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WASHINGTON — President Biden set off a heated identity politics debate less than 24 hours into his presidency when he signed a gender discrimination order that has drawn heat from critics who accuse him of erasing women’s rights. Language in the order would allow transgender women to participate in women’s sport leagues. The policy seeks to enforce a Supreme Court ruling from last year that prohibits discrimination on the basis of someone’s gender identity and sexual orientation.

The contact form on Joe Biden’s White House website now asks for people’s preferred pronouns, in the first major sign of how “woke” the Biden regime intends to be.Flying in the face of basic science, the White House’s official contact form now asks if people wish to be called one of the following:she/herhe/himthey/themOtherPrefer not to shareSee for yourself:The move will no doubt irk those who wish to be referred to as one of the following:ziezimzirziszieselfsiesiehirhirshirselfeyemeireirseirselfvevervisversverselfteytertemtersterselfSad!

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Joe Biden's economic policy team, led by incoming Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, has signaled it will be the first administration in history "to construct economic policy around issues like race, gender equality and climate change, rather than around traditional indicators like gross domestic product or deficit ratios," reports Axios. The center-left site says Biden "is charting an economic policy that's visibly to the left of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama." "If he succeeds, it's going to show up not only in taxes and spending, but also in regulation." Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times has characterized Biden's upcoming policies as an...

Democrat Tulsi Gabbard ripped Nancy Pelosi’s new rules on “gendered-language” this week; telling Fox News the entire enterprise shows “how out of touch” the Speaker is with “reality.” “It’s the height of hypocrisy for people who claim to be the champions of rights for women to deny the very biological existence of women,” Gabbard said.

The charge that sex designations on a birth certificate is medically ill-advised stands contrary to even the most basic understanding of science.Many folks these days treat science not as a method for discovering truth, but as an undeniable, transcendent truth in and of itself. Yet these same folks fail to appreciate that some of the most dramatic and passionate attacks on science come from their compadres on the far left: gender theorists.A vivid demonstration of this fact has just been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, formerly one of the world’s most prestigious medical journals. In their December...

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) said that House rules that eliminate gendered language do “the very opposite” of empowering women and it’s the “height of hypocrisy for people who claim to be the champions of rights for women to deny the very biological existence of women.” Host Tucker Carlson asked, “So, how does it empower women to ban the acknowledgment that women exist?”

A year ago I looked at the 20th anniversary of Nancy Pelosi's ascension to the speakership and shook my head in dismay. Now things are worse. The likelihood of a Biden presidency (despite determined opposition from many Republicans) suggests government lead persecution of men will get worse. This will be disastrous for America and felt around the world in all places that follow America's lead. Lord God please stand by Ted Cruz and Mike Pence and give them strength.

What was once the world’s greatest deliberative body is being reduced to a leftist clown show as the “woke” left struts its stuff. On Saturday, news broke that the Democrats are going to remove all gendered words from the House of Representatives. On Sunday, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a pastor, opened the 117th Congress with a prayer. At its conclusion, he said “amen,” and then added “a-women.” What he said was both stupid and sacrilegious. I wrote here about the newly “woke” House’s push to remove gendered language. I pointed out that, in English at least, gendered words fall into two...

The Hungarian parliament passed a measure this week amending the national constitution to more clearly enshrine the meaning of family and gender as traditionally understood. In direct opposition to gender theory, the amended text states that “Hungary protects children’s right to an identity conforming to their birth gender and ensures education in accordance with the values ​​based on Hungary’s constitutional identity and Christian culture.” The constitutional amendment — Hungary’s ninth — spells out the definition of family as “based on marriage and the parent-child relation. The mother is a woman, the father a man,” in what pro-family organizations are hailing...

Australian actress Sam Frost posted a tearful message to her 567,000 Instagram followers, begging them to “use correct pronouns” after stumbling upon a social media post from someone who said “nasty comments about pronouns and non-binary gender identity.” “Why using the correct pronouns matters,” the Home and Away star began, explaining that she came across the comments from an individual she grew up with. “It completely broke my heart, I was deeply affected by it,” she said, explaining that she “can’t think about it without crying.” “It’s important to use correct pronouns, because firstly, it’s basic respect. Secondly, because it...

