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Parents Go After LGBT Community After Transgender Wins 2nd Straight Girls Wrestling Title

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A Trinity High School wrestler caused a hullabaloo among their fellow students’ parents in Euless, Texas, after she began taking testosterone, prompting many parents to assert unfairness in her competing against other female athletes not taking hormones.

Trinity senior Mack Beggs is biologically female but started on hormones when she was 15 years old, according to Fox6Now.

Public criticism of Beggs began when a female wrestler’s father filed a lawsuit in 2017 in an attempt to prevent Beggs from competing against other girls, alleging her artificially elevated testosterone levels are not fair.

Beggs has been injecting herself with testosterone shots for roughly three years.

However, she maintains she’s taking a minimal amount her doctor prescribed and therefore should be allowed to compete.

“She’s not built like a girl, and she dominates everyone she wrestles. I mean, all you have to do is watch one of her matches for yourself and go see what everyone’s talking about. It’s not an even competition,” Trinity parent Omar Palomarez told Fox6Now.

Following the lawsuit, Beggs’ monthly hormone intake became public knowledge, which increased Beggs’ critic circle, according to the Star Telegram.

Beggs has made it clear she would rather compete against boys.

But the University Interscholastic League’s high school rules mandate participants compete against persons of the same-sex as is denoted on their birth certificate. “No high school boy shall wrestle against a high school girl and vice versa.

This prohibition is only applicable when the contest is held in Texas or in any other state that sponsors wrestling programs for both boys and girls,” the rules state.

A person wishing to change their gender must get a court order in order to have their birth certificate legally changed to reflect as such. Individuals may also mark “X” on their certificate to denote a neutral gender.

Beggs’s family has been extremely supportive of her transition and of her simultaneous wrestling activities.

“We’re proud of (her) because (she’s) come so far,” Mack’s grandmother, Nancy Beggs, told Fox6Now. “Everything about (her) has changed,” she added.

“You can’t change laws overnight, and we’re going to chase the laws in order for this to be effective in Texas,” Beggs’ mother, Angela McNew, said.

“If you break those barriers and let kids be who they want to be and be in the sports they want to be in, than that starts breaking the walls down.”

A version of this article appeared on The Daily Caller News Foundation website.

Growing Body of Research Rejects Transgender Movement

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Is Caitlyn Jenner a woman? A growing body of research from scientists, philosophers and feminists says no.

The latest contribution to the debate is “When Harry Became Sally,” a just-released book by Heritage Foundation senior research fellow Ryan T. Anderson, who critiques the transgender movement on the grounds of metaphysics, medicine and public policy.

Contrary to the transgender movement’s central claim — that “gender identity” determines whether someone is a man, a woman or something else — Mr. Anderson said the only rationale for determining an organism’s sex is “by that organism’s organization with respect to sexual reproduction.”

“Apart from that, all you have are sex stereotypes,” Mr. Anderson said Wednesday at a Heritage Foundation gathering. “There’s no other objective standard for identifying the sex of an individual.”

Human beings are a “sexually dimorphic species,” with complementary reproductive systems that are either male or female, Mr. Anderson said. One’s sex is evident in DNA, can be tracked in the womb and manifests itself “in many of our bodily systems and organs all the way down to the molecular level.” (Read more from “Growing Body of Research Rejects Transgender Movement” HERE)

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Parents Lose Custody of Child for Refusing to Support Transgenderism

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On Friday, Ohio parents were denied custody of their daughter for not being supportive enough of her alleged transgenderism.

The 17-year-old biologically female child identifies as a boy and claims she has suicidal thoughts over her parents’ lack of support for her transgenderism (they won’t, for example, call her by her new chosen male name). The parents were fighting for custody of their daughter back from the state in an effort to stop potential transgender hormone treatment.

An attorney representing the parents, whose names have not been disclosed because of privacy concerns, argued that the girl was not “even close to being able to make such a life-altering decision at this time.” Representatives of the girl argued that a “medical team” claimed that the treatment was a matter of life and death.

Hamilton County Judge Sylvia Sieve Hendon granted custody to the girl’s maternal grandparents, who are open to transgender hormone therapy. The teenager has been living with them since 2016.

