Biological male who identifies as female wins Miss Maryland USA competition



Bailey Anne Kennedy is the "first trans woman" to win the Miss Maryland USA competition, the pageant said. A "transgender female" is a biological male who identifies as female.

The pageant added that Kennedy also is the "first Asian-American" to win the title, the first to "capture the crown at age 31," the first "married woman to win the crown in 67 years," and the "first military officer's wife."

'I knew that it was going to mean a lot for all the LGBTQ kids out there who might feel like they don’t belong in a box — like me growing up.'

Kennedy posted the following message June 2 on Instagram after the win:

Not everyone has to agree with the spaces that you occupy, and it doesn’t mean that you aren’t worthy of these opportunities. The work that I will do for the remainder of my life is to make sure that children who feel like me will never have to worry about the consequences of being who they are by simply being myself and being a positive contribution to society.

For the longest time, I never had the need to tell anyone. Not because it’s a secret, but it’s none of anyone’s business. To those who matter to me, they don’t care. Those that care about knowing such private & personal details, don’t matter.

I can’t wait to start my reign and get back to the USO office and start serving lunches & personally thank our active duty service members like I originally plan to yesterday because that’s what actually matters to me.

In an interview with Maryland-based station WDVM-TV — also known as DC News Now — Kennedy said the victory was a "whirlwind because I knew it was bigger than me. I knew that it was going to mean a lot for all the LGBTQ kids out there who might feel like they don’t belong in a box — like me growing up.”

Kennedy also felt support from the “sisterhood” of women in the competition, WDVM also noted.

The new Miss Maryland USA noted to the station the hope that the victory "will open up some doors, open up some hearts for people to see that there are many aspects of [the] LGBT community out there, and I hope I can be a positive contribution to society in making a difference like the USO program like I’m working with.”

The Daily Mail said Kennedy "married her military husband less than a year ago" and is now looking to compete for the Miss USA title in August in Los Angeles.

Newsweek said conservatives who've spoken out against Kennedy may have forgotten that former President Donald Trump in 2012 overruled a Miss Universe pageant ban of a transgender contestant. Trump at the time owned the Miss Universe Organization, and Miss USA is part of it.

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High school bans girls from girls' locker room after some object to changing with 'biological man'



On "The News & Why It Matters," BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales and guests Jorge Ventura and John Doyle discussed the latest blow to women's rights, as almost an entire girls' volleyball team have been forced out of their own locker room to accommodate one transgender student.

A Vermont high school banned the girls' volleyball team from using their locker room after several team members objected to having to change clothes in front of a transgender teammate. Families were told that under state law, transgender students can use whatever locker room they "identified with."

The dispute began after the trans student allegedly made an" inappropriate comment" while the girls were dressing, team member Blake Allen told WCAX-TV. Allen made it clear that she does not object to having the trans student on the team or at school, but is uncomfortable with "biological boys" in the girls' locker room.

The school reportedly told families that the school has “plenty of space where students who feel uncomfortable with the laws may change in privacy.” But according to Allen, "They want all the girls who feel uncomfortable, so pretty much 10 girls, to get changed in a single stall bathroom, which would take over 30 minutes. Where if one person got changed separately, it would take a minute, like no extra time."

Now, the school is conducting an investigation into allegations that the girls harassed the transgender student.

“I feel like for stating my opinion, that I don’t want a biological man changing with me, that I should not have harassment charges or bullying charges. They should all be dropped,” Allen stated.

"This is absolute madness," Sara asserted.

"I think this is just like male excellence, you know?" John said facetiously. "At all ages, boys just like to conquer things, and you saw all this nonsense in the latter half of the 20th century, 'Oh, Title 9, we want to play sports, too,' and now the boys are just taking those locker rooms back. And we're taking the sports teams back, and we're winning the championships again, and you just love to see it."

"On a more serious note, this is the true patriarchy," Sara interjected. "Literally, men are replacing women in every single thing. That literally is the patriarchy that [leftists] keep warning us about. It's here, and you're supporting it."

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Transgender woman rejected by every sorority at U. of Alabama: 'I’m sad because I wanted to be a part of a sisterhood'



A transgender woman was rejected by every sorority at the University of Alabama during student recruitment, the New York Post reported, citing social media posts from the student in question.

