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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is feigning outrage about Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville's protest of the Pentagon's abortion policy.
A transgender woman blasted opponents of Indiana's HB 1041 — a bill that would prohibit biological males from competing in women's sports.
Corrina Cohn, 46, recently appeared before the Indiana House of Representatives and told lawmakers that she believes it is wholly unfair to "expect girls to cede their hard-won rights."
In passionate testimony, Cohn said that as an independent, she voted for members of both Republican and Democratic parties.
"My testimony today is based on my personal opinion as a transsexual," Cohn said. "That is, a person who was born male and used pharmaceutical hormones and plastic surgery to feminize my body so that I appear to be a woman. Despite having these procedures, my sex is male and neither science nor medicine can change that."
Cohn went on to detail her own experience as a transgender woman and used transgender swimmer Lia Thomas as an example of trans activists violating women's sports.
"I began this process as a teenager, and although my testosterone levels have been in the female range for nearly 30 years, male puberty has endowed me with physical advantages such as height, bone structure, and increased lung capacity," Cohn said. "For example, I stand 5’10”, which puts me in the 99th percentile for women’s height. I am just an inch shorter than the elite women athletes in the WNBA. The average male is 5 inches taller than the average female. Banning males from participating in women’s and girls sport would be justified on this basis alone."
Cohn added that it's easy to see the physical advantages that most transgender women have over biological women and noted that Thomas is a beneficiary of great advantage when it comes to competing against biological women.
“If more males like Lia are permitted to compete against women, it will become common to see women marginalized in their own sport category,” Cohn explained. “I have school-aged girls in my family. I know they often need support and encouragement to stick to competitive activities. When boys are allowed to compete with girls in their own sport, that is one more reason a girl has to talk herself out of participating.”
Following her appearance, Cohn told the Daily Signal that "trans activism has become a zero-sum game."
“I am privileged to be able to live my life peacefully and enjoy a wide range of civil rights as a trans person,” Cohn told the outlet on Monday.
Cohn warned, however, that if transgender activists continue to "cannibalize women's rights," the backlash will be "severe."
“I wish that we could all break out of the tribal mentality,” Cohn added. “I feel distressed that organizations like Planned Parenthood have sold out women. ... The trans rights movement has captured organizations which had traditionally supported women’s rights. These groups are now effectively men’s rights organizations.”
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A Wisconsin school district is facing a lawsuit after staff reportedly said they would use a male name and male pronouns for a female student despite her parents' objections.
According to a Wednesday report from the Post Millennial, the parents of a 12-year-old female student are suing the Kettle Moraine School District for violating the constitutional rights of the student's parents by vowing to call her by the incorrect name and pronouns.
The outlet reported that an unnamed 12-year-old student within the district reportedly "began to experience significant anxiety and depression, and also began questioning her gender."
The student's mental health woes began to grow to the point that she required sessions at a mental health center "where she could process what she was experiencing."
"But instead of helping her work through her questions about her gender, the center quickly 'affirmed' that she was really a transgender boy and encouraged her to transition to a male identity," the suit added.
Following the recommendations, the child reportedly prepared for her return to school and announced that she wanted to be referred to with a male name and corresponding pronouns.
Several days before the young girl was to return to school, her parents emailed the school guidance counselor and said that they wanted administrators, teachers, and staff to continue referring to the child by her legal name and regard her with correct biological pronouns.
Two days later, school Principal Michael Comiskey phoned the child's parents and told them that district policy prohibited administrators from complying with the parents' request and told them that they would refer to the child in whatever manner the child saw fit.
In light of the school's decision, the parents were forced to pull their child from the district while the family began seeking out a more appropriate educational venture for their daughter.
The child's mental and emotional condition reportedly continued to decline during the period after withdrawing from school, and she was said to have changed her mind "about wanting to transition to a male identity, deciding instead that she wanted to continue using her birth name and female pronouns."
The suit, filed in the Waukesha County Circuit Court by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty and Alliance Defending Freedom, alleged that the district infringed on the parents' constitutional rights by interfering in their family decisions.
Court documents obtained by the Daily Signal state that the suit "seeks to vindicate one of the most fundamental constitutional rights every parent holds dear: the right to raise their children."
"The Kettle Moraine School District has violated this foundational right by undermining and overriding parents' decision-making role with respect to a major and controversial issue," documents added.
The suit continued, "Specifically, the District has adopted a policy to allow, facilitate, and 'affirm' a minor student's request to transition to a different gender identity at school — without parental consent and even over the parents' objection."
The suit also argued that the district effectively jumped the shark by automatically "affirming" the child's gender dysphoria and sought to encourage it by referring to the child with opposite pronouns.
