.
Luigi was not only brutal, but ironic. His act of murder was a confession of understanding and resistance.
Christ conquered death by death. The left obsesses over this point quite heretically: to use the weapon of oppression against the oppressor is a sacred act.
For those who wonder whether a common culture might be achieved for all Americans, we draw upon Pierre Manent’s essential insight about what a community is: a group of people with a common “task” or “agendum”. The Left considers the task of society, its “agendum,” to be essentially oppression. The task of the leftist is therefore inherently anti-social (“No justice, No peace”).
Its credo is almost entirely borrowed from Christianity and shallowed out: just as the sinner spends the rest of his life “in prayer and fasting”, a just society is one which redistributes resources (the meek shall inherit the earth) while committing itself to penitential acts, acts of anti-whiteness as repentance for anti-blackness, acts of anti-manhood as repentance for anti-womanhood. Indeed, grand theft from the rich and the privileged is the greatest act of repentance.
The more cynical ofthe left’s critics might summarize the whole thing as a project of cynicism, of opportunism, of emotional puppetry. Philosophers hate this answer. People of common sense suspect its truth.
The Left’s ideology is at once religious and sociological, ideological and action-oriented. The Left does not believe in a community except as a coalition of power. To paraphrase a Marxist translation of the Bible:
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for righteousness is bloodshed.
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Editors’ Note: We hardly consider ourselves fashion consultants, but it seems refreshing that a women’s magazine features… women. In an era where homecoming queens are guys, and beauty pageants are giving prizes to men in drag, showing off the female body’s genuine and distinctive physical characteristics should be applauded. The trans movement either tries to erase womanhood or suggests it can be hijacked simply by a man declaring himself as one. Being a woman is more than applying makeup with a trowel and adopting women’s clothing. We can’t say we object to the dress style being promoted. Most men like women and their distinctive physical attributes. Perhaps this is a cultural sign that we are a peak “trans” and the way back to liking women is in process. Now, all we need is to work on Leftist women, who, because they hate men, dress in studied frumpiness to signal they don’t care to be attractive because they want to be appreciated solely because of their women’s study degree.
A women’s magazine is going viral after introducing a new line of provocative dresses. While everyone is allowed to express their opinions, conservatives are missing the point.
Our culture is starved of beautiful things. Everything women are sold to wear is either casual clothes or made to make women appear more masculine. From oversized sweaters and pants to yoga leggings and matching sweatsuits, femininity is left out of the equation when designers craft our wardrobes.
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Enter Evie Magazine. Evie has never claimed to be a conservative magazine. For goodness sake, its website boasts sex and relationship tips. However, it wants to be a magazine where women can find beauty and reconnect with their feminine style. Between the posts about the harms of birth control, marital advice and sweet Christmas traditions, they started a dress line with their brand Sundress.co.
Their latest release is a dress they dubbed “The Raw Milkmaid Dress.” Conservative “trad-moms” lost their minds over the model’s size 32G bust almost falling out of the dress. Critics slammed the company, claiming it was overpriced (it’s being sold for around $190) and not modest, traditional or conservative in any way. (ROOKE: ‘Fighting For Women’s Rights’ Is What Got Us Into Transgender Bathroom Mess In The First Place)
And that’s fine. It’s okay for people not to like that dress or feel it’s too expensive. However, people are missing the point. If we want to form a culture that gives women their divine femininity back, we have to start somewhere. If we’re going to reject the scourge of feminism and the woke culture it bore, why attack seemingly the one company searching for a way to draw young women in?
With Evie Magazine, we can finally reclaim what was taken from us. The magazine’s readers are mostly moderate to conservative women looking for someone to speak to them about their desire to join the anti-feminist movement. They hate birth control but don’t really understand why. They want to be good wives, girlfriends and mothers and need a voice that gently guides them into our world.
The Evie dress harkens back to a time when women weren’t forced to be corporate shills, working in an office all day with people who do not care or love them, destined to climb the corporate ladder where each step sheds another layer of their beauty and femininity.
This dress is for the women who look into our lives and dream of the day they are us. They want to leave their corporate jobs, get married and have pictures of themselves holding a baby on their hip, one more in their belly and a toddler making funny faces at their side. They want this life but have no bridge to cross to get there.
The Raw Milkmaid Dress is the bridge. It’s what will draw them out of their androgynous clothing and into the world where femininity is celebrated. Single women can wear this dress and envision themselves walking their future pastures with their children in the late fall, waiting for their husbands to come home. It’s also a symbol for like-minded men to see and know that this is the life they are searching for.
Evie should be celebrated for bringing beauty back to women’s clothing, not demonized because their dress line doesn’t fit a conservative dress code. This is the first time in decades that the female body has been celebrated for its natural beauty and not forced into a corporate girlie design.
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A new report from the Center for American Institutions (CAI) at Arizona State University (ASU) has revealed that faith-based organizations are playing an “integral role” in addressing housing and food insecurity, addiction, at-risk youth, and more.
The report on “Religion, Charity and American Life,” is entitled A Thousand Points of Light Still Shine and was compiled with survey and research data from the CAI with feedback from faith leaders Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., and Rabbi Pinchas Allouche.
In a press release, CAI wrote, “While often overlooked, volunteers from congregations of many faiths feed, clothe, and support our communities, according to the report. They collect and distribute food. They help with rent and utilities and point people to additional organizations that can assist. The authors of the study said it can be seen as a call to action and a reminder of the necessity to affirm the religious liberty necessary to make way for these institutions to do this life-sustaining support and outreach.”
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The report noted that in the metro Phoenix area, Jewish Family and Children’s Services is known for providing treatment for illnesses, mental health problems, and drug abuse. It also assists people with food insecurity, offering nutritional assistance and even dental referrals. The Living Streams Church’s food pantry of Central Phoenix feeds approximately 5,000 people per year working Mondays through Thursdays. The Catholic St. Vincent de Paul conferences, small groups of volunteers within local parishes, conduct food deliveries to needy people within their parish boundaries.
A Jewish temple located in Phoenix doesn’t operate a food pantry but rather its members contribute their time and money to two nearby pre-existing food pantries. The CAI observed that other congregations, such as a Disciples of Christ Church in Phoenix, also contributed to nearby pantries.
Looking further, the report found that 86% of food pantries in Detroit, Michigan, that are found on findhelp.org are faith-based with many housed-on church property and run by volunteer staff. CAI also found that four of the seven “best” drug addiction treatment centers in the Detroit metro area, as reported by Addiction Resource, are also faith-based.
The report notes that the role played by faith-based groups in combating food insecurity is crucial.
“Since the COVID-19 pandemic, a growing number of Americans are caught in a squeeze. As food prices skyrocketed, along with other basic needs like transportation, housing, and energy, SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps) did not keep up. In a 2023 survey conducted by Feeding America, the largest American charity focused on food insecurity, 65 percent of food banks reported increasing demand. Food pantries, meanwhile, found that food inflation meant their contributions did not go as far as they did pre-pandemic, even as lines at their doors grew longer.”
The study also drew attention to the dangers of the heat to the homeless during Arizona summer finding, “Summer in Phoenix can be deadly without access to water and cooling. Alongside public hydration and cooling stations, faith-based groups go to homeless camps and distribute water and necessities. For example, St. Vincent de Paul has trucks that make the rounds to places where homeless people congregate to hand out water, food, and supplies. On a smaller scale, Sunnyslope Ministries of Hope distributes water in central Phoenix most every summer evening, along with personal care items and shoes. Also, in Phoenix, Young Single Adult groups from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) congregations take part in distributing aid to the homeless.”
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Rabbi Pinchas Allouche, Founding Rabbi of Congregation Beth Tefillah, also contributed to the report writing, “Faith-based organizations are the lifeblood of America’s moral fabric, calling each of us to fulfill our God-given responsibility to heal the world. Through acts of goodness and kindness, we can restore faith in humanity and remind the world that light can dispel even the thickest darkness. This call to action can propel readers to reflect on how they, too, can contribute to making the world more divine through small yet powerful acts of goodness and kindness. It will also highlight the importance of treating each other with respect, as God’s children who are all part of God’s human family.”
The commission made four key recommendations based upon the collected data:
Faith-based organizations need to do a better job of informing the general public of these programs. On a community level, faith-based organizations should consider creating a collective website to report on their activities.
Greater media attention needs to be driven by individual churches, synagogues, temples, and faith-based charities to newspapers, the media, and social media about the stories of individuals who have benefited from their programs. Americans love success stories.
