North Carolina Overrides Liberal Governor's Veto to Ban Transgender Procedures for Kids 18 and Under
Plus: The Week in Woke

A small victory.

The North Carolina General Assembly completed an override to Gov. Roy Cooper's veto of the Fairness in Women's Sports Act, which bans transgender girls and women in middle school, high school and college from joining women's sports.

HB 574, which is the Fairness in Women's Sports Act, was among multiple overrides the House and the Senate made on Wednesday night. It was passed by the House by a vote of 74-45, while the Senate voted to override Cooper's decision later Wednesday night.

HB 808, which does not allow medical professionals to provide hormone therapy, puberty-blocking drugs or gender-transition procedures to anyone under 18, was also overridden.

An "inclusive" comedy show was so inclusive it had to
exclude wrongthinkers.

Five years ago, Andy Shaw and I set up a monthly comedy night in London called Comedy Unleashed. Our objective was to challenge what we perceived to be the groupthink that was developing within the industry. Promoters, television commissioners, critics, even comedians themselves, had begun to turn on acts who failed to convey the "correct" political opinions, and many fellow comics confessed to me that they had begun to self-censor for the sake of their careers.

And so we launched a night which would encourage innovative and free-thinking acts, where we might cultivate a comedy-literate audience who understood that the art form cannot exist without the potential to cause offence. Not that the acts we booked necessarily had to be offensive; rather, they would be free to tease the limitations of the audience's tolerance should they wish. The only condition was that they should be funny.

This year we decided to make an appearance at the trade fair known as the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. We liaised with a local promoter and booked a venue in Leith, on the outskirts of the city. The bill was to include Bruce Devlin, Mary Bourke, Dominic Frisby, Alistair Williams and the co-creator of the classic sitcoms Father Ted and The IT Crowd, Graham Linehan.

Graham has been considered controversial for holding a range of beliefs. Most notably: that human beings cannot change sex, that women deserve the right to single-sex spaces and the chance to compete fairly in sports, that feminists such as J.K. Rowling should not have to put up with rape and death threats for stating biological facts, and that gay and autistic children ought not to be medicalised and put onto a pathway to sterilisation. What a monster.

Those who claim that "cancel culture does not exist" will struggle to explain how it is that one of the most successful sitcom writers of all time now cannot work in the comedy industry, and why his musical adaptation of Father Ted has been effectively held hostage by the rights holders, Hat Trick Productions.

Given that we knew our show would sell out, we did not advertise Graham in advance, preferring instead to tease the audience with the prospect of a "surprise cancelled comedian". With the show just a few days away, we finally announced his appearance, and within 24 hours the venue, Leith Arches, had posted a statement on Instagram stating that they "DO NOT suppprt [sic] this comedian, or his views and he WILL NOT be allowed to perform at our venue and is CANCELLED from Thursdays [sic] comedy show with immediate effect".

More "inclusion!" An academic fellowship for "inclusive science" is only available to those of certain privileged races.

he "Inclusive Science Communication Fellowship" is "supported by a $2.8 million collaborative National Science Foundation grant" and run by the University of Rhode Island Metcalf Institute, Michigan State University's Knight Center for Environmental Journalism and the University of Rhode Island Science and Story Lab. ...

A requirement is that applicants "[s]elf-identify as Black or African American, Indigenous or Native American, Hispanic or Latina/e/o/x, Asian or Asian American, Middle Eastern or North African."

"Latina/e/o/x." Leftists are vandals of language (and all other things, including human bodies).

Feminist medical school professor hails the "progress" of confused children "identifying themselves" as "gender minotaurs."

A California hospital executive and professor claimed children can identify as a mythology-inspired creature and claimed that this category of children love mermaids, according to a presentation reviewed by Fox News Digital.

Diane Ehrensaft, a self-identified "feminist" who supports a "gender revolution," is the director of mental health and chief psychologist at the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital gender development center. She is also a professor at UCSF School of Medicine. The developmental and clinical psychologist specializes in pediatric "gender-affirmative care for transgender and gender-expansive patients."

Her biography paged reflected that Ehrensaft focuses her research on how genders before puberty develop as well as the mental health effects of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, which are part of chemical sex changes, on children.

Ehrensaft made what some may consider fringe claims about gender ideology, including that kids can identify as "gender hybrids" which include a mythology-inspired creature called a "gender Minotaur," and that kids can change their genders by season and can have different identities depending on their location.

Diane Ehrensaft claims children can identify as "minotaurs."

According to Britannica, a "Minotaur" is derived from Greek mythology and was a creature which had the body of a man and the head of a bull.

"I totally agree we are in the midst of a gender revolution and the children are leading it. And it's a wonderful thing to see. And it's also humbling to know [children] know more than we do about this topic of being gender expansive," she said during a 2018 talk at the San Francisco Public Library.

Ehrensaft believes the transgender revolution is the next phase of the 60s feminist movement, which featured challenging stereotypes about gender.

"Now, we've got genders moving boulders, and it makes a lot of people nervous," she said.

Ehrensaft believes that transgenderism is derived by a "gender web" which is influenced by culture, upbringing and nature.

"Each person's web will change over time as they age," the event's description said. "What's Your Gender? Don't answer until you hear all your options... Ehrensaft wants you to get off the binary measurement scale."

She introduced language such as "genderfluid," "non-binary" and "gender expansive." She then predicted the language will evolve beyond that, and cited her conversation with a 7-year-old as proof that there can be "gender minotaurs" and hybrids.

"And as you know, language is political. So what's good today will be politically incorrect tomorrow. So we'll just keep changing as we go," said Ehrensaft. "This is a whole group of kids you all should know about."

