A counter-petition to permanently bury the “Star Wars” series “The Acolyte” from the franchise is growing in numbers after fans of the series by showrunner Leslye Headland — who promised it would be infused with LGBTQ themes — started a Change.org petition to get it renewed.
Started on August 22 on <a href="https://www.change.org/p/help-de-canonize-the-acolyte">Change.org</a>, “Star Wars” fans began a petition called “Help De-canonize The Acolyte,&#8221; <a href="https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2024/09/03/the-drama-around-the-canceled-woke-star-wars-show-the-acolyte-just-got-more-hilarious-n2178858">Red State</a> reported. It came after a <a href="https://www.change.org/p/renew-the-acolyte">petition</a> began calling for signatures to save the female-centric, sith-focused series following reports that Disney+ had canceled the series after one season — amid low ratings and lackluster reviews — as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/disney-cancels-star-wars-series-the-acolyte-season-2">reported</a>. 
“Like so many fans of Star Wars, I found the show ‘The Acolyte’ absolutely frustrating,” a description for the counter-petition read. “For some it might’ve been the abysmal writing, the ever-changing character motivations, or the awkward cinematography and strange jump cuts.”
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Help us De-canonize The Acolyte from Star Wars!
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“The show was completely misdirected,” it added. “For others could be the multiple ways the show breaks canon,  jangles keys of established characters damaging them in the future or the way the show makes the prophecy of the chosen one completely insignificant.”
“Help me show Disney that we want to reset the prequel era back to George&#8217;s original vision that I know so many of us love,” it concluded.
The counter-petition earned “more signatures in its first day,” than the original one to save the series did in its first day. The counter petition currently has more than 16,000 signatures, Red State noted. The renewal petition has more than 65,000 signatures.
Lucasfilm reportedly opted out of having a second season for the series, sources previously told <a href="https://deadline.com/2024/08/the-acolyte-canceled-no-season-2-star-wars-disney-plus-1236044233/">Deadline</a>.  The eight-part series launched on June 4 after scoring numerous glowing headlines that helped it land a strong opening with 4.8 million views in its first day on the streamer with its first two episodes. 
However, it struggled with <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/star_wars_the_acolyte/s01/reviews">luke-warm reviews</a> and poor ratings, falling out of the top 10 by the third week, the outlet noted. The series remained there until the finale, when it finally cracked into the 10th spot, with 335 million minutes, something that is believed to be the lowest ever for a “Star Wars” series finale, the outlet noted.
Before the series aired, Headland announced that the show would be “coded queer.” The showrunner told <a href="https://www.advocate.com/film/2021/7/01/lesbian-leslye-headland-brings-queer-lens-star-wars-franchise">The Advocate in 2021</a> that her goal was “to allow her own personal experiences as a queer woman shine through in the finished product.”
“There’s just no way that me being a queer woman is not going to be reflected in my work. I could try not to do it, but why would I? It just feels like a natural extension of what I do,” she said at the time.
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Counter Petition To Permanently Bury ‘Star Wars’ ‘Acolyte’ Series Growing After Fans Start One To Renew It

Counter Petition To Permanently Bury 'Star Wars' 'Acolyte' Series Growing After Fans Start One To Renew It

