New article by J. Cohn in @JConIdeas documents the suppression of debate (including refusal to correct serious errors and misrepresentations) by medical journals such as @NEJM and @JAMA_current. The article is an excellent summary of the debate over pediatric gender medicine.

Say what you want about Ben Shapiro, but he is one of the few voices on the right who actually has the courage to call things as they are, even when it means standing up to his own side. While others tiptoe around “friends” like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens to avoid backlash, Ben does not cower or compromise. He calls out hypocrisy, antisemitism, and moral cowardice wherever he sees it. In an era where too many people care more about protecting alliances than protecting principles, that kind of integrity takes serious backbone.

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I don't know if I can listen anymore, it becomes much worse. "He (the captor) says to me: ‘Listen, if you convert to Islam, we’ll bring you lots of food, you’ll live with us.’ And I told him, ‘I was born a Jew, I’ll die a Jew.’ That's when it got much worse. He came with a note and said, ‘It says here to blindfold you. These are orders from above’ He tied the blindfold over my eyes. Made sure I couldn’t see even a drop of light: tied one shirt around my eyes, and another shirt over it. Now, my bathroom breaks were only three times a day: 9 a.m., 4 p.m., and 9 p.m. It was a nightmare. I had to hold my urine for hours. He also cut down my drinking water to half a liter a day. A week passed — and I was still blindfolded. After a week, he said, ‘There’s another letter. It says to block your ears.’ He came in holding two stones. He took off the blindfold just to show them to me. He was happy, grinning. He said, ‘Look what I brought you. I found these outside, looked for them just for you.’ He pushed one stone into my ear. It didn’t fit well. So he took a nail and started forcing it in with the nail, deeper and deeper. I screamed, but he didn’t care. He kept pushing it in, deeper. Then he moved to the other ear and did the same thing. He left the stones inside, the pain was coming from deep inside. Then he retied the blindfold even tighter, wrapping it on top again. I still have a hematoma here to this day. He tied it as tight as he could. It pressed on me so hard that blood stopped flowing to my head. I could feel pounding in my skull, my brain was throbbing, I could feel my own blood, the pain! I’ve never in my life felt pain like that. It’s pain I can’t even describe. And no food. Not even a pita a day anymore. And that went on for three weeks: blindfolded, no bathroom, hungry, in agony, with stones in my head! Then he came to me again and said, ‘There’s another letter — it says to tie you up and torture you.’” Interview with Rom Braslavski by @HazinorX

Trans person accused of exposing self in woman’s locker room was convicted of brutally beating ex-wife before taking her name trib.al/tFXlJQz

Sixth Circuit (en banc) rules that schools may not compel students to use preferred pronouns. The court notes that compelling pronouns “skews the debate” over trans issues. @DefendingEd brought the case.

Well, The Blaze just hired a “reporter” whose entire beat is, apparently, to demonize a single ethnic group in the US—Indian Americans. “DEI” or “Deport Every Indian,” as he writes. This will end terribly for the GOP, who made substantial gains with Indian voters in 2024.

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🚨BREAKING: Under immense pressure by activists, Washington State University caved and suspended accredited @segm_ebm medical courses critical of pediatric gender medicine. WSU pediatrician Dr. Erica Li has written a courageous open letter to the university’s president. Dr. Li urges WSU to resist political intimidation, defend academic freedom, and protect the university’s highest mission: the pursuit of truth. Read the full letter at the link below. 🔗realityslaststand.com/p/dear…

I don't know of any Jews who would take offense that a Christian decided not to participate in a Shabbat dinner due to a sincere faith conviction. We Jews should be--and most Jews are--happy to see young men and women live their lives according to their Christian faith.

Expect a lot of coverage of the new mayor-elect in the coming days @CityJournal. First up: If you want to know what the mayor of New York can actually do, there's only one person to ask: @danielgolliher.

"It’s worth stating up front that transgender identity is not an endocrine disorder, and sex-trait modification (“gender-affirming care”) is not intended to treat any physical pathology. However, transgender-identified people may develop endocrine disorders as a result of the hormonal or surgical interventions."  -- @LeorSapir in @CityJournal  city-journal.org/article/ins…

Interesting thread

Yes. Teen Vogue. When I was an adolescent, these magazines focused on fashion and entertainment. And all we had to worry about were the messages telling us we had to look a certain way, and that there was something wrong with our bodies. Oh, wait...

Perfect

ICYMI: my latest @CityJournal deals with the use of false “endocrine disorder” diagnoses when billing for gender medical procedures, the field’s admission that this is what they’re doing, and the inevitable crackdown by the Trump administration.

@benshapiro's letter to the WSJ: The GOP Mustn’t Give the “Groypers” an Inch wsj.com/opinion/ben-shapiro-… via @WSJopinion

This morning, I tendered my resignation from The Heritage Foundation's task force on combating antisemitism. I wrote: I cannot in good conscience stand with Heritage or continue on the task force under its current auspices. I have great respect for all of you, and I consider many of you personal friends. And at the urging of the Co-Chairs, I was prepared to defer this decision at least until we could get important questions answered about the future of Heritage and the conservative movement. But then Roberts made his statement at Hillsdale last night. It is a strategic non-apology that doubles down on “loyalty” to Tucker Carlson, muses about welcoming groypers and the groyper-curious into the movement, and continues to gaslight everyone about “cancelation” when that clearly isn’t the issue. It is the elevation of blind loyalty and a thirst for power above principle—the very opposite of historical American conservatism. I cannot tread this path with you. The stakes for our country and for our Jewish friends are simply too high, too existential. I welcome efforts, already underway, to reconstitute some part of this auspicious group and continue the important work of stewarding our American freedoms, combating antisemitism, and renewing the great Judeo-Christian spirit of our civilization. I will continue to pray for Heritage, its personnel, and its trustees, particularly Dr. George [@McCormickProf].

Besides the disappointing absence of clownfish, I felt this paper missed an important explanatory opportunity to discuss the Black Indigenous Queer Palestinian origins of mammalian biology. Grade: C-