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The Supreme Court already has taken up one of the biggest cases in years – the Joe Biden administration's collusion with Big Tech to censor Americans whose ideas he dislikes.
The trial court judge originally described his schemes as Orwellian, and the ruling will impact much of American life whenever it is decided.
And they are.
And that means, according to House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, that records of those communications need to be given to Congress.
Jordan confirmed on Tuesday that he sent letters to the chiefs of Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft as well as Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI chief Chris Wray.
He wants documents of Biden's "recent interactions with social media and technology companies."
"Given the FITF's improper role in communicating with social media and technology companies during the 2020 presidential election, the resumption of meetings between the FITF and Big Tech before the 2024 presidential election is deeply troubling. These meetings stopped after the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana issued a preliminary injunction against the FBI that prohibited it from coercing or significantly encouraging social media companies to censor content, which was largely affirmed by a unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. But following the Supreme Court’s recent stay of the injunction, the FITF 'resumed outreach' with social media companies. According to an FBI spokesperson, the purpose of this outreach is 'to facilitate sharing information about foreign malign influence with social media companies,'" charged the letter to Mark Zuckerberg of Meta.
Jordan's announcement explained his committee "is conducting oversight of how and to what extent the executive branch has coerced or colluded with companies and other intermediaries to censor lawful speech. In February 2023, the committee issued subpoenas for documents related to Big Tech's communications with the executive branch, including the FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) and San Francisco field office."
It continued, "A federal court enjoined the executive branch's collusion with Big Tech in July 2023; but the injunction was stayed. On March 20, 2024, an FBI spokesperson confirmed that the FITF has recently resumed communicating with major social media and technology companies."
The letter to Zuckerberg notes, "The communications and documentation pertaining to Meta's ongoing communications with the FBI are covered by the February 15, 2023, subpoena. The subpoena is 'continuing in nature.' Therefore, all documents and communications relating to the FBI's new outreach efforts to Meta and FITF meetings are responsive to the committee's subpoena as they refer or relate to how the FBI is communicating with Meta regarding content moderation."
WND has reported on the fight that is before the Supreme Court already.
It recently heard arguments that Biden, using the influence of the federal government, pushed social media companies to censor ideas and comments that the administration dislikes.
And Jenin Younes, litigation counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which brought the dispute to the court system, said it's just not allowed under the Constitution for politicians to pick "disfavored" statements and order them suppressed.
"Our clients, who include top doctors and scientists, were censored for social media posts that turned out to be factually accurate, depriving the public of valuable perspectives during a public health crisis. We’re optimistic that the majority will look at the record and recognize that this was a sprawling government censorship enterprise without precedent in this country, and that this cannot be permitted to continue if the First Amendment is to survive," Younes said.
A ruling in the case isn't expected from the court for some time, but it likely will have a massive impact of the concept of free speech and the First Amendment across America.
The trial court judge likened the government's scheming in the case to the Orwellian "Ministry of Truth" that propagated nothing but lies.
Many of the details of that ruling were affirmed by an appeals court, but the government, insisting on the right to determine the information to which people have access, took it to the Supreme Court.
Much of the censorship at the time concerned the COVID-19 pandemic and the experimental shots that were developed and given to millions of people at the time, shots that evidence shows now actually injured many.
A report from NCLA said the case is Murthy v. Missouri, and the high court considered whether to affirm a historic preliminary injunction granted by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
It originally was U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty who blasted the government for its program to blacklist, shadow-ban, de-boost, throttle and suspend social media activity by those who disagreed with the Biden administration's chosen, and sometimes faulty, opinions on COVID.
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Facebook has taken the next step in its agenda to censor comments critical of Islamic terror, disabling the account of Frontpage Editor Jamie Glazov, his publication has confirmed.
Facebook has a long history of banning speech that opposes Islamic violence, and the new report explains the censorship was announced after Glazov posted a recent episode of his "Glazov Gang" program, which featured radio host Alex Newman.
The subject was the danger to America from "the Nazi terror group Hamas."
The focus was the threat to America from the Islamic terror group's butchering last Oct. 7 of some 1,200 innocent Israeli civilians, sometimes in horrific ways such as beheading babies and burning families alive.
The report explained on April 4, "Facebook disabled the account of Frontpage Editor Jamie Glazov."
