The Irish government has been served the mother of all wake-up calls.
Having spent 24 million euros in taxpayer money on a virtue-signaling effort to convince the nation to remove the word “mother” from its Constitution, the Irish government was dealt a swift clip around the ear this past weekend with a <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ireland-looks-set-reject-constitutional-changes-2024-03-09/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resounding defeat</a> of its latest “progressive” referendum.
The proposed changes would have removed provisions that recognize and honor women’s service to society in raising the next generation of responsible citizens:
<blockquote>… the State recognises that by her life within the home, woman gives to the State a support without which the common good cannot be achieved.
The State shall, therefore, endeavour to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the home.</blockquote>
A “yes” result would have replaced this language with a gender neutral alternative, obliging the State more vaguely to support care within the home and the community. It might seem like a small tweak. And certainly, there are some men who play a significant role as stay-at-home dads. But the male and female experiences in the workplace, home, and society-at-large are different. Women and men are not interchangeable. The pressures placed on mothers are unique. It’s she, having birthed the child in an experience that no man can replicate, who then navigates the delicate balance of work-versus-family.
Irish mothers, it would seem, knew best — with a thundering 74% vote in favor of protecting the original wording of the constitution.
The data has always supported such an outcome — which the government might have noticed, had they not blindly assumed that they could speak for the women of Ireland. <a href="https://everymum.ie/my-family/two-thirds-of-irish-mothers-would-prefer-to-stay-home-instead-of-going-to-work" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Two-thirds</a> of Irish mums would prefer to stay at home to parent full-time, than return to work — if only they could afford it.
It’s a sentiment echoed across the West, with <a href="https://time.com/4068559/gallup-poll-stay-at-home-mothers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">56%</a> of American mums agreeing that they’d prefer to stay home and prioritize child-raising over career advancement. Over a <a href="https://www.civitas.org.uk/2023/05/10/mothers-preferences-over-childcare-and-work/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">third</a> of their British counterparts concur. Today’s model of “boss babe” feminism typically stigmatizes this dream, requiring women regain social status by rejoining the rat race to the boardroom as soon as possible after giving birth.
But what have we gained from such a model? A plummeting birth rate, for one. The pressure on women to spend their twenties and thirties advancing through zoom calls and office cubicles has surely played a hand in the birthrate recently <a href="https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/irelands-birth-rate-drops-sharply-to-reach-lowest-level-in-decades-1598551.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">falling</a> to the lowest level on record in six decades. A generation of disillusioned women have been schooled that their value in society depends on their GDP contribution, rather than their input into raising the next generation.
Western governments have taken “maternity policy” to largely mean cheaper outsourcing of childcare, to allow women to return to work as soon as possible — rather than finding creative solutions to support women’s choices to prioritize parenting, and invest in raising the next generation. The outcome for society is yet to be fully unpacked. U.S. studies <a href="https://www.nichd.nih.gov/sites/default/files/publications/pubs/documents/seccyd_06.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">show</a> that lots of hours spent in outsourced daycare can have a link to increased aggression and disobedience in children, poorer relationships with teachers, and a higher susceptibility to risk-taking at the age of 15 — including through sex, drugs and alcohol use.
It’s not only an outdated concept of Carrie Bradshaw feminism that is downgrading the value and respect attributed to mums. The growing practice of surrogacy demands the commercialization of motherhood — downgrading the role of a pregnant mother as a mere “incubator” for a product to be passed on to a customer. An increasing trend amongst gay men growing a family through surrogacy is to announce the news on social media with their shirts off, in a hospital bed, posing as if post-birth. UK Law Commission proposals would seek to enable two dads in such a situation to be named on the birth certificate on the day, thus erasing both the legal and social role of a mother in the life of the child she carried and delivered.
There’s no question about it — dads are amazing, and are necessary in a child’s life. But a thousand excellent dads cannot replace one mum — and her unique, feminine, nurturing role. The life of a mother is an often thankless task. Ireland are miles ahead of the rest of the West in acknowledging her irreplaceable role within their constitution. It’s time now to put their words into practice — by honoring mums with better, more flexible work options, and the ability to make an empowered choice to stay absent from the workforce for the length of time she deems necessary to raise her children.
The Irish government have talked a strong game about supporting “choice” in recent years. If that’s the case, it’s long past time to support a woman’s choice to be a committed mum.
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Lois McLatchie Miller is Senior Legal Communications Officer for Alliance Defending Freedom UK. Follow her: @LoisMcLatch
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Mum’s Still The Word: Irish Legislature Shoots Down ‘Gender Neutral’ Referendum