Media itself should give more attention to the importance of faith-based charities and programs in their communities.
Americans need a better understanding of religious liberty, as embodied in the First Amendment. This should begin in the classroom. State legislators and school boards should require that time be given in the classroom to the foundational concept of religious liberty in American life.
Professor Donald Critchlow, Director of the Center for American Institutions at ASU, explained, “Religion is under unprecedented attack on multiple fronts, with growing secularization, declining attendance, and hate-filled attacks on people of faith. And yet, as this report illustrates in vivid detail, volunteers from various religious congregations are still showing up for those most in need in their local communities.”
He added, “The irony is that while faith-based organizations are more active in our communities today than at any time in modern American history, these good works coincide with a rise in hate crimes.”
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Editors’ Note: We admit we are not lawyers in Constitutional law, but we did hear some of the arguments before the Supreme Court and the interplay with the Justices. We do not think it went well for transactivists. Only the Progressive women Justices seemed sympathetic. Thus, we could get a 6-3 decision upholding the Constitutionality of the law in Tennessee. Not surprisingly, the most ridiculous argument was Biden appointed Kantanji Brown, who suggested any law restricting trans surgery for minors was the same as banning interracial marriage. How she drew this conclusion from two entirely different events and between a set of adults and minors is disturbing. This gets to the heart of the problem. Fourth-wave feminism does not understand that trans activism is a mortal danger to the rights of women, and race-obsessed Justices see everything through the lens of their own racial bias.
After the Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday [12/4] in U.S. v Skrmetti, the case that will determine whether states may ban transgender medical procedures for kids, one mother told The Daily Signal that her child began to transition as a baby.
“She knew since birth,” Michelle Callahan-DuMont said of her 10-year-old, a biological male who says he identifies as a transgender female and goes by the name “Violet.”
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The family traveled from Arizona to Washington, D.C., to join the American Civil Liberty Union’s “Free to Be Ourselves” rally Wednesday outside the Supreme Court.
The high court likely will rule by June on the constitutionality of a Tennessee law protecting minors from irreversible transgender medical interventions.
CNN interviewed the same family about having a so-called transgender child. What the left-leaning news outlet didn’t mention is that Callahan-DuMont and her husband began to “transition” Violet when he was toddler age, over 1 year old.
“Violet told us when she was 1 and a half,” Callahan-DuMont told The Daily Signal. “She’s been telling us since she could speak.”
In the interview with CNN correspondent Lucy Kafanov that aired, Violet said he is afraid he will be murdered on the street for identifying as transgender.
Callahan-DuMont, who appeared in the interview with Violet and four other family members, said that “it’s hard to hear her say that” before detailing the 10-year-old’s response to the results of the 2024 presidential election.
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“She asked me three questions after she heard who won the election,” Callahan-DuMont said, then quoted her child. “Are we going to have to move? Are they going to take me away from you? And am I not going to be able to get my medicine?”
Former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, signed a bill banning transgender medical procedures for minors in 2022. If the Supreme Court rules that the Tennessee law doing the same thing is unconstitutional, Arizona’s law likely would be overturned as well.
Callahan-DuMont appears to have a history of publicly politicizing her child’s story. She runs Instagram and Threads account for Violet, largely focused on advocating for “trans kids.”
One Threads post urges people to vote for the Democrats’ Harris-Walz ticket “for Violet’s healthcare & safety.”
In the CNN interview, Violet said Republican messaging against transgender ideology in the 2024 election made him feel “dead inside.”
“I’ve heard politicians that say, ‘No, you have the wrong gender. You’re confused, Honey,’” Violet said. “No. Myself is a fact, not an opinion, and they don’t get to decide that for me. I get to decide that for myself.”
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Editors’ Note: As the author points out, the differences between “feelings” of suicide and committing the act are quite different. By conflating the two, trans activists have bullied parents, therapists, school officials, and doctors into doing some brutal things to children. More often than not, it is “guilting” without evidence. Children are often confused during puberty, and some can become emotionally unstable. However, in the vast number of cases of gender dysphoria, the problem passes without permanent harm. But if one caves prematurely into taking off sex organs or blocking normal development chemically over the false fear of “causing” suicide, the damage to the child or young adult will be permanent. Where is the “follow the science” crowd when they are really needed?
Arguing before the Supreme Court, Chase Strangio concedes that suicide is “thankfully and admittedly rare” among transgender-identifying people.
An astonishing moment took place yesterday at the Supreme Court during oral arguments in U.S. v. Skrmetti, the case that challenges Tennessee’s ban on pediatric sex “change” procedures. Chase Strangio, the American Civil Liberties Union’s attorney, admitted to Justice Samuel Alito that the narrative around the risk of suicide in transgender-identified youth is false.
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Before Alito and Strangio’s exchange, Justice Sonia Sotomayor had asked U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar about minors with gender dysphoria who “attempt suicide.” Prelogar responded that the “rates of suicide”—not “attempts,” but actual death by suicide—in that population “are striking.” Given the government’s support for puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones as treatments for gender dysphoric youth, the clear implication of Prelogar’s remarks was that such interventions are known to prevent these tragic and, in her view, common events.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Some—some children suffer incredibly with gender dysphoria, don’t they?
GENERAL PRELOGAR: Yes. It’s a very serious medical condition.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: I think some attempt suicide?
GENERAL PRELOGAR: Yes. The rates of suicide are—are striking—
This claim—that rates of suicide among gender-dysphoric young people are high—constitutes the trans suicide myth.
When it was Strangio’s turn, Justice Alito asked, “Do you maintain that the procedures and medications in question reduce the risk of suicide?” The transgender-identifying attorney responded:
MR. STRANGIO: I do, Justice Alito, maintain that the medications in question reduce the risk of depression, anxiety, and suicidality, which are all indicators of potential suicide.
Note that Alito asked about suicide, and Strangio answered about suicidality—the latter of which refers to thoughts of or intent to attempt suicide. Though suicide would be preceded by suicidality, research does not show that suicidality is a reliable predictor of suicide. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2022, for every one person who committed suicide, 270 people “seriously thought about suicide” and 33 attempted it.
Strangio’s pivot to suicidality is a standard tactic of gender medicine activists in public debates.They exploit public ignorance about the difference between suicidality—thinking about suicide, attempting suicide, using gestures of self-harm as a cry for help or as a form of emotional manipulation—and actual death by suicide.
Unfortunately for Strangio, Justice Alito had done his homework. Citing the U.K.’s Cass Review, Alito observed that “there is no evidence that gender-affirmative treatments reduce suicide.”
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Then came Strangio’s remarkable concession:
MR. STRANGIO: What I think that is referring to is there is no evidence in some—in the studies that this treatment reduces completed suicide. And the reason for that is completed suicide, thankfully and admittedly, is rare and we’re talking about a very small population of individuals with studies that don’t necessarily have completed suicides within them.
However, there are multiple studies, long-term longitudinal studies that do show that there is a reduction in—in suicidality . . .
Here, the ACLU’s star attorney on trans issues seems to be at odds with Solicitor General Prelogar, who had said that the “rates” of “suicide” among gender-dysphoric youth were “striking.” Strangio admits, under oath, that suicide is actually “rare,” and that the research purporting to demonstrate benefits from hormones concerns suicidality, not suicide. Strangio’s use of “admittedly” is also striking, as it suggests the attorney is aware that claims about suicide prevention through sex “change” are false.
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I know it’s hard being a cop. . . . But some jobs can’t have bad apples. Some jobs, everybody gotta be good. Like, pilots. American Airlines can’t be like, “You know, most of our pilots like to land, we just got a few bad apples that like to crash into mountains.”
—Chris Rock
Kash Patel, the nominee to be the next FBI director, believes the Bureau has been abusing its power. The Russiagate hoax is at the top of the evidence list.
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Led by former director James Comey, the FBI used the so-called Steele dossier to help cook up the hoax. A 2019 investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Inspector General (IG) concluded the “Steele reporting” had “played a central and essential role” in the FBI’s filing of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) spy warrants targeting former Donald Trump aide Carter Page.
Back in May 2017, according to the IG, the FBI was told by Steele’s primary source that there was “zero” proof for the dossier’s assertions. But three years later, and then just seven months before the 2020 presidential election, a Harvard-Harris survey showed 53 percent still thought the “Steele dossier was real.”
It’s hard to exaggerate the damage the hoax did to America.
