Sam Ponder’s Termination: Budget Cuts Or Silencing Dissent?

Jim Hoft – ESPN, majority owned by The Walt Disney Company, has fired Sam Ponder, the popular host of Sunday NFL Countdown.

The network officially cited budget cuts as the reason. This decision comes on the same day the network also severed ties with former NFL quarterback Robert Griffin III.

Both terminations have been described as part of ESPN’s efforts to balance its books before the fiscal year concludes at the end of September, according to The Athletic who first reported the news. Continue reading

Nurse Threatened by FBI for Exposing Child Sex Change Clinic

Nurse Threatened by FBI for Exposing Child Sex Change ClinicSean Adl-Tabatabai – FBI agents threatened a nurse in Texas after she exposed the Texas Children’s Hospital’s ongoing and abusive child sex change operations.

The nurse, Vanessa Sivadge, alerted journalist Chris Rufo last year that the hospital’s child gender clinic was still wrongly diagnosing very young children with “gender dysphoria” and recommending surgical options days after Texas AG Ken Paxton ordered it shut down.

“In the cardiac clinic, we were taking sick kids and making them better,” Sivadge said at the time. “In the transgender clinic, it was the opposite. We were harming these kids.” Continue reading

End of Gender-Neutral Toilets In UK Public Buildings

UK Govt To Make Single Sex Toilets Compulsory In All New Public BuildingsNiamh Harris – Separate male and female toilets are set to become a legal requirement in all new restaurants, public toilets, shopping centers and offices in England under proposed legislation, the UK government has said.

The law would affect England only and applies to all new buildings as well as existing premises that undergo a material change of use.

Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch said that the legislation will end “the rise of so-called ‘gender-neutral’ mixed sex toilet spaces, which deny privacy and dignity to both men and women. Continue reading

Research: Majority of Children Overcome Gender Dysphoria Naturally

Sean Adl-Tabatabai – A 15-year study has concluded that nearly all children who experience gender dysphoria grow out of it and go on to feel comfortable with the gender they were born with.

The landmark study, carried out in the Netherlands by researchers from the University of Groningen, involved over 2,700 children, tracking them from age 11 to their mid-twenties.

The Daily Mail reports that every three years, participants were asked how they felt about their gender. Continue reading

Arkansas Bans Use Of ‘X’ On Drivers Licenses

Arkansas Bans Use Of ‘X’ On Drivers LicensesLeif Le Mahieu –  Arkansas Republican Governor Sarah Sanders made a significant announcement on Tuesday, stating that the state would no longer permit the use of “X” as a gender marker on driver’s licenses and state IDs.

Instead, these forms of identification must now specify the individual as either male or female, in accordance with the gender listed on their birth certificate.

The Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration (DFA) will be responsible for implementing this change. This move effectively rescinds previous administrative procedures that allowed for an “X” designation in lieu of male or female on state-issued IDs. The gender on the ID must now correspond with the gender on the resident’s birth certificate. Continue reading