Large <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> retailers that refuse to display a so-called gender neutral section for children face getting slapped with a fine of up to $500 under a new state law set to take effect in the new year.
Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom made California the first state in the nation to pass such a law — <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1084" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Assembly Bill No. 10584</a> — which mandates that retailers with 500 or more employees display a section that sells childcare items and toys for &#8220;gender-neutral&#8221; kids. Newsom signed the bill in 2021 without comment.
&#8220;Childcare item,&#8221; according to the bill, &#8220;means any product designed or intended by the manufacturer to facilitate sleep, relaxation, or the feeding of children, or to help children with sucking or teething.&#8221;
Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell), who introduced the legislation, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newsom-signs-law-requiring-gender-neutral-toy-sections-at-large-retailers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, &#8220;We need to stop stigmatizing what&#8217;s acceptable for certain genders and just let kids be kids.&#8221; The bill, he said, was designed to &#8220;encourage more businesses across California and the U.S. to avoid reinforcing harmful and outdated stereotypes.&#8221;
&#8220;Part of it is to make sure if you&#8217;re a young girl that you can find a police car, fire truck, a periodic table or a dinosaur,&#8221; Low reportedly said. &#8220;And then similarly, if you&#8217;re a boy, if you&#8217;re more artistic and want to play with glitter, why not? Why should you feel the stigma of saying, &#8216;Oh, this should be shamed,&#8217; and going to a different location?&#8221;
Former California State Sen. Melissa Melendez (R-Lake Elsinore) <a href="https://apnews.com/article/business-california-3270657e85f4b7c4bee79138ba056a28" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> voted against the bill, arguing the state &#8220;let parents be parents.&#8221;
&#8220;Unlike the author, I actually have children, five of them to be exact, and I can tell you it is very convenient for parents,&#8221; Melendez said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think parents need the government to step in and tell them how they should shop for their children.&#8221;
Several business and conservative groups fought against California lawmakers passing the legislation, saying state regulations against establishments have made it hard enough and adding on another government requirement disrupts their ability to thrive in a free market.
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The Capitol Resource Institute, a public policy organization advocating for Judeo-Christian values, said at the time of the bill&#8217;s passage that the group rejects the belief that the California Legislature&#8217;s role is &#8220;to overstep the natural process of the free market.&#8221;
&#8220;Retail stores are very attuned to the supply and demand of their merchandise, and they are very aware of the clientele they serve,&#8221; the group <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10/11/california-law-gender-neutral-children-toy-section/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, according to The Washington Post.
Jonathan Keller, president of the conservative California Family Council lobbying group, dismissed the idea that activists and state legislators have the right to force retailers to adopt government-approved messaging about gender.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a violation of free speech and it&#8217;s just plain wrong,&#8221; Keller <a href="https://www.californiafamily.org/2021/05/ca-legislators-seek-to-force-stores-to-sell-and-display-gender-fluid-clothes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement.
The latest development in California&#8217;s effort to become a sanctuary state for radical gender theory pushed onto children comes as big box stores like Target received backlash for its Pride collection, which included the controversial &#8220;tuck-friendly&#8221; bathing suits.
Target&#8217;s CEO, Brian Cornell, pulled the items from the shelves earlier this year after the store <a href="https://corporate.target.com/press/statement/2023/05/target-statement-on-2023-pride-collection" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> its team members experienced threats against them and their &#8220;sense of safety and well-being while at work.&#8221;
But despite facing opposition for the products, corporations like Target and Lego continue to move forward to offer items that go against fundamental biology.
Lego issued a statement when the bill passed, saying it was working to make toys more inclusive for girls, the Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12829429/California-retailers-gender-neutral-bill.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
&#8220;The company is committed to making Lego play more inclusive and ensuring that children&#8217;s creative ambitions – both now in the future – are not limited by gender stereotypes,&#8221; a statement from Lego said.
Retailers who fail to comply with the legislation beginning on January 1, 2024, will be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed $250 for a first violation or $500 for a subsequent violation, according to the bill&#8217;s text.

