The Left Targets Kids, Teens With Gender Fluid Ideology
It’s no wonder our children are confused about their gender, since even the dictionary can’t define it. In an announcement that will make people’s heads swim, Oxford University Press agreed to change the meaning of the words “woman” and “man”—because of an online petition.
Incredibly, some of the most respected lexicographers in the world have thrown in the towel, caving to cries that certain words should be more “gender neutral.” And dictionaries, Apple TV makes clear, are just the tip of the iceberg.
The left’s high-speed gender train aren’t just coming for your bookshelf, but your sons and daughters too. This week, Apple TV is debuting a new docuseries meant to persuade parents that all children are gender fluid.
“Becoming You,” the show that LGBTQ activists are hailing as groundbreaking, follows 100 girls and boys around the world over their first five years, making the case that moms and dads shouldn’t hold hard and fast to biological realities.
“We hope the viewers take away an understanding that although young children talk about gender, their sense of it is much more fluid than ours,” executive producer Hamo Forsyth said. “So much so that kids of [3 and 4] can imagine they are genuinely going from one gender to the other as they change clothes during dressing-up games, for example. It isn’t really until they go to school at 5 that they start to think of gender as something more permanent.”
In a country where 12% of millennials now say they identify as transgender or “nongender conforming”—more than 1 in every 10—the last thing our children need is a generation of parents indulging these dangerous fantasies. And yet, that’s exactly the goal of Apple TV and their extremist cheerleaders.
Of course, Family Research Council’s Peter Sprigg points out the irony here is that by trying to brainwash every family, these LGBTQ activists are actually contradicting their own argument.
“If ‘all kids are gender fluid,'” Sprigg explains, “that means that not every kid who engages in gender-nonconforming behavior is innately ‘transgender’—and it certainly shouldn’t be a license to alter and mutilate their bodies.”
In some cases, maybe forming a “gender identity” is a developmental process that takes a few years, he agrees. “The problem with the aggressive transgender movement is that it disrupts that normal process by telling kids that what they like to do is ‘who they are’ and their bodies are irrelevant.”
It’s bad enough that America has a presidential candidate encouraging transgender treatments for elementary school kids. But suggesting that every parent should embrace this radical rejection of their child’s biological reality is a pathway to self-destruction and misery.
Just ask author Abigail Shrier. She’s talked to hundreds of families who are dealing with the fallout of this devastating ideology—many of them lifelong LGBT supporters who cannot understand why doctors, counselors, teachers, and activists are trying to lock their children into a future of gender confusion.
She was so compelled by the stories of heartbreak that she wrote a book warning parents, “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Girls.”
In it, Shrier explains that this is an issue of consensus for most parents, regardless of where they fall politically. “Unsuspecting parents are awakening to find their daughters in thrall to hip trans YouTube stars and ‘gender-affirming’ educators and therapists who push life-changing interventions on young girls—including medically unnecessary double mastectomies and puberty blockers that can cause permanent infertility.”
Not surprisingly, the fringe activists pushing this agenda have gone ballistic that someone like Shrier has the nerve to tell the truth about their agenda. They bullied Amazon into blocking ad buys for the book. Then, this past week, a single tweet was all it took to persuade Target to pull the title from its shelves. The move hardly came as a shock, since this is the same company that still allows men in its girls’ restrooms and changing rooms.
Before long, the American Civil Liberties Union jumped into the fray, with one of its attorneys tweeting, “Stopping the circulation of this book and these ideas is 100 percent a hill I will die on.” So much for the ACLU defending free speech.
Conservatives fumed, circulating the story across social media. Ultimately, the attention was too much and Target, probably fearing another boycott, backtracked.
Twenty-four hours later, the company released this statement:
Yesterday, we removed a book from Target.com based on feedback we received. We want to offer a broad assortment for our guests and are adding this book back to Target.com. We apologize for any confusion.
It was the right decision. If only, shoppers would agree, Target would show that same common sense in its bathroom policy.
To hear the truth about the transgender agenda that the left would do anything to hide, check out this interview with Shrier.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/11/18/the-left-targets-kids-teens-with-gender-fluid-ideology
John MacArthur Makes Sense of COVID-19 Abuses, Abortion, America's 'Moral Free-Fall'Earlier this month, San Diego, Calif., experienced a COVID-19 outbreak and fell back to the most severe tier of the state’s coronavirus restrictions. This meant that schools, restaurants, museums, retail businesses, and even churches would close — but for some reason, strip clubs were allowed to remain open. Grace Community Church Pastor John MacArthur made sense of this bizarre scenario by explaining America’s “moral free-fall.”
“America is in a moral free-fall,” he told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on Thursday.
“Just look at it as I would as a pastor,” MacArthur began. “You murder the babies in the womb. If they survive the womb, you try to seduce them into transgender sexual deviation when they’re young. If they survive that, you corrupt them with a godless education. If they survive that, you have divorce in the family and if they grow to be adults, you drown them in a sea of pornography.”
“This is a nation so far down in the sewer of immorality and wickedness that nothing surprises me,” the pastor continued. “In fact, I would be shocked if a judge said, ‘Open all the churches and close all the strip clubs.'”
A recent Los Angeles Times story accused MacArthur’s church of enabling an outbreak, but MacArthur explained the real story. As it turns out, three part-time security guards at GCC had tested positive for COVID-19 unrelated to their work duties but had no symptoms. They returned to work within a few days. Los Angeles County cleared the church of responsibility for any such “outbreak.”
MacArthur has long fought excessive COVID-19 restrictions and their double standards against churches. He warned that power-hungry politicians have blown the coronavirus pandemic out of proportion.
