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Trump Announces TRUTH SOCIAL Will Challenge Big Tech’s Dominance: ‘This Is About Saving Our Country’

Former President Donald Trump released a statement explaining how his new social media platform Truth Social is positioned to challenge Big Tech’s dominance, declaring it’s about “saving our country.”

Trump’s spokesperson Liz Harrington shared the statement Monday, which describes the role the newly-formed Trump Media & Technology Group will play in fighting against Big Tech censorship and restoring the free flow of ideas online.

“Last week, I announced the creation of a major new company that will challenge the dominance of the Big Tech giants and Big Media bosses,” Trump said. “Today I want to explain more about what I am doing and why. For me, this endeavor is about much more than politics. This is about saving our country.”

“America has always been a nation of smart, spirited, and independent people who take pride in thinking for themselves. We admire those who aren’t afraid to speak their minds, or go against the tide. Yet suddenly, we find ourselves being censored and dictated to by a small group of self-righteous scolds and self-appointed arbiters of what everyone else is allowed to think, say, share, and do.”

Trump went on to elaborate on the dangerous censorship waged by the Big Tech overlords, including removing him completely from social media while he was president.

“The corruption of these platforms cannot be ignored,” Trump said. “We have fallen far down the ‘slippery slope’ of censorship in our country, and the topics that Americans are increasingly forbidden to debate are among the most important issues of our day.”

“This wildly aggressive censorship and ‘cancel-culture’ is not only un-American—it has direct, real-world consequences. Most obvious are the many catastrophes unfolding under the current administration: the calamitous Afghanistan withdrawal, the disaster at the Southern Border, runaway inflation, and the multi-trillion-dollar socialist spending nightmare, just to name a few. In a country that had free speech and a free flow of information, none of this would ever have happened—and no one understands that better than the people doing the censoring.”

Trump noted how the pervasive censorship has actually led to a crisis of confidence in America’s institutions and even among neighbors, and that Truth Social will seek to restore and preserve the First Amendment online as an inclusive and open platform.

“The more I looked into this problem, the more I realized that to restore free speech, a major new platform would have to enter the market, with an ironclad commitment to protecting vigorous debate from all sides,” Trump said. “But since it is both hard and expensive to build a new platform totally independent of Big Tech’s infrastructure, it would have to be an extremely well-funded, multi-year undertaking. In addition, such a platform would need the ability to rapidly attract millions of users, welcoming not only Republicans to join, but Independents and Democrats as well.”

“It’s a tremendously difficult set of challenges—and I realized I might be the only person in America with the megaphone, the resources, the experience, and the desire to make it all happen.”

“To take on Big Tech censorship, we are creating a ‘Big Tent’ platform: Truth Social. We are inviting people of all political stripes, and all different viewpoints, to come and participate once again in the great American debate. That’s what our country is supposed to be about. Unlike with the Big Tech platforms, there will be no shadow-banning, throttling, demonetizing, or messing with algorithms for political manipulation. We will not be treating users like lab rats for social experiments, or labeling alternative views as ‘disinformation.’ We will not silence our fellow citizens simply because they might be wrong—or worse, because we think that Americans ‘can’t handle the truth.’”

Trump also announced the launch of a new on-demand video streaming platform that will compete with the “woke and politicized” entertainment services like Netflix and HBO.

“It will be as free, vibrant, lively, and diverse as America itself. And Truth Social is only the beginning of our plans. The Trump Media and Technology Group will also be launching an on-demand video streaming service that competes with the increasingly ‘woke’ and politicized ‘entertainment’ programming created by Big Tech and Big Media players. TMTG also sees opportunities to create ‘cancel-proof’ alternatives in other key areas ranging from web services to payment processing.”

“In the end, a small number of powerful people who all think the same and wish to silence anyone who thinks differently cannot be trusted to control almost every major media, technology, and entertainment company in America.”

“I am determined to break their chokehold over the voices of the American People—not just for myself and my own supporters, but for the United States of America!” he concluded.

Truth Social is is expected to have a beta launch next month, followed by a full launch in 2022.

Governor signs major transgender sports bill into law, angering leftists

Women’s and girls’ sports will be reserved for women and girls under a new Texas law denounced by the Biden White House as “hateful.”

