The Science-Denying Woke War on Women and Girls Is Speeding up
The war on men and boys has been underway for nearly two decades, and now the woke Left is waging war on women and girls. The woke activists are determined to erase the lines that biology draws between men and women. Decades of research documents physical, biological, genetic, and biochemical differences between the sexes, but woke activists expect us to ignore this evidence in service of the concept of gender. Gender used to be a linguistic device to denote biological sex.
In several foreign languages, such as Spanish, the article for “the” has feminine and masculine versions. “La” and “el” mean something. Perhaps the woke will cancel the Spanish language next. They have already tried with “Latinx,” which only 4% of Hispanic Americans prefer. Only 3% use it, and less than 25% are even aware of it. Sixty-one percent of those polled prefer the term “Hispanic,” and 29% prefer “Latino” to describe the population. Yet, Latinx is pervasive in the corporate media and popular culture.
Similarly, the woke are forcing things women have never asked for in service to the near-zero portion of the population that is trans activists. According to The Times in Britain:
Midwives have been told to say “chestfeeding” instead of “breastfeeding” and to replace the term “mother” with “mother or birthing parent” as part of moves to be more trans-friendly.
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust is the first in the country to formally implement a gender inclusive language policy for its maternity services department, which will now be known as “perinatal services”.
Staff have been instructed that “breastmilk” should be replaced with the phrases “human milk”, “breast/chestmilk” or “milk from the feeding mother or parent”.
Women need and deserve health care providers who understand their unique physical and emotional needs, the challenges of motherhood, and the distinct physiological changes that occur in our bodies during pregnancy. Ignoring biological sex in medical treatment poses risks to trans individuals when assessing physical symptoms. No medical provider who agrees to “first do no harm” should be subverting physical health to a language preference or political ideology.
This woke ideology was embraced by the Biden administration on day one via executive order. Titled “Executive Order on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation,” it opens the door for biological boys and men to compete with girls and women in sports, educational opportunities, and the boardroom. It also appears to require their admittance to women’s spaces like bathrooms, locker rooms, sororities, barracks, and even prisons.
How confident is the administration that their woke declaration is acceptable to Americans? Not very, if Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s answer to a reporter is any indication. The reporter questioned whether the White House’s message to girls is that they are now forced to compete against biological boys in high school sports. She responded:
The president’s belief is that trans rights are human rights and that’s why he signed that executive order. In terms of the determinations by universities and colleges, I would certainly defer to them.
The reporter was explicitly asking about the administration’s guidelines for local school districts when scholarships could be on the line in high school and pointing to the potential for lawsuits. Psircle-Back Psaki™ didn’t even have the courage of the administration’s convictions to answer the question asked.
Now, Planned Parenthood is joining the war on women and girls. It is quite possible taxpayers are funding the abortion giant’s new line of business, which is providing testosterone to girls 18 and younger depending on the state. In an appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight, Abigail Shrier, author of Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, said that Planned Parenthood claims that it is the second largest provider of transition services in the nation. Carlson shared a chilling quote from a former employee:
“Trans-identifying kids are cash cows, and they are kept on the hook…in terms of follow-up appointments, bloodwork, meetings, etc., whereas abortions are (hopefully) a one-and-done situation.”
Abortion has fallen to the lowest level since Roe v. Wade in 1973. To support its extensive infrastructure, Planned Parenthood is providing transition services in 201 of its clinics. These transition “services” are often provided without a consultation with a doctor and without requiring a diagnosis of gender dysphoria. Carlson asked Shrier what medical professionals know about the long-term effects of testosterone. Shrier responded:
Well, some of them include infertility, vaginal and uterine atrophy, they are at risk of cardiac events. And of course, the great unknown which is that we’ve never done this to biological women for decades. And that is what we are doing now. So, we really don’t know all of the long-term effects.
As an example, Washington State already gives children as young as 13 the right to consent for mental health, substance abuse, and withdrawal management. Their parents’ insurance must cover this treatment, but the services provided must remain confidential. This consent includes gender transition services even though some effects of testosterone are permanent for young women. Now they are trying to establish in-school clinics for children to access.
Too many stayed silent while the Left waged war on boys, classifying perfectly normal behavior in little boys as toxic. It will only become apparent in decades to come how many young boys were diagnosed with ADD and ADHD at a young age and what prescriptions for Ritalin and other drugs did to their full development. That drug was suggested to me when one of my sons was in 4th grade, and I just laughed. Many parents didn’t, as our increasingly woke educators dubbed a young boy’s behavior as “problematic.”
