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I am a Portland mother of three. My oldest son, now 26, attended Lewis Elementary and had such a positive experience there that my husband and I built our home only blocks from Lewis so we could send our two younger children there as well. Lewis wasn’t just our neighborhood school. It was the school our family already knew and trusted. I’ve lived my entire life in Portland, Oregon. I am also a Christian, and I believe parents have the right and the responsibility to know what their children are being taught. I never imagined that asking would get me...

Mike Pence spent most of his life and his political career selling America a very curated version of himself. Mike sold us this deeply Christian, socially conservative, old-school persona, a man who believed in traditional marriage, traditional views on sex, and two genders. Long after Pence was gone from Team Trump, he was still describing the trans movement as this “radical gender ideology. He openly opposed trans military service, he backed restrictions on gender-transition procedures for minors, and he insisted over and over that there are only two genders. This was Mike Pence’s persona, and nothing could shake it. Until...

The WNBA is in the middle of the controversial discourse surrounding transgender athletes participating in women’s sports. SNIP The hot-button conversations have given way to a series of demonstrations and stunts, and the latest went down at the Las Vegas Aces game over the weekend. Two men wearing dresses and makeup attended the Aces’ matchup against the Minnesota Lynx on Saturday. The controversy surrounding the WNBA and transgender athletes prompted former NBA players Enes Kanter and Royce White to claim their eligibility for the draft. The unnamed men at the Aces game appear to be following suit.

🚨 BREAKING: The "trans" guy who traveled DC intending to KlLL Scott Bessent has been sentenced to 73 months in prison Trans vioIence is COMPLETELY out of control Ryan Michael English, who pretends to be a woman, brought MOLOTOV COCKTAILS to the US Capitol, admitting he was going to throw them at Bessent's feet during his Senate confirmation vote This guy got off WAY too easy

Democrat Rep. Eugene Vindman walked into a meeting with local party activists expecting to talk about the midterms. He walked out after members of his own side confronted him, tempers exploded and the exchange turned profane. The August 11 meeting in King George County, Virginia, was supposed to help rally Democrats behind Vindman’s reelection campaign. Instead, transgender constituents pressed him over a vote he cast with House Republicans earlier this year. The first report on the confrontation is below: The Advocate reported that at least two transgender women and one transgender man challenged Vindman during the meeting. Several said they...

Where sex is concerned, human reproductive biology is pretty standard: Humans are sexually bipolar, with two sexes, male and female. This is determined genetically at conception; barring a few rare and usually debilitating genetic disorders, an XX chromosome pair results in a female, and an XY pair, a male. That's just how it is. These are facts. And another fact is that the XY pairing gives the resulting child and, in time, adult, a significant advantage in sports. Now, the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) doesn't seem to understand that, especially with regards to "trans-women" - men - playing in...

US hospitals and clinics have billed out nearly $120 million in gender-related medical treatments to minors since 2019, putting thousands of children on an expensive and irreversible treadmill requiring lifelong upkeep — with the blessing of doctors and lefty politicians. The bombshell report from President Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services also claims insurance fraud is rampant, with evidence suggesting pediatric gender clinics and children’s hospitals are creatively cooking the books to get young patients treatment. Those with the highest billings — which encompassed more than 5,500 surgical procedures and 8,500 courses of hormone treatments — were some of...

Democrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico now says he does not support gender mutilation surgery for minors—but when Texas lawmakers voted to prohibit the procedures, Talarico voted no.Talarico voted against Senate Bill 14, legislation prohibiting physicians from performing gender-mutilation surgeries on minors as well as prescribing sterilizing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for the purpose of changing a child’s biological sex. The measure was ultimately approved by the Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott.Talarico’s legislative record also includes another vote involving insurance coverage for gender-mutilation procedures and the consequences of those treatments. In 2025, Talarico voted against...

William Evans-Ellis was brought up in a trans group where he played a key role as a shared child for all the 'moms.' A Ngo Comment investigation found what they wanted his future to be. Is there another trans cult? A woman and two men who identify as trans have been charged in Cincinnati, Ohio in the brutal torture and murder of a young special-needs boy. A Ngo Comment investigation found that the group, which included at least three men who identify as trans, had groomed the child into trans ideology from a very young age and appeared to have...

A man living as a woman in Michigan may soon become the state’s first transgender lawmaker after winning the Democrat Primary in House District 2 on Tuesday.Joanna Whaley, who took 56 percent of the vote against Frank Liberati who received 34 percent, will face Ron Kokinda (R) in the November general election, the Advocate reported Wednesday.“House District 2 is currently represented by Tullio Liberati, Frank Liberati’s brother. Whaley was one of two transgender candidates running for a Michigan state House seat this year. The other, Toni Mua, lost the Democratic primary in state House District 9,” the article read. “Whaley...

