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CHARLESTON, West Virginia (LifeSiteNews) — West Virginia became one of the latest states to crack down on mutilating transgender interventions for kids on Wednesday after Republican Gov. Jim Justice signed a new bill restricting the practice. The measure contains a carveout for teens determined to be at risk of suicide or another type of self-harm, despite evidence strongly indicating that transgender interventions do not lessen, and may actually increase, suicidal ideation. Slated to take effect in January, the new West Virginia law will prohibit physicians from performing surgeries on minors to make them look like the opposite sex, or prescribing...

SALT LAKE CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The governor of Utah signed a bill last week that effectively bans gender-confused minors from procuring mutilating surgeries and accessing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. Republican Gov. Spencer Cox, who is openly supportive of the LGBT agenda, signed SB 16, which provides protections for minors who are victims of the lie that they can “transition” to the opposite sex. The bill, titled “Transgender [sic] Medical Treatments and Procedures Amendments,” was sponsored by Republican Senator Michael Kennedy and takes effect immediately. SB 16 “prohibits a health care provider from providing a hormonal transgender treatment [sic] to...

Former President Donald Trump is boasting his largest lead yet in the latest Morning Consult survey analyzing the potential 2024 Republican primary field. The survey, updated once weekly, found Trump’s lead jumping five percent over the last week. He now stands with 58 percent support in the potential 2024 Republican primary field, compared to the 53 percent he garnered last week.While Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is maintaining his second place position, he lost support this week, moving from 24 percent support to 21 percent.In other words, Trump now leads DeSantis by 37 percent — up from 29 percent last week....

JACKSON (LifeSiteNews) — Republican Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill on Tuesday that bans doctors from providing “transition” procedures and drugs to minors, including dispensing puberty blockers and performing “sex change” surgeries. According to the provisions of the Regulate Experimental Adolescent Procedures Act (REAL Act), doctors who provide someone under the age of 18 with “transition” procedures will be liable to lose their medical license. The law also allows those who received “transitions” to sue the doctors who provided them with drugs or surgeries, with a 30-year statute of limitations. The law further prohibits the use of government funds...

Former FOX News booking producer filed lawsuits against the channel on Monday after the left the company. Abby Grossberg was a booking producer at the channel for Maria Bartiromo and Tucker Carlson. On Monday Grossberg filed a lawsuit alleging the company’s legal team urged her to answer “I don’t know” to questions in the company’s lawsuit with Dominion voting machines. Grossberg started with the company in 2019 – not that long ago. .... Snip.... Mediaite reported: Nicolle Wallace interviewed Abby Grossberg, the former booker for Tucker Carlson Tonight who is Fox News for discrimination, on her MSNBC show on Tuesday....

ATLANTA, Georgia (LifeSiteNews) — The governor of Georgia has approved a new law which partially bans so-called “gender-reassignment” interventions for minors in his state. On March 23, Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia signed into law Senate Bill 140, which bars doctors from prescribing “cross-sex” hormones and surgical procedures to individuals under the age of 18 who present with gender dysphoria. “Today I signed SB 140 into law to ensure we protect the health and wellbeing of Georgia’s children,” Kemp tweeted. “As Georgians, parents, and elected leaders, it is our highest responsibility to safeguard the bright, promising futures of our kids...

I first met Bobby Kennedy Jr. when he showed up one summer afternoon in 1976 at the door of my ordinary suburban home in the company of a friend from Harvard named Peter Shapiro, who was running for a seat in the New Jersey State Assembly. I was 9 years old, and not particularly thrilled about our family’s recent move from Brooklyn to a street of empty suburban lawns whose nearest point of interest was a candy store a mile or so down a steep hill. The two polite, handsome young men in navy blazers, both in their 20s and...

BOISE, Idaho (LifeSiteNews) — The governor of Idaho has signed into law a bill law prohibits so-called “gender transitions” for minors in his state. On Tuesday, Republican Gov. Brad Little signed the Vulnerable Child Protection Act in a major victory for children and families, effectively banning the use of puberty blockers, cross sex hormones, and mutilating surgeries in the name of “gender affirmation.” “These experimental, irreversible, and medically unnecessary pharmaceutical and surgical interventions violate the Hippocratic oath, taken by physicians for millennia, to ‘do no harm’,” the bill states. “Therefore, the state of Idaho has a compelling government interest in...

