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UK, Labour’s trans guidance ‘poses danger to women’
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Telegraph
Campaigners say code of practice warning staff not to question people’s genders ‘risks harassment’. The updated code of practice from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) states that information about sex is “sensitive” and should be treated as “special category data”. The guidance approved by Bridget Phillipson, the Education Secretary and equalities minister, was published last week after months of delays. It says trans people should not be asked what sex they are before using lavatories or changing rooms. It also warns firms it would not be “practical or appropriate” for staff to challenge individuals they suspected were using the wrong facilities.

US Facing ‘Existential Crisis’ As Fertility Rate Continues To Decline
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Daily Caller
The U.S. is currently facing a continuously worsening fertility crisis, according to analysts. While the nation’s fertility rate has been declining for decades, it dropped to a new record low in 2025. Experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation that deregulation, improving fertility care and bringing down costs related to raising children could help boost the declining birth rate. The U.S. general fertility rate was 53.1 births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 in 2025, down from 53.8 in 2024, according to National Center for Health Statistics data published in April. [Ed: then stop blocking immigration.]

MLB Player Escapes Punishment in Sex Abuse Case
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Newser
Wander Franco declared criminally responsible for sexual abuse of a minor. Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco was declared criminally responsible for the sexual and psychological abuse of a minor, but he will not serve a sentence for it, a Dominican judge ruled Monday. Judge José Antonio Núñez, in his decision, considered that Franco had been the victim of extortion and blackmail by the minor's mother, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexually trafficking her daughter. "It seems contradictory to declare criminal responsibility and at the same time exempt him from punishment. The court has granted Wander Franco a judicial pardon due to the particular circumstances that made him a material victim, but not a legal one," explained Núñez. The judge justified the judicial pardon as a "logical and legal reasoning."

Abortion pill case widens anti-abortion activists’ rift with Trump
Topic: Abortion
Source: Politico
After a string of disappointments, conservative activists are demanding action from the FDA, DOJ and other agencies. The Supreme Court’s recent ruling to preserve access to telehealth abortions has escalated anti-abortion activists’ frustrations with the Trump administration and ramped up the groups’ pressure campaign directed at the White House. With the high court unwilling for now to curb the availability of drugs used in more than two-thirds of abortions, abortion opponents are demanding the federal agencies President Donald Trump oversees take immediate action or risk depressing conservative turnout in the upcoming midterm elections.

Christian foster parents win major First Amendment settlement in case against DCYF
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Just the News
DCYF had lost a bid to have a lawsuit against the agency dismissed, with a federal district court ruling in late April that a rule requiring foster parents to socially “transition” foster children plausibly violates the First Amendment. Washington’s Department of Children, Youth, and Families has agreed to a permanent injunction that will bar state officials from forcing foster families to embrace gender ideology for children in their care. Wednesday's injunction from District Court Judge David Estudillo said that the agency was not allowed to impose restrictions on foster family licenses based on religious beliefs.

Wave of child abuse cases shakes schools in Paris
Topic: Children and Family
Source: BBC News
A school assistant will go on trial in Paris on Tuesday accused of sexual mistreatment of young children in his care. It is the latest case in a year-long scandal that has shaken the school system in the French capital, where some 15,000 such assistants - known as animateurs - are employed as non-teaching staff. Currently enquiries are under way at nearly 100 Paris crèches, kindergartens and junior schools where animateurs have been accused of inappropriate, aggressive or sexualised behaviour.

A Setback for Second Amendment Rights on Campus
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Reason
A legislative effort to eliminate gun-free zones on public college campuses has died. But for its student sponsor, the fight isn’t over yet. On Thursday, an effort to eliminate gun-free zones on New Hampshire college campuses fizzled out in the state Legislature, when the Senate voted against a committee of conference to renegotiate the bill with House leaders. Despite the setback, proponents of the legislation say they're not done. We'll be pursuing this with a legal challenge," says state Rep. Sam Farrington (R–Rochester), who sponsored the bill, which would have also allowed students to carry nonlethal weapons such as pepper spray and mace

FBI Director Kash Patel's Girlfriend's Defamation Suit
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
Over Allegations She Was Israeli Spy Can Go Forward. The court concluded that Wilkins had adequately alleged that the statements about her were false factual assertions (rather than opinion or hyperbole); recall that at this stage, the question is just about whether the allegations are legally sufficient—determining their truth or falsity is for later in the case

Stolen Innocence: The Abduction and Forced Marriage of Christian Girls in Pakistan
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Persecution.org
There are roughly 1,000 young girls from Christian families in Pakistan each year who are kidnapped from their homes and forced into marriages with Muslims. International Christian Concern, a ministry that draws attention to the worldwide persecuted church, released a report on May 13 giving examples of the trend.

Thomas Massie Vows to Read Redacted Names in Epstein Files on House Floor
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Gateway Pundit
Before Leaving Congress, Says Todd Blanche and Kash Patel “Perjured Themselves”. While speaking to Kirsten Welker on NBC’s Meet the Press this morning, Massie vowed to use his speech or debate immunity and read the names. Article I, Section 6 of the Constitution provides that, with the exception of Treason, Felony, or Breach of the Peace, Representatives “shall not be questioned in any other Place,” prosecuted, or sued over “any Speech or Debate in either House.” Massie previously threatened to name the names of Epstein’s coconspirators in September 2025. Massie told Welker on Sunday that he will read redacted names from the Epstein Files in the coming weeks and months, adding, “There’s still millions of files they haven’t released.”