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More than two years after the release of my film &#8220;What is a Woman?,&#8221; it&#8217;s still impossible to get a straight answer to that question from gender activists, liberal professors and political commentators on the Left. They might call you &#8220;weird&#8221; for asking the question, or call you a transphobe, or call the police. But whatever they do, they won&#8217;t respond in any meaningful way to a question that, throughout all of human history up until very recently, has been extremely easy for every living person to answer. They won&#8217;t tell you the truth, which is that a woman is an adult human female. Instead, they&#8217;ll tell you that the definition of a &#8220;woman&#8221; is whatever you want it to be.
One of the many reasons this approach isn&#8217;t sustainable is that it&#8217;s extremely important, from a practical perspective, to have a functional definition of the word &#8220;woman.&#8221; This isn&#8217;t some abstract philosophical exercise. We need a definition of the word &#8220;woman&#8221; in order to interpret our laws, including the various pieces of civil rights legislation that have been passed over the years. And yet, there haven&#8217;t been a lot of court cases addressing the issue. Instead, major legal battles concerning gender ideology have primarily focused on the area of so-called &#8220;trans medicine.&#8221; The legal issues in those cases — including the landmark Sixth Circuit case upholding Tennessee&#8217;s ban on child castration — are about the degree of supposed &#8220;consensus&#8221; in the medical field on the issue of whether children should be sterilized. They&#8217;re about the rights of parents to decide what physicians do to their children but they&#8217;re not really about this fundamental, underlying issue — which is the most basic question of all, which is what it means for someone to be a woman, or a man.
This is changing, though, and it&#8217;s changing very quickly. Courts overseas are being forced to issue rulings on the definition of womanhood, and unsurprisingly, they are having difficulty conjuring up the right answer. They&#8217;re coming up with political rulings instead. The most recent case arrives to us from that perpetually confused country known as Australia, where the Federal Court has just made a landmark decision in a lawsuit by a man who claims to be a woman, and who now uses the name &#8220;Roxanne Tickle.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the background. In February of 2021, Roxanne Tickle downloaded an app called &#8220;Giggle for Girls,&#8221; which was advertised as a way for women to speak to other women, exclusively. It was specifically promoted as an online refuge by Giggle&#8217;s CEO, who said she created the app as a kind of safe environment for women after she suffered some form of sexual abuse in the past. 
So, yes, this case is quite literally &#8220;Tickle v. Giggle.&#8221; It may sound like an episode of Teletubbies, but it is in fact a real court case. 
Initially, an AI program at Giggle looked at Roxanne Tickle&#8217;s profile picture and concluded that he was probably a woman. So Tickle was allowed into Giggle. But a few months later, someone at Giggle took a closer look, and concluded that Roxanne Tickle was in fact a man, and that this fact was blindingly obvious to anyone who looked at his picture. So Roxanne Tickle was banned from Giggle, which led him to sue the company for sex discrimination. And ultimately Tickle won. Australia&#8217;s federal court decided that Tickle is, in fact, a woman, so Giggle has to pay tens of thousands of dollars in fake damages. (Giggle, in case you&#8217;re looking to download it, is apparently offline at the moment, although it&#8217;s supposed to relaunch soon. At its peak it had around 20,000 users, so it was never a particularly large platform).
It&#8217;s impossible to go any further in discussing this case without showing some footage of what Roxanne Tickle actually looks and sounds like, so here&#8217;s a news report that gives you some idea:
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This is one of those situations where you obviously don&#8217;t need a 50,000-word federal court decision to figure out if Roxanne Tickle is a man or a woman. So how exactly did the Australian federal court arrive at their decision? By what definition of &#8220;woman&#8221; does Roxane Tickle qualify? If you pull up the decision, not surprisingly, you won&#8217;t find an answer to that question. Instead, you&#8217;ll find what appears to be the first major court decision that officially defines &#8220;woman&#8221; to mean &#8220;whatever the court says it means.&#8221; 
From the court&#8217;s ruling: 
<blockquote>Sex is not confined to being a biological concept referring to whether a person at birth had male or female physical traits, nor confined to being a binary concept, limited to the male or female sex, but rather takes a broader ordinary meaning, informed by its use, including in State and Territory legislation.</blockquote>
I should pause here and let you know what you probably already assumed: the court just claimed that there are more sexes besides male and female, but never at any point names what those other sexes are. This is very common. In fact, out all of the people who tell us that there are more than two sexes, precisely none of them have ever told us what the other sexes are. Just trust me, bro. There are other sexes. Now stop asking questions.
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The court continues: 
<blockquote>&#8230;The determination of the sex of a person may take into account a range of factors, including biological and physical characteristics, legal recognition and how they present themselves and are recognised socially.</blockquote>
In other words, according to the Federal Court in Australia, &#8220;legislation&#8221; and &#8220;legal recognition&#8221; determines your sex now, along with other &#8220;factors&#8221; — including what other people think you are and how you present yourself. If you&#8217;re &#8220;recognized socially&#8221; as a woman, then you&#8217;re probably a woman. Of course, the problem is that if the definition of woman is: “Someone who is socially recognized as a woman,” we still have no idea what a woman is. Socially recognized as what exactly? What is that thing?
And why does social recognition matter? As far as I can tell, the court never polled all of Australia for its opinion on whether Roxanne Tickle qualifies as a woman. They apparently didn&#8217;t ask anyone, in fact. So really the court never determined that Tickle was &#8220;recognized socially&#8221; as a woman. That factor didn&#8217;t come into play. In truth, what the court is saying is that Roxanne Tickle is a woman because the court says so. They&#8217;re not conducting any social analysis of how people perceive this person, not that an analysis like that would be relevant anyway.
Specifically, the court said that back in 1984, Australia&#8217;s parliament passed a law called the &#8220;Sex Discrimination Act,&#8221; which protected women from discrimination. But the law never explicitly defined the word &#8220;woman&#8221; because everyone knew what it meant at the time. So now, a few decades later, the court unilaterally says that you&#8217;re a &#8220;woman&#8221; if the court says you&#8217;re one, after weighing a few factors that the court invented. They just kind of read that into the law. The court decides what a woman is. Although the court still cannot say what a woman is.
In effect, Australians are being commanded by their court system to ignore their common sense, which is informed by their knowledge of basic human biology. They&#8217;re being asked to ignore their own laws as well. And instead, they&#8217;re commanded to obey the ad hoc wisdom of the federal court system. A woman is anyone the court says is a woman. That’s all. End of story. This decision is going to be appealed to Australia&#8217;s highest court, but at the moment that&#8217;s the precedent that has just been set.
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We don&#8217;t have any kind of &#8220;landmark&#8221; case like this in the United States, at least not yet. But courts in this country are still proceeding on the same principle. This is a case that The Daily Mail first reported on last month, although it&#8217;s just starting to get attention now. A family in Maryland lost custody of their 16-year-old autistic son because they refused to pretend that he was really a girl. Apparently, the teenager went through difficult breakup with his girlfriend and attempted suicide in November 2021. He told his friends at the time that he was &#8220;LGBT&#8221; but still used masculine pronouns, as far as anyone knew.
But instead of treating this teenager as a deeply confused individual suffering from grief over a breakup and probably other mental health problems as well, Children&#8217;s National Hospital in Washington, D.C. reportedly determined that the boy suffered from &#8220;gender dysphoria&#8221; and was really a girl. It&#8217;s not clear how they came to that conclusion, or how much the hospital influenced that diagnosis. Then, according to the Daily Mail, the hospital, &#8220;used its emergency policies to keep the boy in its units and reported the parents to child protection services.&#8221; This went on for more than a month, at which point the child was then forced into foster care with a single mother who reportedly has a previous criminal record for assault. Then in July of 2022, the boy attempted suicide again — and this time the hospital took him back as a &#8220;girl.&#8221;
Now the boy&#8217;s parents are suing Children&#8217;s National Hospital, and the legal battle is apparently still underway. It&#8217;s been going on for two years. The child is now 19. (There&#8217;s conflicting information about whether this lawsuit is still active. The hospital told The Daily Mail it&#8217;s been withdrawn by the parents, but the parents deny that. The court filings in this case are sealed because it involves a minor but reportedly, the Fourth Circuit US Court of Appeals is now handling it.)
As it stands, the lawsuit focuses extensively on the hospital&#8217;s &#8220;non-gendered&#8221; chaplain, Lavender Kelley, who&#8217;s supposedly overseeing their child&#8217;s care. In fact, Kelley is reportedly responsible for finding the child his first foster home. Who is Lavender Kelley exactly? <a href="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/07/24/19/87721587-13668663-Pictured_above_is_hospital_Chaplain_Lavender_Kelley_who_is_belie-a-11_1721847266889.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Here&#8217;s a photo</a>:
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Surprising absolutely no one, Kelley is a gender ideologue and an LGBT activist. The Daily Mail reports that Lavender Kelly posted on Facebook in 2022 that children should be &#8220;transitioned&#8221; without their parent&#8217;s consent if necessary. You might be wondering what a children&#8217;s hospital would employ someone like this, who&#8217;s clearly focused more on activism than medicine. But as we know, many children&#8217;s hospitals — including Children&#8217;s National — are activist operations now. This is the same hospital that recently told Libs of TikTok on the phone that they perform “gender affirming hysterectomies” on 16-year-olds and “younger kids.” They openly admitted to removing the uteruses of confused children in order to affirm their supposed gender identity. That&#8217;s an act of barbarism that even so-called &#8220;trans healthcare providers&#8221; typically shy away from, at least in public. It&#8217;s too much, even for them. But it&#8217;s not too much for Children&#8217;s National and their &#8220;non-gender&#8221; chaplain. This is the kind of hospital that apparently gets to decide whether the government can take your child.
The only way horror stories like this happen is if courts allow them to happen, unilaterally. There&#8217;s no law in this country that allows hospitals to take your son away because the hospital says your son is really a girl, just like there&#8217;s no law in Australia that says a woman is anyone who says they&#8217;re a woman. But courts increasingly have no problem inventing new laws to this effect, and then enforcing them. Rather than answering the question &#8220;What is a woman?,&#8221; the judicial system is punishing people who actually have a working definition. It&#8217;s taking their kids away, in some cases, to very little fanfare. 
As I said, that story in Maryland broke last month, and it&#8217;s only now getting some degree of attention. What that means is that, as easy as it may be to hope that Australia&#8217;s completely unscientific and arbitrary understanding of gender won&#8217;t be adopted by judges in this country, the truth is that in at least one case so far, it already has been.

