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There’s a Transgender Clinic Tucked Away Inside This Walgreens
A Walgreens in Dallas is quietly housing a transgender clinic where patients can go get referrals for transgender transition hormones like testosterone. Then they can stroll out of the clinic into the pharmacy and get their prescriptions filled. Walgreens has sparked backlash from its customers for offering to dispense abortion drugs "in any jurisdiction where… -
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AMC Cancels Showings of Film Highlighting Dangers of Transgender Surgeries
The release day was supposed to be Wednesday for the film “No Way Back: The Reality of Gender-Affirming Care.” This movie, a Deplorable Films production, showcases medical professionals and detransitioned individuals who have thoughts and experiences concerning the health complications of mutilating one’s body with gender-affirming surgery. However, AMC theaters across America canceled the premiere… -
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60 Companies That Are Celebrating LGBTQ Pride Month More Quietly
After Target stores and the Bud Light beer brand faced public criticism for loudly promoting “LGBTQ Pride Month,” The Daily Signal was curious how other well-known companies and brands are participating. Last year, Twitter, Facebook, and other companies made public announcements in press releases, blogs, or other digital posts about how they were marking Pride… -
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BREAKING: California Bill Would Charge Any Parent Who Doesn’t Affirm Transgenderism With ‘Child Abuse’
A recently amended California bill would add “affirming” the sexual transition of a child to the state’s standard for parental responsibility and child welfare—making any parent who doesn’t affirm transgenderism for their child guilty of abuse under California state law. AB 957 passed California’s State Assembly on May 3, but a co-sponsor amended it after… -
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White House: DOJ to Work ‘Hand in Hand’ With LGBTQ Groups Against Threats of ‘Domestic Extremists,’ ‘Hate Groups’
President Joe Biden's Department of Justice will work "hand-in-hand" with the LGBTQ community as a response to Republican-led legislation and "threats" tied to "hate groups and domestic violent extremists," the White House announced on Thursday. The administration's new action to "protect LGBTQI+ communities from attacks on their rights and safety" specifically cites Republican-sponsored legislation that… -
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Panicked LGBTQ Group Declares ‘National Emergency.’ What It Fears Is Fed-Up Americans’ Threat to Its Institutional Power.
The institutional Left senses that its dominance over our societal mores faces a sudden and unexpected challenge. It is responding with predictable derangement. The Human Rights Campaign, a powerful and well-funded left-wing advocacy group, declared a “national emergency” for “LGBTQ+” people on Tuesday. “LGBTQ+ Americans are living in a state of emergency. The multiplying threats… -
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Performer Exposes Genitals to Children in the Name of ‘Art’ at LGBT Exhibition
A male performer exposed his genitalia to an audience of parents and children at a Canadian art exhibition called “Love Me Gender.” A video of the performance, which surfaced Sunday on Twitter, shows a high-heeled man having a loincloth ripped off his body, revealing his adult male genitalia to the audience. Parents and their young… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Award-Winning Gay Teacher Suspended for Speaking Out Against Transgenderism
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A gay fifth grade teacher in Glendale, California, was placed on leave after complaining at a school board meeting that his school promotes transgenderism. Ray Shelton, a 25-year veteran teacher, spoke at a recent meeting of the school board for the Glendale Unified School District wearing a T-shirt that read “Make… -
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ORWELLIAN: Associated Press Forbids Even Discussing Transgenderism as an Ideology
Forget debates over bathrooms or pronouns. The Associated Press recently released new guidelines suppressing the very concept of transgenderism as an ideology that can be debated, while forcing that ideology on reporters in the name of promoting good journalism. The AP is the most common stylebook among journalists and news outlets on the Left and… -
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‘Gender-Affirming’ Surgery Leaves People Lonelier and Depressed, Study by Transgender Surgery Department Chairman Finds
The head of a facility that carries out so-called “gender-affirming care” has published a study confirming that transgender surgeries do not improve mental health and make people feel lonelier than those who avoided surgical intervention altogether. “In our study, the level of life satisfaction in transgender people was not increased in transgender people who had… -
