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Nov 19 2024

Speaker Johnson is Right: ‘A Man Cannot Become a Woman’

The “trans” bathroom wars have reached Capitol Hill, courtesy of Delaware’s newly elected “Sarah” McBride – the first “transgender” person to the House of Representatives

On Monday, Representative Nancy Mace introduced a bill that would require members of Congress to use restrooms associated with their biological sex.

“Sarah McBride doesn’t get a say. I mean, this is a biological man. McBride does not belong in women’s spaces, women’s bathrooms, locker rooms, changing rooms, period, full stop.”

Nancy Mace is exactly right.

Elected Sarah McBride, the 34-year-old is currently serving as a member of Delaware’s General Assembly.

Born Tim McBride in 1990, the young man announced to his parents in college that he was “trans” – and has assumed this confused identity ever since.

Pressed on Tuesday about Rep. Mace’s bill, Speaker Mike Johnson stated:

“We welcome all members with open arms who are newly elected representatives of the people. I believe it’s a command. We treat all persons with dignity and respect.”

He then added:

“And I’m not going to engage in silly debates about this. There’s a concern about the uses of restroom facilities and locker rooms and all that. This is an issue that Congress has never had to address before. We’re going to do that in a deliberate fashion with members’ consensus on it, and we will accommodate the needs of every single person.”

Later in the day Speaker Johnson spoke again to reporters and stated:

“Let me be unequivocally clear. A man is a man and a woman is a woman. And a man cannot become a woman.”

Media continues to describe McBride as a “transgender woman” – a designation that actually doesn’t even exist.

Despite all claims to the contrary, there are two sexes – male and female.

We read in Genesis, “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27). 

Yet scroll any secular news article or watch any news report today about this McBride controversy, and you’re likely to be told otherwise.

Every major news outlet readily refers to McBride as “she” or “her” – and only because the newly elected representative claims to be a woman.

Responding to the escalating controversy, McBride tweeted:

“This is a blatant attempt from far right-wing extremists to distract from the fact that they have no real solutions to what Americans are facing.”

Of course, the only attempt being made here is to report reality – and protect women from men who are pretending to be women.

America is hungry for leaders who speak the truth, who are unafraid to offend, unwilling to go along with lies and make believe.

We pray for wisdom and strength of conviction for members of Congress as they navigate this tragic incident of sexual confusion.

Image from Getty.

Written by Paul Batura · Categorized: Culture · Tagged: LGBT, transgender

Nov 15 2024

Americans are Pushing Back Against Transgender Activism

Transgender activists and their allies have claimed all of November as Transgender Awareness Month. They’ve also staked out November 20 as Transgender Day of Remembrance.

But with recent events, it’s clear that many Americans have grown weary of the activism and are pushing back against gender ideology.

In addition to the whole of November, the week leading up to the Day of Remembrance, November 13-20, has been designated Transgender Awareness Week, which seems kinda redundant since LGBT activists have already staked out the whole month.

It seems triple or quadruple redundant (is that a thing?) because advocates designated October as LGBT History Month and gender idealogues already celebrated Transgender Day of Visibility earlier this year, on March 31.

That’s not even counting the myriad other awareness days, weeks and months proclaimed by LGBT groups. Pretty sure we’re all aware by now.

Parents should know, in particular, that schools with radical agendas use these days, weeks and months to promote and teach gender ideology to children.

We have deep compassion and concern for those caught up in sexual identity confusion, especially those whose dysphoria is fueled by trauma, sexual abuse and other mental health issues. We want those struggling with this confusion to get appropriate counseling, prayer and healing.

But we don’t what this ideology pushed on us and our families at every turn.

This includes many who identify as lesbian or gay – like the group Gays Against Groomers – even though the gay pride movement helped usher in this era of transgender activism.

Here are just a few recent indicators the transgender juggernaut is losing power and momentum and Americans are fighting for truth against this false ideology.

Americans are upset about damaging, sterilizing medical interventions on confused children.