Mum’s Still The Word: Irish Legislature Shoots Down 'Gender Neutral' Referendum

European Union

Fathers

Gender Equality

Gender Neutral

Ireland

Mothers

Parliament

Readers Pass

California Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gavin-newsom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gavin Newsom</a> suggested during an interview this week that California’s law requiring gender-neutral toy departments was something that his political opponents were weaponizing.
Newsom made the remarks during a Friday interview with Bill Maher on HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Real Time&#8221; while talking about the numerous regulations that the state has, which are often criticized.
&#8220;I think we have way too many regulations and laws,&#8221; Maher said. &#8220;And this one, I think, says, if you’re a department store with over 500 employees, you have to have a gender-neutral toy department.&#8221;
&#8220;That’s an interesting one because the department stores came to us supporting that and they were the ones making a case for that,&#8221; Newsom claimed in response. &#8220;They were making us — they were already moving in that direction.&#8221;
“They wanted you to make a law about them?” Maher asked.
Newsom responded by saying that the department stores wanted the legislation and claimed that his office did not initiate it.
&#8220;It wasn’t legislation that was initiated from my office, but it was legislation that came up with interesting support from the industry itself,&#8221; he claimed. &#8220;But I understand how that’s exploited and good people can disagree, but that’s not something we woke up and said this is a top priority for the state, when we know the top priorities are homelessness, housing, the issues of crime, quality of life, and issues related to regulation and taxes, which are all top of mind. But I get how those things are weaponized.&#8221;
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Newsom: Critics ‘Weaponizing’ Law That Forces Stores To Have Gender-Neutral Toy Departments

Newsom: Critics 'Weaponizing' Law That Forces Stores To Have Gender-Neutral Toy Departments