Half of working-age households in New York City do not make enough money to cover basic needs, according to a new report. That marks a significant jump from the group's 2021 study, when it found that 36% of households were struggling. It said the surge was driven by the sharp rise in prices in recent years - especially for housing and childcare.

PORTLAND (LifeSiteNews) — A gender-confused man reportedly stabbed a Taxi driver to death in Portland on Easter Sunday. Moses Jacob Lopez, a man who portrays himself as a woman, has been charged with murder and unlawful use of a weapon for allegedly killing a Radio Cab driver in southeast Portland, according to the Portland Police Bureau. Journalist Andy Ngo cites a source who has seen the not-yet-released video recording of the incident and described it as the “most disturbing and gruesome video I have seen.” The video reportedly showed the 30-year-old Lopez getting in the cab while wearing “a tiara...

uw Pill, the Bank of England’s chief economist, has said that Brits “need to accept” that they are poorer as a result of higher inflation. Price hikes have outpaced wage growth over the past two years and contributed to the tightest squeeze on living standards in recent memory.

Jack Poso 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec Biden doesn’t need to campaign when he has a ballot harvesting apparatus in every key state Lesson in that 9:41 AM · Apr 25, 2023

The Governor of Washington Democrat Jay Inslee signing legislation to ban the import, manufacture and sale of so-called "assault weapons"... The center of Canada's capital city is again filled with demonstrators and the mainstream media is taking notice. But it has nothing to do with last year's Freedom Convoy in Ottawa... "Disagreements and anger must be expressed in a purely democratic and respectful framework" French President Emmanuel Macron taking aim at the ongoing protests involving the banging of pots and pans... The British American Tobacco Company agreeing to pay a fine to US authorities for violating sanctions against North Korea......

LifeSiteNews) — In the second installment of a three-part investigative report exposing the transgender industry, conservative nonprofit Project Veritas revealed that a New Jersey gender clinic and a Houston, Texas pharmacy were seemingly willing to begin gender transition procedures for very young children and undocumented illegal immigrants. In the first installment of the report published on Wednesday, undercover journalists had found that gender clinics were seeing patients as young as eight or nine years old, LifeSiteNews previously reported. One doctor told a Veritas reporter his gender center could prescribe puberty-blocking drugs to a 10-year-old child. The latest video report, released...

(LifeSiteNews) — In the first installment in an investigative series exposing the multi-billion dollar transgender industry, Project Veritas revealed that gender clinics are working with patients as young as eight years old to start them on a path of sterilizing drugs and mutilating surgeries. In the video posted to social media on Thursday, undercover reporters with the investigative outlet spoke to gender clinic employees in New York and Texas to find out whether they would begin transition processes for gender-confused children as young as eight or 10 years old. The report is the first in a three-part series of investigative...

Christians in Sudan are appealing for prayer amid fears that Islamist extremists may exploit the growing conflict and instability in the country. According to Open Doors, the country's two million Christians fear Islamist extremists could use the current chaos to bring about a devastating return to harsh Sharia law. Fikiru Mehari, an Open Doors researcher for the East Africa region, has warned that the collapse of the country will cause "untold suffering" for the people of Sudan. The warning comes as hundreds of foreign diplomats from the US, UK and other countries were evacuated on Sunday following a week of...

Leading trans health group (whatever that means), WPATH, has a bone to pick with Matt Walsh. Seems they consider him enemy number one … As if that could possibly be a bad thing. Leading trans health group names Matt Walsh as top enemy, equates bans on child sex changes to racismhttps://t.co/D1XXCVQIbp — The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) April 24, 2023 From The Post Millennial: The president of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) has penned a letter in which the celebrity gender surgeon compares bans on experimental child sex changes to racial discrimination and claims that nature lacks a...

Rome Newsroom, Apr 21, 2023 / 09:25 am The head of the Coptic Church is scheduled to offer the Orthodox Divine Liturgy in the Catholic Archbasilica of St. John Lateran in Rome on May 14. According to Father Martin Browne, an official at the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, this liturgy will take place in the context of an official visit of Coptic Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria to the Vatican and “has been arranged following appropriate consultation.” In comments to the National Catholic Register on April 21, Browne drew a distinction between the Orthodox liturgy scheduled for May...

The Republican National Committee released a video Tuesday depicting the country under a second term of President Joe Biden using images generated by artificial intelligence. The video, titled "Beat Biden," begins with narration saying the 2024 election has been called for Biden and asks, "What if the weakest president we've ever had were reelected?"

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