Report reignites suspicions would-be Trump assassin wasn't working alone
The New York Post recently published a report suggesting that the July 13 attempt on President Donald Trump's life in Butler, Pennsylvania, may not have been solely the work of Thomas Matthew Crooks but rather the doing of a "criminal network" that has benefited from alleged efforts by law enforcement to suppress critical information about the shooting.
Dana Kennedy, a reporter who previously worked at CNN and MSNBC, did her apparent best to justify the Post's claim of an exclusive by speaking to various people who knew Crooks. The report hinged, however, on a well-established theory, this time restated by a Pennsylvania private investigator who has reportedly done some digging in Butler.
Doug Hagmann told the Post that he was hired by a private client to look into the assassination attempt shortly after the deadly rally and has been working the case for several months with a team of six other investigators.
After interviewing over 100 people and conducting geofencing analysis of cellular devices not belonging to Crooks that were detected at his home, the rifle range where he practiced, and at the high school where he graduated two years prior to the shooting, Hagmann concluded, "We don't think he acted alone."
Various individuals who spoke to the Post characterized Crooks as a happy and "nerdy" individual — as someone whose transformation into a killer must have been private and possibly even nurtured.
'This took a lot of coordination.'
Mark Sigaroos, one of Crooks' friends from high school, told the Post, "It's presented like an open-and-shut case like, 'Oh, he went crazy,' but it doesn't really add up. It's like JFK. Do we think we've become so modern that wouldn't happen again?"
Xavier Harmon, a teacher who taught Crooks in his computer technology class at Steel Center for Career and Technical Education for two years, said Corey Comperatore's killer "was the quirky, funny little guy who also loved to excel in class. When he was finished, he'd always go back and help his classmates. He was very intelligent."
"I don't think he set out to kill the president," said Harmon. "My guess is, he messed with the wrong individuals about what they were going to do and it was different from what he thought it was going to be. Anyone planning to do this would leave some sort of breadcrumbs. But there's nothing — no paperwork, no itinerary, no even [him] going to websites to [research]."
Jim Knapp, a recently retired guidance counselor at Crooks' high school who also knew the shooter's parents and sister, told the Post, "I believe evil exists in the world and the devil caused him to snap. Something got into his brain and controlled it. The devil fed on him and got him, hook, line, and sinker."
Hagmann suggested that it would have taken more than Crooks and his inner demons to pull off the shooting.
"This took a lot of coordination," said Hagmann. "In my view, Crooks was handled by more than one individual, and he was used for this [assassination attempt]. And I wouldn't preclude the possibility that there were people at the rally itself helping him."
Hagmann, who claims on his website to be a "former informational and operational asset for the FBI and US Department of Justice," is no stranger to coordinated operations at political rallies. Apparently an associate of at least one Jan. 6, 2021, provocateur who managed not to get arrested, Hagmann reportedly directed elements of his team at the U.S. Capitol to "breach the chambers" on Jan. 6, 2021, while broadcasting his weekday show, "The Hagmann Report."
The former FBI asset also told the Post that one of the electronic devices that his geofencing analysis indicated had traveled with Crooks to several different places around the time of the attempted assassination is still live and pinging at Bethel Park High School, which Crooks attended until his graduation in 2022.
Hagmann is neither the first to suggest that Crooks may have been groomed nor the first to track mobile devices linked to Crooks, his known associates, or the places he frequented.
'I'd need as little as three days to prep him for the specific operations.'
Blaze News investigative reporter Steve Baker, who has reported extensively on the Butler shooting with Blaze Media investigative reporter Joseph Hanneman, indicated that their sources have been sounding the alarm about the likelihood of handlers for several months.
"Our sources, which are all intelligence community and Department of Defense special operations guys, all tell us that everything about the Butler incident screams that Thomas Crooks was groomed and could not have done what he did alone without preparation," said Baker.
A top-tier U.S. military special operations expert told Blaze News in July that "a 20-year-old with no military or government training doing so many things correctly — range finder, drone, recon, turning off his phone — had to have been 'groomed' into this process. He was likely paid by some government or dark money source."
