What the government does for anyone it must do for everyone or it must do for no one. That's what equal treatment under the law is. That's how laws against unfair discrimination, for instance, discrimination based on inherent traits like ethnicity, must apply across the board, no matter what foot that shoe is on.

On Wednesday, the United States Supreme Court seemed to be leaning into a favorable ruling for an Ohio woman who claimed to have been the subject of sex discrimination from her employer - because she is straight. //

Ames contends she was passed over for a promotion and then demoted because she is heterosexual. Both the job she sought and the one she had held were given to LGBTQ people.

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 bars sex discrimination in the workplace. A trial court and the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Ames. //

If we are going to have laws against arbitrary discrimination, then they must apply equally, to everyone, regardless of race, religion, sexual preference, anything. It's ridiculous that this obvious principle has to be fought out to the Supreme Court level, but here we are; if the Court finds in favor of the plaintiff, this will shake up the grievance industry of discrimination claims for a good long while.

In Texas, a doctor and whistleblower at the Texas Children’s Hospital was persecuted by the Biden administration for going public with the reality of these treatments. Award-winning journalist Catherine Herridge interviewed Dr. Eithan Haim and his wife Andrea and released the full interview Monday on X. It is truly must-see TV. Dr. Haim was, of course, persecuted by the Biden Justice Department for blowing the whistle on this unethical and unnecessary care for minors. //

Not only does this case represent an unforgivable instance of lawfare by a presidential administration against a medical practitioner who has gone public with his concerns over what is arguably an unethical practice, but it also shows the depth to which the adherents to gender ideology will go to keep treating kids.

Some key segments follow. The title of the interview is telling as well: "Government Malpractice - vindicated Texas surgeon speaks out after exposing Biden era gender affirming treatments for minors."

While the mainstream press screams bloody murder over the Trump administration's trimming back of the bureaucratic state, shocking new details have emerged about how government resources were being misused. A new report from City Journal has obtained chat logs showing NSA representatives, including from the CIA and FBI, used the NSA's government interlink program to discuss various transgender fetishes and aspects of "transitioning."

The report shows topics such as "genital castration, artificial vaginas, piss fetishes, sex polycules, and gangbangs" were posted using the government system. This is what your tax dollars were going to. //

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Government officials have lived in an alternate universe where all their most disgusting, corrupt desires are not only met but encouraged. All while getting paid hefty salaries and benefits packages. And to do what? No one really knows, but they clearly had quite a bit of free time on their hands.

These agencies have to be gutted to the studs, and that's why the work of DOGE and the Trump-appointed heads is so important. Leaving the masses in place and changing a few regulations won't fix this, and the more insane revelations we get, the more of a mandate the administration has. The U.S. government has been inundated by lazy, wasteful, degenerates for decades, and it's about time the hammer dropped. Taxpayer money should not be used to fund a funhouse for mentally ill people.

Hoi Polloi Boy
6 hours ago
Lib: It's been called the Gulf of Mexico for centuries!!

Dude: Cool bro! Now do genders.

EDMUND
6 hours ago
They really wanna die on this hill?

GeoMcGeo
5 hours ago
Democrats have used the hammer of controlling local schools through access to federal funding for decades.

frylock234
6 hours ago
No, I believe the Feds can withhold funding over refusal to follow Federal policy. They've done it before to enforce speed limits I think it was? Nice highway funding ... too bad you don't want to conform to our thoughts on proper speed (or maybe it was blood alcohol limits). The state could do as they wished, just without those federal highway dollars.

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Today, we filed a lawsuit against Target on behalf of the Florida State Board of Administration.

Target’s efforts to sexualize children caused its stock price to plummet, harming Florida’s retirement fund and putting the retirements of our teachers and first responders at risk:

4:13 PM · Feb 20, 2025

Here's the clever part; the Florida state attorney general says the retailer's woke marketing is hurting the state's retirement fund, by:

misleading shareholders and pushing a harmful, leftist agenda, at the expense of shareholder returns.

While Target told their investors they would keep the company out of controversy to protect the stock price, the retailer engaged in a marketing campaign targeting and sexualizing children. //

This radical campaign predictably caused Target's stock price to plummet, wiping out $10 billion in market value in just 10 days, and those loses put the retirement accounts of Florida's teachers and first responders at unacceptable risk.

To be clear, none of these people are under any kind of threat from the greater world. All the supposed "attacks" they're enduring aren't attacks at all. They're either pushback against the transgender activist community for trying to impose its will on the rest of America, or it's nothing at all, much like the U-turn sign. As I said before, conflict as the heart of the Cluster B personality, and if they can't find it, they'll create it.

