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SCOTUS Upholds Bans on Transgender Female Athletes
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: AP
State bans preventing girls, women from playing school sports don't violate Title IX. The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld state laws barring transgender girls and women from playing on school athletic teams. The court's conservative majority, which has repeatedly ruled against transgender Americans in the past year, ruled that state bans in Idaho and West Virginia don't violate the Constitution or Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in education. More than two dozen other Republican-led states have adopted bans on female transgender athletes, and the decision seems certain to extend to them as well, reports the AP. Left unresolved are lawsuits challenging state laws and regulations in Connecticut, California, and elsewhere that permit transgender athletes to compete consistent with their gender identity.

Are You Gay Enough To Get A California Utilities Contract?
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: The Western Journal
Here's The Test. The NGLCC’s qualifiers include, but aren’t limited to, affidavit-backed letters from three people outside the business attesting to the LGBT status of the applicant(s), a letter from a physician or therapist confirming their transgender status, or evidence of “discriminatory action” over their LGBT status. Discriminatory action could include an HR report, police report, or court records. Applicants can also be qualified by presenting evidence of “completed or attempted parenting and family-building efforts” made by themselves and a same-sex partner. This could include adoption records, proof of an in-vitro fertilization procedure, or surrogate mother arrangements.

A Top-down Willed Failure
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Steyn Online
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer got a bit tearful in his resignation remarks, quite a departure from the emotionless, bot-like face he normally presents to the world. But then, he was alluding to his family, people he apparently cares about. He's sad now, but in the days to come, he may realize that he has dodged a bullet – or perhaps a lynching – as the soul-sickening findings published by the Restore Britain Party's leader's Rupert Lowe 219-page Rape Gang Inquiry Report, released June 16, are bruited in international news. Starmer did not envision facing that particular music so soon. Lowe's report was independently collated and produced independently with strong survivor collaboration overseen by now 43-year old Sammy Woodhouse

Michigan parents charged with murder in death of 7-yr-old son who weighed 255 lbs
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Washington Times
The parents of a 7-year-old Michigan boy who weighed 255 pounds when he died have been charged with murder, torture and child abuse, prosecutors said. “Clearly the parents were feeding the child improperly, to say the least,” Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton said Monday. “He wasn’t getting the nutrition he needed.” Casper O’Brien died last November after first responders were called to the family’s home in Flint because he’d stopped breathing, prosecutors said. His parents - Damien O’Brien, 40, and Jessica O’Brien, 41 - have each been charged with second-degree murder, torture and three counts of second-degree child abuse.

US House passes bipartisan online child safety bill
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Anadolu Agency
The US House of Representatives passed a sweeping bipartisan children's online safety package on Monday, marking the first time the full chamber waded into the debate about children's online safety.The Kids Online Safety Act passed in a 267-117 vote and now heads to the Senate, where it faces significant obstacles.

SCOTUS Rejects Trump Push to Toss E. Jean Carroll Verdict
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: AP News
Justices decline to take up the case. The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a push by President Trump to throw out a jury's finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her. The high court declined to take up the case in a brief, unexplained order, per the AP. Trump's lawyers had argued that allegations leading to the $5 million verdict were propped up by "highly inflammatory" evidentiary rulings, including those that allowed the testimony of two other women who accused Trump of sexual abuse decades ago. Trump has denied all three women's allegations.

"Thanks For The Mammaries"
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: Zero Hedge
Hooters Shutters Every Location In Four Blue States. Iconic chicken-wing chain Hooters, famous for buxom waitresses wearing skimpy orange and white uniforms, appears to be throwing in the towel on its 35-year struggle to stay politically incorrect. As Ben Sellers writes for HeadlineUSA.com, while some restaurants, like Cracker Barrel, have successfully fought off the takeover of corporate wokeness, Hooters recently announced the closure of its last New York location, the New York Post reported.