"I don't think he went rogue or was a rogue operator," the expert said. "I've seen and been involved in these types of ops for too many years. He had instructions."
The expert further indicated that a single special operator can easily train or groom about eight to 12 youths in short order.
"Depending upon the op, I'd need at least nine months for the source vetting and grooming, but I've done it in as little as six months," said the expert. "Then I'd need as little as three days to prep him for the specific operations, after the requisite number of months of grooming."
"I don't know anyone in the intelligence community who believes that Crooks did this on his own," Baker told Blaze News Thursday, adding that a number of special operations experts have told him that when reviewing the Butler case, they recognize their "own handiwork" customarily conducted overseas.
Hagmann's geofencing insights into devices in Crooks' orbit are no more novel than his theory about handlers or co-conspirators.
The Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project revealed last year that it flushed out some of the would-be assassin's connections through an "in-depth analysis of mobile ad data to track movements of Crooks and his associates. To do this, we tracked devices that regularly visited both Crooks's home and place of work and followed them."
"We began this investigation on the night of the shooting," an Oversight Project spokesman told Blaze News last year. "We've been working 24/7 since then."
The Oversight Project noted that one frequent visitor to the Crooks household had also paid a visit to the Gallery Place complex in Washington, D.C., in June 2023 — "in the same vicinity of an FBI office."
Former FBI Special Agent Kyle Seraphin told Blaze News that while the location was home to various retail stores and restaurants, there were offices of the FBI on the upper floors. Oversight Project investigators indicated that the phone associated with the ID number detected in D.C. likely did not belong to Crooks but rather someone who visited him at home.
Another device, this time linked to Crooks' work, traveled from the shooter's home in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, to Butler on July 4 and 8 — just days before the shooting. The device apparently went silent on the eve of the Trump rally.
'The people who do this kind of thing don't talk.'
Hagmann insinuated that there may be a cover-up under way, stating, "One can assist in an operation like this by omission or standing down. There are people still out there involved in this case that need to be brought to justice."
Blaze News reached out to Hagmann for comment about his conclusions and his past ties to federal agencies but did not receive a response by deadline.
Kennedy also did not respond to Blaze News' request for comment regarding the exclusive nature of her piece or Hagmann's inputs.
Baker cast doubt on whether the change of leadership at the FBI will mean greater transparency about Crooks' radicalization and the possibility that the bureau may have had been involved.
"Everybody thinks that Kash Patel is going to open a file drawer somewhere and he's going to pull the names of dozens or hundreds or thousands of agents that have been involved in the assassination attempts of Trump and the solicitation of violence at the Capitol on January 6," said Baker. "I'm just telling you right now that's not going to happen. In order for a conspiracy to be successful, it has to be very compartmentalized, with very few people in the know."
"I hope that we do find out. I hope it is revealed," continued Baker. "But the reality is that, as I said, the circle of people in the know will be so small. There will be no paper trail. And the people who do this kind of thing don't talk."
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School district helped student declare herself homeless so she could move in with teacher later accused of 'grooming': Report
A school district in Colorado is accused of assisting an underage high school student to lie on a federal form to declare herself homeless so that she could move in with her female teacher, who later was accused of "grooming" the student, according to a report.
What's more, the KCNC-TV report said counselors at the high school kept the parents of the 17-year-old girl in the dark about the situation involving Leann Kearney, now a former social studies teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton.
'Ms. Kearney takes interest in helping kids navigate their sexuality.'
The girl — who reportedly was a straight-A student and captain of the swim team — allegedly developed an inappropriate relationship with Kearney as early as her sophomore year in 2018.
The report said the Jefferson County School District assisted the girl with declaring herself homeless — even though she was living with her parents. The student allegedly told school administrators that she didn't feel as though her home was safe. High school counselors purposely kept the girl's parents in the dark about their daughter declaring herself homeless, according to school emails obtained by KCNC through an open records request.
