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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A group of five patrons was kicked out of a Portland sports bar Sunday evening after bargoers were made “uncomfortable” over their “pro-women” apparel after they say they were ejected from a soccer game.According to footage posted by Amy Sousa, a staff member asked Sousa and her acquaintances to leave The Sports Bra, a women’s sports bar in Northeast Portland.“There are people that are in here that are uncomfortable with those shirts, and so I’m asking y’all to leave,” the staff member said to the group in the video. The staff member continued, “If I have...

The Episcopal Church has apparently reached another historic milestone, although perhaps not one Christians should be celebrating. All Saints' Cathedral in Milwaukee recently installed the Very Rev. Micah Cronin as its new dean, believed to be the first transgender-identifying dean in the history of the Episcopal Church. Cronin is a biological woman who identifies as a man and is married to another biological woman who identifies as transgender and serves as a pastor at an LGBT-affirming Lutheran campus ministry. If that description sounds confusing, perhaps that is precisely the point Christians should be considering. This is no longer simply a...

For years, one of the most visible consequences of transgender policies has played out in women's sports. Female athletes have watched biological males enter their competitions, stand on podiums, occupy roster spots and, in some cases, enter spaces once reserved exclusively for women. Whatever one's position on transgender issues, the conflict has forced society to confront an uncomfortable question: What happens when the interests of people who identify as transgender collide with protections created specifically for women? But there is another group of women caught in that collision who receive considerably less public attention. They are women in prison. And...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — The city and Norfolk Police Chief Mark Talbot are named in a pair of related lawsuits over the hiring of a transgender police recruit. The lawsuits, totaling $20 million and filed last week and Monday in Circuit Court, were brought by a current officer on suspension and another officer who was fired earlier this year. Officer Meghan Grabow’s lawsuit alleges she was in a women’s locker room in 2024, when a department recruit she describes as a “biological male self-identified as a woman” entered that locker room. According to the lawsuit, Grabow was in her underwear,...

Harry Potter author JK Rowling was forced to cover the name of her superyacht while moored in Marina del Rey harbor, according to a new report. The beloved author has endured a storm of protests since expressing 'deep concerns' about transgender activism in an essay June 2020. She celebrated on the deck of a boat after a UK ruling that decided the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex in April 2025 She rose from homelessness to become one of the most celebrated children's writers of all-time. It was originally commissioned for LA businessman Eric Smidt, the...

Twilight of the Magicians: Aleksandr Dugin and the War Against the West "If the Fourth Political Practice is not able to realize the end of times, then it would be invalid. The end of days should come; but it will not come by itself. This is a task, it is not a certainty. It is active metaphysics. It is a practice.” ALEKSANDR DUGIN, THE FOURTH POLITICAL THEORY [I] The “philosopher” who has done the most to justify Russia’s war against the West is Aleksandr Dugin. He was the first to advocate a Russian invasion of Ukraine. He has also advocated...

President Donald Trump has been praised after it was revealed woke American professors are being poached by Canadian universities, including an academic who teaches transgender philosophy. California State University philosophy professor, Talia Mae Bettcher, who is transgender, is among the many American-based educators who have packed their bags and headed north to Canada to become a part of the $541 million research funding project. 'I knew I had to leave,' Bettcher, who is a native Canadian but taught in Los Angeles, told The University of Waterloo, her new home. 'As a green card-holding trans-woman and outspoken academic in an area...

All the shopper wanted was to buy a laptop. Instead, a routine trip to a Best Buy turned into a bizarre confrontation over gender, pronouns and whether a customer should be compelled to address a biological male employee as “ma’am.” Video of the encounter shows the Best Buy employee, who presented with a distinctly masculine appearance, objecting after the customer referred to the employee as “sir.” The employee insisted on being addressed as “ma’am.” The customer wasn't having it. His position was straightforward: the person standing in front of him appeared to be a man, and he wasn't going to...

🚨RILEY GAINES JUST WON — THE NCAA SETTLED AFTER FOUR YEARS AND RESTORED HER AS THE SOLE FINISHER IN THE 2000M FREESTYLE! Follow: t.me/+uT8Yg-ELrtJjM… They finally folded. Riley Gaines says she’s “beyond thrilled” that her lawsuit against the NCAA has been settled after more than four years. Gaines will receive an undisclosed amount in punitive damages and have her name restored as the sole finisher in her place in the 2000M freestyle. “They finally did the right thing,” Gaines told supporters at a rally outside the courthouse. “And I promise to use this settlement to further the cause of keeping...

