A Rasmussen Reports poll, released Tuesday, shows that a slim majority &#8212; 51% &#8212; of Americans oppose allowing male-to-female transgender athletes to compete in women&#8217;s sporting events.
A mere 29% of Americans support &#8220;allowing transgender students to participate on the sports teams of the gender they identify with&#8221; without question, <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/nov/10/transgender-athletes-womens-sports-opposed-most-am/">according to the Washington Examiner</a>. Some 20% of individuals polled are currently &#8220;undecided&#8221; on the issue &#8212; a number unchanged from the same poll when it was taken over the summer.
In fact, the poll shows little movement at all on the issue. Back in June, 28% of Americans supported allowing transgender students to participate on the sports team of their choice, meaning there&#8217;s been a mere 1% increase in support in a quarter year, despite increased efforts by transgender activits to normalize the practice.
&#8220;The results of the poll, taken Oct. 31-Nov. 2, were virtually identical to a Rasmussen survey released in June,&#8221; the Washington Examiner points out. That survey &#8220;found only 28% favored allowing transgender students &#8216;to participate on the sports team of the gender they identify with,&#8217; while 54% were opposed.&#8221;
The Examiner reports that, while support for transgender rights has increased over the past several years, the support has surrounded mostly increasing public accommodation &#8212; that is, allowing transgender individuals to use the bathroom of their choice and serve in some capacity in the United States armed forces.
&#8220;Public opinion on the sports issue comes in contrast to polls showing increasing support for transgender rights. A PRRI survey released in June that found 62% of Americans surveyed were more supportive of transgender rights in the last five years,&#8221; the Examiner says. &#8220;A Gallup poll taken May 15-30 found 71% of U.S. adults supported openly transgender people serving in the military, while those surveyed remained split on the bathroom issue, with 51% supporting transgender people using the public facilities that correspond to birth gender versus 44% who favored gender identity.&#8221;
The issue of sport is a bit stickier, because it tends to divide progressives alongside average Americans. Women&#8217;s rights activists have long fought for female athletes to gain access to sports programs at the same level as male athletes &#8212; and for institutions to fund women&#8217;s sports accordingly. LGBT activists have fought to gain recognition for same-sex partnerships and expand the public visibility of LGBT lifestyles.
Transgender athletes threaten both achievements. Few, if any, female-to-male transgender individuals are looking to compete in men&#8217;s sports; it&#8217;s almost uniformly male-to-female transgender individuals, who then gain an unfair advantage over biologically female competitors, who are born with certain physiological differences. The reasons women want to compete against other women, specifically, all involve a literal level playing field.
In the UK, the issue of transgender acceptance has met with hostility from &#8220;TERFs&#8221; or &#8220;trans-exclusive radical feminists&#8221; who say pushing transgender and other gender-related issues &#8220;erases&#8221; the female gender altogether. TERFs in the UK &#8212; and even in Canada &#8212; are at war with transgender activists and modern progressives, who want more &#8220;fluid&#8221; and less scientific approaches to gender and gender separation.
The issue is still rather marginal in the United States, though Democrats in Congress brought it to the forefront recently by passing an &#8220;Equality Act&#8221; supporting transgender individuals who want to compete in gender-segregated leagues in line with their gender &#8220;identity&#8221; rather than their biological gender.
Democrats like Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) insist, as transgender activists do, that biological differences between the genders is a &#8220;myth.&#8221;
“The myth that trans women have a ‘direct competitive advantage’ is not supported by medical science, and it continues to stoke fear and violence against one of the most at-risk communities in the world,&#8221; Omar said in a statement after voting for the Equality Act.
After several male-to-female transgender athletes bested all of their female competitors in sports like track and field, weightlifting, and cycling, international sports bodies have been forced to contend with the issue of transgender athletes dominating women&#8217;s sport.
The International Olympic Committee now demands that athletes show a specific level of low testosterone before competing in women&#8217;s gender-segregated events. A high school track and field organization in Connecticut is facing a lawsuit after allowing a male-to-female transgender athlete to compete in a girls event, after a female athlete lost a race to two transgender athletes who failed to make the grade in the boys division of the same sport.

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POLL: Most Americans Oppose Allowing Transgender Athletes To Compete In Women&#8217;s Sports

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On Thursday, GLAAD published its annual “<a href="https://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/GLAAD%20WHERE%20WE%20ARE%20ON%20TV%202019%202020.pdf">Where We Are on TV</a>” report, which examines the number of LGBTQ characters on television.
In the opening paragraphs of the report, GLAAD President Sarah Kate Ellis states that television plays a crucial role in our culture when it comes to “changing hearts and minds.” She adds that according to a study, “less than one-quarter of Americans have a close friend or family member who is transgender,” which means many Americans “learn about trans people from what they see in television, movies, and news.”
Due to this statistic, Ellis says, the casting of trans actor Brian Michael Smith in Fox’s “9-1-1: Lone Star” is important.
The report then cites an <a href="https://www.glaad.org/files/aa/2017_GLAAD_Accelerating_Acceptance.pdf">online survey</a> of 2,037 adults conducted by Harris Poll suggesting that 20% of Americans ages 18-34 identify as LGBTQ, and that approximately 12% of overall respondents identify as LGBTQ.
However, according to a 2017 <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/234863/estimate-lgbt-population-rises.aspx">Gallup survey</a> that conducted “telephone interviews with a random sample of 340,604 U.S. adults,” only 4.5% of the U.S. population identify as LGBT.
According to Gallup: “The percentage of millennials who identify as LGBT expanded from 7.3% to 8.1% from 2016 to 2017, and is up from 5.8% in 2012.”
The GLAAD report issued a final challenge to the television industry:
<blockquote>GLAAD is calling on the industry to ensure that 20 percent of series regular characters on primetime scripted broadcast series are LGBTQ by 2025. Further, we would challenge all platforms to make sure that within the next two years, half of LGBTQ characters on every platform are people of color. While broadcast has actually hit this mark two years in a row, cable and streaming have yet to reach this goal. These two steps are key moves towards ensuring that entertainment reflects the world in which it is created and the audience who consumes it.</blockquote>
Even if one uses GLAAD’s survey data as a real estimate of the percentage of LGBTQ persons in the United States, the organization’s challenge that “20% of series regular characters on primetime scripted broadcast series” should be LGBTQ by the year 2025 would amount to severe overrepresentation.
Using GLAAD’s data, LGBTQ television characters would outweigh the actual LGBTQ population by 40%. Using Gallup’s data, the difference would be even more stark, with LGBT characters on television outweighing the actual LGBT population by 77.5% by 2025.
GLAAD’s push for overrepresentation could be a factor in the overestimation of the actual LGBT population by many Americans.
In 2019, <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/259571/americans-greatly-overestimate-gay-population.aspx">Gallup</a> asked respondents: “Just your best guess, what percent of Americans today would you say are gay or lesbian?”
The average respondent believed that 23.6% of the population is gay or lesbian. Broken down further, 35% guessed that the gay and lesbian population was “more than 25%”; 19% guessed that it was between “20% to 25%”; 10% guessed that it was “15% to less than 20%”; and 14% guessed that it was “10% to less than 15%.”
Only 8% guessed that the percentage of gay and lesbian persons in the United States was “less than 5%.”

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GLAAD: We Want ‘20% Of Series Regular Characters’ To Be ‘LGBTQ By 2025’

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The left-right divide in America is, unfortunately, unbridgeable.
There are three reasons.
First, we are divided by our vision of what we want America to be.
The right believes the founders&#8217; vision was brilliant and moral, that bourgeois middle-class values are superior to alternative value systems; that rights come from God, not man; and that the state must be as small as possible. The left (not liberals) shares none of those values.
Second, we are divided by the means we use to achieve our vision. Given their different ends, left and right obviously differ on what means to use to achieve their ends.
Third, and perhaps most troubling, there is a reality-perception divide.
Left and right have different perceptions of reality.
I have been aware of this for many years, but it was dramatically brought home last week when I was a guest on &#8220;Real Time With Bill Maher.&#8221; Given that the other two guests on the panel and more or less the entire studio audience were on the left, their reactions to what I said proved my point.
For example, I said that though there are, of course, racists in the United States, America is the least racist multiethnic and multiracial country in the world.
I was booed.
I said the United States military has brought so much liberty to the world it deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.
I was booed.
Clearly, there is an unbridgeable divide in the way we perceive the reality of the American military&#8217;s role in the world.
I said that it turned out the Russia-Trump campaign collusion never happened.
I was booed.
There is an unbridgeable divide in the way left and right perceive this reality.
I said the Trump-Ukrainian president phone transcript did not show a quid pro quo.
I was booed, and one of the other panelists said it actually showed &#8220;extortion.&#8221;
This, too, constitutes an unbridgeable divide between the way left and right view reality.
I said John Brennan, the former CIA director, has voted communist. (He has admitted that he voted for the Communist Party USA presidential candidate Gus Hall in 1976.) I was dismissed as having made something up. Bill Maher sarcastically responded that he didn&#8217;t recall Mao having been on any ballot.
And I said that people on the left say men can menstruate.
For that, I was not merely booed; I was laughed at by the panel, Maher and the audience.
Anyone can Google this and learn that I was entirely right. Just type &#8220;can men menstruate.&#8221; One of the first results will be from the popular left-wing website The Daily Beast: &#8220;Yes, Men Can Have Periods and We Need to Talk About Them,&#8221; reads one of its headlines. &#8220;How is this possible?&#8221; you might ask. Well, if a woman declares herself to be a man, then &#8220;a man&#8221; can have a period. In fact, last month, Procter &amp; Gamble announced that it will remove the female Venus symbol from its Always line of menstrual products. After all, not only women menstruate.
The irony is that as soon as most progressives become aware that LGBTQ groups say that men menstruate, they will say that men menstruate. And that will be another differing perception of reality.
On each of these issues — all the issues for which I was booed — right and left have different perceptions of reality. That — even more so than differing values — makes the left-right divide unbridgeable. When you cannot agree on what is real, there is no possible bridging of the gulf.
The left believes the president colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election. The reality is that there was no collusion. This is the conclusion of the Mueller report, but still, the left doesn&#8217;t accept it.
The left is certain President Trump said the neo-Nazis are &#8220;very fine people&#8221; when referring to the protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia. The right is certain the president didn&#8217;t say there are good neo-Nazis any more than he said there are good &#8220;antifa&#8221; members. When he said there were &#8220;very fine people on both sides,&#8221; he was referring to those demonstrating on behalf of keeping Confederate statues and those opposed. See &#8220;The Charlottesville Lie&#8221; by CNN analyst Steve Cortes.
The left believes socialism is economically superior to capitalism. But the reality is that only capitalism has lifted billions of people out of poverty. This is, therefore, not an opinion divide — &#8220;You prefer capitalism. I prefer socialism&#8221; — but a reality divide.
The reason this is so frightening is that it means one side has lost its grip on reality. If half of this country cannot distinguish truth from falsehood, that is not a good sign for the nation&#8217;s future. On that point, ironically, left and right can agree.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; comes to theaters fall 2019. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.