"There's this icky feeling that something is wrong, and as it progressed, it only got worse. Not a single person stood up and said something doesn't seem right and reached out to the parents," said Heather McCormick, a friend of the girl's mother.
The mother of the girl only found out about her daughter declaring herself an "unaccompanied minor" after discovering paperwork under her daughter's bed.
“If my friend hadn’t found the homeless paperwork under the bed, this would’ve remained sealed," McCormick said.
The student requested that she be placed in Kearney's care, according to school district documents.
The concerned mom continued to investigate why her daughter wanted to move out of her family's home and in with her teacher. Then the mother reportedly discovered that her daughter had exchanged approximately 20,000 text messages with her teacher. She also found a handwritten note from 2021 detailing her daughter "kissing" the teacher, according to the documents and a sheriff’s report, the New York Post said.
'While we have taken every step to remove this former employee ... and prevent her from working in another educational setting ... we recognize this is of little comfort to the family. ... We deeply regret how profoundly this violation has affected their family.'
The teen's mother brought the phone records and the note to Scott Christy, principal of Columbine High School, who reportedly said he was "aware of the situation."
The mother claimed that Christy dismissed her by saying, "Ms. Kearney takes interest in helping kids navigate their sexuality."
The mom allegedly sent Kearney a message warning her to stop contacting her daughter, and the mother hounded the school district to take action against the teacher.
Eventually, the school district launched an investigation into the allegations and then issued a statement at its conclusion: "Obviously, the student did not meet the criteria to be considered homeless, and the staff involved in this isolated incident were addressed as part of the investigation as the proper channels in place were not followed."
The statement continued, "While we have taken every step to remove this former employee ... and prevent her from working in another educational setting ... we recognize this is of little comfort to the family. ... We deeply regret how profoundly this violation has affected their family."
Kearney reportedly quit her teaching job two years after the accusations first surfaced, and the state eventually stripped Kearney of her education license. According to the Post, the revocation document described her behavior as "grooming."
After the student turned 18 years old, she reportedly moved to Oregon with Kearney.
KCNC in its news video showed a report from the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office about the teacher's interactions with the student.
The following is the sheriff's office's response Wednesday to Blaze News, which asked the agency why criminal action was not taken against the teacher.
This case was assigned to an investigator and has been investigated to the extent possible without the permission or involvement of the juvenile (now an adult) involved in the matter. The case remains open, with the intent to investigate further if the potential victim decides to participate in the investigative process at any point in the future. At this time, we do not have sufficient evidence to pursue criminal charges in this case. Should new information become available, or the potential victim chooses to engage in the investigative process, we will reassess the situation accordingly.
McCormick stated, "It's really scary to think there are schools and teachers and administrators that are working behind your back and not in the best interest of your child."
The school district told KCNC that it now has policies in place that ensure this type of situation never happens again.
When asked if the school district would have acted differently if Kearney were a male teacher, McCormick responded without hesitation: "Oh, absolutely."
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Ex-student who impregnated teacher at 13, now an adult, wants her sexual assault charges dropped: 'I started everything'
An alleged sexual assault victim — who reportedly was only 13 years old when he impregnated his teacher during an illicit relationship — has come forward to call for the child sex crimes charges against the New Jersey woman to be dropped, according to a report.
The Daily Mail said it spoke to the former student — who is now an adult — and noted that he indicated that criminal charges against his former teacher should be dropped.
'I love her with all my heart. She was there for me and my family.'
"They need to drop all charges," the alleged victim said. "I wasn't groomed or raped or manipulated by her. She never initiated anything. I started everything."
He continued, "If it was up to me, she wouldn't have been in jail. It's been six or seven years. I'm 19, about to be 20."
His former teacher — 34-year-old Laura Caron — delivered a baby in 2019.
Caron is a fifth-grade teacher at Middle Township Elementary School, which is located in the community of Cape May Court House on the southernmost tip of New Jersey.
Caron taught the alleged victim and his brother, according to police.