On Monday, Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law House Bill 25, which says an athlete’s “biological sex” as determined by his or her birth certificate is the sole criteria for eligibility.

“Women secured the right to vote 100 years ago. We secured the right to equal opportunity in high school and collegiate sports in 1972. Now, biological males are threatening those gains by entering girls’ sports and robbing them of both championship trophies and scholarship opportunities,” Republican Rep. Valoree Swanson, who sponsored the bill, said in a statement on her website. “My colleagues and I are fighting back for women and girls!”

The new law takes effect on Jan. 18, according to The Texas Tribune.

Matt Hill, the White House’s senior associate communications director, attacked the law and others like it in a Twitter post on Oct. 19.

“Our message to young transgender people in Texas and across the country: these hateful bills are bullying disguised as legislation, and @POTUS and our Administration will always keep fighting for the full equality LGBTQ+ folks deserve,” Hill said.

Our message to young transgender people in Texas and across the country: these hateful bills are bullying disguised as legislation, and @POTUS and our Administration will always keep fighting for the full equality LGBTQ+ folks deserve. #YallMeansAll https://t.co/bpb1UwI1KL

— Matt Hill (@MattHill46) October 19, 2021

Swanson said the bill upholds the principles of Title IX, a federal law that prohibits discrimination in education on the basis of sex.

“It’s so very, very important that we protect everything that women have gained in the last 50 years,” she said.

Although critics said there had been no cases reported in Texas in which men or boys who identified as female were taking opportunities away from women or girls, Swanson said there is no need to allow female athletes to suffer, as has happened in other states.

“Our constituents expect us to see problems that are coming, and not wait till there’s a disaster ’til everything falls apart and try to fix it,” she said, according to KXAN-TV. “We don’t have to wait ’til it’s a big problem in Texas.”

Critics have said the transgendered youths cannot cope with the concept that they cannot compete as women even though they are men.

“Because the Texas Legislature has been pursuing these bills, 150% increase in suicide has occurred in the LGBTQ community, predominantly of transgendered kids, because their government does not care about them,” Democratic state Rep. Julie Johnson said.

Rebekah Bryant, the parent of an 8-year-old boy who she identified as her daughter, Sunny, said the bill filled her with remorse.

“I’m feeling very defeated and very deflated right now, and I was sad to tell Sunny because we’ve always filtered her from the badness of all this as much as possible,” Bryant said, according to the Tribune.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, however, said the bill was about fairness, according to KVUE-TV.

“We’re not trying to be against anyone or their lifestyle – that’s their decision. But we also can’t take away the rights of girls and women, and allowing boys to play girls sports is just unfair,” the Republican said.

“Boys can run faster, hit the ball longer if they’re playing softball, hit three-point shots, and rebound better. They can beat girls in track and field, as I’ve said, they can run faster. They can beat them in wrestling – that’s already happened in Texas – because they’re strong. It’s just not fair,” he said.

Female athletes denied scholarships could have their lives impacted, Patrick said.

“I mean, I have boys and girls in my family, kids, and grandchildren,” he said. “Boys have an unfair advantage, and it’s not right that girls might not get a spot on the team, not get a chance to play, not get a scholarship. It’s just not right. And that’s the reason that bill is important to me. It’s the right thing to do for girls and women.”

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

It Wasn’t Just Beagles and Monkeys – Fauci’s NIH Also Funded Medical Experiments on AIDS Orphans in NY City

In August Gateway Pundit contributor Cassandra Fairbanks broke the storyon Dr. Fauci’s use of taxpayer money to torture beagles in barbaric animal testing.

Dr. Fauci funded a study in Tunisia where beagle dogs were eaten alive by parasite-infected flies.

Dr. Fauci also spent over $16 million in taxpayer funds on disturbing “toxic brain injection” experiments on monkeys in 2018.

And Dr. Fauci was more recently caught funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China laboratory blamed for the production and leak of the coronavirus.

Fauci lied about his funding of the lab under oath numerous times.

Now this…

Dr. Fauci’s NIH was also caught funding experiments on AIDS orphans at a New York City hospital in 2004.

The Fauci NIH approved experiments on hundreds of New York City orphans.  Government agencies and pharmaceutical companies used the orphans in deadly AIDS drug trials.