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Every day, critics are sounding the alarm more and more about the dangers of pushing children into transgender medicalization.
Now, doctors who dole out puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and double mastectomies to children and teens are facing a slew of lawsuits from detransitioners, young people who previously identified as transgender.
The first such lawsuit in the U.S. came from Chloe Cole, one of the most prominent detransitioners, who sued Kaiser Hospitals in February.
Cole was put on puberty blockers at 12, cross-sex hormones at 13, and had her breasts surgically removed at 15. Now 19, Cole has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/barbaric-pseudoscience-chloe-cole-calls-for-lawmakers-to-protect-children-from-transgender-procedures" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> her transgender medicalization was part of “one of the biggest medical scandals” in American history. Among the damage, Cole&#8217;s voice is permanently lowered, and her fertility status is unknown.
“I was fifteen when you cut into my body, ripped out my breasts and stitched me back up like I was your rag doll,” Cole said in February. “You are on the wrong side of history and will always be remembered as child butchers.”
Another detransitioner, Prisha Mosley, 25, <a href="https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/ae9895b0-a62f-49d6-99d6-180b933bca97/Prisha%20Mosley%20File-Stamped%20Complaint%207.17.23.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> her North Carolina doctors in July over her transgender medical treatments.
Mosley was put on testosterone at 17 and had her breasts surgically removed the next year. She says her doctors &#8220;lied&#8221; and told her testosterone would make her &#8220;grow a penis.&#8221;
Over the years, Mosley suffered from anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, and an eating disorder, according to her lawsuit. At 14, she also suffered a sexual assault by an older male, which resulted in a miscarried pregnancy. At 15, she was hospitalized for a week for depression.
Nevertheless, Mosley&#8217;s doctors started her on transgender treatments that did not solve her mental health issues but left her with a lower voice, extra body hair, a damaged vagina, and an unknown fertility status, her lawsuit says.
Another lawsuit comes from Soren Aldaco, a 21-year-old detransitioner, who <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/detransitioner-files-1m-lawsuit-against-doctors-botched-mastectomy-left-her-permanently-disfigured" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed</a> a $1 million &#8220;gross malpractice&#8221; lawsuit against her Texas doctors in July.
Aldaco, who is autistic, was hospitalized with a manic episode at 15. At the hospital, she was &#8220;coerced&#8221; into saying she was transgender, her lawsuit <a href="https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/ae9895b0-a62f-49d6-99d6-180b933bca97/Aldaco%20-%20Plaintiffs%20Original%20Petition%20(Final).pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a>. At 17, she was prescribed an &#8220;outrageously large&#8221; dose of testosterone, and at 19, she was pressured into a botched double mastectomy with &#8220;horrible post-surgical complications&#8221; that left her &#8220;permanent physical disfigurement,&#8221; the suit says.
Isabelle Ayala, 20, is <a href="https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/ae9895b0-a62f-49d6-99d6-180b933bca97/202310231612%20-%20(Ayala)%20Original%20Complaint.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suing</a> both her doctors and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) over her gender transition. She is the first to target the AAP specifically.
At 14, Ayala was <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/10/26/news/detransitioner-sues-apa-claims-doctors-pressured-her-to-change-gender-when-she-sought-depression-treatment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">convinced</a> by doctors to go on cross-sex hormones. At the time, she was suffering with suicidal thoughts, depression, and anxiety. Six months after starting testosterone, she attempted suicide. Nevertheless, she was kept on cross-sex hormones afterwards.
Now, Ayala suffers from vaginal atrophy, excess facial and body hair, a compromised bone structure, and unknown fertility. She still suffers episodes of anxiety and depression, and she &#8220;longs for what could have been and to have her healthy, female body back,&#8221; her lawsuit says.
Kayla Lovdahl, 18, also <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/20/kids-shouldnt-undergo-irreversible-gender-transition-surgeries/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> Kaiser Hospitals in June for her transgender medical transition.
Lovdahl discovered the concept of transgenderism online at age 11 and was put on both puberty blockers and testosterone at age 12. Just six months later at 13, she had her breasts surgically removed.
Her doctors told her parents that, “it’s better to have a live son than a dead daughter,” her lawsuit <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23848578-layla-jane-lawsuit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">alleges</a>. However, by 17, Lovdahl regretted her transgender medicalization.
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" target="_blank" rel="noopener">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.
The number of gender surgeries nearly tripled in the U.S. from 2016 to 2019, according to an <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2808707?utm_source=For_The_Media&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=ftm_links&amp;utm_term=082323" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analysis</a> published in August in JAMA Network Open. In 2016, there were about 4,550 procedures, and that number spiked to around 13,000 in 2019.
Hundreds of teen girls in the U.S., some as young as 12, <a href="https://www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/generalpediatrics/101252?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2022-10-17&amp;eun=g394940d0r&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines%20Evening%202022-10-17&amp;utm_term=NL_Daily_DHE_dual-gmail-definition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have gotten</a> elective, gender-related double mastectomies to remove their healthy breasts over the last few years.
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 school district in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-jersey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Jersey</a> partnered with a sex education group that has offered to provide schools with so-called “gender-affirming&#8221; kits that include “tucking underwear,” chest binders, and devices allowing girls to pee standing up.
New <a href="https://defendinged.org/incidents/princeton-public-schools-partnership-with-local-sexual-education-nonprofit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documents</a> and videos obtained by Parents Defending Education (PDE) and first shared with The Daily Wire, show evidence of the Princeton Public School (PPS) district’s partnership with HiTOPS, a leftist sex education nonprofit. The partnership, which the district has previously <a href="https://centraljersey.com/2023/09/20/princeton-school-district-reconsiders-relationship-with-hitops-after-project-veritas-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> it would reconsider, was <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/news/hitops-sneaks-sex-ed-into-schools" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first revealed</a> by Project Veritas back in September.
HiTOPS, based in Princeton, describes itself as an organization <a href="https://www.hitops.org/about-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dedicated</a> to “inclusive and youth-informed sex education and LGBTQ+ support for young people throughout New Jersey.”
Correspondence obtained by PDE show HiTOPS sending lesson plans and promotional flyers to PPS. One of the <a href="https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Gender-Affirming-Kit.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">flyers</a> sent to PPS from HiTOPS was promoting a “gender affirming kit.” The kit included things like chest binders, “packing” tape, “tucking” underwear, “packers,” “chest forms,” and “stand to pee” devices.
“The HiTOPS Gender Affirming Kit is a groundbreaking resource designed to support transgender, nonbinary, and gender expansive students while promoting inclusivity within your school community. The Kit is a comprehensive package that equips administrators, teachers, school counselors, and nurses with the knowledge and tools they need to empower students on their gender journey,” the flyer said.
The Daily Wire asked PPS if it had sourced any “gender affirming” kits from HiTOPS.
In one teacher manual sent to PPS and designed for students in 6th through 8th grade, teachers are encouraged to <a href="https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Intro-to-SOGIE-Lesson-Plan-Grades-6-8.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explain</a> “how a baby’s sex is determined at birth and how it may/may not relate to a person’s inside identity” and to instruct students about gender identity.
Teachers are <a href="https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Intro-to-SOGIE-Lesson-Plan-Grades-6-8.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">also directed</a> to teach students to use preferred pronouns and how to be “affirming” of different gender identities. In a second lesson plan, teachers are told to tell students that everyone “here has a sexual orientation, a gender identity, and a way they express that gender.”
The Daily Wire asked PPS about the extent to which the manuals were used in classes throughout the district.
&#8220;These trainings are a child safe-guarding nightmare — not only do they tell teachers to ask for the gender pronouns of every student, but they also instruct teachers to ask students how they want to be referred to in front of their parents. It is an explicit invitation to keep secrets from parents,” Erika Sanzi, director of outreach at PDE, said in a statement to The Daily Wire.
“The lessons also teach children that sex is assigned at birth and that even though some people claim there are only two genders, there are actually many genders. 6th graders are expected to name three sexual orientations and three gender identities — can they name three former presidents or three countries in Africa? This is cult-like content, and it has no place in a school,” Sanzi added.
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Other resources obtained by PDE show <a href="https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SOGIE-Resource-Packet-Sample.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">packets</a> sent to the PPS packed with definitions of sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression. PDE also obtained a 90-minute Zoom call between HiTOPS educators, teachers, and parents where HiTOPS director Stacy Robustelli outlined the group&#8217;s approach.
One example book meant for young children she read said that there were more than two genders. “Some people say there are only two genders, But there are really many genders,” Robustelli read from the book.
In another clip from the Zoom meeting, Robustelli said that teachers needed to develop parameters for pronoun use, including whether they used “preferred pronouns” in front of parents or guardians.
On its website, HiTOPS, which promotes transgender ideology through a number of various initiatives, also lists several Planned Parenthood locations throughout New Jersey as “health care resources.”
PPS Superintendent Carol Kelly <a href="https://planetprinceton.com/2023/09/16/princeton-public-schools-issues-two-statements-about-hitops-video/#:~:text=After%20the%20far%2Dright%20activist,school%20district%20does%20not%20condone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously</a> said that the district&#8217;s partnership with HiTOPS was done in part to comply with New Jersey&#8217;s LGBT inclusion and diversity law.
Neither PPS nor HiTOPS responded to Daily Wire requests for comment.