California

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I have not kept track of this officially, but I’m guessing that, of all the states in the country, California has been featured in the Daily Cancellation the most. 
This is perhaps, these days, the only good thing about California. Yes the entire state is a degenerate cesspool covered in sewage, but at least it provides plenty of content for the last segment of my show. And today the good news is they have done something so stupid that it graduates to the first segment. 
As the Daily Mail reports this week, in a little over a month from now a new law will go into effect in California. Is this a law to address the homeless problem? Is it a law meant to clean up the streets, tamp down on the rampant crime, and make communities safe and livable again? No, of course not. Why would California’s lawmakers care about any of that? No, this is a law that addresses a far more pressing concern: gender-neutral toy sections. 
We know leftists see the toy industry like they see everything: an ideological battleground, another politicized arena to defeat traditional concepts of gender and usher in a new ambiguous dystopia where kids can live as amorphous, genderless blobs of nondescript matter.
<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/california/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Mail</a> has more:
<blockquote>California retailers that refuse to have a gender-neutral section for children will be fined up to $500 under <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/gavin-newsom/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gavin Newsom&#8217;s</a> new bill. The ultra-woke governor signed legislation in 2021 that would require some retail stores in the Golden State to have a gender-neutral section for children. Retailers would have to do this &#8216;regardless of whether they have been traditionally marketed for either girls or for boys,&#8217; the bill said. The legislation, Assembly Bill No. 10584, will be enacted on January 1, 2024, and if retail department stores choose not to comply, they will have to dish out a civil penalty of $250 or $500. Department stores that are subject to the new laws will have to have a total of 500 or more employees, be physically located in California and sell &#8216;childcare items or toys’… Californian Democratic Congressman Evan Low backed the bill to the Associated Press  &#8216;We need to stop stigmatizing what&#8217;s acceptable for certain genders and just let kids be kids,&#8217; he said. &#8216;My hope is this bill encourages more businesses across California and the U.S. to avoid reinforcing harmful and outdated stereotypes,&#8217; Low said.</blockquote>
So, the law will end the segregated, Apartheid-like conditions in toy stores in the state, getting rid of gender labels and allowing toys to express their true, gender-fluid identities. This is all meant to reduce “harmful stereotypes.”
<h3><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1275-california-lawmakers-focus-on-what-matters-gender-neutral-toys" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h3>
You may be wondering, if you’re a sane person, how exactly does the average toy section in the average store “reinforce harmful stereotypes”? In fact, you may be wondering what a “harmful stereotype” even is, or how a stereotype can be harmful. Literally all gender stereotypes — and race stereotypes, and ethnic stereotypes — are grounded in truth. That’s how they became stereotypes. Which is why you have never in your life heard a stereotype about a group of people and said to yourself, “What? I’ve never seen anyone in that group act THAT way!” Stereotypes arise when we notice that certain groups of people tend to act certain ways, generally speaking. This isn’t harmful. It’s mostly neutral. It just is what it is. 
Fortunately, California state Representative Evan Low goes into more detail about this issue, trying to explain how and why “gendered toys” are dangerous: 
<blockquote>Part of it is to make sure if you’re a young girl that you can find a police car, fire truck, a periodic table or a dinosaur. And then similarly, if you’re a boy, if you’re more artistic and want to play with glitter, why not? Why should you feel the stigma of saying, ‘Oh, this should be shamed’ and going to a different location?</blockquote>
First of all, this is perhaps neither here nor there, but as a parent, I believe glitter should be shamed for both boys and girls. Glitter is a plague that has been banned from my house entirely. Glitter manufacturers should be raided by the FBI, forcibly shut down, and all of their employees thrown in federal prison. Even just one ounce of glitter will produce a mess in your house that can never be cleaned up. A glitter spill is like Chernobyl — you’ll still be dealing with the after-effects three decades later. The stuff is cursed, and should be banned. 
Anyway, aside from that, it appears Evan Low is laboring under the impression that, without this law in place, girls were somehow physically prohibited from entering the aisles where fire trucks and dinosaurs are sold. Or maybe he thought these items were hidden down some deep labyrinthine corridor where only those with Y chromosomes were allowed to enter. But this was not the case. Without the gender-neutral toy law, girls were easily able to find fire trucks and police cars if they wanted them. And there was nobody stopping them, or standing there pointing and laughing at them and saying, “Why are you buying that? You’re a girl!” That literally has never happened in the history of toy purchases. 
This bill is, at the very best, totally unnecessary. Which ironically is something the author of the bill basically admitted back when the legislation was first passed. Watch:
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“Stores are already doing this, which is why we need a law requiring that they do it!” That appears to be the argument. Because it has to go one way or another. Either this is a law that will impose on retailers the burdensome and utterly pointless task of rearranging their stores to make the toy sections less organized and more difficult to navigate for customers, or it’s a law mandating something that has already happened. Either the law is cumbersome and pointless, or redundant and pointless. Or, I suppose, cumbersome and redundant and pointless. I think it’s likely in that third category. But there is no scenario where the law is necessary or good.
That’s because, among other reasons, the binary is one of the fundamental, defining, immutable realities of human existence. With it comes the obvious physical differences between the sexes. But also, as we’ve alluded to, the differences in tendencies and interests. That’s why we’ve come to associate baby dolls with girls and toy trucks with boys. They don’t gravitate to their respective toys because we have made this association. We have made the association because they gravitate that way. 
Girls are natural nurturers and caretakers, boys are naturally builders and fighters. That’s why girls like the baby dolls and boys like the trucks and the action figures. If left to their own devices, almost all girls and boys will go in those separate directions. The Left doesn’t want to free boys to play with dolls or girls to play with trucks. They are already free to do that if they want to. Instead they want to engineer boys with feminine interests and girls with masculine interests. They are not actually trying to break outside of the binary at all. They’re trying instead to confuse the picture within it. 
That’s because you can’t break outside of it. Which is why it’s always funny to make note of the fact that the Left inevitably ends up accidentally reinforcing the gender binary in their efforts to deconstruct it. After all, if you walk into a section of the store and see fire trucks and baby dolls next to each other, and you say, “Oh this must be a gender-neutral section,” you are affirming the gender binary just by saying that. And laws requiring such arrangements are also affirming it. 
This is the terrible fact the Left can’t get around, no matter how hard it tries. The terrible fact — which is not terrible at all, in my view — is the gender binary. There are two sexes, and those two sexes have distinct features and functions, and they have certain tendencies and proclivities, and there is literally nothing you can do to escape that fact.
<h3><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/lady-ballers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: &#8220;Lady Ballers&#8221; on DailyWire+</a></h3>
This is what happens when you try to make non-binary toy sections, or non-binary people for that matter. A person who identifies as non-binary will usually end up dressing in some weird, clashing combination of male and female clothing. This person — let’s say a woman, for example — will be very careful to incorporate feminine and masculine elements in the way that she dresses and comports herself. Or at least that’s what she’ll try to do. Usually she’ll still end up looking like a woman — just a woman with a goofy sense of style. But even if she succeeds in appearing like some kind of mismatched, jumbled Mrs Potato Head Doll — with male and female elements mixed together — still she has not escaped the binary. Because still she only has male and female elements to work with. There is no third or fourth category. You can be a woman who looks like a woman, or a woman who looks a little bit like a man, or a woman who looks like some sort of avant-garde combination, but no matter what you are still stuck in the binary. 
In fact the more you try to escape the binary, the more you make yourself into a reminder of it.

