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Texas Children’s Launches Nation’s First Detransition Clinic
Summary Just months after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Texas Children’s Hospital agreed to a settlement, the hospital has officially launched its detransition clinic. According to the new website, the clinic will provide services including endocrinology, surgery, primary care, fertility counseling, psychiatry, psychology, social work/case management, and speech pathology. The clinic will also provide care for… -
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Illinois Parents Consider Lawsuit After School District Defends Housing Boys With Girls on Overnight Trips
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Illinois parents are considering a lawsuit after their kids’ school district stood by its policy of placing males with female high school students on overnight trips while withholding information from parents. “In light of the district failing to recognize their legal obligations to D128 families and educators, Liberty Justice Center is… -
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Supreme Court Rules on Trump Admin Policy Blocking Sex-Rejecting Procedures for Prisoners
The Supreme Court Wednesday denied the Trump administration’s request to block a lower court order preventing the Bureau of Prisons from denying previously prescribed transgender procedures to prison inmates. The court denied the stay in an unsigned order, noting that Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito would have granted the stay. The Bureau of Prisons… -
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Trump Says Megachurch Pastor Running for Senate ‘Openly Mocks Jesus’
President Donald Trump claimed that Adam Hamilton, a pastor and Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate in Kansas, “openly mocks Jesus,” and attacked him for supporting transgender ideology. Trump did not mention a specific statement in which Hamilton had mocked Jesus, though he made the accusation between two criticisms of Hamilton over transgender ideology. “Adam Hamilton… -
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Inside Biden’s DOJ: How LGBTQ Activist Groups Helped Set the Agenda for the Civil Rights Division
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Newly released documents reveal the extent to which LGBTQ activist groups helped set the agenda for the Justice Department under President Joe Biden. The DOJ Civil Rights Division’s LGBTQI+ Working Group convened quarterly stakeholder meetings with organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Human Rights Campaign, Lambda Legal, the Southern… -
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Washington High School Girls Refuse to Race Against Male Cross-Country Runner
About a dozen girls on a Washington state high school cross-country team forfeited a race Tuesday rather than compete against a male runner who switched from the boys team to the girls team mid-season. Footage of the meet between Camas High School and Battle Ground High School in southwestern Washington shows the starting signal sounding… -
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5 States Put Transgender Sports, Gender-Medicine Questions Before Voters
When voters go to the polls in five states in November, they can weigh in on whether men who claim to be transgender can compete in women’s sports and whether minors should be able to undergo controversial transgender medical treatments. Organizers in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska, and Washington succeeded in putting measures on the ballot… -
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Federal Judge Asks Pro-Transgender Lawyer About Double Standard on Cosmetic Surgery
A man who identifies as a woman sued Aetna for refusing to cover his transgender facial surgery, claiming discrimination, even though Aetna says it would not cover cosmetic procedures for a woman who suffers distress from not looking feminine enough. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit heard oral… -
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Parents Who Treat Boys as Boys and Girls as Girls Are Not Abusers, New Bill Declares
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., introduced a bill Tuesday aiming to prevent child welfare agencies from treating a parent’s refusal to “affirm” a child’s stated transgender identity as child abuse. “The Left’s radical gender ideology is harming children with irreversible treatments and procedures, but in blue states, parents are being punished, and… -
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Trans Organization’s ‘Unreliable’ Standards Don’t Justify Prison Medical Interventions, DOJ Tells Supreme Court
The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow the Bureau of Prisons to restrict sex-rejecting procedures for federal inmates, citing an exhaustive bureau report rejecting the recommendations of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health as “unreliable” and based on “insufficient evidence.” Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the Supreme Court to lift… -
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GOP Takes Aim at Sherrod Brown’s Radical Record on Transing Minors
In the “toss-up” special election race for the U.S. Senate in Ohio, former Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown’s record is coming back to haunt him when it comes to transgender procedures for minors. Before he was defeated by now-Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno in 2024, Brown had served for three terms in the U.S. Senate. Although his… -
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Human Rights Campaign Chief Compares ICE Patrols to Lynch Mobs
Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson Saturday compared Immigration and Customs Enforcement patrols to lynch mobs and likened current political battles over LGBTQ+ issues to the civil rights movement. Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ activist group, has sharply criticized President Donald Trump’s policies on transgender issues, including restrictions on military service for people… -
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Marcy Kaptur at Odds With Both Sides Over Record on Trans Issues
In what looks to be one of Ohio’s most hotly contested races, a vulnerable Democrat incumbent is taking heat from both sides over her record on trans issues. Last week, Lucas County Democrats publicly called out Rep. Marcy Kaptur, of Ohio’s 9th Congressional District, for an ad touting her vote on the issue. Lucas County… -
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White House Cites Decline in Transgender Violent Deaths to Defend Trump Policies
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Trump White House is pointing to data compiled by transgender advocacy groups as evidence against the claim that Republican transgender policies contribute to violence against transgender people. “The data proves the president’s law-and-order policies have benefited all Americans,” White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis told the Daily Signal in a statement… -
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HHS Rejects Human Rights Campaign’s ‘Unfounded’ Claims About Harm From Ending Trans Procedures
The Department of Health and Human Services is pushing back against the Human Rights Campaign’s condemnation of hospitals that have agreed to stop providing transgender procedures to minors, accusing activists of making “unfounded claims” linking restrictions on the procedures to violence. “Protecting children from irreversible sex-rejecting procedures is not discrimination, and HHS will not allow… -
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Episcopal Priest Claims ‘God Is Trans,’ Mary ‘Assigned’ Jesus the Wrong Gender
Leftist theologians often attempt to reinterpret Scripture to justify their political and ideological commitments, but rarely do you get so clear an example as a priest in traditional church robes declaring, “God is trans.” The Rev. Flourish Klink has recently gone viral online for a sermon he gave at the Cathedral of St. John the… -
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‘No Child Should Be Exposed’: DOJ Settles With 6 Hospitals to End Gender Surgeries on Minors
Opponents of “gender transition” surgeries on minors applauded a Justice Department settlement with at least six major hospitals to stop the practice. The Department of Justice has announced settlements with six hospitals, The New York Times reported, to stop doing the surgeries and hormone treatments for minors. “The Department of Justice has done incredible work… -
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‘WICKED PRESUMPTION’: Social Worker Sues Over School Transgender Policy Requiring ‘a Conspiracy to Lie to Parents’
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—An Albuquerque social worker is speaking out after suing to block a school district policy, alleging that it violates her First Amendment rights by forcing her to lie to parents about their students’ gender identities. “I’m a social worker. My job is to support … emotional development, mental health, decision-making processes… -
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3-Time Olympic Gold Medalist Launches Petition Demanding the WNBA Define What a Woman Is
With the backing of Lara Trump, tennis legend Martina Navratilova, and former professional basketball players Charles Barkley and Enes Kanter Freedom, a three-time Olympic gold medalist recently launched a petition demanding that the Women’s National Basketball Association define “woman” as female. Nancy Hogshead, who won three gold medals and one silver medal in swimming for… -
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Conservative Lawmakers Demand the WNBA Define What a Woman Is
A group of House Republican lawmakers sent a letter to the Women’s National Basketball Association on Friday, demanding that the league define what a woman is. The letter, drafted by Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., and signed by Reps. Erin Houchin, R-Ind.; John Rose, R-Tenn.; Zach Nunn, R-Iowa; and Sheri Biggs, R-S.C., sent the letter to…