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Fox News Digital reached out to Ehrensaft and the children's hospital for comment but did not receive a response.

A federal court has ruled that schools are allowed to secret transition the gender of other people's children, and parents have no right to challenge that policy in court.

On Monday, a federal court ruled that a a group of parents could not challenge a Maryland school district's policy keeping parents in the dark about their children's gender transitions.

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that three parents in the Montgomery County, Maryland school district could not challenge the policy. According to NBC News, this was due to the fact that the parents had not alleged their children were transgender in the first place (via NBC News):

The policy, which the Montgomery County Board of Education adopted for the 2020-2021 school year, permitted schools to develop gender support plans for students to ensure they "feel comfortable expressing their gender identity."

The policy directs school personnel to help transgender and gender-nonconforming students create a plan that addresses their preferred pronouns, names and bathrooms, and bars staff from informing parents of those plans without a student's consent.

Lawsuits are pending challenging similar policies in other states. The Maryland case was the first to be argued before a federal appeals court.

They dismissed for lack of standing. They claim that parents only have the right to even sue if their children are transgender. So you have to wait until they cook your children's brain before you have any recourse.

The judges' decision points out that children of the parents who brought forward the challenge do not have gender support plans (via United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit):

The parents have not alleged that their children have gender support plans, are transgender or are even struggling with issues of gender identity. As a result, they have not alleged facts that the Montgomery County public schools have any information about their children that is currently being withheld or that there is a substantial risk information will be withheld in the future. Thus, under the Constitution, they have not alleged the type of injury required to show standing.

Absent an injury that creates standing, federal courts lack the power to address the parents' objections to the Guidelines. That does not mean their objections are invalid. In fact, they may be quite persuasive. But, by failing to allege any injury to themselves, the parents' opposition to the Parental Preclusion Policy reflects a policy disagreement. And policy disagreements should be addressed to elected policymakers at the ballot box, not to unelected judges in the courthouse. So, we remand to the district court to dismiss the case for lack of standing.

I think this might be reversed, unless the federal judiciary really believes you don't have a right to object to the policies in compulsory government schools until they're halfway through transitioning your children.

America's First Female Admiral -- and boy, I tell you what, what a looker! -- Rachel Levine called actual adult human females "egg producers" while visiting a gender clinic.

Some women produce eggs, other women produce semen. So of course "she" can't call mothers "women." She has to specify which type of woman.

Levine visited the Identity Alaska on August 6 but is just now being reported. Levine praised the clinic's 'tireless' efforts to provide 'lifesaving medical care.'

Levine praised the gender-affirming care clinic that wants to eliminate the word 'mother' and replace it with a phase like 'egg producer." It is just the latest example of transgender activists not respecting women, in general, and normalizing propaganda. The clinic delivers propaganda such as that children should learn that doctors 'assign' gender to babies and they 'guess' about the gender.

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The highest ranking openly transgender federal official in the country wants to call women the 'gestational parent,' 'egg producer' or 'carrier' instead of mother. It's insulting. Stop reducing women to their reproductive organs simply to appease gender dysphoric people, who are a miniscule minority in America. At some point, common sense has to take over and say enough is enough.

The woke military is paying self-identified "queer" doctors to chop off the breasts and genitals of servicepeople. And obviously, people are joining the military not to serve, but to just force taxpayers to pay for endless surgeries and endless leaves of duty.

The leftwing idea of paradise on earth.

A man has won another championship in women's powerlifting.

Oh, that's not the real news. He's won ten of the twelve events he's entered.

No, the real news is that he set yet another national "women's" record in powerlifting.

Did I say "national"? Well yes, but he also broke the world record for "women's" powerlifting. That still has to be certified by world "women's" powerlifting authorities.

A male athlete has set yet another women's national record in Canadian powerlifting.

Anne Andres -- a biological male who identifies as a woman -- won first place in the Canadian Powerlifting Union's 2023 Western Canadian Championship on Sunday. There, Andres set both a Canadian women's national record and an unofficial women's world powerlifting record.

This is Andres' 10th first-place finish out of 12 competitions.

Wow, what a proud moment.

In some good news, Dallas "Pride" is cancelling its planned "Night of 1000 Drag Queens" citing lack of public support.

The drag queens wanted to protest a law that forbids them from putting on "sexualized" shows for children.

That's the hill they want to die on.

But they're not into children or anything. It's just that this is insanely important to them. For... unspecified reasons.

A drag queen-themed Pride event in Texas was canceled after the community failed to raise necessary funding, according to local reports.

Dallas Pride scheduled the Night of a Thousand Drag Queens event as a protest against Senate Bill 12, legislation that will restrict public sexual performances that was signed into law June 1 by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.

Dallas Pride Interim Executive Director Christine Bengston said the event was originally scheduled for July but was later pushed to August to allow more time for fundraising.

We were hoping and were billing it as a last hurrah to come fill the street with drag queens," Bengston said in an interview with The Dallas Express.

"We thought that people would come together," she added. "Well, it didn't work."

Senate Bill 12 restricts "sexually oriented performances" in the presence of a child or on public property in Texas.

According to one of the definitions in the bill, a "sexually oriented performance" means a visual performance that features "a male performer exhibiting as a female, or a female performer exhibiting as a male, who uses clothing, makeup, or other similar physical markers and who sings, lip syncs, dances, or otherwise performs before an audience" and "appeals to the prurient interest in sex."

Quebec now has a drag queen (or transgender, who knows) weatherman.

Advantage: Mexico.

Although the school district won't comment, they do at least acknowledge that they are aware of the... concerns about this individual:

The Education Departments of America's colleges aren't sending their best.

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