As Blaze News reported last month, the purported victim's mother allegedly became friends with Caron. The mother let the boys and their sister stay at the teacher's house so she could take them to school.
An affidavit states that the children's father "explained that it began with 1 or 2 nights a week and eventually the children stayed with Caron permanently, from 2016 to 2020."
During Caron's first court appearance last month, the judge reportedly described Caron as a "resource family parent" for the children.
The sister of the alleged victim reportedly told investigators that the children would sleep in a shared room on the second floor of the teacher's house. However, the sister reportedly noticed that her brother sometimes was in Caron's bed the next morning.
WPVI-TV reported that the sister would see Caron enter the bathroom when the alleged victim was showering and lock the door behind her.
The alleged victim's brother told investigators that he witnessed Caron sexually assaulting his brother at a time when the two believed he was asleep.
'This stuff is so deep. Like the world has no idea what she has done for my family.'
According to court documents, the sister told investigators that she believed her brother was about 11 years old when suspicious incidents began happening.
However, the alleged victim in the Daily Mail interview rejected any suggestion that the purported sexual abuse happened when he was 11 years old and described the accusations as "crazy."
Caron delivered her baby in 2019 — when the alleged victim was 13 years old and she was 28.
Police launched an investigation into the teacher after the alleged victim's father reportedly made an eyebrow-raising post on Facebook in December 2024. The alleged victim's father pointed out that there was an uncanny similarity in appearance between himself, his son, and the newborn baby.
Caron was arrested on Jan. 15 and charged with aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault, and endangering the welfare of a child.
She faces more than 10 years in jail if convicted.
The legal age of consent in New Jersey is 16 years old. However, it is illegal for teachers or anyone with a “duty of care” over children to have sex with minors of any age, according to Prevent Child Abuse New Jersey.
Part of Caron's bail conditions include having no contact with her baby's alleged father.
The alleged victim recently told the Daily Mail that the court order has been "a lot" for him.
"I can't talk to them. I wish I could, but I can't, and it sucks," he stated.
The teen said the issues started with his father's Facebook post and that he is now estranged from his dad.
"This stuff is so deep. Like the world has no idea what she has done for my family," he said. "I love her with all my heart. She was there for me and my family."
Middle Township School District Superintendent Dr. David Salvo stated, "When the district was first advised of the allegations, the staff member was immediately placed on and continues to be on paid administrative leave."
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Trump-hating WaPo Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, who mocked Republicans as 'groomers,' arrested on child porn charges
A long-time Washington Post cartoonist has been arrested in California on child pornography charges, according to authorities.
According to Sacramento Sheriff's Office records, 49-year-old Darrin Bell was arrested on Wednesday at his south Sacramento home. Bell is being held at the Sacramento County Jail on $1 million bail.
'Donald Trump, like his friend Jeffrey Epstein, is a predator who grooms his victims.'
The Sacramento Bee reported that Bell was charged with suspicion of possession and creating child pornography.
The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office said in a statement that law enforcement was tipped off to possible child sex crimes by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
The sheriff's office said an individual had uploaded 18 files of child sex abuse material.
Police said the child porn files led them to an account "owned and controlled" by Bell. Investigators said they discovered a total of 134 child pornography videos on Bell's account.
Detectives executed a search at Bell's home, where they recovered the illicit files but also AI-generated child porn.
Officials noted that this was the first arrest by the Sacramento Valley Hi-Tech Task Force/Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force involving the possession of a computer-generated/AI CSAM. The law to charge individuals with AI-generated child porn went into effect on Jan. 1, 2025.
According to a LinkedIn profile, Bell was a member of the Washington Post Writers Group for nearly 20 years until March 2023. The profile shows that Bell is currently a cartoonist at King Features Syndicate — a unit of the Hearst Corporation.
Bell was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2019.
The Washington Post featured a profile of Bell in June 2023, which highlighted him having "the talk" with his three young children about racism and police violence against black people.
Bell regularly attacked Donald Trump in his cartoons, including an image depicting the president-elect attempting to grope the Statue of Liberty and several that compared him to Adolf Hitler.
