Angela Rasmussen, a virus expert at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, said Tuesday’s announcement “bodes extremely poorly for vaccine approvals in the U.S.”
Sisters were jailed, raped, driven into sex work. One comrade died after botched gender reassignment surgery in Casablanca.“There was only Casablanca,” she emphasized, with one doctor performing the high-risk surgeries. Bambi waited cautiously until her best friends, Coccinelle and April Ashley, had safely undergone procedures from the late 50s before doing the same herself.
Each night required extraordinary courage. Post-war Paris was scarred, haunted. The Carrousel wasn’t mere entertainment — but a one-fingered salute to the past in heels and eyeliner.“There was this after-the-war feeling — people wanted to have fun,” Bambi recalled. With no television, the cabarets were packed every night. “You could feel it — people demanded to laugh, to enjoy themselves, to be happy. They wanted to live again … to forget the miseries of the war.”In 1974, sensing a shift, Bambi quietly stepped away from celebrity, unwilling to become “an aging showgirl.” Swiftly obtaining legal female identity in Algeria, she became a respected teacher and Sorbonne scholar, hiding her dazzling past beneath Marcel Proust and careful anonymity for decades.
Despite what she’s witnessed, or perhaps because of it, she’s remarkably skeptical about recent controversies around gender. This transgender pioneer feels wokeism has moved too quickly, fueling a backlash.She sees U.S. President Donald Trump as part of “a
against wokeism… families aren’t ready… we need to pause and breathe a little before moving forward again.”
Inclusive pronouns and language “complicate the language,” she insists. Asked about author J.K. Rowling’s anti-transA Kaiser spokesperson declined to comment on Journell’s case specifically, but said the hospital system is following CDC guidelines for screening for bird flu.
Journell has recovered physically but said he’s still suffering from the “mental anguish” of losing his pets. Despite the ordeal, he said he still thinks raw milk offers some health benefits.Nevertheless, he won’t be drinking it any time soon.
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