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Japan to roll out nationwide LGBTQIA+ education for the first time
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: ABC Austalia
Japan is set to roll out nationwide LGBTQIA+ education for the first time in schools, workplaces, universities and homes. Japanese media reports that the plan is designed to promote public understanding and awareness of gender and sexual diversity in the country, which has not legalised same-sex marriage. The draft program reportedly notes that LGBTQIA+ people can “experience confusion, anxiety and difficulties in daily life due to insufficient public understanding.” Schools, universities and workplaces will promote understanding of gender and sexual diversity under the plan.

Fed judge rules that Trump sexual abuse accuser Carroll can be paid $5.8M verdict
Topic: Sexual Harassment
Source: Just the News
Trump had paid the money, but it was set aside in a fund during the appeals process pending a court order. E. Jean Caroll can be paid the $5.8 million that was set aside after a 2023 civil verdict, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan issued an order that the money be paid to Carroll, along with interest that has grown since the verdict, the Associated Press reported. Trump had paid the money, but it was set aside in a fund during the appeals process pending a court order.

Trans People Leaving Red States Are Draining Dem-Run Seattle’s Nonprofits
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Breitbart
Increasing numbers of transgender people are reportedly leaving red states for Democrat-run Seattle, Washington, and a nonprofit in the area is struggling to keep up with the demand. The group called Traction has assisted over 1,000 transgender people in moving to the area since 2024 but it and other nonprofits, according to a Washington Post article published on Tuesday, are running out of resources.

Study finds nearly 90% of students fake progressive views to appease liberal profs
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Campus Reform
College students at Northwestern and the University of Michigan increasingly hide their conservative beliefs, with 88 percent admitting to faking progressive views to succeed academically or socially. Researchers warn that this climate of ideological conformity suppresses authentic expression and encourages performative morality among both students and professors.

TCW: An announcement
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Conservative Woman
The Conservative Woman website is closing down, has been forced to close after 12 years. "When you are blacklisted, investors run scared. That blacklisting also took the form of a barrage of censorship that stopped us advertising – a significant source of revenue. We were banned by every single online ad agency, and by the whole of Facebook (Meta) during lockdown which, we were advised via a government tip-off was because of an issue with Whitehall, most likely over our covid reporting. Such was the Conservative government’s covid censorship crackdown. From then on we were totally reliant on donations and never recovered the readership to fund the revenue stream we needed to grow. There was another reason for that." [Ed: TCW is continuing on Substack https://righttimes.substack.com/.]:

Nearly 1/2 NYC public school students attend schools
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Post Millennial
The report, released by the charter school network Success Academy and titled By Any Honest Measure, found that 906 public schools had fewer than half of their students proficient in math, reading or both on New York state exams last year. According to the analysis, roughly 43% of the city's approximately 912,000 public school students attend those schools.

More transgender cases loom on the horizon for Supreme Court
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Washington Examiner
The Supreme Court announced last week the next case it will hear for arguments involving transgender matters. The high court said Monday it will hear International Partners for Ethical Care, Inc. v. Ferguson in its upcoming term, weighing whether parents may sue over Washington state’s law that “deliberately displaces their decisionmaking role as to ‘gender transitions’ of their children, and in so doing creates present and likely future impediments to their ability to parent their children as they deem best for them.”

Nicki Minaj meets Trump in Oval Office to support wealth-building 'Trump Accounts'
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Post Millennial
The rapper’s appearance marked another high-profile moment in her increasingly visible relationship with conservative politics. Rapper Nicki Minaj became one of the most talked-about guests at a White House luncheon celebrating the launch of President Donald Trump’s savings initiative for children, niclnamed Trump Accounts. Trump singled out Minaj with a highly public display of praise. During the event at the White House, Trump asked Minaj to stand before the crowd and praised the rapper as “so respected and so hot,” while also calling her a “great friend” of what he described as “common sense.” The remarks quickly spread online, drawning a range of reactions.

Taxpayer abortion funding resumes with legislation expiring on July 4
Topic: Abortion
Source: The Center Square
Abortion is once again funded with federal tax dollars through Medicaid, as the legislation preventing taxpayers’ money from such a use expired on the 250th anniversary of the United States’ existence. Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America’s Director of Communications Kelsey Pritchard told The Center Square: “As we celebrated the 250th anniversary of our nation founded on the right to life, funding resumed to the Big Abortion businesses.”

Australia's Teen Social Ban for Teens Has Early Problem
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Reuters
Major platforms aren't verifying ages, study finds. Australia's attempt to lock out teens from social media is running into trouble at login. A new follow-up study by a team that helped design the system found major platforms are largely skipping the basic step of checking whether users claiming to be 16 actually are. On 50 test accounts created after the law took effect—with ages set to 16 on sign-up—none were asked to prove their age, reports Reuters. All the accounts remain active across nine platforms, including Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, and X.