What are the details?

Grant Sikes earlier this week wrote on Instagram about being passed over by each of the college's nearly 20 sororities.

“Unfortunately, this chapter is closed. This recruitment journey is over for me,” Sikes wrote. “Being dropped from my last house this morning during primary recruitment at the University of Alabama doesn’t come as a surprise considering out of the almost 20 chapters ... I was dropped by every single one except 2 before day 1.”

Sikes added, "I’m hopeful of a future where everyone is welcomed for just being themselves — everywhere. If you are going through a hard time today, remember that life is too short to ponder on the things lost. Choose happiness & always look for the positive things throughout life. Move on. See the good. See the bad. Hope for the best. Brave the worst.”

Sikes received nearly 36,000 likes for the Instagram post as of Wednesday morning.

In a TikTok video, Sikes called the unanimous rejection "extremely upsetting" and added that "I’m sad because I wanted to be a part of a sisterhood and, more than that, a community.”


The TikTok video got a decidedly bigger reaction, garnering nearly 190,000 likes and more than 6,300 comments since it was posted earlier this week.

In fact, Sikes' TikTok videos documenting the recruitment journey got millions of views during Alabama Rush Week, the Post said.

The paper added that Sikes isn't the first transgender student rejected from a Greek Life organization, noting that Adam Davies was rejected by all 12 sororities at Northwestern University in 2017.

Anything else?

Commenters on Sikes' above TikTok video offered a variety of reactions:

  • 'I'M PACKING MY BAGS & HEADING TO ALABAMA," one commenter wrote. "I’m ready to riot."
  • "Can I say genuinely as a queer person [who] went through Greek life, it’s is extremely homophobic and not a safe space," another commenter wrote. "You deserve better!!!"
  • "Y’all better keep this same energy for all the other girls that got cut!" another commenter told fellow commenters. "Nothing against Grant, but there are plenty of other girls in the same spot."

Public school teachers reveal they work with administrators to ignore the pronoun and name preferences of students' parents



Elementary school faculty were caught bragging about ignoring requests from parents to refer to them by their given names and pronouns.

In late April, the virtual “Creating and Sustaining GSAs in Elementary Schools” meeting saw Katy Butler, a second-grade public school teacher at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy in San Francisco, California, ask her fellow panelists a question concerning pronoun use when referring to their students.

The Daily Mail reported that Butler asked the panel, “What should we do if a parent requests that we refer to their child by the pronouns associated with their sex assigned at birth instead of their preferred pronouns, and that we use a legal name instead of a student’s chosen name?”

Butler, the creator of Gender Inclusive Classrooms, the group that organized the panel, subsequently opened the floor to the other three panelists, who were all staffers at public schools across the country.

One panelist, Kieran Slattery, a fifth-grade teacher in Massachusetts who co-created Gender Inclusive Classrooms with Butler, proceeded to tell the forum that he ignores instructions given to him by parents.

Slattery, who teaches at Jackson Street Elementary, said, “So, I can respond with something that I’ve done. This came up for me – it’s come up in a couple different ways – but it's come up for me where caregivers asked. I actually refer to their child’s name … using the name they asked to be referred to and their chosen pronouns, and caregivers reacted very strongly.”

Slattery continued by saying that parents “followed up with me and the principal, and said, like, ‘I know you were using a different name than my child’s given name at birth and the pronouns we gave them, and I’m respectfully asking that you use the name and the pronouns that we gave them.’”

Slattery also said, “The laws in every state are different … and I can’t speak to the laws in everyone’s particular state, but I will say – again, the resources that we’ll give you after this have some helpful sites where you can look up what the rules are for your state.”

He indicated that before he proceeded with subverting the wishes of his students’ parents, he checked with school administrators to ensure they would support him in his quest to push gender ideology unto his students.

Slattery said, “Before I responded to the caregiver, I made sure I ran it by my principal and my superintendent just to make sure that they had my back.”

Transgender female psychologist worries that the trans trend among teens has 'gone too far,' argues that peer pressure, social media influencing them



Erica Anderson — a 71-year-old transgender clinical psychologist who specializes in counseling transgender youth — has helped hundreds of teens gender-transition, the Los Angeles Times reported.

But Anderson also has been outspoken in questioning the noticeably rapid rise in teenagers over the last several years who insist they're transgender, the paper said.