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PRAGER: The Left-Right Divide Is About Reality Itself

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While the Gay &amp; Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) remains unimpressed by representation in Hollywood studios, the organization is now applauding its annual  &#8220;Where We Are on TV&#8221; report that shows a high number of LGBTQ regulars on broadcast television.
&#8220;This increase is exciting to see, given that LGBTQ women have been historically underrepresented in media,&#8221; the group announced.
The &#8220;Where We Are on TV&#8221; report examined not only the number of LGBTQ series regulars, but also the number of featured lesbian relationships and racial diversity.
Published Thursday, the report indicates overall significant growth in diversity, with LGBTQ characters comprising 10.2 % of all series regulars on primetime scripted broadcast shows,&#8221; reports <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/broadcast-tv-increases-lgbtq-regulars-boosts-lesbian-representation-study-finds-1251737">The Hollywood Reporter</a>. &#8220;(That is a 1.4% increase from last year&#8217;s 8.8%.) The updated figure signals the highest percentage that GLAAD has uncovered since it began tracking such data in the 2005-06 season.&#8221;
&#8220;Among those characters, 22% are black, 13% are Latinx and 8% are Asian Pacific Islander, which represents an equal high for black and Asian Pacific Islander characters since last year and a new high for Latinx characters,&#8221; the report continued. &#8220;Of all the broadcast networks, ABC offers the most Latinx representation, largely due to the cast of its upcoming comedy &#8216;The Baker and the Beauty&#8217; and recently canceled series &#8216;Grand Hotel.'&#8221;
The report also noticed an uptick in the representation of women, hitting a record of 46% out of the 879 regular characters on primetime television. Despite the increase, however, the report noted that the numbers are not high enough until it matches and reflects the fact that women comprise 51% of the U.S. population.
Without question, lesbian representation in broadcast television made its biggest splash with the CW&#8217;s &#8220;Batwoman,&#8221; which stars Ruby Rose as a lesbian version of the female caped crusader.
Sarah Kate Ellis, president and CEO of GLAAD, praised the television for heeding the organization&#8217;s call to increase LGBTQ representation.&#8221; Last year, GLAAD called on the television industry to increase the number of LGBTQ characters and more accurately reflect the world we live in, and they responded by exceeding this challenge,&#8221; said Ellis. &#8220;At a time when the cultural climate is growing increasingly divisive, increased representation of LGBTQ stories and characters on television is especially critical to advance LGBTQ acceptance. Shows like Pose, Schitt’s Creek, Batwoman and Billions demonstrate that not only are LGBTQ stories and characters on TV becoming more diverse, but that viewers everywhere continue to respond with extreme positivity.&#8221;
Ellis called on the entire entertainment industry to increase LGBTQ representation by up to 20% by the year 2025.&#8221;Yet, our community finds itself in 2019 facing unprecedented attacks on our progress,&#8221; continued Ellis. &#8220;GLAAD is calling on the industry to ensure that 20% of series regular characters on prime scripted broadcast series are LGBTQ by 2025. The role of television in changing hearts and minds has never been more important. Indeed, our nation&#8217;s cultural institutions are being called to stand in the gap at this tumultuous time in the history of our movement for full acceptance.&#8221;GLAAD director of entertainment research and analysis Megan Townsend said that while the numbers indeed paint a positive picture, the increased representation stems from only a handful of players.
&#8220;Programming from four dedicated producers and creators who prioritize inclusion, Greg Berlanti, Lena Waithe, Ryan Murphy, and Shonda Rhimes, accounts for 14% of total LGBTQ characters across broadcast, cable, and streaming originals,&#8221; said Townsend. &#8220;We hope to see all networks follow their lead, and work towards reflecting the reality of their audience and the culture.&#8221;

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GLAAD Applauds Sharp Increase In LGBTQ Regulars On Broadcast TV

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A seven-year-old boy, whose mother claims he&#8217;s actually a girl named &#8220;Luna,&#8221; recently chose to go to school as himself, a boy named James, now that his father has been granted equal say in his &#8220;transition.&#8221;
Two weeks ago, Dallas Judge Kim Cooks ruled that Dr. Anne Georgulas and Mr. Jeffrey Younger, James&#8217; parents, have joint managing conservatorship and joint decision making over their boys; James has a twin brother named Jude.
Both Georgulas, a pediatrician, and Younger had gag orders placed on them by Judge Cooks, barring them from speaking to the media. The case gained national attention after a jury decided that one guardian should have sole conservatorship over James, and that person should not be Mr. Younger.
&#8220;Going to school. This is what it looks like when JAMES gets to choose!&#8221; a Facebook post from a third party said, showing the boys with their father. &#8220;Affirm this!&#8221;
&#8220;Also, a photo taken yesterday, just before church. James and Jude proud to be men!&#8221; the post added. &#8220;Save James, save thousands of children!&#8221;
In an update, it was noted that Mr. Younger emailed the principal on Monday &#8220;and James and Jude&#8217;s teachers had reported that there was zero stress or disruptions in the classroom today.&#8221;
&#8220;Just another day in school  Prayers answered,&#8221; the update concluded.
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While Georgulas argued that James is actually a girl who likes to wear dresses and &#8220;identifies&#8221; as &#8220;Luna,&#8221; Mr. Younger said his ex-wife would, in his opinion, only show James love and affection when he would present as a girl. He also posted a video of James at just three years old telling Mr. Younger that &#8220;mommy&#8221; tells him he&#8217;s a girl.
As noted by <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/7-year-old-whose-mom-tried-to-transition-him-chooses-to-attend-school-as-a-boy">LifeSiteNews</a>, &#8220;Georgulas had complete authority over psychological and psychiatric care for the boys&#8221; prior to Cook&#8217;s October 23 ruling.
But the fight over James is far from over, unfortunately. According to <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2019/11/06/mother-in-dallas-7-year-old-transgender-child-custody-case-calls-for-judges-recusal/?fbclid=IwAR2c6_OgYz8sJF_7W7fRCQUQpRVQZodFaRTck2xj5djICrbalv6WhYhGw48">The Dallas Morning News</a>, Georgulas is now seeking to have Judge Cooks recused and filed a motion &#8220;to conform to the jury’s verdict granting the mother sole custody&#8221; of James and Jude.
According to Georgulas, Judge Cooks should be recused for posting about the case on social media. The female judge shared a post from The Dallas Morning News a friend has shared, and captioned it with: &#8220;The Governor nor any legislature had any influence on the Court’s Decision.”
Before Mr. Younger was hit with a gag order, he told LifeSiteNews reporter <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-father-of-7-year-old-trans-child-james-younger-speaks-out-before-gag-order">Madeleine Jacob</a> that his ex-wife contemplated &#8220;cutting the penis off&#8221; James in an email presented to the jury.
&#8220;We put up an email form Ms. Georgulas to me in which she contemplates cutting the penis off my son. 20 minutes later, they go into deliberations, and they come back voting against me,&#8221; he told Jacob.
&#8220;The Texas I grew up in, the Texas that I live in, if a parent did that, we’re just gonna give him [the child] to the other parent; we’re not gonna tolerate that kind of craziness. So it just tells you, I think, really how far our society has changed, and how much less Christian we are,&#8221; he added.

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UPDATE: 7-Year-Old Boy Whose Mom Claims He&#8217;s Trans Opts To Go To School As Boy

The Daily Signal, the Heritage Foundation&#8217;s investigative reporting, news, and commentary outlet, says that one of their videos, a YouTube testimonial from a pediatrician about gender transition surgery for children, was censored by YouTube for &#8220;hate speech.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/11/05/youtube-wont-let-a-medical-doctor-say-this-sentence/">According to the Daily Signal&#8217;s</a> Kate Trinko, the group&#8217;s 2017 video starring Dr. Michelle Cretella, &#8220;pediatrician with many years’ experience and the executive director of the American Academy of Pediatricians,&#8221; was pulled off YouTube because, in the video, Cretella suggested that, “if you want to cut off a leg or an arm you’re mentally ill, but if you want to cut off healthy breasts or a penis, you’re transgender.”
&#8220;The Daily Signal recently learned that our video of Cretella had been removed from YouTube. In its place, YouTube displayed this message: “This video has been removed for violating YouTube’s policy on hate speech,&#8221; the group says.
Attempts to contact YouTube proved futile. &#8220;Over the past few months, The Daily Signal worked with YouTube to try to reach a resolution. Ultimately, we were told the only way we could get the video back on YouTube was to delete the previously mentioned sentence.&#8221;
That amounts to censorship, the Daily Signal says, and it should scare anyone who seeks to put material up on the platform.
The Daily Signal admits that Cretella&#8217;s statement is controversial, but that doesn&#8217;t make it &#8220;hate speech,&#8221; even under a broad definition. It simply makes it &#8230; controversial. The topic itself &#8212; transgenderism and gender transition measures for children &#8212; is a hot topic, and Cretella&#8217;s point is that society views some bodily alterations with scorn and others with an open embrace. Cretella&#8217;s statement doesn&#8217;t even reference transgenderism or gender transition surgery specifically.
But, it seems, a YouTube viewer reported it for hate speech anyway, and YouTube agreed with the designation.
YouTube began an effort to scrub &#8220;hate speech&#8221; from its platform last year, and added a description of &#8220;hate speech&#8221; to its terms and conditions: “Hate speech is not allowed on YouTube. We remove content promoting violence or hatred against individuals or groups based on any of the following attributes.&#8221; Those attributes include “Gender Identity and Expression” and “Sex/Gender.&#8221; Since then, the company has been adding categories to what it considers &#8220;hate speech,&#8221; including statements that claim one group is superior.
The Daily Signal says they &#8220;agree with the spirit behind YouTube’s hate speech policy,&#8221; and that they believe &#8220;transgender individuals, and any individual struggling with gender identity issues, should be treated with love and respect.&#8221; They also say that &#8220;private companies, including YouTube, should be allowed to set and enforce their own rules.&#8221;
They do not believe that Cretella&#8217;s statement rises to the level of &#8220;hate speech,&#8221; and they do believe that consumers have the right to protest what they believe to be unfair treatment.
YouTube has met with criticism over its censorship policies from both the left and the right. Recent changes to YouTube&#8217;s hate speech criteria have resulted in <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/youtube-holocaust-censorship-hate-speech-google-facebook-1444090">educational videos being removed </a>and <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2019/06/05/youtube-hate-speech-policy-nazi-holocaust-sandy-hook/">ever-expanding &#8220;hate speech&#8221; categories</a>. The issue of policing hundreds of hours of video uploaded every minute, however, makes enforcing any type of &#8220;hate speech&#8221; code shockingly difficult.

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YouTube Bans Daily Signal Video On Gender Transitions Over &#8216;Hate Speech&#8217;

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In a lengthy op-ed for <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/9kejae/i-asked-reddit-trans-dating-advice?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter">Vice</a>, transgender man Lee Hurley (a biological woman presenting herself as a male) lamented the supposed epidemic of cis-gendered women (and men) ghosting transgenders in dating life, arguing that they have been brainwashed to &#8220;have such a limited view of how gender and sexuality works.&#8221;
According to Hurley, dating life was an easier racket back when she identified as a lesbian, but that all changed after becoming a transgender man.
&#8220;As a trans guy, the majority don’t seem to know what to make of me, so they run away,&#8221; wrote Lee. &#8220;I’ve played around with the big reveal and I know the two are linked. It’s hard not to see a connection when you arrange a second date, drop the T bomb and then she cancels in the next breath.&#8221;
Lee then conducted several experiments to see how this transgender bias plays out among cisgender single women by setting up three dating profiles, in which one was only listed as a transgender. Unsurprisingly, the transgender profile received the least amount of replies versus the other two.
&#8220;I won’t lie. It got to me for a while,&#8221; lamented Lee. &#8220;I’d be chatting with a woman, making her laugh and seemingly getting on well. Then I’d tell her and she’d vanish. Over and over and over. Before dates, during dates, after dates, it didn’t matter. The result was almost always the same.&#8221;
Determined to discover the origination of this social phenomenon, in which women seem to only wish to date biological men, Lee Hurley then dived into the chatrooms of Reddit to see what the people had to say. “Why do women vanish when I tell them I&#8217;m a trans guy?&#8221; Lee posted on <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/dating_advice/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">/r/dating_advice. </a>
&#8220;A woman born a woman is always a woman, no matter what,&#8221; said one Redditor. &#8220;The women on the dating apps are not interested in dating other women so they vanish because they are interested in me.&#8221;
“It’s probably the genital issue,” replied another.
“I would assume it’s the thought that you don’t have a penis that puts them off,&#8221; said another.
In response, Lee boasted of a &#8220;<a href="https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/pajjmk/how-to-guide-buy-use-strap-on-dildo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">drawer full of d***s&#8221; </a>with &#8220;a size to suit every pleasure.&#8221;
&#8220;Not one of them has ever failed to get up, get hard, or get her off,&#8221; continued Lee. &#8220;Not something I can say for these all-singing, all-dancing, superd***s that cis men are apparently endowed with.&#8221;
Ultimately, Lee concluded that this supposed ignorance stems from an unfair standard that society holds transgender people to, likening it to women having to list their fertility status on dating apps or men have to share their penis sizes.
&#8220;That, really, is the whole issue in a nutshell,&#8221; concluded Lee. &#8220;We hold trans people to a higher standard than anyone else when it comes to dating. We require of them more than we ask of others, all while constantly sending the message that trans people are somehow ‘less than’. The reality is, being trans is a magic sorting hat. As tough as it is to have people vanish when you tell them who you are, it does me a favour. By telling them that one thing about me, their reaction tells me everything I need to know about them.&#8221;

