Professor Loses His Job for Talking About Gender Dysphoria

Plus: Legacy Media Dish Out Scrutiny, but Can't Take It.

Aug 29, 2019   Good morning from Washington, where health officials conclude that a nurse's conscience rights were violated by a Vermont hospital that performs abortions. Fred Lucas reports. Alaska confronts its conflict with a major Supreme Court ruling on labor unions and government employees, Kevin Mooney writes. A professor of child psychiatry sacked for expressing views on gender tells his story to Rachel del Guidice. Plus: Jarrett Stepman on the thin skins of New York Times writers, Star Parker on our crisis of values, and "Problematic Women" guest Romina Boccia on treasuring U.S. citizenship. Seventy years ago today, the Soviet Union detonates its first atomic bomb.     Special Feature Academia Today 'Not for Faint-Hearted,' Says Professor Who Lost His Job for Talking About Gender "I really was an academic physician, not a politician. I wasn't there with an agenda or an activist position," says Dr. Allan Josephson, former head of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. More Commentary Is Turnabout Fair Play? Legacy Media Dish Out Scrutiny, but Can't Take It. Mainstream media has the incredible power to destroy lives and careers, yet apparently thinks it has a special privilege to be exempted from the magnifying glass it often unfairly turns on everyone else. More News Vermont Hospital Violated Nurse's Conscience Rights on Abortion, HHS Says The University of Vermont Medical Center allegedly forced a nurse to participate in an abortion despite her objections, in violation of federal law protecting conscience rights. More Commentary Problematic Women: No, Taylor Swift, You Need to Calm Down Plus: We interview one of America's newest citizens, Heritage Foundation scholar Romina Boccia, about what it was like going through the citizenship process and what becoming a U.S. citizen means to her. More News Alaska Moves to Comply With Supreme Court on Deducting Union Dues Because public sector employers no longer are permitted to deduct labor union dues or fees from an employee's paycheck without that employee's "affirmative consent," the state's payroll deduction system "fails to satisfy constitutional standards," says Alaska Attorney General Kevin G. Clarkson. More Commentary Our Changing Values Should Worry Us. But We Can Still Change Course The founders of the country saw the nation's existence, its faith, and its posterity as a package deal. Now we have a young generation, our future, that dismisses the importance of all the elements of that package. More           The Daily Signal is brought to you by more than half a million members of The Heritage Foundation. Donate to The Daily Signal Find us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter How are we doing? We welcome your comments, suggestions, and story tips. Please reply to this email or send us a note at comments@dailysignal.com. The Daily Signal 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 (800) 546-2843     Add morningbell@heritage.org to your address book to ensure that you receive emails from us. You are subscribed to this newsletter as johnmhames1.diogenes--light@blogger.com. If you want to receive other Heritage Foundation newsletters, or opt out of this newsletter, please click here to update your subscription.

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