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A Court Finally Answered The ‘What Is A Woman?’ Question — And They Got It Wrong

A Court Finally Answered The 'What Is A Woman?' Question — And They Got It Wrong

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Disney+ has reportedly canceled the “Star Wars” series “Acolyte&#8221; created by showrunner Leslye Headland — who promised it would be infused with LGBTQ themes — after only one season amid low ratings.
Lucasfilm has opted out of having a second season for the female-centric, Sith-focused series, sources told <a href="https://deadline.com/2024/08/the-acolyte-canceled-no-season-2-star-wars-disney-plus-1236044233/">Deadline</a>.  The eight-part series launched on June 4 after scoring numerous glowing headlines that helped it land a strong opening with 4.8 million views in its first day on the streamer with its first two episodes. 
However, it struggled with <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/star_wars_the_acolyte/s01/reviews" target="_blank" rel="noopener">luke-warm reviews</a> and poor ratings, falling out of the top 10 by the third week, the outlet noted. The series remained there until the finale, when it finally cracked into the 10th spot, with 335 million minutes, something that is believed to be the lowest ever for a “Star Wars” series finale, the outlet noted.
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‘The Acolyte’ Canceled: No Season 2 For Disney+’s ‘Star Wars’ Series <a href="https://t.co/s8duAdwV3W">https://t.co/s8duAdwV3W</a>
— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) <a href="https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/1825672422139236432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/yet-another-star-wars-show-wants-to-challenge-the-story-this-is-about-power">director</a> previously talked about how her new series wasn&#8217;t going to be like what fans have seen in shows like “The Mandalorian” or “Andor.” 

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/who-is-disneys-new-star-wars-director-the-queen-of-raunch-comedy">Headland</a> said her new series looked “at the Jedi as an institution, as a concept, as an entity that has amassed a lot of power. And that’s good, I’m not saying that’s wrong.”
“I think you’re seeing the Jedi when they are this very, very large institution – a benevolent one – but they are closer to who they are in the ‘Phantom Menace’ than obviously in the Original Trilogy where you feel like they’re almost extinct,” the director added.
“In a weird way, in the ‘Phantom Menace’ and the Prequel Trilogy, the Jedi outnumber the Sith,” Headland continued. “And then in the Original Trilogy, the Empire outnumber the Jedi, which is why a show based on the ‘bad guys’ is interesting to me. In that era, what does the underdog look like? Even if they’re the bad guy.”
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Before the series aired, Headland’s said that her “Star Wars” series would be “coded queer” like the animated children’s movie “Frozen,” as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-acolyte-showrunner-says-shes-so-into-series-being-called-the-gayest-star-wars-calls-r2-d2-a-lesbian">reported</a>.
“When I saw Frozen as a grown a** woman, I cried through the entire movie,” she said at the time. “There was just something about the relationship between the sisters, the like devillainization of the classic kind of fairy tale ‘bad guy,’ you know, the concept of true love being between two sisters and not a heterosexual relationship. It just destroyed me, completely.”
She continued, “And I thought, ‘Gosh, I would love to make something like this, for lack of a better term, Disney.’ Meaning something that like my parents would have allowed me to see when I was younger as a queer person, but I would have been able to understand as a queer person. And I think I would have had a completely different life. And so I really was inspired by it and was like, ‘God, I would love to make a story like this.’”
In 2021, Headland <a href="https://www.advocate.com/film/2021/7/01/lesbian-leslye-headland-brings-queer-lens-star-wars-franchise">spoke to</a> The Advocate about having representation on “The Acolyte” and fully intending “to allow her own personal experiences as a queer woman shine through in the finished product.”
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Disney Cancels ‘Star Wars’ Series ‘The Acolyte’ Season 2

Disney Cancels 'Star Wars' Series 'The Acolyte' Season 2

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“X-Men ’97” creator and head writer Beau DeMayo claims he was fired from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marvel">Marvel</a> series earlier this year for posting about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lgbtq">gay pride</a>, but the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">company</a> recently issued a statement refuting that charge following some posts DeMayo made on social media.
“Mr. DeMayo was terminated in March 2024 following an internal investigation,” the studio said in a statement, per <a href="https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/marvel-x-men-97-beau-demayo-misconduct-gay-pride-post-1236108632/">Variety</a>. “Given the egregious nature of the findings, we severed ties with him immediately and he has no further affiliation with Marvel.”
A source told the outlet that DeMayo was accused of sexual misconduct and also violated his termination agreement. Those charges were not officially confirmed.
DeMayo shared his thoughts in a social post on Thursday night. 
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Firstly, I’m so grateful to have worked on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/XMen97?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#XMen97</a>, collaborating with some amazingly talented folks. Creating this revival was a dream come true and the support fans have shown is so touching. However, I felt it pressing for me to speak up in the wake of leaving the show… <a href="https://t.co/kbOTL3IQJj">pic.twitter.com/kbOTL3IQJj</a>
— Beau DeMayo (@BeauDemayo) <a href="https://twitter.com/BeauDemayo/status/1824252387202306097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
“Firstly, I’m so grateful to have worked on #XMen97, collaborating with some amazingly talented folks,” he wrote in an X post alongside an illustration of a character with a strong physical resemblance to himself. “Creating this revival was a dream come true and the support fans have shown is so touching. However, I felt it pressing for me to speak up in the wake of leaving the show.”
“Above is #XMen fan-art I posted on Instagram for Gay Pride in June,” DeMayo added. “On June 13, #Marvel sent a letter notifying me that they’d stripped my Season 2 credits due to the post. Sadly, this is the latest in a troubling pattern I suffered through while on working on #XMen97 and #Blade.”
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The former Marvel employee also reacted to the company statement, writing in a reaction posted later the same evening.
“The truth will be revealed. After their Disney Plus disaster, Marvel wants to mislead with alleged contract breaches over tweets. It’s tragic it’s come to this but unsurprising. Stay tuned,” he wrote.
Like so many other businesses, Marvel leaned into Pride month this year just like in years prior. The entertainment company released a series of Pride-focused comic book covers throughout the month of June featuring LGBTQ characters.
The company also posted on social media throughout June to celebrate Pride month.
DeMayo frequently tweeted about &#8220;X-Men &#8217;97&#8221; on his personal social media account, revealing details and storylines there. He also advertised a non-explicit OnlyFans account and posted topless photos of himself.
The LGBTQ publication Out <a href="https://www.out.com/television/2022/10/31/meet-beau-demayo-sexy-gay-marvel-writer-and-showrunner-know">named</a> DeMayo, “the Sexy, Gay Marvel Showrunner and Writer to Know” in 2022.