This isn't a healthy kind of mentality to have on a personal level, and it's definitively not beneficial for a society to be infected by it either.

Transgenderism is a mental illness. It never stopped being one, even after the name was changed from "gender dysphoria." As you've likely seen repeatedly, and in various ways, people who identify as transgender are usually infested with mental illness and sicknesses, many of which are self-diagnosed and others which are reinforced through their community, as well as doctors and psychologists who should lose their license.

People with this kind of mental sickness can hardly handle their own lives, yet a good deal of give them the power to dictate others' lives, including politicians who capitulate to these people, when they should be smiling, nodding, and then moving on from them.

As an American who believes in American values, I think everyone should have a voice, and I think everyone should get to speak their minds to power, even people I disagree with on a fundamental level. In fact, I want them to speak their minds as openly as possible, as it only ever seems to help my point.

But just because they have a voice, it doesn't mean we have to weigh their input with equal measure to someone who clearly hasn't lost their mind. //

To be clear, these people are on a quest to inadvertently destroy themselves, and capitulating to them only brings us down with them. The people in this country need to get to a point where they aren't afraid to simply shrug the demands of the mentally ill off. There is no compassion in giving them what they want, because what they want isn't helping anyone, including them. We need to return to a culture where we recognize that these people are people, but they're troubled.

The cultural position our country needs to take is that transgenderism isn't normal or healthy. These people need assistance to get off the crazy train. //

These people need help, not power. Power is the last thing they need.

What we're actually seeing is a trend on this particular issue, and it's going in the direction of opposition. So, take a look here. Okay, transgendered female athletes, and amongst those Americans who oppose them in women's sports, back in 2021, it was 62%. A majority, but, you know, not anywhere close to a ginormous majority, right? A clear majority, but not a ginormous majority. But then again, you look here in 2025, you see it at 79%. So, it's not just that the majority of Americans are opposed to transgender female athletes in women's sports, it's that the opposition has become considerably larger in just the last four years. //

So transgender female athletes, again, opposing them in women's sports, you get 67% of Democrats, so two-thirds there. You get 64% of independents, you get about two-thirds there. And then look at this, near uniformity among Republicans, 94% of Republicans in opposition. You rarely get 67% of Democrats and 94% of Republicans to agree on anything, but they do on this particular issue.

Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions. This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end.

Countless children soon regret that they have been mutilated and begin to grasp the horrifying tragedy that they will never be able to conceive children of their own or nurture their children through breastfeeding. Moreover, these vulnerable youths’ medical bills may rise throughout their lifetimes, as they are often trapped with lifelong medical complications, a losing war with their own bodies, and, tragically, sterilization.

Accordingly, it is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called “transition” of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures. //

The order also targets the alleged science behind the treatments. It calls out the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Standards of Care Version 8 as "junk science” (The Arguments Supporting 'Gender-Affirming Care' Have Never Been 'Based on the Science' – RedState) and directs all agencies to "rescind or amend all policies that rely on WPATH guidance."

As a kicker, the Department of Justice is directed to investigate deceptive practices or misinformation regarding the long-term effects of gender-affirming care, including potential fraud or violations of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. //

anon-o6eq
7 hours ago
Many countries in Europe have already taken this position after the Cass Report was released in England. Cass found that most of the science supporting child transitions was based on faulty data and an inappropriate relationship between WPATH and the organization doing their research to support their recommendations. Cass found that as many as 95% of kids who identify as trans as children will revert to their biological sex by the time they are adults if they are not treated with anything other than talk therapy. That is now the way most major European countires treat children who identity as trans - psychotherapy only until they are 18.

C. S. P. Schofield anon-o6eq
5 hours ago
This lines up with something my late mother was told in the 1950’s. She was being hired as a history teacher at a girls school (private) and her headmistress told her that many girls going through puberty would be uncomfortable with their bodies and blossoming sexuality. Some would develop same sex crushes, and some would experiment with masculine identity. The best course was to treat all this quietly as normal. Don’t make a fuss unless there’s a serious problem. The vast majority would get over the phase.

The Department of Education announced Friday that it had eliminated the Biden-created office of "book ban coordinator" and the supporting office. This office was created in June 2023 in response to many school districts removing age-inappropriate and sexually explicit books from school libraries. //

The director of the "book ban coordinator" office, a gay progressive activist, solicited complaints from activists and threatened school districts with lawsuits by the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights. That all ended on Friday.

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky – Northern Division blocked President Joe Biden’s Title IX rewrite, known as the Final Rule. The ruling applies nationwide.

