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In June 2022, two Centennial Elementary School students in Olympia, Wash., disappeared. Their parents, Indian immigrants, had quietly driven them out of state, to Oregon, before they eventually decided to fly back to their former home country. No one in Olympia has seen the children since. “My daughter mentioned that Tia had been gone from school for a couple of weeks,” said Jess Davis, whose daughter was a classmate of Tia’s, one of the family’s children. (I have changed most of the names in this report to respect requests for anonymity.) “We were at an ice cream social that our...

Dwyane Wade’s legacy with the Miami Heat will be immortalized with a statue outside the Kaseya Center in 2024, team president Pat Riley announced on Jan. 14. It will be the first statue erected to honor a former Heat player. “When we retired his jersey in February 2020, I said Dwyane was the face of this franchise forever and I meant it,” Pat Riley said. “Dwyane’s legacy is a towering one

God was good to Megyn Kelly during Wednesday night’s GOP debate.The podcaster and former Fox News host said she had “prayed to God and all of the angels above” for the opportunity to ask former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie about his shocking stance on medical interventions for children who are gender confused.

Two customers at an Orlando location of the grocery chain Publix wanted a cake for an event they were holding late last month celebrating and supporting the transgender community..."Trans people deserve joy" was the inscription they asked to be written in icing decorating a colorful sheet cake. But the bakery worker taking the order hesitated. "After a loooooong waiting period a manager comes up...and says, 'yeah, we can't write that we aren't allowed to take stance either ways on this issue... ...the corporate account for Publix responded to Flasterstein's Facebook post with an apology - and an offer to make...

Big news in Florida this week as the state's medical licensing board moves to ban bodily mutilation of transgender-identifying children: NBC Out @NBCOUT · Follow Florida Board of Medicine votes to start drafting a rule that will bar all minors in the state from receiving puberty blockers, hormone therapy or surgeries as treatment for gender dysphoria. After five hours of tense testimony and protests, the Florida Board of Medicine voted Friday to start drafting a rule that would bar all minors in the state from receiving puberty blockers, hormone therapy or surgeries as treatment for gender dysphoria. Florida's medical board...

My name is Helena, and as of this writing I’m a 23-year-old woman who, as a teenager, believed I was transgender. In the years since detransitioning (stopping testosterone treatment and no longer seeing myself as transgender), I’ve become interested in exploring why, in the last decade, nearly every English-speaking country has seen a meteoric rise in adolescents believing they are transgender and pursuing cosmetic medical and surgical interventions. Here, I’d like to go over how and why I came to see myself as transgender, the process of transitioning, and the events leading up to and following my detransition. The short...

Deconstructing the reality dysphoria dialogue. The satirical Babylon Bee recently selected Rachel Levine as its “first annual Man of the Year.” “Levine,” the Bee explained, “is the U.S. assistant secretary for health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he proudly serves as the first man in that position to dress like a western cultural stereotype of a woman. He is also an admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. What a boss!” Since announcing the award, the Bee added, “we’ve been told that Levine actually identifies as a woman. We have still chosen to...

hristopher Rufo, the conservative activist who shined a spotlight on Critical Race Theory in schools, resulting in multiple states banning the toxic curricula, has set his sights on the Walt Disney Company after Disney publicly opposed the Parental Rights in Education bill, which Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently signed into law. The sensible anti-grooming law prohibits Florida educators from teaching or discussing sexual orientation and gender identity issues to school children in kindergarten through third grade. In response to the legislation, Disney said in a statement: “Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the...

US Army Announces Mandatory Training on PRONOUNS AND GENDER Dysphoria — Just As Russia Invades Ukraine, Surrounds Kiev... https://twitter.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1499453544583344137

In 2015, during the Obama administration, the Supreme Court ruled that the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment requires states to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. This decision — which made the final pronouncement on the first major battle about gender confusion — rendered meaningless the distinction between men and women. It was no longer necessary for a married couple to comprise a male and a female. In a marriage, there could now be two husbands or two wives. The weekend prior to this ruling, Bruce Jenner, a former decathlete who won gold in the 1976 Olympics, came...