Federal Appeals Court Rules Sex Offenders
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Epoch Times
Have a Constitutional Right to Live With Their Children. The ruling could open the door to challenges against state laws governing the conduct of released sex offenders.The new ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit arises out of an Alabama case but could help reshape strict sex offender residency laws in the other two states in the circuit—Florida and Georgia—and serve as persuasive authority elsewhere. At the heart of the case is the constitutional doctrine of substantive due process, which protects certain fundamental rights that are not explicitly listed in the U.S. Constitution but deeply rooted in U.S. history and tradition, including the right of parents to live with and raise their children

Medicaid funding resumes for Planned Parenthood
Topic: Abortion
Source: The Hill
Last year, Republicans were successful in using the party-line One Big Beautiful Bill Act to achieve their long sought-after goal of defunding Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood cited the defunding as the reason for the closure of multiple clinics as well as a reduction in the number of patients being screened for breast cancer or tested for sexually transmitted infections. The new funding will be a lifeline for the organization’s network of clinics and their patients. Medicaid is a significant revenue stream for Planned Parenthood, accounting for more than $800 million. In addition, more than half?of?Planned Parenthood’s?patients?rely?on Medicaid for their health?coverage, the organization said.

Are State Courts More Protective of Transgender People than Federal Courts?
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Fulcrum
As the U.S. Supreme Court deals another blow to trans rights, a new survey finds that almost 55 percent of related state cases from 2022 to 2024 had a positive impact on trans lives. In an article published in The Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law, I conducted a comprehensive survey of state court cases that impacted the rights and lives of trans people between 2022 and 2024. The survey showed state courts have an essential role to play in protecting trans people in an increasingly hostile political environment. Amongst some ominous signs for trans rights, there were important signals of hope in the survey.

Refugee rapists can now be deported
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Human Events
...after Sweden petitions UN for change in guidance. Sweden has secured changes to United Nations refugee guidance after a controversial court ruling had allowed an Eritrean migrant convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl to remain in the country. The offense had been deemed not sufficiently serious enough to allow for the revocation of his refugee protections. The change now gives guidance that rape is an offense great enough to allow nations to remove a refugee who is guilty of that offense. Swedish Migration Minister Johan Forssell announced that the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has agreed to revise its guidelines following pressure from the Swedish government.

New Masculinity Puts the Cart Before the Horse
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: In His Words
Why Nature Comes First When Nurturing Boys. Some contemporaries are calling for a new masculinity, a message presented in all sorts of ways in our K-12 education, colleges, work-environments, public policy, therapy, and media institutions. Think of Liz Planks, For the Love of Men: From Toxic to a More Mindful Masculinity. There are others of course. One has to wonder how this “new masculinity” message might resonate with our children and the parents, communities, and institutions that aim to raise and support them. What thoughts, conversations, and activities come from this new age mindset? How do children and institutions internalize and exercise this new masculinity?

New Homeland Security Task Forces Target Immigrants Over Sex Work
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: Reason
The Trump administration is protecting Americans from an invasion of illicit handjobs. The Trump administration claims that its new Homeland Security task forces are here to protect Americans from an "invasion" by undocumented immigrants and thwart terrorist organizations, foreign cartels, and transnational gangs. So why are they targeting immigrant asylum seekers—who are in the country legally—over sex work? To be fair, this seems to be a minor part of the task forces' business. Much of the time, they've been waging a drug war against American citizens, as I reported last month.

Activists Push California To Recognize 'Black English' In Preschool Classrooms
Topic: Children and Family
Source: American Greatness
...is Ebonics making a comeback? Progressive California education activists are urging the state to recognize “black English” in preschool classrooms, claiming the approach would strengthen literacy development and affirm the language spoken by many black children. Black Californians United for Early Care & Education (BlackECE), a nonprofit advocacy organization, is promoting what it describes as an effort to challenge “harmful language hierarchies and affirm black English as a legitimate, rule-governed language rooted in black history, culture, and community.”

What We Told Boys About Fertility (and What We Didn’t)
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: Psychology Today
We taught boys about sex, but not about their reproductive future. For a girl, thinking about motherhood is seen as normal. But a boy who thinks about his fertility or future fatherhood early is often viewed very differently. We wonder why he's already thinking about being a father? It seems slightly strange to us. We question it in a way we rarely question girls. We place girls’ thoughts about future children within the context of motherhood. But for boys, we have no real narrative for that.

Rolling Stone and the Making of a Counterculture Capitalist Success Story
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Daily Economy
In ‘The Rise of Hip Capitalism,’ author Charles L. Ponce de Leon traces how Rolling Stone fused countercultural rebellion with entrepreneurial ambition, turning cultural dissent into a media empire. Rolling Stone is a perfect example of how entrepreneurs enrich themselves by enriching the lives of consumers. Unfortunately, the magazine’s left-leaning editorial stance rarely acknowledged that reality. More than personalities or anecdotes, de Leon’s story focuses on the magazine’s content. There is more detail on individual writers, articles, and editorial coverage than some readers will want. Still, he makes a compelling case for how, to quote the book’s subtitle, “a magazine born in the 1960s changed America.”