What are the details?

Anderson told the Times that some trans-identified kids are falling under the influence of their friends and social media — and added that some in the medical field are failing to give teens rigorous mental health evaluations before recommending hormones or surgeries.

"I think it’s gone too far,” Anderson told the paper. “For a while, we were all happy that society was becoming more accepting and more families than ever were embracing children that were gender variant. Now it’s got to the point where there are kids presenting at clinics whose parents say, ‘This just doesn’t make sense.’"

Anderson — who began male-to-female hormone treatments at age 58 after decades of gender struggles — wondered several years ago if the rise in transgender youth really was just about disappearing social stigmas, the Times said.

“I think a fair number of kids are getting into it because it's trendy,” Anderson noted to the Washington Post in 2018, adding that "I'm not sure it's always really trans. I think in our haste to be supportive, we're missing that element. Kids are all about being accepted by their peers. It's trendy for professionals, too."

Noticing that some teens jumped from gender-questioning to trans to nonbinary to gay — and many battled anxiety, depression, autism, bipolar disorder, and other mental health issues before desiring to transition — Anderson believed something else was going on, the paper added.

Then the pandemic happened.

More from the Times:

As millions of teenagers across the U.S. went into quarantine in 2020, Anderson found herself meeting more and more parents who were startled when their children came out as trans. The UC San Francisco adolescent gender center where she worked saw a total of 373 new patients last year — up from 162 in 2019.

The teens tended to tell similar stories: They were in online school, had a lot of time on their hands and were spending more time on social media. TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, and even video games, allowed teens to craft virtual identities that they could then try out in the real world.

Online, a stream of transgender influencers and activists told teens that if they felt uncomfortable with their bodies, or didn’t fit in, maybe they were trans. Some coached kids on how to bind their breasts, how to change their name and pronouns at school, how to push their parents for testosterone.

“To flatly say there couldn’t be any social influence in formation of gender identity flies in the face of reality,” Anderson added to the Times. “Teenagers influence each other.”

Last fall Anderson granted an interview to Abigail Shrier, author of the controversial 2020 book "Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters," the paper said, adding that Anderson told Shrier too many doctors were rushing teens into medicalization and that “sloppy healthcare work” would result in “more young adults who will regret having gone through this process."

Pushback

Many in medicine don't agree with Anderson and say teens are capable of deciding what their gender should be without psychological assessments gumming up the works.

“Being trans or gender diverse is not a mental illness, and compulsory psychotherapy is not the standard of care in the gender-affirming medical model,” Dr. AJ Eckert — medical director of the Gender and Life-Affirming Medicine Program at the Anchor Health Initiative in Stamford, Conn. — told the Times.

Eckert — the state's first out nonbinary trans doctor — added to the paper that “forcing transgender and gender diverse youth through extensive assessments while their cis peers are affirmed in their identity without question conveys to [them] that they are not 'normal.'”

Eckert also told the Times that peer pressure isn't behind the spike in youths saying they're transgender: "Is it trendy to be one of the most marginalized and vulnerable groups?"

Patients in Eckert’s program aren't required to go through therapy, the paper added.

Anything else?

“Giving over to hormones on demand will result in many more cases of poor outcomes and many more disappointed kids and parents who somehow came to believe that giving kids hormones would cure their other psychological problems,” Anderson told the Times. “It won't.”

Here's a video of Anderson arguing against the notion that any form of psychological counseling for teens who saying they're transgender represents an attempt to change their minds:

Is Gender Therapy Conversion Therapy? With Dr. Erica youtu.be

(H/T: Hot Air)

'I’m not a vet, but I know what a dog is': Woke man debates woman on female biology in defense of trans swimmer Lia Thomas. It doesn't go so well for him.



He may as well have said, "Don't let your lying eyes deceive you."

Because the proof was right there in front of a decidedly woke man and a refreshingly un-woke woman who were seen on video arguing in the bleachers about transgender swimmer Lia Thomas — a biological male who identifies as female — who was at that very moment, in the process of destroying the competition at the NCAA women's swimming championships Thursday.

What are the details?

As Thomas was far out in front of female swimmers in the 500-yard freestyle preliminaries — the University of Pennsylvania athlete later won the NCAA finals in the event amid booing — the pair appeared to be in the middle of a debate. The woman asked the masked man, “So you’re saying that his body is the same as the girls in the pool?”

