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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… -
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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… -
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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… -
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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… -
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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… -
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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… -
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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… -
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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… -
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‘Transsurrection’? Pro-Transgender Protesters Occupy 4 State Capitols
Last week, hundreds or thousands of left-wing protesters entered Capitol buildings in four separate states, disrupting legislative chambers holding session in at least two of them. In three out of four incidents, the protesters explicitly opposed legislation to defend children, families, and women from the harmful effects of transgender ideology; in the other incident, a… -
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State Department Fund Offers $1.5 Million Grants to Promote ‘LGBT Inclusion’ Around Globe
A State Department initiative offers $5 million in taxpayer funds to be divided among qualifying LGBT organizations across the world. The State Department’s $25 million Global Equality Fund invited projects led or supported by LGBT organizations and communities to apply by March 1 to win awards between $750,000 and $1.5 million. The agency will allocate a total of… -
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‘Why Do Democrats Despise Women?’ Transgender Faux Females Get Preferential Treatment
As March and Women’s History Month draw to a close, it’s worth taking a moment to ponder a rhetorical question posed earlier this month by the website SelfRelianceCentral.com: “Why Do Democrats Despise Women?” That’s not political hyperbole. It’s a serious—and legitimate—question. How else can one explain why elected Democrats nearly unanimously oppose efforts at… -
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Transgender Shooter Reveals Perverse World of Leftist Ideology
The legacy media have a preset narrative machine when it comes to mass shootings. That narrative machine takes into account the identities of the shooter and the victims, and then churns out an explanation for the shooting. White shooter, black victims: systemic racism. Black shooter, white victims: alienation caused by systemic racism. Muslim shooter, gay… -
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40 State Legislatures Have Passed or Introduced Legislation to Restrict Transgender Child Abuse
We undoubtedly are in the middle of one of the largest legislative pushes against child abuse in our nation’s history. This child abuse, masquerading as “gender-affirming care,” has been taken up as a banner of humanity by progressives over the past five years—and they encourage children to mutilate their own bodies if the kids feel… -
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Surfer Bethany Hamilton Vows She Won’t Compete Against Biological Men, Setting Example for Pro Athletes to Defend Women’s Sports
Few female athletes have the ear of America, much less the world, in the way Bethany Hamilton does. With more than 1 million followers on Twitter, 2 million on Instagram, and two movies telling her story, when Hamilton speaks, people listen, which is something Hamilton appears to have been counting on when sharing a recent… -
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An Example of How Transgender Rights Affect Women’s Safety
In June, Instagram user “CubanaAngel” posted a video featuring a woman demanding of an employee at Wi Spa in Los Angeles why a man was being allowed in the women’s area. “It’s OK for a man to go into the women’s section, show his penis around the other women, young little girls underage, your spa,… -
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Michigan May Add ‘Nonbinary’ Driver’s License Option
Michigan is considering adding an option on driver’s licenses for people who identify as nonbinary. The move would allow Michigan residents who do not identify as either male or female to be represented as “nonbinary” on their licenses, according to ABC News. Michigan would become the 14th state along with Washington, D.C., to add the option. New York City… -
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I Was America’s First ‘Nonbinary’ Person. It Was All a Sham.
Four years ago, I wrote about my decision to live as a woman in The New York Times, writing that I had wanted to live “authentically as the woman that I have always been,” and had “effectively traded my white male privilege to become one of America’s most hated minorities.” Three years ago, I decided…