By Jonathon Van Maren Those of us who see transgenderism as a dangerous ideology often face questions from those who see it as simply another manifestation of our culture’s embrace of personal bodily autonomy, even if they do find it somewhat strange. It is true, they say, that some men feel like they are women…
By Jonathon Van Maren The transgender policies currently roiling high schools across the United States are resulting in some strange skirmishes lately. Each of these skirmishes reveal just how far we have strayed from the common-sense instincts that once would have been taken for granted, and how much the ideologies percolating down through the culture…
By Jonathon Van Maren Gabby Skwarko, the 23-year-old student who attacked Katie Somers and Blaise Alleyne of Toronto Against Abortion on the campus of Ryerson University last October, pleaded guilty to assault in court yesterday. Skwarko, who was a member of the abortion rights group the Ryerson Reproductive Justice Collective, contributed to a rash of…
By Jonathon Van Maren Nothing irritates progressive commentators quite so much as watching nations reject the failed experiment of the Sexual Revolution. Despite the fact that the so-called sexual liberty we enjoy in the West has ravaged families, spawned a rarely-reported on epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases, and gutted the institution of marriage—all while failing…
By Jonathon Van Maren On September 26, 2009, Abby Johnson was asked to assist with an ultrasound-guided abortion. Although she was the director of a Planned Parenthood clinic and had worked in the abortion industry for nearly a decade, she had never actually witnessed what takes place during an abortion procedure. She stared, transfixed with…
By Jonathon Van Maren In his short but essential book Eugenics and Other Evils, G.K. Chesterton pinpointed with precision the preferred tactic of progressives. “Most Eugenists are Euphemists,” he wrote. “I mean merely that short words startle them, while long words soothe them. And they are utterly incapable of translating the one into the other, however…
By Jonathon Van Maren One of the signs that the LGBT movement has successfully moved the Overton Window to an almost unimaginable extent is the phenomenon of “Drag Kids,” which features children in heavily sexualized performances in heavily sexualized settings, dressed in drag, dancing provocatively. Some performances have included adult men throwing dollar bills at…
The Christian Post has been doing an incredible job of tracking the real-world impact of the transgender ideology on families. Recently, they connected with a mother from Seattle who was willing to go on the record about her experience as a mother of children who have become transgender–two out of her three children. Like other…
By Jonathon Van Maren As of February of 2019, the law in the Netherlands formally changed in a way that is proving far more significant than many originally anticipated. In response to a petition signed by 82,000 people, the government now allows people to register their stillborn children as a legal persons in the Personal…