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Judge Reyes’ Abominable Transgender Opinion
Judge Ana Reyes, a federal district court judge in Washington, D.C., issued a preliminary injunction last week barring the Trump administration from expelling certain transgender service members from the military. The Trump administration appealed Friday, arguing the president’s executive order barring transgender individuals “turns on gender dysphoria—a medical condition—and does not discriminate against trans-identifying persons…Cully Stimson -
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Judge Who Blocked Trump’s Ban on Transgender Troops Faces Misconduct Complaint
A preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender-identifying individuals from serving in the U.S. armed forces. Executive Order 14183, Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness, was signed by Trump on Jan. 27. It held that “expressing a false ‘gender identity’ divergent from an individual’s…Jacob Adams -
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‘BLATANTLY LYING’: Payton McNabb Responds After Sorority CEO Claims DZ Didn’t Expel Her Over Transgender Issues
Cindy Menges, CEO of the sorority that expelled Payton McNabb for posting a video of herself confronting a man in a women's bathroom, attempted to reframe the issue in response to sorority sisters' outrage. Menges claimed the expulsion had "nothing to do" with McNabb's "advocacy for banning trans-athletes from sports," and that "Delta Zeta Sorority did…Tyler O’Neil -
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Maine Rep Who Was Censured for Posting About Transgender Athlete Sues House Speaker
When a lawmaker in Maine posted a photo of a male high school athlete winning a girls pole vault state championship, her House colleagues silenced her. Now, she’s taking legal action. Less than two weeks after Maine Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, posted the photo on Facebook, the Maine House of Representatives voted 75-70 to censure…Moira Gleason -
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Maine Governor Faces Recall Effort Over Transgender Policy
THE CENTER SQUARE—Maine’s Democratic Gov. Janet Mills is facing a recall effort from critics of her transgender policies, but the citizen-led campaign is unlikely to result in her being removed from office. An online recall petition calling for the removal of the second-term Democrat has gathered nearly 30,000 signatures since it was posted last week….Chris Wade -
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Tuberville: Democrats’ Transgender Sports Move Proves They Learned Nothing From 2024
Democrats proved they learned nothing from the 2024 election by unanimously blocking a bill to keep biological men from playing women’s sports—countering the views of an overwhelming majority, according to Sen. Tommy Tuberville. In a procedural vote Monday, Tuberville’s bill fell short of the 60-vote threshold to overcome a Senate filibuster, when 51 Republicans voted…Fred Lucas -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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‘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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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