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carlos santana
August 25, 2023
Culture
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Guitar Legend Carlos Santana Under Fire for ‘Woman is a Woman’ Comment.

In a video that has gone viral, celebrated guitarist Carlos Santana was filmed calling out radical gender ideology. The 76-year-old Mexican-American musician can be seen addressing the crowd between songs, stating: “You know who you are, and what you are… Because a woman is a woman and a man is a man – that’s it.”

Santana also made a reference to comedian Dave Chappelle, known for making jokes at the expense of those who hold extreme, pro-trans stances during his stand-up performances.

Santana received applause from concert-goers when he made his remarks, but faced a predictable backlash from far-left activists, and felt compelled to issue an apology.

“I am sorry for my insensitive comments. They don’t reflect that I want to honor and respect all person’s ideals and beliefs,” he said. “I realize that what I said hurt people and that was not my intent. I sincerely apologize to the transgender community and everyone I offended.”

Last year, Santana experienced a health scare after collapsing on stage in Michigan. He was subsequently hospitalized and had to postpone some concert dates for his health and recovery.

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In a video that has gone viral, celebrated guitarist Carlos Santana was filmed calling out radical gender ideology. The 76-year-old Mexican-American musician can be seen addressing the crowd between songs, stating: "You know who you are, and what you are... Because a woman is a woman and a man is a man – that's it." show more

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August 25, 2023
Jake Welch
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UK

Judge: Don’t Call Trans People ‘Wankers’ Because It’s Not a ‘Gender Neutral’ Insult.

A tribunal judge has said that using gender-specific insults against a transgender person could constitute a breach of equality laws after a trans woman lied about being called a “wanker” – a British insult used to connote an affectionate overfamiliarity with one’s self. Ahem.

The bus driver claimant sued his former “male-dominated” employer on the grounds of anti-trans discrimination, arguing he was insulted because his colleague “didn’t like the look” of him and refused to accept his gender identity. He was fired by the company two days after the incident and brought litigation, claiming his complaint was connected to the company’s decision to get rid of him.

The tribunal ultimately found he had not been discriminated against, as the alleged abuse did not actually take place. The judge then bizarrely explained that the if word wanker had been used, the claim would be successful because the term is not traditionally used to insult women.

“The panel members’ own experiences of [the] use of that term is that it is applied to men, and that there are equivalent but different swear words that are specifically used in common parlance to insult women,” argued judge Kathryn Ramsden.

“[T]he tribunal does not consider the insult ‘w—-r’ to be a gender-neutral term,” she added.

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A tribunal judge has said that using gender-specific insults against a transgender person could constitute a breach of equality laws after a trans woman lied about being called a "wanker" – a British insult used to connote an affectionate overfamiliarity with one’s self. Ahem. show more

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chess
August 17, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Culture
News

No Queens Allowed! Chess Bans Trans Women Competing in Ladies Event.

The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has ruled that biological males have “no right” to compete with women, regardless of their gender identity.

Transgender activists and their self-styled allies are pushing back against the ban by appealing to feminist sensibilities, arguing that, unlike women’s swimming champion William ‘Lia’ Thomas, biologically male chess players should not have biological advantages over female rivals.

“It’s not just transphobic, it’s anti-feminist,” argued Richard Pringle, a sociology professor specializing in gender and sexuality, complaining that the ban “suggests that males are somehow strategically better.”

Nevertheless, the reality is that there is only currently only one woman among the top 100 chess players worldwide – and she is only the third woman in history to achieve such a ranking.

FIDE’s new rules also state that the championships of women who become transmen will be “abolished” on their transition, but the titles of men who become transwomen will be retained.

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The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has ruled that biological males have "no right" to compete with women, regardless of their gender identity. show more
foster
August 11, 2023
Jake Welch
Culture
News

Foster Couple Sues After Being Told They Couldn’t Raise Kids Who They Wouldn’t Transgender.

A Christian couple is suing the state of Massachusetts for religious discrimination after they were denied the right to foster a child because they would not respect non-binary pronouns if the child identified as transgender.

Michael and Catherine Burke allege that their application was rejected by the state’s Department of Children and Families (DCF) after a social worker issued an approval of the application “with conditions, specifically around religion and LGBTQIA++ related issues.”

The social worker asked the couple whether they would have a problem with the foster child being LGBT, whereupon Catherine Burke referred to so-called “gender-affirming care” as chemical castration, suggested taking “the T out of it” and “expressed hesitation” around using they/them pronouns.

However, the couple made it clear that they would respect the child’s wishes, continue to “love [the child] the same,” not subject the child to conversion therapy, and even attend their child’s LGBT wedding.

The couple is suing the DCF on First Amendment grounds, citing five violations. “The Burkes were devastated to learn that they were denied a license to foster or adopt any child in the Massachusetts child welfare system,” stated the couples’ lawyer, Lori Windham.

