Family Watch Newswire

May 2, 2025

DOCTOR IN RUSSIAN MATERNITY HOSPITAL FINED FOR REFUSING TO CONDUCT ABORTION. A magistrate in the Vologda region of northwestern Russia has fined the acting chief physician of a maternity hospital 15,000 rubles for refusing a local woman an abortion, the regional courts’ press service. Read more here.

INVESTIGATION: WOMEN ABORTING IN THIRD TRIMESTER WITH ‘BLACK MARKET’ ABORTION PILLS. An investigation by The Sun found that a black market abortion pill ring is flourishing in the United Kingdom, encouraging women to undergo extremely late chemical abortions without medical supervision. Read more here.

TEXAS SENATE PASSES BILL TO CRACK DOWN ON ABORTION PILLS, LEGISLATURE HEARS HORROR STORIES. The Texas Senate has passed a plan to stop out-of-state abortion pills from being used to undermine Texas’s strong pro-life laws, and is now pending before the Texas House State Affairs Committee. Read more here.

TRUMP’S FIRST JUDICIAL NOMINEE OF 2ND TERM DEFENDED ABORTION BAN IN COURT. Whitney Hermandorder has previously argued in court to defend an abortion ban that saves babies’ lives, and would serve in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, if confirmed. Read more here.

HHS RELEASES 400-PAGE REPORT DENOUNCING ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE.’ The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has released a 400-plus-page report denouncing what is often referred to as “gender-affirming care” for trans-identified children, speaking out against what it says are “invasive” and “usually irreversible” medical interventions. Read more here.

ENGLAND SPORTS GOVERNING BODY BANS TRANSGENDER ATHLETES FROM WOMEN’S SOCCER FOLLOWING UK COURT RULING. The sports governing body for soccer in England has banned transgender athletes from competing in the women’s sport, marking a policy change that comes weeks after a UK Supreme Court ruling defined a woman as someone born biologically female. Read more here.

MEN BANNED FROM WOMEN’S CRICKET WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT. Men have been banned from competing in all levels of women’s cricket with immediate effect, the England and Wales Cricket Board announced. Read more here.

NETHERLANDS: TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE INMATE IN WOMEN’S PRISON BRUTALLY ASSAULTS FEMALE EMPLOYEE. A trans-identified male incarcerated in the Ter Peel women’s prison in the Netherlands set fire to his cell before brutally beating a female prison guard, who has been hospitalized with serious injuries. Read more here.

MAINE SPEAKER BANS REP FROM VOTING UNTIL SHE RECANTS HER POSITION ON BOYS IN GIRLS’ SPORTS. State Rep. Laurel D. Libby has filed with the Supreme Court an emergency application for an injunction pending appeal against Maine Speaker of the House Ryan M. Fectea, who reportedly silenced Libby and prohibited her from voting after she spoke out on social media criticizing the state’s law that requires girls to compete alongside transgender athletes. Read more here.

OHIO SUPREME COURT ALLOWS STATE TO ENFORCE BAN ON MUTILATING ‘GENDER TRANSITIONS’ FOR CHILDREN. HB 68 forbids courts from considering a parent’s refusal to “affirm” a child’s gender confusion as weighing against their parental rights, prohibits physicians from surgically or chemically “transitioning” minors, requires mental health professionals to check for other mental health disorders before diagnosing a minor with a condition related to gender confusion, and bans schools and interscholastic athletic organizations from allowing gender-confused males to compete in athletic teams intended for females. Read more here.

BIDEN TRANS POLICIES ‘PROMOTED PRISON RAPE,’ STEPHEN MILLER SAID. Former President Joe Biden’s transgender policies increased “prison rape” and “child abuse,” according to White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, and President Donald Trump’s executive order says that federal agencies will take “appropriate action to ensure that intimate spaces designated for women, girls, or females (or for men, boys, or males) and which are designated by sex and not identity.” Read more here.

TESLA ARSON SUSPECT RELEASED AS JUDGE CITES DHD, LACK OF ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE’ IN JAIL. Owen McIntire, a Missouri man arrested in connection with a March incident in which a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a Kansas City Tesla dealership, has been released by a federal judge so that he can undergo “gender-affirming” treatment. Read more here.

TRANS-IDENTIFYING MALE SWEEPS WOMEN’S EVENTS AT U.S. MASTERS SWIM NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS. Hugo Caldas, a trans-identifying male, has won all five events he competed in at the women’s U.S. Masters Swimming Spring National Championship meet. Read more here.

DOJ, DOE INVESTIGATE WASHINGTON STATE OVER TRANS INCLUSION IN WOMEN’S SPORTS, GENDER IDENTITY CLASSROOM POLICIES. The United States Department of Justice and the Department of Education launched an investigation into Washington state for its policies that require schools to allow male students to participate in women’s sports and use female restrooms and changing rooms, citing Title IX violations. Read more here.

WEST VIRGINIA GOVERNOR SIGNS BILL PROTECTING KIDS FROM HARMFUL, EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES. West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s signing of SB 299, is a law that strengthens existing protections for children to ensure they are not subjected to life-altering, experimental “gender transition” surgeries, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones. Read more here.

PLAINTIFFS SAY UTAH SCHOOL ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION VIOLATED COURT ORDER ON TRANSGENDER ATHLETE BAN. Plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Utah’s ban on transgender athletes in girls high school sports argue the governing body of high school athletics violated a preliminary court order pausing the ban and asked to hold the organization in contempt of court. Read more here.

