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A transgender 19-year-old alleged neo-Nazi accused of plotting a racist mass shooting at a Hindu temple outside Chicago will get his hormone injections in jail while he awaits trial, a judge ruled. A Cook County judge ordered Alexandros Paporakis held without bail Wednesday — but added a healthcare order, noting that the accused would-be terrorist takes hormone injections for gender transition, among other drugs, NBC Chicago reported. In addition to his transition injections, Paporakis is being treated for ADHD, depression, and anxiety, the judge revealed. Paporakis, a Taco Bell cashier from Palatine, was arrested Sunday after cops learned of an...

Former CNN anchor and independent journalist Don Lemon, who was indicted earlier this year on federal charges stemming from his coverage of an anti-ICE protest at a Minnesota church, says he is leaning toward a potential run for the White House. Lemon: “Look, I never say never. Look, I’ve got a lot on my plate right now doing what I’m doing. This is not easy to do every day, but I am very aware of the importance of what I’m doing, what it means to the culture and society. … When I’m out there, they’re not only saying thank you...

A transgender woman allegedly fatally stabbed a stranger she claimed bullied her about her gender in an attack so vicious that the knife broke off in the man’s skull. Kelly Day, 32, was with her partner and 7-year-old stepson when she allegedly launched the brutal assault on 50-year-old Larry Young after being mocked for using a women’s bathroom at McDonald’s earlier that day, the Chicago Tribune reported. Young was not among the separate group of strangers who allegedly insulted Day hours before Wednesday’s deadly stabbing on Chicago’s Far South Side, Assistant State Attorney Sara Grgurovic told the judge during a...

The popular gay dating app Grindr wants to hook up its users with Freddie. But it’s not what you think. Freddie’s not some dreamboat stud less than two miles away. Freddie’s something even hotter: a telehealth provider that offers HIV prevention services such as access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). That means, millions of Grindr members can access prevention information, get tested for HIV, see clinicians and have the meds delivered—all through the Grindr app.

Young teenagers are less likely to identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual than they were a few years ago, according to a new analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. The decline is particularly striking among ninth-grade girls, according to Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology at San Diego State University who published her analysis of the 2025 data on her Substack “Generation Tech.” In 2021, 30 percent of ninth-grade girls identified as lesbian or bisexual. Last year, 17 percent did. “It really does look like a free fall,” Twenge said. “But what’s causing it is unclear.” Twenge...

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, the devout Catholic conservative who has long warned of animus against religion in America, says in a new book that he believes the court's landmark decision extending marriage rights to same-sex couples was "perhaps the decisive point in our nation's turn against religious liberty." ... "In dissent from that ruling," he said in the 2018 address, "I expressed my worry that equating the expression of certain views with bigotry -- or, if you like, with dignitary harm -- would drive believers out of public life." Alito suggests that his prediction has come to pass.

"Persecuted Just for Posting a Verse" A Must Watch. ✝️

Zion Teasley, the man who stabbed Phoenix hiker Lauren Heike 15 times on a trail in 2023, has pleaded guilty to her murder in a deal that takes the death penalty off the table and sends him to prison for life. Teasley, 25, killed Heike, a 29-year-old beauty technician, after stalking her on a hiking trail near her home. Neighbors found her body at the foot of a barbed wire fence. Police said he chased her, killed her with a pocketknife, and jumped the fence to get away.

Time to refuse to use the word “transgender” anymore. It gets tiring looking at articles that are about the alphabet community which constantly ignore the biological sex of the featured person and instead insist on using their terminology for their mental illnesses. I propose that if an article if about a man pretending to be a woman then they won’t be referred to as “she” but as “Male pretendher”. And vice versa for a woman pretending to be a man. She will now be referred to a “Female pretendhim”. The word “Pretend” - To speak and act so as to...

Cancer remains an important comorbidity among people living with HIV worldwide, but risk varies according to demographic and behavioral factors, according to an analysis from the REPRIEVE trial published in the journal AIDS. People with HIV had higher rates of both infection-related malignancies and those not associated with infections, but AIDS-defining cancers were uncommon.