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Throughout history, the greatest threat to free speech has always been authoritarian governments seeking to suppress dissent. That is still true today, even in America. Thankfully, a robust First Amendment has proved a necessary and valuable <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/missouri-v-biden-fifth-circuit-tech-censorship-white-house-covid-pandemic-86051c19" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bulwark</a> against censorious government autocrats. Historically, those on the political Left have proven to be some of the fiercest defenders of broad speech protections. Not so today. To be sure, many on the political Left still pay lip service to the notion of a strong First Amendment. But far too often, they do so while actively promoting ideologies that ultimately render those protections worthless.
The ongoing debate over males participating in female sports is a prime example. Radical activists regularly <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2023/04/21/riley-gaines-sfsu-growing-attack-free-speech-college-campuses/11695771002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shout down and physically assault</a> anyone who dares to assert that men should not compete in women’s sports. The typical response from many leftists is to ignore the criminals committing violent acts against peaceful speakers. Instead, they blame the victim. They do so by advancing a noxious idea: the right to free speech does not protect anyone from the consequences of that speech. In other words, if someone does not like what you have to say, they have the right to punch you in the face, physically disrupt and shut down your speech, or chase you out of the room and restrain you in a room for hours while waiting for police protection.
This was the prevailing liberal response to a recent event held at the Mary L. Stevens Branch of the Yolo County Library. On August 20, Moms for Liberty – Yolo County, CA organized an event entitled “Forum for Fair and Safe Sport for Girls.” The event was scheduled to feature various speakers including Kim Jones, co-founder of Independent Council on Women’s Sports; Sophia Lorey, Outreach Coordinator at California Family Council and former collegiate athlete; Erin Friday, co-lead of Western Region of Our Duty-USA; and Allie Snyder, concerned mother and women’s rights advocate. 
Unfortunately, a library official shut down the event almost immediately. Why? Because one of the speakers used the phrase “men in women’s sports.” According to the official, California law prohibits use of the term “men” when referring to men who identify as women.
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After video of the <a href="https://www.californiafamily.org/2023/08/california-public-library-silences-female-athlete/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">library shutting down</a> the event was shared on social media, the library allegedly received three separate bomb threats. The organizers of the event issued a statement denouncing the threats. They made clear that violence is never an appropriate response to speech you disagree with.
In response to this situation, the Sacramento Bee published an <a href="https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article278881104.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">op-ed</a>. The writer agreed that the organizers engaged in protected speech and that the library likely violated their First Amendment rights. Nevertheless, the writer asserted that the event organizers are responsible for the threats. How? Because the views espoused by the organizers are also allegedly held by the perpetrators of the bomb threats.
This is nonsensical. First, it is unfair to assume that the threats were made by someone sympathetic to the event. More importantly, no one is responsible (legally or morally) for another person’s unlawful actions simply because they may share similar views on certain topics. If this were true, Martin Luther King, Jr. would be responsible for all the violent acts of the Black Panther Party. That’s a ridiculous notion. But those advancing this argument are not worried about logic or reason. Regardless of their high-sounding rhetoric, their goal is the same as every other autocrat: shut down all dissent through whatever means necessary. Here, they conflate speech with violence in an attempt to shut down one side of the debate.
Our country’s history is rife with debates on all manner of controversial topics including slavery, women’s suffrage, prohibition, and numerous wars. Many on both sides of these debates undoubtedly advanced arguments that were offensive to the other side. Yet, we trusted previous generations to have the intelligence and strength of character to evaluate the merits of these crucial debates without claiming the other side’s speech was equivalent to violence.
I believe our country is better for having gone through the slow and painful process of debating controversial topics involving competing deeply held beliefs.
The same holds true for our current debates on essential topics such as immigration, climate change, abortion, freedom of speech, religious freedom, and gender identity. The outcome of these debates has the potential to significantly affect the life of every American, either for good or for ill. Exercising the God-given right to participate in these great debates is at the heart of what it means to be an American.
Tyson Langhofer serves as senior counsel and director of the Center for Academic Freedom at <a href="https://adflegal.org/?utm_source=dailywire&amp;utm_medium=oped" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alliance Defending Freedom</a>, which is representing Moms for Liberty – Yolo County, CA and the other speakers at the event.
The views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire. 
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> may soon require judges to look at whether a parent goes along with a child’s “gender identity” during custody disputes, worrying advocates who say parents could lose custody if they don’t agree with a child’s claims to be transgender. 
The Democrat-backed bill, AB 957, <a href="https://www.kcra.com/article/california-judges-parent-affirmation-child-identity/45051872#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> the State Assembly on Friday and the State Senate on Thursday. If signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom, the bill would require judges to consider whether a parent “affirms” a child’s “gender identity” among other factors during custody battles. 
According to the <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB957" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a>, “the health, safety, and welfare of the child includes, among other comprehensive factors, a parent’s affirmation of the child’s gender identity or gender expression. Affirmation includes a range of actions and will be unique for each child, but in every case must promote the child’s overall health and well-being.”
Assemblymember Lori Wilson said that “affirmation” could mean whether a parent provided gender-targeted toys, nail polish, and hair length, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/california-gender-affirm-transgender-nonbinary-children-parents-50815672a60690099ecfed71c738e911" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Associated Press. 
The bill passed the Assembly 57-16 and was opposed by California Republicans and conservative groups, who say the bill will erode parents’ rights and be easily manipulated. 
“This bill will require judges to equate ‘affirmation of child gender transition’ directly with a child’s ‘health, safety, and welfare’ when determining custody or visitation rights.  Consequently,  parents who do not affirm the chosen gender identity of their child (of any age) risk having their child taken from them,” <a href="https://www.californiafamily.org/2023/09/bills-threatening-families-decided-on-as-legislative-session-ends/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the California Family Council. 
In June, when the bill was making its way through the legislature, one attorney representing a mother of a girl who used to have gender dysphoria said that, if passed, the measure could be easily manipulated.
“Family court judges will be compelled to favor the child who will affirm the child’s delusion. Parents can easily game the system and use gender as retaliation against each other. What happens when one parent will socially affirm the child but will not agree to medicalize? Does the parent willing to do more transitioning prevail?” lawyer Erin Friday <a href="https://www.californiafamily.org/2023/06/ca-senate-passes-bill-that-would-remove-custody-from-non-affirming-parents/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. 
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Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, who has voiced some criticism of transgender ideology, said that the bill was dangerous. 
“This bill is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. What it actually means is that if you disagree with the other parent about sterilizing your child, you lose custody.Utter madness!” he <a href="https://twitter.com/ChoooCole/status/1700239742330405279?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1700239742330405279%7Ctwgr%5E531a8d295d0149bb725b98dbb8ffbb7160e2ef0a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fmedia%2Fcalifornia-passes-bill-punishing-parents-dont-affirm-trans-kids-custody-battles-utter-madness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> to X.