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‘X-Men 97’ Writer Claims He Was Fired Over Gay Pride Post; Company Says It Was For ‘Egregious’ Offense

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ESPN host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biology-is-not-bigotry-espn-broadcaster-fires-back-after-getting-slammed-for-defending-womens-sports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sam Ponder</a> has been fired by left-wing sports network ESPN after speaking out about the unfairness of biological males competing in women&#8217;s sports.
The network, which is owned by The Walt Disney Company, claimed they fired Ponder, along with Robert Griffin III, <a href="https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/espn-fires-nfl-sunday-countdown-host-sam-ponder" target="_blank" rel="noopener">due</a> to &#8220;financial reasons.&#8221;
However, social media platform X was rife with outrage about the host&#8217;s abrupt firing. Some noted that Ponder was the only female at the network speaking out about the vital gender issue, specifically when it comes to sports. It was also highlighted that former ESPN personality Sage Steele was similarly fired after she voiced some conservative opinions.
&#8220;So ESPN fires [Sam Ponder], the only woman at the network who [has] publicly said men don&#8217;t belong in women&#8217;s sports,&#8221; Riley Gaines posted. &#8220;Three weeks before football season? Sam is one of the most beautiful, genuine women I&#8217;ve ever met along with [former ESPN host Sage Steele] who had a similar fate&#8230;.not a coincidence.&#8221;
Gaines was a Division 1 swimmer who was deprived of an NCAA award at the championship tournament when she tied trans-identifying male swimmer Lia Thomas.
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So ESPN fires <a href="https://twitter.com/samponder?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@samponder</a>, the only woman at the network who was publicly said men don&#8217;t belong in women&#8217;s sports. 3 weeks before football season?
Sam is one of the most beautiful, genuine women I&#8217;ve ever met along with <a href="https://twitter.com/sagesteele?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@sagesteele</a> who had a similar fate&#8230;.not a coincidence. <a href="https://t.co/igeC87UOnK">pic.twitter.com/igeC87UOnK</a>
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1824151918966608105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
Most recently, Ponder applauded Italian fighter Angela Carini for refusing to speak to the media after her brutal Olympic match against Algerian fighter Imane Khelif, who failed a past gender test. Carini stopped the fight after 46-seconds.
&#8220;ENOUGH is what all of us should be saying!! Proud of this woman,&#8221; Ponder said of Carini.
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ENOUGH is what all of us should be saying!! Proud of this woman 👏🏼💪🏼 <a href="https://t.co/C23l9Sn2js">https://t.co/C23l9Sn2js</a>
— Samantha Steele Ponder (@samponder) <a href="https://twitter.com/samponder/status/1819011544425836551?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
Concerning the same issue, Ponder posted online last year, &#8220;Biology is not bigotry. Loving people does not require the absence of boundaries.&#8221;
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Biology is not bigotry. Loving people does not require the absence of boundaries.
— Samantha Steele Ponder (@samponder) <a href="https://twitter.com/samponder/status/1663935602226593793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 31, 2023</a></blockquote>
She also seemingly foreshadowed her own firing, writing: &#8220;I barely said anything publicly [about] this issue &amp; I’ve had so many ppl msg me, stop me in the street to say thank you+ tell me stories [about] girls who are afraid to speak up for fear of lost employment/being called hateful,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It is not hateful to demand fairness in sports for girls.&#8221;
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I barely said anything publicly abt this issue &amp; I’ve had so many ppl msg me, stop me in the street to say thank you+ tell me stories abt girls who are afraid to speak up for fear of lost employment/being called hateful. It is not hateful to demand fairness in sports for girls <a href="https://t.co/teNoMDWNW4">https://t.co/teNoMDWNW4</a>
— Samantha Steele Ponder (@samponder) <a href="https://twitter.com/samponder/status/1661771033320337417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
Ponder has also made other comments that some have viewed as conservative, such as defending Kansas City Chiefs kicker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-chiefs-kicker-harrison-butker-breaks-silence-says-he-will-continue-to-be-unapologetic-catholic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harrison Butker</a> for a recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chiefs-kicker-slams-biden-and-dei-in-commencement-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commencement address</a> he gave at Catholic school Benedictine College. In the speech, Butker praised his wife and other homemakers.
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— Samantha Steele Ponder (@samponder) <a href="https://twitter.com/samponder/status/1791610078073934250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
The sportscaster also wished former President Donald Trump well after he was shot in the ear in a failed assassination attempt.
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Horrifying and evil. God be with President Trump and his family. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
— Samantha Steele Ponder (@samponder) <a href="https://twitter.com/samponder/status/1812263155138994392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2024</a></blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boxers-who-failed-gender-tests-make-it-to-gold-medal-match-heres-what-you-need-to-know" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boxers Who Failed Gender Tests Make It To Gold Medal Match. Here’s What You Need To Know.</a>

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ESPN Fires Female Host Who Spoke Out About Males In Girls’ Sports

