The Associated Press, discussing the resignation of Harvard president Claudine Gay after she was accused of chronic plagiarism, not only accused conservatives of using charges of plagiarism as a “weapon” to target leftists in higher education, but also decided to vilify white Americans, by writing American history from a woke perspective, saying scalping was a gruesome practice &#8220;taken up by white colonists who sought to eradicate Native Americans&#8221; and ignoring that Native Americans were scalping long before the colonists arrived.
AP published an <a href="https://apnews.com/article/harvard-president-plagiarism-claudine-gay-3b048da1f2ee17b5edec3680b5828e8f?utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&amp;utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_source=Twitter">article</a> titled, “Harvard president’s resignation highlights new conservative weapon against colleges: plagiarism,”  reporting that conservative activist Christopher Rufo — who along with Christopher Brunet <a href="https://christopherrufo.com/p/is-claudine-gay-a-plagiarist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">broke the story</a> of Gay’s plagiarism with <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/harvard-president-claudine-gay-hit-with-six-new-charges-of-plagiarism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">later help</a> from Aaron Sibarium— responded to the news of Gay’s resignation by <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1742247527523713211" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeting</a>, “SCALPED.” “On X, formerly Twitter, he wrote &#8216;SCALPED,&#8217; as if Gay was a trophy of violence, invoking a gruesome practice taken up by white colonists who sought to eradicate Native Americans,” AP wrote.
But as <a href="https://www.americanheritage.com/who-invented-scalping" target="_blank" rel="noopener">American Heritage</a> has pointed out, scalping was practiced by Native Americans long before colonists arrived in America:
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When Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence to what is now Quebec City in 1535, he met the Stadaconans, who showed him “the scalps of five Indians, stretched on hoops like parchment.” His host, Donnacona, told him they were from “Toudamans from the south, who waged war continually against his people.” Twenty-nine years later, another Frenchman, artist Jacques Ie Moyne, witnessed the Timucuans’ practice of scalping on the St. Johns River in Florida. &#8230;
The French were not alone in witnessing the Indian custom of scalping. When the English brazenly set themselves down amid the powerful Powhatan Confederacy in Virginia, the Indians used an old tactic to try to quash their audacity. In 1608 Powhatan launched a surprise attack on a village of “neare neighbours and subjects,” killing twenty-four men. When the victors retired from the scene of battle, they brought away “the long haire of the one side of their heades [the other being shaved] with the skinne cased off with shels or reeds.” The prisoners and scalps were then presented to the chief, who hung “the lockes of haire with their skinnes” on a line between two trees.
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AP acknowledged, “Gay didn’t directly address the plagiarism accusations in a campus letter announcing her resignation,” but cited her plagiarism as “shortcomings”: “Reviews by conservative activists and then by a Harvard committee did find multiple shortcomings in Gay’s academic citations.”
AP quoted President Irene Mulvey of the American Association of University Professors, saying she feared plagiarism investigations could be “weaponized.” She told AP, “There is a right-wing political attack on higher education right now, which feels like an existential threat to the academic freedom that has made American higher education the envy of the world.”
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Associated Progressives (AP) is trying to run the false narrative that &quot;white colonists&quot; invented scalping &quot;to eradicate Native Americans,&quot; without noting that, in fact, the Indians originated the practice in North America and, in modern times, it is a common journalistic phrase. <a href="https://t.co/LmiippwIu0">pic.twitter.com/LmiippwIu0</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1742561283051020500?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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This is the beginning of the end for DEI in America&#39;s institutions. We will expose you. We will outmaneuver you. And we will not stop fighting until we have restored colorblind equality in our great nation. 🇺🇸
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1742253604222960000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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AP Laments Gay’s Resignation, Blames White Colonists For Scalping

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Embattled Harvard University President Claudine Gay reportedly put together a task force after the death of George Floyd, with its stated goal being to diminish the number of white men who were visible in campus spaces.
Chris Rufo reported on the task force, sharing his article with a post on X: &#8220;Harvard&#8217;s Claudine Gay led a task force to reduce the visual presence of &#8216;white men&#8217; in campus spaces—simply for being white men. They committed no crimes; they were not deemed &#8216;racist.&#8217; Their ancestry and anatomy were enough to justify their banishment.&#8221;
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Harvard&#39;s Claudine Gay led a task force to reduce the visual presence of &quot;white men&quot; in campus spaces—simply for being white men. They committed no crimes; they were not deemed &quot;racist.&quot; Their ancestry and anatomy were enough to justify their banishment. <a href="https://t.co/lo0g8jPbH1">https://t.co/lo0g8jPbH1</a> <a href="https://t.co/ott5qmJft8">pic.twitter.com/ott5qmJft8</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1736976904597692807?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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As Rufo stated in the article, Gay responded to the death of George Floyd and the cultural reaction to it by commissioning a task force in order to tackle the &#8220;historical reckoning with racial injustice.&#8221;
Among the recommendations passed down by the task force was a call to change the decor in some university spaces, primarily in &#8220;spaces whose visual culture is dominated by homogenous portraiture of white men.&#8221;
That call was directed specifically toward Annenberg Hall, where apparently all but three of the 23 portraits hung featured white men — and none were women. The task force reportedly did not mention whose portraits were on display there, making it clear that what mattered was &#8220;their race and sex alone&#8221; rather than who they were or anything they had accomplished or done for the university.
Gay has found herself — and particularly her tenure at Harvard — under the microscope in recent weeks following her testimony before Congress, where she struggled to condemn the anti-semitic protests and calls for Jewish genocide that had taken place on her own campus.
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Despite numerous calls for her ouster — based on both her testimony and reports that she had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvards-highest-governing-body-unanimously-reaffirms-support-for-president-after-troubling-congressional-testimony-plagiarism-allegations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plagiarized</a> sections of her dissertation, &#8220;Taking Charge: Black Electoral Success and the Redefinition of American Policies&#8221; — Harvard&#8217;s highest governing body has opted to stand by Gay.