“Gross Incompetence”
The IG described FISA surveillance as one of the “most sensitive and intrusive investigative techniques” available, and the only Russiagate target they used it against was Page. While the FBI’s snooping uncovered no evildoing by the target or Trump, it did reveal plenty of bad behavior by the Bureau. The IG reported 17 “significant inaccuracies and omissions” in the FISA applications, and the IG himself told Congress the FBI had performed with “gross incompetence and negligence.”
From 2008 to 2013, Page was an “operational contact” for the CIA and occasionally interacted with Russian intelligence officers of interest to the Agency. The IG found that the CIA had given a “positive assessment of Page’s candor.” The CIA shared this positive opinion of Page with the Bureau two months before the FBI submitted the first FISA application.
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But that application referenced only Page’s contact with Russian spies, and not that this occurred with the CIA’s blessing. The FBI repeated the supposed error over and over again in subsequent warrant requests. Just before the last FISA application was sent in, the CIA confirmed again that Page was a friendly source. This time an FBI attorney changed the answer to “not a source” [emphasis added] and sent it careening through the careless bureaucracy.
During the inept investigation, the FBI learned that the Steele dossier had been paid for by the Democratic National Committee and that Steele had openly stated his desire to prevent Trump from winning. The Bureau should have told the FISA court about this political bias, but did not do so. The IG investigators wrote that they “did not receive satisfactory explanations for the errors or missing information.”
Trump fired Comey in May 2017, but Comey kept at it, trigging yet another critical IG report. This one found the former FBI chief had “improperly disclosed FBI documents and information” to the New York Times.
Leaky Comey
In a memoir written after his dismissal, Comey recounted a discussion with Trump about this subject.
“I don’t do sneaky things, I told him. I don’t leak,” Comey claims to have told Trump.
Elsewhere in the memoir Comey wrote that the “stuff that gets me the most is the claim that I am in love with my own righteousness, my own virtue.”
That must be some tough love. The IG concluded Comey’s leaky behavior set “a dangerous example for the over 35,000 current FBI employees.”
Comey also wrote that he kept on his desk at the FBI a copy of the memo from J. Edgar Hoover that authorized FBI surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. Among many other abuses, Hoover’s FBI also sent a blackmail letter encouraging King to kill himself.
Comey claimed that desk is where he “reviewed applications by the FBI and the Department of Justice to conduct national security electronic surveillance.” In other words, stuff like FISA applications, such as the ones approved for Page while Comey was the FBI director.
Neither Page nor references to him appear in the Comey memoir.
Similarly obtuse, Comey responded to the IG’s damning FISA report with an opinion essay in the Washington Post. He concluded mistakes were made . . . and that others should be blamed.
“The FBI fulfilled its mission—protecting the American people and upholding the U.S. Constitution,” he wrote. “Now those who attacked the FBI for two years should admit they were wrong.”
In his non-apology, Comey also brushed off the FISA errors as routine: “That’s always unfortunate, but human beings make mistakes.”
It’s true. Quality control takes a hit when the guy who is supposedly reading the botched spy warrant requests is instead performatively gazing at his J. Edgar Hoover memo. (Sarcastic props to the University of Chicago Law School, which awarded Comey his J.D.)
Sanctimony
Comey met the future president for the first time in late 2016, just prior to the inauguration. The FBI director used this unique opportunity to discuss the most salacious rumor in the Steele dossier—that Russian intelligence had video of Trump cavorting with prostitutes. Buzzfeed published the dossier a few days later, setting off a media firestorm that lasted years.
This also triggered a follow-up call to Comey from an understandably annoyed Trump, who had already strongly denied the outlandish tale the first time he heard it from Comey.
“I stared out at the monuments and wondered what had happened to me and our country that the FBI director was talking about this with our incoming president,” wrote Comey of the discussion.
Well, Jimmy, it was you who brought all this up. What did you expect?
Comey also complained that Trump wanted the FBI to investigate so the prostitute rumor could be disproven. Already well into the act of using the dossier to justify spy warrants, Comey implied that Trump’s fixation on it was due to Trump’sguilty conscience!
“I’m almost certain the president is unfamiliar with the proverb ‘The wicked flee when no man pursueth,’” he wrote.
This sanctimonious observation raises a good question for the new FBI director. Will the wicked from Russiagate flee if someone does pursueth?
More About the FBI
This essay was adapted from a larger report, “The FBI’s Bad Apples: The Bureau’s Worst Days Are Worth Remembering,” a cover story from the September 2022 issue of Capital Research magazine. That longer report addresses FBI abuses stretching back to the era of the 9/11 attacks, the Branch Davidian standoff, the Olympic Park bomber, and more.
The report is also available online at the following links:
“The Twitter Files and the Ministry of Truth Media,” a cover story from the March/April 2023 issue of Capital Research magazine, addressed the FBI’s involvement in speech suppression and the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. That report is also available online at the following links:
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Too often, we hear that constituents and politicians vote for something and then review the content afterwards. That appears to be the case with Prop 139. So, let’s take a look at what exactly is in this proposition.
An Associated Press article in the Ahwatukee news (last month) publicized that this abortion measure allows women to terminate a pregnancy without state interference until the point of fetal viability. This is incorrect. As the proponent’s attorney, Austin Yost, stated under oath in superior court, this amendment will allow abortions before and after fetal viability. In layman’s terms, Prop 139 will allow abortion, up to birth, which includes late-term abortion.
Did the press not read and understand the language? Or did they choose not to print its true intent? Polling showed that 90 percent of Arizonans would not support abortion up to birth, and yet Prop 139 still passed. But the legacy media focused on defining fetal viability at 22 or 24 weeks while ignoring that the proposition allows for abortion up to birth.
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So, what else does Prop 139 do?
The proposition takes away parental consent for a minor to have an abortion. So, let’s get this straight. Minors no longer need parental consent to have an abortion, but they need parental consent to get an aspirin at school. Are we serious? Not only that, but this will also allow child traffickers and rapists to go unchecked and find a way to avoid prosecution for their crimes. All these traffickers and rapists would have to do is take their victim to have an abortion without their parents’ involvement. How can we exclude parents from this life-changing decision?
But perhaps most chilling is that the doctor and the requirement for an ultrasound have been eliminated from the abortion procedure. That’s right. The subject matter expert — a medical doctor — is no longer required for an abortion. Any “healthcare professional,” which is vaguely defined, can perform an abortion with no certification or hospital privileges. On top of that, the elimination of the ultrasound means that there is no way to tell the gestation of the baby or if there is an ectopic pregnancy. If the “healthcare professional” cannot detect an ectopic pregnancy and initiates an abortion, the woman’s life is at risk. This is not healthcare.
But why was the ultrasound eliminated? Because 60% of women who see their baby with an ultrasound choose life. And therein lies their end game. When women choose life, it’s bad business for abortion clinics.
Thanks to Prop 139, abortion providers stand to make millions more, especially by eliminating the need to pay for doctors. This is the reality of what our state just passed, not the fake ads on television telling voters that this is about women’s rights or that if you have a miscarriage, you cannot get medical help.
But the battle is not over.
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As Chair of Arizona Right to Life, our team will continue to speak the truth about abortion. We remain committed to the protection of the unborn and the health and safety of women, because every human being is valuable.
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It’s hard to wrap your head around just how grotesque it is that many medical associations and the federal government have adopted the idea that it’s healthy to sterilize children in an attempt to “affirm” a stated transgender identity. On Wednesday [12/4/24], the Supreme Court will shed much-needed sunlight on this medical scandal of epic proportions.
Tennessee Solicitor General Matt Rice will explain how activists conspired to flip the Hippocratic Oath on its head. Meanwhile, U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar and American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Chase Strangio—a female who says he identifies as male—will argue that Tennessee’s law banning Frankensteinian medical experiments on kids violates federal law by discriminating on the basis of sex.
The Supreme Court is hearing the case because of this discrimination argument. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit upheld Tennessee’s law, finding that it doesn’t entail discrimination. But the Biden-Harris administration appealed that decision, and the Supreme Court took up the case—now known as U.S. v. Skrmetti after Jonathan Skrmetti, the Republican attorney general of Tennessee.
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I will briefly address the logic behind the pro-transgender case, then explain the medical scandal that will emerge in Wednesday’s oral arguments.
The Transgender Discrimination Logic
The Biden-Harris administration’s convoluted logic goes something like this: Males who claim to be female really are female on some metaphysical plane (never mind biology, tradition, and common sense), so taking experimental hormones and undergoing surgical removal of their male organs is healthy for them.
