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Blacklisted Book on Transgender Movement Restored by Amazon
The online commerce behemoth Amazon has announced that it will be relisting “When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Movement,” a bestselling and influential book critical of the transgender movement that had been delisted at the behest of LGBTQ+ activists. The move comes as President Donald Trump has signed a flurry of executive orders…Jacob Adams -
Female Athletes Celebrate as NCAA Changes Transgender Policy
Female athletes have lobbied the National Collegiate Athletic Association for years to limit women’s sports to biological women. After an executive order from the president of the United States on Wednesday to keep men out of women’s sports at institutions that receive federal funding, it’s finally happening. Members of Concerned Women for America and Independent…Moira Gleason -
EYE ON THE TARGET: Major Corporation Turns on Woke and the LGBTQ Mafia
In a shocking blow to the woke establishment and the LGBTQ mafia, Target has rejected the diversity, equity, and inclusion movement. In a blog post titled “Target’s Belonging at the Bullseye Strategy,” the corporation laid out a new path forward that effectively disavows the woke movement. “We remain focused on driving our business by creating…Tyler O’Neil -
GENDER INDOCTRINATION: 16 States That Force Transgender Lessons on Kids
It’s easy to grow desensitized to the threat of gender ideology in schools. It seems every day there is a fresh new outrage about kindergarteners getting indoctrinated into “trans joy” and school clinics offering transgender “medicine” for minors. President-elect Donald Trump’s historic reelection victory represented a loud rebuke to the transgender movement—after all, one of…Tyler O’Neil -
Democrats Still Don’t Get It on Transgenderism
With apologies to Shakespeare’s Queen Gertrude in “Hamlet”: The congressman doth protest too much, methinks. Rep. Seth Moulton is none too happy about coming under fire from his fellow Massachusetts Democrats for his candid postelection assessment of the electoral problems his party faces because of its unbending embrace of identity politics, especially the transgender agenda….Peter Parisi -
It’s ‘Prime’ Time to Discuss Transgender Medicine as a Nation of Parents, Not Partisans
On Dec. 20, 2022, Brokenhearted Films released the indie documentary “Dead Name” on Vimeo. It lasted there less than 60 days before Vimeo smote us, deplatforming the film after trans-activists raised hell because the film dared to question how a child’s transitioning can impact parents and the parent-child relationship. Vimeo told us, and the world,…Taylor Reece -
Transgender Activists Look in the Mirror and See a Movement That Helped Defeat Kamala Harris
WASHINGTON—There’s been a change in Washington since Donald Trump won the election. Democrats have begun to wonder about some of their more extreme messages. The New York Times reported Tuesday on regrets among transgender activists who now question the movement’s confrontational approach—as they realize their overboard rhetoric helped sink Kamala Harris’ bid to win the…Debra Saunders -
Liberal Media Stars Mock the Threat of ‘Transgender Women’ in Sports
Last month, ABC anchor Martha Raddatz was mocked by JD Vance when she tried to minimize the threat of gangs in Colorado taking over apartment buildings by force. “The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes,” she said. It’s too bad for you if you lived in one of those buildings. “Do you…Tim Graham -
‘War on Gender’: GOP Lawmakers Forge Game Plan to Protect Children From Transgender Ideology
Republican lawmakers laid out their game plan to purge transgender ideology from American society at a Wednesday panel discussion. Republicans will soon introduce the STOP Act, or the Safeguarding the Overall Protection of Minors Act, to prohibit transgender medical interventions for children, said Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan. “Everybody changes after you get your hormones,” Marshall…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
Kamala Harris Won’t Say If She’ll Partner With Far-Left Group Comparing Critics of Transgender ‘Treatments’ on Kids to the KKK
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, did not respond to a request for comment about whether she would work with the Southern Poverty Law Center, a far-left group that puts organizations on a “hate map” with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan if they oppose experimental transgender medical interventions for minors. The Biden-Harris administration…Tyler O’Neil -
Most Americans Say Women Deserve Medals Lost to ‘Transgender’ Athletes Who Are Biological Males
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Almost three-quarters of voters say they believe medals awarded to biological men who beat females in sports should be given instead to the women who lost. Female athletes worldwide have lost nearly 900 medals to transgender-identifying rivals competing against them in women’s sporting categories, according to a United Nations report released…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
Democrats Flip-Flop on Unpopular Positions on Transgenderism
Democrats are scrambling to downplay their radical positions on men playing as “transgender” women in women’s sports and so-called transgender medical procedures for children ahead of an election where polls show most voters hold commonsense views on these issues. Left-wing candidates must walk a fine line between maintaining the flow of hundreds of thousands of…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
INSIDIOUS: Doctor Fired for Opposing ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ Condemns Transgender Takeover of Health Care
Dr. Eric Cubin, a Wyoming radiologist who was removed from the state Board of Medicine for supporting a bill restricting “gender-affirming care,” condemns the way transgender activists have taken over the medical establishment. “I think the magnitude of the scandal is unprecedented. It’s unbelievable,” Cubin tells “The Daily Signal Podcast” about the medical industry’s support…Tyler O’Neil -
Texas Attorney General Charges Doctor With Violating Law Against Irreversible Transgender Procedures for Kids
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing a doctor for allegedly providing irreversible transgender medical procedures to 21 minors. A Texas law, which took effect in September 2023, prohibits experimental transgender medical interventions for children, including such as surgeries, puberty blockers, and hormone replacement therapy. The Office of the Attorney General of Texas says it…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
Transgender ‘Medicine’ Essential to Military Recruitment, Say Democrats in Tight Races
Several Democrats running in tight races for the U.S. House and Senate joined a larger group of Democrats in signing a letter urging Congress not to defund a measure providing experimental transgender medical interventions that's included in a bill to fund the U.S. military. The vast majority of the Democrats in the House (162 of…Tyler O’Neil -
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. Medical nonprofit watchdog Do No Harm launched a database Tuesday of 225 hospitals that provide sex-change surgeries, puberty blockers, and/or hormone therapies to children. Do No Harm matched known gender-related…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
EXCLUSIVE: Wyoming Doctor Booted From Medical Board for Opposing Transgender ‘Treatments’ Asks Court to Reinstate Him
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—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 Tuesday asking the court to reinstate him on the medical board. His legal team also revealed that more…Tyler O’Neil -
State Department Paying to Put on Play Where God Is Bisexual and Communists Are Good—in Bid to Push LGBTQ Agenda Abroad
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Biden-Harris administration is paying to put on a play that portrays God as bisexual, sharply criticizes former President Ronald Reagan, and paints communists in a positive light, all in an effort to push gay rights on Southeastern Europeans, federal grant records show. Earlier in September, the State Department greenlit funding for…Robert Schmad -
Kamala Harris Silent on Whether She Still Supports ‘Transgender Operations on Illegal Aliens That Are in Prison’
At Tuesday night’s debate, former President Donald Trump said his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, supports “transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison.” Harris looked on skeptically, suggesting Trump was off his rocker. Yet Harris has indeed supported transgender medical interventions on illegal alien prisoners, and she has not publicly disavowed the claim….Tyler O’Neil -
Breaking the Power of the LGBTQ Mafia
While transgender orthodoxy seems rooted ever deeper in American education, entertainment, and society, the LGBTQ lobby's stranglehold over big business is finally loosening. A key organization that uses mafia-like tactics to pressure companies to toe the line on gender ideology has faced setbacks. Molson Coors Beverage Co., the company that produces Coors Light beer, announced…Tyler O’Neil