Keating then spoke about movement she launched three years ago called the GenderCool Project, which she said aims to “help replace opinions with real experiences meeting transgender and nonbinary youth who are thriving.”

After explaining the program, Keating took the opportunity to reintroduce herself to lawmakers, this time disclosing that she is transgender.

Keating said she is testifying to represent “the hundreds of thousands of kids, just like me, who are supported and loved by their family, friends, and communities across the country.” . . .

On the first day of his administration, President Biden issued an executive order saying student-athletes should compete under the sex they identify as.

His action spurred a tug of war, pitting those who oppose allowing transgender women to compete in women’s sports against those who support it.

Some of the nation’s largest and oldest women’s rights groups were quick to establish which side of the line they fall on, declaring that transwomen rights are women’s rights and drawing questions about whether they are backing what some say is an uneven playing field.

“As courts and scientists overwhelmingly have stated, transgender girls and women are girls and women,” the National Organization for Women (NOW) said in a statement following the House’s passing of the Equality Act. “Unfortunately, transgender girls’ and women’s participation in school sports consistent with their gender identity has become a cudgel used to attack the [Equality] Act.” . . .

The Arkansas House of Representatives voted Tuesday by an overwhelming margin to override Governor Asa Hutchinson’s veto of a bill that would block the use of hormone treatments and puberty-halting drugs on young children.

Hutchinson had vetoed the Arkansas Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act on Monday, and implied it was immoral after an outrage campaign from left-wing activists.

The Arkansas House voted to override the veto by a margin of 71-24, defeating Hutchinson’s attempt to block the bill.

BREAKING: Arkansas House has overridden the Governor’s Veto of this bill #arpx https://t.co/Tjxsy6OtYy pic.twitter.com/8NnVwQn8k3

— Jay Bir (@TheJayBir) April 6, 2021

Left-wing activists appeared devastated by the news on Tuesday, with several expressing last-ditch hope that the SAFE act could somehow be overruled by a judge, though this outcome appears unlikely.

As National File reported Monday, Hutchinson had referred to the bill as a “product of the cultural war” that “while well-intended, is off course”:

Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson announced Monday that he has sided with far-left activists and chosen to veto HB 1570, which would ban the use of puberty blockers, hormone replacement procedures, and gender transition surgery on young children.

“I was told this week that the nation is looking at Arkansas because I have on my desk another bill passed by the general assembly that is a product of the cultural war,” Hutchinson said during a press conference. “I don’t shy away from the battle when it is necessary and defensible, but the most recent action of the general assembly, while well-intended, is off course and I must veto House Bill 1570.”

Arkansas has been the subject of an intense social media campaign by transgender activists to pressure Hutchinson into vetoing the bill.

The Florida legislature this week approved a measure that requires athletic sports teams designated for girls to only be open to biological female athletes.

The measure was amended into the education-related Senate Bill 1028 by Republican leaders after a standalone bill on the issue failed to garner the support it needed.

The language of the provision means that transgender female athletes, who were biologically male at birth, can only participate in sports designated for males. It applies to high school and college sports sponsored by public schools. The bill now heads to Gov. Ron DeSantis’s desk for signature.

There are numerous opportunities and long-term benefits for females that come from competing and demonstrating their strength, skills, and athletic abilities, the text of the provision states.

“The Legislature finds that maintaining the fairness for women athletic opportunities is an important state interest. The Legislature finds that requiring the designation of separate sex-specific athletic teams or sports is necessary to maintain fairness for women’s athletic opportunities,” the text of the provision reads.

The move generated emotional debate from Democrats in the legislature, who lamented the last-minute change. . . .

Walter Duranty was possibly the worst foreign correspondent in the history of the Western press. Reporting on Russia for the New York Times during the 1920s and 30s, he not only lied through his teeth about the death of millions during the Ukrainian famine, but conspired, with some success, to prevent anyone else from telling the truth about it.

He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1934 for his reporting, but ever since 1990, when a biography of him was published that emphasized the extent of his mendacity, there have been efforts to have the prize symbolically rescinded (Duranty died in 1957).

