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There is a new federal crackdown on care for transgender Americans. The newly-proposed restrictions are designed to block access to gender-affirming care for minors.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to enforce a policy aimed at limiting transgender rights that would restrict sex designations on passports to “male” and “female” based on sex assigned at birth. The justices granted an emergency request filed by the administration, which is seeking to reverse a policy introduced during the Biden administration that allowed people to put “X” as a gender marker or self-select male or female. "Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to...

Dr. Hunter is member of the Florida Board of Medicine, the first and only board in the U.S. to have a policy that opposes youth transition and gender care for kids. Meanwhile in Minnesota, a recent report found that Minnesota has the highest percentage of adults who identify as transgender. Many throughout the state are still reeling from the tragedy of the Annunciation Catholic Church and School shooting perpetrated by transgender shooter Robert “Robin” Westman. The horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk, and reports that the suspected assassin was reportedly living with a transgender “partner,” have only increased concerns and fears...

The third-ranking House Republican called Thursday for Minnesota to repeal its “trans refuge” law in an exclusive interview with The Post following Wednesday’s deadly shooting targeting Catholic school students in Minneapolis. "We got to have compassion for everyone. But we got to understand that we’ve got some serious mental health issues that are being exacerbated by these types of messages by people like Tim Walz and everybody who supported that law,” said House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, whose district covers many of the Twin Cities’ outer northern and western suburbs. “They should immediately repeal it, but they won’t,” Emmer added....

On Monday, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill joined 24 other Republican attorneys general in backing President Donald Trump's executive order aimed at halting federal funding for sex change procedures on minors, marking the state's latest push in a broader legal fight over transgender care. Three days earlier, Massachusetts filed a brief joined by 19 states challenging the same executive order. The states argue the order is unconstitutional, discriminatory, and violates the Spending Clause by tying federal health funds to ideological conditions. The Massachusetts-led brief contends that the order jeopardizes care for transgender youth, strips states of medical decision-making authority, and...

The Defense Department will resume providing gender-affirming care for service members, a blow to the Trump administration’s effort to eliminate transgender individuals from the U.S. military. A Pentagon memo dated Monday and revealed Thursday states the department will restore surgical procedures and cross-sex hormone therapy to individuals, including dependents of troops, as first reported by Politico. “Service members and all other covered beneficiaries 19 years of age or older may receive appropriate care for their diagnosis of [gender dysphoria], including mental health care and counseling and newly initiated or ongoing cross-sex hormone therapy,” according to the memo, signed by Stephen...

A Los Angeles health clinic says it’s losing federal funding as a result of President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting transgender people. St. John’s Community Health, one of the largest free and reduced-cost providers in Los Angeles, reported that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday terminated a $1.6 million grant that was supposed to support its transgender health and social services program.

Reprinted with permission from Tablet magazine. In the September debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, Trump said something so ludicrous that many viewers must have dismissed it out of hand. “She did things that nobody would ever think of,” Trump said, while rattling off a list of some of the vice president’s most radical “Now she wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison.” The idea that the vice president “wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison” seemed so patently absurd that The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser cited it in...

When Y. J. Chichester Salant, a 27-year-old trans woman, went to an ENT doctor in Tel Aviv because of a serious upper respiratory infection, one of the first questions the doctor asked was about her “bottom surgery.” Salant, the health care coordinator at the Trans Center in Tel Aviv, was taken aback and told him that his question had no clinical relevance to her medical condition. She said that her experience illustrates the difficulties faced by transgender people seeking health care in Israel. “When ignorance, bias, or transphobia enters the picture,” Salant said, “going to a doctor can be a...

A 77 percent majority of Americans say politicians use transgenderism to distract voters from important political fights. The poll did not say if Americans put more blame on Republican or Democratic politicians for the transgender distraction. But the poll included a second question about politicians’ greater focus on transgender claims: “Do you think this is a good thing for society, a bad thing for society, or neither a good nor bad thing for society?”

Twelve years ago this week, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the discriminatory military policy that barred lesbian, gay and bisexual people from serving openly in the U.S. Armed Forces, ended. Between 1994 and 2011, while Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was in effect, the military kicked me and an estimated 14,000 of my peers out — not for our merits, but simply because of who we were as people. While ending Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell enabled military service for lesbian, gay and bisexual people, transgender people were still de facto banned under a McCarthy-era executive order that tasked federal agencies with investigating...

