Social Contagion
What to Know: Seattle public schools have seen an 853% increase in students who identify as “nonbinary” in just three years, a new report says.
The TPPF Take: The radical gender ideology movement is spread primarily online. It’s a social media disease.
“Kids are looking for something they can’t find,” pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Quentin Van Meter told TPPF recently. “They get into a chat room, they see a female who shows that her breasts were removed. So they think, I’m unhappy, maybe that’s what’s wrong with me. And then doors open, they find support groups online, and it’s an illusory, loving world. But I still have never met a happy transgender person. No happy parents of children who are transitioning. Such misery, crying out for some semblance of peace in their lives, and this isn’t peace.”
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A More Direct Approach
What to Know: Congressman Chip Roy is slamming America’s health care system, calling it “an insurance-run, government-dictated bureaucratic racket.”
The TPPF Take: An older model of health care delivery—we now call it direct primary care—can solve many of the problems that Rep. Roy lists.
“Most of the health care Texans need, and most of the time, can readily be handled by DPC practices—everything from seasonal allergies and colds to sports medicine for our young athletes to women’s care and hormone replacement therapies, for example,” says TPPF’s David Balat. “What’s more, DPC practices are uniquely suited to many of the ailments that drive too many Texans to emergency rooms—regardless of whether they’re insured. Diabetes is on the rise in Texas, particularly among low-income individuals.”
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Massive Hack
What to Know: The Mexican military has been hit with a massive computer hack, which has exposed what appears to be collusion between the military, the government and criminal cartels.
The TPPF Take: When regular diplomacy breaks down, paradiplomacy can be useful.
“With the current border crisis and in the absence of a solution from the federal government, Texas stepped in to protect its citizens in various ways, one of which is through paradiplomacy,” says TPPF’s Carine Martinez. “In April 2022, Gov. Greg Abbott signed agreements with the governors of the four Mexican border states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas. The Mexican states agreed to work to limit the flow of human and drug trafficking out of their states and into Texas in exchange of which the governor would stop recently instituted enhanced inspections of commercial vehicles entering Texas from Mexico.”
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