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PENTAGON TO APPEAL JUDGE’S DECISION BLOCKING TRANSGENDER BAN, HEGSETH SAYS. The Pentagon will appeal a federal judge’s decision to block the Trump administration’s ban on transgender troops, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said. Read more here.
MAINE UNIVERSITIES CAVE TO TRUMP DEMAND TO PROTECT WOMEN’S SPORTS. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that the University of Maine System has agreed to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order to keep biological males out of women’s sports. Read more here.
NEW REPORT FINDS CANADA’S MAINSTREAM MEDIA PLAYS DIRECT ROLE IN PROMOTING ‘GENDER TRANSITIONS.’ A new report from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute accuses Canada’s mainstream media of promoting gender “transitions” and ignoring medical evidence of their harmful effects on adolescents. Read more here.
TRUMP ADMIN ‘NOT GOING TO TOLERATE’ ILLINOIS SCHOOL FORCING GIRLS TO CHANGE CLOTHES ALONGSIDE TRANS CLASSMATE. As an Illinois mother seeks justice against the school district that forced her daughter to change in front a boy, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the Trump administration won’t tolerate males invading private female-only spaces. Read more here.
EX-NCAA RUNNER MINNA SVÄRD WANTS ‘STOLEN’ TITLE WON BY TRANS ATHLETE CECE TELFER. Former collegiate runner Minna Svärd is demanding her “stolen” championship be returned years after placing second to a biological male in the 2019 NCAA Division II Women’s 400-meter hurdles. Read more here.
THESE ARE THE HOSPITALS STILL GIVING CHILD ‘SEX CHANGES’ DESPITE TRUMP BAN: REPORT. More than 35 hospitals have been performing child “sex change” surgeries and/or treatments despite the Executive Order enacted by President Donald Trump in January, which threatens to revoke federal funding for hospitals that provide “sex change” treatments for individuals under the age of 19. Read more here.
AMERICANS FED UP WITH TRANSGENDERISM, POLL SHOWS. Two out of three Americans support banning men from invading women’s sports, and 56 percent of those surveyed do not favor agenda-fixated doctors mutilating children, according to Pew research. Read more here.
MALE RUNNER WINS GOLD IN GIRLS VARSITY 400M AT TRACK MEET IN PORTLAND. Aayden “Ada” Gallagher, a junior at McDaniel High School, dominated female competitors at the Portland Interscholastic League meet, finishing first in both the girls’ 400-meter and 200-meter races. Read more here.
SOME SAN DIEGO PARENTS BALK AS TAMPON MACHINES INSTALLED IN 3RD-5TH GRADE BOYS’ BATHROOMS. Some parents are voicing frustration as school districts in North San Diego County install tampon machines in elementary school boys’ bathrooms to comply with state law. Read more here.
LESBIAN ACTIVIST JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP FROM REMOVING ‘TRANSGENDER’ TROOPS. U.S. District Court Judge Ana Reyes, the first ‘LGBTQ’ federal judge for the District of Columbia, has issued a temporary injunction on the Trump administration’s efforts to remove military members afflicted with gender dysphoria from the U.S. Armed Forces, claiming the order “stigmatizes” so-called “transgender” individuals. Read more here.
NEW JERSEY HOSPITALS ASK PARENTS TO ‘IDENTIFY’ PRONOUNS AND SEXUAL ORIENTATIONS OF NEWBORN BABIES. Inspira Health’s “Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Questionnaire” requires new parents to “identify” their babies as either “Male, Female, Transgender, Gender Queer,” or “Additional gender category.” Read more here.
ILLINOIS SCHOOL STAFF WATCHED TO ENSURE GIRLS CHANGED IN FRONT OF TRANS-IDENTIFYING BOY, MOM SAYS. The mother of Shepard Middle School student Nicole Georgas reported that after her daughter refused to change her clothes in front of a biological boy who identified as a transgender girl, school officials stepped in and forced her to do so. Read more here.
VETERANS AFFAIRS ENDS DISTRIBUTION OF CHEMICAL CASTRATION DRUGS. The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to “phase out” the distribution of chemical castration drugs to trans-identifying veterans, the agency announced. Read more here.
OHIO’S BAN ON PUBERTY BLOCKERS, CROSS-SEX HORMONES FOR MINORS STRUCK DOWN BY APPEALS COURT. A three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Tenth Appellate District unanimously ruled Tuesday that Ohio’s House Bill 68 — also known as the Saving Adolescents From Experimentation Act — violated the state constitution’s Article I, Section 21, which guarantees the freedom to choose one’s healthcare. Read more here.
TENNESSEE TOWN FACES DOWN LIBERAL PROTESTS, VOTES TO REMOVE BOOKS PROMOTING TRANSGENDERISM TO KIDS. At the end of a tense two-hour meeting drawing more than 100 citizens, the Rutherford County Library board voted 5-3 in favor of a resolution to take books encouraging children to adopt radical gender ideology off their shelves. Read more here.
CANADIAN TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE WHO RAPED, TORTURED, AND KILLED 13 YEAR-OLD GIRL THREATENED FEMALE INMATES WHILE IN WOMEN’S PRISON. Michael Williams, a man identifying as Bunny Autumn Colasimone and serving a life sentence for brutally raping and torturing a 13-year-old girl, was transferred to a women’s prison in Canada before being removed to an unknown detention center because he had threatened to harm female inmates. Read more here.
TRUMP ADMIN FREEZES MILLIONS IN FEDERAL FUNDING FOR UPENN OVER PROTECTING WOMEN’S SPORTS. Federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania has been paused by the Trump Administration over its allowance of biological males in women’s sports, despite President Donald Trump’s executive order banning such instances. Read more here.
UK: SAYING ‘MIDWIFE’ COULD UPSET TRANSGENDER PEOPLE, MEDICS WARNED. The NHS has been told it should stop using the word “midwife” because it is not inclusive of transgender people. Academics claim in a new research paper that the term, which has been used since medieval times, is out of date and should be replaced with “lead perinatal practitioner.” Read more here.
UNIVERSITIES WITH TRANS ATHLETES SILENT ON TRUMP WOMEN’S SPORTS ORDER. President Donald Trump’s executive order protecting women’s sports has been met with support from a leading women’s advocacy group, while several universities at the center of the transgender athletics controversy have not responded to The College Fix’s inquiries about it. Read more here.
BRITISH COLUMBIA NURSE FOUND GUILTY OF ‘UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT’ FOR OPPOSING TRANSGENDER IDEOLOGY. The British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives disciplinary panel determined that nurse Amy Hamm committed “unprofessional conduct” when she publicly voiced her opinion that sex is based on biology. Read more here.
WOMEN’S SPORTS ADVOCATE PAYTON MCNABB WINS TITLE IX CASE OVER TRANS BATHROOM DISPUTE. Western Carolina University student Payton McNabb emerged victorious after facing a university civil rights investigation for voicing her discomfort over a trans-identifying male using a women’s restroom on campus. Read more here.
OHIO’S KENYON COLLEGE ‘FORCING STUDENTS’ TO SHARE BATHROOMS WITH OPPOSITE SEX. Kenyon College is allegedly breaking the state’s recently passed bathroom bill categorizing restrooms by biological sex. Read more here.
BIDEN DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS PROVIDED TRANSGENDER PROCEDURES DESPITE BAN, DOCUMENTS SHOW. The Department of Veterans Affairs for years defied a rule barring “gender alterations” to provide procedures designed to help people present as the opposite sex, internal documents obtained by The Daily Wire show. Read more here.
REP. SELF TO NEWSMAX: ‘TRANSGENDER MOVEMENT IS AGGRESSIVE.’ Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, has vowed to use his office to stand against the transgender rights movement after he and Rep. Bill Keating, D-Mass., clashed over his use of masculine pronouns to refer to Rep. Sarah McBride, D-Del., a male who identifies as a female. Read more here.
TRUMP ADMIN CANCELS NIH GRANTS TO PREVENT PREGNANCY IN ‘TRANSGENDER BOYS.’ The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has canceled funding for a number of questionable programs, including hundreds of thousands for “an LGB+ inclusive teen pregnancy prevention program for transgender boys.” Read more here.
WEST VIRGINIA GOVERNOR SIGNS LAW BANNING ‘TRANSGENDER’ MALES FROM WOMEN’S SPACES. Governor Patrick Morrisey signed SB 456, protecting women and girls by barring men from entering women’s spaces, such as changing rooms, sleeping quarters, and restrooms. Read more here.
NASA PROMOTED ‘GENDER AFFIRMATION’ AND WORKPLACE DIVERSITY DURING DEI SPENDING SPREE. NASA enacted various DEI-related efforts over the past four years, including issuing guidelines to its staff on ways to better support any employees going through “gender transition,” and introducing coursework that heavily promoted diversity, according to a new report from OpenTheBooks. Read more here.
INDIANA JUDGE ORDERS TAXPAYER-FUNDED GENDER SURGERY FOR INMATE. A Clinton-appointed judge in Indiana has ruled that a trans-identifying man in prison for murdering a baby must be given “gender reassignment surgery” at taxpayer expense “at the earliest opportunity.” Read more here.
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION CUTS FUNDING TO MAINE UNIVERSITIES AFTER STATE DEFIES TRANS BAN. The U.S. president previously signed an executive order to “re-write federal Title IX education rules to withhold federal funds from schools that allow transgender athletes to play as females,” and Maine has been a stalwart in defying the executive order. Read more here.
U.S. FEDERAL JUDGE RIPS DOJ LAWYERS, DEMANDS WRITTEN RETRACTION FROM HEGSETH OVER TRANSGENDER MILITARY POLICY POST. U.S. District Court Judge Ana Reyes, a Biden appointee who previously stated that the idea of only two sexes is not “biologically correct,” heard arguments about the Pentagon’s attempt to ban transgender individuals from serving in the military as trans rights groups seek a preliminary injunction to halt the policy entirely. Read more here.
HOMOSEXUAL HARVARD PROFESSOR DEMANDS FIRING OF ACADEMICS WHO OPPOSE GENDER IDEOLOGY. Professors who are critical of “gender-affirming care” should be fired and lose their academic titles, says Harvard University professor Timothy McCarthy, allegedly because they are using their academic expertise and power to distort and do violence to people in the world. Read more here.
TRANS ACTIVIST DEMANDING ACCESS TO FEMALE-ONLY NUDE SAUNA IS ‘HIGH RISK’ REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER. Dwight Austin, a registered sex offender, was among a small group of trans activists who recently protested outside of a San Francisco spa and demanded access to clothing-optional female-only events. Read more here.
U.S. SUPREME COURT TO HEAR CHALLENGE TO COLORADO LAW BANNING ‘CONVERSION THERAPY’ FOR MINORS. The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that could determine if mental health professionals in the United States can legally engage in conversations aimed at helping young clients struggling with their gender identity to accept their biological sex. Read more here.
GERMANY ISSUES ‘WARNING’ ABOUT U.S. TRAVEL DUE TO NEW TRANSGENDER POLICIES. Germany has warned its gender-confused citizens that they will experience difficulty entering the United States if their sex designation listed on their passport does not match the sex on their original birth certificates. Read more here.
VOLLEYBALL PLAYER INJURED BY TRANSGENDER ATHLETE REVEALS SHE WAS BOOTED FROM SORORITY FOR CONFRONTING MALE IN FEMALE BATHROOM. Payton McNabb was just 17 years old when she was hit in the face with a volleyball that was spiked by a male athlete playing on a women’s team, resulting in a concussion, brain damage, and paralysis on one side of her face. Now 19, McNabb was kicked out of her sorority at Western Carolina University for “bullying.” Read more here.
HHS AGENCY WARNS HOSPITALS TO STOP ‘TRANSITIONING’ MINORS AMID LEGAL BATTLE OVER TRUMP ORDER. The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, an agency of the Department of Health & Human Services, has issued a notice to medical facilities across the country that puberty blockers and gender “transition” surgeries are dangerous and should not be used on minors. Read more here.
CANADIAN TEENAGER ACQUITTED ON CRIMINAL CHARGES FOR CALLING OUT DANGERS OF TRANSGENDER SURGERY. An Ontario judge dropped charges against an 18-year-old who placed posters around his school warning about the serious risks of transgender surgeries, which led to him facing a criminal investigation and prosecution. Read more here.
UK HEALTH SECRETARY REFUSES TO INTERVENE IN NHS PUBERTY BLOCKER TRIAL. Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, has refused to intervene in an NHS puberty blocker trial despite concerns about children’s safety. The drugs were banned last year in the wake of the independent Cass Review, which found no evidence to support their use and warned they may also disrupt brain development. Read more here.
JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP’S ORDER BANNING ‘GENDER TRANSITION’ SURGERIES FOR KIDS NATIONWIDE. United States District Judge Brendan Hurson issued a sweeping order that prevents the federal government from enforcing the president’s executive order in any part of the country as legal challenges against the policy are still ongoing. Read more here.
TRUMP CALLS FOR CONGRESS TO PASS BILL TO END THE ‘SEXUAL MUTILATION’ OF KIDS. President Donald Trump called for Congress to pass a federal ban criminalizing the performing of “transgender procedures” on children during, his joint address to Congress. Read more here.
U.S. AGRICULTURE DEPT. GAVE UNIVERSITY HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS TO STUDY ‘MENSTRUAL CYCLES IN TRANS MEN.’ Under former President Joe Biden, the U.S. Department of Agriculture gave Southern University Agricultural & Mechanical College in Louisiana a grant to study “menstrual cycles” in “transgender men,” according to a new database compiled by the American Principles Project. Read more here.
INDIANA GOVERNOR ORDERS STATE TO PROTECT GIRLS’ SPORTS FROM MALE ATHLETES. Female athletes in Indiana will be protected from male competitors, according to a new executive order signed by Governor Mike Braun, who issued an executive order to ensure “compliance with common-sense protections for women and girls in education and sports.” Read more here.
CALIFORNIA TRANS HIGH SCHOOL TRACK COMPETITOR WINS GIRLS’ TRIPLE JUMP BY 8 FEET. Jurupa Valley High School junior A.B. Hernandez secured first place in the girls’ high jump, triple jump and long jump at the Ontario Relays invitational meet, easily beating his female competitors. Read more here.
JUDGE RULES CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY CAN’T FIRE EMPLOYEE OVER IDENTIFICATION AS ‘TRANSGENDER.’ Liberty University, one of the world’s largest Christian universities, fired a transgender-identifying employee who revealed he was transgender after his probation period, and now a federal judge ruled against Liberty. Read more here.
TRUMP ADMIN FINDS MAINE IN VIOLATION OF CIVIL RIGHTS LAW FOR ALLOWING MEN IN WOMEN’S SPORTS. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services notified the state of Maine that it is violating Title IX civil rights law by persisting in allowing males in female sports. Read more here.
DOGE ANNOUNCES CANCELLATION OF NIH GRANTS FOR TRANSGENDER EXPERIMENTS ON ANIMALS. The U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) this week announced the cancellation of several National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants that were geared toward transgender experiments on animals. Read more here.
‘GENDER IDENTITY’ REMOVED AS A PROTECTED CLASS IN IOWA. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law a bill that eliminates “gender identity” as a protected class under the Iowa Civil Rights Act, while also defining sex as “the state of being either male or female as observed or clinically verified at birth.” Read more here.
