The Week That Was Woke

The Bee:

The Biden Administration, knowing it is sleepwalking towards an epoch blow-out, is reversing some of its most egregiously insane policies.

It had been revealed that "Rachel" Levine had pressured the already-insane WPATH to strip out any age requirements for trans surgeries.

Now the Biden Administration is saying it supported age restrictions all along. Even when it was actively fighting against them.

After a lawsuit revealed the federal government's highest-ranking transgender official had successfully pressured the World Professional Association on Transgender Health to remove age limits for so-called gender-affirming care from its forthcoming standards in 2022, the Biden administration for the first time claimed it opposed surgery for gender-confused minors.

Activist outrage ensured the clarity didn't last long, prompting the Congressional Anti-Woke Caucus on Tuesday to demand the Department of Health and Human Services specify exactly what procedures it considers "safe and effective" for children who identify as the opposite sex or otherwise want to change their bodies to align with their gender identity.

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris is on the record for taxpayer-funded gender affirming care, at least for people old enough to be behind bars.

She bragged in a National Center for Transgender Equality interview in 2019 that she "made sure" as California's attorney general that the state's prison system started granting surgeries for transgender inmates. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom followed by signing a law now being challenged by female inmates that grants prison placement by self-declared gender identity.

The National Institutes of Health also faces scrutiny for hiring Catherine Gordon as clinical director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development without noting she's a crusader for puberty blockers and had several pre-hire conversations with Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine, who pressured WPATH to remove its proposed age restrictions.

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"We are concerned that the Biden-Harris administration's often contradictory statements, most notably its continued endorsement of 'continuum of care,' amounts to continuing to support the surgical mutilation of minors," the Anti-Woke Caucus told HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra on Tuesday.

"To our knowledge, Admiral Levine has not publicly disavowed support for performing irreversible transgender surgeries on children," said Reps. Jim Banks, of Indiana; Claudia Tenney of New York; Josh Brecheen, of Oklahoma; and Jeff Duncan, of South Carolina.

Drag Queens for Kamala put out a disgusting video: "She's a Woman." Your life will be better if you just skip this one.

Kamala Harris tried to draw a crowd in Atlanta by having Sloppy Whore Rapper Megan Thee Stallion open for her with her raunchy whoreshow. Here's a bit of that.

Janet Yellen: We have to set fire to another $3 trillion every year to fight global warming.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Saturday that the global transition to a low-carbon economy requires $3 trillion in new capital each year through 2050, far above current annual financing, but that filling the gap is the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century.

Yellen said in Belem, Brazil's Amazon gateway city, that reaching net-zero emissions goals remained a top priority for the Biden-Harris administration and this would require leadership far beyond U.S. borders.

"Neglecting to address climate change and the loss of nature and biodiversity is not just bad environmental policy. It is bad economic policy," Yellen said in a speech after attending a G20 finance leaders meeting on Thursday and Friday in Rio de Janeiro.
Wealthy economies provided and mobilized a record $116 billion for climate finance for developing countries in 2022, 40% of which came from multilateral development banks (MDBs). Yellen said the banks, including the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) were setting new targets.

Inflation is transitory and so is $3 trillion a year, I guess.

Declan Leary writes about "White Dudes for Harris."

I have never been very good at following sound advice, which is why I joined "White Dudes for Harris" on Monday.

The existence of such an affinity group is remarkable in itself. So much of the political theater of the last three generations has been driven by the insistence that white men, especially straight white men, are the one and only political constituency that can never be allowed to conceive of themselves as a discrete group with identifiable interests. That way lies fascism or, at the very least, cisnormative white Christian heteropatriarchy.

I did not expect a three-hour Zoom call to awaken my sense of racial solidarity. ... My Not Racist credentials stand unimpeached: if this is the White Man awakened, I will gladly keep my distance.

Nina "Stanky Janky" Jankowitz sued Fox for calling her a government censor when she was hired to head the "Disinformation Governance Board," a government censorship bureaucracy. In other words, she's attempting to censor people by lawsuit.

A judge just threw out her lawsuit, concluding that, as a matter of law, she is or at least was a government censor.

