INGERSOLL: It’s Been Arguably The Worst Month For Gay Pride Since HIV Era In 80s

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NEW YORK - JUNE 28: A participant marches in the Gay Pride Parade on June 28, 2015 in New York City. The parade is being held two days after the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision siding with the right for gay marriage in the U.S. (Photo by Yana Paskova/Getty Images)

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Greetings, Dear Reader,

Father’s Day went well for me this weekend. Best one yet. Got a third Ingersoll kid on the way. New Baby Album Drops Aug. 4!

Did Catholic Mass early Sunday, hit a Target run with the wife, did MMA sparring for two hours, then laid 30 yards of mulch in my beds at home. Capped it off with my favorite dinner, four ice cold pounders and a cigar.

It’s good to be a dad.

Anyways, here’s your Monday take:

ALPHABET PRIDE’S DISASTER MONTH

The alphabet people are nothing but L’s lately. Not lesbians. No. I want to say that would actually make them cooler, if they were all lesbians.

Losses. It’s just been day after day, week after week of losses.

It’s probably a good thing that the World Cup and viral eurotourism to all the most red-blooded American states and staples has overshadowed Gay Stuff Month. Many of them are thankful I’m sure that Trump’s UFC match and his reflecting pool foibles have sucked all the air out of the room.

It has not been a good pride month.

The month started off with corporations dragging their feet to issue annual hostage statements on social. The numbers just don’t add up anymore. The gays just don’t have any effect on the bottom line, folks are realizing. The cartel has lost its heft.

To make matters worse, corporate sponsorship likewise dried up. Down 40%. Some are just “ghosting,” gay activism leaders say. Simply leaving the cartel “on read” as the kids say.

But it gets worse.

One of the leading urologists in the transgender sex changes for children movement got indicted on child porn charges. Of course he did.

An FTC lawsuit against WPATH – the institutional head of the transing kids movement – showed in stark relief just how bad Dr. Bryan Sack’s medical advice was to one child in particular. The kid was on puberty blockers and experiencing seriously messed up urination. It was “strawberry” colored and painful.

“The transition-friendly urologist says nah, transition drugs are totally safe, the problem is you’re holding in your pee *too much*,” tweeted Daily Caller News Foundation Managing Editor Thomas Phippen. “A few months after stopping the puberty blockers, the boy stopped peeing blood.”

Have fun in prison, you f*cking sicko! I’m sure the lifers there will treat you very well, Dr. Sack.

Keeping it on brand, the first ever transgender elected to a state legislature was sentenced for his prolific addiction to child porn. Historic glass ceiling shattered!

Barry Charles Laughton – who goes by “Stacey Marie” and looks like a cliche horror movie depiction of “transgender pedophile” – will spend 33 years in prison. Male prison no less. Yikes, another hit to the movement!

Laughton was sentenced in a Boston court probably not that far from where Boston Mayor Michelle Wu had planned to host a “trans period pride” event. This event was about “menstruation equity,” which is mentally ill mumbo jumbo for a gathering of mentally ill dudes in dresses to whine about not actually getting to experience having a period.

Yes, I am serious, that’s what it is.

There was significant backlash to this event, enough so that the library actually decided to boot Wu and her army of unhinged lunatics from the venue. Now she’s planning to hold the event at a “secret location.”

You people disgust me. Guys cannot have periods!

Just a stone’s throw south of Boston, Cazenovia, NY, had to cancel its entire pride event when locally famous drag queen and lead event organizer was busted for *YOU GUESSED IT* child pornography.

Good lord, seriously, bring back the guillotines.

The backlash isn’t just in the US either. Scotland has ruled that gender confused men cannot occupy cells in women’s prisons.

Back here in the US, SCOTUS is set to rule on two transgender athlete cases. You can imagine where those will end up (no, men cannot compete against women).

It’s been arguably the worst month for gay pride since the HIV era in the 80s.

Something tells me it’s going to get worse before it gets better.

Badenoch blasts 'moaning' female Labour MPs over Burnham jobs 'quota'

Kemi Badenoch has told Labour women to earn a job in Andy Burnham's Cabinet instead of demanding they are handed jobs because of their gender.

The Tory leader lashed out today amid reports that female MPs are demanding the de-facto new prime minister introduce a 50:50 gender split 'quota' in his government.

Amid reports that former foreign secretary David Miliband is being lined up to return to the role, possibly with his brother Ed as Chancellor, one female minister also complained that Burnham could not have 'more Milibands than women' in the top posts.

But in a scathing article in the Times today Mrs Badenoch told them to 'stop moaning' and get chosen on merit instead of retreating into 'more of the failed identity politics that is holding back our country'.

'There are many, many reasons why you shouldn't have any Milibands in the cabinet,' she said.

'But complaining that the boys haven't given them the right jobs or that the boys are taking all the jobs, just shows that Labour's women still don't get it.'

The idea of quotas was also attacked by Baroness Jacqui Smith, Labour's Skills Minister.

Asked by Times Radio if Mr Burnham should reserve jobs for women, she said: 'No, I think what Andy Burnham should be doing is building the very best team around him to change this country.'

A letter written by the Women's Parliamentary Labour Party has called on Mr Burnham to ensure a 50:50 split between men and women in government jobs

Amid reports that former foreign secretary David Miliband (above, right, in 2010) is being lined up to return to the role, possibly with his brother Ed as Chancellor, one female minister complained that Burnham could not have 'more Milibands than women' in the top posts

But Mrs Badenoch told them to pipe down and get chosen on merit instead of retreating into 'more of the failed identity politics that is holding back our country'

A letter written by the Women's Parliamentary Labour Party and seen by the BBC has called on Mr Burnham to ensure a 50:50 split between men and women in government jobs after he succeeds Sir Keir Starmer.

'We are asking you to demonstrate this change from day one and address the toxicity and misogyny within our own party and government,' it said.

Labour has never had a female leader, while the Conservatives have had three, and Mrs Badenoch urged the government to follow its meritocratic example.

'If you run a meritocracy, then you do not have to worry about jobs for the boys,' she wrote.

'Every woman who is a Conservative MP, every woman who has ever won the leadership, has had to fight to get where she is.

'By contrast, Labour women are demanding guarantees from Burnham. But the truth is he doesn't have to give any guarantees.

'If none of Labour's women are prepared to get their hands dirty and challenge him for the leadership, their demands are toothless.'

'In fact, it's quite revealing that the women's parliamentary Labour Party has written to Burnham asking him to commit himself to at least 50 per cent female ministers.

'This has nothing to do with meritocracy. It is yet more of the failed identity politics that is holding back our country.'

INGERSOLL: It's Been Arguably The Worst Month For Gay Pride Since HIV Era In 80s

INGERSOLL: It’s Been Arguably The Worst Month For Gay Pride Since HIV Era In 80s

Badenoch blasts 'moaning' female Labour MPs over Burnham jobs 'quota'

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