&#8220;As members of the Harvard Corporation, we today reaffirm our support for President Gay’s continued leadership of Harvard University,&#8221; eleven of the board&#8217;s twelve members (Gay is the twelfth) said in a statement. &#8220;Our extensive deliberations affirm our confidence that President Gay is the right leader to help our community heal and to address the very serious societal issues we are facing.&#8221;

Embattled Harvard Prez Created A Task Force To Decrease Visibility Of White Men On Campus

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/harvard-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard University</a> nixed a webpage that boasted a number of &#8220;affinity celebrations&#8221; for graduates of a variety of identities.
Journalist Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, reported the delegation on Thursday at a time when Harvard and other universities face intense scrutiny over acts of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anti-semitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anti-Semitism</a> reported on campuses around the country as Israel wages war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
&#8220;Harvard provided racially segregated &#8216;affinity group&#8217; celebrations at its commencement event earlier this year,&#8221; Rufo <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1735372866118664616" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to X, along with screenshots, adding later, &#8220;The university has now deleted this page from its website.&#8221;
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EXCLUSIVE: Harvard provided racially segregated &quot;affinity group&quot; celebrations at its commencement event earlier this year. Whites and Jews were the only groups not provided with celebrations.
The university has now deleted this page from its website. <a href="https://t.co/ZFLF2exvhL">pic.twitter.com/ZFLF2exvhL</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1735372866118664616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Items that made up the list for May included &#8220;affinity celebrations&#8221; for &#8220;LGBTQ+ Graduates,&#8221; &#8220;Arab Graduates,&#8221; &#8220;Indigenous Graduates,&#8221; &#8220;Graduates with Disabilities,&#8221; &#8220;Latinx Graduates,&#8221; &#8220;Black Graduates,&#8221; and &#8220;Asian, Asian American, Pacific Islander, Desi-American Graduates.&#8221;
As <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/harvards-affinity-graduation-page-that-excluded-jews-has-been-deleted/24514" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported by Campus Reform</a>, the URL for the deleted page now redirects to a <a href="https://www.harvard.edu/about/diversity-and-inclusion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Diversity and Inclusion”</a> page on the Harvard website, but an <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230626023641/https://edib.harvard.edu/affinity-graduations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">archived version</a> shows what it looked like before the change. It&#8217;s unclear when the page was removed, but the outlet noted that it appears to have been an &#8220;evergreen&#8221; page for &#8220;affinity&#8221; events in each graduation cycle.
The Internet Archive&#8217;s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230323182400/https://edib.harvard.edu/affinity-graduations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wayback Machine</a> shows the page was visible at least as far back as 2022, and a &#8220;Frequently Asked Questions&#8221; section indicated that the celebrations <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230626023641/https://edib.harvard.edu/affinity-graduations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have been going on</a> for several years.
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Although Rufo claimed in his X post that &#8220;Whites and Jews were the only groups not provided with celebrations,&#8221; Harvard University <a href="https://gsas.harvard.edu/commencement/affinity-graduation-celebrations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describes &#8220;affinity celebrations&#8221;</a> as &#8220;student-led, staff-supported events that recognize and celebrate the accomplishments of graduates from marginalized and underrepresented communities.&#8221;
The Daily Wire reached out to Harvard seeking comment on the deleted webpage.
Harvard University&#8217;s president, Claudine Gay, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-passes-resolution-condemning-testimony-of-university-presidents-on-anti-semitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faced blowback</a> after she said during a recent congressional hearing that <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/gay-apology-congressional-remarks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;context&#8221;</a> dictated whether calling for the genocide of Jews on campuses violated her school&#8217;s policies on bullying and harassment.
But <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvards-highest-governing-body-unanimously-reaffirms-support-for-president-after-troubling-congressional-testimony-plagiarism-allegations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard</a> has stuck behind its president, and Gay released a statement, posted to X by the university, that <a href="https://twitter.com/Harvard/status/1732447178491109411" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>: &#8220;There are some who have confused a right to free expression with the idea that Harvard will condone calls for violence against Jewish students. Let me be clear: Calls for violence or genocide against the Jewish community, or any religious or ethnic group are vile, they have no place at Harvard, and those who threaten our Jewish students will be held to account.&#8221;

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Embattled <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/their-statements-were-abhorrent-backlash-to-harvard-penn-mit-presidents-on-anti-semitism-continues-even-after-they-backtrack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard University President Claudine Gay</a> responded Monday to mounting allegations of plagiarism, saying she stands by her work.
Journalist Christopher F. Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, published a report on Sunday outlining what he indicated to be three instances of Gay plagiarizing, per Harvard standards, in the dissertation, “<a href="https://www.proquest.com/docview/304343028?pq-origsite=gscholar&amp;fromopenview=true&amp;sourcetype=Dissertations%20&amp;%20Theses" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Taking Charge: Black Electoral Success and the Redefinition of American Policies</a>.”
Notably, Gay is already facing mounting pressure to be removed since her shocking testimony during a Congressional hearing on anti-Semitism in colleges and universities.
“I stand by the integrity of my scholarship,&#8221; Gay <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/12/11/metro/harvard-president-testimony/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the Boston Globe, regarding the plagiarism allegations. &#8220;Throughout my career, I have worked to ensure my scholarship adheres to the highest academic standards.”
In addition to other questionable instances, Gay is accused of lifting “nearly verbatim” work from Lawrence Bobo and Franklin Gilliam in their paper called “Race, Sociopolitical Participation, and Black Empowerment.”
Rufo cited Harvard’s own policy on paraphrasing and plagiarism to underscore his point: “When you paraphrase, your task is to distill the source’s ideas in your own words,” the guidelines <a href="https://usingsources.fas.harvard.edu/what-constitutes-plagiarism-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">state</a>. “It’s not enough to change a few words here and there and leave the rest; instead, you must completely restate the ideas in the passage in your own words. If your own language is too close to the original, then you are plagiarizing, even if you do provide a citation.”
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First, Gay lifts an entire paragraph nearly verbatim from a paper by Lawrence Bobo and Franklin Gilliam’s, while passing it off as her own paraphrase and language. 