"[The child] expressed to her mother that 'affirmative care really messed me up,' explaining that the rush to affirm that she was really a boy added to her confusion and fueled anger towards her mother, but after taking more time to process her feelings, she realized her mother had been right to slow down the decision to transition," the lawsuit added.
Kate Anderson, senior counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom, told the Daily Signal that such policies are inherently dangerous because they permit schools to encourage children to "begin transitioning into a gender identity that isn't in accord with their biological sex."
What's worse, Anderson added, is that teachers and administrators don't inform the parents of the child's decision, and "in many cases lie to the parents affirmatively about what their student is doing at school."
"When schools are blocking parents from basic information about their child's healthcare, that prevents parents from doing what's best for their kids and what, constitutionally, they have every right to do to direct the upbringing of their children," Anderson added.
Pastor Ken Williams of Bethel Church in Redding, California, says that members of the LGBTQ community do not need to struggle alone against their sexuality and can, instead, turn to Jesus to deal with their same-sex attraction.
Williams — who is married with four children — details his own personal journey away from homosexuality in his new book, "The Journey Out: How I Followed Jesus Away from Gay."
During an interview with the Daily Signal, Williams explained the traumatic events that took place during his formative years that he said stirred within him a homosexual urge.
"I'm not speaking to the people that are content with an LGBTQ life," he told the outlet's Virginia Allen. "But there are so many that are not fulfilled with that. It doesn't scratch the itch. And so for those that it's like, 'This feels impossible. I feel disconnected from God over it,' I'm telling you, it does not have to be that way."
Williams told Allen that he had a regular upbringing, but always felt he didn't "fit in" with other boys his age because he was smaller and weaker than his peers.
Williams said that he was also exposed to what he referred to as "hardcore gay pornography" while he was playing with a group of friends.
"[W]hat I witnessed caused me to lose respect for males," he said. "Because obviously, I wouldn't describe what I saw but ... it's worse than you would expect. And really, dishonor and degradation is what I witnessed. ... I was already struggling because they mocked me and I was having trouble keeping up."
Williams added that some of those young boys then "initiated some touching."
"They were doing what they saw in those magazines," he continued, "and so now, I'm dealing with shame at a very deep level because I had no intention."
Williams said that he was saved when he was 8 years old, but struggled to reconcile his love for God and what he'd experienced.
"I'm in love with Jesus," he recalled of his 8-year-old self. "I really wanted to follow Him and please Him and all of that, and yet, something entered my life I never expected."
"[W]hen you push masculinity away, I pushed me away," he said. "Consequently, I was constantly looking for me in another male. ... And so that search for finding me in someone else had gotten sexualized because my first sexualization was at the hands of only males."
Williams said that by the time he turned 17, he was already suicidal over what he described as an overwhelming emptiness that permeated through his life.
In desperation, Williams said he turned to his youth pastor and told him everything that had been plaguing him.
"He's like, 'Well, Ken, you're not gay.' And I was like, 'OK, that feels good.' And at the same time, 'Well, what do I do, though?'" he recalled saying.
Williams said that the youth pastor insisted upon having a discussion with Williams' parents — a suggestion to which Williams said he was immediately opposed, but to which he ultimately agreed.
"We just kind of wept and shared and all that," he said. "[M]y life began at that moment. ... [Y]ou'll never know unconditional love until you first share your condition."
Williams said though the admission was a turning point, he continued to struggle with his identity in Christ and as a sexual being, so he began seeing a counselor at 17 years old and spent five years in therapy.
"[I]f God had given directives in Scripture about sexuality, and if He had said that homosexuality is not condoned, it's considered sin, then He must have a solution for it," he added. "Because He's not crazy, He's good. He's not diabolical. So if He says something's wrong, surely, He has a solution."
Williams said that the change didn't happen overnight, but the experience ultimately prompted him to become a pastor.
"[J]ust because I had an experience and I was touched inappropriately and that catalyzed things didn't mean that was who I was," he added. "That didn't mean that was the deepest and truest version of me. Merely, a pathway in my brain was opened up because of what happened to me. And so I was able to just go deep with the Lord and by seeing more of who He was, start to find who I was."
Williams told Allen that he wrote the book for those who "want a way out."
"[F]or those that it's like, 'This feels impossible, I feel disconnected from God over it,' I'm telling you, it does not have to be that way," he insisted. "I can't promise exactly what your future looks like, but I know that God ... does exceedingly, abundantly, above all we can ask or imagine."
Williams added, "[S]o many people try to do this on their own. They don't invite their community into it because they haven't felt safe to. But then we get picked off. The enemy's strategy so often is to isolate us. And then we're not very strong alone. But boy, when we have a community that can build around ourselves intentionally, there are a lot of great people out there that God has that can be a support to us."