Archdiocese to Pay $395M to Abuse Victims, Make Changes
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Reuters
Terms include San Francisco archbishop writing an apology. The Archdiocese of San Francisco has agreed to pay $395 million to about 530 people who say they were sexually abused as children by priests. The settlement, which was announced Monday, would end the archdiocese's bankruptcy case, Reuters reports. The archdiocese also pledged to release the names of priests it deems credibly accused and to tighten safeguards meant to prevent future abuse. "We remain committed to the healing and care of survivors," Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone said. The deal will need the approval of a federal bankruptcy judge.

How Canada Jumped the Rails on ’Gender-Affirming Care’
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Quillette
The career arc of Canadian Paediatric Society president Natasha Johnson helps explain why her country has become such an outlier in the treatment of trans-identified children. The organisation still stands by its original 2023 Position Statement on the subject of GAC—a document that exhorts Canadian doctors to adopt an “affirming approach to routine health care provision for all youth,” and enshrine gender-affirming care as the unquestioned “standard of care for transgender or gender-diverse youth.” The timing of the CPS Position Statement was unfortunate, as it came less than a year before Dr Hilary Cass, a former president of Britain’s Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, released a blockbuster Report that exhaustively analysed the international evidence for and against gender-affirming care.

Years after GirlsDoPorn, survivors are finding ways to heal and fight back
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: Courthouse News
Michael Pratt and his associates are in prison — but women targeted in his GirlsDoPorn sex trafficking operation say the exploitation never truly ended. Now, they’re pushing for reforms to prevent others from ever enduring the same fate. Nitzia was still in high school when she first came across the fake modeling ads. It was 2017, and she was just 17 years old. Posted to the website Craiglist, the listing featured an image of a woman in a bikini, she recalled in an interview. It was billed as an opportunity for aspiring models to get into the industry. For Nitzia, who had a bit of experience already, it felt like a big break.

Kids Are Flying Into Lunatic Rages When Their iPads Are Taken Away
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Futurism
iPad kids are exhibiting iPad rage. Parents say their kids are going ballistic when they take their iPads away from them, leaving them unsure of what normal behavior might be — and whether there’s something sinister going on with their child’s connection to the devices. Rachel, a mother of two, tried limiting her son Jonah’s screen time by warning him that he had put down his iPad to leave for a birthday party at 11 AM. Despite the repeated warnings the day before and several reminders before the hour mark, when it came time to leave, Jonah had a meltdown

Supergirl Movie A "Girl Boss" Bomb With Disastrous Opening Weekend
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
Maybe Hollywood is hard of hearing? How many times do audiences have to say "Get Woke, Go Broke"....? There's no more excuses. Filming for James Gunn's Supergirl summer blockbuster started in January of 2025, with most of the US celebrating the defeat of woke politics and the downfall of DEI. There was no confusion in 2025; woke is dead. Gunn was well aware and decided to make an insufferable feminist "girl boss" movie anyway. In other words, his failure is his own fault. Either due to hubris, stupidity, or both. Initial projections for Supergirl a month ago hovered around $70 million for opening weekend. These estimates were already low and the panic within Warner Bros. was palpable. DC Studios was already on its ass for the less than stellar performance of Gunn's Superman, which was supposed to revitalize the comic book movie landscape.

The Kids Are Not Okay With AI, And They Know It...
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Epoch Times
Forty-two percent believe it will hurt their ability to think carefully... The former Google CEO stood at the University of Arizona's commencement last month, ready to deliver the kind of speech he had probably given a dozen times before: AI as the next great transformation, graduates as its rightful authors. He got as far as telling them the technology would "touch every profession, every classroom, every hospital, every laboratory, every person, and every relationship you have." The boos rose before he could finish his own sentence. "I can hear you," he said gently. The boos continued, as did Schmidt, who was unable to fully conceal the awkward embarrassment. He wasn't the only one. A week earlier, at Middle Tennessee State University, Big Machine Records CEO Scott Borchetta told graduates that "AI is rewriting production as we sit here." The boos from graduates started immediately. He responded with tough love: "I know it. Deal with it." But the boos only grew louder.

