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Around the world, parents resonate with Elon Musk as victims of trans ideology
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The victims of trans ideology are many. As Elon Musk’s revelation Monday in an interview with Dr. Jordan Peterson showed, the harms inflicted spread even beyond the children who, cruelly convinced they were born “wrong,” mutilate their bodies and risk permanent infertility.
The “woke mind virus,” as christened by Musk, has a horrific impact on the family members strewn apart in collateral damage. The wives who lose husbands due to self-indulgent auto-gynephilia. The children who lose fathers. The parents who lose their sons or daughters as they reinvent themselves into a different identity altogether.
Opening up about his grief following his son Xavier’s attempted “transition,” Musk said:
Elon Musk called the term “gender affirming care” a “terrible euphemism.” (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
“I lost my son, essentially. They call it deadnaming for a reason.
MUSK SAYS TRANS CHILD WAS FIGURATIVELY ‘KILLED BY THE WOKE MIND VIRUS,’ VOWS TO DESTROY IT: ‘MY SON IS DEAD’
“The reason it’s called deadnaming is because your son is dead. My son Xavier is dead, killed by the woke mind virus.”
Musk was convinced to give his son puberty blockers under the threat that preventing him would make him likely to commit suicide – a manipulative myth pedaled by gender ideologues, which has now been dispelled. Musk said it wasn’t explained to him that puberty blockers are “actually just sterilization drugs” when he gave his consent for his son to undergo the treatment. He called the term “gender affirming care” a “terrible euphemism.”
In a culture where self-identification has become the dogma of our day, children have been given the autonomy of adults in demanding permanent, life-altering changes to their body – while parents’ concerns are infantilized and demonized.
Even in countries where toxic “puberty blockers” are now being halted – such as England and Scotland – “conversion therapy” bills are looming, threatening to criminalize parents who prevent “social transition” – in other words, who don’t allow their 11-year-old son to attend school in sparkly heels and lipstick.
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Meanwhile, in California, last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a new bill preventing school districts from requiring staff members to disclose students’ “sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression” to their parents.
Musk has previously blamed his son Xavier’s “progressive” school for indoctrinating him into believing he was born in the wrong body.
Where kids need reassurance and affirmation, teachers guide them down a path to bodily harm. Where parents could step in with concerns and guidance, they are brushed aside as bigots. Encouraging kids to mutilate their bodies just to “be themselves” is surely the greatest crime of the 21st century.
Musk reacted to California’s new law with a simple but foreboding response: “The state will take away your kids in California.” Alarmist? Not really.
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One need only look to what is happening in Switzerland – the “transgender capital of the world” – to see the end result of these policies that pit parents against child.
The teenage daughter of parents living in Geneva, Switzerland, has been separated from her family for over a year by court order after they objected to her gender “transition.”
Concerned that their daughter was being pushed to make hasty and potentially irreversible decisions, the parents declined “puberty blockers” and explicitly rejected her school’s attempt to “socially transition” her.
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The parents wanted to support her to feel loved and confident in her own body. In clear violation of parental rights, the school set her on the path to identify as a boy anyway, and have collaborated with state authorities to remove her from the care of her family.
Now, for seeking to protect the health and well-being of their daughter, they face a legal standoff over their fundamental rights as parents to care for their child who, residing in a government shelter since April 2023, is being encouraged to pursue dangerous medical interventions.
After all, the Cass Review made clear that social transition is not a “neutral act.” In fact, most children who are encouraged to socially transition head down a one-track pathway to puberty blockers and surgery.
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The tragedy of this family, torn apart by the state, has sent shock waves across the Twittersphere. If it can happen in Switzerland, it can happen anywhere. This is a timely warning against “conversion therapy” bills, such as the one posed in the King Charles III’s speech last week.
Parents, not schools nor the state, have the primary responsibility to care for their children. At a time when she needed her parents the most, Swiss authorities cooperated to block this girl from the love of her family.
Any ideology that operates in the shadows, unbeknownst to parents, should trigger massive alarm bells. The Swiss case shows how even actively involved parents can be completely shut out when powerful actors coalesce around the rabid promotion of gender ideology.
From Elon Musk, to parents in “human rights capital” Geneva, to those fearfully observing the future of the U.K. – gender ideology is claiming countless victims. While the tide turns on puberty blockers – which are being banned for children in Britain, Finland, Denmark, Norway and elsewhere – we mustn’t compromise on opposing policies that stand between loving parents and their children.
Our kids’ future – and that of their families – is at stake.
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SF scientists build robotic storm samplers to track pollutants before they reach the Bay
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Environmental Scientist Kayli Paterson from the San Francisco Estuary Institute is hitting the road with colleague David Peterson and a trunk full of water sampling robots.
“Yeah, I think the max we’ve ever done was five. But the sites are very close together. Oh, there it is. Hopefully it samples well,” says Paterson as she turns the mobile sampling lab onto a private oak-lined road.
