Gender Identity

“This week, approximately 150 parents and pupils (mostly girls, the footage suggests) staged a protest against enforced ‘gender neutral’ uniforms outside a high school in Sussex, England. Piers Morgan, the presenter of Good Morning Britain, who attended the school in question, tweeted, ‘The protesting parents & students have my full support. This whole gender neutral craze is out of control.

“In a brief filed with the Supreme Court, the Department of Justice said they believe transgender discrimination is not prohibited by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v.

“In the document, the Pope is quoted as saying that Gender Theory ‘denies the difference and reciprocity in nature of a man and a woman and envisages a society without sexual differences, thereby eliminating the anthropological basis of the family.’” - Christian Post

“Even priestly advocates for LGBT Catholics noted that the text appeared to have relied entirely on previous papal pronouncements, Vatican documents and philosophers and theologians.” - Fox

“Every lawmaker will soon have to confront this bill and its biological denialism….We hope and believe that all Americans will show compassion and genuine love for the transgendered persons they know or meet. It is wrong to mock or belittle people for being different. That said, biology is what it is.” - W. Examiner

“The judges in the Netherlands will probably rule against [Emile Ratelband]. But if they believe that sex has no objective reality, that the sex on one’s birth certificate can be changed, on what grounds can they rule that the date of birth cannot be changed?” - National Review

“The administration’s proposal ‘may sound controversial, but it is not,’ Andrew Walker of Southern Baptists’ Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission wrote in an Oct. 23 commentary.” - BPNews

(Related: Nancy Pearcey - Science Wins: Trump Administration Proposes Transgender Policy Based on Biology)

“An Oregon County Court has granted a Portland resident’s request to be designated ‘genderless.’ The 27-year-old video game designer has been granted the right to change his name to ‘Patch,’ only one name, and to be designated as ‘agender,’ meaning no gender.”

The Public Discourse: Public schools have a duty to serve all children, but a school cannot serve children and a totalitarian ideology all at once.

Businesses that don’t respect and accommodate an individual’s chosen gender identity risk incurring six-figure fines under rules implemented by the city’s Commission on Human Rights.

Gender 101: The List