Category: LGBQT
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Bacon Bits: More Mad-As-Hell Stories
Ditch the name, keep the money. The University of Richmond recently removed the name of T.C. Williams from its law school because he owned slaves, even though, his descendants say, he contributed to the demise of slavery. Now the same descendants are arguing that the university should refund the money Williams donated to the institution…
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Parents’ Rights Under Assault in Richmond
by Kerry Dougherty HB2091 – SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED: Parental access to minor’s medical records; consent by certain minors to treatment of mental or emotional disorder. Adds an exception to the right of parental access to a minor child’s health records if the furnishing to or review by the requesting parent of such health records would…
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Richmond’s Metzger Bar and Butchery Denies Service to Christian Non-Profit
by The Republican Standard Staff On Wednesday evening, an hour and a half before a reserved Family Foundation gathering in a private room, Metzger Bar and Butchery denied entry and service to the pro-family group, solely based on their political opinions and religious beliefs. “It is alarming and disgraceful that this restaurant has a political…
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The Woke Never Rest… Because It’s Hard to Keep Up
James Madison University already has a Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) program. Now three WGSS professors are proposing creation of an “LGBTQ” studies minor, reports The Breeze student newspaper. The program, which must undergo a lengthy approval process, would give students “access to a quality minor that would give them insight into queer lives,”…
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Wins Defends LGBTQIA+ Performance Artist at VMI
The rhetorical battle at the Virginia Military Institute rages like the Bloody Angle in the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse. In this ongoing war of words, VMI Superintendent Cedric Wins is like the corps commander who wanders dangerously close to the battlefront. Rather than rely upon subalterns and proxies to speak for him, he has waded…
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Time for a Public Debate among Medical Experts on Treatment of Gender Incongruent Minors
by James C. Sherlock When there is significant public interest in complex and controversial topics, it is best to let experts debate in public. Such a topic is why Virginia children’s hospitals and clinics treat gender dysphoric children and adolescents with puberty blockers and cross-gender hormones as a standard practice. And whether Virginia should permit…
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Virginia Not Ready to Criminalize Parents Who Reject Child’s Transgender Identity. Not Yet.
by James A. Bacon Delegate Elizabeth Guzman, D-Prince William, stirred the hornet’s nest when she told WJLA last week that she would reintroduce a bill to expand the definition of child abuse to include inflicting “physical or mental injury” on children due to their gender identity or sexual orientation. Republicans criticized the criminalization of parental…
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Don’t California Our Virginia
by Kerry Dougherty Whatever you do at the ballot box in Virginia, do not return Democrats to power in Richmond. Or anywhere else. You’ve been warned. Leftist Northern Virginia Delegate Elizabeth Guzman (D-Dale City), announced Thursday that she’s re-introducing legislation this year that would protect LGBTQ children from their parents. Chew on that for a…
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UVa Children’s Takes Step Forward in Support to Gender Dysphoric Minors
by James C. Sherlock I congratulate UVa Children’s Hospital for taking a step forward in the treatment of gender dysphoric minors. One of the criticisms of that service was its singular focus on endocrinology. Moving from mental health support to hormone therapy is, as Mayo Clinic warns, a big step. Starting this week, comprehensive services…
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Media Gins up Anemic School Walkouts
by Kerry Dougherty You could almost hear the local media panting Tuesday morning. There were rumors that some Virginia high school students were going to walk out of school to protest the new parental rights policies of the Youngkin administration. You know, the Department of Education regulations announced earlier this month that support the principle…
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Use of Cross-Gender Hormones for Gender Transitions in Minors
by James C. Sherlock In the sometimes murky world of diagnosis and treatment of gender dysphoria in children and adolescents, the following steps generally but not always occur in order, with each potentially serving as an off-ramp: Diagnosis; Mental heath support; Social transition; Puberty blockers; Cross-gender hormones; and, Surgery; often but not always waiting for…
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Slick Selling of Child Gender Transitions at UVa Children’s Hospital
by James C. Sherlock The University of Virginia Children’s Hospital offers a Madison Avenue-quality sales pitch for child gender transition. As written and smoothly delivered, it deflects any reservation parents may have in supporting such transitions by telling them they have been misled or are being selfish or both. It helps parents decide by blaming…
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Parents’ Rights Are On The Virginia Ballot. Again.
by Kerry Dougherty Good news. Virginia’s Democrats have taken the bait. So far at least four liberal school districts in the commonwealth have declared that they will defy Virginia’s Department of Education model policies on parental rights that were unveiled late last week. You know, policies that contain “radical” ideas such as these: “Parents have…
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Parental Rights, My Ass
Attack the most vulnerable and say it’s for everybody. What could go wrong? by Joe Fitzgerald The so-called “parental rights” policies designed to force questioning teens to out themselves to their families would affect perhaps 4,000 students in Virginia, according to the Post. Bringing it a little closer to home, that would work out statistically…
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Youngkin on Fire
by Kerry Dougherty Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is a quick study. In eight short months he learned that there is no pleasing leftists. No matter how cordial you are, no matter how many times you extend your hand, the far left will slap you away if there’s an R after your name. Despite the amiable…