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A Korean spa in New Jersey has been ordered to implement “gender identity-friendly” policies and educate staff on “non-discrimination” after being sued for refusing to allow a male into the women’s nude section. The man, Alexandra “Allie” Goebert, first launched the discrimination suit against King Spa in 2022. King Spa is a wellness facility modeling itself after a jimjilbang, a traditional Korean health center which requires nudity in some areas. For that reason, the nude areas of the spa had been strictly sex-segregated. As previously reported by Reduxx, the incident involving Goebert first occurred in August of 2022 when he...

One of the pornographic images that got the World’s Strongest Woman winner stripped of the 2025 title after showing in explicit detail that the American lifter was born male was revealed on Wednesday. Jammie Booker, 28 — who was disqualified Tuesday for not competing under the sex she was born with — was exposed when vulgar images from her past life as a hardcore porn star were circulated by online sleuths. One of the few suitable-for-work shots shows what critics described as the “biological male” clutching her chest and sticking out her tongue while sporting bright red lipstick. Booker’s porn...

So, New York got a full-blown socialist for a governor, and now a transgender communist in Idaho wants to try the same thing here. Maxine Durand openly identifies as a socialist. He claims both Democrats and Republicans are failing, but what he’s really saying is that Idaho needs to be remade in the image of California and Washington. The Idaho Second Amendment Alliance has warned for years that leftists have their sights set on our state. Their goal is simple: drag Idaho down the same path as every other progressive stronghold. And now, one of the Democratic Socialists of America’s...

In the year 2000, The United Nations General Assembly designated November 25th as the "International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women" - "The premise of the day is to raise awareness around the world that women are subjected to rape, domestic violence and other forms of violence." How's that going? Twenty-five years later, a man who abused his ex, stole her name and entered the women's locker room at Gold's gym is the one being protected: Surprise! The man in the women's locker room at Gold's Gym is a convincted felon who did time for domestic violence. This...

“There is a time when you have to take a stand for women’s sports.”The 2025 World’s Strongest Woman competition in Arlington, Texas, erupted into controversy after American competitor Jammie Booker — who won the Official Strongman Games World Championship over the weekend — was stripped of the title on Tuesday after organizers said Booker failed to disclose that he is a man.Booker was disqualified for violating the rules that mandate contestants compete in the division matching the sex they were born as.“It appears that an athlete who is biologically male and who now identifies as female competed in the Women’s...

The left-wing smear machine fired up again last week, this time to go after Riley Gaines for her outspoken defense of women’s sports and criticism of transgenderism. But all the critics succeeded in proving is that the woke mob no longer has the cultural influence it once did, and that sensationalist headlines can’t hide an utter lack of substance in bad-faith personal attacks. As a quick refresher, Riley Gaines was the University of Kentucky swimmer who became a national story after she tied with the University of Pennsylvania’s Lia Thomas in the 200-yard freestyle at the 2022 NCAA swimming championships....

President Donald Trump and his administration are preparing to officially classify state-funded abortion, gender transition procedures for minors, and a host of other left-wing policies as human rights violations. In its next annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, the U.S. State Department will update what qualifies as a human rights violation, according to The Daily Signal. State Department officials will now record other nations’ gender transition procedures for children, government-funded abortions or abortion drugs and the annual number of abortions committed, arrests or “official investigations or warnings” targeting free speech or laws targeting “hate speech,” affirmative actions and diversity...

The United Methodist Church’s financial leaders are sounding the alarm that the denomination is about to be in a world of financial hurt, declaring ‘The church’s financial house is on fire’ during the UMC’s Finance and Administration meeting last week. The ominous comments were made by Bishop David Graves, General Council on Finance and Administration board president, who added ‘My intent is not to create fear but to address the reality with honesty and urgency.” The UMC has lost more than 7500 churches over the last three years, the result of church mass departures and disaffiliations over the denomination’s all-out...

One of the “Slender Man stabbers” — who viciously ambushed and hacked a classmate when she was 12 years old in an effort to please a made-up internet boogeyman — has vanished, and cops are now hunting her. Morgan Geyser, 23, cut off her ankle monitor and escaped from the group home where she was living — and she’s currently on the run, according to cops in Madison, Wisconsin. “Her whereabouts are unknown as of Sunday morning,” police said. Geyser, along with her friend Anissa Weier, lured a fellow sixth-grade girl into a Waukesha, Wisconsin park in 2014 and stabbed...

Justine Lindsay, who became the NFL‘s first trans cheerleader in 2022, is now opening up about why she was fired in August. Lindsay told her story in an Instagram Live video, saying she was cut from the Carolina Panthers’ dance team, TopCats, because of her trans identity. “I was cut because I’m trans,” Lindsay said on the stream, according to Them. “I don’t wanna hear nobody saying ‘She didn’t wanna come back.’ Why the hell would I not wanna come back to an organization that I’ve been a part of for three years?” Lindsay added that she was “devastated” and...

