In one eye-opening example, New Jersey hospital system Inspira is handing out a questionnaire that asks about the “sexual orientation and gender identify” of…newborn babies.
Since a newborn is hours old and years away from reading and writing, parents are presumably expected to fill in the oval for “Lesbian or Gay,” “Straight or heterosexual,” or “Bisexual.”
A spokesman for Inspira says the form is required by a state law that says health care providers must collect information on the “race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity” of patients, which includes newborn babies, too.
Peter Labarbara, of the Center for Morality, says the form is comically stupid but not shocking.
“If the history of the gay and trans movement is any guide,” he says, “there's no depth to which the Left will not go.”
Not far from blue-state New Jersey, a resolution in Massachusetts condemns the Trump administration and its “attacks” on transgender people. By passing the measure, the City of Boston declared itself a “sanctuary city” for people who believe they were born in the wrong body. The resolution was approved 12-1 by the Boston City Council.
One supposed “attack” by President Trump is signing an executive order that declares there are only two sexes, male and female. That limited number differs greatly from the other side: There are 72 genders other than male and female, according to the website Medicinenet.com.
That Medicinenet.com article from February 2024 may be outdated, however, since AFN found a more recent list from website Disabled World. The A-Z list on that website, from October 2024 is likely much larger than 72 genders since 30 genders are listed under the letter “A” alone, such as anogender, anongender, antegender, anxegender, apagender, and apconsugender. Another 11 genders are listed under “B” and 20 under the letter “C.”
President Trump’s other supposed “attack” includes signing a “No Men in Women’s Sports” executive order.
This week, related to that action, the Trump administration suspended $175 million from the University of Pennsylvania. That punishment came after the school allowed a transgender female – a male – to swim and undress in the locker room on the UPenn women’s team.
On the Boston City Council, the resolution co-sponsor is Liz Breadon who is the city council’s first openly homosexual member.
“We’re living in unprecedented times,” she declared. “It’s a very, very difficult time, very uncertain.”
“With trans and gender-diverse communities being attacked on a national level, Boston has to step up and be the staple of the movement for saving our lives, especially black and brown transgender people,” Chastity Bowick, a man who identifies as a woman, told The Boston Herald.
Asked about the Boston resolution, MassResistance field director Arthur Schaper tells AFN the national group that began in blue-state Massachusetts has been fighting transgender ideology for years. There is a reason, he says, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, recognizes that transgenderism is a mental disorder.
That guidebook, used by the American Psychiatric Association, was famously altered in 2012 to drop “gender identify disorder” in favor of “gender dysphoria." The APA did so only under pressure from transgender activists who called the "disorder" diagnosis cruel and hurtful.
“It’s not only a mental illness but now it is a danger,” Schaper says, pointing to deranged and violent acts carried out by people who identify as transgender.
In one recent example from California, a street preacher witnessed a transgender female – a man – pull out a handgun and point it in his face. The gunman, who was walking by, was triggered after hearing the preacher say God “didn’t make a man to be a woman.”
“And now we see a large city, such as Boston, not only welcoming, enabling, and promoting this madness,” Schaper says, “but they are violating the fundamental reason that cities exist, which is to provide core functions and to provide public safety for all."