“They’re asking the court to get rid of that discriminatory denial so that they will not be barred from fostering or adopting children in the future, in Massachusetts or elsewhere,” Windham added.

The U.S. has a “critical shortage” of foster homes, with around 407,000 children in foster care in America.

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A Christian couple is suing the state of Massachusetts for religious discrimination after they were denied the right to foster a child because they would not respect non-binary pronouns if the child identified as transgender. show more
harry's razors
August 9, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Culture
News

‘Harry’s Razors’ Ad Features Trans Activist.

“Socially-minded” razor blades company Harry’s has partnered with a transgender social media influencer to advertise a product line raising money for The Trevor Project, which in turn promotes “pubertal suppression” drugs for minors.

Influencer Luke Wesley Pearson, a biological female who claims to be a man, prominently displays her breast removal surgery scars in the ad, during which she raves about using Harry’s razors to shave the beard she has grown as a result of steroid use.

“I love growing a beard and maintaining it!” she says, describing the experience as “gender-affirming”.

For every Harry’s Pride Shave Set sold, the company donated $5 to The Trevor Project, an activist nonprofit that promotes “pubertal suppression” drugs and “gender-affirming hormone therapy” for minors.

Separately, Harry’s has introduced “equal” parental leave for mothers and fathers, although chief executive Andy Katz-Mayfield describes them as “birthing parents” and “non-birthing parents”.

Katz-Mayfield has boasted that the leave policy “treats birthing and non-birthing parents equally,” because Harry’s is a company that strives “to sort of be socially-minded and not just be about bottom line profits.”

“Birthing parent” and “birthing person” have become increasingly popular terms among the elite as a way to signal the “correct” views on transgenderism.

Major institutions including Britain’s socialized National Health Service (NHS) and the United Nations (UN) have both tried to make “birthing person” the default terminology, to serve the delusion that women who believe themselves to be the opposite sex really are men, and so cannot be “mothers”.

Related terms such as “people with a cervix” and “people with ovaries” have been invented for men who think they are women, so that women’s doctors can work in line with the reality that biological males do not develop women’s cancers and still avoid acknowledging that they cannot be women at all.

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"Socially-minded" razor blades company Harry's has partnered with a transgender social media influencer to advertise a product line raising money for The Trevor Project, which in turn promotes "pubertal suppression" drugs for minors. show more
transgender
July 27, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News

Michigan Gov’s ‘Conversion Therapy’ Ban Criminalizes Parents Who Don’t Affirm Transgenderism.

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has signed two bills banning “conversion therapy” for minors who identify as homosexual or transgender, turning healthcare providers and parents who do not accept their children were “born in the wrong body” into criminals.

Media coverage of the bills focuses on therapy “intended to change a person’s sexual orientation” but alsos ban therapy aimed at persuading girls they are girls and boys they are boys, rather than “transgender”.

House Bill 4617 defines conversion therapy as “any practice or treatment by a mental health professional that seeks to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity, including, but not limited to, efforts to change behavior or gender expression or to reduce or eliminate sexual or romantic attractions or feelings toward an individual of the same gender.”

This language suggests clinicians and possibly parents who refuse to “affirm” so-called trans kids by dressing boys as girls and using female pronouns for them, and vice versa, could be accused of unlawful activity.

Governor Whitmer insists that as “a mom of a member of the [LGBTQ] community and a proud, lifelong ally” she is “grateful” that Michigan is “banning the horrific practice of conversion therapy”.

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Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has signed two bills banning "conversion therapy" for minors who identify as homosexual or transgender, turning healthcare providers and parents who do not accept their children were "born in the wrong body" into criminals. show more
July 8, 2023
Jake Welch
News

Trans Pedo Avoids Jail Due to Lengthy Determination Over Men or Women’s Prison.

A transgender pedophile has avoided imprisonment after a court delayed the case in order to decide whether he should go to a male or female prison. Tanya Howes – a man dressed as a woman – admitted to three charges of possessing indecent images of children, including 39 ‘Category A’ images – the most serious – and another 100 extreme pornographic images and videos in February 2020.

The usual punishment for such offenses in English law is between six months and three years imprisonment, with Howes even being told by magistrates his crimes “would normally attract immediate custody.” Instead, he was ordered to undertake 30 days of rehabilitation, pay victim surcharges, and was added to the sex offenders register.

The court adjourned the case following an application by the Norfolk Probation Service, which referred the case to the Transgender Case Board to determine the appropriate prison for him as a self-described transgender woman. “Because of the [time] lag, no reoffending and because probation feel they can rehabilitate you,” Howes skipped incarceration, stated the leading magistrate in the court, Ian Taylor.

“It seems unduly lenient. It’s nothing to do with the person being transgender, it’s the nature of the offences… [the verdict] ought to be revised,” says David Campbell Bannerman, a Norfolk-based former Member of the European Parliament.

