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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…Tony Kinnett -
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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…Tony Kinnett -
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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,…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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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…Josh Hammer -
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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…Suzanne Bowdey -
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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…Tyler O’Neil -
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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…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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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…Tyler O’Neil -
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EXCLUSIVE: 16 Attorneys General Back Florida Transgender Medicaid Rule
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Sixteen state attorneys general weighed in on Florida's rule blocking Medicaid funds from transgender medical interventions on the grounds that they are experimental. "From the Founding, states have exercised their authority to enact health and safety measures—regulating the medical profession, restricting access to potentially dangerous medicines, banning unsafe or unproven treatments,"…Tyler O’Neil -
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Tucker Carlson, Transgenderism, and the Battle for Civilizational Sanity
I attended The Heritage Foundation’s 50th anniversary gala on April 21, a sprawling and swanky affair featuring many fine presentations, a surprise Dierks Bentley mini-concert for the country music enthusiasts (yours truly among them), and an extravagant post-dinner fireworks show over the Potomac River. But the highlight of the evening, bar none, was former Fox…Josh Hammer -
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State OKs Bans on Transgender Treatments for Minors, TikTok in Bid to Keep Kids Safe
Montana recently passed a bill banning transgender treatments on minors. “It’s very important that we protect our children, especially physically, from these treatments that are permanent,” Montana state Rep. Kerri Seekins-Crowe says. “There’s not been a lot of studies done on the long-term effects of these [treatments],” the Republican lawmaker said, adding “but we also…Virginia Allen -
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Did the Pill and the Digital World Fuel Transgenderism?
As a young woman, author Mary Harrington went by “Sebastian” online. Now she argues that the ability of young adults to be whoever they want in the non-physical confines of the internet is affecting how they view reality. “If you look at the prevalence of cross-sex identification in young people and the arrival of the…Katrina Trinko -
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Library Group Blames Book Challenges on Anti-LGBT Prejudice, Ignores Porn Charges
The American Library Association released a list Monday of the 13 most “challenged” books aimed at teens during 2022, blaming anti-LGBT prejudice for what it calls censorship even though each book contains sexually explicit content. The ALA encourages readers to “show your commitment to the freedom to read” by protecting the 13 books, all marketed to teenagers…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Researcher Ousted for ‘Dangerous’ Study Into Censorship of Feminists in Academia Who Don’t Buy Into Transgenderism
George Orwell said, “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.” Never has this seemed more true than when observing the way a university treated a female researcher who discovered that other female academics were censored, smeared, and silenced when they questioned “gender identity theory” and…Nicole Russell -
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In Zeal for Transgenderism, Washington State Muscles Parents Out, Gets Control of Their Kids
Update: Gov. Jay Inslee, the Democratic governor of Washington state, has signed into law Senate Bill 5599. According to the bill’s sponsor, state Sen. Marko Liias, a Democrat, SB 5599 “allows licensed shelters to contact the Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) in lieu of parents in certain additional instances, like when a young…Katrina Trinko -
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Stuff of Parents’ Nightmares: Washington State Bill Hides Runaway Kids From Transgender-‘Unsupportive’ Parents
In the dark of night on the last day of the legislative session in Washington state, Senate Democrats passed Senate Bill 5599, a breathtaking evisceration of parental rights. The bill would allow the state to legally hide runaway children from their parents if the parents don’t consent to their child’s “gender transition” or abortion. No…Sarah Parshall Perry -
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EXCLUSIVE: Medical Group Backs State AG’s Emergency Order on Transgender Interventions Amid Legal Threat
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey issued an emergency regulation Thursday restricting the use of experimental transgender interventions on minors. An organization of doctors, nurses, and health care professionals supported Bailey's order, despite pro-transgender activist groups condemning it as based on "debunked claims" that ignore "medical evidence" and threatening a lawsuit to…Tyler O’Neil -
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I Fell for Deception of Transgenderism
As I spoke in the rotunda of the Kentucky State Capitol late last month to a crowd of Kentucky lawmakers and supporters of pro-family policy, a large group of transgender activists quietly observed from the second- and third-floor mezzanines, holding various signs and flags. I called on Kentucky legislators to override the governor’s veto of…Walt Heyer -
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EXCLUSIVE: LGBT Legal Challenge Threatens Far More Than Florida Medicaid Rule, Experts Warn
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—If a federal court upholds LGBT activists' claims against a Florida health agency's Medicaid rule on transgender interventions, that decision would have devastating consequences for civil rights law, health care providers, and public health, experts warn. LGBT activist groups led by Lambda Legal and representing four young people who identify as…Tyler O’Neil -
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EXCLUSIVE: Detransitioners Back Florida Medicaid Rule Amid LGBT Legal Challenge
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Three "detransitioners"—men who underwent surgeries in pursuit of a female gender identity but later rejected that identity—filed a legal brief supporting a Florida health agency's rule preventing Medicaid from reimbursing for transgender medical interventions. Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration finalized the rule in August 2022, declaring that Medicaid would not…Tyler O’Neil