A central argument levied by transgender activists, Parker Molloy among them, is that overwhelming public opposition to the principal tenets of this movement is inorganic and is largely or completely the product of cynical persuasion campaigns waged by conservatives.

Some astonishing statistics I came upon when looking more into the catastrophe that is the Seattle Public Schools. The white-black achievement gap got much worse than this after the equity plan, note. The 3.5-year gap is from before the failed, counterproductive plan.

Because a news outlet I’ve never heard of found that a couple news outlets I’ve never heard of reported in 2010 that Jason Arday ran 30 marathons in 35 days, now all of Bluesky believes he really did. None of them have realized that he could have just told those outlets he did at the time. All of this is based on his word. It is this very sort of credulity that allowed him to keep telling such stories for 16 years totally unchecked. I already reported on those local news stories weeks ago anyway. They never proved anything, because Arday would’ve run all those marathons almost entirely solo. He had no tracking device and wasn’t running as a part of any official race.

Scoop: The Unredacted Email That Shows Exactly Who Knew Why WPATH Caved to Dr. Rachel Levine On Trans-Care Age Limits For two years, black bars have hid the names on the email. I got the original. WPATH's president wrote to Dr. Levine and spelled out who was in the loop as they softened the age-limit recommendations.

Jason Arday found dead Academic had resigned from the University of Cambridge last week Jason Arday, the former University of Cambridge professor, has been found dead. Mr Arday was found “unresponsive” at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon. He was later pronounced dead at the scene. A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said officers were called by the London Ambulance Service at 3.12pm on Friday. He said: “Sadly, a 41-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene. His next-of-kin have been informed and are being supported by officers. “At this time his death is being treated as unexpected, but is not believed to be suspicious. The case is being investigated by officers from the Met’s Central South Command Unit. A file will be prepared for the coroner.”

NEWS: 9th Circuit revives DOJ subpoena for transgender kids' medical records A federal appeals court just handed DOJ a win in its investigation of a telehealth clinic that prescribes gender-transition treatment, including to minors. QueerDoc, a Washington-based practice, got a HIPAA subpoena from DOJ demanding 15 categories of records: personnel files, billing data, communications with drug manufacturers, and patient medical records and consent forms. DOJ has argued that the clinic's webpages promoting off-label puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones count as unlawful drug "labeling" under the FDCA's misbranding provisions. A district judge quashed the subpoena in its entirety, finding the DOJ issued it to advance the administration's declared goal of ending gender-transition treatment for minors. Today the Ninth Circuit reversed, 2-1, putting the subpoena back in play. Judge Bea, writing for the majority, asserted that the Executive Branch's public opposition to gender-transition treatment "is insufficient to show that an agency within the Executive Branch issued an otherwise permissible HIPAA subpoena in bad faith." Proving improper purpose takes specific evidence, not inferences from policy statements, Bea asserted. Officials get a presumption of regularity and setting enforcement priorities is the president's job. Judge Paez offered a vigorous dissent. DOJ "submitted essentially nothing" defending the subpoena, he wrote, while "there is a mountain of evidence that corroborates that DOJ used the threat of criminal investigation to pressure health care providers to stop offering gender-affirming care." He warned the majority's rule turns judicial review into a formality whenever an administration dresses a political campaign in statutory clothing. The case now goes back to the district court, which still has to decide whether individual requests are overbroad or unduly burdensome. The demand for patient records is the one to watch.

One thing Monty Python’s @JohnCleese said has stuck with me: “If you’re constantly stopping to ask whether an idea might offend someone, you’ve already interrupted the creative process.” Getting to talk to him was a real treat.

Kat Tenbarge, the former NBC reporter turned feminist newsletter writer, who is among the far-left accounts who fled X for the progressive Bluesky bubble after the Elon takeover on X and Trump’s second victory, proclaims victory over her X adversaries. “You lost!” she trumpets.

For the cover of the September issue, I wrote about why I left Bates College, the tenure track, and academia entirely. Come for the attempted lynching, stay for the union-busting, decolonial chemistry, and soft rabbits.

I’ve invited these senior figures associated with @GoodLawProject to a public discussion of their organization’s support for Jason Arday. Specifically, the decision to publish the open letter framing the plagiarism allegations as a right-wing smear: Jo Maugham Siham Bortcosh Ben Whur Rupert Evans Mathew Lodge Susan Morgan Justin Walters Antonia Belcher Sahil Kher

Wow: Judge Pauses Rollout of N.Y.C. Second-Home Tax, Dealing Blow to Mamdani A group of homeowners had sued the city, arguing that the introduction of the tax was mishandled. After the judge issued an order pausing the rollout, the city said it would appeal. Gift link:

Jason Arday’s memoir drops tomorrow in the US. It is not selling well. It was number 8,000 on the Amazon ranking two days ago and now is number 11,982. It is, however, number 298 in on the Success Self Help chart.