Time Names Its Women of the Year
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: Time
Gisele Pelicot, Nicole Kidman, Olivia Munn are among the 13 honorees. The 2025 TIME Women of the Year list features 13 honorees, including: actor and producer Nicole Kidman, WNBA MVP A'ja Wilson, Olympic gymnast Jordan Chiles, artist Laufey, actor Anna Sawai, reproductive rights activist Amanda Zurawski, Feeding America CEO Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, Gambian women's rights activist Fatou Baldeh, activist and author Raquel Willis, actor and breast cancer awareness advocate Olivia Munn, co-founder and CEO of Bobbie Laura Modi, conservationist Purnima Devi Barman, and Gisèle Pelicot, a voice for survivors of sexual violence.

Scottish Newspaper Reported To Police
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Reduxx
...After Referring To Trans-Identified Male Doctor By “He/Him” Pronouns. The Scottish Daily Express has been one of the outlets covering the progression of a tribunal being held against Sandie Peggie, a nurse who had been employed at the Victoria hospital in Kirkcaldy, Scotland. The case relates to interactions between Peggie and Dr. Theodore “Beth” Upton, a male doctor who had begun using the women’s facilities after beginning to identify as transgender. As previously reported by Reduxx, despite being a biological male, who Peggie asserts “looks like a man” to hospital patients, the two encountered each other in the female changing rooms at the hospital multiple times after they first met in August 2023.

Top Medical Journal Calls for Neurodiverse Doctors
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Moonbattery
The liberal euphemism for psychiatric abnormality is “neurodiversity.” This signifies that people who identify as having mental problems qualify for hiring preferences per DEI. The Federal Aviation Administration explicitly recruits people characterized by “psychiatric disability” on this basis. One of the world’s most prestigious medical journals is on board.

Department Of Health And Human Services Updates Definitions Of Female, Male
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: The Epoch Times
“This administration is bringing back common sense and restoring biological truth to the federal government.” The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Feb. 19 issued new guidance updating its official definitions of terms such as sex, female, and male as part of President Donald Trump’s efforts to restore “the concept of biological truth” in the federal government.

Rebel Campus Boosters Rising Up Against Wokeness On Campus
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Real Clear Investigations
When you get down to it, these groups are news organizations... In the plummy world of alumni relations, where distinguished graduates are awarded honorary degrees and major donors are fêted at the president’s mansion, it is virtually unheard of for former students to set up shop as a political counterweight to the university, challenging its modes of governance and day-to-day operations. Alarmed by academia’s dominant ideological ethos of social justice activism – particularly the holy trinity of race, sex, and gender – more than two dozen dissident groups have emerged seeking to rebalance the culture at leading public and private universities across the country, including Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, UCLA, Williams, the University of North Carolina and the University of Virginia.

These universities have the most retracted scientific articles
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Nature
A first-of-its-kind analysis by Nature reveals which institutions are retraction hotspots. Many other Chinese hospitals are retraction hotspots. But universities and institutes in China, Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan and Ethiopia feature in the data as well. Retractions can be for honest mistakes and administrative errors, but evidence suggests the majority of cases in these data are related to misconduct. This type of institution-level analysis has never been done before because it is particularly challenging: retractions data are messy, there are errors in assigning author addresses to institutions, and creators of the underlying data sets make different choices about how to count institutions and published papers. So the results from the three independent analyses don’t always agree, and should be seen as preliminary.

Woman, 74, first to be charged in Scotland under abortion buffer zone law
Topic: Abortion
Source: Sky News
The legislation came into force last September and aims to prevent anti-abortion protesters from gathering within 200 metres of the 30 clinics across the nation where terminations are carried out. Officers attended and a 74-year-old woman was arrested and charged in connection with an alleged breach of the exclusion zone in Hardgate Road. A force spokesperson said: "She will be reported to the procurator fiscal." This is the first arrest and charge in Scotland under the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Act 2024.