Any law preventing minors—who can’t possibly give informed consent for experimental “treatments” that may leave them stunted, scarred, and infertile—from accessing this “health care” constitutes discrimination on the basis of sex, the logic goes. Why? Because such a law theoretically applies only to males who express a desire to be female and females who express a desire to be male.
The discrimination angle is laughable on its face. Discrimination on the basis of sex entails different treatment based on a person’s sex, namely male or female.
Tennessee’s law bans experimental transgender medical interventions for all minors, regardless of their race, creed, national origin, or biological sex. “Transgender” is not a protected category under federal civil rights statutes—even though federal agencies in the Biden-Harris administration have attempted to redefine discrimination on the basis of sex to include discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation.
When previous Congresses crafted civil rights law, they did not mean—and could not have meant—to protect gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals by barring discrimination “on the basis of sex.” Instead, the lawmakers meant to extend to women the rights enjoyed by men.
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Democrats inherently understand this, and it explains why they support the Equality Act, a bill that would expand “discrimination on the basis of sex” in federal law to include gender identity and sexual orientation.
The Supreme Court majority in Bostock v. Clayton County (2020) used convoluted logic to rule that federal civil rights employment law bars discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation, but the decision also painstakingly argued that this only applies to employment law, not other forms of federal civil rights law.
The Biden-Harris administration has attempted to twist Bostock, essentially rewriting federal civil rights law to include discrimination on the basis of gender identity. The Justice Department and Department of Education have established rules that aim to effectively enshrine the Equality Act into law without a vote by Congress, in the name of “implementing Bostock.”
The ACLU and the Biden-Harris administration want this Supreme Court case to be about “discrimination,” not the actual medical value of the procedures in question.
The Scandal of Transgender ‘Health Care’
So what, exactly, are the “treatments” that Tennessee sought to ban minors from accessing? Transgender advocates euphemistically refer to these interventions as “gender-affirming care” to cloak their true nature under a false pretense of compassion.
Some medical professionals prescribe gender-confused children who are nearing puberty GnRH agonists, which stands for “Gonadatropin-releasing hormone agonists.”
David Gortler, a pharmacologist and pharmacist who previously was a senior adviser to the Food and Drug Administration commissioner on policy and drug safety, previously told The Daily Signal that physicians developed GnRH agonists to help treat certain cancers that depend on estrogen or testosterone.
Removing estrogen and testosterone from cancer patients to prolong their lives makes sense, Gortler said, because it prevents the progress of an invasive, malignant disease. But giving these drugs to physiologically and genetically healthy kids is a completely different story.
“This drug was tested, designed, and FDA-approved for use in an older, cancer-afflicted population,” Gortler, a doctor of pharmacy, said.
He compared so-called puberty blockers to the outdated, dangerous Chinese custom of foot binding, in which a young girl’s feet would be tightly wrapped to keep them from growing naturally.
“Similarly, GnRH agonists block a normal, healthy development process from occurring,” Gortler said. “Just because it’s not something that isn’t directly and obviously visible doesn’t mean that it’s any less clinically, scientifically, or ethically dangerous.”
Activists claim that GnRH agonists, which they dub “puberty blockers,” are temporary and reversible, but those claims remain unproven.
Most patients who take these “blockers” will go on to take cross-sex hormones (estrogen for males and testosterone for females).
“The human body has around 100 trillion cells,” Gortler noted. “High school biology taught us that in each of those nucleated cells, there are either XX or XY chromosomes denoting a female or male sex, respectively. No drug or medical procedure will ever be able to fight 100 or so trillion cells, and trying to do so would be a fool’s errand.”
Naturally, “puberty blockers” and cross-sex hormones lead to the most controversial intervention: the surgical removal of sex organs and the attempt to replace them with facsimiles of the organs of the opposite sex.
An activist organization masquerading as the authority on transgender health, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, doesn’t recommend “bottom surgery” for minors, but some minors do go under the knife. An estimated 3,678 minors have undergone surgical alterations in the past five years (including 405 minors between the ages of 12 and 18 who underwent genital surgery).
Transgender Exception to ‘Do No Harm’
Activists argue that minors undergo these interventions only if they really need them, and that doctors and therapists must diagnose children with gender dysphoria (the painful and persistent condition of identifying with the gender opposite their biological sex) before any interventions.
Yet many states ban “conversion therapy,” and many statutes apply such bans to a therapist who would counsel a male minor who thinks of himself as female from identifying with his biological sex (and vice versa). This prevents therapists from addressing the psychological roots of gender dysphoria and instead directs them to merely “affirm” gender confusion.
Furthermore, doctors know that medical interventions involve serious side effects.
Leaked documents from WPATH reveal that even pro-transgender doctors repeatedly acknowledged disturbing side effects of “gender-affirming care.” Doctors revealed that cross-sex hormones appeared to have caused liver cancer in teens and atrophy of sex organs that reduces sexual function.
Although some acknowledged that it is problematic to require informed consent from minors for procedures with lifelong impacts, others said the ideal time for removing female sex organs is 16 or 17 years old.
Even “puberty blockers” are far from safe. Gortler, the former FDA adviser, analyzed the federal agency’s Adverse Event Reporting System, or AERS, a database of reactions to certain drugs that users report to the Food and Drug Administration.
“GnRH agonists account for 70,000 adverse reports,” Gortler told The Daily Signal. “While these reports still need to be reviewed, it is a remarkable number of adverse events for what should be a niche, otherwise rarely clinically indicated, class of drugs.”
Yet the FDA often dismisses these reports as “not confirmed,” “not establishing causation,” “no definitive proof,” and “not establishing a rate of occurrence.”
Gortler slammed the FDA for hypocrisy, noting that the agency relied heavily on the reporting system’s data to declare that hydroxychloroquine was unsafe after finding only a few hundred reports of adverse events.
According to his analysis, AERS reports 70,000 adverse reactions to GnRH agonists, 2,510 of them involving children age 14 or younger.
Adverse reactions include hallucinations, bone disorders, cardiac arrest, abdominal pain, migraine, mood alterations, a clot in the heart, pelvic pain, seizures, abnormal skin odor, and blindness. Among patients ages 4 to 13, a total of 21 had thoughts of suicide.
An FDA official admitted that a study found “puberty blockers” led to increased thoughts of suicide among minors, but the official recommended approval for the drugs, anyway.
Eunuchs
As if these side effects weren’t enough, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s Standards of Care 8—the document activists present as the gold standard for transgender “health care”—endorses the idea of “eunuch” as a gender identity and claims that castration is “medically necessary” for those who identify as eunuchs.
WPATH describes “eunuchs” as “individuals assigned male at birth” who “wish to eliminate masculine physical features, masculine genitals, or genital functioning.” Because eunuchs “wish for a body that is compatible with their eunuch identity,” WPATH recommends “castration to better align their bodies with their gender identity.”
The state of Alabama submitted a “friend of the court” brief highlighting this issue in the Skrmetti case now before the Supreme Court. The brief notes that WPATH leaders admitted “that no diagnostic manual recognizes ‘eunuch’ as a medical or psychiatric diagnosis’” and that many authors of the Standards of Care 8 didn’t even read the chapter and some criticized it internally.
“No matter: The guideline the United States says States must adopt officially recommends castration for men and boys who identify as ‘eunuch,’” Alabama’s brief notes.
Where does the idea of “eunuch” as a gender identity come from? SOC-8’s own archive includes thousands of stories that “focus on the eroticization of child castration” and “involve the sadistic sexual abuse of children.” Yes, it seems this “gender identity” traces back to the most disgusting forms of pedophilia.
Perverse Incentives of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’
How did such a horrific ideology capture the American medical establishment?
Jennifer Bilek has done yeoman’s work unearthing how billionaires who made their fortune in medicine have backed the LGBTQ movement, particularly the “T.”
Transgender “treatments” alsoreap rewards for Big Pharma. When a male patient takes cross-sex hormones to appear female, that’s a lifelong prescription. When patients get surgery to remove their sex organs and replace them with a facsimile of the opposite sex’s organs, that’s not just a one-and-done surgery. Not only are there often complications—which can be deadly—but these new organs often require grotesque forms of maintenance. All of this keeps patients coming back.
Although Tennessee’s law should have gone into effect without a legal battle in the courts, the oral arguments at the Supreme Court will shine a spotlight on this horrific scandal.
According to recent polling, 72% of Americans oppose these grotesque medical experiments on kids. This case gives Rice, who will argue it as Tennessee’s solicitor general, the chance to show why most Americans are right.
Correction: This article has been updated to correctly reflect the gender identity of the ACLU lawyer.
