Transgender News

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Small-town YMCAs in suburban Ohio have launched themselves headfirst into the transgender debate by allowing men who "identify" as women to access women's locker rooms. And women who have belonged to these supposedly family-friendly YMCAs for years are discovering, to their shock, that management considers their safety and privacy inferior…

A Missouri trial court declined Friday to block a law preventing transgender interventions for minors, citing "conflicting and unclear" medical evidence on the effectiveness of so-called puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. "The science and medical evidence is conflicting and unclear," Judge Stephen R. Ohmer ruled. "Accordingly, the evidence raises more questions than answers." Three Missouri…

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: A little more than half of the men housed in Wisconsin Department of Corrections facilities who identify as transgender women have been convicted of at least one count of sexual assault or sexual abuse. The revelation comes from Wisconsin Department of Corrections records obtained by The Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration did not directly answer if its newly approved over-the-counter contraceptive could be safely used by males who identify as “transgender women.” The FDA announced Thursday that it has approved the first ever over-the-counter contraceptive pill, Opill (norgestrel).  “Availability of nonprescription Opill may help reduce the number of unintended pregnancies…

She is beauty, she is grace, and “she” is actually a “he.” This variation of William Shatner’s song in the movie “Miss Congeniality” may have come to mind Saturday, when transgender model Rikkie Valerie Kollé, a biological man, was crowned Miss Universe Netherlands  Kollé, 22, is the first transgender woman to win in the 94-year…

An American cycling competition created a third division for “transgender” cyclists on Friday after a male recently won a cycling event in the women’s division. In June, Austin Killips, a man who identifies as a transgender woman, competed in the nearly 140-mile Monuments of Cycling’s “Belgian Waffle Ride,” a grueling one-day cycling event that mirrors…

Twitter users are questioning the health risks of “transgender milk” after a male posted a TikTok video expressing his desire to produce milk for others’ babies.  “I have always wanted to lactate,” the man, who appears to identify as a woman, explains while telling viewers he wants to set up a GoFundMe page so he…

A Walgreens in Dallas is quietly housing a transgender clinic where patients can go get referrals for transgender transition hormones like testosterone. Then they can stroll out of the clinic into the pharmacy and get their prescriptions filled. Walgreens has sparked backlash from its customers for offering to dispense abortion drugs "in any jurisdiction where…

After Target stores and the Bud Light beer brand faced public criticism for loudly promoting “LGBTQ Pride Month,” The Daily Signal was curious how other well-known companies and brands are participating. Last year, Twitter, Facebook, and other companies made public announcements in press releases, blogs, or other digital posts about how they were marking Pride…

President Joe Biden's Department of Justice will work "hand-in-hand" with the LGBTQ community as a response to Republican-led legislation and "threats" tied to "hate groups and domestic violent extremists," the White House announced on Thursday. The administration's new action to "protect LGBTQI+ communities from attacks on their rights and safety" specifically cites Republican-sponsored legislation that…

A male performer exposed his genitalia to an audience of parents and children at a Canadian art exhibition called “Love Me Gender.”  A video of the performance, which surfaced Sunday on Twitter, shows a high-heeled man having a loincloth ripped off his body, revealing his adult male genitalia to the audience. Parents and their young…