When Trump was re-elected, Bell wrote: "Convicted felon, rapist, con-man and white supremacist Donald Trump decisively defeats Kamala Harris to become the 47th president of the United States. And this time he won the popular vote. The voters in the USA chose this Neo-Confederate president with their eyes open."
Bell said of Trump in February 2024, "He’s a racist, treasonous, autocrat-admiring career criminal and rapist. Being desperate to stop him from getting back into the White House is the normal reaction that every decent person should have."
In October 2020, Bell wrote on the X social media platform: "Donald Trump, like his friend Jeffrey Epstein, is a predator who grooms his victims. He’s grooming his supporters to refuse to accept any election outcome other than a Trump victory. And he’s grooming the rest of us to tolerate whatever he & red states may do to flip results."
In a cartoon titled "The Groomer," Bell drew the GOP's elephant and had the Republican symbol cornering young children and exposing itself to the kids.
In one of his cartoons, Bell compared rabid Trump supporters using the term "groomer" to Nazis.
Grooming is when a sexual predator builds a relationship with typically a child, but it can be an adult, to abuse and exploit them by manipulating them to reduce the risk of them being caught.
Another one of Bell's cartoons spotlights the sexual assault accusations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
In 2011, Bell wrote on the X social media platform: "To a child, 'rape' & 'rapist' are merely words. If you explain it calmly it's simply a lesson. A valuable one."
Bell is also known for his comic strip “Candorville,” which features three childhood friends.
Bell is scheduled to appear in court on Jan. 17.
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Jordan Peterson drills down on problems with multiculturalism amid renewed fury over mass rape of British girls
Outrage about the systematic mass rape of British girls by Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs and about politically correct authorities' failure to hold the pedophilic rapists accountable is mounting once again, reignited in part by the leftist Starmer government's rejection of a call for a formal public inquiry into child exploitation in the Greater Manchester town of Oldham and by Elon Musk's efforts to highlight past governmental failures.
Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson and Natalie Winters, co-host of Steve Bannon's "War Room," joined Piers Morgan on his show Tuesday to discuss the combined effort by the media and law enforcement to cover up the mass rapes in order to avoid anti-Muslim sentiment.
Morgan, like his guests, vociferously condemned both the Muslim rape gangs and woke authorities' cover-up of their crimes; however, later in the episode, he attempted to argue that multiculturalism was not to blame. His argument was quickly chewed up.
At the outset, Morgan — no fan of Islam critic Tommy Robinson — credited Robinson with "bang[ing] the drum about the rape gang scandal for a very long time" and played a clip of the activist's 2011 interview with former BBC broadcaster Jeremy Paxman, in which he suggested the scandal had been ignored because the impact was largely absorbed by working-class Britons: "Do you know anyone who's been murdered by a Muslim gang? You probably don't. I do. Do you know any 15-year-old girls that ... you've grown up with that have been raped or pimped? You don't — so I don't expect you to understand the issue."
When asked to explain why Britons felt compelled to downplay or ignore the rape of white, predominantly working-class British girls, Peterson broke the issue down into "four bins of complexity" around the issue:
- "The first is the racial divide that typifies the crimes. So it's Pakistani Muslim immigrants and white working-class young girls. So there's a racial, ethnic, and religious divide that is part and parcel of the crime."
- "Then there is a class issue in the U.K. with regards to the victims and also the whistleblowers like Robinson."
- "Then there's the meta-problem of the difference between Islam and Christianity [and] the additional problem that psychopathic sadists use religious justification to camouflage and justify their crimes."
- "Then there's the problem of open borders and immigration and the progressive presumption that all cultures, no matter their difference, are valuable in their diversity and can be integrated peacefully into society at ... an indefinite rate."
Adding right-left politics atop the mix, Peterson noted "that's an absolute bloody rats' nest."
While recognizing the complexity of the issue, Peterson offered an apparent critique of multiculturalism, suggesting that sexual misbehavior and other undesirable social traits are everywhere default traits that have been uniquely rejected by the historically anomalous West.
