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Sports news site The Spun ran a terrific story yesterday headlined, “College Volleyball Team Refusing To Play Opponent With Transgender Player.” It’s spreading!

Southern Utah’s ladies’ volleyball team was scheduled to play against San Jose State on Saturday, but the match was abruptly canceled after news broke that one of San Jose’s star players was a man dressed as a woman. Coincidentally, San Jose went into the weekend’s championship 5-0.




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Abstract: Anatomical penises may exist, but as pre-operative transgendered women
also have anatomical penises, the penis vis-à-vis maleness is an incoherent construct.
We argue that the conceptual penis is better understood not as an anatomical organ
but as a social construct isomorphic to performative toxic masculinity.
Through detailed poststructuralist discursive criticism and the example of climate
change, this paper will challenge the prevailing and damaging social trope that
penises are best understood as the male sexual organ and reassign it a more fitting
role as a type of masculine performance.

Almost 5,800 Minor Patients had Irreversible Gender Surgeries Last 5 Years

The watchdog group put The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia as the “worst-offending children’s hospital promoting sex change treatments for minors.”

https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/10/almost-5800-minor-patients-had-irreversible-gender-surgeries-last-5-years/

Almost 5,800 Minor Patients had Irreversible Gender Surgeries Last 5 Years

The watchdog group put The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia as the “worst-offending children’s hospital promoting sex change treatments for minors.”

Lawfare cuts both ways, just like gender surgery. The New York Times ran an encouraging story yesterday headlined, “Texas Attorney General Sues Doctor Over Treatment for Transgender Minors.”




A new 2023 Texas law recently upheld as constitutional by the state’s Supreme Court makes it illegal for healthcare providers to “affirm the child’s perception of the child’s sex if that perception is inconsistent with the child’s biological sex.”

In other words, Texas doctors aren’t allowed to make confused kids even more confused.

Under Texas’s new 2023 law, the state can revoke doctors’ medical licenses if they prescribe puberty blockers and hormone therapies to children as transsexual aids. On top of that, the law allows doctors to be sued personally for damages. I heard a rumor that the law almost included a provision requiring noncompliant doctors to receive all the banned treatments they prescribed.

This week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the first doctor under the 2023 law. The lawsuit alleged that Dr. May Lau, a pediatrics professor at UT’s Southwestern Medical Center, has treated 21 kids with hormone blockers since the law passed and even worse, she “falsified medical records, prescriptions and billing records to represent that her testosterone prescriptions were for something other than transitioning a child’s biological sex or affirming a child’s belief that their gender identity is inconsistent with their biological sex.”

So Dr. Lau is — allegedly — a forgerer, liar, fraudster, and a danger to children. I’m not exaggerating. The lawsuit described the so-called doctor as “a scofflaw who is putting the health and safety of minors at risk.” Neither Dr. Lau nor Southwestern Medical Center answered calls for comment. In other words, the Times gave her a chance to deny it, but she clammed up. Probably under the advice of counsel.

Perhaps AG Paxton should consider adding claims for criminal insurance fraud, since one suspects that bleeding-hearted Dr. Lau and the oh-so-charitable Southwest Medical Center were not working for free. In fact, one suspects their gender-bending operation was on the lucrative side.

Paxton’s complaint asks for an order compelling Dr. Lau to stop breaking the law under threat of jail, and a money judgment of $10,000 per violation ($210,000).

It’s worth reflecting on the irony that all the people currently howling in outrage, such as the ACLU, are the very same people who, about ten minutes ago, also howled in rage demanding cancellation of doctors prescribing harmless ivermectin for covid infections.

There’s an ocean of difference between the two cases. Mainly, that no democratically-elected legislature anywhere ever voted to outlaw ivermectin. Ivermectin was never banned by law, not even for covid treatment.

In fact, the only authority anti-ivermectin state medical boards could rely on was a single horsey tweet by the jackasses at the FDA — a tweet the Fifth Circuit later ruled was illegal medical advice the FDA wasn’t allowed to give in the first place.

In other words, so-called liberals are all-in for de-credentialing doctors who provide legal services to willing patients, but then decry lawsuits against doctors who willfully break the law and then cover up the evidence.

In even more good news, the Times reported that over half the states (26) now have total or partial bans on medical gender-bending for children. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a challenge to Tennessee’s ban this upcoming term.

I realize everyone has their favorites, and believe me, I am not counting any chickens, but … how about Ken Paxton for U.S. Attorney General?