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The state’s medical board, whose members are appointed by the governor, has barred doctors from prescribing gender care to new adolescent patients.

Florida's Board of Medicine and Board of Osteopathic Medicine both approved a rule on Friday to prohibit minors in the state from receiving gender transition surgeries, puberty blockers, and hormone therapies, the first such ban initiated through state medical boards. Under the new rule, people under 18 years old will be prohibited from receiving these treatments. The Board of Osteopathic Medicine passed an exception in its rule for those that are already enrolled in a Food and Drug Administration Institutional Review Board-approved clinical trial at an affiliated university center, while the Board of Medicine did not. Board attorney Ed Tellechea...

"I Was Lied To, It Destroyed My Body" (Emotional Trans Regrets) Started Her Transition at 16, NOW Regrets It at 20. So Many Sad Stories: Transition Regrets -

LifeSiteNews) — Utah County authorities have made their first arrest in a ritual abuse scandal that spans decades and includes accusations that members of the Mormon clergy and prominent local families participated in satanic activities. Mormon ex-therapist David Hamblin, accused of frequent satanic abuse, was arrested last month and booked on seven counts related to sexual abuse of a child – including charges of sodomy and rape. In a press release, Utah County Sheriff Mike Smith said: “Despite efforts by some individuals to delegitimize this investigation as well as intimidate witnesses and law enforcement, this investigation has moved forward with...

The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) is a liberal dark money group, receiving funding from organizations like Google, Twitter, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, with regular and direct access to top Biden Administration officials. This production of documents shows regular emails from May 2021 through August 2021. Altman wrote that the 36% opposing school mask mandates is “made up of the usual suspects,” and “of course is large enough to make some trouble.” He continued that “prohibitions against school requiring masks…may only be a political winner in deep-red communities.” A mere three days later, on August 13, 2021, the...

House Republicans from South Carolina are demanding that their state’s school system end its relationship with an association of psychologists that opposes their effort to end drag shows and other sexually explicit programs for kids. Reps. Jeff Duncan, Nancy Mace, Ralph Norman, William Timmons and Joe Wilson on Thursday urged South Carolina’s superintendent of education to sever all relationships with the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) and its state-level affiliate, after that group came out in opposition to legislation that would ban the use of federal funds for drag shows, drag queen story hours and other events they say...

An "evil" mother and her bodybuilder boyfriend have been jailed for life for murdering her teenage son. Agnieszka Kalinowska, 35, and Andrzej Latoszewski, 38, tortured Sebastian Kalinowski at their home in Huddersfield for months before he died in August 2021. The couple were found guilty of murder after a trial at Leeds Crown Court. Kalinowska and Latoszewski were both told they would spend a minimum of 39 years in prison for his killing. Mrs Justice Lambert said it was impossible to watch the CCTV footage, which captured much of Sebastian's abuse in the home, without being "utterly horrified". Her sentencing...

California law SB-107 allows access to destructive transgender surgeries for all American children without parental consent

SNIP The author, 41, alleges that Wade, 40, “is positioned to profit from the minor child’s name and gender change with various companies through contacts and marketing opportunities including but not limited to deals with Disney.” SNIP Enlarge ImageDwyane Wade's ex-wife claims the NBA star wants to legally change their trans daughter's name for financial gain. Dwyane Wade’s ex-wife claims the NBA star wants to legally change their trans daughter’s name for financial gain. Funches-Wade claims that during an April 2022 meeting with Wade in Atlanta, the former pro baller told her that “a lot of money had been already...

A top doctor at a gender clinic in Philadelphia has come under fire for claiming age is just 'a number' — in defense of performing sex change surgery on minors. In a video from 2020, Dr Nadia Dowshen, co-director of the Gender and Sexuality Development Clinic, suggested a child's maturity was 'more important' than exact age. She admitted doctors at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia performed 'top surgery' on patients as young as 14, which involves removing or implanting breasts.