This is a direct violation of Harvard&#39;s policy: &quot;When you paraphrase, your task is to distill the source’s ideas… <a href="https://t.co/t6enHp3dN9">pic.twitter.com/t6enHp3dN9</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1733977126020481266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Billionaire Bill Ackman, a Harvard alum, said a university faculty member called Rufo&#8217;s allegations &#8220;credible.&#8221;
&#8220;I asked a senior member of the [Harvard] faculty to examine the below allegations of plagiarism against President Gay,&#8221; Ackman posted to X. &#8220;The faculty member found them to be credible.&#8221;
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I asked a senior member of the <a href="https://twitter.com/Harvard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Harvard</a> faculty to examine the below allegations of plagiarism against President Gay. 
The faculty member found them to be credible. <a href="https://t.co/Y7LdeuxODR">https://t.co/Y7LdeuxODR</a>
&mdash; Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1734028287112892589?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Since the report, The National Association of Scholars has come out calling for Gay&#8217;s removal as president. &#8220;The esteemed group notes Gay&#8217;s &#8216;shoddy professional work,&#8217; &#8216;record of plagiarism,&#8217; and &#8216;promotion of racist policies,'&#8221; Rufo posted. &#8220;Momentum is building.&#8221;
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BREAKING: The National Association of Scholars calls on Harvard to remove Claudine Gay as president of the university. The esteemed group notes Gay&#39;s &quot;shoddy professional work,&quot; &quot;record of plagiarism,&quot; and &quot;promotion of racist policies.&quot; Momentum is building. <a href="https://t.co/F3Nz6hUex6">pic.twitter.com/F3Nz6hUex6</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1734329121885626606?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Further, reports of Gay&#8217;s alleged plagiarism have only compounded:
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BREAKING: The Free Beacon&#39;s <a href="https://twitter.com/aaronsibarium?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@aaronsibarium</a> has revealed that Harvard president Claudine Gay plagiarized multiple sections of at least three additional publications between 1993 and 2017, according to Harvard&#39;s own standard on academic integrity.<a href="https://t.co/GRBRvWYWcn">https://t.co/GRBRvWYWcn</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1734343041715191858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Since the October 7 Hamas terror attacks against Israel, Gay has been under fire for her response to Harvard students&#8217; pro-Hamas protesting, which has at times included calls for genocide of Jews in Israel.
During a Congressional hearing last week, Gay was directly asked about whether calling for the genocide of Jews violated Harvard’s codes of conduct, and the president <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/their-statements-were-abhorrent-backlash-to-harvard-penn-mit-presidents-on-anti-semitism-continues-even-after-they-backtrack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> that it depends “on the context.” She added that calling for genocide is “at odds with the values of Harvard” and that when that kind of “speech crosses into conduct, that violates our policies.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-new-low-snl-wrecked-for-skit-mocking-elise-stefanik-in-college-anti-semitism-hearing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘A New Low’: SNL Wrecked For Skit Mocking Elise Stefanik In College Anti-Semitism Hearing</a>

University Presidents Testify In House Hearing On Campus Antisemitism

Harvard President Claudine Gay Responds To Mounting Plagiarism Allegations As Calls For Ouster Intensify

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Embattled <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/their-statements-were-abhorrent-backlash-to-harvard-penn-mit-presidents-on-anti-semitism-continues-even-after-they-backtrack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard University President Claudine Gay</a> is under fire for allegedly plagiarizing portions of her Ph.D. dissertation, which concerns racial themes, for her doctorate in political science from Harvard back in 1997.
Journalist Christopher F. Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, published a report on Sunday outlining what he indicated to be three instances of Gay plagiarizing, per Harvard standards, in the dissertation, “<a href="https://www.proquest.com/docview/304343028?pq-origsite=gscholar&amp;fromopenview=true&amp;sourcetype=Dissertations%20&amp;%20Theses" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Taking Charge: Black Electoral Success and the Redefinition of American Policies</a>.&#8221;
&#8220;[Chris Brunet] and I have obtained documentation demonstrating that Harvard President Claudine Gay plagiarized multiple sections of her Ph.D. thesis, violating Harvard&#8217;s policies on academic integrity,&#8221; Rufo said on X. &#8220;This is a bombshell.&#8221; 
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EXCLUSIVE: <a href="https://twitter.com/realChrisBrunet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RealChrisBrunet</a> and I have obtained documentation demonstrating that Harvard President Claudine Gay plagiarized multiple sections of her Ph.D. thesis, violating Harvard&#39;s policies on academic integrity.
This is a bombshell. 🧵
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1733976372450853222?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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In one instance, Gay is accused of lifting &#8220;nearly verbatim&#8221; work from Lawrence Bobo and Franklin Gilliam in their paper called “Race, Sociopolitical Participation, and Black Empowerment.&#8221;
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Rufo then cites Harvard&#8217;s own policy on paraphrasing and plagiarism to underscore his point: “When you paraphrase, your task is to distill the source’s ideas in your own words,&#8221; the guidelines <a href="https://usingsources.fas.harvard.edu/what-constitutes-plagiarism-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">state</a>. &#8220;It’s not enough to change a few words here and there and leave the rest; instead, you must completely restate the ideas in the passage in your own words. If your own language is too close to the original, then you are plagiarizing, even if you do provide a citation.”
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First, Gay lifts an entire paragraph nearly verbatim from a paper by Lawrence Bobo and Franklin Gilliam’s, while passing it off as her own paraphrase and language. 
