This week's edition of The 3 includes the news of another state passing legislation to protect children from treatments and surgeries that falsely promise a change in "gender," which is a term that has come to mean something other than biological sex. Also, a biological male will be representing the Netherlands in the upcoming Miss Universe pageant, while another competition has decided to only allow biological women to compete. Plus, a Christian after-school program will be allowed to meet in a Rhode Island school district as the result of a court decision.
Another state votes to protect children from harmful gender treatments
The number of states whose legislatures have voted to protect children from treatments and surgeries that claim to help a child change his or her sex continues to grow, with the addition of Louisiana this week.
The Washington Stand reports that:
Before this year, only four states had passed legislation prohibiting gender transition procedures on minors, which include irreversible removal of healthy organs and permanent sterilization through cross-sex hormones. As of Tuesday, when the Louisiana legislature enacted protections over the governor’s veto, 21 states have protections (one state improved on previously enacted language).And, there could be more come into the fold; the article notes: "There is still time for the Ohio Senate (in session until December 31) to pass HB 68, or for the North Carolina legislature (in session until July 28) to override the governor’s veto of HB 808."
...there is still much work to do, even in states that passed a bill this year. In some states, the legislators pulled their punches. The West Virginia Senate, for instance, stripped out all enforcement mechanisms in an 11th-hour floor amendment. Utah’s bill authorizes the foxes to guard the henhouse. Georgia’s bill is surprisingly weak, with only one enforcement mechanism and large exception. Even among the solid bills, at least a dozen can be improved by prohibiting insurance or public funds from covering gender transition procedures for minors.
"Miss" Universe candidate from one country is actually male
There will be at least one man in the next Miss Universe pageant, and perhaps another, if a contestant in Puerto Rico wins that territory's pageant. The Daily Signal released an article that reported that a biological male presenting as a woman won the Netherlands Miss Universe pageant. Rikkie Valerie Kollé is 22 years old, has had "gender reassignment surgery," and stated on Instagram: “Yes, I am a trans woman and I want to share my story, but I am also Rikkie and that is what matters to me,” adding, “I did this on my own and enjoyed every moment of it.”
Another male who presents as a woman, Anne Jakrajutatip, now owns the rights to the Miss Universe pageant; the Daily Signal describes him as "an outspoken activist who is the founder and president of a transgender rights organization called Life Inspired for Transsexual Foundation."...will not allow transgender women to compete, with its patron saying that contestants "must be a woman from birth," weeks after Miss Netherlands crowned its first transgender winner.
"Lately, beauty contests have been trying to make the news by also using strategies that I think are a bit absurd," Miss Italy Official Patron Patrizia Mirigliani said this month during an interview with Radio Cusano, Il Primato Nazionale reported, according to a translation from Google.
"Since it was born, my competition has foreseen in its regulation the clarification according to which one must be a woman from birth. Probably because, even then, it was foreseen that beauty could undergo modifications, or that women could undergo modifications, or that men could become women," Mirigliani added, Il Primato Nazionale reported.
Miss America has tightened their gender rules to ban transgender contestants who have not had a fully completed medical transition for their 2024 season.
In the new Miss 2024 contract, seen by The Standard, competitors now have to identify either as 'a born female' or a female who has 'fully completed sexual reassignment surgery'.
Ministry's after-school outreach allowed to proceed in Rhode Island
Recently, I had the chance to feature the Executive Vice President of Child Evangelism Fellowship, Moises Estaves, on The Meeting House program. CEF is devoted to bringing the gospel of Christ to children all around the world. One of the principal ways that is done is through the Good News Clubs, which are allowed to meet at public schools across the nation during non-school hours.
Liberty Counsel reminded readers on its website recently that:
In June 2001, the U.S. Supreme Court in Good News Club v. Milford Central School ruled that public schools violate the First Amendment by not providing equal access and equal treatment to Christian clubs when the school has opened the forum to secular clubs, as in this case.Unfortunately, school officials in Providence, Rhode Island were denying this equal access to children in the state. Liberty Counsel reported that in 2023, it "filed a lawsuit on behalf of CEF Rhode Island after the school district discriminated against them by repeatedly ignoring their applications and not allowing its Good News Clubs on campuses while allowing other clubs to meet." Recently, according to its website:
...a federal district court approved a Consent Decree that prevents the school district from discriminating against CEF, declaring the Christian clubs are entitled to equal access “on the same terms” as other after school clubs.The website notes:
As a result of the victory, the Providence Public School District is permanently mandated to treat the Good News Clubs “on an equal basis with similarly situated organizations, such as Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and Girls on the Run.”
Liberty Counsel has been quite active in defending Good News Clubs, having been involved in some 200 cases, without a loss.
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