Earlier this week, the WNBA, the women's professional basketball league, announced that two former NBA players were ineligible to play in the league. Former NBA stars Royce (Roysha) White and Enes Kanter Freedom had announced they were intending to play in the league next year after the WENBA brass refused to condemn biological men playing in the league against women. The league did not elaborate on the reasons for declaring the two men ineligible. Since this announcement, news has broken that the league previously allowed trans players to play. In fact, one of the trans players has been very vocal....

On this Feast of St. Monica, I guess we Catholics need to add another wayward soul to our prayer list. This one's quite a lulu. Emma Cieslik, a 'museum specialist' at, not surprisingly, the Smithsonian, who claims to be Catholic, but not as loudly as she claims to be "queer, disabled and neurodiverse" in her social media bios, wrote this guest column for the National Catholic Reporter: August is Transgender History Month, a time to reflect on the transgender people who have led the way for transgender people's rights and who continue fighting for legal recognition and protection. This history...

Lawmakers say the Medi-Cal program needs $10 million to pay for gender-affirming care for minors after the Trump administration cut funding. Parents of transgender children say the state should have prepared sooner to prevent gaps in care.

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A majority of Americans still support same-sex 'marriage,' but a new poll reaffirms a notable decline over the past few years.

There are cases where the law tells you what happened but leaves out almost everything that explains why it happened… and that can be very troubling, and you go straight into the weaponization pool. Shana Gaviola’s case feels like one of those situations. The federal government’s version of this case is brutal and really straightforward. They say Gaviola violated a restraining order involving her teenage son, arranged to have him taken from California to a Christian boarding school in Missouri, and the people transporting him kept him handcuffed for more than 24 hours. She broke the law, a jury convicted...

Hollywood has spent years peppering films and shows with transgender cast members, but Lilly Wachowski — who identifies as transgender — isn’t reaping the benefits. "The Matrix" co-creator, formerly known as Andy Wachowski, is now struggling to find financing for "The Hunted," a $10 million dystopian political thriller featuring an entirely transgender cast. “Well, if you’re excited for a brand-new all-trans movie, I’ve got terrible news for you,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere jokes. “Of course, these are the Wachowski brothers who made 'The Matrix' movies and now they’re called, in the article, the Wachowski sisters,” he explains.

The Toronto Tempo debuted a new “non-binary” mascot ahead of their WNBA matchup with the Indiana Fever in an apparent swipe at controversial star Sophie Cunningham. The Tempo revealed Dez, a butch, non-binary Borealis Blue Snapping Turtle who uses she/they pronouns and “has a fondness for soft shell tacos,” the team said in an Tuesday announcement unveiling the new mascot. Dez also has a partner in crime, anthropomorphic arctic hare named Dot who uses standard she/her pronouns.

Sal Grover and Kirralee Smith, both recently fined ($100k and $95k) for misgendering men imposing on womens spaces, have received death threats from a range of transactivist organisations. Sal Grover, a single Mum, has pulled out. I don't blame her one bit. It is sickening that women exercising free speech in this country are subject to this bull sh*t. Kirralee has decided to proceed and both are Warriors. Let Women Speak events in Australia require (and tbf, receive) considerable police presence in order to defend these (usually middle-aged) women from the "be kind" crowd, who have in the past been...

Radical pro-abortion California is continuing its tirade against the lives of preborn and born children alike with three new bills that horrify the average American voter. As California reaches the end of its legislative session, abortion extremists are going to push these bills through as quickly as possible — but Students for Life Action (SFLAction) won’t let them do it without a fight. Here are the deadly bills California state legislators introduced: AB 1930 — “Abortion or gender-affirming health care services: investigations, subpoenas, or summons” Introduced by Democrat Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur, along with Democrat Assemblymembers John Harabedian, Nick Schultz,...

United Methodist Church Pastor Adam Hamilton catapulted onto the national stage after his Democratic primary win last month in the race to represent Kansas in the U.S. Senate. Hamilton, who secured the Democratic nomination to run against incumbent Republican Sen. Roger Marshall, says he's reaching out to conservative Evangelical voters as part of his “Leading From the Middle” statewide tour. The founding pastor of Resurrection Church in Leawood, Hamilton has positioned himself as an alternative to Marshall, who also identifies as a Christian and was elected to the Senate in 2020. In a 2014 interview with Jonathan Merritt to promote...