The Distance News: 17 July 2022
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The Distance News: 17 July 2022
Inaugural edition of our weekly news update
Here in the United States, the big news this week is that on Friday, a federal judge blocked the Biden administration from plans to impose Genderism on local school systems across the country through federal funding mandates.
The proposed changes to Title IX would eviscerate women’s sports and spaces. Predictably, the usual media organizations are whining that the world’s most vulnerable minority needs the “protection” of these rules. The male athletes with genderfeelz just want to “participate” in sports, you see, and only a meanie would tell them ‘No, you must compete fair and square against other males.’ ONLY A MEANIE!
After all, if a mediocre male athlete like Lia Thomas is not allowed to strut around the women’s locker room with a “euphoria boner” from smashing women’s swimming records, then are any of us truly free? TRULY free?? DON’T BE MEAN!
Attorneys general representing 20 states that have recently passed laws against male sports cheats in lipstick sued the Department of Education to block the new guidance on two grounds.
First, they argued that forcing teachers and schools to use bespoke pronouns is a First Amendment violation, and second that the guidance violates the 10th Amendment, which delegates powers to individual states.
Such arid legal language is necessary because “YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME WITH THIS BULLSHIT” is not accepted as a valid argument in courtrooms, unfortunately.
Judge Charles Atchley of the Eastern District of Tennessee heard arguments in the case last November. Sarah Campbell, a former associate solicitor general for Tennessee, argued that the new guidance “rewrites federal anti-discrimination laws” that the states are equired to enforce, violating the Administrative Procedure Act.
In other words, Biden broke the law to change it in ways that would never get past Congress, and in fact would reverse the way Congress wrote Title IX in 1972. “That’s not how lawmaking is supposed to work,” Campbell said.
Judge Atchley agreed. “As it currently stands, plaintiffs must choose between the threat of legal consequences — enforcement action, civil penalties, and the withholding of federal funding — or altering their state laws to ensure compliance with the guidance and avoid such adverse action,” his decision says.
Atchley also called out the Biden administration for inappropriate application of the ruling in Bostock v Clayton County two years ago.
Whereas the Supreme Court clearly wrote that their decision was to be applied on a very narrow basis, Biden’s White House has seized the opening to make laws say whatever they want about “gender.”
Of course, Judge Atchley is a Trump appointee, and these are Republican state AGs, so none of this truth will register with any of the people cheering for men who wear lipstick and cheat at sports.
To them, this is all about meanness, and meanies being mean.
Across the pond, the big story this week is that Kemi Badenoch has leapt far ahead of the field in the Conservative Party leadership race.
Penny Mordaunt, the Tory MP who began last week as the front-runner to replace Boris Johnson, stumbled over her past enthusiasm for the Gender Recognition Act, which would allow any man to simply declare himself female and cheat at sports as much as he pleases.
A child of Nigerian immigrants, Badenoch has consistently opposed efforts to impose “gender neutral” bathrooms and “self-ID” policies in government.
According to those with much better information than me, Badenoch still faces an uphill struggle despite the enthusiasm of the rank-and-file. Nevertheless, this is a teaching moment for politicians in the western world: go woke, go broke.
Her position also makes it likely that Conservatives will choose a woman to lead them for the third time. Meanwhile, the Labour Party has yet to put a women or a nonwhite person at the head of their party, ever.
Speaking of the UK, women, and “diversity,” the Critical Drinker has watched the previews for the new HBO Tolkien series and finds it to be an insufferable example of where Hollywood goes wrong writing female characters anymore. Is it a coincidence that, just as “woman” is being redefined to include men, so many on-screen women have become one-dimensional figures and Mary Sues? I think not.
France: “Trans activists,” a.k.a. violent angry men, tore down a memorial collage for victims of “shaken baby” sydrome because it didn’t center trans people
UK: BBC presenter Justin Webb has apologized for interviewing notorious transgender fighter Fallon Fox, saying he did not know the MMA fighter has bragged about breaking a woman’s face in the ring. Normally, pre-interview research is essential, but of course someone being “trans” means we must all ignore the usual rules in every department
Australia: Giggle.com founder Sall Grover has given birth to a healthy baby girl, which she can do because biology is real
Norway: Christina Ellingsen, a feminist currently awaiting trial for saying true things to a man, was interviewed on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show. Worth noting: one in three of Carlson’s regular viewers are registered Democrats
