Biden ‘Not Ruling Out’ Boots on the Ground in Taiwan
US President Joe Biden has declined to say how his nation would defend Taiwan from Beijing’s military, but would not “rule out” putting boots on the ground on the self-administered Chinese island.
Taiwan has been backed by successive governments in Washington, even after the US formally recognized the People’s Republic of China in 1979. The island was the last refuge of nationalist forces in the Chinese civil war of the 1940s, and the communist government on the mainland has gradually sidelined its opponents in the international arena.
Washington continued to provide Taiwan with arms and commerce opportunities despite technically acknowledging that a single Chinese nation is represented by Beijing. Unlike previous US presidents, Biden has deviated from the principle of strategic ambiguity, under which the Americans decline to publicly state how far they would go in backing Taipei. The president has repeatedly pledged to intervene militarily in the event of China trying to take the island by force.
In an interview with TIME magazine published on Tuesday, Biden was asked how exactly the US military would act in the event of an armed conflict in Taiwan.
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“It would depend on the circumstances,” the president replied. “We’re continuing to supply capacity… And we’ve been in consultation with our allies in the region.”
He confirmed that he was not “ruling out using US military force” on the ground, but also considered other options, which he would not discuss publicly. He said: “You would then criticize me with good reason if I were to tell you.”
Senior US military and intelligence officials have claimed that Beijing may be preparing its military to seize Taiwan, with several deadlines for such an operation floated over the years.
Biden told the news outlet that he had discussed the issue with Chinese President Xi Jinping during their bilateral meeting in San Francisco last year, vowing not to seek independence for Taiwan. At the same time, he said “nor will we, in fact, not defend Taiwan… if China unilaterally tries to change the status.”
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Beijing’s stated policy is to seek peaceful reunification with the island, but it has warned that it would resort to military action in response to a formal declaration of independence. Chinese officials have claimed that some American politicians are encouraging Taipei to cross this red line.
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California Bill Would Force Teachers to Hide Children’s Gender Confusion from Parents
SACRAMENTO, California (LifeSiteNews) — California lawmakers have proposed legislation that would force educators to withhold from parents any knowledge that their children are suffering gender confusion, in the far-left state’s latest elevation of LGBT ideology over public welfare and parents’ rights.
AB 1955 “would prohibit school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and the state special schools, and a member of the governing board or body of those educational entities, from enacting or enforcing any policy, rule, or administrative regulation that requires an employee or a contractor to disclose any information related to a pupil’s [so-called] sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression to any other person without the pupil’s consent unless otherwise required by law,” according to the text.
The legislation is meant to codify a policy directive attempted last year by Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom and blocked by Judge Roger Benitez as a “trifecta of harm” against children’s needs, parental rights, and teachers’ consciences.
Aggressively pro-LGBT California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond endorsed the bill, which passed the state Senate in May.
A large body of evidence shows, however, that “affirming” gender confusion carries serious harms, especially when done with impressionable children who lack the mental development, emotional maturity, and life experience to consider the long-term ramifications of the decisions being pushed on them, or full knowledge about the long-term effects of life-altering, physically transformative, and often irreversible surgical and chemical procedures.
Studies find that more than 80% of children suffering gender dysphoria outgrow it on their own by late adolescence and that full “reassignment” surgery fails to resolve gender-confused individuals’ heightened tendency to engage in self-harm and suicide – and may even exacerbate it, including by reinforcing their confusion and neglecting the actual root causes of their mental strife.
The danger of keeping parents in the dark about such developments is grimly illustrated in the story of Yaeli Martinez of Los Angeles, a 19-year-old to whom “gender transitioning” was touted as a possible cure for her depression in high school, supported by a high school counselor who withheld what she was going through from her mother. The troubled girl killed herself in 2019 after trying to live as a man for three years.
The indoctrination of children with left-wing ideology on sexuality and other left-wing agenda items has long been a major concern in American public schools, from libraries to athletic and restroom policy to drag events to classroom materials to even“transitioning” troubled children without parental input. Many schools have also displayed hostility to the rights and employment of individual teachers who refuse to go along with such agendas.
Newsom’s California is particularly adamant about imposing LGBT dictates on all aspects of society. He has previously imposed fines on retailers who do not establish designated “gender-neutral” sections for children’s merchandise, threatened the custody of parents who refuse to affirm their children’s gender confusion, and housed self-professed “transgender” males – including sex predators – in women’s prisons.