The Empathy Weapon
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Brownstone Institute
Frame the debate so that only one conclusion is possible, then demonstrate some sense of open-mindedness about how people arrive at that conclusion. Be empathic about the journey. Just never, ever allow the destination to be questioned...I’d admire the elegance of it if it wasn’t so dang sinister. It preys on what I perceive to be one of the best attributes of our species (empathy) by preying on some of our obvious blind spots (fear, conformity). It appropriates the language of understanding and kindness to shut down the conversation it pretends to open. It says “I see you, I hear you…now shut up and do what you’re told.”

With ‘Supergirl’ Officially Dead on Arrival in Theaters
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Red State
We Perform an Autopsy to Show What Happened. With a beefy budget of at least $175 million, and marketing costs on top of that, factoring in the 50 percent split with theaters means this film had to clear probably $425-450 million to break even. As it looks, reaching a global box office total of $200 million is a hopeful expectation. So as the reality of those figures settled on Sunday, the movie’s backers and fans lashed out at those it blamed for this failure. What is provable is that these revisionist attempts falter when looking at the data. So first we’ll compile the claims being made, then look at the metrics that dispel those excuses, showing that what was on display was a dysfunctional product that impressed few people.

Elite Strategy 101: Stoking the Culture War, Reinventing the Enemy
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Armageddon Prose
Comedian Tim Dillon recently expressed bafflement at the strategy of shoving Pride™ propaganda down every orifice of the body politic, fervently employed by the tranny activist corps with the purported aim of improving public relations for the alphabet people: “It makes more people angry. That’s why gay marriage has lost 11 points in support. More people are annoyed… They’re like, why is my bank gay? When did my bank come out as gay?... What are we doing? This doesn’t make anybody’s life better. It is just virtue-signaling horse-shit that ends up doing the exact opposite of what they want. They think it increases acceptance. It decreases it. Because you’re shoving a worldview down someone’s throat.”

A Biohacker Gives Birth
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Reason
When I got pregnant, my quest for optimization got weirder and more wonderful. My six-pack began to disappear in the fourth month of my pregnancy, with the final pack officially vanishing in week 15. My disappearing abs were just one of many demoralizing trade-offs my career as a biohacker took when I got pregnant. Since adolescence, I have been genetically blessed with visible abs. While I would like to credit my hard work, six-packs are mostly just the product of weight distribution and low body fat. You cannot control where your body adds fat, even subcutaneous fat. But optimizing my body's performance has been a delightful hobby since the lockdown, when I locked in on biohacking.

Transgender Former Prostitute Running for Mayor in Canada
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Gateway Pundit
Woman with long braided hair speaking into a microphone, gesturing with a puppet hand, in a warm-toned indoor setting.
A transgender biological male former prostitute is running for mayor of Hamilton, Ontario, and if that wasn’t crazy enough, recent campaign footage shows him giving his speeches using a sock puppet with googly eyes.“Scarlett Gillespie,” who previously went by the name “Jelena Vermilion,” currently serves as the executive director of the Sex Workers’ Action Program (SWAP) Hamilton and has long advocated for sex workers’ rights, housing issues, and trans-related causes.

The LGBT movement is being consumed by ‘pro-Palestinian’ activists
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: The Washington Examiner
The LGBT movement is currently being consumed by the antisemitic “pro-Palestinian” movement, to the point that even the biggest champions of the former now find themselves as targets of their left-wing base. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was booed at a New York City “Pride” parade on Sunday by the gathered left-wing activists. On its face, this would seem like the kind of crowd that would be most accepting of Schumer. As Schumer told his hecklers, “I was the first senator to ever march in this parade, in 1999. And I haven’t missed one yet.” No element of the Democratic Party coalition has a bigger ally in Schumer than the LGBT “community.”