(WND News Center)—The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in a pair of cases challenging state laws that provide for boys to be in boys sports, and girls to be in girls.
The fight is over claims by transgender community advocates that males who pretend to be female must be allowed in girls’ sports.
That ideology in recent years has put adolescent boys in the shower rooms with adolescent girls, adult males in community center showers with young girls, and much worse.
Alito pinpointed the failing of the entirety of the agenda by asking a lawyer advocate for the deviant lifestyle choices how are boys and girls, men and woman, defined.
The lawyer was unable to answer.
But she did obfuscate with comments about not being a biologist, not having a definition for that and more.
An analyst for lawyers representing the plaintiffs pointed out the ACLU lawyer would not offer an answer.
Most people, he confirmed, would assign “no credibility” to someone who cannot answer that question.
In fact, transgender promoters insist that it’s all changeable, and a 5-year-old can be a boy, but that boy can be a girl at 10 years old, and vice versa.
Attorney General Pam Bondi said the government, in the cases, is arguing for common sense that has prevailed for millennia: That sports for women and girls must be protected from the overwhelming physical advantage of men.
“We are fighting to protect girls and women in the locker room…” she said.
Actor James Woods was unable to withhold sarcasm over the entire argument:
“Listening now to the Supreme Court arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Oh wait, they’re arguing about whether a 240 lb. guy can knock out a 90 lb. high school girl on the soccer field and then shower with her later.”
The two cases heard are Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. involving an Idaho student who insisted that, as a male, he had the right to participate on college teams for females, and a similar fight brought by a West Virginia student, a male.
Lower courts struck state laws that barred boys and men from teams for girls and women.
Leftist justice Elena Kagan complained during the arguments that most chess grandmasters are male, and West Virginia Solicitor General Michael Williams pointed out there’s a lack of any evidence of a physiological difference that would come to light in a chess match.
According to a report at Fox, ACLU lawyer Josh Block insisted that the Supreme Court should recognized only the studies that support his organization’s pro-transgender claims.
He said, “I don’t think the best way to get it right is to rely on cherry-picked studies or assertions in amicus briefs. I think the way to get it right is to let all the facts they’re trying to put in the record actually be put in the record, and then we’ll have the facts in front of us, and maybe they’ll make the issue go away. But I think that’s unnecessary to intervene at this instance with a sweeping legal conclusion to something that might actually be a narrow factual dispute.”
Justice Neil Gorsuch raised the issue of discrimination based on academic performance and how that should be handled.
“The statute says no discrimination on the basis of sex. And you’re saying, ‘Yeah, it’s okay when they’re not similarly situated.’ And you’re worried about locker rooms. Great. I appreciate that, but I’m worried about that math remedial class or the chess club or whatever.”
Alito’s concerns were addressed to Kathleen Hartnett, arguing for the pro-transgender policies mostly adopted under the administration of activist Joe Biden.
“We do not have a definition for the court, and we don’t take issue with the – we’re not disputing the definition here. What we’re saying is that the way it applies in practice is to exclude birth sex males categorically from women’s teams, and that there’s a subset of those birth sex males where it doesn’t make sense to do so, according to the state’s own interest,” Hartnett claimed.
Alito cited the obvious: “How can a court determine whether there’s discrimination on the basis of sex without knowing what sex means for equal protection purposes?”
Idaho Governor Brad Little posted a statement to X, explaining his state always has “led with common sense.”
“It’s why we were the first state in the nation to ban men from competing in women’s sports,” Little posted to X. “I’m confident that same common sense will prevail as the Supreme Court reviews our law that set the precedent in defending girls and women.”
Justice Sonia Sotomayor claimed there are “nearly 3 million trans-identifying” people in the U.S., and that’s “an awfully big figure.”
Justice Ketanji Jackson complained Idaho’s law discriminates on the basis of sex.
The ACLU, in a statement promoting its arguments to the court, insisted that the focal point was that discrimination is “harmful to a student’s self-esteem.”
The organization insisted that participation in “team sports” is good for students, and that denying a boy the right to be on a girls’ team is just wrong.
The organization referenced Becky, the boy it is representing.
“As the lower court recognized, forcing Becky to either give up sports or play on the boys’ team–in contradiction of who she is at school, at home, and across her life–is really no choice at all.”
The student, Becky Pepper-Jackson, complained in the statement that he was banned from “playing as who I really am. This is unfair to me….”
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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