"Like the default position for an unguarded woman worldwide and throughout history has been 'rape target,'" said Peterson. "That's the norm, not the civilized conduct that generally obtains between men and women even in public on the streets in the West."
'Multiculturalism makes no demands of the incomer to integrate.'
"40 out of 50 Muslim-majority countries in the world are authoritarian hellholes, and only three of them are democracies," Peterson noted later in the interview. "There are certainly doctrines in Islam that are very, very difficult to square with free, liberal, Western, Christian democracies, and those differences aren't just apparent — they're deep."
Peterson also pointed out that "100% of Protestant- or Catholic-majority countries outside of Africa are highly functional democracies. 100%. 6% of Muslim-majority countries are democracies, and they're not in the highly functional category."
After Peterson intimated that the multicultural project in the West has meant the admission and tolerance of populations for which sexual misbehavior and other barbaric practices are the norm, he indicated that the cover-up of the scandal was the result, in part, of fear of leftist political backlash and Islamic violence; of the elite's decision to "sacrifice the children of working-class Brits to the moral grandstanding of their progressive elitism"; and to the woke establishment's expertise in "identifying individuals and bringing reputation-savaging to bear on them in an extremely effective way."
Morgan, apparently still convinced that "multiculturalism has been very successful" in the U.K., asked Natalie Winters late in the episode, "Why should we blame multiculturalism in totality for [the Pakistani rape gang scandal]?"
"I don't really think that tolerance should be the paramount virtue if the disparate cultures that you're importing into said country are cultures that, frankly, I think are conducive to gang-raping of young girls," said Winters, adding that pedophilia was codified in the Quran.
"Our leaders will say that assimilation is racist, it's neocolonial, it's not appropriate to say that cultures that have different values and standards than us need to adopt the shared culture of the country that they're immigrating to," continued Winters.
Elements of the British government have in recent years issued similar critiques of multiculturalism.
Blaze News previously reported that former British Home Secretary Suella Braverman told an audience in Washington, D.C., in September 2023, "Multiculturalism makes no demands of the incomer to integrate."
"[Multiculturalism] has failed because it allowed people to come to our society and live parallel lives in it," continued Braverman. "And in extreme cases, they could pursue lives aimed at undermining the stability and threatening the security of our society. We are living with the consequences of that failure today."
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FACT CHECK: UK Newspaper Cover About Grooming Gangs Is From 2011, Not Recently
A post shared on X claims to show a cover of The Times about grooming gangs from 2025. The Times front page this morning. pic.twitter.com/dnlIOK8heu — Kosher🎗🧡 (@koshercockney) January 6, 2025 Verdict: Misleading This front page is from 2011, not 2025. Fact Check: The controversy about grooming gangs in the United Kingdom was reignited on social […]
UK’s Liberal Gov’t Is Imploding As Mass Rape Scandal Roils Country
'full national inquiry into the rape gangs scandal'
'They want to groom your children': University of Minnesota fronted cash to get 5-year-olds to play with sex-change dolls
The University of Minnesota is facing criticism over attempts to pay to have little kids play with sex-change dolls.
The National Center for Gender Spectrum Health is a radical initiative of the taxpayer-funded University of Minnesota's Institute for Sexual and Gender Health. The stated goal of the center, which is run by World Professional Association for Transgender Health members Katherine Spencer and Dianne Berg, is to "promote the well-being of all people across the gender spectrum (including those who are cisgender, transgender, and gender diverse)."
The NCGSH — which boasts of having secured over $87,000 in grant funding — put out a call in February for "transgender and gender diverse children between the ages of 5 and 10 years old and their parents," asking them to participate in a "hands-on activity to help talk about gender and bodies!"
The flyer noted further that "children and parents will meet a few times in groups with others to play with and give us ideas about the activities" and promised compensation between $20 and $60 per group.
'It's about helping children develop tools to cope with messages in society that could lead to shame.'