Real-Life Victims of the Transgender ‘Cult’
As Shrier noted, we have no idea what the long-term consequences of administering testosterone to adolescent girls will be. As mothers, grandmothers, aunts, and women, we must stand up for our girls and their right to continue to have equal opportunities in education, sports, career, and private spaces without competition from biological boys. Compassion does not require acquiescence, and to protect girls, we must loudly proclaim the unique, extraordinary, and essential role biological women play in society in a word gone mad.
Ponder a prescient passage from Douglas Murray in his book The Madness of Crowds and take up the courage to fight this particular madness:
“Every age before this one has performed or permitted acts that to us are morally stupefying. So, unless we have any reason to think we are more reasonable, morally better or wiser than any time in the past, it is reasonable to assume there will be some things we are presently doing – possibly while flushed with moral virtue – that our descendants will whistle through their teeth at and say, “What the hell were they thinking?”
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Liberals 'Heart' Murderers
Ann Coulter
I assume it's overkill to continue listing the evidence against death row inmate Kevin Cooper, duly convicted of committing a quadruple murder back in 1983. The blinding proof of his guilt was covered in last week's column.
To review, this included shoeprint evidence, footprint evidence, cigarette and tobacco evidence, blood evidence and DNA evidence, proving that this violent rapist and mental hospital escapee:
-- hid out in a house next to Doug and Peggy Ryen's Chino Hills, California, home for two days after escaping from prison;
-- used a hatchet and hunting knife taken from his hideout to hack to death two adults and two children at the Ryen home and critically wound a third child;
-- stole the family's station wagon and later abandoned it in Long Beach, along with his DNA on prison-issued cigarettes, before escaping to Mexico;
-- returned to California, where he raped a woman at knifepoint, leading to his capture.
This week, we'll consider the specific claims made by The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof purporting to raise doubts about Cooper's guilt.
Kristof's special pleading proves that no one on death row is innocent. I didn't pick this case. The anti-death penalty zealots picked it, splashing it across the "Newspaper of Record." I have to believe they didn't choose their worst example to showcase, so let's look at the honesty of their arguments about Kevin Cooper.
KRISTOF:
"Although Josh [the 8-year-old who miraculously survived the hatchet attack] had indicated that the attack was committed by several white men, the sheriff announced just four days after the bodies were found that the sole suspect was Kevin Cooper ..."
First of all, eyewitness testimony is the least credible evidence, particularly in the case of children -- as the child molestation hysteria of the 1980s demonstrated -- and even more particularly in the case of a child who's found lying in a bloody mess surrounded by his murdered family members after having his throat slit and being attacked with a hatchet.
In any event, Josh never said he saw three men. He said he initially "thought" it must have been the three "Mexicans" who had stopped by the house looking for work earlier in the evening. But even in his initial interviews from his hospital bed, he said he only saw one assailant in the house: "a man with bushy hair."
KRISTOF:
"Sadly, a tan T-shirt believed to have been worn by one of the killers didn't produce enough DNA to provide a profile. ..."
That IS sad. Luckily, it's also not true. The Department of Justice DNA lab at UC Berkeley did find Cooper's DNA on the tan T-shirt discarded near the murder house, which also contained partial DNA profiles of two of the victims, Doug and Peggy Ryen.
KRISTOF:
"Could the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office really have planted evidence, including placing Cooper's blood on the tan T-shirt? We do know that the sheriff's office had a history of going rogue. Floyd Tidwell, the sheriff, was himself later convicted of four felony counts for stealing 523 guns from the evidence room" ... [further denunciations of the sheriff's department].
The "planted evidence" ruse is a popular one for springing murderers, except -- oops! -- the T-shirt tested by the Berkeley DNA lab wasn't in the possession of the sheriff's office. The tan T-shirt, along with the cigarette butts from the Ryens' station wagon, had been in the custody of the San Diego Superior Court Evidence Clerk from the end of the trial right up until 2001, when they were shipped directly to the Berkeley DNA Laboratory for testing.
KRISTOF:
"Likewise, hairs found clutched in the victims' hands weren't Cooper's (no hairs from an African-American were found at the crime scene) but didn't lead to a match with a suspect, either."
While I love the idea of a 10-year-old girl ripping an African American's hair out by the root as he came at her with a hatchet, the "clutched hair" nonsense has already been thoroughly investigated and dismissed by the courts.