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California Passes Bill Allowing Judges To Consider Whether A Parent ‘Affirms’ Child’s Gender Identity During Custody Disputes

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If there&#8217;s one thing trans activists desperately do not want you to do, under any circumstance, it&#8217;s think back to what life was like before the rise of trans ideology. They need you to believe that, before we allowed men to compete against women in sports and before every company in the Fortune 500 started spending hundreds of millions of dollars hiring demented activists with blue hair, the old world was a bleak hellscape. Children were killing themselves en masse because their subjective sense of gender identity wasn&#8217;t being affirmed. In this dark age of transphobia, which ran from literally the dawn of time until yesterday, middle-aged men went insane with despair because they couldn&#8217;t cross dress in front of toddlers at the local library. Law firms and consultants simply couldn&#8217;t give good advice to their clients on account of the fact they didn&#8217;t have any crossdressers in leadership positions. Things were dire.
In order for any sane person to buy into this narrative, it&#8217;s vitally important that they not watch any footage from before the mass formation psychosis of trans ideology took hold in this country. So naturally, we&#8217;ll begin with some of that footage. Here, for example, is a report by NBC News from the year 2012. This was resurfaced this weekend by the popular account <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1695541511650181205?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">End Wokeness</a>, and quickly went viral. You’ll see why:
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NBC anchor Hoda Kotp (2012): 
“It seems ridiculous to have a kid aged 13 or 14 deciding whether they want to have biological children.” <a href="https://t.co/QAt3bNnLge">pic.twitter.com/QAt3bNnLge</a>
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That&#8217;s a mainstream news anchor explaining that, “It seems ridiculous to have a kid aged 13 or 14 deciding whether they want to have biological children.” She&#8217;s saying what most Americans would have agreed with at the time — and still do — which is that it&#8217;s crazy to administer cross-sex hormones, which sterilize patients for life, to young kids who are barely teenagers. They are permanently forfeiting their ability to procreate at an age when they cannot possibly understand the implications of such a decision. Just about a decade ago, it wasn&#8217;t blasphemy to point this out. It was, instead, the default position of milquetoast personalities on NBC News. 
You&#8217;re not allowed to say those things anymore. And it&#8217;s easy to see why. The doctor in that clip has no response except to say that children can kill themselves at that age. It&#8217;s such a deranged answer that it&#8217;s hard to know where to begin in responding to it. Now a person is capable of informed consent as long as they are physically able to commit suicide? What the hell kind of standard is that? 
Also notice how the suicide threat doesn&#8217;t do anything to answer any of the objections of critics. Even if it&#8217;s true that a child will kill themselves if they don&#8217;t transition (and it&#8217;s not true, there is no data to support this, and all of human history shows it&#8217;s a lie), does that mean that a child really can consent? Does it mean that the boy really is a girl? Are we transitioning the boy because the claims he&#8217;s making about himself are true, or are we doing it as a desperate, last ditch effort to prevent him from killing himself? It must be one or the other. Or neither. It turns out that it&#8217;s neither.
Raising any of these concerns is now forbidden. If that same anchor said the same thing today, as we all know, she&#8217;d be driven out of town by a mob of pitchfork-wielding LGBT activists. So this whole NBC News segment is worth scrutinizing. It&#8217;s like a time capsule from before everyone completely lost their minds. To that end, here&#8217;s the portion of that NBC News segment where they talk about a young boy by the name of Joseph Romero. Watch:
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Joseph Romero clearly expresses confusion and hesitation. In fact, he says that maybe he&#8217;s a &#8220;boy trapped in a girl&#8217;s body,&#8221; even though he has a boy&#8217;s body already. This is how turned around and upside down this poor kid&#8217;s self-perception has become thanks to Munchausen Mommy and her enablers. He has no idea what he thinks about himself. Yet they went ahead and sterilized him anyway.
Imagine looking at a young boy like that, who&#8217;s so clearly confused, and saying, “Yeah, he needs to be sterilized.” It&#8217;s unthinkable. But that&#8217;s exactly what happened. And it happened because Romero&#8217;s parents wanted it to happen for a long time. Several years before that segment aired on NBC News, in 2009, Romeo&#8217;s parents made it clear they wanted to lock him into his girl identity as soon as possible. So they transitioned him and immediately announced it to the entire world. He’s been profiled by major media outlets since he was at least eight years old.
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Now even if you&#8217;re crazy enough to think that a little boy can really be a girl in some mystical sense, you still have to see how there is no benefit to the child to make it a public spectacle. Yet this is what the parents of &#8220;trans kids&#8221; so often do. But somehow, none of the doctors involved in this boy&#8217;s healthcare were alarmed by any of these red flags, in any way. Instead, the doctor featured in this segment, whose name is Johanna Olson, decides to administer so-called puberty blockers to Joseph:
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Here is the part where an 11-year-old is given puberty blockers (NBC, 2012)
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It&#8217;s hard to imagine any decent person watching that footage and not calling for the immediate arrest of everyone involved in this production — from the doctors, to the NBC News producers, to the parents. But nobody called for that back in 2012 when it aired. A big takeaway from this segment is that conservatives had a chance to shut down the child gender transition racket early on. If there had been a loud and aggressive response to this agenda in its early stages back in 2012, maybe it never would have made it off the ground. But the conservative movement has historically been incapable of responding to cultural threats until they&#8217;re so ingrained that they&#8217;ll take decades to root out and destroy. This is a prime example of that. The doctors involved in this barbarism have only gotten promotions and more power.