In the interview, Ingraham noted that Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) broke his own lockdown rules by dining with lobbyists and executives from the California Medical Association at the three-Michelin-star restaurant The French Laundry. “He doesn’t really believe what he’s saying about COVID,” she argued.
MacArthur hit the nail on the head by warning about how power-hungry politicians have expanded their authority during a supposed crisis.
“Just a quick run through history,” the pastor began. “Go back to Julius Caesar. Go back to Napoleon. Go into the modern era. Every revolution — including Hitler’s revolution and the revolution in Russia — every revolution took place in a time when the powers of the people in authority were enlarged because of a supposed emergency.”
“Power-hungry people are using this emergency to gain greater power,” MacArthur said of COVID-19. “This is historic. This is nothing new, and if people don’t fight back, they’re going to fall victim to whatever the intention of this revolution is.”
Given the moral decay the pastor mentioned earlier, the prospects don’t look good.
Resigned to the pandemic, Brits are now indifferent to the death toll
When Boris Johnson announced England's second national shutdown on October 31, my phone lit up as family, friends and colleagues in Australia shared disbelief over Britain's mounting death toll and expressed sympathy about facing another lockdown.
They had good reason to raise the former - in the 25 days since, 8796 people have died from COVID-19 in the United Kingdom, and about 34,000 were admitted to hospital. While deaths are not spiking as sharply as earlier this year, they are high and likely to stay high for the next few months.
Compliance with lockdown rules has collapsed after many shifting rule changes and mixed messaging.
Compliance with lockdown rules has collapsed after many shifting rule changes and mixed messaging. CREDIT:GETTY IMAGES
But my Australian friends needn't have worried about the latter because this lockdown has looked and felt nothing like the one in April and May. As cases climbed, the public largely carried on with life. Crowds rammed weekend markets at Greenwich and queued in long lines for the click-and-collect service at Apple's Covent Garden store. The line to get into Borough Market on Saturday snaked around the block.
They were out and about because the rules mostly allowed it. Lockdown 2.0 has been much less strict than the first and much less severe than Melbourne's shutdown even though the health situation is far worse.
But something profound has happened: rightly or wrongly, most here no longer fear the virus. In the great balancing act between health and the economy, the scales are now overwhelmingly lean towards jobs and social cohesion. Deaths hardly rate a mention in parliamentary debates and press coverage. The brutal truth is that Britain has become indifferent to the 440 average deaths each day.
People are also thoroughly confused. They have been bombarded by mixed messaging, shifting rules and contradictory policies. The unprecedented nature of this pandemic requires nimble decision-making but the government has often been all at sea. Predictably, the level of compliance needed to make lockdowns work has collapsed.
Hungary and Poland plunge EU into political crisis by blocking £1.65trillion covid rescue budget that 'blackmailed countries into accepting migrants'
Hungary and Poland plunged the EU into political crisis by blocking a £1.65 trillion coronavirus rescue budget that they claimed 'blackmailed countries into accepting migrants'.
On Monday, the two countries blocked the 2021-2027 budget and the recovery plan, worth a combined 1.85 trillion euros (£1.65 trillion), because access to the funds would be conditional on respecting the rule of law.
On Wednesday, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban accused the European Union of seeking to 'blackmail' member states that did not toe its line on immigration.
Orban, whose nationalist government is under investigation for undermining the independence of Hungary's courts, media and non-governmental organisations, linked his veto to his continued opposition to mass immigration into the EU.
'Once this proposal gets adopted, there will be no more obstacles to tying member states' share of common funds to supporting migration and use financial means to blackmail countries which oppose migration,' Orban said in a statement published by state news agency MTI.
Orban's ally Poland, also under a formal EU process for alleged backsliding on democratic principles, struck a softer tone on Wednesday, saying it sought dialogue with its EU partners.
'(But) if some countries are determined to break EU law, Poland will use its veto right,' Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki's chief of staff said, in a reference to the efforts by some western states to establish a direct link between the allocation of funds and the rule of law.
The eastern states are big recipients of EU subsidies.
Ambassadors of EU countries on Monday accepted a deal struck with the European parliament which establishes a clear link between EU money and the respect for the rule of law. They agreed because this vote required only a qualified majority and the opposition of Warsaw and Budapest could not stop it.
But when it came to voting on the 1.1 trillion euro budget itself and the 750 billion euro (£670 billion) recovery package, which require unanimous support, 'two EU member states expressed reservations' the German presidency of the EU said.
The Polish and Hungarian veto was discussed at a meeting of EU European affairs ministers on Tuesday and then at a video-conference of EU leaders on Thursday. But finding a solution might take longer than that, officials said.
The European Union said it was studying 'practical solutions' for resolving the impasse over the recovery plan, but could proceed without Hungary, Poland and Slovenia, France's Europe Minister Clement Beaune said Wednesday.
'With the German presidency of the EU, we are looking for practical solutions,' he told senators in Paris, but 'we are looking, as a last resort, at how to proceed without the countries that are blocking' a deal.
Beaune said EU officials would consider 'clarifications' to the rule-of-law requirement, 'but certainly not by calling it into question, because our values and our European project are at stake.'
'Europe cannot be held hostage by a certain number of governments that do not want to move forward, that do not respect the bedrock of our political project,' he warned.
The budget and recovery package do not have any specific clauses about immigration, which Orban has long opposed as a threat to national and European identity and culture.
Political Capital analyst Patrik Szicherle said Orban's comments were aimed at shoring up support among his nationalist base and also at broadening his options in upcoming talks.
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