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German Study: Vast Majority of People Will Grow Out of Transgenderism Within 5 Years
A massive, yearslong study shows the overwhelming majority of young people who identify as transgender will grow out of the diagnosis within five years. A similar supermajority of trans-identifying people suffered from at least one other psychological condition, found researchers, who tracked all children and young adults diagnosed with gender dysphoria over a nine-year period. The Central…Ben Johnson -
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EXCLUSIVE: Doctors Urge Top US Medical Orgs to Stop Harming Kids With Transgender Surgeries, Hormones
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: A group of doctors, nurses, and pediatricians have signed on to a declaration calling on prominent United States medical organizations to stop performing experimental and harmful transgender procedures on children. Members of the American College of Pediatricians, also known as ACPeds, and other medical professionals will announce their signing of…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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Pride Month Success: Daily Signal Reporter’s Book Tops LGBTQ Charts
A Daily Signal senior reporter became Amazon’s bestselling author for LGBTQ books after releasing her book last week. With a five-star rating on Amazon, Mary Margaret Olohan’s “Detrans: True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult” shares the stories of individuals who “transitioned” into the gender opposite their biological sex, later regretted it, and then…Olivia Pero -
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SPLC Adds Openly Gay Group to List of ‘Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate Groups’
The Left’s main smear organ has targeted an openly gay organization and groups of doctors who oppose “gender-affirming care” in efforts to silence opposition to the transgender agenda and drag queen story hours. The Southern Poverty Law Center released its “Year in Hate and Extremism” report Tuesday, warning about encroaching “theocracy” and an “authoritarian takeover”…Tyler O’Neil -
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Finally, a ‘Visibility Day’ for the People the LGBTQ Movement Finds Inconvenient
Next month, companies will add rainbow flags to their icons and logos, the White House will hold events celebrating LGBTQ individuals, and Target and other stores will likely promote rainbow-themed merchandise. Amid all this “Pride,” the men and women who rejected a homosexual lifestyle will be forgotten. Why should “Pride” have the entire month of…Tyler O’Neil -
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Target Retreats From LGBTQ Merch After Yearlong Profit Bloodbath
This year’s Pride Month is shaping up to be a much more humble affair at Target. In an extremely gratifying twist, the company that bragged its transgender line is “great for our brand” has changed its mind after a yearlong stock market bruising. It’s the latest evidence that the wildfire of consumer activism is not only…Suzanne Bowdey -
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Scotland’s New Transgender ‘Hate Crime’ Law Already Showing How It Leads to Tyranny
Scotland’s new “hate crime” law already is demonstrating how it will be used to squash dissent and free speech. The so-called Hate Crime and Public Order Act, which went into force in Scotland on April Fools’ Day, adds age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, and transgender identity to a list of protected classes. The law provides…Jarrett Stepman -
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Sweet Sixteen Upset: 16 Female Athletes Sue NCAA to Bar Transgender Competitors
Sixteen female current and former athletes from across the country last week filed a lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association, accusing it of violating their Title IX rights by allowing males to compete in girls’ and women’s sports and to use locker rooms designated for females. Filed March 14 in U.S. District Court in…Kristen Eichamer -
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Unpacking the Gen Z LGBTQ Numbers
Almost 30% of Generation Z women identify as LGBTQ, according to a new Gallup survey. Could that possibly be true? Well, the Gallup survey, which also found that 22% of Gen Z overall identifies as LGBTQ, is no outlier. In recent years, data has clearly shown a rising number of Americans identify as LGBTQ, in…Katrina Trinko -
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The Rise of Transgenderism
Over the past decade, the United States has seen a rise in power of the transgender movement. Once a fringe, left-wing movement premised on the idea that gender is a social construct and that it can be changed at a whim, it has now become mainstream. Today, the question “Can you provide a definition for…Armstrong Williams -
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LGBTQ Orgs That Push Child Gender Transitions Silent as England Bans Puberty Blockers for Kids