  • Twenty-one states have voted to protect minors from harmful, dangerous transgender interventions such as puberty blockers, opposite-sex hormones and mutilating surgeries.
  • Frequently, laws protecting minors are challenged in court, but several courts have ruled in favor of these laws. Most recently, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an Indiana law safeguarding children. The court said, “Indiana’s voters have decided, through their representatives, legislative and executive, that medical interventions are too risky and novel to be safe treatments for children with gender dysphoria.”
  • More than a dozen detransitioners have sued doctors and clinics for irreparably hurting their bodies with experimental and destructive medical procedures. Women like Chloe Cole, Kayla Lovdahl, Prisha Mosley and Soren Aldaco have filed suits alleging they suffered physical and psychological harms from these treatments.

Americans don’t want men playing women’s sports.

  • In October, The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board published an opinion piece, “Transgender Sports Is a 2024 Sleeper Issue.” The Journal explained many people oppose “having progressive cultural values imposed on them. That includes compelling their daughters to compete against athletes who were born male.”

    The editorial board noted three senators, Ohio’s Sherrod Brown, Montana’s Jon Tester and Wisconsin’s Tammy Baldwin were all under fire in the 2024 election because of their support for boys playing in girls sports. Brown went on to lose by almost 4% and Tester lost by 7%. Baldwin won a tough race by a slim margin of less than 1% of the vote.
  • San Jose State University has received incredible blowback over a transgender-identified player, Blaire Fleming, on the women’s volleyball team. Starting setter and co-captain Brooke Slusser has been outspoken about the danger to female athletes and joined a lawsuit against the NCAA for its transgender policy. Associate head coach Melissa Batie-Smoose was suspended after she filed a Title IX complaint against the Mountain West Conference, and Women’s volleyball teams at five universities have now chosen to forfeit six times rather than play the school.

    More recently, Outkick reported, “A dozen women have filed a lawsuit against the Mountain West Conference and its commissioner, along with officials at San Jose State University.” The suit alleges “violations of Title IX and of their First Amendment rights” for allowing a male to play for San Jose State.

Americans are disturbed by continued privacy and safety issues from boys and men in women-only private spaces. 

  • The Ohio Legislature approved SB104, a measure that requires schools to maintain single-sex bathrooms and private spaces. If signed by the governor, it will be the 14th state to protect children in K-12 schools. Six of those states require single-sex spaces in other government buildings.
  • More and more people who know there are only two sexes are speaking out about men who harm women in restrooms, prisons and locker rooms. Fox News reported on a man who was “transferred out of women’s prison after being indicted on 2 rape counts.” Reddux published an article, “Trans-Identified Male Inmate Who Impregnated Two Women at Female Prison”; the prisoner helped another prisoner, who murdered a woman, to also be transferred to a women’s facility.  

Transgender issues resonated with many American voters and played a part in the 2024 election. One of the most effective political advertisements for President-elect Donald Trump showed Vice President Harris supporting taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for prisoners and “letting biological men compete against girls in their sports.” The ad concluded with this message, “Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you.”

Stemming the tide of transgenderism won’t be easy. We may win legislative and political battles, but only broad cultural change will win the war.

Gender ideology is rooted in deep cultural beliefs, including our notions about what it means to be human, the belief that our sex doesn’t define us – we define ourselves, and thinking our deepest identity comes from sexual attractions, thoughts, feelings and behaviors.

Transgender ideology stems from post-modern thinking, which says there are no ultimate truths. It comes from Gnosticism, with its deep detachment from physical reality and beliefs that only the mind or spirit are important – the body doesn’t matter. This dogma is grounded in Marxist beliefs that society is divided into oppressors and oppressed. And it’s rooted in the belief that gender dysphoria can’t be healed but must be accommodated by hormonal and surgical interventions.

We may win some battles, but unless these deep-seated falsehoods are defeated by the truth, this sexual confusion, and the devastation it brings, will remain in American culture.

Related articles and resources:

Activist Group WPATH Influences Judgment in Case of Prisoner Receiving Trans Surgery

Are Sex and Gender Different Things?

