Tag: transgender

IN-DEPTH: Conservatives Wonder Who Navy Is Trying to Recruit With Petty Officer Drag Queen ’Stunt’

It was a rough summer for drag queens, with uproars over public library story hours and bruising boycotts against Jack Daniel’s for promoting drag shows in its advertisements routinely making news. Meanwhile, conservative across the country, as they prepared to vote in 2022 midterms, were expressing discomfort—and for some alarm—over what many saw as a…


Toronto Elementary School With No Gender-Specific Washrooms Receives Parent Complaints

A Toronto elementary school is the first in the city to have girls and boys use the same multi-stall washrooms, and the resulting problems have reportedly included a boy exposing himself to a girl, kids peeking under the stall doors, stall doors being kicked in while girls are inside, and girls uncomfortable performing menstrual hygiene….


Supreme Court Considering If ‘Americans With Disabilities Act’ Covers Gender Dysphoria

The Supreme Court is scheduled to decide as soon as this week if it will hear a case about whether individuals suffering from gender dysphoria are protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The petition (pdf) in the case Kincaid v. Williams (court file 22-633) was filed in January. The respondent, Kesha Williams, a…


Christie Says Transgender Operations on Minors Should Be Allowed If Parents Consent

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a declared candidate for the 2024 GOP nomination, indicated that he thinks transgender procedures on minors should be allowed so long as a parent consents. While governor of New Jersey, a sometimes-swing state that leans heavily blue, Christie signed into law a measure allowing self-identifying transgender minors to use…


Christie Says Transgender Procedures on Minors Should Be Allowed If Parents Consent

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a declared candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, says he thinks transgender procedures on minors, including hormone blockers, should be allowed as long as a parent consents. While governor of New Jersey, Christie signed into law a measure that allows self-identifying transgender minors to use the bathroom that…


Epoch Times Film Exposing Untold Realities of Youth Transgender Movement Debuts in New York

NEW YORK—“Would you rather have a dead daughter, or a living son?” This is a dilemma that parents often find themselves in as their children go through a gender identity crisis. Although the answers are far from clear cut. By following the journeys of several former transgender youths, the latest Epoch Times documentary, “Gender Transformation,”…


Epoch Times Debuts Film Exposing Untold Realities of Youth Transgender Movement in New York

NEW YORK—“Would you rather have a dead daughter, or a living son?” This is a dilemma that’s sometimes presented to parents as their children go through a gender identity crisis. The answers are far from clear-cut. By following the journeys of several former transgender youths, the latest Epoch Times documentary, “Gender Transformation,” unpacks the complexities…


Mom Speaks Out About Societal Pressure Pushing Teens Towards Transgenderism

“Like a dystopian novel.” That’s how Ava described her family’s life since her teenage son’s announcement that he is transgender. James was a kind, smart, and “gentle boy” with excellent grades who wanted to go to MIT. Now he is failing his classes and yells and curses at his mother when she refuses to address…


Journal Retracts Study of Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria in Youth

An academic journal has retracted an article on young people whose parents believe they have developed gender dysphoria because of social contagion. The theory is known as rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD). “It’s easy to study things that make people happy. It’s much harder to study things that are bound to make at least some people…


Empathetic Manipulation: A Class on How to ‘Support’ Parents of ‘Gender Diverse’ Children

Commentary On May 5, I attended the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (CAMFT) conference in Santa Clara, California. In my third installment about this conference, I’m going to talk about the class entitled “Parents in Transition, Clinical Considerations When Treating Parents of Gender Diverse Children,” presented by Linda K. Reeves, LMFT (she/her) WPATH GEI Certified…