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PENDLETON — An eastern Oregon educator is suing his employer, alleging an order to remove anti-trans children’s books from his desk violated his constitutional rights. Education specialist Rod Theis filed the federal lawsuit in May against the InterMountain Education Service District. He claims the district ordered him to remove two children’s books — “He is He” and “She is She” — from his desk. Theis asserts the two books explain that every child should love and accept themselves as God intended. Theis alleges the district violated his rights to free speech under the First Amendment and equal protection under the...

LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. (7News) — Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) will suspend two boys who attend Stone Bridge High School because of their interactions with a female student who identifies as male, and chooses to use the boys' locker room at school. Earlier this year, 7News Reporter Nick Minock was the first to report that LCPS launched a Title IX investigation into the students after they were recorded on video asking why there was a girl in the boys locker room. 7News was also the first to report that the female student who identifies as male was the one who...

Three months after a large transgender pride flag appeared on Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan, park officials have terminated one employee involved in hoisting the flag and placed two others on administrative leave. The unprecedented move sparked outrage among park staffers and community members, who described the actions as “a direct attack” by the Trump administration. The terminated employee is scientist SJ Joslin, a 35-year-old who identifies as nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns. Joslin ran the park’s Big Wall Bats Program and managed data on wildlife across the national park. On May 20, Joslin and her coworkers hung the transgender...

A California high school girls’ volleyball team forfeited a match against a team that is believed to include a biological male trans athlete Friday night. Riverside Poly High School in Riverside County, California, announced its forfeit against Jurupa Valley High School in a statement. “Riverside Poly High School’s girls volleyball team will not take the court for tonight’s scheduled game against Jurupa Valley High School,” the statement said. “This match will be recorded as a forfeit in non-league standings. We understand this is disappointing for our athletes, families and supporters, and we appreciate the community’s understanding. We remain committed to...

On Sunday, I outed myself: I am Track Athlete A in a major lawsuit, Gaines v. NCAA, that aims to win justice for women in college sports. For two years, I’ve lived in the shadows, watching my records, my opportunities, my dignity and my voice get stripped away — not by happenstance, but by design, as colleges applied rules allowing male athletes into women’s sports. My university, the Rochester Institute of Technology, and my own coaches applauded as a man competed on our women’s team, erased my records and those of other women, and was ushered into our locker room....

Randi Weingarten just promoted her new book calling those on the side of parents "Fascists." She's wearing a shirt that says "Protect Our Kids." She thinks she owns your kids. Wake up, parents. Dismantle the teachers unions.

A transgender bus driver took her own life by jumping in front of a train after colleagues kept referring to her as male. Ava Michal Hudson, 27, died on August 7 last year on her way to work at the Chicago Transit Authority, while in her uniform. She didn't leave a note and gave no indication she was suicidal before suddenly leaping to her death, just four days after attending her brother's wedding. 'Sadly, we’ll never fully know the reason for her death, but the pain left behind after her sudden departure has been acute,' her family wrote in her...

JANESVILLE, Wis. -- The mother of the 15-year-old girl, who killed two and injured six at Abundant Life Christian School on Dec. 16, 2024, was found dead on Aug. 1 in an "apparent suicide," the Janesville Police Department confirmed to News 3 Now. Melissa Rupnow, who resided at the 1100 block of Matheson Street in Janesville, was found dead last week in what seemed to have "appeared a suicide," according to a Janesville police lieutenant. The lieutenant who confirmed the act could not elaborate because of an ongoing investigation. According to online court records, Melissa and Jeffrey Rupnow had been...

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...

Disney/ABC’s Celebrity Family Feud featured its first-ever all-transgender team on Thursday, with actor Laverne Cox calling his fellow competitors “my chosen family” as they tried to raise money for black trans prostitutes.

California, 15 other states and the District of Columbia are suing the Trump administration over efforts to end gender-affirming care for people younger than 19. The lawsuit challenges a Jan. 28 executive order calling on the Justice Department to, among other things, investigate healthcare providers. California and a coalition of other liberal-led states sued the Trump administration Friday over efforts to end gender-affirming care for transgender, intersex and nonbinary children and young adults nationwide — calling them an unconstitutional attack on LGBTQ+ patients, healthcare providers and states’ rights. The lawsuit was brought by California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta and officials...