ESPN Fires Female Host Sam Ponder, Who Spoke Out About Males In Girls’ Sports

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The “transing” of America’s foster care system is under way, and Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz are totally on board. It doesn&#8217;t bother them that injecting trans ideology into foster care means that some vulnerable children are banned from finding new homes with loving families. It&#8217;s already happening. Just ask the Harmon family of St. Peter, Minnesota. 
My organization, the Conscience Project, has released a <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://youtu.be/GJ6C23vlkrE__;!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!1GW-6-FsGO7zxVgsbbrpiHbMr6lgxxVpPEee0qtsw31E7V5SzhruZEzKaKY91L7rDQR_7wB2hHYeenmjdpc$" target="_blank" rel="noopener">short video</a> documenting what Nancy and Jay Harmon had to endure. The couple has fostered around 50 children over the last 25 years. Nancy was a foster child herself. In December 2021 the Harmons took in three sisters aged 9, 10, and 11. The girls had suffered unimaginable abuse and neglect by their biological parents. Nancy recalls, for example, that when the water went out at the girls’ house, their biological parents “told them to collect rainwater.” At times, the oldest girl has claimed to be “nonbinary.”
In the summer of 2022, Nancy and Jay were asked by the adoption agency contracted by their county’s child social service department to consider adopting the girls. After much “prayer and reflection, given the girls&#8217; significant mental health and physical needs,” they agreed to adopt the girls. 
Several months later, as the Harmons waited for news of what they thought was a pending adoption, Nancy opened an email mistakenly sent to her by the adoption agency to the county. “When are we going to tell the Harmons that they’re not the right fit?” she read. Nancy was astonished. She reached out to county officials for clarification. She was told that it was because of her “religious beliefs.” 
What exactly are the “religious beliefs” that would render the Harmons incapable of a permanent relationship with the girls they had cared for over two years?
Nancy and Jay are devout Christians and hold to a Biblical understanding of the human person, made God’s image and as described in Genesis: “Male and female, He created them.”
The county argued that, in light of the oldest girl’s “gender nonconformity,” it was in the best interests of the children to find a more “affirming” household. A government official even suggested splitting up the sisters and asked if the Harmons would be willing to adopt just the two youngest ones. Nancy and Jay were incredulous.
It was only after the girls’ private psychiatrist recommended that the girls stay together that the county and the private adoption agency changed course and allowed the adoption to go through. In December 2023, all three girls were adopted by the Harmons.   
Nancy has also shared her family’s story as a <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://svm008.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/23-4169-Conscience-Project-Amicus-Brief.pdf__;!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!1GW-6-FsGO7zxVgsbbrpiHbMr6lgxxVpPEee0qtsw31E7V5SzhruZEzKaKY91L7rDQR_7wB2hHYec6GDIxs$" target="_blank" rel="noopener">friend of the court</a> in support of Jessica Bates, an Oregon mother of five who wanted to adopt two siblings under the age of 10. During training with Oregon’s family services, Jessica was told that she had to agree to &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; indoctrination as a condition to be certified to adopt through the state. When she objected, pointing to her Christian beliefs, she was told she was ineligible to adopt. Jessica’s <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://adflegal.org/case/bates-v-pakseresht__;!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!1GW-6-FsGO7zxVgsbbrpiHbMr6lgxxVpPEee0qtsw31E7V5SzhruZEzKaKY91L7rDQR_7wB2hHYeo2f7uc4$" target="_blank" rel="noopener">case</a> is currently before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, a court infamously known for toeing the progressive line.
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A tragedy was averted for the Harmons, but foster families like theirs continue to be targeted by ideologues. Let’s not forget that the Harmons live in Minnesota. Tim Walz’s Minnesota.
This spring, Governor Walz proudly signed into law <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF146&amp;version=1&amp;session=ls93&amp;session_year=2023&amp;session_number=0__;!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!1GW-6-FsGO7zxVgsbbrpiHbMr6lgxxVpPEee0qtsw31E7V5SzhruZEzKaKY91L7rDQR_7wB2hHYerUS7ix8$" target="_blank" rel="noopener">legislation</a> that encourages out-of-state, &#8220;gender non-conforming&#8221; children whose parents object to them receiving medical intervention to come to Minnesota. And Walz’s Minnesota is one of <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/foster_and_adoption_laws__;!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!1GW-6-FsGO7zxVgsbbrpiHbMr6lgxxVpPEee0qtsw31E7V5SzhruZEzKaKY91L7rDQR_7wB2hHYeIoVdoeQ$" target="_blank" rel="noopener">28 states</a> that treat gender identity as a protected class, and treat any failure to “affirm” a foster child’s supposed identity as discrimination.
Like Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris has been riding the trans bandwagon, to the detriment of vulnerable foster kids. The Biden-Harris administration, for example, recently finalized <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/04/30/2024-08982/designated-placement-requirements-under-titles-iv-e-and-iv-b-for-lgbtqi-children__;!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!1GW-6-FsGO7zxVgsbbrpiHbMr6lgxxVpPEee0qtsw31E7V5SzhruZEzKaKY91L7rDQR_7wB2hHYepVAmOw0$" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rules</a> that demand that states provide “designated placements” for foster children who identify as “LGBTQI+”.  These “providers”, the administration explains, are “specially designated to serve LGBTQI+ children because they have made a set of commitments and undergone training to better meet the needs of LGBTQI+ children.” The providers are ideologues, in other words. The rule will certainly limit the number of homes available to LGBTQ+-identifying foster children to those that are “affirming.” The progressive group Human Rights Campaign <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/unity-more-than-1-100-lgbtq-leaders-celebrities-and-influencers-representing-millions-sign-letter-in-support-of-vice-president-kamala-harris__;!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!1GW-6-FsGO7zxVgsbbrpiHbMr6lgxxVpPEee0qtsw31E7V5SzhruZEzKaKY91L7rDQR_7wB2hHYeQ1UT2yM$" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cites</a> these new rules in their effusive support for Harris’s presidential run. 
Nancy and Jay Harmon are wonderful people who have opened their home to children in need because of their Christian beliefs. Kamala Harris and Tim Walz think those same beliefs render them ineligible to do so. Is this the kind of America we want? Is this kind of America the Constitution permits? I don’t think so.
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Andrea Picciotti-Bayer is Director of the <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://conscience-project.org/__;!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!1GW-6-FsGO7zxVgsbbrpiHbMr6lgxxVpPEee0qtsw31E7V5SzhruZEzKaKY91L7rDQR_7wB2hHYeQoIFzhw$" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Conscience Project.</a>
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How Trans Ideology Is Infecting The Foster Care System

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Tim Walz may have the manner of a kindly, Midwestern dad. But when it comes to protecting the country&#8217;s children from transgender medical interventions, Walz is not interested. In fact, he wants the opposite.
Vice President Kamala Harris tapped the Minnesota governor as her running mate Tuesday, prompting scrutiny of his progressive record on everything from immigration to abortion and gender ideology.
Walz <a href="https://mn.gov/governor/newsroom/press-releases/?id=1055-575115#:~:text=Governor%20Tim%20Walz%20today%20signed,affirming%20health%20care%20in%20Minnesota." target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> a cluster of legislation in April 2023 that established Minnesota as a haven for children who want puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or transgender surgeries.
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Tim Walz at his signing of legislation to make Minnesota a sanctuary for children who want transgender medical interventions last year <a href="https://t.co/mZMyt1VoGI">pic.twitter.com/mZMyt1VoGI</a>
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Minnesota parents have socially transitioned their 6 year old son and are convinced he is a girl. They celebrate the Governor&#39;s signing of an executive order protecting their ability to abuse their child. <a href="https://t.co/xwkZ48P3kG">pic.twitter.com/xwkZ48P3kG</a>
&mdash; Expose Them (@ExposeDarkDeeds) <a href="https://twitter.com/ExposeDarkDeeds/status/1633916581049782272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Here in Minnesota, we stand with our trans youth against hateful laws and damaging rhetoric. Our work to ensure all Minnesotans – especially our trans neighbors – are safe, valued, and respected continues.
&mdash; Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovTimWalz/status/1626271257607000067?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 16, 2023</a></blockquote>
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One law Walz signed allows Minnesota to seize custody of a child whose parents refuse to provide &#8220;gender affirming care.&#8221;
&#8220;A court of this state has temporary emergency jurisdiction if the child is present in this state and &#8230; the child has been unable to obtain gender-affirming health care,&#8221; the bill <a href="https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF146&amp;type=bill&amp;version=1&amp;session=ls93&amp;session_year=2023&amp;session_number=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reads</a>.
The same law says Minnesota will refuse to help if another state is trying to remove a child from his or her parents because the parents are subjecting the child to hormone treatments or surgeries.
Another <a href="https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?f=HF16&amp;b=house&amp;y=2023&amp;ssn=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a> banned &#8220;conversion therapy,&#8221; a vague term often used to dismiss talk therapy wherein mental health professionals help make children comfortable with their biological sex, rather than shunting them towards transgender surgeries and hormone treatments.
“We’re also protecting young and vulnerable Minnesotans from the harmful and discredited practice of conversion therapy. We’re putting up a firewall to ensure Minnesotans have the freedom to make their own health care decisions,” Walz said in a statement at the time.
The previous month, in March of 2023, Walz <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walz-signed-exec-order-protecting-trans-procedures-on-minors-while-holding-hand-of-gender-confused-12-year-old">signed</a> an executive order reaffirming legal transgender medical interventions for children ahead of the legislation.
At the signing, Walz squeezed the <a href="https://x.com/JohnCroman/status/1633518799310790662" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hand</a> of a 12-year-old boy wearing a dress who identified as a girl. A six-year-old boy, also in a dress, was in attendance with his parents, who are raising him as a girl.
&#8220;For trans rights,&#8221; the squirming six-year-old said when asked by a reporter why his family was there.
&#8220;Guess what? Love wins,&#8221; Walz said at the order signing.
Walz&#8217;s lieutenant governor, Peggy Flanagan, <a href="https://x.com/greg_price11/status/1820860171574464772" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wore</a> a shirt with a picture of a knife and the words, &#8220;Protect Trans Kids&#8221; to the signing.
In May of last year, Walz signed legislation requiring boys&#8217; bathrooms in public schools to stock free tampons or pads beginning in January 2024.
&#8220;The products must be available to all menstruating students in restrooms regularly used by students in grades 4 to 12 according to a plan developed by the school district,&#8221; the bill <a href="https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF2497&amp;type=bill&amp;version=5&amp;session=ls93&amp;session_year=2023&amp;session_number=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reads</a>.
The Minnesota Department of Education has encouraged schools since 2017 to &#8220;affirm&#8221; a child&#8217;s new gender identity, even when parents disagree.
&#8220;A supportive school will create an affirming and accepting environment for every student, including transgender and gender nonconforming students and the family’s non-acceptance should not override the schools’ responsibility,&#8221; the education department&#8217;s toolkit on trans-identifying students <a href="https://education.mn.gov/MDE/dse/safe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reads.</a>
Walz has embraced left-wing gender ideology since at least 2017, when he <a href="https://x.com/Tim_Walz/status/928085006261653506" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> in celebration of the country&#8217;s first trans-identifying legislator in the Virginia House, Danica Roem, a man who identifies as a woman. He has mentioned &#8220;trans youth&#8221; at least four times on social media over the last few years.
&#8220;Here in Minnesota, we stand with our trans youth against hateful laws and damaging rhetoric,&#8221; Walz posted on <a href="https://x.com/GovTimWalz/status/1626271257607000067?lang=en&amp;lang=en">X</a> last year.

