News Roundup & Save the Date
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Now for the news.
Not All Men
Pa. man raped 95-year-old woman amid series of home break-ins, police say
Former Cumberland County school bus driver sentenced for sexting with student
Man stabbed wife in their Dauphin County home with 5 children inside
I wonder how many of these men will play the Trans Get Out of Men’s Jail Free card.
Education
Numerous Philadelphia-area school districts have policies allowing transgender students [IOW, males] to play on sports teams aligned with their gender identities, including Philadelphia. But Great Valley appears to be the first on the administration’s radar.
Great Valley was one of the first Pennsylvania school districts to pass a policy supporting the rights of transgender students in 2016 — seeking to provide those students “equal opportunity to achieve their maximum potential,” including by participating in sports “in a manner that is consistent with their consistently asserted gender identity.”
As usual, this Philadelphia Inquirer article is entirely pro-trans.
PA4SBR’s own Beth Ann Rosica, PhD, published an unbiased article about the Green Valley investigation.
Based on an analysis conducted by Broad + Liberty last summer, GVSD [Green Valley School District] is not the only local school district with a specific “Transgender and Gender Expansive Students” policy. Over 40 percent of public school districts in Chester, Montgomery, Delaware, Bucks, and Philadelphia Counties have a policy similar to Great Valley that clearly articulates that students can use the bathroom that aligns with their gender identity. An additional 21 percent of local districts recognize gender identity as a protection under their Title IX Nondiscrimination policy. Only 37 percent of local districts do not include “gender identity” in their Title IX policy; however, that does necessarily mean that students cannot use the bathroom of their choosing.
We hope that the US Supreme Court will decide in favor of common sense and keep ALL MALES out of women’s athletics.
PA State Police Misreporting Rapes
PA4SBR first covered this news here.
The head of a civilian oversight board said the State College Police Department’s misclassification of hundreds of rapes “didn’t make any difference” to how the cases were handled.
Community Oversight Board Chair Ron Madrid made those comments to Borough Council members during a Jan. 12 meeting in response to a 10-month Spotlight PA investigation. The newsroom found the department, which serves the community surrounding Penn State, had erroneously reported 254 cases of rape between 2013 and 2021 as sexual offenses, leading to highly inaccurate publicly reported crime data.
The department had never acknowledged the longstanding error or disclosed it to the public until approached by Spotlight PA about potential data discrepancies.
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Borough Council President Evan Myers commended Madrid for taking on “this independent investigation.” However, when Council Member Nalini Krishnankutty asked Madrid to detail how the oversight board assessed the findings published by Spotlight PA, he said, “Investigation might be too strong a word.”
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Madrid’s statements echoed what State College police officials told reporters throughout the course of reporting. Matthew Wilson, a former assistant chief who is now chief in Ferguson Township, told Spotlight PA in a February 2025 interview that the police department wasn’t calling those incidents rapes, but it was calling them sexual offenses. “I don’t see it as a huge deal,” Wilson said.
“I don’t see it as a huge deal.” This infuriating and inexcusable debacle is not a huge deal to the all-male investigators. WTF?!! Now we all know how seriously the PA state police take rape cases. After reading about negligent misogyny like this, why would any woman want to report that she was raped?
National News
The Washington Post recently published a puff piece (gift link) on a trans-identifying male (TIM) who staunchly supports President Trump and MAGA.
She [sic] isn’t the only visible pro-Trump trans person on the right — Caitlyn Jenner, the Olympian and mega-celebrity, was on record supporting the president in 2016 and 2024. But with 1.5 million YouTube subscribers on her personal page and another 688,000 on the page for her podcast, “The Blaire White Project” — plus 540,000 followers on Instagram and more than 700,000 on X — she may be the most visible right-wing trans personality who has built a following exclusively online.
Apart from her support of adults who want to transition, Blaire’s views on trans rights are deeply conservative: She believes there are only two genders. She is against trans women competing in women’s sports (she thinks they should have their own, separate league). She believes governments should ban medical transition care for trans children, regardless of parental consent. She rejects the label “transgender” and identifies instead as “transsexual,” a term that some in the community consider outdated because it tethers transition to biological sex. And although her Texas driver’s license identifies her as female, she argues that trans women like herself are not “women.”
So Mr White has some common sense.
I wonder why WaPo published this article now. After a few other pro-TIM puff pieces featuring — boo hoo, woe is I — men who want to compete against women, it then published a pro-common sense editorial arguing against this. This current article quotes Mr White as “too trans for the right and too right for the trans.” Maybe they want to show that “not all trans” adhere to the party line. The article seems to reinforce the myth that only the far right opposes trans ideology. Heck, even TIMs can be duped into being MAGA! WaPo should feature a radical feminist and a left-leaning sex realist too. But we know that’s never gonna happen.
A consumer fraud lawyer claims she was abruptly fired by New York State Attorney General Letitia James for publicly sounding the alarm about gender affirming care and “transitioning” kids.
Glenna Goldis put the AG’s office on blast for terminating her from the consumer fraud and protection unit on Thursday, revealing they treated her like a “pest” when she first started flagging concerns about gender medicine for youngsters.
“James was wrong to treat me like a pest. I was trying to warn her about red flags for fraud that I saw around PGM [pediatric gender medicine] — that’s what she hired me to do,” she said in a scathing statement on X.
Recall that New York state AG James (and PA Governor Josh Shapiro) is part of a multi-state lawsuit against the Trump administration’s efforts to protect children from sex-rejecting mutilation.
Save the Date!
On Thursday March 12th 2026, Genspect will convene what is expected to be the largest gathering of detransitioners ever held anywhere in the world. Taking place in Washington DC, this Detrans Awareness Day represents a decisive shift. For the first time, detransitioners will not be appearing as isolated individuals, online testimonies, or marginal voices, but coming together in significant numbers, in person, in the political capital of the United States. [Emphasis added.]
For more information, visit Genspect.
Unbelievable! In a Good Way!
The science blog Why Evolution Is True (WEIT) featured two elderly Japanese women who hunt venomous sea snakes. The women use no personal protective equipment of any kind. They use the deadly snakes in soup. WEIT reports:
Now all banded sea snakes are highly toxic, and [sic] are the kraits (genus Bungarus). Although bitten victims can be treated with antivenom, mortality from some species can be as high as 80% in untreated victims (age of victim and time until treatment begins are crucial). The venoms are neurotoxic and the symptoms are dire.
The snakes being hunted in this video, are probably the black-banded sea krait (Laticauda semifasciata), and they’re caught for food.
Watch these incredible women in this four-minute BBC video.
How far would you, Dear Readers, go for soup ingredients? Or any food?
h/t The TERF Report, Anna van Zee Substack