This is a direct violation of Harvard&#39;s policy: &quot;When you paraphrase, your task is to distill the source’s ideas… <a href="https://t.co/t6enHp3dN9">pic.twitter.com/t6enHp3dN9</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1733977126020481266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Gay is further accused of lifting material from legal scholar Carol Swain without giving a citation. Rufo again cites Harvard guidelines, which state that students &#8220;must give credit to the author of the source material, either by placing the source material in quotation marks and providing a clear citation, or by paraphrasing the source material and providing a clear citation.&#8221;
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Second, Gay appears to lift material from scholar Carol Swain. In one passage, summarizing the distinction between &quot;descriptive representation&quot; and &quot;substantive representation,&quot; she copies the phrasing and language nearly verbatim from Swain’s book &#39;Black Faces, Black Interests,&#39;… <a href="https://t.co/68bJy1F9jo">pic.twitter.com/68bJy1F9jo</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1733978272504131737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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And lastly, Gay is accused of swiping an entire appendix. &#8220;Gay composes an entire appendix in the dissertation directly taken from Gary King&#8217;s book, &#8216;A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem,'&#8221; Rufo posted. &#8220;While she cites King’s book later in the appendix—in fact, King was her dissertation advisor—Gay does not explicitly acknowledge that Appendix B is entirely grounded in King’s concepts and language, instead passing it off as her own original work.&#8221;
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Third, Gay composes an entire appendix in the dissertation directly taken from Gary King&#39;s book, &#39;A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem.&#39; While she cites King’s book later in the appendix—in fact, King was her dissertation advisor—Gay does not explicitly acknowledge that… <a href="https://t.co/WGZAzc6gUn">pic.twitter.com/WGZAzc6gUn</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1733994762989105392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The plagiarism accusations come as Gay is already under fire for her recent testimony during a Congressional hearing on anti-Semitism in colleges and universities.
When Gay was questioned about whether calling for the genocide of Jews violated Harvard’s codes of conduct, she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/their-statements-were-abhorrent-backlash-to-harvard-penn-mit-presidents-on-anti-semitism-continues-even-after-they-backtrack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> that it depends &#8220;on the context.&#8221; She added that calling for genocide is “at odds with the values of Harvard” and that when that kind of “speech crosses into conduct, that violates our policies.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/their-statements-were-abhorrent-backlash-to-harvard-penn-mit-presidents-on-anti-semitism-continues-even-after-they-backtrack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘Their Statements Were Abhorrent’: Backlash To Harvard, Penn, MIT Presidents On Anti-Semitism Continues Even After They Backtrack</a>

Embattled Harvard President Claudine Gay Now Under Fire For Alleged Plagiarism

A whistleblower doctor is revealing gender ideology&#8217;s pervasive and disastrous effects on the medical field.
The cultural shift toward gender ideology happened in 2020 when the pandemic removed guardrails around medicine, the doctor <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/transgender-ideology-and-the-corruption-of-medicine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> City Journal&#8217;s Christopher Rufo, who interviewed the physician on the condition of anonymity.
Normally, doctors operate under the authority of the professional societies that govern their specific practices, the doctor said, but during COVID, medical decrees started coming down without peer review or evidence, such as masks, social distancing, and emergency-use authorizations.
&#8220;Everyone within the medical community knew that if he questioned transgender ideology, he would suffer the same type of repercussions that had happened during Covid,&#8221; the doctor said.
The doctor also threw cold water on the idea that a child must be affirmed in his or her new gender identity to avoid the risk of suicide. In fact, affirmation is harmful, the physician said.
&#8220;You have these children who are going through confusing times, difficult times; when you affirm this belief system, what you’re really doing is telling them: &#8216;You hate yourself at this moment, and I will affirm that,'&#8221; the physician said. &#8220;We have to ask ourselves, why do these people have such high rates of suicide? Because we’re affirming that they should hate themselves and that they should try to destroy themselves.&#8221;
The physician recalled a story about a teenage boy with a severe case of Crohn&#8217;s disease at the children&#8217;s hospital who had received multiple surgeries. One day, the teen was being wheeled into the operating room yet again, and at the same time, another child was headed to another operating room to have an implant put into his arm so his hormones could be suppressed, the doctor remembered.
&#8220;The first kid had no choice. He had no control over his condition of Crohn’s,&#8221; the physician said. &#8220;But the second kid was put into that situation because of the psychiatrists, the psychologists, the doctors, the politicians, and those in the media who convinced him that this was the correct thing to do to cure his mental anguish.&#8221;
The whistleblower doctor sounded the alarm in particular on puberty blockers.
Puberty blockers shut down the activity of the hypothalamus, which &#8220;controls all the other hormonal structures in your body—your sexual development, your emotions, your fight-or-flight response, everything.&#8221;
The hypothalamus is &#8220;not just a hormone factory&#8221; though, the doctor explained.
&#8220;It’s this system that allows you to stand in awe of the beauty of a sunset, or to hear the sounds of orchestral music and to stop whatever you’re doing and want to listen. And I always think that if someone were to ask me, &#8216;Where is it that you would look for the divine spark in each individual?&#8217; I would say that it would be somewhere &#8216;beneath the inner chamber,&#8217; which is the Greek derivation of the term hypothalamus. To shut down that system is to shut down what makes us human,&#8221; the doctor said.
The physician said doctors feel the need to &#8220;express their faith&#8221; to other believers in the &#8220;ideology&#8221; of transgenderism.
&#8220;If these rituals are not derived from a cultural heritage with a moral tradition, they become susceptible to unbound human depravity,&#8221; the doctor said. &#8220;When you look at the Judeo-Christian tradition, you have the outlawing of child sacrifice and other ways that standards were codified. But in the transgender ideology, none of these guardrails exist. So, what becomes the greatest expression of faith to other believers? To sacrifice the most pure and innocent.&#8221;
Asked by Rufo what the future of transgender medicine looks like, the physician responded, &#8220;I don’t know. I pray that there is a change.&#8221;
Many medical professionals have lent their full-throated support to minors receiving puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and in some cases, surgical transitions, which can mean double mastectomies and genital surgery.
Meanwhile, critics have sounded the alarm about the permanent effects of these treatments and procedures.
Both puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones come with serious health risks. Puberty blockers can <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gender-dysphoria/in-depth/pubertal-blockers/art-20459075">affect</a> bone growth and density and cause sexual dysfunction, voice damage, and infertility, among other issues. Cross-sex hormones can <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-young-people-in-u-s-have-nearly-doubled-recently-report-shows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cause</a> infertility, deadly blood clots, heart attacks, increased cancer risks of the breasts and ovaries, liver dysfunction, worsening psychological illness, and other serious conditions.
Meanwhile, it is more popular than ever for youth to adopt new gender identities. An estimated 300,000 minors aged 13 to 17 <a href="https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/transgender-estimate-press-release/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">identified</a> as transgender as of last year.

