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New York bill replaces ‘mother’ with ‘gestating parent’ in state lawA memo accompanying the legislation says the change is needed to align with standards for family court cases involving same-sex parents and surrogate parents.The New York state legislature passed a bill that replaces the words “mother” and “father” with “gestating parent” and “non-gestating parent” in child custody and parental laws.The gender-neutral terms, reminiscent of the dystopian fiction Brave New World, would be included in domestic and education law under the bill, according to the New York Post.“‘Paternity’ proceedings to determine a child’s biological father would meanwhile become ‘parentage’ cases,” the...

During the lead-up to a union election at Wizards of the Coast for Magic: The Gathering Arena, the company allegedly deadnamed a number of transgender employees in front of their colleagues. When confronted about this action, the company apologized, only to do the same thing again the following week during the election itself. Kotaku has spoken to multiple union-eligible employees who explained the situation. According to them, WOTC and the group of employees filing for a union election agreed on an election to take place this week that would be in-person for in-office employees, and mail-in for remote employees. As...

Celebrity children identify as trans and non-binary at unbelievable rates. Charlize Theron, Cynthia Nixon, Robert De Niro, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony — whose 18-year-old recently debuted a new name, changing from Emme to Oskar — are just a few of the stars with children who aren’t living as their birth sex. There’s nothing wrong with being trans. But such an unlikely concentration in a particular community should give one pause — especially when so many of these kids began playing with gender at shockingly young ages. In a geography where having a trans child has a tinge of chicness...

Progressive activists have discovered the perfect business model: Declare a crisis, accuse opponents of violence or genocide, demand emergency powers and funnel money into activist-run nonprofits with virtually no oversight. The latest example of this comes from the Seattle LGBTQ Commission and a coalition of local left-wing groups, which are demanding that socialist Mayor Katie Wilson declare a civil emergency over what they call a “trans relocation crisis.” They’re claiming, with no evidence, that tens of thousands of transgender-identifying individuals are fleeing Republican-led states and arriving in Seattle as refugees. Their proposed solution: a taxpayer-funded bloodletting. On Saturday, radicals flooded...

Just days before the case was set to go to trial, a settlement was reached between detransitioner Camille Kiefel and a pair of Oregon mental health providers who she claimed had ignored serious mental health problems and instead referred her for a double mastectomy. A confidential settlement was entered into by the parties days before the malpractice lawsuit, in which Kiefel sought $3.5 million, was set to begin a jury trial in the Circuit Court in Multnomah County, in January, per reporter Benjamin Ryan, who was the first to report the existence of a settlement. Kiefel’s attorneys, Josh Payne, of...

Seattle’s official LGBT Commission is calling on socialist Mayor Katie Wilson to declare a formal “state of emergency” over what it calls a “trans relocation crisis,” and is demanding the city provide free housing and taxpayer-funded salaries for trans activist groups to support thousands of transgender-identifying individuals allegedly fleeing red states. The commission claims “tens of thousands” of “trans refugees” have fled to Seattle in order to escape “genocidal and vile legislation” passed in Republican states that restrict sex change procedures for minors. In an official statement, the advisory body demanded the city immediately step up with housing “run by...

The City of Seattle's LGBT Commission has asked socialist Mayor Katie Wilson to declare a state of emergency in response to what they call a "trans relocation crisis." The advisory group is seeking an increase in taxpayer-funded resources for its "mutual aid" groups, which were established to financially assist trans-identifying people relocating to Seattle from Republican-run states, following the passing of legislation prohibiting taxpayer-funded sex change services. A coalition of trans activist groups, including the Antifa-affiliated "Moto Hooligans," stated that they need more financial resources to assist the "tens of thousands" of transgender "refugees" who have allegedly moved to Seattle...

Islamic Center of San Diego — Authorities have identified the two teenage suspects involved in the deadly shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego as 17-year-old Cain Clark and 18-year-old Caleb Vazquez. Investigators said the two gunmen opened fire at the mosque on Monday, killing three adult men, including security guard Amin Abdullah, before later dying from self-inflicted gunshot wounds.

In what would be no doubt a first in New Jersey prison life, a transgender pedophile is demanding his women’s prison allow him to go naked and conduct nighttime Wiccan rituals in the prison yard. Marina Volz, 37, a biological male born Matthew, is incarcerated for 25 years at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton, NJ, for human trafficking and producing pornography of his own seven-year-old daughter, the New York Post reported. According to the tabloid: Volz claims to be Wiccan and sued the prison, the New Jersey Department of Corrections and head of religious services Dr....

A twice-paroled transgender serial killer with a six-decade history of murdering women has been convicted yet again, this time for the savage 2022 beating death and dismemberment of 68-year-old Susan Leyden, whose headless torso was found stuffed in a shopping cart near his East New York apartment. Harvey Marcelin, 87, who has also gone by “Marceline Harvey,” was found guilty by a Brooklyn Supreme Court jury last week of first-degree murder, tampering with physical evidence, and concealment of a human corpse. On February 27, 2022, surveillance video captured Leyden entering Marcelin’s apartment on Pennsylvania Avenue in East New York and...