NON-BINARY, TWO-SPIRIT DEM REP CLAIMS MINNESOTA BILL BANNING BOYS FROM GIRLS’ SPORTS IS ‘STATE-SANCTIONED GENOCIDE.’ Minnesota state representative Liish Kozloweki, who self-identifies as two-spirit and nonbinary, called a bill prohibiting biological men from women’s sports “state-sanctioned genocide.” Read more here.
MAJOR COURT RULES PARENTS HAVE NO RIGHT TO KNOW A SCHOOL IS ‘TRANSITIONING’ THEIR CHILD. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has ruled that parents don’t have the right to know that their child is “changing” genders while at school, claiming it does not violate parental rights for a school to “transition” a child without the parents’ knowledge. Read more here.
WASHINGTON STATE DEMS INTRODUCE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO ENSHRINE RIGHT TO ‘SEX CHANGES,’ TIE IT TO ABORTION. Washington state Democrats have introduced a Constitutional amendment to protect “gender-affirming care” buried in language about protecting access to abortions, under the heading of doing whatever you want with your own body. Read more here.
FEMALE RUNNER SUES DISTRICT, SPORTS ASSOCIATION OVER 2ND-PLACE FINISH AGAINST MALE. A Quakertown, Pa., Community High School athlete filed a legal complaint for having to compete against a transgender boy from Plymouth Whitemarsh High School in a track meet, claiming it “violated her constitutional rights.” Read more here.
TRANSGENDER SURGERIES ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED RISK OF SUICIDAL IDEATION, DEPRESSION: OXFORD ACADEMIC STUDY. A study of over 107,000 patients with gender dysphoria over the age of 18 has concluded that those who undergo transgender surgeries are at greater risk for mental health problems, including depression, suicidal ideation, anxiety and others. Read more here.
TRANSGENDER ATHLETE COMPETES ALONE AFTER GIRLS ABANDON RACE IN NEW YORK. A transgender athlete who has broken women’s records for years competed alone in a 400-meter race on Saturday. Camden Schreiner, who goes by “Sadie,” placed first at the USA Track and Field Open Masters Championships in the women’s 400-meter dash in Staten Island, New York. Read more here.
U.S BILL TO BAN BIOLOGICAL MALES FROM WOMEN’S SPORTS BLOCKED BY DEMOCRATS. Senate Democrats voted to block a bill that would have prevented biological males from participating in women’s sports from reaching the floor. The bill fell short of the threshold of 60 needed to end debate by nine votes. Read more here.
TRANSGENDER CLINICS CLOSE IN INDIA AFTER TRUMP ADMIN PAUSE ON USAID FUNDING. Three so-called “transgender healthcare” clinics in India have closed their doors since the U.S. government paused USAID funding. Read more here.
BILL COULD BAN GENDER TRANSITION TREATMENT FOR MINORS AND ADULTS IN TEXAS. Rep Brent Money is hoping to amend his state’s ban on gender transition procedures and treatment for children to also apply to adults. Read more here.
GEORGIA HOUSE PASSES ‘RILEY GAINES ACT’ TO BAR TRANS-IDENTIFYING MALES FROM FEMALE SPORTS. The Georgia House passed the “Riley Gaines Act,” named for the champion of protecting women’s sports ever since she tied with trans-identifying male athlete Lia Thomas in the women’s 200-meter freestyle event at the NCAA championships in 2022. Read more here.
WYOMING LEGISLATURE ENACTS PRONOUN BILL TO PROTECT SPEECH FOR TEACHERS AND PUBLIC SERVANTS. The Wyoming Legislature has enacted a new law that prohibits government entities from forcing teachers, professors and other public employees to use inaccurate pronouns in violation of their sincerely held beliefs. Read more here.
IOWA BILL REMOVES GENDER IDENTITY FROM STATE CIVIL RIGHTS LAW. Iowa’s Republican-controlled legislature passed a bill removing gender identity as a protected class from the state civil rights law, which currently equates sex discrimination to discrimination based on gender identity. Read more here.
STUDENT WHO SUED COLLEGE OVER TRANS-IDENTIFIED ATHLETES FORCED OFF CAMPUS. Former San Jose State University volleyball player Brooke Slusser has been forced to take classes online due to constant harassment and threats after she sued the school over being forced to share spaces a trans-identified male teammate. Read more here.
FEMALE INMATES IN MINNESOTA PRISON ‘HARASSED, FLASHED, INTIMIDATED’ BY TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE TRANSFERS. While debating legislation that would require the Department of Corrections to remove trans-identified males from the state’s only women’s prison, MCF-Shakopee, whistleblower Alicia Beckmann revealed that female inmates have been made to endure sexual harassment and intimidation from the male transfers, several of whom are sex offenders, over the past two years. Read more here.
U.S. NAVY BEGINS IMPLEMENTING CHANGES REGARDING TWO SEXES. The U.S. Navy will no longer ask personnel about gender identity, only focusing on biological sex when it comes to forms and single-sex spaces on ships and bases, military news organization Stars and Stripes reported. Read more here.
TRANS ATHLETE CONTROVERSY: TENNIS LEGEND TAKES SWIPE AT CALIFORNIA GOV OVER POLICY. A triple-jump record was broken by a boy in California girls high school track and field last weekend, prompting retired tennis great Martina Navratilova to criticize Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state’s policies regarding transgender participation in girls’ sports. Read more here.
WASHINGTON STATE LAUNCHES BULLYING INVESTIGATION INTO TEEN GIRL WHO REFUSED TO PLAY AGAINST TRANS OPPONENT. Officials of deep blue Washington State have launched a full-blown “investigation” alleging “harassment” against a teen high school girl who refused to take the court against a transgender player on an opposing girl’s basketball team. Read more here.
NSA WHISTLEBLOWER REVEALS HOW AGENCY WAS INFILTRATED BY FAR LEFT IDEOLOGUES. A whistleblower with the National Security Agency revealed in a recent interview with investigative journalist Christopher Rufo how the NSA became a breeding ground for radical leftist gender ideology and workplace misconduct. Read more here.
‘WE SEE YOU’: NEW AD CALLS OUT NCAA FOR NEW TRANSGENDER POLICY. A new ad from the pro-woman brand XX-XY Athletics calls out the NCAA for a new transgender policy that women’s sports advocates warn will still allow a possible loophole for trans-identifying males to continue to compete in women’s sports. Read more here.
VOTE EXPECTED ON IOWA BILL THAT WOULD REMOVE RIGHT OF PEOPLE TO SELF-DECLARE THEIR GENDER. Iowa lawmakers will vote on a bill that aims to remove gender identity as a protected class and explicitly define female and male, as well as gender, which would be considered a synonym for sex and “shall not be considered a synonym or shorthand expression for gender identity, experienced gender, gender expression, or gender role.” Read more here.
PAM BONDI WARNS DEM STATES THAT DOJ WILL USE ‘EVERY LEGAL OPTION’ TO KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has warned the states of Maine, Minnesota and California to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order barring biological males from women’s sports. Read more here.
KANSAS LEGISLATURE OVERRIDES GOVERNOR TO STOP ‘SEX-CHANGE’ TREATMENTS ON CHILDREN. The Kansas Legislature voted 85-34 to override Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of the Help Not Harm Act, and the Senate sent the bill through 31-9 with only Republicans voting to override. Read more here.
‘DANGEROUS’ TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE PEDOPHILE UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR SEXUALLY ASSAULTING FEMALE INMATES IN CANADIAN WOMEN’S PRISON. According to reports from women detained at Grand Valley Institution for Women in Ontario, Carissa Marie Radcliffe, previously known as Frederick Radcliffe, has sexually attacked multiple women, spurring an ongoing investigation which began with his relocation to a maximum security unit. Read more here.
SUPREME COURT WON’T HEAR APPEAL ON TENNESSEE LAW BANNING DRAG SHOWS. The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a petition to hear an appeal on the ruling, which was filed by an LGBTQ+ theater company in December 2024 after a circuit court ruled against the group. The Friends of George’s theater company had challenged Tennessee’s Adult Entertainment Act in 2023 soon after the law limiting “adult-oriented” performances in public was passed. Read more here.
CIA, NSA OFFICIALS USE GOVERNMENT CHAT TO SAY THEY WANT ‘INTERSEX’ BABIES SO CHILDREN CAN ‘CHOOSE’ GENDER LATER: REPORT. Christopher Rufo has revealed that in secure government chats CIA, NSA and other intelligence officials discussed their desire to have intersex or hermaphrodite babies so that their children can “choose later” their gender or sex. Read more here.
JUDGE TEMPORARILY BLOCKS TRUMP ADMIN FROM PUTTING ‘TRANSGENDER’ PRISONERS WITH FELLOW MALES. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth has imposed a preliminary injunction on the Trump administration’s executive order requiring male prisoners who claim “transgender” status to be incarcerated with fellow men, claiming the administration failed to show they could be adequately protected. Read more here.
FEDERAL GRANT FUNDS CENTRAL WASHINGTON U. PROJECT TO ‘CELEBRATE’ RURAL TRANS ADULTS. The National Endowment for the Humanities granted funds to Central Washington University to digitally capture the stories of transgender Americans over the age of 50. Read more here.
MAINE LEGISLATURE CENSURES GOP REP. LAUREL LIBBY FOR POSTING PHOTO OF TRANS ATHLETE WHO WON GIRLS’ COMPETITION. Libby had taken to her social media to point out that a boy had recently taken away a girl’s opportunity by winning a girl’s high school track and field event in Maine. The lawmaker’s post spurred Democrat House Speaker Ryan Fecteau to launch a campaign to silence Libby, who is no longer allowed to speak on the house floor until she issues a formal apology. Read more here.
TRANSGENDER SEX OFFENDER CLAIMS BAN FROM WOMEN’S BATHROOMS VIOLATES ‘CIVIL RIGHTS.’ Virginia sex offender Richard Cox faces more than 20 charges after allegedly exposing himself in women’s bathrooms. Cox claimed that utilizing his name on the sex offender registry was a “criminal misuse” of the law on par with banning Black people from public facilities. Read more here.
PENTAGON SPENT MILLIONS ON TRANSGENDER RESEARCH AND ACCOMMODATION, RECORDS SHOW. The Washington Examiner identified millions in Pentagon grants and contracts earmarked for transgender accommodations and research with a significant portion of them funding ongoing programs. Read more here.
WASHINGTON STATE SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT CLAIMS IT’S ‘INACCURATE’ TO SAY THERE ARE ONLY TWO SEXES. Washington State’s Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal was advocating for boys to continue playing in girls’ sports, which has been banned nationwide under a new executive order from President Donald Trump. Read more here.
ED DEPT APPLAUDS N.H., WIS. FOR TRANS ATHLETE BANS. The Department of Education congratulated Wisconsin and New Hampshire for banning genetic males from competing in women’s high school athletics. Both Wisconsin’s and New Hampshire’s Interscholastic Athletic Association formally revised policies to align with Trump’s Feb. 5 executive order, ensuring that only students designated female at birth can participate in girls’ competitions. Read more here.
YORK U HALTING NEW ADMISSIONS FOR GENDER STUDIES, OTHER DEGREE PROGRAMS. York University in Canada is suspending new admissions to 18 programs this fall in the face of declining enrollment and a huge deficit, including gender and women’s studies. Read more here.
ABC NEWS’ TAKE ON L.A. FIRES: TRANSGENDER RESIDENTS HARDEST HIT! ABC News is reporting that the transgender community in Los Angeles was the “hardest hit” by the recent deadly wildfires because of “the destruction of a safe space, built with love and care to support their healing.” Read more here.
FEMALE HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL PLAYER REFUSES TO PLAY AGAINST BOY; GETS INVESTIGATED FOR ‘HARASSMENT.’ Frances Staudt, a 15-year-old girl at Tumwater High School in Washington, is under investigation for “bullying” and “harassment” for allegedly “misgendering” a male player on an opposing girls basketball team. Read more here.
OUSTED KENNEDY CENTER PRESIDENT DEFENDS DRAG QUEEN PERFORMANCES FOLLOWING TRUMP CRITICISM. Deborah Rutter, the recently-fired head of the Kennedy Center, has defended the federally-funded institution’s decision to put on drag queen performances — including shows aimed at minors. Read more here.
RFK JR’S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES OFFICIALLY DEFINES WOMAN AS ‘AN ADULT HUMAN FEMALE.’ The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released guidance updating the department’s definitions of sex, declaring as Trump had done in an earlier executive order that “there are only two sexes, female and male.” Read more here.
EDUCATION DEPT. REMOVES 2,300+ WEBPAGES PUSHING ‘WOKE PROPAGANDA’ FROM BIDEN ADMINISTRATION. Screenshots of several of the deleted webpages and corresponding materials advised schools to “respect all students’ gender identities” and use “inclusive language.” Read more here.
DEFYING TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDER, CALIFORNIA FORCES GIRLS INTO BASKETBALL PLAYOFF WITH BOY. San Francisco Waldorf School boasts a girls’ basketball team that has qualified for the North Coast Section Division 6 girls’ basketball playoffs, and the team’s best player is Henry Hanlon, a boy who averages 20 points per game and stands head and shoulders above the girls on the court. Read more here.
TRUMP TO DEFUND MAINE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OVER TRANSGENDER DEFIANCE. President Trump announced that he will cut off federal funding to the state of Maine if it continues to defy his executive order on transgender athletes. Read more here.
COLORADO BILL SEEKS TO JAIL THOSE WHO ‘MISGENDER’ DEAD PEOPLE. If passed, the “Gender Identity Certificate of Death” bill would require death certificates to record the sex of the deceased “to reflect” their “gender identity” and to “memorialize” the “gender identity” of the deceased. Read more here.
OXFORD FACES BACKLASH FOR HOSTING PROFESSOR WHO CRITICIZED GENDER IDEOLOGY AT LGBT EVENT. The University of Oxford is facing LGBT opposition after hosting its own professor, sociologist Michael Biggs, who is critical of gender ideology, for an LGBTQ+ History Month seminar. Read more here.
REVEALED: TRANS TRUDEAU GOVERNMENT AIDE BEAT 12-YEAR-OLD GIRL FOR TITLE OF ‘FASTEST FEMALE’ AT ONTARIO ROAD RACE. A trans-identified adult male aide to outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth has been revealed to have defeated a 12-year-old girl for the title of “fastest female” in a 2024 Ontario road race. Read more here.
BOY WINS GIRLS’ POLE VAULT CHAMPIONSHIP IN MAINE DAYS AFTER STATE PLEDGED TO DEFY TRUMP ORDER. A transgender-identifying boy took first place in girls’ pole vaulting at Maine’s Class B state track and field championship, just days after the state declared it would not enforce President Trump’s executive order banning males from female sports at public schools. Read more here.
TEXAS COURT REJECTS BIDEN ADMIN’S ILLEGAL TITLE IX REWRITE ACROSS COUNTRY. A U.S. federal district court has permanently rejected the Biden administration’s rewrite of Title IX to include “gender identity” across the country in the lawsuit Carroll Independent School District v. United States Department of Education. Read more here.