The report explained, "Facebook notified Jamie that it had removed his post and disabled his account because the post violated its 'community standards' and posed a threat to 'the security of people on Facebook.' Jamie has appealed the disabling of his account but has received no response."
The magazine noted, "Why, exactly, is Facebook trying to cover up the barbarities Hamas inflicted on Israelis on Oct 7 – and the barbarities that it promises to inflict on innocents around the world in the future? And why is Facebook disabling the accounts of individuals who are telling the truth about it? Meanwhile, Facebook’s Oversight Board has decided that calling terrorists 'martyrs' is an acceptable form of free speech. This, of course, opens the door for Hamas supporters to celebrate the murder of Jews. Facebook did this in response to pressure from Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats."
The result, the report explained, is that celebrating "Hamas murderers, rapists, and kidnappers as 'martyrs'" is fine on Facebook but Glazov "isn’t allowed to tell the truth about what Islamic terror means not only for Israel but for America."
The magazine asked people to share the news, and object to Facebook through the massive corporation's Help Center at:
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WND has reported that Facebook for years has intervened in the free speech of "counter-terrorist activists" who were being restricted by Silicon Valley.
At the time Sam Westrop, the director of the Middle East Forum's Islamist Watch, wrote for National Review that many critics of "Islamist political ideology" have found themselves subject to bans and restrictions on social media "for articulating reasonable ideas and criticisms that deserve debate rather than restriction."
At the time YouTube recently banned a video he uploaded four years ago that had received about a million views, he pointed out. It featured Muslims and non-Muslims "on both sides of a balanced and well-moderated argument and broadcast on British state-funded national television."
At the time, Google also censored videos from Prager U by moderate Muslim or ex-Muslim voices such as Kasim Hafeez, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and Khurram Dara. In 2017, Ex-Muslims of North America, which offers "a home to apostates" facing persecution, was targeted by "a coordinated reporting and flagging campaign," even though "nothing it posts on social media is remotely hateful," Westrop said.
It was in 2015, that Facebook removed a post of an image of outraged Muslims captioned, "Jokes don't kill people, Muslims who are offended by jokes kill people."
A woman in Germany was banned from Facebook for 30 days for posting a set of two pictures: One showed the Iranian women's national volleyball team from the 1970s, wearing T-shirts and shorts. The other was of the current Iranian team, wearing hijabs and clothes that cover arms and legs.
Facebook also trotted out the "community standards" claim when in 2017 it blocked and then shut down the pages of two popular moderate Muslim groups managed and followed by Arabs who reject not only violence and terrorism but Islam as a religion.
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A lot has been written, and a lot more has been speculated, about the significance of solar eclipses, and specifically, the eclipse looming on Monday, April 8.
Many perceive it as a sign in the heavens, perhaps linked to the biblical "second coming" of Christ, and the end of the age.
But an article by Eric Vanden Eykel, an associate professor of religious studies at Ferrum College and a self-described "scholar of early Christian literature," suggests the Bible itself debunks that, as the authors writing about such events "share a sense that the timing of 'the end' is ultimately mysterious and unknowable."
That means, he explains, "attempting to predict such timing by means of things like eclipses is, at the very least, not terribly 'biblical.'"
He explained the coming eclipse likely does not provide any signal about the second coming.
"But that hasn’t stopped people from speculating that it does," he explained in an article that appeared at StudyFinds.org.
The New Testament has many references to Jesus' return, he said.
He said, "Religious theories surrounding this eclipse are part of a larger pattern of attempts to find meaning in astronomical events that goes back thousands of years."
He said, "One of the more famous examples from the ancient world of people finding meaning in the skies occurred in 44 B.C.E., when a comet appeared in the skies over Italy just four short months after the assassination of Julius Caesar. Roman authors Pliny the Elder and Suetonius claimed that the comet was visible for about a week and that it was so bright, it could be spotted in the late afternoon."
Many at the time thought that was a sign Caesar had "ascended to the heavens and had taken a seat among the many gods of Rome."
He pointed out in 2020 there was speculation about a planetary conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn and their connection to the "Star of Bethlehem."
