Family Watch Newswire

June 30, 2025

DEFUND DAY: NATIONWIDE RALLIES CALL ON CONGRESS TO END FUNDING FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD. More than 200 rallies calling for the federal defunding of Planned Parenthood took place across the country Sunday in a single coordinated day of demonstration, called Defund Day. Read more here.

MONTANA FAMILY FOUNDATION SUES OVER CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT ON ABORTION. The Montana Family Foundation, a nonprofit research and education organization that works to support Montana families, filed a lawsuit against a Constitutional amendment passed by ballot initiative last November shielding all abortions before viability. Read more here.

TEXAS GOVERNOR SIGNS ‘LIFE OF THE MOTHER ACT’ DESPITE CONCERNING PROVISIONS. Though Governor Greg Abbott has signed the “Life of the Mother Act” into law in Texas — legislation that was drafted to clarify the state’s pro-life law — there is still concern that it creates dangerous loopholes in existing law. Read more here.

NEW OLYMPIC PRESIDENT PLEDGES TO PROTECT WOMEN’S SPORTS WITH ‘SCIENTIFIC’ TRANS POLICY REFORM. New International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry emphasized the “overwhelming” and “unanimous” support from IOC members to safeguard the female category and revise the Olympics’ transgender athlete policy. Read more here.

INDIAN STATE COURT DECLARES ‘TRANSGENDER’ MEN QUALIFY AS ‘WOMEN’ UNDER THE LAW. A state high court in India has ruled that transgender-identifying men must be recognized as women under the law – rejecting a challenge that sought to define womanhood by biological sex. Read more here.

ALBERTA JUDGE SIDES WITH LGBT ACTIVISTS, ALLOWS ‘GENDER TRANSITIONS’ FOR KIDS TO CONTINUE. Alberta King’s Court Justice Allison Kuntz granted a temporary injunction against legislation that prohibited minors under the age of 16 from undergoing irreversible sex-change surgeries or taking puberty blockers. Read more here.

SUPREME COURT TOSSES LOWER COURT RULINGS THAT FAVORED TRANSGENDER ISSUES IN FOUR STATES. The U.S. Supreme Court wiped away a series of lower court decisions that favored transgender litigants, sending the cases back to the appellate level for reconsideration in light of the court’s recent ruling upholding a Tennessee ban on puberty blockers and hormone therapy for minors. Read more here.

TRANSGENDER KILLER ACCUSED OF RAPING FEMALE INMATES SUES BILLIONAIRE TRANS ACTIVIST GOVERNOR AND DOC, SEEKING OVER $1 BILLION. Trans-identified male Andre Cashmere Patterson, who pled guilty to second-degree murder of his former cellmate has filed multiple lawsuits against officials with the Illinois Department of Corrections, as well as the state’s governor, seeking over $1 billion in compensation for “medical neglect.” Read more here.

SOME FLORIDA UNIVERSITY POLICIES STILL PUNISH STUDENTS FOR USING WRONG PRONOUNS. Despite the Trump and DeSantis administrations’ crackdown on gender ideology, three public universities in Florida allegedly still have “unconstitutional” policies that penalize students who refuse to use someone else’s “preferred pronouns.” Read more here.

SCHOOL DISTRICT SUED FOR ‘SOCIALLY TRANSITIONING’ GIRL TO A ‘BOY’ AGAINST PARENTS’ WISHES. The parents of a girl enrolled in a Houston high school are suing the school district, the superintendent and a school principal for allowing teachers and staff to “socially transition” their daughter to a “boy.” Read more here.

LAW PROF: SCOTUS RULING AGAINST MINORS’ ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING’ CARE COULD APPLY TO ADULTS IN FUTURE. A law professor at the University of Michigan contends the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding Tennessee’s ban on “gender-affirming” care for minors is “obviously discriminat[ory]” … and could apply to adults at some point. Read more here.

CAYMAN ISLANDS COUPLE HAIL COURT RULING UPHOLDING SAME-SEX PARTNERSHIPS. A Cayman Islands’ law legalizing same-sex civil partnerships was upheld by a London court, after a long-running legal battle in a ruling hailed by campaigners and the couple who brought the initial case more than five years ago. Read more here.

BC ‘PRIDE’ EVENT BOOTH HANDS OUT CARDS TELLING KIDS HOW TO USE DRUGS. Cards instructing children on how to use hard drugs were handed out at a school-sanctioned pro-LGBT event in British Columbia last week. Read more here.

BINGHAMTON ARCHAEOLOGIST CALLS FOR ‘EXPLICITLY QUEER SCIENCE.’ Scientific research should be “explicitly queer” and “unabashedly value-laden and political in its aims,” according to Binghamton University archaeologist Nathan Klembara. Read more here.

FINAL TEXT OF ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL WILL DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD. The U.S. Senate published updated text of the One Big Beautiful Bill, which includes language to stop forced taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood and Big Abortion for one year. Read more here.

LOCALS CALL ON LEADERS TO DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD AT SANTA MARIA EVENT. Community members gathered for Santa Maria, California’s LifeWalk 2025 to advocate for the pro-life movement and call for local and national leaders to defund Planned Parenthood. Read more here.

U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ANNOUNCES RENAMING OF NAVY VESSEL OBAMA ADMIN HAD NAMED AFTER GAY ICON. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth made good on his promise to fight wokeness in the U.S. military. Hegseth announced that the USNS Harvey Milk would henceforth be known as the USNS Oscar V. Peterson, after a World War II-era U.S. Navy Medal of Honor recipient. Read more here.

WHY A THERAPY STUDENT RISKED HER CAREER TO EXPOSE SEXUALLY EXPLICIT LESSONS, by Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell. “Therapy student Naomi Epps Best was fired from her internship after she exposed her university’s program for forcing her to share sexual information with the class and take a tour of a BDSM sex dungeon. Her courage cost her time with her children and the ability to graduate on time, but Best says the sacrifices are worth it as messages pour in from other concerned therapists who were previously too scared to speak out.” Read more here.

10 YEARS AFTER OBERGEFELL, AMERICANS ARE WAKING UP TO THE EFFECTS OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, by Kathy Athearn. “It has been 10 years since the United States Supreme Court declared in Obergefell v. Hodges that same-sex couples have the legal right to marry. More Americans are waking up to the profound effects that that ruling (and LGBT activism) have had on the country. Parents are tired of LGBT messaging being pushed on their kids, being told that they should allow their child to have ‘gender-transition’ surgeries if they are gender-confused, and that they must allow boys to be in their daughters’ locker rooms and play on their teams.” Read more here.

THE OBERGEFELL DECISION HAS HARMED MARRIAGE, by Jack Butler, “Ten years ago last Thursday, the Supreme Court, in its 5–4 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, legalized gay marriage. Though the campaign for gay marriage was to a considerable extent elite-driven, it owed at least some of its popular success to arguments, such as those advanced by Andrew Sullivan starting in 1989, that gay marriage could be a bourgeois, even a small-c conservative thing. I made the case over the weekend, however, that there was a germ of radicalism even in such arguments. Over the past ten years, we have seen the result, most notably in the suspiciously immediate rise of transgenderism.” Read more here.

TOP GENDER DOCTOR FACES COMPLAINT, by Bernard Lane. “The naming of Australia’s most influential gender clinician, Michelle Telfer, as the target of strong judicial criticism has led to a complaint against her lodged with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. Referencing adverse findings against Dr Telfer in a puberty blocker case decided by Family Court Justice Andrew Strum, the complaint to the regulator cites ‘alleged breaches of professional standards, potential professional misconduct, and failure to provide sufficient informed consent to patients’.” Read more here.

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