On Twitter, Billboard Chris <a href="https://twitter.com/BillboardChris/status/1695833576372150355?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> that the doctor in that NBC News segment is now running the gender clinic at the Children&#8217;s Hospital of Los Angeles. This doctor is somewhat infamous for a clip we played on this show a couple of years ago. Here she is explaining that it’s okay to chop off on a young girl’s breasts, because she can always get new ones if she wants:
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In this video, Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy casually compares adolescents engaging in the ‘cinnamon challenge’ to adolescents undergoing mastectomies.
She then goes on to say that, “if you want breasts at a later point in your life, you can go and get them”. This is the kind of… <a href="https://t.co/0n6O4YCr8X">pic.twitter.com/0n6O4YCr8X</a>
&mdash; Jeremy Shaw, MD (@JeremyShawMD) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyShawMD/status/1692564746719948965?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 18, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Any sane human being watching that clip would think, this person shouldn&#8217;t be anywhere near children, much less running a &#8220;gender clinic.&#8221; But the truth is that documentaries and reports about &#8220;trans kids&#8221; often cite experts like this, who are clearly activists who have no idea what they&#8217;re talking about. Everything she says in that clip is either totally false or completely beside the point. She claims that most decisions that teenagers make are good, which is just an insane thing to say if you’ve ever met a teenager, or been one. She claims that you can go and get breasts at a later point in your life after you’ve chopped them off, which is also insane. That’s like saying you might as well chop your arm off because you can always get a new one. No, you can get a prosthetic, but you can never have the actual body part back. 
Most notably, she lists “taking the SATs” as a positive life altering decision that kids make. But that is not life altering in the same permanent and irreversible way that sterilizing yourself and removing body parts is. And besides, kids don&#8217;t choose to take the SATs. The SATs are invented and administered by adults, to kids who were either given no choice in the matter by their parents, or were heavily influenced in their “decision” by the fact that every adult has told them that it’s necessary to take the test if you want to be successful in life. If “gender transition” is similar to taking the SATs, as this doctor claims, that only proves that kids who transition are forced to do it, or heavily pressured, just as they are with the SATs. She has made the opposite of the point she was trying to make.
This is pretty common. Inadvertently, trans activists often reveal truths that they wanted to keep hidden. This is especially common in documentaries, like this one from NBC, that show the child transition process. We all remember the clips of Jazz Jennings revealing his deep unhappiness to his mother. Or recall the HBO documentary called “Transhood.” The whole film was full of children who clearly didn&#8217;t want to be part of the gender cult. Here&#8217;s just one profoundly disturbing segment from the documentary:
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HBO&#39;S &quot;TRANSHOOD&quot;
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&mdash; 🌴 Josh Lekach 🌴 (@JoshLekach) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoshLekach/status/1330678148439044096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The boy is dragged up on stage at the fake church to announce his fake gender, but he has no interest in being a part of this spectacle. His mother is literally pulling him along by his hand, bringing him deeper into a “gender identity” that she picked out for him. Also in the same HBO documentary, we see a young child being recruited by his mother to become a trans activist, even as the boy objects and says that it’s “ruining his life.” Watch:
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Why would you trans your kid AND force him to be an activist? From the HBO doc Transhood. <a href="https://t.co/VPGEVp3n2z">pic.twitter.com/VPGEVp3n2z</a>
&mdash; Slim Wiggy (@SlimWiggy) <a href="https://twitter.com/SlimWiggy/status/1656853331849928704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 12, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“It’s ruined my life,” he says. Keep in mind that these are the “trans kids” who they put on TV. These are supposed to be the mascots for child gender transitions. These are supposed to be the case studies that make the child gender transition industry look good. And yet these kids are clearly in pain and confused. They want out. So what about all of those kids who aren’t on TV? What about the ones who don’t make the cut to be profiled by HBO or NBC or TLC?
Watching clips like these, it&#8217;s clear there&#8217;s a reason the media has been much more careful in recent years about putting so-called &#8220;trans kids&#8221; on camera. They only do it now for very short propaganda pieces. They don&#8217;t let the kids say too much. They&#8217;re careful not to show too much.
It&#8217;s the same reason they don&#8217;t want you talking about news reports from a decade ago. Trans activists desperately don&#8217;t want the truth to slip through the cracks. They know that, the more people are able to distance themselves from the relentless propaganda of the moment — the more people can get an unfettered look at the lifelong, debilitating consequences of trans ideology on children — the more transgenderism is exposed for the fraud that it is. The bad news is that, for the past several years, trans activists have largely succeeded in hiding the damage they&#8217;ve done. The good news is that, finally, the truth is coming out.
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NBC’s Trans Propaganda Accidentally Reveals The Horrific Truth About Trans Ideology