MEXICAN GOVERNMENT IGNORES INQUIRY FROM INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS BODY INTO POLITICIAN CENSORED AND CONVICTED FOR TWITTER/X POSTS ON GENDER. Gabriel Quadri, a former congressman and presidential candidate from Mexico, was convicted in 2022 as a “political violator against women” for posts on Twitter/X expressing concerns about gender ideology, and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has remained silent on his legal battle. Read more here.
AUSTRALIA CENSUS TO INCLUDE NEW QUESTIONS ON GENDER AND SEXUAL ORIENTATION. Australians will, for the first time, be asked their “sex recorded at birth” in next year’s census, alongside new questions for those 16 and older about their sexual orientation and gender. Read more here.
‘JUST THE BEGINNING’: CALIFORNIANS FIGHT BACK AGAINST LEFTIST GENDER IDEOLOGY. New legislation in the liberally dominated California state Assembly calls for the protection of girls’ and women’s sports and parental rights allowing parents to opt their children out of instruction about transgender concepts in school and amending law that excludes parental refusal to medically or socially “transition” their children. Read more here.
SCOTTISH NEWSPAPER REPORTED TO POLICE AFTER REFERRING TO TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE DOCTOR BY ‘HE/HIM’ PRONOUNS. The Scottish Daily Express was reported to police for the pronouns it used in covering the progression of a tribunal being held against Sandie Peggie, a nurse who had been employed at the Victoria hospital in Kirkcaldy, Scotland. Read more here.
KANSAS LEGISLATURE OVERRIDES VETO, ENACTS PROTECTIONS FOR CHILDREN. The Kansas Legislature has overturned Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of SB 63, a law that protects children from the administration of life-altering “gender transition” surgeries, puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones while affirming the biological reality of sex as male and female. Read more here.
EMBRY-RIDDLE BANS DISCUSSIONS OF HOW MANY GENDERS THERE ARE IN OUTDOOR SPACES. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, in Prescott, Arizona, has banned “discussions about the number of genders” in outdoor spaces. Read more here.
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO INVESTIGATE VIRGINIA SCHOOL DISTRICTS OVER TRANSGENDER POLICIES. President Donald Trump’s Department of Education has launched an investigation into five school districts in northern Virginia to determine whether their transgender policies violate recent executive orders. Read more here.
TRUMP ASSAULT ON GENDER IDEOLOGY AND DEI SHOCKS UNITED NATIONS. U.S. diplomats urged UN agencies to drop gender ideology and diversity, equity and inclusion, calling such policies “radical”, “immoral” and “demeaning, unfair and dangerous to women and girls.” Read more here.
U.S. ARMY BANS TRANSGENDER-IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUALS FROM JOINING, HALTING ALL TRANS MEDICAL PROCEDURES. The U.S. Army announced that it is banning transgender-identifying individuals from joining and is cutting back on the roles they will serve for those who are already in the ranks. Read more here.
SEN. ROGER MARSHALL TO NEWSMAX: KANSANS AGAINST GOV.’S ‘GENDER-CHANGE’ VETO. U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., expressed shock to Newsmax that his red state’s governor vetoed a bill that would have restricted “gender change” surgeries on minors and which passed the state Senate and House by overwhelming margins. Read more here.
HIDDEN CAMERA VIDEO SHOWS TEXAS DEI DIRECTOR DISCUSSING TRANSGENDER SPORTS ‘WORKAROUNDS.’ A hidden camera caught Hutto Independent School District Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Keyawna Glaze telling an undercover journalist there were “workarounds” to Texas law requiring student athletes to compete on teams matching their birth certificate. Read more here.
TWO TEENAGE BOYS SUE TRUMP FOR BARRING BOYS FROM GIRLS’ SPORTS. A lawsuit filed by GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders and the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of teen boys Parker Tirrell and Iris Turmelle demands that New Hampshire overturn Republican Governor Chris Sununu’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act so they can join girls’ athletic teams. Read more here.
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT LAUNCHES INVESTIGATION INTO 5 VIRGINIA SCHOOL DISTRICTS INVESTIGATED FOR OK’ING BOYS IN GIRLS’ BATHROOMS. The Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights confirmed to America First Legal that it is investigating Loudoun, Fairfax, Arlington and Prince William Counties, as well as the City of Alexandria for violating Title IX civil rights law meant to protect women and girls at school. Read more here.
FEDERAL JUDGE TEMPORARILY BLOCKS TRUMP BAN ON TRANSGENDER SURGERIES FOR MINORS. A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order barring transgender medical surgeries and interventions for individuals under the age of 19 after a legal challenge by seven families. Read more here.
WORLD ATHLETICS MOVES TO CHEEK SWABS TO DETERMINE FEMALE ELIGIBILITY. World Athletics is preparing to institute cheek-swab tests for elite athletes who want to compete in female categories to make sure they are females and not gender-confused men. Read more here.
TRANS DOCTOR CLAIMS SEX HAS NO ‘DEFINED OR AGREED MEANING’ AMID LEGAL DISPUTE WITH NURSE WHO WAS FIRED OVER REFUSAL TO SHARE CHANGE ROOM. Sandie Peggie, a female nurse, alleged that she experienced harassment after being required to share a female changing room with Dr. Beth Upton, a man alleging he is a female, at Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy, UK. Read more here.
JUDGE DICTATES HHS WEBSITE CONTENT IN DEFIANCE OF TRUMP’S GENDER EXECUTIVE ORDER. U.S. District Judge John Bates assumed control of the Health & Human Services website, dictating that web pages be restored in defiance of an executive order by the president of the United States, Donald Trump, asserting that the federal government acknowledge only two genders – male and female. Read more here.
TRUMP ADDED TO LAWSUIT REGARDING TRANSGENDER ATHLETES IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. A judge in New Hampshire allowed President Donald Trump’s name to be added to the list of defendants in a lawsuit regarding transgender athletes in children’s sports. Read more here.
OLYMPIC BOXER WHO WAS CAUGHT IN GENDER CONTROVERSY VOWS TO FIGHT BOXING ORG’S LAWSUIT. The International Boxing Association said it will file criminal complaints against the International Olympic Committee in the U.S., France and Switzerland for allowing male boxer Imane Khelif to compete and win gold medals in the Paris Olympics women’s boxing competition last year after he previously failed gender eligibility tests. Read more here.
KENYA HAS OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED INTERSEX AS A THIRD GENDER. In a landmark move, Kenya has officially recognized intersex as a third gender in its birth notification certificates, which now includes ‘intersex’ alongside the traditional ‘male’ and ‘female’ options. Read more here.
DEPT. OF EDUCATION LAUNCHES INVESTIGATION INTO TWO ATHLETIC ASSOCIATIONS THAT PUBLICLY DEFIED TRUMP’S ORDER PROTECTING GIRLS’ SPORTS. The DOE sent letters to both the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) and the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) notifying the organizations that they are under investigation by the department’s Office for Civil Rights. Read more here.
MASSACHUSETTS TOWN VOTES TO BECOME SANCTUARY CITY FOR TRANSGENDER AND ‘GENDER-DIVERSE PEOPLE.’ The town of Worcester, Massachusetts, voted to become a “sanctuary city” for transgender and “gender diverse people” after several self-proclaimed LGBTQ+ members asserted they are under attack in President Trump’s America, with one warning that transgender individuals would make the city a “very unsafe space” if it does not bend to their will. Read more here.
DOJ ENDS CHALLENGE TO TENNESSEE’S LAW SHIELDING KIDS FROM TRANSGENDER PROCEDURES. In a letter to the clerk of the Supreme Court, U.S. Deputy Solicitor General Curtis Gannon said that the DOJ no longer took the position that Tennessee’s SB 1, which banned transgender medical procedures on minors, violated the Fourteenth Amendment. Read more here.
OVER 1,000 UK WOMEN GET THEIR BREASTS REMOVED FOR ‘GENDER IDENTITY’ REASONS EACH YEAR, REPORT FINDS. More than 1,000 gender-confused women are being sent by the United Kingdom’s National Health Service to have their breasts removed each year, reports the Daily Mail, and that number is only expected to climb. Read more here.
UTAH LEGISLATURE OKAYS BILL LIMITING ACCESS TO DORMS FOR TRANSGENDER STUDENTS. Utah lawmakers gave final approval to a bill limiting where transgender students can reside in dorm rooms at public universities, after online backlash against a transgender resident assistant at Utah State University. Read more here.
GOLDMAN SACHS AND DELOITTE ARE LATEST TO SCRAP DIVERSITY INITIATIVES. Deloitte US has instructed staff working on contracts for the American government to remove pronouns from their emails, becoming the latest company to back down on gender ideology. Read more here.
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT URGES NCAA TO REVOKE TITLES HELD BY LIA THOMAS, OTHER TRANS ATHLETES. The U.S. Department of Education sent a letter to the National Collegiate Athletic Association urging it to revoke titles and records previously earned by men, including transgender swimmer William “Lia” Thomas, in women’s sports. Read more here.
COLORADO PARENTS FILE RENEWED MOTION AS SCHOOL DISTRICT REFUSES TO ALLOW SINGLE-SEX OVERNIGHT ROOMING. Colorado families are asking a federal court to reconsider its decision to allow Jefferson County Public Schools officials to require its children to share beds, bedrooms and shower facilities with students of the opposite sex on school-sponsored overnight trips. Read more here.
TRUMP EDUCATION DEPT TO PROBE SJSU, UPENN FOR POTENTIAL TITLE IX VIOLATIONS AFTER TRANS ATHLETE SCANDALS. The Department’s Office of Civil Rights will investigate San Jose State University, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association for separate incidents involving trans athletes competing on a women’s or girls’ sports teams. Read more here.
CHICAGO CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL PAUSES CHILD ‘SEX CHANGE’ SURGERIES FOLLOWING TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDER. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago is pausing all “sex change” surgeries for patients under 19 in response to President Donald Trump’s executive order regarding transgender medical treatments for minors. Read more here.
TRUMP PENTAGON PAUSING ALL ACCESSIONS, GENDER-AFFIRMING PROCEDURES FOR TRANSGENDER RECRUITS. The Pentagon is also pausing medical procedures that affirm or facilitate a gender transition. A memo addressed to senior Pentagon leadership and others states that the Department “must ensure it is building ‘One Force’ without subgroups defined by anything other than ability or mission adherence.” Read more here.
115-YEAR-OLD BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA DITCHES NAME TO BE MORE ‘GENDER-NEUTRAL.’ The organization is now called Scouting America. In 2013, the organization began allowing homosexual young people to join and later ended a ban on homosexual adult leaders. Read more here.
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BOARD REJECTS PROPOSAL TO KEEP TRANS-IDENTIFYING MEN OUT. In a letter to the Martha Laird Chapter, the Daughters of the American Revolution National Board of Management, said it “found the proposed amendment” to prohibit all men, including trans-identifying males, from the group “not to be suitable for inclusion in the bylaws and not to be in the best interest of the Society.” Read more here.
CALIFORNIA AG BANS MEDICAL SERVICE TO STRAIGHT PEOPLE IN RETALIATION TO TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDER. Retaliating against President Donald Trump’s executive order designed to protect minors from receiving harmful, life-altering “gender transition chemical and surgical mutilation,” California’s attorney general has ordered hospitals that comply to deny hormonal treatments to heterosexual people who need them. Read more here.
RADICAL LGBT ACTIVISTS LASH OUT OVER TRUMP PROTECTING WOMEN’S SPORTS. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation blasted President Donald Trump’s executive order disallowing males on women’s sports teams, stating, “All women and girls, including transgender women and girls, should be welcome to play sports if they want.” Read more here.
NCAA CHANGES RULES TO BAN BIOLOGICAL MEN FROM WOMEN’S SPORTS. The NCAA announced it will change its rules to ban biological males from women’s sports, a day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning male transgender athletes from women’s sports. Read more here.
TSA BARS TRANSGENDER OFFICERS FROM AIRPORT PAT-DOWNS. As part of government-wide efforts to comply with President Donald Trump’s new policies, transgender officers working for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the premier security force at U.S. airports, will no longer be permitted to conduct pat-downs of travelers. Read more here.
ARGENTINA’S JAVIER MILEI BANS TRANSGENDER DRUGS, SURGERIES FOR MINORS. Milei signed a decree that amends the country’s Gender Identity Law to “prohibit hormone treatments and body adaptation surgery for people under 18 years of age.” Read more here.
CALIFORNIA AG WARNS STATE HOSPITALS, CARE PROVIDERS NOT TO STOP PROVIDING TRANSGENDER SERVICES TO MINORS. California Attorney General Rob Bonta told Children’s Hospital Los Angeles to continue providing services to transgender minors despite President Donald Trump’s executive order banning the surgical and chemical mutilation of minors. Read more here.
SEATTLE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL HALTS TRANS SURGERIES ON MINORS FOLLOWING TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDER. In response to President Donald Trump’s executive order that will cut federal funding to hospitals providing “destructive and life-altering” gender-altering procedures, Seattle Children’s Hospital stopped performing the controversial surgeries on minors hours before a 16-year-old girl was scheduled to have her breasts removed. Read more here.
TEXAS AG LAUNCHES PROBE INTO SCHOOLS SCHEMING TO GET BOYS ONTO GIRLS’ SPORTS TEAMS. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating two school districts whose officials were caught on tape saying they would help alter records for male students so they could play girls’ sports. Read more here.
FORMER UPENN WOMEN’S SWIMMERS SUING SCHOOL, NCAA FOR ALLOWING BIOLOGICAL MEN IN WOMEN’S SPORTS. The lawsuit, filed by Grace Estabrook, Margo Kaczorowski and Ellen Holmquist, with support from the Independent Council on Women’s Sports, seeks damages for “pain and suffering, mental and emotional distress, suffering and anxiety, expenses, costs” and more for the institutions allowing William “Lia” Thomas and other trans-identifying men into women’s spaces and competitions, which they say violated their rights under Title IX. Read more here.
AUSSIE WOMEN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGNER HIT WITH ‘APPREHENDED VIOLENCE ORDER’ BY TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE SHE’S NEVER MET. Trans-identified Australian male soccer player Stephanie Blanch has successfully petitioned a New South Wales court to obtain an Apprehended Violence Order against women’s rights campaigner Kirralie Smith because he felt “threatened” by her views about men participating in women’s sports. Read more here.
‘REFLECTING BIOLOGICAL REALTY’: EDUCATION DEPARTMENT PUBLISHES NEW COLLEGE STUDENT AID FORM. The U.S. Department of Education released an updated version of its Free Application for Federal Student Aid, commonly referred to as FAFSA, to better align with President Donald Trump’s executive order on biological sex. Read more here.
HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS ASSOCIATION TO DEFY TRUMP’S TRANSGENDER BAN. The governing body for high school athletics in the Commonwealth of Virginia says it will defy President Trump’s Executive Order banning men from competing in women’s sports. Read more here.
TRUMP SIGNS ‘NO MEN IN WOMEN’S SPORTS’ EXECUTIVE ORDER. President Donald Trump signed the “No Men in Women’s Sports” executive order, fulfilling one of his major campaign promises of keeping biological men out of girls’ and women’s sports. Read more here.
