A California appeals court struck down as unconstitutional a state law that penalized elder-care workers for using pronouns inconsistent with elderly long-term care patients’ claimed gender identity. Gender identity is a disputed concept. A lack of linguistic clarity has clouded the issue in recent years as the concepts of sex and sexual identity, or gender, a…
What’s the Rush to Reassign Gender and to Silence Those Who Ask?
Commentary “We ought to think very hard about what and who is driving this extreme transactivist agenda,” is probably the most important line in the recently released film, “Trans Mission: What’s the Rush to Reassign Gender?” Produced by Jennifer Lahl, founder and president of The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network, and written and directed…
State Department Will Let People Choose Their Gender on Passports
The State Department will allow people to choose their gender on passports, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement Wednesday. The State Department will let people “self-select their gender as ‘M’ or ‘F’” and will waive the required medical certification for individuals whose gender on their citizenship or ID doesn’t match their “self-selected…
Former Trump Ambassador to UK Cleared of Making Inappropriate Comments on Race, Gender: Report
Woody Johnson, the Trump administration’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, has reportedly been cleared of allegations of making insensitive and inappropriate comments during his tenure, including about race, religion, and sex. Johnson, the co-owner of the New York Jets, was cleared by the State Department’s Office of Civil Rights, which concluded that the allegations were…
College Asks Appeals Court to Void Order Ending Gender-Specific Facilities
Attorneys for the College of the Ozarks in Missouri are asking the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit in Kansas City to void a federal directive forcing the school to end gender-specific living facilities. The regulation prompting the litigation was issued by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) following President…
Biden Reversing HHS Gender Identity Policy
The Biden administration announced it is overturning a Trump-era Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rule that excluded gender identity from sex discrimination protections in the Obamacare statute. The rule dealt with Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, which made it unlawful to discriminate on the basis of “race, color, national origin, sex, age, or…
Christian College Sues Over Biden Order Banning Gender Segregation
College of the Ozarks is in federal court challenging a Biden administration order to end alleged campus housing discrimination by opening women’s dorm bathrooms and showers to biological male residents. The order, which President Joe Biden signed on his first day in office, directs all federal agencies to reinterpret Title VII of the 1964 Civil…
Sacked Woman Stands by View on Transgender Issues, Employment Appeals Panel Told
A woman who lost her job after claiming people cannot change their biological sex insists her views are a “material reality,” an employment appeal tribunal has heard. Maya Forstater’s contract was not renewed in March 2019 after she posted tweets opposing government proposals to reform the Gender Recognition Act to allow people to identify as…
Opinion: Weaponizing Race and Gender
Commentary Perhaps the most frightening thing happening in America is the weaponizing of race and gender. We need to be wary, because this is a war for power. This is a war to deny American citizens our Constitutional rights and to create a totalitarian society controlled by the woke left. We must not allow this…
BC Government Joins Trend of Erasing Gendered Terms
The British Columbia government has removed gendered language from its regulations as part of a broader movement driving similar changes in other parts of Canada and the Western world. In early March, the province announced that it had eliminated 600 instances of gendered language from regulations across 15 ministries. “Gendered words have been changed to…
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