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A member of the Sarasota-Charlotte Progressive Caucus expressed concern over a new mascot that was recently adopted by the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/florida-college-overhauled-by-desantis-will-accept-standardized-exam-based-on-classical-education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New College of Florida&#8217;s</a> Board of Trustees — a cartoonish banyan tree that she claimed was racist.
The complaint came from Robin Williams, whom New College Board of Trustees member <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/christopher-rufo-god-bless-all-of-the-parents-and-activists-in-virginia-who-made-this-happen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christopher Rufo</a> described as an &#8220;affluent white female liberal,&#8221; and alleged that the banyan tree in question had been &#8220;anthropomorphized to resemble an angry brown individual.&#8221;
&#8220;Local affluent white female liberal claims that the New College mascot, a banyan tree, &#8216;closely resemble[s] an angry, threatening brown individual.&#8217; Advice for white libs: if you see a tree and immediately think &#8216;looks like a scary minority to me,&#8217; you might be the racist,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-rufo-new-book-lays-out-road-map-for-returning-to-sanity-in-our-schools" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rufo</a> tweeted.
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Local affluent white female liberal claims that the New College mascot, a banyan tree, &quot;closely resemble[s] an angry, threatening brown individual.&quot;
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&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1670840671320809472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I love the new mascot, which was designed by a New College student and inspired by the massive banyan trees on campus,&#8221; Rufo added.
Christina Pushaw, rapid response director for Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis&#8217; 2024 presidential campaign, agreed that the mascot was a good one — and someone else responded to her, comparing the &#8220;parasitic&#8221; banyan tree to the professors at the New College.
&#8220;Banyan trees are technically parasitic, much like liberal professors at New College,&#8221; he said.
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Banyan trees are technically parasitic, much like liberal professors at New College.
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&#8220;Educated people know what a banyan tree looks like, + that mascot looks like a banyan tree. Kids today, however, are indoctrinated experts in pronouns + social justice only, so they don’t know about banyan trees. They are consumed with race, racism, and hate. That’s all they see,&#8221; one tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/SexHarassed/status/1670868505174867968" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Others quickly made comparisons to the anthropomorphic tree-like characters — Ents – from J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s &#8220;Lord of the Rings.&#8221;
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Looks like a Chad Ent from LOTR <a href="https://t.co/dkg5baDyEW">pic.twitter.com/dkg5baDyEW</a>
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&#8220;I hope they don’t watch LOTR &#8216;The Two Towers&#8217; … Treebeard will be mega triggering,&#8221; another account <a href="https://twitter.com/DunedainRanger9/status/1670842130166693901" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> in response.
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/republican-party">Republican</a> lawmakers across seven states signaled in a Wednesday letter reviewed by the <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2022/10/05/state-freedom-caucus-fbi-ama-aap-transgender-children/">Daily Caller News Foundation</a> that they would inflict repercussions on medical facilities that perform so-called &#8216;gender-affirming care&#8217; on children.
Lawmakers from the State Freedom Caucus Network, a group composed of conservative members aiming to decentralize government power in federal agencies, penned the letter rebuking the American Medical Association (A.M.A.) and American Academy of Pediatrics (A.A.P.) for urging Biden Administration officials and federal agents to investigate journalists exposing radical gender surgeries that medical facilities are allegedly offering and performing on minors nationwide.
Signatures from the group&#8217;s lawmakers represent Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Nevada, South Dakota, Illinois, and Arizona.
&#8220;With your advocacy of childhood genital mutilation, your call to investigate those who disagree with you, and your request for Big Tech to suppress constitutionally protected free speech that challenges your leftist ideology, you have lost whatever credibility you had left,&#8221; the letter read.
The American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, and Children&#8217;s Hospital Association all signed the letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, urging the administration to &#8220;investigate the organizations, individuals, and entities&#8221; that it claimed were &#8220;coordinating&#8221; and &#8220;provoking&#8221; outrage online directed at those providing the controversial services.
According to the letter, lawmakers condemned the medical institutions for pushing and making decisions for young children to take action, resulting in &#8220;irrevocable and irreparable harm.&#8221;
&#8220;This so-called &#8216;gender-affirming care&#8217; is both morally and ethically repugnant,&#8221; the letter read. &#8220;We will fulfill our duty to stand in the gap and stop harm to any child by unnatural and irreversible procedures.&#8221;
State legislators wrote they would ensure such taxpayer-funded institutions should take &#8220;no part in furthering ethically and morally repugnant agendas&#8221; contrary to their state&#8217;s values.
&#8220;Collectively, and across the country, we will be pursuing a path to ensure no minors can receive these barbaric procedures,&#8221; the lawmakers wrote. &#8220;This includes calling on our governors to denounce this practice and using all available tools to end it.&#8221;
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hospitals-clinics-are-promoting-services-to-gender-nonconforming-kids-here-are-47-of-them">reported</a> at least 47 pediatric gender clinics, many at prominent children&#8217;s hospitals, have broadened the scope of their patient criteria to include not only transgender-identified children but those they describe as &#8220;gender creative,&#8221; &#8220;gender diverse,&#8221; or &#8220;gender nonconforming.&#8221;
Some of these programs see patients as young as two and three years old. However, while most clinics will not offer medical interventions until a child has reached puberty, many will help facilitate a &#8220;social transition.&#8221;
Such social transitions have forced the State Freedom Caucus Network to push back on the facilities that could face repercussions if the programs are proven non-compliant.
&#8220;This mutilation cannot and will not be tolerated in any form,&#8221; the letter reads.
Manhattan Institute fellow Christopher Rufo, who originally obtained the letter signed by the three major American medical institutions, said in a <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1577029634042253313">tweet</a> that the &#8220;American Medical Association is attempting to censor, de-platform, investigate, and prosecute journalists questioning the orthodoxy of radical gender surgeries for minors, arguing that public criticism is &#8216;disinformation.'&#8221;
&#8220;This is now the Left&#8217;s playbook: last year, the National School Board Association, Department of Justice, and F.B.I. worked together to label parents who opposed critical race theory ‘domestic terrorists,'&#8221; Rufo <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1577029635380228096">said</a>. &#8220;They want to stifle dissent, suppress speech, and criminalize opposition. If ‘gender-affirming care’ is so good, the activists and doctors who promote it—and profit from it—should defend their practices in the realm of public opinion.”
