It had to happen sooner or later: Transgender History Month.
The California State Assembly has voted to officially recognize August as such, beginning in 2024, reports Breitbart.
The resolution makes the state the first in the United States to have a month that officially recognizes the history and contributions of transgender people.
Assembly member Matt Haney (Democrat, San Francisco, obvs), the bill’s author, said, “I couldn’t be more proud to have introduced legislation that will designate August as the first statewide Transgender History month in the nation.”
I bet.
While we’re dishing out whole months of attention to ourselves, maybe some other groups could get a slice of the action: Disabled History Month or Blind History Month are the first ideas that spring to mind. Why is it always the same bunch of self-regarders?
More woke government controversy recently when a judge sentenced InfoWars broadcaster Owen Shroyer — who shadowed his boss and ally Alex Jones on to Capitol grounds on January 6, 2021 — to 60 days in prison for breaching the restricted area.
District Judge Tim Kelly ruled that Shroyer, who never entered the Capitol building, played a role in “amping up” the mob at a sensitive moment during the riot. Shroyer’s foray onto Capitol grounds came even though Shroyer had been ordered to stay away from the area under a court-sanctioned agreement for disrupting a House impeachment hearing in 2019.
“Aren’t there people in New York pushing people on to railway tracks and getting released on the same day?” asks right-wing commentator Jeremy on his always excellent YouTube channel The Quartering. I can’t find evidence of such a story but you take his point re the relative nature of modern crime sentencing.
This case has enraged some right-wing commentators. I’ve thought and thought about and I’m not sure where I stand. Your thoughts?
If you think Bud Light‘s marketing team was the wokest of the woke, the Anheuser-Busch brand might have met its match in the form of the Gen Zs running the Dove soap marketing department, writes Joe Kinsey on OutKick.
“Currently, in Times Square, the Dove team has taken over an entire block with its billboards of women sporting hairy armpits in the name of empowerment, inclusivity, body positivity, and all the other keywords conjured up in Madison Ave. boardrooms by goons looking to create or jump on the latest trends,” writes Joe.
“Free the pits,” women are told by the marketing team.
I apologise if you’re eating.
“The brand has encouraged consumers to join the movement of rejecting negative armpit stereotypes,” one website noted.
Hmm, isn’t shaving your armpits what we have traditionally called grooming / self-care? Or just plain old “standards”? What next: stop washing in solidarity with the homeless?
Dove is having a fabulously woke year, following its not-at-all-cynically-calculated attack on Oscar-winning film The Whale in March for using a fat suit on actor Brendan Fraser. You know what you and I call “a bit of acting”.
Dove took a moral stance in response to a tweet in which one user said, ‘our identity is not your costume.’
The soap and hygiene brand joined the ultra-woke rabble and said: ‘Stop giving fat suits awards. We want better representation in Hollywood. #LetsChangeBeauty.’
No, beauty’s fine. Change your intake of calorie-dense foods. And what’s it got to do with you, anyway? You make skin cream.
Another user said: “Thank you, soap company, for supporting the morbidly obese and helping them to embrace their poor health and celebrate early death. That’s quite a marketing strategy.”
Dove also went woke on gaming this year (busy year! Hope they managed to remember to produce some, like skin creams, too). That story here.
Dove has no doubt aligned itself with the overweight because there are a lot of fat people in the West these days, and with every other company and food blogger aiming to get people slimmer and better looking, Dove spotted a gap in the market.
Still, it’s not going to be easy for them, given their high standards of wokery. Check out this self-flagellating tweet:
Hahaha, you gotta laugh.
Thankfully, it’s not all woke villains this week; we have some heroes, too. Let’s start with Senator John Kennedy, who did good work when he enlivened a routine Senate Judiciary Committee hearing by reading from a sexually graphic children’s book.
His aim was to drive home growing calls from parents to have age-appropriate literature in schools and libraries.
The 71-year-old Republican recited sections from LGBTQ young adult books, including All Boys Aren’t Blue and Gender Queer and grilled witnesses who have pushed state legislation and initiatives to block parents from having a say in what their child can access.
Woke Watch won’t repeat what he read aloud but we’ve seen it and it was indeed explicit and surely of no purpose other than (at the very least) attention seeking on the behalf of the writer and like-minded “activists” (aren’t you sick of that word?).
Kennedy told Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, who earlier this year backed a bill to withhold state funding from libraries that don’t follow American Library of Association guidelines.
“We are advocating for parents, random parents, not to have the ability under the guise of keeping kids safe to try and challenge the worldview of every single manner on these issues,” Giannoulias said.
“When individual parents are allowed to make a decision of where that line is and To Kill a Mockingbird, which involves a rape scene, should that book be pulled from our libraries? I think it becomes a slippery slope.”
Kennedy agreed with witnesses that “censorship is bad” but said the books he read from were subject to different scrutiny.
“You heard the books we’re talking about. We’re not talking about Catcher in the Rye,” the Louisiana Republican said. “So tell me what you want, who gets to decide? And all I’ve heard is the librarians. And parents have nothing to do with it.”
Another hero / victim this week is Kim Russell, the now former head coach of the uber-woke Oberlin College women’s lacrosse team, who was removed from her role and given a job at the college shuffling papers after she spoke out in opposition to transgender athletes competing against natural-born females.
Russell did not just make a statement against male-born athletes being allowed to choose to compete as a female. She also appeared in a documentary opposing trans athletes.
The college coach now says that she has been the target of a smear campaign by other college employees, and the school has retaliated against her.
“I have been taken out of the role of coach, which is what I have done for 27 years,” Russell told Fox.
“I have been asked to take a role as Employee Wellness Program manager, which would have no contact with students and be creating things, which is paperwork,” she added.
Also under attack is the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, which has filed a complaint with the Biden administration over its proposed rule limiting Department of Health and Human Services grants to those who accept transgender ideology.
Writing on behalf of the USCCB, General Counsel William J Quinn states that it is offensive to oblige Catholic services to “endorse a view of human embodiment and sexual difference contrary to Catholic teaching”.
“Any charity that has separate men’s and women’s bathrooms or changing areas could be required to allow men to use the women’s facility and vice versa,” the September 5 letter asserts, and “any charity may be required to address an employee or beneficiary by pronouns that do not correspond with his or her biological sex.”
More bad news for Christians and conservative organizations, specifically those who are saying they’re being “de-banked”. Accounts are closed, payment processors are turned off, or some are placed on a donor “blacklist”.
Banking and financial services have become weaponized. Christian and conservative groups labeled “high risk” can be denied financial services, and it’s happening under the cover of federal banking laws.
Among the victims are Indigenous Advance Ministries, which helps orphans and widows in Africa. Its account was closed by Bank of America. Family Council of Arkansas, which promotes traditional family values, was canceled by JPMorgan Chase. And the pro-family Ruth Institute lost its payment processor after being targeted as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
And what qualified The Ruth Institute as an alleged “hate group”? Morse says, “The dream of the Ruth Institute is that every child be welcomed into a loving home with their own mother and father married to each other.”
Banking expert Nick Anthony at the CATO Institute says: “Banks are deputized as de facto law enforcement investigators, and they face a very real consequence of missing anything. When banks have concerns about things like money laundering or suspicious source of funds or they don’t like where the funds are going for any reason, they’re prohibited from telling customers what the actual reason is. They’re prohibited from telling people that they filed these reports to the government and now something has gone awry.”
Fight it, people.
Jessica Harper Uncanceled 
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