One thing that has always haunted the transgender trend is the regret that many feel after they’ve had transitional surgeries or hormone treatments done to them. Mainstream media sources were more or less terrified of discussing it, and even universities were afraid of looking into it out of fear of backlash from the LGBT community.All the way back in 2018, I wrote how Bath Spa University originally approved psychotherapist James Caspian’s request for de-transitioning research after thousands who underwent some form of transition surgery began showing up to surgeons for reversals. Surgeons noticed that those who came in to receive...

A former trans-identified woman who has de-transitioned is stressing the importance of treating those struggling with gender dysphoria “the same way we would treat any other young person who's struggling with mental health issues” instead of allowing them to alter their bodies permanently. Helena Kerschner, a 22-year-old de-transitioned woman who once identified as a transgender man, shared her story last Friday at the Q 2021 Culture Summit with the Center for Faith, Sexuality, and Gender President Preston Sprinkle. As a child, Kerschner said there was “no indication” she would struggle with gender dysphoria. And then, at the age of 15,...

The American Humanist Association (AHA) has revoked its top “Humanist of the Year” honor from British biologist and noted atheist Richard Dawkins for the academic’s history of demeaning marginalized groups under “the guise of scientific discourse,” the group announced Monday, pointing to a recent statement that questions the validity of transgender people and suggests Black identity can be “assumed when convenient.”

If I had known, 20 years ago, that my side in the ideological wars over gender and sex was going to win so decisively, I would have been ecstatic. Back then, I spent many evenings at the pub or at dinner parties debating gender and identity with other graduate students; or, really, anyone who would listen—my mother-in-law, my relatives, or just a random person unlucky enough to be in my presence. I insisted that there was no such thing as sex. And I knew it. I just knew it. Because I was a gender historian. This was, in the 1990s,...

PLEASE EMAIL THIS TO ANY AND ALL INTERESTED IN THE SUBJECT. At an undisclosed location somewhere in North America, a small group of parents met for a secret meeting. When they arrived, they were warned not to use their real names or reveal where they were from. Not that they weren’t trusted—they had been thoroughly vetted beforehand—but if real names or hometowns were not known, then no one could inadvertently let them slip. The location of the meeting was also a concern. Three or four locations had already been considered, then eliminated, because the venue needed to know the purpose...

Gender Dysphoria and Darwinism April 5, 2019 by Dr Jerry Bergman The belief that some people are born in bodies of the wrong sex was challenged by a recent scientific study claiming this condition amounted to what the researchers termed “rapid onset gender dysphoria.” Dysphoria means “a state of dissatisfaction, anxiety, restlessness, or fidgeting”—a disorder, in other words, implying an unnatural state, as opposed to euphoria, “a state of intense happiness and self-confidence.” The finding would appear to agree with Genesis 1:27 and 2:24, quoted by Jesus, who said, “From the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and...

Next Thursday, I will get a vagina. The procedure will last around six hours, and I will be in recovery for at least three months. Until the day I die, my body will regard the vagina as a wound; as a result, it will require regular, painful attention to maintain. This is what I want, but there is no guarantee it will make me happier. In fact, I don’t expect it to. That shouldn’t disqualify me from getting it. I like to say that being trans is the second-worst thing that ever happened to me. (The worst was being born...

Brown University removed a news story it had published about research suggesting that young people’s decisions to transition from one sex to another is influenced by their peers and social media after angering the transgender community.

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 23, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – The Obama Health and Human Services Department is finalizing a regulation requiring insurers under Obamacare to pay for genital reconstruction surgery. A sweeping "Nondiscrimination Mandate" applies federal civil rights laws to the Affordable Care Act, calling for medical plans that receive federal funds to cover gender reassignment surgeries, under the guise of helping gender-confused individuals. It is unclear whether the Obama nondiscrimination mandate will also force private insurers, such as companies that run their own employee health plans, to cover surgery attempting to change one's gender.  Under federal law (referred to as ERISA),...

AfD politician Steffen Königer ridiculed the Greens in the Brandenburg Parliament for their proposal of a "Campaign for Acceptance of Gender and Sexual diversity, Self-Determination and against Homo and Trans*-phobia in Brandenburg" as well as "Giving equal rights and societal equality for LGBTTQQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Trans, Two-spirit, Queer, Questioning) people in Brandenburg" by quoting 60 of the Genders considered by Leftists to be actual identities - they're straight from Facebook's Gender option list. He finished his introduction of almost 3 minutes by stating that his party rejects the proposal. Some Genders have different names in German, so I translated...