According to CNN, Hendon also granted the grandparents the option to petition to change the teen’s name to her new male name in probate court. The girl is now covered by their insurance. (Read more from “Parents Lose Custody of Child for Refusing to Support Transgenderism” HERE)

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Parents Fight for Custody of Child to Stop Transgender Hormone Therapy

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Ohio parents are battling for custody of their biological daughter who claims she is transgender, identifying as a boy. The 17-year-old is currently living with her maternal grandparents and under temporary legal custody of Hamilton County Job and Family Services.

The teen claims she became suicidal over her parents’ lack of support regarding her gender identity, including refusing to call her by her new chosen name. She was first hospitalized in 2016 and has been diagnosed with depression, anxiety, and gender dysphoria. The girl’s medical team claims she’s in “a possible life-or-death situation,” reports CNN.

The grandparents believe “treatment” and hormone therapy might be medically necessary for the girl.

“We think the grandparents are the ones who have an open mind and will … make this sort of decision best for the child,” said attorney Paul Hunt, the teen’s court-appointed guardian. “The parents have clearly indicated that they’re not open to it.”

Karen Brinkman, an attorney representing the parents, argued that due to the girl’s clearly unstable mental state, “it does not appear that this child is even close to being able to make such a life-altering decision at this time.” (Read more from “Parents Fight for Custody of Child to Stop Transgender Hormone Therapy” HERE)

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Washington Post Caught Making up False ‘Facts’ About Conservative Author for Transgender Story

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The Washington Post reportedly deleted errors in a story about a conservative author’s book addressing transgenderism without properly notifying the readers of the changes or offering a public apology to the writer for the original falsehoods.

Ryan T. Anderson’s soon-to-be-published book, “When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment,” apparently caught Post reporter Ariana Eunjung Cha’s attention when it shot to the top spot on Amazon’s “Gay and Lesbian” philosophy category. It also garnered the No. 1 position in the social policy and natural law category rankings.

Cha’s original story about the book was released on Friday morning and titled, “Ryan Anderson’s book calling transgender people mentally ill is creating an uproar,” which would be changed later that day after contacting the author.

According to the publisher’s description, Anderson’s work “tackles some of the most pressing issues raised by the movement, which has “gone from something that most Americans had never heard of to a cause claiming the mantle of civil rights.”

In a series of tweets, Matt Franck, director of the Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution, charged The Post with spreading falsehoods about Ryan — a policy research fellow with The Heritage Foundation — and his book.

In the original version of her story, Cha wrote, “Anderson makes an inflammatory claim — that transgender people are mentally ill.”

Later in her story, the reporter added, “Anderson is also known for his advocacy of ‘ex-gay’ conversion therapy, which has been scientifically discredited …”

Franck came to Anderson’s defense, noting that “neither of those things was true. The reporter seems to have not contacted Anderson at all.”

The Post appeared to accede to its errors by changing both the story’s headline and deleting some of its content Friday afternoon.

The original headline, which can still be seen in the link was changed to “Ryan Anderson’s book on transgender people is creating an uproar,” taking out the phrase “mentally ill.”

The phrase was also removed from the story, simply stating instead that Anderson “makes what some feel is an inflammatory case against transgender people.”

Franck pointed out that The Post apparently made contact with Anderson after publishing piece, despite the author’s book being the subject.

Cha included Ryan’s emailed statement to her story in which he said, “Activists want to silence and shame anyone who questions transgender ideology. But there’s too much at stake to remain silent, for what’s at stake is nothing less than the human person.”

Franck wrote of the paper’s revisions, “So after getting crucial facts wrong in its initial story, facts that it was driven to delete in its revised version, how did The Post alert its readers to its corrections? This is how: ‘This post has been updated.’”

“That’s it. No information for its readers on what it had gotten wrong. No apology to the subject about the palpable hit job. Nothing but ‘updated.’ This is a journalist disgrace,” Franck added.

Kelsey Harkness, a reporter with The Daily Signal (which is affiliated with The Heritage Foundation), agreed with Franck’s assessment.