AMAZON LIFTS YEARS-LONG BAN ON TRANSGENDERISM BOOK IN RESPONSE TO CUSTOMER FEEDBACK. Ethics and Public Policy president Ryan Anderson’s book, When Harry Became Sally: Answers for Our Transgender Moment, is currently available for sale on the site for the first time in years, after it was banned during the Biden administration under the false pretense that it “frame[s] LGBTQ+ identity as a mental illness.” Read more here.
JUDGE BLOCKS FEDERAL PRISON SYSTEM FROM RELOCATING TRANSGENDER INMATES. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth issued an 11-page ruling granting a temporary restraining order in favor of three transgender inmates who are housed in women’s federal prisons. The ruling prevents prison officials from transferring them to men’s facilities or restricting their access to medical care while the legal challenge moves forward. Read more here.
NEW YORK MOVES TO PROTECT TRANSGENDER SURGERIES, ABORTION. State Attorney General Letitia James told New York hospitals they were required under state law to continue performing transgender procedures in spite of a recent directive from the Trump administration. Read more here.
NYU MEDICAL CENTER CANCELS ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE’ FOR MINORS AFTER TRUMP ORDER. New York University’s medical center has canceled “gender-affirming care” procedures for minors following President Donald Trump’s executive order to stop such treatments. Read more here.
FORMER LIA THOMAS OPPONENTS SHARE ‘ABUSE,’ PUSH GEORGIA LAWMAKERS TO PASS TRANS ATHLETE IN WOMEN’S SPORTS BAN. A Georgia state Senate committee passed the Fair and Safe Athletic Opportunities Act after testimony from multiple female athletes who have competed against and shared locker rooms with transgender athletes like William “Lia” Thomas, who previously competed on the Penn University women’s swimming team. Read more here.
GEORGE MASON BACKTRACKS, SAYS FEMALE STUDENTS CAN CRITICIZE TAMPONS IN WOMEN’S BATHROOMS. Two female law students at Geoge Mason University can now freely criticize tampons in men’s bathrooms without censorship or fear of reprisal, as the result of a lawsuit settlement. Read more here.
QUEENSLAND HALTS PRESCRIPTION OF PUBERTY BLOCKERS FOR MINORS PENDING INVESTIGATION. The Queensland state government has paused the prescription of puberty blockers and hormone treatments for minors suffering from gender dysphoria following reports that children as young as 12 were receiving the medications without proper authorization. Read more here.
SAN JOSE STATE VOLLEYBALL COACH WHO SPOKE OUT AGAINST TRANS PLAYER BLAIRE FLEMING DISMISSED. SJSU has informed assistant women’s volleyball coach Melissa Batie-Smoose that her contract will not be renewed by the university because she spoke out against the school allowing a male on the team. Read more here.
SECOND TEEN SOCCER PLAYER SUSPENDED IN UK FOR ASKING IF HER TRANS OPPONENT WAS MALE. A teenage soccer player in the UK was given a six-game suspension by the county Football Association after questioning whether her adult transgender opponents were men. Read more here.
SCHOOL OFFICIAL APPEARS TO ADVISE PARENTS OF TRANS ATHLETES TO CHANGE BIRTH CERTIFICATE TO PLAY GIRLS’ SPORTS. Reny Lizardo, who serves as the executive director of campus operations for the Irving Independent School District, told an undercover journalist that “It’s not illegal if you don’t get caught,” in regard to doctoring a child’s birth certificate to undermine Texas state law that prevents trans athletes from competing in girls’ sports. Read more here.
SEN. HAWLEY PROPOSES BILL TO LET VICTIMS OF CHILD ‘GENDER TRANSITIONS’ SUE THOSE RESPONSIBLE. U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley (Rep-MO) introduced a bill that would empower Americans who were harmed by “gender transition” procedures as minors to sue those responsible for damages, following an executive order by President Donald Trump calling for such legislation. Read more here.
CDC ORDERED TO REMOVE RESEARCH PAPERS THAT USE THE TERMS ‘LGBT,’ ‘PREGNANT PEOPLE’ AND MORE. According to the New York Times, scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were ordered to pull out any pending research submitted to publications that mention the terms “pregnant people,” “transgender,” and “LGBT,” among others. Read more here.
LGBT ACTIVISTS MOBILIZE TO CHALLENGE TRUMP’S ‘EXTREME GENDER IDEOLOGY’ EXECUTIVE ORDERS. LGBT activists and groups are mobilizing to block gender-related executive orders President Donald Trump signed since taking office to fulfill one of his key campaign promises to crack down on “gender ideology extremism.” Read more here.
CDC REMOVES GENDER, EQUITY REFERENCES IN PUBLIC HEALTH MATERIAL. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removed or edited references to transgender people, gender identity and equity from its website. Whole pages about HIV testing for transgender people, guidelines for use of HIV medication and information on supporting LGBTQ+ youth health were no longer available late Friday. Read more here.
FEDERAL EMPLOYEES ORDERED TO REMOVE PRONOUNS FROM EMAIL SIGNATURES BY END OF DAY. Federal agencies have ordered employees to remove “preferred pronouns” from their email signatures by end of day on Friday, in keeping with President Donald Trump’s executive orders weeding out radical gender ideology and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives from the government. Read more here.
HOSPITALS SUSPEND SEX-CHANGE SURGERIES, PUBERTY BLOCKERS FOR KIDS AFTER TRUMP’S ORDER. Hospitals in Virginia, Colorado and Washington, D.C., suspended body-altering interventions for minors confused about their sex in response to President Donald Trump’s executive order that seeks to ban federal funding for the “chemical and surgical mutilation” of children. Read more here.
U.S. EDUCATION DEPARTMENT PROBES DENVER SCHOOLS OVER ALL-GENDER BATHROOM. The U.S. Department of Education said it was investigating whether the Denver school system discriminated against women and girls by converting a female bathroom into one for all genders. Read more here.
FRANCE: GYNECOLOGIST SUSPENDED FROM PRACTICE AFTER LGBT ORGANIZATION FILES ‘TRANSPHOBIA’ COMPLAINT. Dr. Victor Acharian, a French gynecologist who operates in the Pau region, has been prohibited from practicing medicine for five months, with an additional one-month probationary period after a trans activist group reported him to the Minister of Equality for comments which they deemed to be “transphobic.” Read more here.
UTAH HOUSE PASSES BAN ON MALE STUDENTS IN WOMEN’S DORMS. Responding to concerns about a transgender resident assistant in a Utah State University dorm, state lawmakers advanced a bill to require that students live in university housing that matches their sex. Read more here.
TEXAS SCHOOL FACES FALLOUT OVER HIDDEN CAMERA FOOTAGE ON TRANSGENDER SPORTS BAN. A video produced by the conservative watchdog group Accuracy in Media, caught Irving, Texas Independent School District’s director of campus operations, Reny Lizardo, discussing how a transgender athlete could compete on a sports team that does not align with the student’s biological sex, in violation of state law. Read more here.
‘DETRANSITIONERS’ POWERFUL STORIES SHOWCASED IN IWF’S ‘IDENTITY CRISIS’ DOCUSERIES. The stories of a dozen “detransitioners,” medical professionals and mothers whose children were caught up in gender ideology are highlighted in a powerful docuseries by the Independent Women’s Forum. Read more here.
ACTIVIST TEACHER NETWORK URGES SCHOOLS TO BAN ‘TRANSPHOBIC’ LANGUAGE. A transgender teachers network is urging schools across the country to adopt “hate speech” policies to crack down on so-called “homophobic and transphobic language” from both students and adults, according to a document obtained by The Daily Wire. Read more here.
TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM CHEMICAL AND SURGICAL GENDER MUTILATION. President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning the chemical and surgical mutilation of children and protecting kids from the most extreme measures of radical gender ideology, which has long held out the empty promise to vulnerable young people of “gender transitioning” through so-called “gender-affirming care.” Read more here.
TRUMP CUTS FUNDING FOR TRANSGENDER OPERA IN COLOMBIA, DRAG SHOWS IN ECUADOR. President Trump has cut funding for transgender operas, drag shows in Ecuador and funding designated for condoms in Gaza. Read more here.
SOCIAL MEDIA ONE FACTOR IN DRASTIC RISE AMONG TRANS CHILDREN IN GREAT BRITAIN, DOCTOR SAYS. Britain’s National Health Service records show that in 2011, only 200 minors identified as transgender or struggled with gender dysphoria, the number skyrocketed to 10,000 by 2021 and the report said social media was to some extent responsible for the increase. Read more here.
TRANS-IDENTIFYING MALE RUNNER BRAGS ABOUT BEATING FEMALES DESPITE BROKEN SHOE. Sadie Schreiner, a trans-identifying male runner who recently complained about not being able to get Division I athletic scholarships in women’s track and field, is now bragging about beating female runners even though Schreiner had a broken shoe. Read more here.
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS SPENDING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS DOCUMENTING ‘TRANSRURAL LIVES’ IN PACIFIC NORTHWEST. The National Endowment for the Humanities granted funds for “The TransRural Lives Project,” a “digital storytelling project exploring and celebrating the lives of transgender older adults who live in or have strong ties to rural areas and small towns in the Pacific Northwest.” Read more here.
MAINE’S PUBLIC SCHOOLS REFUSE TO COMPLY WITH TRUMP’S ORDER ON TRANSGENDER IDEOLOGY. Maine’s Department of Education (DOE) issued a statement on Tuesday that expressed its opposition to President Donald Trump’s day-one executive order, which officially recognizes that there are only two genders and safeguards women-only spaces from males. Read more here.
PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRATS PROPOSE ERASING SEX FROM BIRTH CERTIFICATES, CALL PRACTICE ‘ANTIQUATED.’ State Reps. Benjamin Sanchez and Joe Webster have proposed a bill that would remove the biological reality of sex from birth certificates — a move they say would “eliminate yet another form of discrimination people endure when there is an error in that category.” Read more here.
TRUMP TO SIGN EXECUTIVE ORDER BANNING GENDER-CONFUSED TROOPS, DEI PROGRAMS FROM MILITARY. President Trump is expected to sign executive orders that will dismiss both gender-confused people, that is, those who identify as “transgender,” and “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” programs from the U.S. armed forces. Read more here.
‘GENDER-CHANGE CARE’ TRIAL BEGINS IN NORTH DAKOTA. A lawsuit seeking to strike down North Dakota’s ban on “gender-change medical care” for minors has gone to trial, more than a year after families of transgender children and a doctor filed the suit that argued the law violates the state’s constitution. Read more here.
BRITISH STUDENT SUSPENDED FROM RADIO STATION FOR QUESTIONING TRANS IDEOLOGY. A free speech organization has initiated a judicial review against the British government after Leeds University student Connie Shaw was suspended from the university radio station for her “gender critical” views. Read more here.
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TARGETS DEI, LGBT IDEOLOGY IN PUBLIC EDUCATION. In his executive order declaring that there are only two sexes and banning federal funding for gender ideology, President Donald Trump ordered that the Department of Education (DOE) rescind previous pro-LGBT guidance, including a 2021 “back-to-school message” for so-called “transgender students” from the Departments of Justice, Education, and Health and Human Services. Read more here.
FEDS DROP CHARGES AGAINST TEXAS DOCTOR ACCUSED OF LEAKING TRANSGENDER CARE DATA. Federal prosecutors dropped their charges against a Dallas surgeon accused of leaking the records of underage patients’ gender transition-related care in what some conservative activists are calling a win for anti-transgender activism. Read more here.
RUBIO ENDS TRANSGENDER, NONBINARY PASSPORTS. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered a freeze on all passports with “X” sex markers, and the State Department announced through an internal cable that transgender and nonbinary Americans will no longer be allowed to use a sex marker on their passport applications. Read more here.
ENGLAND RECORDS 50-FOLD RISE IN NUMBER OF CHILDREN WITH GENDER DYSPHORIA IN A DECADE. The number of under-18s in England with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria recorded by a GP has risen 50-fold in the last decade, a study of medical records released Friday details. Read more here.
NY COURT UPHOLDS LAW BANNING MEN FROM COMPETING IN WOMEN’S SPORTS. The Supreme Court of Nassau County, New York, has upheld a local law prohibiting trans-identified males from competing in women’s sports by ruling that it does not violate the New York State’s Human Rights Law, the New York Civil Rights Law or the New York Municipal Home Rule Law. Read more here.
GEORGETOWN TO HIRE TRANSGENDER STUDIES LITERATURE PROFESSOR. Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic University in the United States, is hiring a transgender studies professor for its Women’s and Gender Studies Program and Department of English, prompting criticism. Read more here.
STATE DEPARTMENT LGBT, RACIAL EQUITY ENVOY PROFILES SCRUBBED AFTER TRUMP TAKES OFFICE. The U.S. State Department Special Representative for Racial Equity and Justice Desiree Cormier Smith and Jessica Stern, the Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Persons, appear to have left the executive agency tasked with managing the United States’ diplomacy operations. Read more here.
TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER RECOGNIZING ONLY TWO SEXES. President Trump signed a sweeping executive order Monday during his first hours in office recognizing only two sexes, male and female, and directing federal agencies to cease promotion of the concept of gender transition. Read more here.
CANADIAN PARENTS OUTRAGED AFTER HIGH SCHOOL CLOSES SINGLE-SEX WASHROOMS. British Columbia parents are sounding the alarm after a local high school closed its single-sex washrooms, forcing their children to use “gender-neutral” facilities. Read more here.
ADF FILES LAWSUIT CHALLENGING FIVE ILLEGAL BIDEN MANDATES REDEFINING ‘SEX’ IN FEDERAL LAW. On behalf of a Louisiana school board serving more than 20,000 students, Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a federal lawsuit against the Biden administration for an unlawful and sweeping rewrite of five federal laws and policies to include “gender identity” in the definition of “sex.” Read more here.
COLLEGE ATHLETES DEMAND NCAA WITHDRAW RULES FOR TRANS PLAYER IN WOMEN’S SPORTS. Protestors at the NCAA Convention in Nashville gathered to demand the collegiate sports governing body ban biological males from competing in women’s sports, wearing buttons that read “Equality is not a game” and shirts stating, “Women’s sports are for women.” Read more here.
DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOL AXES GIRLS’ BATHROOM FOR ‘ALL GENDER’ BATHROOM. Female students attending East High School in Denver returned from winter break to see one of their private spaces demolished after their girl’s bathroom was converted into an “all gender” restroom, and now they must share one of their few remaining spaces with boys. Read more here.
‘NON-BINARY’ TOWN COUNCILOR TAKES MONTH OFF WORK AFTER BEING ‘MISGENDERED.’ Residents of Worcester, Massachusetts are spending taxpayer dollars so their “non-binary” town councilor can take a month-long “mental health” leave of absence because “they” were “misgendered.” Read more here.
TRANS ACTIVIST CONVICTED FOR TORTURE, ATTEMPTED MURDER REMOVED AS UK WOMEN’S MARCH SPEAKER AFTER BACKLASH. The UK Women’s March has removed a transgender-identifying male speaker, Sarah Jane Baker, from its lineup after organizers were informed of Baker’s criminal history. Read more here.
SENATORS LUMMIS, TUBERVILLE: PROTECTING GIRLS SPORTS SENSIBLE. U.S. Senators Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., and Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., said it is important to preserve women’s sports for biological women, and “It’s dangerous to have men in the locker room, not to mention extremely uncomfortable.” Read more here.