Prominent LGBTQ organizations that push so-called gender-affirming care for children have yet to weigh in on the news this week that England is banning puberty blockers as treatment for children experiencing gender dysphoria. England’s National Health Service declared that there is not enough evidence of “safety and clinical effectiveness” for children and young people to…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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EXCLUSIVE: Female Inmate Forced to Bunk with Masturbating Transgender Prisoner Who Raped Daughter, Messages Claim
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Katelyn McGraw is currently incarcerated in Taycheedah Correctional Institution in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, serving a sentence for possession of narcotic drugs and bail jumping. She’s been at Taycheedah since the end of summer 2023, records show, and her fiancee says that she’ll soon be sent to a minimum security…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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Nashville Transgender Shooter Not a Left-Wing Extremist Because She Called Victims ‘Faggots,’ ADL Says
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Anti-Defamation League claimed that right-wing extremists committed “all” the extremist-related murders in 2023, discounting the apparent extremism of Audrey Hale, the transgender shooter who killed three adults and three students in March at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. Conservative commentator Steven Crowder released three pages of the shooter’s manifesto,…Tyler O’Neil -
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ORWELLIAN: Transgender Efforts to Silence Biological Truth Reach the State Department
Someone needs to tell the Biden administration that George Orwell’s novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four” isn’t an instruction manual. The administration, and the Left more broadly, has adopted a form of totalitarian “newspeak” that aims to make criticism of transgender orthodoxy unthinkable by eliminating gendered words from the English language. This echoes the totalitarian government of “Nineteen-Eighty-Four,”…Tyler O’Neil -
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St. Patrick’s Cathedral Breaks Silence After Transgender Activists Hold Irreverent Funeral for Atheist Prostitute
Transgender activists mocked Catholic saints and repeatedly celebrated “whores” during a funeral Thursday for a transgender-identifying prostitute and self-professed atheist who went by the name Cecilia Gentili. The Archdiocese of New York did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Signal as to why St. Patrick’s Cathedral hosted the funeral, “an…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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Teachers Sue Gavin Newsom Over Policy Forcing Them to Lie About Student’s Transgender Status to Parents
Two teachers have added the governor and attorney general of California to a lawsuit. The suit claims that state policies have forced educators to lie to parents by hiding the transgender status of their children from them. Elizabeth Mirabelli and Lori Ann West, two teachers at Rincon Middle School in Escondido, sued the Escondido Union…Noah Slayter -
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Surgeon Who Performs Transgender Vaginoplasties: Complications ‘Can Be Pretty Bad’
A prominent surgeon stated that complications from vaginoplastic surgery that aims at removing male genitals and creating a vagina “can be pretty bad” and noted that there was “a growing number of programs throughout the world of gender affirmation, probably with a lack of training and not proper training,” according to the video of a…Megan Brock -
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NCAA Official Resigns Over Transgender Takeover of Women’s Sports: This Is ‘Massive … Authorized Cheating’
Whatever hopes people had for a new day at the NCAA have officially died out. A year into Charlie Baker’s reign and the wildfire threatening to burn down women’s sports still rages—no thanks to the unsympathetic man at the helm. If anything, Mark Emmert’s successor has proven to be coldly indifferent to the plight of…Suzanne Bowdey -
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LGBTQ Glitter Destroys the Spirit of Ash Wednesday
Public universities, take note: Celebrating LGBTQ “Glitter Ash Wednesday” is the opposite of inclusive. A public university in America’s heartland has effectively endorsed a divisive religious message: that celebrating Ash Wednesday is compatible with LGBTQ “pride” to the extent that Christians should wear on their foreheads ashes mixed with glitter. Contrary to the university’s suggestion,…Tyler O’Neil -
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Has Dove Changed Its Stance on Transgenderism in Sports?
The controversy surrounding transgenderism and women’s sports has been a hot topic in the media and politics. But the debate has also played out in corporate advertising, as major brands like Target, Starbucks, and Bud Light raced to embrace the LGBT agenda. Dove, the soap and personal care brand, boarded the rainbow train in 2021…Sarah Holliday