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The best way to promote fertility isn’t funding parenthood. It’s stopping the government programs that discourage people from having babies.
Birth rates are plummeting in the United States and globally, forecasting a political and financial crisis. The most recent estimate predicts the average American woman will have 1.6 children in her lifetime, far below the rate of 2.1 required to maintain a steady population and even further below the 2.5 rate observed in the United States as recently as 1970.
Many cultural and technological factors have contributed to this dramatic decline, and public policies play a role in shaping people’s decisions about whether to have children and how many. Finding the right policy levers for influencing fertility rates, however, has proven very difficult.
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Countries such as Hungary and South Korea, operating on the assumption that fertility is primarily constrained by the costs of raising children, have offered very generous government subsidies for families having children to offset those costs. Unfortunately, their fertility rates haven’t risen, so these large expenditures clearly haven’t helped.
But it’s unlikely they would have anyway, as child-rearing expenses do not appear to be the main obstacle to people choosing to have more children. Remember, fertility rates used to be much higher even when people had significantly less money than they do now.
For example, in 1970, when the U.S. fertility rate was at 2.5, per-person gross domestic product was almost one-third what it is today. Somehow, people with a lot less money managed to have many more kids.
Can Policy Affect Fertility?
If we can’t effectively pay people to have more children, some may despair that there is nothing public policy can do to alter fertility rates. In a society where birth control is widely available and children are not needed to work on the farm, some have resigned themselves to the idea that perhaps people just don’t want to have enough children to sustain populations.
But it is worth remembering that, in 1970, few children were needed to work on farms, and the birth control pill had been around for a decade, yet fertility rates were much higher than they are now. In addition, creating new financial incentives for people to have children is not the only arrow in the policy quiver. We need to consider how existing government programs may be suppressing fertility rates and how reforming or eliminating those programs could make a significant difference.
Government policies often produce unintended consequences that promote behaviors that are antithetical to family formation. If we simply stop putting the government thumb on the scale in favor of policies that push people into life paths that postpone or disincentivize starting and growing families, fertility rates will rise.
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Education policy offers two prime examples of how government programs suppress fertility rates. People are more likely to have children if they start having families earlier and if they have religious convictions that make them think differently about the costs and benefits of raising children. Yet current education policies push people to delay having families until they are much older and impose barriers to accessing religious education, both of which significantly reduce fertility rates.
Higher Education Policies and Fertility Rates
U.S. higher education policies provide enormous incentives for more people to attend universities, take longer to complete their degrees, select degrees with negative returns on investment, and pursue advanced degrees at much higher rates than if we did not have such programs. In particular, highly subsidized student loans encourage more people to enroll and remain in higher education longer than they would if they fully bore the cost of their schooling.
The Grad Plus program, which offers unlimited loan amounts for graduate school, induces more people to remain even longer in school for graduate degrees. And government occupation licensing with ever-expanding educational requirements push people to take these loans and remain in school for many years.
That has created an artificially extended adolescence for the bulk of American young people. They remain in school much longer, often into their thirties, before they feel equipped to pursue real careers and assume adult roles, including getting married and having children.
Alexander Hamilton was 22 when he became George Washington’s aide-de-camp and helped direct the war of independence. Albert Einstein was 26 when he published a paper on his special theory of relativity. Yet we deem our 20-somethings unqualified to do much of anything and expect them to remain in school for years, accumulating credentials with the help of government subsidies before we let them tackle real adult responsibilities.
Extended Adolescence Reduces Fertility
The effect of this greatly extended adolescence is reduced fertility. In 2021, the median age of women in the United States who have a child for the first time was 27.3, up from 21.4 in 1970. The median age of men when they first become fathers is also increasing, as is the average age at which people get married.
In 1960, the median age for first marriage was 20.3 for women and 22.8 for men. By 2022, the median age for first marriage had risen to 28.6 for women and 30.5 for men. Much of that increase has come during the past decade, with the median age of first marriage increasing more than two years for women, up from 26.5, and nearly two years for men, up from 28.7.
This delayed start to family formation is largely driven by people spending much longer in school. Among women with a post-secondary degree who have children, 42.9 percent have their first child when they are 30 or older. Among women with only a high-school degree who have children, only 8.5 percent wait until they are older than 30 to have their first child. Among women with a bachelor’s or higher degree, nearly twice as many (21.8 percent) will never have children, compared to who ended their formal education with a high-school diploma (11.5 percent).
Obviously, higher education can have significant economic and social benefits. But it does not follow that we should push everyone to go to university and remain in school indefinitely. There are diminishing returns to education. Ever-expanding educational attainment—often the result of government credentialing requirements—comes at the expense of fertility.
Good things can become bad when pursued in excess. Believing that government subsidies for higher education have induced harmful over-consumption of schooling is no more against higher education than fighting obesity is against caloric intake.
Religion and Fertility
Education policy also suppresses fertility by discouraging parents from choosing religious education in K-12 schools. Children who receive a religious education are more likely to hold stronger religious beliefs when they grow up. And adults who are more strongly attached to religion tend to have many more children.
But in most states, tax dollars can only be used to support a secular public education. If parents wish to provide a religious education to their children, they have to pay private tuition for that in addition to paying taxes for a secular public education they are not using. This extra financial burden on those who prefer religious education pushes many to remain in secular schools, artificially reducing the religiosity of future generations.
Public policy that discourages religious education suppresses fertility rates because religious people tend to have more children. Among people who attend religious services at least once per week, fertility rates show no evidence of a long-term decline, fluctuating between two and 2.4 children per woman since 1982.
Among the non-religious, however, fertility rates are significantly lower, and the proportion of Americans who do not engage in any weekly religious activity has been growing dramatically.According to Lyman Stone at the Institute for Family Studies, these two factors—low fertility rates among the non-religious and their growing share of the population—account for “virtually 100% of the decline in fertility in the United States from 2012 to 2019.”
Religious belief appears to encourage fertility by altering the cost-benefit calculations of having children. Religious people see stronger benefits in having children and are less bothered by its expense, allowing religious parents more easily to redirect their limited funds away from other types of consumption and toward larger families.
If we empowered parents to direct public funds for K-12 education so they could choose equally among secular and religious options, many more would choose religious schools, increasing the religiosity of the next generation. That would raise future fertility rates.
The Stop-Digging Approach to Family Policy
Government policies to promote fertility don’t have to mean paying families to have more children. It is much cheaper and much more likely to be effective to alter or discontinue existing government policies that unintentionally push people into paths in their lives that make having children less likely.
Just as the best way to stop getting deeper in a hole is to stop digging, the best way to promote fertility is to stop the government programs that discourage having babies. The first two policies we could discontinue are those that push people to remain in school longer than they otherwise would and those that burden religious beliefs that make having babies more likely.
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Editors’ Note: This is not the first time Planned Parenthood has been caught selling human body parts. However, this is not an undercover video but a contract with a university. The practice raises grave ethical and moral issues for both Planned Parenthood and the University of California San Diego. In addition, Planned Parenthood is the recipient of vast Federal Funds, as is the University. So, we, the public, have a stake in this arrangement, above and beyond the moral depravity. Moreover, why sell “random clumps of cells” for medical research? Because, in the end, even Planned Parenthood recognizes they are selling human baby parts and not asparagus. It also shows the danger of proposals for the”unrestricted right” to abortion, such as Prop 139. It is amusing that liberals want to regulate just about everything in our lives except areas where they want free rein. Note as well, the mother is not selling parts of her body, is she? Put another way, Planned Parenthood is not selling parts of their clients. Did the baby give informed consent? Did the mother? If the harvesting of human babies is morally fine, how about the organs of the disabled or political opponents? If not, why not? American universities are not far from Red China’s morality, are they?
Planned Parenthood has been providing “viable nonanomalous” babies killed in “elective abortions” to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) for experimentation, according to a new report.
Published by The Center for Medical Progress (CMP), the emails detail a “Research Plan” that documents the harvesting of babies for experimentation on their bodies. The plan was submitted to and approved by UCSD’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) in 2018. The heavily redacted communications were obtained by the group via open records request.
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According to the records reported by CMP, researchers unveiled plans in their submission to “collect tissues from fetuses ranging from 4 to 23 weeks gestational age from subjects undergoing elective surgical pregnancy termination at Planned Parenthood in San Diego.” The researchers further noted that patients with “viable nonanomalous … fetuses” would partake in the analysis.
Planned Parenthood will gather “evidence of fetal heart activity by ultrasound immediately prior to the dilation and evacuation procedure,” the submitted plan reads. The abortion provider aimed to harvest babies from “up to 2,500 patients,” according to the plan.