The man argued back: “Every body is different.”

“No, no," the woman replied. "So, you’re saying he doesn’t have male organs?”

He? Uh oh. That's on the left's list of fighting words. The guy then dutifully corrected the woman's misgendering, saying "she" with some emphasis in reference to Thomas and adding that the woman was "twisting words."

“I’m a woman; that is not a woman,” his adversary declared. “Do you have ovaries?”

Apparently uncomfortable answering the question, he tried to turn the tables on her: “Can I ask you a question?”

Then out it came: “Are you a biologist?”

(Read: If you haven't been trained in an accredited institution of higher learning in the biological sciences and don't work full-time as a biologist, then you have no authority to say what a man is or a woman is. Because science.)

“Oh my god, don’t be ridiculous!" the woman shot back. "I’m not a vet, but I know what a dog is. You rely on stupid arguments because you don’t have an argument. I’m not an astrophysicist, but I know what space is.”

The guy — who may have been the captain of his high school debate team, we're checking on that — quietly replied, “Yeah, but that doesn’t mean you know how space works. I’m happy to have a real conversation with you if you'd like.”

The woman had enough: “If you don’t think this is going to destroy women’s sports, if this is alright with you, then I’m sorry, but it’s insane. Absolutely insane.”

\u201cI\u2019m not a vet but I know what a dog is.\u201d \n\nA clash of views as Lis Thomas races ahead at the NCAA 500 freestyle prelims.pic.twitter.com/X9J5yzmozd
— Madeleine Kearns (@Madeleine Kearns) 1647545714

Anything else?

Thomas, who was favored to win the 500-yard freestyle, finished that championship race in 4:33.24 — the fastest time in the NCAA this season, the 11th fastest time in NCAA history, and 16th fastest time ever, SwimSwam said.

The second-place finisher — Emma Weyant, a University of Virginia freshman — clocked a career-best time of 4:34.99. But that wasn't enough to eclipse Thomas, who beat Weyant by almost two seconds and more than a full body length. Not incidentally, Weyant won the silver medal in the 400-meter individual medley at the 2020 Olympic Games — long before Thomas was making national headlines.

Thomas on Friday qualified for the NCAA women's final in the 200-yard freestyle, which is scheduled to take place at 6 p.m. EST.

Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas booed on podium after winning NCAA women's championship race — but runner-up receives loud cheers



Controversy continued for transgender swimmer Lia Thomas — a biological male who identifies as a female — after winning the women's 500-yard freestyle at the NCAA championships Thursday in Atlanta.

Thomas, who was favored to win the race, finished in 4:33.24 — the fastest time in the NCAA this season, the 11th fastest time in NCAA history, and 16th fastest time ever, SwimSwam said.

What are the details?

But when the swimmers stood on the podium and an announcer named them, the crowd gave second-place finisher Emma Weyant of the University of Virginia decidedly loud cheers and applause.

And then right afterward, when Thomas' name was announced as the NCAA champion, the cheers died down noticeably — and quite a bit of booing was audible:

NCAA- As winners are announced crowd goes wild for 2nd place winner of the 500Y Freestyle. \n\nCrowd goes quiet as Thomas is announced first place.pic.twitter.com/fh5sVvlVxc
— Sav (@Sav) 1647556390

According to SwimSwam, someone yelled, “Cheater!” while Thomas was on the block prior to the race. During the race, the outlet said Save Women’s Sports founder Beth Stelzer entered the arena with a large black flag with text saying “Save Women’s Sports.” Stelzer tried to hang the flag over a railing, but an event staffer asked her to remove it "because it was blocking the railing," SwimSwam reported.

When Thomas finished the race, the outlet said someone in the crowd shouted, “He’s a man!" while some spectators began a “protect girls' sports” chant.

Weyant, only a freshman, clocked a career-best time of 4:34.99 in the 500-yard freestyle — but that wasn't enough to eclipse Thomas, who beat Weyant by almost two seconds and more than a full body length. Not incidentally, Weyant won the silver medal in the 400-meter individual medley at the 2020 Olympic Games — long before Thomas was making national headlines.