Making such assumptions sometimes has turned out poorly, as 39 members of a Heaven's Gate cult committed suicide in 1997 when they adopted the belief that there was a spacecraft hidden in the tail of the Hale-Bopp Comet that was coming for them.
One of the triggers for speculation about the coming eclipse is that its path will form a cross when combined with the path of an eclipse in 2017, he said.
But he said that's happened before, and the idea that such events are evidence of an imminent return doesn't have foundation.
He noted, after all, solar eclipses happen several times a year, usually, and while the "second coming" is undeniably a topic among New Testament authors, there is little unanimity among that group of scholars regarding "the end."
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A total solar eclipse will darken skies across many points in America on Monday, and while clouds are predicted to be present over shadowed portions of southern and central United States, other points are forecast to have a clearer view of the darkness.
The eclipse will be visible across parts of Mexico, Canada and in the U.S. on a path from Texas moving to the northeast through Maine.
The moon will pass between the sun and the earth, completely blocking the sun for several minutes, and it will be the last time such an event happens over the U.S. until 2044.
The path will cover Eagle Pass and Dallas, Texas, Little Rock, Arkansas, Carbondale, Illinois, Indianapolis, Buffalo, New York and Burlington, Vermont, and points in between.
Such events, in history, have been viewed as signs of events that are happening, or will happen, and while the scientific explanations of such events are not complicated, the impact on society may be more.
WND has reported Pastor Mark Biltz of El Shaddai Ministries, an expert on those historical perceptions, noted in the Bible, solar events are recorded as having a remarkable and sometimes supernatural significance.
He explained control over the sun was demonstrated by God in the three-day Plague of Darkness, and is prophesied to be an essential part of the End Times. The Prophet Joel (2:31) predicted, "The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord." The Prophet Amos makes a similar prediction: "And in that day – declares my God – I will make the sun set at noon, I will darken the earth on a sunny day."
The report noted, "In giving rebuke to Hezekiah to inform him that he would die from his illness, the prophet Isaiah (13:9) wrote, 'The stars and constellations of heaven shall not give off their light; The sun shall be dark when it rises, And the moon shall diffuse no glow.' As Isaiah predicted – and as much later calculated by NASA – on March 5 in 702 BC, the 16th year before Hezekiah’s death, a prominent solar eclipse appeared over the Middle East. Its path crossed the Arabian Peninsula and the obscuration of the sun over Israel was more than 60 percent."
The report noted a similar darkness is described in the New Testament after Jesus’ crucifixion (Mark 15: 32-33) and again in Revelation 6:12 as a sign of the End Times.
Biltz, who authored "Blood Moons: Decoding the Imminent Heavenly Signs," is an expert in both Christian and Jewish sources, and correlates solar and lunar eclipses with biblical prophecy. He went to great lengths to explain the prophetic implications of the 2017 solar eclipse, though at the time, skeptics scoffed at his explanations.
But the world in current times has been left unsettled, in fact, in chaos in many places, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, a war triggered by Hamas terrorists in the Middle East, and the war Russia brought to Ukrainian lands.
"From a biblical point of view, a solar eclipse is meant to be a sign from God," said Biltz, citing Genesis 1:14. "It is a sign that is beyond man’s control, something he cannot manipulate."
Biltz revealed his research has brought out the timing of eclipses, and the events around them. "A solar eclipse took place in 1948, the year Israel declared itself a nation, and again in 1967, when Israel emerged victorious from the Six-Day War and unified Jerusalem," the report said.
Another was in 1492, the year the Jews were expelled from Spain and Portugal. Remarkably, a partial solar eclipse appeared above both Rome and Jerusalem in 67 A.D. One year later, Nero committed suicide and in the year 70, the Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans.
He then looked at the appearance of four blood moons in 2014-2015, and noticed a link to the seven-year Shemitah (sabbatical) cycle.
"This is not a random seven-year cycle,” Biltz emphasized. “Rosh Hashanah in 2014 marked the beginning of the Hebrew year 5775. The Shemittah years all go back to Creation. If you divide 5775 by 7, it is precisely 825. September 2014, or, more accurately, the first of Tishrei 5775, was the 825th Shemitah cycle since God created the world.”
