Category: youth

LIVE 12 PM ET: NTD News Today (June 16): Yale Professor Stumped on Cross-Sex Benefits; Youth Die From Suicide at Highest Rate in Decades: CDC

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) during a congressional hearing on June 15 demanded answers from a Yale School of Medicine assistant professor on which studies provide evidence of the benefits of cross-sex procedures. Meredithe McNamara didn’t offer a single study prior to Crenshaw’s time running out. The congressman is the sponsor of a bill that would remove funding from children’s…


LIVE 12 PM ET: NTD News Today (June 16): Yale Professor Stumped on Cross-Sex Benefits; Youth Dying From Suicide at Highest Rate in Decades: CDC

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) demanded answers from a Yale School of Medicine assistant professor on which studies provide evidence of the benefits of cross-sex procedures. The questions came during a congressional hearing on June 15. Meredithe McNamara didn’t offer a single study before Crenshaw’s time ran out. The congressman is the sponsor of a bill…


NTD News Today (June 16): Yale Professor Stumped on Cross-Sex Benefits; Youth Dying From Suicide at Highest Rate in Decades: CDC

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) demanded answers from a Yale School of Medicine assistant professor on which studies provide evidence of the benefits of cross-sex procedures. The questions came during a congressional hearing on June 15. Meredithe McNamara didn’t offer a single study before Crenshaw’s time ran out. The congressman is the sponsor of a bill…


China’s Youth Unemployment Will Worsen in the Coming Years: Experts

China has hit a record-high youth unemployment rate. A Chinese researcher warned in his recent analysis that the unemployment figure may surge further in the coming three years. “In general, from now until 2030, it will be the most challenging period for employment since China’s reform and opening up,” writes Wang Mingyuan, a researcher at a…


Scientists Call For Stricter Controls on Tobacco Products

Scientists are calling for the federal government to adopt stricter controls around nicotine after the federal government banned recreational vaping. This comes after Health Minister Mark Butler announced on May 1 a massive new smoking crackdown, emphasising that vapes, which were introduced as therapeutic products, have now become the “biggest loophole in Australian healthcare history.” “Vaping was…


Researchers Find Explosion of Youth Gender Dysphoria Over the Last Decade

Transgenderism has exploded among youth in the United States over the last decade. Americans between the ages of 13 and 17 make up nearly 20 percent of the people in the United States who identify as transgender, according to a 2022 report by the Williams Institute, a think tank at the University of California–Los Angeles School of…


‘As Easy as Ordering Pizza’: How Fentanyl-Laced Pills Are Killing America’s Youth

On the morning of July 25, 2020, Matthew Thomas took what he believed was a Percocet, a prescription drug for pain relief. He died moments later, the victim of fentanyl poisoning. On Jan. 26, 2019, Austen Babcock took what he believed was cocaine. Unbeknownst to him, it was laced with fentanyl, a potent synthetic opioid….


Building Bridges: Adults Young and Old Are Natural Allies

In the 21st century, division has become as American as mom and apple pie. Red states and blue states, left and right, black and white, male and female, rich and poor: Our culture teaches us to judge others by such criteria as skin color, where we went to school and the work we do, and…


Vazquez Scores for Youthful US Lineup in 2–1 Loss to Serbia

LOS ANGELES—Interim head coach Anthony Hudson saw tenacity, bravery and attacking excitement from the youngsters and newcomers he sent out for the United States’ first match since the World Cup. Although none of it added up to a win, Hudson was hopeful a 2–1 defeat to Serbia on Wednesday was a positive first step toward…


Survey Finds Young People Follow News, but Without Much Joy

NEW YORK—Young people are following the news but aren’t too happy with what they’re seeing. Broadly speaking, that’s the conclusion of a study released Wednesday showing 79 percent of young Americans say they get news daily. The survey of young people ages 16 to 40—the older of which are known as millennials and the younger…