A roundup of news and commentary from around the interwebs.
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From Robby Starbuck: “Remember when National Geographic put a kid named Avery on their cover with a quote saying ‘the best thing about being a girl is now I don’t have to pretend to be a boy’? Remember being called a bigot if you said Avery wasn’t a girl? Well now Avery no longer identifies as a girl.” We’re going to be seeing a lot of that in the years to come. The story of Jazz Jennings, for example, is nowhere close to over yet.
A fascinating piece on our relationship with technology by Mary Harrington, who is one of the most interesting writers out there right now: “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.”
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Young men are increasingly choosing to opt out of mainstream society. The American Mind tries to explain why: “Let’s Stay In.”
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Christopher Rufo reports on the ongoing horror show at children’s hospitals which are engaged in sex change surgeries: “Thrown to the wolves.”
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Those surprised by Trump’s pivot on some social issues shouldn’t be. His track record as a social liberal is long—which is why his partnership with trans activist Caitlyn Jenner should be no surprise. From CNN:
Years before he said he was running for president to “defeat the cult of gender ideology,” Donald Trump welcomed and praised the inclusion of transgender women in the Miss Universe pageant. In since unreported radio and television interviews from spring and summer 2012, Trump celebrated the interest in a 23-year-old transgender woman named Jenna Talackova participating in a Canadian pageant. He then later effusively praised the winner of the Miss USA pageant, Olivia Culpo, for saying that transgender women should be allowed to compete. Trump, then the owner of the Miss Universe pageant, would go on to cite the possible participation of transgender women in Olympic sports to justify his decision to end a ban on transgender pageant participants.
As I’ve written many times before—almost always to plenty of backlash—Trump is and was a fair weather social conservative. He does not have values—he has ambitions.
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When I note that nothing will be left alone in the LGBT movement’s bid to “queer” everything, I mean that literally. Consider this recent column, for example, from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: “Queering nuclear weapons: How LGBTQ+ inclusion strengthens security and reshapes disarmament.” Yeah, you read that right.
The Kootenay Lake school district is issuing an apology to parents and providing counselling resources to students after a graphic sex education guide was mistakenly distributed to elementary school students last week. On June 20, a local public health nurse joined a grade 6/7 health class at Erickson Elementary School near Creston, B.C. to provide a scheduled lesson on sexual health. A “safer sex guide,” published by the Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange (CATIE), was mistakenly distributed to students following the sex-ed class…
“If you snort drugs, use your own straw or bumper. Rolled-up sticky notes make single-use, disposable straw,” is one example in the safe sex on drugs section. Tertina Sandre is a parent of a grade 6 boy at the school. “He said, ‘mom, look, they are teaching us about finger f****** at school and I was just like, ‘pardon me?’ and I confiscated the book,’” she told Global News.
The truth is that this sort of thing not only happens all the time—but graphic, “how-to” sex education is part of the SOGI curriculum in British Columbia and across the country.
