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UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS LAW SCHOOL PROMOTED ‘NAME AND GENDER CHANGE’ PRO BONO SESSION. The law school promoted a free “name and gender correction” pro bono session that involved law students providing “free legal assistance” to people who wanted to “change” their legal name and gender designation. Read more here.
MISSOURI’S PRO-ABORTION AMENDMENT 3 WOULD ALLOW TRANSGENDER SURGERIES FOR CHILDREN. The amendment provides a “right” to “all matters relating to [so-called] reproductive health care,” which necessarily encompasses transgender interventions, including those for minor children. Read more here.
IMANE KHELIF ANNOUNCES SWITCH TO PRO BOXING AFTER OLYMPIC CONTROVERSY. Algerian Olympic gold-medalist boxer Imane Khelif, who caused a major controversy at the 2024 Olympics in Paris by winning a gold medal intended for women, announced the switch from amateur boxing to professional status. Read more here.
WOMEN’S SOCCER CLUB EMBROILED IN TRANS CONTROVERSY AFTER TEAM FIELDED TWO ‘BEARDED GUYS.’ The Spanish women’s soccer Club Esportiu Europa sparked outrage after fielding a team that included two “bearded guys” who are “transitioning” from female to male — including one who scored the winning goal in a Catalan women’s league match against Terrassa. Read more here.
NEVADA VOLLEYBALL CAPTAIN CLAIMS TEAM’S CONCERNS WERE ‘DISMISSED’ AMID TRANSGENDER PLAYER CONTROVERSY. Prior to forfeiting its scheduled volleyball match against San Jose State University because of its male player, the captain of the University of Nevada’s women’s volleyball team spoke out against her school, alleging that it “dismissed” the fears players had about competing against a transgender opponent. Read more here.
‘DETRANSITIONER’S’ ‘BORN IN RIGHT BODY’ EVENT CANCELED AFTER STUDENT HOST BULLIED, THREATENED. A Berklee College of Music neurodivergent student had his “Born in the Right Body: Desister and Detransitioner Awareness” campus event indefinitely postponed by administrators after he was bullied and threatened by peers who were angry about the topic. Read more here.
IRELAND PASSES HATE CRIME LEGISLATION WITH WOKE REDEFINITION OF GENDER. Ireland’s Criminal Justice Bill passed the Dáil Éireann legislature in Dublin by 78 votes to 52, defining hate crimes as having been motivated by so-called “protected characteristics” such as race, color, nationality, religion, national or ethnic origin, descent, gender, sexual characteristics, sexual orientation or disability. Read more here.
PARENTS PULL KIDS FROM ILLINOIS K-5 SCHOOL AS LIBRARIAN STAGES PUBLIC ‘GENDER TRANSITION.’ Many parents pulled their children out of Owen Elementary School after receiving a letter from the school announcing that the male library director started publicly wearing female clothes and insisting students call him “Ms. Madison Sabovik.” Read more here.
‘BREAK UP FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS’: BIDEN-HARRIS ADMIN PUSHES JUDGES TO BRING GENDER IDEOLOGY INTO THE COURTROOM. State courts have for years independently hosted transgender activist groups to lecture judges on appropriate pronoun usage and the importance of “affirming” a child’s perceived identity, and the Department of Justice issued a grant to integrate gender ideology into juvenile justice and child welfare systems nationwide. Read more here.
HUNDREDS OF WOMEN GOLFERS CALL ON LPGA TO PROTECT WOMEN’S SPORTS. Some 275 women golfers signed on to a letter sent to three major golf organizations — the LPGA, United States Golf Association and the International Golf Federation stating, “It is essential for the integrity and fairness of women’s golf to have a clear and consistent participation policy in place based on a player’s immutable sex.” Read more here.
CANADIAN PARENTS PULL KIDS FROM CLASS AFTER MANDATORY ‘NON-BINARY’ DRAG PRESENTATION. Parents in the eastern Canadian province of Nova Scotia have pulled their children from class after a “non-binary” male drag performer gave a compulsory presentation on “gender identity” to kids as young as 12. Read more here.
INFORMING PARENTS OF GENDER IDENTITY ‘JEOPARDIZES’ STUDENTS, NH SCHOOL DISTRICT TEACHES STAFF. A New Hampshire public school district allowed the radical LGBTQ group GLSEN to teach staff that student safety is “jeopardized” when teachers share gender identity issues with parents. Read more here.
HOUSE REPUBLICANS PLAN TO PROBE SUPPRESSION OF FEDERALLY FUNDED PUBERTY BLOCKER RESEARCH. Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, who runs one of the largest youth gender clinics in the United States, may be delaying publication of the results from a multiyear study funded by the NIH because she and her colleagues are concerned about the findings being used by critics of transgender medical treatments for minors. Read more here.
IT’S OFFICIAL: UK TRANSGENDER YOUTH CHARITY BROKE RULES. After two years of investigation, Britain’s Charities Commission identified serious problems with the administration of one of the most high-profile ’trans youth’ organizations, Mermaids, which was ordered to remove medical advice to children from its website. Read more here.
U.S. STUDY ON PUBERTY BLOCKERS GOES UNPUBLISHED BECAUSE OF POLITICS, DOCTOR SAYS. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, an influential doctor and advocate of adolescent gender treatments, said she had not published a long-awaited study of puberty-blocking drugs showing the treatment did not lead to mental health improvements because of the charged American political environment. Read more here.
SUPREME COURT WILL HEAR CASE ON TENNESSEE LAW BANNING TRANSGENDER SURGERIES FOR MINORS. The United States Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments for December in a case to determine the legality of a Tennessee law that prohibits doctors from performing so-called transgender surgeries on minors and prevents doctors from prescribing puberty blockers and hormones. Read more here.
IRELAND: VIOLENT TRANSGENDER INMATE ‘BARBIE KARDASHIAN’ IN COURT OVER THREATENING TO ATTACK WOMEN IN FEMALE PRISON. The trial of Barbie Kardashian, a trans-identified male inmate currently serving a sentence for threatening to rape and torture his mother, is now standing trial for allegedly threatening serious harm to female prison officers and inmates while incarcerated at Limerick Prison last year. Read more here.
GERMANY: TRANSGENDER MARTIAL ARTIST WHO KICKED FEMALE OPPONENT SO HARD SHE FORFEITED MATCH AIMS TO COMPETE AS A WOMAN AT THE 2028 OLYMPICS. Alice Linn, formerly known as Sebastian, once kneed a female boxer in the stomach with so much force that she had to immediately quit the match, and now he aims to compete in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games. Read more here.
‘GENDER-NEUTRAL’ SUBSTITUTE TEACHER FIRED FOR USING STUDENT BATHROOM; LGBTQ ADVOCATES UPSET. A Connecticut school district is in turmoil following the termination of a “gender-neutral” substitute teacher who had used a student restroom, leading LGBTQ activists to demand “urgent action” on the situation. Read more here.
UN OFFICIAL CALLS FOR FEMALE-ONLY SPORTS CATEGORIES AFTER WOMEN ATHLETES LOSE 890 MEDALS TO TRANS OPPONENTS: REPORT. A new study published by Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls, revealed that trans-identified biological men competing in women’s sports has resulted in the loss of 890 medals by more than 600 female athletes across 29 different sports, although experts said the numbers are likely much higher. Read more here.
TRANS IDEOLOGY LABELED ‘DEEPLY MISOGYNISTIC. Glenn Stanton, of Focus on the Family, told a gathering of Christian therapists in Poland that the LGBT movement had evolved to such an extent that it was now “anti-woman” and is “cannibalizing itself” due to the “internal logical incoherence of gender identity” and deep divisions over transgenderism that have led to a split between the LGBs and the Ts”. Read more here.
TEXAS AG SUES DOCTOR FOR VIOLATING BAN ON PRESCRIBING TRANS DRUGS TO KIDS. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing a doctor for allegedly providing irreversible “transgender medical procedures” to 21 minors. Read more here.
GIRLS SOCCER TEAM BOYCOTTS GAME VS. TRANSGENDER PLAYER THAT OBAMA-ERA JUDGE LET PLAY. Bishop Brady High School, in Concord, New Hampshire, boycotted its game against Kearsage Regional High School in North Sutton because it has a boy on the girls’ team – in violation of state law. Read more here.
‘QUEER FEMME’ UCSF PROFESSOR SAYS NO APOLOGY FOR MISGENDERING IS ‘VIOLENCE.’ Sophia Zamudio-Haas, a University of California-San Francisco DrPH in the Dept. of Medicine, said that “misgendering someone through use of the wrong pronouns” can be rectified by a simple apology and “taking responsibility”, and anything less “is an act of violence and intentional harm.” Read more here.
COLLEGIATE AND OLYMPIC ATHLETES, GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS LEADERS CALL ON UN TO PROTECT SAFETY AND FAIRNESS FOR WOMEN IN SPORTS. At United Nations Headquarters in New York City, female athletes and international leaders called on the international community to preserve and protect fairness and safety in sports for women and girls. Read more here.
IRATE PARENTS DEMAND ANSWERS FROM CANADIAN SCHOOL ALLOWING MALES TO USE GIRLS’ LOCKER ROOMS. Canadian parents are outraged after learning their children’s school allowed two gender-confused biological males claiming to be female full access to the Grade 7 girls’ changing room. Read more here.
TRANSGENDER-CRITICAL AUTHORS CANCEL BRUSSELS CONFERENCE AFTER DEATH THREATS. French essayists Dora Moutot and Marguerite Stern, who denounced transgender ideology in their book Transmania, have been forced to cancel a conference scheduled for October 22nd in Brussels after being subjected to violent threats from the extreme Left. Read more here.
AWARD-WINNING TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE AUTHOR FROM TAIWAN SUES CRITICS WHO SAY HE’S NOT A ‘LESBIAN.’ Award-winning transgender Taiwanese author Li Kotomi has filed multiple lawsuits against lesbians and women’s rights advocates after they refused to validate his identity as a so-called “woman” and “lesbian.” Read more here.
2 TRANS-IDENTIFYING MALE MODELS WALK RUNWAY AT VICTORIA’S SECRET FASHION SHOW, INTERNET REACTS. The fashion show’s runway lineup included two trans-identified models in skimpy lingerie – Alex Consani and Sampaio – while another trans-identifying male model for the brand, Emira D’Spain, sat in the front row. Read more here.
FEMALE INMATES IN MINNESOTA SAY TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE TRANSFERS MAKE THEM FEEL ‘SCARED’ AND ‘UNSAFE.’ Female inmates at the women’s prison in Shakopee, Minnesota have come forward to report disturbing behavior from the trans-identified males housed at their facility, causing fear and anxiety over sexual harassment. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA NONBINARY TEACHER TELLS 4-YEAR-OLDS BOYS CAN WEAR DRESSES. A Dilworth Elementary School teacher, who identifies as nonbinary and uses gender neutral pronouns, is facing the wrath of parents for teaching transgender ideology to four-year-olds and telling boys it is okay for them to wear dresses. Read more here.
5TH WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL TEAM NIXES GAME AGAINST COLLEGE WITH TRANS-IDENTIFYING STAR PLAYER. The University of Nevada announced its women’s volleyball team will forfeit a game against San Jose State University rather than play against that school’s star player, a trans-identifying male. Read more here.
NCAA VOLLEYBALL PLAYER SAYS COACHES REPEATEDLY ASSIGNED HER TO ROOM WITH TRANS PLAYER AT HIS REQUEST. The co-captain of the San Jose State University women’s volleyball team, Brooke Slusser, said she was never told her teammate, Blaire Fleming, was biologically male, and only later heard whispers about the rumor from other athletes. Read more here.
UK: FEMALE PLAYER CROWNED VICTORIOUS AT POOL TOURNAMENT AFTER TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALES DOMINATE WOMEN’S SEMI-FINALS. During the Ultimate Pool Group’s Mini Series tournament in the UK, two trans-identified males – Harriet Haynes and Lucy Smith – played each other in an all-male semifinal. Read more here.
NEVADA GOVERNOR BACKS VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS BOYCOTTING GAME OVER TRANSGENDER RIVAL. Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo threw his support behind the University of Nevada, Reno volleyball players boycotting an upcoming game against a transgender opponent, then took a dig at NCAA rules allowing biological males in female sports. Read more here.
NORWAY’S CATHOLIC BISHOPS SIGN DECLARATION AGAINST GENDER IDEOLOGY. The bishops signed a declaration affirming traditional Christian views on gender and sexuality, joining more than 30 Christian communities in the document titled “Ecumenical Declaration on Gender and Sexual Diversity.” Read more here.
POPE URGED TO APPROVE ‘SEX CHANGES’ DURING MEETING WITH NEW WAYS MINISTRY. Pope Francis met privately with a group of “transgender, intersex, and ally Catholics” in an event organized by the dissident LGBT group New Ways Ministry, whose longstanding official censure by the Vatican remains in place though Francis has repeatedly signaled support for the organization. Read more here.
BRAZILIAN POLITICIAN WHO SEXUALLY ABUSED MULTIPLE CHILDREN HID FROM POLICE BY IDENTIFYING AS TRANSGENDER, ‘CHANGING LEGAL SEX.’ A Brazilian politician has been taken into custody after attempting to hide from the police following a conviction for child rape. Nilson Nelson Machado began self-identifying as a woman while on the run from law enforcement, and his identity change complicated efforts to bring him to justice. Read more here.
MILITANT TRANS ACTIVISTS SABOTAGE UK LGB ALLIANCE CONFERENCE BY UNLEASHING THOUSANDS OF INSECTS. Militant trans activists were apprehended by security after launching a sabotage attack on the UK LGB Alliance convention in London, unleashing thousands of insects throughout the venue where homosexual speakers criticized transgender ideology, causing the event location to be evacuated. Read more here.
IRELAND’S NEW GOVERNMENT SCIENCE ADVISOR SAYS TRANS MALES ARE WOMEN. Professor Aoife McLysaght, Chair of Evolutionary Genetics in Trinity College Dublin, was appointed to the role of Government Science Advisor. Professor McLysaght has repeatedly affirmed that “transwomen are women” – i.e., that biological males who identify as women are the gender they identify as. Read more here.
PARENTS WIN TRANSGENDER LESSONS SUIT. A Pennsylvania court issued a rule in favor of parents who alleged their civil rights were violated when the district’s seven elementary schools began teaching first-grade children about gender dysphoria and gender transitions. Read more here.
TRACK COACH SUES TO GET HIS JOB BACK AFTER BEING FIRED FOR DEFENDING WOMEN’S SPORTS. John Parks, who’s been a track and field coach in Oregon for 40 years, wrote an open letter proposing a separate division for gender-confused athletes so they wouldn’t have an unfair advantage in girls’ state track and field competitions, was fired and is now suing to get his job back. Read more here.
PR NEWSWIRE WON’T RUN PRESS RELEASE FOR PROJECT EXPOSING TRANS SURGERIES. The nation’s leading press release distributor refused to send out a bulletin from the medical nonprofit Do No Harm announcing a new database that tracks child “sex change” procedures. Read more here.
TRANSGENDER COACH AT PENNSYLVANIA HIGH SCHOOL WHO WAS PREVIOUSLY ACCUSED OF UNDRESSING IN FRONT OF TEEN GIRLS RESIGNS AFTER STARRING IN PORN WHILE SMOKING METH. The transgender sports coach Sasha Yates has resigned from a Gettysburg, Pennsylvania high school after it was revealed that he appeared in pornography images while smoking methamphetamine, and he had also undressed in front of teen girls in their locker room. Read more here.
MOUNT HOLYOKE TELLS FACULTY TO REPORT ‘MISGENDERING,’ ‘INCORRECT’ PRONOUN USE. The Massachusetts college rolled out a new directive this fall that requires faculty to report “misgendering, deadnaming,” or using so-called “incorrect” pronouns for individuals on campus. Read more here.
IOWA STATE U. PROFESSOR GIVES POINTS TO STUDENTS WHO LIST PREFERRED ‘PRONOUNS.’ Iowa State University professor Kelly Reddy-Best gives students extra points for listing their “preferred name” and “pronouns” in a beginning-of-class assignment and also has students watch a video presentation about “BDSM” sex apparel. Read more here.
OVER 200 HOSPITALS PROVIDE IRREVERSIBLE TRANSGENDER PROCEDURES TO CHILDREN, NEW DATABASE REVEALS. More than 200 hospitals and health care facilities provide irreversible transgender procedures to children, debunking left-wing claims that the treatments aren’t being done on minors. Read more here.
DENMARK: WOMAN SUED AFTER ‘MISGENDERING’ A TRANS ACTIVIST AND ‘SISSY’ FETISHIST. A Danish woman is being taken to court on allegations of harassment and defamation for referring to a trans-identified male with masculine pronouns. Lotte Ingerslev, a psychotherapist who is critical of gender ideology, ‘misgendered’ Nadia Jacobsen while warning her female followers about the hardcore fetish pornography he produces. Read more here.
NEW HAMPSHIRE JUDGE BLOCKS PARENTS’ PROTEST OF TRANS SOCCER PLAYERS. A federal judge has declined to grant an immediate order sought by New Hampshire parents planning to wear pink wristbands with “XX” on them at girls’ high school soccer games to protest transgender girls playing, but the judge ruled that a father who had been banned by the school district for the rest of the season after a protest and altercation be allowed to watch his daughter’s games and pick her up from soccer practice as long as he doesn’t engage in any protest activity. Read more here.
MICHIGAN REP. BOYCOTTS COLLEGE EVENT OVER ‘GENDER-INCLUSIVE RESTROOMS.’ Michigan state Rep. James DeSana announced that he will not attend a ceremony at Monroe County Community College due to the school’s several “gender-inclusive restrooms.” Read more here.
GEORGIA UNIVERSITIES ASK NCAA TO BAN MALE ATHLETES FROM WOMEN’S SPORTS. Georgia’s 26 public universities and colleges voted unanimously to ask the National Collegiate Athletics Association to ban transgender-identifying male athletes from competing in women’s sports. Read more here.
DENYING ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE’ TO CHILDREN IS ‘AGEIST,’ FAMILY THERAPISTS LEARN IN TRAINING. A Zoom-based training, titled “Recognizing Bias: Avoiding Pitfalls in Gender-Affirming Care,” was hosted by family psychologist Dr. Shawn Giammattei, who identifies as a transgender man. Read more here.
PRESIDENT OF LEADING PLASTIC SURGEONS ORG SAYS EVIDENCE DOESN’T CURRENTLY SUPPORT GENDER SURGERIES FOR MINORS. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons is standing by its statement that there is currently not enough evidence to support so-called “gender affirming care” for minors, according to an interview with the president of the organization. Read more here.
THIS SUPREME COURT CASE COULD CHANGE ‘GENDER AFFIRMING CARE’ IN THE U.S. FOREVER. The controversy over “gender affirming care” for trans minors is coming to the U.S. Supreme Court in its new term with the case of U.S. v. Skrmetti, a Tennessee ban on the procedure. Read more here.
EUROPEAN TOP COURT RULES MEMBER STATES MUST ACKNOWLEDGE CHANGES TO ‘GENDER IDENTITY.’ European union (EU) member states are required to recognize “gender identity” changes processed in other parts of the EU after the Court of Justice sided with a transgender man’s lawsuit against Romania on Friday. Read more here.
TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE INMATE WHO IMPREGNATED TWO WOMEN AT FEMALE PRISON HELPED CONVICT GAIN TRANSFER TO THE FACILITY. Jamie Belladonna, a man convicted of murder, was transferred into New Jersey’s female-only prison after being mentored by a transgender convict accused of impregnating two female inmates. Read more here.
TRANS KIDS CLINIC PSYCHOLOGIST CONVICTED OF CHILD SEX OFFENSES STILL FREE TO PRACTICE: REPORT. Dr. Ross Canade, a former lead psychologist at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, was handed a 12-month suspended sentence for ‘attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming’ and a six-month suspension for “attempting to engage in sexual conversation with a child’ earlier this year.” The Daily Telegraph claims he is still a registered psychologist who can “practice without any conditions imposed by the regulator.” Read more here.
SCHOOL DISTRICT SUED FOR WITHHOLDING PUBLIC RECORDS ABOUT ‘GENDER TRANSITION’ PLANS FOR CHILDREN. The Center for American Liberty has been exposing radical gender ideology in California and has filed a lawsuit against the public school district in Lynwood, California for failing to comply with state law by providing requested documents about its “gender transition” plans for schoolchildren. Read more here.
UTAH STATE IS FOURTH SCHOOL TO FORFEIT WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL MATCH AMID SAN JOSE STATE TRANS PLAYER CONTROVERSY. The Utah State Aggies are the latest women’s volleyball team to choose not to participate in a scheduled match against San Jose State University due to a biological male playing on its women’s team. Read more here.
SEX OFFENDER GIVEN REFUGEE STATUS IN FRANCE AFTER CLAIMING TO BE TRANSGENDER. An Algerian refugee sex offender has been allowed to stay in France despite having been sentenced to four years in prison for killing a Moroccan teen. Read more here.
EXPOSED: ARIZONA SCHOOL DISTRICTS EXCLUDE PARENTS IN ‘GENDER TRANSITIONS.’ The group Parents Defending Education discovered that seven Arizona school districts have policies mandating staff hide students’ “transgender” identity from their parents. Read more here.
3RD COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL TEAM REFUSES TO COMPETE AGAINST TRANSGENDER OPPONENT, FORFEITING GAME. The University of Wyoming women’s volleyball team became the third in the nation to forfeit a game to San Jose State this season. Wyoming joined Boise State and Southern Utah, all of which did not give a specific reason for the forfeit. Read more here.
WYOMING DOCTOR BOOTED FROM MEDICAL BOARD FOR OPPOSING TRANSGENDER ‘TREATMENTS’ ASKS COURT TO REINSTATE HIM. Wyoming’s governor removed a doctor from the state’s board of medicine because the doctor supported a law banning “gender-affirming care” for minors. The doctor is suing, and his lawyers are filing a motion asking the court to reinstate him on the medical board. Read more here.
DID BIDEN, HARRIS KNOW THERE’S ‘SCANT EVIDENCE’ FOR ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE’ WHEN THEY PUSHED IT ON KIDS? GROUP DEMANDS ANSWERS. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have repeatedly supported “gender-affirming care” for “transgender” minors, but the National Institutes of Health has approved multiple research grants acknowledging there is “scant evidence” to support the idea that experimental medical interventions improve the lives of children who identify as the opposite sex. Read more here.
CANADA: ALBERTA TO INTRODUCE NEW LEGISLATION ON ‘GENDER TRANSITION’ AND PARENTAL RIGHTS. Premier Danielle Smith stated that Alberta’s UCP government will introduce legislation aimed at safeguarding children from making irreversible decisions regarding “gender transition” until adulthood. Read more here.
TEXAS SUES U.S. HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES OVER RULE LABELING ‘GENDER DYSPHORIA’ AS PROTECTED DISABILITY. Texas and 16 other states sued the Biden administration, accusing it of attempting to unlawfully rewrite a federal disability law to include “gender dysphoria” in a newly approved rule charging that the rule “upends decades of established federal disability law” by redefining “gender dysphoria” as a disability under the Americans With Disabilities Act. Read more here.
WOMEN ‘BLINDSIDED’ BY TOWERING TRANSGENDER VOLLEYBALL PLAYER LAUNCH LAWSUIT AGAINST NCAA. Concerned Women for America filed the lawsuit after the NCAA cleared 6-foot-one Blaire Fleming, who identifies as a woman, to play for San Jose this season without telling the rest of the conference that he would be playing. Read more here.
22 STATES ASK COURT TO BLOCK BIDEN-HARRIS RULE ALLOWING ‘TRANSGENDER’ MALES IN GIRLS’ SPORTS, BATHROOMS. Women’s groups, athletes, 22 states, and many education advocates have filed friend-of-the-court briefs asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit to halt the Biden-Harris administration’s unlawful attempt to redefine “sex” to include “gender identity” in Title IX, a federal law designed to create equal opportunities for women in education and athletics. Read more here.
IDAHO GOV PRAISES BOISE STATE’S DECISION TO FORFEIT WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL MATCH AGAINST TEAM WITH TRANS PLAYER. Idaho governor Brad Little commended Boise State for forfeiting its match against San Jose State University amid controversy surrounding a transgender member of the opposing women’s volleyball team. Read more here.
NH PARENTS WHO PROTESTED TRANSGENDER ATHLETE SUE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR FREE SPEECH VIOLATION. A group of New Hampshire parents and a grandparent sued their local school district over its response to a protest of a transgender student’s participation in a girls’ soccer game. The lawsuit claims parents were banned from Bow High School grounds earlier this month for wearing pink wristbands displaying “XX” to girls soccer game as a “silent protest” in support of girls sports. Read more here.
VIRGINIA SCHOOL BOARD TO PAY SETTLEMENT TO FIRED TEACHER WHO REFUSED TO USE TRANSGENDER STUDENT’S PRONOUNS. The West Point School Board agreed to pay Peter Vlaming, a former high school French teacher damages and attorneys’ fees after he declined to refer to a transgender student by his requested pronouns. The agreement came several months after the Virginia Supreme Court reinstated Vlaming’s case. Read more here.
FORMER CASEWORKER TESTIFIES IN DEFENSE OF MISSOURI TRANSGENDER HEALTH CARE BAN. Jamie Reed, who for four and a half years worked as a case manager at the Washington University Transgender Center, was the first witness called by the state in the two-week trial over the constitutionality of the law. Read more here.
UK POLICE HAVE NO LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR GENDER ID, COMPLAINS CHIEF CONSTABLE. The chief constable of Police Scotland has criticized the Scottish and UK parliaments for failing to set out laws to help public bodies deal with gender identity. The force had been questioned by MSPs over how it records the gender of rapists. This prompted Chief Constable Jo Farrell to clarify that male rapists will not be recorded as women. Read more here.
TEXAS SUES OVER GENDER IDEOLOGY IN STATE FOSTER SYSTEM. Attorney General Ken Paxton challenged a new rule enacted by President Joe Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services that puts new stipulations around federal foster care funding. The new rules require agencies that receive federal funding to guarantee any foster family they place a child with will affirm that child’s self-determined LGBTQ+ identity. Read more here.
JORDAN PETERSON CONDEMNS ‘TRANS-BUTCHERY OF MINOR CHILDREN’ AS ‘A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.’ In an interview with Piers Morgan, the best-selling Canadian author, clinical psychologist and journalist said of “gender affirming” interventions, “It is the worst medical and certainly psychological scandal that I’ve ever seen in my entire life. It’s absolutely 100% unforgivable.” Read more here.
SWISS SUPREME COURT PROTECTS PARENTS OPPOSING DAUGHTER’S ‘SEX CHANGE’ FROM THREAT OF CRIMINAL CHARGES. The Swiss Supreme Court recently ruled that two parents who lost custody of their teenage daughter for opposing her “gender transition” are immune from the threat of criminal charges for refusing to hand over documents to complete her legal “sex change.” Read more here.
THE BMA TURNS AWAY FROM REJECTING THE CASS REPORT. The British Medical Association has reversed its decision to call for a pause in implementing the recommendations of the Cass Review. It follows intense criticism of the doctors’ union after its discussions were exposed regarding the rejection of the findings of Dr Hilary Cass’s independent review into gender identity services for children and young people. Read more here.
STUDY FINDS PUBERTY BLOCKER USE IN NEW ZEALAND FAR HIGHER THAN SIMILAR COUNTRIES. New Zealand is prescribing up to seven times more puberty blockers to young transgender patients than other similar countries, new analysis shows. Researchers said the relatively high use appeared to be driven by easier access to assessment; a lower threshold for the diagnosis of gender dysphoria; and greater likelihood of recommending puberty blockers than other treatment options. Read more here.
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION UPHELD IN PERU: TIKTOKER FACED CRIMINAL PROSECUTION FOR SPEAKING OUT AGAINST GENDER IDEOLOGY. A transgender activist in Peru filed a criminal complaint against Olga Izquierdo for discrimination after she took to TikTok to criticize Lima airport signs that opened the women’s restroom to “anyone with a feminine identity,” prompting investigation by state prosecutors. Read more here.
‘ABUSIVE’: PEDIATRICIAN GROUP’S SUPPORT FOR TRANS THERAPIES REBUKED BY STATE AGS. A group of more than a dozen attorneys general across the U.S. are demanding that the nation’s leading pediatric organization rescind its support for transgender procedures on children such as puberty blockers and surgeries. Read more here.
DOJ ATTORNEY HAD SUSPENDED LICENSE WHILE PROSECUTING TEXAS WHISTLEBLOWER WHO EXPOSED CHILD ‘SEX CHANGES.’ The U.S. attorney tasked with prosecuting a Texas Children’s Hospital whistleblower who reported that the hospital was giving cross-sex hormones and mastectomies to gender-confused children was temporarily suspended by the State Bar of Texas but continued to work for the prosecution while her license to practice law was invalid in violation of the law. Read more here.
CANADIAN POSTAL WORKERS SUSPENDED FOR REFUSING TO DELIVER MAIL CALLING OUT ‘SEX CHANGES’ FOR MINORS. The two suspended Canada Post employees, one of whom has a transgender child, were from New Brunswick and had refused to deliver Campaign Life Coalition’s pro-life postcards. One of the postcards read that “no child is ‘born in the wrong body,’” and another that “God doesn’t make mistakes.” Read more here.
SASKATCHEWAN HEADS TO COURT OVER CONTROVERSIAL PRONOUN CONSENT LAW APPEAL. The appeal will focus on the “Parents’ Bill of Rights,” a law passed last October, which requires parental consent for students under 16 to use a different gender-related name or pronoun at school. Read more here.
FRANCE: TRANS ACTIVISTS SET OFF EXPLOSION IN ATTEMPT TO SABOTAGE CONFERENCE CRITICAL OF GENDER IDEOLOGY. Some 300 trans activists attempted to have a conference critical of gender ideology canceled in Lyon, France due to the scheduled appearance of feminist activist Marguerite Stern, co-author of the book “Transmania.” Read more here.
‘UNSAFE AND UNFAIR’: MOM OF COLLEGIATE VOLLEYBALL PLAYER SPEAKS OUT ABOUT BIOLOGICAL MALE COMPETING AGAINST DAUGHTER. Biological male volleyball player Blaire Fleming—born Brayden—has led San Jose State University women’s team to an undefeated season, prompting April Chainey to call out the NCAA for allowing an “unconscionable” safety hazard to females. Read more here.
MAN ARRESTED AFTER ATTACK ON WOMEN’S RIGHTS ADVOCATE KELLIE-JAY KEEN DURING UK EVENT. A man was arrested in Sheffield, UK, after attacking women’s rights advocate Kellie-Jay Keen during her “Let Women Speak” event, which provides a platform for women to voice concerns about gender ideology. Read more here.
SCHOOL CALLS COPS ON PARENTS WEARING ‘XX’ WRISTBANDS TO PROTEST MALE PLAYER ON GIRLS TEAM. A New Hampshire high school called police on several parents who showed up at a girls’ soccer game wearing wristbands with “XX” on them, signifying women’s chromosomes, to protest the participation of a biological male on Bow High School rival Plymouth Regional HS’s team. Read more here.
CENSUS MAY HAVE OVERESTIMATED NUMBER OF TRANS PEOPLE IN ENGLAND AND WALES. The number of transgender people living in the UK may have been overestimated by the 2021 census because a review found that people who do not speak fluent English may have misunderstood the wording of the relevant question and mistakenly answered that they consider themselves to be trans. Read more here.
A ‘TRANS’ ACTOR WAS NOMINATED FOR ‘BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS.’ Nava Mau, a man who identifies as a “woman,” received an Emmy nomination for his role in the series “Baby Reindeer.” Read more here.
INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS ORDERED TO ARRANGE TRANSGENDER PRISONER’S ‘GENDER SURGERIES’ AFTER ACLU-BACKED LAWSUIT. The United States District Court of Indiana ruled that convicted murderer Autumn Cordellioné, born Jonathan Richardson, had been subjected to “cruel and unusual punishment” by being denied the various plastic surgeries he demanded, and ordered that he will be given taxpayer-funded “gender affirming” surgeries. Read more here.
TRANS-IDENTIFYING 19-YEAR-OLD ARRESTED AFTER EXPRESSING DESIRE TO SHOOT UP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The Norwalk, Iowa Police Department has arrested Margaret Anderson, a female who identifies as a transgender “male” and charged her with a threat of terrorism against the Oviatt Elementary School. Read more here.
NEW INFO DESTROYS DOJ CASE AGAINST TRANS SURGERY WHISTLEBLOWER, LAWYERS SAY. New information disclosed by the Department of Justice “upends” its case against Texas Children’s Hospital whistleblower Eithan Haim. “The government admits evidence that contradicts their allegations against Dr. Haim,” the doctor’s lawyer, Marcella Burke, said. Read more here.
CANADIAN MILITARY WANTED TO INVESTIGATE REMOVAL OF TAMPONS FROM MALE WASHROOMS AS ‘HATE CRIME’: REPORT. Canadian military officials wanted the Canadian Armed Forces’ hate crimes and extremism investigation unit to look into the vandalizing of feminine hygiene product dispensers placed in men’s washrooms as part of the military’s new “inclusion” policy. Read more here.
AUSTRALIAN WOMAN FIRED, DRAGGED BEFORE TRIBUNAL FOR SAYING ONLY WOMEN CAN BREASTFEED. Jasmine Sussex, a Victorian breastfeeding expert, is being taken to the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal for saying that males who take drugs to lactate should not be experimenting on children, describing it is a “dangerous fetish.” Read more here.
MALTA: NON-BINARY PERSONS TO BE ABLE TO SET PREFERRED GENDER ON BIRTH CERTIFICATES. The legislation was passed in July, but it came into effect this week. Now, non-binary individuals, meaning, persons identifying with neither male nor female, will be granted the ability to be recognized as ‘X’ even on birth certificates. Read more here.
TRANS CEO OF RAPE CRISIS CENTER STEPS DOWN AFTER NEGATIVE REPORT. The city of Edinburgh, Scotland’s government-funded rape crisis center had been managed by a transgender man named Mridul Wadhwa, but he has resigned after a report demonstrated women did not feel safe there. Read more here.
‘AS ASSIGNED AT BIRTH’ NO LONGER FLIES IN THIS STATE. Texans are no longer able to change their listed sex to the opposite if they say they “identify” as such, since a Department of Public Safety policy change directed by Gov. Greg Abbott only allows the switch to correct clerical errors and will not accommodate applicants simply claiming a transgender identity. Read more here.
VIOLENT TRANSGENDER INMATE RELEASED ON PAROLE AFTER QUIETLY SERVING HIS SENTENCE IN A WOMEN’S PRISON IN CANADA. Cassidy Honsinger, a violent transgender inmate who stabbed a teenager in Cornwall, Ontario in 2022, has been released on parole after serving his sentence in a women’s federal prison in Canada. Read more here.
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE PROFESSOR WINS IN COURT AFTER GETTING FIRED FOR QUESTIONING GENDER IDEOLOGY. A three-judge panel for the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 6th District has ruled in favor of Allan Josephson, who claimed he was demoted and essentially ousted by the University of Louisville in 2017 after sharing his opinions about how best to treat young people suffering from gender dysphoria during a panel at the Washington, D.C.-based conservative think tank Heritage Foundation. Read more here.
CHILD PSYCHIATRIST WINS FREE SPEECH VICTORY – CASE MOVES FORWARD. An appeals court has ruled in favor of Dr. Allan Josephson, a child psychiatrist who expressed his opinion that children with sexual identity confusion should not be given experimental, irreversible, body-damaging drugs, hormones and surgeries. Officials at the University of Louisville demoted and ostracized him for propounding these sensible beliefs, eventually demanding his resignation. Read more here.
AT LEAST FIVE MALE INMATES TRANSFERRED TO MINNESOTA WOMEN’S PRISON, INCLUDING TWO CONVICTED PEDOPHILES. Five male convicts were transferred to a Minnesota’s women-only prison following the adoption of a gender identity policy by the Department of Corrections in January of 2023, and two of the men convicted as sexual predators are being held at a female correctional center. Read more here.
ANTIFA VANDALIZES CONSERVATIVE SCHOOL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE IN LYON, FRANCE. A school of political science founded in Lyon by Marion Maréchal MEP has been vandalized by Antifa-style militants, protesting the visit of Transmania author Marguerite Stern, who was scheduled to give a lecture on transgender ideology. Read more here.
TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE WHO SUED EX-GIRLFRIEND FOR ACCUSING HIM OF PREYING ON HER CHILDREN NOW ADVISING GERMAN FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION ON SELF-IDENTIFICATION POLICIES. The German Football Association is receiving policy consultation on how to eliminate single-sex categories in the sport from Julia Monro, a trans-identified male. Read more here.
FEDERAL APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS RULING TO BLOCK ARIZONA’S BAN ON TRANSGENDER ATHLETES IN WOMEN’S SPORTS. A lower court ruling that blocked Arizona’s 2022 law barring transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports was upheld by a federal appeals court. Read more here.
RILEY GAINES’S ‘TRANS-FIXED’ DOCUSERIES DELVES INTO ‘INJUSTICE’ OF TRANSGENDER MOVEMENT. Outkick’s Gaines for Girls podcast host Riley Gaines has debuted her new four-part documentary, Trans-fixed, which explores the danger and injustice posed by the transgender movement, beginning with a look at the impact that transgender ideology has had on women’s sports. Read more here.
TOP U.S. SURGEON CAUTIONS AGAINST ADMINISTERING ‘GENDER AFFIRMING CARE’ TO MINORS: ‘NOT ENOUGH EVIDENCE.’ Dr. Steven Williams, president of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, explained on “Fox & Friends First” that there’s just “not enough” evidence to approve of gender surgery for adolescents because the long-term effects of it are ambiguous. Read more here. Read more here.
OPEN LETTER FROM NEW ZEALAND OLYMPIANS DEMANDS REVIEW OF GOVERNMENT’S TRANSGENDER GUIDELINES FOR SPORTS. More than 50 high-profile New Zealand sporting identities and Olympians have signed an open letter urging the Government to “prioritise fairness and safety” by rethinking the guiding principles for transgender athletes participating in sports. Read more here.
FAMILIES SUE COLORADO SCHOOL DISTRICT FORCING KIDS TO SHARE BEDROOMS WITH ‘TRANSGENDER’ STUDENTS. Alliance Defending Freedom has filed a federal lawsuit against a Colorado school district that forced multiple girls to share sleeping arrangements with gender-confused boys, arguing that education officials have committed egregious violations of parental rights. Read more here.
ALBERTA CONSERVATIVES LOOKING TO PASS RESOLUTION PROTECTING ‘FEMALE SPACES’ FROM MALE INTRUSION. Members of Alberta’s ruling United Conservative Party are looking to bring forth a resolution at the November Annual General Meeting that calls on the government to introduce a law that would protect “female spaces” for biological females and their children. Read more here.
MASSACHUSETTS HIGH SCHOOL FORFEITS GIRLS’ FIELD HOCKEY GAME AGAINST TEAM WITH A MALE PLAYER. The Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High School girls field hockey team has forfeited its scheduled game against Somerset-Berkley High School after discovering a biological boy would be playing on the opposing team. Read more here.
AUSTRALIAN DOCTOR COULD LOSE MEDICAL LICENSE FOR SHARING BABYLON BEE ARTICLES, CONSERVATIVE CONTENT RELATED TO GENDER. Two anonymous complaints were lodged against Dr. Jereth Kok in 2018 over his social media content, after which he was placed under investigation by the Medical Board of Australia after it learned of his social media posts claiming there are only two genders. Read more here.
FINNISH RESEARCH: NUMBER OF PEOPLE REGRETTING GENDER CHANGE INCREASES. More and more transgender people are regretting their gender transition. The results of a major Finnish study reveal that the risk of regret is underestimated. The Finnish research group followed 1359 patients who started taking cross-sex hormones between 1996 and 2019. Read more here.
STUDENT STORIES OF CABIN COUNSELOR, BED PARTNER, DISPUTE SCHOOL’S CLAIM OF ‘REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS.’ Three furious Colorado families have joined together as plaintiffs to sue a public school district after it allowed opposite-sex students to share a bed, and even shower with a teen counselor present, on overnight school trips. Read more here.
TRANSGENDER CYCLIST CLAIMS ‘HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION’ AFTER BEING DENIED ENTRY TO WOMEN’S RACES. Trans-identified male Patti Flynn is claiming that his human rights were violated after being told he was not allowed to compete in a women’s cycling race and that he must enter in the male category. Read more here.
WELSH GOVERNMENT AWARDED GENDER AND SEXUALITY CONTRACT TO FIRM HEADED BY CHILD SEX OFFENDER. The Welsh Government is conducting an internal review after it was discovered they had awarded a research contract related to sexuality and gender to a firm whose director had been jailed after admitting three charges of sexual activity with a child. Read more here.
‘TRANSGENDER’ MALES IN CONSERVATIVE INDONESIA PRAISE POPE FRANCIS FOR PRO-LGBT ‘MESSAGE.’ Pope Francis is being praised for his pro-LGBT “inclusiveness” by transgender activists in Indonesia, where the archdiocese of the country’s capital city has been “welcoming” unrepentant gender-confused individuals into parishes in recent years. Read more here.
FORMER TRANS KIDS WARN OTHERS – ‘DON’T DO IT!’ Chloe Cole, a self-described “former trans kid,” is leading the fight to protect children from transgender surgeries, telling people, “We need to stop telling 12-year-olds that they were born wrong, that they are right to reject their own bodies and feel uncomfortable in their own skin.” Read more here.
COLORADO SCHOOL DISTRICT HAD TRANS-IDENTIFYING FEMALE SUPERVISE YOUNG BOYS SHOWERING, LAWSUIT ALLEGES. Jefferson County School District’s “Transgender Students” policy requires all students on overnight visits to be roomed by their gender identity, rather than their actual sex without telling parents. In one instance, it placed a trans-identifying 18-year-old female student in a cabin where she allegedly supervised boys showering. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA CITY TO SUE STATE OVER ANTI-PARENTS’ RIGHTS POLICY. After establishing itself as a “Parents’ Right to Know” city, Huntington Beach is set to file a lawsuit against California’s “unconstitutional” law requiring school districts to hide students’ gender identity from their parents, the city’s attorney announced. Read more here.
WORLD DARTS FEDERATION THREATENS WOMEN WHO REFUSE TO COMPETE AGAINST TRANS-IDENTIFYING MALES. Ahead of this year’s World Championship, the WDF issued a statement that made it clear the federation will not tolerate any woman who forfeits their match because they have to play against a biological male, months after British female darts player Deta Hedman did just that. Read more here.
BIDEN ‘GENDER REASSIGNMENT’ SURGERY MANDATE BLOCKED. A U.S. district judge has placed a nationwide block on a Biden-Harris administration rule mandating that federally funded hospitals perform surgical interventions to alter the body’s appearance to mimic that of the opposite sex. Read more here.
ONTARIO SCHOOL HID GIRL’S ‘TRANSITION,’ CALLED CAS ON PARENTS QUESTIONING TRANS IDENTITY. When parents objected to the York Catholic District School’s secretive help in their daughter’s “gender identity change” and asked school leaders to include them in conversations about their daughter, the school called the Children’s Aid Society, which investigated the family. Read more here.
MILITARY OFFICER REMOVED FROM COMMAND OVER OPPOSITION TO TRANSGENDERISM, SCHOOL DRAG SHOWS. An unnamed officer in the Idaho Army National Guard was removed from command and pressured to resign after a homosexual subordinate objected to his views on transgenderism and whether children should have access to pornographic books. Read more here.
U. FLORIDA STUDENT GOV’T CREATES ‘GENDER AND SEXUALITY PROTECTION’ UNIT. The University of Florida student government now runs a “Gender and Sexuality Protection” unit in order “to combat gender and sexuality inequality through education and empathy while also providing support to people of all identities,” but some LGBTQ students say they feel left out by the new agency. Read more here.
CHRISTIAN SCHOOL APPEALS EXPULSION OVER GIRLS’ BASKETBALL TEAM REFUSING TO PLAY AGAINST MALE. Mid Vermont Christian School is appealing a judge’s decision to uphold its ban from sporting activities because its girls’ basketball team forfeited a game against a team that had a boy on its roster. Read more here.
GERMAN COURT FORCES PODCASTERS TO DELETE EPISODE WHERE THEY REFERRED TO BALDING TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE AS ‘HE/HIM.’ A podcast episode of Hoss and Hopf was deleted by court order because the moderators called a trans-identified man “a man” and used male pronouns to refer to him, and the podcasters may be facing potential prison time or a fine of up to €250,000. Read more here.
NEW HAMPSHIRE SUPREME COURT SIDES WITH SCHOOL DISTRICT THAT HID STUDENT’S GENDER CONFUSION FROM MOM. In a 3-1 opinion, the New Hampshire Supreme Court sided against a mother who sued the Manchester School District after not being proactively informed about her child’s request to be called a name associated with the opposite gender at school. Read more here.
RILEY GAINES CELEBRATES IDAHO AS FIRST STATE TO BLOCK MEN FROM WOMEN’S SPACES. Idaho became the first state in America to ban men from competing in women’s sports teams and entering their locker rooms, and its state board will work with Idaho’s Department of Education to ensure public schools abide by their ban on men in women’s sports. Read more here.
TEXAS SCHOOL DISTRICT MANDATES TEACHERS USE PRONOUNS ALIGNING WITH STUDENTS’ BIOLOGICAL SEX. The Keller Independent School District has adopted a new policy requiring teachers to use pronouns that align with a student’s biological sex, as listed on their birth certificate, rather than their “gender identity.” Read more here.
AUSTRALIA: TRANS-IDENTIFIED SEX OFFENDER ACCUSED OF RUNNING PEDOPHILE RING IN JAIL, MEDIA REPORTS HIM AS ‘FEMALE.’ A high-risk serial sex offender who preys on children has been accused of running a child abuse ring from within a male prison in New South Wales. Media reports have referred to Dean Angus Bell, 31, as “female” on the basis that he began claiming to be transgender behind bars and adopted the name “Jessica Isabelle Rose.” Read more here.
VIRGINIA WOMEN’S COLLEGE BANS TRANS STUDENTS. Sweet Briar College, an all-women’s liberal arts school in Virginia, enacted a new policy banning transgender students beginning this semester. Read more here.
GERMANY: TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE CONVICTS TRANSFERRED TO WOMEN’S PRISONS AHEAD OF NEW GENDER SELF-IDENTIFICATION LAW. Germany has begun transferring violent male convicts who identify as “women” into female prisons, despite the fact that the nation hasn’t yet formally enacted its gender self-identification law. Among them are dangerous sex offenders and pedophiles. Read more here.
