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The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that a law which regulates child mutilation -- regulates, mind you, not "criminalizes" -- is, get this, actually allowed in Texas.
This is not a final ruling. The Court just lifted an injunction preventing the operation of the law by a lower Hawaiian judge.
If this article reads bizarrely to you, consider the source: NBC.
The Texas Supreme Court allowed a new state law banning gender-affirming care for minors to take effect on Friday, setting up Texas to be the most populous state with such restrictions on transgender children.
Legal advocates who sued on behalf of the families and doctors, including the American Civil Liberties Union, called the law and the high court's decision Thursday "cruel."
Victor Hanson Davis nods.
"Transgender youth and their families are forced to confront the start of the school year fearful of what awaits them. But let us be clear: The fight is far from over," the advocacy groups said in a joint statement.
Last week, a state district judge ruled the pending law violated the rights of transgender children and their families to seek appropriate medical care, and violated doctors' ability to follow "well-established, evidence-based" medical guidelines under threat of losing their license.
The judge issued a temporary injunction to block the law and state officials immediately appealed to the state's highest court for civil cases.
The order from the all-Republican Supreme Court lifting the injunction and allowing the law to take effect did not explain the decision. The order did not address the lower court's ruling that the law is unconstitutional, and a full hearing is expected.
They won't dignify our obvious made-up nonsense with a full explanation of why it's transparently bullshit!
In the UK, it has found to be "discrimination" when you call a man pretending to be a woman a "wanker," because that insult implies, correctly, that the man is in fact a man.
Calling a trans woman a 'w----r' is discriminatory because the insult is commonly used in reference to men, an employment tribunal has suggested.
The swear word is not a gender-neutral term and so using it against someone who has transitioned would constitute a breach of equality laws, a panel concluded.
To insult a trans woman without being discriminatory, female-specific slurs should be used instead, the tribunal suggested.
Its ruling came after a trans bus driver sued the company where she had been working for gender reassignment discrimination.
Amanda Fischer claimed that another employee called her a "w----r".
The agency worker also claimed a driver drove too close to her because she is trans, which made her fear for her life, the tribunal heard.
She lost her case after the panel decided the "w----r" incident had not actually occurred.
In addition, the bus company had argued that the swear word could be used against both men and women.
However, the panel ruled that if it had been used against her it would have been discrimination.
Employment judge Kathryn Patricia Ramsden said: "Despite the [company's] position, the Tribunal does not consider the insult 'w----r' to be a gender-neutral term.
"The panel members' own experiences of use of that term is that it is applied to men, and that there are equivalent but different swear words that are specifically used in common parlance to insult women."
Incredible.
The transgenders insist that anyone who does not repeat their lies must lose their jobs. But they're the "oppressed," "marginalized" ones, eh?
According to an Alliance Defending Freedom news release, the controversial, three-minute conversation occurred in February when Bloch's team competed against another team that had a biological male who identifies as a female that competes in the female division.
"Before the competition, Coach Bloch overheard two of his student-athletes having a discussion about that male competing against females, and he stepped into the conversation," stated the news release from the alliance.
"Coach Bloch said that people can express themselves differently and that there can be masculine women and feminine men. But he also acknowledged the biological reality that males and females have different DNA, and he shared his belief that the physical differences between men and women give men an athletic advantage," it stated.
Rough stuff, huh?
He's suing to be reinstated.
We need a federal law granting a right to sue employers who fire employees for saying provably-true things. The truth should always be a defense. If you fire someone for saying something true, they can take you to court and if they can establish that what they said was true, you owe them hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The Empire of Lies is built on a foundation of state-compelled lying. Destroy that foundation and the Empire of Lies crumbles.
A sex-"change" butcher who had his license suspended for illegally "transitioning" minors has been granted a feminist achievement award.
A gender clinician and sexologist who recently had his medical license suspended following an investigation by the Norwegian Health Authority (NHA) has been granted an award named after a prominent Norwegian feminist. Dr. Esben 'Esther Pirelli' Benestad, a male who identifies as transgender, was given the Ottesen award by non-profit membership organization Sex og Politikk despite having had his medical license revoked at the start of this year due to "substantial breaches of duty."