A man may be honestly mistaken, but Duranty had knowingly and persistently lied about matters of world importance. At the very least he deserved the sack rather than a prestigious award, but was never called to account during his lifetime; and the Pulitzer committee has twice decided that the award should not be withdrawn.

I can see the argument for rescinding the prize because Duranty’s conduct was truly despicable, and the prize had been for what, morally, was a great crime.

But there is also an argument for not rescinding it, for the posthumous withdrawal of an award can look like an attempt to rewrite the history of the awarding authority by an act of auto-absolution. An admission that the Pulitzer committee had made a terrible error of judgment might have been sufficient.

We seem to have advanced greatly since Duranty’s time. Richard Dawkins, the great popularizer of evolutionary biology, has not had to wait until many years after his death to have an award withdrawn, that of the American Humanist Association given to him in 1996 for his services to public scientific understanding.

He dared (or at least was imprudent enough) to broadcast incorrect thoughts on the matter of transsexualism which were deemed incompatible with humanistic values, and so the association withdrew the award.

What did Professor Dawkins say that entirely vitiated his past contributions to popular scientific understanding that were deemed worthy of reward?

Here is his Tweet: “In 2015, Rachel Dolezal, a white chapter president of NAACP, was vilified for identifying as black. Some men choose to identify as women, and some women choose to identify as men. You will be vilified if you deny that they literally are what they identify as. Discuss.”

What the Association probably did not know was that, when Dawkins was an English schoolboy, examination questions often took the following form: “Lady Macbeth was worse than her husband. Discuss.” . . . .

College wrestler Olivia Rondeau told the Daily Caller that biological men don’t belong on female wrestling teams, noting a biological disadvantage for female athletes.

“It is also our right to feel safe competing against other biological females. It’s unfair for these young girls who have worked so hard to win these titles and college scholarships only to be overshadowed by biological males,” Rondeau said.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association Board of Governors says that it “firmly and unequivocally supports” transgender biological male athletes competing in women’s sports at the college level.

The organization, which regulates college athletics in the United States, responded on April 12 to an ongoing push by Republican-led states to enact measures that seek to protect female athletes, who are likely to have a biological disadvantage if forced to compete against transgender student-athletes who were born male.

“The NCAA Board of Governors firmly and unequivocally supports the opportunity for transgender student-athletes to compete in college sports,” the board wrote in the statement. “The NCAA has a long-standing policy that provides a more inclusive path for transgender participation in college sports.”

Under the association’s policy, a transgender female athlete is allowed to participate in NCAA women’s competitions if the athlete is being treated with testosterone suppression treatment. Similarly, a transgender male athlete is allowed to participate in NCAA men’s competitions if they have received a medical exception for treatment with testosterone.

NCAA also addressed questions about how the association determines which states will host championship games.

“When determining where championships are held, NCAA policy directs that only locations where hosts can commit to providing an environment that is safe, healthy and free of discrimination should be selected,” the board wrote. . . .

Trevor Noah thinks men competing against women is awesome, and we think Trevor Noah is an idiot. Expect a THOROUGH debunking of his recent puberty blocker segment. We also expose the Left’s latest court-packing scheme. And as shocking as this sounds, Ben & Jerry’s found a way to be more insufferable jackwagons. All this and special guest Jason Whitlock!

Thanks, Trevor Noah! Erasing Women’s Achievements One Puberty Blocker at a Time!