&#8220;In a democracy, everyone gets to weigh in on important issues, not just regime-approved apparatchiks,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1577032889308708865">added</a>.
Ryan Saavedra and Christina Buttons contributed to this report.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/idaho" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boise</a> Pride Festival has canceled its controversial “Drag Kids” performance, and at least five sponsors have withdrawn from the event, while other sponsors have publicly condemned the performance.
The festival organizers released a statement on Thursday announcing the “difficult decision” to “postpone” the performance involving minors “due to increased safety concerns.”
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“While the vast majority of our sponsors and supporters have voiced their support for the Boise Pride Festival and the Drag Kids program, we have made the very difficult decision to postpone this performance due to increased safety concerns. The health and well-being of the kids, their parents, and the attendees of the Festival are our priority,” read a statement from the official Boise Pride Twitter account.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boise-pride-festival-loses-sponsor-over-scheduled-drag-kids-performance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously reported</a> that Zions Bank publicly withdrew its participation from the event on Wednesday, citing concerns over the drag performance involving children as young as 11. Since then, five additional sponsors have dropped out for the same reason, including Idaho Power, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (DHW), agribusiness company Simplot, Idaho Central Credit Union (ICCU), and CapEd Credit Union. Based on the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220906233240/https://boisepridefest.org/2022-sponsors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sponsors&#8217; levels</a> and the <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6046fb95a0a3ed5aaf7702e9/t/622f805924f3ab682740c785/1647280298943/2022-Sponsorship-Brochure.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pricing brochure</a>, Zions Bank committed to an $18,000 sponsorship, Simplot pledged $6,000, Idaho Power committed $3,000, and CapEd Credit Union and ICCU both pledged $1,500. DHW had more than one Orange Level sponsorship and committed at least $18,000.
On Friday morning, the J.R. Simplot Company issued a statement opposing the “Drag Kids” event.
“The J.R. Simplot Company is aware of some concerns from community members and Simplot customers about our support of the Boise Pride Festival and subsequent programming associated with that event,” read the statement from Simplot. “We do not condone any activity or event that may be perceived to exploit or take advantage of children or any other segment of the population.” It did, however, express support for their “LGBTQi+ employees.”
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BREAKING: Simplot has issued a statement in opposition to Boise Pride Festival&#39;s child drag queen program, saying the company does &quot;not condone any activity or event that may be perceived to exploit or take advantage of children.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/TT3OUXjotP">pic.twitter.com/TT3OUXjotP</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1568284883973476354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Shortly after, Christopher Rufo shared an update with his followers after learning of the withdrawal of two Idaho-based credit unions. CapEd Credit Union shared a statement on its social media accounts: “When we committed to our sponsorship of this year’s Boise Pride Festival, we were unaware of the events and activities involving children/minors. After careful consideration, we have made the decision to withdraw our sponsorship of this year’s Boise Pride Festival and have communicated this to the event organizers.”
In a Facebook post, ICCU wrote, “We are disappointed in the events and conversations centered around this year’s event. We appreciate the programming change made by Boise Pride, but have made the decision to withdraw our involvement from the event.”
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BREAKING: Two more sponsors—<a href="https://twitter.com/capedcu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Capedcu</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Idaho_Central?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Idaho_Central</a>—have dropped support for the Boise Pride Festival, which had advertised child drag queen performances featuring kids as young as 11 years old. That&#39;s now at least six sponsors that have canceled their donations. <a href="https://t.co/KLfQrsjqsg">pic.twitter.com/KLfQrsjqsg</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1568281166234648576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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On Thursday, Rufo shared a statement from DHW addressed to Boise Pride organizers. “DHW’s sponsorship of Boise Pride 2022 has led to some confusion about whether DHW endorses specific event activities involving minors during this event,” said Director Dave Jeppesen. “To avoid any confusion regarding DHW’s support of such activities, DHW is withdrawing both of its Orange Level sponsorships and Project Filter will no longer be supporting a booth at the event this weekend.”
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EXCLUSIVE: The Idaho Department of Health &amp; Welfare has withdrawn its sponsorship for the City of Boise&#39;s Pride festival, which has advertised performances featuring child drag queens as young as 11 years old. <a href="https://t.co/U6LDq4sMw5">pic.twitter.com/U6LDq4sMw5</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1567988358835744768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.kivitv.com/news/idaho-power-health-department-latest-to-pull-sponsorship-from-boise-pride-fest-over-controversy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Idaho News 6</a> was able to reach Idaho Power for comment on Thursday, confirming it was backing out of its sponsorship over concerns about the “Drag Kids” event. “Due to programming changes that occurred after our sponsorship and concerns for the safety of our employees and volunteers, we have withdrawn our participation in the Boise Pride event,” said Idaho Power Communications Specialist Brad Bowlin. “We will continue to support our diverse communities.”
Rufo, who first drew attention to the “Drag Kids” performance on Tuesday, shared the Boise Pride Festival update with his Twitter followers, calling the concern for safety “baseless.”
“The festival did not provide any evidence for alleged ‘safety concerns,’&#8221; said Rufo in a follow-up tweet. “This is a common technique when left-wing organizations get caught promoting something awful: they scream ‘harassment’ rather than take responsibility for their actions. Such claims are often baseless.”
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The festival did not provide any evidence for alleged &quot;safety concerns.&quot; This is a common technique when left-wing organizations get caught promoting something awful: they scream &quot;harassment&quot; rather than take responsibility for their actions. Such claims are often baseless.
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1568018986499198977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Boise Pride Backs Down, Cancels Controversial ‘Drag Kids’ Performance As More Sponsors Pull Out

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A Utah-based bank pulled its sponsorship from the upcoming Boise Pride Festival in response to backlash over a scheduled “Drag Kids” show where children as young as 11 are set to perform on stage.  
