Tag: transgender

Girl Volleyball Players in Vermont Banned From Own Locker Room After Transgender Complaint

A number of girls playing for a high school volleyball team in Vermont have been barred from using their own locker room after filing a complaint to school officials about a transgender teammate, according to a report. Blake Allen, who, along with some of her fellow teammates, now has to get changed in a single-stall…


Female Volleyball Players in Vermont Banned From Own Locker Room After Transgender Complaint

A number of girls playing for a high school volleyball team in Vermont have been barred from using their own locker room after filing a complaint to school officials about a transgender teammate, according to a report. Blake Allen, who, along with some of her fellow teammates, now has to get changed in a single-stall…


Newsom Signs Legislation Making California a Trans Sanctuary State

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed “gender-affirming health care” legislation making the state a refuge for transgender children and their parents fleeing child abuse laws in other states. “In California we believe in equality and acceptance. We believe that no one should be prosecuted or persecuted for getting the care they need—including gender-affirming care,” Newsom…


Conservatives Fear Schools Being Pressed to Accept Transgender Pronouns, Bathrooms and Showers

Texas school boards are being pressured to adopt policies giving transgender students the right to use preferred pronouns, school bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers, according to conservatives who feel schools are stepping on parental rights. The Texas American Civil Liberties Union presented a “best practices” program on transgender student legal issues based on Biden’s Department…


Are Tennessee (and Many Other) Public Libraries ‘Grooming’ Our Children?

Commentary Public libraries are intended to be taxpayer-sponsored facilities for the education of our citizens—children as well as adults: a place for reflection and for gaining knowledge.   At least, that’s the way they were when I was growing up. Maybe not so much anymore. Lately, they seem to have been commandeered for other purposes. That…


Study Says Cutting Off Breasts Beneficial to Trans-Identifying Youth, But Critic Calls It ‘Terrifying’

Controversy is swirling over a new study on the impacts of surgically removing breasts from biologically female patients as young as 13 who have been struggling with gender-related distress. The Chicago study, published on Sept. 26 in the distinguished peer-reviewed medical journal JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) Pediatrics, reported that such surgeries have…


Tennessee Republicans Ask Vanderbilt Hospital to Pause Transgender Surgeries on Children

In the wake of reports surrounding details of Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s (VUMC) pediatric “gender-affirming care,” Republican lawmakers of Tennessee are calling on the clinic to pause performing such procedures on children. In a letter sent on Thursday to VUMC board of directors, a group of 62 Tennessee House Republicans asked Vanderbilt’s pediatric transgender clinic…


UK Teacher Sacked Over Pupil’s Preferred Pronouns Row

A British maths teacher claims he was sacked after refusing to affirm a teenage pupil’s gender identity because he wanted to first obtain permission from the student’s parents. Maths teacher Kevin Lister is taking legal action against his former employers, claiming unfair dismissal. Lister said he was dismissed by his college in England on Sept….


Parents Awarded Legal Costs After Taking UK Government to Court Over School Transgender Guidance

The UK government has settled with a Christian family over a legal case in which they were labeled transphobic for refusing to follow a primary school’s transgender-affirming policies. The case goes back to 2017 when Nigel Rowe, 49, and his wife Sally, 47, questioned the policy of their two sons’ Church of England primary school…


Culture War Erupts in Texas Town Over Drag Bingo Event Hosted by Christian Church

Katy, TEXAS—Outside a drag bingo event hosted by a pro-LGBT church in Texas, a microcosm of America’s culture war played out with liberals and conservatives screaming at each other across a boulevard on Saturday. About 300 Texas conservatives lined an entire block to protest the First Christian Church in Katy, which sponsored a sold-out family…