A conservative law firm is suing state officials in federal court challenging Wisconsin’s ban on conversion therapy, arguing it amounts to unconstitutional “viewpoint discrimination.” The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, or WILL, announced the litigation Wednesday, saying it filed suit on behalf of licensed counselors Terri Koschnick and Joy Buchman, who both provide Christian faith-based counseling services. Gov. Tony Evers, Department of Safety and Professional Services Secretary Dan Hereth and members of the Wisconsin Marriage and Family Therapy, Professional Counseling, and Social Work Examining Board are named as defendants in the suit.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured a $10 million settlement in a case against Texas Children's Hospital over illegal sex changes in the form of surgeries and prescriptions being given to minors. As part of the settlement, the hospital will also be forced to fund a "detransition" clinic and treat those patients free of charge for the first five years. The settlement follows an investigation into the hospital begun in 2023 by Paxton's office accused of providing sex change treatments to minors after Governor Greg Abbott signed legislation banning children from getting puberty blockers and cross-sex hormone treatments. “Today...

WASHINGTON CITY, Utah (KUTV) — Mia Bailey said she decided to kill her parents after her mother interfered with a gender transition surgery. According to newly acquired interrogation video from Washington City police in June of 2024, then-28-year-old Bailey detailed what led her to kill both her parents, how she did it, and the flee from police that followed. Bailey cited years of turmoil with her parents. "I told them I was going to kill myself so many times," she said. "Mental health declining, that’s why I needed that surgery." Bailey said she was dealing with an abusive family, was...

Climate change now impacts genders? According to State Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego), Climate change impacts gender. And according to Dr. Nancy L. Cohen of the Gender Equity Policy Institute, “Women bear the brunt of climate change.” “Climate emergencies don’t affect everyone equally,” said Senator Padilla.

Chilling new interrogation video shows the moment a trans killer calmly confessed to executing her parents — blaming it on her mom trying to thwart her gender transition surgery. Mia Bailey, now 30, copped to slaughtering her parents, Gail and Joseph Bailey, inside the family home in Washington, Utah, in 2024, the footage obtained by KUTV shows. The brazen murderer, who is currently serving two life sentences, told investigators in the newly released clip that her mental health had been declining for years and that’s “why I needed the surgery.” “She was trying to sabotage it. She always had boundary...

A New Hampshire woman says Planet Fitness canceled her membership after she complained about seeing a man in the women’s locker room last month. Judy Walcott, a longtime member of a Planet Fitness location in Concord, New Hampshire, told Fox News Digital she felt unsafe after encountering someone she believed was male in the women’s locker room near the shower area on April 11. “I was shaking. Like I was actually trembling because it freaked me out that bad,” she told Fox News Digital. Walcott said she reported the incident to a young employee at the front desk, who told...

A California postseason track meet on Saturday opened with a "Save Girls’ Sports" rally outside the gates and ended in familiar fashion, as one athlete again separated from the field in the jumping events, highlighting growing concerns over competitive fairness in girls’ sports. Saturday’s CIF Southern Section Division 3 preliminaries in Yorba Linda drew attention before competition began, with demonstrators protesting California’s policy allowing transgender athletes to compete in girls’ sports. Inside, the focus turned to the jumping events, where biological male AB Hernandez, a senior from Jurupa Valley, competed against women and finished first across all three competitions with...

A cross-dressing “tenant from hell” has terrorized a Bronx apartment building by wildly waving around weapons, masturbating in a hallway and almost causing a catastrophe when he turned on all his gas burners, according to footage and neighbors. The off-the-rails renter apparently wears an array of wigs when harassing neighbors and hasn’t paid rent in more than a year at the East 214th Street building in the Williamsbridge section of the Bronx, according to the building management company and apartment residents. But management can’t give him the boot just yet as building residents live in fear. “The blonde wig, he...

A Virginia transgender substitute teacher was arrested for allegedly plotting a chilling “murder spree” at a local school — and bragging online about having a disturbing hit list. Hadyn Dollery, 19, was busted on school grounds Monday after posting threatening messages on Discord targeting John Champe High School in Stone Ridge, about 40 miles west of Washington, DC, according to the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office and multiple outlets. Police said a tip on the department’s Safe2Talk app exposed the suspect’s sinister online posts. The accused would-be attacker allegedly unleashed threats against family and friends on the messaging app, including disturbing...

A transgender woman and her partner were arrested Monday for allegedly kidnapping her 10-year-old son and flying him to Cuba – where the child’s biological mother feared he would undergo gender reassignment surgery. Trouble emerged after Rose Inessa-Ethington, 42, and her partner, 32-year-old Blue Inessa-Ethington, purportedly took Rose’s kid under the guise of going on a camping trip in Canada, the US Attorney’s Office said in a Tuesday press release. The blended family crossed the northern border but never checked into their hotel. Aside from one brief phone call on March 28, they cut off all communication with the boy’s...