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State laws targeting transgender people made trans and nonbinary young people more likely to attempt suicide in the past year, according to a first-of-its-kind study. The research, published last week in the journal Nature Human Behavior and conducted by the Trevor Project, an LGBTQ youth suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization, is the first to establish that such laws directly caused an increase in suicide attempts. The Trevor Project surveyed more than 60,000 trans and nonbinary young people (ages 13-24) about their mental health from 2018 to 2022, a period in which 19 state governments enacted 48 laws targeting trans...

Sometimes people can take the entire idea of complying with ridiculous government mandates several bridges too far. That appears to have been the case during a recent sporting event held in New Hampshire. A girls' soccer game was scheduled between Plymouth Regional High School and their rival Bow High School. Bow High School was fielding a boy who "identifies" as a girl to compete, but when the Plymouth Regional parents heard about this, they asked the Bow High athletic director to withdraw the boy from the roster. He refused, saying that "his hands were tied" by a federal ruling allowing...

Alliance Defending Freedom has filed a lawsuit on behalf of the parents of the parents of three children in Colorado. The lawsuit involves elementary school children who, with the permission of their parents, went on overnight field trips arranged by the school. The Jefferson County Public Schools district told parents that girls would stay on one floor of a hotel while boys were on another. But the students and their parents discovered too late that wasn't the case.For school trips, JeffCo tells parents that “girls will be roomed together on one floor and boys will be roomed together on a...

Law enforcement sources speaking to CNN reveal that the Discord account belonging to the Winder, Ga. mass school shooting suspect allegedly had posts about plans for a mass shooting over grievances about the lack of trans acceptance. https://t.co/2IxZ3wVJ0vSuspect Colt Gray was… pic.twitter.com/Snn7OH3jx1— Andy Ngo 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) September 6, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Saturday again decried two gold medalist Olympic athletes, falsely labeling the female boxers as men. Trump made the comments while speaking at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania and pledging to “keep men out of women’s sports,” turned his attention to the recently concluded Olympic Games and the case of two athletes who became the subject of international scrutiny regarding misconceptions about their gender. Trump has long criticized transgender people as part of his rallies and focused specifically on transgender athletes, using language about gender identity that LGBTQ+ advocates say is wrong and...

Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Shea Sanna is filing a lawsuit against George Soros-funded District Attorney George Gascón, alleging he was subjected to a “retaliation campaign” after he misgendered a transgender child predator, who was later found guilty of molesting a 10-year-old girl. Sanna repeatedly referred to Hannah Tubbs, a transgender woman, as a man while prosecuting him for sexually assaulting a child.

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach faced more questions about the gender eligibility controversy involving two boxers competing at the 2024 Paris Olympics in what was his final press conference before the Games conclude this weekend. Bach, who was first elected in 2013, did not sway from the IOC's stance on the eligibility concerns surrounding boxers Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan when speaking to the media Friday.

When Y. J. Chichester Salant, a 27-year-old trans woman, went to an ENT doctor in Tel Aviv because of a serious upper respiratory infection, one of the first questions the doctor asked was about her “bottom surgery.” Salant, the health care coordinator at the Trans Center in Tel Aviv, was taken aback and told him that his question had no clinical relevance to her medical condition. She said that her experience illustrates the difficulties faced by transgender people seeking health care in Israel. “When ignorance, bias, or transphobia enters the picture,” Salant said, “going to a doctor can be a...

The Boston Globe has apologized for its headline that called Algerian Imane Khelif a “transgender boxer.” The heavily criticized headline ran in both the print edition of the paper last week and on its mobile edition with a story written by the Associated Press’ Greg Beacham. “Transgender boxer advances,” it read. However, on Saturday the Globe issued a statement in which it apologized for the inaccurate nature of the headline. “A significant error was made in a headline on a story in Friday’s print sports section about Algerian boxer Imane Khelif incorrectly describing her as transgender. She is not. Additionally,...

IOC President Thomas Bach said Saturday the “hate speech” directed at boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting at the Paris Olympics is “totally unacceptable.” “We will not take part in a politically motivated … cultural war,” Bach said at a news briefing Khelif of Algeria and Lin of Taiwan have been subjected to days of global scrutiny about their gender. Both women were disqualified at the 2023 world championships. The Russian-led International Boxing Association — which has been banished from the Olympics by the IOC in a yearslong dispute — removed them from the worlds 16 months ago in India...

Lin Yu‑ting, a boxer who failed a gender eligibility test and was disqualified from an international competition last year, participated in the Olympics on Thursday. Lin easily defeated female athlete Sitora Turdibekova, from Uzbekistan.According to the New York Post, Lin is not “transgender” and Lin’s passport claims that she is a female. However, Lin did not meet the qualifications to compete against women at the World Boxing Championships in 2023. This was confirmed by the International Boxing Association (IBA) this week after another incident involving a suspected “transgender” athlete in women’s boxing.Day two of a boxer with XY Chromosomes beating...