“Because the Final Rule and its corresponding regulations exceed the Department’s authority under Title IX, violate the Constitution, and are the result of arbitrary and capricious agency action, the plaintiffs’ motions for summary judgment will be granted and the Department’s motion for summary judgment will be denied,” wrote the Court. //

The Final Rule had gender identity, sexual orientation, and sex characteristics.

The Department refused to provide a narrow definition of “sex” “to avoid overbroad application of a prohibition on discrimination based on sex stereotypes.” //

The Court stressed that Title IX’s phrase “on the basis of sex” means exactly what it says when Title IX became law: Sex is female or male. Title IX protects human beings born female. Basic biology! //

The Department of Education also threatened to punish those who refuse to use a person’s preferred name or pronouns.

Well, the Court ruled that violated the First Amendment //

The Final Rule violated the Constitution’s Spending Clause since it threatened to withhold funds from schools that did not abide by the rewrite.

Legislation must satisfy a four-prong test to limit federal funds.

The Court found the Final Rule did not satisfy the fourth prong: “the conditions must not induce unconstitutional action.”. //

Bruce Hayden | January 9, 2025 at 3:34 pm
I find interesting the use of vacatur, which, by necessity, is nationwide. If a regulation violates the APA, and is thus void, it makes no sense for it to be void in just the ED of KY. Void is void, and that is what the APA calls for.

This is in contrast to nationwide injunctions issued by a single district court. How does a single district court, in a single district in a single state have the power to issue a nationwide injunction? It doesn’t typically have jurisdiction over most of the parties involved. The use of nationwide injunctions had grown enormously over the last decade or two, and became increasingly controversial by its overreach, esp in suits pushed by the left. Vacatur of regulations subject to the APA is more defensive in nature, merely preventing the government from imposing non-compliant regulations.

Joe Biden's attempt to mainstream transgenderism in education by claiming that "gender identity" was the same as sex was effectively killed by a federal judge. Judge Danny C. Reeves (G. W. Bush appointee) ruled the Department of Education's gambit was unconstitutional, arbitrary and capricious, exceeded the agency's authority, and was an “attempt to bypass the legislative process and completely transform Title IX.”

The Biden administration issued the new interpretation of Title IX in April, removing the clear and easy-to-follow interpretation put in place by the Trump administration; //

Even though the new interpretation did not specifically address the issue of men claiming to be women so they could play women's sports, it implies that any educational institution doing so will face a federal investigation. //

The mission for Trump's Secretary of Education, before he locks the doors and turns out the lights at that department, is to eradicate all traces of this nonsense and fire everyone who worked on this travesty.

The Department of Education had previously sought a Title IX rule that would essentially make "gender identity" a protected class, making it illegal for states or local districts to stop boys who claim to be girls from competing against actual girls in athletics. On Friday, though, that attempt was finally dropped. //

OrneryCoot
8 hours ago
I think you hit the right of it when you stated that they didn't want to give Trump an obvious win when he gets in and would reverse the rule, Bonchie. They can see the writing on the wall, even when they didn't believe it until it was too big to ignore. I think that Trump's ad against Kamala with the pronouns in it made them wake up. I just hope they keep screaming about it so that we can continue to thrash them in suburbia, where parents don't want their teenage daughter showering in the locker room with an unstable dude who has unhealthy ideas about sexuality.

While lawyers in the Tennessee transgender care ban case were slugging it out in court last week, the UK was putting the finishing touches on a “holistic” approach to pediatric transgender care—one that has broad, bipartisan support and is grounded in mental health protocol rather than risky, unproven drugs.

On Wednesday, the left-leaning Labour government announced that puberty blockers for minors with gender dysphoria would be banned indefinitely across the UK, except for use in clinical trials.

The announcement follows an emergency ban that extended to private providers beginning in May 2024, after the landmark Cass Review on children’s gender care found there was insufficient evidence to show these drugs were safe. It was a temporary measure enacted by the then-Conservative government and later upheld against a challenge in court, as we reported here. //

In October, Cass told The Times she attributes the report’s ongoing success to broad, cross-party support that kept it from becoming “a political hostage to fortune.”

So far, Cass—now Baroness Cass of Barnet to us—seems to be right. The UK did what the US failed to do: take the politics out of children’s medicine.

‘[I]f they have specialties that we can use, especially if we want to maintain an all-volunteer force, we want to bring that talent into our services.’. //

Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, previously endorsed allowing trans-identifying individuals to serve in the U.S. military, a position military specialists and reports have warned hampers the force’s overall readiness.

CrossedTheRubicon
3 hours ago
Would we even be arguing this issue if the narrative was whether to give anorexic children liposuction surgery they are asking for because they "felt fat"??