IDAHO GOV SIGNS DEFENDING WOMEN’S SPORTS ACT, COMBATING BIDEN-HARRIS TITLE IX REVISIONS ON TRANS POLICIES. Idaho governor Brad Little signed an executive order titled the “Defending Women’s Sports Act.” in his state to oppose the Biden-Harris administration’s final rule for Title IX. Read more here.
FLORIDA CAN RESTRICT SO-CALLED ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE,’ COURT RULES. A federal appeals court ruled that a Florida law banning so-called “gender-affirming care” and requiring transgender adults to only receive treatment from a doctor and not a registered nurse or another provider can be enforced while legal challenges play out. Read more here.
TEXAS SCHOOL DISTRICT TACKLES GENDER FLUIDITY IN FACE OF FEDERAL INVESTIGATION. Katy Independent School District, located near Houston, is considering banning books about gender fluidity from some school libraries, proposing to disallow all elementary and junior high school libraries in the district to keep books off the shelves that adopt, support or promote “gender fluidity.” Read more here.
COURT: ALABAMA CAN ENFORCE BAN ON ‘GENDER TRANSITION’ FOR MINORS. A divided federal appeals court has refused to reconsider a decision allowing Alabama to enforce its ban on treating transgender minors with puberty blockers and hormones, as a majority of judges on the 11th U.S. Court of Appeals declined a request by families with transgender children for the full court to reconsider a three-judge panel’s decision to let the law go into effect. Read more here.
AUSTRALIA: HOBART CITY COUNCILOR TO FACE DISCRIMINATION TRIBUNAL FOR ‘MISGENDERING’ TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE WHO THREATENED TO ASSAULT HER. City councilor Louise Elliot, an Australian who was previously the subject of a tribunal inquiry for saying “trans women are men,” has been the victim of threats from the man who reported her for “misgendering.” Read more here.
FEMALE GOLFER BLASTS TRANS GOLFER WHO IS NOW ONE STEP CLOSER TO COMPETING IN LPGA TOUR. Trans-identifying male golfer Hailey Davidson has drawn criticism for moving on to the next round of Qualifying School, inching closer to participation in the Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour. Read more here.
CPS REMOVES AUTISTIC BOY FROM MILITARY FAMILY FOR REFUSING HIS ‘TRANSITION.’ Washington D.C. parents are suing a hospital that allowed Child Protective Services to take their son away from them and subject him to “transgender transition.” Read more here.
MALE SEX OFFENDER CLAIMS TO BE TRANS, ACCUSED OF HARASSMENT IN WASHINGTON WOMEN’S PRISON. Christopher Williams, 34, a male who identifies as a woman, was able to get transferred to a women’s prison and has been sexually harassing the women there, according to a complaint filed against him. Read more here.
HOUSE GOP INVESTIGATES BIDEN-HARRIS ADMIN’S DR RACHEL LEVINE OVER REMOVAL OF AGE LIMITS FOR CHILD ‘SEX CHANGES’ IN TRANS HEALTH GUIDELINES. Biden’s trans diversity hire Dr. Rachel Levine, a former pediatrician who underwent “sex change” as an adult, is under investigation after allegations that Levine pushed the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) to abandon age limits in their guidelines for child “sex changes.” Read more here.
SCOTLAND: DRAG QUEEN WHO CO-AUTHORED ‘TRANS YOUTH’ GUIDE FOR LGBT CHARITY CONVICTED OF DISTRIBUTING CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE VIDEOS. Scottish drag queen Andrew Easton, who co-authored a guide for “trans youth” for a major LGBT charity, has been convicted of distributing child pornography, but was spared an immediate prison sentence. Read more here.
AUSTRALIAN COURT RULES KICKING BIOLOGICAL MALE OFF FEMALE-ONLY APP WAS ‘DISCRIMINATION.’ An Australian court has ruled there was discrimination involved in a case regarding a man living as a woman whose account was removed from a social media app for women. Read more here.
FEDERAL JUDGE SAYS VIRGINIA MUST LET TRANS TENNIS PLAYER COMPETE ON GIRLS’ MIDDLE SCHOOL TEAM. U.S. District Court Judge M. Hannah Lauck issued a preliminary injunction against the Hanover County School Board in Virginia that will require the school to allow male who identifies as a female to play on the girls’ team while the lawsuit plays out in the court system. Read more here.
PUBERTY BLOCKER BAN EXTENDED TO NORTHERN IRELAND. A temporary ban on the sale or supply of puberty blockers has been extended to cover Northern Ireland. In May, the Conservative government tightened rules on the drugs, introducing an emergency ban on them being prescribed by private and European prescribers. Read more here.
‘PATHETIC CHEATER’: TENNIS GREAT MARTINA NAVRATILOVA BLASTS PARALYMPICS FOR ALLOWING TRANS SPRINTER TO COMPETE AS A WOMAN. Tennis great and women’s sports advocate Martina Navratilova blasted the Paralympics for allowing transgender Italian sprinter Valentina Petrillo to compete in the women’s categories in next week’s games, calling him a “pathetic cheater.” Read more here.
GERMANY: TRANSGENDER POLITICIAN CALLS FOR PARENTS TO BE IMPRISONED IF THEY DO NOT ‘AFFIRM’ THEIR CHILD’S ‘GENDER TRANSITION.’ A trans-identified member of Germany’s Parliament and the Green Party, Markus “Tessa” Ganserer, is calling for parents who do not comply with their child’s “gender transition” to be prosecuted and imprisoned. Read more here.
AUSTRALIAN WOMEN’S SOCCER TEAM WITH 5 TRANS PLAYERS WINS SEASON WITH UNDEFEATED RECORD. The Flying Bats won the North West Sydney Football Women’s Premier championship with a 17-0 record and outscored opponents 76-8. Read more here.
ELON LGBTQ OFFICIAL DEFENDS ‘XY’ OLYMPIC BOXERS WHO COMPETED IN WOMEN’S CATEGORY. The associate director of Elon University’s Gender and LGBTQIA Center says the International Olympic Committee needs to “preserve” LGBTQ+ athletes’ rights after Algeria’s Imane Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting both won gold medals in their respective divisions despite the International Boxing Association claiming the two tested positive for XY — male — chromosomes. Read more here.
FEMINIST GROUPS CRITICIZE UN ON GENDER IDEOLOGY AND SURROGACY. The Women’s Liberation Front, Women’s Declaration International, RadFem Italia, and other allied groups took UN Women to task for its statements denouncing “anyone who does not uncritically support the ideology of gender identity” in two open letters. Read more here.
TRANSGENDER TEXANS BLOCKED FROM ‘CHANGING THEIR SEX’ ON DRIVER’S LICENSE. Transgender Texans can no longer change the sex on their driver’s license to align with their gender identity — even if they present the state with a certified court order or an amended birth certificate verifying the change. Read more here.
SPAIN: POLICE OFFICER IS CHARGED ‘AS A WOMAN’ AFTER THREATENING HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTERS BY ‘CHANGING HIS LEGAL SEX.’ A member of the police force in Basque Country, Spain has been arrested for attempting to murder his wife in front of the couple’s two daughters, and the family learned that the man had legally “changed” his sex in an apparent effort to avoid harsher penalties for domestic violence. Read more here.
‘RETALIATION’: NURSE WHO BLEW THE WHISTLE ON CHILD ‘SEX CHANGE’ PROGRAM SAYS TEXAS CHILDREN’S FIRED HER. Former Texas Children’s Hospital nurse Vanessa Sivadge says she has been terminated after blowing the whistle on the hospital’s alleged use of Texas Medicaid to cover attempted “sex changes” for children. Read more here.
CASE COULD MAKE UNENFORCEABLE A LAW THAT PROHIBITS SCHOOLS FROM DISCLOSING ‘GENDER TRANSITIONS’ TO PARENTS. A California mom’s lawsuit against the school district that helped her daughter identify as a boy without her knowledge could block the enforcement of a new California law that mandates schools hide students’ so-called gender identities from parents. Read more here.
GERMAN FEMALE ATHLETE SPEAKS OUT AGAINST TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE COMPETING IN WOMEN’S PARALYMPICS EVENT. The visually impaired female German athlete Katrin Müller-Rottgardt, who will compete in the Paralympics against a trans-identified male athlete, has expressed concerns about fairness for women and called on international authorities to determine a “clear position” on the issue. Read more here.
TWO BIOLOGICAL MALES ARE SUING TO COMPETE AGAINST FEMALES IN SPORTS. A New Hampshire law requiring transgender students in grades 5-12 to compete on school sports teams that match their biological sex takes effect soon, predictably drawing a legal challenge from the male athletes who identify as females. Read more here.
FEDERAL COURTS RULE IN FAVOR OF TRANSGENDER-IDENTIFYING ATHLETES IN TWO STATES. New Hampshire District Judge Landya McCafferty ruled that state education officials were forbidden from enforcing the state’s Fairness In Women’s Sports Act as a lawsuit over the law plays out, and in Virginia, a district court ruled in favor of a transgender-identifying student, blocking a Hanover County school rule that forbids students from playing on teams of the opposite sex. Read more here.
BIDEN ADMIN SLAPPED WITH LAWSUIT OVER RULE PUSHING BUSINESSES TO ADOPT ‘TRANSGENDER’ POLICIES. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over an allegedly “unlawful” April policy rewrite that changed the definition of discrimination to include “gender identity.” Read more here.
SWISS GOVERNMENT TOOK HIS DAUGHTER TO TRANSITION HER. THIS FATHER IS FIGHTING BACK. The Swiss child protection agency, the Service de Protection des Mineurs, has full authority over where children are treated, and it has mandated a child “gender-affirming” treatment that her parents believe will harm her. Read more here.
MALE TRANSGENDER PEDOPHILE WHO SEXUALLY ASSAULTED HIS CHILDREN NOW BEING HELD AT ILLINOIS WOMEN’S PRISON. Michelle Blessent, born James Blessent, is being held at a women’s prison in Lincoln, Illinois, after being convicted of multiple counts related to the sexual assault of his two children. Read more here.
SANCTUARY CITIES FOR PARENTAL RIGHTS? CALIFORNIA CITY AIMS TO PROTECT FAMILIES FROM RADICAL GENDER POLICIES. Calling California one of the most dangerous states for raising a child, Huntington Beach Mayor Gracey Van Der Mark introduced an ordinance to make the Southern California beach town a “Parents’ Right to Know” about their children’s gender issues city. Read more here.
TAIWANESE PUBLIC LARGELY REJECTS GENDER SELF-IDENTIFICATION, STUDY FINDS. A new study published in Archives of Sexual Behaviour reveals that an overwhelming majority of Taiwanese respondents strongly oppose gender self-identification for transgender women. Read more here.
SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS INJUNCTIONS BLOCKING BIDEN-HARRIS ADMIN’S TRANSGENDER TITLE IX REWRITE. The Supreme Court on Friday upheld two lower courts’ temporary injunctions blocking President Joe Biden’s rule applying federal civil rights law to transgender issues in education, including school bathrooms and women’s sports. Read more here.
US APPEALS COURT REINSTATES IOWA LAW BANNING BOOKS AND RESTRICTING EDUCATION ABOUT GENDER IDENTITY. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reinstated an Iowa law that requires public school libraries to remove books that are not “age appropriate,” such as when they describe or depict “sex acts.” The law, SF 496, also forbids education about gender identity. Read more here.
‘GENDER-AFFIRMING’ BREAST REMOVAL SURGERIES MAY HAVE BEEN PERFORMED ON HUNDREDS OF YOUNG GIRLS SINCE 2017. Leor Sapir, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute whose areas of research include pediatric gender medicine, reported that anywhere from 5,288 to 6,294 double mastectomies were performed on girls under age 18 between 2017 and 2023 — and that 50 to 179 of those girls were just 12-years-old or younger. Read more here.
NEW ZEALAND: CONVICTED PEDOPHILE NOW IDENTIFYING AS ‘TRANSGENDER WOMAN’ DEEMED HIGH RISK. A New Zealand Court of Appeal determined that Dundein sex offender Pierre John Parsons continues to pose a risk of further sex crimes, as evidenced by his lengthy history of sexualizing children. He has been released into the community and will remain subject to an extended Supervision Order until at least 2027. Read more here.
‘I’M A WOMAN NOW’: SPANISH MAN ‘CHANGES SEX’ TO ‘FEMALE’ IN APPARENT EFFORT TO AVOID HARSHER PENALTIES FOR ABUSING HIS WIFE. A victim of domestic violence in Redonela was shocked to learn that her abusive partner had “changed his legal sex,” thus protecting him from certain charges associated with male violence against women. Read more here.
‘ANTI-SCIENCE’: FORMER HEALTH OFFICIALS SLAM FDA DUPLICITY ON ‘PUBERTY BLOCKERS’ IN LIGHT OF NEW EVIDENCE. Former officials in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Food and Drug Administration condemned what they described as the FDA’s duplicity in allowing off-label use of so-called puberty blockers while loudly condemning the use of far safer drugs to treat COVlD-19. Read more here.
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLASTIC SURGEONS BREAKS WITH OTHER U.S. GROUPS OVER ‘GENDER AFFIRMING CARE.’ The American Society of Plastic Surgeons, a major medical association representing 11,000 members and over 90 percent of the field in the U.S. and Canada, says it “has not endorsed any organization’s practice recommendations for the treatment of adolescents with gender dysphoria.” Read more here.
CALIFORNIA DISTRICT ALLOWS 12-YEAR-OLDS TO ‘TRANSITION’ WITHOUT PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT, DENIES IT. The Newport public school district does not require parental involvement for students 12 and older, according to a document laying out the process of “Student Gender Support” in schools. Read more here.
TRANS GOLFER DOESN’T ‘UNDERSTAND ATHLETES WHO BLAME A TRANSGENDER COMPETITOR ON THEIR OWN ATHLETIC FAILURES.’ Hailey Davidson, a transgender golfer who nearly qualified for the U.S. Women’s Open earlier this year, took a shot at athletes who complain about competing against trans athletes. He remarked on Instagram. “If you don’t take accountability for your failures then you will never actually be good enough to make it.” Read more here.
DEEP DIVE: ITALIAN TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE TO COMPETE AGAINST WOMEN AT 2024 PARALYMPIC GAMES. A 50-year-old trans-identified male from Italy is set to become the first man to compete in a women’s category at the Paris Paralympics. Valentina Petrillo, whose birth name is Fabrizio and who competes in the women’s T12 classification for athletes with visual impairments, and who has won eight women’s running titles, despite failing to earn even one while competing as a male. Read more here.
J.K. ROWLING, ELON MUSK NAMED IN ‘CYBER HARASSMENT’ LAWSUIT FILED BY ALGERIAN OLYMPIC BOXER AT CENTER OF GENDER CONTROVERSY. Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who is alleged to have male XY chromosomes and who competed against women to win gold at the Paris Olympics, has filed a criminal complaint to French authorities claiming that author J.K. Rowling and tech billionaire Elon Musk participated in a campaign of “cyber harassment.” Read more here.
ANOTHER FIGHTER WHO FAILED GENDER TESTS WINS GOLD IN WOMEN’S BOXING, BLOODIES OPPONENT. Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan, a male, won gold in the women’s Olympic featherweight final match, absolutely dominating and bloodying Julia Szeremeta of Poland. Read more here.
KHELIF’S TRAINER CONFIRMS ‘PROBLEM WITH CHROMOSOMES’ AS SPANISH NATIONAL BOXING TEAM COMMISSIONER REVEALS HE WAS CONSIDERED TOO DANGEROUS TO TRAIN AGAINST WOMEN. Former Olympian boxer and current boxing trainer Rafa Lozano revealed that he thought the inclusion of Algerian Imane Khelif in the women’s category was unjust and dangerous to females. Read more here.
FACEBOOK BANS #XX HASHTAG AMIDST OLYMPIC BOXING GENDER CONTROVERSY. Facebook has banned users from searching for and viewing posts containing the #XX hashtag amidst controversy surrounding two athletes competing in women’s Olympic boxing in Paris. Users searching for the hashtag receive a message that reads: “Keeping our community safe: Posts with #XX are temporarily hidden here. Some content in those posts goes against our community standards.” Read more here.
LSU PRESIDENT APOLOGIZES FOR REMARKS ABOUT FEMALE OLYMPIC BOXER WITH XY CHROMOSOMES. The president of Louisiana State University, William Tate IV, apologized for recent comments he made about the unfairness of allowing a man to compete against women in the Olympics. Read more here.
BRITISH COLUMBIA VENUE CANCELS FEMINIST EVENT OPPOSING GENDER IDEOLOGY AFTER PRESSURE FROM LGBT ACTIVISTS. A British Columbia venue has canceled an event organized by a feminist speaker who exposes the dangers posed by gender ideology, including the “transitioning” of children, following pressure from LGBT activists. Read more here.
ALLEGEDLY MALE ALGERIAN BOXER WINS OLYMPIC GOLD IN WOMEN’S WELTERWEIGHT DIVISION. Algeria’s Imane Khelif, a boxer believed by many to be male, has won the gold medal in the women’s boxing welterweight division at the Paris Olympics by handily defeating China’s visibly outmatched Yang Liu. Read more here.
UK’S NHS SET TO LAUNCH DETRANSITIONING SERVICES FOR ‘TRANSGENDER’ PATIENTS. The National Health Service of England (NHS) is slated to launch its first “detransitioning” service aimed at returning “transgender” individuals to physical conformity with their biological sex. Read more here.
STUDY FINDS BINGE DRINKING MORE COMMON IN SEXUAL- AND GENDER-MINORITY STUDENTS. The study, published in the journal Pediatrics found that sexual- and gender-minority secondary school students often reported early and disproportionately higher prevalence of binge drinking than their counterparts. Read more here.
INTERNATIONAL OLYMPICS COMMITTEE PRESIDENT SAYS HE LACKS A ‘SCIENTIFICALLY SOLID SYSTEM’ TO ‘IDENTIFY MEN AND WOMEN.’ International Olympics Committee President Thomas Bach told reporters that he lacks a “scientifically solid system” to tell a man from a woman as gender controversy continues to buffet the 2024 Games. Read more here.
BBC OLYMPICS COMMENTATOR CORRECTED ON-AIR AFTER ‘MISGENDERING’ U.S. SHOT PUTTER. As U.S. Olympic shot putter Raven Saunders prepared to qualify for the finals in the Olympic competition, BBC commentator Steve Backley introduced the athlete as a “her,” then was corrected by his broadcasting colleague that the athlete identifies as “non-binary” and the “them” pronoun. Read more here.
DELTA AIRLINES BANS COURTEOUS GREETING, ON GENDER GROUNDS. Delta Airlines flight attendants and gate agents will no longer welcome passengers on board their flights by greeting them as ladies and gentlemen, because chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer Lynn Johnson says those words are not inclusive enough. Read more here.
U.S. SENATORS CALL ON NCAA TO BAN GENDER-CONFUSED MEN FROM COMPETING IN WOMEN’S SPORTS. Twenty-three GOP lawmakers led by Republican U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee sent a joint letter to Charlie Baker, the president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, arguing that “science” shows that males have a distinct advantage when competing against women. Read more here.
STUDY FINDS ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING’ SURGERIES SURPASS PRE-PANDEMIC LEVELS. A study published in the journal Aesthetic Plastic Surgery found that the volume of “gender-affirming” surgeries, which decreased during the initial COVlD-19 outbreak, has since rebounded and surpassed pre-pandemic levels. The study noted that complication risks remained consistent. Read more here.
OHIO JUDGE UPHOLDS LAW BANNING TRANSGENDER SURGERIES AND HORMONE THERAPIES FOR MINORS. An Ohio county judge upheld the state’s law banning transgender surgeries and similar treatments for people under 18, months after the state legislature enacted the law despite a veto from Republican Gov. Mike DeWine. Read more here.
NIH PUMPS MILLIONS INTO CHILDREN’S HOSPITALS TO STUDY THE ‘BENEFITS’ OF PUBERTY BLOCKERS. A federally funded research project is actively recruiting “transgender” children to study the “mental health benefits” of puberty blockers, as part of a nationwide push to reshape public policy on pediatric “gender care.” Read more here.
U. MICHIGAN EMPLOYEE FACING LAWSUIT AFTER POSTING PRO-WOMEN SPORTS CONTENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA. Fired LGBT employee Erika Ventura, formerly an animal husbandry technician at the University of Michigan Laboratory for Animal Medicine, is suing a university manager whose posts on social media referred to homosexuality as a “sin” and opposed males competing in women’s sports, according to a new lawsuit. Read more here.
ST. LOUIS GYM BANS TRANS-IDENTIFYING MALE MEMBER AFTER LOCKER ROOM COMPLAINTS. A St. Louis-area fitness center has terminated the membership of a transgender client after being alerted to social media posts by the former member that company leaders deemed a threat to the health club’s “safety and security.” Read more here.
VICTORY IN ITALY’S CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OVER GENDER IDEOLOGY. Italy’s constitutional court has refused to legally recognize a non-binary sexual identity, on the grounds that it would disrupt Italy’s entire social and legal system. Read more here.
WA STATE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL PULLS BACK ON CHILD ‘SEX CHANGES,’ OPTS FOR ‘HOLISTIC APPROACH.’ A Washington state hospital will no longer be fast-tracking ‘sex changes’ for minors. Instead, MultiCare’s Mary Bridges Children’s Hospital in Tacoma has opted for a more “holistic approach,” moving away from life-altering treatments as a first resort for gender confusion. Read more here.
MISSOURI AG LAUNCHES INVESTIGATION INTO GYM FOR LETTING A MAN USE THE WOMEN’S LOCKER ROOM. Missouri attorney general Andrew Bailey is launching a potential criminal investigation into the Life Time Fitness gym for openly allowing a man to use the women’s restroom and changing facilities while ordering concerned female customers to use the man’s “preferred pronouns.” Read more here.
BOMBSHELL: FDA EMAIL TURNS TRANSGENDER ‘HEALTH CARE’ NARRATIVE ON ITS HEAD. A team leader at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommended approving “puberty blockers” for teens who identify as transgender even while noting that a recent study showed these drugs are associated with an “increased risk in depression and suicidality.” Read more here.
BIDEN’S RADICAL TITLE IX REWRITE GOES INTO EFFECT, BUT BLOCKED IN 26 STATES. The Biden administration’s rewrite of Title IX went into effect, an effort that seeks to allow men in women’s private spaces, athletics and educational opportunities, but the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 11th District granted an injunction on behalf of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina that blocks the Biden rewrite from going into effect in those states. Read more here.
STATE REMOVES ‘MOTHER’ AND ‘FATHER’ FROM OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. Parents in Massachusetts will no longer be referred to as mothers and fathers because House Bill 4750 would require legal equality for parents and update the state’s general laws establishing parentage, custody, support and visitation of a child. Read more here.
TAIWANESE BOXER WHO FAILED GENDER TESTS WINS WOMEN’S OLYMPIC MATCH IN PARIS. Taiwan’s Olympic boxer Lin Yu-ting, one of two boxers at the center of a gender controversy at the Paris games this week, handily won a fight against Uzbekistan’s Sitora Turdibekova. Read more here.
UK JUDGE UPHOLDS BAN ON PUBERTY BLOCKERS FOR GENDER DYSPHORIA FOR CHILDREN. A High Court judge in the United Kingdom has upheld the government’s emergency ban on puberty blockers for the treatment of gender dysphoria in children and adolescents. Read more here.
U.S. HOUSE BILL WOULD CODIFY SEX AS MALE AND FEMALE, NOT GENDER IDENTITY OR EXPRESSION. Rep. Mary Miller’s (R- IL) has introduced a bill to clearly define sex based on biology, rather than ideology. “The Defining Male and Female Act will enshrine these definitions in federal law, preventing future departments and administrations from redefining this fundamental characteristic,” said Miller. Read more here.
REPORT: FAMILY SUES TO REGAIN CUSTODY OF AUTISTIC SON FROM TRANSGENDERISM ACTIVISTS. A family from Maryland that lost custody of their special needs son after refusing to let him undergo a “sex change” is reportedly suing Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C. Read more here.
FEDERAL PROTECTIONS OF TRANSGENDER STUDENTS ARE LAUNCHING WHERE COURTS HAVEN’T BLOCKED THEM. New federal protections for transgender students at U.S. schools and colleges will take effect Thursday with muted impact because judges have temporarily blocked enforcement in 21 states and hundreds of individual colleges and schools across the country. Read more here.
FLORIDA SCHOOL BOARD SUSPENDS EMPLOYEE WHO ALLOWED HER TRANSGENDER SON TO PLAY GIRLS’ VOLLEYBALL. A Florida school employee who let her transgender son play on the girls’ volleyball team is being suspended for 10 days after the district’s board found that she violated state law but said firing her would be too severe. Read more here.
LIBERTY UNIVERSITY FACES LAWSUIT FOR FIRING TRANS-IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUAL. Liberty University has been sued by a former employee, who is alleging that the school engaged in employment discrimination by firing him after he notified Human Resources that he identified as a transgender woman, but legal experts say that the Constitution and court precedent protect religious institutions like Liberty to employ staff employees who abide by a religious moral code. Read more here.
CANADIAN POWERLIFTING UNION SUSPENDS TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE FOR SIX MONTHS AFTER THREATENING WOMEN WHO HAD BEEN CRITICAL OF HIS PARTICIPATION IN FEMALE SPORTS. The Canadian Powerlifting Union has issued a six-month suspension to Anne Andres, a trans-identified male competing in women’s powerlifting, for uttering threats and engaging in a campaign of harassment towards several women and sports officials. Read more here.
2 TRANSGENDER BOXERS COMPETING IN PARIS OLYMPICS WERE PREVIOUSLY DQ’D OVER GENDER ELIGIBILITY ISSUES. Male boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan, who were both declared ineligible for the 2023 world championships, will compete in Paris for medals in the women’s 66-kilogram and women’s 57-kilogram matches. Read more here.
PARENTS OUTRAGED CALIFORNIA SCHOOL DISTRICT FORCES CHILDREN TO ROOM WITH TRANS STUDENTS ON OVERNIGHT TRIPS. The only option for Newport-Mesa Unified School District students who are uncomfortable staying in a room with transgender students is to opt out of the trip, Sarah Coley, the school district’s administrative director, said in an email to school district employees regarding a sixth-grade science trip. Read more here.
NIH KICKS OUT SCHOLARS CRITICAL OF GENDER IDENTITY FROM ‘SEX AND GENDER’ EVENT. Colin Wright, a well-known biologist and Manhattan Institute fellow, and Tomás Bogardus, a philosophy professor at Pepperdine University and self-described “traditional Catholic,” were booted from a webinar that was part of a two-day “Exploring the many dimensions of sex and gender in the genomics era” symposium hosted by NIH. Read more here.
TOP TRANSGENDER HEALTH GROUP SAID HORMONES, SURGERIES WERE ‘MEDICALLY NECESSARY’ SO THAT INSURANCE WOULD COVER THEM. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) asserted that cross-sex hormones and surgeries were “medically necessary” so that insurance companies would pay for those procedures, allowing concerns about the treatments’ affordability to dictate claims about their effectiveness, newly unsealed court documents show. Read more here.
AUSTRALIAN ‘TRANS INCLUSIVE’ FOOTBALL CLUB WITH FIVE MALE PLAYERS DOMINATES WOMEN’S LEAGUES AFTER BEING ACCUSED OF INJURING FEMALE PLAYERS. The Flying Bats Football Club in North Sydney has at least five males who identify as transgender on the women’s team, and has previously been accused of causing career-changing injuries to female competitors. Read more here.
OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY THROUGH FRANCE INCLUDED THREE DRAG QUEENS. Makeup-clad, wig-wearing men in high heels were spotted carrying the flame on various parts of the journey between May and July of this year as the Olympic torch made its way around the country to Paris. Read more here.
BIDEN’S TITLE IX RULES ALLOWING MEN IN WOMEN’S SPORTS BLOCKED IN 21 STATES: WHERE THINGS STAND. In addition to the rules being blocked in 21 states, dozens of K-12 schools and universities across the country have been blocked from implementing the rules, which were issued on April 19, 2024. Read more here.
SCHOOL DISTRICT TAKES DOWN ‘LGBTQ RESOURCES’ LINK TO ORG WITH TRANSGENDER SURGERY INFORMATION AFTER DAILY SIGNAL EXPOSÉ. Newport Harbor High School in the Newport Mesa Unified School District had posters around its halls with scannable QR codes in its hallways that link students to a number of “LGBTQ+ Resources,” including the LGBTQ Center of Orange County’s website. Read more here.
FEDERAL JUDGES UPHOLD TENNESSEE LAW PROHIBITING CHILDREN FROM ATTENDING DRAG SHOWS. A three-judge panel of the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Tennessee’s right to enforce its Adult Entertainment Act, which prohibits sexually-charged performances such as drag shows from venues accessible to minors. Read more here.
MUSLIMS STAND UP IN PROTEST AGAINST GENDER IDEOLOGY IN FAIRFAX COUNTY’S PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Thoraia Hussein, a mother of six children who attend the district’s public schools, spoke up for 75 Muslims attending a school board meeting and who object to gender ideology. Read more here.
APPEALS COURT REJECTS BIDEN ADMINISTRATION REQUEST TO ENFORCE ‘GENDER IDENTITY’ TITLE IX RULES. An appellate court rejected a request from President Joe Biden’s administration to enforce a regulation in four states that would broadly prohibit discrimination based on a person’s self-asserted “gender identity.” Read more here.
TOP PEDIATRICIAN PROMOTING TRANS PROCEDURES FOR TEXAS KIDS NOW HIGH RANKING NIH OFFICIAL. Catherine Gordon, the chief pediatrician at Texas Children’s Hospital, resigned in April 2022, and now she’s working for President Joe Biden’s administration in a high-ranking position at the National Institutes of Health as the Justice Department targets whistleblowers exposing alleged ongoing transgender practices at Texas Children’s. Read more here.
AUTISTIC TEEN BOY REMOVED FROM PARENTS’ HOME AFTER HOSPITAL STAFF ‘FORCED’ HIM TO ‘TRANSITION,’ LAWSUIT ALLEGES. A family from Maryland has accused the Children’s National Hospital of encouraging their autistic teenage son to identify as a “girl” after the child was taken from his family’s care due to their refusal to “validate” his “transition.” Read more here.
TEAM USA’S BRITTNEY GRINER WANTS NEW BABY TO CALL HER ‘POPS’ INSTEAD OF MOM. Women’s NBA basketball star Brittney Griner and her wife now have a new baby boy, and Griner says she plans to train the boy to call her by a male name. Read more here.
NEW HAMPSHIRE BECOMES 25TH STATE TO BAN BIOLOGICAL MALES FROM FEMALE SPORTS WITH BILL SIGNING. Gov. Chris Sununu signed legislation barring boys from competing in girls’ sports in grades 5-12 as determined by sex at birth. “HB 1205 ensures fairness and safety in women’s sports by maintaining integrity and competitive balance in athletic competitions,” the governor said in a statement. Read more here.
UK DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE RELEASE NEW REPORT ON TRANSGENDER SUICIDE. The report titled “Review of suicides and gender dysphoria at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: independent report” concluded, among other things, that “the data do not support the claim that there has been a large rise in suicide in young gender dysphoria patients at the Tavistock.” Read more here.
ST LOUIS CHILD SEX CHANGE CLINIC SHUTS DOWN AFTER BACKLASH. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital has closed following allegations of pressuring parents to permit their children to undergo sex-change procedures, including the use of puberty blockers and other transgender-related treatments. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA PARENTS SUE GOVERNOR OVER LAW BANNING NOTIFICATION OF STUDENT GENDER IDENTITY. Nine California parents are taking legal action against California Gov. Gavin Newsom after he signed a bill prohibiting parental notification policies that require schools to inform parents if their child requests to be treated as a gender other than his or her biological sex. Read more here.
TESTOSTERONE PRESCRIPTIONS AMONG SCOTTISH FEMALES UNDER 19 JUMP 5000% OVER PAST DECADE: REPORT. National Health Service data revealed that 484 females under age 19 were prescribed testosterone in Scotland, more than doubling from the previous year, prompting doctors saying they witnessed girls of primary school age having their gender identity affirmed by healthcare professionals despite the presence of autism, toxic homes and other signs that a more thorough investigation should have been done before jumping to hormone treatment. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA SCHOOL DISTRICT PAID $1,500 FOR ‘GENDER INCLUSION’ STAFF WORKSHOP. The South Pasadena Unified School District paid an organization that wants a “more inclusive world for gender-diverse children and teens” $1,500 for a three-hour workshop on so-called gender inclusion in 2022. Read more here.
STUDENTS SUPPORT NEW ‘GENDER-INCLUSIVE HOUSING’ AT GEORGETOWN, OLDEST CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY IN U.S. Georgetown University will allow males who say they are the opposite sex to live and sleep in the same dormitory rooms as female students, as the result of a student referendum. Read more here.
IRELAND: TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE WHOSE IMAGE NOW APPEARS ON DUBLIN PUBLIC BUSES AS PART OF ‘PRIDE’ CAMPAIGN OPERATES PORNOGRAPHIC FETISH ACCOUNT. Diane Somers, a trans-identified male recently honored by the City of Dublin’s public transit system, has been participating in disturbing fetish groups on social media, some of which sexualize pregnant women. Read more here.
NEWSOM SIGNS LAW BARRING SCHOOLS FROM REQUIRING THAT PARENTS BE INFORMED OF CHILD GENDER TRANSITION. California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1955, which overrules school boards with policies in place requiring that schools be transparent with parents about their child’s perceived sexual orientation or gender identity, an issue that remains an active subject of debate especially given its potentially life-altering consequences. Read more here.
ONE NEW YORK COUNTY BANNED TRANS ATHLETES. HERE’S HOW LETITIA JAMES RESPONDED. New York Attorney General Letitia James and the ACLU have sued Nassau County over its policy to ban transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports. Read more here.
INSURANCE COMPANY HOSTS ‘DRAG QUEEN BINGO’ FOR EMPLOYEES. Skyward Specialty Insurance, a billion-dollar company in Texas, invited employees to attend a virtual bingo game on a workday, led by a man dressed in drag and using the name Schwa Works. Read more here.
TRANSGENDER KILLER HOUSED IN WOMEN’S PRISON LOSES ‘DISCRIMINATION’ SUIT AFTER COMPLAINING ABOUT SECURITY RISK STATUS. A U.S. federal judge has dismissed a discrimination lawsuit brought forward by biological male Michelle Renee Lamb, who is serving three life sentences in Topeka, Kansas for crimes against women. Read more here.
FEDERAL APPEALS COURT SAYS THERE IS NO FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO ‘CHANGE’ ONE’S SEX ON A BIRTH CERTIFICATE. A federal appeals court panel ruled 2-1 that Tennessee does not unconstitutionally discriminate against transgender people by not allowing them to change the sex designation on their birth certificates. Read more here.
‘THIS IS INSANE’ – ELON MUSK, TAVISTOCK WHISTLEBLOWER AND OTHERS REACT TO SWISS AUTHORITIES SEPARATING CHILD FROM PARENTS WHO REFUSE TO GIVE HER PUBERTY BLOCKERS. A case now working its way through Swiss courts is centered on parents facing legal challenges for responding to the mental health struggles of their daughter, who expressed “gender confusion,” with mental health care rather than hastily pursuing puberty blockers. Read more here.
REPORT REVEALS JOHN DEERE TRAINS STAFF TO SNITCH ON THOSE WHO OBJECT TO MEN USING WOMEN’S RESTROOMS. John Deere is engaged in a variety of overtures to LGBT activists, including solicitation of employees’ “preferred pronouns,” gender identity training using the infamous “genderbread person” visual aid, and sponsorship of a “pride” event for children as young as three. Read more here.
PARENTS OUTRAGED BY SCHOOL DISTRICT’S PLAN TO CONCEAL STUDENTS’ GENDER IDENTITY. A Southern California school district trains counselors to help students hide their transgender identity from their concerned parents, according to documents obtained by The Daily Signal. Read more here.
TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE SENTENCED TO 12 MONTHS IN PRISON AFTER THREATENING SCHOOL SHOOTINGS, CHILD RAPE. Alexia Willie, a trans-identified male in Illinois and coded as “female” by the Bureau of Prisons, has been sentenced to 12 months in federal prison for threatening to commit school shootings and rape children. Read more here.
UN OFFICIAL PRIORITIZES TRANSGENDER RIGHTS IN SPORTS. A UN rights expert advocated for the rights of transgender athletes to participate in sports without “discrimination based on sex characteristics” and labeled opposition to biological males competing in women’s sports as hate speech. Read more here.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS IF PARENTS’ RIGHTS ARE NOT PROTECTED AGAINST THE STATE. Swiss parents are facing a legal battle over their fundamental rights as parents to care for their child, a daughter who was pressured to take puberty blockers and “transition,” and who has relocated to a government-funded shelter against the mother’s and father’s wishes. Read more here.
U.S. HOUSE VOTES TO UNDO BIDEN TITLE IX PROTECTIONS FOR TRANSGENDER STUDENTS. The House resolution aims to undo the Biden administration’s massive overhaul of Title IX that sought to prohibit discrimination based not only on sex but also sexual orientation and gender identity, though it is unlikely to be considered in the U.S. Senate. Read more here.
WEST VIRGINIA, IDAHO ASKING U.S. SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW RULINGS ALLOWING TRANSGENDER ATHLETES TO COMPETE. West Virginia and Idaho are asking the Supreme Court to review rulings that blocked the enforcement of state laws prohibiting transgender athletes from competing on opposite-sex sports teams. Read more here.
‘DETRANSITIONER’ DESCRIBES AGONY OF PREGNANCY AFTER ‘CHANGING TO MALE’ AS A TEEN: ‘MAKES ME FEEL LIKE A MONSTER.’ Prisha Mosley, who previously pumped her body full of testosterone in hopes of living as a “man” before “detransitioning” and whose hormones are wildly out of order, is now among the few such women who have given birth to a child. Read more here.
SOUTH CAROLINA MED SCHOOL TO STOP PRESCRIBING TRANSGENDER DRUGS. The Medical University of South Carolina will stop accepting new patients beginning August 1 and will also stop all procedures by January 2025 in order to comply with state law prohibiting public funds to be used directly or indirectly for gender “transition.” Read more here.
AUSTRALIAN WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION VOTES TO INCLUDE MALE AND TRANSGENDER MEMBERS. The West Australian Country Women’s Association has sparked debate by extending membership rights to men and transgender individuals after 100 years. The decision saw members overwhelmingly vote in favor of the change. Read more here.
COURT IN JAPAN APPROVES TRANS WOMAN’S ‘GENDER CHANGE’ WITHOUT COMPULSARY SURGERY. A high court in western Japan ruled the biological male met the “appearance requirement” without bottom and sterilization surgery that was previously required. Read more here.
SEVEN STATES SUE BIDEN HHS OVER TRANSGENDER MEDICINE FOR CHILDREN. The states and the American College of Pediatricians are suing the Biden administration for what the legal firm Alliance Defending Freedom is calling an attempt to hijack medicine by adopting a new rule that would require physicians and healthcare personnel to provide transgender medicine to patients, including minors. Read more here.
COLLEGE ATHLETE, OLYMPIAN CALL ON UN TO SUPPORT FAIRNESS IN GIRLS SPORTS: ‘STAND UP FOR HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN.’ Female athletes called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to take action and support fairness in women’s sports ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics next month. Read more here.
IGNORING PARENTS’ OBJECTIONS, VIRGINIA COUNTY’S SCHOOL BOARD UNANIMOUSLY OKS GENDER IDEOLOGY LESSONS. The Fairfax County School Board unanimously approved changes to its Family Life Education Curriculum that include showing seventh graders a PBS video titled “Puberty 101,” which introduces transgenderism. Read more here.
CAL STATE ‘GENDER’ ACADEMIC INSPIRED PEDOPHILIC FANTASY ON CASTRATING, ENSLAVING YOUNG BOYS. A Professor Emeritus at California State University and a top consultant to the world’s leading transgender health authority directly contributed to an erotic story featuring themes of the graphic mutilation and sexual slavery of children. Read more here.
BRAZIL’S FIRST TRANSGENDER PRO-SKATEBOARDER ACCUSED OF PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL ABUSE BY SEVERAL WOMEN. Trans-identified male professional skateboarder Luiza Marchiori, from Brazil, is facing accusations of emotionally and physically abusing at least three women, and calls have begun to remove him from the Brazilian Skateboarding Confederation. Read more here.
SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT ADVISED TO HALT PUBERTY BLOCKERS. The advice is one of several recommendations from a team looking into how the Cass review on gender services for children and young people could be applied in Scotland. Neil Gray, the Scottish health secretary, said the report’s findings would now be considered and used in “reforming and improving” gender healthcare across the country. Read more here.
JUDGE POINTS TO U.S. SUPREME COURT’S CHEVRON OVERRULING IN DECISION TO UNRAVEL TRANSGENDER HEALTHCARE REGULATIONS. A federal judge ruled that the Supreme Court’s overturning of the Chevron doctrine means the Biden administration’s latest interpretation of Title IX cannot require Mississippi healthcare providers to perform transgender-related services. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA COURTS ‘SEALED MY CASE TO HIDE THEIR CORRUPTION’ AS EX-WIFE SEEKS ‘TO CASTRATE MY SON,’ FATHER WARNS. A Texas father is fighting in court to prevent his ex-wife from subjecting their son to experimental transgender medical interventions after she moved to California, seemingly taking advantage of the Golden State’s “transgender sanctuary” law. Read more here.
ANOTHER FEDERAL COURT RULES AGAINST TEEN’S ‘ONLY 2 GENDERS’ T-SHIRT. Liam Morrison, a Massachusetts middle schooler, wanted one thing: to wear a T-shirt declaring simply, “There are only two genders,” but a federal trial court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit both ruled against him. Read more here.
THIRD FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKS BIDEN’S TITLE IX REVISE ADDING GENDER IDENTITY. A third judge has ruled against a new interpretation of Title IX set forth by President Joe Biden’s Education Department that adds gender identity as a protected class. The latest preliminary injunction, issued Tuesday by federal Judge John Broomes of the U.S. District Court of Kansas, covers that state as well as Alaska, Utah, and Wyoming. Read more here.
IRISH TEACHER RELEASED AFTER 400+ DAYS IN JAIL OVER REFUSAL TO USE TRANSGENDER PRONOUNS. Enoch Burke, a teacher of history and German at the Church of Ireland Wilson’s Hospital secondary school in Multyfarnham, refused to comply with his school principal’s May 9, 2022 order to use a female name and pronoun for a male student who was in the process of “transitioning” and led to his imprisonment. Read more here.
CATHOLIC GEORGETOWN TO OFFER ‘GENDER-INCLUSIVE’ HOUSING IN FALL. Georgetown University announced plans to begin offering “gender-inclusive housing” to freshmen this fall after students passed a referendum calling for the change. Read more here.
EX-NFL REPORTER SAYS TRANS INCLUSION IN WOMEN’S SPORTS IS ‘INSANITY.’ Former NFL reporter Michelle Tafoya has criticized the “insanity” of allowing trans people to compete with biological females, calling it “insane” and saying, “I don’t care if the male is intact or was born a male – they don’t belong in a women’s locker room, they don’t belong on a women’s team.” Read more here.
A TRANS ATHLETE WILL COMPETE AT THE OLYMPICS. The U.S. women’s track and field team will feature a runner who was born female, but identifies as transgender/non-binary in the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris—Nikki Hiltz, who finished second in the women’s 1,500 meters at the U.S. Olympic trials. Read more here.
FRANCE: TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE AWARDED 7,000 EUROS FOR ‘GENDER DISCRIMINATION’ AFTER BEING CALLED BY HIS BIRTH NAME. Syntia Dersoir, 22, had filed a complaint against the McDonald’s franchise where he worked after management referred to him by his legal, male name and asked him to remove the makeup he wore during his shift. Read more here.
TRANS DOUBLE MURDERER MOVED BACK TO MEN’S PRISON DUE TO ‘SAFETY CONCERNS.’ A transgender-identifying male felon with a violent criminal past has been moved out of a Washington State women’s prison and placed in a men’s facility after he was caught in a prohibited sexual encounter with a female inmate. Read more here.
OHIO HOUSE BACKS SINGLE-SEX BATHROOMS IN SCHOOLS. The Ohio House of Representatives passed a bill stating, “No school shall permit a member of the male biological sex to use a student restroom, locker room, changing room, or shower room that has been designated by the school for the exclusive use of the female biological sex,” and the bill also prohibits females from using male facilities. Read more here.
DAILY WIRE POLL: VOTERS REJECT BIDEN’S MOVE TO REQUIRE PARENTS TO EMBRACE LGBTQ IDEOLOGY TO ADOPT FOSTER CHILDREN. Nearly twice as many voters reject banning religious families who oppose transgender ideology from taking in foster children, according to the survey of 1,000 registered voters, conducted by RMG Research. Read more here.
TRANSGENDER CANADIAN LAUNCHES LAWSUIT AFTER BEING DENIED TAXPAYER FUNDING FOR OUT-OF-COUNTRY GENITAL SURGERY IN THAILAND. The man, referred to only as KW in legal documents, due to a publication ban on his name, originally lodged a complaint at the BC Human Rights Tribunal in 2019 alleging sex-based discrimination. Read more here.
UNSEALED COURT DOCS SHOW TOP GENDER MEDICAL ORG TWISTING SCIENCE FOR POLITICS, COLLUDING WITH BIDEN ADMIN OFFICIAL. A Biden administration official pressured the World Professional Association for Transgender Health to quickly issue its Standards of Care Version 8 guidelines and remove minimum age recommendations for transgender procedures, despite a glaring lack of scientific justification, according to unsealed court documents. Read more here.
TEXAS SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS BAN ON ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE’ FOR TRANSGENDER YOUTHS. By an 8-1 vote, the Texas Supreme Court upheld the state’s ban on “gender-affirming care” for transgender youth, leaving in place a law that has been in effect since Sept. 1, 2023. Read more here.
‘RESPECT OUR DIGNITY’: FEMALE ATHLETES TAKE AIM AT BIDEN ADMIN OVER LOOMING TITLE IX CHANGES. The Independent Women’s Forum held a rally in Washington, D.C., as a part of Our Bodies, Our Sports “Take Back Title IX Summer 2024 Bus Tour,” seeking to raise awareness about the threat the presidential administration’s new rules have placed on women’s sports. Read more here.
SF MAYOR: MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE FACING CITY IS RESPECTING DRAG QUEENS. According to San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s comments during a debate, the most pressing issue facing the city is the drag queen industry. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA LAWMAKERS SEND STUDENT GENDER NOTIFICATION BILL TO GOV. NEWSOM AFTER EXPLOSIVE ASSEMBLY DEBATE. After a chaotic debate on the Assembly floor full of shouting and tears, California lawmakers voted 61-16 on AB 1955, a bill that would ban schools from requiring teachers to notify parents about changes to a student’s gender identity. Read more here.