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UK Nurses Sue National Health Service for Siding with Transgender Employee Over Allegations of Sexual Harassment in Changing Room
A group of 26 nurses in the United Kingdom have filed a lawsuit against the National Health Service (NHS) for siding with a transgender employee who allegedly harassed female staff in the women’s changing room.
The lawsuit, which stems from the policy of the County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, accused the hospital of sexual harassment and sex discrimination for allowing staff members who identify with a gender that differs from their biological sex to use facilities – including changing rooms, toilets and showers – that align with their chosen gender identity. In line with this policy, the changing facilities in the hospital are designated as single-sex, with open spaces reserved for seating and lockers but no individual cubicles. This policy has reportedly led to several uncomfortable encounters with the transgender employee.
According to the female nurses, the transgender colleague often spends time in the female changing room in revealing attire, sometimes with the person’s male genitalia visible. The employee would also allegedly stare at and initiate conversations with the biologically female nurses while they were changing. This behavior has reportedly caused significant distress among the nurses, some of whom have had histories of sexual assault by men.
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“It’s been really difficult for all of us,” the nurse said. “Some girls have had traumatic pasts; they’ve been abused by men. Some of them who have PTSD don’t want to be in a room getting undressed in front of a male. It’s had nurses on the ward crying.”
Another nurse, who was sexually abused as a child, recounted a particularly distressing encounter where the transgender colleague, half-naked, repeatedly asked her why she wasn’t getting changed. Meanwhile, an international nurse on the team has started wearing a vest and leggings to maintain modesty around the transgender colleague. The secure nature of the changing room, which requires a key press and code for access, adds to their fears. They worry that in the event of an incident, no one will hear them calling for help.
Furthermore, the nurses revealed that the transgender worker claimed to have stopped taking female hormones so that the employee’s girlfriend could get pregnant.
The female nurses first raised their concerns with their respective human resources departments in August 2023, but no action was taken.
Nurses send open letter to NHS Foundation Trust
In March 2024, the 26 female nurses signed a letter to the NHS Foundation Trust’s director of workforce, detailing their discomfort and the inappropriateness of the situation. They expressed that having a sexually active biological male in the female changing facilities was “intimidating” and “upsetting.”
The letter received no response, but a subsequent meeting was held with their head of human resources. During the meeting, the nurses were informed that the hospital fully supported their transgender colleague and suggested that they needed to “attend training,” “be educated” and “broaden their mindset.”
“[My manager] was basically told that we needed to be more inclusive, broaden our mindset,” one of the nurses who works for the hospital system said. “The Trust are backing this individual. We need to be educated, which is just, I find that absolutely insulting. Totally insulting. And we needed to compromise.”
In response, Andrea Williams, the chief executive of Christian Legal Center, an organization supporting the lawsuit, criticized the hospital for failing to balance the rights of all staff members.
“This NHS trust is putting a dangerous and discredited transgender ideology ahead of staff and patient safety, not to mention biological reality. We are concerned that what the nurses here are experiencing is just the tip of the iceberg. How many more people across the NHS, in other professions and in public places are having to go through similar experiences?” Williams said.
“Telling educated, qualified and caring women that they need to be ‘re-educated’ and be more ‘inclusive’ for raising concerns about what is happening is deeply troubling,” she continued. “Instead of giving in to the climate of fear surrounding speaking out against transgender ideology, these nurses are now refusing to be silenced and are taking a courageous stand. We will support them at every step.”
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Swiss School to Trial Digital Trackers on its Pupils
A Swiss after-school care center is set to trial equipping children with trackers as a way to monitor their whereabouts on the school grounds.
At the Letten after-school care center in Birmensdorf, children will wear a magnetic wristband with a Bluetooth system that will allow the childcare staff to check where the child is; staff will receive an alert if a child leaves the after-school care center or school “without permission” during care hours.
According to the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), the technology and equipment for the tracking system are being supplied by the head of the Letten after-school care center, Joel Giger, who founded a start-up called Companion last year and initiated the project in Birmensdorf. The company’s logo can also be seen on the school’s press release, made available to the NZZ.
The school administration does not see this as a problematic link, as its president Bettina Köhler told the NZZ. “Those responsible (…) at Birmensdorf school can gain new insights through the pilot project and at the same time offer the company the opportunity to test the product together with specialists on-site as part of the pilot project.”
The test at the Birmensdorf school will begin on June 10 with the third and fourth grades and will last until the summer vacations, the school revealed. The project will be extended to all classes between the summer and fall vacations. The test will then be evaluated and a decision made on the definitive introduction of the system.