NBC's Trans Propaganda Accidentally Reveals The Horrific Truth About Trans Ideology

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/netflix" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Netflix</a> released an animated children&#8217;s movie called &#8220;Nimona,&#8221; which features violence, LGBTQ storylines, allusions to suicide, and more – and parent reviewers have said that despite its PG rating, it is not for kids.
The film, based off the 2015 <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Nimona-Noelle-Stevenson/dp/0062278223/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2DCWZOP7YTM5W&amp;keywords=nimona+graphic+novel&amp;qid=1692303207&amp;sprefix=Nimona+g%2Caps%2C157&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">graphic novel</a> by the same name, came out on the streaming platform in June. The movie centers on Nimona, &#8220;shape-shifting teen character,&#8221; who &#8220;expresses glee at being a &#8216;villain&#8217; and wreaking havoc, even in committing &#8216;murder,'&#8221; but &#8220;viewers discover that her behavior stems from being shunned and misunderstood because she&#8217;s different,&#8221; the movie review site <a href="https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/nimona" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Common Sense Media</a> noted.
The film has &#8220;two characters [knights, in a futuristic medieval world] who are battling for the soul of their civilization &#8212; and falling in love with each other,&#8221; Ambrosius Goldenloin (voiced by Eugene Lee Yang) and Ballister Boldheart (played by Riz Ahmed), it added.
It was originally a product of Blue Sky Studios, but when Disney purchased Fox, it shut down both Blue Sky and the movie, Slate <a href="https://slate.com/culture/2023/06/nimona-netflix-movie-vs-book-nd-stevenson.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>.
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Why is Hollywood obsessed with showing gay stuff to kids?
Netflix releases children’s cartoon about gay knights that was deemed too gay for Disney<a href="https://t.co/csSUEobDuh">https://t.co/csSUEobDuh</a>
&mdash; Libby Emmons (@libbyemmons) <a href="https://twitter.com/libbyemmons/status/1691941987509731416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 16, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Parental reviewers on Common Sense made it clear that the PG rating was wrong. One <a href="https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/nimona/user-reviews/adult" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reviewer</a> wrote that it was &#8220;definitely not for younger children. I appreciate that it was made from a graphic novel which should be a sign that it is for the &#8216;big kid&#8217; crowd. &#8230; The language and storyline though feels a bit mature, and maybe more applicable to the older kid crowd.&#8221;
Another wrote that its not &#8220;for younger kids. There is a scene where two men kiss, lots of violence and suicidal thoughts. I didn&#8217;t end up thinking this was appropriate for my 8 year old. The girl Nimona in the movie actually tries to kill herself because she&#8217;s so distraught&#8230;&#8221;
One parent, who found it was not appropriate for her 8 and 5-year-old boys, noted that the talk of suicide should immediately make the film more than just PG.
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&#8220;The title character states multiple times that she sometimes wishes the knights would successfully kill her,&#8221; the parent wrote. &#8220;Towards the end, Nimona becomes so distraught that she does attempt to run herself through a sword&#8230;&#8221;
<a href="https://slate.com/culture/2023/06/nimona-netflix-movie-vs-book-nd-stevenson.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Slate</a> reviewed the film and said Netflix made the &#8220;Nimona&#8221; story &#8220;gayer&#8221; than the novel, and came to the conclusion that it is not better. The review noted that the children&#8217;s animated film has gay moments, making the relationship between the knights &#8220;more explicit&#8221; with them holding hands and sharing a kiss. Nimona&#8217;s &#8220;trans-ness&#8221; is more obvious, with the character changing from girl to boy on any given day, it added.
It wrote that Nimona &#8220;takes gay and trans-coded characters and slots them into a story we&#8217;ve seen a million times before, about misunderstood &#8216;monsters&#8217; and fear of the Other…&#8221;
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Netflix Releases Animated Children’s Movie ‘Nimona,’ Featuring LGBT Story

Netflix Releases Animated Children's Movie 'Nimona,' Featuring LGBT Story

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An upcoming comedy festival in Scotland has been canceled because one of the scheduled <a href="https://twitter.com/TalkTV/status/1691721733730971726?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">performer&#8217;s has said</a> that men can&#8217;t become women, woman can&#8217;t become men, and that &#8220;women deserve single sex spaces and fairness in their sports.&#8221;
The &#8220;Comedy Unleashed&#8221; event in Edinburgh will not be happening after critics called out 55-year-old Irish comedian Graham Linehan&#8217;s past comments about transgender people, the <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/comedy/news/graham-linehan-cancelled-edinburgh-trans-views-b2393784.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Independent</a> reported. The co-creator and co-writer of the Channel 4 sitcom &#8220;Father Ted&#8221; was on the bill for the event being held at Edinburgh&#8217;s Leith Arches, which often hosts LGBT events.
&#8220;We were not made aware of the lineup of this show in advance,&#8221;  the venue <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cv-Pr-2IMns/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. &#8220;We are an inclusive venue and this does not align with our overall values.&#8221;
In a follow-up post, the venue reiterated that the &#8220;controversial line-up&#8221; was brought to their attention last minute and that it works &#8220;closely with the LGBT+ community.&#8221; The post also explained that the venue believed hosting Linehan &#8220;would have a negative effect on future bookings.&#8221; The group also insisted the decision was &#8220;not influenced by online activists,&#8221; but by its &#8220;regular community.&#8221;
Linehan reacted to the news in a post on <a href="https://twitter.com/Glinner/status/1691479526293811200?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">X</a>, saying that he hadn&#8217;t been given any explanation for the cancellation and asked the venue to give him a detailed reason.
&#8220;There is no explanation as to what views the Leith Arches find offensive,&#8221; the comedian wrote. &#8220;That women deserve single sex spaces and fairness in their sports? That children shouldn&#8217;t be mutilated and sterilized? That JK Rowling shouldn&#8217;t receive death and rape threats?&#8221;
&#8220;[Could] I have some details?&#8221; he added. &#8220;Because it sure sounds like discrimination on the grounds of my legally protected beliefs.&#8221;
Speaking later to <a href="https://twitter.com/TalkTV/status/1691721733730971726?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TalkTV</a>, Linehan said it&#8217;s not great what has happened to him &#8212; but he added that one good thing that has come from it is that it has drawn attention to &#8220;essentially a group of highly ideological cultists&#8221; who &#8220;have taken over institutions across society.&#8221;
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Comedian Graham Linehan&#39;s Edinburgh show was cancelled by the venue because of his views on trans issues. 
&quot;Essentially a group of highly ideological cultists have taken over institutions across society.&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/JuliaHB1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JuliaHB1</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/Glinner?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Glinner</a> <a href="https://t.co/e3THmCKCdv">pic.twitter.com/e3THmCKCdv</a>
&mdash; TalkTV (@TalkTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/TalkTV/status/1691721733730971726?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 16, 2023</a></blockquote>
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When pressed by the host if he was aware what these views were that the venue claimed &#8220;would violate&#8221; their space.
The comedian said, &#8220;The most important view I have is that it is a crime against humanity to tell children that they may have been born in the wrong body.&#8221;
&#8220;And I feel that the views that I and J.K. Rowling have expressed on this matter have been completely vindicated,&#8221; he added, noting the closure of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/infamous-british-gender-clinic-will-be-sued-by-1000-families-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tavistock</a>, the only gender identity clinic in the U.K.
He also said that if a trans-identifying male goes into the women&#8217;s bathroom with his &#8220;daughter, I will pull him out by his ankles.&#8221;