George Clooney, California Governor Gavin Newsom and Senator Laphonza Butler celebrate the second year of The Roybal Film and Television Production School

California Lawmakers Focus On What Matters: Gender Neutral Toys

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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.

gender fluidity or gender confusion: baby doll staring sideways at buttons with pronoun choices

California Retailers Without ‘Gender Neutral’ Section For Kids Face Fines Up To $500 Under New State Law

California Retailers Without 'Gender Neutral' Section For Kids Face Fines Up To $500 Under New State Law

Business

Gender Identity

Lego

Target

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/disney">Disney</a> fans are furious as more photos of male employees dressed in women&#8217;s attire surfaced online.
The newest images come courtesy of Libs of TikTok. The account shared images on its X account which were reportedly submitted by Disney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/disneyland">theme park attendees</a>. 
“Disney has men dressed as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/social-issues">women</a>, wearing dresses greeting children at some of their attractions,&#8221; LOTT wrote in the X caption. “Received both of these this week from disturbed visitors.”
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Disney has men dressed as women, wearing dresses greeting children at some of their attractions. 
Received both of these this week from disturbed visitors. <a href="https://t.co/c0NGDhRKh3">pic.twitter.com/c0NGDhRKh3</a>
&mdash; Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1695164391694487592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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X users expressed outrage and disgust in their replies.
“Imagine paying all that money only to find drag princesses at Disney World,” one account <a href="https://twitter.com/heyjustpray/status/1695241590665515241">posted</a>.
“Total degeneracy,” a second <a href="https://twitter.com/itsreallyleah/status/1695671178755748192">agreed</a>. 
A third follower compared his time working at the parks with the way things are now. 
“When I worked at Disney World in the early 90s, male cast members could not have facial hair, you could not have visible tattoos (either sex), jewelry was limited in size and quantity, and females could only wear muted makeup. Plus, only males could work at 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Jungle Cruise,” he <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeGayHistorian/status/1695172464307826752">wrote</a>. “&#8230;I bet Walt is spinning in his cryogenic chamber.”
This wasn’t the first time Disney parks made headlines for photos of male employees in dresses. As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/disturbing-man-in-a-dress-welcoming-children-to-disneyland-princess-boutique-sparks-outrage-on-twitter">reported</a> in May, a TikTok clip of a man in a dress welcoming small children into Disneyland’s Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique went viral on social media.
The new pics appear to be taken outside the same boutique but feature different employees.
Disney Parks updated its uniform policy in 2021 to allow employees, or as they’re referred to in the park, “cast members,” to wear gendered clothing of their preference regardless of their biological sex.
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“We want our guests to see their own backgrounds and traditions reflected in the stories, experiences and products they encounter in their interactions with Disney,” a Disney official said in a statement at the time. “And we want our cast members — and future cast members — to feel a sense of belonging at work.”
The dress code also allowed cast members to show their tattoos and let men wear nail polish.
“Inclusion is essential to our culture and leads us forward as we continue to realize our rich legacy of engaging storytelling, exceptional service, and Disney magic,” the statement continued.
“Our new approach provides greater flexibility with respect to forms of personal expression surrounding gender-inclusive hairstyles, jewelry, nail styles, and costume choices; and allowing appropriate visible tattoos. We’re updating them to not only remain relevant in today’s workplace, but also enable our cast members to better express their cultures and individuality at work.”
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‘Total Degeneracy’: More Photos Of Male Disney Employees In Dresses Sparks Outrage Online

'Total Degeneracy': More Photos Of Male Disney Employees In Dresses Sparks Outrage Online

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&#8220;Yellowjackets&#8221; star Liv Hewson said the actor won&#8217;t compete for an Emmy award for the role of Vanessa &#8220;Van&#8221; Palmer on the hit Showtime series because of gendered acting categories.
The 27-year-old Australian actor said there was not an available category that would fit, opting instead to simply bow out of this year&#8217;s Primetime Emmys despite being eligible in the main acting races, <a href="https://variety.com/2023/tv/awards/liv-hewson-nonbinary-emmys-yellowjackets-1235594516/">Variety</a> reported.
&#8220;There&#8217;s not a place for me in the acting categories,&#8221; Hewson said. &#8220;It would be inaccurate for me to submit myself as an actress. It neither makes sense for me to be lumped in with the boys.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s quite straightforward and not that loaded,&#8221; the star added. &#8220;I can&#8217;t submit myself for this because there&#8217;s no space for me.&#8221;
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“It would be inaccurate for me to submit myself as an actress. It neither makes sense for me to be lumped in with the boys,” says Liv Hewson. <a href="https://t.co/Gm6Man2IEx">https://t.co/Gm6Man2IEx</a>
&mdash; VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) <a href="https://twitter.com/VanityFair/status/1651443062952927233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Hewson is probably best known for the role of Abby Hammond in the Netflix series &#8220;Santa Clarita Diet.&#8221; Hewson was part of the series from 2017 to 2019, the outlet noted.
At the age of 16, Hewson came out and announced the actor was &#8220;non-binary&#8221; and went by &#8220;they/them&#8221; pronouns.
Showtime had reportedly planned to submit Hewson&#8217;s work on the series for supporting drama actress along with other stars on the show like actress Christina Ricci, The <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12018219/Yellowjackets-star-Liv-Hewson-NOT-compete-Emmy-Award-gendered-categories.html">Daily Mail</a> noted.
The comments about the award categories come as various award shows have opted for the ridiculous decision of getting rid of gender acting categories for lead and supporting categories.
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Most recently, the Film Independent&#8217;s Spirit Awards said the organization would no longer use categories like &#8220;best actor&#8221; and &#8220;best actress&#8221; to celebrate stars in TV and movies in lead and supporting roles, according to a statement posted on the group&#8217;s website, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tv-film-award-ceremony-to-honor-acting-without-reference-to-gender-heres-what-they-will-now-be-called">reported</a>.
&#8220;We&#8217;re thrilled to join the other festivals and award shows that are already moving to celebrate great acting without reference to gender,&#8221; Film Independent President Josh Welsh shared in a press release.
&#8220;We&#8217;re also happy to welcome non-binary performers into the Spirit Awards without forcing them to choose to identify as male or female,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Additionally, it has been a long time since we substantially increased the budget limit for eligibility. This new cap allows us to continue to celebrate the same breadth of work that we have in the past.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/journalist-slams-another-award-show-going-woke-removing-best-actor-best-actress-category-to-be-gender-neutral">Journalist Slams Another Award Show Going Woke Removing Best Actor, Best Actress Category To Be Gender Neutral</a>