Two Free Speech/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation Cert. Petitions
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
...that the Court Will Consider Friday. [1.] In L.M. v. Town of Middleborough (briefs at link, if you're interested), the question presented is: L.M. is a student whose public school promoted the viewpoint that sex and gender are limitless, based on personal identity, and have no biological foundation. The school invited students to voice their support for this view. But L.M. disagreed and responded by wearing a t-shirt to class that said "There are only two genders." After the school censored him, he wore a protest t-shirt that said "There are [censored] genders." Despite no past or present disruption, the school district prohibited both t-shirts.

NCAA's new trans-participation policy is 'as clear as mud,' Riley Gaines says
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: FOX News
The NCAA flipped a switch and appeared to alter its gender-participation policy to bar biological males from competing in women's sports in the wake of President Donald Trump's executive order. Two weeks after Trump's No Men in Women's Sports executive order, long-standing critics of the top collegiate athletic association in the U.S. have pointed out the new policy leaves a lot to be desired. Riley Gaines, Jennifer Sey, Kim Jones and others who have championed the protection of women's sports have pointed out the possible loopholes in the NCAA's policy. The major criticism is the policy fails to go far enough or establish clear barriers to protect women's athletes in the college ranks. The most common criticism has been that the policy allegedly allows trans athletes to bypass the restriction by changing the gender on their birth certificate.

Fed judge in TX officially strikes down Biden admini's Title IX expansion
Topic: Gender Discrimination
Source: Just the News
U.S. District Court in northern Texas granted summary judgment on Wednesday, stating the rule "undermines the purpose of Title IX, endangers students, and has '[n]o basis in reality.'" A federal court in Texas on Wednesday officially struck down the Biden administration Department of Education's Title IX expansions, which added protections for LGBTQ students related to gender identity and sexual orientation. The ruling comes after two judges last year granted a preliminary injunction that blocked the rule from taking effect. The rule intended to protect students from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and was expected to take effect last August.

Charting America's Single Mothers By Ethnicity
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Zero Hedge
There are 7.3 million single mothers in the U.S., as well as 1.9 million single fathers. Single parents often face the dual challenge of being both the primary breadwinners and caregivers for their families. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti, represents the percentage of mothers in the U.S. who are single, by race/ethnicity, in 2023.

The civil-rights movement failed
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Unherd
Integration and multiculturalism served black elites. The heroes of Black History Month are the familiar leaders of the civil-rights movement: Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, John Lewis, Ella Baker, and, of course, Martin Luther King Jr. Every February, we celebrate these men and women for championing the self-evident: racial segregation was immoral, integration a moral imperative. Law finally caught up with morality when the “separate but equal” doctrine was overturned in Brown v. Board of Education, forcing school integration. Yet something seems off about these pieties in 2025. Against a backdrop of broad discontent with liberalism, including among black Americans increasingly drawn to Trumpism, it’s worth returning to a provocative set of questions posed by the black writer Harold Cruse in the wake of civil rights: what if separate but equal contained a good idea, a better idea than advocating for racial integration above all else? Shouldn’t black activism focus on building the capacity of black communities, rather than looking to open up opportunities for the black elite?

How to free the universities Woke waste is ruining academia
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Unherd
In more good news for British universities, “woke waste” is now gaining traction in the UK media, and firmly in the firing line are mad-sounding research projects at the taxpayers’ expense. According to a joint investigation by The Sun and the Taxpayer’s Alliance, millions of pounds are being robbed from the pockets of hard-working citizens so that academics can investigate “TikTok dancing, ‘queer animals’ & pro-trans robots”. Over on Charlotte Gill’s Substack, we find industrial levels of outrage about such projects as “Glitching cisgenderism” (£185K); “The Europe that gay porn built” (£840K); and “Re-Indigenizing Victorian Studies” (£34K).