A team of DNA experts spent weeks testing hairs from Jessica's hands, as well as two hairs found on Doug Ryen's right hand and one hair from Christopher Hughes' arm. Their conclusion? "The testing failed to identify another assailant and confirmed that all tested hairs most likely came from one or more of the victims."
As U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn L. Huff explained:
"This should not be surprising. The hairs adhered to the victims' bodies, including their hands, because there was a large amount of blood on the victims and a large amount of hair on the debris-ridden carpet. Also, the victims each sustained hatchet wounds to the head, causing clumps of cut hair to fall to the ground. Both animal and human hair were recovered from the hands of the victims. Just as with the animal hairs, the cut and shed human hairs adhered to the bloodied victims' hands because the victims came in contact with the carpet when they were dying on the floor."
Finally, Kristof tries to pin the murder on other "suspects" (whom we know aren't guilty or he'd be defending them).
KRISTOF:
"A different longtime suspect in the case recounted, not long after the murders, how he had killed the Ryens and Chris Hughes."
I guess "confessions" are only questionable in the case of the Central Park rapists. Kristof doesn't say who the confessor is specifically, but it sounds like the one repeatedly put forward by Cooper's lawyers. Courts have characterized this so-called "confession" as "a mental patient's secondhand version of a confession."
KRISTOF:
"This other suspect is a white man whom I'll identify just by his first name, Lee, for he must be presumed innocent ...
"Lee came to the attention of the authorities during the investigation after his girlfriend, Diana Roper, fingered him as the killer: She reported that he had returned home late on the night of the killings wearing bloody coveralls, in a car that resembled the Ryens' station wagon.
"Roper turned Lee's bloody coveralls over to the sheriff's office -- which eventually threw them away without testing them. By then, the sheriff's office had arrested Cooper, and deputies didn't want a complication."
Don't be fooled by Kristof's fake humility -- "he must be presumed innocent" -- all that blather about what Roper said was invented by defense attorneys.
Roper was not technically Lee's "girlfriend": She was his bitter ex. Far from "bloody," the few red splotches on the coveralls were most likely paint (along with manure and dirt). Roper told investigators that she didn't even know if the coveralls belonged to Lee.
But let me quote from the court that reviewed the coveralls evidence: "[I]ssues of guilt, innocence and sentence should never be decided on information obtained from persons who believe they are witches and believe an article of clothing is connected to a crime because of a 'vision' they receive during a 'trance.'" (Emphasis mine.)
Yes, Roper's evidence was based on a vision she had during a trance because she believed she was a witch. These facts are exhaustively detailed in court orders and opinions -- but are entirely absent from the vast news coverage of Cooper's case. Might distract from the claim that the sheriff's office tossed the coveralls only to avoid "a complication" in their single-minded pursuit of the wrong man -- as Kristof claims.
No one on death row, not one person, is innocent. Believe nothing you read in the media about their putative "innocence." It's always lies and nonsense, as with Kristof's pet murderer, Kevin Cooper.
https://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2021/02/03/liberals-heart-murderers-n2584188
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A clergyman who described the clap for Captain Sir Tom Moore as the "cult of white British nationalism" is being investigated by Church of England officials.
Captain Tom, a World War Two veteran, raised £32 million for the NHS during the first national lockdown by walking 1,000 laps of his garden. Following the 100-year-old's death on Tuesday, people across the country clapped to commemorate his life and achievements.
But a London-based reverend was criticised for "unacceptable, insensitive, and ill-judged" behaviour after criticising Captain Tom on social media in remarks which have prompted an internal investigation.
In a now-deleted tweet which sparked a fierce backlash, Jarel Robinson-Brown, 29, wrote: "The cult of Captain Tom is a cult of White British Nationalism. I will offer prayers for the repose of his kind and generous soul, but I will not be joining the 'National Clap'."
Rev Robinson-Brown, who was last month appointed to serve in the parish of All Hallows-by-the-Tower, the oldest church in the City of London, later offered "an unreserved apology for the insensitive timing and content of my tweet regarding the clap for Captain Tom". He also deleted his Twitter account.
He said he had now read and would sign the Church of England's Digital Charter, a voluntary pledge that the clergy is encouraged to adhere to in order to "help make social media and the web more widely positive places for conversations to happen".
Rev Robinson-Brown, who is black, has since been the subject of racist abuse online.