A giant Trans Flag unfurled outside the Supreme Court. 133

Transgender Man: Women Won&#8217;t Date Me, And That&#8217;s Not Fair

Dennis Prager, one of America&#8217;s most listened to and respected radio hosts, went off during an appearance on HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Real Time with Bill Maher&#8221; on Friday over the lies that the political Left tells America.
Host Bill Maher suggested to Prager that President Donald Trump lies &#8220;on a level that no one else has ever lied.&#8221;
&#8220;No, that I would not say,&#8221; Prager responded. &#8220;First of all, Donald Trump is Donald Trump. Donald Trump is not right-wing or conservative. Donald Trump is Donald Trump. The left-wing is infinitely larger than one person. I don&#8217;t choose one left-wing person who tells a lie.&#8221;
&#8220;The left wing says, I&#8217;ll give you gigantic lies: That the United States is a racist country. This is a lie. This is a gargantuan lie. This is the least racist, multicultural, multi-ethnic country in the history of the world,&#8221; Prager continued. &#8220;That these people believe it is proof to me about how effective lying can be.&#8221;
&#8220;This is an unbelievably non-racist country. Have you people been to Asia?&#8221; Prager fired back at the audience. &#8220;Do you people know that the Japanese did not allow one Vietnamese boat person into Japan because they&#8217;re not Japanese? We allowed them into America. We are less racist than country with many races.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m a Jew. There are anti-Semites in America. It is a giant lie that America is anti-Semitic. I taught Jewish history at Brooklyn College, I know it, I wrote two books on Judaism,&#8221; Prager continued. &#8220;This is the least anti-Semitic country Jews have ever lived in. To say America&#8217;s anti-Semitic is a lie. To say it’s racist is a lie. These are giant left-wing lies.&#8221;
&#8220;To say that men can menstruate is a lie, and that is now, that is what [the political Left] says. Check it out. Anyone who says that a man cannot menstruate is considered transphobic,&#8221; Prager concluded. &#8220;How do you allow men, biological men, to run against women in the races in Connecticut and set all the high school records? At the University of Berkeley&#8217;s men&#8217;s rooms, tampons are given out. Check it out. UC Berkeley men&#8217;s rooms have tampon dispensers.&#8221;
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Dennis Prager spits fire on left-wing lies: “To say America is anti-Semitic is a lie. To say it is racist is a lie. &#8230; To say that men can menstruate is a lie.”
The crowd laughs at the &#8220;menstruate&#8221; part but it&#8217;s true, the political Left pushes that <a href="https://t.co/GVMBNFJRMb">pic.twitter.com/GVMBNFJRMb</a>
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The audience laughed when Prager brought up the political Left&#8217;s claims that men can menstruate, but Prager is correct. That idea is something that the political Left is increasingly pushing.
As Prager correctly stated, a simple Google search for &#8220;can men menstruate?&#8221; brings up the following articles listed at the top of Google&#8217;s search ranking:
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<blockquote>School children will be taught that &#8220;all genders&#8221; can have periods in new sex education lessons, in a victory for transgender rights campaigners.
The advice to teachers was approved by Brighton &amp; Hove City Council as they try to tackle stigma around menstruation.
The new advice follows a council report which said: &#8220;Trans boys and men and non-binary people may have periods,” adding that &#8220;menstruation must be inclusive of all genders.”
Bins used for menstruation products will be provided in all toilets for children, according to the report.</blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://people.com/bodies/transgender-activist-freebleed-men-can-menstruate/">People</a>: Transgender Activist Freebleeds to Show Men Can Menstruate Too: It&#8217;s &#8216;Harmful to Equate Periods with Womanhood&#8217;:</li>
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<blockquote>When Cass Clemmer first got their period as a 15-year-old struggling to understand their gender and sexual identity, it felt like the end of freedom.
“I remember, very vividly, the internal chaos that plagued my body the minute I saw those brown stains on my underwear,” Clemmer, 24, tells PEOPLE. “There was a very clear switch in my brain that told me this was the moment I had to start thinking about makeup, boobs, and boys. My 15-year-old mind was riddled with the stereotypes around femininity, but I had grown up knowing that periods were so tied to ‘becoming a woman’ that I almost would wish and pray to God that I would never get my first period, just so that I could continue just being me instead of feeling forced into a box I didn’t feel comfortable in.”</blockquote>
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<blockquote>I haven’t menstruated in three years. I’m fortunate to be one of the trans guys whose periods stopped when I started taking testosterone.
This is by no means a universal experience even among trans people taking testosterone, and many of my peers have either continued menstruating or have endless spotting. Many others don’t take testosterone, either because it isn’t right for them, or because the health care system has kept them waiting.</blockquote>

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A birth coach in the United Kingdom has been harassed and &#8220;hounded out&#8221; of her job with Doula UK, the U.K.&#8217;s national organization for birth coaches, after authoring a Facebook message that stated a basic biological fact: only women can have children.
<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7643251/Charity-hounds-birth-coach-post-saying-women-children.html">The Daily Mail reports</a> that Lynsey McCarthy-Calvert was forced to step down as Doula UK&#8217;s national spokeswoman and leave the group altogether because she dared to express the &#8220;controversial&#8221; &#8220;opinion.&#8221;
&#8220;Lynsey McCarthy-Calvert, 45, was forced to stand down as spokesperson for Doula UK and has since resigned altogether from the national organisation for birth coaches,&#8221; Daily Mail says. &#8220;Her exit comes after transgender rights activists triggered an investigation in which Doula UK concluded her message breached its equality and diversity guidelines.&#8221;
The British tabloid news outlet is careful to note that McCarthy-Calvert wasn&#8217;t fired by Doula UK outright, but resigned after she became the target of a campaign of harassment, &#8220;believing Doula UK had ‘acquiesced’ to demands from a small number of activists and failed to stand up for women’s rights.&#8221;
The incident follows a string of U.K. controversies surrounding various British entities&#8217; embrace of gender neutral terminology to describe issues that were previously acknowledged to be uniquely female.
McCarthy-Calvert took issue with a new campaign from Cancer Research UK that encourages women to get a yearly Pap smear &#8212; a type of cervical cancer screening. The ad claimed that a Pap smear is &#8220;relevant for everyone aged 25-64 with a cervix,&#8221; failing to note, of course, that only biological females have a cervix.
&#8220;In response,&#8221; the Daily Mail reports, &#8220;Mrs McCarthy-Calvert posted a photograph on Facebook of a negligee-clad woman somersaulting underwater, with the wording: ‘I am not a “cervix owner” I am not a “menstruator” I am not a “feeling.&#8221; I am not defined by wearing a dress and lipstick. I am a woman: an adult human female.’&#8221;
She added, &#8220;Women birth all the people, make up half the population, but less than a third of the seats in the House of Commons are occupied by us.&#8221; She finished by claiming that women who acknowledge biological differences between women and men are often &#8220;subjected to cries of bigotry and transphobia when they say they don’t want to have sex with a woman with a penis.&#8221;
It was the last part, apparently, that caused the uproar. It turns out, transgender rights activists get prickly when you suggest that only women can give birth, even if the person making that claim is a verifiable birth expert.
One critic was quick to reply to her post, ripping McCarthy-Calvert for her &#8220;absolutely disgusting language&#8221;‘ and accused her of &#8220;forgetting that not only women birth children.&#8221;
The post got around. A few days later, 20 prominent trans activists signed a letter to Doula UK demanding that they jettison McCarthy-Calvert as a spokesperson over her &#8220;trans-exclusionary&#8221; comments that they claimed violated Doula UK&#8217;s carefully crafted commitment to diversity.
After a four month investigation, McCarthy-Calvert was out as Doula UK&#8217;s spokesperson, a decision that both she and Doula UK acknowledge was hers, though she seems to say she had no choice but to withdraw from the group.
The UK is ground zero for internecine LGBT warfare over precisely this issue, and the chasm between trans activists and more traditional leftists seems to be growing wider, particularly the division between women&#8217;s rights activists and &#8220;trans-exclusionary radical feminists,&#8221; who claim to want to preserve the gains they&#8217;ve won for women by ensuring the gender binary doesn&#8217;t go by the wayside.
TERFs have come under heavy fire for their views in the progressive UK and in Canada, where a recent panel, featuring a TERF, was widely protested and the panelist regularly compared to a Nazi.

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Indiewire.com, like most entertainment sites, is hopelessly, consistently liberal.
That means progressive movies, themes and celebrities get the rock star treatment. And, as a result, Indiewire is part of the Social Justice Warrior Borg.
That’s true even when their hard-left positions diametrically oppose <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/woke-indiewire-readers/">their own readers’ views</a>. And Indiewire fans are hardly MAGA hat types.
The latest example comes as the site clutched some boulder-sized pearls over the most recent “Saturday Night Live” episode.
No, the site’s scribe didn’t fault “SNL” for <a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/chrisstigall/2019/10/31/basket-of-deplorables-redux-n2555637">punching down at President Donald Trump’s base</a> in the cold open. Instead, the focus fell on a single joke told during the show’s “Weekend Update” segment. Here’s the headline:
<blockquote><a href="https://www.indiewire.com/2019/10/snl-michael-che-caitlyn-jenner-trans-joke-hate-speech-1202185707/">‘Saturday Night Live’: Michael Che’s Caitlyn Jenner Joke Wasn’t Funny, It Was Hate Speech</a></blockquote>
The “hate speech” canard is a critical part of the modern left, used as a cudgel against, well, anyone who doesn’t abide by its groupthink.
In this case, here’s the joke in question mocking Kanye West for daring to embrace his Christian faith and President Donald Trump:
<blockquote>“I mean, he used to be one of the coolest black dudes on earth. Now he’s showing up to events in sweatpants and orthopedic sneakers, listening to Kenny G, and trying to get black people to like Trump. It’s like, how long before this guy changes his name to Kathy?”</blockquote>
That part is A-OK with Team Indiewire. After all, it’s attacking a President Trump fan, albeit a very high-profile one. The next line, though, is all kinds of wrong, we’re told.
<blockquote>“Now, you might think that I’m crazy, but about five years ago, there was a fella named Bruce Jenner, and he moved to Calabasas…”</blockquote>
Che’s comments are the same as perpetrating violence, Indiewire says.
<blockquote>He misgenders her, dead-names her, and actively calls her a word that it’s safe to assume she would never use to describe herself. As a refresher, using a trans person’s birth name is referred to as “dead-naming,” and is considered an act of violence.</blockquote>
By whom? Was there a vote?
Only select, Indiewire-approved jokes can be leveled against Jenner now, even if Jenner herself is a good sport about it, as proven by her appearance at the recent Alec Baldwin roast.
It’s the same argument woke protestors use when trying to shut down voices they disagree with. You can’t say that … it’s violence! And you’re a Nazi, by the way. So … let’s start punching!
It’s a pose even mainstream media organizations are actively embracing. Both <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/29/why-america-needs-hate-speech-law/">The Washington Post</a> (where Democracy Dies in Darkness) and the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/opinion/sunday/free-speech-social-media-violence.html">The New York Times</a>, AKA a “former newspaper,” uncorked op-eds against free speech.
Far-left screenwriter Aaron Sorkin is on <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/opinion/aaron-sorkin-mark-zuckerberg-facebook.html?smid=tw-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur">Team Stifle Speech</a>, too.
Now, Indiewire leaps aboard said bandwagon.
It’s where much of the Left is these days, to be fair. Hard-left organs like The AV Club are aghast that a movie like “No Safe Spaces” would argue in favor of free speech. Hollywood, as politically active as any community, can’t spare a word in favor of open debate these days.
The media does its part to keep the suppression on the back cultural burner, leaving it up to documentaries like “No Safe Spaces” and “The Rise of Jordan Peterson” to fill the gaps.
It’s ironic that “SNL,” a show desperately trying to be woke, would share that Jenner joke in the first place. Perhaps a semblance of its old DNA, where it told unpredictable jokes that inched near the cultural boundaries, reared its head.
Indiewire’s own readers rebelled against the article, overwhelmingly siding against the site.
<blockquote>He said there ‘was’ a fella. That’s a fact. Bruce Jenner’s name is literally a part of Olympic history. Also, comedians make jokes, that’s what they do. It was funny. There’s no story here.
I call BS. Stop this attempt to censor people saying things that are true. Trying to erase the past doesn’t help your cause. What Michael Che said wasn’t even remotely hate speech.
I was just re-watching the roast of Alec Baldwin. Caitlyn Jenner herself uses her dead name of Bruce Jenner. So it’s safe to say at least one supposition of this article is incorrect.</blockquote>
Will this stop Indiewire? Unlikely. The progressive march to control speech continues, and the site is one of many cheering it on.