In 2005, the city of New York hired the VERA Institute to form a final report on the drug trials. VERA was given no access to medical records for any of the children used in trials. Their report was published in 2008.

They reported that twenty-five children died during the drug studies, that an additional fifty-five children died following the studies (in foster care), and, according to Tim Ross, Director of the Child Welfare program at VERA (as of 2009), 29% of the remaining 417 children who were used in drug studies had died (out of a total 532 children that are admitted to have been used). [LINK]

The WIKIPEDIA writers cover up all details, as is expected.

No payment or compensation has been paid to any of the children used in the trials, or to their families.

A hospital nurse later spoke out to reporters about the testing. She reported that children would immediately get sick, break out or throw up during the testing.
They were orphans at the Incarnation Children’s Center in New York City.

The ICC Investigation website offers several documents and interviews with children and childcare workers at the hospital who participated in the research.

Note: The investigator credited with exposing this horrific study on AIDS orphans is (or was) an AIDS ‘skeptic’ but his research and interviews were explosive and disturbing.

Thanksgiving 2021 Expected to Be ‘Most Expensive Meal’ in Holiday’s History

The traditional Thanksgiving meal in 2021 is expected to be “the most expensive meal” in the holiday’s history, according to MSNBC.

Host Mika Brzezinski commented on the increased costs of nearly every item used to make a traditional Thanksgiving holiday meal.

“It’s shaping up to be the most expensive meal in the history of the holiday,” Brzezinski said.

“Consumer groups say almost every ingredient in a traditional American Thanksgiving, from the disposable aluminum roasting pan to the pumpkin pie, will cost more. The supply chain crisis, trade policies, labor shortages, weather and inflation are all contributing to higher prices.”

The most expensive item? The traditional Thanksgiving turkey.

“Experts warn that the biggest expense this year will be the turkey. The price per pound is expected to rise above $1.36, surpassing the record benchmark price set back in 2015,” Brzezinski said.

The host also shared her recent personal experience shopping for food.

“You know at the grocery store right now, I mean, everything is up,”  Brzezinski said.

“I was going shopping for my daughter and I’m like, ‘OK, this is, this is different than even a few months ago.’”

Many blame President Joe Biden’s economic policies for the increased food prices and inflation. Some have referred to the changes as “Bidenflation,” as the increases have strongly corresponded with the president’s time in office.

The news comes as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen recently said inflation is not leaving any time soon.

Yellen, who was interviewed on CNN’s “State of the Union” which aired Sunday, dismissed existing supply chain issues as “temporary pains that result from a COVID economy and getting beyond it.”

However, during the program, she also noted that “Americans haven’t seen inflation like we have experienced recently in a long time.”

She was asked when she expects inflation to return to under two percent.

“Well, I expect that to happen next year,” she said.

“Monthly rates of inflation have already fallen substantially from the very high rates that we saw in the spring and early summer. On a 12-month basis, the inflation rate will remain high into next year because of what’s already happened.”

What the CIA Is Hiding in the JFK Assassination

With President Biden succumbing to the CIA’s demand to continue keeping the CIA’s records relating to the Kennedy assassination secret, the question naturally arises: What is the CIA still hiding?

To understand what they are still hiding and why they are still hiding it, it’s necessary to go back to the 1990s during the era of the Assassination Records Review Board — and even further back than that to November 22, 1963 — the day that Kennedy was assassinated. 

People often say that if the CIA and the Pentagon had orchestrated the assassination of President Kennedy, someone would have talked by now. 

That’s just not true. When it comes to murder, people don’t talk. They know that if they do talk, they run the risk of themselves being murdered, maybe their families too. People who participate in murder schemes know that they had better keep their mouths shut or else.

One example is Mafia figure Jimmy Hoffa. We still don’t know who killed Hoffa. That’s because no one talked. Another example is Johnny Roselli, the liaison in the CIA-Mafia partnership to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro. We still don’t know who murdered Roselli. No one has ever talked.

People who talk also run the risk of being prosecuted because there is no statute of limitations for murder. A good recent example is real-estate heir Robert Durst. He was recently convicted of murdering a person twenty-one years ago.

So, it was always a safe bet that the CIA and the Pentagon would be able to keep their regime-change operation in Dallas sealed in secrecy.