U.S. HOUSE PASSES BAN ON TRANS ATHLETES IN WOMEN’S SPORTS. The House passed a bill on Tuesday, 218-206, that would ban transgender athletes from competing in women’s and girls’ sports at schools that receive federal funding. Read more here.
NEW U. KANSAS ‘TRANS STUDIES INITIATIVE’ ADVANCES ‘IDEOLOGICAL AGENDA,’ CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST SAYS. The University of Kansas launched a new “Trans Studies Initiative” this school year to “study questions of trans life” and host events for LGBTQ students. Read more here.
NEARLY HALF OF GENDER-CONFUSED MALES HELD IN FEDERAL WOMEN’S PRISONS ARE SEX OFFENDERS. By a recent count, there were 1,487 incarcerated men who identify as women in U.S. federal prisons, and nearly half of them are sex offenders—almost four times the rate of the general prison population. Read more here.
‘TRANS’ STAR COLLEGE BASKETBALL PLAYER CLAIMS HE HAS ‘MAJOR BIOLOGICAL DISADVANTAGE’ AGAINST WOMEN. Harriett Mackenzie, a male basketball player at Vancouver Island University, said he believes he is a woman and plays at a “major biological disadvantage” against biological women. Read more here.
MARK ZUCKERBERG REMOVES TAMPONS FROM MEN’S BATHROOMS AT META OFFICES. Mark Zuckerberg announced on Friday that his Meta company, which operates Facebook and Instagram, had abandoned its DEI practices. As part of that move, the company told facilities managers to remove the tampons from the men’s bathrooms. Read more here.
AUSTRIA: CHILDREN EXPELLED FROM KINDERGARTEN AFTER THEIR PARENTS OBJECTED TO POSTER DEPICTING NAKED TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE DISPLAYING HIS GENITALS. A kindergarten in Austria has expelled two children after their parents expressed concerns about graphic, sexual posters that had been hung in the facility, and which depicted nude trans-identified males in order to “facilitate discussions in kindergarten settings.” Read more here.
INDIANA LAWMAKERS PROPOSE BAN ON ‘TRANSGENDER’ ATHLETES IN COLLEGE SPORTS. Indiana’s HB 1041 would ban self-professed ‘transgender’ individuals from competing on college sports teams for the opposite sex, adding to existing protections for women’s sports at the high school level. Read more here.
CHARLIE KIRK TELLS BEN SHAPIRO ‘IDENTITY CRISIS’ REVEALS THE ‘BRUTALITY’ OF ‘SEX-CHANGE SURGERIES.’ Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro released a new documentary called “Identity Crisis,” which unmasks the “graphic brutality” of so-called “gender transitions” by focusing on the societal failures enabling the continued mutilation of children. Read more here.
TAIWANESE PARENTS OUTRAGED AFTER GENDER IDENTITY SURVEY GIVEN TO SCHOOLCHILDREN ASKING WHETHER THEY’VE TAKEN LEWD PHOTOS OF THEMSELVES. The prestigious Taipei American School reportedly took sexually explicit surveys of students without parental consent and sparked backlash from parents for exposing children to extremely graphic material promoting gender ideology. Read more here.
COURT STRIKES DOWN BIDEN’S TITLE IX ‘GENDER IDENTITY’ RULE NATIONWIDE. A Department of Education rule to ban discrimination against a person’s self-asserted “gender identity” in K–12 schools and colleges was blocked nationwide by a federal court in Kentucky. Read more here.
CANADIAN MEDIA CONTINUES TO SUPPRESS THE HORROR OF CHILD MUTILATION IN THE NAME OF ‘GENDER.’ In the United Kingdom, a nationwide ban on puberty blockers for minors has been upheld by the highest court in the country, and while 26 U.S. states have banned “sex change treatments” for minors, Alberta is the only Canadian province doing the same. Read more here.
U.S. HOUSE QUIETLY DROPS BAN ON MEN USING WOMEN’S BATHROOMS FROM NEW RULES PACKAGE. U.S. House Rep. Nancy Mace’s proposed resolution requiring that Capitol Hill employees use restrooms “corresponding to their biological sex” was, with no explanation, omitted from the official rules of the new House session after Speaker Mike Johnson had assured her it would be included. Read more here.
FACEBOOK NOW ALLOWS JOHNS HOPKINS PSYCHIATRIST TO CALL TRANS A ‘MENTAL DISORDER.’ Facebook just ended its so-called “fact-check” program and eliminated speech restrictions that had heavily censored conservative viewpoints, and in an update to its policy prohibiting “Hateful Conduct,” Facebook now allows users to deem transgenderism and LGBTQ+ identifiers to be mentally ill or abnormal. Read more here.
TRANSGENDER R.A. IN CO-ED DORM AT UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY PROMPTS CONTROVERSY. A transgender resident assistant at Utah State University has prompted controversy and concern by serving as a “dorm mom” in a female housing unit, but a campus official says the school is just following the law. Read more here.
L.A. MAYOR CUT FIRE DEPT. FUNDING, BUT GAVE CASH TO ‘TRANSGENDER CAFE.’ Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass cut fire department funding, but she allocated tens of thousands of dollars for “social justice art” and a “transgender cafe.” Read more here.
OHIO TEACHER WHO REFUSED STUDENTS’ PREFERRED PRONOUNS WINS SETTLEMENT. An Ohio teacher who refused to use students’ preferred pronouns has won a legal settlement against the Jackson Local School District. Read more here.
MAJORITY OF AMERICAN PARENTS OPPOSE TEACHING KIDS TRANSGENDER IDEOLOGY. A poll shows that 75 percent of parents do not support teachers providing instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity to elementary school students. Read more here.
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FAST TRACKS BILL TO BAN MEN IN WOMEN’S SPORTS. The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act is an effort to legally ban males in women’s sports, and the bill was reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by U.S. Rep. Greg Steube, a Florida Republican, along with 56 Republican cosponsors. Read more here.
LEADING TRANSGENDER HEALTH AUTHORITY CITED FORUM CO-FOUNDED BY CONVICTED PEDOPHILE IN STANDARDS OF CARE. In crafting its most recent standards of care, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health referenced a fetish forum co-founded by convicted pedophile Thomas Pidel. Read more here.
PRESCHOOL DEFENDS TEACHING 3-YEAR-OLDS TRANSGENDER LESSON. A substitute teacher who claims to be transgender, read children the storybook “It Feels Good to be Yourself,” which promotes gender identity, at the taxpayer-funded New York Kids Club. Read more here.
UCONN INVITES TRANS PEOPLE TO TRAIN MED STUDENTS IN ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE.’ The University of Connecticut Medical School is hosting transgender individuals as practice patients this month to train students in providing “gender-affirming” care. Read more here.
CANADIAN PASTOR DEREK REIMER GETS ONE YEAR HOUSE ARREST AND PROBATION FOR PROTESTING ‘DRAG QUEEN STORYTIME.’ Reimer is only allowed to leave his house on the approval of his probation officer after being convicted of protesting drag queen story hours” targeting children at a public library. Read more here.
62 PERCENT OF UK TRANS INMATES ARE CONVICTED SEX OFFENDERS. A new report revealed that nearly two-thirds of transgender male inmates in the United Kingdom who identify as women are convicted sex offenders. Read more here.
PROMINENT ATHEIST PROFESSOR CENSORED FOR SAYING SEX IS BINARY, DEFINING ‘WOMAN.’ Three well-known atheist scholars have quit leadership positions at the Freedom From Religion Foundation after it censored an essay that defined the word “woman” and described human sex as “binary.” Read more here.
MORE BATTLES OVER TRANSGENDER RIGHTS AWAIT SUPREME COURT. The justices at their recent closed-door conferences have considered petitions to take up disputes involving what school sports teams transgender athletes can play on, parental rights and whether government-funded health care plans must cover transgender care. Read more here.
UK: HUMAN RIGHTS CHARITY SUES BRITISH TRANSPORT POLICE OVER POLICY ALLOWING TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALES TO STRIP SEARCH WOMEN. A human rights charity is taking legal action against the British Transport Police over a new guidance which allows men who claim transgender status to strip search female detainees as long as they have a Gender Recognition Certificate. Read more here.
ACLU & ELLIOT PAGE TELL CHILDREN: TRANSGENDERISM WILL ‘LEAD YOU TO HAPPINESS.’ In a video posted to social media by the American Civil Liberties Union, transgender actress Elliot Page who Identifies as a male says trans people should “be free to embrace our authentic selves.” Read more here.
HOW ONE OF AMERICA’S LARGEST SCHOOL DISTRICTS BECAME A PIPELINE FOR A TRANS YOUTH CLINIC. When a middle school at the Los Angeles Unified School District learned that a student was interested in a medical “gender transition,” administrators connected the student with the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Transyouth for sterilization. Read more here.
J.K. ROWLING: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A TRANSGENDER KID. Harry Potter creator and women’s rights activist J.K. Rowling has told her fans on social media that there is no such thing as a transgender kid and that no child is born in the “wrong body.” Read more here.
WOMAN HOUSED IN CELL WITH TRANS-IDENTIFYING MALE PEDOPHILE SUES WASHINGTON STATE PRISONS OVER SEXUAL ASSAULT. A former inmate at the Washington Corrections Center for Women filed a lawsuit against the state’s Department of Corrections for sexual harassment and assault after being housed with a biological male pedophile while incarcerated. Read more here.
TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE QUALIFIES TO COMPETE AS ‘FEMALE’ IN 2025 BOSTON MARATHON, SPARKING OUTRAGE FROM FEMALE RUNNERS. A trans-identified male identifying as Riya Young Suising, who previously sued a spa for not allowing him to bathe with women, announced he has been accepted to compete as a “woman” in the 2025 Boston Marathon. Read more here.
GERMAN GOVERNMENT FUNDS RESEARCH PROJECT LABELING TRANSPHOBIA, CRITICISM OF GENDER SELF-DETERMINATION LAWS A ‘THREAT TO DEMOCRACY.’ The German federal government was responsible for funding a research project labeling “organized transphobia” a threat to democracy, a project made in collaboration with a trans-identified male known for threatening violence against women he disagrees with and classifies those opposed to Germany’s radical gender self-identification laws as “enemies” of society. Read more here.
BIDEN SIGNS DEFENSE BILL THAT ELIMINATES FUNDING FOR UNDERAGE TRANSGENDER DRUGS. President Joe Biden this week signed a nearly $900 billion defense spending bill despite Democratic reservations about a provision that prohibits the Department of Defense from covering transgender drug prescriptions for minors. Read more here.
CANADIAN MILITARY DEPLOYED ‘GENDER ADVISORS’ TO UKRAINE, HAITI AT TAXPAYERS’ EXPENSE. Canada’s military has been actively pushing a woke pro-LGBT agenda on the world stage, with the latest example being its deployment of “task force gender advisors” internationally in war-hit nations, such as Haiti and Ukraine. Read more here.
COURT HALTS BIDEN ADMIN ATTEMPT TO POLITICIZE HIPAA REGULATIONS. A federal district court granted a Texas doctor an injunction against Biden administration regulations that illegally restrict how doctors can protect patients from the harms of abortion and “gender transition” while a lawsuit proceeds. Read more here.
UNITEDHEALTHCARE COVERS DOUBLE MASTECTOMIES FOR 17-YEAR-OLDS. UnitedHealthcare, America’s largest health insurance company, covers double mastectomies for some 17-year-old girls who identify as transgender. Read more here.
BIDEN ADMIN WITHDRAWS PROPOSED TITLE IX CHANGES THAT WOULD HAVE FORCED SCHOOLS TO LET BOYS PLAY GIRLS’ SPORTS. The Biden administration withdrew its amendment to Title IX that would have forced schools to allow biological males to play in women’s sports. Read more here.
TEXAS AG SUES NCAA OVER TRANSGENDER PARTICIPATION. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the NCAA in an attempt to prevent transgender athletes from competing in women’s college sports. Paxton’s lawsuit requests an injunction that would restrict the NCAA from allowing biological males to compete in women’s sports in Texas or sports involving Texas teams. Read more here.
TRUMP PLEDGES TO STOP ‘TRANSGENDER LUNACY’ ON ‘DAY ONE.’ President-elect Donald Trump made the promise during a speech at Turning Point USA’s America Fest. “I will sign executive orders to end child sexual mutilation, get transgender out of the military and out of our elementary schools and middle schools and high schools,” he said. Read more here.
MALE SEX OFFENDER PRETENDS TO BE 15-YEAR-OLD GIRL TO GAIN ACCESS TO HIGH SCHOOL, POLICE SAY. A 27-year-old male convicted sex offender in Oregon was arrested after he pretended to be a 15-year-old girl trying to enroll in a high school, police said. Read more here.
CHILD MOLESTER AMONG THREE TRANSGENDER INMATES SUING FLORIDA IN ACLU-BACKED DEMAND FOR ‘GENDER AFFIRMING CARE.’ The ACLU has filed a lawsuit on behalf of multiple trans-identified male inmates in Florida, including a convicted pedophile who sexually abused two young girls, alleging that a new policy prohibiting “gender affirming care” amounts to a violation of their Eighth Amendment Right against cruel and unusual punishment. Read more here.
U.S. SENATE PASSES DEFENSE BILL THAT INCLUDES BAN ON GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE FOR MINORS. The bill passed, 85 to 14, despite Democratic opposition to a provision banning coverage of gender-affirming care for the transgender children of military service members. Read more here.
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION WITHDRAWS PROPOSED RULES ON SINGLE-SEX SPORTS PARTICIPATION BY GENDER IDENTITY. The Biden administration’s Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights, withdrew a proposed rule that would have largely barred policies that forbade student athletes from participating in single-sex sports according to their gender identity rather than their sex. Read more here.
VOLLEYBALL PLAYER ‘FIGHTS FOR TRUTH’ AFTER BEING SEVERELY INJURED BY TRANS OPPONENT. Payton McNabb tells her story of how a male volleyball player’s vicious spike nearly killed her and her dream of college athletics in the new documentary “Kill Shot: How Payton McNabb Turned Tragedy Into Triumph,” created by the Independent Women’s Forum. Read more here.
WOMEN FLEE SAN JOSE STATE VOLLEYBALL TEAM AFTER SCANDAL-PLAGUED SEASON INVOLVING TRANS PLAYER. San Jose State University has finally acknowledged that it has lost a significant number of women from its volleyball team amid the ongoing controversy over the school’s decision to include a transgender player. The mass exodus comprises at least seven players who have entered the college transfer portal and will leave the team after this 2024 school year. Read more here.
OHIO SCHOOL DISTRICT PAYS FINE FOR FORCING TEACHER TO RESIGN OVER TRANSGENDER DISPUTE. Jackson Local School District in Ohio must pay teacher Vivian Geraghty a financial settlement after it forced her to resign for refusing to participate in the “social transition” of minor students. Read more here.
TRANS KILLER COMPLAINS AFTER BEING REMOVED FROM WASHINGTON STATE WOMEN’S PRISON FOLLOWING SEX WITH INMATE. A trans-identifying male murderer serving a life sentence in Washington filed a court petition through the ACLU of Washington, arguing that a transfer to a men’s prison is cruel punishment. Read more here.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA OFFERED TO PAY FIVE-YEAR-OLDS TO PLAY WITH TRANSGENDER DOLLS WITH GENITALS. The University of Minnesota offered to pay children as young as five cash to play with MyGender transgender dolls. The “MyGender Dolls” are similar to classic paper dolls, but they have movable internal sex organs, external genitals, hairstyles, clothing, and other accessories. Read more here.
