Transgender News
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Transgender Faux Females Have No Place in Miss Universe Pageant
How humiliating and disheartening must it be for a Miss Universe pageant contestant to lose to a “woman” with a penis and testicles? That, regrettably, is not a hypothetical question. That’s exactly what happened to real young women earlier this year in preliminary pageants in two European nations, Portugal and the Netherlands. On Saturday night,… -
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2 Transgenders to Compete for Miss Universe Title Following Pageant Organization’s Bankruptcy Filing
More than 90 contestants will compete for the title of Miss Universe 2023 on Saturday night, but not all of them are biological women. Two transgender competitors will have the opportunity to capture the crown after winning qualifier pageants in their home countries. The male-born contestants—Marina Machete of Portugal and Rikkie Valerie Kollé of the… -
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FACT CHECK: Biden’s Speech to LGBTQ Group Was Fraught With Falsehoods, Fables
President Joe Biden spoke Saturday at the Human Rights Campaign’s annual national dinner. Biden said it was his fourth appearance at the annual event, which is billed as “a national gathering for champions of LGBTQ equality.” Although the 80-year-old president rarely makes public appearances before 10 a.m. or after 4 p.m., he made an exception for his close allies,… -
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5 Falsehoods From First Lady in Remarks to Radical LGBTQ Group
First lady Jill Biden introduced her husband, President Joe Biden as he spoke Saturday at the Human Rights Campaign’s annual national dinner, billed as “a national gathering for champions of LGBTQ equality.” Like a well-planned multi-course meal, Jill Biden prepared the favorable audience for her husband’s truth-lite entrée—which will be analyzed elsewhere—with a complementary appetizer so fanciful it deserves… -
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Father Whose Son Had Transgender Surgery Despite Court Order Issues Dire Warning About Parental Rights
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A California father has urged a court to find his ex-wife, her lawyer, his son's lawyer, and a hospital in contempt of court after they went around a court order stipulating that his son would not receive transgender-related surgery unless the father approved it. "This is not an accident," Ted Hudacko,… -
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Transgender Lawyer Who Wanted to ‘Correct the Errors’ of Jack Phillips’ Thinking May Have His Own Case ‘Corrected’
The First Amendment prohibits the government from acting with hostility against sincere religious beliefs, yet Colorado twice prosecuted Christian baker Jack Phillips with such hostility. This week, Phillips got another chance to defend himself against another kind of hostility—the anger of a male lawyer named Autumn Scardina, who identifies as female and said he wanted… -
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Lawsuit of Physician’s Assistant Fired for Refusing Transgender Directives Gets Judge’s Go-Ahead
Gender ideology often pits parents and children against common sense, but it also all too often pits medical professionals against their religious conscience. In a ruling Sept. 20 from a federal judge in the Western District of Michigan Southern Division, the latter is playing out in real time in an important religious liberty case. In… -
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DHS Awards Anti-Terror Grant for LGBTQ Group to Indoctrinate 6-Year-Olds
The Biden administration has awarded an anti-terrorism grant worth more than half-a-million dollars to an LGBTQ activist group, which distributes condoms and “sex education” material, to expand its “in-school support for LGBTQ+ youth” as young as age 6. The manifesto of its school-based group—which is based on the Black Panthers—calls for the “abolition” of the… -
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THOUSANDS of Minors Went Under the Knife to ‘Affirm’ a Transgender Identity, Study Shows
Transgender advocates repeatedly claim that minors only take "puberty-blocking" drugs or cross-sex hormones, but never undergo surgeries in an attempt to force their male or female bodies to resemble the opposite sex, yet a new study estimates that more than 3,000 minors underwent transgender surgeries in a five-year period, and more than 400 of them… -
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Rock Stars Take on Transgender Agenda
A rock and roll legend is taking on woke culture and the transgender agenda, despite the backlash. In an interview last week with Stereogum, shock-rocker Alice Cooper shared his thoughts on how ridiculous woke culture is. “The whole woke thing … who’s making the rules?” he asked. “Is there a building somewhere in New York where people… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Women Speak Out Against YMCA ‘Transgender’ Bathroom Policies
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… -
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Court Lets State Protect Kids From Transgender ‘Care,’ Making Key Point About Evidence
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… -
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Just How Many Imprisoned Men Who Identify as Transgender Are Guilty of Sexual Assault? More Than Half, New Data Shows
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… -
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Addressing Drinking, Hazing, and LGBTQ Culture in a Mission to Restore Women’s Sports
Drinking, partying, and pressure to explore homosexuality are common within women’s sports, but this does not need to be the norm, according to former college athlete Samantha Kelley. While the “transgender” issue is a new challenge in women’s sports, it has long been “statistically proven that college athletes party more [and] drink more than the… -
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How Christians Should Respond to Transgenderism
How does a church community respond when someone comes through the doors who identifies as transgender, or who is struggling with his or her gender identity? What does a response of love look like? According to author-lawyer John Bursch, the “very first response is accompaniment.” “Just like anybody who is suffering in any situation, whether… -
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Transgender ‘Women’ Aren’t
Jess Hilarious, a well-known comedian and personality, has recently created quite a stir in the world of social media. She dared to voice her opinion on a trending video where a transgender "woman" claimed that "womanhood" and menstruation were not exclusive to biological women. Hilarious responded with the simple truth that only biological women can… -
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SEE YOU IN COURT: Parents Challenge LGBTQ Book Policy That Requires Teachers ‘To Shame Children’ for Religious Faith
Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, Latter-day Saint, Protestant, Ethiopian Orthodox, atheist, and agnostic parents are taking a Maryland school board to court Wednesday, Aug. 9, for denying them the right to opt out of the school’s LGBTQ book curriculum. “These books are in fact teaching explicit sexual orientation and gender identity issues as early as pre-k,” Will… -
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FDA Approves Over-the-Counter Contraceptive, Won’t Say If Recommended for ‘Transgender Women’
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… -
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Transgender-Identifying Man Beats Out Women to Win Netherlands’ Miss Universe Pageant
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… -
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Cycling Competition Creates Third Category for ‘Transgender’ Athletes
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…