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Four female athletes who sued over a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/connecticut">Connecticut</a> transgender sports policy lost their case in federal court on Friday.
A three-judge panel on the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s decision to throw out the girls&#8217; case, which was seeking to scrap a policy that allows biological males to compete on girls&#8217; sports teams in Connecticut.
The four track athletes, Selina Soule, Chelsea Mitchell, Alanna Smith, Ashley Nicoletti, and their mothers had argued in their suit that Connecticut’s high school sports authority&#8217;s policy allowing transgender students to compete on girls&#8217; teams disadvantages female athletes and has caused them to lose out on opportunities and awards.
They had asked the court for an injunction to erase the victories of two biological male transgender athletes, who broke 17 girls&#8217; track records and snagged 15 women&#8217;s state track championship titles.
In 2019, two transgender athletes <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/high-school-students-file-lawsuit-to-block-transgender-athletes-in-connecticut/">finished</a> ahead of Soule, causing her to miss out on qualifying for finals and the opportunity to compete before college scouts. Mitchell has missed out on the state champion title four different times because she finished behind transgender athletes.
However, the judges were not convinced.
“Like the district court, we are unpersuaded, with respect to the claim for an injunction to alter the records, that Plaintiffs have established the injury in fact and redressability requirements for standing; both fail for reasons of speculation,” the judges wrote.
The judges said that because the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, which governs high school sports, &#8220;did not have adequate notice that the Policy violates Title IX — indeed, they had notice to the contrary — Plaintiffs’ claims for damages must be dismissed.&#8221;
The judges also referred to the Supreme Court&#8217;s 2020 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-supreme-court-rules-lgbt-individuals-protected-from-job-discrimination-under-title-vii">decision</a> ruling that the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity as well as sex.
&#8220;Thus, it cannot be said that the Policy – which prohibits discrimination based on a student&#8217;s transgender status by allowing all students to participate on gender specific teams consistent with their gender identity – ‘falls within the scope of Title IX’s proscriptions,'&#8221; the judges wrote.
The girls were represented by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), which argued their case before the 2nd Circuit in September. The group&#8217;s attorneys said they were looking at all their options after Friday&#8217;s defeat.
&#8220;The 2nd Circuit got it wrong, and we’re evaluating all legal options, including appeal,&#8221; ADF senior counsel Christiana Kiefer <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/federal-court-rejects-challenge-female-athletes-connecticut-transgender-sports-policy">said</a>. &#8220;Our clients—like all female athletes—deserve access to fair competition. Thankfully, a growing number of states are stepping up to protect women’s athletics.&#8221;
Meanwhile the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) celebrated the victory.
&#8220;The court rejected the baseless zero-sum arguments presented by the opposition to this policy and ultimately found transgender girls have as much a right to play as cisgender girls under Title IX,” said Joshua Block, senior staff attorney for the ACLU’s LGBTQ &amp; HIV Project. “This critical victory strikes at the heart of political attacks against transgender youth while helping ensure every young person has the right to play.”
Women&#8217;s and girls&#8217; sports have remained a battleground for the transgender issue across the country. At least 18 states now <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/federal-court-rejects-challenge-female-athletes-connecticut-transgender-sports-policy">have</a> legislation that aims to bar biological males from competing on girls and women&#8217;s sports teams.

