The city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, is hosting a youth sports event for “girlx.”

The city announced that it would host the free event for elementary school children from kindergarten through 5th grade on Wednesday. The event is open to “girlx” who want to get involved in local sports. The city defines the world “girlx” as all who identify “as a girl or with girlhood,” in the same vein as other gender-inclusive neologisms like “womxn” and “Latinx.”

“Did you know that girlx who play sports are more likely to have better grades, high levels of confidence, and develop the critical skills necessary for success in the work place?” Cambridge posted in an announcement for the event last week. “The fun, free event is for families with girlx (anyone who identifies as a girl or with girlhood) in Kindergarten through 5th grade. It’s an opportunity for girlx to explore new sports, learn about existing teams, and enjoy prizes, pizza, games, and hands-on demonstrations.”

The event is scheduled for Wednesday at the War Memorial field house, a rec center near the campus of Harvard University. It is sponsored by Cambridge Commission on the Status of Women, the Office of the Mayor, and the Department of Human Services Programs.

A flyer for the event lists some of the sports available for “girlx” to try. They include basketball, cheerleading, football, hockey, lacrosse, soccer, and softball, among others. A tweet from the city also states that “all participating girlx will receive one free swim pass to the War Memorial pool.”

Girls (K – 5th grade) and their families are invited to learn about local teams and explore new sports. Attend Cambridge Sports Night for Girlx on January 18, from 5:30-7 PM at the War Memorial Field House to learn more- https://t.co/T1tIWfxUdf #CambMA pic.twitter.com/Cp05rT0KvX

— City of Cambridge (@CambMA) January 11, 2023

Conservatives knocked the announcement, blasting the city for using “girlx” and comparing it to other constructed words like “Latinx.”

“2020: ‘Latinx’ 2023: ‘GIRLX,’” Christina Pushaw, press secretary for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, mocked on Twitter.

“‘Girlx’ instead of ‘girls,’ because ‘Latinx’ worked so well,” podcaster Carl Benjamin added.

“There’s no such thing as girlx,” The Post Milennial editor-in-chief Libby Emmons said. “And what does it mean to ‘identify with girlhood’?”

“Girlx meanz its also for boyx,” one user wrote.

“Girlx* night, how fun,” one user account associated with the activist group Children’s Health Rights of Massachusetts tweeted. “The cult leaders have taken over. This is despicable and insulting to girls’ sports.

On Monday, The Daily Wire reported that middle school students at the Twality Middle School near Portland, Oregon, were allowed to skip class in order to watch a TV show about a 12-year-old boy who identifies as a girl. The school held a “watch party” for the show, entitled “First Day.” The drama series premiered in Australia in 2020, and tells the story of the transgender preteen who “not only has to navigate the challenges that come with starting a new school, but find the courage to live as her most authentic self,” the show’s IMDb page reads.

The TV-watching session happened during the middle school’s “Transgender Awareness Week” held from November 13 to 19. Students skipped their last two class periods that Friday to watch the show’s first two episodes.

The school will eventually play the entire series, Twality said in one of several PowerPoint presentations shown to students, according to a public records request viewed by The Daily Wire.

Mairead Elordi contributed to this report.

A coalition of Republican state attorneys general accused International Shareholder Services and Glass Lewis of violating state and federal law through their commitments to the environmental, social, and corporate governance movement, also known as ESG.

The two companies, which constitute a “duopoly” in providing proxy voting recommendations to institutional shareholders, are each committed to encouraging the implementation of net zero carbon emissions goals, according to a letter endorsed by 21 attorneys general provided to The Daily Wire. The document noted that proxy advisor recommendations “must be free from false or misleading material information” under federal law and added that many states “have prohibitions on unfair or deceptive trade practices.”

“Your duties include acting with reasonable diligence and without conflicts of interest. These agreements also typically require that you consider only one goal: the economic value of the investments,” the officials wrote. “The publicly available statements and actions of ISS and Glass Lewis in the performance of their duties as proxy advisors raise serious questions about whether both have violated their statutory and contractual duties.”

ISS has announced that it will “generally vote against” board directors who neglect to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, while Glass Lewis bases proxy voting recommendations on whether a given company is pursuing “net zero emissions goals,” according to the letter. Both have announced efforts to push “racial, ethnic, or sex-based diversity under arbitrary quotas.”

“Because these firms have a duopoly in the proxy advisory market, they exercise enormous influence in advancing the ESG movement,” Attorney General Sean Reyes said in a statement provided to The Daily Wire. “A proxy advisor must prioritize the economic value of their clients’ investments. Unfortunately, it appears these two companies are prioritizing political activism.”

The campaign from the attorneys general follows Republican state treasurers divesting some $12 billion from asset management company BlackRock, a leading proponent of the ESG movement, over the past year. The investment philosophy says firms have a responsibility beyond maximizing profits for shareholders and should actively impact outcomes regarding climate, diversity, and other social matters.

The letter to ISS and Glass Lewis called upon the two firms to provide information on how executives “determine ‘appropriate’ emissions reduction targets for each company and the financial basis for your determination” and “any analysis you conducted to determine that insurance companies’ discrimination based on race and sex would not violate the law.”

Republican officials have contended that ESG presents a threat to their states’ ability to fundraise on the bond market as entities seeking access to capital markets see downgrades linked to cultural matters unrelated to financial health. Beyond discouraging investments into the oil and gas sectors, ESG activists pushed stockholders for companies such as Walmart and Lowe’s to consider abortion-related proposals ahead of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Lawmakers have also asserted that undue hesitancy toward fossil fuel investments from prominent asset management companies has contributed to record energy prices.

A motion filed by several attorneys general with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission sought to prevent Vanguard from buying shares in publicly traded utilities out of a concern that the company’s climate efforts would raise prices and decrease grid reliability. The firm responded by ceasing involvement with the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative, under which signatories vow to move portfolio companies closer to eliminating net carbon emissions.