In addition, Thomas declined to speak at a press conference after the race, even though NCAA media guidelines state that "champions of each individual event and relay are required to participate in a press conference in the interview room shortly after the conclusion of their event (following awards podium and optional warm-down swim)," SwimSwam said.

The outlet said the chair of the NCAA Swimming and Diving Committee declined to comment on Thomas bowing out of the press conference, adding that it will be discussed at a committee meeting set to take place in a few weeks.

Outcry building

Thomas' win also spurred more outcry from those against the University of Pennsylvania transgender swimmer competing against biological women.

Tennis legend Martina Navratilova — a vocal opponent of transgender women competing against biological women in sports — suggested that trans athletes like Thomas get an asterisk next to their names.

“The solution perhaps for now is [for Thomas] to swim in another lane, or you can compete, but you don’t get the medal because the [NCAA] rules are not correct,” Navratilova told NewsNationNow. “Right now, the rules are what they are. Maybe put an asterisk there if she starts breaking records left and right, and if Lia goes to the Olympics because she’s hitting her prime now physically.”

Outkick's headline on the matter reads, "Virginia freshman Emma Weyant cheated out of a national championship by Lia Thomas."

The on-camera interview below drives home the point:

Virginia Tech swimmer competing in this year\u2019s NCAA championship details how her teammate was brought to tears after her place in the finals was taken by Lia Thomas:pic.twitter.com/mow56mVp1W
— Sav (@Sav) 1647554286

Lia Thomas — a biologically male swimmer who identifies as female — favored to win two NCAA women's championship events this week



Lia Thomas — a biological male who identifies as female — is favored to win a pair of women's swimming events at the NCAA Championships this week.

What are the details?

The transgender University of Pennsylvania athlete has been at the center of controversy for the last several months in regard to biologically male athletes who identify as females competing against biological women.

Thomas, 22, set several records at the Ivy League Championships last month with victories in the 100, 200, and 500-yard freestyle women's events, Fox News said. In fact, Thomas finished a whopping seven seconds ahead of the second-place swimmer in the 500 freestyle:

Lia Thomas is the @IvyLeague champion in the 500 free. Her time of 4:37.32 is a new pool record.\n\nCatherine Buroker finishes in second.\n\n#FightOnPennpic.twitter.com/ki2SQdxn6Q
— Penn Swimming & Diving (@Penn Swimming & Diving) 1645141245

Thomas also is favored to win the 200 women's freestyle at the NCAAs, Fox News said, adding that Thomas also may upset in the 100 freestyle as the the 10th-seeded swimmer.

The NCAA updated its transgender policy in January, deferring to guidance in each sport’s governing body, Fox News said. USA Swimming updated its policy shortly after requiring transgender athletes competing at an elite level to show testosterone levels equating to half of what Thomas was allowed to compete with for at least 36 months before being eligible, the cable network added. However, the NCAA decided weeks later that it wouldn’t alter its testosterone guidance, stating that "implementing additional changes at this time could have unfair and potentially detrimental impacts on schools and student-athletes intending to compete in 2022 NCAA women's swimming championships," Fox News said.

A mixture of outrage and support has followed Thomas ever since the swimmer began making headlines several months ago:

Anything else?

The women's NCAA swimming championship events begin Wednesday. Here's the schedule for individual events in which Thomas is competing:

  • 500-yard freestyle (preliminary, 10 a.m. Thursday; finals 6 p.m. Thursday)
  • 200-yard freestyle (preliminary, 10 a.m. Friday; finals 6 p.m. Friday)
  • 100-yard freestyle (preliminary, 10 a.m. Saturday; finals 6 p.m. Saturday)

Transgender woman who wants to leave Ukraine rips country's transphobia, says 'there's no way Ukrainian border people can let me through'



A transgender woman living in Ukraine wants to get out of the country amid the Russian invasion, but Zi Faámelu's passport says "male" — and the 31-year-old noted to CBS News that "there's no way Ukrainian border people can let me through. There's no way."

What are the details?

The Ukraine State Border Guard Service reportedly announced last week that men ages 18 to 60 are prohibited from leaving the country. But Faámelu may not be granted entry into a neighboring country anyway because of the mismatch between Faámelu's legal sex and lived gender, LBGTQNation said.