The corresponding UM project page indicated that "MyGender Dolls" are "therapeutic tools intended for licensed therapists to use with patients and their parents or caregivers to help children who find it difficult to express themselves."
The dolls that the university was willing to pay to see kids play with, created by a transvestite activist, have "internal sex organs, external genitals, hair styles, clothing, and other accessories" that kids can swap out or "'layer on' to explore who they are."
The Minnesota-based publication Alpha News noted that in the university's video promoting the dolls, a narrator states, "There are lots of different ways to be a girl, a boy, or anywhere along the gender spectrum."
According to a crowdfunding page for the project on the UM website, the NCGSH began development on a MyGender Dolls app so that children could play around with doll genitalia and sex organs at home. Alpha News reported that Rachel Becker-Warner, a so-called "gender care" psychologist at the university, co-developed the app with Berg and transvestite artist Ashley Finch.
Berg told the University of Minnesota Foundation's biannual publication Discovery in the early days of the project that it was important for the dolls to have genitals and reproductive organs.
"It's really important to address the belief, 'I'm not a "real" boy because I don't have these private parts,' versus, 'I am a real boy, whatever my anatomy looks like,'" said Berg. "It's about helping children develop tools to cope with messages in society that could lead to shame."
'This is disgusting and has to stop.'
The dolls are apparently used in some cases to help imagine what their bodies might look like after irreversible mutilations.
"We were able to explore and brainstorm not just what our bodies are able to do now but what we want our bodies to do and look like in the future," said Elizabeth Panetta, an assistant UM professor, referencing her use of the dolls with kids. "We also were able to talk about private parts without it feeling too serious or clinical."
Alpha News indicated that neither UM's sex institute nor NCGSH responded to its requests for comment.
American Principles, a conservative pro-family group, noted on X, "Public universities should not be using YOUR tax dollars to groom children. This is disgusting and has to stop!"
"They want to groom your children," wrote Libs of TikTok. "Parents beware!"
Debbie Dooley, one of the original founders of the Tea Party movement, tweeted, "This is horrendous trying to brainwash young children with the sick transgender ideology."
The Cass Review, the peer-reviewed systematic studies that informed it, and other penetrating studies have made clear that so-called gender science is largely activistic nonsense, such that even the leftist British government felt compelled to recently issue a permanent ban on puberty blockers and to change to how confused children are handled by health professionals.
The Cass Review noted that the narrative upon which activists like those at the NCGSH rely is based on research of "poor quality," demonstrating "poor study design, inadequate follow-up periods and a lack of objectivity in reporting of results."
Berg, co-director of the NCGSH and a co-author of the child chapter of WPATH's Standards of Care 8, appeared in the damning 242-page report about WPATH published in March by Michael Shellenberger's think tank, Environmental Progress, wherein she is quoted as admitting adolescents are not mature enough to understand the ruinous effects or lasting impact of medical sex-change hormones.
Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck discussed the report and WPATH's advocacy for child sex-change mutilations in a special earlier this year.
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LGBT activists lean on Ohio Gov. DeWine to veto Republican bill protecting parental rights
Ohio Republicans successfully passed the Parents' Bill of Rights on the final day of the 135 General Assembly. The bill is now headed to Ohio's Republican governor for ratification.
The usual suspects, enraged by the prospect of increased parental involvement and greater transparency about what children are subjected to at school, are demanding that Gov. Mike DeWine veto the bill. While DeWine demonstrated last December his willingness to spike conservative legislation in the face of pressure from LGBT activists and other radicals, he appears resolved to hold his ground this time around.
The parental rights bill, HB 8, declares that "a parent has a fundamental right to make decisions concerning the upbringing, education, and care of the parent's child." It would broadly require school districts in the state to adopt policies promoting parental involvement in the public school system.
