Christina Buttons
@buttonslives
Investigative Reporter @ManhattanInst | opinions my own | don’t label me, I’m growing 🌱
My latest for @CityJournal investigates Arizona’s sudden shutdown of a girls’ residential treatment program. Despite no substantiated abuse and strong parent support, the state revoked its license in response to a media-driven panic fueled by Paris Hilton’s activist army.
Re-Creation Retreat, a therapeutic program for teen girls in Arizona, was shut down last month. Families say the state acted on thin evidence and responded to pressure from activists and unverified complaints—upending fragile lives in the process.
Paris Hilton has blood on her hands. She led a crusade against youth residential treatment. Programs that once served high-acuity kids have closed or now turn them away. The entire system is in steep decline. Girls like Jázmin Pellegrini are left cycling through hospitals,…
The death of a teenage girl found in a driveway in San Francisco was a mystery that shocked the city. But even before local authorities examined her body, Jázmin’s mother knew the underlying cause. Severe mental illness had ravaged Jázmin for the last two years of her life.
My colleague @neetu_arnold on a new state education law in Florida that’s worth some praise and excitement.
Families in Florida will soon have more options to secure a good education for their children, thanks to a new state law expanding Schools of Hope, a program that seeks to attract high-performing charter schools to districts with low-performing schools.
🧵 Because I'll do anything to procrastinate cooking dinner, let's mock the latest NYT gender lament.
These are the opening paragraphs from today’s New York Times article. Calling kids “transgender minors” is not editorial neutrality. Nor is it a matter of “style.” It is taking sides in a debate, and NYT has to stop pretending otherwise. Also, “two transgender daughters”?
1. Last month, NYT reported on "tension" between the ACLU and Biden's DOJ in 2024. The story implied that trans activists had played the normie naifs in government. I was skeptical. So I dug into Elizabeth Prelogar, the DOJ lawyer who argued Skrmetti at the Supreme Court...
Trans regret is not rare. Having the bravery to be public and honest about regret is rare.