My colleague Grayson Bakich covered the original controversy surrounding a biological male who failed a gender test at the 2023 World Boxing Championships being allowed to compete in the Olympics as a female. Algerian boxer Imane Khelif was eligible to fight as a female because the rules under which he was eligible to compete as a woman were formulated in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The confusion is a result of a bureaucratic war between the Russian Federation and the International Olympic Committee (IOC). New York Post:The different status of Lin and Khelif at the Olympics and...

Two male-born transgender boxers will be allowed to compete against women at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games sparking outrage as the question of whether it's correct to allow biological men to compete rises to the surface again. The question has dominated recent discussions with opponents claiming it poses a risk to competitors who are female by sex whilst those in favor argue it is political persecution and that tests show there is no advantage gained. Whilst the president of the International Boxing Association 's (IBA) claimed past tests proved the pair possess XY chromosomes (male), but the International Olympic Committee...

Two boxers – Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan, have reportedly been cleared by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to fight in the 2024 Paris Olympics despite their previous disqualification from the Women’s World Boxing Championships in March of 2023 after DNA tests were ordered amid concerns over their sex. The IOC said on Monday that both boxers satisfied the eligibility criteria to compete. According to the Daily Mail: At the time, [2023] Umar Kremlev, president of the International Boxing Association (IBA), claimed the tests had proven the athletes – including Khelif and Yu-Ting, who will both...

Police officers delivered a notice from a district governor that alleged the show at Depo Istanbul incited the public to hatredTurkish authorities have banned an exhibition exploring the art and history of the country’s transgender community in what is a rare intervention at a gallery. The move comes as the government intensifies a crackdown on the LGBTQ+ community. Depo Istanbul, a non-profit space that was established by the now-imprisoned philanthropist Osman Kavala, was forced by police to take down Turn and See Back: Revisiting Trans Revolutions in Turkey on 11 July. Officers delivered a notice from a district governor that...

Bryan Kim, 35, who now goes by 'Amber FayeFox Kim', was caught having intercourse with 25-year-old Sincer-A Marie Nerton at the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) on March 14. Months later, Kim, who identifies as female, has been moved back to the Monroe Correctional Facility for men. 'The reason for Kim's transfer was due to ongoing safety concerns,' a Department of Corrections official told the National Review. Kim was convicted in 2008 of two counts of aggravated first-degree murder for fatally stabbing his father, Richard Kim, and bludgeoning and strangling his mother, Terri Kim In March, a corrections officer...

The “He Gets Us” campaign, a $100 million public relations initiative aimed at rebranding Jesus, has once again proven its penchant for theological folly. This latest installment features an ad proclaiming, “The one who identifies as they/them is your neighbor.” As chronicled at The Dissenter, this campaign persistently distorts Christian principles to fit a modern, leftist agenda—much to the chagrin of conservative Christians who uphold the authority of Scripture. The ad attempts to exploit the biblical mandate to “love your neighbor as yourself” (Mark 12:31). This campaign, like much of the contemporary evangelical movement, grossly misrepresents what it means to...

Transgender and nonbinary middle-distance runner Nikki Hiltz ran the second fastest time ever of any American in the women’s 1500-meter race at the U.S. Olympic Trials Sunday, qualifying for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. Hiltz, who uses they/them pronouns, charged ahead of Elle St. Pierre and Emily Mackay in the final stretch of the race, finishing with a time of 3:55:33, a trials record. All of the top eight finishers set a new personal best time, according to OutSports. Paris will mark Hiltz’s Olympic debut. In a post-race interview with NBC Sports, Hiltz, 29, said the race had significance...

S.A. McCarthy @pipesmoknpapist S.A. McCarthy is a news writer at The Washington Stand. A Montana judge is striking down a state law defining “sex” as either male or female, claiming that the law violates the Montana State Constitution. In an order issued on Tuesday, Montana District Court Judge Shane Vannatta, the first Montana judge to openly identify as homosexual, declared Senate Bill 458 to be facially unconstitutional according to Montana state law. The legislation, passed by the Legislature in 2023 and signed into law by Gov. Greg Gianforte, a Republican, revised state law to declare: In human beings, there are...

File this under the DO WE BELIEVE OUR EYES OR THE MEDIA DEPT. I'm watching the Fever-Mercury WNBA game yesterday. It was the first time that I've seen Brittnay Griner in a basketball uniform, and my initial reactions were, "This is a man!" and "Is this a man?" and "Whiskey Tango...?" "Huh?" So, I do a google video search on Mr er a Ms Griner, and My Friends, there are some respectable podcasters out there who are providing convincing evidence, that Ms Griner is actually a Mr. But, since the media has tried to bamboozle us about the condition of...