Zions Bank posted a statement to Twitter on Wednesday announcing it was &#8220;unaware of the event&#8217;s activities involving children/minors&#8221; and decided to withdraw sponsorship. 
&#8220;Over the years, Zions Bank has supported a variety of Pride events because they are an important part of our support for our LGBTQ employees and allies and are representative of our efforts to foster an inclusive, diverse and equitable workplace and community,&#8221; the statement read. &#8220;This support for all of our employees and communities remains unchanged.”
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In a manner of hours, Boise Pride organizers responded with their own statement on Twitter, accusing Zions Bank of responding to “clearly anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and actions&#8221; and defending the scheduled &#8220;Drag Kids&#8221; event.
&#8220;Minors have participated in the Boise Pride Festival both on and off stage for many years. Pride and inclusivity do not begin at age 18,&#8221; the statement read.
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Boise Pride&#39;s response to the statement from Zions Bank about pulling their participation in this weekend&#39;s Boise Pride Festival. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/boisepride2022?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#boisepride2022</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/supportingoursuperhumans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#supportingoursuperhumans</a> <a href="https://t.co/Fm16eCHBIP">pic.twitter.com/Fm16eCHBIP</a>
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Zions Bank had an “orange tier” sponsorship, according to the <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6046fb95a0a3ed5aaf7702e9/t/622f805924f3ab682740c785/1647280298943/2022-Sponsorship-Brochure.pdf">brochure</a>, pledging $18,000 for various advertising opportunities and exhibit space. The financial institution was removed from the Boise Pride Festival website following the announcement of its departure on Wednesday evening.
“Drag Kids” is planned for 12:45 p.m. on Sunday, September 11, and is described in the Boise Pride Festival <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6046fb95a0a3ed5aaf7702e9/t/63110189f37d207226ca483b/1662058937017/2022+Boise+Pride+Guide.pdf">downloadable guide</a> as &#8220;a drag show like none other the Drag Kids range from ages 11-18 and are ready to bring it all to the Boise Pride Festival Stage! Come and cheer them on as they bring drag to the younger generation!&#8221; 
A newly-elected chairwoman of the Idaho Republican Party, Dorothy Moon, urged businesses to pull their support from the festival on Wednesday, calling on &#8220;concerned Idahoans&#8221; to &#8220;disavow this attack on Idaho&#8217;s children and invest their sponsorship dollars&#8221; elsewhere.
In a statement, Moon criticized Boise Mayor Lauren McLean and the financial donors of the event for encouraging the “sexualization of children.” 
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Idaho Republican Party Chairwoman Dorothy Moon has put out a statement she says is about Boise Pride Festival, which runs this weekend. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/idpol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#idpol</a> <a href="https://t.co/fQPpllB0vm">pic.twitter.com/fQPpllB0vm</a>
&mdash; Clark Corbin (@clarkcorbin) <a href="https://twitter.com/clarkcorbin/status/1567539635727007744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“Out-of-state companies promise to bring investment and jobs to Idaho,” said Moon. “Instead, they are financing the sexualization of our children and the perverse idea that children should engage in sexual performances with adult entertainers.”
The attention surrounding the event began on Twitter on Tuesday afternoon, when the activist and writer Christopher Rufo created a thread criticizing the City of Boise for “hosting a festival featuring child drag queens as young as 11 years old.”
“And yes, drag shows involving children are explicitly designed to re-engineer child sexuality. As the academic queer theorists have explained, these performances are ‘site[s] of queer pleasure’ used to liberate children from ‘the rhetoric of childhood innocence.’” added Rufo, quoting from an <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03626784.2020.1864621">academic paper</a> published by “queer theorists” entitled “Drag Pedagogy: The Playful Practice of Queer Imagination in Early Childhood.”
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And yes, drag shows involving children are explicitly designed to re-engineer child sexuality. As the academic queer theorists have explained, these performances are &quot;site[s] of queer pleasure&quot; used to liberate children from &quot;the rhetoric of childhood innocence.&quot;
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1567223349725794305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The Children&#8217;s Hospital of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chicago">Chicago</a> is working hand-in-glove with Chicago schools to push radical gender theory and gender transition on students.
Documents obtained by writer and activist <a href="https://christopherrufo.com/unholy-alliance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christopher Rufo</a> show that the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children&#8217;s Hospital of Chicago is collaborating with schools to push radical gender theory, providing school administrators with training documents, policy guides, and resources for students. These resources have been provided to middle and high schools in at least four of Chicago&#8217;s public school systems, Rufo reported.
&#8220;Beyond the lurid nature of some of the content, these documents reveal a profoundly disturbing collusion between radical gender activists in the medical system and the public school bureaucracy,&#8221; Rufo wrote. &#8220;They have laundered the promotion of queer theory, synthetic sexual identities, and child sex toys under the guise of &#8216;health and education,&#8217; devoting significant resources toward building &#8230; a school-to-clinic pipeline.&#8221;
The primary document is a training presentation entitled &#8220;Beyond Binary: Gender In Schools,&#8221; which took several forms in different school systems. One such training contained in Rufo&#8217;s report is conducted by Hadeis Safi (they/them), an &#8220;LGBTQ and Gender Inclusion <a href="https://www.luriechildrens.org/en/specialties-conditions/adolescent-medicine/trainings-education/meet-our-trainers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">training facilitator</a>&#8221; with the hospital&#8217;s Potocsnak Family Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine. The presentation includes a section instructing educators to support transgender and &#8220;gender expansive&#8221; students.
<a href="https://www.catherinecookschool.org/uploaded/2015-2016_School_Year/Newsletter_files/Gender_Identity_Presentation.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Other versions</a> of the presentation describe the phenomenon of &#8220;gender nonconforming,&#8221; &#8220;gender variant,&#8221; and &#8220;gender creative&#8221; individuals as a &#8220;normative variation of human diversity.&#8221; The presentation instructs schools in methods of &#8220;institutional inclusion&#8221;: so-called &#8220;gender support plans&#8221; for transitioning students that include discussions of confidentiality and parent involvement; avoiding gender segregation; allowing for an inclusive dress code; and supporting a school &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/left-wing-org-combines-k-12-radical-gender-theory-with-anti-cop-anti-capitalist-rhetoric" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Genders and Sexualities Alliance</a>&#8221; club. It instructs schools to &#8220;[e]xplicitly include gender identity in nondiscriminatory policies, diversity statements, and anti-bullying policies — and have explicit bathroom/locker room policies inclusive of all genders,&#8221; and to use inclusive school forms and identification materials. It also instructs schools to include LGBT issues in school curricula.