To the apparent chagrin of LGBT activists and other radicals, HB 8 would:
- require that any "sexuality content is age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate for the age of the student receiving the instruction";
- provide parents the opportunity to review in advance any instructional material that deals with sex or sexuality and to opt their child out if so desired;
- require prompt parental notification of any substantial changes in a child's services at school, such as counseling services or monitoring "related to the student's mental, emotional, or physical health or well-being," including requests by a student to identify as a member of the opposite sex;
- ensure that schools cannot inhibit parental access to their kids' education and health records;
- altogether bar school district personnel from encouraging kids to keep information from their parents;
- require school boards to adopt a policy authorizing students to be excused from school to attend a course in religious instruction off school property so long as their parents sign off, arrange transportation, and cover related expenses; and
- require parents to sign off before providing any type of health care service to a student with the exception to emergency situations, first aid, and other services required under state law.
After the bill passed the state Senate on Wednesday in a 24-7 vote, lawmakers in the House voted 57-31 to concur with state Senate amendments to the bill.
In the state Senate, all opposed were Democrats save for one Republican, state Sen. Louis Blessing III. In the state House, Republican state Reps. Jamie Callender, Gayle Manning, and Andrew White joined Democrats in voting against concurrence with the Senate changes to the bill.
DeWine has 10 days to ratify or veto the bill after receiving it.
State Rep. D.J. Swearingen, one of the bill's primary sponsors, noted on X, "This is a win for Ohio's families!"
'Planned Parenthood employees in Ohio public schools [are] disappointed today because they can no longer talk to 8-year-olds about their sexual orientation and gender identity.'
Various non-straight organizations and leftist groups melted down over the successful passage of the bill.
The ACLU of Ohio dubbed HB 8 the "unsafe students act" and demanded that DeWine veto it, complaining that restrictions on content pertaining to sexuality "would potentially put students' safety at serious risk, particularly LGBTQ+ students, and eviscerate the trusted relationships between students and their teachers." The leftist outfit also concern-mongered about the proposed requirement that districts permit students to leave school grounds with parental permission to attend religious classes, suggesting that those who remained at school with fully secular course loads might be bullied.
The Kaleidoscope Youth Center, a minor-targeted LGBT outfit in the state, similarly called on DeWine to veto the legislation, claiming in a statement Thursday that the bill "will make schools less safe and inclusive for queer and trans people."
In its call for a veto, the transvestite activist group TransOhio claimed HB 8 "is a forced outing bill and a harmful curriculum restriction bill" that discriminates against non-straight parents.
Equality Ohio, another LGBT activist organization keen on continued secrecy, likened HB 8 to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' Parental Rights in Education Act but suggested that it "goes even further than its counterpart in Florida by mandating students be reported to their parents if any school employee receives a request from a student to identify as a different gender than they were assigned at birth."
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio, the Ohio Center for Sex Education, Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio, and the leftist Ohio Education Association, a state-level affiliate of the National Education Association, also fear-mongered about the bill.
Such groups might suspect that DeWine could be receptive to their demands because he previously vetoed a critical piece of conservative legislation in the face of a similar pressure campaign. Republican lawmakers had to override his veto to make the Saving Adolescents from Experimentation Act the law of the land, protecting children from sex-change mutilations and keeping men out of women's sports.
However, DeWine has indicated he favors the bill and intends to sign it, reported the Statehouse News Bureau.
"We've been looking at the language, and I've had some suggestions and changes that I wanted to make or additions I wanted to make," DeWine said earlier this month. "I think the additions that I think will be made by the legislature will provide so that I will be able to sign the bill."
"The days of the ACLU and the most fringe voices on the left driving the political debate in America are over. The age of powerful parent voices is here," Aaron Baer, the president of the Center for Christian Virtue, said in a statement. "The CCV-backed Parents' Bill of Rights, which includes important provisions to protect programs like LifeWise Academy and religious released time, tells government bureaucrats across Ohio that parents are in charge of their kids' education and health care decisions."
"And for the Planned Parenthood employees in Ohio public schools disappointed today because they can no longer talk to 8-year-olds about their sexual orientation and gender identity, I have one message: It's probably time to find a new line of work," added Baer.
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