However, not so with respect to the fraudulent autopsy that the Pentagon carried out on President Kennedy’s body on the evening of the assassination. When the ARRB released people who had participated in the autopsy during the 1990s, they talked.

As I detailed in my books The Kennedy Autopsy and The Kennedy Autopsy 2 and in my online presentation in our Zoom conference last spring, a fraudulent autopsy was an essential part of the cover-up in the assassination.

The problem that the plotters had, however, is that in order to carry out this part of the cover-up, they had to enlist the assistance of many people within the vast national-security establishment who played no role in the assassination. Since all those people were innocent and mostly unwitting participants to the cover-up, they didn’t have the same incentive to stay quiet as the people who knowingly participated in the assassination itself.

The military did its best to keep everyone quiet by telling the autopsy participants that what they were doing was classified. Everyone in the military knows what that means — people are expected to take classified secrets to the grave with them. Participants to the autopsy were required to sign written secrecy oaths. They were also threatened with court martial or criminal prosecution if they ever revealed what they had done or seen.

As I pointed out in The Kennedy Autopsy, the scheme for a fraudulent autopsy was actually set into motion at Parkland Hospital in Dallas. Immediately after Kennedy was declared dead, the Dallas County Medical Examiner, Dr. Earl Rose, announced his intent to conduct an autopsy on the president’s body, as Texas law required. That was when a team of armed Secret Service agents, brandishing guns, told Rose in no uncertain terms that they would not permit him to do the autopsy. Forcing their way out of Parkland Hospital, they took the body to Dallas’s Love Field, where new President Lyndon Johnson was waiting for it. Johnson then took the body back with him to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, where he delivered it into the hands of the military.

Although the mainstream media always treated all this as normal, given the dominant role that the national-security establishment was playing in Cold War America, it was actually quite bizarre and aberrant. The military never had any jurisdiction or legal authority to conduct the autopsy. At that time, killing a president was not a federal crime. The United States was not at war with any nation state. Kennedy was not killed on the field of battle. His killing was a straight murder case under Texas state law. Any criminal prosecution for the assassination would take place in Dallas. A genuinely honest autopsy would be a critically important part of that criminal prosecution, especially since a sharp team of criminal-defense lawyers would inevitably be defending the accused.

The military was mostly, but not entirely, able to keep its fraudulent autopsy secret for some 30 years, until the ARRB began releasing people who had participated in the autopsy from their vows of secrecy. As the ARRB began forcing the military to release its records relating to the autopsy, the dam of secrecy surrounding the autopsy broke wide open. That’s when the fraud became apparent. That’s why the JFK Records Act was such a nightmare for the Pentagon and the CIA. If it hadn’t been for that law, there is no doubt that the military’s fraudulent autopsy would still be shrouded in secrecy today. 

What the Pentagon and the CIA learned from the era of the ARRB is that the community of assassination researchers is composed of some very smart people. By analyzing the evidence that the ARRB was succeeding in getting released, assassination researchers were able to put together the pieces of the puzzle that established a fraudulent autopsy, along with lots of other pieces of circumstantial evidence establishing that what occurred on November 22, 1963, was a highly sophisticated national-security state regime-change operation.

The leading figure in this endeavor was Douglas Horne, who served on the ARRB staff. Anyone who reads Horne’s five-volume book Inside the Assassination Records Review Board will inevitably conclude that the autopsy that the military conducted on the Kennedy’s body a few hours after the assassination was fraudulent to the core. 

At the risk of belaboring the obvious, there is no innocent explanation for a fraudulent autopsy being conducted on President Kennedy’s body, especially given that the scheme for a fraudulent autopsy was launched at the moment Kennedy was declared dead.

It stands to reason that if a government agency is being forced to reveal records relating to a regime-change operation, that agency is going to keep the most incriminating evidence secret for as long as possible. We still don’t know what the CIA is still hiding, but we can safely assume that there is a good reason why the CIA does not want to let those super-smart assassination researchers get a hold of it. 

That’s why the national-security establishment will fight tooth and nail for permanent secrecy on their remaining JFK assassination-related records. Oh, the Pentagon and the CIA will most likely authorize Biden and the National Archives to release some innocuous records for appearance’s sake. But make no mistake about it: They will make certain that Biden, the National Archives, and all future presidents comply with their demand for permanent secrecy on what they need to hide on a permanent basis.