The presentation then provides a list of resources for teachers to share with students. One such resource is a breast binder exchange program from the DC Area Transmasculine Society; another free breast binder program is also available. Another resource links to a &#8220;<a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1565088266390749185?s=20&amp;t=L1y0qdEXdezf25uisasd3g" target="_blank" rel="noopener">kid friendly website for gender affirming gear</a>,&#8221; which include: artificial penis &#8220;packers&#8221; to wear underneath clothing; phallic-shaped &#8220;stand-to-pee devices&#8221;; chest binders, and &#8220;trans masc pumps.&#8221;
Another resource links to an &#8220;LGBTQ friendly sex shop for teens&#8221; that includes dildos, vibrators, sex toys, bondage and gender gear. The website also includes graphic depictions of pornography, BDSM, and so-called &#8220;kink&#8221; sex. The resource list also includes a number of sex education resources targeted at teenagers.
Rufo&#8217;s latest trove of documents come as several major children&#8217;s hospitals have promoted life-altering &#8220;gender affirming&#8221; surgeries, such as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/audio-d-c-hospital-confirms-it-performs-trans-hysterectomies-on-girls-under-16-years-old" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hysterectomies</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lgbtqia-advocate-pediatrician-admits-children-can-medically-transition-at-10-years-old-minor-females-can-have-breasts-removed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mastectomies</a>, on minors as young as 13.
The Daily Wire reported Wednesday that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/there-is-no-youngest-age-at-all-california-doctor-admits-to-performing-affirming-surgeries-on-transgender-children-as-young-as-13" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Robert Mosser</a>, the founder of the Gender Confirmation Center in San Francisco, said that he does not have an age limit for &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; surgeries in his clinical practice, and admitted that he has performed surgeries on children as young as 13.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sacramento" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sacramento</a> Unified School District has been pushing radical gender theory in its classrooms for at least a decade, according to documents.
The documents, obtained by writer and activist <a href="https://christopherrufo.com/sacramento-gender-radicalism/">Christopher Rufo</a>, show that the Sacramento USD has been pushing teachers and school administrators to adopt the core tenets of radical gender theory since at least 2012. Training materials and presentations obtained by Rufo encourage LGBT teachers to openly express their sexuality, while pushing straight teachers to self-discriminate, hiding their sexuality in favor of being an &#8220;ally&#8221; to LGBT teachers. The documents also encourage teachers to take similar steps to become allies of transgender students as well, Rufo reported.
&#8220;Sacramento Unified has been working on this for a decade,&#8221; Rufo wrote in a <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1560000102449565696?s=20&amp;t=Gh5YImpJYQ4Mr4hMKRml6Q">Twitter thread</a> accompanying his report. &#8220;In 2012, the district invited academic queer theorist Elizabeth Meyer to conduct a leadership presentation on how to launder &#8216;queer pedagogy&#8217; into the K-12 system and create &#8216;sexual diversity.’”
Rufo also included photos from the Sacramento USD&#8217;s official website, showing a presentation from Dr. Elizabeth J. Meyer, who at the time was a professor of Education at California Polytechnic State University, as the keynote address for their &#8220;No Time To Lose 2012 Conference.&#8221;
The presentation is included in the documents Rufo obtained. In the presentation, Meyer provides teachers with tools to inculcate schools with an LGBT-friendly environment. On an individual basis, Meyer instructs teachers to watch &#8220;educational&#8221; LGBT films and documentaries, or to &#8220;[a]ttend an event sponsored by a local GLBT advocacy organization&#8221;; and invite a colleague to view the film or attend the event with them.
At a classroom level, Meyer encourages teachers to &#8220;[c]hallenge your own assumptions&#8221; about LGBT students, to &#8220;use inclusive language&#8221; such as &#8220;parent or guardian&#8221; or &#8220;partner or spouse&#8221;; and &#8220;avoid gender-specific language and assumptions in class activities,&#8221; including asking girls to clean the classroom, or dividing students up by gender during classroom activities.
Furthermore, the presentation instructs straight teachers to self-discriminate. &#8220;If you are heterosexual, donʼt state it,&#8221; it says. &#8220;Allow yourself to be an ally while allowing others to be uncertain about your sexual orientation.&#8221; Meanwhile, it encourages LGBT teachers to openly express their sexuality. &#8220;If you are GLBT, consider coming out to your employer, and if you get their support, your students/school,&#8221; the presentation says. In either case, it encourages teachers to “[a]ctively include issues relating to sexual orientation and gender identity in your classes,&#8221; and &#8220;[i]nvite GLBT speakers to address your class.&#8221;
At a school level, the presentation encourages teachers to confront name-calling, or &#8220;stop and educate&#8221; students in public areas, such as hallways, cafeterias, bathrooms, and locker rooms. It also directs teachers to help establish a &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/left-wing-org-combines-k-12-radical-gender-theory-with-anti-cop-anti-capitalist-rhetoric" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gay-Straight Alliance</a>&#8221; or other gender diversity group in their schools; starting a &#8220;safety and equity task force&#8221; at their schools; and pushing to &#8220;[r]evise and update school policies to address gendered harassment and cyber-bullying.&#8221;
Furthermore, it directs teachers to work with students and other teachers to organize a &#8220;Day of Silence&#8221; or a &#8220;No Name Calling Week&#8221;; invite community members to work on the &#8220;safety and equity task force&#8221;; ask school librarians to create a display of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/parents-battle-school-boards-over-graphic-content-in-gender-queer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">books</a> and resources on sex, gender, and sexual orientation; integrate sex and gender issues into their curricula; and invite outside presenters to speak on sexuality issues.

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