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Last evening, on the verge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit judicial nominee Lawrence VanDyke&#8217;s confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, the much-vaunted American Bar Association (ABA) released a shockingly ad hominem, scathing <a href="http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2019/images/10/30/2019.10.29_chair_rating_letter_to_graham_and_feinstein_re_nomination_of_lawrence_j.c._vandyke.pdf">letter</a> that concluded that VanDyke is &#8220;Not Qualified&#8221; for his proffered perch. The most shocking paragraph in the ABA&#8217;s letter accuses VanDyke, a religious Christian, of harboring animus against the LGBT community:
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This is a vicious and malicious <a href="https://twitter.com/mrddmia/status/1189369387263954950">smear</a> made against a good and decent man. <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/30/politics/american-bar-association-nominees-vandyke/index.html">Moved to tears</a> at his confirmation hearing earlier today while questioned by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), VanDyke protested the ABA&#8217;s grotesque libel with an affirmation of the teachings of his Christian faith: &#8220;It is a fundamental belief of mine that all people are created in the image of God. &#8230; [litigants in court] should all be treated with dignity and respect.&#8221;
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Lawrence VanDyke brought to tears because of the shameful and false accusation by the <a href="https://twitter.com/ABAesq?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABAesq</a> that he holds animus toward the LGBT community. Thank you to <a href="https://twitter.com/SenHawleyPress?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenHawleyPress</a> for highlighting this injustice. The ABA has lost all credibility for trying to destroy this good man’s life. <a href="https://t.co/4ARyHvw3Zu">pic.twitter.com/4ARyHvw3Zu</a>
&mdash; Gregory T. Angelo (@gregorytangelo) <a href="https://twitter.com/gregorytangelo/status/1189579775414808576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Fellow Judiciary Committee member Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) captured the essence of the whole sordid affair: &#8220;The ABA has lost its credibility as a neutral arbiter; it should be treated no differently than any other special interest group, which it is.&#8221;
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In judiciary hearing <a href="https://twitter.com/SenMikeLee?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenMikeLee</a> rips <a href="https://twitter.com/ABAesq?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABAesq</a> over controversial &quot;not qualified&quot; rating for Trump judicial nominee Lawrence VanDyke :
&quot;The ABA has lost its credibility as a neutral arbiter; it should be treated no differently than any other special interest group, which it is.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/8DHwVOGq0E">pic.twitter.com/8DHwVOGq0E</a>
&mdash; Nate Madden (@NateOnTheHill) <a href="https://twitter.com/NateOnTheHill/status/1189637851257982976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
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To conservatives, it should be obvious that Sen. Lee is emphatically correct. The ABA, which has also <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/the-confirmation-process-that-was-then-this-is-trump/">attempted</a> to claim other Trump judicial nominee <a href="http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/seventeen_judicial_nominees_advance_to_the_senate_including_two_rated_not_q">scalps</a>, is institutionally controlled by leftist trial lawyers and bigwig Democratic Party donors. As Thomas Jipping <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/another-self-inflicted-wound-for-the-aba/">noted</a> this morning for National Review&#8217;s &#8220;Bench Memos&#8221; blog, &#8220;since the 1970s, the ABA House of Delegates has passed hundreds of resolutions on all the hot political topics, all of them taking a liberal position.&#8221; In fact, the lead ABA reviewer of VanDyke, Marcia Davenport, is a partisan Democrat who once <a href="https://twitter.com/mrddmia/status/1189362031561990145">donated</a> to VanDyke&#8217;s opponent in his 2014 Montana Supreme Court election. VanDyke, additionally, is qualified by any objective metric: He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review, clerked for the highly prestigious former Judge Janice Rogers Brown on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and has entertained a supremely successful career as an appellate litigator. Accordingly, the Judicial Crisis Network&#8217;s Carrie Severino <a href="https://judicialnetwork.com/in-the-news/aba-has-outdone-itself-lvd/">opined</a>: &#8220;The ABA has amassed quite the history of bias against conservatives over the last few decades, but with VanDyke, it has really outdone itself.&#8221;
Indeed.
Over the years, I have heard gripes from no shortage of conservative friends working in the judicial nominations arena that the ABA is a biased, left-wing organization that merely masquerades as politically neutral in the self-interested pursuit of its own institutional clout. This is undoubtedly true — and the obvious solution is to stop treating the ABA&#8217;s ratings with any respect. For both Judiciary Committee Republicans and GOP presidents alike, that requires a systemic disclaiming of any legitimacy for the ABA&#8217;s judicial nominee qualifications. Republicans must resist the urge to tout the ABA&#8217;s more customary &#8220;Well Qualified&#8221; ratings for even the GOP&#8217;s own judicial nominees. Only by refusing to play the ABA&#8217;s game, across the board, will the GOP ever make headway in pushing back against this partisan organization. Much like the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-conservatives-how-much-longer-are-you-josh-hammer">judicial supremacist game</a>, the ABA qualifications game is not something that conservatives can ever win.
There is no reason whatsoever to care about how the trial lawyer-dominated ABA vets judicial nominees. But for conservatives, that means that we literally cannot ever care — whether the ABA&#8217;s ratings are helpful or harmful to our cause. Only by demonstrating such consistency will we ever help discredit an organization that deserves nothing but discrediting.
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A drag queen performer named &#8220;Sasha Sota&#8221; repeatedly exposed himself while reading to young children during a recent &#8220;Drag Queen Story Hour&#8221; event at a taxpayer-funded library in Minnesota, photos show.
Blogger <a href="https://caffeinatedthoughts.com/2019/10/indoctrinating-future-drag-queens-for-all-starting-with-your-local-library/">Anne Taylor</a>, writing at &#8220;Caffeinated Thoughts,&#8221; attended the October 17 event at the <a href="https://www.hennepin.us/stories/sitecore/content/hclib/about/library-board/board-members?fbclid=IwAR1kLjwzYsLfTCNCoo8fUT3zWozWWj0bLP-wEVL0LAfL-bUNYUsovzhmKFM">Hennepin Country Library</a> and shared photos online of the drag queen&#8217;s exposed crotch.
&#8220;We’re talking a sleeveless cut-off t-shirt resembling SpongeBob SquarePants with midriff exposed, a pink mini-skirt, rainbow ankle socks, and black spiked heels that went above six inches,&#8221; Taylor described Sota&#8217;s attire. &#8220;The wig he wore was mermaid style crimping in the color of bright orange and makeup that was far too much under the neon lights.&#8221;
The drag queen &#8220;strode in suggestively past the children, sitting down in a chair before several preschool-aged girls with his legs spread wide, exposing his nylon covered crotch in front of children sitting at eye level,&#8221; she recalled, providing photos of one such incident. &#8220;We noticed that he did this often while reading nervously before the children.&#8221;
There were some 20-plus adults in attendance — most of whom were mothers, according to Taylor. Some of the fathers who were there, she said, &#8220;quickly left&#8221; after they saw the performer themselves. And there were &#8220;[a]bout twenty-two children &#8230; ranging in age from infant, toddler, and preschool into the elementary grades&#8221; at the story hour.
Taylor explained that she was shocked by the event. &#8220;I initially thought Drag Queen Story Hours were a hoax and simply unfathomable until I experienced one myself,&#8221; she said.
The library, according to their <a href="https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/events/search/fq=types:(56f9a15c414af7d259046a29)/event/5d4b327a4edda74f00071f2e">website</a>, is set for another drag queen event, called &#8220;Stories Together With Drag Performers,&#8221; on November 2nd.
&#8220;Celebrate self-expression, dress-up, and gender fluidity through stories, rhymes, music and movement with drag performers from our community,&#8221; the event description reads. &#8220;These events will be a safe, positive, and encouraging space for children and caregivers to express themselves in an open environment.&#8221;
The library claims the drag event is &#8220;suitable&#8221; for &#8220;families,&#8221; &#8220;preschoolers,&#8221; and &#8220;toddlers.&#8221;
In a statement, the Hennepin County Library told <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/photo-shows-drag-queen-story-hour-performer-in-miniskirt-exposing-crotch-as-children-sit-close-by?utm_content=buffer64258&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=tw-theblaze">The Blaze</a> that the &#8220;program&#8221; is &#8220;relatively new&#8221; and that it is &#8220;unfortunately making mistakes.&#8221;
&#8220;Storytime Together with Drag Performers is a relatively new program in the Hennepin County Library system and elsewhere,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;Drag performers historically were leaders in the fight for equality — including them in LGBT History Month observances is meant to both honor the history and provide a welcoming space for families who may not otherwise see themselves reflected in our public places.&#8221;
&#8220;We are all still learning — and unfortunately making mistakes,&#8221; it continued. &#8220;Most storytime performances involve a performer in brilliantly colored costume and theatrical makeup. They read books and share songs about characters who are different in some way, and who learn to accept and celebrate differences in themselves and others.&#8221;
And there will likely be more &#8220;mistakes&#8221; to come, the library conceded: &#8220;Every performance is different. That allows for a new show every day, but also introduces the possibility of new mistakes.&#8221;
Finally addressing the controversy, the statement admitted: &#8220;Partway through this year&#8217;s schedule, we realized the need for a performer dress code. We followed up right away with each of the performers to ensure that their costumes are appropriate for the audience and activity.&#8221;
&#8220;Feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, especially from LGBT families,&#8221; the statement concluded. &#8220;As we continue to be both innovative and inclusive, we are committed to also be good stewards of our public spaces.&#8221;
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On Friday’s episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher” on HBO, Maher delivered a monologue criticizing the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates for their most extreme progressive positions.
<blockquote>MAHER: New rule. Someone must explain to Democrats what “binary” means. In America, we&#8217;ve got dozens of flavors of pretty much everything – Doritos and Gatorade, Oreos, Pepsi, Triscuits, Pop-Tarts – but we only have two political parties. Most democracies have a parliamentary system with many parties; we don&#8217;t. We don&#8217;t. With us, it&#8217;s always plain or peanut, cream or suppository. That is what “binary” means. Trump gets it.</blockquote>
Maher then played two clips from Trump rallies where the President says: “If you really like Donald Trump, that&#8217;s great, but if you don&#8217;t, you have to vote for me anyway,” and “Whether you love me or hate me, you gotta vote for me.”
Maher continued:
<blockquote>The question Democrats must ask themselves is, “What would make a voter say, ‘Trump&#8217;s right. I don&#8217;t like him, but I have no choice?’” Well, let&#8217;s go down the list. Bernie Sanders says we should let the Boston Marathon bomber vote. Why? Is there a great clamoring to give deranged serial killers more of a voice in civil society? Is Hannibal Lecter thinking, “I love Trump for his narcissistic personality disorder, but Sanders really gets voters like me.” Now, I&#8217;m sure you can make an argument for this, but we&#8217;re trying to win an election here, and this just feeds into what Trump is selling.</blockquote>
Maher then played multiple clips in which the president call Democrats “crazy.”
During a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bernie-sanders-let-terrorists-sex-predators-ryan-saavedra">CNN town hall</a> in April, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was asked: “Would [you] support enfranchising people like the Boston Marathon bomber, a convicted terrorist and murderer?”
He replied: “If somebody commits a serious crime – sexual assault, murder – they’re going to be punished. They may be in jail 10 years, 20 years, 50 years, their whole lives. That’s what happens when you commit a serious crime. But I think the right to vote is inherent to our democracy. Yes, even for terrible people, because once you start chipping away … you’re running down a slippery slope … I do believe that even if they are in jail, they’re paying their price to society, that should not take away their inherent American right to participate in our democracy.”
Maher continued:
<blockquote>Hey Democrats, don&#8217;t make him [Trump] believable on that, and you win. Elizabeth Warren has not come out in favor of imprisoned serial killers voting, but she does want taxpayers to cover their sex change operations in prison, which brings up the question, “If you tried, could you come up with a policy with more third-rail buzzwords in it?”
&#8230;where are the votes in this? You know how many transgender people there are in federal prison in America? 473 – and they can&#8217;t vote. So, we&#8217;re taking this position because it makes a great campaign slogan? “Commit a crime [and] get a free d***!” “Commit a crime and your new vagina is free!” So, let&#8217;s imagine a slightly different scenario. You’re a progressive voter who likes Elizabeth Warren, you drive a Prius, hate guns, and buy kale in bulk, but you find out that Warren does not support taxpayer-funded gender reassignment surgery for convicts, so that&#8217;s it? Deal-breaker? You’re voting for Trump now? Of course not! This is the binary thing Democrats don&#8217;t get because apparently they never saw the movie “An Officer and a Gentleman,” where a drill sergeant forces Richard Gere to admit the same truth the Democratic voters need to face.</blockquote>
“I got nowhere else to go!” screams Gear in a clip from the film.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s “LGBTQ+ Rights and Equality” plan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/warren-inmates-are-entitled-to-taxpayer-funded-transgender-surgery">reads in part</a>: “I will direct the Bureau of Prisons to end the Trump Administration’s dangerous policy of imprisoning transgender people in facilities based on their sex assigned at birth.”
During a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/warren-inmates-are-entitled-to-taxpayer-funded-transgender-surgery">recent town hall</a>, Warren was questioned by CNN’s Chris Cuomo about her previous position that taxpayers shouldn’t have to fund transition surgery for trans inmates. The senator apologized for her prior stance and walked it back.
Maher continued:
<blockquote>You hear that, Bernie and Elizabeth and Beto and the rest of them? They got nowhere else to go. So, you can stop wearing your most divisive issues on your sleeve. Target sells condoms and lube, but they don&#8217;t call it “the condom and lube store,” they hide that s*** in the back in a locked case and they call themselves Target&#8230;
Point is, instead of trying to make the people on the far-left double-dog like you, make some good people in the middle not hate you. People talk a lot in this country about identity politics. Here’s some identity for you. Only 46% of Democrats identify as liberals. Yeah. Life doesn&#8217;t end east of La Brea.
Beto O’Rourke wants to tax churches. So do I, but I&#8217;m not running for president. Beto wants to take away the tax-exempt status of any church that opposes gay marriage, a position I doubt goes down well among black churchgoers – and try winning as a Democrat without them. I&#8217;m sure Tyler Perry would vote for Beto. I&#8217;m not so sure about Madea.</blockquote>
During a recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/robert-francis-orourke-punish-churches-that-do-not-support-gay-marriage">LGBTQ town hall</a> on CNN, candidate Beto O’Rourke was asked if “religious institutions like colleges, churches, [and] charities should &#8230; lose their tax-exempt status if they oppose same-sex marriage,” and he replied in the affirmative.
“There can be no reward, no benefit, no tax break for anyone or any institution, any organization in America, that denies the full human rights and the full civil rights of every single one of us,” O’Rourke stated. “So as president, we’re going to make that a priority, and we are going to stop those who are infringing upon the human rights of our fellow Americans.”
Maher continued:
<blockquote>I&#8217;m not sure why Kamala Harris felt the need to start off a recent town hall by saying, “My pronouns are she, her, and hers” &#8230; for some, I guess that makes her the Rosa Parks of pronouns, but there&#8217;s a much larger group thinking, “Why is this important?” Why in the first debate did Julián Castro feel the need to take a brave stand in favor of trans-female abortion rights. Trans-females can&#8217;t even get pregnant; they don&#8217;t have a uterus – unless they&#8217;re in prison and Elizabeth Warren buys them one.</blockquote>
During the first Democratic primary debate in June, Julian Castro was asked if his health care plan would cover “abortion.”
Castro infamously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pc-insanity-julian-castros-transgender-abortion-hank-berrien">replied</a>: “Yes, it would. I don’t believe only in reproductive freedom, I believe in reproductive justice. And, you know, what that means is that just because a woman – or let’s also not forget someone in the trans community, a trans female – is poor, doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have the right to exercise that right to choose. And so I absolutely would cover the right to have an abortion.”
Maher concluded:
<blockquote>This should be easy. Just be less crazy than Donald Trump. Are you guys seriously struggling with this? 69% of voters say they dislike Trump personally, and there&#8217;s no sign anything can change their minds, but Democrats reaction to that is, “Okay, but let&#8217;s try.” Let me help you. You don&#8217;t need to be 100% Twitter approved on every issue. Twitter is not America. Most of America, all they want is to vote for someone who&#8217;s not weird. Play to them, and stop worrying that you&#8217;re gonna lose social justice warriors to Donald Trump.</blockquote>
[Warning: Strong Language]
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WATCH: Bill Maher Skewers Dem Candidates Over Their Increasingly Extreme Policies

