2022's Biggest Winners and Losers
by Jennifer Lahl, CBC President
What
a year 2022 has been! This year was the first time in a while that I
had no trouble finding winners for my annual list! My winner list could
have easily included so many more examples of people doing good things,
important work, and advancing causes that promote the dignity and the
wellbeing of people. Maybe that is a hopeful sign that the tides are
turning.
Reach out and let me know if you agree with my picks.
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Winners:
Kellie-Jay Keen, British Women’s Rights Campaigner has literally reached the world with her “Let Women Speak” campaign. A few years ago, Kellie-Jay was part of a mother’s group on MumsNet,
when she discovered “trans women” (aka men) – were part of the group.
She protested that “men can’t be women” and was booted out. As they
say, the rest is history. She’s fearless, courageous, and in her own
words, “never loses.” Brava, Kellie-Jay for opposing trans ideology that
cheats women and girls!
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 Allie Beth Stuckey, podcast host of Relatable boldly took on surrogacy, egg “donation”, and freezing embryos. As a three-time invited guest
on her show in 2022, it was evident that the conservative, religious
right is finally waking up to the horrors of third party reproductive
technologies.
Thank you, Allie Beth, for amplifying the message of the CBC, to stop surrogacy and egg harvesting practices.
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 A well-deserved shout-out to parent-led groups,
trying to save their children from the trans cult, from political
leaders, and established medical societies have organized to show-up and
demand children not have their puberty blocked, be put on cross-sex
hormones, or given destructive surgeries. Groups like Our Duty, Parents With Inconvenient Trusts About Trans (PITT), and Partners for Ethical Care (PEC) are doing the hard and vital work to protect children.
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Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS) did the right thing after their members expressed displeasure that in the 2022 Holiday Edition magazine,
they included a surrogacy ad, suggesting women could help other women
achieve motherhood by renting out their wombs. I wasted no time connecting with the leadership
to educate them on the risks/harms of surrogacy. Fortunately, MOPS
publicly said, “We want to apologize for our choice to run the ad and
commit to not offering sponsorship opportunities
to surrogacy organizations in the future.” It’s often not easy to admit
when a mistake has been made, so we applaud MOPS for having the
integrity to do so.
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Genevieve Gluck, co-founder of Reduxx,
a new online site that dares to go where most won’t in deep dive
investigative journalism. Whether it’s digging into the underbelly of
pornography or exposing sexual predators, this is a news site doing
significant work in protecting women and children. Genevieve is a friend and has been a guest on our Venus Rising podcast, talking about her work.
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Losers:
 Dave Rubin and his husband David Janet
for having babies through surrogacy and egg “donation”. Dave, a
darling in the conservative right movement, announced that they were
going to become parents to two babies. A photo of each of the Daves,
holding up ultrasound images of their babies, show Rubin’s baby was due
August 8, 2022 and Janet’s baby due October 14, 2022. From their own
story, they used the same woman’s eggs, but each of them used their own
sperm to create embryos to insert into two different mothers’ wombs. We
are deeply troubled by their doubling down on their exploitation of
women and babies.
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He Jiankui is out raising money to build his lab, after serving three years in prison, in China. His punishable offense was using gene-editing CRISPR technology, which has been condemned
by the international scientific community, because of serious safety
concerns. He Jiankui produced the first CRISPR babies. First, a set of
twins, and then a single baby. His new goal is to develop affordable
therapies for genetic diseases. Top on his list is Duchenne muscular
dystrophy. We support new therapies to treat and cure disease, but what
we can’t support are dangerous experimental therapies.
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Governor Gavin Newsom and Scott Weiner, California State Senator (D), share loser status for their roles in passing SB 107, the “gender affirming health care” bill and SB 923,
the Transgender Inclusive Health Care bill. These two men have
enshrined laws that put gender dysphoric children at risk and enables
minors to travel to California for puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones,
and genital surgeries. California already has a 4.5 million reparations
fund to pay victims of our dark history of involuntary
sterilization. Through the passages of these laws we are setting the
state up to have to pay reparations to the tens of thousands of people
harmed by “gender affirmation care.”
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During the global Covid pandemic, we watched in horror as babies born of surrogacy were stranded for months due to travel bans. Countries like Cambodia, with weak surrogacy laws
that actually punish the impoverished women who choose surrogacy as a
means of making money are losers to us. Hun Daneth, a poor Cambodian
woman gave birth to a little boy for a Chinese man. She is now left
caring for the boy or else go to jail. The Chinese man is serving 15
years in prison for human trafficking and surrogacy violations are tied
to their trafficking laws. The only solution is a global ban on all
surrogacy.
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Joe Biden wasted no time on day one on the job as Commander-in-Chief by signing an executive order
on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender
Identity or Sexual Orientation. Since he campaigned on passing the
Equality Act, this was no surprise. He only further doubles down by
placing key people in White House positions like Dr. Rachel Levine, and the now furloughed Sam Brinton. Oh, and he invited “trans woman” Amy Schneider, the famous Jeopardy winner, to speak at the People’s House for International Transgender Visibility Day!
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Ulta Beauty took a lot of heat for inviting ‘trans influencer’ Dylan Mulvaney to serve as a model for their cosmetics
and also being an invited guest on their company podcast to discuss
femininity. Imagine that, having a man to discuss what it means to be
feminine and female. Mulvaney boasts some 9 plus million followers on
his TikTok account, where he chronicles each day of “being a girl”. At
the time of this writing he’s on day 290 and has just had plastic
surgery to feminize his facial features.
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