"I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness."—Aldous Huxley, Brave New WorldAs Aldous Huxley said it would be, the Brave New World is foisted upon us.Enter "sissy hypno," a fascinating and eerie steampunk-style mass-scale psychosocial "movement" (for lack of a better word) that encourages men to renounce their masculine identity and become — as the term is used in the LGBTQ4GF150+ community — a "sissy."The term "sissy" has a long colloquial use dating back to the 1890s. In its original conception (and the way it was...

The stubborn fact that male and female each have an objective nature will ultimately be the end of contemporary gender theory, and it looks like the lesbians are the canary in that coal mine.“[L]esbian as a category” is vanishing, warns lesbian journalist Katie Herzog over at Andrew Sullivan’s Weekly Dish. She laments that being an out and proud lesbian is no longer cool and notes how women who like women are increasingly “coming out as nonbinary or as men” instead.Herzog noted this just days before “Juno” and “The Umbrella Academy” star Ellen Page announced on December 1 that she is...

An IT engineer put on puberty blockers as a 16-year-old girl has claimed a gender clinic failed to carry out a proper psychiatric assessment before giving them to her. Keira Bell, 23, of Manchester, who is taking legal action against the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust in London, suffered from gender dysphoria as a child. She took testosterone, which left her with a deep voice and possibly infertile, and had a double mastectomy - but later realized she had 'gone down the wrong path'.

On Nov. 22, 2020, New York Times columnist Charles Blow unleashed one of the most bizarre tweets in recent memory. "Stop doing gender reveals," he stated. "They're not cute; they're violent. All we know before a child is born is their anatomy. They will reveal their gender. It may match your expectations of that anatomy, and it may not. If you love the child you will be patience, attentive and open." This is patently insane for a variety of reasons. First, the characterization of gender reveal parties -- parties during which parents celebrate finding out whether their unborn children are...

Today in "affirmative action for public company boards" news...In a move that does little to help either diversity or equality, NASDAQ is now pushing for SEC approval of a rule that would require public companies on its exchange to have at least one woman director and one "diverse" director - meaning a director that self-identifies as an underrepresented minority or LGBTQ. You know, like how Elizabeth Warren "self-identified" as Native American.Oddly enough, there's still no requirement that Board Members need to know how to read financial statements. But, we digress.The exchange is also pushing for its more than 3,000 companies...

An education company producing school textbooks and exam papers has revealed guidelines to "flip" gender stereotypes in its products. Pearson, which owns exam board Edexcel and is one of the country's biggest education companies, has asked employees to "avoid unconscious bias" by promoting "women and girls in traditionally masculine roles and vice versa". It says this could include girls dressed as firefighters, astronauts or playing with trucks, and boys watering plants, playing in a pretend kitchen, or performing a dance competition. "Show women as the business owner, painting the house, wearing the lab coat and fixing the car and men...

Trans activists keep bullying businesses into removing content through fear tactics rather than by countering the message with their own better one.It seems the battle about the rights and privileges of transgender Americans has come down to what other people are allowed to say about them. The controversy over Abigail Shrier’s book, “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters,” demonstrates how far this battle has come. Shrier’s book, which explores the phenomenon of many teenage girls suddenly and impulsively insisting they are now boys and how this affects their families and futures, has come under fire from transgender activists....

The solution to feminist destruction of The West is Gender Peace. I live in a society where a corrupted judiciary and police force routinely allow selfish women to persecute innocent men. A nanny state where illusions of safety replace the old freedoms which suited and underpinned family life. My message to America is to be very careful about every promise of safety which involves giving up freedom. Praise the Lord for a 6-3 conservative majority in SCOTUS. If Potus 45 does not survive into a second term, a deeply conservative Supreme Court will give some measure (or maybe even magnificent)...

SALT LAKE CITY, UT—Antifa communists are celebrating a major win after one of their distinguished members, Buzzy the Fly, landed on Mike Pence's head and distracted debate viewers for a few minutes. Investigators determined that Buzzy is the latest member of Salt Lake City Antifa. "Buzzy is one of our most dedicated anti-fascist resistance fighters," said Vandex Craxavague, chairperson of the local Antifa chapter. "Not only is ze our smartest and best-looking member, but ze dedicated the majority of zir 28-day lifespan to infiltrating the debate hall and planning zir attack."