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On October 21, The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles gave a speech at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia. The speech was titled, “Men are not Women.”
The biological reality that men are indeed not women didn’t stop activists from protesting the event.
YouTuber Austen Fletcher, aka “Fleccas,” went to the protest to speak with activists, as well as those who were there in support of Knowles.
Fleccas asked a man wearing a pumpkin shirt and red jacket if Michael Knowles “should speak here tonight.” The man simply replied, “No.” Fleccas pushed back, asking about Knowles’ free speech rights, to which the man in the red jacket said: “I don’t think hate speech is free speech.”
The man admitted that has never watched any Michael Knowles video.
Fleccas had the following exchange with a man wearing a “Run River North” shirt who had stated that he was there to protest Knowles despite not even knowing who he was:
<blockquote>FLECCAS: Do you disavow Antifa?
MAN: No. God, no.
FLECCAS: What about the violence they do? They’re so bad.
MAN: I think that violence is a useful political tool, and if wielded in the proper fashion, that – I mean, collateral damage happens, and that’s a shame, and people need to be careful what they do &#8230; “Antifa” is a label for anybody who’s anti-fascist, so&#8230;
FLECCAS: I think it’s a slippery slope, though. So, if Antifa is in there, and they got violent with Michael Knowles, would you disavow that?
MAN: Yeah.</blockquote>
The man later insisted that he was still “okay with political violence,” adding “Ben, go f*** yourself. Charlie Kirk, go f*** yourself. Candace Owens, go f*** yourself.”
Fleccas spoke with a male-identifying trans person wearing a baseball cap who was not supportive of the protest:
<blockquote>CAP: Being trans is pretty socially acceptable now, you know, as it should be, but if you are a straight white guy, you are silenced, you know? You’re not allowed to voice your opinion.
FLECCAS: That’s interesting, almost like the oppressed gain privilege from their oppression, and it&#8217;s kind of like the totem pole of oppression now deciding who gets to speak, whose voice is worth what, and who gets shut down and who doesn&#8217;t.
CAP: Exactly.
FLECCAS: You think that&#8217;s a problem [on] college campuses?
CAP: Very much so. Everybody should have an equal voice.</blockquote>
The male-identifying trans person, a “college libertarian,” later said they weren’t pleased that the protesters were using transgenderism “as a political tool.”
Throughout the video, an activist leader with brightly colored hair continued to interrupt Fleccas’ interactions, telling protesters that “we can’t have interviews.” Some acquiesced to the leader’s request, while others spoke with Fleccas anyway.
Another activist tried to get Fleccas to leave their “zone.” She told a crowd of protesters to “ignore them, and do not speak with them.”
Fleccas also spoke with several protesters about young children transitioning.
When asked if there should be an age limit to hormone therapy and “transition surgery,” one woman said: “No, I do not. I feel like if they have that medical diagnosis, and this is who they are, then that&#8217;s what needs to happen for them.”
Another person said that “children are making the decision with the help of endocrinologists, psychologists, [a] licensed social worker – they have a whole team of people consulting with them.”
One protester cited an alleged study pertaining to youth gender identity. A female protester appeared to question Fleccas’ understanding of the concept in general because he’s not a doctor, a teacher, or a parent. That same woman then compared the situation to a deaf child receiving cochlear implants, to which Fleccas replied: “Not the same.”
The rest of the video is loaded with interesting stuff. Check it out below:
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WATCH: Activists Protesting Michael Knowles Speech Endorse Childhood Transitions, And Even ‘Political Violence’