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‘Trans’ Six-Year-Olds, Custody Battles, And Tampons For Boys: Tim Walz’s Record On Kids and Gender Ideology

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Flaming spokes-queer for the Olympics Thomas Jolly has issued an apology for an opening ceremony display in which drag queens ridiculed Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous depiction of Jesus Christ’s Last Supper. Jolly, who is gay, which also means jolly, who is totally gay, said in his apology, “I want to sincerely apologize to any far-right turds who are still stupid enough to believe in God and therefore may have felt all grumpy and offended when we spit on everything they hold dear. By way of making amends, let me explain to you ignorant buffoons that the drag queen imitation of the Last Supper was not a drag queen imitation of the Last Supper but instead was a tribute to the Greek god of wine Dionysus and was simply meant as a celebration of the fact of our being alive because we had drag queens imitate the Last Supper, instead of mocking Muslims who would have stopped us from being alive by throwing us off a roof.” 
Flaming spokes-queer gay Jolly later amended his apology to say, “Okay, it had nothing to do with Dionysus and we were mocking the Last Supper but it was still a celebration of being alive because we were too chicken to mock Muslims.” 
Now on a personal note, it may be true that some touchy, small-minded Christians were put out by having one of the most solemn moments in a faith centered on truth and morality ridiculed by a bunch of men in falsies and lipstick interrupting a life of self-degradation and the corruption of children in order to pervert a magnificent Christian work of art by turning it from a thing of beauty into a barely watchable display of homosexual narcissism, however I take a broader view. 
When it comes to the Olympics, I know that dedicated young people have worked their hearts out with uncanny discipline and commitment in order to perform stunning feats of athletics that absolutely no one cares about. For two weeks, all over the world, people gaze in amazement at their television sets and think, “Is there really nothing more interesting on? Like reruns of “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,” or “Australia’s Naughtiest Videos.” And of course, I’m generalizing here, so please don’t write in and say you’re offended. Obviously, beach volleyball can be tolerable if the girls are really built. And “Australia’s Naughtiest Videos” actually had some good episodes too.
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But for those of us who have standards or good taste or are sentient, the Olympics is like watching paint dry after it’s done a bunch of somersaults on the parallel bars and a group of corrupt foreigners hold up signs giving it a completely arbitrary score before awarding their country a gold medal for best drying paint. 
And normally I and other people with sex lives don’t think about the Olympics at all except to wish that it was over because that would mean it’s almost football season. But all that changed this year, because of flaming spokes-queer gay Jolly’s mockery of a religion he won’t be able to comprehend until he stands before the throne of God wondering if the old Dionysus excuse will get him out of the eternal punishment he so richly deserves. But now, I can not watch the Olympics with a real sense of accomplishment. Instead of simply taking a walk or maybe reading a book to learn more about the brilliant artistry and symbolism of Da Vinci’s masterpiece so I can understand just how beautiful a work flaming gay Jolly was mocking when he managed to mix shallowness with cowardice by simultaneously snickering at the God who loves him while kowtowing to the God who would happily toss him off a roof&#8230;
Where was I going with this sentence?
Oh yeah, instead of just ignoring the whole thing by not watching it, I can not watch it with a new purpose and gusto, feeling that my natural unwillingness to be bored to death by people doing somersaults for some reason has been given fresh meaning by my deep desire to tell flaming gay Jolly that it would have been much better if he had actually participated in this year’s Olympic events by taking a flying jump.
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Andrew Klavan is the host of “The Andrew Klavan Show” at The Daily Wire. He is the bestselling author of the Cameron Winter Mystery series. The third installment, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/House-Death-Cameron-Winter-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B0BW1ZTVP9?ref_=ast_author_dp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The House of Love and Death</a>,” is now available. Follow him on X: @andrewklavan
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Too Chicken To Mock Muslims, Gay French People Mock The Last Supper