MOTHER WITH YOUNG CHILD EJECTED FROM PLANE AFTER ACCIDENTALLY ‘MISGENDERING’ TRANS AIRLINE EMPLOYEE. The crew of a United Airlines flight ejected a Texas mom scrambling to get her young child and elderly mother settled on the plane after she accidentally addressed a transgender-identifying employee with male pronouns. Read more here.
MONTANA JUDGE STRIKES DOWN LAW CLARIFYING THERE ARE ONLY TWO SEXES. A homosexual Montana judge, Shane Vannatta, struck down a state law defining “sex” as either male or female, claiming that the law violates the Montana State Constitution. Read more here.
ALMOST HALF OF TRANSGENDER PEOPLE IN SCOTLAND ARE AGED 16-24. Census data collected by National Records of Scotland (NRS), included a voluntary question on transgender status or history for the first time in 2022. The data show some 20,000 people across Scotland are transgender or have a trans history, with almost half of them aged between 16 and 24. Read more here.
OLYMPIAN TO UNITED NATIONS: ERODING FEMALE CATEGORIES IS ‘THE SPORTING CRIME OF THE 21ST CENTURY.’ Ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics next month, Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies and fellow female athletes have called on the international community to protect women and girls from having to compete against males under ideological policies eroding female sports categories across the world. Read more here.
TRUDEAU GOV’T TO MAKE ALL WOMEN’S AND MEN’S WASHROOMS ‘GENDER NEUTRAL’ IN PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS. The move, which will strip women and men of privacy when using the bathroom on Parliament Hill, was recently announced by Minister of Public Services Jean-Yves Duclos with the blessing of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Read more here.
DRAG PERFORMERS TO LOBBY FOR ‘TRANSGENDER BILL OF RIGHTS’ ON CAPITOL HILL. The drag queen performers known as Jiggly Caliente, Joey Jay and Brigitte Bandit will meet with lawmakers in Washington, D.C., to lobby for the Equality Act and a “Transgender Bill of Rights.” Read more here.
EXCLUSIVE: U.S. FEDERAL GUIDE ON ‘INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE’ TELLS BUREAUCRATS TO DITCH GENDERED TERMS LIKE ‘SON,’ ‘DAUGHTER.’ The Department of the Interior published a guide to “inclusive language,” which tells bureaucrats to avoid gendered terms like “husband,” “son” and “daughter,” and even instructs them to use the “they/them” pronouns for individuals rather than assume someone’s gender. Read more here.
TRANS-IDENTIFYING BIDEN OFFICIAL ALLEGEDLY BEHIND PUSH TO DITCH AGE GUIDELINES FOR TRANSGENDER PROCEDURES: DOCS SHOW. Assistant Secretary for Health Dr. Rachel Levine, a man who identifies as a woman, is allegedly behind the push to remove age limits from the official care standards for transgender procedures. Read more here.
U.S. SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW TENNESSEE BAN OF PUBERTY BLOCKERS, TRANSGENDER SURGERY FOR MINORS. The U.S. v. Skrmetti case will be argued in the court term that starts in October, and it will mark the first time the high court considers restrictions on puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgery for minors. Read more here.
TEXAS CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL STILL LEANING INTO GENDER IDEOLOGY EVEN AFTER TRANS-PROCEDURE SCANDAL. Texas Children’s Hospital is at the center of a public-relations firestorm for covertly performing experimental sex-change surgeries and hormone therapies on gender-confused children — but that blowback hasn’t stopped the hospital from encouraging employees to embrace gender ideology in their interactions with patients. Read more here.
JAPAN’S SUPREME COURT RECOGNIZES TRANSGENDER WOMAN AS PARENT. The court recognized a transgender woman as the father of a child she had with her female partner using sperm frozen prior to her transition. It was the first-ever decision by the country’s top court on whether to recognize a parent-child relationship in a case in which a biological father had a child after transitioning to a woman. Read more here.
NURSES SUE UK’S NHS AFTER BEING FORCED TO CHANGE IN FRONT OF TRANSGENDER MALE. The Daily Mail reported that nurses in the United Kingdom were informed by their bosses that they needed “to be re-educated” and to get with the transgender program and accept men in their changerooms. Read more here.
CANADA: FEMALE RUGBY PLAYERS EXPRESS ANGER, FEAR OF TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE PERMITTED TO JOIN THEIR TEAM. Female rugby players in Alberta, Canada, are expressing concerns for their safety after a male who only recently began to identify as a woman was permitted to join their team, and they are more worried about “discrimination” lawsuits than their potential injuries. Read more here.
LABOUR TO RIP UP SCHOOL TRANSGENDER BAN. The UK Labour leaders will likely ditch guidelines banning children from being taught that there are more than two genders. Read more here.
ARIZONA GOVERNOR VETOES BILL REQUIRING INSURANCE COMPANIES TO COVER TRANS ‘DETRANSITIONS.’ Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a bill that would have required insurance companies to cover “detransitioning” procedures for transgender-identifying individuals who had undergone “sex-change” surgeries. Read more here.
TRANSGENDER UTAH WOMAN SHOT PARENTS DEAD, TOLD POLICE SHE WOULD ‘DO IT AGAIN.’ Mia Bailey, 28, was arrested and charged with 11 felony counts related to the double homicide of parents Joseph, 70, and Gail Bailey, 69, and the attempted murder of her brother, according to the Washington City Police Department. Read more here.
JAPANESE LAWMAKERS DRAFT BILL TO PROTECT WOMEN IN FEMALE-ONLY SPACES. The bill aims to prevent biological males who have “changed” their legal gender from committing sexual crimes in female-only spaces like public baths and toilets. Read more here.
COLORADO SCHOOL DISTRICT EVALUATES PARENT KNOWLEDGE OF CHILD’S TRANSITION. A Colorado school district uses a form asking staff whether a student’s parents know their child identifies as transgender and support that decision. St. Vrain Valley Schools developed a Gender Identity Guidance form for “counselors, interventionists, and administrators to support students dealing with issues related to gender identification.” Read more here.
CALIFORNIA SENATE PASSES BILL TO ENSURE SCHOOLS CAN HIDE CHILD’S GENDER CONFUSION FROM PARENTS. The California Senate voted 29-8 to forbid public schools from requiring parents to be notified of any gender confusion their children may be experiencing, with state leftists framing the issue as a choice between parental rights and preventing teen suicide. Read more here.
OREGON HIGH SCHOOL COACH SAYS SCHOOL DISTRICT OUSTED HIM FOR PUSHING TRANSGENDER ATHLETE RULE CHANGE. John Parks, head track and field coach at Lake Oswego High School, wrote two letters to the executive director of the Oregon Student Activities Association and a state senator seeking to preserve the integrity of girls’ sports and was then fired by the school. Read more here.
TEXAS CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL MAY HAVE COMMITTED FRAUD AS IT PROVIDED CHILD SEX CHANGES: WHISTLEBLOWER. Vanessa Sivadge, a nurse at the hospital, alleged that Texas Children’s Hospital “is illegally billing Medicaid for transgender procedures” with the help of two doctors: pediatric endocrinologist Richard Ogden Roberts III and Dr. David Paul. Read more here.
WILL UTAH LAWMAKERS INVOKE CONSTITUTIONAL SOVEREIGNTY ACT OVER TITLE IX REGULATIONS? The state school board has agreed to ask state lawmakers to apply the Utah Constitutional Sovereignty Act to override federal requirements forcing schools to allow students to use bathrooms based on their gender identity. Read more here.
CANADIAN DOCTORS ADVOCATE FOR GENDER TRANSITION SERVICES FOR CHILDREN VIA VIDEO CALLS. A newly published book on youth telemedicine procedures suggests that doctors advocate for the ability to provide “gender-affirming services” to minors remotely. They argue that to minimize “distress” for these young individuals, children should not be required to show their faces during video consultations. Read more here.
GERMAN STUDY: VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE WILL GROW OUT OF TRANSGENDERISM WITHIN 5 YEARS. A massive, years-long study shows the overwhelming majority of young people who identify as transgender will grow out of the diagnosis within five years. A similar supermajority of trans-identifying people suffered from at least one other psychological condition. Read more here.
SORORITY LOSES LAST-DITCH APPEAL TO REMOVE ‘VOYEURISTIC’ TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE FROM THEIR SORORITY HOUSE. The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a lawsuit filed by six members of a Wyoming sorority challenging the admission of a 6’ 2″, 260-pound trans-identified male who caused them “emotional distress in a personalized and unique way” and circumvented voting bylaws in their 2022 decision to admit Dallin ‘Artemis’ Langford as a member of the sorority. Read more here.
BOYS TAKE TRACK & FIELD TITLES FROM GIRLS ACROSS THE U.S. The five boys who claim to identify as girls have won titles in Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine, Oregon, and Washington. Three other boys who competed but did not place first also took spots away from girls in events in the states of Connecticut, Hawaii, and Washington. Read more here.
DOJ UNSEALS INDICTMENT AGAINST SURGEON WHO EXPOSED TRANS PROCEDURES AT TEXAS CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL. The Department of Justice has unsealed a four-count indictment against Dr. Eithan Haim for alleged HIPAA violations, as the surgeon-turned-whistleblower attended his initial appearance in Texas federal court Monday afternoon. Read more here.
FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKS BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S TITLE IX CHANGES IN FOUR STATES. U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty has blocked President Biden’s expansion of Title IX in four states, calling the mandatory gender identity protections an “abuse of power” and a “threat to democracy.” Read more here.
NEW MEXICO SCHOOL DISTRICT USED GRANT MONEY TO BUY ‘CHEST BINDERS.’ Las Cruces, New Mexico public schools accepted a grant to spend on a “transgender closet” for Centennial High School, but instead spent the vast majority on “chest binders” for cross-dressing students, according to a public records request. Read more here.
FOSTER PARENTS SUE VERMONT AFTER STATE REVOKES LICENSE FOR REJECTING GENDER IDEOLOGY. Two Vermont families who were inspired by their faith to foster children in their homes have filed a lawsuit against the state’s Department for Children and Families after the agency revoked their licenses for refusing to embrace gender ideology. Read more here.
SAN FRANCISCO DECLARES ITSELF A ‘SANCTUARY CITY’ FOR ‘TRANSGENDER, GENDER NON-CONFORMING, NON-BINARY, AND TWO-SPIRIT PEOPLE.’ Responding to conservative opposition to transgender ideology, the Board of Supervisors for the City of San Francisco declared the city officially expressed its commitment to TGNCI2S rights and equal protections for TGNCI2S people. Read more here.
RILEY GAINES URGES NCAA TO STRIP LIA THOMAS OF TITLES AFTER WORLD AQUATICS RULING. Women’s sports activist Riley Gaines is calling for the NCAA to strip transgender swimmer Lia Thomas of his national titles in women’s swimming championships in the wake of his failure to get international swimming to let him apply for the U.S. Women’s Olympics swimming team. Read more here.
FEDERAL COURT RULES AGAINST STUDENTS WHO WORE ‘ONLY TWO GENDERS’ SHIRT. The First Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against Nichols Middle School student Liam Morrison, who was sent home for wearing a T-shirt displaying the message, “There are only two genders.” Read more here.
CHILE SUSPENDS ‘GENDER TRANSITION’ HORMONES FOR MINORS. Chilean Health Minister Ximena Aguilera ordered the nation’s public health system not to provide puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones to any new patients. Read more here.
BIDEN’S TITLE IX TRANSGENDER GUIDELINES FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS BLOCKED BY TEXAS JUDGE. A federal judge has ruled that President Joe Biden’s Education Department had unlawfully exceeded its authority when it issued guidance in 2021 that opened up the door for schools to be liable for discrimination if they adopted policies like limiting bathroom access on the basis of sex. Read more here.
TEXAS, MONTANA AGS SUE HHS FOR COMPELLING HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS TO PERFORM TRANS PROCEDURES. Texas and Montana are suing the Biden Department of Health and Human Services for adopting a rule that compels health-care providers to perform transgender procedures on minors and adults, as well as forcing states to pay for the medical interventions through Medicaid and Medicare. Read more here.
META DELETES INSTAGRAM POST ABOUT EVENT EXPOSING DANGERS OF TRANSGENDERISM FOR ‘VIOLATING LOCAL LAW.’ Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, removed an Instagram post advertising an event which addressed the negative impacts of transgenderism in Canadian society. Read more here.
PARENTS BLAST SCHOOL DISTRICT AT BOARD MEETING AFTER ‘GENDERQUEER WITCH’ ADMINISTERED SEXUAL SURVEY TO STUDENTS. Parents blasted a Pennsylvania school district and continued to demand answers after the revelation that it allowed students to be surveyed by a “genderqueer witch” on sexual topics without parental permission. Read more here.
‘CONCERNED FOR MY DAUGHTER’S SAFETY’: 2 MORE MINNESOTA SCHOOL DISTRICTS ISSUE TRANSGENDER GUIDELINES ALLOWING BOYS IN GIRLS’ SPACES. Some Minnesota parents are expressing outrage as the Rochester and Minneapolis school districts are making plans to issue guidelines allowing boys who say they identify as transgender in girls’ restrooms and locker rooms. Read more here.
JUDGE STRIKES DOWN FLORIDA’S BAN ON TRANSGENDER MEDICAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN. Federal Judge Robert Hinkle struck down major parts of Florida’s ban on transgender medical interventions for children and ruled that “gender identity is real” and that a “widely accepted standard of care” includes puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. Read more here.
TRANSGENDER SWIMMER LIA THOMAS OUT OF OLYMPICS AFTER LOSING LEGAL BATTLE. American male swimmer Lia Thomas, who rose to global prominence after becoming the first transgender athlete to win a women’s NCAA college title in March 2022, has lost a legal case against World Aquatics at the court of arbitration for sport – and with it any hopes of making next month’s Paris Olympics in women’s swimming. Read more here.
PEDIATRICIANS SLAM FLAWED SCIENCE OF ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE.’ The American College of Pediatricians has urged physicians to reject the harmful protocols informing so-called “gender-affirming care,” calling upon the medical professional organizations of the United States “to follow the science and their European professional colleagues and immediately stop the promotion of social affirmation, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries for children and adolescents who experience distress over their biological sex.” Read more here.
U. CHICAGO SURVEY: TWO-THIRDS OF U.S. ADULTS OPPOSE TRANSGENDER FEMALES IN WOMEN’S SPORTS. A new survey by the University of Chicago shows that two-thirds of American adults are opposed to transgender females competing with biological females in women’s sporting events. The figure applies almost equally to transgender girls as to transgender women. Read more here.
NORWEGIAN ‘GENDER CLINICIAN’ AND FORMER WPATH MEMBER WHO PRIVATELY TRANSITIONED MINORS LOSES APPEAL FOR FULL REINSTATEMENT OF LICENSE. Norway’s most influential trans activist physician, Esben “Esther Pirelli” Benestad, has officially lost his ability to practice “gender medicine” after his last-ditch appeal to reverse the revocation was denied, and he is barred from privately prescribing cross-sex hormones without proper approval. Read more here.
DRAG QUEEN GIVEN CENTER STAGE ON POLISH PUBLIC TV. A local publicly funded Polish television station, TVP Poznań, recently broadcast the first episode of what is to be a weekly new series solely dedicated to the promotion of LGBT and gender ideologies. Read more here.
AMERICAN DOCTORS SIGN DECLARATION PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM GENDER PROCEDURES. Considering the longstanding arguments against gender procedures, as well as the recent and shocking research concerning the matter, thousands of medical professionals have come together to unite their voices in the Doctors Protecting Children Declaration. Read more here.
CAMPAIGNERS MOUNT LEGAL CHALLENGE AGAINST PUBERTY BLOCKERS BAN IN BRITAIN. The non-profit legal organization The Good Law Project and the transgender advocacy group TransActual have instructed senior lawyers to challenge a ban on the drugs, which campaigners say could lead to the criminalization of healthcare providers. Read more here.
DOJ CHARGES TEXAS DOCTOR AFTER HE BLEW THE WHISTLE ON ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING’ CARE FOR MINORS. The U.S. Department of Justice filed criminal charges against whistleblower Dr. Eithan Haim, a surgeon who exposed a Texas hospital that was allegedly secretly conducting “gender-affirming” care on minors. Read more here.
UK ICE HOCKEY MOVES TO LIMIT TRANS PARTICIPATION IN WOMEN’S COMPETITION OVER SAFETY CONCERNS. Ice Hockey UK, the agency that oversees ice hockey in the United Kingdom, says it wants to bring the sport together by reviewing its transgender policy in light of numerous complaints from parents over the risks posed by allowing biological males to play in women’s leagues. Read more here.
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION APPROVES PARTNERSHIP WITH RADICAL ABORTION AND TRANSGENDER ACTIVIST LOBBYISTS. Just days after claiming power to shape all nations’ health policies, the World Health Organization partnered with a radical left-wing group that considers abortion and transgender surgeries a fundamental human right for minors and says Christian healthcare providers must be forced to take part in both procedures. Read more here.
‘STAR WARS’ SPINOFF ‘THE ACOLYTE’ PUSHES LGBT IDEOLOGY. The “Star Wars” spinoff, Disney’s “The Acolyte,” is receiving negative attention from fans for casting transgender actor Abigail Thorn in the role of Ensign Eurus. Read more here.
UK ‘GENDER CRITICAL’ CHARITY PERMANENTLY BANNED BY INSTAGRAM. Sex Matters, a high-profile charity that speaks out against gender ideology, has had its Instagram page permanently deleted in what appears to be a platform-wide clamp-down on critics of transgenderism. Read more here.
TESTOSTERONE USE LINKED TO VAGINAL LACERATIONS, BLEEDING IN TRANSGENDER HYSTERECTOMY PATIENTS. A new study published in the Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology has found that trans-identified female patients on testosterone face an increased risk of lacerations and vaginal bleeding after undergoing a “minimally invasive hysterectomy.” Read more here.
POLL: SUPPORT FOR ALLOWING TRANS ATHLETES IN WOMEN’S SPORTS DRAMATICALLY DECLINES. Polls are showing that as more Americans learn about transgender athletes, opposition to allowing them to compete against women is increasing, not going down. Read more here.
OKLAHOMA GOVERNOR SIGNS ‘WOMEN’S BILL OF RIGHTS’ LAW DEFINING ‘MAN’ AND ‘WOMAN’ BASED ON BIOLOGY. Gov. Kevin Stitt signed the state’s “Women’s Bill of Rights” into law, establishing a set of new provisions aimed at preventing transgender activists from undermining the welfare or interests of actual females. Read more here.
3RD-STRIKE ‘TRANS’ RAPE SUSPECT PROMPTS REBELLION AGAINST CA LAW AFTER ATTACK IN WOMEN’S PRISON. “Tremayne” Deon Carroll is an incarcerated biological male who identifies as a woman and faces two charges of forcible rape and one of “dissuading a witness from testifying” in California. Read more here.
CNN ENCOURAGES PARENTS TO ACCEPT 4-YEAR-OLDS’ ‘GENDER IDENTITIES,’ GETS SLAMMED ONLINE. CNN is being criticized for an article advising parents to take their four-year-olds seriously when they say they are transgender because failure to do so could lead to suicide. Read more here. Read more here.
‘GENDER INCLUSION’ POLICY IN MINNEAPOLIS SCHOOLS ALLOWS BOYS IN GIRLS’ RESTROOMS, LOCKER ROOMS. The School Board unanimously adopted a policy stating that “gender-expansive” students can use facilities and participate in programs consistent with their “gender identity.” Read more here.
BIDEN JUDICIAL NOMINEE CAN’T SAY IF CHROMOSOMES DETERMINE SEX: ‘HAVEN’T STUDIED BIOLOGY.’ During her confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate, Magistrate Judge and nominee for a federal judgeship Sarah Netburn was unable to answer a simple question about the basic scientific fact that chromosomes determine the sex of a human being at conception. Read more here.
BIDEN TRASHED FOR PRIDE MONTH POSTS DEFENDING CHILD MUTILATION. President Joe Biden took a virtual beating for a series of posts — on the official White House website and across social media platforms — cheering the beginning of LGBTQ pride month and defending the mutilation of children in the name of radical gender ideology. Read more here.
UK: TORIES PLEDGE TO TACKLE ‘CONFUSION’ OVER LEGAL DEFINITION OF SEX. The Conservatives have promised to rewrite the Equality Act so that protections it enshrines on the basis of a person’s sex apply only to their biological sex. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the “safety of women and girls” meant the “current confusion around definitions of sex and gender” cannot be allowed to continue. Read more here.
MISS UNIVERSE CO-OWNER SAYS TRANS AND MARRIED WOMEN ‘CAN COMPETE’ UNDER NEW GUIDELINES ‘BUT THEY CANNOT WIN.’ Anne Jakapong Jakrajutatip, former CEO of Miss Universe, was videotaped at a board meeting stating that trans men will be allowed to compete in the pageant, but they will not be permitted to win. Read more here.
UK ENACTS EMERGENCY BAN ON PUBERTY BLOCKERS FOR ALL ‘TRANS’ MINORS. The UK Department of Health and Social Care has enacted an emergency ban restricting transgender-identifying children from being prescribed and supplied puberty blockers, beginning June 3 and lasting until September 3. Read more here.
GERMANY: WOMEN’S GYM FINED €1,000 AFTER DENYING BALDING TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE ACCESS TO SHOWERS. A women’s only fitness center in Erlangen, Bavaria, has been ordered by the government to pay compensation to a trans-identified male after the facility’s owner denied him permission to use the women’s showers. Read more here.
REPORT: GENDER IDEOLOGY ‘DEEPLY EMBEDDED’ IN SCOTTISH SCHOOLS. A report revealed what campaigners described as “horrifying” details of schools in Labor-run Wales allowing children to “change gender identity” without telling their parents, and a separate investigation showed that the situation is even worse in SNP-run Scotland. Read more here.
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCES ‘MENSTRUAL HYGIENE DAY’ FOR A #PERIODFRIENDLYWORLD. In a post on X, the U.S. Department of Labor announced a holiday called “Menstrual Hygiene Day,” a day that is aimed at creating a period-friendly world for “menstruators.” Read more here.
TRANS-IDENTIFYING WOMEN ON TESTOSTERONE SUFFERING MENOPAUSAL SYMPTOMS IN 20S, STUDY SHOWS. Symptoms like incontinence, sexual disfunction, and even bed-wetting were found among biological women in their 20s who identify as “men” and who tried to medically “transition” with cross-sex hormones, according to a study published last month in the International Urogynecology Journal and led by researchers at the Federal University of Pernambuco in Brazil. Read more here.
SEATTLE SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH CENTER OFFERS STUDENTS CROSS-SEX HORMONES, ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE’: REPORT. Parents Defending Education, a national grassroots organization has released emails from Neighborcare Health, which operates clinics inside Seattle Public Schools’ middle and elementary schools and is offering “gender-affirming care services” to students, including dispensing cross-sex hormones. Read more here.
TRANSGENDER HIGH SCHOOL RUNNER IN WASHINGTON WINS STATE TITLE IN GIRLS 400-METER DASH. Veronica Garcia, a male transgender high school runner in Washington, won the girls’ 400-meter dash in the state track and field finals. Read more here.
MALE DRAG ‘ARTIST’ DANCES FOR KIDS AT VATICAN’S WORLD CHILDREN’S DAY. Catholics have expressed horror after male performance artist Carmine De Rosa danced in drag for young children during Pope Francis’ first World Children’s Day. Read more here.
MISSOURI HIGH SCHOOLERS ASKED IF THEY UNDERSTAND DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GENDER, SEX ASSIGNED AT BIRTH. Webster Groves High School hosted a workshop called “Understanding Gender and Relationships,” presented by a speaker with a program run by the St. Louis-based domestic abuse treatment center Safe Connections, and students were surveyed before and after the lecture. Read more here.
HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN CAN’T EXCLUDE GENDER-TRANSITION SURGERIES, COURT RULES. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled that a refusal by an employer to cover gender-transition surgeries in an employee’s health insurance violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which “prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin.” Read more here.
OREGON THREATENS PARENTS WHO COMPLAIN ABOUT TRANS ATHLETES. The state agency that governs school athletics is threatening young girls with banishment from competition if they complain about transgender athletes. Read more here.
BIDEN JUDICIAL APPOINTEE SENT 6’2” MALE SERIAL CHILD RAPIST TO A WOMEN’S PRISON. One of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees – Judge Sarah Netburn – has come under fire for approving the transfer of a male sex offender to a female prison in New York. Read more here.
SCOTTISH GREEN MEMBERS EXPELLED FROM PARTY FOR SAYING ‘SEX IS A BIOLOGICAL REALITY.’ The Scottish Greens have thrown out 13 members for declaring “sex is a biological reality” and for signing the Scottish Green Declaration for Women’s Sex-Based Rights. Read more here.
NEW STUDY FINDS 12-FOLD HIGHER SUICIDE RISK FOR PEOPLE WHO HAD GENDER SURGERY. A study published last month shows that those who underwent gender surgery had a suicide risk 12 times higher than those who did not, adding more data showing the dangers of the life-altering procedures. Read more here.
INVESTIGATION INTO ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING’ INTERVENTIONS FOR MINORS SHOWS CALLOUSNESS OF MEDICAL PROVIDERS. A series of articles investigating so-called “gender-affirming” surgeries for children features a surgeon declaring this type of mutilating surgery an “adventure for young people.” Read more here.
ROCHESTER TEACHERS UNION EXPELS COUNSELOR FOR ‘MISCHARACTERIZING’ THE DISTRICT’S TRANSGENDER GUIDELINES. The teacher’s union of Rochester Public Schools has expelled Christina Barton for “mischaracterizing” the school district’s guidelines regarding transgender-identifying students. Read more here.
NEW HAMPSHIRE SENATE PASSES BILL BANNING BIOLOGICAL MALES FROM PARTICIPATING ON NHIAA TEAMS FOR GIRLS. The New Hampshire Senate passed a bill that would ban biological males from participating on girls’ sports teams sanctioned by the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association, starting in fifth grade. Read more here.
CA DISTRICT WILL PAY SETTLEMENT TO TEACHER FIRED FOR REFUSING TRANSGENDER POLICY. The Jurupa Unified School District in California will pay a teacher who was fired last year for refusing to follow the district’s policies on transgender-identifying students. Read more here.
MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN’S CLINIC SUES BIDEN ADMIN OVER RULE FORCING GENDER IDEOLOGY ON MEDICAL PROVIDERS. Attorneys for a Mississippi children’s clinic filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services after the agency adopted a rule that forces medical caregivers to provide and promote harmful procedures or face severe financial consequences. Read more here.
SCOTUS REFUSES TO HEAR CASE FROM D.C. PARENTS WHO OBJECTED TO SCHOOL’S ‘TRANSGENDER SUPPORT PLANS.’ The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review an appeal from a group of Maryland public school parents who claimed their school district was hiding “transgender support plans” involving their children. Read more here.
SCHOOL DISTRICT FIGHTS CALIFORNIA’S ORDER TO END ITS PARENTAL NOTIFICATION POLICY. Rocklin Unified School District’s school board voted 4-1 to battle the California Department of Education’s attempts to end the district’s policy of notifying parents when their student decides to “transition” from their biological sex. Read more here.
U.S. HHS SECRETARY ADMITS THE FEDS WILL PUNISH HOSPITALS THAT RESIST TRANS MUTILATION. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra admitted during a congressional hearing on Wednesday that hospitals with religious objections to transgender mutilation will lose federal funding. Read more here.
SCOTLAND: NURSERIES CARING FOR CHILDREN AND BABIES TOLD THEY CAN ‘COME OUT’ AS TRANS AT ANY AGE. The guidance comes after pre-schools adopted the SNP guidelines following a landmark review into trans youngsters. However, ministers are increasingly under pressure to ditch the rules, which were initially intended for primary schools and not nurseries. Read more here.
U.S. TRANSGENDER INDUSTRY REJECTS WARNINGS FROM BRITISH SCIENCE REPORT. The U.S. medical establishment is ignoring the far-reaching results of the Cass Report from the UK and is doubling down on the left-wing political lobby supporting the transgender movement. Read more here.
FEDERAL COURT RULES MARYLAND PARENTS CAN’T OPT KIDS OUT OF CLASSES WITH LGBT CONTENT. The Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled 2-1 against Maryland parents who sued Montgomery County Public Schools for not letting their children in grades K-5 opt out of reading books supporting transgender ideology and “gender transitioning.” Read more here.
CHRISTIAN EX-TEACHER SCORES BIG PAYDAY FROM CALIFORNIA SCHOOL DISTRICT AFTER REFUSING TRANSGENDER DIRECTIVES. Jessica Tapia, a Christian former teacher fired for refusing to use “preferred pronouns” or hide students’ gender identities from their parents, won a substantial settlement from her former employer, California’s Jurupa Unified School District. Read more here.
SCHOOL FIRES TEACHER WHO MADE VIRAL VIDEO CROSS-EXAMINING ‘TRANSPHOBIA’ NARRATIVE. Warren Smith, the teacher behind a viral video skewering LGBT activists’ narrative that critics of gender ideology are “transphobic,” has been fired, he announced this week in a follow-up video detailing his ordeal. Read more here.
MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRL’S PARENTS SAY TRANS-IDENTIFYING BOY SEXUALLY HARASSED DAUGHTER AS HE BEAT HER IN SPORTS. The parents of a West Virginia middle school girl say they were “horrified” when their daughter told them a trans-identifying boy was sexually harassing her at school and were “hurt and shocked” by the school’s lackluster response. Read more here.
LGBTQIAP2S+ OUTRAGE OVER PERU DECLARING TRANSGENDERISM A MENTAL ILLNESS. While the definition, according to the Peruvian government, seeks to give access to those identifying as transgender or other gender identities to health insurance coverage, the decree has been met with fierce backlash by local LGBTQIAP2S+ activists and politicians. Read more here.
SCHOOLS IN ENGLAND TO BE BANNED FROM TEACHING ‘GENDER IDENTITY’ TO YOUNG CHILDREN. Fresh guidance from the government will inform schools that they should not teach children about progressive theories on so-called “gender identity” and sex education in general to children under the age of nine and that if asked, should only provide children with “biological” information about sex. Read more here.
WPATH BLOCKED PUBLICATION OF ITS OWN GENDER RESEARCH. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health commissioned a systematic review of existing research on cross-sex medical treatments in 2020, but found “little to no evidence” supporting these treatments for children and adolescents, according to newly unearthed emails. Read more here.
JOHN SWINNEY FAILS ALREADY ON VITAL ‘WHAT IS A WOMAN’ QUESTION AS HE LEAVES SCOTS ‘CONFUSED.’ Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney, who was installed without an election following the trans-agenda-influenced downfalls of his predecessors Nicola Sturgeon and Humza Yousaf, said during an interview with BBC Scotland he believes that transgender men are “women.” Read more here.
TENNESSEE LEADS 18 STATES SUING BIDEN ADMINISTRATION FOR NEW GENDER IDENTITY RULES FOR EMPLOYERS. Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti led a coalition of 18 states in filing a lawsuit against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission after it released new sexual harassment guidance extending Title VII’s protections against sex-based discrimination to cover gender identity. Read more here.
APPEALS COURT HEARS WYOMING UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ LAWSUIT AGAINST SORORITY FOR ALLOWING TRANS MEMBER. The attorney for six University of Wyoming sorority members argued before the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals after they challenged the admission of Artemis Langford into KKG, asserting sorority rules do not allow transgender women. Read more here.
THE GERMAN MEDICAL ASSEMBLY PASSES A RESOLUTION TO RESTRICT YOUTH ‘GENDER TRANSITIONS’ TO CONTROLLED RESEARCH SETTINGS. The 128th German Medical Assembly, which comprises 250 delegates from 17 German medical associations, passed two important resolutions: to restrict puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries for gender-dysphoric youth under age 18; and to restrict self-ID laws to those over age 18. Read more here.
NEW YORK JUDGE STRIKES DOWN LONG ISLAND COUNTY’S TRANS-SPORTS BAN. New York State supreme court judge Francis Ricigliano ruled Nassau County executive Bruce Blakeman did not have the authority to issue an order banning males from competing in women’s sports. Read more here.
ILLINOIS SCHOOL IMPLEMENTS ‘GENDER SUPPORT PROCESS AND PLAN’ CRITICIZED BY PARENTS GROUP. A parental advocacy group has unveiled documents relating to a “Gender Support Process and Plan” being implemented by an Illinois boarding school that encourages staff to keep a student’s “social gender transition” a secret from parents or guardians. Read more here.
CHRISTIAN TEACHER IN UK APPEALS BAN FROM PROFESSION FOR ‘MISGENDERING’ STUDENT. Joshua Sutcliffe, a Christian teacher in the United Kingdom who was banned last year from his profession for allegedly misgendering a trans-identifying student in 2017, is appealing the decision. Read more here.
TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE SEIZES FIRST PLACE IN WOMEN’S CYCLING CATEGORY FOR SECOND TIME. One year after winning a women’s cycling title and standing alone on the podium, trans-identified male Lesley Mumford has again taken first place in a women’s race in Fruita, Colorado. Read more here.
SAN FRANCISCO MAYOR APPOINTS DRAG QUEEN TO HEAD OFFICE OF TRANSGENDER INITIATIVES. San Francisco Mayor London Breed appointed drag performer “Honey Mahogany” as director of the city’s Office of Transgender Initiatives, which is now in effect. Read more here.
TRANSGENDER ACTIVISTS CALL IN HOAXES TO UTAH TIP LINE TO HAMPER ENFORCEMENT OF NEW BATHROOM LAW. Transgender activists have called in more than 10,000 hoax reports to a Utah tip line, and none of the complaints appear legitimate, said Utah Auditor John Dougall. Read more here.
TRANSGENDER TRACK RUNNER WINS 2 WOMEN’S EVENTS IN WHICH RACE TIMES WOULD’VE BEEN LAST PLACE AMONG MEN. Male transgender runner Sadie Schreiner, running for the Rochester Institute of Technology, won three events at the Liberty League women’s track and field championships. Read more here.
SURFING ORGANIZATION PULLS ABOUT-FACE ON TRANS INCLUSION AFTER PRESSURE FROM CALIFORNIA COASTAL COMMISSION. After initially ruling that transgender “females” would not be allowed to participate in the women’s division of a surfing competition in California, the American Longboard Association reversed its decision. Read more here.
PENNSYLVANIA HIGH SCHOOL ENLISTS ‘GENDERQUEER’ WITCH TO SPEAK TO STUDENTS ABOUT DATING, SURVEY THEM ABOUT THEIR SEXUALITY. The controversy began last year when parents at the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District in Chester County found out that Deni Tobin, a “genderqueer” woman who uses male pronouns, spoke to high school students about dating. Read more here.
CZECH REPUBLIC’S TOP COURT RULES THAT SURGERY IS NOT REQUIRED TO OFFICIALLY CHANGE GENDER. The Constitutional Court dismissed part of a law requiring people to undergo “gender-affirmation” surgery, including sterilization, in order to officially change their gender. Read more here.
FLORIDA, CATHOLIC DOCTORS SUE BIDEN ADMIN FOR REDEFINING ‘SEX’ IN HEALTH CARE. The State of Florida and the Catholic Medical Association filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services after the agency adopted a rule that forces medical professionals and insurance providers to perform or pay for harmful “gender-transition” procedures or face severe financial consequences. Read more here.
EUROPEAN PSYCHIATRISTS WARN AGAINST ‘EXPERIMENTAL’ AND HARMFUL TRANSGENDER MEDICINE. The European Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry published a policy statement urging healthcare providers “not to promote experimental and unnecessarily invasive treatments with unproven psycho-social effects and, therefore, to adhere to the … first, do no harm principle.” Read more here.
SOUTH CAROLINA SENATE APPROVES BAN ON ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE’ FOR TRANSGENDER MINORS. The 27-8 vote in favor included all Republicans present and one Democrat, who voted for the ban before Democrats could walk out so there wouldn’t be enough senators to stay in session. Read more here.
MALE TRANSGENDER STUDENT ASSAULTS GIRL IN NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL BATHROOM, SCHOOL RECEIVES THREATS. Disturbing footage of a boy who identifies as a girl entering the girls’ bathroom at a New York high school and violently dragging out a female student by her hair has sparked backlash and threats against the school, forcing it to close after the assault. Read more here.
SINGLE-SEX TOILETS TO BE REQUIRED IN NON-RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS IN ENGLAND. New restaurants, offices and hospitals in England will be required to have separate male and female toilets, in a move ministers say will combat growing concerns about “privacy and dignity” in gender-neutral facilities. Read more here.
UK JUDGE RAISES ‘SERIOUS CONCERNS’ ABOUT TREATMENT BY GENDER GP FOR YOUNG TRANS PEOPLE. Sir Andrew McFarlane, president of the High Court’s family division, has warned against accessing gender dysphoria treatment online after a teenager was prescribed “dangerously high” levels of testosterone. Read more here.
SPAIN: NON-BINARY MAN WHO SUED WRITER FOR CALLING HIM “MALE” LOSES CASE, IS ORDERED TO PAY HER LEGAL COSTS. Famed Spanish writer Lucía Etxebarria is breathing a sigh of relief after a Las Palmas court ruled in her favor after she was sued by a “non-binary trans person” for misgendering him. Read more here.
POLICE: TRANSGENDER SEX OFFENDER TRIES TO KIDNAP CHILDREN FROM COLORADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL RECESS. Surveillance footage shows an individual that police believe to be 33-year-old Solomon Galligan, a transgender sex offender, entering the playfield at Black Forest Hills Elementary School in Aurora and approaching children. Read more here.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN TRANS-IDENTIFYING MALE SPARKS BACKLASH FOR COMPETING IN WOMEN’S WATER POLO CHAMPIONSHIP A SECOND TIME. Alicia Paans, formerly Johnny, a 31-year-old graduate student at the University of Michigan and member of the women’s water polo team, will compete in this year’s Women’s National Collegiate Club Championship at Texas A&M. Read more here.
COURT REVERSES BAN OF WEST VIRGINIA GIRLS WHO PROTESTED TRANSGENDER ATHLETES. A West Virginia judge has reversed a school district’s ban on the five girls who protested against being forced to compete against a transgender player in their high school track and field events. Read more here.
WIN FOR REALITY: UK’S NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONSTITUTION TO DECLARE ‘SEX IS BIOLOGICAL.’ In a marked rejection of transgender ideology and a win for women’s rights activists, the constitution of Britain’s National Health Service will publicly declare that sex is a biological reality that must inform how patients are treated. Read more here.
COURT ORDERS NORTH CAROLINA, WEST VIRGINIA TO FUND ‘SEX CHANGES’ IN STATE HEALTH CARE PLANS. A federal court has ordered the governments of North Carolina and West Virginia to provide coverage for “sex-change” operations in state health care plans offered to state employees and through Medicaid. Read more here.
MIDDLE-SCHOOL GIRLS BANNED FROM TRACK COMPETITION FOR PROTESTING TRANS SPORTS POLICIES. West Virginia attorney general Patrick Morrisey has filed a suit in support of the five middle-school girls who were banned from an upcoming track and field competition after they declined to compete against a shot-put competition against a biological male. Read more here.
CATHOLIC BISHOPS IN ENGLAND, WALES ISSUE PASTORAL STATEMENT AGAINST TRANSGENDER INTERVENTIONS. Roman Catholic bishops in England and Wales released guidance stating that medical intervention for transgender-identifying children “should not be supported.” Read more here.
AN UNEXPECTED EVIL QUEEN: DISNEY WORLD APPEARS TO ALLOW BIOLOGICAL MEN TO PLAY FEMALE CHARACTERS. According to newly acquired video and witnesses, it appears that Disney World has a biological male playing the part of an iconic, female character in full facial appearance and makeup. Read more here.
WOMEN’S COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP AWARDED TO MAN WHO PLAYS ON BOTH MEN’S AND WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL TEAMS. Seneca College, located in Toronto, awarded the Angela James Scholarship to Franz Lagardas, a supposedly gender-confused biological male who plays on both the men’s and women’s volleyball teams. Read more here.
‘HARASSMENT’: FEDS IMPOSE TRANS AGENDA ON EMPLOYERS FOR PRONOUNS, BATHROOMS. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has published new guidelines that will charge employers with harassment for requiring someone to use a restroom that comports with his or her biological sex, or for referring to someone by a pronoun the person doesn’t want used. Read more here.
JUDGE APPROVES CALIFORNIA’S BIASED RENAMING OF BALLOT MEASURE TO PROTECT KIDS FROM TRANSGENDERISM. A California judge has sided with left-wing state Attorney General Rob Bonta’s renaming of a proposed ballot initiative to uphold the reality of the two sexes and parental rights in education, forcing it to be labeled in such a way as to leave voters predisposed to oppose it. Read more here.
BIOLOGICAL MALE WINS ‘MISS VALLEY ISLE USA’ PAGEANT IN HAWAII. Caia Souza, a 26-year-old man who believes he is a woman, took the top spot at last weekend’s Miss Valley Isle USA pageant in Maui, making him the first man to claim the title. Read more here.
TEXAS SUES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO BLOCK BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S ‘GENDER IDENTITY’ TITLE IX EXPANSION. The federal lawsuit states the Title IX revisions misinterpret the original intent of the 1972 law and will harm, not protect, women in educational settings by allowing male students to use bathrooms and locker rooms formerly reserved for females and to compete in women’s sports. Read more here.
LOUISIANA’S EDUCATION CHIEF TELLS SCHOOLS TO IGNORE BIDEN’S TITLE IX RULE CHANGE. Louisiana’s top education officials advised schools not to comply with the Biden administration’s Title IX rule change, stating that the new regulation violates existing laws in Louisiana that protect female athletics and women’s spaces, such as locker rooms and restrooms. Read more here.
LEADING UK CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION GROUP ACCUSED OF GROOMING CHILDREN IN GENDER IDEOLOGY: WHISTLEBLOWER. A former volunteer at The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in the UK has made alarming allegations, claiming that the organization was grooming children in transgender ideology. Read more here.
PARENTS FURIOUS OVER SEXUALLY CHARGED DRAG QUEEN DANCE AT HIGH SCHOOL PROM. Parents of students at Atrisco Heritage High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico are describing a drag queen’s performance during a high school prom as “lewd and highly inappropriate.” Read more here.
STUDY EXPLORES GROWING USE OF THEY/THEM PRONOUNS. The study published in the journal Glossa Psycholinguistics claims more people are using they/them pronouns to refer to others when telling stories. This marks the first study into the use of nonbinary pronouns in spoken storytelling. Read more here.
CIVIL FREEDOMS PREVAIL: MEXICAN COURT PREVENTS WOKE AUTHORITIES FROM BLOCKING CONGRESSMAN FROM RUNNING FOR REELECTION FOR HIS POSTS ON BIOLOGICAL REALITY. Mexico’s Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judiciary has upheld the right of incumbent Mexican federal congress member and former presidential candidate Gabriel Quadri to run for office in Mexico’s upcoming June elections after he was previously convicted for “gender-based political violence” over his peaceful political expression on social media. Read more here.
NETHERLANDS: PARLIAMENT MAJORITY AGAINST LETTING TRANS PEOPLE ‘CHANGE’ REGISTERED GENDER MORE EASILY. The current law requires people to get an expert to provide a statement of support when “changing” their gender in the registry, which is then used on official documents, like birth certificates, passports and other forms of identification. The bill from former Legal Protection Minister Sander Dekker aims to drop that requirement. Read more here.
CONSERVATIVES PREP LAWSUITS AS BIDEN’S TITLE IX REWRITE TO INCLUDE GENDER IDENTITY CONDEMNED. Arguing the Biden administration’s decision to include gender identity in Title IX will harm women, conservative groups have vowed to work to reverse the “administrative fiat” in the courts. Read more here.
MILITARY COULD HIT TROOPS WITH COURTS-MARTIAL FOR REFUSING TO USE PREFERRED PRONOUNS, EXPERTS SAY. A 2020 Equal Opportunity law opened the door for commanders to subject someone who refuses to affirm a transgender servicemember’s so-called gender identity to the Uniform Code of Military Justice for charges related to harassment. Read more here.
WILMETTE PUBLIC LIBRARY, MCKENZIE ELEMENTARY TO HOST ‘PRONOUN’ SEMINAR FOR CHILDREN CONSIDERING CROSS-DRESSING, ‘SEX CHANGE.’ In Illinois, the Wilmette Public Library and the parent-teacher organization at McKenzie Elementary School are co-hosting a seminar to teach children considering cross-dressing, or “sex change” surgery how to lobby their fellow students to refer to them with different “pronouns.” Read more here.
QUESTIONS ON ‘GENDER DIVERSITY,’ UNCONVENTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS TO APPEAR ON 2026 CANADIAN CENSUS. Canada’s next federal census appears to be going woke in the latest attack on the traditional family model after Statistics Canada confirmed it will include a first-ever series of new questions relating to “gender diversity” that includes questions about “couple relationships” outside of marriage or even common-law relationships. Read more here.
AFTER JUDGE BLOCKS LAW PROTECTING KIDS FROM ‘TRANSGENDER SURGERIES,’ OHIO CALLS ON STATE SUPREME COURT TO INTERVENE. The attorney general of Ohio has asked the state’s Supreme Court to intervene in a matter involving an Ohio judge who temporarily blocked a law protecting children from “transgender” surgeries and procedures. Read more here.
‘AN ASSAULT ON WOMEN AND GIRLS’: BIDEN ADMINISTRATION FINALIZES RADICAL REWRITE OF TITLE IX. The Biden administration finalized a new rewrite of Title IX rules to include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes, and the change could open up colleges and universities that receive federal funding to lawsuits if they refuse to allow male students who identify as females to access women’s locker rooms or to compete against women in sports. Read more here.
GERMANY PASSES GENDER SELF-IDENTIFICATION LAW ALLOWING INFANTS TO ‘TRANSITION,’ IMPOSES MASSIVE FINE FOR ‘DEADNAMING.’ The German Parliament passed one of the world’s most far-reaching sex self-determination policies – the Self-Determination Act – which establishes “gender identity” as a protected characteristic and allows parents to “change” the sex marker on their children’s documents from birth. Read more here.
NEW SWEDISH LAW LOWERS AGE TO ‘CHANGE’ LEGAL GENDER TO 16. The Swedish Parliament passed a highly controversial law that will make it easier for people to “change” their legal gender and lower the age for doing so from 18 to 16, despite strong criticism from parts of the government coalition. Read more here.