Huge Title IX Win: Department of Education’s 2021 Interpretation Ruled ‘Unlawful’

Dr. Jordan Peterson, Notre Dame and the Upside-Down World of Culture

Meta to Decide Whether “Misgendering” Is Hate Speech

Texas Children’s Hospital Embroiled in Fraud Scandal as Haim Case Kicks Off

Olympic Women’s Boxing Champ is Officially a Man

What Are Male and Female in God’s Story?

Why a Trans Woman is a Not a Woman

Image from Shutterstock

Written by Jeff Johnston · Categorized: Culture · Tagged: LGBT, transgender

Nov 13 2024

Election Aftermath: Americans Aren’t Losing Their Rights

Citizens mourning the results of last week’s presidential election are taking to social media, filming and posting reactions including screaming, more intense screaming, “screaming into the abyss,” crying, proclaiming “devastation,” head shaving, name calling, threats of violence and mental breakdowns.

The videos reflect some Americans’ sincere and anguished belief that the coming administration will take away American freedoms — up to and including reinstating slavery. But neither President-elect Trump’s proposed policies nor his campaign rhetoric suggest any American rights are in danger.

Let’s break it down.

Rumors about Mr. Trump taking away women’s rights have to do with abortion. Vice President Kamala Harris repeatedly asserted the President-elect would enforce a national abortion ban “with or without Congress.”

Ironically, the President-elect’s position on abortion has either frustrated or disappointed many pro-life advocates. He opposes late-term abortion and staunchly supports states’ rights to determine their own abortion policy. In October, he claimed he would veto any national abortion ban to protect states’ rights.

These facts did little to dampen the panic surrounding Trump’s supposed “war on women.” In a dire video warning about America’s Trumpian future, comedian Kathy Griffen claimed, “If your son gets a girl pregnant and they’re both fifteen, then you, of course, will force that they marry and keep having as many Duggars as possible.”

“I’m not being hyperbolic,” Griffen doubled down. “I’m not being dramatic.”

The author believes Griffen is, in fact, being hyperbolic and dramatic.

Trump and his allies have never supported, or even floated, marriage contracts or child quotas. Griffen’s predictions are wild extrapolations of a faulty set of facts — and all too representative of the kinds of narratives popping up online and in person.

One high school teacher vented her distress to her students, warning them,

[The Trump administration] is talking about deporting people. If you’re from Central America, they want to deport you. If you’re from South America, they want to deport you. He’s talking about deporting black people back to Africa.

Deportation is part of the Trump administration’s goal to beef-up border security. From fiscal years 2021 to 2024, Customs and Border Patrol agents encountered more than six million illegal immigrants, a 59% increase from the more than two million encountered from fiscal years 2016 to 2019.

A significant number of these arrivals have had criminal records or ties to gangs and terrorist organizations. At least 435,000 of these bad actors have been released into the U.S. to await immigration trial, according to the Department of Homeland Security. In some cases, repeat offenders have been allowed to kill American citizens, including Laken Riley, Lizbeth Medina, Rachel Morin, Jocelyn Nungaray and Kayla Hamilton.

Mr. Trump and his border czar nominee, Tom Homan, say finding and deporting these violent offenders will be priority one, something a teacher of vulnerable students should be excited about. As for deporting black people back to Africa — suffice to say it’s never been part of Trump’s platform.

Also not a part of Trump’s platform? Taking away LGBT “rights” or endorsing violence against LGBT-identified individuals.

The President-elect plans to reinforce some basic protections for biological women, namely restoring the integrity of Title IX and stopping men from participating in women’s sports. He further plans to stop forcing taxpayers to pay for transgender surgeries and keep schools from promoting gender ideology.

These policies are popular with most Americans for reasons the Daily Citizen frequently enumerates. Notably, however, they do not stop a person from being gender confused or pursuing transgender surgeries as an adult and on their own dime.

Neither do these policies incite violence against anyone. If anything, they are a repudiation of violence against women.