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As the transgender movement continues to develop, the cultural sentiment has moved rapidly toward acceptance and “affirmation.” While some believe the affirmation campaign is a step in the right direction, others are concerned that a rush to champion hormones and gender reassignment surgery while ignoring other potential drivers of gender dysphoria could ultimately do more hard than good.
The affirmation of gender dysphoria has even gained steam among the youth population. According to a study from <a href="https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/research/transgender-issues/new-estimates-show-that-150000-youth-ages-13-to-17-identify-as-transgender-in-the-us/">The Williams Institute</a>, “an estimated 0.7 percent of youth ages 13 to 17 &#8230; identify as transgender in the United States.” This is approximately 150,000 young people.
Despite the increasing social acceptance of transgenderism by Hollywood and the mainstream press, there is a segment of the trans population that is feeling regret, and seeking to detransition.
Walter Heyer, a former male-to-female transgender individual, runs a website called <a href="http://sexchangeregret.com/">Sexchangeregret.com</a>. The website serves as a contact point for Heyer to help those who are seeking to detransition.
On Wednesday, I had the opportunity to speak with Heyer about his life and his work. In part two of this interview, Heyer discusses the shockingly high suicide rate among the post-op transgender population, the dangerous consequences of youth transitions, the future of the trans movement, his relationship with his ex-wife and kids, and more.
Before reading further, check out part one of this interview <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/interview-part-i-former-transgender-walt-heyer-talks-about-his-detransition-the-dangers-of-affirmation-and-childhood-sexual-trauma">here</a>.
<blockquote>DW: There are a lot of people who suggest that the high suicide rate among post-op trans individuals is due to social cruelty and nonacceptance. What’s your take on that?
HEYER: No. No, no. It&#8217;s due to transitioning. Society has nothing to do with it. It&#8217;s these buffoons that are cutting people&#8217;s body parts off and stuffing people full of hormones and making a boatload of money off of it. It&#8217;s totally unnecessary. The people run into the wall and find out they never needed to do it, and many of them just take their life because they feel like it was taken from them, just as I attempted suicide. I just wasn&#8217;t successful, thankfully.
You can go look at The U.K. Guardian, July 2004, the headline says that sex changes are ineffective, but people don&#8217;t talk about those people, they talk about all the stuff that the left-wing is pumping out there as gospel. It&#8217;s total junk.
The studies show – I even reported in one of my books – that they can&#8217;t even find 90% of the people who have gone through the transition to use them in studies because they&#8217;ve probably committed suicide, they&#8217;ve detransitioned, or they&#8217;ve just gone underground. So, most of the stuff that&#8217;s put out about society, it&#8217;s bogus, but that&#8217;s what it is.
DW: So what would you tell young people, specifically teenagers, maybe even younger, who are thinking about transitioning?
HEYER: Well, they need to understand that there are going to be huge consequences – and that I have actually worked with a few young people through their parents – what we have today is mostly what would be called a social contagion. They don&#8217;t have gender dysphoria. This has just become a social phenomenon. So kids get on their computers and they get into these chat rooms – some people call it rapid onset of gender dysphoria, but these are not individuals with gender dysphoria; they’re just people who do this as a social construct to gain friendships with buddies who are doing the same thing. Mostly women; they&#8217;re girls age 14/15, some 13, some a little younger. But it&#8217;s the hormone blockers that are really, really destructive.
It’s medical malpractice. It&#8217;s child abuse. It should be stopped at all costs because the stuff they&#8217;re using wasn&#8217;t even designed to be used for what they&#8217;re using it for. So, it&#8217;s pretty horrible.
I think what we&#8217;re going to see as time unfolds here in the next few years is that it&#8217;s going to blow up in people&#8217;s faces – and it&#8217;s already starting now. We&#8217;re seeing a lot more people requesting detransition information. I&#8217;m working with a school teacher in New Jersey today, finishing working with a pharmacist in Boston, and I&#8217;m working with another person in Georgia who works for a phone company down there. A 21 year old, transitioned at 18, is now detransitioning at 21. So, we&#8217;re seeing the detransitions now are younger and younger, and this is because they&#8217;re just pushing it on everybody. They&#8217;re pushing it on schools, making it like candy. Anybody can transition. You could diagnose a rock with gender dysphoria today. It’s just sickening, is what really is. It&#8217;s barbaric.
DW: What do you think the result of all this social acceptance of dysphoria will be?
HEYER: I write about everybody that is willing to let me write about their story. I mean, the guy who said he had gender dysphoria that I wrote about, they ended up giving him 167 “gender affirming” surgeries, and he&#8217;s still unhappy. I mean, this is where we are. Any time that surgeons will do 167 surgeries on somebody as “gender affirmation,” they need to really lock the doctors up and throw away the key. It&#8217;s absurd.
I met the guy face-to-face in a coffee shop in Maryland, and he&#8217;s asking me for help. I mean, the guy looks like he&#8217;s been in a fire because he&#8217;s had so many surgeries.
We had another guy in California, Billy, who, when he was 11 years old was at camp and his diving coach sexually molested him. What we have with a lot of these young people is that when they&#8217;re sexually molested by an adult, they don&#8217;t even want to tell anybody about it. And secondly, they want to remove the genitalia they have as a defense mechanism against ever being sexually abused by somebody again. So, it&#8217;s much more about a defense mechanism for a large portion of this population than it is about transitioning. And girls report to me, like this one I&#8217;m working with, she was sexually molested by her dad for five years. She wanted to take on the identity of a male as a way to not be attractive to someone who might want to sexually molest them. In both cases, it&#8217;s a defense mechanism against being sexually molested or improperly treated. So they migrate.
This girl migrated to being a lesbian. Now she says she&#8217;s not a lesbian anymore and she&#8217;s not a transgender anymore and she&#8217;s coming back, letting her hair grow out, and she&#8217;s working through the issues with her molestation. This is pretty typical. Each story is a little different. I&#8217;ve had one girl contact me – her mother married a guy and that guy had a daughter the same age as her, and the father, when the mother was gone, had the two girls engage in lesbian sex with each other because he got sexually aroused by it. He did this to the two girls for quite a long time.
The girl contacts me and says, “I don&#8217;t want to do this anymore. I became a transgender because of what happened with my stepfather.” There are stories behind these. Most people don&#8217;t want to talk about them because they&#8217;re pretty ugly. I think it&#8217;s instructive for us to understand that these people aren&#8217;t born that way. This is a childhood developmental disorder. You can make a kid “gender dysphoric.”
Gender dysphoria is a very simple thing. They&#8217;re consistent, persistent, and insistent on being a different gender. Well, kids are persistent and insistent and consistent about everything. And as a matter of fact, all mental disorders are insistent, consistent, and persistent. So, the idea that gender dysphoria is some kind of magical diagnosis, again, needs to be examined because intellectually it&#8217;s dishonest to make that suggestion.
DW: Do you think all these new people coming forward publicly who are detransitioning will ever lead to a reversal of this as a cultural movement?
HEYER: No, because I think they still have the people who have autogynephilia and a transvestic fetish who will always migrate to that. But I think it probably will help a lot of people who were – the more information we get out – if they were sexually molested or have other issues, if we can just get the people who are writing new standards of care to allow good, sound, effective, free transitioning psychotherapy, we could probably eliminate 90% of them fairly quickly, and work on what actually caused them to want to identify as transgender. Like I said, in what I do, I find that 100% of the time, people can tell me, &#8220;If I knew that, and they would have treated that, I wouldn&#8217;t have done it.&#8221;
DW: What is your relationship like with your pre-transition family?
HEYER: My daughter says I&#8217;m her hero for coming back. I still have a relationship through text message and stuff with my ex. I see my son frequently. And so the relationship is good. Some of the people have come after my son because he works in a place where there&#8217;s a lot of people who are LGBT, and so they have bullied and called him names and stuff because of what I do. So that&#8217;s an unfortunate part. But I have a good relationship with them. I&#8217;ve been married for 22 years to a nice lady, and a real one as a matter of fact. Life is good. We published six books, and I travel around speaking all the time.
DW: Is there something that we haven&#8217;t touched on in this interview that you would want people to know?
HEYER: I just want people to be very cautious about selecting a rainbow therapist, specialist, who deals with transgenders because what I have discovered is that they only see gender dysphoria and they don&#8217;t make any attempt to do any effective diagnosis of comorbidities, which is one reason why I&#8217;m seeing that people come back. When they come to me, they&#8217;re now very open and willing to find out what happened and what went wrong. I understand that when they&#8217;re going into the process, it’s probably a little more difficult to pry them open and discuss that, but that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s much more important because they can save a person a great deal of agony and pain.
So, I personally tell people, just run away from the people who say that they&#8217;re transgender specialists and do approving of transition surgery, and go to some psychotherapist who’s not of that ilk. Go to somebody who may be more able to look deeper at comorbid disorders. It&#8217;s probably just some good advice that people would probably benefit from.</blockquote>
I’d like to thank Walt Heyer for taking the time to speak with me about this incredibly important issue. For more information, you can visit <a href="http://sexchangeregret.com">Sexchangeregret.com</a>, or Heyer’s personal website <a href="https://waltheyer.com/">here</a>.

Walt Heyer.

INTERVIEW (Part II): Former Transgender Walt Heyer Talks The Dangers Of Youth Transitions, High Suicide Rates, And The Future

Walt Heyer

Air Canada announced last week that it will no longer use the phrase &#8220;ladies and gentlemen&#8221; on board its flights. The policy is part of a &#8220;commitment to respect sexual identity, diversity, and inclusion,&#8221; the company said in an internal memo.
Instead of the gender-specific &#8220;ladies and gentlemen&#8221; (and &#8220;mesdames et messieurs&#8221; — all announcements on Air Canada are in English and French), flight attendants are to address passengers as &#8220;everybody&#8221; and &#8220;tout le monde.&#8221;
LGBTQ groups are delighted.
Most other people are not.
Needless to say, Air Canada never polled its passengers or its employees. The left believes in democracy only when it wins a popular vote. When it loses a popular vote, it regards democracy as defective. A perfect example is the attempt by the left in Britain and the rest of Europe to overturn the British people&#8217;s vote in favor of leaving the European Union (also known as Brexit). Because the left lost, it regards that exercise in democracy as invalid.
Everyone knows that had there been a vote among Air Canada passengers — say, all those enrolled in the airline&#8217;s frequent flier program — even liberal Canadians would have voted to retain &#8220;ladies and gentlemen.&#8221; Even the infinitesimally small number of Canadians who are transgender would almost all vote to retain &#8220;ladies and gentlemen.&#8221; Remember, transgender individuals strongly identify as male or female — they simply reject their biological sexual identity. So, who, exactly, is Air Canada making more comfortable? Not the 99-plus percent of Canadians who identify with their biological sex, and not the fraction of a percent of Canadians who are transgender.
They are allegedly making the most rare of all human beings comfortable: those with no sexual identity. And not even every member of that group would vote to have Air Canada drop &#8220;ladies and gentlemen.&#8221; I recently interviewed one such individual on my radio show, Professor Camille Paglia, one of the major thinkers of our time. She told me she identifies as neither female nor male but she thinks society is going mad in its rush to obliterate male and female.
The truth is no one but LGBTQ activists (including their cisgender heterosexual supporters) approve of Air Canada&#8217;s change.
So why did Air Canada do this?
To feel good about itself and buy goodwill with some of the most powerful social forces in the English-speaking world: LGBTQ activist groups. Big-business leftism — like Citibank&#8217;s recent video featuring the hurt and angry reactions of young girls (around ages 10 to 13) when told women are &#8220;paid less than men&#8221; for the same work — can best be described as moral onanism.
There are no other reasons for Air Canada&#8217;s decision. Air Canada has offended nearly all its passengers — male, female, straight, gay and transgender — who want to be referred to as ladies or gentlemen. But this means nothing to Air Canada. And it is likely that U.S. airlines will follow suit. There is no left-wing position, no matter how radical or absurd, that hurts a business.
Only taking a conservative position can hurt a business. The owner of Chick-fil-A believes in the only sex-based definition of marriage that has ever existed — the union of male and female — and is boycotted, closed down or never allowed to open. That Chick-fil-A hires and serves gays, including married gays, makes no difference to left-wing haters.
Forbes reported last week that just eight days after a new Chick-fil-A was opened for business, &#8220;the Oracle shopping mall in Reading, outside London &#8230; yanked its lease. &#8230; The outlet in Reading, about 35 miles from London, was an effort to test the metropolitan area&#8217;s waters. But, campaigners from Reading Pride, an LGBT organization, called for a boycott of the American brand because of its foundation&#8217;s support of groups they say are hostile to gay rights.&#8221;
Earlier this year, the San Antonio Airport banned Chick-fil-A from opening a restaurant there. And New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel tried to prevent Chick-fil-A from opening in their cities — because of the owner&#8217;s views, not Chick-fil-A&#8217;s policies.
Air Canada will pay no price for a decision that insults the vast majority of its clients and undermines one of the most beautiful and essential building blocks of civilization: the existence, and even celebration, of the two sexes. No company pays a price — from Air Canada to Citibank to Gillette (whose &#8220;toxic masculinity&#8221; video was a &#8220;screw you&#8221; to nearly all its male clients) to Nike (which has appointed as its national spokesman a football player who won&#8217;t stand for the national anthem and loathes America).
Such is the power and stranglehold of the left today — in big business as much as in journalism and our schools. This is not new. As the famous quote attributed to (but perhaps not actually said by) Lenin put it, &#8220;The capitalists&#8221; — in this case, Western businesses — &#8220;will sell us the rope with which to hang them.&#8221;
If the West sinks, you can thank big businesses like Air Canada as much as the universities and the media.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in April 2018, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Exodus. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; comes to theaters fall 2019. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.

Air Canada jet.