From Rutgers speaker to Kristof column
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Times of Israel
... implausible anti-Israel dog rape claim goes mainstream. Israeli officials reject allegation canines were trained to sexually abuse Palestinian prisoners, which Jewish groups call ‘modern day blood libel’ and experts say is virtually impossible. A week after a university commencement speaker was canceled because of a tweet claiming that Israel trains dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners, the allegation leapt into the pages of The New York Times. The columnist Nicholas Kristof included the claim in a column alleging widespread sexual abuse against Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.

Child Safety Groups Urge FTC To Investigate Roblox
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Zero Hedge
Users as young as 5 are able to open an account on Roblox, the complaint claims... Two child safety groups filed a complaint against online interactive gaming platform Roblox with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on May 20, alleging that children face sexual and financial harm on the platform. Filed by nonprofits National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) and Fairplay, the complaint claims that certain Roblox features are "developmentally inappropriate for the platform's massive young user base and pose a substantial risk of harm." Such features include engagement-maximizing design features, a complex virtual currency system that can result in more user spending, and chat and communication features that expose children to sexual exploitation.

How Feminism Victimized Women, Became a Form of Mental Illness
Topic: Women's Health
Source: End to DV
Around the world, young women are facing a profound mental health crisis (1). Compared to men:
· Canada: Girls in grades 7-12 are far more likely to experience fair to poor mental health, compared to boys.
· Denmark: Females 16-24 are twice as likely to have poor mental health.
· Finland: Fifteen-year-old girls are twice as likely to have depressive symptoms.
· Sweden: Females 16-29 are twice as likely to have severe anxiety.
· United Kingdom: A recent study found young women are more angry, pessimistic, and left-wing than their male peers (2).
· United States: Females 18-21 years old are twice as likely as men to report a broad range of problems such as “Felt nervous all/most of the time in past 30 days.” (1, Figure 1)

Conservative Justices Resurrect the Comstock Act, Threatening Abortion Access Nationwide
Topic: Abortion
Source: MS Magazine
A 19th-century law once used to police contraception, abortion and queer expression is finding new life in today’s Supreme Court battles over reproductive freedom. On May 1, the New Orleans-based Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the mailing of mifepristone, a common abortion medication. (The pill is also used in miscarriage care; has shown promise in treating fibroids, endometriosis, some cancers, depression and chronic inflammatory illnesses; and is currently being studied as a once-weekly contraceptive.) Their ruling restricted distribution and use of the medication to in-person clinic visits only, even as the number of brick-and-mortar abortion clinics has continued to shutter over the past year.

This is a ‘Jackie Robinson moment,’
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
...but not the one Hakeem Jeffries thinks it is. “It’s a Jackie Robinson moment.” That declaration by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries struck a curious chord because Jeffries was calling for Black athletes to boycott SEC conference teams to protest not the existence but the elimination of racial discrimination. Jeffries was upset that the court had ended racial gerrymandering designed to guarantee the election of non-white (and largely Democratic) House members. It was as if Jackie Robinson were to join a protest calling for the return of race-based discrimination in baseball.

Ressa at Dartmouth
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
In the global anti-free speech movement, Maria Ressa stands apart. The 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner and Columbia professor has used her celebrated position to call for censorship in the name of tolerance and diversity. She is showered with accolades as she calls for curtailing speech with a highly sophisticated, though at times Orwellian, pitch. In the cause of tolerance, she calls for viewpoint intolerance, particularly in the regulation of speech on the Internet. That was evident this week as she spoke at Dartmouth’s Division of Institutional Diversity and Equity Social Justice Awards. The most insidious aspect of this campaign is how academic and other groups regularly portray Ressa as a free speech advocate.

The DJ Who Brought America Weird Al, Tom Lehrer, and 'Cows With Guns'
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: Reason
After 55 years, Dr. Demento has finally retired from the airwaves. When Barret Hansen, better known as Dr. Demento, recently ended his weekly show, he had spent 55 years spinning weird, silly, or otherwise strange songs on the radio or online. No mere fringe figure, he was an influential figure in American comedy and one of the most important cultural libertarians of his era. That might seem far-fetched to people who grew up in a post-SNL, post-Seinfeld world. But in the early 1970s, all that lay in the future. Television shows still had to pass strict censorial review to be aired, and the same code policed much of what could be heard on mainstream radio. Hansen's program pushed against those strictures.

‘His Side’: New book debunks male privilege, gives platform to men in a women’s world
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: The College Fix
Helen Smith, a licensed psychologist with over 20 years in the field with an emphasis in clinical and forensic psychology, has published a new book: “His Side: Men Speak Out on Dating, Marriage, and Life in America.” Released in February, it offers a follow-up to her book that came out in 2013, ” Men on Strike.” No longer is it a “man’s world,” and Smith weaves together dozens of interviews of men from all ages and walks — their thoughts, struggles, concerns and experiences — to paint a picture of what it’s like for them in today’s landscape that casts men as misogynists and portrays masculinity as toxic and something to be shunned.

Harrison Ford urges ASU grads to fight for social justice
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
...after his generation left world 'a real mess'. [Ed: disappointing.] "Your generation has far more power than you may realize, and if you harness that power ... the world will not be able to ignore you. You will have to be accommodated." Speaking at Arizona State University’s graduation ceremony held earlier in May, actor Harrison Ford, who received an honorary Doctor of Arts and Humane Letters from the university, told the graduation class of 2026 to "extend social justice" and honor "nature’s authority."