Family Watch Newswire

June 3, 2026

YOUTUBE INFLUENCER FACES MASSIVE BACKLASH AFTER ABORTING BABY WITH DOWN SYNDROME. YouTube influencer Jesse Ridgway is facing a massive backlash after he announced on X that he and his wife decided to abort their baby after the child was diagnosed with Down syndrome at five months gestation. Read more here.

DUTCH GOVERNMENT RULES OUT USING EU FUNDING TO PAY FOR ABORTIONS. The EU agreed to finance cross-border abortions last February after a citizens’ initiative gathered more than a million signatures, but Health Minister Sophie Hermans announced she has no plans to use European funding for women who travel to the Netherlands for an abortion. Read more here.

‘I WILL NOT ALLOW IT’: MEXICAN GOVERNOR VETOES ‘GENDER IDENTITY’ LAW AS THREAT TO FAMILIES, CHILDREN. Mauricio Kuri, the governor of the state of Querétaro, vetoed a bill passed by the state legislature that sought to allow individuals to change their “self-identified gender” on official personal documents through an administrative process without the need for a judicial proceeding. Read more here.

DETRANSITIONER CHLOE COLE TESTIFIES AT FIERY SENATE HEARING ON MUTILATION OF GENDER-CONFUSED CHILDREN. The clash occurred during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) hearing titled “Protecting Our Children: Exposing the Dangers of Irreversible Gender Transition Procedures on Minors.” Read more here.

DELTA AIR LINES REPLACES ‘MOTHER’ WITH ‘BIRTHING PARENT’ IN EMPLOYEE BENEFITS DESCRIPTION. Delta Air Lines has replaced references to “mothers” and “fathers” with “birthing” and “non-birthing parents” in its employee benefits material, in the latest case of corporate appeasement of transgender ideology. Read more here.

UK PARLIAMENT OFFERS STAFF MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT OVER NEW TRANS GUIDANCE. House of Commons staff have been advised to contact trans activist groups and mental health workers for support if they are upset by official guidance protecting women’s right to single-sex spaces. Read more here.

CHILDREN MAKE UP ONE-THIRD OF CASES AT AUSTRIA’S ONLY ‘TRANSGENDER’ FACILITY. The Transgender Center at Innsbruck Hospital has seen a significant increase in patients from all over Austria, Germany, South Tyrol, and Switzerland. Between 800 and 900 people are currently receiving “gender affirming treatment” at the facility. One third of admissions are under the age of 18. Read more here.

GHANA APPROVES FAMILY VALUES BILL PROHIBITING LGBT PROPAGANDA, PROMOTION. The Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill outlaws any advocacy for activities prohibited under the Act, including LGBT identification and same-sex sexual activity. Read more here.

CANADA IS BECOMING A ‘REFUGEE’ HUB FOR LGBT-IDENTIFYING AMERICANS. Eligible LGBTQ Americans are being fast-tracked in their applications for proof of Canadian citizenship certificates. While most applications from the U.S. have to wait for at least a year, some LGBT-identifying American applicants are getting theirs in just two weeks. Read more here.

CANADA’S SENATE PASSES ANTI-CHRISTIAN ‘BIBLE BAN’ BILL C-9. Canadian senators voted to approve Liberals’ Bill C-9, which, once it officially becomes law, will repeal religious protections and effectively criminalize quoting parts of the Bible, including on homosexuality. Read more here.

ITALY MAKES PARENTAL CONSENT COMPULSORY FOR SEX EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS. Italy’s senate on Thursday gave final approval to a law requiring schools to obtain written parental consent before delivering any sex or relationship education to pupils, in a vote that passed with 78 votes in favour and 38 against. Read more here.

UNIVERSITY TOSSES SEXUALITY TEXTBOOK AFTER STUDENT COMPLAINS OF PORNOGRAPHIC CONTENT. The University of Nebraska at Kearney is dropping a widely used sexuality textbook from its curriculum after an investigation corroborated a student’s complaint that it contained pornographic images. Read more here.

NY LAWMAKERS’ GENDER-NEUTRALIZING BILL WOULD DEHUMANIZE WOMEN – AND STRIP US OF OUR MOST MEANINGFUL IDENTITY, by Bethany Mandel. “The New York state legislature has passed Senate Bill 9316 and if Gov. Hochul signs the legislation into law, mothers and fathers will become ‘gestating parents’ and ‘non-gestating parents.’ In the name of inclusion, New York lawmakers have managed to do something remarkably regressive: stripping women of perhaps the most meaningful identity they can ever hold.” Read more here.

5 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE SENATE HEARING ON TRANSGENDER ‘MEDICINE,’ CHLOE COLE’S TESTIMONY, by Tyler O’Neil. “When a detransitioner testified to members of Congress about the harm she suffered from experimental transgender medical interventions and advocated for laws against such procedures on minors, Democrats attempted to frame their opposition to such laws in terms of parental rights and medical privacy. ‘The entire premise of transgenderism is that I will take my own life if I don’t transition, and yet here I am today.’” Read more here.

US STILL FUNDS WORST OF THE WOKE OVERSEAS, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “The UN agency for emergency humanitarian assistance is still giving U.S. funds to groups that promote abortion, gender ideology, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) abroad, prompting questions about whether the Trump administration has given the UN a waiver on its Mexico City Policy, which forbids such funding.” Read more here.

ACTIVISTS CLAIM RESTRICTIONS ON ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE’ FOR MINORS CAUSE SUICIDE. THE STUDY THEY RELY ON HAS A HUGE FLAW, by Kamden Mulder. “Activist groups that promote ‘gender-affirming’ care for minors routinely claim that restrictions on the procedures result in increased suicide among trans-identifying minors — but the study they have long relied on to support that claim has glaring flaws, according to a new analysis.” Read more here.

REPUBLICAN-LED CONGRESS ABOUT TO RESUPPLY MILLIONS IN TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO CHILD-MUTILATING PLANNED PARENTHOOD, by John Mancini. “Planned Parenthood is counting the days until it can recover access to the spigot of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. Republicans can score a major victory against the abortion giant by targeting one of its fastest growing operations: the transgender-industrial complex.” Read more here.

GOV. EVERS DOUBLES DOWN ON FORCING THERAPISTS TO LIE ABOUT SEX AND GENDER, by Shawn Fleetwood. “Wisconsin Democrat Gov. Tony Evers is doubling down on seemingly defying a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on so-called ‘conversion therapy’ for children. The moment came during a Monday ‘Pride Flag Raising’ event at the State Capitol. While flanked by attendees waiving rainbow flags, the left-wing governor bragged about vetoing bills passed by the Republican-controlled General Assembly that he claimed ‘target[ed]’ so-called ‘trans kids’ and ‘harm[ed] the health, safety, and security of LGBTQ Wisconsinites.’” Read more here.

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