‘Skirt-Wearing,’ ‘Gender Fluid’ Teen Found Guilty Of Loudoun County Bathroom Rape

Police previously arrested the victim’s father at a school board meeting

The 14-year-old male who donned a skirt and identified as “gender-fluid” before raping a female classmate in the bathroom of a Loudoun County, Virginia high school has been convicted on all charges related to the case, which attracted national attention and has led to trans bathroom bills and the safety of children in schools becoming focal points of the state’s gubernatorial election.

According to local media reports, the conviction came after a juvenile court judge determined that evidence backed up claims that the 14-year-old “gender-fluid” male had forcibly raped a female student in a girls’ restroom at Loudoun’s Stone Bridge High School.

The assault took place in May of this year in Loudoun County, the focus of national attention regarding Critical Race Theory and other radicalized education materials in the classroom. The assault led to the rapist being removed from Stone Bridge High School and transferred to nearby Broad Run High School, where he stands accused of sexually assaulting yet another female student.

That case has yet to move to trial, and a sentence for the student’s conviction will not be given by the judge until both cases are resolved.

School district officials have been accused of covering up the rapes, and even directed deputies from the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office to arrest Scott Smith, the father of the Stone Bridge High School victim, when he showed up to a county school board meeting looking for answers.

The arrest left Smith bloodied, facing charges of disorderly conduct, and his image was used by left-wing media outlets nationwide to paint a concerned father as some sort of domestic terrorist, and warn parents against fighting for their children.

Worse, recent revelations from the emails of Loudoun County Public Schools Superintendent Scott Ziegler show that the official lied to parents when confronted about the sexual assaults at a June school board meeting.

At the time,Ziegler told the parents that he had no knowledge of any assaults happening in the district. Meanwhile, an email Ziegler sent to members of the school board reveals the opposite, as he informed board members of the Stone Bridge assault and told them that it was under investigation by the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office.

In the aftermath of the rapes, Beth Bart, a far-left member of the Loudoun County School Board, resigned her post amid a massive recall effort for her seat.

Parents and taxpayers around Loudoun County have called for the resignation or recall of virtually all board members, as well as Superintendent Scott Ziegler, linking their dissatisfaction with the county schools to not only the rapes but the widely publicized use of critical race theory and other far-left curricula.

The situation in Loudoun County has energized parents and voters all over the Commonwealth, bolstering the efforts of Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin, who has now made banning critical race theory, safe guarding parental rights, and protecting children in schools focal points of his campaign.

The Democrat candidate, Terry McAuliffe, has instead pledged to remove parents from all discussions surrounding education of Virginia children.

Globalist Billionaire George Soros Backs New Media Firm to Fight “Disinformation”

Globalist George Soros and other billionaires are backing a new media company aimed at combating any “disinformation” that runs counter to the establishment narrative.

Good Information Inc. bills itself as “a public benefit corporation committed to restoring social trust and strengthening democracy” by controlling the flow of “accurate” information.

The company was financed by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, along with Soros and investors Ken and Jen Duda, and Incite Ventures investment fund.

Despite Big Tech’s systemic censorship and near-total dominion over information flow online, Good Information Inc. decries that most Americans still don’t trust the mainstream media or the results of the 2020 election, which “threatens public safety, social trust, and democracy.”

“We believe there is an urgent need for regulation of social media platforms, as well as increased investment in new models that place a higher value on serving communities truth over clickbait and protecting democracy over profits,” the website states.

“Good Information Inc. will invest in and partner with media companies and platforms that center the communities they serve, their interests, and their media consumption habits in their reporting and their content distribution strategies.”

Good Information Inc. will be helmed by Tara McGowan, a former Democratic strategist who ran a progressive non-profit called ACRONYM, which led a $100 million digital campaign against former President Donald Trump during the 2020 presidential election.

“Good information that upholds the truth, common sense and shared values of a society is the lifeblood of democracy, and orchestrated disinformation — fueled and amplified by bias-driven algorithms — is its greatest threat,” said Tara McGowan, Good Information Inc. Founder and CEO in a press release.

“The disinformation crisis we are facing in America today is increasing polarization and eroding our trust in each other, which is having a corrosive effect on our democracy, jeopardizing public health and destabilizing our economy.”