As noted by CMP, the “majority of healthy infants born at 23 weeks can survive with modern medical care.”
The investigative nonprofit highlighted one 2018 email indicating Planned Parenthood’s overuse of misoprostol (Cytotec) on patients hours before harvesting the viable babies for their body parts. According to CMP, the drug is often “used in chemical abortions to force-start labor contractions.”
In a partially redacted 2018 email regarding the Research Plan, an unidentified individual working on the study wrote, “[A]ny sample greater than about 12.5w[eeks] requires the use of a dilating medication which is given to the patients 3 hours ahead of their procedure (these are called ‘cyto’ patients).”
According to CMP, “Some studies show a 50 microgram dose of Misoprostol is enough to induce labor by 4 hours in the majority of cases,” while Planned Parenthood’s “national guidelines recommend 400 to 800 micrograms before late-term so-called ‘dilation and evacuation’ abortions — 8 to 16 times as much — and urge clinics not to allow patients to leave the clinic after taking the drugs.”
“Planned Parenthood’s use of heavy doses of a labor contraction drug to dilate pregnant women targeted for a viable fetus harvesting project means these are likely not standard ‘dismemberment’ abortions, but either intact partial-birth abortions or full delivery of live preemies,” CMP Founder and President David Daleiden said in a statement.
The open records request revealed more disturbing findings, including apparent racial discrimination by Planned Parenthood.
As noted by CMP, the English-language consent forms provided by the abortion provider to pregnant women include 15 bullet-pointed disclosures, the thirteenth of which states: “I understand that the donated blood, tissue, or their derivatives may have significant therapeutic or commercial value. I consent to such uses.” The latter disclosure regarding “commercial value,” however, is not included in the Spanish-language forms.
“The documents show UCSD’s IRB approved the racially-disparate translations in at least four consecutive years, from 2017 to 2020,” CMP reported.
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Anyone could have predicted that Christians and pro-lifers would be outvoted on the abortion issue. We all know spiritual leaders are guilty of telling their people to “stay out of politics,” “be spiritual, not political,” “turn off the news,” and “God’s in control.” Okay…
As of publication, just over 1.9 million voted in favor of abortion on demand—potentially up to birth—while 1.2 million voted against Proposition 139. All we needed to do was tell 800,000 people to fill in a circle on their ballot. Wow.
Was it God who dropped the ball?
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As I said on my Facebook live and most recent Substack, I believe the passage of Prop 139 is an indictment of the Church (body of Christ) in Arizona. For emphasis, I’ll restate my thoughts here:
“What are the churches doing in Arizona? If you weren’t speaking to your congregations about Proposition 139—but you’re calling yourself a minister or a ministry, you’re taking money, you’re not paying any taxes on tithes and offerings—then, what are you doing? To me, pro-life is the one issue that shows whether or not the church is effective in the state. And we’re not effective.”
I’m glad to hear at least one minister mobilized 700 of his peers in some sort of effort against Prop 139. I’m sure a faithful remnant of church leaders mentioned it in their sermons and asked their congregations to pray about it. But these efforts fell woefully short.
Again, we all know the silent ministers are bewitched by false ideologies like “separation of church and state.” The rest are afraid to offend big donors or they’re unwilling to risk that coveted 501(c)(3) status. This is idolatry. One megachurch is literally buying up all the real estate and branding everyone’s bumper, yet those of us outside the organization have no clue what they’re doing to change Arizona.
For the record, abortion is not a political issue. According to the Sixth Commandment, abortion is a moral issue. Plainly stated: abortion is murder. For those who are quick to say, “What about cases of rape, cases of incest, the life of the mother?” I will defer to this report from the Guttmacher Institute.
Screenshot is sourced from a 2019 article published by USA Today.
I’ve heard many call Arizona a “purple” state, meaning there’s a near even split of conservatives and liberals, Republicans and Democrats, who occupy this territory. Well, we’re slowly slipping into denial with this statement as dark forces are working overtime to flip this state. From a governmental perspective, Arizona is about as blue as they come with our highest-ranking leadership positions currently in the hands of leftists (note: the following is not an exhaustive list).
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A call to pastors and ministry leaders:
If you want to save Arizona, please stop telling your congregations to avoid the news and politics.You have 66 Books to preach from that will help everyone discern false narratives and make wise decisions. You simply need to trust God and say what He said.
Intercession and evangelism are not in competition. Both are essential for reformation (see the Four Gospels and Acts 1-28). Prayer is absolutely necessary, but the Great Commission is not fulfilled by sitting in prayer closets and kneeling at the altar. Fellowship is important, but the Great Commission is not fulfilled by perfect church attendance or inviting people to sign membership papers.
Only a small percentage are called to full-time ministry. The rest of us are created to do far more than warm the pews and fund your “vision for the ministry.” Please stop trying to build nonprofit organizations and start building the Kingdom of God. It’s time to leave the four walls, stop over separating “the sacred from the secular,” and teach your people how to contend for righteousness in the marketplace. Persecution is our inheritance in Christ.
Fear God, not man.
Lastly, I want to correct the false ideology that says, “We can’t legislate morality.” On the contrary, politics and government are nothing more than spheres of influence whereby morality is enforced through law and order. Legislation, then, is simply morality applied to a society.
Which set of morals best serves a nation—God’s morality or man’s morality? One brings us closer to life. The other, as we can see, brings us closer to death.
So, to all Christians and pro-lifers (whether you’re a believer or not), what are we going to do about Proposition 139?
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Vice President Kamala Harris was going to ride to victory on a wave of votes from women motivated by their support for abortion rights, their desire to see the first female president, and — most of all — their disgust with former President Donald Trump as a person. That was the story that pollsters and the mainstream media told in the lead-up to the election.
It was dead wrong.
The dust is still settling, but according to CNN, Trump appears to have lost women voters, 45% to 53% to Harris, while winning men 55% to 42%. That means Trump won a greater share of women’s votes than in 2020.
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The Harris campaign had sought to terrify women about abortion and contraception, including the baseless claim that electing Trump would leave women to die from ectopic pregnancy. Women didn’t fall for it.
That doesn’t mean that the majority of women don’t still support legal abortion rights, at least early in pregnancy – indeed most abortion-related ballot initiatives won, with Florida, Nevada, Nebraska and South Dakota being the notable exceptions.
But the results showed that women aren’t single issue voters. Far from it. Women were mostly concerned with the economy, safety and immigration, and a government that seemed to have lost touch with common sense.
None of this should be surprising. Women, like men, are deeply dissatisfied with the direction of our country. They feel worse off than they were four years ago and believe that the Biden-Harris administration’s policies — from fueling inflation to opening the border — have contributed to their problems.
Women, especially older women, have been plagued with economic anxiety, worrying that if they lose their jobs they will never find another that pays as well and that they won’t be able to afford to retire. Women are horrified to see the radical culture pushed on children, mostly at the expense of women and girls, with female athletes pushed aside for male competitors, female inmates being re-traumatized with bunking up with male inmates, and sexual assault survivors forced to share showers and locker rooms with men.
The real question is how pollsters and political experts could have thought that these very real and urgent concerns could be swept away by vacuous memes related to joy and celebrity endorsements. Many seemed to assume that women ignore their own personal situations and support Harris out of a solidarity with the sisterhood and a desire to see a woman in the White House.
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I suspect that deeper research will reveal the opposite. Women didn’t like seeing such a weak and unprepared woman on the brink of making history as our first female president. Women don’t want to think of the first female president as too frightened to do a podcast with Joe Rogan. It was demeaning to see Gov. Tim Walz babysitting Harris during interviews. It was impossible to imagine Harris actually acting as our commander-in-chief since she was so indecisive and rehearsed that she couldn’t answer a simple yes or no question about her position on a California crime bill.
American women may look forward to our first madame president. Yet we want someone worthy of the title. It was painfully obvious that Harris was not.
Among the best news coming out of this election is that it confirmed that women, like men, were able to see through and reject the overwrought hyperbole about Trump. Women recognized that voting for Trump didn’t mean you had to love Trump or even like him personally.
Voting for him wasn’t to endorse his every position or every comment. Women recognized the over-the-top accusations about Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance – calling them Nazis, would-be dictators who want to break up interracial marriages, strip away educational support for those with special needs, and end democracy – for what it was: An embarrassing attempt to scare voters. Women didn’t buy it; good for them.