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Two boxers who were previously barred from a women&#8217;s competition over gender concerns are set to compete in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/paris-olympics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Paris Olympics</a>.
Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu‑ting of Taiwan were disqualified from the Women’s World Boxing Championships in New Delhi last year after their chromosome tests came back as XY. Men typically have XY chromosomes, while women have XX chromosomes.
“Based on DNA tests, we identified a number of athletes who tried to trick their colleagues into posing as women,” Umar Kremlev, president of the International Boxing Association, which governs the World Boxing Championships, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/boxers-olympics-imane-khelif-lin-yu-ting-gender-eligibility-rcna164257" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at the time.
“According to the results of the tests, it was proved that they have XY chromosomes. Such athletes were excluded from competition,” Kremlev said.
However, both boxers have been cleared to fight in the women’s 66-kilogram and women’s 57-kilogram matches this week at the Paris Olympics, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/boxers-olympics-imane-khelif-lin-yu-ting-gender-eligibility-rcna164257" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confirmed</a>.
Khelif is set to fight Italy’s Angela Carini on Thursday. Carini said in an emotional tribute after one of her victories recently that she <a href="https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/videos/emotional-reaction-boxer-angela-carini-paris-2024-spot-italy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wanted</a> to win for her father, who has passed away.
Yu‑ting is scheduled to <a href="https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/sitora-turdibekova_1555074" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fight</a> Uzbekistan’s Sitora Turdibekova on Friday.
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In 2021, the IOC changed its transgender rules, allowing each sport&#8217;s governing body to decide whether a trans-identifying athlete should compete. The Paris 2024 Boxing Unit is in charge of eligibility standards for this year&#8217;s Olympic boxing.
On social media, backlash mounted over a viral video of Khelif pummeling a female opponent, Mexico’s Brianda Sandoval, during a December 2022 fight.
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Two men have been allowed to compete in women’s boxing for the 2024 Olympics.
Biological male, Imane Khelif (blue), is on video boxing Mexico’s Brianda Sandoval.
We live in the stupidest of times. <a href="https://t.co/UZQMshhT3S">pic.twitter.com/UZQMshhT3S</a>
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Cruz spoke out recently about the viral fight, saying that afterwards, she had &#8220;never felt like that in my 13 years as a boxer, nor in my sparring with men.&#8221;
&#8220;When I fought her I felt very out of my depth,&#8221; Cruz <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/former-opponent-olympic-boxer-gender-eligibility-controversy-speaks-out-her-blows-hurt-me-lot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Telegraph. &#8220;Her blows hurt me a lot. Thank God that day I got out of the ring safely, and it’s good that they finally realized.&#8221;
Trans-identifying males competing with women has become a hot button issue in recent years. Female athletes have spoken out about how competing against biological males affected them, saying they missed out on opportunities and scholarships because they lost competitions, and they felt uncomfortable sharing locker rooms with their male competitors.
Critics have also raised serious concerns about biological males playing alongside women and girls, including high school girls getting physically injured. Last year in North Carolina, a female high school volleyball player <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/female-high-school-volleyball-athlete-suffers-serious-head-injury-after-transgender-player-throws-abnormally-fast-ball/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suffered</a> severe trauma after a trans-identifying male player spiked a volleyball that hit her head.

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The opening ceremonies of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/paris-olympics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Paris Olympics</a> on Friday featured a parody of The Last Supper with an obese woman wearing an aureole as Jesus surrounded by drag queens as the Apostles, a decapitated head representing Marie Antoinette of the French Revolution, and drag queens dancing around children.
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Wtf is going on at the Olympics opening ceremony? <a href="https://t.co/rWIjH8ZVwP">pic.twitter.com/rWIjH8ZVwP</a>
&mdash; Harrison Faulkner (@Harry__Faulkner) <a href="https://twitter.com/Harry__Faulkner/status/1816920155399602352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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It seems glorifying drag blasphemy and the horrors of the French Revolution were key moments of the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics.
I think I’ll let other journalists report on the games, this year. <a href="https://t.co/eJGAfGsbaa">pic.twitter.com/eJGAfGsbaa</a>
&mdash; Bree A Dail (@breeadail) <a href="https://twitter.com/breeadail/status/1816947319125762348?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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We are absolutely disgusted to see these drag queens and half-naked gender cultists dance around little kids at the Olympics for the entire world to watch.
This agenda isn&#39;t just an American issue. It&#39;s global. And if this doesn&#39;t horrify you, then you aren&#39;t paying attention. <a href="https://t.co/N6aHjmHzAi">pic.twitter.com/N6aHjmHzAi</a>
&mdash; Gays Against Groomers (@againstgrmrs) <a href="https://twitter.com/againstgrmrs/status/1816964542838243731?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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WHY is a child amongst scantily clad transvestites?
WHY are there ALMOST ALWAYS children involved or exposed to this? <a href="https://t.co/dBzMXlaUHW">pic.twitter.com/dBzMXlaUHW</a>
&mdash; Bree A Dail (@breeadail) <a href="https://twitter.com/breeadail/status/1816950655002574967?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Actual opening ceremony of the Olympics. 
This isn’t parody.
RIP Olympics. <a href="https://t.co/5gk1yObldB">https://t.co/5gk1yObldB</a>
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The artistic director of the Paris Olympics is Thomas Jolly, who<a href="https://olympics.com/en/news/opening-ceremony-paris-2024-olympics-glory-thomas-joly-artistic-director-event"> stated</a>, “Above all, I want this ceremony to include everyone. We must all celebrate this diversity.” He also <a href="https://apnews.com/article/olympics-2024-opening-ceremony-thomas-jolly-165c4ed071be5e65fd854dedef693a0f">said</a>, “I was overwhelmed at first. I wondered how I could create a show where everyone can feel represented as part of this great union. This responsibility was ambitious, complex, but magnificent for an artist.&#8221;
He added, “When we watch ‘Emily in Paris’ or ‘Amélie Poulain,’ we know it’s not quite the real Paris. We’re going to play with all those cliches, but we’re also going to challenge them. Paris is also a vibrant youth. Different cultures rubbing shoulders in the streets. I’ll be fired if I tell you anything. All I can tell you is that it will be very meaningful for the artists that will perform.”
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“Jolly expressed his intent before the ceremony to ‘play with’ but also ‘challenge’ French cliché, and in the most vibrant, exciting celebration of French identity in the ceremony so far, they did a full musical, metal–opera–Cameron Mackintosh mash-up tribute to … the guillotine!” <a href="https://www.vulture.com/article/olympics-2024-opening-ceremony-metal-marie-antoinette.html">Vulture</a> reported.
“Jolly’s liberation of the ceremony conveyed more about his own outsize ambitions than his nation’s identity,” The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/2024/07/26/paris-olympics-2024-opening-ceremony-review/">opined</a>.
“More than <a href="https://olympics.com/ioc/news/olympic-games-tokyo-2020-watched-by-more-than-3-billion-people" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://olympics.com/ioc/news/olympic-games-tokyo-2020-watched-by-more-than-3-billion-people" aria-label="3 billion people">3 billion people</a> worldwide tuned in to watch the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (which were held in 2021 due to Covid-19 complications) across linear TV and digital platforms. Olympic broadcast partners&#8217; digital platforms saw 28 billion video views, a 139% increase compared to the Rio 2016 Games,” <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/lindseyedarvin/2024/07/11/paris-olympics-2024-high-viewership-anticipated-despite-caitlin-clarks-absence/">Forbes</a> noted.

Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony Features Drag Parody Of Last Supper

The American Federation of Teachers&#8217; 88th National Convention centered not on workplace conditions or the resolution of deep issues rampant throughout the nation’s classrooms but underscored the union’s longstanding devotion to progressive politics, culminating in a resounding endorsement of presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
The convention, which hosts AFT delegates from across the nation to vote on resolutions which guide the union’s internal operations for the year ahead, was markedly partisan as the infamously progressive union preps its members for election season.
Resolutions passed by this year’s delegates covered a swath of hot button political issues:
“The AFT <a href="https://www.aft.org/resolution/committing-end-lifetime-alert-physical-and-psychological-violence-against-lgbtqia-youth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">will</a> recommit resources,” for example, to “support LGBTQIA+ affirming and inclusive school environments and curriculum,” according to a resolution regarding “physical and psychological violence” against queer youth.
Another <a href="https://www.aft.org/resolution/opposing-overreach-us-supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resolution</a>, “Opposing the Overreach of the U.S. Supreme Court,” details the union’s commitment to “reverse the decisions” of those Justices AFT accuses of “eliminating guarantees of the fundamental rights and freedoms of the American people.”
According to a <a href="https://www.aft.org/resolution/what-stake-2024-elections-democratic-republic-committed-liberty-and-justice-all" target="_blank" rel="noopener">third</a>, “the basic institutions and principles of U.S. democracy…are under attack” by “Donald Trump and the ultra-right MAGA faction.” In addition to democracy, AFT writes, Republicans have attacked public education through “voucher schemes,” reproductive freedom through “draconian anti-abortion laws,” and “the very humanity of marginalized and stigmatized communities.”
But the key <a href="https://www.aft.org/resolution/endorsement-kamala-harris-president" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resolution</a> passed by the AFT was the union’s “Endorsement of Kamala Harris for President.”
“Kamala Harris has a clear record under the Biden-Harris administration to compare with Donald Trump’s, offering voters a stark choice,” AFT explained. The union pledges to mobilize its members in support of Harris’s presidential campaign, plus join the rest of Big Labor in its “collective effort to elect Kamala Harris.”
Amid talk of a variety of progressive topics, AFT’s support for Harris was constant.
Before delegates arrived in Houston, the union’s executive council preemptively <a href="https://www.aft.org/press-release/aft-executive-council-unanimously-endorses-kamala-harris-president" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed</a> a unanimous call on AFT members to ratify its endorsement of Harris for the American presidency.
AFT President Randi Weingarten’s keynote address amplified strong support for Harris, through which “progress is possible.” “But so is the eradication of the rights and progress we hold dear,” continued Weingarten, through former President Donald Trump, who poses an “existential threat to democracy and freedom.”
Throughout the convention, among the <a href="https://www.aft.org/news/convention-sneak-peek-were-fighting-better-life-all" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speakers</a> who addressed the union in support of Harris included United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson.
Harris, whose address was the convention’s grand finale, again emphasized the responsibility of educators to vote in support of her dedication to “freedom, compassion, and rule of law,” in opposition to Right-wing “chaos, fear, and hate.”
A vote against her campaign, Harris emphasized, would “return America to a dark past.”
AFT’s longstanding devotion to progressive causes and candidates is nothing new. For years, the union has <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/teachers-unions-spend-big-democrats-ahead-midterm-elections" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transferred</a> millions directly from the pockets of dues-paying teachers to its Democratic friends.
Though American teachers continue to <a href="https://www.the74million.org/article/teachers-union-membership-drops-by-59000-across-the-nation/#:~:text=The%20National%20Education%20Association%20and,member%20loss%20the%20previous%20year." target="_blank" rel="noopener">flee</a> AFT in search of refuge from the progressive agenda included in membership, this year’s convention emphasizes that the union’s loyalty to the left-wing will not fade anytime soon.
According to a <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2024/04/04/teachers-views-on-the-state-of-public-k-12-education/#:~:text=A%20majority%20of%20public%20K,or%20lean%20toward%20the%20GOP." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pew Research survey</a> of over 2,500 public K-12 school teachers, a significant percentage of teachers presumably disagree with their union’s endorsement. The AFT, however, couldn’t care less.
For the AFT, it seems as though disregarding the inconvenient interests of teachers unsupportive of union ideology is a worthy sacrifice in pursuit of the political agenda that continues to dominate Big Labor’s priorities across the board.
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Aaron Withe is Chief Executive Officer of the Freedom Foundation.
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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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/disney" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Disney</a> employees created a video to pressure their colleagues to support other’s sex change attempts, while LGBT employees have assembled an internal advocacy organization that works to embed the LGBT agenda deeper in the company’s content, a new undercover investigation from O’Keefe Media reveals.
An internal program at the Walt Disney Company, called “Authentically Me: Gender Expression and Transitioning,” compels employees to accept and encourage their coworkers’ sex change attempts.
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REVEALED: <a href="https://twitter.com/OKeefeMedia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@OKeefeMedia</a> reveals internal videos and documents exposing <a href="https://twitter.com/Disney?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Disney</a>&#8216;s G.E.T. (Gender Expression and Transitioning) program, which promotes the notion that being “authentically me” involves altering one’s natural body. The G.E.T. program video pressures Disney employees… <a href="https://t.co/4soqckfVj2">pic.twitter.com/4soqckfVj2</a>
— James O&#8217;Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1816550645912023041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
“If you’re looking to support a colleague who’s transitioning, listen to what they’re asking of you and show in your actions that you’ve heard them,” one employee says in the video.
“One way to be a good ally to your transgender and non-binary cast members is to use the pronoun and name they have given you,” another employee says. “It&#8217;s important to be humble because you&#8217;re going to mess up, everybody messes up, and what’s important is what you do next,” an employee sporting a bright pink mohawk said. Another person said, “I invite you to be our allies. You don’t have to be LGBTQIA+ to hold our hands.”
The undercover investigation also reveals that employees organized a Disney Pride Think Tank, a “global employee collective” that seeks to “advance LGBTQ+ representation in our content, products, experiences, and services.” The internal organization is divided into the marketplace committee and the creative content review committee, both of which work to further embed the LGBT agenda within the company.
Disney’s support for the transgender agenda is not just rhetorical, however. The company’s health care plan covers surgeries that remove healthy body parts in order to facilitate a sex change attempt.
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“I want to remind the viewers that Disney makes a majority of its sales from theme park attendance and film and television viewership,” James O’Keefe noted. “If you’re a Disney customer and/or shareholder, you’ve probably been shielded to the fact that your money is being used to pay for medical plans that actually promote trans genital mutilation surgery for their employees. … Why is Disney using your money to chop off, or building on additions to their genitals?”
The revelations come after an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/undercover-okeefe-video-disney-vp-says-the-company-discriminates-against-white-men">earlier investigation</a> from O’Keefe Media found that Disney discriminates against white men, according to a vice president at the company whose statements were caught on camera by an undercover journalist.

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