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MLB + LGBTQ = SNAFU
The Toronto Blue Jays’ Anthony Bass is really sorry. You see, Major League Baseball teams like the Los Angeles Dodgers will honor men in nun costumes who hand out condoms and simulate sex on crosses. That’s just “inclusivity.” Orthodox Christians with opinions, on the other hand, will be compelled to engage in ritual public humiliation… -
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Kohl’s Indoctrinates Babies Into LGBTQ Culture With ‘Happy Pride’ Onesies
Like Target stores and the Bud Light beer brand before it, Kohl’s Corp. is on the defensive after the retailer began selling LGBTQ “Pride” clothing and accessories for infants. Since the Twitter account End Wokeness tweeted images of Kohl’s new Pride-themed line of infant clothing Sunday, the department store chain has come under fire on… -
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‘Start Pushing Back’: Lawmakers Slam LGBTQ+ ‘Youth Carnival’ That Bars Parents
A wave of criticism is greeting an LGBTQ+ “Youth Carnival” set to take place in Indianapolis in early June, largely because the event will bar parents from attending. The June 7 event organized by two LGBTQ+ organizations, Indiana Youth Group and Indy Pride, is advertised as providing food, fun, and unspecified entertainment for “youth,” although… -
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BREAKING: LGBT Pride ‘Youth Carnival’ Bars Parents From Attending
Organizers of a “Youth Carnival” sponsored by two Indiana LGBTQ+ associations and the Indianapolis Airport Authority will not allow parents to attend with their children. According to an Instagram post by Indiana Youth Group, it is collaborating with Indy Pride to hold the carnival for “youth” ages 12 to 20 at an activity center nicknamed… -
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PhRMA, Pfizer Funded LGBT Index Scoring Hospitals for Promoting Gender Ideology
Both Pfizer and PhRMA funded the Human Rights Campaign's "Healthcare Equality Index," a tool that the far-left organization is using to push gender ideology into medical institutions across the nation. The HRC's Healthcare Equality Index sways the practices of hospitals and health care facilities by scoring them on whether they are adopting "LGBTQ+ inclusive patient,… -
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We Need to See Transgender Shooter’s Manifesto
A transgender lunatic named Audrey Hale shot up a private Christian elementary school March 27 in Nashville, Tennessee. The shooter, who tragically killed three adults and three children before being neutralized by well-trained Metropolitan Nashville Police Department officers, was a 28-year-old biological female who had “transitioned” to a public-facing male “gender identity.” Nashville police also… -
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4 More Companies Go ‘Full Bud Light’ in Their Support for Transgenderism
While major banks downgrade Anheuser-Busch’s stock and Bud Light becomes a corporate punch line, a quartet of CEOs seems all too happy to join them. As the beer company implodes under the weight of a national boycott, its cautionary tale seems lost on four companies who’ve decided to follow transgender advocacy straight to financial insolvency. Who are… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Republicans Demand Answers From NIH on Transgender Youth ‘Experiments’ Study That Left 2 Dead, Others Sterilized
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Fifteen Republicans in the U.S. House and Senate sent a letter to the National Institutes of Health Tuesday, demanding answers about a study on experimental medical interventions for youth who claim to identify as transgender. Two of the study participants committed suicide, 11 experienced suicidal ideation, and the drugs participants took… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Colorado Would Force Her to Create LGBTQ Wedding Websites. She’s Fighting Back.
Graphic designer Lori Smith believes that marriage should be between a man and a woman. She also wants to create wedding websites. Under Colorado's discrimination laws, if she were to create wedding websites, she would be compelled to do so for same-sex weddings. Represented by Alliance Defending Freedom, she has taken her case to the… -
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What Are They Hiding? Pro-Transgender Groups Refuse to Hand Over Internal Documents Even as They Move to Oppose Florida’s Medicaid Rule
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A large number of pro-transgender medical interest groups have supported a legal challenge to Florida's rule barring use of Medicaid funds to pay for controversial transgender medical interventions, after most of the same organizations fought in court to hide documents that Florida says are relevant to the case. The American Academy…