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BIDEN AND DEMS WANT TO PACK THE COURT

• Last week, Biden established a commission to study “reforming” the Supreme Court. The commission will produce “an analysis of the principal arguments in the contemporary public debate for and against Supreme Court reform, including an appraisal of the merits and legality of particular reform proposals.” SOURCE: White House
• House Democrats, led by Jerry Nadler, are expected to introduce legislation today to add four justices to the Supreme Court. SOURCE: The Intercept
• Why do we have nine justices? SOURCE: FJC
  • The Judiciary Act of 1869, passed during Reconstruction, established nine SCOTUS justices and allowed for the appointment of circuit judges.
  • This was done to provide more uniform justice, particularly in the Reconstruction South, and lessen the burden of traveling to circuit courts.
• With all the media coverage about court “reform,” you might be surprised to hear most Americans oppose court-packing.
  • An October 2020 Rasmussen poll found 53% of Americans oppose court-packing. SOURCE: Rasmussen
  • Calls for expanding the court really ramped up after Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett, as Democrats incorrectly defined filling a vacancy as “packing the court.”
  • Court-packing is now framed as “depoliticizing” the court.
• And even Ruth Bader Ginsburg was against court-packing because it would politicize the court: “Well, if anything, it would make the court appear partisan. It would be that one side saying, ‘when we’re in power, it was only to enlarge the number of judges so we will have more people who will vote the way we want them to,’ so I am not at all in favor of that solution to what I see as a temporary situation.” SOURCE: Post-Gazette

DEBUNKING TREVOR NOAH’S PUBERTY BLOCKER LIES

• There’s no evidence trans kids are stealing opportunities from everyone else, and youth sports aren’t about going on to compete at an elite level. SOURCE: YouTube
  • Throughout American history, males competed against males and females against females. This was the basis of Title IX in sports. This cross-gender athletics experiment is BRAND-NEW in high schools. To suggest we have no evidence of its potential harm because we haven’t tried it yet isn’t proof of anything at all!
    • AVERAGE TESTOSTERONE:
      • Men: 300-1200 ng/dL SOURCE: Mayo Clinic
      • Compare Women: 20-70 ng/dL SOURCE: Mayo Clinic
      • Testosterone enhances red blood cell production, decreases fat, increases muscle, and increases bone density. SOURCE: Mayo Clinic
    • BONE DENSITY: MEN: 26-45.5% higher bone mass than women. SOURCE: PubMed
    • LUNGS: Women have smaller lung capacities and decreased pulmonary function during exercise. SOURCE: PubMed
    • BODY FAT %: In general, men have less body fat than women. SOURCE: PubMed
  • Maybe not ALL high school athletes want to compete at the elite level, but some do. And trans athletes compete at the elite level too.
  • Trevor Noah said this example doesn’t matter, but actually, it does! Female Connecticut high school athletes are routinely cheated out of state track titles by two biological males. SOURCES: NYPost, NBC
    • Cece Tefler of Franklin Pierce University won the NCAA championship in the women’s 400m run … as a biological male. SOURCE: Outsports
    • Rachel McKinnon, a biological male, won a women’s cycling world championship. SOURCE: CTV
    • “Mary Gregory” set the masters world record for the squat, deadlift, AND bench press while competing as a woman, before being stripped of the records and screaming outrage. SOURCE: WaPo
    • New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard won two gold medals at the Pacific Games and was on track to dominate the sport until a serious injury. SOURCE: Wired
    • The Australian women’s national soccer team lost 7-0 to a team of 15-year-old boys. SOURCE: Evening Standard
    • 203rd-ranked German Karsten Braasch beat Serena Williams and Venus Williams back-to-back at the 1998 Australian Open. SOURCE: TennisNow
• CLAIM: No negative effects of puberty blockers. SOURCE: YouTube
  • Negative effects: SOURCE: Mayo Clinic
    • Weight gain
    • Hot flashes
    • Headaches
    • Bone density
    • Future fertility
  • Stunted genital growth SOURCE: GenderHQ
  • Mood disorders SOURCE: Pubmed
  • Not to mention the 42% attempted suicide rate as the result of becoming transgender!

• CLAIM: Republicans are just against this because of hate! SOURCE: YouTube
  • Actually, it’s because of the negative medical effects, suicide rates, co-occuring psychiatric disorders, prevalence of past trauma among transgender people, and the danger and injustice of having biological males compete against women.
  • And the cherry on top is the VAST MAJORITY of Americans oppose biological males in women’s sports. SOURCE: Rasmussen
  • Just 28% supported transgender athletes participating on the sports team of their gender identity.