He noted, "The Yom Kippur War in 1973 was followed by four blood moons in 1968 and happened on the very day of the beginning of the 50-year Jubilee cycle. In 2014, we had four blood moons which preceded the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, exactly one Shemitah cycle later. It fell on the holy day of Shemini Atzeret and on the last day of the High Holidays. Hamas attacked Israel and started the Iron Swords War. That was the last day of that 50-year Jubilee cycle that began in 1973 with the Yom Kippur War."
The coming eclipse, he said, will happen on Rosh Chodesh Nisan, the new moon marking the beginning of the month which is referred to in the Bible as “the first month."
There was a total solar eclipse whose shadow path crossed the continental U.S. in August 2017, just before the "most devastating hurricane season in U.S. history. Four days after the eclipse, Hurricane Harvey made landfall on the Gulf Coast of Texas, the first major hurricane to do so in over a decade," the report said.
Watch Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz's interview with Pastor Mark Biltz on the upcoming total solar eclipse and its prophetic meaning for the U.S.
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First-year medical students at the University of California Los Angeles have been ordered into a mandatory "structural racism" indoctrination with a guest speaker who has praised Hamas' Oct. 7 terrorism in Israel and demanded they bow down to "mama earth."
It is the Washington Free Beacon that obtains a recording of parts of the speech by Lisa Gray Garcia:
She claimed Hamas' terrorism against Israel actually was "justice," and led the class in what she called a "non-secular prayer" to "the ancestors," the report said.
Attendees were ordered to "get on their knees and touch the floor – 'mama earth,'" the report said.
The activist had been invited to speaking about housing and the "justice" issues involved, and she thanked "tribes" for "what the settlers call L.A.," the report explained.
She also addressed the needs of "black," "brown" and even "houseless" people.
"Mama earth," Gray Garcia told the kneeling students, "was never meant to be bought, sold, pimped, or played."
The stunt has generated calls for an investigation of why this speaker was given the stage at the "elite medical school," the report said.
The report said the self-described "poverty scholar" also led students in a "Free, Free Palestine" chant.
The result of the event was that the students were "intimidated" into taking part in a "religious service in derogation of their own personal beliefs," according to a statement from the Jewish Faculty Resilience group.
The group asked Chancellor Gene Block for a review.
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Students and staff members at North Carolina State University by the dozens have been diagnosed with cancers including lymphoma, breast cancer, and thyroid cancer, and officials are blaming the presence of polychlorinated biphenyls, toxins linked to cancers, in a classroom building.
A report from the Daily Mail cites the estimated 150 cases involved people who were in or around the campus's Poe Hall, which was closed in late 2023 amid documentation of the presence of PCBs.
The report said some of the rooms in the building had levels that reached 38 times the limits established by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Now in the works is a flood of lawsuits from families and victims, who included Sarah Glad, 35, who died from stage four breast center, and Christie Lewis, who attended the university from 2007 to 2012, to be diagnosed later with thyroid cancer.
The report explained Jennifer Walter, at the school from 2004 to 2007, was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2017, followed by a type of cancer that attacks joints.
She explained, "They got it early, which I’m grateful for, but that fear never goes away. It’s something I’m going to have every day for the rest of my life."
The report noted Poe was built in 1972 when PCBs were used commonly in industrial products. They were banned in 1979 but remain in some buildings.
The building served students in education and psychology classes.
The school began investigating in 2023 when a worker filed a complaint with the Occupational Safety and Health Division of the North Carolina Department of Labor and alleged health and/or safety hazards in the structure.
Tests then were done to sample the atmosphere in the building and dangerous PCB levels were uncovered, but the report said a subsequent investigation was canceled, a report that school officials denied.
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"Christians must confront and defeat this unholy takeover of American society."
So charges a report at the Federalist following the latest anti-Christian stunt from Joe Biden.
That would be his designation of Easter Sunday as a "Day of Transgender Visibility."
The White House claimed innocence, saying that the "day" is March 31 every year, and Easter just happened to fall on that day.
However, a report from staff writer Shawn Fleetwood explained it's not just the day designation that reveals Biden agenda, which was described as "evil" by a spokeswoman for the American Life League.
His report explains the Easter "blasphemy" "leaves no doubt about Democrats' descent into paganism."
In fact, Biden stands accused of "hawking the demonic ideology of transgenderism" while Christians were "celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ."