TRANS POLICY ALLOWED TO STAND BY SUPREMES IS FLAWED IN MANY WAYS, JUSTICE SAYS. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Wisconsin parents who were trying to challenge a school district’s guidance they say goes against informing parents if their kids are having “transgender” feelings. Read more here.
GERMANY: GOVERNMENT IN SAXONY ADMITS TRANSGENDER SEX OFFENDERS ARE HOUSED IN WOMEN’S PRISON AFTER DEMANDING MONEY FOR RECORDS REQUEST. The German federal state of Saxony has released records on the amount of trans-identified males housed in women’s prisons, but only after demanding an egregious fee. The effort, spearheaded by Let Women Speak, revealed that a number of male sex offenders were being housed with women. Read more here.
DISNEY CUTS TRANSGENDER STORYLINE FROM NEW ANIMATED SERIES. Disney has cut a transgender storyline from its upcoming animated series “Win or Lose,” a decision that has left the 18-year-old transgender actor who voiced the highlighted character “very disheartened.” Read more here.
CALIFORNIA DISTRICT ATTORNEY FORCED TO CALL ALLEGED RAPIST BY PREFERRED PRONOUNS. A district attorney in California might be forced into referring to alleged rapist Tremaine Carroll by his preferred pronouns during prosecution over two felony counts of forcible rape and one count of dissuading a witness while incarcerated at a California women’s prison. Read more here.
STATE OF INDIANA FUNDS LEFT-WING GROUP THAT SUED IT FOR NOT OFFERING ‘NONBINARY’ IDS. Indiana taxpayers are set to send a huge sum to Indiana Legal Services, a nonprofit group that sued the state unsuccessfully for not offering “nonbinary” driver licenses, though that group did receive money specifically to help with LGBT “identity documents.” Read more here.
SUSPENDED WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL COACH SAYS SHE WAS ‘SILENCED AND THREATENED’ OVER TRANS PLAYER. San Jose State University’s suspended volleyball coach Melissa Batie-Smoose, who is suing the school over its allowing of a male on the women’s team, said the injustice of transgenders in sports “has to get changed at the highest levels in the Supreme Court, and also so that the NCAA is forced to make those laws and those changes.” Read more here.
BRITISH LAWN TENNIS ASSOCIATION BANS TRANSGENDER PLAYERS IN WOMEN’S EVENT. The British Lawn Tennis Association has changed its gender inclusion policy and placed a ban on men from entering women’s categories based on scientific determinations that they retain their male physical advantages. Read more here.
UTAH TRANS REPUBLICAN MAN WHO IDENTIFIES AS ‘WOMAN’ BLOCKS WOMEN FROM ATTENDING MEETING, BULLIES CLUB MEMBERS. A trans-identified male took control over a women’s Republican club meeting in Utah, bullying those inside the meeting as well as physically blocking women from entering the room where the event was taking place, according to multiple women at the event. Read more here.
SANITY OUTBREAK: MORE SAY ‘NO’ TO MEN IN WOMEN’S SPORTS. At Martin Luther King High School, in California’s Riverside School District, hundreds of students wearing “Save Girls’ Sports” shirts protested the invasion of the girl’s locker room by a boy, and as a result the school backed down. Read more here.
LGBT ACTIVISTS COMPLAIN THAT ‘SQUID GAME 2’ TRANS CHARACTER IS ‘A CIS MAN PRETENDING.’ The second season of the popular streaming series “Squid Game” has some LGBT activists up in arms because a “cis man” was cast to play the part of a transgender-identified character. Read more here.
FRENCH HEALTH AUTHORITY SUPPORTS ‘GENDER TRANSITION’ FROM AGE 16. At a time when many European countries are urging caution on the issue of gender transition, the French High Authority on Health has issued an alarming report in favor of gender transitions from the age of 16, without parental consent—and at public expense. Read more here.
HOUSE REPUBLICAN SAYS DEMS ‘RISK THE SECURITY OF THE NATION’ OVER A ‘SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUE.’ The U.S. House of Representatives voted 281-140 to approve an annual defense policy bill, the National Defense Authorization Act, that for the first time protects children of members of the military from irreversible transgender medical interventions. Read more here.
‘EGREGIOUS’: ‘DETRANSITIONER’ SUES DOCTOR WHO PRESCRIBED HER IRREVERSIBLE ‘SEX CHANGE’ DRUGS AT 12. Clementine Breen began getting puberty blockers eight years ago at age 12, and has filed a lawsuit against prominent child gender specialist Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, alleging medical negligence. Read more here.
LGBT GROUP CHALLENGES ALBERTA PRO-FAMILY BILL, WANTS PUBERTY BLOCKERS FOR 10-YEAR-OLDS. Egale Canada, an LGBT activist group that receives federal funding, filed an injunction against Alberta’s newly passed Health Statutes Amendment Act that bans puberty blockers (Bill 26), at the Calgary Court of King’s Bench. Read more here.
WASHINGTON’S PREP SPORTS ASSOCIATION PROPOSES SEPARATE ‘OPEN DIVISION’ FOR TRANSGENDER HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETES. The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association is considering two proposed amendments that would keep transgender athletes from competing in the same division as girls, including girls-only sports and an “open division,” in which all students could participate, regardless of whether or not their gender identity matches their biological gender. Read more here.
TOP MONTANA COURT ALLOWS MINOR ‘GENDER TRANSITIONS’ AMID GLOBAL PUSHBACK. The Montana Supreme Court temporarily blocked a ban on transgender medical procedures for minors this week, diverging from a growing national and international trend to restrict such treatments. Read more here.
UK TO BAN PUBERTY BLOCKERS FOR MINORS INDEFINITELY. Puberty blockers will be banned indefinitely in the U.K. for under 18-year-olds, except for clinical trials, according to Health Secretary Wes Streeting. Read more here.
NORTHERN IRELAND EXECUTIVE UNANIMOUSLY EXTENDS BAN ON PUBERTY BLOCKERS. The development brings the North into alignment with England, which tightened rules on the drugs, introducing and renewing an emergency ban on them being prescribed by private clinicians in the wake of the Cass Review. Read more here.
ICELANDIC POLITICIAN UNDER POLICE INVESTIGATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS CRITICIZING GENDER IDEOLOGY, MALE BREASTFEEDING. Gender critical activist Eldur Kristinsson came under police investigation after LGBT activists accused him of violating hate speech laws in his Facebook and X posts that criticized male breastfeeding and teaching “gender diversity” to children. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA SCHOOL DISTRICT PAYS FOR TRANSGENDER ACTIVISTS TO TRAIN STAFF. San Dieguito Union High School District paid the transgender activist group TransFamily Support Services thousands for a six-hour training session for 1,100 staff members on transgender inclusion. Read more here.
FOOTBALL COACH-TURNED-SENATOR’S PLAYBOOK FOR SAVING WOMEN’S SPORTS. Between transgender-identifying men competing in women’s sports and women’s limited athletics funding coming from so-called Name, Image, and Likeness policies, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville says there will be no women’s sports left in five years unless something is done. Read more here.
REP. MACE SUSTAINS INJURIES AFTER ‘PRO-TRANS MAN’ ASSAULTS HER AT CAPITOL. U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace suffered an arm injury during an assault against her by a “pro-trans man” at the Capitol, and the Capitol Police arrested Jamie McIntyre on the charge of assaulting a government official. Read more here.
SUPREME COURT REFUSES TO HEAR CASE AGAINST SCHOOL HIDING CHILDREN’S GENDER ISSUES. The U.S. Supreme Court decided not to take up a challenge by Wisconsin parents to a guidance empowering school staff to withhold information about a child’s gender confusion from parents. Read more here.
SWISS SUPREME COURT RULES PARENTS MUST FACILITATE DAUGHTER’S GENDER ‘TRANSITION’ UNDER THREAT OF CRIMINAL CHARGES. Switzerland’s highest court has decided parents separated from their daughter for refusing to endorse her gender “transition” must enable their child’s legal “sex change” or face the possibility of criminal charges. Read more here.
GERMANY: FEMALE POLITICIANS WHO OPPOSE RADICAL GENDER IDEOLOGY TO BE OUSTED FROM PARLIAMENT AND REPLACED BY THEIR PARTY. Germany’s Free Democratic Party is seeking to prohibit the re-election of two female members who voted against the nation’s radical self-identification law: Katja Adler and Linda Teuteberg, who expressed concerns for women’s safety. Read more here.
BATTLE OVER GENDER POLICIES FOR MINORS ALSO RAGES IN CHILE. Chile’s Chamber of Deputies and Senate approved a rule in the national budget to prevent the financing of transgender-focused hormone and surgical treatments for minors in the government’s public health network, and the measure is slated to take effect in January 2025. Read more here.
U.S. CONGRESS WILL BLOCK HARMFUL TRANS PROCEDURES FOR CHILDREN OF MILITARY MEMBERS. This year’s National Defense Authorization Act includes language that prohibits coverage under Tricare of transgender procedures that could “result in sterilization” of children, and U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said this is a “critical and necessary step” in the fight against “radical gender ideology.” Read more here.
ARIZONA COUPLE BEGAN ‘TRANSITIONING’ THEIR CHILD AS 1-YEAR-OLD BOY. Parents who traveled last week to Washington, D.C., for the ACLU’s “Free to be Ourselves” rally at the Supreme Court during the oral arguments in the U.S. v. Skrmetti transgender case told The Daily Signal they began to “transition” their now 10-year-old boy to identify at the age of one as a “female.” Read more here.
CAPITOL HILL BATHROOM CONTROVERSY CONTINUES: 15 TRANS ACTIVISTS ARRESTED FOR ILLEGALLY PROTESTING. Fifteen members of the Gender Liberation Movement occupied the bathroom across from House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) office on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. to protest his rule that “all single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office Buildings — such as restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms — are reserved for individuals of that biological sex.” Read more here.
OREGON TO FORCE INSURERS TO COVER GENITAL MUTILATION, CROSS-SEX HORMONES FOR CHILDREN. The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services proposed requiring insurance companies to cover surgical and chemical “gender transition” treatments, including for minors, citing a set of “health” guidelines designed in part to manipulate insurers into complying with the trans agenda. Read more here.
‘OPPENHEIMER’ STAR EMMA DUMONT COMES OUT AS ‘TRANS MASCULINE NON-BINARY.’ Actress Emma Dumont, who appeared in the movie “Oppenheimer” is now identifying as “trans masculine non-binary,” after previously debuting “they/them” pronouns on Instagram. Read more here.
ALBERTA PASSES BILL BANNING MEN FROM COMPETING IN WOMEN’S SPORTS. Alberta’s governing United Conservative Party (UCP) government has passed a bill that bans gender-confused men from competing in women’s sports, the first legislation of its kind in Canada. MLAs voted 47 to 33 to pass into law the Fairness and Safety in Sport Act (FASISA). Read more here.
JUSTICE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON COMPARES SEX CHANGES FOR CHILDREN TO INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE, ACTIVIST ACLU ATTORNEY AGREES. In questions during oral arguments over the Tennessee law banning gender mutilations for minors, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson showed how deeply she misunderstood the case at hand by deciding to conflate gender identity with race. Read more here.
WOMEN’S PROFESSIONAL GOLF BANS TRANS PLAYERS FROM WOMEN’S COMPETITION. Starting with the 2025 season, the Ladies Professional Golf Association will ban biological males who went through puberty from playing alongside women, regardless of their gender identity. Read more here.
TRANS-IDENTIFYING MAN NAMED MODEL OF THE YEAR AT U.K. FASHION AWARDS. Transgender-identifying male Alex Cosani has been crowned Model of the Year at the British Fashion Awards in London, beating out five women on the shortlist for the title. Read more here.
RILEY GAINES HOLDS CEREMONY FOR GIRLS VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS WHO REFUSED TO PLAY TRANS OPPONENT. Former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines honored the Stone Ridge Christian High School girls volleyball team in California for forfeiting a playoff game against an opponent with a boy on the team. Read more here.
GOP SEEKS ANSWERS ON STUDY INVOLVING TRANSGENDER CHILDREN. Six Republican U.S. senators sent a letter to the National Institutes of Health demanding the agency provide Congress with information related to a controversial taxpayer-funded study on transgender children that provided a grant to scientists for the administering of puberty blockers to children and a study of the physical and psychosocial impact of the drugs. Read more here.
TRANSGENDER ACTIVISTS, INCLUDING CHELSEA MANNING, OCCUPY CAPITOL HILL BATHROOMS. The intrusions were done by two groups. One took over a bathroom in the Capitol Hill Visitor Center, and the other group occupied a bathroom in a hallway of a building used for the representatives’ offices. Read more here.
MONTANA LAWMAKERS REJECT BANNING TRANS LEGISLATOR FROM WOMEN’S RESTROOMS. Lawmakers in Montana have voted not to ban a male legislator who identifies as a woman from using the women’s restroom in the state Capitol. Read more here.
FIRST OPENLY TRANS LAWYER ARGUES BEFORE SCOTUS. Chase Strangio, a biologically female transgender attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, became the first openly transgender lawyer to argue a case before the United States Supreme Court on Wednesday morning in United States v. Skrmetti, a challenge to a Tennessee law that bans the use of puberty blockers for gender dysphoria for minors. Read more here.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR COMPARES TRANS MEDICAL ‘TREATMENTS’ TO ASPIRIN IN QUESTION ABOUT SIDE EFFECTS DURING ORAL ARGUMENTS. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor likened the side effects of transgender medical procedures on minors to that of taking an over-the-counter painkiller during Wednesday’s oral arguments in the U.S. v. Skrmetti case. Read more here.
CHILEAN SENATE PROTECTS CHILDREN, TAKES A STAND AGAINST DANGEROUS GENDER IDEOLOGY. ADF International issued a statement saying, “The Chilean Senate has passed a critical law that prohibits the government from spending any public funds on surgical or hormonal interventions for children under the age of 18 for so-called ‘‘gender/sex reassignment,” setting a precedent for the protection of children in Chile and all of Latin America. Read more here.
40,000+ URGE INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE: ‘KEEP WOMEN’S SPORTS FOR WOMEN.’ More than 40,000 people from around the world have signed a joint open letter to the International Olympic Committee, imploring them to protect “women’s sports, private spaces, and basic fairness” in light of increasing pressure to include biological males in women’s sporting categories. Read more here.
TORIES BACK TRANSGENDER BAN IN SINGLE-SEX SPACES. Eight British women who work at Darlington Memorial Hospital in County Durham are suing their employer after they were forced to change into their work clothes in front of a “sexually active male, who identifies as a woman called Rose.” Read more here.
LEGAL TEAM FOR TRANS SURGERY WHISTLEBLOWER RIPS BIDEN DOJ FOR SEEKING GAG ORDER. The legal team for Dr. Ethan Haim, the doctor who exposed Texas Children’s Hospital in May 2023 — revealing that the facility had lied about ending its transgender medical program and was still performing attempted “transition procedures” on children as young as 11 — ripped the Biden Department of Justice for seeking a gag order targeting Haim in his legal case with the government. Read more here.
TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE SUING U.S.A. POWERLIFTING IN BID TO COMPETE AGAINST WOMEN. The Minnesota Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a case involving trans-identifying male Jaycee Cooper, a competitive weightlifter who is suing U.S.A. Powerlifting for refusing to allow him to compete in the women’s division, citing discrimination under the Minnesota Human Rights Act. Read more here.
HERE’S HOW MUCH U.S. TAXPAYERS SPENT ON ‘GENDER TRANSITION’ SERVICES FOR KIDS. The Biden-Harris administration opened the door for a massive increase of taxpayer-funded transgender interventions, including child “sex-change” surgeries. From January 2018 to September 2023, 16 states spent more than $165 million funding “gender transition services”—including puberty blockers, hormones, and sex-change surgeries—with more than $45 million spent on interventions for children 17 and younger. Read more here.
U.S. LAWMAKERS INTRODUCE BILL TO DEFINE ‘MALE’ AND ‘FEMALE’ BASED ON BIOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES. Several Republican lawmakers introduced legislation to clarify that the terms “male,” “female,” and “sex,” among others, refer to the biological distinctions between men and women when those words are used in laws. Read more here.
U.S. SUPREME COURT IS ABOUT TO HEAR A MAJOR CHILD ‘GENDER TRANSITION’ CASE. HERE’S WHAT TO KNOW. The Supreme Court on December 4 will hear oral arguments in a case dealing with Tennessee’s law banning irreversible gender transition procedures for children — and it promises to be one of the most significant cases the court has looked at this term. Read more here.
COACH OF TRANS SJSU VOLLEYBALL PLAYER BLAMES TEAMS THAT FORFEITED FOR ‘APPALLING, HATEFUL MESSAGES’ TO PLAYERS. Colorado State has eliminated San Jose State in the Mountain West women’s volleyball tournament, prompting SJSU coach Todd Kress, to lash out against the so-called “hateful” messages directed to his team for including a male player on the team. Read more here.
JUDGE COMPARES SPA’S WOMEN-ONLY POLICY TO SEGREGATION-ERA ‘WHITES ONLY’ RULES. Judge M. Margaret McKeown, who sits on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, drew a parallel between Olympus Spa, a Korean spa whose services are restricted to biological women, and businesses discriminating against patrons on the basis of race. Read more here.
‘NYT — YOU STINK!’: PAPER BLASTED FOR REDUCING BIOLOGICAL FEMALES TO ‘NON-TRANSGENDER WOMEN.’ Since running a story titled “How a Women’s College Volleyball Team Became the Center of the Transgender Athlete Debate,” The New York Times has faced a wave of backlash for referring to biological females as “non-transgender women.” Read more here.
OHIO GOV. SIGNS BILL ON TRANS STUDENTS’ BATHROOM USE. Transgender students from kindergarten through college at Ohio public and private schools will be banned from using multi-person bathrooms that fit their gender identities under a measure signed by Republican Gov. Mike DeWine. Read more here.
UK: SUPREME COURT URGED TO RECOGNIZE ‘FACTS OF BIOLOGICAL REALITY’ IN SEX DEFINITION CASE. The supreme court has been urged to recognize “the facts of biological reality rather than the fantasies of legal fiction” in a case brought by For Women Scotland. The group is challenging a prior ruling by the court in Edinburgh, which found that guidance extending the definition of “woman” to transgender women with a gender recognition certificate was lawful. Read more here.
LAWMAKERS DEMAND WHO CHIEF ‘DISBAND’ ACTIVIST PANEL ON TRANSGENDERISM. A coalition of congressional Republicans urged the World Health Organization on Monday to “disband” the group it put in charge of developing guidelines on transgenderism because of its ties to leftist activist groups. The lawmakers say that the group has bypassed and ignored scientific evidence showing the harms of transgender procedures in favor of ideology. Read more here.
NYC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BLASTED FOR TEACHING ‘GENDER IDENTITY’ COURSE TO KINDERGARTENERS. Hillside Elementary School, part of the Hastings-on-Hudson Union Free District, has been teaching a “gender curriculum” to elementary-level children in an effort to promote “inclusion” in the school. Read more here.
‘RESOUNDING VICTORY’: JUDGE UPHOLDS MISSOURI LAW BANNING TRANS PROCEDURES ON CHILDREN. Cole County Circuit Judge R. Craig Carter ruled the state’s Save Adolescents from Experimentation Act bans on giving minors puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and performing surgeries like mastectomies does not violate the constitution, siding with GOP Governor Mike Parson, who was sued over the law. Read more here.
JUDGE’S RULING TO ALLOW SJSU TRANS WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL PLAYER TO COMPETE IN TOURNAMENT RECEIVES BACKLASH. Federal Judge Kato Crews, of Colorado, ruled that San Jose State transgender volleyball player Blaire Fleming will be allowed to play for the Spartans in the Mountain West Conference women’s tournament as well as the remainder of the season. Read more here.
GEICO FORCES EMPLOYEES TO UNDERGO RE-EDUCATION ON GENDER. A Geico company memo revealed that in order to keep their jobs employees are required to attend a mandatory training course on gender ideology and use preferred pronouns in all customer interactions. Read more here.
UTAH HOUSE SPEAKER: ‘MEN HAVE NO PLACE IN WOMEN’S SPORTS — PERIOD.’ Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz left little doubt about his opinion of a federal judge’s ruling allowing a San Jose State transgender athlete to compete in this week’s Mountain West Conference women’s volleyball tournament. Read more here.
UK: TRANSGENDER POLICE OFFICERS CAN STRIP-SEARCH WOMEN. The British Transport Police says its male staff who identify as female are permitted to intimately search women so long as they have a gender recognition certificate, and the government is attempting to make it easier for individuals to attain that certificate. Read more here.
GOP ANNOUNCES PLANS TO PUNISH PERFORMANCE OF CHILD TRANS SURGERIES. U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, Rep-Kansas, revealed that Republican lawmakers and conservatives are discussing legislative plans to stop the mutilation of children by the American medical establishment through “transgender surgeries” and procedures, including the revoking of the medical licenses of doctors who perform gender mutilation surgeries. Read more here.
JUDGE COMPARES SPA’S POLICY TO SEGREGATION-ERA ‘WHITES-ONLY’ RULES. Judge M. Margaret McKeown, a judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, drew a parallel between Olympus Spa, a Korean spa whose services are restricted to biological women, and businesses discriminating against patrons on the basis of race. Read more here.
NY SCHOOLS IMPLEMENT ‘GENDER IDENTITY’ CURRICULUM – FOR KINDERGARTENERS. Hillside Elementary school is forcing kindergarteners to endure a new “gender curriculum” that “focuses on Hillside’s core value of respect and aims to center discussions on gender identity.” Read more here.
‘SAVE GIRLS’ SPORTS’ SHIRTS COMPARED TO SWASTIKAS, SPARKING LAWSUIT. Concerned about trans-identifying males entering into sports meant for women, two girls wore t-shirts bearing the message “Save Girls’ Sports”, and they were accused by school officials of creating a “hostile” environment by school officials who said their shirts were like wearing a “swastika” in front of someone who’s Jewish. Read more here.
‘A GIANT SICK JOKE’: FDNY’S GENDER IDENTITY TRAINING SPARKS INTERNAL PUSHBACK. New York City fire department employees are lectured about “The Genderbread Person”—a cartoon that is meant to explain the “spectrum of countless identities” people can have, and employees are indoctrinated on so-called differences between gender identity, gender expression, sex and sexual orientation. Read more here.
‘NON-BINARY’ STAR PERFORMER SENTENCED TO 20 YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON AFTER CREATING, SELLING CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE MATERIAL. Christopher Maxwell sold videos of his abuse of a 16-year-old boy from Overland Park, Kansas, earning thousands per month from the content, which was also advertised on X using incest themes. Read more here.
CANADIAN MOTHER WAS TOLD TO BE MORE ‘INCLUSIVE’ AFTER COMPLAINING ABOUT A MALE WEARING A ‘CHILD’S BIKINI’ WHILE SHOWERING WITH YOUNG GIRLS AT SWIMMING POOL. The mother of a young girl in British Columbia is speaking out after a man in a pink, sparkly bikini was found showering in the female changing room of a local public pool, and she was told the facility “welcomes and celebrates diversity.” Read more here.
NEW HAMPSHIRE COURT TO HEAR CASES ABOUT BIOLOGICAL MALES PLAYING GIRLS SPORTS AND THE RIGHT TO PROTEST THEM. Two lawsuits about biological males in girls’ sports — one challenging a state ban at schools and the other on the right to protest their participation on girls’ teams — face federal court hearings in New Hampshire. Read more here.
NEW ZEALAND: PUBERTY BLOCKERS – MINISTRY OF HEALTH RELEASES LONG-AWAITED EVIDENCE BRIEF. Evidence on the benefits and risks (or lack of either) – of puberty blockers when used to treat gender dysphoria in children and young people is limited, the Ministry of Health says. In releasing its long-delayed evidence brief on Thursday, the ministry urged “a more precautionary approach” for the care of adolescents with gender identity issues. Read more here.
JEFF YOUNGER LOSES FIGHT TO STOP HIS EX-WIFE CASTRATING THEIR 12-YEAR-OLD SON. A California judge has permanently stripped parental rights from Texas father Jeffrey Younger over his refusal to allow his 12-year-old son to be chemically and surgically castrated at the wish of the boy’s mom. Read more here.
‘WAR ON GENDER’: GOP LAWMAKERS FORGE GAME PLAN TO PROTECT CHILDREN FROM TRANSGENDER IDEOLOGY. U.S. Senate Republicans plan to introduce the STOP Act, or the Safeguarding the Overall Protection of Minors Act to criminalize transgender medical interventions for children. Read more here.
INCOMING CONGRESSMEMBER MCBRIDE RAGES AGAINST BILL TO KEEP MALES OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS, BATHROOMS. U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina introduced a bill that would ban biological males from using women’s bathrooms in the U.S. Capitol, and incoming transgender Rep. Sarah McBride, a biological male, claimed that Mace’s bill is an attempt from “far right-wing extremists to distract from the fact that they have no real solutions to what Americans are facing.” Read more here.
MIKE JOHNSON SAYS TRANS-IDENTIFYING MEN CAN’T USE WOMEN’S BATHROOMS IN CAPITOL: REPORT. House Speaker Mike Johnson has reportedly said that trans-identifying men will not be allowed to use the women’s restrooms in the U.S. Capitol. Read more here.
ARGENTINA: TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE RAPES AND IMPREGNATES FEMALE INMATE AFTER BEING HOUSED IN WOMEN’S PRISON. Gabriel Fernández began identifying as Gabriela Nahir Fernández in 2018, and he stands accused of raping a female inmate in the women’s prison in Córdoba, resulting in the victim becoming pregnant. Read more here.
DISNEY REMOVES CHILDREN’S CARTOON EPISODE ABOUT TRANSGENDER ATHLETES. Disney has reportedly decided to shelve an episode of the children’s cartoon series Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, apparently over its plot concerning a transgender high school athlete. Read more here.
AIR FORCE ACADEMY REFERS TO DADS AS ‘NON-BIRTHING PARENTS.’ The father of a U.S. Air Force cadet reported that the Air Force Academy’s official forms refer to him as the cadet’s “non-birthing parent.” Read more here.
FEDERAL APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS INDIANA LAW THAT BANS TRANSGENDER TREATMENT ON GENDER-CONFUSED KIDS. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that the law does not violate the Constitutional rights of transgender children or their parents. Read more here.
FRENCH JOURNALIST UNDER FIRE FROM ALGERIAN OLYMPIC WOMEN’S BOXER IMANE KHELIF FOR LEAKING DOCS REVEALING MALE SEX. Olympic boxing champion Imane Khelif, of Algeria, has threatened to sue a French journalist who published unconfirmed medical records claiming Khelif is a biological male. Read more here.
JK ROWLING PUSHES BACK ON JOHN OLIVER’S CLAIM THERE’S ‘NO EVIDENCE’ TRANS ATHLETES THREATEN GIRLS. Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling responded to “Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver’s recent tirade against those opposing trans inclusion in women’s sports, by saying that males have physical advantages that are as plain as day. Read more here.
PSAKI: MEN PLAYING IN GIRLS’ SPORTS ARE NO ‘THREAT TO SAFETY OR FAIRNESS.’ MSNBC host Jen Psaki claimed during an interview that men pretending to be women playing in sports against girls is not an “issue” while later admitting that it does happen and claiming that there is no “threat to safety or fairness.” Read more here.
NUMBER OF AMERICANS WHO WANT TO OUTLAW ‘CHILD SEX CHANGES’ SPIKES. Almost three-fourths of U.S. voters say it should be illegal to subject children to transgender medical interventions, an increase of 10 points since August, according to a new poll by Napolitan News Service. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL DROPS OUT OF CHAMPIONSHIP SEMIFINALS MATCH AGAINST TEAM WITH TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE PLAYER. Stone Ridge Christian School’s girls’ volleyball team advanced to the California Interscholastic Federation State Girls Volleyball Championship regional semifinals but then forfeited its match against San Francisco Waldorf, a school that has previously come under controversy for allowing trans-identified male players to compete with the girls. Read more here.
INDIANA’S BAN ON GENDER SURGERIES, PUBERTY BLOCKERS FOR KIDS UPHELD BY APPEALS COURT. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit reversed a lower court and upheld Indiana’s ban on “sex-change operations” and hormone drugs for minors, including things like administering puberty blockers, “cross-sex” hormones and cosmetic irreversible surgeries. Read more here.
VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS SUE MOUNTAIN WEST ALLEGING FIRST AMENDMENT VIOLATIONS TIED TO TRANSGENDER SJSU PLAYER. A dozen women have filed a lawsuit against the Mountain West Conference, its commissioner and officials at San Jose State University, alleging violations of Title IX and their First Amendment rights because of transgender player Blaire Fleming’s presence on the San Jose State women’s volleyball roster. Read more here.
OHIO LEGISLATURE PASSES BILL REQUIRING SCHOOL BATHROOM USE BASED ON BIOLOGICAL SEX. The Ohio Legislature passed the Protect All Students Act, which requires students in public K–12 schools to use bathrooms that correspond to their sex rather than their subjective “gender identity.” Read more here.
‘FOUL PLAY’ EXAMINES GROWING TRANSGENDERS-IN-SPORTS TREND. From injuries to scholarships or just opportunity and privacy, the upcoming Newsmax special “Foul Play: Athletes Speak Out” will investigate the growing trend of transgender individuals in women’s sports and the consequences. Read more here.
CAL-BERKELEY REPUBLICANS RECEIVE DEATH THREATS, ACCUSED OF CREATING ‘UNSAFE ENVIRONMENT’ FOR HOSTING ANTI-TRANS TALK. The University of California-Berkeley’s College Republicans have fielded anonymous death threats and calls from student government officials to shut the group down for hosting conservative speaker Michael Knowles, who spoke on how transgenderism harms children. Read more here.
