By Jonathon Van Maren With spiking rates of transgender children already reported in the United States and the United Kingdom, the CBC, Canada’s state broadcaster, recently noted a sharp rise in children requesting gender “transition” in Canada as well. Children’s clinics, the CBC reported, are seeing “exponential growth in demand for treatment from teens who don’t…
By Jonathon Van Maren I almost hesitate to attract any attention to this story, but I do so for one reason: This is where the transgender ideology, which has been almost universally accepted by the elites, is taking our society. We have unharnessed identity from biological reality, and as a result there are simply no…
By Jonathon Van Maren Despite a concerted campaign by LGBT activists and liberal clergy, earlier this week the leaders of the United Methodist Church rejected the so-called “One Church Plan,” which would have permitted individual churches to decide whether or not to permit same-sex “weddings” and LGBT clergy, at their General Conference in St. Louis,…
By Jonathon Van Maren It has been an extraordinary week for Justin Trudeau, as his “sunny ways” turn out to be distinctly shady and the new Liberal Party turns out to very much resemble the old Liberal Party, except that Trudeau has managed to get mired in a Quebec corruption scandal more promptly than most.…
By Jonathon Van Maren Over and over again, we are told by LGBT activists that our schools must be transformed for the children. The massive changes to the curriculums, the transgender bathrooms, the revolutionary new ideologies—we are told that these are simply responses to the grassroots demands of parents and students, who have independently discovered that…
By Jonathon Van Maren Of all the emails I receive from readers, some of the most heart-breaking ones come from parents whose children struggle with rapid onset gender dysphoria, or ROGD. They are confused and heartbroken, and their children are often confused and heartbroken, as well. One mother ended her email to me with a…
By Jonathon Van Maren The January sun was shining on Istanbul’s Sultanahmet Square as I walked by small piles of scrabbling pigeons, passed the gleaming white Obelisk of Theodosius, and headed through the metal detector that guards the door of the Turkish-Islamic Arts Museum. It is a long building of rose-colored brick and stone, fronted…
By Jonathon Van Maen Based on the recent headlines, it would appear that the demand for bigots of various stripes vastly outstrips the supply. The Covington Catholic High School boys were portrayed as an ugly mob threatening and mocking a Native American Vietnam veteran before it turned out that they hadn’t been threatening, hadn’t been…
By Jonathon Van Maren I’ve noted several times already that whether we like it or not, we are going to have to deal with the ongoing colonization of schools and the attempted invasion of families by the transgender movement. They are not planning to leave us alone. They are planning to force their ideology into…