Texas Children's Hospital has just a few months to create the nation's first "detransition clinic" to reverse gender transition care, according to a settlement finalized with the attorney general's office. Under the terms of the agreement, the clinic must be opened within 90 days and its services must be provided for free. The settlement was first announced in May. The hospital will also pay $10 million, with more than $8 million going to the state, to resolve claims they billed Texas Medicaid for illegal "gender-transition" interventions. They will also pay $1.7 million to whistleblower Vanessa Sivadge. What they're saying: "This...

HAPEVILLE, Ga. - A reality television celebrity faces multiple felony charges after police arrested him Sunday in connection with an alleged sexual assault of a juvenile at a Hapeville hotel. What we know: Sidney Favors, was taken into custody following an incident at the Embassy Suites in the 3400 block of International Boulevard. Police charged Mr. Favors with sodomy, sexual battery against a child under 16 and aggravated child molestation as a result of the investigation. Favors remains held at the Fulton County Jail as authorities move forward with the case. His next court appearance is August 25 in Fulton...

There is one question that has been asked across the WNBA over the last month, and it’s about the inclusion of transgender athletes in women’s sports. The debate has continued to gain momentum since Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham spoke publicly about protecting women’s sports for biological women. Golden State Valkyries head coach Natalie Nakase was recently asked about the issue, and she approached it from a different angle. As Nakase explained that her own experiences shape her views, the focus was more on inclusion rather than competitive fairness. Nakase said she had dealt with criticism about her height and...

'Love & Hip-Hop: New York' star Sidney Starr has been arrested and charged with numerous felony offenses 'related to an alleged sexual assault involving a juvenile.' Starr, 37 - real name Sidney Favors - has been charged with sexual battery against a child under 16, aggravated child molestation, and sodomy, according to jail records. She was arrested on August 2 after police conducted an investigation into an 'incident' at the Embassy Suites in Hapeville, Georgia and remains in custody. In a statement obtained by The Daily Mail, the Hapeville Police Department refrained from sharing further details about the case due...

In October 2023, Dutch doctor Menno Oosterhoff made a home visit to one of his patients. But unlike most of his work, his purpose that day was not to save a life, it was to end one. His patient was 17-year-old Milou Verhoof, a rape survivor who had endured profound psychological trauma. After years of unsuccessful treatment, she asked to be euthanised, and Mr Oosterhoff was the doctor who carried out her request. Now, years later, Milou's parents and Mr Oosterhoff are facing legal battles after 14 psychiatrists and doctors privately wrote to the Dutch public prosecutor asking to conduct...

Former U.S. Women's National Team star Megan Rapinoe said Tuesday that efforts to bar transgender athletes from competing in women's sports amount to "an attack on women in society," arguing the debate extends far beyond questions of fairness in athletic competition. Appearing on ABC's "The View," Rapinoe dismissed arguments that restrictions on transgender athletes are primarily about protecting girls' and women's sports. Instead, she argued, opponents are using the issue as part of a broader campaign against women's empowerment. "They're going after trans people in sports, and they're using this as a wedge issue because we love sports. And, you...

Sometimes you just have to write what you know and document what you've seen, heard, and metabolized to remind yourself that, no, you haven't gone crazy. Perhaps by spelling it all out and publishing it, the masses might begin to grasp the breadth and scope of a problem they’ve been led to believe is an overblown, remote issue. Tenacious journalist that I am, I'll provide ample receipts proving that the exact opposite is true.Allow me to show you what life in the trans trench has been like for the past decade, with a combination of personal story and indisputable, brute...

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A federal appeals court has revived a New York mother’s lawsuit against a public school that socially sex-transitioned her daughter without her knowledge or consent. Yesterday, the three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the lower court’s dismissal of her constitutional claims and remanded for reconsideration in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Mirabelli v. Bonta. [snip] To recap briefly, New York mother Jennifer Vitsaxaki sued the Skaneateles Central School District in 2024, alleging school staff had treated her 12-year-old daughter “Jane” as a boy, referring to her by a new masculine name and new third-person...

Gender-referred adolescents showed significantly higher psychiatric morbidity than controls both before (45.7% vs. 15.0%) and ≥ 2 years after referral (61.7% vs. 14.6%). Those referred after 2010 had greater psychiatric needs than earlier cohorts, both before (47.9% vs. 15.3%) and ≥ 2 years after (61.3% vs. 14.2%) referral. Among adolescents who underwent medical gender reassignment, psychiatric morbidity increased markedly during follow-up—rising from 9.8% to 60.7% in feminising gender reassignment and from 21.6% to 54.5% in masculinising gender reassignment. After adjusting for prior psychiatric treatment, all gender-referred adolescents had similarly elevated risks of psychiatric morbidity, with hazard ratios approximately three times...