Maine Flips Trump The Pole
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Victory Girls Blog
Male Athlete Dominates Girls’ Championship. In a direct challenge to President Trump’s executive order banning male athletes from participating in women’s sports, a male athlete just clinched the girls’ pole vaulting championship in Maine. A male athlete, John Spencer, wants us all to believe he’s a girl. John now goes by the name Katie. I’ll continue to call him John. And John wants to compete in women’s sports. And Maine says yes, they agree. Surprise, surprise—he just snagged first place in the female pole vaulting championship. Because, of course, it’s totally fair for someone with a male body to compete against girls. But hey, who cares about biology when we can all pretend this makes sense, right?

JD Vance To Young Men: Be Men, Not "Androgynous Idiots"
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: PJ Media
"...don’t allow this broken culture to send you a message that you’re a bad person because you’re a man, because you like to tell a joke, because you like to have a beer with your friends..." Vance spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Monday and said a lot of great things, some of which even earned him a standing ovation. But it was his message to young people, especially young men, that really stood out.

How porn swallowed everything
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: Unherd
The endgame of the sexual revolution is here. During the Super Bowl, some 127 million viewers witnessed an up-close parade of gleamy-creamy jiggling breasts covered in cantaloupe-coloured spandex as part of an advertisement for . . . breast-cancer awareness, sponsored by pharmaceutical company Novartis. The message was that we’re looking at breasts all the time, yet neglecting the regular medical screening they need. It also underscored the fact that no frontier of human experience, not even breast cancer, is safe from the aesthetics of pornography.

The diversity industry is bad for your health
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
The NHS is wasting obscene amounts of time and money on woke training schemes. It’s ‘our’ NHS, we are repeatedly told. Britain’s ‘best loved’ institution, apparently. Yet more evidence has emerged this week to show that its ability to provide the patient care we expect is being undermined by its obsession with diversity. UK health secretary Wes Streeting complained earlier this month that there are ‘some really daft things being done in the name of equality, diversity and inclusion’ (EDI). There is also now a mountain of evidence showing that workplace EDI interventions are not only ineffective at increasing racial diversity in the workplace – they may also, in some instances, actually be counterproductive and encourage racial tensions. Yet it seems that woke training schemes and awareness-raising exercises are so thoroughly embedded in the lifeblood of our health system that a huge effort will be needed to flush them out.

‘Acting’ like leaders at the Department of Education
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Washington Examiner
While America eagerly awaits the order to close down the Department of Education entirely, political appointees with “acting” titles are enforcing Trump’s education agenda and executive orders with gusto. Before we review the work by the acting appointees at the Department of Education, it’s important to acknowledge what a huge change this effort represents. In years gone by, a Republican administration often struggled to simply stop the enforcement of bad regulations foisted on the country by Democratic administrations complicit in the left-wing culture war. Sometimes, a partial revision would be made to realign the department. The president’s bold beginning is being magnified by willing and capable “acting” officials who are taking full advantage of the moment.

Demystifying Critical Race Theory
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Quillette
Activists on both sides have an incentive to keep Critical Race Theory undefined and ambiguous. Critical Race Theory (CRT) originated in higher education, but its political relevance has become more than academic, especially in the United States. Although CRT sprung from legal scholarship, proponents have pushed for its wholescale integration into education, medical training, psychology, and the social sciences as a whole. CRT has also been the subject of intense political controversy. Many US states have introduced bills to restrict its teaching, sometimes on the grounds that it is not “factual and objective” or that it can “distort historical events.” As a result, both proponents and opponents have a vested interest in defining CRT in whatever way supports their agendas.

Viz has picked the wrong side in the culture war
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
Comic magazine Viz suffered the humiliation of its account being kicked off Bluesky earlier this month, just days after it had flounced off from X. The kinder, more inclusive social network banned Britain’s leading toilet-humour magazine for posting content deemed ‘harmful’ to the site’s infamously sensitive users. Viz was later reinstated after promising to be on its best behaviour in future. Time was when this incident would have made excellent fodder for Viz, a comic that’s always been savagely contemptuous of attempts to shame it. But now, this minor culture-war skirmish is unlikely to result in it publishing a scabrous article or cartoon about woke authoritarianism. Because after more than four decades of gleefully slaying sacred cows left, right and centre, Viz has picked a side – and Britain is the poorer for it.