Still, on TikTok, one user forcefully opined, “It’s going to be hell on Earth once they strip away everyone’s rights that isn’t a straight, white, cis[gender] man.”

Post-election hysteria illustrates a deeply sad picture of Americans laboring under a lie. No American is losing their rights. Love him or hate him, the election of Donald Trump shouldn’t send anyone into an existential crisis.

Let’s keep it real, folks — and by that, I mean let’s get a grip on reality.

Additional Articles and Resources

Trump’s Promise to Shutter Dept of Education Could End Woke Agenda in Schools

Illegal Immigrant Arrested in Murder of Maryland Mom

Debate Over Immigration Labels Obscures Seriousness of Laken Riley’s Death

Illegal Immigrant to Appear in Court for Death of Texas Teen, Illustrates Violent Trend

Fentanyl Overdoses Rise, Connection to Illegal Immigration

Taxpayers Will Fund Violent Inmate’s Transgender Surgery, Judge Rules

Back to School With Sexualized Lessons

Title IX Redefinition of ‘Sex’ Faces Defiance and a Flood of Lawsuits

Appeals Courts Affirm Rulings Stopping the DOE’s Rewrite of Tilte IX

Huge Title IX Win: Department of Education’s 2021 Interpretation Ruled ‘Unlawful’

Courts Defend Title IX from Department of Health and Human Services

Written by Emily Washburn · Categorized: Culture, Election 2024 · Tagged: Election, Girls Sports, immigration, transgender

Nov 05 2024

Olympic Women’s Boxing Champ is Officially a Man

Imane Khelif, the reigning gold medalist in Olympic women’s boxing, is, in fact, a man, a medical report obtained by Reduxx confirms. The findings highlight the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) willful failure to protect the safety of female Olympians and the integrity of the Paris Games.  

Khelif entered the contest under a cloud of suspicion. The International Boxing Association (IBA) had disqualified him from women’s boxing a year earlier after two independent blood tests concluded he had XY chromosomes.

The IOC knew about these tests but declined to investigate or bar Khelif from competing. Instead, officials relied heavily on 2024 Olympic regulations identifying women solely by their female passports. Any questions about Khelif’s biology were quickly rebuffed or minimized.

“These boxers are entirely eligible,” IOC spokesman Mark Adams lectured, referring to Khelif and silver medalist Lu Yu-Ting, who also has XY chromosomes. “They are women on their passports. It’s not helpful to start stigmatizing like this. We all have a responsibility not to turn it into some kind of witch-hunt.”

IOC President Thomas Bach doubled down: “We are talking about women’s boxing. We have two boxers who were born as women, raised as women, who have passports as women and who have competed for many years as women. This is a clear definition of a woman.”

Bach later claimed, “There was never any doubt of [Khelif and Yu-Ting] being women.”

Bach is wrong on two counts. A woman is a human with XX chromosomes or, alternatively, a human designed to produce large gametes. Living as a woman or having a female passport does not make someone female.

The IBA blood tests also raised substantial doubts about Khelif’s biological sex. His opening bout against Italy’s Angela Carini only raised suspicions higher. If the IOC had investigated these claims, it might have discovered that Khelif had been diagnosed with a rare disorder of sexual development (DSD) in 2023 —one that absolutely excludes him from competing against women.  

In August 2023, expert endocrinologists Souymaya Fedala and Jacques Young determined Khelif had 5-Alpha-Reductase deficiency, a developmental disorder that only affects males.

Infants with 5-alpha produce too little dihydrotestosterone, which causes them to be born with ambiguous genitalia. Doctors often mistake babies with 5-alpha for girls. But, importantly, this disorder does not stop the production or effect of testosterone. A person with 5-alpha will go through male puberty —which is when most find out their true sex.

5-alpha is a terrible, disorienting disorder. It also categorically disqualifies sufferers from participating in female sports. Fedala and Young’s analysis found Khelif had XY chromosomes, normal male levels of testosterone and male reproductive organs. That means he has the same chromosomal and hormonal advantages all men have over women athletically, including heavier bones, bulkier musclers, broader shoulder and larger hearts and lungs.

