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State Department Paying to Put on Play Where God Is Bisexual and Communists Are Good—in Bid to Push LGBTQ Agenda Abroad
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Biden-Harris administration is paying to put on a play that portrays God as bisexual, sharply criticizes former President Ronald Reagan, and paints communists in a positive light, all in an effort to push gay rights on Southeastern Europeans, federal grant records show. Earlier in September, the State Department greenlit funding for… -
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Kamala Harris Silent on Whether She Still Supports ‘Transgender Operations on Illegal Aliens That Are in Prison’
At Tuesday night’s debate, former President Donald Trump said his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, supports “transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison.” Harris looked on skeptically, suggesting Trump was off his rocker. Yet Harris has indeed supported transgender medical interventions on illegal alien prisoners, and she has not publicly disavowed the claim…. -
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Breaking the Power of the LGBTQ Mafia
While transgender orthodoxy seems rooted ever deeper in American education, entertainment, and society, the LGBTQ lobby's stranglehold over big business is finally loosening. A key organization that uses mafia-like tactics to pressure companies to toe the line on gender ideology has faced setbacks. Molson Coors Beverage Co., the company that produces Coors Light beer, announced… -
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Nashville Shooter’s Journal Reveals Dark Side of Transgender Orthodoxy
The Tennessee Star released the full journal of the Nashville, Tennessee, shooter Tuesday, and its contents reveal how transgender orthodoxy can encourage suicidal tendencies—and worse—in a way that turns gender identity into a kind of religion. Audrey Hale, the 28-year-old female who identified as male, opened fire at the Covenant School in Nashville on March… -
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‘Where Do the Breasts Go After Top Surgery?’ Pro-Transgender Surgeon Flaunts Patients’ Amputated Breasts
A surgeon who specializes in performing attempted transgender transitions on people who think they were born in the wrong body posted a photo Friday of her patients' amputated breasts. "This is how breasts look after they have been removed (after 3 top surgeries in this case) they are carefully packed up and sent off to… -
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Allowing Transgender Participants Demeans Womanhood, Pageant Contestant Says
A talented and attractive Miss USA was crowned last week, and she deserves accolades, but we shouldn’t forget that there was a biological man who competed against her and the 49 other young women in the pageant. While conservatives are vocal in speaking out about biological men invading women’s sports, especially with the Olympics having… -
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Superintendent Denies District Previously Linked to LGBTQ Resources Day After Daily Signal Report
A California school district’s superintendent said its now-taken down LGBTQ Resources did not include links to an LGBTQ youth center’s “Affirming Therapy” page, though screenshots from The Daily Signal’s report tell a different story. Newport Harbor High School in the Newport-Mesa Unified School District had posters around its halls as recently as May with scannable… -
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Would ‘Fearless’ Prosecutor Harris Have Kept Transgender Nashville Shooter Out of Prison?
Vice President Kamala Harris has commenced her nascent presidential campaign with a $50 million ad campaign presenting the candidate as a “fearless” prosecutor who “put murderers and abusers behind bars.” But according to the website from her prior presidential campaign, her tough-on-crime rhetoric has a significant loophole: She’s committed to doing all she can to prevent criminals who identify… -
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District Takes Down ‘LGBTQ Resources’ Link to Org With Transgender Surgery Information After Daily Signal Exposé
A California high school took down its “LGBTQ Resources” webpage shortly following The Daily Signal’s report exposing it. Newport Harbor High School in the Newport Mesa Unified School District had posters around its halls and classrooms with scannable QR codes that take students to a number of “LGBTQ+ Resources,” including the LGBTQ Center of Orange… -
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Scholastic, Pearson Take a Step Back From Pushing LGBTQ+ Material on Kids
In June, Scholastic, the world’s largest children’s book publishing company, put its push for LGBTQ+ ideology front and center when it released its 2024 guide to its “Read with Pride” initiative. As reported by The Washington Stand, the guide was to be a “resource” for “supporting LGBTQIA+ youth” by promoting books with radical ideological themes, including transgenderism and taking… -
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Dell Shareholders Reject Free Market Proposal to Stop Donating to LGBTQ Agenda
Shareholders who recoil at the specter of self-described human rights activists partnering with corporations to promote “gender transition” surgeries had the opportunity to make their voices heard Thursday at Dell Technologies Inc.’s annual shareholder meeting. But their efforts against the radical LGBTQ agenda fell short. A shareholder proposal asking Dell’s board of directors to list… -
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‘We’re Turning the Corner’ in Fight Against Transgendering of Kids, Author Says
America is “turning the corner” toward recognizing the harms to children of transgender ideology, says a Daily Signal journalist who recently published a bestselling book on the subject. In an interview with Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, Daily Signal senior reporter Mary Margaret Olohan shared what has encouraged her while reporting on the controversies surrounding… -
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UNMASKED: New Docs Reveal Rachel Levine Backs Scrapping Transgender Surgery Age Limits
The Biden administration is not content with the idea that teens need to become legal adults before they can go under the knife to remove healthy body parts in the name of transgender identity. It also wants to hide this advocacy for mutilation of minors. Newly revealed documents expose just how radical the administration’s support… -
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These 63 Companies Celebrate ‘Pride’ in LGBTQ Consumers
After transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney endorsed Bud Light last April, the beer brand lost about 25% of its sales in subsequent weeks. Bud Light’s website currently includes no sign of celebrating LGBTQ consumers. This Pride Month, however, as the list below reveals, many companies continued to signal support for and seek the business of LGBTQ… -
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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… -
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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… -
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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… -
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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”… -
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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… -
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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…