In an email to The Western Journal, Anderson noted that the backlash to his book isn’t surprising.

“As to the reaction to my book, it’s no surprise that it is intense, even from people who haven’t read it,” Anderson stated. “Activists want to silence and shame anyone who questions transgender ideology.”

He added, “My goal in writing this book was to help people think about these issues more carefully, and to respond to those in need more charitably.” (For more from the author of “Washington Post Caught Making up False ‘Facts’ About Conservative Author for Transgender Story” please click HERE)

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Trans-Age: Accused of Assaulting 3 Young Girls, Man Claims He’s a 9 Year Old ‘Trapped’ in Adult’s Body

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A Chicago man accused of sexually assaulting three young girls told prosecutors he considered himself a boy in a man’s body, according to Cook County court documents.

Joseph Roman, 38, is charged with predatory criminal sexual assault stemming from repeated attacks on three girls who were 6 to 8 years old at the time, according to prosecutors. Roman was a friend of the girls’ families at the time of the attacks between 2015 and January of this year.

During a hearing Wednesday, prosecutors said Roman admitted to some of the attacks and told Chicago police “he is a 9-year-old trapped in an adult’s body.” He was ordered held without bail.

Prosecutors said the attacks began when the family of one of the girls moved into Roman’s home for 10 weeks. Roman is accused of regularly assaulting her between August 2015 and December 2017 while the other family members were sleeping. The girl was 6 when the assaults began.

In October 2016, Roman is accused of assaulting an 8-year-old girl while her family stayed with him for 10 weeks. Her mother worked a night shift, and Roman would help take care of the children, prosecutors said. One attack occurred while two younger children were in the room watching a video on a cellphone, prosecutors said. (Read more from “Trans-Age: Accused of Assaulting 3 Young Girls, Man Claims He’s a 9 Year Old ‘Trapped’ in Adult’s Body” HERE)

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School District Pays Transgender Teen $800,000 for Refusing to Let Her Sleep, Micturate with Boys

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A Wisconsin school district will pay a transgender student $800,000 to settle a lawsuit she filed in a successful attempt to share bathrooms and overnight sleeping quarters with male high school students. Ash Whitaker’s attorneys will get $650,000 of that amount, and she gets the rest. The money will be paid out by the district’s insurance company, after using taxpayer dollars for their $25,000 deductible.

Before the settlement, the case had been appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court after the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Whitaker’s favor. The court agreed that Kenosha Unified School District “illegally singled Whitaker out for discrimination because he [sic] is transgender.” Whitaker also demanded to be allowed to run for prom king, and won that fight last year as well.

“[Whitaker’s] claimed fees were $1.7 million, so we estimated if we went up to the Supreme Court, and/or back down to trial court to try the case and go through anything, that their fees would be somewhere between $4 million and $5 million,” Kenosha’s attorney, Ron Stadler, told media. “So, it becomes a real economic decision in terms of balancing risks and the downside of being given an adverse decision.”

The Seventh Circuit unanimously decided that a “policy that requires an individual to use a bathroom that does not conform with his or her gender identity . . . violates Title IX,” a law requiring educational institutions that take federal money to treat males and females the same. It was the first time any federal appeals court concluded that the 1972 statute’s phrase “sex discrimination” means “gender identity discrimination.” (Read more from “School District Pays Transgender Teen $800,000 for Refusing to Let Her Sleep, Micturate with Boys” HERE)

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Sexuality Center Director: Majority of Transgender Children Outgrow Those Feelings

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Toronto Sexuality Center Director Dr. James Cantor discussed 12 studies that concluded that a majority of transgender children outgrow those feelings.

“There are 12 such studies in all, and they all came to the very same conclusion: the majority of kids cease to feel transgender when they get older,” he wrote.

Cantor is a clinical psychologist and sexual behavior scientist who runs a blog called “Sexology Today!” that “brings to readers new research findings in the fascinating science of sex, translating the often technical language of science into plain-language summaries.”

In one such post in December, he broke down the studies that were criticized by activists in The National Posts‘ coverage of why CBC cancelled a BBC documentary on transgender children.