HILARY CASS: I CAN’T TRAVEL ON PUBLIC TRANSPORT AFTER GENDER REPORT. Dr. Hilary Cass, whose recent landmark report exposing the failure of transgender ideology, says she has been told not to travel on public transport over safety fears. Read more here.
MAJORITY OF CATHOLIC WOMEN’S COLLEGES ENROLL MEN WHO IDENTIFY AS TRANS WOMEN. The National Catholic Register reports that of the three dozen women’s colleges throughout the country, most are now admitting men. The publication notes that there are eight Catholic women’s colleges, all founded by Catholic female religious orders. Read more here.
CANADA’S FIRST TRANSGENDER MILITARY CHAPLAIN SUSPENDED FOR ALLEGED SEXUAL HARASSMENT. The Canadian Department of National Defense has suspended a transgender military chaplain it previously celebrated after reportedly groping a male soldier at the Royal Military College while drunk. Read more here.
FIVE MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRLS REFUSE TO COMPETE AGAINST MALE IN SHOT PUT EVENT AT TRACK MEET. Five female middle school athletes in West Virginia refused to participate in the event after a circuit court exempted the boy from a state law that prevents males from competing on female sports teams. Read more here.
MONTANA HIT WITH LAWSUIT OVER ‘SEX-CHANGE’ POLICY FOR BIRTH CERTIFICATES, DRIVER’S LICENSES. Jessica Kalarchik and an individual identified only as “Jane Doe” are listed as plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging a state policy that, they argue, makes it “impossible” for transgender people born in Montana to change their birth certificates. Read more here.
SCOTLAND PAUSES ‘SEX-CHANGE’ AND PUBERTY-BLOCKER DRUGS FOR CHILDREN. Scotland’s only gender clinic for minors is formally pausing the prescription of puberty blockers and hormone medications that are designed to facilitate gender “transitions” for children after a review commissioned by the English government questioned the efficacy of those practices. Read more here.
U.S. CONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS VOWS TO CODIFY ‘RIGHTS’ TO TRANS SURGERIES, HORMONES, PUBERTY BLOCKERS. Under the category “advancing justice” in their agenda, the caucus promises to “codify the rights of transgender, nonbinary and intersex people, including gender-affirming care and health care.” Read more here.
MOST WOMEN ATHLETES OPPOSE TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE PLAYERS IN WOMEN’S COMPETITION. A report published in the Journal of Sports Sciences found that 77 percent of world-class female athletes felt it was unfair for transgender women to compete in their respective sports, while 15 percent said it was fair. Read more here.
MONTREAL UNIVERSITY SYMPOSIUM CALLS FOR ‘HUMAN RIGHTS’ FOR ‘MENSTRUATORS.’ Concordia University in Montreal is getting ready to host a one-day symposium focused on “menstrual equity” and “human rights” for “menstruators,” and a female scholar contends the event promotes the “erasure of women.” Read more here.
ONTARIO COURT OF JUSTICE SAYS PARTICIPANTS MUST STATE THEIR ‘PREFERRED PRONOUNS’ DURING INTRODUCTION. Sharon Nicklas, Chief Justice of the Ontario Court of Justice, announced that all lawyers, clients and witnesses in the courtroom must give their “preferred pronouns” at the beginning of each court case – a move that aligns itself with radical gender ideology by implying that man should be referred to as “she” and “her.” Read more here.
DEMS WILL MAKE STATE SANCTUARY FOR KIDS’ ‘GENDER TRANSITIONS,’ ABORTION OVER GOP PROTEST. Maine’s Democrat-dominated legislature passed a bill that would shield abortion and “gender transition” surgeons from facing lawsuits for providing services to minors, and it would protect anyone aiding or offering medical services that are unlawful in other states, like abortion and “gender transition” surgical procedures or hormones. Read more here.
BIOLOGICAL MALE QUIETLY JOINED WOMEN’S NCAA DIVISION I VOLLEYBALL AT SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY. San Jose State University has very quietly added a transgender player – Brayden “Blaire” Fleming – to its women’s volleyball team without alerting opposing teams or the new player’s teammates that he was born a male. Read more here.
HARVARD CRIMSON CLAIMS IT’S ‘UNCLEAR’ WHETHER MEN HAVE AN ATHLETIC ADVANTAGE OVER WOMEN. In the college paper’s April 16 editorial, entitled, “There Are Many Obstacles Facing Women’s Sports. Trans Athletes Aren’t One,” writer Jonathan Yuan writes for The Crimson Editorial Board that the “science” is “less conclusive” that “transgender women hold a biological edge over their cisgender opponents.” Read more here.
U.S. SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS IDAHO’S BAN ON PUBERTY-BLOCKING DRUGS, SEX-CHANGE SURGERIES FOR MINORS. The Court, in a 6–3 decision, ruled that the 2023 law may go into effect, though the state cannot apply it to the two plaintiffs who challenged the legislation. Idaho is one of 24 states that has passed some kind of legislation against sex-change surgeries for minors. Read more here.
DUTCH PRO-PEDOPHILE ACADEMIC WORKED WITH LEADING TRANSGENDER MEDICAL AUTHORITY. Theodore Sandfort, a Dutch-American academic who believes adult-child relationships are “predominantly positive,” has had a working relationship with the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. Read more here.
TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE NURSE GETS 20 YEARS FOR MURDERING PARALYZED PATIENT IN AUSTRIA. A transgender nurse identifying as “Paul” has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after admitting to murdering a paralyzed 82-year-old patient in Austria last year. Read more here.
KANSAS BAN ON CHILD TRANS PROCEDURES HITS THE VETO WALL. Kansas policymakers passed legislation aiming to ban genital mutilation surgery on minors along with other supposed “transgender care” procedures, and there may be enough votes to override the governor’s veto. Read more here.
TRANSGENDER ATHLETE’S PERFORMANCE STIRS CONTROVERSY IN OREGON HIGH SCHOOL TRACK COMPETITION. Aayden Gallagher, a grade 10 trans-identifying student from McDaniel High School in Portland, took first place and two runners-up places in three girls’ track and field events, with times that would have placed him way back in the pack of the boys’ competition. Read more here.
NAKED MAN CLAIMING TO BE TRANS AT PLANET FITNESS ARRESTED FOR INDECENT EXPOSURE. Christopher Allan Miller, 38, was reported to police as harassing women at the Gastonia Planet Fitness in North Carolina prior to entering the locker room, and he was arrested for indecent exposure. Read more here.
NHS DEMANDS DATA FROM ADULT GENDER CLINICS AFTER DAMNING REPORT. National Health Service England is demanding data from adult gender clinics in response to a landmark independent review which found there is “very limited evidence on the longer-term outcomes” associated with the medicalized “transition” of minors. Read more here.
UK CAMPAIGNERS DEMAND LABOR CLARIFY TRANSGENDER TREATMENT STANCE. In response to the Cass Report’s criticism of transgender treatment, senior Labor figure Wes Streeting said he has been wrong in the past to declare that “some people are trans, get over it—this is all blown out of proportion,” and added that he will “absolutely take the criticism on the chin” for having previously ignored “all sorts of complexities” surrounding the issue. Read more here.
PLANET FITNESS FOUNDER SLAMS TRANS LOCKER ROOM POLICIES: ‘NO COMMON SENSE.’ Co-founder Michael Grondahl has decried the gym franchise’s policy of allowing men into women’s locker rooms and alleged history of sexual abuse, saying in a recent interview that it’s “devastating” what the company has become. Read more here.
GERMAN LAWMAKERS VOTE ON MAKING CHANGING LEGAL GENDER FOR CHILDREN EASIER. German lawmakers are expected to vote on a government plan to make it easier for transgender, intersex and nonbinary people to “change” their gender in official documents. Read more here.
CANADIAN COURT APPROVES PUBLIC FUNDING OF ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING’ SURGERY. An Ontario, Canada resident has successfully secured public funding for a specialized, first-of-its-kind “gender-affirming” medical procedure. Read more here.
NHS REPORT FINDS ‘REMARKABLY WEAK EVIDENCE’ TO SUPPORT MEDICAL GENDER TRANSITION FOR MINORS. An independent review of gender-related medical care for minors and young adults submitted to the U.K.’s National Health Service found that previous studies on the topic are of “poor quality” and there is “very limited evidence on the longer-term outcomes” associated with medicalized transition. Read more here.
IDAHO GOV. BRAD LITTLE SIGNS BILL TO BAN COMPELLED PRONOUN USE. The legislation broadly enacts protections for public employees, including teachers, who are unwilling to use someone’s preferred name and pronouns. The bill bars teachers from referring to a student by a name or pronoun that doesn’t align with their birth sex, unless the teacher has parental consent. Read more here.
MAYO CLINIC STUDY ON DAMAGE FROM PUBERTY BLOCKERS INCLUDED ‘TRANSGENDER’ TWO-YEAR-OLD. A new study from the Mayo Clinic adds further evidence that puberty blockers are not reversible, shows that they can create long-lasting consequences and also demonstrates how gender ideology continues to infect children at a younger and younger age. Read more here.
WORLD NETBALL BARS MEN FROM WOMEN’S DIVISION TO ENSURE ‘FAIRNESS AND SAFETY.’ World Netball, the global governing body of netball, issued a new policy that bars men from competing in the women’s division at the international level because the sport is a “gender affected activity” in which “the average strength, stamina and physique” of females puts them at a disadvantage compared with males. Read more here.
‘NOT FAIR NOR SAFE’ — FORMER WNBA PLAYER SAYS TRANSGENDER ATHLETES HAVE NO PLACE IN WOMEN’S SPORTS. Former Women’s NBA basketball star Val Whiting condemned the growing push by transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports, after South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley came out in support of men playing on women’s teams. Read more here.
RED STATE BILL TO KEEP MALES OUT OF WOMEN’S BATHROOMS, SPORTS TEAMS FAILS AFTER TWO REPUBLICANS ABSTAIN. The Nebraska bill, known as the “Sports and Spaces Act,” failed after it did not get enough votes to advance it past cloture for a vote on the actual legislation. Read more here.
DRAG QUEEN EXPOSES PRIVATE PARTS DURING HIGH SCHOOL SHOW. A man wearing white lace panties allegedly exposed his private parts to young students during a drag show performance and workshop at a Massachusetts high school, enraging parents. Read more here.
‘HE/HIM’: FINE GAEL TDS CRITICIZED FOR GENDER PRONOUNS IN BIO. Irish government ministers like Simon Harris are normalizing a harmful ideology by including gender pronouns in their social media accounts, including the newly elected Fine Gael leader and presumptive next Taoiseach, Minister Simon Harris. Read more here.
AUSTRALIAN COURTS MUST DECIDE ‘WHAT IS A WOMAN’ IN LANDMARK ‘TICKLE V. GIGGLE’ CASE, TUESDAY. The Federal Court of Australia will be asked if women should be forced to share female-only spaces with biological men, in the landmark case of Roxanne Tickle v. Giggle for Girls (“Tickle v. Giggle”). Read more here.
NAIA, SMALL COLLEGES ASSOCIATION, BANS TRANSGENDER ATHLETES FROM WOMEN’S SPORTS COMPETITIONS. The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics’ Council of Presidents voted 20-0 to disallow males from competing in women’s sports. Read more here.
DAWN STALEY WAS ASKED ABOUT TRANS ATHLETES IN WOMEN’S SPORTS, HER ANSWER SET SOCIAL MEDIA ON FIRE. Prior to her team playing for the women’s national basketball championship, South Carolina University coach Dawn Staley said she is in favor of transgender men playing on women’s sports teams. Read more here.
WYOMING BECOMES LATEST STATE TO BAN ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING’ CARE FOR MINORS. Gov. Mark Gordon signed the bill that would penalize pharmacists, doctors and other healthcare professionals for providing “gender-affirming” care to minors by revoking their licenses or outright banning them from practicing in the state, joining 23 other states that have passed laws restricting or banning the treatment. Read more here.
DOJ SUES UTAH, STATE CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT FOR DISCRIMINATING AGAINST TRANSGENDER WOMAN. The Department of Justice claims the Utah Department of Corrections failed to grant the biological male equal access to health care services and imposed “unnecessary barriers” to treatment for gender dysphoria. The inmate attempted to remove his own testicles, resulting in hospitalization and additional surgery. Read more here.
BEARDED TRANS ATHLETE WHO INJURED RIVAL WAS SUSPENDED FROM ROWING TEAM FOR OGLING TOPLESS GIRL IN CHANGING ROOM. A six-foot-tall male student from KIPP Academy in Lynn, Massachusetts who was seen in a viral video knocking down a rival during a game was allegedly suspended from a female rowing team for staring at a topless girl in a changing room. The male student participated in six different female sports, including rowing, volleyball, and tae kwon do. Read more here.
WISCONSIN GOVERNOR VETOES TRANSGENDER HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICS BAN. Gov. Tony Evers vetoed a bill banning high school transgender athletes from competing on teams that align with their gender identity claiming the legislation would harm LGBTQ Wisconsinites’ mental health. There are not enough votes to override the veto. Read more here.
J.K. ROWLING DARES SCOTTISH POLICE TO ARREST HER FOR BREAKING LAW THAT MAKES IT A ‘HATE CRIME’ TO CALL A MAN A MAN. The famed author of the Harry Potter series dared Scottish authorities to arrest her after a new vague “hate crime” law went into effect. “In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their idea of femaleness … than on the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls,” Rowling wrote. Read more here.
WOMEN GENDER IDEOLOGY CRITICS PROTEST SCOTLAND’S HATE CRIME ACT. Women who are critical of gender ideology are slamming Scotland’s new hate speech law, the Hate Crime and Public Order, saying it restricts them from voicing their views on biological sex. Read more here.
U.S. IMMIGRATION ANNOUNCES ‘THIRD GENDER OPTION’ ON CITIZENSHIP FORM. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services released a news alert that revealed that it had revised Form N-400, the Application for Naturalization, to provide “Another Gender Identity,” the first USCIS form to do so. Read more here.
IDAHO LEGISLATURE BANS PUBLIC FUNDING FOR GENDER TRANSITION PROCEDURES. A new Idaho law protects taxpayers from paying for gender transition procedures in a variety of ways, including the prohibition of gender transition procedures from qualifying as tax-deductible medical expenses for the state’s Medicaid program. Read more here.
24 WOMEN DROP OUT OF AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL DIVISION AFTER FIVE TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALES DOMINATE WOMEN’S LEAGUE, LEAVE FEMALE PLAYERS INJURED. Recent landslide victories secured by a women’s football team with five trans-identified male players have sparked controversy, leading one club manager to reveal that at least 20 female players have excluded themselves from the sport in recent weeks in order to avoid competing against the men. Read more here.
AUSTRALIA’S LEFT-WING GOVT. CELEBRATES EASTER SUNDAY AS ‘TRANSGENDER DAY OF VISIBILITY.’ Australia’s Labor government has joined U.S. President Joe Biden and issued gushing praise on Easter Sunday for the “Transgender Day of Visibility.” Read more here.
TENNESSEE VENUE CANCELS ‘TRANS DAY OF VENGEANCE’ AFTER DAILY WIRE ARTICLE. The event was to raise money for sex-change operations and to mail chest binders to people who “could not access them.” Read more here.
SCOTLAND: TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE SUSPENDED FROM SCOUTS POSITION AFTER SHARING PORNOGRAPHY ON PUBLIC SOCIAL MEDIA PROFILES. Gabby Smith, a trans-identified male has been suspended from his position with the Scouts after it was learned that he was sharing hardcore pornography and drug promotions on his public social media profiles. Read more here.
TOP PSYCHOLOGIST BLAMES SMARTPHONES, SOCIAL MEDIA FOR DECAY OF GEN Z, RISE OF TRANSGENDERISM. Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at NYU-Stern, said in an interview this week that smartphones and social media have led to numerous problems for Gen Z – including mental illness and transgenderism. Read more here.
‘GENDER-AFFIRMING THERAPY’ IS NOT BENEFICIAL, PEDIATRICS GROUP CONCLUDES. The American College of Pediatricians reviewed literature and issued a policy statement on “gender identity” and “biological sex” saying it “cannot condone the social affirmation, medical intervention or surgical mutilation of children and adolescents identifying as transgender or gender nonconforming.” Read more here.
50-YEAR-OLD MALE, TRANS ‘GRANDMA’ BREASTFEEDS GRANDCHILD AFTER DRUG REGIMEN AT DUKE UNIVERSITY TO CREATE BOND, TOUTS ‘ADDED BONUS’ OF INCREASING BUST SIZE. Researchers with Duke University have aided a trans-identified male “grandmother” in being able to breastfeed a grandchild. The man was able to produce up to 30 ml of milk at a time following a four-week course of hormone treatment. Read more here.
SACRAMENTO DECLARES ITSELF SANCTUARY CITY FOR TRANS-IDENTIFYING PEOPLE. The resolution declares the city a “place of safety” for trans-identifying people and says Sacramento will not cooperate with states seeking to enforce laws relating to transgender medical services. Read more here.
FEMALE INMATE SEXUALLY ASSAULTED BY VIOLENT TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE AT WASHINGTON WOMEN’S PRISON. The victim said the incident occurred in April of 2022 after a transgender inmate named Christopher Williams, who has a criminal history of sex offenses and assault, asked to be moved into her cell. Read more here.
‘POLITICAL DECISION’: BIDEN ADMIN LOOKS TO SAVE FACE BY DELAYING TRANS ATHLETE RULING TO AFTER ELECTION: REPORT. President Joe Biden’s administration is reportedly halting the release of a Title IX rule that would require biological men to be allowed to compete in women’s sports, until after the election due to the issue being unpopular with a majority of voters. Read more here.
AUSTRALIAN SOCCER TEAM WITH 5 TRANSGENDER PLAYERS GOES UNDEFEATED IN WOMEN’S TOURNAMENT: ‘HUGE DIFFERENCE IN ABILITY.’ The Sydney-based Flying Bats FC went undefeated during the four-week tournament, including one game in which one of the transgender women scored six goals en route to a 10-0 victory. Read more here.
ACLU SUES OHIO OVER LAW BANNING ‘SEX-CHANGE’ SURGERIES FOR MINORS, MEN IN WOMEN’S SPORTS. The ACLU claimed in a lawsuit filed in the Court of Common Pleas for Franklin County that House Bill 68 violates four sections of the Ohio Constitution, including the single-subject rule, the healthcare provision, the equal protection clause and the due course of law provision. Read more here.
WISCONSIN TRANS STUDENT SUES SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR NOT ALLOWING HIM INTO THE GIRLS’ BATHROOM. A male middle school student who identifies as a female filed a federal civil rights lawsuit accusing his school district of violating Title IX civil rights law, which prohibits discrimination based on sex, by not allowing him to use the girls’ bathroom. Read more here.
TRANSGENDER COMPETITOR WINS WOMEN’S NATIONAL WEIGHTLIFTING COMPETITION. A transgender weightlifter won the Masters National Weightlifting Championships in Reno, Nevada, coming in first in the women’s 76-kilogram weight category. Read more here.
‘CRUEL’: FRANKLIN & MARSHALL FACULTY DENOUNCE ‘TRANSPHOBIC’ LIA THOMAS TEAMMATE SPEECH. A speech by former William “Lia” Thomas teammate Paula Scanlan promotes “dehumanizing and cruel” views, according to a letter signed by 125 Franklin & Marshall College affiliates. Read more here.
MALE DARTS PLAYER DESTROYS WOMAN COMPETITOR IN WOMEN’S DARTS CHAMPIONSHIP 3 YEARS AFTER STARTING ‘GENDER TRANSITION’ IN UK. Noa-Lynn van Leuven, 27, who “transitioned” genders, defeated 20-year-old Katie Sheldon of Ireland in the finals and was declared winner of the women’s only event at the Robin Park Tennis Centre in Wigan. Read more here.
FAIRFAX COUNTY BOARD VOTES UNANIMOUSLY TO CELEBRATE ‘TRANSGENDER DAY OF VISIBILITY’ ON EASTER. In the same Virginia county whose board of supervisors once voted to restrict the size of American flags, the county board voted unanimously to observe its Transgender Day of Visibility on Easter this year. Read more here.
‘BRING IT ON’: SCHOOL BOARD PRESIDENT CHALLENGES PARENTS CONCERNED OVER GENDER POLICY CHANGES. Flagstaff, Arizona school board President Christine Fredericks told parents concerned about controversial pronoun and sex education policies that she would “never apologize for being inclusive” and to “bring it on.” Read more here.
EX-LEVI’S PRESIDENT JENNIFER SEY LAUNCHES XX-XY ATHLETICS FOR WOMEN’S SPORTS. Levi’s supports expanding genders, but former president and past gymnastics champion Jennifer Sey has launched her own brand of XX-XY Athletics to support the integrity of women’s sports. Read more here.
NHS ENGLAND TO STILL PROVIDE CROSS-SEX HORMONES TO TEENS DESPITE BANNING PUBERTY BLOCKERS. Under new guidance from NHS England, “gender-affirming” hormones will be made available to “young people with continuing gender incongruence [or] gender dysphoria from around their 16th birthday”. Read more here.
SPAIN: MEN CHARGED WITH VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN USING TRANSGENDER LAW TO CHANGE LEGAL SEX, ACCESS SHELTERS WHERE THEIR VICTIMS ARE HOUSED. Spain’s Councilor of Family, Youth, and Social Affairs in Madrid is raising alarm bells after locating multiple cases in which men convicted of domestic violence “changed” their legal gender identity. Read more here.
‘OUR VOICES AS WOMEN, WERE SILENCED’: U.S. SENATE COMMITTEE RELEASES REPORT ON ‘HELPLESSNESS’ FELT BY FEMALE ATHLETES DUE TO TRANS INCLUSION. After interviewing dozens of people, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions reported the “helplessness” that female athletes face when forced to compete against men who identify as women or “transgender women.” Read more here.
‘GIRLS ACTUALLY GET HURT’: REP. VICTORIA SPARTZ SHOWS VIDEO OF DANGER TRANS ATHLETES POSE TO GIRLS IN HOUSE MEETING. Indiana Republican congresswoman Victoria Spartz showed video evidence of the dangers of allowing men to compete in women’s sports during a recent House Judiciary Committee hearing concerning transgender athletes. Read more here.
UK LAWYER SUED AFTER SAYING ONLY WOMEN MENSTRUATE. Elspeth Duemmer Wrigley, a lawyer linked to the Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs, said an unnamed person is suing her over her criticism of gender ideology at work. Read more here.
WELSH LABOR ‘FACILITATING’ CHILDREN ‘CHANGING GENDER’ WITHOUT TELLING PARENTS. Just days after Britain’s National Health Service banned puberty blocker prescriptions for under 18s, a report has revealed that schools in Wales are allowing children to “change gender” without telling their parents. Read more here.
HIGH SCHOOLERS WALK OUT AS ADULTS PUSH TRANSGENDERISM. Students at John Jay High School, in New York staged a walkout in protest of a policy allowing students to use restrooms of the sex they identify with rather than their actual biological sex. Read more here.
SUPREME COURT ALLOWS REMOVAL OF TRANS-IDENTIFIED CHILD FROM CATHOLIC PARENTS’ HOME TO STAND. The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up a case involving Catholic parents trapped in a custody battle after refusing to recognize their trans-identified son’s self-declared female identity. Read more here.
NYC COUNCIL’S TRANS SPORTS POLICY MAY BE ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK AFTER MAJOR VOTE BY MANHATTAN’S LARGEST SCHOOL DISTRICT. Manhattan’s largest neighborhood school board district passed a resolution that could prevent males from competing on female sports teams. Read more here.
PLANET FITNESS VALUE PLUMMETS BY MILLIONS AFTER TRANSGENDER TURMOIL. The chain saw a dive in valuation of hundreds of millions just days after revoking an Alaska woman’s membership for snapping photos of a transgender woman, who was biologically male, shaving in the women’s locker room. Read more here.
FRENCH SENATORS CALL FOR BAN ON GENDER TRANSITION FOR MINORS. The legislators have published a report that expresses alarm at the excesses of child gender transition and have proposed a bill to put an end to it. Read more here.
SPAIN: LEGAL SEX CHANGES INCREASE BY 400 PERCENT. A year after Spain passed a law that allows for changing legal gender through a simple administrative process at the request of the citizen, the number of Spaniards requesting the change has increased by almost 400 percent. Read more here.
MINNESOTA APPEALS COURT AFFIRMS STATE LAW PREVENTING BAN ON TRANS ATHLETES. The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled that a ban on a transgender weightlifter implemented by USA Powerlifting would be illegal in the state. Read more here.
CAITLYN JENNER BACKS BAN ON TRANS ATHLETES COMPETING IN WOMEN’S SPORTS. Former U.S. Olympic decathlon champion, Bruce Jenner, now known as Caitlyn is backing a town in Long Island’s recent decision to ban men from competing in women’s sports. Read more here.
USA POWERLIFTING APPLAUDS APPEALS COURT DECISION AFTER TRANSGENDER WOMAN CLAIMED DISCRIMINATION. A Minnesota appeals court struck down a previous ruling that claimed the USA Powerlifting organization violated a biological male’s rights by prohibiting the individual from joining the women’s team. Read more here.
82-YEAR-OLD WOMAN THREATENS LAWSUIT AFTER TRANS INCIDENT AT YMCA POOL. Julie Jaman wants an apology from the city of Port Townsend and the YMCA after she was banned from the Mountain View Pool in July 2022 when she voiced her concerns. Read more here.
CONNECTICUT HIGH SCHOOL MALE PUSHES FEMALES OUT OF HIGH JUMP HONORS. Lizzy Cohen Bidwell, a male high school student won a regional competition and then took 10th place in the national girls’ high jump event in Boston, continuing a streak of males elbowing out female athletes in athletic competition. Read more here.
U.S. SUPREME COURT REJECTS APPEAL FROM PARENTS WHO LOST CUSTODY OF TRANS TEEN. The Supreme Court declined to decide whether an Indiana couple who believe children should be raised based on their sex at birth should have lost custody of their teenager, a transgender girl. Read more here.
WYOMING VOTES TO BAN MUTILATING TRANSGENDER SURGERIES, DRUGS FOR CHILDREN. The Wyoming state House and Senate approved legislation to prohibit transgender drugs and surgeries for minors. Read more here.
COLORADO COULD BECOME THE FIRST STATE TO BUILD SEPARATE PRISON UNITS FOR TRANSGENDER FELONS. After a class action lawsuit was filed by several transgender inmates in 2019 against the Colorado Department of Corrections alleging discrimination, harassment and assault, a judge is scheduled to rule on a consent decree that would bring further changes – including surgical “sex changes” and hormone treatment to the state’s penitentiary. Read more here.
MISSOURI DEMS READ TRANS BOOK TO CHILDREN FOR ‘NATIONAL READING DAY.’ REPUBLICANS RESPOND WITH MATT WALSH’S ‘JOHNNY THE WALRUS.’ Members of the Missouri Freedom Caucus read Daily Wire host Matt Walsh’s children’s book “Johnny the Walrus” after state Democratic officials read a book that promoted transgenderism to children for “National Reading Day.” Read more here.
SUPREME COURT DECLINES TO HEAR LAWSUIT AGAINST TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY OVER DRAG SHOW BAN. The case pits West Texas A&M students’ rights to freedom of expression against the university president’s claims of protecting dignity and disallowing drag shows, which he believes make a mockery of women. Read more here.
‘NO REQUIREMENT’ FOR IRELAND’S GENDER SERVICE TO ALIGN WITH NHS ENGLAND. The Clinical Lead at the National Gender Service in this country has said there is “no requirement” for the development of Ireland’s care on gender healthcare services “to be aligned with any particular organization,” after a TD said the NHS would no longer prescribe puberty blockers for children. Read more here.
FEMALE SWIMMERS SUE NCAA OVER MALE COMPETITION, DEMAND RETURN OF TROPHIES, MONETARY DAMAGES. Spearheaded by the Independent Council on Women’s Sports, a group of female athletes sued the National Collegiate Athletics Association for permitting male intrusion into their sex-specific sports and private spaces. Read more here.
TRANSGENDER RECOGNITION WOULD BE BLOCKED UNDER MISSISSIPPI BILL DEFINING SEX AS ‘MAN’ OR ‘WOMAN.’ Sex would be defined as binary under a bill passed by Mississippi House lawmakers following the lead of Republican-controlled legislatures around the country that are aiming to restrict the legal recognition of transgender identities. Read more here.
PRO-TRANS SURVEY ADMITS: FEWER THAN 2 PERCENT IDENTIFY AS TRANSGENDER. Only two percent of Americans claimed to be “transgender or nonbinary,” according to a survey conducted by the left-wing Public Religion Research Institute that was funded by wealthy donors aiming to replace heterosexual marriages and families with enforced autonomy. Read more here.
MAINE DEMOCRATS QUIETLY REINTRODUCE PRO-TRANSGENDER BILL TO ELIMINATE PARENTAL RIGHTS, SHIELD GROOMERS. The bill would in part prevent parents from being contacted or having any say in the “transing” of their children by school or medical officials and would serve as a groomer protection measure. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA PARENTS OUTRAGED AFTER SCHOOL CREATES UNDERCOVER LGBTQ CLUB. In the quiet suburb of Elk Grove, California, Pleasant Grove Elementary School has found itself at the center of a controversy after parents learned about a third-grade teacher’s initiative to start a “secret” LGBTQ club on campus. Read more here.
WISCONSIN GOV. TONY EVERS THREATENS TO VETO BAN ON TRANSGENDER ATHLETES IN K-12 SCHOOL SPORTS. Gov. Evers said he will proudly veto legislation keeping gender-confused males off athletic teams intended for girls in K-12 public schools. Read more here.
NEARLY 30% OF GEN Z WOMEN IDENTIFY AS LGBT: GALLUP POLL. About 22 percent of Generation Z adults who were aged 18 to 26 last year self-identify as LGBT, including 30 percent of Gen Z women, according to a poll by Gallup. Read more here.
NHS ENGLAND TO STOP PRESCRIBING PUBERTY BLOCKERS. Children will no longer routinely be prescribed puberty blockers at gender identity clinics, NHS England has confirmed after a review found there was “not enough evidence” to assume they are safe or effective. Read more here.
SUPERMAJORITIES OPPOSE ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE’ FOR MINORS, AGAINST BIOLOGICAL MALES PLAYING FEMALE SPORTS, POLL FINDS. A new poll by Rasmussen found that by a margin of nearly 3 to 1, respondents don’t think that it should be legal to provide minors with puberty blockers, drugs and/or surgery to “transition” from one sex to the other, and by a 7 to 1 margin, respondents said that biological males who “identify” as female should not be permitted to compete in girls’ and women’s sports. Read more here.
LAWMAKERS CALL FOR THE FIRING OF TRANSGENDER SPACE CAMP EMPLOYEE AFTER PARENTS EXPRESSED SAFETY CONCERNS. After a parent complained about the presence of a transgender employee at a space camp in Huntsville, Alabama, several of the state’s politicians have issued statements expressing concern about children’s safety. Read more here.
KANSAS JUDGE RULES KEEPING BIOLOGICAL SEX ON IDS DOES NOT HARM TRANSGENDER PEOPLE. A Kansas judge ruled in favor of the state’s conservative attorney general and determined that prohibiting the designation of “sex changes” on state IDs and driver’s licenses does not violate the rights of individuals who identify as transgender. Read more here.
EL SALVADOR BANS GENDER IDEOLOGY FROM BEING TAUGHT IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Minister of education José Mauricio Pineda issued a memorandum announcing that “gender ideology” has been removed from public schools, reversing the previous administration’s policies. Read more here.
PEDIATRICIANS RESPOND TO WPATH FILES EXPOSING THE UNDERBELLY OF THE GENDER INDUSTRY. The American College of Pediatricians released a statement about the World Professional Association for Transgender Health criticizing the organization’s blatantly irresponsible acts and failure to meet basic standards of evidence-based medicine. Read more here.
RADICAL TRANSGENDER ACTIVISTS HAVE SHAPED UK HEALTH POLICY FOR YEARS: REPORT. A new report shows that the U.K.’s National Health Service has been influenced by transgender activists from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) for over a decade. Read more here.
‘I HAVE BEEN REMOVED (BANNED)’: TRANS GOLFER HAILEY DAVIDSON RESPONDS TO WOMEN’S PRO TOUR. After biological male Hailey Davidson won the NXXT Pro Women’s event, the professional women’s golf tour changed its rule and declared that golfers must be female at birth in order to play. Read more here.
NEW YORK COUNTY EXECUTIVE SUES STATE AG OVER ORDER TO REPEAL TRANSGENDER ATHLETE BAN. The lawsuit was filed in the Eastern District of New York, on behalf of Nassau County and a 16-year-old female volleyball player and her parents. Read more here.
NEW MEXICO MOM MOVES TO MISSOURI AFTER SCHOOL INSTALLS ‘GENDER-INCLUSIVE CLOSETS’: ‘ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.’ Rachael Hein plans to relocate her family from New Mexico to Missouri after learning about that Las Cruces Centennial High School will create a “transgender closet.” Read more here.
SPAIN: CONCERNS ABOUT ‘TRANS FRAUD’ EMERGE AFTER DOZENS OF MALE CIVIL SERVANTS IN ONE SMALL COMMUNITY CHANGE THEIR LEGAL GENDER BUT MAINTAIN MALE NAMES. Concerns about “trans fraud” have emerged after dozens of male civil servants in one small community changed their gender identity reportedly just to get benefits allocated for females. Read more here.
STUDENT FILES LAWSUIT OVER VIRGINIA COUNTY’S ‘DYSTOPIAN’ TRANS BATHROOM, PRONOUN POLICIES. America First Legal, a conservative nonprofit, filed a lawsuit against Fairfax County Public Schools on behalf of a high school senior who says the transgender bathroom and pronoun policies go against her Roman Catholic beliefs. Read more here.
TRANS YOUTH POLICIES MAKE MAJORITY OF CANADIANS ‘UNCOMFORTABLE’: SURVEY. A new survey from Nanos Research and CTV News shows a majority of Canadian adults express at least some discomfort around policies on transgender inclusion in sports, hormone treatments for youth and changes to students’ pronouns in schools. Read more here.
VERMONT SNOWBOARD COACH FAVORABLY SETTLES AFTER BEING FIRED FOR STATING BIOLOGICAL FACT. School officials agreed to pay $75,000—nearly 17 times the coach’s annual salary—for terminating Coach David Bloch’s job after he respectfully expressed his view that males are biologically different than females and that those differences generally give males an advantage in sports. Read more here.
QUEBEC EXPANDS GENDER OPTIONS FOR HEALTH CARDS AND DRIVER’S LICENSES. Quebec has approved the inclusion of gender markers reflecting the identities of transgender and non-binary individuals on provincial driver’s licenses and health insurance cards. Residents who don’t strictly identify as male or female will have the option to choose an ‘X’ gender marker on their health cards and driver’s licenses. Read more here.
BIDEN CAN’T FORCE CHRISTIAN DOCTORS TO PERFORM TRANS SURGERIES: COURT. The United States District Court of the District of North Dakota granted partial summary judgment in favor of the Christian Employers Alliance and other Christian healthcare workers who cannot be forced to perform elective, body-disfiguring surgeries for individuals who identify as trans despite a mandate from the Biden administration. Read more here.
ONTARIO DETRANSITIONER WHO HAD BREASTS AND WOMB REMOVED SUES DOCTORS. The woman is suing practitioners for failing to consider other treatments during her mental health crisis before ushering her on an irreversible journey she regrets. Read more here.
LIVER CANCER IN TEENS, REDUCED SEXUAL FUNCTION, LACK OF CONSENT: INTERNAL DOCS REVEAL EXPERIMENTAL NATURE OF ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE.’ Doctors at the World Professional Association of Transgender Health repeatedly struggled with various side effects of what they call “gender-including cancer in teens, reduced sexual function and the lack of informed consent for procedures with lifelong impacts,” newly unearthed documents reveal. Read more here.
‘ENOUGH IS ENOUGH’ — UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT TELLS BIOLOGICAL MALES TO LEAVE WOMEN’S SPORTS. Dr. Wayne D. Lewis Jr., president of Houghton University, in New York called for an end to transgender athletes participating in female sports, saying it defies nature and blurs the fundamental distinction between the sexes. Read more here.
DORITOS FIRES TRANS-IDENTIFYING INFLUENCER AFTER BACKLASH TO SEXUAL COMMENTS ABOUT CHILDREN. Doritos has fired trans-identifying male influencer Samantha Hudson, who reportedly posted comments about sexual fantasies with children in the past. Read more here.
PRES. MILEI ENDS ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT USE OF ‘INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE’ PROMOTED BY GENDER IDEOLOGY ADVOCATES. Argentine President Javier Milei has ordered the prohibition of inclusive language by the national government. In Spanish, all nouns have a gender. In order to make a generically masculine word to cover both sexes, inclusive-language proponents have invented gender-neutral endings. Read more here.
POLL FINDS MAJORITY OF SCIENTISTS AT BRITISH UNIVERSITIES AGREE SEX IS BINARY. Pollsters received feedback showing 58 percent of respondents believe sex is binary, with the caveat that excludes rare cases involving “intersex” individuals. Read more here.
NEW YORK AG DEMANDS REPEAL OF TRANSGENDER SPORTS BAN IN NASSAU COUNTY. Amidst growing tensions over transgender rights in sports, New York Attorney General Letitia James confronted Nassau County’s executive order banning transgender women and girls from participating in athletic events at county-run facilities. Read more here.
IRISH POOL CHAMPION REFUSES TO PLAY TRANSGENDER COMPETITOR IN EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FINAL. Irish billiards champion Kim O’Brien made headlines after she forfeited her place in the European Pool Championships final, refusing to play against her male transgender competitor Harriet Haynes. Read more here.
GIRLS FOOTBALL LEAGUE ‘AT RISK OF SANCTIONS’ FOR REFUSING TO LET BOY PLAY. Yorkshire’s West Riding Girls Football League, one of England’s biggest girl’s football leagues, believes it is at risk of sanctions for refusing to allow a boy to play in its youth matches. Read more here.
UK PM SAYS TRANS WOMEN CRIMINALS MUST BE RECORDED AS MEN. The Prime Minister said transgender women who are convicted of a crime must be recorded as men if they have not legally changed their gender. A gender recognition certificate is obtained when someone legally changes their gender, meaning they are not simply self-identifying. Read more here.
U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT: GENDER-NEUTRAL LANGUAGE ONLY. In a recent statement, the U.S. State Department acknowledged sending a memo to its staff advising against the use of gendered language like “mother” and “father,” to encourage respectful communication, tailored to individuals’ comfort. Read more here.
U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY HIGHLIGHTS TRANSGENDER OFFICER AT LEADERSHIP SUMMIT. Speaking at the National Character and Leadership Symposium, Lieutenant Colonel Bree Fram, a biological male who identifies as a woman and an engineer with the United States Space Force, touted transgenderism in the military. Read more here.
TWO TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALES TO COMPETE IN THE FEMALE DIVISION OF THE 2024 NEW ENGLAND TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIP. Lizzy Cohen Bidwell, born a male named Lucas, qualified for the championship in multiple events at the Connecticut girls’ state track and field championships. Read more here.
THREE QUARTERS OF TRANSGENDER PRISONERS ARE SEX OFFENDERS OR VIOLENT CRIMINALS IN BRITAIN. According to Ministry of Justice, 74 per cent of British transgender prisoners were convicted of sex offences including rape and child sexual assaults. The statistics demonstrate the dangers of housing biological males in female prisons. Read more here.
MAJOR MEDICAL SOCIETY RE-EXAMINES CLINICAL GUIDELINES FOR ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING’ CARE. The major global medical association for endocrinologists, the Endocrine Society, said despite recent moves by some U.S. states to restrict or ban such care, the society said it’s a routine update that was not prompted by politics Read more here.
CALIFORNIA JUDGE UPHOLDS TRANSGENDER NOTIFICATION, BAN ON CRITICAL RACE THEORY IN LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The ruling marks a victory, though perhaps a temporary one, for conservative parents and school board members who implemented these policies against intense pressure from Governor Gavin Newsom, activist groups and the media. Read more here.
‘INSANE’: RON JOHNSON SLAMS WISCONSIN DOC FOR HOUSING TRANSGENDER PRISONERS WITH WOMEN. “Housing biological males in women’s prisons is insane,” U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (Rep.-Wisconsin) said, adding that “Forcing a woman to share a cell with a biological male is even worse.” Read more here.
IRISH ACADEMICS SAY ‘PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE’ TO GENDER IDEOLOGY THREATENS ACADEMIC FREEDOM. A group advocating for academic freedom said that to receive state funding for research, Irish Universities are required to support adherence to the Athena Swan principles and its pledge to promote gender ideology. Read more here. Read more here.
VERMONT SCHOOL BANNED FROM COMPETITION AFTER FORFEITING GAME AGAINST TRANS PLAYER. Banned from playing in future tournaments because it forfeited a game against a foe with a boy on the team, Mid-Vermont Christian School girls’ basketball coach Chris Goodwin says it would have been “irresponsible” to let his girls risk injury. Read more here.
7TH CIRCUIT ALLOWS INDIANA’S BAN ON CARE FOR TRANSGENDER YOUTH TO TAKE EFFECT. A three-judge panel upheld Senate Bill 480, which bans health care providers from administering “gender-affirming” medical care to transgender minors. Read more here.
UN OFFICIAL SAYS BIDEN’S TRANSGENDER PLAN THREATENS WOMEN. The U.N. special rapporteur on violence against women condemned the Biden administration’s proposal to amend equality legislation to boost the participation of transgender athletes in female sport at the school and college levels. Read more here.
FORMER DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA CLAIMS MALES WHO IDENTIFY AS ‘WOMEN’ DO NOT HAVE MALE ANATOMY. Sheila Copps, Canada’s former deputy prime minister, sparked backlash from Canadian women after she defended trans-identified males being able to access female-only spaces. Read more here.
‘CRIMINAL’: LEGAL, PARENTAL ADVOCATES SOUND ALARM ON BLUE STATE BILL ALLOWING MINORS TO CONSENT TO MEDICAL PROCEDURES. New York’s Democratic state Assemblywoman Karines Reyes and eight other Democrats introduced a bill that would allow homeless youth to “give effective consent to certain medical, dental, health and hospital services” including “sex change” procedures without parental consent. Read more here.
GEORGIA BOARD OF EDUCATION AFFIRMS FIRING OF TEACHER WHO READ GENDER BOOK TO FIFTH GRADERS. The Georgia Board of Education upheld a previous decision to fire Katie Rinderle, a former fifth-grade teacher, for reading a book about gender identity to her students. Read more here.
BLUE STATE COUNTY SINGLE-HANDEDLY BANS BOYS FROM COMPETING IN GIRLS’ SPORTS. Nassau County, New York has banned men from competing with women in competitive sports at county-run facilities. Read more here.
WOMEN’S SPORTS LEADERS CALL ON NEW YORK COLLEGIATE LEAGUE TO PROTECT FAIRNESS AS MALE SETS LEAGUE RECORDS. The Independent Council on Women’s Sports sent a letter to the Liberty League, an intercollegiate athletic conference in New York, demanding that the league adopt new rules to protect fairness for female athletes as a male set school records in women’s track. Read more here.
EVEN DEMOCRATS AREN’T SOLD ON PUSHING GENDER IDEOLOGY IN SCHOOLS, POLLS SHOW. A new PRC poll found that only 53 percent of Democratic teachers supported a student learning that “gender can be different from their sex at birth” in K-12 schools, and only 44 percent felt that schools should discuss “gender identity vs. biological sex” with elementary students, according to a survey from USC. Read more here.
ILLINOIS BILL CHANGES DEFINITION OF ‘ABUSED CHILD’ TO INCLUDE KIDS WHOSE PARENTS OBJECT TO ABORTION, TRANSGENDER HORMONES AND SURGERIES. A recently introduced bill in the state of Illinois would change the definition of “abused child” to include minors whose parents object to their children receiving puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, transgender surgeries and abortions. Read more here.
JK ROWLING DONATES TO LEGAL CHALLENGE SEEKING TO UPHOLD BIOLOGICAL DEFINITION OF SEX. With support from Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, the group For Women Scotland is raising funds for its efforts to convince the U.K.’s Supreme Court to rule that the definition of sex in the Equality Act only applies to biological sex and not gender identity. Read more here.
FORMER OFFICIAL WILLIAM BOCK ON NCAA’S TRANSGENDER ATHLETE POLICIES: ‘WHAT IS HAPPENING TO WOMEN IS UNETHICAL.’ William Bock III has resigned as a member of the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions due to the organization’s current policy on transgender athletes, stating the current policies harm women and deprive them of “competitive opportunities” in their respective sports. Read more here.
PSYCHOLOGIST PUNISHED FOR QUESTIONING VA’S GENDER IDEOLOGY INITIATIVES: ‘WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO WOMEN’S SECURITY?’ Three psychologists working in the Department of Veterans Affairs penned an op-ed warning of the danger posed by allowing biological men to access women’s bathrooms and medical exam rooms, and primary care psychologist Dr. Nina Silander was placed on administrative leave following the article’s publication. Read more here.
‘RACISM’ TO WANT FEMALE-ONLY SPACES, GENDER STUDIES RESEARCHER SAYS. Oxford Brookes University researcher Helen Clarke’s recent paper for the Journal of Gender Studies claims that “racism” is subtly present in the opposition to biological males showering in the same locker room as females. Read more here.
BIPARTISAN MARYLAND BILL WOULD MAKE GENDER SURGERY ON A MINOR WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT ILLEGAL. Maryland’s House Bill 722 would forbid health care providers from performing any transgender medical procedures, commonly called “gender-affirming care,” to minors without parental knowledge and consent. Read more here.
UK ARMED FORCES ALLOWING TRANSGENDER PERSONNEL IN FEMALE ACCOMMODATIONS. A document outlining the official guidance from the UK military on transgender personnel stated that as soon as an individual claims to being going through a “gender transition” they should be provided “accommodation that is appropriate to their affirmed gender.” Read more here.
3 GIRLS BASKETBALL PLAYERS INJURED BY MALE ATHLETE. A girls basketball game was called at halftime after three Collegiate Charter female players were injured by a large male Kipp Academy player. Read more here.
SPAIN: TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE SENTENCED TO SIX MONTHS IN PRISON AFTER MAKING ‘TRANSPHOBIC’ COMMENTS TOWARDS ANOTHER TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE FOR NOT HAVING GENITAL SURGERY. The Barcelona High Court has sentenced a woman who identifies as a man to six months in prison after She was found guilty of committing a crime “against fundamental human rights and public freedoms” for posting “transphobic” comments on social media. Read more here.
