Court Victory: Miss United States of America Pageant Can Ban Trans Contestants

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Last week, a federal appeals court ruled that the administrators of the Miss United States of America pageant have the right to exclude transgender applicants.

On Nov. 2, judges for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejected a claim by transgender pageant hopeful Anita Green, who claimed that restricting the contest only to “natural born females” violated an anti-discrimination law in Oregon, the state in which Green lives.

Green initially asked pageant National Director Tanice Smith to change the rule to allow trans contestants to enter, but was denied and an application to join the pageant was rejected. The activist then filed a lawsuit in an Oregon district court in 2019 hoping to get the courts to force the change.

Smith insisted that it should be illegal to ban trans contestants. And in a 2019 interview with NPR said, “Transgender women are equal to cisgender women.”

“This is about giving minorities a voice,” Green told Williamette Week upon filing the lawsuit in 2019. “I believe I’m beautiful, and I want to set an example for all women – cisgender and transgender – that beauty doesn’t have to fit into specific molds.” (Read more from “Court Victory: Miss United States of America Pageant Can Ban Trans Contestants” HERE)

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Dangerous Chemical Abortion Pills Being Handed Out Despite Regulations

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. . .Last week, FiveThirtyEight provided provided coverage for Aid Access, a Dutch international group that sends over chemical abortion pills where it’s illegal.

Such coverage acknowledges that “Aid Access occupies a kind of legal gray area,” but mentions the group claims to follow the law. When it comes to laws against this method it’s also mentioned that, “these laws are difficult to enforce and individuals are rarely prosecuted, essentially creating a legal loophole for groups like Aid Access and the people who use their services.”

While the piece includes the pro-abortion argument that pro-life laws don’t change the supposed “need for abortion,” it doesn’t include any pro-life counterarguments. There’s also no mention of the dangerous side effects of such a method. In fact, the coverage promotes the method by using one-sided information that claims this method “is effective and low risk.”

At one point, such coverage even seemingly promotes illegal abortions:

Medication abortion isn’t just used for legal abortions, though — it’s also a safe, hard-to-detect way to terminate a pregnancy outside the medical and legal system. In the era before Roe v. Wade, various methods of self-induced abortion often resulted in infection or other serious health problems. Now, though, it’s relatively easy for people to order abortion pills over the internet from services like Aid Access.

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3 in 4 Americans Say Transgender Insanity Targeting Children Has ‘Gone Too Far’

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Abusing female athletes, subjecting youth to permanently sterilizing and deforming surgeries without parental consent, and preaching from top universities and hospitals that so-called gender identity is “the only medically supported determinant of sex” — while proponents of these left-wing agenda items are vocal, they only make up a small minority in America. According to a recent poll, the majority of Americans have had enough of radicalized policies and practices promoting gender dysphoria.

In partnership with McLaughlin and Associates, Summit.org published data last week from a mid-October, nationwide survey questioning Americans on the transgender agenda.

Three in four respondents (75 percent) agreed the movement has “gone too far” by encouraging minors to use drugs and surgery to alter the hormones and organs that reflect their sex. But cultural silencing on transgender issues has been a powerful motivator, leading 41 percent of participants who reported having an opinion to keep their views quiet, even amongst friends and family.

“The transgender movement may have set out to prevent bullying, but it has evolved into an attack on reality,” said Jeff Myers, president of Summit Ministries. “Severing the connection to reality is the first thing people do when they want to control what others think and do. If you can get children to look at boys and girls and say there is no difference, you can convince them of anything.” (Read more from “3 in 4 Americans Say Transgender Insanity Targeting Children Has ‘Gone Too Far’” HERE)

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Professor in Hot Water Over Michael Jackson Halloween Costume

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A professor at Washburn University in Kansas has moonwalked her way into trouble after she wore a Michael Jackson costume to a Halloween party.

Holly O’Neil, a professor of chemistry at the Topeka-based Washburn University, is being investigated by the school over concerns of cultural appropriation after she wore a costume impersonating the king of pop and danced at a Halloween party, the campus newspaper the Washburn Review reported.

O’Neil reportedly danced to Jackson’s hit 1982 song and popular Halloween anthem “Thriller” during a Halloween party for the university’s English department. Video of the incident was posted on Facebook but later deleted. (Read more from “Professor in Hot Water Over Michael Jackson Halloween Costume” HERE)

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Twitter Reacts to Man Who Identifies as Disabled Woman, Uses Wheelchair ‘Most of the Time’

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A Norwegian man who identifies as a woman has inspired ire on social media for also identifying as disabled and using a wheelchair despite not physically needing one.

“I have struggled with this every day my whole life,” Jørund Viktoria Alme, 53, told the Norwegian outlet Vi earlier this year, according to Reduxx.

“It is a cognitive dissonance: in the same way that I experience being a woman in a man’s body, I experience that I should have been paralyzed from the waist down. This is not a desire to be a burden on society. It is about the wheelchair being an aid for me to function in everyday life, both privately and at work,” Alme continued.

The publication noted that Velme faced backlash following a recent interview with Good Morning Norway (God Morgen Norge, GMN). It became such a big story that Norway’s TV 2 did a follow-up piece including the perspectives of four disabled women.

