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Rip Curl Brand’s Wipeout Over Transgender Surfer Shows Fed-Up Americans Are Winning
It’s been a week to forget for surf company Rip Curl, the latest brand to risk consumers’ wrath with a pro-transgender marketing campaign. Its January post urging people to meet “waterwoman” Sasha Lowerson, a biological man in a bikini, lit a literal fire under fans, who took to the internet to burn everything from surf booties to…Suzanne Bowdey -
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New Research on ‘Conversion Therapy’ Turns LGBTQ Narrative on Its Head
Twenty-seven states and Washington, D.C., have banned efforts to change sexual orientation, commonly but mistakenly referred to as “conversion therapy,” for minors on the premise that therapies seeking to mitigate or resolve unwanted same-sex attraction are inherently harmful and increase the risk of suicide. Father Paul Sullins, a Roman Catholic priest, senior research associate at…Tyler O’Neil -
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The Transgender Administrative State
Woodrow Wilson, the father of the American administrative state, once wrote: “Government does now whatever experience permits or the times demand.” Well, the times now “demand” the construction of a massive transgender architecture across the labyrinth of the federal government. Perhaps if Wilson were able to gaze a century into the future and see the…Mike Howell -
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BREAKING: Maine Bill That Protects Kidnappers Who Take ‘Transgender Kids’ for ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ Fails in Committee
UPDATE Jan. 25, 2024 5:45 p.m.: A joint standing legislative committee between the Maine House of Representatives and the Maine Senate voted that the transgender custody bill LD 1735 “ought not to pass” Thursday. According to footage of the committee posted online, the motion that the bill “ought not to pass” passed 12-0. Rep. Katrina…Tyler O’Neil -
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PhD Biologist Challenges SPLC to Debate After It Accused Him of ‘Peddling Pseudoscience’ Against Transgender Orthodoxy
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Ph.D. biologist Colin Wright is publicly inviting the Southern Poverty Law Center to debate him on the subject of what the SPLC calls “anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience,” specifically on the transgender issue. The SPLC released a 41,000-word report claiming that “the controversy over trans health care is manufactured to reinforce both white supremacy…Tyler O’Neil -
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‘The Lost Boys’: Documentary Looks at Adverse Effects of Transgenderism on Young Men
A new documentary is exposing the horrors that the transgender movement wreaks upon men, as well as the social and medical-industrial conditions that have led to those horrors. The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network released “The Lost Boys: Searching for Manhood” this week, featuring interviews with numerous men in both the U.S. and the U.K. who…S.A. McCarthy -
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USA Boxing’s New Transgender Rule Could ‘Kill a Woman,’ Coach Warns
USA Boxing has changed its rules to allow men who identify as women to compete in the female category, a change that coach Cary Williams warns could be deadly. Even one man competing against women is “all it takes to do damage; that’s all it takes to kill a woman,” says Williams, a USA Olympic-level…Virginia Allen -
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Why Did Mike DeWine Rush to Ban Transgender Surgeries for Minors 1 Week After Vetoing Similar Bill? This Doctor Thinks He Knows
On Friday, Ohio’s Republican governor, Mike DeWine, issued an “emergency” executive order to ban sex-reassignment surgeries for minors just one week after he vetoed a bill that would have banned those same surgeries and addressed related issues. The General Assembly is expected to begin the process of overriding his veto Wednesday. Why did DeWine sign…Tyler O’Neil -
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A Real Woman Explains Why Ohio’s Governor Was Wrong to Veto Bill to Curb Transgenderism
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, on Friday issued an executive order prohibiting gender-transition surgeries on minors in his state and issued draft administrative rules on so-called gender-affirming care for minors and adults. DeWine’s directives came a week after his Dec. 29 veto of House Bill 68, the Saving Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act, which would…Sarah Parshall Perry -
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Ohio Gov. DeWine Signs ‘Emergency’ Executive Order Banning Transgender Surgeries for Minors After Vetoing Similar Bill
Editor’s Note: Since this article was published, the Ohio House of Representatives voted to override the veto mentioned in this story. The Ohio Senate is expected to take up the issue soon. Ohio’s Republican governor, Mike DeWine, signed an “emergency” executive order Friday banning transgender surgeries for minors, one week after he vetoed a bill…Tyler O’Neil -