Newly released peer reviews of a federal report rejecting medical interventions for children with gender dysphoria called the government analysis “scientifically sound” and “compelling.”Protesters in front of the Supreme Court as the high court hears a case over banning gender procedures for minors, in Washington on Dec. 4, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch TimesThe reviews were released on Nov. 19 for a government report titled “Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices,” which was commissioned by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and originally released on May 1.The HHS report was prompted by a January...

FIRST ON FOX: One of the top teachers unions in the country is facing criticism over an upcoming training session that will instruct members on how to go through a gender transition at work, including best practices for using gender pronouns and combating transphobia, while also being provided with literature labeling conservative opposition as "villains." In a document posted on its website, the National Education Association (NEA) announced to its more than 3 million educator members a slate of training programs, including a session named "Advancing LGBTQ+ Justice," scheduled for Dec. 2-4, 2025. The union will also hold an "Advancing...

Washington (AFP) – In a sharp change, the United States said Thursday that its signature human rights report would start tracking countries that support gender changes for children and diversity and equity programs. Specifically, the report will ask US embassies to report on countries that allow "chemical or surgical mutilation of children in operations that attempt to modify their sex." Rubio also asked embassies to track "enforcement of policies like affirmative action of diversity, equity and inclusion that 'provide preferential treatment' to workers on the basis of race, sex or caste." The issues reflect top priorities for Trump since he...

Several defendants who are among the first indicted on terrorism-related charges for their alleged connection to Antifa are scheduled to plead guilty this week and next, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Northern District of Texas. A grand jury indicted nine North Texas Antifa Cell operatives on charges of providing material support to terrorists in the July 4 attack against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas. “This is the first indictment in the country against a group of violent Antifa cell members,” Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Nancy...

Makeup mogul Jeffree Star is blasting parents who push transgenderism on kids calling them “fucking weirdos.” The makeup icon, known for his outrageous personal style, spoke out on the issue during an appearance on The Skinny Confidential podcast. “Why are we encouraging our kids to be a different gender and feed them false information when they’re so young?” he said. “When I grew up and started looking different, my mother encouraged me to just be myself. When I started wearing makeup and being more feminine and wanting to do certain things… it wasn’t like ‘Oh my God, Jeffree needs, what...

Don't you think if 2 violent assassins were into http://GlennBeck.com subculture, the media and the FBI would be all over that?!(Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) Independent researchers now are using the same kind of digital forensic tools that the feds have and they're piecing together a bunch of old online accounts tied directly to Crook's email, his real email and his name. And one of the biggest ones was on DeviantArt, ground zero for the furry community. Usernames like EpicMicrowave and TheEpicMicrowave. This kid was not casually browsing, he was deep in that subculture, we find...

Conservatives on social media erupted over a clip showing a top education official in Michigan struggling to answer a question from a Republican lawmaker on how many genders exist. In the viral clip, resurfaced on X by conservative influencer LibsofTikTok on Sunday and seen over 2 million times, Michigan Chief Deputy Superintendent Dr. Sue Carnell is asked in an Oct. 28 hearing by Republican state Rep. Jay DeBoyer about her opinion on how many genders exist. "How many genders are there," DeBoyer asked, prompting Carnell to smile and pause without answering. "How many genders are there?" DeBoyer asked again. "Different...

A teenage boy testified in Canadian court that his lesbian adoptive parents spent five years torturing him and his brother by forcing them to wear hockey helmets and wet suits for hours on end. The 13-year-old, identified only as J.L., is the prosecution's star witness in the ongoing murder trial of Becky Hamber and Brandy Cooney, who are accused of killing J.L.'s older brother in 2022 by systematically starving him and leaving him soaking wet in their Toronto-area basement. The older brother, referred to as L.L., was found on December 21, 2022, in the couple's Burlington home lying on the...

First Lady Melania Trump is spearheading a “Fostering the Future” initiative to reform and improve our foster care system. Yesterday, at the White House, the president signed an executive order to increase resources and investment for children in the system and those “aging out.” That’s good for these kids. Trumps’ executive order did something else, too. Democrat-controlled states are refusing to allow parents to foster children unless the parents agree to affirm the child’s gender identity, seek hormone treatment and deforming surgeries for the “trans” child, etc. The parents are told they cannot talk to the child about religious views...

The Encinitas Union School District withdrew its appeal of a ruling in a gender ideology lawsuit. Instead, the San Diego County district will comply with a lower federal court decision and notify parents and provide opt-outs for parents in gender ideology lessons and programs, according to district officials and lawyers representing the plaintiffs. The lawsuit, filed September 2024 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, alleges that the school district violated parents’ and students’ First Amendment rights by compelling students’ speech. A copy of the initial complaint said the district violated parents’ First Amendment right to...