“One study of Dutch children, in particular, assumed that subjects had ‘desisted’ purely because they stopped showing up to a gender identity clinic,” one criticism in The Posts’ article read.

Cantor said that the study appeared to be in reference to a study called “Factors associated with desistence and persistence of childhood gender dysphoria: a quantitative follow-up study” done by T.D. Steensma, J.K. McGuire, B.P.C. Kreukels, A.J. Beekman and P.T. Cohen-Kettenis in 2013.

In this study, the researchers followed up with 127 transgender kids: 47 were still transgender, 56 were no longer transgender and 24 did not respond to the invitation to participate in the study.

The findings of the research reported that 63 percent of the children desisted, 80 of the 127 children.

In the Netherlands, medical services for transition are free, and only one clinic provides those services, so the researchers were able to confirm the 24 who did not respond did not follow through with an actual transition. When the unknown 24 are not included in the results, 54 percent of the cases ceased to be transgender, still supporting the conclusion that “the majority of kids cease to feel transgender when they get older.”

The other criticized study “cast too wide a net on which children were legitimately displaying gender dysphoria,” The Posts’ article said.

Cantor said those alleged complaints probably refers to “Developmental Psychology” by K.D. Drummond, S.J. Bradley, M. Badali-Peterson and K.J. Zucker in 2008.

This study followed up with 25 children who were assessed in childhood for gender issues: 15 received official diagnoses for gender dysphoria and 10 were experiencing the feelings, but “subthreshold” for the diagnosis.

According to Cantor, the main criticism of the study is that “subthreshold” cases discredits the results. Looking at just the official diagnoses, two were transgender in adulthood, and of the 10 without an official diagnosis, only one continued to be transgender.

So, the closer look at the individual parts of the study show that 88 percent desisted, supporint the same conclusion as the other study.

The 12 studies that all support the same claim come from a variety of countries and labs, and span over four decades.

Although the studies say the majority of transgender kids desist, Cantor points out that it is not a large majority and that results should not be exaggerated in either direction. (For more from the author of “Sexuality Center Director: Majority of Transgender Children Outgrow Those Feelings” please click HERE)

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Jill Duggar’s Husband Tweeted Transgenderism Is ‘a Myth’, Gets Booted From TLC Show

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“Jill and Jessa: Counting On” reality show star Derick Dillard has been blacklisted by The Learning Channel (TLC) because of his views on transgenderism.

TLC explained the network has cut off Dillard because of his critical analysis of Jared “Jazz” Jennings’ sex “change.” Dillard is married to Jill Duggar, whose family starred in the “19 Kids and Counting” reality show.

“We want to let our viewers know that Derick Dillard has not participated in ‘Counting On’ for months and the network has no plans to feature him in the future,” the network said in a statement. “We want to reiterate that Derick’s personal statements do not reflect the views of the network.”

In early August, Dillard commented on a promo tweet for the TLC show “I Am Jazz” by pointing out that show’s famous transgender star is actually male.

The next day, Jennings tweeted that Dillard is a “bully.” “Every day I experience cyber-bullying, but I keep sharing my story. Today was no different,” the transgender TV star wrote. (Read more from “Jill Duggar’s Husband Tweeted Transgenderism Is ‘a Myth’, Gets Booted From TLC Show” HERE)

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Pentagon OKs Gender-Reassignment Surgery for Service Member

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An active-duty service member has received gender-reassignment surgery, the Pentagon said Tuesday, amid ongoing debate over whether transgender troops should be allowed to continue to serve in the military,

Defense Department spokeswoman Dana White said the surgery was done Tuesday in a private hospital and was paid for by the military’s health coverage because the doctor deemed it was medically necessary.

“”Military hospitals do not have the surgical expertise to perform this type of surgery, therefore it was conducted in a private hospital,” White said, adding that because this service member “had already begun a sex-reassignment course of treatment, and the treating doctor deemed this surgery medically necessary, a waiver was approved by the director of the Defense Health Agency.” (Read more from “Pentagon OKs Gender-Reassignment Surgery for Service Member” HERE)

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