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B.C. school trustee Laurie Throness resigns after $750K hate-speech ruling for Barry Neufeld
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Kelowna Capital News
Laurie Throness resigned from Chilliwack School Board on Thursday (Feb. 26) stating he no longer feels “safe” expressing himself in the wake of the $750,000 human-rights decision against former trustee Barry Neufeld for hate speech. Throness posted the decision to resign as trustee was “effective immediately” noting that the Neufeld ruling from the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has placed a chill on public discourse. “I can no longer do my job,” said Throness. “All democratically-elected officials must feel comfortable to speak their mind without worrying about accusations of workplace discrimination.

Missouri House passes bill permanently banning males from female sports in schools
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: The Post Millennial
The Missouri House moved forward this week with legislation permanently restricting female school sports to biological females, approving a bill that supporters say protects fairness in athletics. The measure, known as a House Committee Substitute for House Bills 1663, 1607, and 1973, repeals Section 163.048 of Missouri law and replaces it with new statutory language governing participation in athletic competitions. The bill defines sex as the two categories of male and female, determined by reproductive biology and genetics at birth.

Novartis settles suit over use of woman's stolen cells to advance medicine
Topic: Women's Health
Source: CBS News
Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and reproduced in labs to enable major medical advances, including the polio vaccine. Details of the agreement, which was finalized in federal court in Maryland this month, aren't public. The Lacks family and Swiss-based Novartis said in a joint statement that they are "pleased they were able to find a way to resolve this matter filed by Henrietta Lacks' Estate outside of court" but aren't commenting further.

Transgender Kansans Sue Over Law Voiding Driver's Licenses
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/kansas-invalidates-drivers-licenses-bir
New law canceled around 1.7K licenses with immediate effect. Kansas just told some residents their driver's licenses no longer count, and two transgender men are asking a judge to step in. They sued the state Friday after a new law took effect that voids licenses and birth certificates reflecting a gender different from a person's sex assigned at birth. The measure, which affects about 1,700 license holders, also lets private citizens seek damages from transgender people who use bathrooms that don't match their birth sex, the New York Times reports. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, are seeking an immediate order blocking enforcement, arguing the law violates the Kansas Constitution's protections for due process, equal protection, personal autonomy, and free expression by forcing them to carry IDs that contradict their lived gender.

Congressman Carter, Murphy Introduce the State of Men’s Health Act
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: House.gov
The bill would require the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct a study on the state of men’s health in the United States and issue a report to Congress on the results, including health disparities experienced by men. It would also require the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to create an Office of Men’s Health and submit a report to Congress following the creation of the office, detailing findings on men’s health and recommendations to improve men’s health outcomes.

Families Receive $1.5 Million After Supreme Court Victory Over LGBT Storytelling
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Epoch Times
The settlement ‘ensures parents, not government bureaucrats, have the final say in how their children are raised,’ said the plaintiffs’ lead attorney... A Maryland school district that lost a recent U.S. Supreme Court case will pay $1.5 million to parents who weren’t allowed to opt their children out of LGBT story time, the families’ attorneys said. The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which represented the plaintiffs in the landmark Mahmoud v. Taylor case, announced the settlement on Feb. 20. The defendant, the Montgomery County Board of Education—which oversees Montgomery County Public Schools, the largest school district in the state—was also ordered to comply with court orders mandating advance notice and opt-out provisions.

Aussie PM Albanese Causes Uproar With One Word
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: ABC Australia
Australia's prime minister is backtracking after a single word set off a political firestorm. Asked to sum up sexual abuse survivor and former Australian of the Year Grace Tame in one word during a rapid-fire quiz, Anthony Albanese chose "difficult." Tame, who was raped by her math teacher at 15 before becoming an advocate, fired back on social media, calling the label "misogynist's code for a woman who won't comply" and adding that "history tends to call her 'courageous,'" per the BBC. Albanese later expressed regret "if there was any misinterpretation," saying he meant Tame had endured a "very difficult life" and praising her advocacy—but she rejected the apology as condescending, per ABC Australia.

College Cannot Force CA Professor To Embed DEI Practices In Classroom
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The College Fix
A California community college professor cannot be required to embed diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility practices in his classroom, a federal judge has ruled. The decision is the latest development in a nearly three-year-old lawsuit filed by Daymon Johnson, a history professor at Bakersfield College, part of the Kern Community College District. Johnson is also faculty lead of the Renegade Institute for Liberty. Two California Code of Regulations provisions would require Johnson to employ teaching, learning, and professional practices reflecting diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility, or DEIA, as well as mandate the professor establish proficiency in DEI to teach or lead within California’s community colleges, the decision states.

Woman in Landmark Social Media Trial Takes the Stand
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Reuters
Trial could set precedent on how far social media companies are shielded by law. A California jury on Thursday heard from the young woman at the center of a closely watched trial over whether social media is built to hook kids. Now 20, the plaintiff identified as Kaley G.M. testified that starting to use YouTube at 6 and Instagram at 9 fed years of obsessive use, isolation, and mental health struggles, including anxiety, depression, and body dysmorphia. "If I wasn't on it, I felt like I was going to miss out on something," she said, recalling one day as a teen when she spent 16 hours on Instagram and describing panic when her phone was taken away. She said she repeatedly bypassed parental controls, snuck out at night to find her phone, and still checks social media during Walmart shifts: "It's too hard to be without it." The woman's former therapist testified before her, and blamed social media for contributing to her patient's mental health issues, Reuters reports.