PRAGER: Air Canada To Its Passengers: &#8216;Screw You&#8217;

Gender Pronouns

As the transgender movement continues to develop, the cultural sentiment has moved rapidly toward acceptance and “affirmation.” While some believe the affirmation campaign is a step in the right direction, others are concerned that a rush to champion hormones and gender reassignment surgery while ignoring other potential drivers of gender dysphoria could ultimately do more harm than good.
The affirmation of gender dysphoria has even gained steam among the youth population. According to a study published in 2017 from <a href="https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/research/transgender-issues/new-estimates-show-that-150000-youth-ages-13-to-17-identify-as-transgender-in-the-us/">The Williams Institute</a>, “an estimated 0.7 percent of youth ages 13 to 17 &#8230; identify as transgender in the United States.” This is approximately 150,000 young people.
Despite the increasing social acceptance of transgenderism by Hollywood and the mainstream press, there is a segment of the trans population that is feeling regret, and seeking to detransition.
Walter Heyer, a former male-to-female transgender individual, runs a website called Sexchangeregret.com. The website serves as a contact point for Heyer to help those who are seeking to detransition.
On Wednesday, I had the opportunity to speak with Heyer about his life and his work. In part one of this two-part interview, Heyer speaks about the circumstances that led to his own gender dysphoria, his transition to female-identifying, the childhood trauma and comorbid disorders uncovered in the transgender population with whom he interacts, and more.
<blockquote>DW: Could you walk me through your early story about how you developed your dysphoria?
HEYER: Yeah. At four years old, my grandma was a seamstress and was making dresses. That&#8217;s where she made her money. It&#8217;s 1944, and so I&#8217;m the kid that&#8217;s being babysat by grandma, and I was curious about what she was doing, and just kind of watched her as the women came in and out of the house. That curiosity got her to make me a purple chiffon dress. And then she put it on me, and that was my little dress as a four-year-old. She thought I looked very cute, and today we would probably call it “affirming.” That curiosity and what occurred later, this affirmation process, led me to become confused about whether I should have been a girl or a boy. In 1944, we didn&#8217;t have any names for it, and I was just struggling with who I was. It took a long time for me to go to sleep at night. I struggled for a long time.
My dad and mom found out about it because it was a secret for two and a half years. I was at grandma&#8217;s, and then when my dad’s teenage brother found out, who was adopted, he thought I was good game to be sexually molested because I was wearing this purple dress at grandma&#8217;s. When I told my parents I was being sexually molested, they said that couldn&#8217;t be true because Fred said he didn&#8217;t do it.
So, you start off life before you&#8217;re nine years old with some of these confusing events, and Christine Jorgensen came along in the 1950&#8217;s, and when I saw that news story, I thought, &#8220;Well, that must be me. That must be what I am.&#8221; The association without having any other knowledge and information, I assumed that that was me.
I continued to cross dress and think that I was born in the wrong body throughout my life. Never really stopped as a teenager. I took on a secret name, Crystal West, and didn&#8217;t tell anybody about it. As time went on, I continued to cross dress all the way through high school and early college. Still confused, still struggling. Then I got married in my early twenties because, like so many people who identify as transgender, I’m not homosexual. The ones that I work with, probably over 90% of them are not homosexual; they&#8217;re just people confused about their gender identity, but their sexual identity is still heterosexual. So, I married, had kids, worked on the Apollo space mission, and at American Honda Motor Company.
I went to a gender therapist in San Francisco at the age of 40 to 41, and he diagnosed me with gender dysphoria, gender identity disorder – and he was the author of the original standards of care that are in place today. His name is Paul Walker. He was kind of the number one guy in the country on diagnosing and treating these disorders. So, I thought that was pretty radical and talked to my wife about it, and over the next couple of years I started on hormones. In April of 1983, I underwent gender reassignment surgery while I was an executive with American Honda Motor Company. They terminated me when I notified them of my new identity, and I became homeless not long after that. I was divorced and broke and struggling with alcoholism and drug addiction, then began to crawl my way back.
I lived for about eight years as “Laura Jensen,” female, in the San Francisco area. I studied psychology at UC Santa Cruz as a way to try to get myself back. I&#8217;d been living with a family in Pleasanton, California, because I had no real source of income for a long time.
When I saw and studied psychology at UC Santa Cruz, I realized that people who identified as transgender were also suffering from many disorders that no one ever talked about – things like separation anxiety and body dysmorphia and schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, social adjustment disorders. Just a pretty big laundry list of things that people who identified as transgender carried with them that were typically not addressed during the pre-surgical evaluation.
I then started going for therapy and realized that no one could actually land on anything specific. One therapist said that I had dissociative disorder; the other one said I didn&#8217;t. No one could come to a solid agreement. They just felt that the sexual molestation that occurred when I was young, the cross-dressing, all precipitated into me having difficulty identifying with who I was, electing to identify with my transgender identity. I eventually – through therapy and actually going to church in Foster City, California – kind of walked my way out of that, and detransitioned in 1990, and have been restored back to my sanity since 1990. Now, I’ve been married for 22 years to a real woman, and I&#8217;ve been clean and sober for 33 and a half years.
DW: So those two things – the chiffon dress and the sexual abuse – you believe were the primary contributors to your developing gender dysphoria?
HEYER: Yeah, and the people that I&#8217;ve known for a long time and work with even today, find that&#8217;s what it is. The people that I work with today, 45% to 50% of them were sexually abused as children, and they ended up identifying as a transgender later on. These are the ones that are also detransitioning.
DW: Can you explain the idea of comorbidities and past trauma as it relates to transgenderism?
HEYER: Yeah. Well, “comorbidity” is just a fancy word for “additional disorders.” These are things like schizophrenia, which some studies say that there&#8217;s a certain portion of people who identify as transgender have schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. These disorders typically weren&#8217;t there prior to identifying as transgender, but often times these disorders develop as a result of identifying, cross-dressing. A portion of them are disorders like “autogynephilia” and “transvestic fetish disorder.” Autogynephilia and transvestic fetishism are two pretty major factors that people don&#8217;t talk much about, and that&#8217;s men who cross dress and look at the mirror, and what they see in the mirror becomes the object of their own sexual affection, that becomes their sexual arousal. And so they&#8217;re typically not homosexual, they don&#8217;t need a partner, it&#8217;s just looking at themselves, they become complete sexually.
The person with transvestic fetish usually attaches himself sexually to one particular type of clothing, whether it&#8217;s shoes or whatever, and they become sexually aroused by those garments or female clothing. So, these are typically not transgenders; they’re actually people with other disorders, but they identify as transgender.
You also have people who are just cross-dressers, and transvestites. Then you have the drag queens, many of whom don&#8217;t have bottom surgery. They just are flamboyant, over-the-top homosexuals who identify as drag queens. But most of those groups, actually, are not transgender; they just identify as transgender when they have these other issues that we call comorbidities.
DW: Why do you believe people identify as transgender when what they’re experiencing is rather just a set of comorbidities?
HEYER: I don&#8217;t think it plays well when somebody sees you cross-dressing, and you tell them, &#8220;I have autogynephilia because I get sexually aroused by looking in a mirror.&#8221; It&#8217;s just a lot more socially palatable to tell people, &#8220;I&#8217;m transgender,” without going into the details of what that means.
And people who have dissociative disorders, your bipolar disorder, or whatever – you just throw all of these things into a basket, toss a blanket over it, and call it transgenderism, when, if you take the blanket off and begin to look deep into these things, you can see what the underlying comorbidities are – but we typically don&#8217;t do much of that. I do it all the time, 100% of the time, with the people who contact me after they&#8217;ve had a failed transition, and want to de-transition and we dig into, &#8220;Well, let&#8217;s find out why you transitioned.&#8221; 100% of the time, the people that I&#8217;ve worked with over the last ten years can come up with a situation, an event, that caused them to transition, whether it&#8217;s from female-to-male or male-to-female. So, they can identify it usually after the fact when the transition failed, which usually occurs between five and 15 years.
DW: Has there ever been someone you helped who didn&#8217;t either have a comorbidity or a past trauma?
HEYER: No.
DW: Back to your story, you transitioned when you were about 42, right?
HEYER: Yeah, that&#8217;s right.
DW: What were the years like while you were transgender?
HEYER: Well, I worked for FDIC and banking; I worked for the postal service. I was also at the same time studying psychology at UC Santa Cruz. That&#8217;s when I started looking into the books and finding comorbidities. So my life was fairly reasonable. I had a decent job. When I wanted to work, I could work, and I lived in San Francisco part of the time, I lived in L.A. part of the time, and in Pleasanton, California, part of the time. I was clean and sober. So I would call it unremarkable, except that I was really learning a lot about what they were doing in terms of identifying people who are transgender actually having other issues. So I was kind of beginning to crack into that in the late 1980’s.
DW: Can you tell me about your detransition experience? What first ignited it, and then the process of going through that detransition?
HEYER: Well, a series of things happened and it took probably a year and a half maybe to come all the way back. I think once I had begun to look into this idea of comorbidities, and begun to explore that – I was working actually in a psych hospital in L.A. on the unit as part of my schoolwork. I was called a “chemical dependency technician” in a lockdown psych unit. There was a psychiatric doctor there and he&#8217;s the one who began to talk to me about the comorbidities and other issues. I told him where I was trying to go with this, and he recommended I go see a therapist that he knew. I went and saw that therapist, and several other ones. It took me a lot of convincing through psychotherapy from many different people that it would be safe for me to detransition, and that I wouldn&#8217;t have this gnawing feeling that I&#8217;d made a mistake and needed to come back.
So, once I had resolved all those early childhood issues and could rectify what had happened, then it was relatively easy for me to realize that not only am I one of the ones that had gone through this unnecessarily, but that there were probably others – and that&#8217;s when I built the website <a href="http://sexchangeregret.com">sexchangeregret.com</a>. The first year, we had 700 people come to the website. In 2015, we had 356,000 people come to the website. Today, we get 25,000 or 30,000 people a month. So many people are struggling. Somebody in the U.K. wrote an article recently – they are detransitioning and said they&#8217;ve found hundreds of people, and that&#8217;s the same thing I reported. I myself have worked with hundreds of people who are detransitioning, but it&#8217;s kind of a taboo subject. Nobody wants to hear about it; nobody wants to believe it. But this thing runs its course between five and 15 years.
Strangely enough, there&#8217;s a Dr. Charles Ihlenfeld who worked at the Harry Benjamin Gender Clinic in New York in 1979 as an endocrinologist, had administered hormone therapy to 500 people who had transitioned over a six year period, and he said in New York in 1979 that he was leaving the practice of administering hormones to these individuals, and going to become a psychiatric doctor so that he could actually help them because he said, and I quote, &#8220;Giving them hormones and changing their genders, it is causing too much unhappiness and too many of them ended in suicide.&#8221;</blockquote>
In part two of this interview, which you can read <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/interview-part-ii-former-transgender-walt-heyer-talks-the-dangers-of-youth-transitions-high-suicide-rates-and-the-future">here</a>, Heyer discusses the shockingly high suicide rate among the post-op transgender population, the dangerous consequences of youth transitions, the future of the trans movement, his relationship with his ex-wife and kids, and more.
For more information, you can visit <a href="http://sexchangeregret.com">Sexchangeregret.com</a>, or Heyer’s personal website <a href="https://waltheyer.com/">here</a>.

