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1 week ago | 
city-journal.org | Christina Buttons
An alarming new movement insists that sexual attraction to minors is not a psychiatric disorder to be managed but an identity to be affirmed. Leading this effort is B4U-ACT, a Maryland-based organization founded in 2003 to support pedophiles, or as they call them, “Minor-Attracted Persons” (MAPs).
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2 weeks ago | 
richardhanania.com | Richard Hanania |Christina Buttons
This morning I noticed that Christina Buttons of the Manhattan Institute posted about the troubled teen industry, and so I happened to mention I had been sent to a rehabilitation center when I was 15. I always considered it a beneficial experience, but had noticed that Paris Hilton was leading a crusade against such facilities. After asking my X followers for help, I got on the Notable Alumni section of the Wikipedia page of the now shuttered Casa by the Sea in Baja California.
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1 month ago | 
city-journal.org | Christina Buttons
The claim that transgender status is immutable and biologically based was raised in the recent case of Talbott v. Trump. Eight plaintiffs—six active-duty service members and two individuals seeking to enlist—are challenging President Trump’s January 27 executive order barring transgender individuals from military service.
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1 month ago | 
manhattan.institute | Christina Buttons
Good morning:
This week, Manhattan Institute scholars responded to the ongoing fallout from President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day.” With so much uncertainty swirling, MI scholars put today’s tariff turbulence in perspective.
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2 months ago | 
city-journal.org | Christina Buttons
Last year, a series of Yelp reviews surfaced on social media, written by a young man named Yarden Silveira. Silveira was a detransitioner—a person who once identified as transgender but no longer does—who suffered severe complications from gender-related genital surgery. In these reviews, he castigated his doctors, claiming they had mistreated him. Yarden died only two months after posting the reviews.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
buttonslives.news | Christina Buttons
In interviews, I’ve often shared how I became a journalist after discovering the stories of detransitioners—stories that deeply resonated with my own struggles with mental health and identity. I’ve been veryopen about the severe mental health crises I faced in my youth and have frequently alluded to the "bad decisions" I made as a young adult. As my public profile grew, I was prepared for the inevitability that those bad decisions would become known.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
city-journal.org | Christina Buttons
As America grapples with an unprecedented youth mental-health crisis, children with the most serious needs increasingly lack access to an essential form of care: residential treatment. Youth residential treatment facilities (YRTFs) are one of the few settings capable of caring for severely mentally ill children.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
city-journal.org | Christopher Rufo |Christina Buttons
Under the Biden administration, an unprecedented flow of 7 million migrants has entered the United States, through licit and illicit channels, including more than 1 million parolees. Several hundred thousand of those have come from Haiti. Those Haitians have entered through a designated route: the parole program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans (CHNV).
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
nypost.com | Christopher F. Rufo |Christina Buttons
Houses seen in Charleroi, Pennsylvania -- where 2,000 migrants from Haiti have relocated recently -- on Sept. 24, 2024. REUTERS/Carlos Barria Charleroi, Pennsylvania, is a deeply troubled place.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
city-journal.org | Christopher F. Rufo |Christina Buttons
Charleroi, Pennsylvania, is a deeply troubled place. The former steel town, built along a stretch of the Monongahela River, south of Pittsburgh, has experienced the typical Rust Belt rise and fall. The industrial economy, which had turned it into something resembling a company town, hollowed out after the Second World War. Some residents fled; others succumbed to vices. The steel mills disappeared. Two drug-abuse treatment centers have since opened their doors.