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One of the first openly “gender-fluid” Biden administration employees was reportedly charged with a felony last month after allegedly stealing a woman’s suitcase from the baggage claim area at the Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP) International Airport.
Sam Brinton, deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the U.S. Department of Energy, allegedly removed a luggage tag from a navy blue Vera Bradley suitcase bag, dropped it into his handbag, and “then left the area at a quick pace” on September 16, 2022, according to a criminal complaint reported by<a href="https://alphanews.org/controversial-energy-official-charged-with-stealing-womans-luggage-at-msp/"> Alpha News</a>.
Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP) International Airport authorities confirmed to The Daily Wire an investigation involving Sam Brinton is underway.
Brinton, who has caused a stir among Americans for his role in the federal government for dressing in drag and boasting online about his puppy role-play fetish, reportedly flew into MSP with American Airlines just before 4:30 p.m. from Washington, D.C., According to the complaint, Brinton traveled without a checked bag, indicating he had no purpose of claiming a bag after landing.
The complaint alleges Brinton left the airport in an Uber and checked into the InterContinental St. Paul Riverfront hotel with the blue bag.
Briton returned to MSP two days later, on September 18, and flew back to Washington, D.C., with the same bag.
Records and video surveillance showed the suitcase belonged to a female passenger who flew into the MSP on a Delta flight from New Orleans. According to a report, she notified law enforcement that her bag and the contents inside — valued at around $2,325 — had gone missing in the baggage claim area on the same day Brinton allegedly took the luggage.
Nearly three weeks later, the criminal complaint alleges that video surveillance footage from Dulles International Airport in Virginia captured Brinton returning from Europe with the bag on October 9.
Authorities contacted Brinton that same day, asking if he “took anything that did not belong” to him.
“Not that I know of,” Brinton allegedly responded but later admitted he took the bag that had clothes inside belonging to him.
“If I had taken the wrong bag, I am happy to return it, but I don’t have any clothes for another individual. That was my clothes when I opened the bag,” he told police, according to the complaint.
He allegedly called authorities two hours later and apologized for not being “completely honest,” adding he took the bag thinking it was his in a state of exhaustion. The complaint also alleges Brinton realized it wasn’t his bag after opening it up at the hotel, at which point he “got nervous” and “didn’t know what to do.”
Briton allegedly told authorities he removed the clothes from the suitcase in the hotel room and returned to D.C. with the bag because it would have been “weirder” if he had left the bag at the hotel. However, authorities said no clothing was recovered from the hotel room.
Brinton is scheduled to appear in court on December 19 in Hennepin County.
The Daily Wire contacted the Hennepin County District Attorney’s Officer for comment but did not receive a response by press deadline.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Emma Corrin</a>, the former star of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/netflix">Netflix</a> series “The Crown,” is demanding that awards shows do away with gendered categories in favor of a gender-neutral alternative.
The 26-year-old has a personal interest in this topic after coming out as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gender-identity">non-binary</a> in July of 2021. Corrin said recently that awards shows should reflect the current times, which means changing the “best actor” and “best actress” categories into something different. 
“I don’t think the categories are inclusive enough at the moment,” Corrin told <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63741519">BBC News</a>. “It’s about everyone being able to feel acknowledged and represented.”
“The conversation needs to be about having more representation in the material itself, in the content that we are seeing for nonbinary people, for queer people, for trans people, because then I think that will change a lot,” Corrin said.
“When those parts come up, meaning more people and more actors are playing those roles, then I think there will be more of an urgency with which these questions will be addressed.”
Corrin went on to say that she has “hope for a future” when neutral awards categories are adopted across the board.
“It’s difficult for me at the moment trying to justify in my head being non-binary and being nominated in female categories,” Corrin continued. “When it comes to categories, do we need to make it specific as to whether you’re being nominated for a female role or a male role?”
The changes the “Crown” star requested are already happening in some places. A spokesperson for the BAFTA awards told BBC they were “engaged in proactive and thoughtful consultation on this subject.”
Rumor has it that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, host of the Oscars, might also be changing to gender-neutral categories. 
The Grammys changed to gender-neutral in 2012.
The Brit Awards also swapped out male and female solo categories into an artist of the year category in 2022. But when the singer Adele won, her acceptance speech made it clear she was critical of the change. 
&#8220;I understand why the name of this award has changed, but I really love being a woman and being a female artist. I do. I&#8217;m really proud of us,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/adele-faces-backlash-for-saying-she-loves-being-a-woman-at-gender-neutral-awards-show">she said</a> at the time. 
The Oscars also changed the description of a trans-identifying star on its website. “Ellen Page” on Oscars.org is now listed as “Elliot Page” with a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ellen-page-erased-from-oscars-imdb-pages-except-in-one-spot">short explainer</a>.
“NOTE: Nomination originally submitted under Elliot Page’s prior name. At the request of the nominee, following his December 1, 2020 announcement that he is transgender, his name has been changed accordingly with support of the Academy’s Awards and Events Committee,” it says.