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‘Comedy Unleashed’ Event Canceled Over One Comedian’s Views On Gender

'Comedy Unleashed' Event Canceled Over One Comedian's Views On Gender

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A parents-rights activists group reportedly staged a demonstration outside the California Capitol in Sacramento on Monday, condemning so-called gender-affirming bills while promoting parental notification involving student gender policies.
Local media reported the group of parents gathered on the Capitol lawn to voice opposition against several new radical gender theory-related laws expected to gain momentum in the coming weeks, including undermining parental authority, requiring state-controlled curriculum, and targeting local school boards.
Chino Valley Unified School District school board president Sonja Shaw headlined the parents-rights activist group rally.
&#8220;We are going to lobby these bad bills trying to quiet us parents up,&#8221; Shaw told Fox News. &#8220;We have no desire to stop. We&#8217;re linking arms. This has always been us.&#8221;
The Sacramento Bee <a href="https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article278248118.html?utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> the group spoke out against laws like AB 1078, which gives state authorities more control against school boards that ban books, and AB 5, which requires the Department of Education to distribute revised material inclusive towards culturally and racially diverse groups, including LGBTQ+ communities.
Standing beside Shaw was Republican Assembly-member Bill Essayli, a keynote speaker at the rally that continues to push through every school district AB 1314 — his recently failed legislation that would require schools to notify parents if their child uses different pronouns or a change in identity.
&#8220;We will accomplish our legislative priorities either through here or through the people directly,&#8221; Essayli said at the rally, according to Politico.
Essayli modeled the bill after Chino Valley Unified School District adopted a policy requiring schools to inform parents if their child changes their gender identity, which has since influenced a second California school district to adopt a similar principled action while sparking a civil rights investigation over &#8220;potential legal violations&#8221; from California Attorney General Rob Bonta.
&#8220;Students should never fear going to school for simply being who they are,&#8221; Bonta said in a news release on August 4 reported by EdSource. &#8220;Chino Valley Unified&#8217;s forced outing policy threatens the safety and well-being of LGBTQ+ students vulnerable to harassment and potential abuse from peers and family members unaccepting of their gender identity.&#8221;
Shaw, who became a local advocate for parental rights amid the state&#8217;s pandemic response, told local media that state investigators subpoenaed her emails and text messages.
&#8220;[Bonta&#8217;s] automatically trying to assume parents are dangerous, and I think that&#8217;s a dangerous, dangerous direction that they&#8217;re heading in,&#8221; Shaw told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6333482684112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>. &#8220;And you see it all over California. They&#8217;re trying to push out parents, and I think that is something that we need to stand up for right now.&#8221;
Gov. Gavin Newsom reportedly spoke at an education event at an Elk Grove school about 20 miles south of the Capitol, where he declined to state his position on the state investigation into the local school district while expressing his support for the LGBTQ community.
&#8220;I know that the LGBTQ caucus has got some language they&#8217;re working on,&#8221; Newsom said, according to Politico, adding the policies are a &#8220;work in progress.&#8221;
Newsom reportedly met with lawmakers on Monday night in a meeting focused on developing a response to school board districts adopting policies requiring transparency between parents and teachers over gender-related ideology.

Conservatives, No to LGBTQ school curriculum, Sacramento

California Parents Protest Radical Gender Theory-Related Bills As State Lawmakers Return From Summer Recess

