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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 -
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Transgender Series Part 3: Detransitioner Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Will Yield $10M Judgments, Lawyer Says
Editor’s note: This is the third podcast interview in a series on transgender phenomena, science, and the potential for medical malpractice lawsuits. Check out the first interview on rapid-onset gender dysphoria and the second interview on how mental health professionals divide parents and kids. Medical malpractice lawsuits on behalf of detransitioners harmed by experimental treatments…Tyler O’Neil -
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Transgender Series, Part 1: What Is Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria and Why Does It Matter?
Editor’s note: This is the first podcast interview in a series on transgender phenomena, science, and the potential for medical malpractice lawsuits. Studies have suggested that the number of young people who identify as transgender has exploded in recent years. While activists claim that these people are just discovering a latent truth suppressed by society,…Tyler O’Neil -
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Rip Curl Brand’s Wipeout Over Transgender Surfer Shows Fed-Up Americans Are Winning
It’s been a week to forget for surf company Rip Curl, the latest brand to risk consumers’ wrath with a pro-transgender marketing campaign. Its January post urging people to meet “waterwoman” Sasha Lowerson, a biological man in a bikini, lit a literal fire under fans, who took to the internet to burn everything from surf booties to…Suzanne Bowdey -
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New Research on ‘Conversion Therapy’ Turns LGBTQ Narrative on Its Head
Twenty-seven states and Washington, D.C., have banned efforts to change sexual orientation, commonly but mistakenly referred to as “conversion therapy,” for minors on the premise that therapies seeking to mitigate or resolve unwanted same-sex attraction are inherently harmful and increase the risk of suicide. Father Paul Sullins, a Roman Catholic priest, senior research associate at…Tyler O’Neil -
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The Transgender Administrative State
Woodrow Wilson, the father of the American administrative state, once wrote: “Government does now whatever experience permits or the times demand.” Well, the times now “demand” the construction of a massive transgender architecture across the labyrinth of the federal government. Perhaps if Wilson were able to gaze a century into the future and see the…Mike Howell -
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PhD Biologist Challenges SPLC to Debate After It Accused Him of ‘Peddling Pseudoscience’ Against Transgender Orthodoxy
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Ph.D. biologist Colin Wright is publicly inviting the Southern Poverty Law Center to debate him on the subject of what the SPLC calls “anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience,” specifically on the transgender issue. The SPLC released a 41,000-word report claiming that “the controversy over trans health care is manufactured to reinforce both white supremacy…Tyler O’Neil -
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‘The Lost Boys’: Documentary Looks at Adverse Effects of Transgenderism on Young Men
A new documentary is exposing the horrors that the transgender movement wreaks upon men, as well as the social and medical-industrial conditions that have led to those horrors. The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network released “The Lost Boys: Searching for Manhood” this week, featuring interviews with numerous men in both the U.S. and the U.K. who…S.A. McCarthy -
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USA Boxing’s New Transgender Rule Could ‘Kill a Woman,’ Coach Warns
USA Boxing has changed its rules to allow men who identify as women to compete in the female category, a change that coach Cary Williams warns could be deadly. Even one man competing against women is “all it takes to do damage; that’s all it takes to kill a woman,” says Williams, a USA Olympic-level…Virginia Allen -
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Why Did Mike DeWine Rush to Ban Transgender Surgeries for Minors 1 Week After Vetoing Similar Bill? This Doctor Thinks He Knows
On Friday, Ohio’s Republican governor, Mike DeWine, issued an “emergency” executive order to ban sex-reassignment surgeries for minors just one week after he vetoed a bill that would have banned those same surgeries and addressed related issues. The General Assembly is expected to begin the process of overriding his veto Wednesday. Why did DeWine sign…Tyler O’Neil -
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Government Bans Prayers Talking About an LGBTQ Person’s ‘Need to Repent’
Imagine the government told you what you can and cannot pray for, inside your own head. Such an idea seems better suited to “thoughtcrime” dystopias—such as George Orwell’s “1984” or Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” where the government attempts to control your every thought—rather than to the modern, free English-speaking world. Yet a government in…Tyler O’Neil -
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SPLC Demonizes Opposition to Transgender Orthodoxy as ‘Pseudoscience,’ Tool of ‘White Supremacy’ and ‘Theocracy’
The Southern Poverty Law Center, a scandal-plagued far-left smear factory notorious for putting mainstream conservative and Christian organizations on a “hate map” with KKK chapters, released a new report demonizing opposition to gender ideology as “pseudoscience” and a tool of “white supremacy” and “theocracy.” “The controversy over trans health care is manufactured to reinforce both…Tyler O’Neil -
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Hallmark Leans Into LGBT Content, Vows More ‘Inclusion’ in 2024
It’s been Christmas since July on the Hallmark Channel, but viewers got their first taste of the network’s woke holiday programming Saturday. With the debut of “Christmas on Cherry Lane,” management made it abundantly clear that the “heart of TV” will continue to push the LGBT envelope—despite America’s towering wave of pushback. Unlike other companies who’ve…Suzanne Bowdey -
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EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a Look at How Reporters Push Transgender Ideology
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Local media outlets have come under fire in recent years for buying into activists’ framing and talking points on so-called gender-affirming care — attempted transgender sex-change operations, hormonal interventions, and social affirmations, even for minors. Emails obtained by the organization Do No Harm, an organization which combats gender ideology in…Mary Margaret Olohan