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Superstar Geena Davis doesn&#8217;t sound on board with the idea of gender-neutral acting awards as the Independent Spirit Awards becomes the latest ones to go woke with its honors.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/geena-davis-great-roles-were-incredibly-scarce-after-i-turned-40">66-year-old</a> actress admitted she hadn&#8217;t heard that the Spirit Awards had made the decision to remove the categories &#8220;best actress&#8221; and &#8220;best actor,&#8221;  but made it clear she wasn&#8217;t all for it, the <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/geena-davis-is-ready-for-the-geenaissance">New Yorker</a> reported in a piece published Sunday.
&#8220;I hadn&#8217;t heard that, Davis shared. &#8220;So is there just going to be one Best Actor award instead of two?&#8221;
The interviewer explained that the awards show would instead go with &#8220;lead actor&#8221; and &#8220;supporting acting category&#8221; with ten nominees each.
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“People would say that I played eccentric characters. But in those circumstances I’m the normal one,” the actor Geena Davis says, in a new interview. “Even in ‘Stuart Little,’ Hugh Laurie and I are very normal about having a mouse as a son.” <a href="https://t.co/rRCKNkn8oU">https://t.co/rRCKNkn8oU</a>
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&#8220;Well, right there, you&#8217;re losing half of the awards, which might not be desirable,&#8221; Davis explained. &#8220;In a perfect world where male and female actors got an equal number of roles, and equally interesting and complicated roles, then I could see doing that, but it&#8217;s stacked against us from the beginning.&#8221;
&#8220;I feel like that&#8217;s a little too soon,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I haven’t really thought about it that much, but it&#8217;ll be interesting to see if an equal number of times a woman wins as a man.&#8221;
The Spirit Awards follows similar moves by the Grammys, Oscars, Emmys, and Tonys, who have all gone gender neutral, the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/geena-davis-spirit-awards-gender-neutral-acting-categories-1235242528/">Hollywood Reporter</a> noted.
In August, the Film Independent&#8217;s Spirit Awards <a href="https://www.filmindependent.org/press-releases/film-independent-moves-to-gender-neutral-categories-and-increased-budget-caps-for-the-2023-spirit-awards/">announced</a> it would follow other awards shows and start honoring &#8220;acting without reference&#8221; to gender in its upcoming ceremony being held in March 2023, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tv-film-award-ceremony-to-honor-acting-without-reference-to-gender-heres-what-they-will-now-be-called">reported</a>.
&#8220;We&#8217;re thrilled to join the other festivals and award shows that are already moving to celebrate great acting without reference to gender,&#8221; Film Independent President Josh Welsh shared at the time.
&#8220;We&#8217;re also happy to welcome non-binary performers into the Spirit Awards without forcing them to choose to identify as male or female,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Additionally, it has been a long time since we substantially increased the budget limit for eligibility. This new cap allows us to continue to celebrate the same breadth of work that we have in the past.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/journalist-slams-another-award-show-going-woke-removing-best-actor-best-actress-category-to-be-gender-neutral">Journalist Slams Another Award Show Going Woke Removing Best Actor, Best Actress Category To Be Gender Neutral</a>

