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The protestors brought signs reading "Cis people are creepy," "Teens [love] drag shows," and "Trans girls need guns." ... On Saturday, teen detransitioner and anti-grooming activist Chloe Cole was met with left-wing LGBTQ protestors while giving a speech in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, against the trans-medicalization of children. Cole, 18, is a female who underwent a double mastectomy and other transgender medical treatments as a minor before realizing that she wasn't actually a boy, and had been groomed into "gender affirming" procedures. While she spoke at a TPUSA Faith "Teens Against Gender Mutilation" event, protestors attempted to drown her out. ... Murfreesboro...

A golfer is poised to become the first transgender woman to earn a Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) tour card after beating much of her competition in the first two qualifying rounds. Hailey Davidson, 29, had a strong finish in the first two rounds of the first stage of the LPGA and Epson Tour Qualifying School in Palm Springs this week.

Russian workers who do not get vaccinated can be suspended from work... Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin says some who have been vaccinated have developed the "Delta Variant" of COVID-19... In Israel that "Delta Variant" cited in connection with a school outbreak... A member of Uganda's Olympic team testing positive for COVID-19 upon arrival in Tokyo for the Summer Olympics... Armenia's election today... French Regional Elections Low voter participation reported in the first round of French regional elections today... The news tonight as reported by major media is that "Les Republicans" (LR) the traditional party of the "Right" ran strong. Its...

The Vatican issued an official document Monday rejecting the idea that people can choose or change their genders and insisting on the sexual "complementarity" of men and women to make babies. The text, "Male and Female He Created Them," was intended to help Catholics address what the Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education called an "educational crisis" in the field of sex education. It called for a "path of dialogue" and listening on the issue of "gender theory" in education. The document, published during LGBTQ Pride Month, was immediately denounced as contributing to bigotry and violence against gay and transgender people....

'I am now a woman … I now pay $1100 less for auto-insurance. I won. The end,' wrote the unidentified man in a Reddit post An Alberta man has legally changed his gender purely to benefit from the lower car insurance rates offered to women. “I didn’t feel like getting screwed over any more,” the man, identified only as “David,” told CBC this week. For more than three years, Alberta has been among several provinces in which residents can legally change the sex on their birth certificates without providing evidence of genital surgery.

Transgender people should be able to change their first name and gender easily without bureaucracy getting in the way, the Swiss government believes. On Thursday, it announced plans to modify the Swiss civil code to make such changes easier to register. It means that anyone who is convinced that the gender they have been assigned in the civil register is not the right one for them should be able to change both gender and first names by means of a simple declaration. No medical examination will be required for changes to the register. Under the plans — which are now...

COLUMBUS, Ohio, February 14, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Ohio government authorities forced parents to give up legal custody of their daughter after the mother and father said they opposed the girl’s decision to identify as a ‘boy’ and transition to being 'male.' The Hamilton County Job and Family Services took legal custody of the teenage girl, 17, who, according to court records, suffers from gender dysphoria. The teen is currently living with her maternal grandparents. The girl’s name and the names of her parents are under court seal. The minor was diagnosed with depression, anxiety, and gender dysphoria after being hospitalized...

The Independent Television Service (ITVS)--a federally funded film-making company, whose existence is mandated by federal law and which received more than $86 million from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting over the last five fiscal years on record—has produced a pro-sex-change documentary entitled “Real Boy.” The Public Broadcasting Service will broadcast the documentary on June 19. PBS itself has received more than $235 million from CPB over the last five fiscal years on record (2011 through 2015), according to CPB’s 990 forms. The ITVS documentary “Real Boy” tells the story of how a young woman--whose now-divorced parents named her Rachael--becomes Bennett,...

The state of Connecticut’s insurance department is requiring all health insurance companies providing plans in the state to cover gender change surgery and hormone therapy, as well as mental health counseling related to gender transition. According to the Courant, the state’s insurance department used two statutes, a 2011 law prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity and expression, and laws requiring coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of mental health disorders, to justify coverage for gender changes. The latest edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders lists gender identity disorder – or gender dysphoria –...

Transsexual to sell testicles Sherri LeAnn De Rossett was born as Jerald De Rossett. She says she has spent 56 years as a woman trapped in a man's body, unable to live the life she considers normal. Now she wants sexual realignment, and wants to sell her testicles, the trappings of her male past, to fund her surgery. Doctors in the United States have said they could soon be using tissue from animal testes to treat brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Ms De Rossett, who lives in Portland, Oregon, says that while her testes are no longer of any...