Now she's just a private-sector censor, like so many other lunatic Childless Cat Ladies of the Marxist left.

Nina Jankowicz, the one-time (and short-lived) head of the Department of Homeland Security's "Disinformation Governance Board," filed suit against Fox News last year alleging that the network "built a narrative calculated to lead consumers to believe that Jankowicz intended to censor Americans' speech" among other allegations. Advertisement

In a delicious and deserved irony, the judge summarily tossed the suit, writing that, in essence, Fox told the truth.

"Fox contends, and I agree, that Jankowicz has not pleaded facts from which it could plausibly be inferred that the challenged statements regarding intended censorship by Jankowicz are not substantially true," U.S. District Judge Colm F. Connolly wrote in his July 22 order to dismiss. "On the contrary, as noted above, censorship is commonly understood to encompass efforts to scrutinize and examine speech in order to suppress certain communications. The Disinformation Governance Board was formed precisely to examine citizens' speech and, in coordination with the private sector, identify 'misinformation,' 'disinformation," and 'malinformation.'"

Case dismissed.

The Disinformation Board was tasked with searching far and wide across the internet to ferret out "misinformation (unintentional falsehoods), disinformation (deliberate falsehoods), and malinformation (inconveniently shared truths)," as J.D. Tuccille of Reason.com reports.

Matt Gaetz slammed the Air Force for outlawing encouragements like "toughen up," claiming they were sexist and ableist.

Rep. Matt Gaetz has denounced a guidebook from the Air Force which labels terms like "toughen up" and "stand for the flag" as microaggressions, arguing it undermines military readiness.

Key Details:

Internal Memo: Gaetz revealed a 27-page guidebook from the 552nd Air Control Wing warning against phrases considered microaggressions, such as "spirit animal" and "toughen up."

Controversial Guidance: The document describes phrases like "opposite sex" and patriotic displays as potentially offensive, advocating for awareness of diverse gender identities and racial sensitivities.

Response from Air Force: A spokesperson clarified that the guidebook is not official policy but was part of a submission for an innovation program and emphasized the Air Force's commitment to warfighting readiness.

A court has ruled in favor of a conservative professor who was punished by his school for writing (checks notes) "all men are created equal."

You know, that kind of Nazi Hate Speech.

A federal court has granted a preliminary injunction preventing the University of Oregon's Division of Equity and Inclusion from blocking a professor's interactions with posts on its official X account.

The ruling states the public university cannot block conservative scholar Bruce Gilley's interactions with its official X account -- even his posts deemed "hateful," "racist" or "otherwise offensive."

"It will be interesting to see how much longer UO wants to use tax payer's money to fight for the right to discriminate based on viewpoint," Gilley's attorney Del Kolde, a senior attorney at the nonprofit Institute for Free Speech, wrote on LinkedIn in response to the July 23 ruling. "They have already spent hundreds of thousands of dollars."

The University of Oregon's Office of the Vice President for Equity and Inclusion, which administers the Division of Equity and Inclusion, did not respond to a request for comment from The College Fix.

Gilley, a professor of political science at Portland State University, in 2022 sued the former communications manager of the @UOEquity X account, Tova Stabin, after she blocked him for responding to her "racism interrupter" prompt with the quote "all men are created equal."

Stabin, who requested her name not be capitalized in court documents, is described on the website My Jewish Learning as an "Ashkenazi lesbian feminist."

The U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon previously denied Gilley's motion for a preliminary injunction against the enforcement of the university's social media policy that bans users who are "hateful," "racist," or "otherwise offensive."

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In granting the preliminary injunction last week, the district court agreed with Gilley "that the provisions allowing the Communications Manager to block 'hateful,' 'racist,' and 'otherwise offensive' speech create a risk of viewpoint discrimination because '[w]hat is offensive or hateful is often in the eye of the beholder.'"

"If Plaintiff was blocked for posting 'all men are created equal' because the post was viewed as hateful, racist, or otherwise offensive, such blocking would violate the Constitution. Deleting or hiding the post for that reason would also violate the Constitution," the court wrote.

It's Party Time at the Bulwark!!!

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