Family Watch Newswire

CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES HALTS TRANSGENDER CARE UNDER PRESSURE FROM TRUMP. Under mounting pressure from the Trump administration, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles will shutter its longstanding healthcare program for trans children and young adults this summer. The Center for Transyouth Health and Development began telling its nearly 3,000 patient families of the closure on Thursday, saying there was “no viable alternative” that would allow the safety-net hospital to continue specialized care. Read more here.

TITLE IX TASK FORCE TO INVESTIGATE MINNESOTA AFTER TRANSGENDER ATHLETE WIN. After a high school girls’ softball team won a state championship with the help of a male pitcher, the U.S. Department of Education is referring its Title IX investigations into Minnesota and its State High School League to the Title IX Special Investigations Team. Read more here.

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION CONSIDERS PULLING CALIFORNIA EDUCATION FUNDING OVER TRANSGENDER ATHLETE POLICY. U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon said the Trump administration is preparing to discontinue federal funding for California‘s education system in the latest escalation of the battle between the administration and the state over allowing biological men who identify as women to compete in female sports. Read more here.

NEW POLL SHOWS MORE AMERICANS SUPPORT PRIORITIZING ‘BIRTH SEX’ OVER ‘GENDER IDENTITY.’ When compared with the 2021 and 2023 Gallup research surveys on sex and gender, the new study revealed an increase in the number of Americans who prefer using sex as an identifier rather than “gender identity.” Read more here.

USA GYMNASTICS EVALUATING TRANS POLICY AFTER DELETING RULES ALLOWING MEN IN WOMEN’S CATEGORY. USA Gymnastics is reportedly mulling rule changes to restrict transgender athletes in its competitions in what appears to be bad timing for Olympic gold medal gymnast Simone Biles, who last week loudly came to the support of transgenders in sports. Read more here.

CATHOLIC COLLEGE NON-MEDICAL EXPERT TELLS NURSING STUDENTS HOW TO ‘TRANS’ KIDS. A lecturer at Mount Saint Mary College in New York is teaching psychiatric nurse practitioner students how to “greenlight” “gender affirming” surgeries for patients with dysphoria. Read more here.

FEWER AMERICANS BELIEVE ‘CHANGING GENDER’ IS ‘MORALLY ACCEPTABLE’: POLL. A new Gallup poll shows the LGBT agenda continues to lose support, as fewer Americans believe attempting to change one’s gender is “morally acceptable” than felt that way in 2021. Read more here.

TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE KILLER ACCUSED OF RAPING FEMALE INMATE IN ILLINOIS WOMEN’S PRISON REMAINS AT FACILITY DESPITE OFFICIALS’ ATTEMPTS AT TRANSFER. Department of Corrections officials have attempted to return Andre Patterson to a men’s prison but have been unsuccessful due to his “transgender” identity and support from activist groups. Read more here.

SOUTHERN BAPTISTS ENDORSE OVERTURNING SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. Southern Baptist delegates overwhelmingly called to try to reinstitute a ban on same-sex marriage 10 years after the Supreme Court legalized the unions. Read more here.

U.S. HOUSEHOLDS OF SAME-SEX COUPLES GROW OVER A DECADE. More U.S. households are headed by same-sex married couples, according to new data released by the Pew Research Center, with the number steadily growing over the last decade. Read more here.

NEW HAMPSHIRE PASSES UNIVERSAL SCHOOL CHOICE, PARENTAL BILL OF RIGHTS. House Bill 10 declares, “No school may infringe on the fundamental rights of a parent to direct the upbringing, education, health care, and mental health of his or her minor child without demonstrating that such action is necessary to achieve a compelling state interest, that such action is narrowly tailored, and that such interest is not otherwise served by less restrictive means.” Read more here.

‘SEXUAL FREEDOM’ IS HURTING RELATIONSHIPS, PORN AND ABORTION ARE DESTROYING SOCIETY. In a recent editorial in The New York Times entitled, “The Delusion of Porn’s Harmlessness,” Christine Emba challenged the dogma that suggests anything goes in the bedroom as long as everybody consents, and she goes on to slam the feminist Left for being unable to admit that pornography has been terrible for society and promotes objectification and violence against women. Read more here.

ARGENTINA’S BIRTH RATE HITS LOWEST LEVEL IN 50 YEARS. Statistics from Argentina’s Ministry of Health show that the country’s birth rate reached its lowest level in 50 years in 2023, with just 460,902 births recorded that year. Read more here.

TRUMP MAY SHUT DOWN GENDER IDEOLOGY AT UNICEF/EUROS RATTLED, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “The Trump administration may force the UN agency for children to hit the pause button on sexualizing children, promoting abortion, and gender ideology. Europeans want the agency to ignore the administration. The new strategic plan of UNICEF was discussed by the executive board of the agency this week. As a result of pressure from the Trump administration, the draft of the new plan no longer has language promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights for children that was controversially included in the previous strategic plan. The draft also scaled back language promoting gender ideology.” Read more here.