Biden had boasted, in his declaration, "Today, we send a message to all transgender Americans: You are loved. You are heard. You are understood. You belong. You are America, and my entire Administration and I have your back."
But the report noted at the same time, children were banned from submitting Easter egg designs with "religious" images for Biden's weekend events.
"Make no mistake. The White House was sending a message to faithful Christians across America this Holy Week: Your beliefs are no longer welcomed here. During his presidency, Biden has effectively declared war on Christianity. From prosecuting peaceful pro-lifers protesting outside abortion facilities to infiltrating and surveilling Catholic churches, he and his administration have gone to extreme lengths to persecute Americans who worship God instead of government."
When a "trans-identifying shooter" murdered innocent Christians at a Nashville school, "it wasn't the victims’ families or their Christian faith the White House and Democrats uplifted," the report said.
Leftists rushed to paint transgenders as victims, he said.
"Why? Because transgenderism is one of the main tenets of Democrats’ pagan faith, meaning any narratives and facts undermining it must be stamped out. The same worldview underlies the Biden administration’s 'Transgender Day of Visibility' stunt, leading the neo-pagans to dismiss and desecrate the holiest day of the Christian calendar," he said.
Citing the leftists' "pagan religion," he said, "There is no shared understanding of 'right' and 'wrong,' leading to the justification of immoral behaviors and actions. We see this with the normalization of pedophilia with terms like 'minor-attracted persons.'"
And the left's justification of "killing unwanted preborn."
So he called for Christians to confront and defeat paganism, or "they risk sacrificing what’s left of the country to the evil forces seeking to destroy it."
At Monday's White House Easter egg roll, Biden distanced himself from responsibility for the day of visibility proclamation, saying, "I didn't do that."
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Someone apparently has a serious problem with the Word of God, as police investigate the intentional burning Sunday of about 200 Bibles near a Christian church in Mount Juliet, Tennessee.
Pastor Greg Locke of Global Vision Bible Church took to social media Sunday morning to inform congregants of the incident, saying:
"Happy Resurrection Sunday. This morning at 6:00 AM our security cameras caught a man dropping off a trailer in the middle of the intersection and blocking the road into our church. He then got out and set fire to an entire trailer full of Bibles right in front of our church.
"There was a lady that had driven through the night to get to our church and she was in the parking lot and was able to get the police officers here quickly, but it was quite the scene to wake up to on my first morning back from Israel. Had to block traffic in all directions but they are almost finished cleaning it up. It's going to be a great day in the Lord."
The Wilson County Sheriff's Office noted: "The trailer, containing Bibles, had been dropped off in the middle of the intersection and then intentionally set on fire.
"To uphold the integrity of the ongoing investigation, other specific details cannot be provided at this time. However, we assure the community that further updates will be shared at the appropriate juncture."
Locke told WKRN-TV he was shocked when he saw the burned Bibles in the trailer.
"It was strange because he [the suspect] had his blinkers on and he scotched the wheels and everything," Locke said.
"He was very meticulous, so he had to be very courageous to do what he did. We've had people do things to our building, we've been vandalized a number of times, hence why we have to have security, but never 200 Bibles being burned. That's a pretty rebellious statement towards the church."
He added: "What people think many times is going to stop us, really just encourages us, in a weird way, to know that we're doing what's right."
The incident got a variety of reactions online, including:
"This is beyond belief that someone could be so evil."
"This was right in front of my church. Seems like a threat to me."
"Hate crime!"
"You are not alone. They are doing unspeakable things to me and my family as well. They don't just need prayer, they need deliverance."
"This is so crazy, never in all of my years have I heard of such a thing praying that all involved find the lord. Have a great and blessed day."
"Well that's what happens when you take God out of schools and kids are not taught to respect the word of God. Those kids have grown up into the adults we have today. I bet you won't find any iPads or computer games in a pile on fire anywhere."
"This reeks of Locke. Start there first."
"Publicity stunt."
"Sick individual(s) to burn Bibles! God have mercy on their soul!"
"Evil is here and it's close."
"I wonder where the guy got all the Bibles from? Been collecting them for many years?"
"If the devil isn't chasing you you're going the wrong way."
"Blasphemy! What an evil satanic POS who wants to burn the Bible!"
Officials say anyone who may have additional information and/or camera footage is urged to contact the sheriff's office at 615-444-1459.
