Leor Sapir
@LeorSapir
Senior Fellow @ManhattanInst | Ph.D. @BostonCollege & Post-Doc @Harvard | Gender medicine | Causes and consequences of institutional dysfunction | opinions own
The reckoning over puberty blockers has arrived My latest in @TheHillOpinion thehill.com/opinion/health…
Can’t wait to see how Owens pins this on the Jews.
NEWS: French President Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron and his wife Brigitte have sued ultra-conservative media personality Candace Owens @RealCandaceO for, among other things, claiming that the first lady is transgender.
The endgame of "defund the police." Luxury beliefs are ideas and opinions that confer status on the affluent, while inflicting costs on the lower classes.
Introducing Patrol. Homeowners in LA can now book off-duty police officers to help protect their homes. Now available in Brentwood, Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Holmby Hills, and Malibu — more areas coming soon.
"Among those who can overcome the trauma of having the issue raised, one favored gambit is to act as if it is an unreasonable expectation for academics to know whether or not there are male women." Damning, highly entertaining. Well worth your time. philosophersmag.com/philosophical-…
A reminder to all that antisemitism is seeing a major revival not as mere prejudice, but as politics. As a universal political explanation. As a mobilizing political force. As an alliance-forming political tool.
It is indeed.
“It is embarrassing to discover, in a discipline whose public self-image incorporates a socratic ideal of intellectual fearlessness, a conspicuous absence of truth-tellers.” One of the best essays I’ve read in a long time.
Important update
French health authorities have abandoned draft treatment advice that would have treated 16- and 17-year-olds as if they were adults and enabled their fast-track gender medicalisation under the banner of “depathologisation”. Link in tweet below.
Patients of Children’s National Hospital in DC’s pediatric gender clinic were reportedly alerted this morning that the clinic would cease prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones in six weeks’ time.
A spokesperson for Children's National Hospital in Washington, DC, told me today: "In light of escalating legal and regulatory risks to Children’s National, our providers, and the families we serve, we will be discontinuing the prescription of gender-affirming medications. This…
I wouldn’t write “capitulating,” simply because there is a very real possibility that some of these hospitals, or some execs within them, privately welcome Trump administration pressures to do what they feel they should be doing, but lack the wherewithal to do without pressure.
BREAKING: A 2nd Major Children's Hospital—in DC—Will Cease Offering Gender-Transition Treatments 🧵⬇️Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC, follows Children's Hospital Los Angeles in capitulating to Trump administration threats and ceasing prescribing gender-transition…
I’m not going to dispute the citations. They’re accurate. The Old Testament is violent. The post distorts Jewish heritage by lazily blurring the line between history and theology. But all that is boring. What’s revealing is how perfectly this reflects the mindset of this…
People often speak of the predisposition of Islam towards violence and tie it to terrorism. But few have made the connection between Jewish heritage and the genocide in Gaza. Unfortunately, the Tanakh has several instances of genocide. They are all recounted approvingly.…
Like a cancer, antisemitism is devouring both political parties from within. The left has Mamdani. They have Candice and Tucker. This is just crazy stuff to think, let alone film yourself saying.
🚨NEW: Today, the U.S. government officially ended its partnership with the Trevor Project. While the left melts down, @brad_polumbo and I highlight a major reason for the decision: the Trevor Project’s promotion of harmful gender ideology and sex pseudoscience targeted at…
President Trump is right to crack down on masked agitators. In @WSJ, my @ManhattanInst colleague @ishapiro and I lay out how the federal government can target those who weaponize anonymity to intimidate, riot, and menace the public—without infringing on peaceful protest.