IDAHO FILES EMERGENCY MOTION ASKING SUPREME COURT TO ALLOW BAN ON TRANSGENDER DRUGS, SURGERIES FOR MINORS. Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador asked the U.S. Supreme Court to enforce its transgender ban law and protect the roughly 2 million minors in the state from what they deemed “harmful and experimental drugs and procedures.” Read more here.
‘PARENTAL NIGHTMARE’: BLUE STATES ARE BECOMING MAGNETS FOR RUNAWAY KIDS SEEKING TRANS TREATMENTS. California, New York and Minnesota are among states that have passed laws allowing minors to receive “transgender procedures” and “sex changes” despite the operations being illegal in the child’s home state. Read more here.
‘DETRANSITIONERS’ SUE RHODE ISLAND MEDICAL PROVIDER AND PERSISTENT PUBLIC SCHOOL AGITATOR. Rhode Island “gender-affirming care” medical providers Dr. Jason Rafferty, Dr. Michelle Forcier and Thundermist Health Center became defendants in two medical malpractice lawsuits filed last October by former patients, Hannah (“Layton”) Ulery and Isabelle Ayala, one of them alleging she was pressured into “irreversible transgender medicalization.” Read more here.
NEW JERSEY: TRANS SWIMMER SMASHES ANOTHER WOMEN’S COLLEGIATE RECORD. Cortez-Fields, who was originally on the men’s swimming team for his first three years at Ramapo College, won the 200 IM race with a time of 2:08:20, smashing the previous New Jersey Athletic Conference girls’ championship record. Read more here.
COLLEGE REINSTATES BIOLOGY PROFESSOR WHO WAS FIRED AFTER TEACHING SEX IS DETERMINED BY X AND Y CHROMOSOMES. St. Philip’s College in San Antonio, Texas reinstated Dr. Johnson Varkey, a former adjunct professor, a year after he was terminated. Read more here.
MEXICAN POLITICIAN CONVICTED OF ‘GENDERED VIOLENCE’ AFTER CALLING TRANS LAWMAKER A ‘MAN.’ The Electoral Tribunal of the Judiciary of Mexico has convicted Congresswoman Teresa Castell of “gendered violence” toward a trans-identified male politician, Salma Luévano, for referring to him as a “man.” Read more here.
INDIANA REMOVES GENDER-CONFUSED TEEN FROM CHRISTIAN HOME, PARENTS ASK SUPREME COURT FOR HELP. Two Indiana parents are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hold the state accountable for removing their gender-confused child from their home due to their Biblical beliefs about sex and gender. Read more here.
NEW SCHOOL BOARD OVERTURNS DISTRICT’S BIRTH-SEX BATHROOM POLICY. The school board of a Philadelphia-area district recently overturned a months-old birth-sex school bathroom policy, citing the “marginalization” of transgender and non-binary students. Read more here.
TRANS ‘WOMEN’S’ MILK AS GOOD AS BREAST MILK, SAYS UK NHS TRUST. An NHS trust has said that breast milk produced by trans “women” who were born as men is as good for babies as that produced by a mother who has given birth. Read more here.
MIDDLE SCHOOL BOY PUNISHED FOR WEARING ‘TWO GENDERS’ T-SHIRT TAKES CASE BEFORE APPEALS COURT. A Massachusetts 8th-grader has urged a federal appeals court to protect his First Amendment right to free speech after he was allegedly kicked out of school for wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the words, “There are only two genders.” Read more here.
TEACHERS SUE GOV. NEWSOM OVER POLICY FORCING THEM TO LIE ABOUT STUDENTS’ TRANSGENDER STATUS TO PARENTS. Two teachers have added the California governor and attorney general to a lawsuit claiming that state policies have forced educators to lie to parents by hiding the transgender status of their children from them. Read more here.
FEMALE MASS SHOOTERS ON THE RISE ‘IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE RISE TRANSGENDERISM’: EXPERT. Dr. Jennifer Bauwens, director of the Center for Family Studies at FRC, cited the “alarming trend” of young women who don’t fit a profile, but yet are committing “heinous” criminal acts. Read more here.
VIRGINIA SUED OVER GUIDANCE ON TRANSGENDER PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS. Two transgender public school students in Virginia sued the state over recent guidance that prevents them from competing on sports teams consistent with their gender identity and allows teachers to refuse to use their preferred names and pronouns. Read more here.
SURGEON WHO PERFORMS TRANSGENDER VAGINOPLASTIES: COMPLICATIONS ‘CAN BE PRETTY BAD.’ Dr. Alex Laungani, a Canadian surgeon, who has expertise in “trans surgical care,” said complications from vaginoplasty surgery (which attempts to remove male genitals and create a “vagina”) “can be pretty bad,” and he cited poor training programs throughout the world of “gender affirmation.” Read more here.
NORTH CAROLINA GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE VOWS TO ARREST BIOLOGICAL MEN USING WOMEN’S RESTROOMS. During a recent campaign event, North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson told voters that, if elected, he would arrest any biological men who choose to enter women’s restrooms. Read more here.
IOWANS SPEAK ON BILL TO DEFINE ‘MAN’ AND ‘WOMAN’ IN IOWA CODE. Iowa House lawmakers held a public hearing on Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’s proposal to define “man” and “woman” based on the sex “assigned at birth” and require the birth certificates of transgender Iowans to denote their “pre- and post-transition sexes.” Read more here.
PARENT GROUP FILES FEDERAL COMPLAINT AGAINST PORTLAND SCHOOLS FOR DISCIPLINING BASED ON GENDER IDENTITY, RACE. A parental rights group has filed a federal complaint against public schools in Portland, Oregon, for taking gender identity and race into account when disciplining students. Read more here.
HAS DOVE CHANGED ITS STANCE ON TRANSGENDERISM IN SPORTS? Dove featured only biological girls in a new ad campaign and capped off its message with a floating body bar blimp in Las Vegas and a banner that read, “Let’s help keep girls in sports.” Read more here.
GEORGIA SENATE COMMITTEE APPROVES BILL TO LIMIT PRIVATE SCHOOLS’ LGBT PROSELYTIZING TO KIDS. The Georgia Senate’s Education & Youth Committee voted along party lines to advance legislation prohibiting private school teachers from discussing “gender identity” issues with students younger than 16 without parental consent. Read more here.
CHLOE COLE URGES ARIZONA TO MAKE INSURANCE PLANS COVER ‘DETRANSITIONING’ COSTS. The Arizona Senate’s Health & Human Services Committee voted 5-2 to advance legislation to require any health provider or insurance plan that covers “gender transition” procedures to also provide or insure “detransitioning” services for those who wish to return to living as their actual sex. Read more here.
COLORADO INTRODUCES BILL THAT WOULD FORCE SCHOOLS TO ‘TRANSITION’ STUDENTS QUESTIONING ‘GENDER IDENTITY.’ Colorado Democrats have introduced legislation that would mandate schools to socially “transition” students who question their “gender identity.” Read more here.
‘GENDER-BASED POLITICAL VIOLENCE’: FORMER LAWMAKER TARGETED FOR CALLING A MAN WHO IDENTIFIES AS A WOMAN A MAN. Mexican authorities convicted civil society leader and former Mexican Congressman Rodrigo Iván Cortés of “gender-based political violence” in Facebook and X posts. Read more here.
BEST GIRLS’ HIGH JUMPER IN NEW HAMPSHIRE IS A BOY. Maelle Jacques, a male student at Kearsarge Regional High School in New Hampshire, won the girls’ state championship in the high jump in state-record fashion. Read more here.
ORLANDO TRANSGENDER RIGHTS ADVOCATES STAGE DMV ‘DIE-IN.’ About a dozen people staged a “die-in” in Orlando, joining activists in five other Florida cities who laid down at DMV offices, pretending to be dead, in a coordinated protest against the state’s recent move to block “gender changes” on driver’s licenses. Read more here.
MAJOR ORG CELEBRATES FEMALE ATHLETES AT NATION’S CAPITOL WHILE PUSHING FOR MEN IN WOMEN’S SPORTS. The Women’s Sports Foundation will speak with U.S. lawmakers about the “ways sport participation is building the leaders of tomorrow, and legislation needed to advance gender equity on and off the field of play.” Read more here.
COSTAS: ALLOWING BIOLOGICAL MEN TO BOX BIOLOGICAL WOMEN IS LIKE HEAVYWEIGHTS FIGHTING WELTERWEIGHTS. On a broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” sportscaster and CNN Contributor Bob Costas stated that boxing federations allowing biological men to compete against biological women “seems crazy.” Read more here.
ILLINOIS LEGISLATOR PROPOSES BILL TO REDEFINE PARENTAL ABUSE AS REFUSAL TO GO ALONG WITH CHILD ‘SEX CHANGES.’ House Bill 4876 acts as an amendment to the state’s Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act and would classify parents who deny medical care such as primary care services, abortion services, or “gender-affirming” services as committing child abuse. Read more here.
HORROR AS SCOTTISH PARENTS COULD REPORTEDLY BE JAILED FOR REFUSING KIDS’ ‘GENDER TRANSITIONS.’ The proposed law in Scotland could intervene in what a parent or a pastor can advise a child. Parents who oppose a gender-confused child’s transition could potentially face a criminal trial and potential prison sentence of up to seven years. Read more here.
UK: TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE CHARGED WITH SEXUAL ASSAULT OF TEEN BOY, REPORTED AS ‘WOMAN.’ A trans-identified male in Witney, England has been charged with child sexual offenses following the alleged assault of a teen boy. Read more here.
BRITISH COLUMBIA CITY DEFENDS ALLOWING GROWN MAN TO CHANGE IN FRONT OF GIRLS. Two teen-age girls were changing into their bathing suits at the Vernon, B.C., Aquatic Center when a 50-year-old man stripped in their presence, but the pool manager said transgender “rights” take precedence. Read more here.
GIRL GUIDES AND BROWNIES TO HAVE ‘INCLUSIVE’ UNIFORM AFTER TRANS ROWS. A consultation has been launched to make uniforms across the United Kingdom’s Girlguiding, Rainbows, Brownies and Rangers “more coherent” with a “look and feel that unifies all the sections across the organization.” Read more here.
IRISH DANCE ORGANIZATION REAFFIRMS INCLUSIVITY FOR TRANSGENDERS. An Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha (CLRG), the oldest and largest competitive Irish dance organization in the world, will continue to allow competitors to compete under the gender they identify with. Read more here.
UNIV. LAW CLINIC: UN MUST INVESTIGATE TEXAS FOR BANNING MINORS FROM DRAG SHOWS, TRANS SURGERIES. The University of Texas Law Human Rights Clinic filed a formal complaint with the United Nations against the state for legislative bans on “gender-affirming” care for minors and restrictions on drag performances around children. Read more here.
DEFENSE FORCES IN IRELAND TO UNDERGO TRAINING IN GENDER AND DIVERSITY BIAS AFTER REPORT RAISED CONCERNS ABOUT ‘MASCULINE CULTURE.’ Every member of Ireland’s Defense Forces will undergo training in gender, diversity and unconscious bias under a new program, a year after a report raised concerns about a masculine culture within the military. Read more here.
TRANS-IDENTIFIED VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS TAKE OVER WOMEN’S COLLEGE GAME. A Canadian women’s volleyball match between the Seneca Sting and the Centennial Colts featured five men on the floor, raising safety concerns for female athletes. Read more here.
TRANSGENDER ACTIVISTS HARASS ‘SOUL SURFER’ BETHANY HAMILTON. A Riley Gaines-sponsored event at the Springfield Library Center in Missouri was marred by transgender disrupters who had failed to pressure the host site to cancel the event. Read more here.
CAITLYN JENNFER RIPS ‘NARCISSIST LIA THOMAS’ ATTEMPT TO OVERTURN POLICY ON TRANSGENDER ATHLETES. The former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner slammed former collegiate swimmer Lia Thomas’ attempt to challenge a ruling from the World Aquatics in his attempt to compete in Olympic women’s swimming. Read more here.
OHIO HEALTH DEPARTMENT BACKPEDALS ON PROPOSED ADULT ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING’ CARE RESTRICTIONS. The department plans to strike state provisions that would have limited access to “gender-affirming” medical care for transgender adults, citing public comments opposing the restrictions. Read more here.
AUSTRALIA’S NATIONAL BROADCASTER CANCELS DRAG QUEEN STORY TIME AFTER PUBLIC FUROR. The taxpayer-funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation has been forced to scrap a drag queen story time session for children as young as three after opponents forced a backdown. Read more here.
SCHOOL DISTRICT VIOLATED CODE WITH GENDER NOTIFICATION POLICY, CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SAYS. The California Department of Education (CDE) found that the Rocklin Unified School District violated state education code when it passed a parental notification policy in September, according to a letter the CDE wrote to the district. Read more here.
MULTIPLE SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN UTAH ACTIVELY CONCEAL TRANSGENDER STATUS FROM PARENTS, ACCORDING TO POLICIES. Some school districts in Utah have policies for transgender students that allegedly conceal the transgender status of students from parents when notifying them about bullying or harassment incidents, but they had varying responses when asked about their policies. Read more here.
HHS SAYS IT HAS ONLY TWO PAGES OF SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE BACKING ITS SUPPORT FOR ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE.’ The Department of Health and Human Services said it has only two pages of literature supporting Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine’s assessment that “gender-affirming care” is “necessary” for transgender youth, prompting allegations that the transgender-identifying Biden administration official has violated the Department’s scientific integrity policies by baselessly claiming it’s settled science. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR AND ATTORNEY GENERAL SUED BY TEACHERS FORCED TO LIE TO PARENTS ABOUT GENDER ISSUES. In a legal showdown over parental rights, children’s safety, and First Amendment rights, California Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta are being sued by Christian teachers Elizabeth Mirabelli and Lori Ann West, who were forced to lie to parents about student gender dysphoria. Read more here.
THERAPIST BLOWS WHISTLE ON HOSPITAL PUSHING TEEN ‘GENDER TRANSITIONS.’ A therapist in Washington state said she quit her job because she could no longer go along with her employer’s insistence on helping young patients “change genders,” regardless of their diagnoses. Read more here.
DEAD PEOPLE SHOULD BE ABLE TO ‘CHANGE THEIR GENDER’, SAYS LABOUR MP. In a written question to Parliament, MP Charlotte Nichols, the representative for Warrington North, asked if the Gender Recognition Act 2004 could be changed “to allow transgender people who are deceased to be legally remembered by the gender they lived by.” Read more here.
FEMALE POOL PLAYER TURNS DOWN PRO CONTRACT DUE TO TRANS INCLUSION IN WOMEN’S LEAGUE. After being offered her first professional contract with the Ultimate Pool Tour, Lynne Pinches turned down the opportunity because of the World Eightball Pool Federation policy of allowing trans-identified males to compete with women. Read more here.
CANADIAN MILITARY BASE HOSTING ‘DRAG QUEEN BINGO’ NIGHTS FOR JUNIOR RANKS, SPOUSES. The Huron Club Jr. Rank Mess is hosting its second “drag queen bingo” for military personnel at the Canadian Forces Base in Borden, Ontario. Read more here.
SPAIN: ‘GENDER FLUID’ MALE RUNNER DECLARES HIMSELF A ‘WOMAN’ TO PARTICIPATE IN RACE AND WIN WOMEN’S PRIZE. A man claiming to be “gender fluid” has won the women’s category of a mountain race in Spain, signing up after there were no more spaces left in the men’s category. Read more here.
EXCLUSIVE: MISSOURI AG ORDERS SCHOOL DISTRICT TO CEASE TEACHING RADICAL GENDER IDEOLOGY WITHOUT PARENTS’ OK. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey ordered a local school district to “cease and desist” teaching students about human sexuality, including gender ideology, without parental consent ahead of time. Read more here.
UK WOMEN’S RIGHTS GROUP PROTESTS ‘PRIDE PILLAR’ AT LONDON BRIDGE RAIL STATION. A group of women’s activists from Let Women Speak gathered around London’s Network Rail “Pride Pillar” at London Bridge to protest the display of a trans flag that left biological women “feeling unsafe and excluded.” Read more here.
IT TOOK 22 MINUTES FOR REVOLT AFTER HIGH SCHOOL PUT TAMPON DISPENSER IN BOYS’ RESTROOM. Principal Marc Balanda explained that the new dispenser had been torn down and basically destroyed, calling the incident “disgusting” and an “egregious instance of vandalism and destruction of property.” Read more here.
IOWA GOV. KIM REYNOLDS’ BILL DEFINING A ‘MAN’ AND ‘WOMAN’ EXPLAINED. Gov. Reynolds has introduced new legislation, House Study Bill 649, to define “sex,” “man” and woman” in state law and which also make sweeping changes in how government collects public health data, issues birth certificates and licenses, and offers anti-discrimination protections. Read more here.
DANIELLE SMITH UNVEILS SWEEPING CHANGES TO ALBERTA’S STUDENT GENDER IDENTITY, SPORTS AND SURGERY POLICIES. Alberta will prohibit hormonal treatment, puberty blockers and gender affirming surgery for children 15 years and younger, Premier Danielle Smith announced Wednesday in a video posted to social media. Read more here.
MAJORITY OF VOTERS SUPPORT STATE LAWS PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM TRANS PROCEDURES: POLL. CRC Research for the 85 Fund found that 67 percent of voters supported laws that prohibit minors from being put on cross-sex hormones and undergoing “sex change” surgeries. Read more here.
NEW JERSEY DAD SUES SCHOOL OVER DAUGHTER’S SECRET ‘GENDER TRANSITION.’ The father, who is remaining anonymous to protect his daughter’s identity, found that New Jersey’s Delaware Valley Regional High School had been calling his daughter by a male name and male pronouns for at least two months. Read more here.
MOM SUES SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR SOCIALLY ‘TRANSITIONING’ 12-YEAR-OLD GIRL WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT. A New York school district socially “transitioned” a girl without her mother’s consent, repeatedly lying to the mother about the child’s mental health and social struggles, according to a new Alliance Defending Freedom lawsuit. Read more here.
JUDICIAL WATCH: SAN FRANCISCO TAXPAYERS SUE OVER DISCRIMINATORY PAYMENTS TO ‘BLACK/LATINX’ MEN (‘TRANSGENDER WOMEN’). Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit on behalf of San Francisco taxpayers over a city program which discriminates in favor of biological black and Latino men who identify as “women” in the distribution of tax money. Read more here.
OREGON HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS TENNIS COACH RESIGNS, CITES TITLE IX’S TRANSGENDER-RELATED POLICY. Coach Dave Brown said he can no longer stand by and watch girls have their dreams shattered by policies that put the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health of women at risk. Read more here.
VA HOSPITAL PLANS TO RAMP UP ‘SEX-CHANGE’ SURGERIES, DOUBLE DOWN ON GENDER IDEOLOGY, DOCUMENTS SHOW. A Department of Veterans Affairs facility in Seattle requested funding for the building of a surgical facility for performing “gender transition” surgeries, although the VA has yet to approve such procedures, documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation show. Read more here.
RILEY GAINES RAISES FUNDS TO PAY FEMALE GOLFERS WHO BOYCOTT TOURNAMENTS WITH TRANS OPPONONETS. Gaines kicked off the idea with a post on X saying, “I will personally pay any expenses, sponsorships and/or prize money lost.” Read more here.
SURF LEGEND BETHANY HAMILTON MAKES STANCE ON TRANS INCLUSION IN WOMEN’S SPORTS CLEAR. Surfing star Bethany Hamilton doubled down on her assertions that trans inclusion in women’s sports should be barred amid controversy over Rip Curl’s new ambassador. Read more here.
UTAH BAN ON TRANSGENDER BATHROOM USE AWAITS GOVERNOR’S SIGNATURE. The new law prohibits trans-identifying people from using the bathrooms of the opposite sex in public buildings such as K-12 schools and government buildings. Read more here.
TEXAS DOCTOR BLASTS ‘CORRUPT’ DOJ PROBE AFTER BLOWING WHISTLE ON ‘CHILD ABUSE’ AT KIDS’ HOSPITAL. A whistleblower who exposed the largest pediatric hospital in the U.S. for allegedly prescribing puberty blockers to minors despite claiming otherwise said he remains unafraid despite what he described as a politically motivated federal investigation against him. Read more here.
FLORIDA BANS TRANSGENDER PEOPLE CHANGING THE SEX ON THEIR DRIVER’S LICENSE. Previously, residents of Florida could “change the sex” on their license by submitting either a court order for a name change or a doctor’s letter as proof of “gender transition” treatment. Read more here.
EU CALLS FOR ‘GENDERED LANGUAGE’ TO BE SCRAPPED. The EU has urged legislators and policymakers to abandon “gendered language,” including “no man’s land,” and should replace the phrase with “unclaimed territory,” while “Joe Public” should instead be “average citizen.” Read more here.
JUDGE REINSTATES CHRISTIAN TEACHERS PLACED ON LEAVE FOR REFUSING TO CONCEAL CHILD’S GENDER ISSUES FROM PARENTS. A federal judge ordered a California school to reinstate two teachers it had fired for resisting pressure to conceal students’ gender identities from parents. Read more here.
MONTANA FAMILY LOSES CUSTODY OF TEENAGE DAUGHTER AFTER EXPRESSING OPPOSITION TO HER ‘GENDER TRANSITION.’ A family in Glasgow, Montana is accusing the state’s child protective services of “kidnapping” their teenage daughter after the girl began to identify as a transgender “boy” after she was removed from their care and was now going to be sent to Canada. Read more here.
ICONIC AUSTRALIAN SURF BRAND BOOTS FEMALE SURFER FOR TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE. An Australian brand that specializes in swimwear for surfers has come under fire after Rip Curl dropped transgender opponent Bethany Hamilton and selected a trans-identified male as one of their “female” brand ambassadors. Read more here.
TRANSGENDER SWIMMER MAKES MAJOR MOVE FOR OLYMPICS. Transgender swimmer William “Lia” Thomas, who broke several records racing on the women’s team at Penn University is currently prohibited from competing in the Olympics based on the current rules from World Aquatic, but he is challenging those rules in a Swiss sports court. Read more here.
CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL ALLOWS 4-YEAR-OLD TO IDENTIFY AS TRANS. A Church of England primary school in the southeast of England sparked controversy by allowing a 4-year-old boy to enroll as a girl, leading to distress among students and parents and prompting government scrutiny. Read more here.
SORORITY SISTERS APPEAL JUDGE’S RULING ALLOWING MAN TO JOIN KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA. The lawsuit, over the violation of women-only bylaws, involves the acceptance of Artemis Langford, a man who identifies as a woman and was accepted as a member of the all-female sorority at the University of Wyoming in 2022. Read more here.
TRANS MOM TO BE LISTED AS ‘FATHER’ ON BIRTH CERTIFICATE AFTER PREGNANCY DISCOVERED FOLLOWING A DOUBLE MASTECTOMY IN ITALY. A trans-identified female from Italy discovered she was five months pregnant as she was nearing the end of hormone therapy and preparing to have her uterus removed, but the registry office will list her as her baby’s “father.” Read more here.
UK: TRANSGENDER CHILD SEX OFFENDER SENTENCED TO 3.5 YEARS AFTER BREACHING COURT ORDER FOLLOWING RELEASE FROM PRISON. Trans-identified male predator Jamie Kevin Herold Waller is headed back to prison for 3.5 years shortly after completing a prison sentence for breaching the Sexual Harm Prevention Order. Read more here.
‘NON-BINARY TRANSMASCULINE’: PORTLAND STATE RELEASES LGBT DIRECTORY WITH 20+ GENDERS. As a project of its Queer Resource Center, Portland State University’s annual list of its LGBTQ community members and supporters includes more than 20 genders and sexual orientations, including one called “SaulChad.” Read more here.
OHIO SENATE OVERRIDES DEWINE VETO OF BILL PROTECTING KIDS FROM ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE.’ The Ohio Senate voted 24-8 to override Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of House Bill 68, which will protect minors from experimental transgender treatments euphemistically referred to as “gender-affirming care” and safeguard fairness in women’s sports. Read more here.
UK TRANS-IDENTIFIED PEDOPHILE WHO ABDUCTED, SEXUALLY ABUSED GIRL SEEKS REDUCTION OF ‘EXCESSIVE’ SENTENCE. The convicted man is seeking to have his 20-year prison sentence reduced on the basis that he was “living as a woman” before committing the crime and claiming that the prosecution placed “too much weight” on his transgender identity. Read more here.
TRANS-IDENTIFYING GOLFER ADMITS ‘MEN DO HAVE ADVANTAGES,’ BUT MAINTAINS HE’S COMPETING FAIRLY AFTER WINNING WOMEN’S TOURNAMENT. Hailey Davidson, a biological man, told ABC’s “Good Morning Britain” that men have advantages over women in sports, but because he had gender surgery, he no longer has that physical advantage over his female competitors. Read more here.
SCHOOLTEACHER WHO SLAMMED CRITICS OF GENDER IDEOLOGY, LGBT EDUCATION SENTENCED TO 17.5 YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR CREATING, DISTRIBUTING SEXUAL ABUSE MATERIAL. Alden Bunag, 35, raped a child in his classroom and filmed the crime before sending it to other pedophiles to view. Read more here.
PHD BIOLOGIST CHALLENGES SPLC TO DEBATE AFTER IT ACCUSED HIM OF PEDDLING ‘PSEUDO SCIENCE’ AGAINST TRANSGENDERISM ORTHODOXY. Colin Wright is publicly inviting the Southern Poverty Law Center to debate him on the subject of what the SPLC calls “anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience,” specifically on the transgender issue. Read more here.
MAINE BILL ALLOWS AUTHORITIES TO TAKE KIDS AWAY FROM PARENTS WHO RESIST TRANSGENDERING CHILDREN. A bill being debated in Maine’s state legislature would give authorities the power to take children away from parents who oppose allowing medical providers to impose “gender-affirming care” onto their children. Read more here.
TOP DOCTORS IN TRANSGENDER FIELD ADMIT PUBERTY BLOCKERS AREN’T SO ‘REVERSIBLE’: REPORT. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s Standards of Care have been regarded by activists as the gold standard for transgender medical treatment, but some of educational videos revealed doubts that puberty blockers are reversible. Read more here.
HOSPITAL OFFERING ABORTION TRAINING UNVEILS EXPERIMENTAL ‘GENITAL SWAP’ SURGERIES. The scheme of transplanting genitals removed from one person undergoing so-called “transgender surgery” and attaching them to another trans person is now a possibility, according to “genital swap” pioneer Dr. Miroslav Djordjevic, who works at New York City’s Mount Sinai Hospital. Read more here.
‘MY SIX-YEAR-OLD IS GENDER FLUID’: LGBT ACTIVISTS IRATE OVER FLORIDA FLAG BAN PROPOSAL. LGBT activists in Florida are outraged over a state legislative proposal to protect students from “partisan, radical ideologies” that would ban teachers and government employees from displaying rainbow flags while on the job. Read more here.
SURGEON WHISTLEBLOWER ALLEGES TEXAS CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL IGNORES LAW PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM TRANSGENDER PROCEDURES. Dr. Eithan Haim, a former Texas Children’s Hospital surgeon, said he has had to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to defend himself after he exposed a Texas hospital’s secret transgender procedures on kids. Read more here.
USA BOXING’S NEW TRANSGENDER RULE COULD FATALLY INJURE A WOMAN, COACH WARNS. USA Boxing has changed its rules to allow men who identify as women to compete in the female category, a change that Coach Cary Williams warns could be deadly. Read more here.
SUPREME COURT REJECTS INDIANA SCHOOL’S APPEAL ON TRANS BATHROOM RULING. The Supreme Court declined to hear an Indiana school district’s appeal of a ruling that blocked the district from requiring students to use the bathroom that corresponds with their sex. Read more here.
MORE PARENTS CLAIM COLORADO SCHOOL DISTRICT FORCED CHILDREN INTO OVERNIGHT ROOMS WITH STUDENTS OF OPPOSITE SEX. Multiple parents claimed their school district forced girls into sharing overnight rooms, even showers, with students of the opposite sex. Read more here.
RUPAUL PUSHES DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR DURING EMMY ACCEPTANCE SPEECH. Library drag queen story hours were strongly defended by RuPaul as he accepted the Emmy for Outstanding Reality Competition Program and used time in the spotlight to applaud the divisive LGBTQI+ practice. Read more here.
MAJORITY OF AMERICANS OPPOSE SCHOOLS USING PREFERRED PRONOUNS. The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty’s Freedom Index findings revealed a reversal in attitudes toward leftist school pronoun policies requiring that children and school employees address each other by their preferred pronouns. Read more here.
SCOTLAND: FEARS FOR PARENTS WHO OPPOSE CHILD’S GENDER TRANSITION. A consultation was launched by the Scottish government last week into detailed proposals for legislation aimed at ending “conversion practices” in Scotland, and concerns have been raised about the rights of parents in Scotland who oppose their child’s desire to change genders. Read more here.
SLOVAKIA: SURGERY ONCE AGAIN A CONDITION FOR GENDER ‘CHANGE.’ Health Minister Zuzana Dolinkova revoked guidelines on “gender transition” that allowed transgender people to “change” their gender in legal documents without undergoing “gender confirmation” surgery. Read more here.
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA CRITICIZES OWN PROFESSOR FOR ‘POLICING PRONOUNS.’ The University of Florida has said it does not believe in “policing pronouns” in response to a report that one of its professors was offering extra credit to students who displayed them in their class profile. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA AG WARNS SCHOOL BOARDS THAT TRANS STUDENT OUTING MANDATES VIOLATE STATE CONSTITUTION. Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a legal alert that said the policies adopted by several Golden State school districts are unconstitutional and “detrimental” to the privacy, safety and well-being of transgender and gender-nonconforming students. Read more here.
JUDGE ORDERS BLUE STATE SCHOOL DISTRICT TO REINSTATE TEACHERS WHO REFUSED TO LIE TO PARENTS UNDER TRANS POLICY. A federal judge ruled that two California teachers who were placed on administrative leave for refusing to hide students’ “gender transitions” from parents should be reinstated. Read more here.
‘GENDER DYSPHORIA’ DIAGNOSES RISE IN EVERY U.S. STATE EXCEPT ONE. South Dakota was the only state in the U.S. that did not see a rise in gender dysphoria diagnoses between 2018 and 2022, according to new data from Definitive Healthcare. Read more here.
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS ARTICLE CALLS BANNING TRANS ‘CARE’ FOR KIDS ‘MEDICAL NEGLECT,’ ‘EMOTIONAL ABUSE.’ The American Academy of Pediatrics, America’s largest pediatric association, published an article urging a “reframing” of the “discussion” surrounding laws prohibiting the destructive drugs and surgeries prescribed to children to affirm their misguided belief that they were born the wrong gender. Read more here.
CANADA: TRANSGENDER PEDOPHILE TO SERVE SENTENCE IN THE COMMUNITY AFTER BEING RE-ARRESTED DAYS AFTER RELEASE FROM PRISON. Laverne Waskahat, 47, violated the conditions of his release within 48 hours of being released from prison, accumulating child pornography almost immediately after being let out. Read more here.
FONTANA PARENTS DEMAND GENDER NOTIFICATION POLICY SIMILAR TO CHINO VALLEY. Parents and residents in Fontana, California protested in support of parents’ rights, demanding the local school board adopt a gender notification policy similar to one enacted in another nearby school district last summer. Read more here.
COURT LIFTS INJUNCTION ON ALABAMA’S BAN ON ‘SEX-CHANGE’ SURGERIES FOR MINORS. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit has issued a temporary order to lift an injunction preventing an Alabama law banning “sex-change” surgeries for minors from going into effect. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA FUNDS ORGANIZATION THAT OFFERS JOBS EXCLUSIVELY TO WOMEN AND ‘GENDER EXPANSIVE YOUTH.’ An agency of the California state government issued grants to an organization that hosts internships exclusively for women and “gender expansive” youth, an apparent violation of anti-discrimination laws. Read more here.
GERMANY: TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE IN PSYCHIATRIC WARD WHO MURDERED WIFE SEEKING PLACEMENT IN WOMEN’S PRISON ‘FOREVER.’ Convicted wife murderer Thorsten Heinz P., who identifies as “Mona P.,” was recently released from a women’s prison after completing his sentence and appeared in court this week asking to be returned to a female-only facility “forever.” Read more here.
SOCIAL WORKER SUSPENDED FOR BELIEVING PEOPLE CAN’T ‘CHANGE SEX’ WINS TRIBUNAL CASE. An employment tribunal has heard the case of how Rachel Meade was placed under a Fitness to Practice investigation after she shared a petition to the International Olympic Committee calling on biological males to be prevented from participating in women’s sports. Read more here.
SEN. MARSHALL CHALLENGES PROPOSED HHS RULE THAT WOULD FORCE FOSTER PARENTS TO ACCEPT ‘EXTREME GENDER IDEOLOGY.’ Republican senators have sent a letter to U.S. Health & Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra expressing concern over a proposed placement rule dictating that minors who identify as LGBT are placed with providers who agree to affirm a child’s gender identity, pronouns and provide them with “services that are necessary to support their health and wellbeing.” Read more here.
INDIANA STATEHOUSE: BILL WOULD RECOGNIZE BIRTH SEX ONLY. A proposed bill in Indiana would replace the term “gender” with “biological sex” in a host of state statutes, recognizing only a person’s “biological sex.” Read more here.
OHIO HOUSE VOTES TO OVERRIDE DEWINE’S VETO OF BILL BANNING CHILD GENDER MEDICALIZATION. In a 65–28 vote, the Ohio House of Representatives voted to override Governor Mike DeWine’s veto of legislation that would ban child gender transition hormone therapy and surgeries as well as boys in girls’ sports. The bill now heads to the state senate. Read more here.
BRITISH NURSES AND MIDWIVES FACE POTENTIAL BAN FROM MEDICINE FOR ‘MISGENDERING’ PATIENTS. Guidelines from the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) regulator, which has the power to suspend or even remove nurses and midwives from its registry, effectively prohibiting them from working in the UK, has warned that “misgendering” a patient could lead to sanctions. Read more here.
MICHIGAN PARENTS SUE SCHOOL DISTRICT, CLAIM IT MODIFIED DOCUMENTS TO CONCEAL DAUGHTER’S ‘TRANSITION.’ Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed suit against the Rockford Public School District on behalf of Dan and Jennifer Mead in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan’s Southern Division after they discovered district employees began treating the couple’s middle-school daughter as a “boy,” actively taking steps to conceal these actions from them. Read more here.
‘IF YOU WANT TO CONTINUE TO IGNORE FEMALE ATHLETES, THAT’S FINE – RILEY GAINES SLAMS NCAA PRESIDENT CHARLIE BAKER. Former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines slammed Baker for being a weak leader, for evading questions and providing vague answers during a judicial hearing when asked about his stance on transgender issues. Read more here.
MUSLIM GIRLS’ BASKETBALL TEAM REPORTEDLY CANCELED GAME AFTER BEING MADE AWARE THAT THE COMPETING TEAM INCLUDED A TRANSGENDER PLAYER. Averroes High School was set to compete against San Francisco Waldorf in a girls’ varsity basketball game, but the event was abruptly canceled, reportedly because a male player was participating on the Waldorf girls’ team and the risk of its girls being injured by him. Read more here.
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION APPOINTS TRANS ACTIVIST WITH ‘BE GAY, DO CRIMES’ TATTOO TO CREATE GUIDELINES ON CHILD ‘SEX CHANGES.’ The World Health Organization has just appointed Florence Ashley, a Canadian, trans, criminal law professor and author of a book about the pleasures and politics of living in a gendered body, to the group developing guidelines on “the health of trans and gender diverse people.” Read more here.
2024 OLYMPICS IN PARIS WILL HAVE MORE RESTRICTIONS ON TRANS ATHLETES. In response to public concerns surrounding the participation of biological males in women’s sports, the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics have implemented heightened restrictions on transgender-identifying athletes. Read more here.
OHIO’S TOP CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL COACHES DOCTORS TO CIRCUMVENT PARENTS WARY OF TRANS TREATMENT, TRAINING VIDEOS SHOW. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, which pressured Republican Gov. Mike DeWine to veto a ban on transgender procedures for minors, has grossly misrepresented its approach to parental involvement in decisions. Read more here.
OREGON SCHOOL UNDER FIRE FOR HOSTING DRAG QUEEN FESTIVAL. Parents were enraged and fired off letters and phone calls to school leaders demanding to know why taxpayer dollars were being used to host a drag show at Lakeridge High School. The school subsequently cancelled the Drag Fest program. Read more here.
NEW HAMPSHIRE HOUSE PASSES BILL TO BAN ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING’ CARE FOR MINORS, SENDING BILL TO SENATE. House Bill 619 would prohibit a doctor or other health care professional from carrying out “genital gender reassignment surgery” to anyone in New Hampshire under 18 and would also prohibit health care workers from referring minors to facilities out of state that offer those procedures. Read more here.
DOCTORS ASSOCIATION CONCERNED ABOUT WHO GENDER GUIDELINE PLANS. The international doctors’ association Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine is “deeply concerned” about gender care guidelines announced by the World Health Organization (WHO) in December. The guidelines allegedly encourage access to “gender-inclusive care” promote legal self-identification. Read more here.
OHIO GOV. DEWINE SIGNS EMERGENCY EXECUTIVE ORDER BANNING TRANSGENDER SURGERIES AFTER VETOING SIMILAR BILL. Ohio’s Republican governor Mike DeWine has signed an “emergency” executive order banning transgender surgeries for minors, one week after he vetoed a bill that would have had a similar effect. Read more here.
U.S. HOME VISITING PROGRAM SAYS PARENTS DENYING CHILD’S ‘GENDER EXPRESSION’ MAY BE ABUSIVE. A federally funded “home visiting” program advises service providers to watch for signs of abuse against “gender-diverse children,” citing parents who deny their young child the “right” to cross-dress as an example. Read more here.
UN WOMEN’S GROUP CROWNS TRANSGENDER WOMAN TO BE THEIR CHAMPION, SPARKING OUTRAGE. Transgender Munroe Bergdorf was selected as the first UN Women UK Champion, sparking protest by 17 women’s groups. Read more here.
PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE APPROVES BILL THAT PAVES WAY FOR GENDER-NEUTRAL FIRST NAMES. The Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees of Portugal’s Parliament approved legislation that will allow people to choose a neutral name, eliminating the current obligation for first names to be identified as male or female. Read more here.
‘DETRANSITIONERS’ SAY THEY FACE VITRIOL FROM TRANS ACTIVISTS THEY PREVIOUSLY CONSIDERED A ‘SECOND FAMILY.’ After “detransitioning,” some individuals choose to speak out about their “transition” experience and in doing so, they often face vitriol from the transgender activist community. Read more here.
MUSEUM LABELS ROMAN EMPEROR ‘TRANSGENDER WOMAN.’ The teenage Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, nicknamed Elagabalus, who ruled only briefly between AD 218 and 222, is being labeled by North Hertfordshire Museum as Rome’s first (and presumably only) transgender woman emperor. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS PUSH KIDS TO WATCH FILMS ON TRANSGENDERISM THAT SHOWCASE PUBERTY BLOCKERS. Hayward Unified School District, which is located in California’s Bay Area and serves over 19,000 students from preschool to high school, is directing students to watch films that promote transgenderism and highlight how treatments such as puberty blockers work. Read more here.
3,000 DOCTORS SUE BIDEN ADMIN FOR RIGHT NOT TO ‘TRANSITION’ GENDER-CONFUSED CHILDREN. Thousands of doctors are suing the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) over its efforts to force health care providers into participating in the surgical or chemical “gender transitioning” of minors under the guise of civil rights “nondiscrimination.” Read more here.
USA BOXING MAKES GROUNDBREAKING DECISION TO ALLOW TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE ATHLETES TO COMPETE AGAINST FEMALE BOXERS. The national boxing regulatory body has decided that biological male boxers who identify as women can now compete against female boxers, if they undergo surgery and maintain certain hormone levels. Read more here.
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S TITLE IX PROPOSAL RECEIVES STARK WARNING FROM UN EXPERT: ‘DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS.’ Reem Alsalem, a U.N. special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, expressed concern about the proposal that would expand the meaning of sexual discrimination to include gender identity and prevent schools and colleges from banning transgender athletes. Read more here.
CANADA FORCING EMPLOYERS TO PROVIDE TAMPONS IN GOVERNMENT-CONTROLLED MEN’S RESTROOMS. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is forcing all federally regulated employers to provide feminine hygiene products to be placed in men’s bathrooms in an attempt to accommodate transgender employees. Read more here.
OHIO GOV. DEWINE VETOES BILL PROTECTING KIDS FROM TRANS TREATMENTS. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed a bill to protect minors from experimental transgender medical interventions, framing his decision as providing consensus on a divisive issue and to avoid having the government decide what medical decisions are best for children. Read more here.
BELFAST UNIVERSITY REQUIRES EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON CAMPUS TO USE PREFERRED PRONOUNS, TRANS NAMES OR BE PUNISHED. A new policy at Queen’s University Belfast now commands all associates, whether student or staff to use the commanded name and pronouns of an individual or face strict disciplinary action for allegedly bullying people. Read more here.
JUDGE BLOCKS IDAHO LAW PROTECTING KIDS FROM TRANSGENDER PROCEDURES. Federal Judge B. Lynn Winmill temporarily blocked the enactment of an Idaho law passed earlier this year that bans procedures like double mastectomies on girls who identify as boys and giving children puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. Read more here.
MOST CALIFORNIANS ARE AGAINST RADICAL GENDER IDEOLOGY. Despite the radical policies being implemented by California lawmakers, a recent study conducted by Spry Strategies indicates a majority of Californians do not agree with the gender ideology being pushed by the left. Read more here.
CATHOLIC WOMEN’S COLLEGE REVERSES COURSE, WON’T ADMIT MEN WHO ‘IDENTIFY AS WOMEN.’ Saint Mary’s College, Indiana changed its admissions policy for the 2024-25 semester and will not admit men who identify as women. Read more here.
HUNDREDS OF CHILDREN UNDER SIX SENT TO DISGRACED NHS TRANSGENDER GENDER CLINIC. Children as young as three years old have been referred to Britain’s socialized medicine’s ‘Gender Identity Development Service’ transgender clinic, with hundreds of young children referred in the past decade. Read more here.
‘SPORTS IS BIOLOGICAL’: FITNESS GURU JILLIAN MICHAELS SAYS TRANS ATHLETES WILL ‘DESTROY’ FEMALE SPORTS, HURT WOMEN. Michaels emphasized that sports are “biological,” and men can simply not compete against females due to those biological differences, safety and fairness. Read more here.
CANADA: TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE WHO CAMPAIGNED TO DEFUND RAPE SHELTER AWARDED MEDAL BY GOVERNOR GENERAL. Canadian women are expressing outrage after the trans-identified male Morgane Oger, who urged the defunding of a rape crisis shelter, was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal from the Governor General of Canada. Read more here.
MICHIGAN SCHOOL DISTRICT TREATS GIRL AS BOY BEHIND PARENTS’ BACKS. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed suit against a Michigan school district on behalf of a mother and father after district employees began treating the couple’s middle-school daughter as a boy without their knowledge or consent and taking steps to conceal these actions from the parents. Read more here.
MISSOURI SCHOOL DISTRICT OFFERS COLORING PAGES ON PREFERRED PRONOUNS, GENDER EXPRESSION TO KINDERGARTNERS. Webster Groves School District Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Shane Williamson emailed administrators a resource list of “Gender Identity and Expression Activities” for children as young as kindergarten in honor of LGBT History Awareness Month. Read more here.
WAR ON FAMILIES: FEDERAL ‘HOME VISITING’ PROGRAM CLASSIFIES PARENTS WHO DON’T LET YOUNG KIDS CROSS-DRESS AS POSSIBLY ABUSIVE. The federally funded “home visiting” Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program, a subagency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, advises service providers to watch for signs of abuse against “gender-diverse children,” citing parents who deny their young child the “right” to cross-dress as an example, a document shows. Read more here.
NETFLlX FACES BACKLASH OVER ‘COCOMELON LANE’ EPISODE WITH CROSS-DRESSING BOY DANCING FOR HIS TWO DADS: ‘THEY’RE JUST EVIL.’ NetfIix is facing a strident backlash for a scene in the latest episode of its children’s show CoComelon Lane showing a crossdressing boy dancing in a tutu, which critics called “just evil.” Read more here.
SAYING ‘GENDER IS BINARY AND CANNOT BE CHANGED’ GOT AN AWARD-WINNING CALIFORNIA TEACHER FIRED. HE’S FIGHTING BACK. A homosexual fifth grade teacher in Glendale, California, is suing the Glendale Unified School District after he was fired for condemning transgender ideology at a school board meeting in April. Read more here.
TRANSGENDER GUIDANCE: UK SCHOOLS TO KEEP PARENTS INFORMED. Schools in England should “take a very cautious approach” if pupils want to use a new name, pronouns or uniform, because Education Secretary Gillian Keegan said, “Parents’ views must also be at the heart of all decisions made about their children.” Read more here.
‘GENDER NONSENSE’: NEW JERSEY SCHOOL DISTRICTS SCRAP TRANSGENDER POLICIES. Two New Jersey school districts voted to get rid of their state-recommended transgender school policies that allow school staff to keep a student’s new gender identity hidden from their parents unless the student gives permission or if there is a risk to the student’s health and safety. Read more here.
PROMINENT BIOLOGICAL MALE TRANS ACTIVIST CHARGED WITH SEXUALLY ASSAULTING TWO MINORS, RECORDED AS ‘FEMALE’ BY COURT. Kendall Stephens, who had been working in a leadership position at a children’s home for vulnerable youth in Philadelphia, was arrested on charges of raping two minors. Read more here.
SCHOOL HELPED CHILD ‘TRANSITION’ WITH NEW PRONOUNS, MICHIGAN PARENTS SAY. THEY’RE SUING. Parents of a Michigan child are suing the Rockford Public School District after they say the school helped their child “socially transition” without their consent. Read more here.
‘TRANS SECRET SANTA’ CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED IN UK FOR TRANS ‘YOUNG PEOPLE’ UNDER 25. LGBTQ+ activism organization Think2Speak launched a Secret Santa campaign for trans “young people” in the UK in collaboration with trans model and speaker Jude Guaitamacchi, trans artist Mister Samo and Octavian Starr. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA BALLOT PETITION COULD REPEAL MAJOR TRANSGENDER LEGISLATION. A ballot petition in California aims to repeal transgender legislation, potentially requiring schools to notify parents of a child’s desire to “transition” and to limit girls’ athletic programs to female athletes. Read more here.
SISTERS AT UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING SORORITY DEMAND COURT CLEARLY DEFINE ‘WOMAN.’ The female complainants at the center of a lawsuit to have a trans-identified male removed from a sorority at the University of Wyoming have re-filed their appeal, demanding the court clearly define the word “woman.” Read more here.