“This is no longer a political dispute about the truth, but the direct result of unregulated business models that are putting whole communities around the world at risk, and putting democracy around the world in peril,” she added.

The company also has an advisory committee comprised of two dozen political, media and tech experts, including former White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer, former White House Digital Officer Jason Goldman, Civic Signal Founder Eli Pariser, Check Your Ads co-founder Nandini Jammi, former Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times Editor Mark Jacob, Accountable Tech co-founder Nicole Gill and others.

The announcement coincidentally comes right as Trump announced the launch of Truth Social by his new company Trump Media and Technology Group, which will also seek to expand into the video streaming service and payment processing space to counter Big Tech’s censorship and chokehold on the flow of information online.

“To take on Big Tech censorship, we are creating a ‘Big Tent’ platform: Truth Social. We are inviting people of all political stripes, and all different viewpoints, to come and participate once again in the great American debate,” Trump declared Tuesday. 

“That’s what our country is supposed to be about. Unlike with the Big Tech platforms, there will be no shadow-banning, throttling, demonetizing, or messing with algorithms for political manipulation.”

Read Good Information Inc.’s press release:

Yet Another Canadian Pastor Jailed for Holding Outdoor Worship: ‘We’re Fighting Against Spiritual Wickedness’

A Canadian pastor, who was arrested last week for reportedly violating COVID-19 health orders, spent an extra night in jail after police said he wouldn’t be released unless he agreed to stop preaching in church.

Pastor Tobias Tissen of Steinbach, Manitoba, was detained by police during a traffic stop on Oct. 18. A warrant for his arrest was issued in May over a health order prohibiting outdoor gatherings of more than 5 people, Fox News reports.

Tissen’s bail hearing was originally scheduled for Oct. 19 but was pushed back after he learned about the restrictions laid out by authorities that would prevent him from performing his pastoral duties.

“They had these conditions that I wasn’t allowed to attend any gatherings that were in contravention of COVID-19,” Tissen told Fox News. “And that would automatically prohibit me from going to church and preaching. And I could not agree with that.”

The pastor had avoided police for months before his arrest, only making appearances at his Church of God Restoration. 

His church, along with several others, have filed lawsuits against Manitoba over its extreme COVID-19 restrictions.  

Tissen says police are attacking church leaders in a “fight between good and evil, and they’re targeting those public figures that are in the lead who are fighting against the evil.”

While awaiting his release, the pastor said he prayed and reflected on the darkness that has come over mankind.

“In Ephesians, it says that we’re fighting against spiritual wickedness in high places and principalities and powers,” he explained. “That’s it, right now, what we see. And they’re after all of us who are giving to God what belongs to God and to Caesar what belongs to Caesar. But now, Caesar wants that which belongs to God. And as Christians, we just cannot. We cannot comply with that.”

Following his arrest, Tissen received an outpouring of support from religious leaders.

“What’s happening in Canada should concern freedom-loving people everywhere,” shared evangelist Franklin Graham. “It is extremely disturbing as it relates to pastors and churches being targeted. Earlier this month the Canadian Prime Minister announced some of the world’s strictest COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Be sure to pray for Pastor Tissen and his church.”

Another Canadian pastor who’s been arrested, Artur Pawlowski, tweeted, “When authorities do this kind of things we know that the judgment on the land will be very severe!”

And Pastor Henry Hildebrandt with Church of God in Ontario wrote that preachers aren’t being arrested for committing crimes, rather for the sake of the Gospel.

“Two pastors sitting in jail, IN CANADA. Don’t get callous to this reality. Not for criminal activity, but because they refuse to follow unlawful, unconstitutional, and – most importantly – unbiblical public health mandates.”

Texas passes law banning boys from competing on girls’ sports teams

Texas’ Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a bill into law that requires students to participate on sports teams that correspond with their biological sex, as determined by the birth certificate issued at or near the time they were born.

Abbott signed House Bill 25 into law on Monday, which bans students from participating in sports leagues for the opposite sex. It will take effect in January 2022.

“… An interscholastic athletic team sponsored or authorized by a school district or open-enrollment charter school may not allow a student to compete in an interscholastic athletic competition sponsored or authorized by the district or school that is designated for the biological sex opposite to the student’s biological sex,” stated the legislation.

