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A certain political intelligence (take a wild guess what kind) leads to brilliant hashtags and hilarious entrepreneurship. Last Wednesday marked day one of Women’s History Month, an annual occasion described by the official website as a “national celebration” to commend the value and contributions of the female sex upon society. In the movement’s own words: Since 1995, presidents have issued a series of annual proclamations designating the month of March as ‘Women’s History Month.’ These proclamations celebrate the contributions women have made to the United States and recognize the specific achievements women have made over the course of American history...

A row has erupted online after First Lady Jill Biden gave a transgender woman from Argentina a 'Women of Courage' award during an International Women's Day ceremony. Biden yesterday presented awards to 11 recipients at the White House, one of whom was Alba Rueda, an Argentinian politician who became the first openly transgender lawmaker in Argentina to hold a senior political position in the country. Rueda, the Special Representative on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity of Argentina's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has spent her political career fighting to end the discrimination of LGBTQ people in Argentina. But in response to...

USA Today honored a transgender lawmaker from Minnesota on its annual "Women of the Year" list.Democratic State Rep. Leigh Finke is the first openly transgender person to be elected to and serve in the Minnesota legislature. Finke was named "Woman of the Year" for Minnesota despite serving in office for less than three months.

A transgender-identifying male secured first place at an amateur female cycling event in New York City over the weekend. Tiffany Thomas stood atop the winner’s podium at the Randall’s Island Crit, a New York City-based race, next to two women who scored second and third place, according to a social media post from NYC Cycling News. Thomas is affiliated with the L.A.-based women’s cycling group L.A. Sweat. “Tiffany is a scientist by day, athlete by night,” Thomas’s bio on the L.A. Sweat website, first reported by ABC7 News, reads. “She has never met a barbell, a bike, or a dog...

Transgender male-to-female actor Michaela Jaé (“MJ”) Rodriguez received a standing ovation at the 80th Golden Globe Awards on Sunday in belated recognition for winning the Golden Globe for lead actress in a drama series last year for FX’s Pose. MJ Rodriguez was recognized by her Pose producer Ryan Murphy during his acceptance speech for the Carol Burnett Award. In his speech, Murphy praised Rodriguez for “making history” for being the “first transgender actress ever to win a Golden Globe.” “Let’s give her the ovation she deserves to hear,” Murphy said. As Breitbart News reported, Rodriguez’s win at last year’s (non-televised)...

An 18-year-old activist, who recently 'detransitioned' from male back to female, has called President Joe Biden's stance on 'gender-affirming' medical treatment as 'dangerous.' Chloe Cole, who transitioned to male at 13 before later regretting her decision at 16, said she believes the president is 'trying to advocate for further experimentation on children.' She previously recalled her path from transitioning to 'detransitioning,' indicating how taking puberty blockers and having surgery 'irreversibly and painfully' damaged her body. Her regret stemmed from a belief that she was influenced by social media, not gender dysphoria, and she now directs blame toward the medical professionals...

ast week marked the seventh annual commemoration of the Yazidi genocide, though you wouldn’t know it from watching establishment media. Nor would you know that there is an ongoing genocide of Christians taking place in Nigeria, nor that throughout the Islamic world countless women and girls are enduring kidnapping, forced marriages, forced conversions of Christians to Islam, genocidal rape, and/or widespread sex trafficking even in countries that are supposedly our allies in the War on Terror. To keep abreast of these crises, one needs to seek out the work of such concerned journalists as the Freedom Center’s own Raymond Ibrahim...

BEAVER, Pennsylvania -- If you were looking to purchase tampons here at the Beaver Super Market along Third Street, the city's Main Street business district, the manager says there has been a shortage for a while. When he does get them in, they are gone by midday. He is not alone. A visit to several larger chain grocery and pharmaceutical stores throughout Western Pennsylvania found almost all of them down to just a handful of boxes of tampons. Smaller local grocery stores often had none. It was slim pickings, even for the generic store brands. Instacart, the grocery delivery service,...

A recent software update for Apple's iPhones includes a "pregnant man" emoji as well as a number of other gender neutral cartoons. Apple rolled out the update in mid-March according to the Wall Street Journal, adding the pregnant emoji, as well as a gender neutral "person with crown" emoji to go alongside the king and queen cartoons. Apple also added 35 other emojis. Apple first rolled out the pregnant man and "pregnant person" emoji in January as part of an optional update, but it came to all users with the iOS 15.4 update. The decision to roll out the new...

Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke said Friday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) was pursuing a “war on women,” which is “very bad for Texas.” Host Joy Reid said, “The Texas woman charged with murder after abortion, the charges were dropped. But it exposes the lie these anti-abortion forces don’t mean to punish women. Is that getting through when you’re talking with female voters, Texas women, how much danger they’re in because of these laws like the anti-abortion law in Texas?”

BERLIN -Two Afghan brothers suspected of killing their sister for adopting a Western lifestyle went on trial in Berlin on Wednesday, in a case that highlights the violence against women and cultural tensions among some recent migrants to Germany. The defendants, identified as Sayed H. and Seyed H. under German privacy laws, are accused of luring their 34 year-old sister to meet them last July in Berlin and choking her and cutting her throat, the Berlin prosecutor’s office said. All three siblings had Afghan citizenship and had been living in Germany for several years. The brothers, aged 23 and 27,...

<p>Two transgender swimmers blew away the competition Wednesday at the Ivy League Women’s Swimming Championships by posting the fastest times in the 800-yard freestyle relay.</p><p>The two swimmers, Lia Thomas and Iszac Henig swam the fastest split times on Wednesday night, adding more controversy to the topic of transgender athletes.</p>

Two-hundred sixty-one California state prisoners have requested transfers to facilities that house the opposite gender since a new law went into effect on Jan. 1 — and 255 of them have requested to move from a male to a female corrections facility. The law, SB 132, provides that a prisoner who self-identifies who is “transgender, nonbinary, or intersex” must be “addressed in a manner consistent with the incarcerated individual’s gender identity,” and be “housed at a correctional facility designated for men or women based on the individual’s preference.” The law applies “regardless of anatomy.” Governor Gavin Newsom signed the law...

'A celebration of womanhood and diversity' A transgender person is now one step closer to being crowned Miss USA. Kataluna Enriquez, a biological male, won the Miss Silver State USA pageant this week, an event considered the biggest preliminary competition for the Miss Nevada USA pageant, KVVU-TV reported. The outlet called it a "monumental win" for Enriquez, who will now move on to the statewide competition in the pageant circuit that leads to Miss USA and, eventually, the Miss Universe competition. The pageants, collectively run by the Miss Universe Organization, were once owned by former President Donald Trump and are...

Axios is reporting that the number of bills Republicans have advanced in the first two months of 2021 at the state level to protect women and girls in the wake of the Biden administration’s radical transgender policies exceeded the total of such efforts in 2020. Of course, Axios frames these bills as anti-trans rather than pro-woman and pro-child. While President Biden, or those pulling his strings, felt like taking on this issue by executive proclamation, America is not wholly on board by any stretch of the imagination.A recent poll from Rasmussen found 54% of Americans oppose letting trans athletes compete...

The women were shot in an apparent targeted attack as they passed through a deserted village near the town of Mirali in North Waziristan tribal district, police chief Shafiullah Gandapur told NBC News. North Waziristan runs along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan and served as a base for the Pakistani Taliban and other militants, including Al Qaeda, until 2014, when the army said it cleared the region of insurgents. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. The incident comes amid an uptick in attacks claimed by the Pakistani Taliban in the deeply conservative area in recent months and amid concern...

A 50-year-old transgender “woman” is being hailed as a hero for joining a female college basketball team and playing alongside girls under half “her” age. Gabrielle Ludwig, born Robert Ludwig before “she” had a sex change in July 2012, is being allowed to play college basketball for the Mission College (Calif.) women’s basketball team. She is being called a brave trailblazer and receiving gushing profiles from the fake news media for engaging in this bizarre and troubling spectacle. The nauseating USA Today profile on Ludwig reads as follows: [cut] The profile noted (surprise, surprise) that Ludwig has a history of...

An 18-year-old animal shelter volunteer in Colorado was allegedly beaten to death in a parking lot by her ex-boyfriend, authorities said. Danielle Hopton was found unconscious “with life-threatening injuries consistent with an assault” in the parking lot of an apartment complex in Fort Collins on Feb. 6, according to Fort Collins police.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended Tuesday President Joe Biden’s executive order that opens up women’s sports to men who say they are transgender. “The president’s belief is that trans rights are human rights, and that’s why he signed that executive order,” Psaki said when asked by a reporter to react to the issue in regard to competing in high school and college sports for scholarships.

A few years ago, while serving as academic dean, I met with a professor who had been accused of racial discrimination. He was stunned. “I don’t understand how this could happen,” he said. “My progressive credentials are impeccable.” For the record, I don’t believe he was guilty. But his answer told me far more about the mindset of the left than about his actions. For leftists, intentions always trump behavior and even consequences. Regardless of what actually happens, if they meant well, then they were clearly on the side of the angels. This same courtesy is never extended to conservatives,...