APPEALS COURT REVIVES CONNECTICUT GIRLS’ CHALLENGE AGAINST COMPETING WITH TRANSGENDER ATHLETES. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals revived an Alliance Defending Freedom lawsuit filed by four female track and field athletes challenging Connecticut’s policy of permitting biological men to compete based on gender identity, arguing that it violates Title IX. Read more here.
CANADA: VIOLENT TRANSGENDER PEDOPHILE RE-ARRESTED WITHIN DAYS OF PRISON RELEASE. Transgender sex offender Laverne Travis Waskahat, who has a long history of sexually abusing young children, has been arrested once again. Read more here.
RUSSIAN FEMALE TENNIS PLAYER LOSES TO MAN IN FRANCE. Rising Russian tennis star Mirra Andreeva lost to a male player during what was supposed to a women’s exhibition event in France after Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk refused to play against him. Read more here.
VIRGINIA SUPREME COURT BACKS TEACHER FIRED FOR NOT USING STUDENT’S PREFERRED PRONOUNS. The Virginia Supreme Court ruled that West Point high school French teacher Peter Vlaming, who was fired for refusing to use pronouns that didn’t match a student’s biological sex, could have his lawsuit against the local school board reinstated. Read more here.
TRANSGENDER COMPETITOR’S WOMEN’S TITLE WIN AT CROQUET WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS SPARKS OUTRAGE. Australian biological male transgender Jamie Gumbrell defeated a former women’s champion to win the World Croquet Federation earlier this year, and it’s been revealed that female competitors did not protest this due to fear of retribution. Read more here.
TRANS VOLLEYBALL PLAYER WINS WOMEN’S SCHOLARSHIP FOR UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON AFTER CONCEALING TRANS IDENTITY SINCE AGE 12. Tate Drageset will become the first transgender male to receive a full scholarship for women’s volleyball at the University of Washington—a first in Division I women’s sports. Read more here.
OHIO LEGISLATORS PASS BAN ON ‘GENDER-AFFIMING CARE’ FOR MINORS, SENDING BILL TO GOVERNOR. Ohio legislators passed a bill to ban “gender-affirming care” for minors, joining more than 20 states that have passed similar restrictions in the past two years. Read more here.
FLORIDA PUNISHES SCHOOL FOR ALLOWING BOY ON GIRLS’ SPORTS TEAM. Monarch High School has been fined and placed on administrative probation for violating the state’s bylaws by allowing a biological male student to participate on a female sports team. Read more here.
TRAINEE THERAPIST EXPELLED FOR VIEW ON TRANS THERAPY REACHES SETTLEMENT. James Esses, a trainee therapist who was expelled from his course for launching a public petition on safeguards in therapy for children with gender dysphoria, has reached a settlement with the UK Council for Psychotherapy in his claim against them – and the Council says that it recognizes gender dysphoria can be treated with explorative therapy, rather than being affirmed. Read more here.
MISSOURI SCHOOL DISTRICT WOULD ASSIGN BOYS TO BUNK WITH GIRLS ON FIELD TRIPS IF THEY IDENTIFY AS GIRLS. Webster Groves High School’s policy for overnight athletic team road trips stipulates that students will be assigned to room with others of the sex they identify with, meaning that biological males who identify as female will be assigned to sleep in the same room as girls. Read more here.
EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY-THEMED INSTITUTE WORKS TO DEBUNK GENDER SPECTRUM ‘NONSENSE.’ A team of self-styled science communicators is taking a stand against what they view as outright science denial through their new organization, The Paradox Institute, which works to inoculate young people against falling for gender spectra ideology myths and falsehoods. Read more here.
IRISH PSYCHOTHERAPIST CRITICIZES CDC’S ‘DANGEROUS’ REMOVAL OF WORD ‘WOMEN’ FROM HEALTH GUIDANCE. Prominent psychotherapist Stella O’Malley, the founder of Genspect and author of best-selling books on parenting and mental health, has criticized the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for removing the word “women” from health guidance, describing the move as “dangerous.” Read more here.
AUSTRALIA: COUNCILLOR FACING TRIBUNAL INQUIRY AND ‘INCITING HATRED’ CHARGES FOR STATING ‘TRANS WOMEN ARE MEN.’ Louise Elliot, a Hobart City Council member, is under investigation by the anti-discrimination commissioner for “inciting hatred” after declaring “trans women are men.” Read more here.
CANADIAN MILITARY TO PROVIDE TAMPONS FOR MALE SOLDIERS. All Canadian military bases will soon be required to have menstruation products in the men’s restroom to align with the federal government directive issued by Employment and Social Development Canada to promote “inclusivity.” Read more here.
UK: TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE PEDOPHILE REPORTED AS ‘WOMAN’ BY MEDIA AND POLICE FOLLOWING SEXUAL ABUSE OF TODDLER. Naomi O’Brien, a trans-identified male and his partner, have been sentenced to a combined total of 16 years and 9 months in prison for their roles in the horrific sexual abuse of a 4-year-old boy. Read more here.
PRESIDENT OF LGBTQ ADVOCATE GROUP SAYS WOMEN SHOULD ‘LEARN TO LOSE GRACEFULLY’ TO TRANS COMPETITORS. Fatima Goss Graves, the president of the National Women’s Law Center, said during congressional testimony that women should “learn to lose gracefully” when forced to compete with biological males. Read more here.
SCOTTISH COURT UPHOLDS UK DECISION TO BLOCK SCOTLAND’S LANDMARK GENDER RECOGNITION LAW. Scotland’s highest civil court upheld the British government’s move to block a gender recognition law passed by the Scottish parliament, underscoring the growing divide over local control of legislation in the nations of the United Kingdom. Read more here.
CONSERVATIVE GERMAN BIOLOGIST WINS COURT CASE OVER GENDER VIEW. When news broke that biologist Marie-Luise Vollbrecht would deliver a speech on why there are two genders in biology at Germany’s Humboldt University, the school canceled her speech. Read more here.
U.S. FDA WEIGHS IN ON ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING’ CARE STUDY. The Research Institute for Gender Therapeutics said the Food and Drug Administration may possibly allow a late-stage clinical trial studying the use of estradiol, a form of the hormone estrogen, for some individuals receiving so-called “gender-affirming” care. Read more here.
‘DO NO HARM’: PEDIATRICIANS FIGHT IN COURT AS BIDEN HHS TRIES TO FORCE THEM TO DO TRANS PROCEDURES. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit heard oral arguments in a case challenging President Joe Biden’s executive order mandating that Health and Human Services force physicians to violate their sound medical judgment and/or their religious beliefs by redefining “sex” in federal law to include “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.” Read more here.
PARENTS OUTRAGED AFTER TRANS-IDENTIFYING BOY WINS GIRLS’ IRISH DANCING COMPETITION, HEADS TO WORLDS. A teenage boy who identifies as a girl is going to the Irish Dancing World Championships after placing first in the 2023 Southern Region Oireachtas competitions, angering parents and female competitors. Read more here.
WISCONSIN GOVERNOR VETOES BILL THAT WOULD HAVE BANNED TRANS SURGERIES ON CHILDREN. Democratic Governor Tony Evers vetoed a bill that would have protected children from irreversible transgender surgeries, including double mastectomies on girls who identify as boys, and giving children puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. Read more here.
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PROFS CANCEL CLASSES, HOST ‘HEALING CIRCLES’ OVER ‘DETRANSITIONER’S’ SPEECH ON CAMPUS. University staff canceled one day of classes while the LGBTQ Resource Center hosted a “Healing Circle” ahead of 19-year-old “detransitioner” Chloe Cole’s speech hosted by the Young Americans Foundation. Read more here.
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO INVITES ‘NON-BINARY TRANS WOMAN’ TO GIVE KEYNOTE SPEECH ON ‘TRANSMISOGYNY’ DURING ANNIVERSARY OF MASS SUICIDE. The University of Toronto invited a trans-identified male to speak at a memorial ceremony dedicated to the women who lost their lives during the École Polytechnique massacre. Despite it being the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women in Canada, the speech instead focused on “addressing transmisogyny.” Read more here.
ED DEPT. FINALLY INVESTIGATES WISCONSIN SCHOOL OVER TRANSGENDER SHOWER INCIDENT. The Biden administration has opened a Title IX investigation into a Madison, Wisconsin-area school district months after four freshman girls told authorities that a transgender-identified 18-year-old male student showered in front of them, exposing his genitals, in a high school locker room.” Read more here.
‘GENDER-TRANSITION’ CRITIC SPEAKS AT SYRACUSE DESPITE CANCEL ATTEMPTS BY LGBTQ ‘EXPERTS.’ Despite attempts by LGBTQ “experts” and students to cancel her appearance at Syracuse University, Genspect gender therapist Sara Stockton spoke critically of social and medical “transition.” Read more here.
CALIFORNIA WILL SOON FINE STORES THAT DON’T HAVE A ‘GENDER-NEUTRAL’ KIDS TOY SECTION. A new California law slated to go into effect on January 1, 2024 will mandate stores that sell children’s items to have a gender-neutral section according to a state government website. Read more here.
PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO FACTOR IN GENDER IDENTITY, RACE INTO SCHOOL DISCIPLINE: ‘COMPLETELY BACKWARDS.’ School staff at Portland, Oregon Public Schools will now be required to consider a disruptive student’s race, gender identity and sexual orientation before disciplining them. Read more here.
NETHERLANDS: TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE CHARGED WITH BRUTAL KNIFE MURDER TRANSFERRED TO WOMEN’S PRISON. A trans-identifying male, “Daniela D.,” charged with fatally stabbing a man 214 times, has been placed in a women’s prison ahead of his final hearings. Read more here.
SCOTLAND TO BAN MALES WHO HAVE COMMITTED VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN FROM FEMALE PRISONS. The Scottish Prison Service has announced a new policy that will require males who have committed violence against females to be placed in men’s prisons, regardless of the gender with which they identify. Read more here.
ARE YOU DEMIBOY, GENDERFLUID OR QUESTIONING? PATIENTS ASKED TO CHOOSE GENDER IDENTITY BY NHS TRUST. An NHS trust in the United Kingdom is asking patients to choose what gender identity they are from a list including “Demiboy,” “Genderfluid” and “Questioning.” Read more here.
DUTCH LGBT POLITICIAN ATTEMPTING TO SILENCE CRITICS USING THE COURTS AND POLICE AFTER BEING ACCUSED OF SEXUALLY ABUSING MINORS. Sidney Smeets, LGBT activist and former member of the Dutch Parliament, has filed multiple defamation claims against his critics despite resigning amid accusations he sexually abused multiple young boys. Read more here.
SCHOOL ASSIGNED GIRL TO SLEEP WITH BOY WHO IDENTIFIES AS TRANS WITHOUT PARENTAL NOTIFICATION. An 11-year-old girl was assigned by the Jefferson County Public School District to share a bed with a male student who identifies as a transgender girl while on a cross-country school trip, and Alliance Defending Freedom is now representing her parents in the aftermath of this invasion of privacy. Read more here.
COURT VICTORY FOR CANADIAN TEACHER SILENCED FOR TRANSGENDER BOOK CRITICISM. An Ontario judge has declared that human rights legislation “does not prohibit public discussion of anything,” in a free-speech victory for a teacher who was shut down when she raised concerns at a school board meeting about transgender-themed books in elementary school libraries. Read more here.
FATHER SAYS HIS DAUGHTER SUFFERED A CONCUSSION WHILE PLAYING SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL AGAINST TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE STUDENT. A concerned father in California has come forward to reveal that his daughter sustained a traumatic concussion after playing high school volleyball against an opposing team with a trans-identified male student. Read more here.
TRANSGENDER TEENAGER PLEADS GUILTY TO PLANNING SCHOOL, CHURCH SHOOTINGS IN COLORADO. William Whitworth, a trans-identifying male, pleaded guilty to second-degree assault for threatening to target three schools in Colorado Springs. Read more here.
TEXAS TOWN SIDES WITH DRAG QUEENS OVER CHURCHES IN CHRISTMAS PARADE FIGHT. For years, the Taylor Area Ministerial Alliance was responsible for organizing the annual Christmas parade, but controversy arose when LGBTQ activists demanded to be allowed to participate. Read more here.
IS THIS FRAUD? SENATOR URGES INQUIRY INTO AUSTRALIA’S TESTOSTERONE-FOR-FEMALES SCANDAL. Australia’s Senator Claire Chandler has called for an urgent investigation into the practice of transgender-identifying girls and young women being given taxpayer-funded testosterone as if they suffer from a “testicular disorder.” Read more here.
TENNESSEE AG PROMISES LEGAL ACTION IF BIDEN ADMIN FINALIZES TRANSGENDER FOSTER CARE RULE. Health and Human Services proposed a new rule on “Safe and Appropriate Foster Care Placement Requirements,” prompting responses from 17 attorneys general and a promised challenge by Tennessee. Read more here.
JUDGE HANDS MAJOR DEFEAT TO TRANSGENDER LAWMAKER SUING RED STATE OVER ‘UNCONSTITUTIONAL’ CENSURE. A Montana judge dismissed a lawsuit that state Rep. Zooey Zephyr, a Democrat who identifies as transgender, brought against the Montana House of Representatives after Zephyr’s censure in April. Read more here.
LONDON MIDWIVES FORCED TO RECORD NEWBORNS’ ‘GENDER IDENTITY’ INSTEAD OF BIOLOGICAL SEX. Midwives in two London, England hospitals are being forced to record newborn babies’ “gender identity” instead of their biological sex in what the National Health Service is calling a “system error” with its new IT technology. Read more here.
FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL UNDER SCRUTINY OVER TRANS PARTICIPATION ON GIRLS’ VOLLEYBALL TEAM. The principal and a few staff members at Monarch High School in Coconut Creek were reassigned pending the outcome of an investigation into “improper student participation in sports,” the Broward County Public Schools said in a statement. Read more here.
UK COURT SIDES WITH TEEN WHO WANTS DOUBLE MASTECTOMY TO AFFIRM HER ‘NON-BINARY’ IDENTITY. The High Court of the United Kingdom has rejected a legal bid by the parents of a 17-year-old girl identifying as “non-binary” to prevent her from getting a double mastectomy. Read more here.
BOARD MEMBER SUES MESA, ARIZONA PUBLIC SCHOOLS OVER GENDER RULES. Mesa Public Schools Governing Board member Rachel Walden is suing the district and Superintendent Andi Fourlis over MPS transgender guidelines that allow boys who identify as “female” to use girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms. Read more here.
POOL PLAYER LYNNE PINCHES GETS AWARD AFTER REFUSING CHAMPIONSHIP AGAINST MALE COMPETITOR. Pinches recently walked away from her women’s pool championship game to show her rejection of the transsexual demand that men can pretend to be women, and she later received her deserved prize. Read more here.
NORWAY: TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE MURDERS TRANS-IDENTIFIED FEMALE AND MEDIA REPORT THAT A ‘WOMAN’ MURDERED A ‘MAN.’ A trans-identified male is in custody after allegedly murdering his trans-identified female partner in Porsgrunn, Norway, where confused media reported that a “woman” murdered a “man.” Read more here.
CANADA: ONTARIO MUSEUM SCRUBS FEMALE POWERLIFTER FROM EXHIBIT FOLLOWING HER CALLS FOR FAIRNESS IN WOMEN’S SPORTS. A museum in London, Ontario has removed the female powerlifter April Hutchinson’s exhibit as an apparent retaliation for her vocal opposition to males participating in women’s sports. Read more here.
FL REP. RYAN CHAMBERLIN: PRONOUN LEGISLATION IS ABOUT ‘COMMON SENSE VS. NONSENSE.’ State Rep. Ryan Chamberlin introduced a bill stating that an employee or contractor for government institutions, businesses or nonprofit organizations that receive taxpayer funding cannot be required to use an individual’s “personal pronoun” if it does not correspond to that individual’s biological sex. Read more here.
BARBADOS DANCE GROUP CONSIDERS LEGAL ACTION OVER DISQUALIFICATION FOR CHALLENGING TRANS IDEOLOGY. Praise Academy of Dance Barbados has secured the legal help of the U.K.-based Christian Legal Centre after the National Independence Festival of Creative Arts disqualified the group in October for allegedly breaching “the bounds of good taste” and making “defamatory claims.” Read more here.
CATHOLIC ALL-GIRLS COLLEGE WILL ADMIT MEN IDENTIFYING AS ‘WOMEN.’ Saint Mary’s College President Katie Conboy told faculty in an email that “Saint Mary’s will consider undergraduate applicants whose sex assigned at birth is female or who consistently live and identify as women.” Read more here.
TRANSGENDER ATHLETE SHATTERS COLLEGE RECORD FOR WOMEN. A transgender swimmer at Ramapo College of New Jersey who identifies himself as Meghan Cortez-Fields broke a women’s school record in the 100-yard butterfly after competing for the men’s team for three years. Read more here.
DISNEY ‘PRONOUN PINS’ SLAMMED: ‘WALT IS ROLLING OVER IN HIS GRAVE.’ Pronoun name tags at Disney World will feature a range of different gender pronouns and will first be worn by workers in Epcot’s custodial department, before moving to every department at the Disney theme park. Read more here.
TEXAS SCHOOL BOARD SUCCUMBS TO TRANS PROTESTS, ALLOWS GENDER-CONFUSED GIRL TO PLAY MALE ROLE IN MUSICAL. The Sherman, Texas Independent School District voted 7-0 to allow a gender-confused girl to take a male role in an upcoming high school musical performance. Read more here.
GERMANY: PEDOPHILE ADVOCATE LEADING ‘QUEER’ GROUP PROMOTING ‘TRANSITIONING’ GENDER-CONFUSED CHILDREN. Some critics of gender identity ideology have questioned the Berlin chapter of SPDqueer’s decision to work with a sexologist who has a disturbing history of advocating favorably for pedophilia as a sexual orientation. Read more here.
ILLINOIS SCHOOL ‘DIVERSITY’ CLUB SPONSOR SOUGHT TO EXCLUDE STUDENTS UPSET OVER TRANS BATHROOM POLICY. A Waterloo high school teacher and advisor to the school’s “Diversity,” (Gay-Straight Alliance) Club complained about critics of the school’s bathroom policy and sought to exclude them from the group. Read more here.
‘MENSTRUATION’ TAMPONS LAUNCHED BY FINNISH COMPANY FOR WOMEN WHO THINK THEY ARE MEN. Vuokkoset, which has long manufactured menstrual products, lamented the fact that “periods and period products are viewed in our culture: as a ‘women’s thing,’” and billed the latest addition to its lineup as something “for men who have periods too.” Read more here.
AUSTRALIAN HEALTH DEPARTMENT TO CONSIDER FUNDING GENDER-AFFIRMING SURGERY UNDER MEDICARE. Gender-affirming procedures such as chest surgery and genital reconfiguration would be subsidized by Medicare under a push to improve mental health and quality of life for transgender people. Read more here.
‘GENDER AFFIRMING’ SURGERIES ARE ‘ESSENTIAL’ FOR SCHOOL STUDENTS, HARVARD SAYS. A four-week elective course called “Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery” subjects students to participation in procedures that include hand surgery, breast reconstruction, microsurgery, craniofacial surgery, lymphatic surgery, orthoplastic surgery, “gender affirming” surgery and cosmetic surgery. Read more here.
NORTH DAKOTA JUDGE ALLOWS BAN ON TRANS SURGERIES FOR MINORS TO REMAIN IN EFFECT. The judge dismissed a request to halt a ban on “sex change” surgeries for minors, which had been signed into law last spring by Gov. Doug Burgum. Read more here.
2 TRANSGENDERS TO COMPETE FOR MISS UNIVERSE TITLE FOLLOWING PAGEANT’S BANKRUPTCY FILING. Transgender males from Portugal and the Netherlands will be among the qualifiers in Saturday’s Miss Universe pageant in San Salvador. Read more here.
‘NON-BINARY AND TRANSGENDER EXTRAVAGANZA’ FEATURED IN MACY’S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE. This year’s parade is causing controversy with the inclusion of “non-binary” and transgender performers. Read more here.
CONGRESSMEN SEEK TO BLOCK FORCED USE OF ‘PREFERRED PRONOUNS’ ACROSS FEDERAL AGENCIES. Rep. Andy Ogles (Rep-TN) and Sen. Ted Cruz (Rep-TX) are leading a bill that would block federal agencies from requiring employees and contractors to use the “preferred pronouns” of their employees. Read more here.
UK: TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE APPOINTED NEW ENDOMETRIOSIS CHARITY CEO. A transgender male has been appointed as the new chief executive officer for a prominent women’s health charity in England, prompting outrage from women’s rights advocates. Read more here.
NATIONAL COUNSELING ORGANIZATIONS PUSH TRANSGENDER IDEOLOGY ON PROFESSIONALS, IN SCHOOLS. The American School Counselor Association, with a membership of 43,000 counselors and certified trainers across the country, is demanding that school counselors “promote affirmation” for those who identify as transgender. Read more here.
VATICAN SAYS TRANSSEXUALS CAN BE BAPTIZED, SERVE AS GODPARENTS. The Vatican’s doctrinal office declared that transsexuals and “homoaffective” persons can be baptized and serve as godparents provided certain conditions are met. Read more here.
WOMEN EXPELLED FROM UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING SORORITY AFTER OPPOSING ADMISSION OF TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALES. Two veteran members of a sorority at the University of Wyoming have been expelled after expressing disapproval toward the admission of a trans-identified male to the sisterhood. Read more here.
FEMALE POOL PLAYER FORFEITS FINAL DUE TO FACING TRANS MALE OPPONENT. Lynne Pinches stepped away from the table to applause from spectators who appeared to approve of her decision not to compete against transgender male Harriet Haynes – a World Masters Champion and World Scotch Doubles Champion – in the women’s category. Read more here.
VICTIMS OF ERASING SEX DISTINCTIONS LEAD GROWING COALITION AGAINST TRANS MUTILATION. From “detransitioners” to parental rights activists, last week’s Genspect conference in Denver featured a who’s who of those fighting gender ideology. Read more here.
FRENCH CRITICS OF HASTY MEDICALIZATION WIN A PRESTIGIOUS AWARD. Two of France’s most prominent critics of youth gender medicine, clinical psychologist Céline Masson and child psychiatrist Caroline Eliacheff, have been honored with a prize for their work carried out in the face of activist attacks. Read more here.
‘TRANS MAN’S’ CHILDREN’S BOOK FEATURED ON GLAMOUR UK COVER HIT WITH SCATHING REVIEWS. Transgender-identifying LGBT activist and biological woman Logan Brown, who was featured on the cover of Glamour UK earlier this year, released a children’s book titled In My Daddy’s Belly, and the book already has multiple negative reviews. Read more here.
DUTCH HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTE DEFENDS TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE’S ACCESS TO FEMALE LOCKER ROOMS DESPITE EXHIBITIONISM. The government-backed Dutch Human Rights Institute has come to the defense of a trans-identified male who reported a woman to police for requesting he stay out of women’s spaces. Read more here.
‘TRANSGENDER’ ALABAMA MAYOR MOURNED BY TRANS ACTIVISTS SHARED PHOTOS OF LOCAL WOMEN TO PORN SITES. Smiths Station Mayor F.L. “Bubba” Copeland committed suicide after it was discovered that he had shared the names and photos of women he had victimized to pornography sites, after a damning expose was released by the 1819 Project revealing he had written erotic fantasies of murdering a local woman. Read more here.
‘ORWELLIAN’ HHS PRONOUN MANDATE FORCES EMPLOYEES TO ‘DENY REALITY,’ VIOLATE LAW: LEGAL EXPERT. The Department of Health and Human Services has rolled out a new gender pronoun policy that one Heritage Foundation expert and former HHS official says violates employee rights and will result in firings for “misgendering.” Read more here.
FEDERAL JUDGE UPHOLDS FLORIDA BAN ON TRANSGENDER ATHLETES PLAYING ON FEMALE TEAMS. A Miami federal judge dismissed a Broward County, Florida student’s claims of discrimination and upheld a 2021 state law that bans transgender athletes in public schools and colleges from playing on female sports teams. Read more here.
FAILING TO ADDRESS STUDENTS BY PREFERRED NAME WOULD BE DISCRIMINATION UNDER NEW COLORADO BILL PUSHED BY YOUTH. School staff would be required to address Colorado students by their preferred name under a new bill advanced by a state youth council, and refusal to comply would constitute discrimination. Read more here.
IRELAND: MALE TRANSGENDER BDSM FETISHIST WINS AWARD FOR PLAYING FOOTBALL AGAINST YOUNG WOMEN AND GIRLS. A trans-identified male athlete who has been criticized for playing Gaelic football against young women and teen girls has now been granted a sports award and was positively profiled by an Irish LGBT publication. Read more here.
‘WHY ARE THE ADULTS GOING ALONG WITH THIS?’: SEATTLE TEEN BLASTS CROSS COUNTRY ORG FOR ALLOWING TRANS RUNNERS TO COMPETE. A member of a high school girls’ cross-country team in Seattle and her parents are feeling “unsettled” and “cheated” by a boy who was allowed to compete against female athletes. Read more here.
OHIO STUDENTS PROTEST SCHOOL’S NEW TRANSGENDER BATHROOM POLICY: ‘SCHOOL BOARD HASN’T BEEN LISTENING.’ Dozens of Elida, Ohio High School students walked out of classes to protest the school’s policy allowing transgender students to choose restrooms by preference rather than biology. Read more here.
TRANSGENDER ‘NUDIST’ REPORTED TO CHILD PROTECTIVE AUTHORITIES AFTER DISTURBING VIDEO SPARKS OUTRAGE. A trans-identified male who promotes nudism has been reported to child protective authorities following a disturbing video beginning to circulate on social media showing him exposing himself in the presence of a small child. Read more here.
JEWISH ‘DETRANSITIONER’ SUES HER SURGEON, MOURNS SHE’LL NEVER CONCEIVE NATURALLY AFTER HYSTERECTOMY. A 23-year-old Chicago woman who filed a lawsuit anonymously is suing the surgeons whom she says cut off her healthy breasts and removed her uterus, making it impossible for her to ever carry and birth her biological children. Read more here.
FEMALE POWERLIFTER ANGRY ABOUT TRANSGENDER ATHLETES FACES SUSPENSION. April Hutchinson is facing a two-year ban by the Canadian Powerlifting Union for speaking publicly about the unfairness of biological males being allowed to taunt female competitors and loot their winnings. Read more here.
WOMEN’S MAGAZINE NAMES TRANSGENDER MODEL AS ‘WOMAN OF THE YEAR.’ Glamour magazine named biological male transgender model Geena Rocero one of its “Women of the Year,” describing him as “a force to be reckoned with.” Read more here.
‘TRANS’ CYCLIST CONTINUES TO ROB WOMEN OF AWARDS. The man named Tessa Johnson placed first in the women’s Single Speed and women’s Cat Half cycling races at the Campton Cross Competition, and he has won 10 gold medals in Chicago women’s races this year. Read more here.
UK: TRANSGENDER ACADEMIC WHO DOWNPLAYED VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN REVISING ETHICS FOR THERAPISTS. A trans-identified male academic who was previously criticized for stating that it “would not matter” if women were killed as a result of gender identity policies has been appointed to devise ethical guidelines for therapists at Open University UK. Read more here.
UK JUDGES WARN CROWN PROTECTION SERVICE HAS BEEN ‘CAPTURED’ BY PRO-TRANS LOBBY. The think tank Policy Exchange has accused the prosecuting authority for England and Wales of having been “unduly influenced” by the LGBT charity Stonewall when drawing up guidance about domestic abuse. Read more here.
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN GAVE GENDER ‘TRANSITION’ SURGERIES WITHOUT PROPER CONSENT: LAWSUIT. A woman who allegedly self-diagnosed herself as having gender dysphoria as a teenager is suing two Wisconsin surgeons who removed her uterus and breasts, saying they did the procedures without her proper consent. Read more here.
OKLAHOMA BILL WOULD BAN FUNDS FOR GENDER RESEARCHERS WHO ‘PREY ON KIDS.’ Oklahoma State Rep. Josh Brecheen is introducing legislation that would ban gender researchers from receiving taxpayer funding if they lead studies facilitating transgender “sex-change” attempts for minors. Read more here.
MALE ON WOMEN’S FIELD HOCKEY TEAM PUTS OPPONENT IN HOSPITAL. A female Massachusetts high school field hockey player was sent to the hospital with “significant facial and dental injuries” during a state tournament game after a male on the opposing team hit her in the face with a field hockey ball. Read more here.
STUDENTS DISRUPT, CANCEL UNIVERSITY OF UTAH YAF SCREENING OF TRANS-CRITICAL DOCUMENTARY. Activists at the University of Utah disrupted and canceled a screening of the documentary on child transgender procedures, “Damaged: The Transing of America’s Kids,” sponsored by the university’s Young Americans for Freedom chapter. Read more here.
LOUDOUN COUNTY STUDENTS STAGE WALKOUT TO PROTEST TRANSGENDER BATHROOM POLICY. Dozens of students held a walkout over gender bathroom policies in Loudoun County, the progressive Virginia district that became a hotbed of protest on the issue after a pupil was sexually assaulted in the girls’ bathroom by a boy in a skirt. Read more here.
PITTSBURGH LGBT ACTIVISTS DEMAND THREE NEW CENTERS, ‘TRANS-INCLUSIVE’ HOUSING. Activists at the University of Pittsburgh protested outside a Turning Point USA event to demand “trans-inclusive healthcare and housing” among other requests. Read more here.
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING SETTLES WITH EVANGELIST WHO CALLED OUT TRANS SORORITY MEMBER. The University of Wyoming has settled with Laramie evangelist Todd Schmidt, who sued it for censoring his speech about a transgender student’s biological sex. Read more here.
‘PEOPLE WITH CERVICES’: INDIANA UNIVERSITY MED SCHOOL DOUBLES DOWN ON GENDER IDEOLOGY. Insisting on pushing gender ideology, Indiana University School of Medicine is teaching that sex and gender are both “non-binary.” Read more here.
ACLU AND FAMILIES OF TRANS TEENS ASK SUPREME COURT TO BLOCK TENNESSEE BAN ON ‘GENDER AFFIRMING’ CARE. Attorneys representing Tennessee transgender teens and their families asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block a ban on “gender-affirming care” for minors that a lower court allowed to go into effect. Read more here.
SCOTTISH FEMINISTS LOSE APPEAL ON DEFINITION OF ‘WOMAN.’ The Inner House of the Court of Session delivered judgment on the appeal of For Women Scotland v the Scottish Ministers on the meaning of “sex” in the Equality Act, recognizing that gender is determined by birth unless a person obtains a Gender Recognition Certificate. Read more here.
EFFECTS OF EXPERIMENTAL GENDER SURGERY ON KIDS ‘DESTRUCTIVE,’ NEW HOUSE SPEAKER SAYS. New U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson sharply criticized experimental surgeries on children as he discussed the “destructive” effects that such experimentation, dubbed “gender-affirming care” by gender ideologists, has upon young people. Read more here.
PRAGERU LAUNCHES ‘DETRANS’ DOCUMENTARY TO EXPLAIN THE TERRIBLE COST OF THE TRANSGENDER MOVEMENT. A new PragerU video features young Americans who were manipulated by the transgender movement and pushed by medical professionals to take hormones and undergo surgery and are now warning others of the dangers involved. Read more here.
COURT SETS DEADLINE FOR INTERVENERS IN LAWSUIT CHALLENGING NEW BRUNSWICK GENDER IDENTITY POLICY. A lawsuit filed by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association alleges New Brunswick’s school gender identity policy violates the children’s charter and human rights and asks for a judge to quash them. Read more here.
NINE GOVERNORS SIGN PETITION FOR NCAA TO PROTECT WOMEN’S SPORTS. Led by South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, the governors want the college sports governing body to rewrite its Transgender Student Athlete Policy in the interests of ensuring fairness in athletics. Read more here.
PRO JIU-JITSU LEAGUE BANS TRANS ATHLETES FROM COMPETING AGAINST WOMEN AFTER COMPLAINTS FROM FEMALE FIGHTERS. Following complaints from biological female competitors having to face men who identify as women in competition, a prominent jiu-jitsu league banned “male-to-female” gender transitioners from competing against women in all its matches going forward. Read more here.
‘SOMETHING HAS GONE VERY WRONG’: FINNISH PSYCHIATRIST SPEAKS OUT AGAINST TRANS MUTILATION OF KIDS. A leading adolescent psychiatrist in Finland spoke out about the popular craze of transgenderism, warning from her own professional experience that young people are being influenced by social contagion to identify as another gender, that surgical and chemical interventions are leaving kids more distressed than ever and that pro-transgender organizations are refusing to acknowledge the facts. Read more here.
OHIO ISSUE 1 WOULD ALLOW TRANSGENDER SURGERIES ON KIDS WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT. A constitutional amendment that would guarantee abortion until birth is being supported by a coalition of abortionists, transgender activists and left-wing radicals who believe in transgender surgeries for minors, legalizing prostitution and “destigmatizing and uplifting sex work.” Read more here.
BOSTON CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL RECEIVED TAXPAYER DOLLARS FOR ‘GENDER TRANSITION’ SERVICES. Boston Children’s Hospital was handsomely reimbursed by the state of Massachusetts for its “gender transition services” from 2015 to 2023, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation through a public records request. Read more here.
REPUBLICANS URGE NCAA TO CHANGE POLICY ON TRANS ATHLETES TO ENSURE ‘FAIR ENVIRONMENT FOR WOMEN’S SPORTS.’ Nine Republican governors sent a letter to the NCAA urging the organization to change its policy regarding transgender student-athletes and “guarantee a fair environment for women’s sports.” Read more here.
WEST VIRGINIA TRANSGENDER BOY SUES TO JOIN GIRLS’ TRACK TEAM. A 13-year-old boy who identifies as a “girl” is in court suing his middle school for the ability to compete on the girls’ track and field team. Read more here.
MAINE SCHOOL DISTRICT GAVE BREAST-BINDER TO 13-YEAR-OLD GIRL, TOLD HER NOT TO TELL HER MOTHER: GOLDWATER LAWSUIT. The Goldwater Institute is pursuing litigation on behalf of a mother in Maine who alleges that a social worker at the Great Salt Bay School District supplied her daughter with a breast-binder and began socially “transitioning” her by using male pronouns, without her mother’s knowledge. Read more here.
GUERNSEY: TRANS-IDENTIFIED RAPIST GIVEN ‘UNDULY LENIENT’ PRISON SENTENCE FOLLOWING TRIAL WHERE VICTIM WAS LABELED ‘TRANSPHOBIC.’ Several months after a Guernsey Royal Court jury unanimously found a 19-year-old trans-identified male guilty of rape, the court has announced that Freddie Christian Trenchard has been sentenced to three years at a youth detention center. Read more here.
IRELAND HSE SAYS STAFF MUST USE PREFERRED GENDER PRONOUNS AT WORK. A health service executive document which forms part of a mandatory online training program for staff in Ireland about workplace relations says that failure to use preferred pronouns is a form of discrimination. Read more here.
‘NOT GOING TO DO THE TRANSGENDER GAME’: OKLAHOMA EDUCATION BOARD DENIES DISTRICTS’ REQUEST TO LET STUDENTS CHANGE GENDER ON RECORDS. Oklahoma’s state education board voted down requests from the Moore and Cushing public school districts to allow students to change their gender on school records. Read more here.
MORE THAN 150,000 PEOPLE MARCH FOR SEXUAL, GENDER DIVERSITY IN TAIPEI. Taiwan is considered one of the most progressive regions in Asia in terms of LGBT+ rights, after legalizing same-sex marriage in 2019. Read more here.
MALE DROPPED REQUEST TO COMPETE AS ‘FEMALE’ SWIMMER, EVEN AS ROANOKE COLLEGE RUSHED TO ACCOMMODATE. Roanoke College recently joined the list of schools allowing men to compete with the women after a transgender student requested to join the women’s swim team, but that student changed his mind before the rule was passed. Read more here.
WOMEN ABANDON BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU TOURNAMENT AFTER BEING FORCED TO FIGHT MALES. Female martial artists have come forward to reveal that male athletes claiming to be “transgender women” have completely overtaken the women’s categories of a major grappling association, leaving them fearing for their safety in many instances. Read more here.
RICH COUNTRIES TO USE FOOD AS A WEAPON ON GENDER. The Committee on World Food Security adopted a set of gender guidelines that makes sexual and reproductive health and intersectional policies a component of national and international food security. Read more here.
CANADA: WOMAN ASSAULTED BY TRANS ACTIVIST AT PROTEST AGAINST GENDER IDEOLOGY BEING TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS. A trans activist punched 52-year-old Tara Smith in the face during a recent protest against gender ideology being taught in British Columbia. Read more here.
FLORIDA ASKS SUPREME COURT TO INTERVENE IN LEGAL BATTLE OVER BAN ON DRAG SHOWS FOR KIDS. Florida filed an emergency request to the Supreme Court asking it to allow the state to partially enforce its restrictions on drag performances. Read more here.
DON’T CALL TRANSGENDER RAPISTS WOMEN, UK HOME SECRETARY BRAVERMAN TELLS POLICE. British Home Secretary Suella Braverman has told women’s campaigners that UK police should not call transgender rapists women because it is “offensive and factually incorrect.” Read more here.
NOTRE DAME ADMIN DEFENDS UNIVERSITY-SPONSORED DRAG SHOW UNDER THE GUISE OF ‘ACADEMIC FREEDOM.’ The Film, Television, and Theater Department at Notre Dame University plans to host a drag show, heightening its ongoing controversy over maintaining its Catholic identity within the bounds of academic freedom. Read more here.
GUESS WHO WAS NAMED GRAND MARSHALL OF AN ORLANDO LGBTQ+ PRIDE EVENT. Dempsey Jara, whose parents claim they knew their son was “transgender” since he was 18 months old, will be the youngest grand marshal at Orlando’s “Come Out With Pride” festival. Read more here.
SPAIN: PREDATOR WHO IMPGREGNATED MINOR GIRL IS TRANSFERRED TO A ‘MIXED-SEX’ PRISON WITH WOMEN. The man who is serving a four-year sentence for the repeat sexual abuse of an underage girl has been classified as a “female” convict and transferred to a mixed-sex penitentiary to serve his time with women. Read more here.
TRANS-IDENTIFYING MALE WINS GIRLS’ CROSS COUNTRY REGIONAL. Soren Stark-Chessa, a male who identifies as female, won the Class C South girls’ cross-county title at Twin Brook Recreation Area just north of Portland, Maine. Read more here.
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS NAMED IN BOMBSHELL ‘DETRANSITIONER’ LAWSUIT. A woman who was pumped with testosterone and underwent hormone therapy when she was a young teenager is suing her doctors and the American Academy of Pediatrics, which her lawyers say has knowingly lied about the impact of the radical “sex-change” treatments it recommends. Read more here.
IRISH GENDER SERVICE: ‘OVER 50%’ SEEKING GENDER ASSESSMENT HAVE AUTISM. The Irish State’s National Gender Service has admitted that current data indicate “over 50 percent” of those seeking gender assessment in Ireland have autism, and that “this number is increasing.” Read more here.
CANADA’S SASKATCHEWAN PASSES SCHOOL GENDER IDENTITY BILL. A bill requiring young students to get parental consent to change their pronouns in school was challenged by an LGBT group, put on hold by an injunction and now has been restored by a provincial override. Read more here.
DRAFT LAW IN AUSTRALIA WOULD END CAREER OF HEALTH PRACTITIONERS WHO MEDICALLY ‘TRANSITION’ MINORS. The Childhood Gender Transition Prohibition Bill targets under-18 medical “transition” and would ban the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and transgender surgeries such as mastectomy or the creation of artificial genitals. Read more here.
BIDEN NIH NOMINEE GRILLED OVER ‘TRANS’ STUDY INVOLVING 2 YOUTH SUICIDES. U.S. Republican senators grilled President Joe Biden’s nominee for director of the National Institute of Health, Monica Bertagnolli, over a “transgender study” on the suicide deaths of two youths called a “success” by the institute. Read more here.
UK MOTHER WINS LANDMARK COURT RULING TO STOP CHILD HAVING PRIVATE ‘TRANS TREATMENT.’ A court order prevents the woman’s ex-husband from allowing the 15-year-old child to receive private “transgender treatment” and sets a precedent for cases where divorced parents disagree about what treatment should be given to a child who believes they are the opposite sex. Read more here.
NPR MEMBER STATION SYMPATHETICALLY PROFILES TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE ACCUSED OF RAPE AT CALIFORNIA WOMEN’S PRISON. An NPR-affiliated public broadcaster in California has released a sympathetic profile on a trans-identified male inmate accused of sexual assault and threatening female inmates while serving his sentence in a women’s prison. Read more here.
NAVAL ACADEMY SEEKS ‘GENDER AND SEXUALITY’ STUDIES PROFESSOR. All of the U.S. military academies have come under fire for their diversity policies, and now the U.S. Naval Academy is reviewing applications for a scholar in “Gender and Sexuality Studies” to teach in its English department. Read more here.
J.K. ROWLING SAYS SHE’LL DO HARD TIME BEFORE SHE CALLS A TRANSGENDER MAN A ‘WOMAN.’ “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling isn’t letting the criticism of transgender ideology activists stop her from speaking her mind, and now she says she would “happily” do prison time if forced into compliance with preferred gender pronouns and identities. Read more here.
‘TRANSGENDER’ FENCER WINS WOMEN’S WORLD TITLE OVER BIOLOGICAL FEMALES. The biological male who goes by Liz Kocab defeated a female rival to win his eighth world championship in women’s fencing. Read more here.
U.S.: TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE MUSICIAN CALLS FOR MURDER OF WOMEN CRITICAL OF GENDER IDEOLOGY AT SAN FRANCISCO PERFORMANCE. The trans-identifying male musician in California known as Precious Child is currently touring and performing songs while calling for the murder of women critical of gender identity ideology. Read more here.
‘DETRANSITIONER’ CHLOE COLE TAKES PART IN INCREDIBLE PHOTO SHOOT THAT HAS THE ANGRY LEFT MAKING THREATS. Chloe Cole is one of the most famous voices for those who were misled by society to become “transgender” and “detransitioned,” and she gave an impassioned speech to Congress about the subject that moved many to tears and offered hope for some. Read more here.
FATHER WHOSE SON HAD TRANSGENDER SURGERY DESPITE COURT ORDER ISSUES DIRE WARNING ABOUT PARENTAL RIGHTS. A California father has urged a court to find his ex-wife, her lawyer, his son’s lawyer and a hospital in contempt of court after they went around a court order stipulating that his son would not receive transgender-related surgery unless the father approved it. Read more here.
ARKANSAS GOV. SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS TO SIGN EXECUTIVE ORDER ELIMINATING ‘WOKE, ANTI-WOMEN WORDS’ FROM STATE GOVERNMENT USE. The governor is setting the record straight on femininity in Arkansas, introducing an executive order to mandate the use of gender-specific terms when describing women and “prohibit the use of woke, anti-women words for official state government business.” Read more here.
EXPERTS EXPRESS ‘SIGNIFICANT CONCERNS’ OVER TRANSGENDER ‘MEDICAL SCANDAL.’ A group of experts, including Irish psychotherapist Stella O’Malley, have penned an editorial for Science Direct in which they expressed “significant concerns” over the “uncritical adoption” of gender ideology in health and social care education. Read more here.
COLLEGE PROTESTERS STAGE UNSUCCESSFUL SIT-IN AGAINST TRANS-CRITICAL BOOK LAUNCH. Academic writers critical of transgender ideology and their supporters overcame a sit-in and shouts of “shame” by rowdy protesters to launch their book recently at a Scottish university. Read more here.
‘DETRANSITIONER BILL OF RIGHTS’ GIVES STATES BLUEPRINT TO PUSH BACK ON RADICAL GENDER IDEOLOGY. An organization that works to oppose the injection of radical gender ideology into medicine is releasing model legislation that would provide legal remedies for so-called “detransitioners” who are seeking a way to reverse the effects of “gender transition” surgeries. Read more here.
FATHER WHOSE SON HAD TRANSGENDER SURGERY DESPITE COURT ORDER ISSUES DIRE WARNING ABOUT PARENTAL RIGHTS. A California father has urged a court to find his ex-wife, her lawyer, his son’s lawyer and a hospital in contempt of court after they went around a court order stipulating that his son would not receive transgender-related surgery unless the father approved it. Read more here.
VIRGINIA FAMILY SPEAKS OUT ABOUT BOY BEING ALLOWED INTO LOCKER ROOMS WITH HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS. A family in a school district at the heart of the nation’s transgender debate is speaking out about an area school allowing a male student into female locker rooms and the school’s failure to take seriously the ensuing trauma for female students. Read more here.
LESBIAN ACTION GROUP ORDERED NOT TO EXCLUDE TRANS ‘WOMEN’ FROM EVENTS. Sky News host Andrew Bolt has slammed the Australian Human Rights Commission’s “bizarre” ruling that “men can be women,” with the commission ordering the Lesbian Action Group not to ban men or “transgender women” from its events. Read more here.
DOCTOR ASKED FOR GRANT TO STUDY TRANS HORMONES ON RATS, ADMITS ‘SEVERE LACK’ OF RESEARCH, EMAILS SHOW. Dr. Walid Farhat, a professor of Urology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has applied for a grant to study the impact of cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers on prepubescent rats, acknowledging the research on the potential side effects is “severely lacking.” Read more here.
UK LABOR PARTY TO MAKE ‘MISGENDERING’ A CRIME WITH UP TO TWO YEARS IN PRISON: REPORT. In a move that would introduce compelled speech laws, Sir Keir Starmer’s Labor Party is preparing to create new hate speech legislation that would punish people for referring to someone with the “wrong” gender pronoun. Read more here.
80K EMPLOYEES OF BIDEN’S HHS ARE NOW FORCED TO USE TRANSGENDER PRONOUNS. Timed to coincide with “National Coming Out Day,” the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has imposed a transgender pronoun mandate on its 80,000 employees, requiring each to affirm transgender and non-binary coworkers’ self-proclaimed “identity.” Read more here.
CLEMSON STUDENTS PROTEST AGAINST TAMPONS BEING DISTRIBUTED IN MEN’S BATHROOMS. A massive group of Clemson students protested against the university’s decision to remove feminine hygiene products from men’s restrooms after a conservative student group complained. Read more here.
WISCONSIN REP. DAVE CONSIDINE SAYS GIRLS WHO LOSE TO TRANS ATHLETES JUST NEED TO ‘WORK HARDER.’ State Rep. Dave Considine (Dem.) told his colleagues on the state house floor he thinks girls who lose to male-born transgender athletes just need to “work harder” if they don’t like losing in sports. Read more here.
