Tag: transgender

South Carolina County Council Debates Children’s Access to Books About Sexuality in Public Libraries

The debate over children’s books promoting sexuality sparked a South Carolina county council meeting over whether the local library board should restrict access to questionable material in the children’s section of the public libraries. On Nov. 1, the Greenville County Council voted 9–3 against a resolution that would have supported the Greenville County Library System’s…


Pennsylvania Taxpayers Have Paid $16 Million for Childhood Sex Reassignment Treatments

Switching genders is expensive. But low-income children in Pennsylvania are covered under medical assistance through the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Pennsylvania taxpayers have unknowingly paid more than $16 million under Democrat Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration to fund sex reassignment and gender transition services for children. Each year since 2015, when Wolf took office, state…


The Many Questions Remaining About the Paul Pelosi Attack

There’s nothing the left won’t politicize. They push narratives to twist reality and foment hate. Americans can’t even ask basic questions—about immigration, trans surgeries, the war in Ukraine, Jan. 6—without being labeled as “white supremacists” or “domestic terrorists.” The news of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul, fits the same mold. Unless you buy the…


HHS Taxpayer-Funded Transgender Surgery Policies Under Scrutiny

U.S. Health and Human Services’ transgender policies toward children are under scrutiny, the latest federal agency to face Congressional questions over how taxpayer dollars may be pushing the issue and even funding surgeries. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), ranking member on the Subcommittee on Civil Rights & Civil Liberties, sent a letter to Health and Human…


The War Over ‘Transgender’ Kids: A Pre-Election Battlefield Update

News Analysis America is in the throes of a cultural and political war over gender ideology, featuring high-profile conflicts over everything from school curricula to athletics to pronouns. But among the most explosive battles unfolding within the broader war is that over transgender children. In an inhospitable election year for the left, Democrats, far from being on the back foot,…


Adverse Surgical Outcomes From ‘Gender-Affirming’ Surgeries

Many have heard in the past few weeks that Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is pausing pediatric sex reassignment surgeries for an indefinite period of time. But why? And what are the implications for the broader trend of juvenile gender transition surgeries? The Story of VUMC After disquieting videos came to light, including a 2018 video…


Protesters Disrupt Halloween Event Promoting Drag Queens to Children

More than 30 protesters led by British feminist Kellie-Jay Keen disrupted a Halloween pumpkin-carving contest judged by drag queens in San Francisco on Oct. 22. California Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) hosted the contest, which he promoted as a family event for parents and their children at Noe Valley Courts, a city park. An outspoken…


Rally Against ‘Child Mutilation’ Draws Thousands of Supporters

NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Some 2,000 people turned out for the “Rally to End Child Mutilation” held in downtown Nashville Friday as a host of conservative speakers vowed to make gender transition for children illegal. The mainly conservative crowd gathered at the War Memorial Plaza near the state capital in support of stopping surgery and chemical castration of…


Judge Refuses to Dismiss Lawsuit Against Arkansas Ban on Transgender Procedures for Minors

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.–A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Arkansas’ ban on gender-transition procedures for minors. As a result, the nation’s first such law will remain in legal limbo while a national debate over these procedures seems to be intensifying. On Oct. 21, after three days of testimony from plaintiffs’ witnesses in…


Teachers, Staff Say Schools Trained Them to Hide Students’ Gender Identity From Parents

Teachers and staff from Texas to Florida are blowing the whistle on school districts training them to keep a children’s transgender identity a secret from parents. In Texas, past and present teachers at Conroe Independent School District (ISD) said they were told by training staff to affirm a student’s gender identity by using preferred pronouns…