The new law stipulates that only birth certificates “entered at or near the time of the student’s birth” can be considered legitimate in determining a student’s eligibility to participate in a sports league. The current policy of the United Interscholastic League, which governs collegiate athletics in Texas, recognizes “changes to an [individual’s] birth certificate” to reflect their new gender identity if approved by a court.

HB 25 does include an exemption allowing a biological female to compete in men’s sports if “a corresponding interscholastic athletic competition designated for female students is not offered or available.”

Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project, was critical of the new legislation, saying in a statement that he felt the new law was only “a minimal step toward protecting female athletes” and “hardly sufficient in accomplishing that goal.”

“For example, this new law does not cover collegiate athletics, meaning women at that level are still at risk of losing titles and scholarships to biological males,” said Schilling. “The bill also does not give female athletes the right to take their cases to civil court, neglecting the most effective means of enforcement.”

Adri Pèrez, a Texas-based policy and advocacy strategist for the ACLU, told 19thnews that they were considering potential legal action against the new law.

“There has been debate since this bill was first filed about what the enforcement mechanism would be,” said Pèrez. “It would open it up so that anybody could bring a gender challenge against another student because of their athletic performance, and/or appearance.”

Supporters of legislation like HB 25 point to biology as the justification for their position. Last December, a study published by the British Journal of Sports Medicine revealed that men who identify as transgender maintain a competitive advantage over female athletes.

Fox News opinion host Laura Ingraham previously elaborated on the biological differences between men and women that give males an advantage in competitive sports, nothing that, “Male bones are bigger in both size and density. Females have shorter arms and legs relative to body size. Females are around 30% to 35% muscle by weight, while males are up to 40% to 50% muscle.”

“Females’ ligaments are thinner and softer than males. The internal organs of … men tend to be bigger, broader, more capable of taking in oxygen. … The structure of the anatomy is different. Period,” she added.

Texas is one of several states that have passed bills requiring athletes to play on sports teams that correspond with their biological sex. According to Women’s Liberation Front, an organization that supports such legislation, the others are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Mississippi, Montana, Tennessee and West Virginia. 

The enactment of bills requiring athletes to compete on sports teams that correspond to their biological sex comes as Democrats in Congress have pushed for the passage of the Equality Act, legislation that would require schools to allow trans-identified athletes to play on sports teams that correspond with their gender identity.

The bill passed the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives on a largely party-line vote earlier this year but has stalled in the evenly split Senate due to opposition from both Democrats and Republicans.

Loudoun County parents required to sign type of NDA to view CRT-affiliated curriculum

Parents of Loudoun County public school students have been asked to sign a type of nondisclosure agreement to view a curriculum connected to a group known to push critical race theory. 

The NDA is required to be signed by parents who want to review the “Second Step” curriculum. Parents are required to acknowledge that the presentation of the material is “not a public event” and that “copying, broadcast or recording of any kind is prohibited.”

The “Second Step” curriculum is part of a series of lessons on “Social Emotional Learning” from the Committee for Children, a nonprofit group that advertises free anti-racism and anti-bias resources.

The organization promotes “social emotional learning” as the development of interpersonal skills and self-control, but the Second Step website includes material on anti-racism and anti-bias while saying it is “committed to addressing racial injustice and helping you drive real change in your school communities.” The website says the purpose of the resources is to “implement social-emotional learning in a way that builds on students’ cultural assets, critically examines systems of power, and develops better ways of teaching, learning, and being.” The phrase “anti-racism” has been tied to the propagation of critical race theory, ever since it was popularized by Ibram X. Kendi, a professor at Boston University who wrote a book titled How to Be an Antiracist.

The NDA document is billed as the “terms and conditions” agreement, citing copyright as the reason for requiring the document. But a Loudoun County parent told the Daily Caller that a number of other organizations, including the Southern Poverty Law Center, provide copyrighted material to Loudoun County Public Schools without requiring parents to sign a document to review them. 

A tiny snapshot of the curriculum is available on the LCPS website but is limited to only a few slides. The Daily Calleralso reported that the agreement between the school district and Second Step exempts the curriculum from Virginia Freedom of Information Act requests.

LCPS and the Committee for Children did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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