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For years, two sets of chimpanzees lived as one in Uganda’s Kibale National Park — grooming, interacting and patrolling their territory in a cohesive community.Then suddenly, one set charged the other, touching off yearslong bloodshed that researchers are comparing to a human civil war.“It was just chaos,” said John Mitani, a professor emeritus in anthropology at the University of Michigan who had been following the chimpanzees for two decades when the violence began in 2015. “They started to scream, shout, chase each other.”For three years after the outbreak, Mitani and his collaborator, Aaron Sandel, an associate professor of anthropology at...

Aim To examine the prevalence of severe psychiatric morbidity among gender-referred adolescents, focusing on gender differences and outcomes related to medical gender reassignment. SNIP Conclusion Severe psychiatric morbidity is common among gender-referred adolescents and appears to be more prevalent in those referred after the recent surge in referrals. Psychiatric needs do not subside after medical gender reassignment. Summary Gender-referred adolescents show high psychiatric morbidity, yet gender differences and mental health trajectories after medical gender reassignment remain poorly understood. These adolescents had markedly higher psychiatric morbidity than controls before and after referral, with treatment needs often persisting and even intensifying after...

A federal judge in Oregon ruled on Thursday that Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. overreached in his push to restrict transgender health care for minors, according to multiple outlets. Judge Mustafa Kasubhai, an appointee of former President Biden, reportedly found Kennedy did not adhere to proper administrative procedures when he declared in December that gender-affirming health care for transgender youth was “neither safe nor effective.” The HHS chief’s written declaration also asserted that physicians who provided the treatment, including hormones and surgeries, “will be deemed not to meet professionally recognized standards of health care.” “The...

An outrageous travesty of justice occurred in Missouri recently that could cause millions of Americans to lose faith in the criminal justice system. As KSHB reported on Wednesday, a radical judge ordered a deranged leftist credibly accused in federal court of firebombing two Tesla Cybertrucks and charging stations in Kansas City to be released from prison back on April 24. United States Magistrate Judge Jessica Hedges ruled that it was wrong to hold 19-year-old Owen McIntire behind bars before trial for his alleged crimes after agreeing with the defense’s desperate pleas for mercy. FOX4 obtained court documents that revealed the...

A fringe candidate, angry at being excluded from an upcoming forum at a Jewish temple, emailed antisemitic messages to local reporters and public figures.Peter Liu, pictured at a recent mayoral candidate forum, has sent a slew of attacks against Jewish people on an email thread this week. Credit: Amir Aziz A candidate for Oakland mayor has been widely condemned for making antisemitic comments in mass emails first sent on Sunday. A fellow candidate has been criticized for his initial response to those comments. On Sunday, Peter Liu, who has twice run for Oakland mayor and never gotten more than 1%...

Isn't accepting bribes a crime? I always thought it was.

California has long been the most insurrectionist of the states. Some states promised sanctuary to illegal aliens. California promises to go after law enforcement if they follow the law and cooperate with federal immigration authorities. Now California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who hopes to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom, is threatening hospitals that they must ignore Trump’s executive orders and go on sterilizing kids. California Attorney General Rob Bonta today reminded California hospitals and federally-funded healthcare providers of their ongoing obligation under California anti-discrimination law to provide gender affirming care amid confusion resulting from President Trump’s Office of Management and Budget...

The GR00MERS are absolutely LIVID President Trump is protecting our children!

New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday told hospitals that they would be violating state law if they stop offering gender-affirming care for people under age 19 in response to an executive order from President Donald Trump aimed at curtailing federal funding for such treatments. In a letter, James, a Democrat, told health care facilities that refusing to provide the treatments would violate New York’s anti-discrimination laws. “Regardless of the availability of federal funding, we write to further remind you of your obligations to comply with New York State laws,” her letter reads. …

Our Nation will no longer fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support so-called "gender affirming care," which has already ruined far too many precious lives. My Order directs Agencies to use every available means to cut off Federal financial participation in institutions which seek to provide these barbaric medical procedures, that should have never been allowed to take place!

President Donald Trump signed a broad executive order targeting transition-related medical care for minors Tuesday. The order, titled “Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” intends to restrict access to gender-affirming medical care — including puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgery — for minors, which it defines as those younger than 19. It prohibits federal funding from covering such care for minors, restricts research and education grants to medical schools and hospitals, and directs the secretary of Health and Human Services to issue regulations to end such care for minors. The order also directs all federal agencies to rescind guidance...