The fight to protect children scored a big victory when officials at Washington University in St. Louis announced they were halting ALL gender-affirming medications for minors. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey was happy to share the news. BREAKING: Washington University has ceased all prescription of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children after a law that my office successfully defended in court went into effect two weeks ago. ->https://t.co/rVKqdZBR8w — Attorney General Andrew Bailey (@AGAndrewBailey) September 11, 2023 From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Citing 'unacceptable' legal liability, Washington University officials announced Monday the school’s physicians will stop providing gender-affirming medications...

One of California’s largest school districts reportedly offered financial rewards to teachers who attended a webinar with advocates who encourage children with gender dysphoria to receive cross-sex hormones or undergo body-altering surgeries. The Los Angeles Unified School District invited teachers to attend a webinar last week titled “The Wellbeing of Sexual and Gender Diverse Girls” in exchange for three Continuing Education credits and hours to use towards salary points, The Daily Wire reported. The Los Angeles Unified School District did not immediately respond to The Christian Post’s request for comment. The webinar featured Aydin Olson-Kennedy, a female licensed clinical social...

The medical establishment has gone totally around the woke bend. Now, a peer-reviewed advocacy article in the AMA Journal of Ethics argues that the cost of uterus transplants for trans people should often be subsidized, particularly for “transwomen who want to gestate children.” From, “Should Uterus Transplantation for Transwomen and Transmen be Subsidized?” (My emphasis): Even though there has been no uterus transplant to date in transwomen [males] that we know of, some clinicians have maintained that there are no absolute barriers in anatomy, hormones, and obstetric considerations that would rule out the possibility of successful UTx [uterine transplant] in...

Miriam Grossman MD is a psychiatrist and specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry. Her practice currently focuses on gender-distressed young people and their parents. Dr Grossman features in the Daily Wire’s ‘What Is A Woman?’ documentary. She is the author of five books including ‘You’re Teaching My Child WHAT?’ - a critique of modern American sex education - and, most recently, ‘Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness’ - available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1510777741/ #gender #medicine #interview VIDEO IS 1:O8:23 MINUTES LONG MAY WANT TO BOOKMARK FOR LATER

Alexander De-Transition Story Holds Nothing Back. Hormones to Bottom Surgery in Thailand. His Current Journey De-Transitioning Living Without Male Lower Parts. INTERVIEW IS 1:31:39 MINUTES LONG MAY WANT TO BOOKMARK FOR LATER

Sex-change surgeries carried out across US annually have nearly tripled in recent years, a study suggests. The number of gender-affirming operations nearly tripled from 2016 to 2019 before dropping slightly in 2020, according to research published Wednesday. The increase likely reflects expanded insurance coverage for transgender care after the Obama administration and some states actively discouraged discrimination based on gender identity, lead author Dr Jason Wright of Columbia University said. The dip in 2020 can be attributed to the pandemic. About 48,000 patients underwent such surgeries during the five years studied, with about 13,000 procedures done in 2019, the peak...

Legislators in North Carolina overrode several vetoes by Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper on Wednesday to pass three new laws that protect children from the harmful consequences of radical gender ideology.Thanks to the bipartisan efforts of the state’s General Assembly, men in ladyface are barred from infiltrating women’s sports, a policy decision a majority of Americans support because they know that males have an indisputable biological and physiological advantage and women have a right to privacy and safety in places like locker rooms. Teachers, under another new law, must also alert parents of their children’s gender confusion issues instead of transitioning...

Admiral Rachel Levine, in effect Joe Biden’s Cabinet Minister for Trans Affairs, proclaimed last October that “accredited medical professional groups agree that gender-affirming care is medically necessary, safe, and effective for trans and non-binary youth.” Last March, Levine ramped up the claim.“President Biden supports you. I as the Assistant Secretary for Health will support you and I talk about this topic, everywhere I go, to get the word out,” said Levine, a Harvard grad and medical doctor. “I am positive and optimistic and hopeful that the wheel will turn after that and that this issue won’t be as politically and...

A group of Hollywood elites is calling for the censorship of people who oppose child mutilation. On Tuesday, a group of over 250 celebrities signed a statement from the LGBT activist group GLAAD that called on social media companies to crack down on people who oppose the trans agenda. The statement was addressed to several social media executives, including Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, and Twitter’s Elon Musk. In the statement, the celebrities accused the social media giants of failing to adequately address “hate speech” against gay and trans people on their platforms. “There has been a massive systemic failure to prohibit...