Daily Wire&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-walsh-goes-viral-after-disney-admits-woke-snow-white-remake-images-are-real" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Walsh</a> slammed conservatives eager to praise <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ne-yo-walks-back-apology-from-his-publicist-i-did-not-apologize-for-having-an-opinion-on-this-matter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ne-Yo</a> after his latest apparent reversal on gender identity, saying that the rapper&#8217;s comment was not even close to a person &#8220;standing&#8221; their ground against pressure from the LGBTQ mob.
&#8220;<a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshShow/status/1689335759931572225?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Matt Walsh Show</a>&#8221; podcast host on Wednesday took aim at what he called a disease among conservatives who too easily will claim a celebrity is on their side when they say even the slightest thing that lines up with conservative values. In Ne-Yo&#8217;s case, he was was talking about when the 43-year-old rapper called out parents who let their children choose their own gender identity.
The singer&#8217;s initial comments drew backlash from the left and he issued a written apology on Monday, only to walk that back later. Walsh made it clear that the reversed apology was not proof that Ne-Yo was willing to &#8220;stand his ground&#8221;
&#8220;If this is what we now call standing your ground, then we have lowered the standards so far that the standards don&#8217;t exist anymore,&#8221; the host said. &#8220;That&#8217;s not standing your ground. Okay? If putting out a publicist&#8217;s statement apologizing to the LGBT community for hurting their feelings, if that&#8217;s standing your ground, then — well, I guess the good thing is, if that counts as standing your ground, then it&#8217;s very easy to be heroic in that case, like, if that&#8217;s the standard, then all you got to do is just — if the bar&#8217;s all the way down here, all you&#8217;ve got to do is barely move your foot up and you&#8217;re a hero of historic proportions.&#8221;
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&#8220;Even in his [Ne-Yo&#8217;s] follow up statement, he apologizes again for offending people,&#8221; he added. &#8220;That&#8217;s not standing your ground either. But more importantly, he says that everyone should be able to do what they want with their own kids. Do you see how that&#8217;s the exact position that the Left has on this?&#8221;
&#8220;This is what the Left would say. A parent and child make their own choice about transitioning the kid,&#8221; Walsh continued. &#8220;That&#8217;s what they say. Okay. So, he has affirmed that view explicitly. This is not me being a purist. This is me understanding what our position is and recognizing that someone has taken a position that is the opposite of our position, but in the meantime thrown out a few buzz words and phrases and whatever that are impressive to some people and so its, &#8216;Oh, he&#8217;s on our side.'&#8221;
The podcast host said those on the right&#8217;s reaction to the rapper&#8217;s reversal is an example of &#8220;this peculiar conservative disease where we&#8217;re so desperate for mainstream approval and relevance that any celebrity who comes anywhere within our vicinity like ideologically — just latch on to them. And we want to give them the Medal of Honor. And I don&#8217;t think that that has ever been an effective cultural strategy. I think it&#8217;s pathetic.&#8221;
Walsh said in situations like this conservatives would do well to take a cue from those on the Left — their strategies in particular — &#8220;because they&#8217;re the ones who own the culture. They won you know, they won everything, now we&#8217;re trying to win it back.&#8221;
&#8220;And so it it behooves us to look at some of the ways they did that,&#8221; the host concluded. &#8220;And so when you look on the Left, they don&#8217;t do this. If somebody says one thing that&#8217;s like vaguely sort of they agree with, that&#8217;s not good enough for them. So they&#8217;ve got a hard line. This is the line you&#8217;ve gotta walk, and if you don&#8217;t, you&#8217;re not on our side.&#8221;
&#8220;Then you look over at us and we can have someone that&#8217;s like on one subject, 99% of what they say we totally disagree,&#8221; he added. &#8220;But if we get that 1%, then not only do we embrace them, but we we hail them as heroes. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s an effective strategy.&#8221;

‘That’s Not Standing Your Ground’: Matt Walsh Slams Conservatives Praising Ne-Yo’s Reversal On Gender Identity

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Astrophysicist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/neil-degrasse-tyson-tries-to-ruin-top-gun-maverick-nasa-astronaut-spoils-his-fun" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Neil deGrasse Tyson</a> claimed that when it came to explaining gender identity, basic principles of biology — such as the XX and XY chromosomes that make humans either female or male, respectively — were &#8220;insufficient.&#8221;
Tyson made the remarks during an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW2gdRvcSec" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with ESPN&#8217;s Stephen A. Smith for his &#8220;K[no]w Mercy&#8221; podcast in May, but a short video clip of their exchange — particularly Tyson&#8217;s take on gender — began circulating on Monday.
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“Today I feel 80% female, 20% male. I’m going to put on makeup”
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&#8220;Apparently, the XX/XY chromosomes are insufficient because when we wake up in the morning, we exaggerate whatever feature we want to portray the gender of our choice. Either the one you&#8217;re assigned, the one you choose to be—whatever it is!&#8221; Tyson said.
&#8220;And so now, just to tie a bow on this, I say to you, somewhere I read — somewhere, I think I read — that the United States was a land where we have the pursuit of happiness,&#8221; Tyson continued. &#8220;Suppose no matter my chromosomes today, I feel 80 percent female, 20 percent male. Now I&#8217;m gonna, I&#8217;m gonna put on makeup. Tomorrow, I might feel 80 percent male. I&#8217;ll remove the makeup and I&#8217;ll wear a muscle shirt. Why do you care? What businesses is it of yours to require that I fill your inability to think of gender on a spectrum?&#8221;
Critics quickly began to call Tyson out over his take on the issue, arguing that people cared because it wasn&#8217;t just about muscle shirts and make-up — and suggesting that it was glossed over the reality that children were being subjected to dangerous and irreversible treatments in their attempts to change biological realities.
&#8220;A lot of mornings I don’t put on makeup. I’m still a woman. And a gender dysphoric person’s right to &#8216;pursue happiness&#8217; doesn’t mean they get to demand that the rest of the world play along. I always kind of thought @neiltyson was in the class of educated idiots. Now confirmed,&#8221; The Daily Wire&#8217;s Megan Basham <a href="https://twitter.com/megbasham/status/1686279915442704385" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commented</a>.
&#8220;Look, Neil, if it were just about people wanting to put on a dress and makeup, nobody would give a s***. Wear what you want. But it doesn&#8217;t stop there. You also want to give children surgery and dangerous drugs, compel speech with pronouns, and make it a hate crime to disagree with you. And that cannot stand. You need to go back to talking about the universe and lay off this divisive nonsense,&#8221; another said.
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Look Neil, if it were just about people wanting to put on a dress and makeup, nobody would give a shit. Wear what you want.
But it doesn&#39;t stop there. You also want to give children surgery and dangerous drugs, compel speech with pronouns, and make it a hate crime to disagree… <a href="https://t.co/dqoTelTF2d">https://t.co/dqoTelTF2d</a>
&mdash; UNDΘΘMΞD (@Undoomed) <a href="https://twitter.com/Undoomed/status/1686354791729938432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The Blaze host Steve Deace quoted the book of Revelation, <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveDeaceShow/status/1686341000082358273" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a>, &#8220;And all who worshipped the beast marveled at the beast, and said who is like the beast and who would make war with it? The beast was given proud words and blasphemies to exercise his authority.&#8221;

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