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The assisted suicide ideology has circled the globe in recent years. There have been nations and American states that have authorized it, under limited circumstances like for those already terminally ill, some time ago.
Some advances have come as recently as this year, and some still are to be implemented, such as the extension of that option for those with mental health problems in Canada starting in 2027.
But the belief system that people should be allowed to arrange for their own killing, often by the administration of chemicals, is facing headwinds for an obvious reason: It makes it appear that society believes some people are better dead.
A report from the Christian Institute details how Canada has been "skiing" down euthanasia's "slippery slope," and experts are warning Great Britain not to follow.
In Canada, already, the elderly and disabled are facing pressure … to die.
The report explained, "Since legalizing so-called Medical Assistance in Dying for certain circumstances in 2016, Canada has already abolished the requirement for a person to be terminally ill and will extend it to those with mental health problems in 2027."
Legislation allowing "assisted suicide" now is being considered in Scotland, the Isle of Man, and Jersey, as well as those "concerted efforts" in England and Wales, all of which have left publications flooded with letters on the topic.
"Dr. Pia Matthews of St Mary’s University, who has a daughter with multiple disabilities, reported that she has been told 'how much of a burden our daughter must be' and 'we would all be better off if she was no longer with us,'" the report explained.
She responded, "Enshrining such inaccurate and discriminatory attitudes in law would entrench the view that some lives, however short, are less worth living and that some people would be better off dead."
The institute reported, "Professor John Keown of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., highlighted a U.N. special rapporteur’s 'extreme concern' that some disabled Canadians are being pressured to request euthanasia, adding: 'The Dutch slid down euthanasia’s slippery slope. Canada is virtually skiing.'"
The report noted former British National Health Service podiatrist Madeline Pavey explained being "appalled" when she found people in their 60s saying, "I just don’t want to be a burden." And then noting it's so easy "to encourage this kind of thinking."
The report noted the House of Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee recently outlined the many dangers of legalizing assisted suicide but failed to oppose a change in the law.
That committee had reviewed information from jurisdictions allowing assisted suicide, and other issues including palliative care.
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The Disney company, which just this week gave up in its fight against Florida's law that established a new independent board to oversee its property, replacing a Disney-controlled district panel that essentially provided the company permission to be its own government, is facing new headwinds now.
That fight was over the corporation's attack on the state for its new parental rights in education law, which critics inaccurately called the "don't say gay" law since that was not in the law.
The state had created a new board to oversee the company's property, Disney sued, and now it has dropped its legal fight.
The new dispute will be appearing not in court, but at the corporation's board meeting.
It is Paul Chesser, of the National Legal and Policy Center, who explained in a column at the New York Post his organization is a shareholder in Disney, and is raising at the company's board meeting the problem that Disney's insurance pays for transgender surgeries that permanently mutilate human bodies.
But it does not pay for body repairs needed by those who detransition.
"Does Disney care about more about the praise of transgender activists or the pain of its employees and their families, including children? The answer will become clear at the company’s April 3 annual meeting, when shareholders vote on a proposal my organization filed," he explained.
"We’re asking the company, which has famously associated itself with the gender-ideology movement, to stop ignoring the significant medical needs of those who’ve tried to reverse their sex transitions."
He explained his organization, as a shareholder, proposed months ago to have the company explain "why its health insurance doesn’t include coverage for people who attempt to detransition."
Chesser explained, "Many people who attempt a transition have gender dysphoria, a psychological condition that involves feeling uncomfortable with one’s biological sex. Rather than get the proper counseling they need to address it, they are generally fast-tracked by medical practitioners into an invasive and often irreversible regimen of drugs and surgeries."
However, their problems often continue, he noted.
"My organization has worked with Chloe Cole, who began a gender transition at age 12 and is the patient advocate at the nonprofit Do No Harm. By age 16, after taking puberty blockers and receiving a double mastectomy, she tried to turn back. Yet her body has been irreversibly changed and damaged, and years later, her chest is still bandaged. She will likely be on different medications and need ongoing treatments for the rest of her life," Chesser documented.
"Disney is happy to help employees and their families — including children — ruin their bodies. It has no interest in helping them fix the bodies, despite encouraging them down that ruinous path," he charged.