The GayBINGO! event featured "campy entertainment" that was guided by the "antics of the drag-queens-on-skates Bingo-Verifying Divas." ... Josh Shapiro, the Democrat candidate running for governor of Pennsylvania, attended an event called GayBINGO! In November 2009, which featured drag queens skating around and entertaining the crowd, including "children." A photo posted to social media shows then-State Representative Shapiro guffawing on stage next to one of the drag queens as bingo numbers are read. The caption to the photo reads, "Rep. Shapiro sponsored a game of BINGO for the AIDS Fund Philly's monthly GayBINGO! Event." ... According to Philadelphia Gay News,...

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...

An 18-year-old woman is rapidly becoming one of the most powerful voices against transitioning children at a moment in which most politicians and media outlets lack the courage to speak out. Chloe Cole is a self-described “former trans kid” who de-transitioned after undergoing years of puberty blockers and an irreversible double mastectomy at the age of 15. Cole is now traveling across the country to share her story and raise the alarm about gender transition procedures on children, a growing trend she calls “child abuse” and “medical experimentation.” “I’m planning to keep doing this until it stops,” Cole told CNA...

Georgetown lecture slides describe puberty blockers as ‘fully reversible’Georgetown University’s School of Medicine is teaching its students to administer puberty blockers and hormone therapy to minors, an investigation by The Spectator reveals. Medical students were told in a 2021 pre-clinical course that the “only way to help” many transgender people is to “‘fix’ their bodies” through medical intervention. The course also falsely claimed that puberty blockers are “fully reversible.” Georgetown University did not return a request for comment. First year medical students at Georgetown are required to take a course on Human Sexuality, which is part of a foundational block...

As a sixth-grade public school teacher in Florida, I’ve come to expect the worst from Gov. Ron DeSantis and his Department of Education. The governor’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill put a target on the back of LGBTQ students and teachers: It outlaws “classroom instruction” on sexual orientation or gender identity (whatever that is) in grades K-3 and severely limits it in grades 4-12. That was bad enough. But this fall, the situation got worse. Previously, if a parent accused us of violating the Don’t Say Gay law, they could sue the school district. Now the Department of Education has declared...

The Florida Board of Medicine has voted to ban 'gender affirming care' for transgender teenagers in the state. The move will block access to puberty blockers and hormone therapies to minors in order to treat gender dysphoria. Those receiving the drugs for other reasons will be exempt from this decision. Board members said the decision was made based on the irreversibility of the drugs and the growing number of people choosing to 'de-transition'.

A federal judge rebuked the DOJ this week for targeting conservative nonprofit Eagle Forum of Alabama with a stunning subpoena — punishing the wrongthinker on gender ideology by process and sending a chilling message to other dissenters from regime orthodoxy. The judge’s ruling came in Boe v. Marshall, a case in which the Justice Department intervened this spring, suing Alabama over the constitutionality of its Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act. That law prohibits Alabamans from rendering so-called “gender-affirming care” to minors — which can include giving them puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones and even surgically removing their breasts and...

Fierce clashes broke out at a ‘drag queen story event’ in Oregon which was slated to include a performance by an 11-year-old whose former 'drag mom' is a suspected pedophile. Protesters against the event faced off with supporters outside the venue, Old Nick’s Pub, which is named after Satan, and which also holds adult fetish nights.

When Katie Thoms learned that Fern Hill Elementary School teachers had undergone training to instruct K-5 students about gender identity, she felt disheartened. “It’s inappropriate,” she said. “This subject matter is sensitive, and it should be discussed with children and their families. It’s also a distraction from the focus on education and what the school’s mission is really supposed to be.” Thoms, who lives in West Goshen Township, is the mother of a 10-year-old boy named David in the 4th grade at Fern Hill Elementary School. She monitors his schoolwork for signs of LGBT influences. “My husband and I ask...

The Democrats have let the extreme left take control of their party, though their media wing, AKA the legacy media, does its best to conceal the extent of the party's lurch to the left. Older and wiser heads, like James Carville, warn them of the danger ahead, but even as an electoral repudiation on November 8 looms, fear of the extremists keeps veteran Dems from openly repudiating positions that are very unpopular with voters. Perhaps the clearest example of this phenomenon is the use of life-altering techniques — surgery and puberty-blockers that permanently sterilize an individual — on minor children...