Drag Camp for kids, a 'Trans Day of Vengeance,' and more cowardice from the left

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Here’s what you may have missed:

Carla Duda was raised in a fundamentalist, patriarchal religion wherein girls and women had no autonomy, and were viewed only as an extension of man — Adam’s rib. She escaped as a girl, seeking freedom and rights, only to find, as an adult, women were having to fight all over again.

Upon encountering a modern attack on women’s rights in the form of gender identity ideology, Carla writes:

“I had lived this before. Humans with rational faculties will abandon reason, sacrifice their own family members, and subscribe to outrageous and harmful ideas in order to maintain their position in the tribe.

I watched from the sidelines as women were deconstructed into non-entities, and children were set upon by those determined to dismantle immutable categories dictated by nature. I sat in a terrible mix of fear and lethargy until I could not anymore.”

She offers an important warning: never become complacent. Never take your rights for granted.

In the news:

Seven women are suing the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority for admitting a man into its sorority. Artemis Langford (previously known as Terry Smith) became the first trans-identified male to be admitted into a sorority at the University of Wyoming in 2022. The lawsuit states that “Smith is 21 years old, is 6 feet, 2 inches tall and weighs 260 pounds” and reportedly watched members of the sorority house with “an erection visible through his leggings.” Langford/Smith has “not undergone treatments to create a more feminine appearance.”

A flyer advertising a “Trans Day of Vengeance” scheduled for April 1 in Washington D.C. circulated online last week but was called off on account of “astronomical amounts of hate from the world.”

Notorious pornographer Paul Little, known as “Max Hardcore,” died at 66 years old from septic shock and pneumonia. For more on Little’s sadism, I highly recommend the Beyond Fantasy series produced by Exodus Cry and Benjamin Nolot. Episode three looks at Hardcore porn and Little in particular. It is incredibly disturbing but tells a necessary truth consistently denied by pro-porn advocates.

Carousel Theatre in my hometown of Vancouver is offering a “Junior Drag Camp” for ages 7 to 11 and a “Teen Drag Camp” for ages 12 to 17 in July. This is particularly depressing to me as I remember attending numerous Carousel Theatre productions as a child, and spent endless summer nights in Granville Island dreaming of becoming a star of the musical theatre, ever jealous of the kids who were lucky enough to be part of the program. As a Top Progressive city, Vancouver unsurprisingly has embraced everything queer culture, from trans activism to drag for kids, but that doesn’t make this anymore rational. Why kids need “drag” training I do not know.

Last week, longtime leftist and Canadian feminist, Judy Rebick, published an article at Rabble (the site that censored my critique of the degendering of language specific to women, causing me to resign way back in 2016, if you recall), apologizing for having supported Vancouver Rape Relief (VRR) in their fight to maintain a woman-only space and collective, many years ago. Rebick was apparently pressured by her leftist comrades into rejecting the “TERF” label, and pledging her alligiance to the trans lobby, explaining she had been “ignorant” but since reeducated. This week, Lee Lakeman, founding member of VRR, has responded.

Until next week!