A New York Times tech executive who was allegedly shot dead by his elderly in-laws in California was in a vicious war with them and his estranged wife for being transgender, according to court documents. Jonathan McKinsey’s wife, Candice Jang, filed for a restraining order against him in 2025, and he replied by filing a restraining order of his own. McKinsey claimed Jang had tried to pull medical tubes out of his body when he was transitioning from a woman to a man in 2010, the restraining order records, obtained by The Mercury News, said. The two married in 2011....

A spiritual leader called upon his followers to repent for eating beef and raising cattle. But he’s not a religiously observant vegetarian in India. He’s a Democrat in the big cattle state of Kansas and is running for U.S. senator. An exclusive by Fox News Monday morning reported that nominee Adam Hamilton, who for years led the largest United Methodist church in the nation, often gave “woke” sermons at odds with the state’s culture and agrarian economy. The minister is seeking to unseat one-term Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS). Kansas is the nation’s third-largest producer of beef, according to the Kansas...

On any given day in San Francisco there’ll be thousands of people out on the street walking their dogs, but only one day a year when you’ll see humans wearing the leashes instead of holding them.

Is This The Reason Men Don't Go To Church? Pastor In Heels Reaction! Nigerian pastor wearing red high heels and a blue flower jumpsuit. The content creators of this YouTube channel ask "WHY"?

On Sept. 16, 2026, Toronto Superior Court Judge Anne Malloy announced her verdict that Bill Whatcott is “Guilty” of “Wilful Promotion of Hate.” This follows the five-day re-trial this past May on the flyer he passed out ten years ago at the 2016 Toronto Pride parade. The flyer was filled with Bible verses, medical information on health risks, political commentary, and images.The judge laid out her reasons in a shockingly hostile and vitriolic 43-page document filled with LGBTQ jargon. Sentencing will take place on December 16. Bill is free on bail until then. His likely prison time will be one...

The lesbian bar in Greenfield, Massachusetts, that relaxed its masking protocols earlier this month and sparked an all-out war within the gay community is still going at it. The Boston Globe did an excellent job reporting on this mayhem. Though the comments have been turned off, the bar, Last Ditch, remains a woke hellscape. Its Instagram account apparently nuked the comments section on the post apologizing for the masking announcement. It also posted something regarding Soe Noire, one of the most vocal critics of the new masking rules in the piece, who tore into the bar’s owner earlier this month...

Every year, the University of Wisconsin participates in the Big Ten Competition We Give Blood. We Give Blood is a program designed to create lifelong blood donors and help blood shortages around the United States. ... Gay men, bisexual men and transgender women who take PrEP or PEP — HIV prevention medications — are recommended to be screened out the moment they mention it on the donor questionnaire, according to the Food and Drug Administration. Although the FDA no longer asks about sexual orientation on the blood donor questionnaire, the underlying discrimination against gay men, bisexual men and transgender women...

The North Dakota Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously found the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors constitutional, upholding a lower court’s ruling from last year. The 2023 law makes it a crime to prescribe puberty blockers and other treatments to adolescents. The high court’s reasoning for its decision mirrored that of South Central Judicial District Judge Jackson Lofgren, who in October 2025 rejected North Dakota pediatric endocrinologist Luis Casas’s claims that the law forces him to withhold necessary medical care from his patients.

PENDLETON, Ore. – To resolve a lawsuit brought by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) attorneys, Oregon child-welfare officials agreed to a court order freeing Jessica Bates to seek a license to adopt children from foster care without violating her religious beliefs about human sexuality. Bates filed a lawsuit in April 2023 challenging an Oregon Department of Human Services rule that categorically excluded her from adopting any child—no matter their age or beliefs—because she would not lie to children about their identity by promoting the view that girls can become boys and vice versa. Under the agreed-upon court order, Bates may now...

The slippery-slope is nearing the bottom now. The City of Seattle wants to keep employers, businesses, and private citizens from discriminating against people who like to sleep around and/or identify as an infinite list of genders. .... Notice how "male and female" has now been struck from the municipal code altogether. The law will "recognize genders outside the gender binary, recognize pansexuality and asexuality as orientations, and include consensual relationships with multiple partners as an element of attitudes, preferences, and practices pertaining to sexual orientation." This idea of normalizing multiple partners is a growing movement on the Left. ... It's...