More than 6,500 people have signed a Change.org petition calling on the Church of England to remove him from his post "on the basis he is a divisive and damaging figure that has insulted the memory of a national treasure and true hero of this country".
A spokesperson for the Diocese of London said: "Jarel Robinson-Brown's comments regarding Captain Sir Tom Moore were unacceptable, insensitive, and ill-judged.
"The fact that he immediately removed his tweet and subsequently apologised does not undo the hurt he has caused, not least to Captain Tom's family. Nor do Jarel's actions justify the racist abuse he is now receiving."
The statement confirmed that an investigation, led by the Archdeacon of London, was under way.
Rev Robinson-Brown, a former Methodist minister and chaplain at King's College London, converted to Anglicanism and is currently training to become a priest in the Church of England. He was appointed to his current role as a curate last month by Rt Rev Dame Sarah Mullally, the Bishop of London.
According to his King's College London profile, Rev Robinson-Brown studied classical music as a pianist and organist at the London College of Music. He is a the author of the book "Black, Gay, British, Christian, Queer: Church and the Famine of Grace".
In previous social media posts, he has criticised "ignorant White Christian men" amid growing debate over LGBTQ+ rights within the Church of England.
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California ‘Hero Pay’ Ordinance Forces Kroger Closures
Leftist blockheads again
“Ralphs and Food 4 Less, both owned by the parent company Kroger, announced Monday that they will be closing 25% of their stores in Long Beach after the city council passed an ordinance requiring companies with over 300 employees nationwide to pay employees an extra $4 per hour,” local news outlet Fox 11 reports. Two stores in the area will be shut down.
A company spokesperson directly cited the city council’s ordinance mandating higher wages as the reason they are closing down.
“The irreparable harm that will come to employees and local citizens as a direct result of the City of Long Beach’s attempt to pick winners and losers, is deeply unfortunate,” the spokesperson said. “We are truly saddened that our associates and customers will ultimately be the real victims of the city council’s actions.”
The ordinance was passed with the stated intention of rewarding hard-working grocery store employees who have kept a vital service running throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia was a key proponent of the measure and signed it into law. He argues it is justified because grocery store workers “have been on the frontlines of this pandemic and deserve this support.”
Similarly, Garcia and other supporters of the mandated wage hike argue that companies are just being selfish by closing down rather than paying their workers more. They point to the fact that Kroger has seen high levels of profit this year.
In truth, whether the company is being selfish and whether it’s really flush with cash (Kroger says these specific stores were already financially struggling) are both beside the point. This mandatory wage hike “honoring heroes” was passed by politicians eager to spend other people’s money and claim the credit. But like any minimum wage law, it was always going to have the unintended consequence of eliminating some jobs altogether.
The minimum wage in Long Beach is already $14 per hour for employers with 26 or more employees. A $4 increase would therefore be $18 an hour, a nearly 30 percent raise for every employee. This amounts to an enormous spike in a grocery store’s labor costs, which are already one of the biggest expenses an enterprise usually faces.
Whether do-good politicians feel workers “deserve it” or not, the reality is that some grocery store employees don’t provide labor that is worth $18 an hour, and some stores cannot afford to pay such an artificially high price. The basic laws of supply and demand tell us what comes next: the government’s supposed benevolence will leave a significant number of workers unemployed.
This specific instance of wage mandates backfiring is just one example of a much broader trend. On the national level, the “Fight for $15” movement demanding a $15 federal minimum wage ostensibly seeks to help workers. In reality, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projects that this policy would eliminate 1.3 to 3.7 million jobs. A wealth of economic research similarly shows that minimum wage hikes cause unemployment.
The moral of the story is clear.
Sweeping government price controls and labor market interventions will always have vast unintended consequences, no matter how noble the stated intentions are or how sympathetic the intended beneficiary may be. Indeed, unintended consequences are an inherent feature of big government programs.
“Every human action has both intended and unintended consequences,” economist Antony Davies and political scientist James Harrigan explain. “Human beings react to every rule, regulation, and order governments impose, and their reactions result in outcomes that can be quite different than the outcomes lawmakers intended.” The more complex the underlying situation and the more sweeping the rule or regulation, the more pronounced the unintended consequences will be.
Long Beach lawmakers may truly have hoped to help front-line workers by mandating higher “Hero Pay” under the law. But their naïve good intentions will mean little to the grocery store clerks left unemployed as a result. Is this any way to treat heroes?
https://catalyst.independent.org/2021/02/05/california-hero-pay-kroger/
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