Oregon is facing its second lawsuit in a month over the issue of biologically male trans athletes competing in girls' high school sports. Two of the state's girls' track and field stars, Alexa Anderson and Reese Eckard, filed a lawsuit against the Oregon School Athletics Association (OSAA) after an incident on May 31 when they refused to stand on a medal podium with a transgender competitor at a state title meet. Footage of the stunt went viral, as Anderson later told Fox News that officials instructed them to step away from the podium and get out of the shots of...

Member Services Advocacy Training and Events Newsroom About Calendar Store District Vacancies Contact Log In Supreme Court decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor could be a game changer for public education On Board Online • July 21, 2025 By Pilar Sokol Director of Legal Services Just before the end of this year's session, a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision which many have referred to as a game changer for public education. In Mahmoud v. Taylor, the high court issued a preliminary injunction in favor of parents in Montgomery County, Maryland, who are in the process of challenging...

A three-year-old girl was triggered to enter precocious puberty following exposure to her trans-identified father’s “gender affirming” topical estrogen gel. The toddler was seen by pediatric endocrinologists after experiencing breast development and vaginal discharge over a time frame of six months. The father, a male who identifies as a “woman,” told clinicians that he was having daily skin-to-skin contact with the toddler girl, despite his daily application of estradiol gel 3.75mg to his chest, abdomen, shoulders, and thighs. He had previously been using an estradiol spray on his forearms only. A case study, first published in the European Society for...

BATH, N.Y. (WETM) — A Painted Post woman was arrested on Wednesday after deputies claimed she was driving a stolen vehicle throughout Steuben County. Alesha Hunt, 32, was arrested on Wednesday, July 9, on the Following charges: Grand larceny in the second degree, a class C felony. Criminal possession of stolen property in the third degree, a class D felony. Reckless endangerment in the second degree. Stalking in the fourth degree. Petit larceny Aggravated unlicensed operation in the third degree. Various other traffic offenses. Hunt’s arrest stems from a reported crash and a stolen vehicle in Thurston on Wednesday. Hunt...

WASHINGTON—In a major move against the transgender medical industry, the Federal Trade Commission hosted a workshop Wednesday in Washington, D.C., examining the dangers of so-called gender-affirming care. The FTC’s workshop, first reported by The Daily Wire in late May, has sparked the ire of leftist activists and Democrats, who argue that the focus is inappropriate. Yet the academics, commentators, detransitioners, parents, and doctors present at the workshop argued that the transgender medical industry is pushing ideology upon American children who are not able to fully consent to these life-altering procedures. “The issue of gender medicine has shattered political boundaries,” said...

Rep. Herb Conaway said defining a woman is 'a more complicated question than one might know' EXCLUSIVE: Democratic lawmakers would not provide a definition of a woman when pressed on Capitol Hill, as President Donald Trump prioritizes making clear distinctions between biological sexes during his second term. America Rising, a Republican research organization, asked lawmakers in Washington, D.C., to provide a definition of a woman ahead of Women's History Month in March, but received no clear answers. "It is a more complicated question than one might know," Rep. Herb Conaway, D-N,J,, said when asked to define what a woman is.

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that a trans teacher in Florida has no right to refer to herself with the gendered honorific “Ms.” or ask to be referred to with the pronouns she/her under what critics have called Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law. The trans algebra teacher, Katie Wood, sued her employer, the Hillsborough County School Board, in 2023 soon after Florida’s anti-LGBTQ law was enacted. A lower court found that the law likely infringes on her First Amendment free speech rights and granted a preliminary injunction. However, the conservative-leaning appeals court overruled the lower...

A trans-identified male sports coach who was previously at the center of multiple controversies at a Gettysburg, Pennsylvania high school, has boasted in a fetish forum to having sent his homemade porn to a member of the school board in order to fulfill his “exposure fetish.” David Yates was hired by Gettysburg Area School District in 2018 while still referring to himself as a male, but in 2022, he began using the name Sasha and declared that he was transgender. In 2022, within months after Yates began “identifying” as female and began to use facilities for women and girls, he...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge in California has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing anti-diversity and anti-transgender executive orders in grant funding requirements that LGBTQ+ organizations say are unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar said Monday that the federal government cannot force recipients to halt programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion or acknowledge the existence of transgender people in order to receive grant funding. The order will remain in effect while the legal case continues, although government lawyers will likely appeal. The funding provisions “reflect an effort to censor constitutionally protected speech and services promoting DEI and...