A roundup of news and commentary from around the interwebs.
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These stories won’t stop until we stop them. And in most countries, the fundamental common sense necessary to accomplish that seemingly simple task is gone: “Convicted Sex Offender Requests Transfer To Women’s Prison, Claims To Be ‘Intersex Female’.”
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The Church of England continues to plummet, and in the most grotesque way possible—supporting the mutilation of children: “Archbishop of Canterbury Refuses to Scrap Schools Guidance That Affirms ‘Transgender’ Five Year-Olds and Brands Dissenters ‘Transphobic’.”
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From Mary Harrington at Unherd, we have an unfortunately necessary statement of the obvious: “Why society still needs the family.”
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This is a very long New Yorker essay, but it will prove fascinating for any legal nerds. It is a profile of Jonathan Mitchell, the lawyer who drafted the Texas abortion law that did an end run around the Supreme Court. As it turns out, that is Mitchell’s entire strategy—to make the Supreme Court as irrelevant as possible: “The conservative who wants to bring down the Supreme Court.”
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Great news: “Idaho Supreme Court upholds all state abortion bans in pro-life victory.”
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From The Post Millennial: “Expert witness in trial of BC nurse testifies that child sex changes rob minors of sexual function, fertility for life.” The truth is coming out, slowly but surely.
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From Andrew Lawton, who is currently in Switzerland to report on the WEF’s brouhaha at Davos: “Owning nothing won’t make us happy, so why are we going along with it?”
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This is precisely what the Nazis did with the T-4 euthanasia program and progressives fully support it. https://t.co/42hBCHsHPP
— Jonathon Van Maren (@JVanMaren) January 16, 2023
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The trans totalitarians swarmed a talk at McGill University on sex versus gender—and shut it down. That is their response to disagreement. “Shut up,” they explained.
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More soon.