That is a jaw-dropping statement. Aspects of "gender-affirming care" range from sterilization through the use of drugs to outright mutilation with surgeries. There is no comparison between the physical and mental risks associated with those things and popping an aspirin. For a justice to make that comparison shows not only their supreme politicization of the issue but a level of disregard for children that strikes me as simply evil.

If you thought that was stupid, though, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson decided to enter the competition. //

How is banning medical treatments that don't treat children and instead permanently damage their bodies while setting them up for grave emotional harm short and long-term the same thing as banning interracial marriage? What an insulting and disgusting comparison to make. //

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Ketanji Brown Jackson with a hypothetical that supposedly helps SG Prelogar show discrimination: a boy who identifies as a boy but takes puberty blockers because he wants to lower his voice (rather than change gender).

A good reminder that Justice Jackson is "not a biologist."
11:12 AM · Dec 4, 2024 //

The U.S. government readily admits that "gender-affirming care" does nothing to reduce suicide rates among "transgender" children, but claims it reduces the rate of "suicidality." So it supposedly lowers the risk of suicide but doesn't lower the actual number of suicides? I don't think I need to explain how little sense that makes. //

Ben Gnarson
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We need to start being very clear on this point; if a child is being “transitioned” they don’t suffer from gender dysphoria, they are suffering from munchausen by proxy.

There is no Constitutional argument to be made for allowing activists to push these treatments on children. Nobody, oddly, is arguing before the Supreme Court that children should be allowed to get tattoos, buy booze or a firearm, join the military, sign a contract, or get married. Yes, they wink at the idea of parental consent in some places (not in others), but that doesn't count for much when parents are lied to and browbeaten into giving this consent. //

Stay away, especially, from other people's kids. There's a reason we call them "minors." There's a reason we don't allow them to make permanent, life-changing decisions. That should apply to this as to anything else. End of story.

It wasn't publicly revealed until July that Cassidy had been suing the Georgia Department of Corrections to receive a "sex change" operation as part of his "gender-affirming care" routine, which already includes taxpayer-funded hormone treatments. That's because the lawsuit he filed was under the name "Jane Doe." Yes, the guy with multiple forgery convictions is a man who wants to "become" a woman."

That's where things get even crazier. The same DOJ that charged Cassidy in April for trying to bomb the DOJ, filed an amicus brief in support of Cassidy's lawsuit to receive a taxpayer-funded "sex change" surgery" in January. So the DOJ was investigating Cassidy as a man (eventually charging him as one in court documents) while another sector of the DOJ was filing an amicus brief claiming Cassidy is a woman who should receive "gender-affirming care" in prison. You can't make this stuff up.

Now, Cassidy is set to receive the operation after the "Gender Dysphoria Committee" recommended it. //

In this case, the DOJ charged a man with federal crimes while the activists within the agency were fighting to treat him as a "woman" complete with a taxpayer-funded "sex change" surgery. Normal people see this type of stuff, and they are sick of it. They don't want to pay for "gender-affirming care" for violent criminals (or anyone for that matter).

This story is yet another reason why the DOJ needs a complete overhaul, and I don't just mean firing a few agency heads. The rank-and-file are just as guilty of perpetuating these woke policies. Hopefully, Pam Bondi understands what she's walking into and that she's ready to do what it takes.

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@billmaher loses his cool trying to get @neiltyson to admit a basic fact - that men have an advantage over women in sports.

8:55 AM · Nov 24, 2024 //

It's unclear if Tyson was able to identify the truck that just ran him over. Maher isn't always right, but when it comes to extreme leftists pushing a woke, anti-women agenda, he definitely gets it.

Scientific American, by contrast, does not. //

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HBO is doubling down on working with J.K. Rowling on the new Harry Potter series despite complaints of "transphobia" from the neon blue-haired, and mentally ill:

“We are proud to once again tell the story of Harry Potter — the heartwarming books that speak to power of friendship, resolve and acceptance,” the statement continued. “J.K. Rowling has a right to express her personal views. We will remain focused on the development of the new series, which will only benefit from her involvement.” //

WB told the permanently outraged to kick rocks.

That's not a good look if you're the authoritarian crowd who want to keep society under your thumb through guilt and suppression of ideas. This was the WB saying, "our ideas are going to actually be diverse, thanks."

And it truly goes to show something else that the left would rather you not figure out.

In order to defeat evil, you just have to endure as you refuse to move. We've seen constant reminders that when the left comes for you, the worst thing you can possibly do is apologize and back down, because this doesn't appease them. It just tells them you're easier to bully and that they can take their time in destroying you. //

Rowling, and indeed everyone who withstood the social pressure of the transgender movement at the height of its power, has won. While the infection is still here, it's clearly receding. Soon, it will be relegated to the fringes of society, where it belongs.