Democrat talking heads on MSNBC and CNN are now mulling over next steps for rebuilding their party and reconnecting with disaffected voters. They clearly aren’t worried about democracy’s end either. They knew it was pure political posturing and the lowest of campaign tactics. The mainstream media that parroted these lies will need to do similar soul searching if they are to rebuild their reputation with a public that increasingly doesn’t believe them.
Women now will be looking for results. They will want to see changes at the border, safer cities, better economic times on the horizon, reforms to our healthcare system to increase transparency and trustworthiness, an education system that prioritizes learning over indoctrination and a restoration of common sense. That is how they will judge President Trump and Vice President Vance, which is exactly as it should be.
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Editors’ Note: It is interesting that even the New York Times (to its credit) is willing to buck the wrath of the transgender industrial complex. But it remains a sad day for medicine. As we have seen over recent years, the practice of medicine is becoming increasingly political. Many warned that this would be an unintended consequence of the government largely taking over the industry. This is apparently also the case with tax-funded research. He who pays the piper plays the tune. We certainly saw this in spades during the Covid era. The whole strategy of the Democrat party to destroy free speech, to censor, and to “cancel” those with opposing ideas, and its collusion with police and intelligence agencies, huge multinational social media companies, and the press has been a very concerning development and threat to Americans. However, to sit on scientific data because the results are contrary to popular left-wing narratives is a new low for the practice of medicine. This is not how medicine as a profession can recover the prestige and respect it once commanded.
Doctors who “transition” gender-confused children like to claim their work is “evidence-based” and “life-saving.” But as one of their leaders just admitted to The New York Times, they are rigging the evidence.
As the Times recently reported, Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy has refused to publish the results of a study (begun in 2015 and funded by millions of taxpayer dollars) on the use of puberty blockers for children who identify as transgender. She says this suppression is because “I do not want our work to be weaponized.” So she has been stalling, for obviously self-serving reasons.
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Olson-Kennedy is, as the Times explains, “one of the country’s most vocal advocates of adolescent gender treatments and has served as an expert witness in many legal challenges to the state bans. She said she was concerned the study’s results could be used in court to argue that ‘we shouldn’t use blockers.’”
Well, yes, because, as she admitted here, her research found that giving kids puberty blockers did not result in improvements to their mental health. Olson-Kennedy tried to spin this by claiming of her patients: “They’re in really good shape when they come in, and they’re in really good shape after two years.” But as the Times notes, “That conclusion seemed to contradict an earlier description of the group, in which Dr. Olson-Kennedy and her colleagues noted that one quarter of the adolescents were depressed or suicidal before treatment.”
The problem for Olson-Kennedy is that her null results mean she is stuck either way. If puberty blockers don’t help improve mental health among gender-confused children, then there is no reason to give them to children, regardless of whether they are “in really good shape” or depressed and suicidal. It doesn’t matter which narrative she settles on, because the results she is refusing to publish completely undermine the case for transitioning minors.
And she has staked everything on medically transitioning kids. As the Times notes, Olson-Kennedy “runs the country’s largest youth gender clinic at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.” She is just one example of how there is a massive conflict of interest at the heart of most research on wrongly named “gender-affirming care.” The people studying the efficacy of medical transition tend to be the same people whose livelihoods and reputations will be ruined if medical transition is shown to be ineffective.
These practitioners tend to view themselves as medical heroes, saving children from the anguish of being trapped in the “wrong” bodies. But if it is the doctors who are wrong, then they are monsters who mutilate children, for which they may face a ruinous reckoning. This is why, when their research contradicts their ideology and self-image, they insist that the data must be mistaken. And so, per the Times, Olson-Kennedy argued “that doctors’ clinical experience was often undervalued in discussions of research. She has prescribed puberty blockers and hormonal treatments to transgender children and adolescents for 17 years, she said, and has observed how profoundly beneficial they can be.”
Of course, this is the same doctor who infamously said about girls who have their breasts amputated: “If you want breasts at a later point in your life, you can go and get them!” Well, no, they can’t, and the casual cruelty of her comment should call into question her clinical judgment. Her arrogance, along with the casual dismissal of her own data, also raises the question of how much other research has been suppressed or manipulated in service to transgender ideology.
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The New York Times piece missed some opportunities to address this. For example, in discussing the work that originally promoted the use of puberty blockers for kids who identify as transgender, it neglected the devastating critiques that have since been leveled at that research. Likewise, it overlooked some of the flaws of a study on cross-sex hormones in adolescents, though it at least noted the extraordinarily high suicide rate of its subjects — which should be devastating for a treatment that is promoted as preventing suicide.
Despite these lapses, it is good that The New York Times is questioning transgender ideology despite threats from the LGBT mob whenever it does so. This suggests the left might be slowly talking itself into throwing transgender ideology overboard, especially if the election goes poorly for them. Some of the most effective GOP ads have focused on Democrats’ embrace of transgender radicalism, which has become a major political liability for them.
And there may be more than political calculation at work. The natural law finds a way. Many New York Times-reading left-liberals who approved of transgender ideology when it was far away and theoretical are alarmed by its implementation closer to home. They are having second thoughts now that it is their daughters who are frightened over having to share bathrooms and locker rooms with males. They have doubts now that it is their sons suddenly demanding to be put on estrogen or their daughters demanding to have their breasts amputated.
If The New York Times running stories exposing the junk science of “gender-affirming care” is what it takes for liberals to feel comfortable speaking out, so be it. Those of us who have been in this fight for years should welcome these late-arriving reinforcements. Ending the evil of transitioning children matters more than getting the credit or going on an “I told you so” victory lap.
The Prickly Pear’s TAKE ACTION focus this year is to help achieve a winning 2024 national and state November 5th election with the removal of the Harris/Obama/Biden leftist executive branch disaster, win one U.S. Senate seat, maintain and win strong majorities in all Arizona state offices on the ballot and to insure that unrestricted abortion is not constitutionally embedded in our laws and culture.
Please click the TAKE ACTION link to learn to do’s and don’ts for voting in 2024. Our state and national elections are at great risk from the very aggressive and radical leftist Democrat operatives with documented rigging, mail-in voter fraud and illegals voting across the country (yes, with illegals voting across the country) in the last several election cycles.
Read Part 1 and Part 2 of The Prickly Pear essays entitled How NOT to Vote in the November 5, 2024 Election in Arizona to be well informed of the above issues and to vote in a way to ensure the most likely chance your vote will be counted and counted as you intend.
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Editors’ Note: The following article is an accurate fact check on the lies of the pro-abortion industry. In Arizona, Prop 139 is based on these lies. Political advertising on the television by the abortion industry claim an “abortion ban” in Arizona – an outright lie. We urge all readers to deliver a resounding and strong NO on Prop 139 to prevent Arizona from becoming one of the most radical abortion states in America with virtually unlimited abortion to the time of birth.
In an essay published by The New York Times and titled “Abortion Pills Are Safe. Post-Roe America Isn’t,” Dr. Chavi Eve Karkowsky, a physician who practices maternal-fetal medicine, demonstrates that the campaign for unlimited abortion is as fraudulent and deceptive as ever.
From the beginning, the “right” to abortion was built on fraud. Abortion advocates pushed states to repeal their pro-life laws with baseless claims about illegal abortions.
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Theclaim that “thousands” of women died from illegal abortions began in the 1960s and persists even today. The National Center for Health Statistics says the real number was just 36 in 1973—the year that the Supreme Court issued its Roe v. Wade decision. The Washington Post’s “Fact Checker” column gave Planned Parenthood its worst rating of “Four Pinnochios” for that lie.
In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court created a fictional account of abortion history that long ago was exposed as radically revisionist. The strategy behind Roe was built on so-called “scholarship” that even the pro-abortion lawyers believed strained credibility.
Pro-abortion historians since Roe have tried to maintain the fiction, deliberately erasing the 19th-century feminists and physicians who opposed abortion from their duplicitous narrative.
Since 2022, when the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade with its opinion inDobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, abortion advocates have achieved most of what they said they want. All but four states banned abortion from conception in 1973; 14 states do so today. No state allowed abortion until birth before Roe; nine states do so now.
Even the most restrictive post-conception abortion ban, at six weeks, covers barely half of abortions. The laws in effect in 1973 prohibited more than 90% of abortions; the laws in effect today allow more than 80%.
The cataclysmic fallout of Roe’s overturning—a narrative pushed by the abortion lobby—has not, in fact, come to pass. Though based on her writing, one would be hard pressed to think that Dr. Karkowsky thinks otherwise.