"This is not a very rainbow-friendly place. ... Lives for trans people are very bleak here," Faámelu noted to CBS News. "If you have a male gender in your passport, they will not let you go abroad. They will not let you through."

The LGBTQ community has become more accepted over the years, but the network said it's more complicated for transgender people.

Demonstrators rally in Mykhailivska Square, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine, during Trans*March 2021 pro-transgender procession. Yuliia Ovsiannikova/Ukrinform/Barcroft Media via Getty Images

LBGTQNation explained it's not easy for transgender Ukrainians to get updated passports, as Human Rights Watch said they're likely still required to undergo psychiatric observation and gender-affirming surgery to update their documents.

“I don’t want to go through that. This is like, humiliating for the world…. I decided to keep my passport, keep male in my passport, and now I cannot leave this country,” Faámelu noted to CBS News. “[It’s] a war within a war, truly.”

'I'm literally scared for my life'

The network said Faámelu — who lives in Kyiv, which has been barraged by Russian military forces — is running out of food and hasn't left home for days.

"A few hours ago I heard bombings and my windows were shaking. ... I'm literally scared for my life," Faámelu added to CBS News.

What's more, Faámelu told the network that transphobia is the norm in the city and in neighboring countries, and fears that if that trying to leave will increase the chances the transgender woman will be treated violently.

"Many people have guns and weapons. ... It can be an excuse for violence," Faámelu told CBS News, adding, "This is a very scary situation."

CBS News added that Faámelu also was a popular contestant on the Ukrainian singing competition show "Star Factory."

Anything else?

Adding to the difficulty are Faámelu's parents, who live in Crimea, the network said — and, according to Faámelu, don't believe Russia has invaded Kyiv: "They are literally brainwashed. The world sees the picture, but they are simply blind in this case. My parents think it's all fake, that we bomb ourselves, that we try to create some drama."

Transgender woman in Ukraine says she's trapped in Kyiv, scared for her life amid Russian invasionyoutu.be

Transgender woman to portray transgender best friend of Batgirl in live-action movie. 'What a stunning, brave triumph!' one observer quips.



A transgender woman has been cast to portray the transgender best friend of Batgirl in the HBO Max movie of the same name — and it will be the first time an openly transgender character makes an appearance in a live-action movie adaptation of a DC Comics title, Variety reported.

What are the details?

Ivory Aquino of “Tales of the City” and “When We Rise” will play Alysia Yeoh in the “Batgirl” movie, the magazine said.

The Yeoh character first appeared in a 2011 issue of “Batgirl” written by Gail Simone and drawn by Ardian Syaf, Variety said, adding that the movie also stars Leslie Grace as Batgirl/Barbara Gordon, J.K. Simmons as Gotham City police commissioner Jim Gordon, Michael Keaton — reprising his role as Batman/Bruce Wayne — and Brendan Fraser as the unspecified main villain.

Aquino previously starred in cisgender female roles before publicly coming out as a transgender woman during a promotional tour for "When We Rise," in which she portrayed transgender activist Cecilia Chung, according to Seventeen.

Variety noted that there have been "several strides in broadening LGBTQ+ representation in superhero adaptations over the past few years, especially on television," mentioning that the CW series “Supergirl” included the first trans superhero on TV in "Dreamer," and the superhero’s sister came out as a lesbian during Season 2. Variety added that the CW’s “Batwoman” character "has always been a lesbian" and that the animated DC series “Harley Quinn” ended its second season with Harley and Poison Ivy falling in love. In addition, the magazine said the title character in the 2021 Marvel Studios’ Disney Plus series “Loki" revealed he is pansexual, and the movie “Eternals” included the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first same-sex couple.

What was the reaction?

Not everyone commenting on Variety's story about a transgender woman portraying the transgender Yeoh character in "Batgirl" was thrilled:

  • "Stunning AND brave!" one commenter replied sarcastically. "It’s going to be SO successful, and what’s even better is that when it’s not, then we can call people bigots and biased! What a stunning, brave triumph! 'It’s time we talked about trans-Batgirl!'"
  • "Creepy," another commenter offered. "For this idea to even enter into a person's thought process shows a mental defect. Every single one of these woke movies bombs at the box office yet they still keep pumping them out. Very odd."
  • "They ruined Supergirl with this, so why not Batgirl," another commenter stated.