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The Plight of Detransitioners

National Review

There’s a growing community of detransitioners, people who have realized that, despite feeling deeply unhappy before medical and social transition, their gender identity was not the culprit. These individuals, many of them young women, report that they had no problem accessing life-altering medical intervention, often as teenagers, often only days or weeks after announcing their symptoms.

The Trump Verdict

National Review

Rich Lowry: I’m guessing it won’t have much effect one way or the other on Republican voters, who weren’t paying attention to the trial, as far as I can tell. Most Republicans — at least those not already opposed to Trump — will also likely dismiss it as part of the ongoing, politically motivated legal assault against the former president. It will definitely add to his baggage in a general election if he’s the nominee, though.

When a Democratic President Was Above the Law

National Review

The most obvious example is Bill Clinton’s perjury. At the time, the all-but-uniform argument among Democrats was that the Clinton impeachment was “just about sex,” as if covering up a sexual affair is somehow a defense to breaking the law. On the simplest charge against Clinton, perjury in his civil deposition, there really was no question that Clinton lied under oath about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.