Khelif and his coaches received this diagnosis more than a year before his Olympic debut. He and his team decided to compete anyway, indulging in a televised display of violence made more shocking by its intentionality.

The IOC had all the information they needed to stop Khelif from participating. The barest hint of an investigation would have revealed the larger report released by Reduxx — Khelif’s coach had already alluded to it publicly.

Instead, the IOC gave Khelif a gold medal.

The whole debacle represents an egregious failure of the organization’s mission to “encourage and support the promotion of ethics and good governance in sport … and to dedicate its efforts to ensuring that, in sport, the spirit of fair play prevails, and violence is banned.”

Marshi Smith, co-founder of the Independent Council on Women’s Sports, puts it this way as she spoke to Reduxx:

The IOC and the Algerian Olympic Committee are complicit in endorsing male violence against women under the guise of public entertainment on the world’s largest sport stage. They stood by as women were subjected to physical assault for spectacle, stripped of safety, fairness, and their lifetime achievements. All those involved must face swift and serious consequences.

Smith continues:

We urge leaders in sports and governments worldwide to condemn the IOC and demand a public commitment to ensuring fair and safe sports for women from this day forward. This must never be allowed to happen again.

First and foremost, the IOC must officially define what a woman is, rather than leaving it up to individual nations. Checking passports does nothing to determine a competitor’s biological advantage. IOC officials must find their courage to adhere to truth, instead of ideology.

On behalf of the female population, I hereby exhort the IOC to, well, grow a pair.

Additional Articles and Resources

Two Men Win Olympic Gold for Battering Women

Olympic-Sized Stupidity: It’s Wrong for Men to Fight Women

Olympic Privilege? Officials Protect Sports – But Only at the Highest Level

Male and Female Biology Matters

World Rugby Finds Men and Women are Different, Announces New Guidelines Protecting Elite Women Players

Written by Emily Washburn · Categorized: Culture, Sexuality · Tagged: Girls Sports, LGBT, transgender

Nov 05 2024

San Jose Coach Suspended for Filing Discrimination Complaint Against Transgender Player

Melissa Batie-Smoose, women’s volleyball associate head coach at San José State University, was suspended over the weekend after she filed a Title IX complaint asking the Mountain West Conference and the NCAA to investigate the school for discriminating against female athletes in favor of a “transgender” player, Blaire Fleming.

The male-bodied athlete has been the source of contention both for the Spartans and other schools.

Women’s volleyball teams at five universities have now chosen to forfeit six times rather than play San José State, Outkick reported. The latest, Boise State, has now forfeited twice, as women on the team refused to face a male player.

Women volleyballers at the University of Nevada even held a press conference during the time their game would have been played, stating their opposition to men in women’s sports.

A report from Quillette’s Jonathan Kay, “College Volleyball’s Spartan Meltdown,” explains the two key issues from the Title X complaint. Batie-Smoose asked the conference and the NCAA to look into:

1. The overt favouritism [sic] that she believes her school has shown to Fleming, at the expense of Fleming’s 18 female teammates; and
2. The unsettling measures that SJSU officials have allegedly taken in order to suppress expressions of concern from these affected women.

In a scathing Title IX Complaint obtained by Quillette, a San José State University women’s volleyball coach explains how her school’s aggressively enforced transgender-inclusion policy created a toxic environment for female athletes, writes @jonkay. https://t.co/0xZgp7Z9UD

— Quillette (@Quillette) November 1, 2024

Kay also details some of Batie-Smoose’s allegations in her 33-page sworn declaration:

  • Neither Batie-Smoose nor incoming athletes were informed there would be a transgender player on the team because “SJSU has a policy of withholding such information from all newly recruited staff and athletes.” Fleming, a senior in his third season with the Spartans, only came out to the team as transgender in April 2024.
  • Fleming had “raw physical power” beyond most female athletes; what “stood out was spiking the [ball] and blocking on the front row, due to Fleming’s leaping ability and hitting power.”
  • Assistant Director of Student Wellness Laura Alexander told head coach Todd Kress, “Anyone opposed to Fleming’s inclusion on the women’s team should leave SJSU and seek ‘therapy.’”
  • While female athletes were “required to pretend that Fleming’s biologically male status is athletically inconsequential,” they were also “scared to even mention the fact that Fleming is transgender.”
  • Fleming’s “presence on the court” was not only “unfair to other athletes, but possibly dangerous as well.”
  • “Even defenders on Fleming’s own team, concerned for their safety, now sometimes turn away during practice matches when Fleming is winding up for a kill – a fear response … virtually unheard of in women’s volleyball.”

“The social atmosphere on the team has degenerated rapidly during the 2024 season, and now may be described as toxic, joyless, and dysfunctional,” Kay reports.

SJSU’s co-captain Brooke Slusser has been outspoken about the danger to female athletes and the unfairness of a male taking a woman’s spot on the team.

Alarmingly, the complaint details that Fleming may have conspired with an opposing team’s player, Colorado State University’s right-side-hitter Malaya Jones, to target Slusser on the court. Kay reports:

During that match, Batie-Smoose claims in her Title IX Complaint, Fleming’s play style was bizarre. Fleming defied her coaches’ instructions by allowing Jones an unhindered diagonal hitting lane that exposed Slusser to kills.
Batie-Smoose also reports that she repeatedly saw Fleming laughing together with Jones after the latter targeted Slusser in this manner. Fleming’s behaviour was reportedly so strange that even Kress expressed concern, and took Fleming aside for a one-on-one talk.

“At one point, Blaire sent an over pass, perfectly setting up Malaya to kill the ball again in the direction of Brooke Slusser, after [which] Jones blew a kiss toward Fleming and mouthed ‘thank you,’” Batie-Smoose told the reporter.

UNREAL VIDEO 🚨🚨People have been asking to see the play mentioned in the @Quillette article about Blaire Fleming intentionally setting up the ball to Malaya Jones on the OPPOSING TEAM so she can smash it back down at @BrookeSlusser.

Here is the quote. And below is the proof.… pic.twitter.com/E7ukqjQsFS

— Beth Bourne (@bourne_beth2345) November 3, 2024

In September 2024, “Slusser joined more than a dozen female athletes in suing the NCAA for Title IX violations,” reported Outkick:

The class-action lawsuit, originally filed in March and funded by the Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS), states that the NCAA has knowingly violated Title IX by allowing transgender athletes to compete against women and to use women’s locker rooms in collegiate sports.

🚨Breaking: Teammate of Male Volleyball Player on Women's Scholarship Joins Riley Gaines in Lawsuit Against NCAA | @Outkick https://t.co/6wOv08oFIt

— ICONS (@icons_women) September 24, 2024

The Daily Citizen applauds women like Melissa Batie-Smoose and Brooke Slusser who are willing to battle for women’s sports. Women deserve safe spaces where they can grow and develop as competitors – without men intruding.

Related articles and resources:

Four Women’s Volleyball Teams Forfeit – Won’t Play Team with a Man

#SaveGirlsSports – New Campaign Launched by Family Policy Alliance

Canadian Powerlifter Faces Two-Year Ban for Protesting Males in Her Sport

Girls Don’t Chest Bump: Transgender Athletes Subverting Title IX

Middle School Girls Who Protested ‘Trans’ Athlete Are Banned From Future Competition

Moms for Liberty Sues Library for Censoring Forum to Protect Women’s Sports

Riley Gaines and 15 Other Female Athletes Sue NCAA Over ‘Transgender Policy’

Third Court Halts DOE’s Title IX Rewrite, Girls’ Sports & Spaces PreservedShoving Girls Off the Podium: More Male Athletes Participating in Girls Sports

Image credit: San Jose Spartans

Written by Jeff Johnston · Categorized: Culture · Tagged: LGBT, transgender

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