 

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A transgender pedophile has avoided imprisonment after a court delayed the case in order to decide whether he should go to a male or female prison. Tanya Howes – a man dressed as a woman – admitted to three charges of possessing indecent images of children, including 39 'Category A' images – the most serious – and another 100 extreme pornographic images and videos in February 2020. show more
July 7, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News

Archbishop Demands ‘Serious Consequences’ for ‘Anti-Trans’ Comments.

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the world’s foremost Anglican prelate, wants universities that allows trans people to be “insulted” to face funding cuts and loss of status.

“Universities that allow it to be tolerated if there is systemic ‘anti’ any category, whether it’s Jewish people, Jewish societies, whether it’s trans people… should have really quite serious consequences in terms of the recognition of their authority, their position. And [cutting] their funding, in particular, I think that is really important,” he said.

While Welby claimed “no one is entitled not to be offended” on campus, he undercut this by adding that people “have every right not to be abused, insulted and excluded”. His comments were motivated by recent controversy around Professor Kathleen Stock, who believes biological men cannot become women and was almost prevented from speaking at the University of Oxford as a result.

The Church of England, the mother church of the Episcopal Church in the United States, has become increasingly political, pushing open borders and encouraging children to “play with the many cloaks of [gender] identity” in schools. Anglican churches in Africa recently split from Welby after the Church of England decided to begin blessing same-sex marriages.

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Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the world's foremost Anglican prelate, wants universities that allows trans people to be "insulted" to face funding cuts and loss of status. show more
July 6, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News

CDC: Men Dressed as Women Can ‘Chestfeed’ Babies Harmful ‘Milk’.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says biological men who believe themselves to be women can “chestfeed” infants. Physicians are being told to provide transgender people with medication that mimics natural lactation – despite evidence that suggests such “milk” may be harmful to babies.

“Can transgender parents who have had breast surgery breastfeed or chestfeed their infants?” the CDC asks itself in the ‘Breastfeeding and special circumstances’ section of its website, answering with an emphatic “Yes.”

“Some transgender parents who have had breast/top surgery may wish to breastfeed, or chestfeed (a term used by some transgender and non-binary parents), their infants,” it continues, adding that healthcare providers should help trans parents with, among other things, “[m]edication to induce lactation”.

Elsewhere, the CDC emphasizes that “[a]n individual does not need to have given birth to breastfeed or chestfeed” in a document that also advocates using language “inclusive of all gender identities” such as “pregnant person” and “lactating person” instead of “mother”.

Biological men posting pictures of themselves “chestfeeding” as an expression of “queer joy” has become a trend in recent months, but there are serious concerns about the nutritional quality of their “milk” and the drugs it may contain. One drug often used off-label to induce lactation, domperidone, may cause heart problems in babies, for example.

Natural-born women are seemingly held to much higher standards when it comes to breastmilk safety, being advised not to drink alcohol when breastfeeding and even avoid all but low doses of aspirin, never mind the cocktail of drugs prescribed to most transwomen.

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says biological men who believe themselves to be women can "chestfeed" infants. Physicians are being told to provide transgender people with medication that mimics natural lactation – despite evidence that suggests such "milk" may be harmful to babies. show more
July 5, 2023
Jake Welch
News

Employers Don’t Want to Hire ‘Silly, Offputting’ They/Thems.

Job applicants with non-binary gender pronouns in their resumes are less likely to receive a response, let alone get invited for a job interview by prospective employers, even if the business calls themselves an ‘Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE),’ according to new research.

Business.com created two identical applications and sent them both off to 180 unique job opportunities explicitly open to entry-level candidates. The name used was “Taylor Williams” so as to be as ambiguous as possible about the sex of the applicant and half the CVs featured “they/them” pronouns under the header.

The CVs with the pronouns listed explicitly received “8 [percent] less interest than those without, and fewer interviews and phone screening invitations.” Moreover, 64 percent of the companies called themselves EOEs – companies that commit to “not discriminate against employees based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetic information” – yet decided to reject the candidate.

“We found that hiring managers had fewer positive impressions of the resumes that included gender pronouns. Managers perceived these resumes less favorably…” explains Business.com.

Notably, a number of employers gave feedback to the researchers on why they rejected the non-binary candidate. One argued, “This person seems like a decent fit on paper, though I am not interested in the drama that a person who thinks they are a ‘they/them’ brings with them.”

“I would first take off the “they/them” pronoun reference. I find that personal pronouns are quite silly in a job situation. This is better reserved for social settings and not in a job setting,” said a second employer.

“The pronouns are offputting and unnecessary. Get rid of the pronoun nonsense. You’re either a ‘he’ or a ‘she,'” added a third.

 

 

 

 

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Job applicants with non-binary gender pronouns in their resumes are less likely to receive a response, let alone get invited for a job interview by prospective employers, even if the business calls themselves an 'Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE),' according to new research. show more