FOUNDER OF BREASTFEEDING SUPPORT GROUP QUITS OVER PANDERING TO TRANS-IDENTIFYING MEN. Marian Tompson, 94, sent a letter to current senior leadership expressing how the group has become “a travesty of my original intent” and is now “indulging the fantasies of adults.” LLL is headquartered in North Carolina but has a presence in more than 80 countries. Read more here.
HOSPITALS HARMING CHILDREN TARGETED IN NEW CAMPAIGN TO STOP CHILD “GENDER TRANSITIONS.” The American Parents Coalition is launching a new campaign targeting Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Children’s Minnesota, Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center for performing highly controversial “gender intervention” procedures. Read more here.
COSTCO, KROGER EXECS LEAD HOSPITALS THAT DO CHILD SEX SURGERIES. Executives of Costco, General Motors, T-Mobile, Procter and Gamble, Wells Fargo, and Kroger are board members at the 12 leading hospitals on medical watchdog Do No Harm’s list of health care facilities that offer irreversible transgender medical interventions to children. Read more here.
POPE FRANCIS WELCOMES TRANSGENDER ACTIVIST ‘HERMIT’ ‘BROTHER CHRISTIAN MATSON’ AT VATICAN AUDIENCE. Pope Francis warmly received Nicole Matson, a transgender activist living as a ‘diocesan hermit’ named ‘Brother Christian Matson,’ at a Vatican audience, despite Matson having undergone ‘sex change’ surgery and presenting herself as a man in violation of Catholic teaching. Read more here.
TEXAS SCHOOL BOARD PASSES POLICY RESTRICTING BATHROOM USE BY BIOLOGICAL SEX. Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District trustees in Cyprus, Texas overwhelmingly approved a policy that requires students to use restrooms associated with their assigned sex at birth, the latest move by a school board that’s repeatedly found itself at the center of hot-button discussions and dissenting arguments from community members. Read more here.
FEMALE INMATE ASSAULTED BY CANADIAN TRANSGENDER CHILD RAPIST IN WOMEN’S PRISON SUSTAINED BROKEN RIBS, EYEWITNESS REPORTS. An eyewitness has come forward to reveal that a trans-identified male pedophile broke the ribs of a female inmate during a horrific attack while housed in a women’s prison in British Columbia, Canada. Read more here.
BOSTON CHILDREN’S SLASHED DOCTORS’ TIME TO ASSESS KIDS BEFORE REFERRING THEM FOR ‘TRANS PROCEDURES.’ Dr. Amy Tishelman, a clinical and research psychologist and former “gender care specialist” at Boston Children’s Hospital, testified that her ex-employer slashed the time allotted for psychologists to assess minors exhibiting confusion about their sex before referring them for irreversible medicalized “gender procedures.” Read more here.
CANADA: TRANS ACTIVISTS CLAIM LAW PREVENTING CHILD SEX OFFENDERS FROM OBTAINING LEGAL NAME CHANGES IS ‘TRANSPHOBIC.’ The social justice legal group West Coast LEAF issued a press release, signed by numerous trans activist groups and organizations, claiming British Columbia’s legislation “harms those most in need of legal name changes, including transgender people, Indigenous people and survivors of gender-based violence.” Read more here.
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING CANCELS SECOND MATCH AGAINST SAN JOSE STATE, TRANS PLAYER. The University of Washington’s women’s volleyball team will not go ahead with a second, scheduled match against San Jose State University in protest of the opposing team’s trans player Blaire Fleming. Read more here.
SDSU BEATS SAN JOSE STATE IN WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL AMID PROTESTS, INJURY, TRASH TALK. San Diego State University’s women’s volleyball team won its battle against San Jose State University during a match that included Save Women’s Sports protesters taking issue with transgender player Blaire Fleming playing for San Jose State. Read more here.
LIBERAL CONGRESSMAN ATTACKED FOR NOTICING MEN AND WOMEN ARE DIFFERENT. The LGTBQ advocacy group Mass Equality said Massachusetts political campaign manager Seth Moulton’s remarks to the New York Times that boys and girls are different were “both harmful and factually inaccurate.” Read more here.
COURT ALLOWS CASE OF CT FEMALE ATHLETES TO CONTINUE. A federal district court ruled in Soule v. Connecticut Association of Schools to allow the case of four female athletes, who are challenging a state athletic association policy that allows males to compete in women’s high school sports, to proceed, rejecting the request of state officials to dismiss the case. Read more here.
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT IN SPAIN FORCES CATHOLIC BROTHERHOOD TO ADMIT WOMAN. Spain’s Constitutional Court has ruled that by refusing to admit a woman, a male Catholic brotherhood violated the legal precept of nondiscrimination on the basis of her sex and her right to association. Read more here.
GENDER-CRITICAL UK COUNCIL WORKER LOSES LEGAL BATTLE OVER PRONOUNS. Former British government worker Jim Orwin must pay a fine for using “deliberately provocative” pronouns in official emails, such as “XYchromosomeGuy/AdultHumanMale,” after a court deemed that he had not been unfairly dismissed. Read more here.
SARAH MCBRIDE BECOMES FIRST OUT TRANS PERSON ELECTED TO U.S. HOUSE. Sarah McBride, a Delaware state senator and a biological male, has made history as the first out transgender person elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Read more here.
LE’VEON BELL CRITICIZES MEN IN WOMEN’S SPORTS: A STAND AGAINST CONTROVERSY. Former NFL running back Le’Veon Bell received accolades for tweeting in favor of bans on men in women’s sports: “I don’t want my daughter to have to compete or share a locker room with men.” Read more here.
‘DETRANSITIONERS’ SUPPORT ALBERTA’S BAN ON SEXUAL MUTILATION OF GENDER-CONFUSED KIDS. Kellie-Lynn Annette Pirie, founder of Detrans Alliance Canada, has spoken up in support of Alberta’s pro-family policy banning sex “reassignment” surgery on minors, saying, “Today Premier Smith has put forward legislation that is vital to preserving the rights for children to make informed adult decisions as adults.” Read more here.
CANADA: TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE WHO SHARED SADISTIC CHILD ABUSE CONTENT AND CALLED FOR TRANSITIONING OF MINORS WILL SERVE SHORTENED SENTENCE IN WOMEN’S JAIL. Krystel Lauzon, a trans-identified male and “recidivist pedophile” from Quebec who has been held in a women’s prison since his arrest has had his 32-month sentence reduced after the court decided that his transgender status made incarceration “extremely difficult” for him. Read more here.
TEXAS AG SUES DOCTOR FOR PRESCRIBING ‘GENDER TRANSITION’ CHEMICALS TO MINORS. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed suit against El Paso doctor Hector Granados for prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children as young as 12 in violation of state law. Read more here.
CANADA: TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE WHO RAPED INFANT SEEKS TEMPORARY RELEASE FROM FEMALE PRISON TO ATTEND INDIGENOUS CULTURAL CEREMONY. Adam Laboucan, also known as Tara Desousa, is currently serving an indefinite sentence at a women’s prison in British Columbia, Canada, after sexually assaulting a three-month old baby boy in Quesnel, British Columbia in 1997. Read more here.
HOUSE REPUBLICANS PRESS NIH ON SUPPRESSION OF FEDERALLY FUNDED PUBERTY BLOCKER RESEARCH. U.S. House Republicans have launched an investigation into the efforts of youth transgender medicine physician Dr. Joanna Olson-Kennedy, who is withholding results from a federally funded study on the mental health effects of puberty blockers for fear that the data could encourage critics of gender ideology. Read more here.
CATHOLIC COLLEGE IN WISCONSINCHANGES POLICY TO RECOGNIZE SEX IS BINARY. St. Norbert College changed a policy this fall to state that the private Catholic institution will only recognize two sexes. Read more here.
NEW YORK PASSES RADICAL BALLOT AMENDMENT TO ENSHRINE MALE PARTICIPATION IN WOMEN’S SPORTS. New York voters have passed a ballot measure that will enshrine the Left’s radical social agenda into the state constitution, ensuring biological males are allowed to compete against women in competitive sports. Read more here.
ALBERTA INTRODUCES BILL BANNING ‘SEX REASSIGNMENT’ SURGERY ON MINORS. Alberta Conservative Premier Danielle Smith made good on her promise to protect kids from extreme transgender ideology after introducing a bill banning so-called “top and bottom” surgeries for minors. Read more here.
U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCY CONSULTED ACTIVIST ON HOW TO PUNISH PARENTS FOR ‘TRANSPHOBIA.’ The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services consulted left-wing transgender activists as it sought to further “LGBTQI accessibility,” with one activist even calling for families that do not accept a child’s gender identity to be prosecuted. Read more here.
SAN JOSE STATE’S BROOKE SLUSSER REACTS TO COACH’S SUSPENSION: ‘THEY TOOK AWAY THE ONLY SAFE SPACE WE HAD.’ Suspended San Jose State University associate head volleyball coach Melissa Batie-Smoose and Brooke Slusser, a player on the Spartans’ team, both filed lawsuits against their school and charged male player Blaire Fleming for allegedly conspiring with an opponent to help the team lose a match and attempt to injure Slusser. Read more here.
CHRISTIAN SCHOOL PUNISHED FOR FORFEITING GAME WITH ‘TRANSGENDER’ PLAYER, THOUGH A DOZEN WOMEN’S TEAMS WON’T PLAY BIOLOGICAL MALES. At least a dozen women’s and girls’ sports teams have forfeited games against teams with biological male players without consequences, but Mid Vermont Christian School of Burlington, Vermont, has been kicked out of its league for almost a year for refusing to play a team with a transgender-identifying player. Read more here.
FEMALE LAW STUDENTS PUNISHED FOR SAYING MEN DON’T BELONG IN WOMEN’S BATHROOMS. Alliance Defending Freedom filed a lawsuit on behalf of two female law students who were punished for expressing concerns about men accessing women’s restrooms at George Mason University’s law school. Read more here.
REPORT: CONTROVERSIAL ALGERIAN OLYMPIC BOXER HAS INTERNAL TESTES, A ‘MICROPENIS,’ AND XY CHROMOSOMES. Imane Khelif became the focus of controversy in August during the Paris Olympics after the International Boxing Association had barred the boxer from competing in its sanctioned fights due to medical tests that the group says showed Khelif was biologically a male. However, Olympic officials refused to abide by the IBA’s ruling and allowed Khelif to fight as a woman. Read more here.
TRANSGENDER TIKTOKER CHARGED WITH CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE SPEAKS OF PLANS TO BECOME ‘FAMOUS.’ Rachel Queen Burton, who had previously amassed a substantial following on TikTok as a “proud trans woman,” repeatedly abused two children and then stalked them and their family into homelessness before he began claiming to be a “woman.” Read more here.
ALBERTA TABLES BILLS ON TRANSGENDER YOUTH HEALTH CARE, STUDENTS’ PRONOUNS, OPT-IN SEX EDUCATION. The Alberta government introduced bills to prohibit minors from receiving certain types of “gender-affirming care,” require parents be notified when a child wants to use a different name or pronoun in the classroom, require that parents opt-in before their children are taught about sex in class, and another bill is designed to address the participation of transgender athletes in sport. Read more here.
THIS BALLOT INITIATIVE COULD UNDO MISSOURI’S BAN ON TRANS PROCEDURES FOR KIDS. Proposition 3 is a vaguely worded Missouri ballot initiative that, if passed next week, could overturn the state’s ban on “transgender procedures” for children if approved by voters, a conservative legal group warns. Read more here.
MOST AMERICANS SAY WOMEN DESERVE MEDALS LOST TO ‘TRANSGENDER’ ATHLETES WHO ARE BIOLOGICAL MALES. A United Nations report reveals that 72 percent of voters say the medals taken by males competing in women’s sports should be awarded to the biological women who would have won them otherwise, and 68 percent say women’s sports records set by biological males should be thrown out so that women’s sports records are restored to biological women. Read more here.
THESE NEW HAMPSHIRE SCHOOL DISTRICTS STILL HAVE TRANSGENDER POLICIES THAT LEAVE PARENTS IN THE DARK. The Portsmouth School District, Keene School District and Exeter Region Cooperative School District explicitly forbid staff from informing parents about a student’s “gender identity change.” Read more here.
‘LESBIAN-FEMINIST HAUNTED HOUSE’ AT U. MICHIGAN SCARES STUDENTS WITH ‘POLITICAL INDOCTRINATORS.’ The University of Michigan is hosting a semester-long “Gender Euphoria” symposium featuring a “lesbian-feminist haunted house” and a drag performance by one of the public institution’s own professors. Read more here.
NEVADA VOLLEYBALL PLAYER ALLEGES SCHOOL TOLD HER TRANS ATHLETE IS AT A ‘DISADVANTAGE’ IN WOMEN’S SPORTS. University of Nevada, Reno volleyball captain Sia Liilii said university officials told her that she and her teammates were not educated enough, didn’t understand the science behind transgenderism, and that the transgender player on the opposing team that they refused to play was at a disadvantage “because they were under all these drugs.” Read more here.
OHIO CHILDREN’S WELFARE AGENCY STARTS TRACKING TRANSGENDER IDENTITY AS EARLY AS AGE 5. The Cuyahoga County Division of Children and Family Services’ “confidential spreadsheet” tracking the sexual orientation and transgender identity of children as young as five highlights the extent to which some government agencies tasked with the protection of children have been captured by trans activists. Read more here.
TRANS ACTIVIST TAIWANESE POLITICIAN THREATENS TO RELEASE ADDRESSES, IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS OF WOMEN WHO OPPOSE GENDER IDEOLOGY. Abbygail ET Wu, a member of Taiwan’s Green Party, threatened to dox multiple female activists via Facebook and Instagram for opposing gender ideology. Read more here.
RUBIO DEMANDS TRANSPARENCY AS NIH SEEMS TO HIDE EFFECTS OF ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE.’ The National Institutes of Health could be hiding the effect of puberty blockers, drugs that often are given to minors as part of so-called “gender-affirming care,” Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., suggested in a letter to the agency’s director. Read more here.
UNIVERSITY FINALLY SCRAPS MATCH AFTER WOMEN’S TEAM REFUSES TO PLAY TEAM WHOSE STAR PLAYER IS MALE. After re-scheduling its volleyball match against San Jose State University because it has a man on the women’s team, the University of Nevada ultimately canceled it, standing in solidarity with four other schools that also forfeited matches for the same reason. Read more here.
MEN IN WOMEN’S BATHROOMS, SPORTS OPPOSED BY TWO-THIRDS OF AMERICAN VOTERS. At least half of voters “strongly oppose” three top planks of the transgender agenda, a new national survey reveals, and 65 percent oppose men in women’s bathrooms, according to a recent Rasmussen survey. Read more here.
WHISTLEBLOWER REVEALS TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE HAD BEEN ADMITTED TO WOMEN’S REHAB UNIT IN MASSACHUSETTS. A whistleblower has come forward to reveal that a trans-identified male was allowed on an all-female addiction rehabilitation unit at Massachusetts’ Behavioral Health Network, leading to the sexual and physical harassment of female patients. Read more here.
UK TEEN SOCCER PLAYER FACES SUSPENSION AFTER IDENTIFYING ‘TRANSGENDER’ MALE ON OTHER TEAM. A 17-year-old girl footballer in the UK with suspected autism may face a ban of up to 12 games after correctly identifying an opposing player as a male during a match. Readmore here.
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.
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