It is up to the parents to decide whether they want their child to take part in the project or not. However, they must actively opt their children out. Tracking systems for children are not a new invention. GPS devices, which parents can use to locate their children at any time, can be ordered online at the click of a mouse. The number of such portable devices, also known as wearables, has increased significantly worldwide in recent years.
The cantonal data protection authority, however, is critical of the project. According to its spokesperson Hans Peter Waltisberg, data processing is proportionate if there is a “reasonable relationship” between the purpose pursued and the data processing. However, “a permanent localization of pupils does not seem necessary for the care of children.”
“It should be examined whether a Bluetooth wristband is the appropriate means of localization. For example, the fact that a wristband can also be removed must be taken into account,” he added.
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Fauci Claims Unvaccinated Americans may be ‘Responsible’ for Additional 200-300K Deaths
(LifeSiteNews) — During his Monday appearance at the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, disgraced Dr. Anthony Fauci claimed that Americans who refused the abortion-tainted COVID shot were likely responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of their fellow citizens.
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He blames the unvaccinated for around 200,000-300,000 additional deaths pic.twitter.com/gG4TVAW4R8— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 3, 2024
Monday was Fauci’s first public testimony on Capitol Hill since he resigned his post in 2022. At one point, he was told by Georgia GOP Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene that he deserves to be in jail for committing “crimes against humanity.”
I let Anthony Fauci know exactly how the American people feel about his crimes against humanity.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene?? (@RepMTG) June 3, 2024
Mr. Fauci should be prosecuted and thrown in jail. pic.twitter.com/iHqOg3rpox
Fauci made his allegation after Democrat Rep. Robert Garcia of California asked him if Americans should “listen to America’s brightest and best doctors and scientists, or instead listen to podcasters conspiracy theorists and unhinged Facebook memes.”
Garcia did not provide specific names of those who he had in mind.
Fauci responded by arguing that listening to podcasters and others will result in people being harmed because “they will deprive themselves of life-saving interventions.”
LifeSiteNews has documented the many negative side effects and adverse reactions not only Americans but people across the world have suffered from the Big Pharma-backed COVID jab, which has been linked to sudden death, myocarditis, pregnancy complications, and blood clots, among scores of other ailments.
Fauci then claimed that “some” people “have done studies” on the impact the unvaccinated had on others.
“Peter Hotez has done an analysis of this and shows that in people who refuse to get vaccinated for any variety of reasons,” he stated. They are “probably responsible for an additional 200,000 to 300,000 deaths in this country.”
It is not clear which “analysis” Hotez conducted that Fauci was referring to.
Hotez is a propagandist for Big Pharma. In a video released on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) X account in December 2022, Hotez claimed that “anti-vaccine activism” is “anti-science aggression.”
“Anti-vaccine activism, which I actually call anti-science aggression, has now become a major killing force globally.”
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) December 14, 2022
– @PeterHotez, Professor and Dean @BCM_TropMed, on the devastating impact of #misinformation and disinformation. pic.twitter.com/ZluiMGJ2gX
Hotez currently serves as the Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and co-director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development in Houston. In June 2023, he accused Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and podcaster Joe Rogan of spreading “vaccine misinformation.” Rogan invited Hotez to debate RFK on his show and offered to donate $100,000 to the charity of Hotez’s choice. X owner Elon Musk chimed in as well, saying that Hotez is “afraid of a public debate, because he knows he’s wrong.” Hotez is yet to accept Rogan’s offer.
Yes Joe I thought it was over the top, unnecessarily provocative, so I took it down right away. But I’ve been hurt by the public/untrue statements you/guests have made about me being a pharma shill, when all I do is make vaccines for the world’s poor. I don’t take BigPharma money https://t.co/T5Uid5rwGT
— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) June 18, 2023
Asked by Republican Chairman Brad Wenstrup of Ohio about the effectiveness of the jab, Fauci admitted it was a “complicated issue,” confessing that what “became evident as the months went by, is that the durability of protection, against infection and hence transmission was relatively limited.”
LifeSiteNews previously reported on Fauci’s closed door testimony to the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic in January. His comments shockingly revealed that he essentially had zero scientific evidence to support his recommendations.
“It sort of just appeared,” he said, when asked about where the six-foot social distancing ban came from. “I was not aware of studies” on that, he added. It was “an empiric decision that wasn’t based on data.”
Fauci shifted blame for those remarks Monday by alleging that the Centers for Disease Control came up with guidelines.
“It had little to do with me since I didn’t make the recommendation and my saying ‘there was no science behind it’ meant there was no clinical trial behind that,” he said.
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