One of those interview subjects was an 18-year-old woman named Emma Sofie Grimstad who spent two months in a wheelchair after contracting an inflammatory disease.

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Report: At Least 10,000 Fewer Legal Abortions Have Occurred Since Overturn of Roe

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At least 10,000 fewer legal abortions occurred in the U.S. in the two months following the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, according to a report by FiveThirtyEight.

The study, compiled by the pro-abortion non-profit #WeCount, part of the Society for Family Planning (SFP), noted that 10,570 fewer abortions took place in July and August than estimates from before the overturn of Roe.

The data compared the number of legal abortions across each state from April through August to illustrate the difference before and after the Supreme Court’s ruling. States that enacted more restrictive abortion laws in the wake of the decision saw a drop of over 22,000 abortions, while states that did not saw an aggregate increase of about 12,000.

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Tears of Joy: Pro-life Woman Shown in ‘Evil Light’ in ‘Demonic’ Abortion Rights Ad Pushed by Clinton, Newsom (VIDEO)

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A pro-life woman said she was “outraged” that she featured in a pro-choice ad shared by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in support of a proposal to enshrine abortion in the California State Constitution.

In an open letter she posted to her Twitter account on Oct. 20, Macy Petty excoriated Clinton, Newsom and those behind the ad, claiming that by doing so they were misusing her image to promote “demonic activity.”

The video disseminated by Clinton, Newsom and many others briefly depicts Macy Petty collapsing to the ground in tears outside the Supreme Court as the announcement came in June that Roe v. Wade had been overturned. Superimposed over her image was the word “sad,” implying that Petty’s reaction was one of devastation instead of joy.

“Hey Hillary, I’m the girl crying in this video,” pro-life activist Macy Petty tweeted at Clinton on Oct. 20. “I am pro-life and those are HAPPY tears because I just witnessed a MIRACLE!”

“I’m part of a generation of pro-life activists,” Petty told The Christian Post in an interview published Friday. “My mom worked at a pregnancy center, and my grandma started one. So it’s in my blood. And I was just so grateful to be there to witness it because there are so many people who were in the fight before me who didn’t get to witness it.”

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Actress Details Disturbing Harvey Weinstein Sexual Assault

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A “Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights” actress claimed Harvey Weinstein masturbated on her face while his assistant waited outside a hotel room.

The woman, referred to in court as “Ashley M.,” trembled and sobbed as she testified how the disgraced Hollywood movie mogul picked her out of the cast of dancers filming in Puerto Rico in 2003 and demanded that she give him a “naked massage.”

Ashley M., who was a trained ballerina, said she was 22 years old when she worked on the “Dirty Dancing” sequel, which was produced by Weinstein’s former company Miramax.

She said Weinstein approached her as she was about to film a ballroom scene with other dancers when he took her outside for a private conversation.

“He said it would just be a naked massage … and not to worry about it,” Ashley M. said in tears. “He said, ‘Look at Gwyneth Paltrow and what it did for her career.’” (Read more from “Actress Details Disturbing Harvey Weinstein Sexual Assault” HERE)

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Scientists: COVID Restrictions Caused ‘Immunity Gap,’ Leading to Virus Uptick in Children

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Cases of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and other viruses are rising across the nation, and scientists are now saying the uptick is due to measures put in place during the pandemic that restricted immune development.

The phenomenon is called an “immunity gap,” and essentially happened when restrictions and practices that were common during the pandemic limited the spread of viruses, leading to less people developing immunity to them. When people re-entered society, the viruses were back, too.

Babies often receive antibodies for RSV through their mother’s breast milk, but even the mothers often weren’t exposed to RSV during lockdowns.

Scientists Dr. Kevin Messacar and Rachel Baker discussed the issue with CNN and wrote about it this summer in The Lancet.

“Although many infections and their associated morbidity and mortality were prevented by [non-pharmaceutical interventions], decreased exposure to endemic viruses created an immunity gap—a group of susceptible individuals who avoided infection and therefore lack pathogen-specific immunity to protect against future infection,” Messacar and Baker wrote. (Read more from “Scientists: COVID Restrictions Caused ‘Immunity Gap,’ Leading to Virus Uptick in Children” HERE)

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Presbyterian Church (USA) Adds ‘Nonbinary/Genderqueer Category’ to Denominational Statistics

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The left-wing Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is placing a “nonbinary/genderqueer category” into its denominational statistics.

“Each year, the Office of the General Assembly gathers statistical information from presbyteries across the country and provides a comprehensive breakdown on church membership, ethnicity and age distribution, as well as other information. But for next year’s update, expect to see some changes in what is reported,” a post on pcusa.org notes.

Manager of denominational roles and statistics Kris Valerius said, “we’ve always asked how many female members there are in the church. We’re now asking how many men, women and nonbinary/genderqueer members there are. We’ve never asked that question so we don’t know how many people will fill it out.”

“If we want to be inclusive, then we have to start asking because you should be aware of who’s a part of your church,” Valerius said, according to the post. (Read more from “Presbyterian Church (USA) Adds ‘Nonbinary/Genderqueer Category’ to Denominational Statistics” HERE)

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