By Jonathon Van Maren When I spotted the headline in the Charlotte Observer earlier this week, I had to do a double-take: “The man in the maternity ward,” it read. The tenderly written story, framed as a beautiful human interest piece, begins like this: Liam Johns steps inside the ultrasound clinic and looks around. He’s relieved the waiting room…
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…
If you needed more evidence that we live in one of the dumbest eras, peruse this news item from the Daily Mail: In a scientific first, researchers claim to have found that differences between men’s and women’s brains start in the womb. The conclusion is likely to be controversial, with some experts claiming social influences are…
By Jonathon Van Maren Some of you may remember the bizarre story of the British docker from Humberside who got contacted by the police after tweeting out a limerick about transgender people. The police had a list of thirty tweets sent out by Miller, and informed him that they were investigating to determine if a…
By Jonathon Van Maren Last week Friday, Ontario Minister of Education Lisa Thompson announced some of the much-anticipated changes to the provincial curriculum, and as expected, there is good news and bad news. Minister Thompson specifically addressed many of the concerns voiced by parents about the existing Wynne curriculum, as well as noting changes to…
I rarely excerpt an entire article on this blog, but in the case of this piece from the Christian Post, I’m going to make an exception. The helpless family members of girls and boys who have decided to transition are rarely heard from, despite the fact many of them are left heartbroken by the often…
By Jonathon Van Maren In the United Kingdom, it has been a relentless stream of bad news for those who value freedom of speech for several years now. A 38-year-old mother was arrested in front of her children and locked up in a cell at the police station in Hertfordshire. A docker in Northern England…
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 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…
