Articles by Laurie Higgins
Yet Another Offense in School District U-46
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.01.16
Hard to believe but another offense was just exposed in Illinois School District U-46, and ironically, CEO Tony Sanders inadvertently exposed it. Last Thursday, September 29, CEO Tony Sanders released a statement regarding the controversy over his secret decision to allow a gender-dysphoric student to use a locker room and restroom designated for persons of the opposite sex.
Baby Blood in the Water Tastes Like Money
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.20.16
The pro-child-death regime seems to be kicking into high gear. It’s unclear whether they fear a rising tide of opposition to womb-killing or if they smell the blood swirling in the miasmic waters that envelop the world.
The Hopeless Brothels of Bangladesh
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.15.16
Hashi, a 17-year-old girl who has been working as a prostitute since she was 10, offers a painful glimpse of Bangladeshi brothel life: When I first took a customer, I didn’t realize what was going to happen. He raped me...
The New Sex Primer
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.12.16
By the fall of 2017, kindergartners in Washington State will be taught to "understand the range of gender roles, identity, and expression across cultures."1 For those unclear about what precisely will be taught, the kindergarten curriculum developers provide a helpful glossary that includes a definition of "gender":
“Inclusive” Brown University Student Council Provides Tampons to “Men”
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.10.16
I know things seem bleak right now what with China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea flexing their military muscles, our impotent president issuing more comical "warnings," and racial strife dividing the nation.
Scandalous Actions by Faux-Female in Co-Ed MN High School Locker Room
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.08.16
According to a lawsuit filed yesterday by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a high school boy in the city of Virginia, Minnesota (near Duluth) who is pretending to be a girl and whom school administrators allow to invade the privacy of girls has been accused of engaging in vulgar sexual gestures in a girls’ locker room.
The Trans-Truth
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.01.16
Chloe Jennings-White, a 61-year-old research scientist in Utah who was a Fulbright scholar and has a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Cambridge University, has known since she was 4-years-old that she is different. She feels uncomfortable with her normal, healthy, fully functioning body. She experiences a mismatch between her physical body and her mental image of her body. In an effort to achieve consonance between her body and her “identity,” she has engaged in risky activities and self-harm, hoping that injuries would result in the type of body with which she identifies. For years in private, she used props to pretend she had the body she wanted, but now she engages in these behaviors publicly.
The Fabulist Fourth Estate and “Chestfeeding” Fake Men
By Laurie Higgins   |   08.26.16
Perhaps you’ve been living in the real world—and by real, I mean the world that actually exists, where actual science matters, where language exists that corresponds to objective phenomena, where truth is valued more than subjective feelings, and where life is yet enveloped in a cozy blanket of freedom.
Why HAS the Church Been Caught by Surprise by the Body-Rejecting Revolution?
By Laurie Higgins   |   08.17.16
There’s a brief interview on the Desiring God website with Australian theologian and pastor Dr. Rob Smith. It’s titled “Why Did the Transgender Revolution Catch Us by Surprise?” Although it’s helpful in explaining the philosophical and political origins of the revolution to normalize the abnormal rejection of one’s biological sex, it ignores one of the most significant reasons that the so-called “transgender” revolution has caught most Christians by surprise: the failure of many (perhaps most) church leaders to address it.
Obama Dishonors National Park Service
By Laurie Higgins   |   07.06.16
Summer is the season during which countless parents take their children to visit our magnificent national parks. And this is a special year for our National Park Service in that August 25 marks the 100th anniversary of the day...
Social Scientists Discover Conservatives Aren’t Psycho
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.13.16
Perhaps some remember the plethora of news stories a few years ago touting a 2012 research paper that purported to show that authoritarian personality types tend to be politically conservative. In a remarkable turn of events the researchers have admitted...
Alliance to Censor Speech on the Internet
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.09.16
A National Review article warns of a troubling new collaboration between the European Union (EU)and social media sites including Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Microsoft to police and censor the Internet. In a document with Orwellian overtones titled “Code of ...
Congress Debates Mandatory Selective Service Registration for Women
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.08.16
Some may remember the ecstatic press accounts of the first two women, Capt. Kristen Griest and 1st Lt. Shaye Haver, to make it through the grueling Army Ranger School. Well, here’s what former Marine Jude Eden shares in an article...
Obama Dishonors National Park Service
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.06.16
Summer is the season during which countless parents take their children to visit our magnificent national parks. And this is a special year for our National Park Service in that August 25 marks the 100th anniversary of the day...
Incoherent Leftists, Abortion, and SB 1564
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.04.16
Leftists in our leftist-controlled state are seeking to amend the “Health Care Right of Conscience” law so as to deny the right of conscience of medical professionals who oppose feticide, artificial contraception, and certain end-of-life protocols that intentionally and prematurely...
Laurie Higgins
Cultural Affairs Writer
Laurie Higgins

Laurie Higgins was the Illinois Family Institute’s Cultural Affairs Writer in the fall of 2008 through early 2023. Prior to working for the IFI, Laurie worked full-time for eight years in Deerfield High School’s writing center in Deerfield, Illinois.

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