Transgender News
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Why Are the Media Bending Over Backward to Be ‘Sensitive’ to the ‘Identity’ of a Mass Murderer?
It is a journalist’s duty to report the truth, yet so many news outlets covered themselves in shame by bowing and scraping to honor the “transgender identity” of the man who carried out one of the deadliest mass shootings in Canadian history. Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18, was born a man and he died a man…. -
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‘Moderate’ Democrat Twists Christian Compassion to Defend Transgender ‘Treatments’
As medical associations are reconsidering transgender “medicine” for minors, Democrats—even “moderate” ones like Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear—seem to be missing the memo. Just a few days after a jury awarded $2 million in damages to a detransitioner woman who underwent surgery at 16, and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons subsequently recommended against surgeries for… -
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ANOTHER TRANS SHOOTER: Police Confirm Man Who Killed 6 at School Identified as Woman
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have identified the 18-year-old man who shot and killed six people at a school in British Columbia, critically injuring two, and wounding about 25 others. He identified as a woman, authorities have confirmed. Jesse Van Rootselaar first killed his mother, 39, and his 11-year-old stepbrother at their family home in… -
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Is This the End of Transgender Hysteria?
A few years ago, things looked pretty bleak for skeptics of transgenderism—those of us who have great compassion for those afflicted by what the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” long referred to as the “disorder” of gender dysphoria, but who refuse to accept the lie that a man can become a woman or… -
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Is the American Medical Association Really Changing Course on Transgender Surgery for Minors?
After the world’s largest organization of plastic surgeons recommended delaying “transgender” surgery until a patient reaches the age of 19, the American Medical Association stated it would follow that guidance—but added a key word that set off alarm bells for one medical watchdog group. The AMA, America’s most influential doctor association, has long advocated against… -
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American Society of Plastic Surgeons Recommends Against Transgender Surgery for Minors
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons on Tuesday became the first major medical organization to oppose gender transition for minors when it recommended “that surgeons delay gender-related breast/chest, genital, and facial surgery until a patient is at least 19 years old.” The ASPS represents “more than 11,000 physician members worldwide,” which is more than the number of surgeons the… -
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Republicans Weigh in on Bill Banning Transgender Procedures
Republicans’ commitment to ending the mutilation of children is being tested this week with the upcoming House vote on the Protect Children’s Innocence Act. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and co-sponsored by more than 40 other House Republicans, seeks to criminalize providing transgender surgeries or medications to minors in the United… -
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‘Is This a Babylon Bee Headline?’: Massachusetts Appoints Trans Activist to Women’s Commission
Democrat Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is drawing fire from conservatives for appointing Giselle Byrd, a biological male transgender activist, as the new vice chair of the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women’s Programming and Planning Committee. The appointment became effective Nov. 1. “Is this a Babylon Bee headline?” Massachusetts Family Institute wrote on Facebook… -
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Study Suggests Transgender Contagion Fizzling Out
The transgender social contagion among the young may be fizzling out and there are numbers to back it up. A report released on Wednesday concluded that the number of young American identifying as transgender or nonbinary has dipped in the last few years. This represents a major reversal given that transgenderism had been an exploding… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Times Square Billboard Blasts Company for ‘Woke Bathroom Insanity’
A nonprofit launched a Times Square billboard Thursday blasting a major insurance company CEO for saying that preventing men from using women’s restrooms is a “threat to democracy.” The billboard, created by the nonprofit Consumers’ Research, targets Chubb Insurance CEO Evan Greenberg for what it calls “outrageous woke activism.” The billboard, which went live at 3 p.m. Thursday, features an animated video of a man walking… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Nonprofit Asks Feds to Investigate Schools’ ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ Practices
A conservative nonprofit asked the Federal Trade Commission Friday to look into schools’ use of federal funding to encourage “gender-affirming care” for kids. Advancing American Freedom asked the FTC to investigate what it calls schools’ fraudulent practices around gender-affirming care, including their alleged use of misinformation and deception to encourage treatments that cause “life-long harm.” … -
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‘CULTURE OF VIOLENCE’: How a Big Leftist Transgender Group Juices the Numbers to Demonize Critics
The assassination of Charlie Kirk and other recent shootings that appear motivated by transgender ideology raise questions about the potential radicalizing nature of heated rhetoric on the issue, particularly from influential groups like the Human Rights Campaign. While the Human Rights Campaign does not call for violence against conservatives, it publishes reports claiming there is… -
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Keep Children Safe From Transgender Politics
Before Robin Westman murdered two children and wounded many more at Minneapolis’ Annunciation Catholic School, Robin was Robert, a troubled teenager whose mother worked for the parish. Robert’s mother approved the name change, but after Robert became Robin in 2020, the teen’s psychological problems obviously didn’t go away—they led, five years later, to carnage. A… -
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School Allegedly Allowed Her Daughter to Socially Transition to a Boy
She got the knife away from her daughter. The teenager looked like a “deer in headlights” after the failed suicide attempt, her mother says. Driving to the hospital, the girl did not say much. She was taking medicine for her depression, but clearly, something was very wrong. The teen remained in the hospital from April… -
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Pete’s Telling ‘Pivot’
Once again, a Democrat is using slippery language to imply he understands the unfairness of men in women’s sports. “I think most reasonable people would recognize that there are serious fairness issues if you just treat this as not mattering when a trans athlete wants to compete in women’s sports,” former Biden administration Transportation Secretary… -
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US Olympic Committee’s Ban on Trans-Identifying Males From Women’s Sports Hailed by Lawmakers
Members of Congress are hailing the decision by the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee to update its policy to prohibit trans-identifying males from competing for the U.S. in women’s Olympic sports. “The U.S. Olympic Committee finally did what should’ve been done all along to protect women’s sports. This is a major win for fairness and… -
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Illustrated by a Detransitioner, New Children’s Book Encourages Embracing Their God-Given Sex
A new children’s book promoting self-acceptance of one’s God-given sex and illustrated by a former “transgender” individual who has “detransitioned” was released last week. Written by licensed social worker and family advocate Pamela Garfield-Jaeger, “Froggy Girl” speaks to the current cultural phenomenon that children are told they can change their gender. Garfield-Jaeger worked with Nicolas… -
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Trump Admin’s Dismantling of Gender Ideology Leaves Activists, Legacy Media Reeling
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Trump administration’s massive crackdown on gender ideology across the U.S. has left some activists reeling, CNN reported this week. Multiple activists told the outlet that they have become discouraged by the administration’s sweeping efforts to dismantle gender ideology as part of a broader push to terminate diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives across all federal government agencies, education,… -
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Threatened at Boston Marathon: New Mom Takes Stand for Women’s Sports, Common Sense
Running in the Boston Marathon was a longtime dream for Natalie Daniels, and doing it six months’ postpartum, she says, felt like a way to celebrate the beauty and power of the female body. That’s why Daniels says she was troubled to learn that the Boston Marathon was now allowing men who identify as women… -
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California Assembly Looks to Hand Children to Traffickers and Gender Activists
California’s radical Legislature is poised to destroy yet another child safeguard, the latest casualty in a long line of overturned protections. AB 495, introduced by Assemblymember Celeste Rodriguez, purports to protect immigrant children from the threat of deportation. But its remedy defies logic. The bill grants custody of a child to any unrelated adult who…