INTERVIEW (Part I): Former Transgender Walt Heyer Talks About His Detransition, The Dangers Of ‘Affirmation,’ And Childhood Sexual Trauma

On Thursday, before Jeffery Younger was hit with a gag order from Judge Kim Cooks, LifeSiteNews reporter Madeleine Jacob spoke to the Texas dad fighting to save his seven-year-old son from a gender transition. 
During the interview, Mr. Younger explained why he’s fighting to save his son and other children from transgender indoctrination and addressed negative claims his ex-wife Dr. Anne Georgulas has leveled against him. 
Reacting to the jury’s decision not to grant Mr. Younger sole conservatorship over his son on Monday, the father told LifeSiteNews that he was shocked: “We put up an email form Ms. Georgulas to me in which she contemplates cutting the penis off my son. 20 minutes later, they go into deliberations, and they come back voting against me.” 
“The Texas I grew up in, the Texas that I live in, if a parent did that, we’re just gonna give him [the child] to the other parent; we’re not gonna tolerate that kind of craziness. So it just tells you, I think, really how far our society has changed, and how much less Christian we are,” he continued. 
Mr. Younger noted that he “predicted” the groundswell of support for James. “The very first interview that I ever did … I said, ‘I don’t believe Texans will allow this to happen to children.’”
Noting that the case will likely be appealed no matter which way the judge rules and could possibly head to the Supreme Court, Younger said he was “ready” and “willing” for the fight: “I would like to protect every child in the United States from these abhorrent practices by the medical community. It’s one of the reasons we’ve always said from the very beginning, we didn’t just say ‘save James,’ we said ‘save James; save thousands of kids.’ And the reason we said that last part is we did not want to forget the other children who are suffering from this with parents that just don’t have the resources, the will, the capacity, the circumstances to fight.”
Jacob brought up the accusations against Mr. Younger’s character, including that he supposedly exaggerated his finances to Ms. Georgulas before they were married. According to Younger, he and his ex-wife singed a prenuptial agreement that disclosed all their finances and had background checks completed prior to their wedding.
Younger also spoke of an alleged bias, explaining that his marriage of five years with Georgulas was annulled, meaning his children were now technically born out of wedlock. “As far as I know, that’s never happened before in Texas,” he said. “We don’t make children illegitimate; we don’t do that in Texas.”
Following the interview, Judge Cooks ruled that Mr. Younger will have a say in his son James’ gender “transition” by way of joint conservatorship over the boy. 
Mr. Younger was also hit with a gag order by the judge, meaning the father will have to shut down the “Save James” website, which circulated videos of his boy, testimonials, and vital court documents.
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/video-james-younger-at-age-3-to-dad-mommy-tells-me-im-a-girl">Video: James Younger, At Age 3, To Dad: Mommy Tells Me I’m A Girl</a>

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WATCH: Father Of 7-Year-Old &#8216;Trans&#8217; Child James Younger Speaks Out Before Gag Order

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In an <a href="https://video.foxnews.com/v/6097204442001/#sp=show-clips">interview</a> on his Fox News show Wednesday night, host Tucker Carlson spoke with Women&#8217;s Liberation Front board member Kara Dansky — a self-described &#8220;lifelong&#8221; Democrat — about the controversy swirling around the latest championship won by a biological male in a women&#8217;s sports competition.
In response to Carlson&#8217;s questions about transgender cyclist Rachel McKinnon — a biological male who just set a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trans-athlete-wins-womens-world-cycling-competition-again-slams-transphobic-critics">world record</a> in a women&#8217;s track cycling championship — Dansky said that many on the Left strongly oppose the transgender agenda but are &#8220;subjected to a media blackout.&#8221;
&#8220;I just want to say there are many Democrats and people who identify as being on the Left who are very angry about the takeover of women&#8217;s sports and how the Democratic Party is handling gender identity,&#8221; said Dansky.
Dansky then underscored that she is a &#8220;lifelong&#8221; Democrat but has found that her voice has been silenced by her own side, particularly the mainstream media.
&#8220;I am a lifelong member of the Democratic Party and many of us can&#8217;t get a voice on this issue in most media,&#8221; said Dansky.
&#8220;If you had told me &#8230; five years ago that there would be a consensus in Washington that you are not allowed to question any of this stuff, I would have said that was insane,&#8221; said Carlson. &#8220;Today, there is that consensus. It&#8217;s dangerous to even raise questions about it.&#8221;
Citing McKinnon&#8217;s championship in Manchester, Dansky said, &#8220;There are many feminist women who are questioning the right of male athletes to compete in women&#8217;s sports, and this seems to be unacceptable for us to take this position.&#8221;
&#8220;But we will continue to take this position that it is unacceptable for males to compete in women&#8217;s sports,&#8221; Dansky stressed. &#8220;It is very important in this country for the purposes of maintaining Title IX protection for women and girls &#8230;&#8221;
When Carlson pointed out that just by making this &#8220;reality-based case,&#8221; Dansky is risking &#8220;physical harm,&#8221; Dansky agreed that the consequences — physical, social and professional — for simply &#8220;voicing concerns&#8221; about the safety and rights of girls and women are dire.
&#8220;Physical harm, social ostracization, risk to livelihood. I personally know several women who have been fired from positions for voicing concerns for the rights, privacy, and safety of women and girls,&#8221; said Dansky.
&#8220;I want to also just make the point that many of your viewers may not understand, that there are many people on the political Left — including, especially, feminists, lesbians, gay men and bisexual people — who are gravely concerned about what the Democratic Party is doing on the topic of gender identity and pushing the notion that men can be women and women can be men,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Which is, first of all, regressive politically because it aligns with the notion of gender, which we want to abolish. But it&#8217;s also just inaccurate scientifically.&#8221;
&#8220;There are many Democrats who are willing to say this, but many of your viewers might not know that because we are subjected to a media blackout,&#8221; she said.
The reason no one hears pushback from the political Left, she said, is because NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the rest of the left-leaning mainstream media will not give them &#8220;a voice.&#8221;
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The <a href="http://womensliberationfront.org/document-statement-of-principles/">Women&#8217;s Liberation Front</a> is a radical feminist group which lists among its goals to &#8220;disrupt and ultimately end the propagation and enforcement of the gender hierarchy, because women’s liberation can only be won when the caste system called gender has been abolished.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trans-athlete-wins-womens-world-cycling-competition-again-slams-transphobic-critics">Trans Athlete Wins Women’s World Cycling Competition, Again; Slams ‘Transphobic’ Critics</a>

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Feminist Democrat: Media Won&#8217;t Let Us Speak Out Against Transgender Agenda

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On Thursday, Judge Kim Cooks ruled Texas father Jeffrey Younger has a say in his seven-year-old son&#8217;s gender &#8220;transition,&#8221; which is being facilitated by the boy&#8217;s mother and Younger&#8217;s ex-wife, Dr. Anne Georgulas. Younger is attempting to halt the boy&#8217;s transition.
Cooks, of the 255th district, ruled that &#8220;the parents will have joint conservatorship over James, which includes making joint medical decisions for the child,&#8221; <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/judge-rules-dad-will-have-say-in-gender-transition-of-7-year-old">LifeSiteNews&#8217; Madeleine Jacob</a> reported Thursday afternoon.
Cooks also placed a gag order on Younger, according to Jacob, &#8220;so that he cannot speak to the press about the case and decided that the father is not required to pay attorney fees.&#8221;
Younger&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://savejames.com">Save James</a>&#8221; website, which has circulated videos of James, testimonials, and vital court documents, will have to be shut down pursuant to the order.
Before the judge handed down her verdict, she kicked out media sources including The Texan, Daily Mail, and LifeSiteNews, as well as all family and friends. ABC, CBS 11, and NBC were reportedly allowed access.
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Daily Mail has just been denied access. And here is a video of the door lady saying The Texan (newspaper) is not allowed. <a href="https://t.co/NY2kwtPRcn">pic.twitter.com/NY2kwtPRcn</a>
&mdash; Jordan Rachel (@TheJordanRachel) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheJordanRachel/status/1187441513975832577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 24, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Judge Kim Cooks just closed the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ProtectJamesYounger?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ProtectJamesYounger</a> courtroom. LifeSiteNews, <a href="https://twitter.com/TheTexanNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheTexanNews</a>, and many other reporters were preventing from entering the closed court because we didn’t have ‘hard cards press passes. Digital passes didn’t count. No family either.
&mdash; LifeSiteNews.com (@LifeSite) <a href="https://twitter.com/LifeSite/status/1187442013974810626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 24, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Reporting from <a href="https://thetexan.news/dallas-custody-battle-over-alleged-transgender-seven-year-old-will-resume-next-week/">The Texan</a> says Georgulas’ lawyers Jessica Janicek and Laura Hayes claimed during the trial that the mother does not plan on giving James hormone blockers at this time. However, “no one has stated that she (Georgulas) would not be open to using them when James begins puberty,” the report said, noting, &#8220;When Georgulas testified on Friday, she said that she understood a &#8216;social transition&#8217; is usually followed by a &#8216;medical transition&#8217; using puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.&#8221;
In addition, Ms. Georgulas&#8217; July 2018 testimony reveals that James, if he “persists” in being a “girl” named “Luna,” is set to be <a href="https://twitter.com/AmandaPresto/status/1186955355647070208">evaluated</a> for hormone suppressants as young as age eight.
Younger disagrees with Ms. Georgulas that James is actually a girl named &#8220;Luna.&#8221; He has claimed Georgulas, in his opinion, would only show James love and affection when he would say he&#8217;s a girl and began showing James trans-related material, such as media from famed transgender child Jazz Jennings, when he was a toddler. In a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/video-james-younger-at-age-3-to-dad-mommy-tells-me-im-a-girl">video</a> captured by Younger when the boy was just three years old, James tells his dad that &#8220;mommy&#8221; tells him he&#8217;s a girl and puts him in dresses.
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During a podcast in January, Mr. Younger said his son has already been fully socially &#8220;transitioned&#8221; and noted that he&#8217;s not allowed to use masculine pronouns or use the boy&#8217;s name &#8220;James&#8221; to third-parties who know the boy as &#8220;Luna.&#8221;
“[James] wears a dress at her (his ex-wife’s) home; he has a new made-up name, Luna &#8212; it appears in the court filings. He goes to school; the teachers call him ‘Luna.’ He uses the girl’s bathroom at school. All of his authority figures &#8212; his mother, his teacher, the librarian at school, the police officer at school, the principal at school &#8212; tell him he’s a girl. I’m the only authority figure in his life that tells him the truth; that he’s actually a boy,” Younger <a href="https://lukemacias.com/afathersfight/">told</a> host Luke Macias during an episode of “The Luke Macias Show.&#8221;
According to Jacob, prior to the case, &#8220;Dr. Georgulas had exclusive rights to make decisions regarding psychological and psychiatric care for James and [his twin brother] Jude. She needed to inform Mr. Younger of her decisions, but he couldn’t weigh in on or change the decisions. GENECIS (a gender clinic) wouldn’t begin James on puberty blockers without Mr. Younger’s consent.&#8221;
Folks concerned over the wellbeing of the 7-year-old child began sporting the hashtag <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ProtectJamesYounger&amp;src=typed_query">#ProtectJamesYounger</a> and triggered a reaction from the state&#8217;s governor and other political figures in Texas, including Senator Tex Cruz (R-TX).
&#8220;This is horrifying &amp; tragic. For a parent to subject such a young child to life-altering hormone blockers to medically transition their sex is nothing less than child abuse,&#8221; posted Sen. Cruz. &#8220;A 7-year-old child doesn&#8217;t have the maturity to make profound decisions like this. The state of Texas should protect this child&#8217;s right to choose — as an informed, mature person — and not be used as a pawn in a left-wing political agenda. <a class="PrettyLink hashtag customisable" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ProtectJamesYounger?src=hash" rel="tag" data-query-source="hashtag_click" data-scribe="element:hashtag">#ProtectJamesYounger</a>.&#8221;
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A 7-year-old child doesn&#39;t have the maturity to make profound decisions like this. The state of Texas should protect this child&#39;s right to choose—as an informed, mature person—and not be used as a pawn in a left-wing political agenda. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ProtectJamesYounger?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ProtectJamesYounger</a>
&mdash; Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1187157175250149376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 24, 2019</a></blockquote>
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“FYI the matter of 7 year old James Younger is being looked into by the Texas Attorney General’s Office and the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services,” Gov. Abbott posted on his Twitter account on Wednesday night,&#8221; Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, announced Wednesday night.
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FYI the matter of 7 year old James Younger is being looked into by the Texas Attorney General’s Office and the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JamesYounger?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JamesYounger</a>
&mdash; Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) <a href="https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1187156266449330176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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