UK: NHS GUIDANCE ENCOURAGES TRANS-IDENTIFIED ‘FEMALES’ TO CONTINUE TO USE TESTOSTERONE WHILE ‘CHESTFEEDING’ DESPITE UNKNOWN RISK TO BABY. The National Health Service of the United Kingdom is advising “transgender” females who take testosterone to continue doing so even while breastfeeding a baby despite acknowledging the unknown risks the hormone may have to the child. Read more here.
SCOTLAND: TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE BDSM FETISHIST ON WOMEN’S SHORTLIST FOR GOVERNMENT PARTY COMMITTEE. A male who goes by the name Amber Roberts has been selected to be on an all-women shortlist for a position with the Scottish National Party’s National Executive Committee Lothian, drawing criticism from women’s rights campaigners. Read more here.
MEN WHO IDENTIFY AS WOMEN ARE NOW ELIGIBLE FOR MEMBERSHIP IN DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution will allow men who identify as women to join the organization following a recent amendment to their bylaws. Read more here.
JAPAN COURT SAYS REQUIRING SURGERY FOR ‘GENDER SWITCH’ UNCONSTITIONAL. The Hamamatsu branch of the Shizuoka Family Court delivered the country’s first judgment on a challenge to the rule after the man, Gen Suzuki, filed a request in 2021 seeking to “change his gender” without sex reassignment surgery. Read more here.
LECTURER OBJECTS TO UNIVERSITY’S GENDER IDENTITY POLICY WHICH DESCRIBES REFUSAL TO USE PRONOUNS AS UNLAWFUL. A lecturer at South East Technical University has told the school she will refuse to comply with its new gender identity policy on the basis that it describes refusal to use students’ or staff members’ preferred pronouns as an example of “unlawful discrimination or harassment.” Read more here.
AWARD-WINNING POLISH MUSICIAN REMOVED FROM PERFORMANCES, TEACHING CONTRACT AFTER CRITICIZING GENDER IDEOLOGY. Polish electronic and noise musician Ewa Justka has found herself canceled and targeted for harassment after speaking out against gender ideology. Read more here.
LEAKED ONTARIO SCHOOL BOARD MEMO TELLS TEACHERS TO HIDE CHILDREN’S GENDER IDENTITY FROM PARENTS. An Ontario public school board has directed teachers to keep ‘gender transitions’ of students secret from their parents. Read more here.
LOUDON COUNTY FAMILY SUES SCHOOL DISTRICT OVER RAPE OF DAUGHTER IN SCHOOL BATHROOM. The family of a young girl who was raped in the girls’ bathroom at school by a boy in a skirt in 2021 filed a lawsuit against Loudon County Public Schools in northern Virginia for allegedly attempting to cover it up. Read more here.
UN WOMEN PROMPTS OUTRAGE AFTER FOCUSING ON ‘UPLIFTING’ TRANS LESBIANS WHILE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN ISRAEL RAGES ON. United Nations Women is under fire after a social media posting in celebration of “trans lesbians” despite having released no formal statement condemning the violence against women in war-torn Israel. The posts, of which two were made on October 8, were intended to celebrate “International Lesbian Day.” Read more here.
MALE CYCLISTS TAKE HOME FIRST, SECOND PLACES AT WOMEN’S CYCLOCROSS CUP IN CHICAGO. Two trans-identified males dominated women’s competitions at the Chicago CycloCross Cup, leading many women’s rights advocates to condemn the event for allowing men to self-identify into the women’s categories. Read more here.
TWO MEN SLATED TO COMPETE IN MISS UNIVERSE PAGEANT. Marina Machete, a biological male who identifies as a female, was crowned Miss Portugal and now advances to represent Portugal in the Miss Universe competition. A second male who will compete in the Miss Universe pageant was chosen as Miss Netherlands. Read more here.
PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL BOARD REVERSES DECISION, BANS BOYS FROM GIRLS’ RESTROOM. The Perkiomen Valley School Board reversed a prior decision that allowed students to use restrooms and locker rooms according to their gender identity. Read more here.
FEDERAL JUDGE ALLOWS OKLAHOMA’S BAN ON TRANSGENDER MUTILATION OF CHILDREN TO TAKE EFFECT. U.S. District Judge John Heil issued a preliminary ruling allowing Oklahoma to enforce its ban on gender “transitioning” drugs and surgeries for minors, on the assessment that the law’s challengers were not likely to succeed on the merits. Read more here.
LGBT ACTIVISTS FAIL TO CANCEL SASKATCHEWAN EVENTS OPPOSING MUTILATION OF CHILDREN. Despite successfully getting police to open an investigation into the matter, LGBT activist groups failed to cancel a series of two pro-family events in Saskatchewan opposing the gender mutilation of children. Read more here.
EVIDENCE ON HIGHER RATES OF DIABETES UNCLEAR IN TRANS PEOPLE, BUT DATA ON HIGHER RATES OF HEART DISEASE ARE CLEAR. Evidence that transgenders face higher rates of cardiovascular disease continues to mount. Increased risk of any cardiovascular disease is significantly higher in both transgender men and transgender women as compared with control men or women. Read more here.
CHIEF PRISON INSPECTOR ‘DISAPPOINTS’ AFTER DENYING THERE HAS EVER ‘BEEN AN ISSUE WITH TRANS PEOPLE IN SCOTTISH PRISONS.’ Scotland’s leading prison inspector, Wendy Sinclair-Gieben, has come under fire for denying long-standing controversy around gender in female prisons, stating, “I fail to understand what the interest is, because there’s never been an issue with trans people in Scottish prisons.” Read more here.
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION FORCES TRANSGENDER ORTHODOXY IN WORKPLACES. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission aims to weaponize a federal law prohibiting harassment on the basis of sex in the workplace by forbidding employers to believe that biological sex cannot be altered by one’s self-identification. Read more here.
MEN CLAIMING TO BE ‘NON-BINARY’ INVADE WOMEN’S TECH CONFERENCE. A recent technology career conference hosted by a mentorship organization for “women and non-binary technologists” was overwhelmed by men, some of whom claimed to be non-men. Read more here.
BRITISH PRIME MINISTER SAYS TRADITIONAL UNDERSTANDING OF GENDER IS ‘COMMON SENSE.’ British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the fact that “a man is a man and a woman is a woman” is “common sense,” and “[W]e shouldn’t get bullied into believing that people can be any sex they want to be.” Read more here.
TOP COURT TOLD SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY GOVERNMENT’S DEFINITION OF WOMAN IS ‘UTTERLY UNWORKABLE.’ The second major court case in as many weeks heard how the SNP Government’s attempt to include some biological men in the legal definition of woman is “unworkable.” Read more here.
GROUNDBREAKING LEGAL VICTORY: WISCONSIN COURT RULES SCHOOLS CANNOT TRANS KIDS WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT. A Waukesha County Circuit Court ruled in favor of Wisconsin parents, deciding that a school district “abrogated” the parents’ rights when it decided to socially “affirm” their daughter as a transgender boy against their wishes. Read more here.
UK: TRANS PATIENTS WILL NO LONGER BE ALLOWED ON FEMALE HOSPITAL WARDS. Biological male transgender patients will no longer be allowed on female hospital wards in the NHS under new plans to tackle “wokery” and “ideological dogma” in the UK’s national health service. Read more here.
HUNDREDS OF CANADIAN TRANS TEENS UNDER 18 HAVE HAD BREASTS REMOVED, NEW DATA SHOW. As tensions rise over the medical care of trans children, a new analysis shows hundreds of adolescents in Canada have undergone female-to-male “top surgery” — double mastectomies — over the past five years. Read more here.
FEDERAL COURT RULES AGAINST IOWA SCHOOL DISTRICT FORCING STUDENTS, STAFF TO USE PREFERRED GENDER PRONOUNS. A federal court handed staff and students in an Iowa school district a major victory, issuing a temporary injunction blocking district schools from enforcing a policy requiring students and employees to “respect a student’s gender identity” even if that “identity” does not correspond with biological reality. Read more here.
NEBRASKA IS IMPOSING A 7-DAY WAIT FOR TRANS YOUTH TO START ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING’ MEDICATIONS. Nebraska is requiring transgender youth seeking ‘’gender-affirming’’ care to wait seven days to start puberty blocking medications or hormone treatments under emergency regulations announced by the state health department. Read more here.
APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS TENNESSEE, KENTUCKY BANS ON TRANSGENDER CARE FOR MINORS. By a 2-1 vote, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth District allowed Tennessee and Kentucky to enforce laws banning “gender-affirming” medical care for minors, such as puberty blockers, hormones and surgery. Read more here.
CHIEF PSYCHIATRIST IN QUEENSLAND BACKS INDEPENDENT VIEW OF GENDER MEDICINE. An independent review of treatment for children diagnosed with gender dysphoria in the Australian state of Queensland is in the planning stages, and Dr. Jillian Spencer urged Children’s Health Queensland to “prevent further harm to children” by suspending puberty blocker prescriptions for new patients during the term of the independent review. Read more here.
TRANSGENDER ‘JEOPARDY’ CHAMPION AMY SCHNEIDER DEFENDS CHILD ‘SEX CHANGE’ PROCEDURES AS ‘LITERALLY LIFESAVING.’ Transgender Jeopardy! champion Amy Schneider — a man who identifies as a woman — is defending “sex-change” procedures for children, calling them “literally lifesaving” in a new memoir set to be released. Read more here.
BIOLOGIST CRITICIZES ANTHROPOLOGISTS’ CANCELLATION OF PANEL ON BIOLOGICAL SEX. Colin Wright criticized the American Anthropological Association’s decision to cancel a panel of female scholars on the importance of sex as a category during the American Anthropological Association’s and Canadian Anthropology Society’s joint annual conference in November. Read more here.
WOKE WARS: BRITAIN’S ROYAL NAVY TELLS SAILORS TO INTRODUCE THEMSELVES WITH GENDER PRONOUNS. A “Trans and Non-Binary Awareness” guide reportedly published on the Royal Navy’s internal intranet has told staff: “Introducing yourself with your pronouns at the start of meetings and interactions is a good way to be inclusive.” Read more here.
CHARGES PENDING AGAINST TRANSGENDER STUDENT SEEN ASSAULTING GIRL ON VIRAL VIDEO. A trans-identified male was caught on video tape violently assaulting a female without provocation at Hazelbrook Middle School in Tualatin, Oregon. Read more here.
MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT ORDERS JUDGES TO USE PREFERRED PRONOUNS OF ATTORNEYS, LITIGANTS. Under the new rule adopted by the Michigan Supreme Court, attorneys and litigants can list their “preferred salutations and personal pronouns” on court records that judges must abide by beginning January 1, 2024. Read more here.
‘PHIL IS DEAD NOW, I’M JEAN.’ A VICTIM REVEALS WHAT HAPPENED WHEN HER ABUSER ‘TRANSITIONED.’ A British woman is alleging her former partner Phil Bush, now going by the female name “Jean,” seriously abused her and her daughter, and the mother is now being ordered to recognize his pronouns in the court case. Read more here.
PAKISTAN AUTHORITIES RESUME ISSUING ‘X’ ID CARDS TO TRANSGENDER PEOPLE AFTER FOUR-MONTH HALT. Officials have been instructed to resume printing X-category Computerized National Identity Cards for transgender individuals, as a constitutional obligation. Read more here.
NI: TUV LEADER JIM ALLISTER DISCOVERS UK-WIDE IT SYSTEM WHICH ALLOWS TEACHERS TO ‘CHANGE’ CHILDREN’S GENDER IDENTITIES WITHOUT PARENTAL KNOWLEDGE. The Education Authority says that changes to the IT system, revealing dropdown checkboxes for students’ gender identity to be “changed,” had been kept secret from parents. Read more here.
POLL: MOST CANADIANS DISAGREE WITH NEW TRANSGENDER POLICIES. The Angus Reid survey found that a clear majority of Canadians are opposed to adopting “gender neutral” terminology. Read more here.
COLLEGE ADMISSIONS OFFICERS USE PRONOUNS TO GIVE PREFERENCES TO LIBERALS, STUDY FINDS. The study, “Gender Identity and Access to Higher Education,” found that college admissions counselors give preferential treatment to emails from people with pronouns in their signature lines. Read more here.
GENDER CLINIC PERFORMS ‘SEX CHANGES’ ON MINORS DESPITE BEING ‘FULLY AWARE’ OF PERMANENT SIDE EFFECTS. A Utah gender clinic is performing irreversible “sex changes” on minors despite being fully aware that the procedures can cause permanent side effects with lasting physical changes including sterility. Read more here.
AUSTRALIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION DECISION PROHIBITS FEMALE-ONLY EVENTS FOR LESBIANS. Australia’s Human Rights Commission has released a preliminary decision prohibiting lesbians from holding events for females that exclude men who identify as women. Read more here.
TEACHERS WHO REFUSED TO LIE TO PARENTS ABOUT KIDS’ GENDER IDENTITIES WIN MAJOR VICTORY. Lori Ann West and Elizabeth Mirabelli, teachers in the Escondido, California, Union School District, who were trained to withhold information from parents about students’ gender identities, sued the district and gained a preliminary injunction. Read more here.
TRANSGENDER MAN WHO RAPED DAUGHTER FORCED ON FEMALE INMATES. Mark Campbell, a biological male who identifies as female, is serving time in a Wisconsin women’s prison after raping his 10-year-old daughter. Read more here.
SPECIALIST TRANSGENDER FERTILITY CLINIC TO OPEN IN PHILADELPHIA. A clinic specializing in IVF for transgender men (i.e., natal women) will open in in Pittsburgh next spring. The clinic will offer a wide array of services, ranging from sperm and egg donation to surrogacy services, IVF, to hormone therapy. Read more here.
NEWSOM PLAYS ‘MODERATE’: VETOES TRANSGENDER CUSTODY BILL. California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have allowed judges to consider a parent’s support — or lack thereof — for a child’s “gender transition” in custody battles between divorcing parents. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM SIGNS BILLS TO ENHANCE THE STATE’S PROTECTIONS FOR LGBTQ+ PEOPLE. A day after issuing a controversial veto that was criticized by advocates, Newsom signed several bills aimed at bolstering the state’s protections for LGBTQ+ people, including legislation that creates an advisory task force to determine the needs of LGBTQ+ students and help advance supportive initiatives. Read more here.
TEACHERS ‘MISGENDERING’ TRANS PUPILS NOT DISCRIMINATORY, EQUALITY WATCHDOG SAYS. Teachers who misgender transgender pupils are not guilty of discrimination, new guidance from the British equality watchdog Equality and Human Rights Commission says. Read more here.
WEST VIRGINIA AG ARGUES AGAINST MEDICAID COVERAGE OF ‘SEX REASSIGNMENT’ SURGERIES. A federal district court previously ruled that West Virginia could not eliminate coverage of sex-reassignment surgeries, but now the state plans to appeal the ruling in hopes of reversing it. Read more here.
TRANS ACTIVISTS BEHIND CAMPAIGN OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, RISHI SUNAK WARNED. Women’s rights campaigners who say they are being threatened by “social ostracism” for arguing they have a right to single-sex spaces have written to UK’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak asking him to take action against an “escalating campaign of violence and intimidation” by trans rights activists. Read more here.
PARENTS SUE AFTER SCHOOL BOARD NIXES VIRGINIA’S MODEL TRANGENDER POLICY. Two parents filed a lawsuit against the Virginia Beach School Board for voting down proposed policies that pertain to keeping parents informed about their child’s identity. Read more here.
BIDEN ADMIN. TITLE IX CHANGES COULD LEAD TO THE ‘ULTIMATE ERASURE OF WOMEN,’ ACTIVISTS WARN. Conservative activists gathered to speak out against the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed changes to Title IX civil rights policy at an event organized by Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE), which advocates for constitutional protections for students and faculty, such as due process.” Read more here.
HUGE PROTESTS IN CANADA OVER TRANSGENDER IDEOLOGY IN SCHOOLS. Chanting “Enough is enough” and “Leave our kids alone,” thousands of Canadians gathered in several cities for the 1MillionMarch4Children to demonstrate against the teaching of transgender ideology in schools. Read more here.
AUTHOR OF INFAMOUS ‘GENDER QUEER’ BOOK: ‘I DON’T RECOMMEND THIS BOOK FOR KIDS.’ “Gender Queer” author Maia Kobabe, who identifies as non-binary and uses the pronouns “e, em and eir,” explained that while her book might be appropriate for “older teens,” she does not recommend it for children. Read more here.
NO MIXED-GENDER BATHROOMS IN QUEBEC SCHOOLS, EDUCATION MINISTER SAYS. Quebec’s education minister, Bernard Drainville, says it’s out of the question to have mixed-gender bathrooms in the province’s schools. Read more here.
FACULTY UNION: UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA NURSING STUDENTS SHOULD ASK 3-YEAR-OLDS ABOUT ‘GENDER IDENTITY.’ A faculty labor union put pressure on the University of Arizona to teach nursing students to ask 3-year-old patients about their “gender identity.” Read more here.
TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE ACCUSED OF VOYEURISM IN WOMEN’S RESTROOM SET TO APPEAR IN COURT. A trans-identified male is facing charges of voyeurism and tampering with evidence after being caught photographing a woman in the female restroom at a corporate office in Northwest Arkansas. Read more here.
MOM LOOKS TO START ‘HEALING RETREAT’ FOR ‘DETRANSITIONERS.’ The mother of a young woman who identifies as transgender and has undergone multiple surgeries to look like a man shared her plans to create healing retreats for “detransitioners” as she maintains hope that her daughter will one day realize the harm that has been done to her. Read more here.
ONE-THIRD OF CHILDREN PUT ON PUBERTY BLOCKERS SAW MENTAL HEALTH ‘RELIABLY DETERIORATE.’ A new look at a 2011 study conducted by the University College London Hospitals and the Tavistock Centre’s Gender Identity Development Service — the UK’s only child gender “transition” clinic that is set to be shut down over safeguarding failures — has found that the mental health of 34 percent of children placed on puberty-blocking drugs “reliably deteriorated.” Read more here.
GEORGIA MAN ARRESTED AFTER EXPOSING HIMSELF TO 15-YEAR-OLD GIRL IN PLANET FITNESS LOCKER ROOM. Despite being aware that the man had a history of indecent exposure, Planet Fitness employees reportedly stated the man had a “right” to use the women’s facilities as per the gym’s gender self-identification policy. Read more here.
SWEDISH CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS BLOCK TRANS BILL. A bill to make “gender change” easier and lower the age limit from 18 to 16 years is not on the Swedish government’s list of planned bills for this fall. Read more here.
MAJORITY OF U.S. ADULTS OPPOSE ‘GENDER TRANSITION’ FOR MINORS – EVEN MORE SAY POLITICIANS ARE TOO UNINFORMED TO MAKE POLICIES. Majorities of American adults don’t want teachers secretly affirming a student’s gender identity, and they think it should be illegal for minors to receive “gender-transition” medical treatment, a new national survey reveals. Read more here.
PENNSYLVANIA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ORGANIZE WALKOUT TO PROTEST TRANS BATHROOM RULE: ‘COMPROMISED’ OUR RIGHTS. Hundreds of students from Pennsylvania’s Perkiomen Valley School District walked out of class after the local school board failed to enact a policy requiring transgender students to use the restroom corresponding with their biological sex. Read more here.
JUDGE BLOCKS SCHOOL DISTRICT FROM HIDING CHILDRENS’ GENDER IDENTITY FROM PARENTS. U.S. District Court Judge Roger Benitez has temporarily blocked the Escondido, California Union School District from enforcing a policy that conceals students’ gender identity or “transition” from their parents. Read more here.
BBC SCRAPS SINGER RÓISOÍN MURPHY AFTER SHE CALLED OUT PUBERTY BLOCKERS. Irish singer Róisín Murphy was removed from a BBC broadcast because of her Facebook post criticizing the radical practice of prescribing hormone-altering drugs to children. Read more here.
GERMAN STUDY ON ‘FEMALE’ PEDOPHILES INCLUDED TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE PARTICIPANTS. A study by University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf aiming to analyze women who report pedophilic tendencies has raised concerns after including those who “identified with the female gender” among the participants. Read more here.
KANSAS WILL NO LONGER CHANGE TRANS PEOPLE’S BIRTH CERTIFICATES TO REFLECT THEIR GENDER IDENTITIES. Kansas will no longer change transgender people’s birth certificates to reflect their gender identities, the state health department said Friday, citing a new law that prevents the state from legally recognizing those identities. Read more here.
SPAIN: MAN CONVICTED OF ABUSING TWO WOMEN REQUESTS PARDON AFTER DECLARING TRANSGENDER IDENTITY. A man in Spain convicted of violent crimes against two women has changed his name to Milan and also “changed his sex marker” in an apparent bid to seek clemency from the government on the basis of his newfound gender identity. Read more here.
SASKATCHEWAN PREMIER READY TO USE NOTWITHSTANDING CLAUSE TO PROTECT NEW SCHOOL PRONOUN AND NAME RULE. Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is ready to use the notwithstanding clause (which allows federal or provincial authorities to override rules they disagree with for a five-year period) to protect a new rule requiring parental permission for transgender and non-binary students under 16 to use different names or pronouns at school. Read more here.
PARENTS CHALLENGE MASSACHUSETTS’ SCHOOL DISTRICT’S GENDER IDENTITY POLICY. A federal appeals court is considering whether or not to revive a lawsuit by two parents challenging a Massachusetts’ school district policy to not disclose students’ gender identities expressed at school to their families without their consent. Read more here.
U.S. DOD BACKPEDALS ON GENDER-NEUTRAL PRONOUNS. GEN. MILLEY’S CITATION WON’T USE ‘THEMSELF.’ A Department of Defense policy incorporating “gender-neutral” language into award citations will be amended to clarify that it does not ban using “himself” or “herself.” Read more here.
CALIFORNIA LEGAL DUEL: ‘UNSUPPORTIVE PARENT’ CUSTODY BILL OK’D AS SCHOOLS WORK TO INFORM PARENTS. As California passes a law to require that judges consider whether parents support the gender “transitioning” of their children in custody cases, public school districts are instituting policies to notify parents of students who are “transitioning.” Read more here.
JUDGE REFUSES TO BLOCK FLORIDA LAW RESTRICTING TRANSGENDER CARE. Federal Judge Robert Hinkle denied transgender advocates’ request to block a law that restricts a type of so-called “gender affirming” care for adults. Read more here.
WOMAN WHO ‘TRANSITIONED TO MALE’ AT 16 DURING ‘CHAOTIC TIME’ SUES DOCTORS WHO GAVE HER DOUBLE’ MASTECTOMY. A 21-year-old Minnesota woman, Luka Hein, said she was groomed online at the age of 16 and is now suing the doctors who performed a double mastectomy on her. Read more here.
NEARLY 70% OF AMERICANS OPPOSE ALLOWING MALES TO COMPETE IN FEMALE SPORTS. The latest Gallup Poll show transgenderism losing support, as opposition has grown since 2021 when 62 percent said they opposed transgender women (biological males) playing alongside and against female athletes. Read more here.
IRELAND: ‘VIOLENT MEN IN WOMEN’S PRISONS,’ PROTEST AT MOUNTJOY OVER HOUSING OF TRANSGENDER INMATE. Activists from The Silenced Protest and Women’s Space Ireland were present outside an Irish prison to protest a violent transgender inmate being held there. Read more here.
HUGE WIN: WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS TO CEASE ALL HORMONE TREATMENTS TO MINORS. Washington University in St. Louis has ceased all prescriptions of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children after Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey successfully defended a ban on hormone treatments for minors. Read more here.
CANADA’S CONSERVATIVE PARTY DELEGATES EMBRACE A BAN ON MEDICAL ‘TRANSITION’ OF CHILDREN. With a 69-percent majority, Canada’s opposition Conservative Party has adopted a resolution to prohibit medicalized “gender change’’ for minors. Read more here.
‘DETRANSITIONED’ TEEN CHLOE COLE CENSORED BY INSTAGRAM. A 19-year-old woman named Chloe Cole, who was medically “transitioned” as a minor and has since “detransitioned,” has been censored by Instagram. Read more here.
IRELAND’S PAUL MURPHY TD ACCUSED OF DOXING CHILD AFTER TRANS TEACHER STORY. Irish politician Paul Murphy is facing sustained criticism after he was accused of doxing a primary school child online when he asked a journalist who wrote about pupils being told to use “they” pronouns to a teacher if she had a child in the class. Read more here.
NORWEGIAN SEXOLOGIST LINKED TO LEADING TRANSGENDER HEALTH AUTHORITY, PREVIOUSLY WORKED WITH PRO-PEDOPHILIA LOBBY GROUP. Thore Langfeldt previously wrote about “child sexuality” and positively conveyed case studies of pedophilic relationships, while attempting to portray adult-child sexual contact as normal and non-pathological. Read more here.
IRISH SENATOR SLAMS DECISION TO ASK CHILDREN TO CALL TEACHER ‘THEY.’ Senator Gerard Craughwell slammed a decision to tell primary schoolchildren to refer to their “gender-neutral teacher” as “they” in the classroom, describing the move as “madness.” Read more here.
ORANGE, CA SCHOOL DISTRICT VOTES TO NOTIFY PARENTS IF A CHILD IDENTIFIES AS ANOTHER GENDER. The policy requires a certificated staff member or principal to inform parents if their child — who is under age 12 — is requesting to use different names or pronouns or requests to change sex-segregated programs such as athletic teams or changing facilities that differ from the student’s biological sex. Read more here.
VIRGINIA MOM SUES PRO-TRANSGENDER TEACHERS FOR PUSHING HER CHILD INTO PROSTITUTION. Michelle Blair, the mother of then-14-year-old Sage Blair, alleges the Appomattox County School Board, district employees and Baltimore-area public defender Aneesa Khan secretly “transitioned” her daughter, who was later placed in an all-male juvenile facility, where she was sexually assaulted and sex-trafficked. Read more here.
CA SENATE PASSES CONTROVERSIAL LAW REQUIRING PARENTS TO ‘AFFIRM’ CHILD’S GENDER IDENTITY OR FACE PUNISHMENT. California’s controversial Assembly Bill 957, which basically mandates that parents affirm their child’s gender identity or be punished, passed the state Senate. Read more here.
TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE IN SWITZERLAND FACING CHARGES OF SEXUALLY ABUSING STEPDAUGHTERS. [Reader discretion advised.] The man is facing charges of child sexual abuse and sexual exploitation after persistently molesting his two stepchildren over the course of nine years. Read more here.
IRELAND: COURSE DESIGNED TO TURN TEACHERS INTO ACTIVISTS ON TRANSGENDER ISSUES. Teachers were told they need to “task” themselves with “disrupting gender stereotypes,” and that “cisnormativity and heteronormativity are damaging to the LGBT+ community, as well as to all other members of society.” Read more here.
‘NON-BINARY’ QUEBEC TEACHER DEMANDS CHILDREN USE GENDER NEUTRAL LANGUAGE. A “non-binary” public elementary school teacher’s demand to be referred to as “Mx. Martine” rather than “Mr.” or “Ms.” has become a cultural flashpoint in Quebec. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA STATE ASSEMBLY DECLARES AUGUST ‘TRANSGENDER HISTORY MONTH.’ Beginning in August 2024, California will become the first U.S. state to officially recognize the history and contributions of transgender people. Read more here.
ANOTHER CALIFORNIA DISTRICT APPROVES POLICY REQUIRING SCHOOLS TO INFORM PARENTS OF ‘GENDER-TRANSITION’ REQUESTS. By a 4-1 vote of the school board, the Rocklin Unified School District became the fourth California district requiring schools to notify parents when students ask to identify as a different gender. Read more here.
UK TRANSGENDER GROUP HOSTING NUDE CAMPS, BDSM WORKSHOPS, LED BY CONSULTANT AT CHARITY THAT TEACHES GENDER IDENTITY TO CHILDREN. A government-funded project which involves nude camp retreats and BDSM workshops is led by a consultant for an organization that provides presentations to school children on “gender identity.” Read more here.
CALIFORNIA JUDGE HALTS SCHOOL DISTRICT’S TRANSGENDER PARENTAL NOTIFICATION POLICY. A California judge granted the state government’s request for a temporary restraining order against the Chino Valley Unified School District’s new policy requiring parents to be notified if a child wishes to become transgender. Read more here.
TEACHERS UNION INSTRUCTS EDUCATORS TO DESTROY DOCUMENTS OF STUDENTS’ GENDER IDENTITIES: REPORT. Parents in Colorado expressed outrage after a report revealed that the Jefferson County Education Association teachers union issued an email to its members instructing them to get rid of evidence of students’ transgender information. Read more here.
GEORGIA CAN RESUME BAN ON HORMONE TREATMENT FOR TRANSGENDER YOUTH, JUDGE SAYS. A U.S. judge is allowing the state of Georgia to resume enforcing a new ban on hormone replacement therapy for transgender people under age 18 after a federal appeals court allowed a similar law in Alabama to go back into effect. Read more here.
ALASKA THE LATEST STATE TAKING ACTION AGAINST ‘TRANSGENDER’ MALES IN WOMEN’S SPORTS. Alaska will protect women’s and girls’ sports from the encroachment of so-called “transgender” male athletes by banning males from competing on girls’ high school athletic teams. Read more here.
UK TRANS MATERNITY REPORT BACKED BY NHS ‘COULD HAVE HARMED WOMEN.’ A transgender maternity report commissioned by public health chiefs made “misleading” claims and spurious recommendations that could have harmed women, experts have warned. Read more here.
TEXAS HIGH COURT ALLOWS LAW BANNING ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING’ CARE FOR TRANSGENDER MINORS TO TAKE EFFECT. The Texas Supreme Court allowed a new state law banning “gender-affirming care” for minors to take effect, setting up Texas to be the most populous state with such restrictions on gender-confused children. Read more here.
INDEED OFFERS TRANSGENDER EMPLOYEES THOUSANDS TO RELOCATE. Indeed, the online job search company, is offering transgender employees who want to relocate for care or support, thousands to cover expenses. Read more here.
WASHINGTON STATE OFFICIAL OFFERED LAWYER HELP GETTING HIS 13-YEAR-OLD CLIENT SEX SURGERY. John Cummings, a senior policy adviser in Washington state, offered to help an attorney get his 13-year-old client get “sex-change” surgery. Read more here.
OKLAHOMA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT HIRES DRAG QUEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRINCIPAL ONCE ARRESTED FOR POSSESSING CHILD PORN. Dr. Shane Brent Murnan, the new elementary school principal at John Glenn Elementary, was once arrested on suspicion of possession of child pornography. His drag queen persona is “Shantel Mandalay,” and he has entered crossdressing pageants such as Miss Gay Oklahoma. Read more here.
NEBRASKA GOVERNOR’S EXECUTIVE ORDER DEFINES MEN, WOMEN. Gov. Jim Pillen signed an executive order defining the terms man and woman, stating that sex is defined at birth and that women and girls refer to human females and men and boys refer to human males. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA GENDER IDENTITY BALLOT MEASURES WOULD UNDERCUT STATE SUIT AGAINST SCHOOL DISTRICT. Protect Kids California submitted three ballot initiatives to Attorney General Rob Bonta, requesting a title and summary so the self-identified nonpartisan group can start collecting signatures to get them on the ballot. Read more here.
UK TRANSGENDER PEDOPHILE SPARED JAIL AFTER BEING FOUND IN POSESSION OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE MATERIALS. Dominic Mark Carter, who now goes by the name Sophie Louise Carter, appeared in court for a sentencing hearing this week. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA AG WAGES LEGAL WAR TO HIDE KIDS TRANSGENDER PURSUITS FROM PARENTS. Attorney General Rob Bonta is launching an all-out assault on parents and families with a new lawsuit asserting that a Southern California school should not be forced to notify parents when children begin so-called “gender transition.” Read more here.
MICHIGAN PARENTS SUE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR ALLOWING BOYS TO USE GIRLS BATHROOMS. Michigan parents are suing Vicksburg Community Schools over a policy that allows boys to use girls’ restrooms, after four female students discovered an exposed male in their bathroom. Read more here.
BOSTON DROPS SEX, GENDER ID ON MARRIAGE LICENSES TO ‘ALLEVIATE GENDER DYSPHORIA.’ Couples applying for marriage licenses in Boston will no longer be required to designate their sex or gender identity as part of a new “gender-aware” policy. Read more here.
VERMONT SCHOOL DISTRICT FIRED COACH FOR CRITICIZING TRANS POLICY. Snowboarding coach David Bloch was fired by Woodstock, Vermont Union High School for insisting males do not belong in female sports, and he has filed a lawsuit against local school officials. Read more here.
MOM, DAUGHTER SPEAK OUT AFTER LANDMARK SETTLEMENT OVER SCHOOL SOCIALLY ‘TRANSITIONING’ GENDER WITHOUT CONSENT. California single mother Jessica Konen won a landmark settlement over a school socially “transitioning” her child from a girl to a boy without her consent. Read more here.
OBAMA-APPOINTED JUDGE RULES STATE OFFICIALS DON’T HAVE TO CHANGE BIRTH CERTIFICATES TO MATCH PEOPLE’S GENDER IDENTITY. District Judge Daniel Crabtree ruled that the constitution does not obligate state officials to change a person’s listed gender on their birth certificate, according to the ruling. Read more here.
86% OF PEOPLE IN SASKATCHEWAN SUPPORT NEW PARENTAL RIGHTS POLICY ON GENDER IN SCHOOLS: POLL. According to an August 28 survey by the Angus Reid Institute, 86 percent of Saskatchewan participants advocated for parental rights, supporting the province’s recent mandate that parents must be informed if their child wants to go by a different gender identity. Read more here.
JUDGE DROPS BAD NEWS ON PARENTS WHO OPPOSE THEIR KIDS’ GENDER ‘TRANSITION.’ A judge in New Jersey ruled that three school districts in the state are not obligated to inform parents if their child is ‘’transitioning’’ genders. Read more here.
MISSOURI ATTORNEY GENERAL BREAKS DOWN BATTLE AGAINST ‘CHILD MUTILATION.’ Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is battling for the state’s law protecting children from irreversible transgender interventions, both surgical and hormonal. Read more here.
CONTROVERSIAL CANADIAN TRANS TEACHER LEMIEUX RETURNING TO A CLASSROOM IN HAMILTON. Kayla Lemieux, whose attire caused controversy at a previous Canadian school, has been hired to teach at Nora Frances Henderson Secondary School in Ontario, prompting the school to enact additional security measures because of anticipated protests. Read more here.
ACLU SUES OVER INDIANA LAW BLOCKING ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING’ SURGERY FOR INMATES. The American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit against Indiana’s Department of Corrections over the state’s law prohibiting “gender-affirming” surgery for inmates, alleging that the law enacted in April violates the prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment and the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause. Read more here.
CZECH COURT REFUSES LEGAL GENDER CHANGE WITHOUT SURGERY. The court ruled that a transgender in Czechia cannot be registered as a male because he was born as a woman and did not undergo surgical “sex reassignment.” Read more here.
COURT RULES BIOLOGICAL MAN ALLOWED IN SORORITY. A federal district court ruled that a national sorority organization did not violate its own bylaws by allowing a biological man to live in a sorority house and dismissed the complaint from sorority sisters. Read more here.
67% OF AMERICANS OPPOSE MEN COMPETING IN WOMEN’S SPORTS, POLL FINDS. Two-thirds of American registered voters oppose forcing female athletes to compete against biological males, according to poll results released by The Center Square. Read more here.
COURT LETS STATE PROTECT KIDS FROM TRANSGENDER ‘CARE,’ MAKING KEY POINT ABOUT EVIDENCE. A Missouri trial court declined to block a law preventing transgender interventions for minors, citing “conflicting and unclear” medical evidence on the effectiveness of so-called puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. Read more here.
JUDGE TEMPORARILY BLOCKS TEXAS BAN ON ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE’ FOR MOST MINORS. District Judge Maria Cantú Hexsel wrote in the temporary injunction that the law would result in “the loss of access to safe, effective, and medically necessary treatment for transgender adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria.” Read more here.
MOTHER OF SEX-TRAFFICKED TEEN FILES LAWSUIT AFTER GIRL WAS HELD IN BOYS GROUP HOME TO ‘AFFIRM’ HER TRANS IDENTITY. The mother of a teenage girl who at the age of 14 fell into the hands of sex traffickers is suing the Virginia school district she blames for her daughter’s trauma and the government lawyer who interfered with her efforts to return the girl home. Read more here.
WOMEN SPEAK OUT AGAINST YMCA ‘TRANSGENDER’ BATHROOM POLICIES. Small-town YMCAs in suburban Ohio have launched themselves headfirst into the transgender debate by allowing men who “identify” as women to access women’s locker rooms. Read more here.
POLL: MORE THAN 8 IN 10 NEW JERSEY PARENTS WANT TO BE NOTIFIED IF CHILD IDENTIFES AS LGBT. The new poll comes on the heels of the state attorney general’s lawsuit against three school districts for passing policies requiring schools to do just that. Read more here.
TRANSGENDER NEW YORKER AWARDED THOUSANDS FOR BEING ‘MISGENDERED’ IN JAIL. A man living as a woman won a huge settlement after being “misgendered” by workers at a jail in Broome County, New York. Read more here.
BBC EDITS ARTICLE ON CONVICTED PEDOPHILE TO REMOVE DRAG QUEEN REFERENCE. The BBC is facing accusations of engaging in “Orwellian manipulation” of the news after it edited an article on a convicted pedophile to remove references to his role in organizing a pride event and that he also performed as a drag queen. Read more here.
DISTRICT INCENTIVIZED TEACHERS TO ATTEND WEBINAR WITH DOCTOR WHO PROMOTES SEX SURGERIES FOR KIDS. The Los Angeles Unified School District invited teachers to attend a webinar titled “The Wellbeing of Sexual and Gender Diverse Girls” in exchange for three Continuing Education credits and hours to use towards salary points. Read more here.
GENDER-AFFIRMING SURGERIES TRIPLED IN THE U.S. BETWEEN 2016-2019, STUDY FINDS. According to a study published in JAMA Network Open, over 48,000 people got some type of gender-affirming surgery including breast and chest surgeries, genital surgeries, and other facial or cosmetic procedures. Read more here.
TRANSGENDER PSYCHOLOGIST WARNS OF ‘EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL’ USED BY COLLEAGUES IN THEIR TREATMENT OF MINORS. Clinical psychologist Erica Anderson, a male who identifies as a female, is sounding the alarm on the approach many of her colleagues have taken in recent years regarding medical and social treatment for gender dysphoria among children and teens in the United States. Read more here.
GERMAN GOVERNMENT APPROVES CONTROVERSIAL GENDER LAW. Germany’s left-liberal government has approved a controversial law allowing anyone to legally ‘’change’’ their name and gender with a simple application, including minors whose parents do not give their consent. Read more here.
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER OFFERS LOCAL SCHOOL STAFF TRAINING IN TRANSGENDER IDEOLOGY. Staff members from East Irondequoit Central School District in New York state were offered “gender-affirming” training from the University of Rochester Medical Center Transgender Health Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes program. Read more here.
AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION PUBLISHES ARTICLE EXPLORING SUBSIDIZED UTERUS TRANSPLANTS FOR BIOLOGICAL MEN. The AMA published an article that explores taxpayer-funded uterus transplants as a solution for transgender women — biological males who believe they are female — to help “consolidate” their chosen gender. Read more here.
JUST HOW MANY IMPRISONED MEN WHO IDENTIFY AS TRANSGENDER ARE GUILTY OF SEXUAL ASSAULT? MORE THAN HALF, NEW DATA SHOW. A little more than half of the men housed in Wisconsin Department of Corrections facilities who identify as transgender “women” have been convicted of at least one count of sexual assault or sexual abuse. Read more here.
PA SCHOOL DISTRICT BATTLES WITH REHIRING OF TRANSGENDER TENNIS COACH. A school district in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania is grappling with rehiring a transgender tennis coach who reportedly changed his clothes in the women’s locker room among high school-aged girls. Read more here.
HARSH PENALTIES APPROVED FOR FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE EMPLOYEES WHO USE RESTROOMS THAT DON’T CORRESPOND WITH BIOLOGICAL SEX. Employees may face a verbal and written warning and suspension without pay as penalty for a first offense, and colleges will be forced to fire employees after a second offense. Read more here.
GEORGIA SENATOR RENEWS PROPOSAL BANNING TEACHERS FROM DISCUSSING GENDER IDENTITY WITH STUDENTS. State Sen. Carden Summers has proposed a new version of a previously failed bill that would regulate how public and private schools teach gender, and if passed, teachers would not be able to discuss gender identity with students under 16 years old unless they receive parental permission. Read more here.
NORWAY: BIOLOGICAL MALE TRANSGENDER DOCTOR WHOSE LICENSE WAS SUSPENDED AFTER PRIVATELY ‘TRANSITIONING’ MINORS GIVEN FEMINIST ACHIEVEMENT AWARD. A gender clinician and sexologist who recently had his medical license suspended following an investigation by the Norwegian Health Authority has been granted an award named after a prominent Norwegian feminist. Read more here.
1,000 SCHOOL DISTRICTS HIDE KIDS’ TRANS IDENTITIES FROM PARENTS. Some 1,040 school districts in the U.S. have adopted policies that permit or advise personnel to withhold information from parents about their child’s desire to identify as trans or nonbinary. Read more here.
FLORIDA FINES MEDICAID PROVIDERS FOR USING TAX DOLLARS TO COVER TRANS TREATMENTS FOR MINORS. Five Medicaid healthcare insurers have violated Florida’s rule against using taxpayer funds to provide transgender treatments, and the state has become the first in the U.S. to issue such fines. Read more here.
SPAIN’S FIRST TRANS SENATOR VOWS TO DEFEND GENDER SELF-ID LAW. Carla Antonelli, one of Spain’s best-known trans figures due to her acting role in a popular TV series was a leading advocate for the self-ID law passed by the country’s former progressive coalition. Read more here.
NORTH DAKOTA SCHOOLS IMPLEMENT TRANSGENDER RESTRICTIONS FOR NEW ACADEMIC YEAR. Schools across North Dakota are starting the new school year with several new laws restricting different facets of gender ideology, including the prohibition of preferred pronouns. Read more here.
MUSLIM GROUP, PRINCIPALS UNION SAY SCHOOL SYSTEM LIED TO STOP PARENTS FROM OPTING THEIR CHILDREN OUT OF TRANSGENDER LESSONS. The Council on American-Islamic Relations said a Maryland school system misled a federal court about its efforts to block parents from opting out their children from lessons pushing homosexuality and transgenderism. Read more here.
COURT RULES ALABAMA CAN BAN TRANS SURGERIES, PUBERTY BLOCKERS FOR KIDS. The United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit unanimously upheld the right of Alabama to enforce the state’s Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, which bans body-mutilating “sex change” surgeries and experimental drugs for youth confused about their sex. Read more here.
AMERICA FIRST LEGAL DEMANDS ANSWERS ON DOJ TRANSGENDER INTERVENTION. The U.S. Department of Justice intervened in a Virginia school district’s adoption of Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s policies that center parental rights in transgender issues. America First Legal senior adviser Ian Prior said the Department of Justice is “unmoored from its core functions.” Read more here.
ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY PUSHES TRANSGENDER ‘TOOLKIT’ ON MED STUDENTS. St. Louis University’s Transgender Health Collaborative is pushing a toolkit on “transgender health” intended to influence students of medicine to embrace ideological understandings of gender and sexuality. Read more here.
LIBRARY SILENCES SPEAKER FOR OPPOSING MEN IN WOMEN’S SPORTS. While Sophia Lorey of the California Family Council was advocating for fairness in women’s sports and for parental rights at the Mary L. Stephens Library in Davis, California, she was ordered to leave the building for “misgendering” biological men who identify as females. Read more here.
NEW JERSEY JOINS OTHER BLUE STATES IN FORCING SCHOOLS TO TRANS CHILDREN WITHOUT PARENTS’ KNOWLEDGE. State officials in New Jersey are pressuring school districts to help students “transition” to the opposite sex without the knowledge and consent of their parents as part of an overall push to implement a progressive agenda in K-12 schools. Read more here.
ARIZONA SUPERINTENDENT SAYS SCHOOLS SHOULDN’T ALLOW TRANSGENDER STUDENTS TO USE GIRLS’ BATHROOMS. Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne strongly advises schools not to allow transgender females to use the girls’ bathrooms. Read more here.
UNIVERSITY ACADEMICS: TAXPAYERS SHOULD FUND TRANSGENDER ‘TWEAK’ SURGERIES LIKE HAIR REMOVAL. A pair of medical academics at Canada’s Dalhousie University recently opined that taxpayers should fit the bill for “minimally invasive” gender-affirming surgeries such as “voice feminization” and hair removal. Read more here.
TUCSON TEACHER HANDED KIDS ‘GETTING TO KNOW YOU’ FORM OFFERING TO HIDE PREFERRED PRONOUNS FROM PARENTS. Catalina Foothills High School handed students a “getting to know you” form asking them to list their preferred pronouns and asked whether or not their pronouns could be used in front of their parents. Read more here.
‘CENSORSHIP’: PRO-FAMILY ADVOCATE CONVICTED OF ‘POLITICAL VIOLENCE’ FOR ‘MISGENDERING’ LAWMAKER. Former Mexican congressman Rodrigo Iván Cortés has been convicted in a court of “gender-based political violence” for social media posts he made in 2022 referring to a transgender-identifying Mexican lawmaker as a “man who self-ascribes as a woman.” Read more here.
ONE-THIRD OF UK POPULATION DOESN’T KNOW ‘TRANSGENDER WOMEN’ ARE BIOLOGICAL MALES. Murray Blackburn Mackenzie’s survey revealed that 35 percent of Britons either mistakenly think a “transgender woman” is biologically female at birth, or are uncertain of the meaning of the term, and 40 percent are puzzled by the term “transwoman.” Read more here.
NC LAWMAKERS OVERRIDE VETO, BAN ‘SEX-CHANGE’ SURGERIES FOR KIDS. The North Carolina General Assembly has overridden Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper’s vetoes of bills that ban biological males who identify as female from competing in female sports and ban “sex-change” surgeries and hormone intervention drugs for trans-identified youth. Read more here.
TARGET SALES SLUMP IN TRANS BACKLASH—BUT SHARES JUMP HIGHER ON PROFIT BEAT. Target said its sales declined in the second quarter, the first quarterly decline in six years, after customers pulled back from purchases in reaction to the company promoting transgender ideology for children as part of its “pride” month merchandising push. Read more here.