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Back to Karkowsky’s essay in The New York Times. The physician professes concern that women are using abortion drugs “far from the supervision of qualified medical providers.” But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration previously required such supervision for more than 20 years after approving mifepristone, the primary abortion drug, in 2000.
That was the case until the Biden-Harris administration deregulated the abortion pill mifepristone in 2021, ostensibly because of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time, the action made the pill easier to get, more dangerous, and less predictable in its effects.
Among the changes: The federal government eliminated the requirement of an in-person doctor’s visit to secure the abortion pill, expanded use of the pill from seven to 10 weeks’ gestation, and allowed women to obtain pills by mail.
This was foolhardy.
For a drug with known and serious potential side effects (including incomplete abortions, severe bleeding, failed abortions, and infection), the Food and Drug Administration’s regulatory determinations made a dangerous pill even more dangerous.
In fact, FDA’s own warning label on mifepristone states that complications from using the abortion pill can reach a frequency of between 2.9% and 4.6%. In 2023 alone, that represents nearly 20,000 emergency room visits for medication abortion patients.
And now there’s an active disinformation campaign by abortion advocates about what state pro-life laws say and how they apply.
Take Kate Cox, for example. The Texas woman claimed the state’s pro-life law didn’t allow her to obtain an abortion after she learned that her unborn child had a serious abnormality. It turns out, as the Texas Supreme Court explained, hers was also a fraudulent tale.
Cox’s doctor, an abortion advocate, chose not to make the medical finding that, under the Texas statute, would have allowed her abortion. Cox’s lawyer, supplied by the Center for Reproductive Rights, then filed an unnecessary request for a court order that, thanks to the lawyer’s decision, was certain to be denied.
Many people believed Cox’s claim that she had no choice but to leave Texas to get an abortion when the truth is that she participated in a legal hoax to sow seeds of confusion and doubt about the state’s pro-life law.
Abortion advocates spin other fraudulent yarns. They claim that laws prohibiting abortion also block medical care for miscarriage or ectopic pregnancies. Others say pro-life laws require that a pregnant woman literally be at death’s door before a doctor may treat her for complications.
None of these claims is true. Not one.
Although the media often neglect to mention it, every state in America—including states with near-total restrictions on abortion—has an exception for the “life of the mother.” And states uniformly require doctors to use their “best medical judgement” in emergency cases to ensure that the pregnant woman is safe.
Abortion advocates such as Karkowsky seek to separate women who want to use abortion drugs from any necessary connection to doctors or medical facilities. Then they complain that women such as Amber Thurman and Candi Miller in Georgia are dying from using abortion drugs without adequate medical attention.
That’s like someone killing her parents and then asking for leniency because she’s an orphan.
The fact of the matter is that Thurman and Miller died from a combination of complications related to the de-regulated abortion pill (made more accessible and dangerous by the Biden-Harris administration) as well as simple medical malpractice—not from Georgia’s commonsense abortion restrictions.
The pro-abortion lobby, legacy media, and abortion practitioners are lying to you—both on the impact of state abortion laws and the purported inability to receive safe “reproductive care.” The entire abortion industry is, after all, built on fraud.
The Prickly Pear’s TAKE ACTION focus this year is to help achieve a winning 2024 national and state November 5th election with the removal of the Harris/Obama/Biden leftist executive branch disaster, win one U.S. Senate seat, maintain and win strong majorities in all Arizona state offices on the ballot and to insure that unrestricted abortion is not constitutionally embedded in our laws and culture.
Please click the TAKE ACTION link to learn to do’s and don’ts for voting in 2024. Our state and national elections are at great risk from the very aggressive and radical leftist Democrat operatives with documented rigging, mail-in voter fraud and illegals voting across the country (yes, with illegals voting across the country) in the last several election cycles.
Read Part 1 and Part 2 of The Prickly Pear essays entitled How NOT to Vote in the November 5, 2024 Election in Arizona to be well informed of the above issues and to vote in a way to ensure the most likely chance your vote will be counted and counted as you intend.
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Editors’ Note: Democrats attempt to portray themselves as the “party of women.” Their extreme views, however, are erasing the concept of womanhood and the legal protections that have been provided in law. This has become one of the leading “sleeper issues” of this election cycle. Housing men in women’s prisons is just one example. The destruction of women’s sports is another. Female voters need to consider the trade-offs between compromising on abortion and fealty to Democrats and the loss of womanhood itself. Only a small percentage of women are affected by abortion laws. Still, all women and girls are affected when they lose their legal status when public safety is degraded, when war looms, and when the economy is in bad shape.
“The women are scared to speak up.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – IW Features, a storytelling platform of Independent Women’s Forum (IWF),announced two new exposés as part of its exclusive series, Cruel & Unusual Punishment: The Male Takeover of Female Prisons. The episodes are about former Seattle, Washington, jail nurse Olivia* and long-time Minnesota prison teacher, Alicia Beckmann. *A pseudonym has been used to protect Olivia’s identity.
Olivia worked as a correctional nurse for five years at Seattle’s King County Correctional Facility, where she served incarcerated women. King County Correctional Facility allegedly brushed aside complaints from female inmates who were enduring both sexual harassment and misconduct by transgender-identifying male inmates.
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Olivia is now sounding the alarm on the fact that women in jails and prisons face unacceptable risks from gender self-identification policies, such as Washington state’s DOC 490.700 Transgender, Intersex, and/or Gender Non-binary Housing and Supervision. The policy allows convicted men who “self-identify as transgender, intersex, and/or gender non-binary” to transfer to women-only facilities like King County Correctional Facility.
“Jails and prisons are unlike any community setting. Prisoners have no privacy, no ability to choose their roommates, no self-defense measures other than their own bodily strength. These attributes alone make female prisoners especially vulnerable, but one can imagine how this vulnerability is increased when facility policies allow male prisoners to transfer to female units largely based on their word.”
Alicia Beckmann, a Minnesota native, was about to celebrate her tenth anniversary working for Minnesota Correctional Facility––Shakopee, the state’s only facility for female offenders.
That’s when she was “blindsided” by the sudden presence of male inmates, Christina Lusk and Bradley Sirvio.
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Lusk and Sirvio were the first two men to arrive at Shakopee and were assigned to the women’s facility in the wake of a 2023 discrimination lawsuit filed by Lusk. Lusk was represented by the radical left-wing nonprofit Gender Justice and sued the state in order to be transferred to Shakopee. Lusk even secured a taxpayer-funded vaginoplasty and breast “revision” procedure to affirm his transgender identity.
Lusk’s lawsuit garnered national attention because Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s administration sent more than $500,000 of taxpayer money to Gender Justice.
The Walz administration a year later implemented the “Management and Placement of Incarcerated People Who Are Transgender, Gender Diverse, Intersex, or Nonbinary,” a policy that allowed at least four more men, including convicted murderers, to transfer to Shakopee based on their self-declared gender identity.
“The women are scared to speak up. Many women are incarcerated because of the men they spend their time with, and we all have freedom of choice, but I guarantee that probably 75% of our population committed a crime because there was violence against them by a man, or they felt coerced into doing something for that man.”
Andrea Mew, IW Features Manager at Independent Women’s Forum, said: “Misguided gender policies erode critical protections for women in jails and prisons, proven by testimonies from brave whistleblowers like Alicia Beckmann and Olivia*. It’s not easy to come forward with the unsavory truth when you’re under immense pressure to adhere to the narrative, but Alicia and Olivia put principle over political correctness. When even those who are trusted with rehabilitation are discouraged from raising legitimate concerns about female inmates’ safety, you have to ask yourself… who is really benefiting from these woke policies? Certainly not the women being re-traumatized and stripped of their safety, dignity, and fundamental rights.”
The Prickly Pear’s TAKE ACTION focus this year is to help achieve a winning 2024 national and state November 5th election with the removal of the Harris/Obama/Biden leftist executive branch disaster, win one U.S. Senate seat, maintain and win strong majorities in all Arizona state offices on the ballot and to insure that unrestricted abortion is not constitutionally embedded in our laws and culture.
Please click the TAKE ACTION link to learn to do’s and don’ts for voting in 2024. Our state and national elections are at great risk from the very aggressive and radical leftist Democrat operatives with documented rigging, mail-in voter fraud and illegals voting across the country (yes, with illegals voting across the country) in the last several election cycles.
Read Part 1 and Part 2 of The Prickly Pear essays entitled How NOT to Vote in the November 5, 2024 Election in Arizona to be well informed of the above issues and to vote in a way to ensure the most likely chance your vote will be counted and counted as you intend.
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