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Last week, Twitter locked the account of The Daily Citizen, Focus on the Family’s news outlet. What heinous crime did The Daily Citizen commit that justified this ban? It reported on President Joe Biden’s decision to nominate transgender Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine (born Richard Levine) for assistant secretary of health at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The outlet went on to describe Levine as “a man who believes he is a woman.”
“On Tuesday, President-elect Joe Biden announced that he had chosen Dr. Rachal Levine to serve as Assistant Secretary for Health at the Department of HHS. Dr. Levine is a transgender woman, that is, a man who believes he is a woman,” the tweet read.
The Human Rights Campaign sounded the alarm about anti-transgender legislation in statehouses coast-to-coast during a recent news conference. These bills are not designed to solve a problem, Alphonso David, a gay man who is HRC s president, said at the outset of the January 28 virtual event, which was billed as a preview of the 2021 legislative landscape. Like the bathroom bills, they are being passed to score political points. . They lost on marriage, they lost on the bathroom bills and they will lose here as well.
Of particular concern to David is House Bill 112 in Montana, which is advancing in the Treasure State s House of Representatives. The bill which bisexual and queer HRC state legislative director Cathryn Oakley cited as among the most dangerous in the country would prohibit trans women and girls from female school sports teams.
One of Mr. Biden’s first acts in office was to abolish what he called the “offensive, counter-factual 1776 Commission” that Mr. Trump had set up to try to restore “patriotic education” at national parks and in schools across the country.
“Unity and healing must begin with understanding and truth, not ignorance and lies,” Mr. Biden said Tuesday when announcing more of his racial justice agenda.
Historians have criticized the 1776 Commission’s report, released last week, as lacking critical context and glossing over slavery and the mistreatment of Native Americans as part and parcel of the American story.
Mr. Gonzalez challenged Mr. Biden to point to any specific inaccuracies in the panel’s work.
Christina Crenshaw is a recurring lecturer at Baylor University. | Twitter/CrenshawPhD
The student newspaper at a prominent Christian university has apologized for calling a professor s comments transphobic after she criticized President Joe Biden s executive order allowing biological males who identify as females to compete in women s sports.
Christina Crenshaw, a recurring lecturer in the English Department at the Waco, Texas-based Baylor University, faced criticism from students at the Baptist college as well as the student newspaper after retweeting a tweet from Daniel Darling, senior vice president of communications for the National Religious Broadcasters. Darling described Biden s executive order on transgender issues and the expected overturning of the Mexico City policy on abortion as anti-science and bad for human flourishing.
The Democratic president said he wanted to ensure equal treatment under the law by directing federal agencies to eliminate discrimination in guidances and policies, while critics predicted that the endgame would be the effective eradication of women’s restrooms, prisons and athletics.
“Unfortunately, the Biden administration wasted no time in demanding policies that gut legal protections for women by denying female athletes fair competition in sports, ignoring women’s unique health needs, and forcing vulnerable girls to share intimate spaces with men who identify as female,” said Christiana Holcomb, Alliance Defending Freedom legal counsel.
Abigail Shrier, author of “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters,” tweeted that Mr. Biden “unilaterally eviscerates women’s sports.”