CHESS BODY BANS TRANSGENDER ‘WOMEN’ FROM WOMEN’S EVENTS. The International Chess Federation has ruled that transgender “women” cannot compete in official events for females until an assessment of ‘’gender change’’ is made by its officials. Read more here.
WA GOVERNOR SUED OVER NEW LAW ALLOWING STATE TO HIDE CHILD ‘SEX-CHANGE’ SURGERIES FROM PARENTS. American First Legal has sued Washington Governor Jay Inslee in an attempt to stop the enforcement of a law allowing the state to keep parents in the dark about their child’s “sex change” procedure. Read more here.
LARGEST SCHOOL DISTRICT IN VIRGINIA DEFIES GOVERNOR’S GUIDANCE ON BATHROOMS, PRONOUNS. Fairfax County Public Schools said it will not follow Virginia Department of Education requirements for teachers to use a student’s biological name and pronouns unless given written permission by a parent to use something else. Read more here.
TOP U.S. DOCTOR GROUP WANTS TAXPAYERS TO FUND UTERUS TRANSPLANTS FOR MEN. The American Medical Association floated a trial balloon for taxpayer-funded uterus transplants for biological men who identify as transgender so that men could “gestate their own children” or “consolidate their identities but not gestate children.” Read more here.
TIK TOK FEARS USING ‘RIDICULOUS’ NEOPRONOUNS LIKE ‘LEAF’ WILL HARM LGBT COMMUNITY. LGBT TikTok creator Link Lauren said the trend of “neopronouns” such as xe/xyr, ze/zir and even “leaf” in everyday speech will harm LGBT people. Read more here.
PEDIATRIC PSYCHOLOGIST SAYS KIDS CAN ‘IDENTIFY’ AS ‘GENDER MINOTAURS.’ Diane Ehrensaft, the director of mental health and chief psychologist at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital gender development center, believes children can change their “gender identity” at any given time, and that can include identities such as “gender hybrids.” Read more here.
TRANSGENDER POWERLIFTER SETS WOMEN’S RECORD. Canadian powerlifter Anne Andres, an athlete born a man now identifying as a woman, set a national and unofficial world record at the 2023 Western Canadian Championship, dominating the competition in the process. Read more here.
DUTCH COMPANIES OFFER 24 WEEKS OF PAID LEAVE FOR GENDER TRANSITIONERS. Several large companies in the Netherlands are offering up to six months paid leave for workers who identify as transgender and begin a medical transition. In comparison, Dutch workers receive 16 weeks for maternal leave and five days for fathers. Read more here.
THIRD GENDER CONTINUES TO DIVIDE OPINIONS IN NORWAY. The new Minister of Culture and Equality, Lubna Jaffery, is in favor of introducing a third legal gender category in addition to male and female. Read more here.
RILEY GAINES: MEN IN WOMEN’S SPORTS IS ‘HUMILIATING.’ Gaines said, “These people – they’re doing it in the name of being kind, being inclusive,” but added, “it’s sexual harassment.” Read more here.
PARENTS CANNOT CHALLENGE SCHOOL GENDER IDENTITY POLICY, U.S. COURT RULES. A U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit panel ruled 2-1 that three parents in Montgomery County Maryland lacked standing to challenge the policy because they had not alleged their children were transgender in the first place. Read more here.
TN HOSPITAL THAT OFFERS TRANS SURGERIES FOR KIDS FACING BIDEN ADMIN INVESTIGATION. A Nashville hospital that was at the center of controversy for offering irreversible “gender-affirming” surgeries for children is facing a civil rights investigation by the Biden administration for turning over transgender patients’ records to the state attorney general. Read more here.
DOUBT IN DENMARK OVER TRANSGENDER MEDICINE. Denmark has taken a step towards caution in “gender care” by offering a form of counselling rather than medical treatments to the main patient group of teenagers with no childhood history of distress in their birth sex. Read more here.
LEGAL BATTLES OVER PRONOUN USE COULD SOON LAND AT SUPREME COURT. Tyson Langhofer, a senior counsel at the Alliance Defending Freedom, says that cases centered on pronoun use are becoming especially prevalent in K-12 public schools, as several teachers have lost their jobs after invoking religious beliefs that prohibit them from using pronouns and names that do not correspond to a transgender student’s claimed gender identity. Read more here.
ALASKA SCHOOL DISTRICT ALLOWS STUDENTS TO HIDE GENDER CONFUSION FROM PARENTS, WATCHDOG GROUP WARNS. An Alaskan parental advocacy group charged that the “Working with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students and Employees’’ policy is being used by schools to instruct staff members on how to help students conceal their gender confusion from parents. Read more here.
COURT BLOCKS IDAHO LAW RESTRICTING TRANS STUDENTS’ RESTROOM USE. Federal court judge David Nye temporarily blocked an Idaho law requiring public school students to use the restroom corresponding to their “assigned sex at birth,” after the family of a student sued. Read more here.
WISCONSIN PARENTS RAISE CONCERNS AFTER TRANS ATHLETE ALLEGEDLY DEALS GIRLS WELTS, BRUISES DURING PRACTICE. Parents in the Green Bay Area Public School District said their daughters are suffering injuries from exposure to boys playing on their teams. Read more here.
GEORGIA TEACHER TRYING TO REVERSE FIRING FOR READING CONTROVERSIAL BOOK ON GENDER IDENTITY TO 5TH GRADERS. Due West Elementary teacher Katie Rinderle is trying to avoid termination for reading the book “My Shadow Is Purple,” banned by state law, to her students. Read more here.
CNN PUBLISHES A ‘GUIDE TO NEOPRONOUNS,’ EMBRACES GENDERLESS PRONOUNS LIKE ‘LEAFSELF, SUN, STAR.’ In a story titled “A guide to neopronouns, from ae to ze,” CNN outlined the use of alternative grammar that eliminates “gender markers,” quoting one of “the foremost experts on neopronouns,” who encouraged readers to “use and respect” neopronouns like any other common pronoun. Read more here.
B.C. FATHER WHO BROKE BAN ON PUBLICATION OF HIS TRANSGENDER SON’S IDENTITY HAS SENTENCE REDUCED. The father who received a six-month jail sentence for breaking a publication ban that forbade him from publicly identifying his transgender son has had his sentence shortened. Read more here.
DUTCH COMPANIES ARE GENEROUS IN PROVIDING ‘TRANSITION’ LEAVE. More and more companies are giving employees paid leave if they want to “change their gender.” At major employers including the government, this is already enshrined in the collective agreement, according to Dutch employers’ organization AWVN. Read more here.
DISNEY PARTNERS WITH GENDER-FLUID BIOLOGICAL MALE TO PROMOTE DRESSES TO GIRLS. The Walt Disney Company partnered with a gender-fluid social media influencer Seann Altman, a biological male, for a clothing ad showing followers how to dress like Minnie Mouse, prompting conservatives to call for a boycott. Read more here.
FEDERAL JUDGE REJECTS PARENTS’ LAWSUIT SEEKING TO END OHIO SCHOOL DISTRICT’S GENDER-IDENTITY BATHROOM POLICE. In a blow to Christian and Muslim parents and their children, a federal judge has upheld a policy in an Ohio school district that allows students to use bathrooms based on their self-identified gender, rather than biological sex. Read more here.
KENTUCKY CLINIC ADMITS CHILD ‘SEX CHANGE’ SURGERIES DESPITE GOV’S INSISTENCE PROCEDURES ‘DON’T HAPPEN.’ The university health system’s Transform Clinic, which specializes in care for the LGBTQ+ community, said that although it “does not perform genital gender reassignment surgery on minors,” it had “performed a small number non-genital gender reassignment surgeries on minors, such as mastectomies for older adolescents.” Read more here.
LIBERAL MEDIA’S NEW FAVORITE PRO-TRANS STUDY HAS GLARING ISSUES. The journal JAMA Surgery published a study claiming to show overwhelming satisfaction among transgender individuals who underwent breast removal for “gender-affirmation” purposes, but the study has serious flaws. Read more here.
MUSEUM SCRUBS JK ROWLING FROM ‘HARRY POTTER’ DISPLAY OVER ‘TRANSPHOBIC’ VIEWS: REDUCING HER IMPACT. “Harry Potter” novelist J.K. Rowling is taking yet another hit from critics blasting her as “transphobic,” and, this time, all references to her or items regarding her have been scrubbed from a franchise display at Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture. Read more here.
RILEY GAINES AND WOMEN’S RIGHTS ACTIVISTS ASSAULTED, SPAT ON BY ‘RABID’ LEFTIST PROTESTERS. The women who helped lobby for the “Save Women’s Sports Act” in Texas will have another memory of their bill signing day—how they were assailed by radical protesters as they tried to get into and out of the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame for the bill signing. Read more here.
BOYS SCHOOL COALITION TO HOST TRAINING WITH TRANSGENDER ACTIVIST GROUP. The International Boys School Coalition will host training on “gender inclusive schools” for faculty from its nearly 300 member schools in September. Read more here.
LGBT ACTIVISTS AWARD MONEY TO U.S. SCHOOLS TO PROMOTE GENDER IDEOLOGY. An LGBT activist organization provided grants to more than 70 public and charter schools in the U.S. and Canada to support “Gender Sexuality Alliance” clubs, resulting in some schools placing LGBT books in their libraries and creating “gender-transition” closets. Read more here.
WYOMING TENNIS ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT RESIGNS OVER MEN BEING ALLOWED TO COMPETE AGAINST WOMEN. Jackie Fulkrod has resigned over the Cheyenne Tennis Association’s decision to allow a biological male to compete in the women’s division of competition. Read more here.
ANOTHER SPORT JUST BANNED TRANSGENDER ATHLETES IN WOMEN’S COMPETITIONS. British Rowing banned biological male transgender athletes from competing in women’s races but created other categories that would still allow them to compete fairly. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA INVESTIGATES SCHOOL DISTRICT OVER TRANSGENDER PARENTAL NOTIFICATION POLICY. The State of California launched a civil rights investigation into the Chino Valley School District for adopting a policy requiring schools to notify parents if children want to “change” their gender. Read more here.
REPORT: SCHOOL TEACHERS TOLD ‘GENDERQUEERS,’ ‘PAGANS’ ARE OPPRESSED IN AMERICA. Teachers from Clarksville-Montgomery County, Tennessee reported they were sent to a conference where they were taught that in the U.S. “nonbinary,” “genderqueer,” “polyamorous” and “pagan” people are oppressed, and now they are expected to teach the same things to their students. Read more here.
MARTINA NAVRATILOVA RIPS USTA’S TRANSGENDER INCLUSION POLICY: ‘THIS IS NOT RIGHT AND IT IS NOT FAIR.’ Tennis legend Martina Navratilova called out the United States Tennis Association’s transgender inclusion policy on social media, writing, “This is not right and it is not fair. Would this be allowed at the US Open this month? Just with self ID? I don’t think so.” Read more here.
POTENTIAL ‘GAME-CHANGER’: AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS REVIEWING SUPPORT OF YOUTH GENDER TREATMENTS. The American Academy of Pediatrics quietly reaffirmed its 2018 policy supporting gender treatments on minors this week. However, the leading pediatric group also called for a systematic review of the medical research supporting these treatments, a move that the organization has long resisted and was called a potential “game-changer” by one critic of the controversial health care. Read more here.
WORLD SWIMMING BANS TRANSGENDER ATHLETES FROM WOMEN’S EVENTS. World swimming’s governing body has effectively banned transgender women from competing in women’s events. FINA members widely adopted a new “gender inclusion policy” that only permits swimmers who transitioned before age 12 to compete in women’s events. Read more here.
PROSECUTION OF LAWMAKERS FOR ‘MISGENDERING’ POLITICIAN RAISES CONCERNS ABOUT FREE SPEECH IN MEXICO. Two Mexican leaders accused of “gender-based political violence” after referring to a trans-identifying lawmaker as a man warned about the suppression of speech and religious rights in their country. Read more here.
FLORIDA RESTRICTS AP PSYCHOLOGY OVER GENDER-IDENTITY, SEXUAL-ORIENTATION LESSONS. The Florida Department of Education restricted the Advanced Placement Psychology course over its gender identity and sexual orientation lessons, arguing that their inclusion violates state law. Read more here.
IOWA SCHOOL DISTRICT WILL REVIEW NEARLY 400 BOOKS FLAGGED FOR SEX ACTS, GENDER IDENTITY. The Urbandale Community School District will review 374 books that were flagged for depictions of sex acts and references to gender identity to determine if they violate a new state law. Read more here.
WOMAN DENIED CANCER TREATMENT IN PORTLAND AFTER CRITICIZING TRANSGENDERISM. A woman identified as “Marlene,” who has gone on social media to criticize the display of transgender flags, has been prevented from receiving cancer treatment. Read more here.
SCHOOL DISTRICT BANS TRANS STUDENTS FROM DRESSING THEIR GENDER IDENTITY. Mississippi’s Harrison County School Board has adopted a new dress code that specifically mandates transgender students must dress in a manner that is consistent with their sex at birth. Read more here.
OKLAHOMA GOV. SIGNS ‘WOMEN’S BILL OF RIGHTS’ INTO LAW TO PROTECT GIRLS FROM ‘OUT OF CONTROL GENDER IDEOLOGY.’ Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed the “Women’s Bill of Rights” into law, stating the executive order will solidify distinctions between men and women based on sex and identify spaces in which they are to be kept separate, including locker rooms, restrooms, rape crisis centers, domestic violence shelters and prisons, among others. Read more here.
NORWEGIAN BOYS ‘CHANGE GENDER’ TO GET INTO STUDY PROGRAM. In order to increase the number of women in the study program of Industrial Economics and Technology Management, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology lowered the requirements for female students, enticing some boys to ‘’change genders” so they can enroll. Read more here.
‘DETRANSITIONER’ EXPOSES ‘SEX CHANGE’ APPROVAL PROCESS, FILES SUIT AGAINST HEALTH PRACTITIONERS. Soren Adalco is suing the health practitioners who green-lighted and provided her transgender interventions, including a botched double mastectomy. Read more here.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE ‘METAGENDER’ OR ‘DEMIROMANTIC?’ THIS DISTRICT IS TEACHING KIDS ALL ABOUT IT. The Hillsboro, Oregon school district is teaching sex education curriculum for 10th-graders that includes the so-called “romantic orientations” of “panromantic” and “demiromantic.” Read more here.
U.S. MILITARY QUIETLY USING THIS LITTLE-KNOWN PROGRAM TO ENABLE CHILD ‘SEX CHANGES.’ Through the Exceptional Family Member Program, the military has allowed special assignments for servicemembers so their dependents can access “gender transition” services and can take additional steps to facilitate “transition.” Read more here.
VIRGINIA SCHOOL BOARD MEETING ERUPTS IN CHAOS OVER TRANSGENDER POLICIES. The Roanoke County School Board held a meeting on the state’s new model policies requiring sports teams, bathrooms and locker rooms in schools to be separated by biological sex instead of gender identity, resulting in angry transgender proponents being escorted out. Read more here.
DOC MARTENS SPOTLIGHTS ‘ALARMING’ DIY SHOES PROMOTING ‘GENDER TRANSITION’ ‘TOP SURGERY.’ Independent artists are redesigning classic shoe brands that promote LGBT causes such as “focuses on inclusivity, empowerment, and creating conversations surrounding feminism and the queer community.” Read more here.
GOP WARNS NEW HATE CRIME LAW WILL ‘POLICE’ SPEECH AND PROSECUTE ‘MISGENDERING.’ Republicans in Michigan say a new state hate crime law aims to imprison people for “misgendering,” and the state’s woke LGBTQ agenda will result in prosecution for anyone who hurts someone’s feelings. Read more here.
SCHOOL DISTRICT REFUSES TO TELL PARENTS BIG ‘SECRET’ IT TOLD STUDENTS. Parents in Wisconsin are suing the Eau Claire school district for telling students about a “transitioning” music teacher and trying to keep it secret from parents. Read more here.
TRANSSEXUAL REQUESTS EUTHANASIA IN CANADA OVER PAIN FROM CROSS-SEX SURGERY. The biological male has expressed immense regret over a 2009 surgery to create imitation female genitalia saying that euthanasia would be preferable to the constant pain from the operation. Read more here.
FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKS MONTANA’S ANTI-DRAG BAN. U.S. District Judge Brian Morris issued a temporary restraining order against a ban on drag performers, saying the law will “disproportionately harm any person who falls outside traditional gender and identity norms,” including transgender and Two-Spirit people. Read more here.
BOYS’ SCHOOL WILL ALLOW TRANSGENDER CHILDREN AND PUT AN END TO LABELING GENDERS AS ‘OTHER.’ The Browning School in New York City announced it will allow the admission of transgender boys who will be referred to broadly as “boys and young men.” Read more here.
‘DETRANSITIONER’ TELLS CONGRESS HER ‘CHILDHOOD WAS RUINED’ BY GENDER ‘REASSIGNMENT.’ Chloe Cole, age 19, called on Congress to halt “gender-reassignment” therapies and surgeries for minors, saying that her “childhood was ruined” by the medical interventions. Read more here.
ETSY EQUATES ‘DETRANSITIONER AWARENESS’ DESIGNS WITH HATRED. A “detransitioned” woman’s designs aimed at bringing awareness to the experience of “detransitioners” on the e-commerce platform, Etsy, were removed by content moderators for “glorifying hatred or violence.” Read more here.
CONGRESSMAN MIKE JOHNSON PUSHES FEDERAL BAN ON CHILD TRANSGENDER SURGERIES TO STOP ‘UNSPEAKABLE HARMS.’ During a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing, the Louisiana Republican called for a nationwide ban on “gender transition” surgeries for minors, saying the federal government needed to stop the “barbaric … mutilation of children.” Read more here.
STUDY REVEALS CONCERNING OUTCOMES OF TRANSGENDER GENITAL SURGERIES. Researchers from the University of Florida and Brooks Rehabilitation found that 81 percent of individuals who underwent genital surgeries within the past five years reported experiencing pain in various areas, including the lower back, groin, pelvis, chest, or shoulders, even long after the procedures. Read more here.
PROFESSOR SAYS HE WAS DISCRIMINATELY FIRED FOR TEACHING SEX WAS DETERMINED BY CHROMOSOMES X AND Y. St. Philip’s College in San Antonio, Texas allegedly fired biology professor Dr. Johnson Varkey for religious teaching, though his lectures came from school-approved and science-based curriculums. Read more here.
EX-UPENN SWIMMER TESTIFIES BEFORE CONGRESS ON LIA THOMAS EXPERIENCE, OPENS UP ABOUT 2016 SEXUAL ASSAULT. The former college swimmer, who was sexually assaulted at age 16, told congressmen about having to undress 18 times per week in front of the male teammate Lia Thomas, and the university said his presence on the women’s team was “non-negotiable.” Read more here.
3 FEMALE ‘DETRANSITIONERS’ SUING DOCTORS OVER EXPERIMENTAL ‘SEX CHANGE’ PROCEDURES THAT LEFT THEM DISFIGURED. Formerly trans-identifying individuals have accused medical professionals of subjecting them to body-disfiguring drugs and surgeries during a time in their lives when they struggled with gender dysphoria and various mental health issues. Read more here.
MISSOURI SUED OVER LAW BANNING ‘SEX CHANGE’ PROCEDURES ON CHILDREN. The ACLU of Missouri and Lambda Legal, along with the Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP law firm, claim that Missouri’s law prohibiting double mastectomies on girls, cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers is discriminatory. Read more here.
100+ TRANS MEN SIGNED UP FOR MISS ITALY PAGEANT AFTER TRANS WOMAN BAN. Miss Italy’s organizer, Patrizia Mirigliani, announced a ban on men entering its contest after the Miss Netherlands competition recently crowned a man, and more than 100 men responded by registering for the event. Read more here.
DEMOCRAT REP. NADLER: ‘FACTS DO NOT JUSTIFY THE FEARS’ OF TRANSGENDER YOUTHS IN GIRLS’ SPORTS. During a congressional hearing, Rep. Nadler disputed the physical advantages males have over female athletes despite witnesses who refuted his claims. Read more here.
PRO-LGBT THUG THREATENS TO KILL SCHOOL BOARD CHIEF OVER PARENTAL RIGHTS. A school board president in California has been inundated with threats that left-wing activists will dismember her, kill her children, and slaughter her pets, for saying teachers should not keep parents in the dark if their children begin to “identify” as transgender. Read more here.
TOUGHER TRANSGENDER GUIDELINES FOR UK SCHOOLS RULED ‘UNLAWFUL.’ The attorney general said the government must change the law if it wants to hand parents greater power regarding transgender issues. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD THROWS OUT STATE OFFICIAL AS HE PROTESTS FOR SECRET TRANSGENDER POLICIES. California State Superintendent Tony Thurmond was kicked out of the Chino Valley Unified School District board meeting and escorted by police while protesting a policy to inform parents about a child’s desire to “change genders.” Read more here.
MISS ITALY PAGEANT BANS TRANSGENDER COMPETITORS. In a move coming on the heels of a biological male winning the Miss Netherlands title, all entrants in the Miss Italy pageant must be “a woman from birth.” Read more here.
SEN. HAWLEY: GENDER IDEOLOGY FOR CHILDREN ‘LATEST FRONTIER’ OF ATTACKS ON FAMILY. The Republican senator from Missouri said those on the Left are seeking power in order to indoctrinate children and attack the nuclear family. Read more here.
SPORTS COACH GETS FIRED FOR SAYING MALES ARE DIFFERENT FROM FEMALES. David Bloch, the snowboarding coach at Woodstock Union High School in Vermont, lost his job for saying males are biologically different from females, and that gives males an advantage in sports. Read more here.
AIR FORCE ACADEMY HEAD SAYS HE SUPPORTS FELLOWSHIP FOR ‘DEMIGENDER.’ Under questioning from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Superintendent Lt. Gen. Richard Clark said he could not define gender ideology terms used on the academy campus. Read more here.
EVENTBRITE REMOVES NOTICE OF RALLY DEMANDING PROTECTION OF FEMALE SPACES. Eventbrite, a website that allows users to promote events, unpublished the Let Women Speak Austin rally, claiming its efforts to promote safe bathrooms and locker rooms for women are “hateful, dangerous, or violent content.” Read more here.
FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKS LAW PROTECTING WOMEN’S SPORTS FROM TRANS ATHLETES. A judge in Tucson granted a preliminary injunction to allow processing of a lawsuit filed by two boys, whom the judge called “transgender girls,” challenging the state’s act protecting the fairness and integrity in women’s sports. Read more here.
COLORADO HOSPITAL STOPS PERFORMING ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING’ SURGERY. Children’s Hospital Colorado said “gender-affirming” care has led to threats at other children’s hospitals nationwide, and it is no longer providing the surgery for people over 18. Read more here.
NEW HAMPSHIRE’S FIRST ELECTED TRANSGENDER REPRESENTATIVE CHARGED WITH SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF MINORS. Stacie Marie Laughton, a biological man who identifies as a woman, was charged with aiding and abetting, in addition to one count of child exploitation, in relation to former intimate partner Lindsay Groves, according to a DOJ press release. Read more here.
YOUTUBE CENSORED ‘DETRANSITIONER’ WHILE ‘GLAMORIZING’ PRO-TRANS CONTENT. Prisha Mosley underwent a double mastectomy and took testosterone injections before ‘‘detransitioning,’’ and YouTube spiked the video of her story. Read more here.
TRANSGENDER CYCLIST AUSTIN KILLIPS SPARKS CONTROVERSY AS CYCLING OFFICIALS ALTER POLICY. A firestorm has erupted over transgender cyclist Austin Killips, a biological male, hailed as the first openly transgender female to win an official Union Cycliste Internationale stage race, expressing frustration with the governing body’s new restrictions regarding transgender participation in women’s events. Read more here.
WOMAN POSING AS GIRL BUSTS NEW YORK ‘HEALTHCARE’ GROUP GIVING TRANSGENDER DRUGS TO KIDS. A woman posing as a 14-year-old girl caught a New York City “healthcare provider” on tape offering her, a presumed minor, cross-sex hormones without parental consent. Read more here.
U.S. NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS AWARDS GRANT FOR TRANSGENDER DANCE TOUR. Fresh Meat Productions notes that the dance is “performed by a powerhouse ensemble of five trans, queer and gender-non-conforming dancers” featuring “intimate storytelling, intricate costuming and exquisite queer partnering.” Read more here.
EVEN CANADIANS OPPOSE JUSTIN TRUDEAU’S K-12 TRANSGENDERISM DRIVE. A poll asked 1,523 Canadians if “schools have to let parents know about the child’s desire to change gender or have new gender pronouns.” Fifty-seven percent of the respondents said, “schools should have to let the child’s parents know.” Read more here.
VIRGINIA FINALIZES GUIDANCE ON TRANSGENDER STUDENTS, INCLUDING ROLLING BACK SOME ACCOMMODATIONS. Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration finalized new policies on the treatment of transgender students, directing school districts to roll back some current accommodations and to increase parental notification requirements about certain discussions involving gender identity. Read more here.
RACHEL LEVINE RIPPED AFTER ARGUING HORMONES HELP CHILDREN AVOID ‘WRONG PUBERTY.’ The transgender U.S. Department of Health and Human Services assistant secretary came under fire during a response to a media question about why children should not have to wait until they’re 18 years old before making life-altering decisions. Read more here.
LOUISIANA HOUSE FAILS TO OVERRIDE GOVERNOR’S VETO OF GENDER IDENTITY PARENTAL PERMISSION BILL. The Louisiana State House failed by three votes in its effort to override Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards’ veto of a bill that would have banned teachers from using a new pronoun for students unless they get permission from parents. Read more here.
SCHOOLS IN SAXONY, GERMANY ARE FORBIDDEN TO USE GENDER LANGUAGE. The Ministry of Education directed schools to follow the nation’s official spelling rules, disallowing the use of gender language. Read more here.
UK WILL BEGIN REQUIRING TEACHERS TO INFORM PARENTS OF ANY ‘GENDER TRANSITION’ BY THEIR CHILDREN. Teachers will be required to tell parents that their child is questioning his or her gender even if the young person objects, under new guidance for schools, equalities minister Kemi Badenoch indicated. Read more here.
RUSSIA PASSES BILL BANNING TRANSGENDER SURGERIES, ADOPTIONS. The lower house of parliament passed a bill banning any “medical interventions aimed at ‘changing the sex’ of a person” as part of a batch of laws aimed at combating LGBTQ propaganda. Read more here.
FEMALE RECRUIT CONSIDERED RESIGNING AFTER BEING FORCED TO SHOWER WITH TRANS MAN. An 18-year-old military recruit forced to shower with biological males as part of the Biden administration’s transgender policies complained about being placed in an “extremely uncomfortable position.” Read more here.
KENTUCKY BAN ON TRANSGENDER SURGERIES OF CHILDREN TAKES EFFECT AFTER JUDGE LIFTS INJUNCTION. U.S. District Judge David Hale lifted a temporary injunction against a Kentucky law prohibiting the gender “transitioning” of minors, in what Attorney General Daniel Cameron called a “win for parents and children.” Read more here.
NEARLY HALF OF MILLENNIALS BELIEVE ‘MISGENDERING’ SHOULD BE CRIMINAL OFFENSE. Forty-four percent of people in the age range of 25-34 believe “misgendering” a person should be a criminal offense, while 31 percent disagreed, according to a Newsweek survey. Read more here.
CDC ‘CHESTFEEDING’ GUIDANCE DRAWS PUSHBACK FROM GOP DOCTORS IN SENATE. Sens. Roger Marshall (R-KS) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) sent a letter to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director criticizing the agency for not acknowledging the limited research on the subject and leaving out information on the possible safety risks posed to the transgender individual or the infant. Read more here.
INTERNATIONAL ENDOCRINOLOGISTS SPEAK OUT AGAINST U.S. GENDER ‘TRANSITION’ MEDICINE. Nearly two dozen clinicians and researchers from nine countries co-signed a letter to the Wall Street Journal stating the Endocrine Society’s claims about the state of evidence for gender-affirming care for youth are not supported by evidence. Read more here.
WORLD CYCLING BODY REVERSES COURSE, BANS TRANS ATHLETES FROM COMPETING AGAINST WOMEN. “From now on, female transgender athletes who have ‘transitioned’ after (male) puberty will be prohibited from participating in women’s events on the UCI International Calendar – in all categories – in the various disciplines,” the Union Cycliste Internationale ruled. Read more here.
SEATTLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS GIVE FREE TRANSGENDER HORMONES, SURGERY REFERRALS TO STUDENTS. Seattle public schools are giving cross-sex hormones and referrals for mutilating surgeries to teenagers, according to an investigative report by the conservative parents’ group Parents Defending Education. Read more here.
VIRGINIA SCHOOL DISTRICT SAYS ‘DISCOMFORT IS NOT A REASON’ TO KEEP BOYS OUT OF GIRLS’ BATHROOMS. The unease of girls having to share intimate facilities with members of the opposite sex is allegedly not a sufficient reason to reject the gender identity policy of Albemarle County Public Schools. Read more here.
JUDGE ALLOWS SCHOOLS TO WITHHOLD GENDER IDENTITY OF STUDENTS FROM THEIR PARENTS. U.S. District Judge John Mendez said he was observing judicial restraint by dismissing Aurora Regino’s lawsuit alleging that Chico Unified School District hid her fifth-grade daughter’s stated identification as a “boy.” Read more here.
MUSLIM CITY COUNCIL IN MICHIGAN FIRES EMPLOYEES FOR PRIDE FLAG ON PUBLIC PROPERTY. The all-Muslim city council in Hamtramck, Michigan fired two human relations commissioners after they flew the LGBTQ pride flag on public property in violation of a recent law banning such flags. Read more here.
FORMER LGBT ACTIVIST REGRETS INDOCTRINATING CHILDREN WITH GENDER IDEOLOGY: ‘OH MY GOD. WHAT HAVE I DONE?’ Kay Yang, who formerly worked in LGBT outreach, is now an outspoken critic of gender ideology being taught to young children in K-12 education and has been the victim of physical attacks. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA STUDENTS WHO ‘MISGENDERED’ TEACHER SUSPENDED, PARENTS GROUP SAYS. The two suspended students were subjected to restorative justice training by Herbert Hoover High School in Glendale. Read more here.
THE NEXT LIA THOMAS? MALE DOMINATES GIRLS’ SPORTS AFTER APPEALS COURT BLOCKS WEST VIRGINIA LAW. Transgender male Becky Pepper-Jackson has beaten over 100 female track and field rivals, prompting West Virginia’s attorney general and Alliance Defending Freedom to seek a legal remedy to this unfairness. Read more here.
WISCONSIN REPUBLICANS REINTRODUCE SAVE WOMEN’S SPORTS ACT. Wisconsin legislators reintroduced the Act in an effort to force athletes to participate in male, female or co-ed teams, though Gov. Tony Evers would likely veto such a bill. Read more here.
PARENTS OF TRANS STUDENTS SEEK TO BLOCK STATE’S BAN ON TRANSGENDER PROCEDURES FOR MINORS. Transgender advocates are seeking to block Texas law banning puberty blockers, cross-sex hormone replacement and “transition” surgeries for children. Read more here.
STUNNING VIDEO EXPOSES HOW TRANS ACTIVISTS ‘CONQUERED AMERICAN LIFE.’ A powerful new video by investigative journalist Christopher Rufo and the Manhatton Institute exposes the activist intellectuals and influential doctors behind the aggressive “trans” revolution in America. Read more here.
TRANS ADVOCATES IN RUSSIA BRACE FOR PROPOSED GENDER SURGERY BAN. New legislation supported by the lower house of Parliament is the latest phase in a widespread crackdown on LGBTQ indoctrination, which President Vladimir Putin seeks to portray as evidence of moral decay in Western countries. Read more here.
CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL PAID EMPLOYEE TO GIVE ‘DRAG PERFORMANCE’ TO SCHOOL KIDS. Chicago’s Lurie Children’s Hospital paid Chicago Public Schools hundreds for a drag performance by one of its health educators at a school resource fair, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Read more here.
Dutch court: child does not need a mother after birth. Two men who were “unable to realize their desire for children on their own” were allowed by a court to register themselves as legal parents, and the surrogate mother who gave birth to the child was discarded at the expense of Dutch family law stating the mother is always certain. Read more here.
Transgender model wins Miss Netherlands, will compete at Miss Universe. Rikkie Kolle, a biologically male transgender model, will go on to compete for the title of Miss Universe later this year in El Salvador. Read more here.
Largest teachers union votes to endorse pediatric “sex changes.” The National Education Association approved a new measure calling for the group and its members to promote “sex-change” procedures for LGBTQ youth. Read more here.
UK teachers union urges scrapping of boy and girl uniforms, segregated sports. Britain’s largest teachers union has advised schools to stop segregated sports and use gender-neutral uniforms to become more “trans inclusive” and to end “boy-girl” classroom seating as it could “distress” trans or non-binary students. Read more here.
Ruling allows Tennessee “gender-affirming” care for minors ban to become law. Tennessee’s law blocking health care providers from performing gender-affirming surgeries on minors or administering hormones or puberty blockers to minors is allowed to become law after the Sixth District U.S. Court of Appeals overruled a lower court injunction. Read more here.
French party wants transgender men to have access to fertility treatment for women. The left-wing La France party proposed that transgender men gain access to the fertility treatment so they could increase their chances of getting pregnant. Read more here.
University repeals reprimand against professor who failed student for saying “biological women.” The University of Cincinnati has repealed its reprimand against a gender studies professor who gave a student a zero on her project proposal about transgender athletes competing in women’s sports because it included the phrase “biological women.” Read more here.
Kentucky AG appeals ruling that blocked ban on “gender-transition” treatments for minors. Kentucky attorney general Daniel Cameron challenged a federal judge’s ruling that temporarily blocked parts of the state’s ban on “gender-transition” treatments for minors. Read more here.
Left is challenging state bans on “transgender procedures” for minors. A federal judge is allowing Georgia’s ban on “gender-transition” drugs and surgeries for minors to go into effect, despite protests from the left-wing organizations, the ACLU and Southern Poverty Law Center. Read more here.
Transgender woman challenges societal norms by applying to compete in Miss Venezuela pageant. In a nation where there is almost no acceptance of the LGBT agenda, a male who goes by the name of Sofia Salomón is challenging long-held traditional norms. Read more here.
Policy 713: LGBT school policy change causes political turmoil in Canada. A controversial policy change that bars teachers from using a student’s preferred pronouns without parental permission will soon go into effect in New Brunswick despite pushback. Read more here.
U. of Cincinnati orders professor who gave student an F for using “biological women” to attend free speech training. University of Cincinnati adjunct professor Melanie Rose Nipper, who failed a student for using the term “biological women” on an essay, has been formally reprimanded by her department and ordered to attend a free speech training. Read more here.
Transgender rapist complains of “transphobic” abuse in men’s prison. A male prisoner in the United Kingdom who identifies as “transgender” and was convicted of raping two women sent a letter to reporters claiming that he’s been the target of “transphobic abuse” and a “hate crime” in a men’s prison. Read more here.
Louisiana governor vetoes bill banning “gender-transition” treatment for minors. Governor John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, vetoed three bills that would have banned “gender-transition” treatment for minors and pushed back against the rise of gender ideology in the state’s public schools. Read more here.
Dutch study finds transgenders have higher rates of suicide. In a nationwide study of 6.6 million Danish-born people, transgender individuals had significantly higher rates of suicide attempts, suicide mortality, suicide-unrelated mortality and all-cause mortality than non-transgender individuals. Read more here.
Georgia school district intends to fire teacher after she read book about gender identity to fifth grade class, document shows. Cobb County School District informed Katherine Rinderle that it “intends to terminate” her employment at Due West Elementary School after she read the book “My Shadow is Purple” to her students. Read more here.
Transgender Biden official claims government does not “belong” in gender treatments. During an interview with the Washington Post on health equity “to eliminate barriers to health care,” assistant secretary for health Rachel Levine attacked several Republican-led bills aimed at protecting children from cross-sex medical procedures and gender ideology. Read more here.
Michigan House passes bill that could make using wrong pronouns a felony. Michigan’s state House of Representatives has passed bill HB 4474, a piece of legislation that criminalizes causing someone to feel threatened by words. Read more here.
Study finds gender dysphoria growing among younger adults amid “increasing acceptance.” According to a new study published in General Psychiatry, individuals are receiving diagnoses of gender dysphoria at younger ages. Read more here.
Thousands in North Macedonia join Church protest against proposed laws on gender identity. The protest, organized by the country’s Orthodox Church and supported by leading Islamic officials, the Catholic Church and other religious communities, was against proposed legislation on gender equality and identity which it says threatens family values. Read more here.
Georgia ban on “gender transition” treatment for minors starting. Georgia Senate Bill 140, regarding “gender transition” treatments for minors, goes into effect July 1 and will prohibit “gender transitioning” treatments for youth. Read more here.
American Medical Association strengthens commitment to “gender-affirming care” & affirmative action. The American Medical Association passed sweeping resolutions that strengthen its commitment to advancing DEI training in medical school, its activism against legislation restricting “gender-affirming care,” and its opposition to the mandatory reporting of gender dysphoria in minors. Read more here.
Arizona to cover “gender-transition” surgery for state employees under governor’s new executive order. Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs issued executive orders to guarantee transgender state employees access to “gender-transition” surgery and to prohibit the use of state funding to support or promote so-called “conversion therapy.” Read more here.
This Walgreens has a trans clinic inside. A Walgreens in Dallas, Texas is housing a transgender clinic where patients can get referrals for transgender “transition” hormones like testosterone. Read more here.
Biology professor says college fired him for teaching sex determined by chromosomes. Johnson Varkey said the school terminated him for “religious preaching” after he educated students about the human reproductive system. Read more here.
Sexual criminality is deeply tied to gender ideology. Although transgender women are reportedly at an inordinately high risk of being sexually victimized, many are themselves perpetrators of child predation and sexual abuse. Read more here.
Pro-family advocate convicted of “political violence” for “misgendering” lawmaker. A former Mexican congressman has been convicted in a court of “gender-based political violence” for social media posts he made referring to a transgender-identifying Mexican lawmaker as a “man who self-ascribes as a woman.” Read more here.
New York State adopts NEA’s radical gender agenda for public schools. The New York State Education Department rubber stamped the National Education Association’s 42-page document outlining how educators should address trans-identifying students. Read more here.
Teens in England “too frightened” to say there are only two genders. Two young teens in England published an anonymous letter to their education secretary indicating that they were fearful of telling their classmates that there are only two genders. Read more here.
Percent of New Jersey students identifying as “non-binary” skyrockets. According to state enrollment data from the New Jersey Department of Education, in the 2019-2020 school year, just 16 students identified as such. In the 2022-2023 school year, however, that number ballooned to 675, about a 4,118 percent increase. Read more here.
Supreme Court declines to review Biden attempts to force Christian schools to house boys with girls. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up the Missouri-based College of the Ozarks’ case against the Biden administration imposing a slate of new requirements on the Christian school to recognize and accommodate the “gender identity” of gender-dysphoric students. Read more here.
Georgia Teacher ousted after reading book on gender. A Cobb County teacher is fighting for her job after reading a book to her class that the district says violates Georgia’s Divisive Concepts Law. Read more here.
Elon Musk declares “cis” and “cisgender” will be considered slurs on Twitter. “Cis” and “cisgender” are terms frequently used by members of the LGBT community as a marker for anyone who identifies with their biological sex and gender. Read more here.
Former Democrat transgender state rep arrested on child pornography charges. Stacie-Marie Laughton, a biological male who identifies as female, was initially elected to the New Hampshire legislature in 2012, but was unable to serve due to a 2008 felony conviction of credit card fraud. Laughton was arrested for allegedly distributing “sexually explicit images of children.” Read more here.
AMC Theaters cancels detransitioner film following trans group’s de-platforming campaign. “No Way Back: The Reality of Gender-Affirming Care” was set for initial release in dozens of theaters across the country. Producers of the film say AMC caved to the pressure of a de-platforming campaign by a transgender group called the Queer Trans Project. Read more here.
U.S. court strikes down Florida transgender health rule. U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle struck down a Florida rule and a statute that banned state Medicaid payments for transgender healthcare. Read more here.
Former Tavistock staff in UK go private to keep transitioning children. Former specialists of the controversial British Tavistock gender clinic have launched a new private service to continue offering hormone therapy and sex-reassignment surgery to children and teenagers despite the public outrage about the questionable practices that forced their previous workplace to shut down. Read more here.
Hospital turns over transgender patient records to Tennessee attorney general in investigation. Vanderbilt University Medical Center has turned over medical records for transgender patients to the Tennessee attorney general’s team in what his office confirmed is an investigation into potential medical billing fraud. Read more here.
Sorority doubles down on admission of male student, urges court to dismiss “frivolous” lawsuit. The Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority is asking a court to dismiss a lawsuit brought several of its members for admitting a male student into its sisterhood. Read more here.
Patients who regret “sex-change” ops, sue doctors posing legal challenges for health care industry. Two Californians – Kayla Lovdahl and Chloe Cole – are now suing Kaiser Permanente for “gender affirming” procedures performed on them as minors, alleging “medical negligence” and ignorance of a large body of research on the risks of medicalized “transitions.” Read more here.
Midwest teachers hold conference on how to “subversively and quietly” teach explicit sex ed, gender transition students without parental knowledge. Dozens of Midwestern teachers met online this week and traded tips on helping trans students change gender at school without their parents’ knowledge, while criticizing a raft of new Republican laws on sex and identity. Read more here.
Texas Christian University students will create own drag personas, perform in ‘’Queer Art of Drag’’ course. According to the course syllabus obtained by Campus Reform, the course requires students to create a drag persona, which is done through a “drag vision board,” a “bibliography,” a “worksheet,” an “in-class lip-sync performance,” a “storyboard,” and a final performance. Read more here.
Judge rules Arkansas ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors violates U.S. Constitution. A federal judge struck down Arkansas’ first-in-the-nation ban on gender-affirming care for children as unconstitutional, the first ruling to overturn such a prohibition as a growing number of Republican-led states adopt similar restrictions. Read more here.
Majority of Canadians support requiring teachers to inform parents about child’s “gender identity’’: poll. According to a national poll conducted by Leger in May, nearly three in five Canadians hold that schools must inform parents if their child considers “changing” their gender pronouns or “transitioning” at school. Read more here.
New Zealanders can now identify as non-binary on their birth certificate. The country’s new self-identification process replaces the previous requirement to apply to the Family Court, and applicants will no longer require proof of medical treatment. Read more here.
Australia recommends testosterone limits for transgender athletes in elite female sport. The non-compulsory guidelines issued by the Australian Sports Commission allow for national federations to determine that testosterone suppression is required for eligibility to compete in female categories. Read more here.
Teen accuses doctors of madly rushing her into child gender transition. In a lawsuit filed in California’s San Joaquin County Superior Court, Kayla Lovdahl and her attorneys with the Center for American Liberty are accusing medical professionals of fast-tracking her through her “gender transition, one that she now deeply regrets. Read more here.
Vanderbilt halts transgender mutilation of children ahead of new Tennessee law taking effect. Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has ceased gender “transitioning” of underage patients ahead of a new Tennessee law banning the practice taking effect on July 1. Read more here.
U.S. “outlier” among Western nations in transgender “care” for children. “Gender-affirming care” for “trans kids,” including puberty-blocking drugs and “sex reassignment” surgeries at a young age may not reduce psychological distress and may have long-term and irreversible consequences that children cannot factor into their decision-making at a young age. Read more here.
UK, Sweden and Switzerland retract support for gender fluidity. The UK now realizes the seriousness of the facts concerning the administration of puberty blockers to minors, and the National Health Service has made the decision to limit these drugs to those with “exceptional circumstances.” Read more here.
Johns Hopkins University blasted by J.K. Rowling, others over Its definition of “lesbian.” Since updating its definition of the word “lesbian” in an online glossary for LGBTQ+ terms, to “a non-man attracted to a non-man,” Johns Hopkins University has come under fire for allegedly “erasing women.” Read more here.
Kids cartoon “We Baby Bears” to introduce “they/them” pronouns in new episode. The Cartoon network’s “We Baby Bears” kids cartoon plans to introduce gender ideology to children ages six and up in the program titled “Polly’s New Crew” during “Pride Month.” Read more here.
Students start coming out: Rainbow Library program pushes LGBT content to kids as young as 5. GLSEN’s “Rainbow Library” program, which provides “LGBTQ+ affirming K-12 text sets,” is in 5,800 American schools and libraries across 31 states, offering books and resources on transgenderism and sexual orientation available to young children. Read more here.
Teachers union unveils LGBTQ+ toolkit for indoctrination. According to the National Education Association’s “LGBTQ+ Support & Protection” webpage, the toolkit, titled “Defending the Freedom of our LGBTQ+ Students to be Themselves,” gives teachers guides to addressing students by their preferred pronouns, offers LGBTQ+ classroom library book recommendations, and provides art that teachers can display in their classrooms to use as a “tool for change.” Read more here.
Trans-identified male places first in women’s category at Belgian Waffle Ride North Carolina. A trans- identified male has once again taken first place in the women’s category of a sports event, the North Carolina cycling tour, adding to his expansive list of victories against female cyclists. Read more here.
President Biden embraced transgender children at a White House “Pride Month” celebration. He singled out the children and told them they are “loved.” He erroneously stated “a person can be married in the morning and thrown out of a restaurant for being gay in the afternoon.” Read more here.
Study finds gender identity is losing ground in the American court of public opinion. A new study of more than 5,000 Americans’ views on gender identity and what is appropriate to teach in public schools with respect to sexual orientation and gender identity revealed that a 65-percent majority believe there are only two genders. Read more here.
Children were exposed to adult nudity and explicit sexual content during a drag show at Oregon State University. Titled the “Illegal Drag Show,” the disturbing event was hosted by the university’s student-funded LGBT group Rainbow Continuum and included sexually provocative performances by men and women in drag and costumes. Read more here.
Proposed California legislation would charge any parent who doesn’t affirm transgenderism with child abuse. The bill would also add “affirming” the sexual transition of a child to the state’s standard for parental responsibility and child welfare—making any parent who doesn’t affirm transgenderism for their child guilty of abuse under California state law. Read more here.
Poll finds most Americans believe transgender athletes should compete against those with same biological gender. According to the Gallup poll, 69 percent of Americans believe transgender athletes should be able to play on sports teams that match their biological gender while 26 percent of Americans believe transgender athletes should play on teams that correspond with their gender identity. Read more here.
Wisconsin county considers sanctuary status for transgender kids. Board supervisors in Dane County, which includes the state capital of Madison, will vote on a resolution “declaring Dane County a sanctuary for trans and nonbinary individuals.” The resolution states the county’s position that it’s a “fundamental right” for children to access sex-reassignment drugs and procedures. Read more here.
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