The killer-children whose true stories escape the resolute censorship intention of news media and other special interests, resemble cannibal-zombie characters in the pioneering "space-western" science ficition, the 2002 Fox series "Firefly" homicidal, the insane killer "Reavers". Rather than providing compassionate rehabilitation for sexually abused children, the school-cult exploits their troubles under various pretexts such as "Don't Say Gay", which reposes on the fiction that "we were made that way", whereas the fact is "they HAVE BEEN made that way"--by older children and adults. (Expert on divorce Barbara Dafoe Whitehead notes that the younger a child undergoes initiation, the more likely...

Lt. General William G. Boykin FRC Action 801 G Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20001 Tel: 1-877/372-2808 Dear Robert, I wanted to share some good news regarding the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), an important piece of legislation that provides funding and sets policies for the U.S. Department of Defense. First, the effort to "Draft our Daughters" has been thwarted for another year! Language requiring women to register with the Selective Service (which would make them eligible for any future military drafts) has been removed from this year's NDAA. In addition, this year's NDAA includes a provision that prohibits taxpayer...

Liberal-leaning Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor compared the risks of puberty blockers and sex-mutilating surgeries for minors to the risks of taking Aspirin on Wednesday. Sotomayor made the shocking comparison during oral arguments in United States v. Skrmetti, a case brought by the Biden administration challenging Tennessee’s law banning sex change drugs and procedures for minors who believe they are transgender.

The first and most famous was pretty much her introduction to the entire country as the soon-to-be Supreme Court Justice who could not define what a woman was because?BECAUSE?Not a biologist™.Remember that time Kentaji Brown Jackson, now a Supreme Court Justice could not give a definition for "woman"Good times 🤦‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/L1sh4a41rF— Kat™ The Hammer ⚒️ (@KatTheHammer1) March 19, 2024Ho, boy.There have been some memorable stumbles since, but today?Today, she has come close to eclipsing that moment in the sun.The case being heard is a challenge to a Tennessee law that bars 'risky gender transition interventions for minors.' That's the key...

Today the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that sought to overturn a ban on gender affirming care for minors in Tennessee. Of course you can't always tell how things are going to turn out by listening to the arguments but you can sometimes get a hint of what each justice is thinking. So here are some of the highlights (or lowlights depending how you look at it).U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth B. Prelogar Argues the Ban is Sex DiscriminationFirst up and setting the tone for the opponents of the ban was Prelogar.She argues that the law is a...

Title-DAMNING Admission: ACLU Lawyer Tells SCOTUS 'Gender Affirming Surgery' Doesn't Decrease Suicidality- We're going to hear a lot about the case argued before SCOTUS today -- the ACLU's challenge to Tennessee's law prohibiting 'gender affirming' surgeries for minors. We've told you about it throughout the day, because there are a lot of highlights worth discussing, like Justice Alito using the 'gender fluid' argument against the pro-trans Leftists. Here's another gem from Justice Alito: Huge moment at SCOTUS. Alito pulled up Page 195 of the Cass report, showing that child sex-changes don't actually prevent suicide. ACLU attorney Chase Strangio admits in...

The arguments are expected to start at 10 p.m. EST. The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments against a Tennessee law that bans gender-affirming care for minors. The arguments are expected to start at 10 p.m. EST. You can watch live here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6qhn5MQWn0

"All children deserve to grow up healthy and whole," a flyer for the event stated. "All parents deserve to make informed decisions to protect their children, without emotional blackmail by physicians blindsided by ideology." The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear arguments in a case out of Tennessee regarding child sex changes. Outside the Washington, DC high court, detransitioners and others will speak out against the practice at an event called the Do No Harm rally. The rally will be hosted by Do No Harm, a nonprofit run by medical professionals who oppose child sex changes, to "stand up for...

Attorney Chase Strangio will be arguing before the Supreme Court on Wednesday this week to advocate for child sex changes on behalf of the ACLU. Strangio, a trans-identified female, will be arguing that Tennessee must allow children in the state to undergo pharmaceutical and surgical sex changes. The US DOJ brought suit against Tennessee, claiming that "the law leaves the same treatments entirely unrestricted if they are prescribed for any other purpose." In other words, if girls can be prescribed estrogen for medical reasons, then it is discriminatory to deprive boys of that estrogen for gender reasons. As an activist...