They’re closing in on a watershed creek flowing through the hillsides near the San Andreas Lake reservoir, west of Highway 280 in Millbrae, part of the larger watershed that eventually drains into San Francisco Bay.
“So, we’ve got our sampler. Look at the battery. Hook that up, red and black. This is a 12-volt lithium battery, and it powers our sampler for probably about six to seven days,” she explains, showing off a self-contained unit miniaturized into a portable case.
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The black cases are their latest innovation in stormwater science. Robotic samplers anchor in key sections of the watershed to monitor not only flow, but also the chemicals and pollutants washing downstream toward the Bay.
“And this is a front-line pollution sampler. It’s getting the stormwater before it enters the Bay. And so, we want to know what’s coming into the Bay and getting these samplers out there in more locations will give us a better idea of where we might have issues, where a hotspot is, or maybe a previously unknown contaminant,” says Paterson.
“It’s important to get out that fast,” her colleague David Peterson adds. “You know, in these storms as they’re happening, because the water is picking up pollutants in real time, and we need to be there to capture them.”
When we first met Peterson several years ago, he and another Estuary Institute team were sampling water along the Bay shoreline by hand, a technique that’s still valuable. But to cover more ground, Kayli and a group of collaborators began developing the robotic samplers over recent storm seasons.
Kayli and David start by chaining the unit itself to a tree near the creek bank. The system employs remote-controlled pumps that draw samples from the creek and store them in onboard containers. The software controlling the volume and frequency can be operated from a phone app.
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One of the key targets in this study is a group of so-called “forever chemicals” known as PFAS, synthetic compounds that persist in the environment and have been detected in widespread areas of the Bay.
“And we capture samples and send them off to analytics labs across the country. Typically, universities or private labs will process these for us,” Peterson explains.
For these two stormwater detectives, it’s a mission that requires a combination of speed and patience**, chasing flowing water** through creeks and storm drains, sampling as they go.
“So, we’re looking for areas – the point of this is to do source control. Ultimately, we want to be able to trace this back to a possible source,” says Kayli Paterson.
And potentially prevent a source of toxic pollution from reaching San Francisco Bay and our Bay Area ecosystem.
More than a dozen of the robots were given names in a special contest, including the Big Sipper and the Tubeinator.
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The Denver Broncos are in the market for a running back.
Just two days after NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported that Denver wants to have the running back position addressed before the draft, Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports reported that the Broncos are “poised to make a splash” at running back during NFL free agency.
“Denver is the reason why the Jets used the franchise tag on Breece Hall rather than the transition tag, according to sources, making sure Denver wouldn’t get the opportunity to put together an offer the Jets would refuse to match,” Jones wrote for CBS Sports.
Jones said the Broncos would be an obvious potential landing spot for Kenneth Walker, and he noted that Travis Etienne could be a cheaper alternative. The Athletic’s Nick Kosmider also reported this week that Denver is expected to “closely examine” the RB market, and he name-dropped Walker, Etienne and Rico Dowdle.
The Broncos also have an in-house free agent at RB in J.K. Dobbins, who has expressed his desire to remain in Denver. The Broncos can begin negotiating with pending free agents from other clubs on March 9, but no deals can become official until the new league year begins on March 11. In-house free agents can be re-signed at any time.
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One of the Seattle Seahawks’ biggest rivals delivered the first big shockwaves of the 2026 offseason.
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Los Angeles Rams have agreed to a deal that would send four draft picks to the Kansas City Chiefs in exchange for All-Pro cornerback and former UW Huskies standout Trent McDuffie, according to a report from ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Wednesday morning.
McDuffie, who is entering the final season of his rookie contract, is expected to sign a long-term extension with the Rams, according to Schefter.
Shortly after the news broke, former NFL quarterback Brock Huard gave his reaction on Seattle Sports’ Brock and Salk.
“This feels like a direct move to match up with JSN and the Seahawks,” Huard said.
Widely considered to be the two best teams in the NFL this past season, the Seahawks and Rams squared off in three epic battles, capped by Seattle’s 31-27 win over Los Angeles in the NFC Championship.
Over those three games, the Rams’ shaky secondary struggled to contain NFL receiving leader and AP Offensive Player of the Year Jaxon Smith-Njigba. The Seahawks star wideout totaled 27 catches for 354 yards and two touchdowns across those three matchups, including 10 catches for 153 yards and a TD in the NFC title game.
Smith-Njigba also had a career-high 180 receiving yards and two touchdowns in an overtime loss to the Rams in 2024.
“It’s kind of like an old NBA world,” Huard said. “Like, alright, we know we’re gonna have to deal with Jordan or we’re gonna have to deal with Pippen or we’re gonna have to deal with Bird. Like, how do we match up? And (the Rams) know that that was the one area – in their back seven – that could not match up.”
Listen to the full Brock and Salk conversation at this link or in the audio player in the middle of this story. Tune into Brock and Salk weekdays from 6-10 a.m. or find the podcast on the Seattle Sports app.
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