A VICTORY FOR SORORITIES: EDUCATION DEPARTMENT RULES SORORITIES ARE FOR WOMEN ONLY, by Lesley Davis. “It turns out, sororities are for women after all. The U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights just affirmed what every sorority woman in America knew the first time she walked into her chapter—a sorority is for women. In a statement that would’ve been self-evident five minutes ago—just as it was over a century ago when sororities were first formed—the department announced: ‘A sorority that admits male students is no longer a sorority by definition and thus loses the Title IX statutory exemption for a sorority’s single-sex membership practices.’” Read more here.

THE ‘FATHER DIVIDE’ AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR OUR KIDS, by Brad Wilcox and Maria Baer. “This Father’s Day, an estimated 72 million greeting cards will zip through the mail, according to Hallmark. Father’s Day ranks a respectable fourth on the list of the highest “card-buying” holidays of the year. But it’s still far behind the next-highest: Mother’s Day. Dads probably shouldn’t take it personally. People tend to feel more sentimental toward their mothers. But while public displays of affection might matter less to dads than to moms, a new report on the impact fathers have on their kids suggests we shouldn’t underestimate how much dads matter.” Read more here.

WHAT “THE PROTOCOL” GOT WRONG, LEFT OUT, AND MISREPRESENTED, by Lisa Selin Davis. “Many of us who write about gender issues waited with bated breath for “The Protocol,” The New York Times’ six-part podcast on youth gender medicine. Two years in the making, it promised to tell the origin story of what we now call “gender-affirming care”—and how we came to be waging political battles over it. I was especially interested, as I’m writing a book about that very topic. …The problem, according to them, emerges when that [Dutch] protocol migrates to America.” Read more here.

‘OBERGEFELL ‘MARRIAGE’ OPINION MUST BE OVERTURNED, by Liberty Counsel. As the 10th anniversary of the 2015 Obergefell opinion approaches on June 26, 2025, where ‘five lawyers’ on the U.S. Supreme Court abused their duty to interpret the Constitution and invented a so-called ‘right’ to ‘same-sex marriage,’ there is one legal case that could challenge it. The case involves former Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis, the first victim of this disastrous opinion, who was sent to prison for six days for refusing to issue marriage licenses while waiting for a religious accommodation.” Read more here.

HERE IS WHY COMPANIES ARE BACKING AWAY FROM PRIDE MONTH, by Virgil Walker. “Something fascinating is happening in corporate America. According to data from Gravity Research, 39% of corporations are scaling back external Pride Month engagements in 2025 — a sharp increase from last year, when only 9% backed off. Only four NFL teams changed their logos to mark Pride this June, with most remaining silent. But here’s what makes this particularly interesting: Corporate Pride Month activism isn’t some longstanding American tradition. It’s a very recent phenomenon that represents a dramatic departure from how businesses operated for most of our nation’s history.” Read more here.

OKLAHOMA IS LEADING THE FIGHT TO SAVE GIRLS’ SPORTS – AND THEY’RE WINNING, by Ryan Walters. “Let me say it plainly: boys don’t belong in girls’ sports. That used to be common sense. Now it’s a fight we have to win in every school, every courtroom, and every community in America. The radical Left is pushing the lie that gender is a choice, that biology doesn’t matter, and that feelings trump facts. And they expect the rest of us to nod along and stay quiet while they bulldoze fairness, safety, and truth. Not in Oklahoma.” Read more here.

TRANS INDUSTRY IS ON LIFE SUPPORT – WITH SELF-INFLICTED WOUNDS, by Jane Robbins. “This argument is over. Representatives of the Trans Industry have recently been forced to admit, grudgingly, that what they’re doing to gender-dysphoric children doesn’t live up to its advertising. The macabre bodily perversions these doctors inflict on confused kids – puberty blockers, wrong-sex hormones, and mutilating surgeries, all of which would have made Dr. Mengele marvel – have always been marketed as vital to improving these kids’ mental health and saving them from all but inevitable suicide. Turns out that’s not true.” Read more here.

LOOSE LIPS, by Sandra Pertot. “The UK Supreme Court was recently required to determine the meaning of ‘man’, ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010. The campaign group For Women Scotland initiated this case to challenge the legal fiction that transwomen—males who adopt their interpretation of the gender of a woman—are women and therefore must be included in all the sex-based rights of a woman. …The belief that transwomen are women is supported by a subgroup of feminists who recognise that women are often not only repressed by their sex, but also by their race, class, sexual orientation, abilities and gender roles—with these forms of oppression intersecting.” Read more here.