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Leftists are forsaking the term “Latinx,” meant as a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gender-identity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gender-neutral</a> version of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hispanics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Spanish</a> descriptors “Latino” and “Latina,” for the purportedly more couth alternative “Latine.”
In a 2017 <a href="https://www.salon.com/2017/10/07/forget-about-latino-why-im-all-for-latinx-and-you-should-be-too/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> written by Salon writer Yessenia Funes, the term Latinx was praised as a solution from “feminist and queer Spanish speakers” to boost inclusivity within the “male-dominated Spanish language.” Though she recognized that the term may not “feel organic rolling off the tongue” for native speakers, Funes shrugged off the concern: “It is what it is.”
Today, however, the publication — as well as <a href="https://www2.cortland.edu/news/detail.dot?id=dfb98210-9e19-4fee-bcfb-6e10a0f023f2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">universities</a> and other <a href="https://www.abc4.com/gtu/free-festival-honoring-latine-community/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">media outlets</a> — have reversed course, instead preferring the term Latine. In another Salon <a href="https://www.salon.com/2022/09/25/stop-using-latinx-if-you-really-want-to-be-inclusive_partner/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> published earlier this week, writer Melissa Ochoa exhorted readers to “stop using ‘Latinx’ if you really want to be inclusive.”
“When I first heard Latinx in 2017, I thought it was progressive and inclusive, but I quickly realized how problematic it was. Five years later, Latinx is not commonly used in Spanish-speaking countries, nor is it used by the majority of those identifying as Hispanic or Latino in the U.S.,” she reasoned. “In fact, there&#8217;s a gender-inclusive term that&#8217;s already being used by Spanish-speaking activists that works as a far more natural replacement.”
Indeed, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-almost-no-hispanics-refer-to-themselves-as-latinx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey</a> from Pew Research found two years ago that only 3% of Hispanic people in the United States identify as “Latinx,” while another <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-poll-shows-only-2-of-hispanics-use-term-latinx-many-find-it-offensive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> from last year showed that only 2% prefer the label. The rest of the respondents used the terms “Hispanic,” “Latino,” or “Latina.” At the same time, other surveys have found a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wild-new-poll-shows-virtual-tie-between-parties-as-gop-surges-among-hispanics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">growing popularity</a> for the Republican Party among Hispanic voters.
Ochoa, acknowledging that those who prefer the word Latinx are “predominately English-speakers and have some college education,” also noted that Argentina and Spain explicitly banned the terminology. Rather than embracing one of the more traditional identifiers, however, Ochoa encouraged her readers to use Latine — an expression users can easily adapt to Spanish pronouns, such as by replacing the masculine “los” with “les,” or the demonym “mexicano” with “mexicane.”
“I believe Latine accomplishes what Latinx originally meant to and more,” she explained. “Similarly, it eliminates the gender binary in its singular and plural form… Linguistic theory posits that language shapes reality, so cultures and communities can create words that shape the inclusive world they want to inhabit.”
Ochoa also supports changing the term “wife beating” to “intimate partner violence” for the purpose of “increased social awareness.” Indeed, leftists often <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1542156847473377283" target="_blank" rel="noopener">modify language</a> in order to meet political goals.
Daily Wire host Matt Walsh featured the pivot from Latinx to Latine in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEmZYGaKKdQ&amp;t=408s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent episode</a> of “The Matt Walsh Show.” He noted that conservatives have been pointing out the lack of compatibility with Latinx and the broader Spanish language — as evidenced by the extraordinarily low popularity of the phrase — for several years.
“She is still proposing manipulating a language to suit the needs and desires of an academic elite,” Walsh said. “She is still advocating something that nobody in the Latino community uses or will use. She is still erasing sex distinctions. So ‘Latine’ has all of the same problems of ‘Latinx,’ except that it arguably maybe sounds slightly less stupid.”
Walsh observed that leftists are uniquely gifted at erasing past absurdities while forwarding new ones. “They’re going to find a way, somehow, to double down even while backing down.”

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“<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/saturday-night-live" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Saturday Night Live</a>” has added its first “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gender-identity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">non-binary</a>” cast member, and no, it’s not just a return of Pat.
The long-running NBC show, which critics say is more woke than funny, announced its new lineup, and it includes Molly Kearney, who goes by “Meatbrick” on social media and identifies as neither male or female. It’s apparently not a joke, like the early 1990s hilarious androgynous character Pat, played by Julia Sweeney.
“MEATBRICK MOVED TO NEW YORK !!!!” Kearney, who uses they and them for pronouns, wrote Thursday on Instagram.
The Cleveland native recently starred in Amazon&#8217;s series remake of the Tom Hanks film “A League of Their Own,” and has appeared in the Disney comedy-drama series “The Mighty Ducks.”
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Anyway, now that I don&#39;t have to tiptoe around this any more, here is the standup from Molly that I was referring to. Funny, but there&#39;s definitely a lot of &quot;Matt Foley&quot; in their delivery here:<a href="https://t.co/au8XZ7EkUG">https://t.co/au8XZ7EkUG</a>
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Kearney was one of four new cast members added for the show’s upcoming 48th season, which begins October 1, amid the departures of veterans including Pete Davidson and Kate McKinnon.
“This will be a transition year, and the change years are always difficult but also really exciting because there’s new people and things are changing, and a different generation comes into the show,” SNL creator Lorne Michaels told reporters after Monday night&#8217;s Emmy awards ceremony, where the show won the award for best variety sketch series.
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While the move will likely draw praise from progressives, the show’s jokes about ambiguous gender some 30 years ago would get it canceled with the same folks. Sweeney’s Pat, a character also featured in the 1994 film, &#8220;It&#8217;s Pat,&#8221; was always sidestepping people’s efforts to identify his or her gender.
Other new cast members include Marcello Hernandez, who was named a “new face of comedy” by Just for Laughs; NBC&#8217;s “Bring The Funny star” Michael Longfellow, and comedy writer Devon Walker.
In 1985, SNL became the first network show to put an openly gay person on the air when it hired Terry Sweeney. Since then, the show has featured several gay and lesbian cast members, including McKinnon.
Rob Schneider, who starred on SNL from 1990-1994, recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rob-schneider-reveals-the-moment-he-knew-saturday-night-live-was-over" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said in an interview</a> the show stopped being funny long ago. He told Glenn Beck he knew it was over when McKinnon, in her recurring role as Hillary Clinton, sang Leonard Cohen&#8217;s &#8220;Hallelujah&#8221; after Clinton lost the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump. Despite the song title, the performance was clearly not a celebration of Trump&#8217;s victory.
&#8220;It’s not as interesting,&#8221; Schneider said. &#8220;I mean to me it’s more interesting to go against … all the great comedians go against what the mob was doing.”

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