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH TOP COURT SAYS CHURCH TRUSTEES CAN’T STOP SAME-SEX WEDDINGS. The United Methodist Church’s highest court – the Methodist Judicial Council — has ruled that pastors, not trustees, have the final say on whether clergy can officiate a same-sex wedding on church property.” Read more here.

REPUBLICANS WEIGH BUDGET PLAN TO DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD, REDIRECT MONEY TO PRO-LIFE CENTERS. Republicans in Congress are considering cutting funds for abortion giants and redirecting them toward pro-life centers as part of the House budget blueprint. Read more here.

THREE VIRGINIA PLANNED PARENTHOOD CLINICS AFFECTED BY TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S TITLE X FUNDING FREEZE. Three Virginia Planned Parenthood health centers, located in Richmond, Hampton and Virginia Beach, have been affected by federal Title X family planning grant freezes, losing over $1 million in funds fueling family planning services. Read more here.

TRUMP ESTABLISHES RELIGIOUS LIBERTY COMMISSION, PUTS PRO-LIFE ADVOCATES IN CHARGE. President Donald Trump established the Religious Liberty Commission through an executive order, in an effort to guarantee the religious rights of Americans. Read more here.

AFRICANS ADOPT FEMINIST TREATY, BUT PUSH BACK AGAINST FEMINIST EXTREMES. The African Union has adopted a feminist international treaty billed as an effort to combat violence against women, though the treaty is expected to strengthen the hand of EU bureaucrats and EU-funded mechanisms on the African continent. Read more here.

CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS BLOCK ANOTHER EFFORT TO PROTECT MINORS FROM SEX TRAFFICKING. California Democrats have yet again blocked efforts to strengthen protections from underage sex trafficking, this time a bill to make it a felony to purchase 16- or 17-year-olds for sex. Read more here.

SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: HHS RELEASES NEW REPORT REVEALING THE DANGERS OF ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE’ FOR MINORS, by Tyler O’Neil. “The Department of Health and Human Services released a report Thursday detailing the dangers of experimental transgender medical interventions euphemistically referred to as ‘gender-affirming care.’ The report marks a sea change from the Biden administration, which forcefully advocated for off-label use of hormones to make males appear female and vice versa, and surgical interventions to remove healthy body parts to ‘affirm’ a person’s gender identity that is at odds with the person’s biological sex.” Read more here.

AI CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE IMAGES WOULD NORMALIZE PEDOPHILIA, NOT CURE IT, by Gage Klipper. “For decades, Democrats have thrown us down a slippery slope on marriage, sexuality, and the sexes — but for those who said pedophilia would always be a bridge too far, well, guess again. AI-generated child pornography (AICP) is exactly what it sounds like: sexually explicit depictions of children that, in the age of deepfakes, are virtually identical to the real thing. Yet since no children are directly harmed in its production, proponents argue it’s a safe, even ethical, way to satiate would-be pedophiles and reduce harm to children.” Read more here.

NON-BINARY SCALPEL, by Bernard Lane. ‘“Non-binary’ people who suffer no distress in their bodies should be allowed access, without mandatory mental health screening, to a suite of 28 ‘gender-affirming’ surgeries subsidised by Australia’s taxpayers, according to an application to the federal government. The operations on the wish list from the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons include radical procedures to create a pseudo-penis for transgender-identifying females, and to use a section of the colon to fashion a neo-vagina for males whose genital growth was stunted by puberty blockers in childhood. The outcome of the society’s application, which has been in the works since 2023, will not be known until after Saturday’s federal election.” Read more here.

HERE’S HOW TRUMP CRIPPLED RADICAL GENDER IDEOLOGY IN HIS FIRST 100 DAYS, by Mairead Elordi. “President Donald Trump mounted an offensive against gender ideology as soon as he took office in January, and his administration shows no signs of letting up as it hits the 100-day mark. Gender ideology became a hot-button issue in the years leading up to the November election. Parents across the country became outraged over transgender indoctrination by public school teachers, while female students protested being forced to let males use their bathrooms and play on their sports teams, and detransitioners raised the alarm about doctors pushing children toward puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and transgender surgeries.” Read more here.

MR BUTLER’S PUBERTY BLUES, by Bernard Lane. “To block or not to block? Australia’s federal Health Minister Mark Butler sought urgent advice on the case for ‘a pause or ban’ on puberty blockers. Citing new safety restrictions in the UK, Mr Butler’s office asked health bureaucrats last December for a briefing on ‘the weight of evidence in support of a pause or ban in the Australian context,’ according to documents obtained under Freedom of Information (FOI) law. The revelation implies a level of concern behind the scenes not reflected in Mr Butler’s generally reassuring public commentary on youth gender clinics as a matter under the competent control of state governments and health practitioners.” Read more here.

HOW COMMON IS DETRANSITIONING?, by Benjamin Ryan. “If anything is clear about the profoundly messy and politicized subject of detransitioning, one should never trust someone if they claim to have clarity on precisely how common this phenomenon is. The correct answer is: ‘We’re not sure.’ More specifically, the available research on the prevalence of detransitioning provides a general sense that at most, a fraction of people who medically transition genders ultimately cease treatment with cross-sex hormones.” Read more here.

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