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Government Bans Prayers Talking About an LGBTQ Person’s ‘Need to Repent’
Imagine the government told you what you can and cannot pray for, inside your own head. Such an idea seems better suited to “thoughtcrime” dystopias—such as George Orwell’s “1984” or Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” where the government attempts to control your every thought—rather than to the modern, free English-speaking world. Yet a government in…Tyler O’Neil -
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SPLC Demonizes Opposition to Transgender Orthodoxy as ‘Pseudoscience,’ Tool of ‘White Supremacy’ and ‘Theocracy’
The Southern Poverty Law Center, a scandal-plagued far-left smear factory notorious for putting mainstream conservative and Christian organizations on a “hate map” with KKK chapters, released a new report demonizing opposition to gender ideology as “pseudoscience” and a tool of “white supremacy” and “theocracy.” “The controversy over trans health care is manufactured to reinforce both…Tyler O’Neil -
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Hallmark Leans Into LGBT Content, Vows More ‘Inclusion’ in 2024
It’s been Christmas since July on the Hallmark Channel, but viewers got their first taste of the network’s woke holiday programming Saturday. With the debut of “Christmas on Cherry Lane,” management made it abundantly clear that the “heart of TV” will continue to push the LGBT envelope—despite America’s towering wave of pushback. Unlike other companies who’ve…Suzanne Bowdey -
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EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a Look at How Reporters Push Transgender Ideology
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Local media outlets have come under fire in recent years for buying into activists’ framing and talking points on so-called gender-affirming care — attempted transgender sex-change operations, hormonal interventions, and social affirmations, even for minors. Emails obtained by the organization Do No Harm, an organization which combats gender ideology in…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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Judge Hands Major Defeat to Transgender Lawmaker Suing Red State Over ‘Unconstitutional’ Censure
A Montana judge dismissed a lawsuit Tuesday that state Rep. Zooey Zephyr, a Democrat who identifies as transgender, brought against the Montana House of Representatives after Zephyr's censure in April, according to court documents. Zephyr was disciplined by Montana House officials April 26 for breaking legislative protocol after holding up a microphone to support protesters, several of…Kate Anderson -
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Here We Go Again: Americans Prepare to Teach Target Another Lesson Over LGBTQ Christmas
There’s a popular meme that originates with an episode of “SpongeBob SquarePants” in which a previously beaten-up individual once again is surrounded by angry townsfolk. As they close in, one attacker shakes his fist and shouts, “How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?” Target Corp., the popular American department…Tony Kinnett -
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Transgender Faux Females Have No Place in Miss Universe Pageant
How humiliating and disheartening must it be for a Miss Universe pageant contestant to lose to a “woman” with a penis and testicles? That, regrettably, is not a hypothetical question. That’s exactly what happened to real young women earlier this year in preliminary pageants in two European nations, Portugal and the Netherlands. On Saturday night,…Peter Parisi -
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2 Transgenders to Compete for Miss Universe Title Following Pageant Organization’s Bankruptcy Filing
More than 90 contestants will compete for the title of Miss Universe 2023 on Saturday night, but not all of them are biological women. Two transgender competitors will have the opportunity to capture the crown after winning qualifier pageants in their home countries. The male-born contestants—Marina Machete of Portugal and Rikkie Valerie Kollé of the…Sara Garstka -
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FACT CHECK: Biden’s Speech to LGBTQ Group Was Fraught With Falsehoods, Fables
President Joe Biden spoke Saturday at the Human Rights Campaign’s annual national dinner. Biden said it was his fourth appearance at the annual event, which is billed as “a national gathering for champions of LGBTQ equality.” Although the 80-year-old president rarely makes public appearances before 10 a.m. or after 4 p.m., he made an exception for his close allies,…Joshua Arnold -
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5 Falsehoods From First Lady in Remarks to Radical LGBTQ Group
First lady Jill Biden introduced her husband, President Joe Biden as he spoke Saturday at the Human Rights Campaign’s annual national dinner, billed as “a national gathering for champions of LGBTQ equality.” Like a well-planned multi-course meal, Jill Biden prepared the favorable audience for her husband’s truth-lite entrée—which will be analyzed elsewhere—with a complementary appetizer so fanciful it deserves…Joshua Arnold