Florida child vaccine push faces bipartisan opposition, pediatrician worries
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Politico
The medical community, as well as Republican and Democratic lawmakers, were critical of plans announced last year to ban school vaccine requirements. Even as legislation pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis to expand Florida’s religious exemption for vaccines moves through the Capitol, pediatricians are preemptively moving to relax their own vaccine requirements to keep young patients healthy from a variety of illnesses.

South Korea relaunches truth commission with focus on adoption fraud
Topic: Children and Family
Source: ABC News
South Korea has relaunched a fact-finding commission into its past human rights violations, with a key focus on the extensive fraud and malfeasance that corrupted the nation’s historic foreign adoption program. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the third in the country’s history, began accepting new cases Thursday, months after the previous one’s mandate ended in November with more than 2,100 complaints unresolved. The new commission will inherit those cases, including 311 submissions by Korean adoptees from the West that were either deferred or incompletely reviewed before the second commission halted a landmark investigation into adoptions in April last year, following internal disputes over which cases warranted recognition as problematic.

Yosemite Ranger Who Put Up Pride Flag Sues Over Firing
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: CBS News
Unauthorized display 'detracts from the visitor experience,' Park Service says. A former ranger fired after putting up a transgender pride flag at Yosemite National Park has sued the federal government, contending the dismissal violated their constitutional rights. The suit was filed Monday in federal court in Washington, DC, per CBS News. "I think everyone should be very worried as Americans about this kind of targeted repression of free speech," said Joanna Citron Day, a lawyer representing Shannon "SJ" Joslin. Their attorneys want the criminal investigation ended and Joslin reinstated. In a statement, a National Park Service spokesperson said, "No matter the cause, demonstrating without a permit outside of designated First-Amendment areas detracts from the visitor experience and the protection of the park."

States Sue Over CDC Shift on Childhood Vaccinations
Topic: Children and Family
Source: AP News
New recommendations endanger public health, filing says. More than a dozen states sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its rollback of vaccine recommendations for children, calling the move an illegal threat to public health. The states argue that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put children's lives at risk when it announced last month that it would stop recommending all children be immunized against the flu, rotavirus, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, some forms of meningitis, and RSV, the AP reports. Under the new guidance, which was met with criticism from medical experts, protections against those diseases are recommended only for certain groups deemed high risk or when doctors recommend them in what's called "shared decision-making."

Ideological Battles Erupt in Classrooms from Texas to Tennessee
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Washington Stand
America’s public schools, designed for the betterment of young minds, are increasingly becoming flashpoints in the nation’s deepening cultural divide. From immigration enforcement to conservative student groups to clashes over LGBT ideology, the battles rage on, pulling children into adult ideological wars.

London’s grooming gangs shame Sadiq Khan
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Spiked Online
The capital is just as plagued by these sick crimes as other cities in the UK. In a now notorious exchange, London mayor Sadiq Khan said last year there was no ‘indication’ that grooming gangs – of the kind that have plagued towns such as Rotherham and Telford – exist in London. Evidence uncovered by the BBC last week has exposed the foolishness of this claim. It is now indisputable that vulnerable women and girls, some as young as 14, are being lured into a world of rape and exploitation by grooming gangs in London.

"Hyperwoke" Journo Downgrades From 1st Class Because It Had Too Many White Men
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
We're sure the white men were crestfallen... Former Vogue editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson proudly announced that she had downgraded herself from first class to business class on a flight to Milan, apparently unable to endure a cabin populated predominantly by white middle-aged men, the Daily Mail reports. In a lengthy Threads post that has since drawn both fawning admiration from her ideological allies and widespread incredulity elsewhere, Karefa-Johnson described the scene: "In a cabin of six, five of the passengers were white middle-aged men... then there was me, a 30-something black woman who travels in that cabin often, and a male flight attendant who thought I'd be okay with substandard service and persistent micro-aggression from the moment I sat down."

NYC, Elusive Free Childcare
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Bigger Apple
Demand for low-income childcare vouchers has exploded among those eligible. They offer parents the opportunity to pay for more flexible care than schools and childcare centers can offer. Such vouchers last year paid for the care of about a fifth of all of the city’s three- and four-year-olds enrolled in care, and if you include all kids under five, it’s closer to a third. After Governor Hochul expanded income eligibility and nearly doubled voucher value from an average of $154 per week in 2019 to $301 in 2024, enrollment jumped from under 9,000 in 2022 to nearly 70,000 in 2025 (includes kids in all age groups, not just under five). Voucher popularity is outpacing the government’s ability to fund them, leaving over 13,000 kids on the waitlist.

New Yorkers Don’t Know How Much They Spend on Education
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The City-Journal
A recent poll shows parents aren’t aware that the state spends more than any other on schools. A recent report surveyed 23,000 parents across 50 states about education. Among other questions, they were asked to estimate how much money is spent per student in their state. Of the New York respondents, 40 percent said that they weren’t sure, and 29 percent believed the amount was less than $5,000. The correct answer? More than $33,000 per pupil, the highest in the nation. Why do so few New York parents understand how much their state spends on education?

This week proved wokeness ain’t dead yet
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
From the BAFTAs ‘n-word’ controversy to the Valdo Calocane scandal, victimhood culture still haunts us. We saw this in evidence this week with the news that the authorities refused to detain the Nottingham triple killer Valdo Calocane because they were fearful of the ‘over-representation of young black men’ in custody. We saw it in the pious and hysterical response to the Tourette’s activist who uttered the n-word at the BAFTAs. The politics of identity were openly weaponised by the Greens at the Gorton and Denton by-election, who in releasing a campaign video in Urdu, both stoked and helped to entrench sectarian divisions in this country. And it arrived with the news that rather than being a fading presence, the rule of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace is a more imposing behemoth than ever.