Last week was a truly excellent week for sex realists in New York. It didn’t end with Michael Shermer, as a guest on Brian Lehrer’s radio show, finally breaking through the propagandistic WNYC silencing of skeptics on gender. It didn’t end with two Long Island school board members and two parents suing New York’s Attorney General over a memo ordering them not to discuss the implications of making school facilities mixed-sex on the basis of gender identity, shortly after our AG fired a lesbian lawyer from her office for sounding the alarm on “gender” medicine as an unevidenced modern form of homosexual conversion therapy.

It ended with the first detransition lawsuit to reach trial, Varian v. Einhorn, winning $2 million in a jury trial in Westchester County. Fox Varian’s lawsuit argued that both the psychologist who evaluated her and the plastic surgeon who removed her breasts did not follow proper screening methods according to the accepted standard of care. Proponents of detransitioners’/ex-trans rights are hopeful that this win could encourage more efforts to hold providers accountable for encouraging children to medically alter their bodies without proper safeguarding. The New York Times, shamefully, has yet to report on this development.

(And Mabel from Trenton, if you’re reading this, you are welcome to join New York’s community of sex-realist women!)

In response to federal bans—and timed perfectly with the landmark detransition lawsuit victory in our state—the University of Utah halted all “gender” procedures on minors. The University of Utah has a poor track record of using ideology to justify harming children, including conducting their own flawed review in 2025 against the HHS’s systematic review on pediatric gender medicine.

An Illinois law that requires nonprofits with “Democrats” or “Republicans” in the name to obtain permission from those political parties is being challenged by Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender (DIAG). Those ROAR members who are Democrats or former Democrats were delighted with this development, as explaining the existence of DIAG to the general public forces mainstream media to break the approved narrative that anyone who questions gender ideology is “far right.” In other states, the HHS and U.S. Department of Education are advancing Minnesota’s Title IX case to the DOJ, Indiana passed a law establishing that the words “female,” “male,” “gender,” and “sex” have set definitions, and the Nebraska legislature held hearings on three separate bills intended to roll back the harms of gender ideology done to women and children.

The fight over male access to the ladies’ pond continues in the UK, where Sex Matters is arguing that Hampstead Heath’s refusal to enforce access to the women’s pond on the basis of sex breaches the 2010 Equality Act. Recently, a policy analysis collective that released a timeline of men housed in Scottish women’s prisons, the number of which has doubled in six years, also highlighted an instance where a male prisoner prone to violent outbursts during his incarceration was placed in the women’s center to appease him, a move that every quiet little girl who was made to sit next to a disruptive boy in class will recognize.

In sports, we applaud Elis Lundholm, a “trans” athlete who is a woman pretending to be a man, for competing in the correct sex category. While a female athlete who takes exogenous testosterone would have an unfair competitive advantage, we strongly recommend that male athletes follow Lundholm’s pragmatic lead.

In California, another hotspot for gender nonsense, SJSU was found to have violated Title IX for allowing a male athlete to compete on the women’s volleyball team. The man in question, Blaire Fleming, allegedly conspired with an opposing team to spike a female teammate in the face. The California Department of Education was also found to have violated FERPA by hiding school efforts to “socially transition” children from parents. During another ongoing investigation into Title IX violations by California schools, the U.S. Department of Education found that Governor Newsom’s office had callously ignored the objections of schoolgirls to having their sports and spaces ceded to boys.

If you’re wondering why pediatric gender medicine came into vogue despite the lack of evidence and proven harms, please consult this exchange between Jeffrey Epstein and Jess Ting, who works at the Mount Sinai Health System in New York and visited Epstein’s island with three children.
And if you’re wondering what the final goal of all this nonsense is, note this International Women’s Day event that features only men.