The Ottesen award is the namesake of Norwegian-Swedish women's rights activist and social worker Elise Ottesen-Jensen, who was involved in the foundation of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) in 1953. Benestad, 74, was presented with the award for his career as a "standard-bearer for trans people and transsexuals in Norway and an ambassador for gender and sexuality diversity in Norwegian society," reported Norwegian outlet Psykologisk.
When issuing the award, which was presented at a ceremony on July 12 in Oslo, Sex og Politikk representatives praised Benestad as "an important practitioner of patients with gender incongruence."
So what's this HERo look like?
He looks like Eddie Izzard with a goiter the size of a pickleball.
Leftwing feminist idiot Jill Filipovic says that she was wrong to use "trigger warnings."
Jill Filipovic, a feminist author and lawyer whose books include "The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness," wrote in The Atlantic that she was "wrong" about trigger warnings; while she once advocated for their use, she now believes they can diminish resilience.
"In 2008, when I was a writer for the blog Feministe, commenters began requesting warnings at the top of posts discussing distressing topics, most commonly sexual assault," Filipovic (pictured) wrote.
"Warnings were becoming the norm in online feminist spaces, and four words at the top of a post--'Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault'--seemed like an easy accommodation to make for the sake of our community's well-being."
Over the next half decade, trigger warnings moved from feminist websites to college campuses and groups on the left, she wrote.
During roughly that same period, however, "mental health among teenagers has plummeted," in a development that predated COVID.
Part of the problem, she hypothesized, is that the "insularity" of social media prompts people, especially teenagers, to regard problems as crushing and insurmountable. Trigger warnings exacerbate this tendency:
Applying the language of trauma to an event changes the way we process it. That may be a good thing, allowing a person to face a moment that truly cleaved their life into a before and an after, and to seek help and begin healing. Or it may amplify feelings of helplessness and hopelessness, elevating those feelings above a sense of competence and control. ...
To help people build resilience, we need to provide material aid to meet basic needs. We need to repair broken community ties so fewer among us feel like they're struggling alone. And we need to encourage the cultivation of a sense of purpose beyond the self. We also know what stands in the way of resilience: avoiding difficult ideas and imperfect people, catastrophizing, isolating ourselves inside our own heads.
A coach says she was "burned at the stake" for daring to criticize Lia Thomas.
She is a coach at Oberlin.
I think I see the problem.
But in reality, she'd get this kind of fascist mau-mauing at any college.
A head coach investigated by her liberal college for questioning transgender swimmer Lia Thomas' victories spoke out in a new short documentary.
"It is my job to be a voice for everyone who is too afraid, who needs to keep their job," Oberlin College lacrosse coach Kim Russell said in the eight-minute video produced by the Independent Women's Forum, a conservative policy institute.
'It is my job to be a voice for everyone who is too afraid,' lacrosse coach says
A head coach investigated by her liberal college for questioning transgender swimmer Lia Thomas' victories spoke out in a new short documentary.
"It is my job to be a voice for everyone who is too afraid, who needs to keep their job," Oberlin College lacrosse coach Kim Russell said in the eight-minute video produced by the Independent Women's Forum, a conservative policy institute.
"It is scientific that biologically males and females are different," Russell said in the documentary. "I don't believe biological males should be in women's locker rooms. Where is the MeToo movement? What happened to that?" she continued.
One of Russell's lacrosse players reported the coach's spring 2022 Instagram post to Oberlin administrators after Russell called swimmer Emma Weyant the "real winner" of the March 2022 500-yard NCAA championships freestyle, according to a Tuesday news release from IWF.
Weyant, a University of Virginia swimmer, had come in second behind University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, a male.
"The report triggered a series of lengthy disciplinary meetings and a full-fledged character assassination campaign against [Russell] involving Oberlin faculty and the women's lacrosse team," according to IWF.
Russell, who has been coaching for 27 years, said she felt "burned at the stake."
In a series of disciplinary meetings with athletics directors, administrators and student athletes, Russell was labeled "unsafe" and told to apologize, she said in the documentary.
That documentary is at the link, if you'd like to watch it. I think the clip there is eight minutes long.
Haven't you heard? Men now get to order women around.
Gender theory has made Male Domination of Women Great Again.
No mental illness here. No, not a bit of it.
Start at 1:17 if you have some anti-Australian bias.
But: