The World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) is the world’s preeminent transgender medical organization and a leading force in the push for minors to receive transgender medical interventions, including sex-change surgeries. The group&#8217;s medical guidance, called the Standards of Care Version 8, informs clinical practice, insurance policy, and government regulations throughout the United States.
Systematic reviews and legal investigation have shown the SOC-8 to be built on faulty methodology and politicized science. The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against WPATH in June 2026, stating the organization has “misled parents and children about the medical consensus and medical necessity, as well as the safety and effectiveness” of child sex-change interventions.
WPATH members receive access to a member-only<a href="https://wpath.org/membership/membership-information/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> forum</a> that discusses various topics related to transgender medicine and policy. Through a public records request The Daily Wire uncovered almost 250 pages of messages from WPATH&#8217;s member-only forum written between June 2024 and November 2024. The messages offer a glimpse into the organization&#8217;s cultural reach and challenge some of its public-facing recommendations. 
This is the second article in The Daily Wire&#8217;s investigative series on the uncovered WPATH messages. You can read part one <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trans-surgeon-admits-some-patients-may-not-maintain-their-vagina-due-to-brutal-complications?author=Megan+Brock&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Inside+WPATH%3A+Trans+Surgeon+Admits+Patients+May+Experience+Painful+Complications">here</a>.
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Members of the world’s leading transgender medical organization admitted protocols were needed to help transgender patients “detransition” back to their real sex while publicly recommending children receive sex-change surgery.
In a private online forum, members of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) asked for advice on treating the complex medical needs of patients wanting to return or &#8220;detransition&#8221; to their real sex after undergoing sex-change surgeries such as vaginoplasty, breast augmentation, double mastectomy, hysterectomy, and oophorectomy. WPATH members acknowledged in the forum the brutalized bodies of detransitioners needed specialized care and these struggling patients were often forsaken by the medical community which gave them their scars.
“Curious if anyone or any institutions have protocols or policies related to ‘de-transition’ &#8211; either request to reverse any gender-affirming surgeries or put people back on prior hormonal state,” wrote Dr. Christopher Terndrup, the <a href="https://medicine.vumc.org/divisions/general-internal-medicine-public-health/education/lgbtq-healthcare-fellowship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">associate director</a> of the LGBTQ+ Healthcare Fellowship Program at Vanderbilt Health, in a message thread titled “De-transition Protocols/Policies.”
<div id="attachment_1143623" style="width: 677px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1143623" class="wp-image-1143623 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH4-1-667x576.jpg" alt="" width="667" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH4-1-667x576.jpg 667w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH4-1-300x259.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH4-1-768x664.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH4-1.jpg 875w" sizes=" (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px" />A screenshot of a message obtained through a public record request by The Daily Wire.</div>
Several WPATH members responded and expressed a need for formalized detransition protocols, writing that a lack of medical guidance left detransitioners feeling &#8220;ignored&#8221; as they try to reclaim their broken bodies.
“We really need the clinical pathways. People will ask how to go off testosterone or how to restart testosterone and I’ve asked various MDs and gotten different responses. Often, folks who are choosing to detransition feel like they have to do this all on their own,” wrote a psychologist. “When folks restart testosterone there can be mood shifts as well. When people alter their hormones, a lot of regret arises about choices they have made and it seems like it&#8217;s helpful to offer patients a non-regret focused frame — ie, that they are embracing who they are at this moment and taking positive steps to embody themselves, etc.”
Members suggested creating a specific group to develop medical guidance for detransitioners and noted transgender patients should receive psychological therapy for a period of time before undergoing any identity changes.
“I still think that we should be developing protocols to handle this regardless of how many detransitioners there are,” wrote a psychologist. “I think it&#8217;s important.”
Dr. Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer at Do No Harm, told The Daily Wire there is an &#8220;undeniable need&#8221; for detransitioner medical protocols.
&#8220;There is a critical and undeniable need for detransitioner protocols — a reality acknowledged even by WPATH’s own members. Yet this is the same organization that has ignored systematic review upon systematic review as it promotes harmful and irreversible sex-rejecting procedures for minors,&#8221; Miceli told The Daily Wire. &#8220;This contradiction cannot be brushed aside: it exposes a fundamental inconsistency in which life-altering interventions are championed for minors on the one hand while the reality of those who later seek to reverse them has unfortunately been minimized and gone unaddressed.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_1142883" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1142883" class="wp-image-1142883 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH11-1024x416.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="416" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH11-1024x416.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH11-300x122.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH11-768x312.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH11-1536x623.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH11-2048x831.jpg 2048w" sizes=" (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />A screenshot of a message obtained through a public record request by The Daily Wire.</div>
In the Standards of Care Version 8, WPATH recommends that children have access to irreversible sex-change surgeries without any <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trans-identifying-biden-official-allegedly-behind-push-to-ditch-age-guidelines-for-transgender-procedures-docs-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">age minimums</a>. The group calls the choice to detransition &#8220;proportionally rare&#8221; but tells healthcare providers they &#8220;should be prepared to support adolescents who detransition&#8221; without providing formal protocols to accomplish this.
&#8220;We have limited ability to know in advance the ways in which a child’s gender identity and expressions may evolve over time and whether or why detransition,&#8221; the standards read.
In a separate post, a physician&#8217;s assistant asked for insight on managing the estrogen needs of a young woman who had her breasts, uterus, and ovaries removed while she self-identified as a &#8220;trans male.&#8221;
“The patient more recently has been experiencing an evolution/shift in gender identity as genderfluid/feminine learning, wanting to detransition,” wrote the physician&#8217;s assistant in the thread titled “DETRANSITION: Optimal estrogen therapy for patient detransitioning.”
&#8220;This is a complex case with much more to it and I will not be able to go in depth here, but I did want to ask the group specifically your thoughts/experience with detransition and optimal dosing of estrogen for such a patient.&#8221;
The young woman was in her 20s and wanted to detransition. But because she had no ovaries, her young body could not produce the needed estrogen and was in a surgically induced post-menopausal state.
Miceli told The Daily Wire that without external estrogen replacement therapy, the patient is at risk of developing osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, and other health complications.
&#8220;Hormone therapy becomes a lifelong medical requirement following this irreversible procedure,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This reality makes the development of detransition protocols all the more essential, ensuring that hormone management is guided by clinically appropriate, evidence‑based standards rather than left to an ad hoc practice.&#8221;
The post brought out strong opinions on detransitioning on the forum thread. One member called on WPATH to “take a leadership role” in researching the “phenomenon of detransition.&#8221;
Marci Bowers, a highly influential transgender surgeon and former president of WPATH, called the patient’s situation “tragic” and wrote that one of WPATH’s great challenges was to “help patients sort through their gender diverse feelings&#8221; before receiving &#8220;irreversible treatment.&#8221;
“If ever there was a challenge to the WPATH professional community, it is to help patients sort through their gender diverse feelings prior to undergoing irreversible treatment. Though there can always be a silver lining, cases like this seem tragic,” wrote Bowers. “I don&#8217;t feel that greater caution or limits are what are required but rather, brakes, hypothetical questioning, I&#8217;m not entirely sure. How can we do better for our patients in avoiding these rare outcomes?”
One WPATH member disagreed that the situation was tragic, writing, “sometimes, like many things in life, people need to go ‘too far’ before they realize where they want to be.”
The physician assistant who asked for help later noted the young woman wanting to detransition had &#8220;severe dysphoria dating back to childhood&#8221; and was thoroughly evaluated before having surgery to remove her reproductive organs. She noted in the future it might be helpful to educate young transgender patients seeking sex-change surgery on the “potential benefit” of keeping their ovaries, “just in case.”
&#8220;They had ongoing support from a comprehensive mental health team and family. They were very much identifying as a trans man most of their life with severe dysphoria, depression, and suicidality,&#8221; wrote the physician&#8217;s assistant. “There is nothing I think anyone in our team could have done differently to prevent this or &#8216;do better.&#8217; I&#8217;m not sure if we have any data or idea of how gender identity might evolve or change over time, but that seems to be what is happening at least with this patient over time.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_1142893" style="width: 452px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1142893" class="wp-image-1142893 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH14-442x576.jpg" alt="" width="442" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH14-442x576.jpg 442w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH14-230x300.jpg 230w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH14-768x1001.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH14-1179x1536.jpg 1179w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH14.jpg 1432w" sizes=" (max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px" />A screenshot of a message obtained through a public record request by The Daily Wire.</div>
Miceli said these messages reveal the &#8220;profound tragedy&#8221; detransitioners face after undergoing irreversible gender transition treatments.
&#8220;Dr. Bowers&#8217; comments within the WPATH Member Forum acknowledge a truth the organization does not confront publicly: the profound tragedy faced by individuals who seek to detransition after irreversible sex‑rejecting surgeries. In fact, WPATH has systematically downplayed and obscured this reality by minimizing detransition and framing regret as rare,&#8221; Miceli told The Daily Wire. &#8220;These interventions create lifelong anatomical changes and permanent dependence on exogenous hormones, effectively placing patients in chronic medical care.&#8221;
Bowers declined to provide a comment to The Daily Wire. WPATH and Vanderbilt Health did not respond to The Daily Wire&#8217;s request for comment.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trans-surgeon-admits-some-patients-may-not-maintain-their-vagina-due-to-brutal-complications?author=Megan+Brock&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Inside+WPATH%3A+Trans+Surgeon+Admits+Patients+May+Experience+Painful+Complications">INSIDE WPATH PART ONE: Trans Surgeon Admits Patients May Experience Painful Complications</a>

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Inside WPATH: Trans Org Admits Need For Detransitioner Protocols While Pushing Child Sex-Changes

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The World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) is the world’s preeminent transgender medical organization and a leading force in the push for minors to receive transgender medical interventions, including sex-change surgeries. The group&#8217;s medical guidance, called the Standards of Care Version 8, informs clinical practice, insurance policy, and government regulations throughout the United States.
Systematic reviews and legal investigation have shown the SOC-8 to be built on faulty methodology and politicized science. The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against WPATH in June 2026, stating the organization has “misled parents and children about the medical consensus and medical necessity, as well as the safety and effectiveness” of child sex-change interventions.
WPATH members receive access to a member-only<a href="https://wpath.org/membership/membership-information/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> forum</a> that discusses various topics related to transgender medicine and policy. Through a public records request The Daily Wire uncovered almost 250 pages of messages from WPATH&#8217;s member-only forum written between June 2024 and November 2024. The messages offer a glimpse into the organization&#8217;s cultural reach and challenge some of its public-facing recommendations. 
This is the first article in The Daily Wire&#8217;s investigative series on the uncovered WPATH messages. 
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A pioneering transgender surgeon acknowledged that genital surgeries leave patients with painful complications and a burdensome recovery process many cannot cope with.
Members of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) discussed the pain and complications of vaginoplasty, a genital sex-change surgery, in an online member forum in the summer of 2024. <a href="https://wpath.org/about/ec-bod/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marci Bowers</a>, a transgender surgeon and Immediate <a href="https://wpath.org/about/ec-bod/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Past-President</a> of WPATH, wrote in a message that some patients don&#8217;t want to &#8220;maintain their vagina&#8221; due to &#8220;pain and discharge&#8221; after surgery.
&#8220;Just because someone does not wish to maintain their vagina because of pain and discharge, jumping to regret should not be our first response,” wrote Bowers.
<a href="https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/expert-qa/vaginoplasty-for-gender-affirmation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vaginoplasty</a> is a procedure that involves removing a penis, scrotum, and testicles, and using the genital tissue to surgically construct a vagina. If the patient doesn’t have enough genital tissue to complete the procedure, surgeons may borrow tissue from the <a href="https://www.stilleraesthetics.com/our-services/colovaginoplasty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">colon</a>. WPATH calls the final product a &#8220;<a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4058296/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">neovagina</a>,&#8221; which is a large wound that requires lifelong dilatation to prevent <a href="https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/vaginal-stenosis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vaginal stenosis</a>, a condition where scar tissue in the vagina hardens and narrows.
&#8220;Vaginal Stenosis after vaginoplasty with symptoms and no desire to keep canal&#8221; was the subject of a WPATH forum message thread obtained by The Daily Wire through a public record request.
“I have been seeing quite a few patients recently who after vaginoplasty stop dilating and do not desire to keep the canal,” wrote a nurse practitioner to start the thread. “They have come to see me with symptoms of pelvic pain, accompanied by bleeding and discharge for a few weeks before symptoms resolve.”
A physical therapist replied to the message that pain and bleeding after vaginoplasty surgery are “very common.”
“Regarding the issue of pain, it is very common in many cases, especially during the first three months, due to the surgery itself and the muscle tension it generates, as well as bleeding and secretions,” wrote the WPATH member. “Bleeding can be due to the operation itself since they have internal wounds that will expel a bloody fluid or slight bleeding during dilations.”
<div id="attachment_1140619" style="width: 950px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1140619" class="wp-image-1140619 size-full" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH-3.jpg" alt="" width="940" height="482" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH-3.jpg 940w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH-3-300x154.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH-3-768x394.jpg 768w" sizes=" (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px" />Screenshot of a WPATH member forum message obtained by The Daily Wire through a FOIA request.</div>
Patients are typically recommended to dilate for <a href="https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/expert-qa/vaginoplasty-for-gender-affirmation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">30 to 60 minutes</a> at least 3-4 times a day during the initial post-operative period, a painful time commitment. Bowers suggested the pain and effort needed to keep the genital wound flexible might not be “worth the time” for some patients.
&#8220;Dilation is crucial but not for everyone,&#8221; wrote Bowers. &#8220;For some, it just isn&#8217;t worth the time expended or the pain experienced, if that is the case at all. Or sexual situations can change.&#8221;
A social worker asked if patients expressed “any desire to de-transition” when deciding to stop dilating after surgery. Bowers responded that the “first response” of members should not be to assume a patient has regretted their sex-change surgery if they no longer wish to &#8220;maintain their vagina.&#8221;
Patients who don’t follow dilation recommendations risk losing the ability to experience penetrative sex because the surgically created vaginal canal will lose flexibility without dilation. A psychologist, who described himself as a “post-op trans woman,” responded to Bowers with his personal experience of stopping dilation after genital surgery.
<div id="attachment_1142813" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1142813" class="wp-image-1142813 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/wpath8-1024x353.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="353" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/wpath8-1024x353.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/wpath8-300x104.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/wpath8-768x265.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/wpath8.jpg 1026w" sizes=" (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />A screenshot of a message obtained through a public record request by The Daily Wire.</div>
“I’m speaking largely from experience, as a post-op trans woman who stopped dilating after a certain point and is completely fine with that. I have various friends and clients who have reached a similar point,” wrote the psychologist. “It has nothing to do with regret, I’m so happy to have my body as it is. It’s entirely about how I choose to use the body I have. It’s still good to have the (narrow) vaginal canal that I have, but because I don’t engage in penetrative sex I’ve felt no need to maintain dilation.”
WPATH does not recommend any minimum age minor patients should meet before receiving vaginoplasty surgery in its medical guidance, <a style="font-size: 16px;" href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/26895269.2022.2100644" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Standards of Care version 8</a>. The only time-connected guardrail WPATH provides in the guidelines is that minors should receive 12 months of cross-sex hormones before undergoing the permanent sex-change surgery, with some exceptions. The Federal Trade Commission <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2026/06/ftc-states-sue-world-professional-association-transgender-health-over-deceptive-claims-regarding-treatment-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">alleged</a> WPATH had misled the public regarding the safety and necessity of pediatric transgender medical interventions, including vaginoplasty, in a June 2026 <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/WPATH-Complaint-Redacted.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> it filed against WPATH.
“It is inherently harmful and unsafe to surgically remove a child’s healthy and functioning genitals,” states the lawsuit. “Nevertheless, WPATH deems it ‘medically necessary’ for treating dissatisfaction with or distress about sex traits.&#8221;
Bowers&#8217; name appears in the lawsuit 18 times, and Bowers is described as advocating for males to receive vaginoplasty surgery as minors because they have the parental support needed to endure the brutal post-operative dilation schedule.
“Some transition doctors, including Dr. Bowers, believe performing the surgery while the boy is a minor still living with his parents is preferable, rather than when the boy is living in a communal setting with limited privacy,” states the FTC lawsuit. “This is in part due to the brutality of the procedure. Recovery from vaginoplasty requires the patient to ‘dilate’ the new wound 3-4 times daily for months so that it does not heal.”
<div id="attachment_1140621" style="width: 968px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1140621" class="wp-image-1140621 size-full" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH.jpg" alt="" width="958" height="570" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH.jpg 958w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH-300x178.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH-768x457.jpg 768w" sizes=" (max-width: 958px) 100vw, 958px" />Screenshot of a WPATH member forum message obtained by The Daily Wire through a FOIA request.</div>
The FTC lawsuit alleges Bowers made more than a million dollars in 2023 “mostly from performing transition surgeries.”
In a separate WPATH forum thread, <a href="https://www.childrens.com/doctor-profile/laura-elizabeth-kuper" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Laura Kuper</a>, a psychologist at <a href="https://www.childrens.com/doctor-profile/laura-elizabeth-kuper" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Children’s Health</a> in Dallas and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220215063252/https:/www.wpath.org/media/cms/Documents/SOC%20v8/SOC8%20Full%20Contributor%20List%20-%20FINAL%20UPDATED%202222.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">co-author</a> of WPATH’s &#8220;nonbinary&#8221; chapter in the Standards of Care, asked peers to recommend “US-based surgeons” with expertise in performing vaginoplasty on patients who had early pubertal suppression in a September 2024 message. Giving young males puberty blockers stops the growth of male genital tissue and makes it more difficult to perform a vaginoplasty surgery.
One doctor said pubertal suppression prevents “the growth of the vagina,” during a private WPATH symposium in September 2022, according to<a href="https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2024/01/16/exclusive-top-pediatric-doctors-admit-in-unearthed-video-that-child-sex-changes-are-way-more-invasive-than-advertised/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> reporting</a> from The Daily Caller.
Bowers responded that the surgeries “are not easy” and require “experience and technical skill.”
“Laura — as you may be aware, limited skin is a severe limitation for those with early puberty blocked, both cosmetically and for attaining depth,” Bowers wrote. “These cases are not easy, and I would state that a critical combination of experience and technical skill is required, meaning the list of qualified surgeons is not large. We have performed approximately 100 of these procedures thus far with approximately 15 each summer. There are also several excellent surgeons in excellent institutions which may have similar numbers.”
Kuper was a pediatric psychologist at the now-shut-down Children&#8217;s Health GENder Education and Care, Interdisciplinary Support clinic. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a February 2026 <a href="https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-files-landmark-lawsuit-against-childrens-health-and-dallas-area-doctor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> against Children&#8217;s Health that alleges gender-affirming practitioners subverted Texas state law and continued <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-attorney-general-says-radical-doctor-broke-the-law-to-give-minors-sex-rejection-interventions?author=Megan+Brock&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=37&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Texas+Attorney+General+Says+Radical+Doctor+Broke+The+Law+To+Give+Minors+Sex-Rejection+Interventions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">providing minors</a> with sex-change medical interventions after the state&#8217;s ban went into effect on September 1, 2023.
Other messages acknowledge that transgender voice surgeries, which seek to make an individual&#8217;s voice sound more like the opposite sex, are “not usually effective” and have uncertain outcomes.  
“Voice is one of the hardest things to achieve primarily because surgical options are not usually effective,” wrote a WPATH member in the forum. 
“If your patient chose to pursue surgery, they would need to accept the science and physics behind the intention of the procedures as well as the unknowns in terms of outcome,” wrote an ears, nose, and throat doctor.   
In the SOC-8, WPATH lists “voice therapy and/or surgery” as a “medically necessary gender-affirming” medical intervention. Transgender voice surgeries are explicitly covered by some <a href="https://www.hca.wa.gov/free-or-low-cost-health-care/i-need-medical-dental-or-vision-care/transhealth-program">state</a> <a href="https://www.oregon.gov/oha/hsd/ohp/pages/gender-affirming-care.aspx">insurance</a> plans. 
WPATH did not respond to The Daily Wire&#8217;s requests for comment. Dr. Bowers declined to provide a comment to The Daily Wire. The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Children&#8217;s Health did not respond to The Daily Wire&#8217;s requests to obtain a comment from Laura Kuper.

(ga) — MARCIBOWERS–TRINIDAD, COLORADO, JUNE 6, 2007– Dr. Marci Bowers performs the transgender operation on Courtney Ridley in the Trinida’s Mount San Rafael Hospital to the tunes of Jimmy Buffet, Pink Floyd and others during the three-hour surgery. In

Inside WPATH: Trans Surgeon Admits Patients May Experience Painful Complications

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For years, saying that men and women, and that boys and girls are different, has been viewed as an act of aggression in many of America’s most elite sectors.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court treated it as what it is: the truth.
In upholding West Virginia’s and Idaho’s laws barring males from female sports, the Court held that a state “may maintain women’s and girls’ sports for biological females.” The reasoning was almost startling in its obviousness — and a fact of nature and commonsense that would have been unquestioned even two decades ago. Given the inherent physical differences between the sexes, separate teams reduce injury and secure fair competition. This is not bigotry. It is biology, and it is, at its heart, justice.
Justice Thomas, concurring, went to the root of the issue that the majority only gestured toward, and he did so contra the prevailing legal methods so fashionable today. The official positivist story is that judges exclude moral considerations from their rulings. The reality is that all judges operate from moral premises — inevitably so, often quietly, and in the background — and getting the morality right is no small matter. And Justice Thomas got it right. Sex, he wrote, is immutable and binary; men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women and girls, however sincerely they believe otherwise. That is as clear a declaration of human ontology and teleology as you will ever see in a Supreme Court ruling. That is the deeper victory here — a victory tethered to natural law. The Court did not merely side with the girls who watched a male claim their state shot put title. It sided, however modestly, with reality itself. When reason, nature, the common good, and the law converge, truth wins. That is moral sanity, and it has been in short supply.
But a ruling that vindicates the meaning and reality of sex is also a fitting occasion to warn my own side against abusing it. For even as conservatives rightly celebrate the Court’s recognition that sex is real and weighty, a faction on the right has spent recent months committing the mirror-image error — treating sex as though it settles questions it has no business settling.
The target has been Justice Amy Coney Barrett, and yesterday’s ruling on birthright citizenship is putting her gender in the crosshairs once again. Disagree with her jurisprudence on immigration and birthright citizenship all you want; that’s your prerogative. But discrediting her reasoning by appeal to her sex, or to her status as an adoptive mother — as some now do — is a category error. It is also textbook Bulverism, C.S. Lewis’s name for the trick of explaining why someone is wrong without first bothering to show that she is wrong: “you only think that because you’re a woman.”
A legal argument is sound or unsound on its own terms. The sex of the one making it has no bearing on whether it tracks with the truth. The intellect’s apprehension of reality is not indexed by sex; the human mind, male or female, is equally capable of grasping what is. Truth answers to human nature’s fittedness to reality as such — not to truth qua sex. That sex carries real teleological weight for vocation and embodiment is entirely true, and entirely beside the point here.
The adoptive-mother line some use to discredit her is even worse, because it isn’t even about her reasoning. It infers bias from biography. A judge’s conclusions stand or fall on her construction of the law — for good or for ill — not on the shape of her family. Attack the argument, or concede you haven’t got one. I’m no expert on the Constitution and immigration, and Justice Barrett may well be wrong. If she is, make the case from text and history — not from sex.
And here is the irony the moment lays bare. The progressive who insists a male can be a female denies that sex means anything fixed at all. The populist who insists Barrett rules as she does because she is a woman insists that sex means everything — that it skews the very operations of the intellect. Both are failures of the same faulty anthropology. Both refuse to see the human person as he and she actually are: embodied, sexed, and therefore genuinely different in vocation and form; yet equally rational, equally answerable to reality, equally made in the image of the God who is Truth. To suggest otherwise is to deny the ontological and epistemological equality of men and women as image-bearers of God.
The Court got the first half right today. Sex is real. It is given. It is not ours to redefine. The task now falling to conservatives is to hold the second half with the same conviction: that honoring the difference between men and women never requires pretending a woman cannot think or that her status as an adoptive mother necessarily colors her rulings. A movement that learns to say sex is real will have won an argument. A movement that also learns when sex is beside the point will have learned wisdom.
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Andrew T. Walker is associate professor of Christian Ethics and Public Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and managing editor of WORLD Opinions. He is a fellow at The Ethics and Public Policy Center.

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A Michigan school district currently facing a lawsuit over banning a parent who criticized Pride flags in classrooms is facing fresh scrutiny after a video surfaced showing drag performers dancing for children at a Pride event held at an elementary school.
The video, widely circulated on social media, appears to show drag performers dancing provocatively while children hand them cash tips during what organizers described as a &#8220;family-friendly&#8221; Pride celebration held at a Grosse Pointe Public Schools facility.
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OMG
Grosse Point Public Schools (<a href="https://x.com/GPSchools?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GPSchools</a>) in Michigan hosted a &#8220;family-friendly&#8221; Pride event at an elementary school where half-naked drag queens danced provocatively for CHILDREN while taking cash tips.
This is a taxpayer-funded public school grooming kids.
DEFUND <a href="https://t.co/D2ZXuKfFpl">pic.twitter.com/D2ZXuKfFpl</a>
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/2069167081463898435?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 22, 2026</a></blockquote>
The controversy comes as the district continues to defend itself against a lawsuit brought by a parent who says school officials violated his First Amendment rights after he criticized Pride displays at Parcells Middle School and shared video of the displays with other parents.
&#8220;When we first walked into this classroom, what do we see? Boom. What a bold statement,&#8221; the parent said in a video recorded inside the school while pointing to a Progress Pride Flag displayed in a classroom.
After distributing the footage to parent groups and criticizing what he described as teachers pushing an ideological agenda, district officials barred him from attending school activities, according to court filings.
Attorney David Kallman, who represents the parent, argues the district punished his client for expressing protected political views. &#8220;What this comes down to &#8230; is this school did not like what he had to say,&#8221; Kallman said to <a href="https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/grosse-pointe-schools-parent-sues-after-ban-classroom-pride-flag-video-post">Fox 2 Detroit</a>.
The newly surfaced footage has reignited criticism of the district, especially since school officials were willing to sanction a parent for objecting to Pride-related messaging while simultaneously allowing a Pride event featuring drag performers and children.
District officials have previously argued that the parents&#8217; conduct was intimidating and harassing and have rejected allegations that staff members were being accused of criminal conduct.
The lawsuit remains ongoing.

A girl holds the Transgender Pride flag during the pride

Drag Queen Show, Elementary School, Cash Tips — Seriously?

Drag Queens

Gender

The Daughters of the American Revolution has a generational opportunity to say what a woman is.
The group — open to <a href="https://www.dar.org/discover/become-member/how-join">any woman</a> 18 or older who can prove her bloodline descent from an ancestor who aided in achieving American independence — came under fire last year when it ruled <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daughters-of-the-american-revolution-chapter-is-fighting-to-keep-men-out">transgender-identifying men</a> could join the group. In response, members of the group&#8217;s Texas chapter have repeatedly introduced resolutions to restrict membership to biological women.
The DAR <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daughters-of-the-american-revolution-board-rejects-proposal-to-keep-trans-identifying-men-out" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rejected</a> those proposals in the past. But at the group&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dar.org/national-society/about-dar/continental-congress">national meeting</a> on June 26, members will vote to amend the group&#8217;s bylaws to clarify that only natural-born women could join the group.
Laura McDonald, a member of the DAR&#8217;s Texas chapter involved in the effort, is optimistic about the &#8220;historic&#8221; vote.
&#8220;Daughters all across the country have relentlessly pursued all avenues and have succeeded in their demand for this historic vote in hopes of restoring this once stalwart and prestigious institution to its founding principles,&#8221; McDonald told The Daily Wire. &#8220;The DAR should be a beacon during this confusing time in our country.&#8221;
The proposed resolution states that &#8220;the term &#8216;woman&#8217; shall be understood to clearly mean a woman who was born female, and therefore, individuals who were born male shall not be eligible for membership; transgender women shall not be eligible for membership,&#8221; according to a document reviewed by The Daily Wire.
Beth Parlato, senior legal counsel at Independent Women’s Law Center, told The Daily Wire that at the heart of the debate is whether women will continue to be a &#8220;distinct legal category.&#8221;
&#8220;The debate is not merely about membership in a single organization. It is about whether women remain a distinct legal category entitled to sex-based rights, protections, and spaces,&#8221; Parlato stated. &#8220;Women&#8217;s organizations were established to serve women, not anyone who claims a female identity.&#8221;
The Daily Wire&#8217;s Michael Knowles <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michael-knowles-exposes-transgender-attempt-to-infiltrate-daughters-of-american-revolution" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exposed</a> internal DAR documents showing strong support for transgenderism in a viral September 2024 <a href="https://x.com/michaeljknowles/status/1838267625962405922" target="_blank" rel="noopener">X thread</a>.
McDonald points out that the DAR is uniquely suited to protect women&#8217;s spaces, since birth certificate scrutiny is already an essential part of the application process
&#8220;Even if they present a legitimate state-certified legal birth certificate that says they&#8217;re a woman, if it is suspected that it&#8217;s not an original document that proves, not only their lineage but their sex, we have the right to question that document,&#8221; McDonald said. &#8220;We love Daughters of the American Revolution so much that we&#8217;re willing to go to great lengths to restore it and preserve it.&#8221;
Founded in 1890, decades before women won the right to vote in American elections, the DAR was established by patriotic women who were<a href="https://www.dar.org/discover/about-dar/dar-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> frustrated</a> that they were excluded from joining the male-only Sons of the American Revolution, established in 1889. The DAR was created to give women the same <a href="https://www.dar.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opportunity</a> as men to &#8220;promote Historic Preservation, Education, and Patriotism&#8221; in the United States. Throughout its more than 130-year history, DAR has welcomed over a million members, <a href="https://www.dar.org/national-society/about-dar/did-you-know" target="_blank" rel="noopener">supported</a> American efforts in three major wars, and continues to <a href="https://www.dar.org/outreach/patriotism/military-support-service-veterans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">serve</a> active-duty military members and veterans, as described on its website.
&#8220;When female-only groups abandon biological reality and redefine woman to include men, they contribute to the erosion of women&#8217;s rights everywhere, from athletics and scholarships to shelters, prisons, and private associations,&#8221; Parlato told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Preserving female-only spaces is essential to protecting women’s equality under the law.”
The Daughters of the American Revolution did not respond to The Daily Wire&#8217;s requests for comment.

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Daughters of the American Revolution

This is part four of a Daily Wire series exposing the Biden administration’s previously unreported efforts to enact radical anti-family policies in the name of protecting transgender-identifying children. In <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-it-the-biden-administrations-clandestine-5-year-plan-to-trans-child-welfare?author=Megan+Brock&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=READ+IT%3A+The+Biden+Administration%E2%80%99s+Clandestine+5-Year+Plan+To+Trans+Child+Welfare" target="_blank" rel="noopener">part three</a>, we saw how Biden officials prepared for a second term by laying the groundwork to enshrine transgenderism in federal law. Today, we meet the radical activists who would have led this effort.
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When the Biden administration needed people to implement its radical transgender policies, there was an obvious place to look.
The University of Connecticut&#8217;s National Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Expression (SOGIE) Center was named a subcontractor of the $20 million<a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_75ACF124F80019_7590_GS10F0064W_4730" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> grant</a> from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to create Biden&#8217;s own Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Expression Institute.
Names were not the only thing the two SOGIE Institutes would have in common. The UConn group was at the forefront of pushing radical gender ideology on child welfare systems across the country, and the activists and researchers behind the group would have assisted the HHS&#8217;s Children&#8217;s Bureau in &#8220;transforming&#8221; child welfare systems with gender ideology and implementing Biden&#8217;s April 2024 rule requiring foster care parents to “affirm” a child’s “gender identity.”
The primary contractor of the SOGIE Institute grant, BLH Technologies Inc., was described as UConn&#8217;s &#8220;small business partner&#8221; in an email written by Angela Weeks, a University of Connecticut employee tasked with administering the SOGIE grant.
“I have exciting news! BLH Technologies Inc, our small business partner in the application for the Child Welfare SOGIE Institute, received notification that we won the award!” wrote Weeks. “This [Technical Assistance] center will provide guidance for child welfare agencies across the country on SOGI data collection, program implementation, and the implementation of the &#8216;Designated Placements Rule.'&#8221;
Weeks and Marlene Matarese, who held leadership roles at Biden&#8217;s SOGIE Institute, had spent years working together to develop gender-affirming child welfare programs through an initiative called the National Quality Improvement Center on Tailored Services, Placement Stability, and Permanency for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Two-Spirit Children and Youth (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210418181910/https://qiclgbtq2s.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">QIC-LGBTQ2S</a>) in Foster Care. This group was funded by a $10 million federal grant awarded to the University of Maryland School of Social Work in late 2016. The initiative developed &#8220;affirming&#8221; programs that re-educated parents to support a child&#8217;s gender transition, helped LGBTQ+ identifying kids find &#8220;<a href="https://www.kinnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CAFF-Intervention-Practice-Manual-Final-9.6.23.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">chosen affirming families,</a>&#8221; and <a href="https://sogiecenter.org/child-welfare-resources-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trained</a> social workers to<a href="https://express.adobe.com/page/yjbkzmPugwkgc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> collect information</a> about the sexuality of children.
Weeks, Matarese, and the research group moved from the University of Maryland in late 2022 to become part of UConn&#8217;s School of Social Work<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250127011132/https:/innovations.socialwork.uconn.edu/team/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Innovations Institute</a>.<a href="https://socialwork.uconn.edu/person/marlene-matarese/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Matarese</a> is currently an associate research professor at UConn, while<a href="https://directory.uconn.edu/?phonebook_search=angela%20weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Weeks</a> is an administrative program manager, and both used UConn email addresses to perform SOGIE Institute tasks. Many of the documents cited in this series were obtained through public record requests submitted to the university.
UConn was<a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_75ACF123P00007_7590_-NONE-_-NONE-/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> awarded</a> a $33,700 grant in April 2023 to create a series of training modules for the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) staff to build its capacity to &#8220;serve and provide support to LGBTQ2SI+ children, families, parents, and others,&#8221; as described in the grant.
Matarese and Weeks worked with ACF officials to complete the training series in the summer of 2024, records show. One email shows Weeks explaining the concept of &#8220;sex assigned at birth&#8221; to an ACF staff member.
&#8220;My questions is are people also assigning gender at birth? As do birth certificates have &#8216;gender&#8217; instead of sex? I defer to UCONN on this point,&#8221; asked the staff member.
“We use both, depending on the context,&#8221; Weeks responded. &#8220;Sex assigned at birth is when folks add female/male to birth certificates. When people say, &#8216;it’s a girl&#8217; or &#8216;it’s a boy,&#8217; they are assigning gender.”
<a href="https://sogiecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/SOGIE-Center-Newsletter-February-2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UConn</a> was also home to the<a href="https://sogiecenter.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> National SOGIE Center</a>, a collaborative of transgender activist groups <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240704121902/https://sogiecenter.org/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">led</a> by Weeks and Matarese that showcased many of the interventions <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230331085312/https://qiclgbtq2s.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">developed</a> by QIC-LGBTQ2S. UConn described the National SOGIE Center as “A collaborative, led by Innovations Institute with Angela Weeks as Project Director and Marlene Matarese as Principal Investigator, of national leading social justice organizations that work to promote the well-being of LGBTQ+ youth and their families,&#8221; on its<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250123170127/https://innovations.socialwork.uconn.edu/expertise/lgbtq/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> website,</a> which has since been deactivated but is available to read on the Internet Archive.
The Innovations Institute removed links to many LGBTQ+ affirming resources and the National SOGIE Center from its website after President Trump took office, and it&#8217;s unclear if UCONN is still leading the group. The Daily Wire contacted UConn several times and asked for clarification about its current involvement but did not receive a response.
The National SOGIE Center continues to produce LGBTQ+ affirming resources. It published a “<a href="https://coming-out-guide.sogiecenter.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Coming Out With Care</a>” guidebook in the fall of 2025 that helps young people navigate sharing their LGBTQ+ identity. The guide warns you “may lose family members” who have been exposed to “misinformation” when sharing your LGBTQ+ identity.
&#8220;Try to remind yourself that your parents and other family members may have been exposed to a lot of misinformation about sexual orientation and gender identity,&#8221; states the guide. &#8220;You may lose family members — this could be for a few days, weeks, months, or even years.&#8221;
The guide also recommends that youth research local consent laws to discover if they can make &#8220;medical decisions&#8217; without parental consent.
&#8220;Research if there is an age of consent law that lets youth (in some states, this may be between ages 12 to 18) make certain medical decisions without parental consent,&#8221; the guide says.
A recently uploaded<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE319wn9UBk" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> video</a> on the National SOGIE Center YouTube channel stressed the importance of parents supporting their child&#8217;s transgender identity. The video pushes the<a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/trevor-project-suicide-prevention-lgbt-youth-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> debunked</a> narrative that affirming a child&#8217;s transgender identity protects them from harm.
In 2025, the Human Rights Campaign, a longtime partner of the National SOGIE Center, announced it was transitioning its<a href="https://www.thehrcfoundation.org/professional-resources/all-children-all-families-lgbtq-resources-for-youth-serving-professionals" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> child welfare program</a> to the National SOGIE Center in its<a href="https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=3ad45d2c9202aaece3bbece7e&amp;id=4135f00958" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> May 2025 Newsletter.</a>
&#8220;We are excited to share an important update: after May 30, 2025, the management of the All Children &#8211; All Families (ACAF) program is transitioning from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation to<a href="https://sogiecenter.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> The National SOGIE Center</a>!&#8221; stated the newsletter. &#8220;This transition marks a new chapter in the program’s evolution, one grounded in continuity, deep expertise, and our shared commitment to advancing equity and inclusion for LGBTQ+ children, youth, and families.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/she-wouldnt-call-her-daughter-trans-the-state-took-custody?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Megan+Brock&amp;category=Investigation&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=She+Wouldn%E2%80%99t+Call+Her+Daughter+%E2%80%98Trans.%E2%80%99+The+State+Took+Custody." target="_blank" rel="noopener">PART ONE: SHE WOULDN’T CALL HER DAUGHTER ‘TRANS.’ THE STATE TOOK CUSTODY.</a>
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-the-biden-admins-scramble-to-find-data-to-support-its-pro-trans-foster-care-reform?author=Megan+Brock&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=The+Evidence+Problem+At+The+Heart+Of+Biden%E2%80%99s+Trans+Rule" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PART TWO: THE EVIDENCE PROBLEM AT THE HEART OF BIDEN’S TRANS RULE</a>
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-it-the-biden-administrations-clandestine-5-year-plan-to-trans-child-welfare?author=Megan+Brock&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=READ+IT%3A+The+Biden+Administration%E2%80%99s+Clandestine+5-Year+Plan+To+Trans+Child+Welfare" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PART THREE: THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION&#8217;S CLANDESTINE 5-YEAR PLAN TO TRANS CHILD WELFARE</a>

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The Shocking Advice A Biden-Backed Trans Group Gave Kids

Biden

Child Welfare

This is part three of a Daily Wire series exposing the Biden administration’s previously unreported efforts to enact radical anti-family policies in the name of protecting transgender-identifying children. In <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-the-biden-admins-scramble-to-find-data-to-support-its-pro-trans-foster-care-reform">part two,</a> we saw how Biden officials pushed a policy even radical LGBT activists told them to drop.
Today, we see that the rule was just the tip of the iceberg. As Biden receded from view and Kamala Harris launched her campaign, Biden officials were laying the groundwork for what they would do if they kept the White House. The plan would have fundamentally changed child welfare across the country — enshrining transgenderism in federal law without a single vote.
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Shortly before the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign dropped a game changing ad.
“Kamala is for they/them,&#8221; the ad warned viewers. &#8220;President Trump is for you.&#8221;
It has since become clear that Trump&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-trump-learned-to-embrace-the-transgender-culture-wars">embrace of the transgender issue</a> helped fuel his return to the White House. But what if Vice President Kamala Harris had eked out a victory? Would her administration have continued President Joe Biden&#8217;s embrace of radical gender ideology? Would she have walked it back? Or would Harris have taken things even further?
A 78-page plan reviewed by The Daily Wire shows how the Biden administration was planning to make affirming transgenderism the national standard within child welfare services without having to pass a single law. The crux of that plan was the creation of the Child Welfare Sexual Orientation Gender Identity and Expression Institute (SOGIE). Funded by a $20 million <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_75ACF124F80019_7590_GS10F0064W_4730" target="_blank" rel="noopener">grant</a> from the Department of Health and Human Services, <a href="https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USACFCWIG/bulletins/3bb7416">SOGIE</a> was on track to employ a 40-person team to push transgenderism on child welfare agencies across the country.
&#8220;This is a comprehensive, detailed strategy to turn child welfare systems in all 50 states into training camps and havens for radical gender ideology,&#8221; Laura Hanford, the senior policy analyst at the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Human Flourishing, told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Not a word about the major risks of sex-rejecting procedures, or about the comorbidities for gender confusion and its high correlation with sexual abuse, especially in such a vulnerable population.&#8221;
Even the people behind the plan acknowledged its radical nature.
Angela Weeks, a University of Connecticut employee tasked with administering the SOGIE grant, wrote to colleagues in August 2024 that “we wrote a proposal that was innovative, so much so that some other reviewers thought we should tone it down.&#8221;
But &#8220;we chose to go big,&#8221; Weeks said, adding that it was &#8220;thrilling to see&#8221; the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), an <a href="https://acf.gov/about">agency</a> within HHS, &#8220;wanted a contractor who would lead this work in a way that can create real change.”
The Biden administration first mentioned the SOGIE Institute in <a href="https://sam.gov/opp/076cf3af202e48eeac9766ab3a7e02b5/view#history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 2023,</a> when HHS announced it was looking for a contractor to help its <a href="https://acf.gov/cb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Children’s Bureau</a> address the &#8220;unique needs of transgender and gender diverse individuals&#8221; in child welfare systems. This was pursuant to Biden&#8217;s <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/06/21/2022-13391/advancing-equality-for-lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-queer-and-intersex-individuals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Executive Order 14075,</a> which mandated the federal government “combat unlawful discrimination” and “address the significant disparities that LGBTQI+ youth face in the foster care system.”
The SOGIE Institute cited this order in its project work plan, stating it offered an “unprecedented opportunity” to make child welfare services “more responsive” to the “unique needs of [LGBTQIA2S+] youth and their families.&#8221; It called President Biden&#8217;s LGBTQ+ affirming foster care<a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/04/30/2024-08982/designated-placement-requirements-under-titles-iv-e-and-iv-b-for-lgbtqi-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> rule</a> an “inflection point,” charging child welfare agencies to take radical action.
In the fall of 2024, the SOGIE Institute set about transforming local and state child welfare agencies across the nation.
The draft work plan outlines five years worth of initiatives, including efforts to collect data about the sexual orientation and gender identity of children in foster care, and trainings to help child welfare workers “maximize SOGIE knowledge and practice competencies.”
The institute also had plans to handpick child welfare workers from state and local agencies to participate in a “SOGIE Champions&#8221; program, where they would participate in a &#8220;robust training and coaching program that teaches the skills and knowledge necessary to implement evidence informed LGBTQIA2S+ best practices.&#8221;
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Biden officials were particularly interested in recruiting &#8220;champions&#8221; from child welfare systems in conservative states that opposed President Biden’s LGBTQ+ affirming foster care<a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/04/30/2024-08982/designated-placement-requirements-under-titles-iv-e-and-iv-b-for-lgbtqi-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> rule</a>, records show. Liliana Chakrabarti, a child welfare program specialist at the Children’s Bureau, told SOGIE leaders that her staff had created a list of potential allies in 20 states whose attorneys general had opposed the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/states-press-hhs-over-illegal-rule-that-could-force-foster-care-providers-to-facilitate-trans-procedures" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rule</a>, an August 2024 email shows.
The SOGIE Institute planned to welcome its first group of “SOGIE Champions” in January 2025. Liliana Chakrabarti did not respond to The Daily Wire&#8217;s request for comment.
The institute also planned to recruit and train “Lived Experience Consultants” who had been supported by child welfare systems and identified as &#8220;LGBTQIA2S+ or are parents or caregivers of LGBTQIA2S+ young people.” These individuals would consult with local child welfare agencies and help them embrace gender affirming policies.
The SOGIE Institute only operated for six months. But during that time, the group <a href="https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USACFCWIG/bulletins/3c5fab1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hosted</a> <a href="https://www.payab.pitt.edu/files/10TipsFosterSafteyLGBTQIA2S.pdf">webinars</a> on “Supporting LGBTQIA2S+ Young People and their Families Receiving Child Welfare Services&#8221; and “Ten Tips on Fostering Safety for LGBTQIA2S+ Youth in Foster Care.&#8221;
The “tips” included using non-gendered language, hanging pride flags in child welfare offices, and introducing yourself using chosen pronouns.
The group published a <a href="https://www.payab.pitt.edu/files/CWSOGIEInstituteGlossary.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">glossary of terms</a> that defined each letter of the LGBTQIA2S+ acronym, saying it would be used “for all the work throughout the Administration of Children and Families&#8221; and also provided definitions of terms such as “queer,” “transgender,” and “transition.”
&#8220;Child welfare is already widely tainted by gender ideology,&#8221; Hanford told The Daily Wire. &#8220;One can only imagine how much more thoroughly this 20-million-dollar plan would have rotted child protective systems, and how many more families would have been destroyed, had President Trump not won the election and halted the project.&#8221;
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The work plan showed one of the long-term goals of the SOGIE Institute was to address the problem of “over-representation of LGBTQIA2S+ in foster care,&#8221; but Chakrabarti recommended that the SOGIE Institute focus on a more “realistic” goal.
“I think a more realistic long term goal would be: increased satisfaction of services by LGBTQIA2S+ youth in care,” wrote Chakrabarti.
Transgender activists believe not supporting a child&#8217;s transgender identity is a form of harm and abuse. Parents across the country, including in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/murdered-by-gender-ideology-mother-whose-daughter-committed-suicide-blasts-child-protective-services" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a>, <a href="https://becketfund.org/case/m-c-and-j-c-v-indiana-department-of-child-services/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Indiana</a>, and <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/10/17/exclusive-gender-confused-kids-taken-non-affirming-parents-one-family-fight-son-back/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maryland</a>, have had their children taken away by child welfare services for affirming their child’s sex. In the first part of this series, The Daily Wire reported on an Oregon mom who lost custody because she would not affirm her daughter&#8217;s transgender identity.
Erin Friday, a lawyer and president of Our Duty-USA, told The Daily Wire that gender-affirming child welfare systems are unnecessarily increasing the number of kids in foster care.
&#8220;The child welfare system was designed as a safety net for abused children, with family reunification as its primary goal,&#8221; Friday said. &#8220;It has since morphed into a system that wants to add to the foster care ledger.&#8221;
&#8220;The primary beneficiaries are LGBTQ-affiliated nonprofits that can then seek additional taxpayer funding,&#8221; Friday added. &#8220;This scheme simultaneously uses the increased numbers to justify the false notion that parents are abandoning their gender dysphoric children.&#8221;
Under President Trump, HHS has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-sends-new-guidance-to-all-50-states-on-trans-kid-disputes?author=Megan+Brock&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=19&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Admin+Sends+New+Guidance+To+All+50+States+On+Trans+Kid+Disputes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">alerted</a> all 50 states that affirming “biological reality” does not constitute child abuse or neglect under federal law.
“Removing a child from their home must be based on objective evidence or imminent risk of serious harm. So a state’s decision to break up a family cannot be based solely on a parent’s objection to radical gender ideology or irreversible sex rejecting medical interventions,” said Alex Adams, the assistant secretary for the ACF, in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWhuT4EHHdQ&amp;t=2s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> published by HHS.
Despite this recommendation, few states have clarified their legal code to ensure that affirming a child’s sex is not labeled as a form of child abuse. Many American parents who won’t affirm the transgender identity of their children are at risk of losing custody of their kids to the state.
President Trump canceled the $20 million SOGIE Institute contract in January 2025 with Executive Order <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-radical-and-wasteful-government-dei-programs-and-preferencing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">14151</a>, which eliminated diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, according to the <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_75ACF124F80019_7590_GS10F0064W_4730" target="_blank" rel="noopener">grant</a> listing. But despite the loss of funding, members of the group have continued to push their views.
Before the creation of Biden&#8217;s SOGIE Institute, Weeks was the director of a collaborative of transgender activists organizations that provides guidance and training to child welfare agencies implementing gender affirming policies called the <a href="https://sogiecenter.org/">National SOGIE Center</a>. Partners of the collaborative include the Human Rights Campaign and Lambda Legal. The National SOGIE Center has continued to produce LGBTQ+ resources and published a &#8220;<a href="https://coming-out-guide.sogiecenter.org/">Coming Out With Care</a>&#8221; guidebook in the fall of 2025.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/she-wouldnt-call-her-daughter-trans-the-state-took-custody?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Megan+Brock&amp;category=Investigation&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=She+Wouldn%E2%80%99t+Call+Her+Daughter+%E2%80%98Trans.%E2%80%99+The+State+Took+Custody." target="_blank" rel="noopener">PART ONE: SHE WOULDN’T CALL HER DAUGHTER ‘TRANS.’ THE STATE TOOK CUSTODY.</a>
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-the-biden-admins-scramble-to-find-data-to-support-its-pro-trans-foster-care-reform?author=Megan+Brock&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=The+Evidence+Problem+At+The+Heart+Of+Biden%E2%80%99s+Trans+Rule">PART TWO: THE EVIDENCE PROBLEM AT THE HEART OF BIDEN&#8217;S TRANS RULE</a>

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This is part two of a Daily Wire series exposing the Biden administration&#8217;s previously unreported efforts to enact radical anti-family policies in the name of protecting transgender-identifying children. Part one told <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/she-wouldnt-call-her-daughter-trans-the-state-took-custody?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Megan+Brock&amp;category=Investigation&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=She+Wouldn%E2%80%99t+Call+Her+Daughter+%E2%80%98Trans.%E2%80%99+The+State+Took+Custody.">the story of Nicole</a>, a mother whose refusal to indulge her daughter&#8217;s gender delusions led the state of Oregon to take custody of the child.
Today, we peer behind the curtain of the Biden administration&#8217;s efforts to replicate Oregon&#8217;s system on a national level. In the waning days of the administration, Biden health officials pushed a rule they said would stop an epidemic of &#8220;family rejection&#8221; straining the foster care system. There was just one problem: even radical LGBT activists told the Biden team it had its facts wrong. That didn&#8217;t stop them.
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In April 2024, the Biden administration issued a rule pressing state child welfare agencies to stock their systems with foster homes that would “affirm” a child&#8217;s “gender identity,” insisting it was the best way to protect children&#8217;s mental health.
Less than a month prior, Biden officials were scrambling to find data to support their claim.
“I’m on a tight deadline and need to provide data on why LGBTQI+ children and youth are overrepresented in child welfare,” Julie Kruse, the Biden administration&#8217;s Senior Advisor for LGBTQI+ Initiatives at the Administration for Children and Families, wrote in an email to transgender activists unearthed by The Daily Wire.
“There are so many great surveys on disproportionality of negative experiences, WHILE these youth are in care but less quantitative data I’ve been able to find on family rejection and other factors that led a disproportionate number of LGBTQI+ youth to be in foster care in the first case.”
Kruse and others in the administration pushed the <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/04/30/2024-08982/designated-placement-requirements-under-titles-iv-e-and-iv-b-for-lgbtqi-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rule</a> to fix what they believed was a massive problem with foster care: a dangerously high number of teens were entering the system because their parents did not accept their gender or sexual identity. The rule&#8217;s rationale pointed to “family rejection” — including refusing to use a child&#8217;s chosen pronouns or not letting a child “learn about their LGBTQ identity” — as harmful, and directed agencies to make placements that support a child&#8217;s gender identity.
Bianca Wilson, an LGBT scholar, warned Kruse that this claim wasn&#8217;t supported by data.
“I encourage you to avoid the go-to explanation of ‘family rejection’ that is often adopted by queer organizations that do so in the absence of data to support it,” <a href="https://luskin.ucla.edu/person/bianca-d-m-wilson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wilson</a> wrote to Kruse in an August 28, 2023, email.
“Most of the queerkids in care (based on what we saw In LA and what NYC found) entered care before they were teens,&#8221; wrote Wilson, the lead investigator of the first <a href="https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/sgm-youth-la-foster-care/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> to <a href="https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Surveying-LGBTQ-Youth-Foster-Care-Nov-2016.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">estimate</a> the number of LGBT youth in foster care. &#8220;This means they likely entered care before [Sexual and Gender Minority] expression and identities were especially salient.&#8221;
Kruse got somewhat luckier with Angela Weeks and Marlene Matarese.
The pair had helped lead the cumbersomely named National Quality Improvement Center on Tailored Services, Placement Stability, and Permanency for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Two-Spirit Children and Youth in Foster Care.
The <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190823151605/https://qiclgbtq2s.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">QIC-LGBTQ2S</a> was launched in 2017 and worked with child welfare agencies in Michigan, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Ohio to develop and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190823160412/http://www.qiclgbtq2s.org/lis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">implement</a> gender affirming child welfare interventions in partnership with the Children’s Bureau, with the goal of transforming child welfare systems to become LGBTQ+ affirming. The programs developed by the QIC-LGBTQ2S group were later <a href="https://sogiecenter.org/programs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">housed</a> and made accessible by the <a href="https://sogiecenter.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National SOGIE Center</a>, a collaborative of transgender activist groups working to influence child welfare systems.
Weeks sent Kruse a federally funded research <a href="https://sogiecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Cuyahoga-Youth-Count-2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey</a> conducted through the initiative she and Matarese led, which &#8220;found that 32% of young people (ages 12-21) identified as LGBTQ+.&#8221; But Weeks made clear that &#8220;there is less administrative data to help us understand the cause of this prevalence,&#8221; and that the extant data did not definitively show the reasons &#8220;LGBTQI+ youth&#8221; entered the foster care system.
Bianca Wilson, the researcher who discouraged Kruse from employing &#8220;the go-to explanation of ‘family rejection,'&#8221; specifically named the Cuyahoga study as insufficient to demonstrate Kruse&#8217;s point in her message, insisting that &#8220;no one has yet done the research needed to examine this question adequately.&#8221;
Wilson&#8217;s warnings did not dissuade Kruse. The Cuyahoga County report is the first study cited in the &#8220;family rejection&#8221; rule the Biden administration submitted to the Federal Register.
&#8220;The rule was premised on the incorrect notion that not affirming and supporting a child’s self-proclaimed sexual identity or identity that rejects his or her sex is unsafe, harassment, mistreatment, and abuse,&#8221; Ethics and Public Policy Center fellow Rachel Morrison told The Daily Wire. &#8220;This radical premise, if adopted, would not be contained to foster care; it would have far-reaching implications for adoption, custody disputes, child care, education, and athletics.&#8221;
“The Biden rule created special rules for children in foster care who identify as ‘LGBTQI+’ based on misrepresentations of research and data, outdated studies, and biased surveys produced by ideologically-driven activist organizations,&#8221; she added.
President Joe Biden continued pushing the idea that “family rejection” was driving kids into child welfare systems during his presidency. Kruse and Weeks worked together to plan an October 2024 “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-the-biden-administrations-speed-dating-event-for-trans-activists-and-megadonors?author=Megan+Brock&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=15&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Biden+Admin+Hosted+%E2%80%98Speed+Dating%E2%80%99+Event+For+Trans+Activists+With+One+Rule" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speed dating</a>” event first exposed by The Daily Wire, which brought together transgender activists, government officials, and major progressive philanthropists to promote and expand the impact of “family acceptance” child welfare programs.
The Biden foster care rule was <a href="https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-secures-final-victory-over-biden-era-rule-forcing-radical-gender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vacated</a> by a federal judge in June 2025. The Trump administration <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-admin-squashes-controversial-biden-rule-forcing-foster-homes-affirm-childrens-lgbtq-status" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> in March 2026 that it was taking action to rescind the rule.
<div>Wilson stood by her comment to Kruse on family rejection and told The Daily Wire that data indicate LGBTQ+ youth are overrepresented in foster care, but there is no systematic data to explain why. She attributed this to a lack of research funding and the government&#8217;s blocking efforts to collect SOGIE data.</div>
&#8220;Yet, if you look at some research studies, it is also clear that family rejection because of prejudice against a child or youth’s SOGIE is sometimes a major issue leading to placement in foster care. So, family rejection is sometimes a major issue, but we do not have clear data to explain whether it is central to creating LGBTQ youth disproportionality,&#8221; Wilson told The Daily Wire.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/she-wouldnt-call-her-daughter-trans-the-state-took-custody?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Megan+Brock&amp;category=Investigation&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=She+Wouldn%E2%80%99t+Call+Her+Daughter+%E2%80%98Trans.%E2%80%99+The+State+Took+Custody.">READ PART ONE: SHE WOULDN&#8217;T CALL HER DAUGHTER &#8216;TRANS.&#8217; THE STATE TOOK CUSTODY.</a>

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The Evidence Problem At The Heart Of Biden’s Trans Rule

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When a transgender-identifying man flashed his prosthetic breasts on the White House lawn during the Biden administration&#8217;s penultimate Pride Month celebration, many thought we had seen the high water mark of the radical gender ideology that had captured the Democrat Party.
But internal documents unearthed by The Daily Wire reveal the shocking truth. In its waning days, the Biden administration was working behind the scenes to rip children from the homes of loving parents who refused to affirm a child&#8217;s transgender identity. Today, as a different president marks the first of June without any rainbow regalia, we&#8217;re proud to bring you the first in a four-part series exposing the Biden administration&#8217;s radical anti-family plot.
We begin with the story of Nicole, a loving mother whose refusal to indulge her daughter&#8217;s gender delusions put her at odds with her local school district, and later, the entire state of Oregon. The system that empowered the state to rip Nicole&#8217;s daughter from her home is precisely the kind of system the Biden administration was developing — and likely would have implemented had Vice President Kamala Harris defeated President Donald Trump.
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Nicole was shocked when the police turned up at her front door to take her 15-year-old daughter away.
In July 2024, the Oregon Department of Human Services took the teen — called Jane Doe in filings to protect her identity — into protective custody as they investigated whether Nicole was causing Jane a “mental injury,&#8221; a form of child abuse under Oregon <a href="https://www.childwelfare.gov/resources/definitions-child-abuse-and-neglect-oregon/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">state law.</a>
The issue at hand? Nicole would not &#8220;affirm&#8221; Jane&#8217;s &#8220;gender identity.&#8221;
&#8220;I asked, &#8216;What if I don&#8217;t let her go&#8217;?&#8221; Nicole told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Then you can be arrested,&#8221; a police officer told her.
Nicole says Jane had identified as transgender for several years — but she and her husband are Christians, who acknowledge the biological reality that you can&#8217;t change your sex. After performing its investigation, Oregon DHS sent Nicole a notice in September 2024 saying it had found the claim that she caused her daughter a &#8220;mental injury&#8221; for not affirming her transgender identity was “founded.”
&#8220;We believe you, Nicole REDACTED, are responsible for the Mental Injury of Jane Doe,&#8221; the document from Oregon DHS reads. &#8220;Your actions and statements towards Jane Doe have caused significant mental injury. The severe harm perpetrated showed a serious disregard for Jane Doe&#8217;s social and emotional well-being. Your adverse reactions to Jane Doe expressing their gender identity have caused serious harm to Jane Doe&#8217;s psychological functioning.&#8221;
Oregon defines “<a href="https://oregon.public.law/rules/oar_413-015-0115" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emotional abuse</a>” as “any mental injury to a child that shall include only observable and substantial impairment of the child&#8217;s mental or psychological ability to function caused by cruelty to the child.&#8221;
Nicole asked Oregon DHS to review and reconsider her case. Upon review, Oregon DHS again said Nicole&#8217;s refusal to &#8220;support&#8221; Jane&#8217;s gender identity had caused her a “mental injury.”
“The decision was based on the following: You refuse to support JANE DOE’s gender identity and instead provided hours-long lectures that have led to JANE DOE experiencing panic attacks and suicidal ideation. Your actions and behaviors have caused a severe negative impact on JANE DOE’s wellbeing,” states a document reviewed by The Daily Wire.
The Daily Wire reached out to Oregon DHS, asking if it could confirm whether the state of Oregon views not affirming a child&#8217;s gender identity as emotional abuse that causes mental injury to a child. Oregon DHS did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Nicole told The Daily Wire that Jane now lives with her gender-affirming father.
&#8220;Because I tell them she&#8217;s a girl and I won&#8217;t say that she&#8217;s a boy whatsoever, they won&#8217;t let me have a relationship with my daughter,&#8221; Nicole told The Daily Wire. &#8220;They took all of my parenting rights away.&#8221;
&#8220;Nicole&#8217;s story is not unusual,&#8221; parents&#8217; rights advocate Erin Friday says. &#8220;Gender confused kids are being groomed by adults to use the child welfare apparatus to escape from the only parent who truly has the child’s best interest in mind. The system that was designed to safeguard kids has morphed into a lethal weapon against loving parents.&#8221;
Nicole is now going to court to clear the names of her and her husband, who was also named as having “founded” charges of emotional abuse. Her case is set to go before a judge in September 2026.
“I gave birth to a beautiful, loving little girl, and that she will always and forever, no matter what she does to her body, will be a girl,” Nicole told The Daily Wire.
“Now my husband and I are in a battle with the State to clear our names because we didn&#8217;t lie to our daughter and tell her that she is a boy. This has cost us thousands [of dollars] and more heartache that I can&#8217;t begin to place into words, and with no end in sight.”
<h3>Oregon’s Radical Child Welfare Policies</h3>
Oregon is known for its radical embrace of gender ideology. It adopted a groundbreaking <a href="https://oregon.public.law/rules/oar_413-200-0308" target="_blank" rel="noopener">policy</a> in 2018 requiring child foster care parents and adoptive families to &#8220;respect, accept, and support&#8221; a child&#8217;s gender identity. &#8220;Gender identity&#8221; is a term used by transgender activists to describe a person’s feelings about their sex. Activists view not “affirming” a child’s gender identity as a form of abuse and neglect.
This rule shares similarities with a now rescinded Biden-era federal <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/04/30/2024-08982/designated-placement-requirements-under-titles-iv-e-and-iv-b-for-lgbtqi-children#footnote-35-p34845" target="_blank" rel="noopener">regulation</a> that required all foster care families to provide transgender affirming environments for LGBTQ+ youth.
Jessica Bates, a Christian Oregon mom, sued Oregon DHS in 2023 after she was barred from applying to adopt children because of “her objections to affirming a child’s transgender identity,” legal <a href="https://cases.justia.com/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/23-4169/23-4169-2025-07-24.pdf?ts=1753374764" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documents</a> show. Bates, who was represented by legal counsel from Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), initially lost her case but won on appeal and received a preliminary injunction in July 2025 allowing her to move forward with foster and adoption processes.
&#8220;This was really the first appellate circuit court decision ever to address this issue, and we think it reads very strongly in favor of free speech and religious liberty,&#8221; Jon Scruggs, ADF VP of Litigation Strategy, told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;Just because someone refuses to affirm gender ideology, you can&#8217;t deny their ability to foster and adopt. And if that&#8217;s true, I think it certainly flows into biological parents as well, that if anything, biological parents have even stronger rights and adoption applicants.&#8221;
The Oregon DHS Resource and Adoptive Family Training (<a href="https://sharedsystems.dhsoha.state.or.us/DHSForms/Served/de98450.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RAFT</a>) for foster and adoptive families has a <a href="https://www.oregon.gov/odhs/providers-partners/foster-care/pages/training-certification.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">session</a> devoted to training caregivers to create “affirming homes.”
“You will learn about what it means to affirm (respecting, accepting, and supporting) children’s identities and practice affirmation in the resource home,” the training states.
The training makes clear that parents and caregivers must actively<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WHaID0aD0A&amp;list=PLsrX1nc_gB0qMKoMmmLYYczBJs7gBV3PB&amp;index=10" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> affirm</a> a child’s gender identity by using “correct pronouns” and ensuring a child has clothes that match their chosen sex.
In the final opinion in Bates&#8217;s case, the judge noted that Oregon trained foster and adoptive parents to not only be tolerant of a child’s gender identity, but also to proactively be affirming.
“The state’s own denial of Bates’s application shows that the state does not interpret its policy and the RAFT guidelines to be merely advisory. The state thus cited Bates’s refusal to ‘encourage’ children ‘in this behavior’ as grounds for denying her certification as an adoptive parent,” states the opinion.
<h3>Non-Affirmation Is Abuse</h3>
Oregon’s child welfare policies aren’t limited to the foster care and adoption system. They also affect children residing at home with their parents.
&#8220;The logic of the state&#8217;s argument in the foster context is parents are endangering children&#8217;s lives by refusing to affirm gender ideology,&#8221; Scruggs told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;That logic crosses right over to biological parents and so that&#8217;s one reason we&#8217;re litigating this issue across the country.&#8221;
ADF is providing legal counsel to foster and adoptive parents across the country who are being discriminated against for not affirming gender ideology.
In October 2023, Oregon DHS received a &#8220;call of concern&#8221; about Jane&#8217;s safety while under Nicole’s care. An Oregon DHS report written by a caseworker, reviewed by The Daily Wire, noted Jane was &#8220;currently wanting to transition from female to male&#8221; and that Nicole was “not supportive of this.&#8221; The caseworker pointed out that Nicole and her husband believe &#8220;men are men and women are women.&#8221;
Jane had continued to identify as a boy, and in May 2024, out of concern for her well-being, Nicole asked Jane to watch videos showing the harms of gender ideology.
Nicole told The Daily Wire that she and Jane spent around two hours watching the videos, ate dinner, and went to bed. The evening seemed uneventful.
The next morning, Jane headed off to her public school. But when Nicole went to pick up Jane at the end of the day, she was nowhere to be found. Nicole spent almost two hours frantically trying to locate her and called 911 to report her daughter as missing. She was directed to a police officer, who said Jane went home with a friend because she felt threatened by the gender ideology videos Nicole had shown her the night before.
The police officer brought Jane to Nicole, with the order that she take her daughter to an emergency crisis center. At the center, counselors offered Nicole pamphlets about resources for LGBTQ+ community members, which she refused.
The Oregon Department of Education, in January 2023, released a 48-page <a href="https://www.oregon.gov/ode/students-and-family/equity/civilrights/Documents/ODE-Supporting-Gender-Expansive-Students.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">document</a> titled “Supporting Gender Expansive Students: Guidance for Schools,” which provides practical ways for schools to be gender affirming. The department provides a template to help school staff create gender identity support plans and recommends that school staff keep secrets about students&#8217; &#8220;gender identity.&#8221;
So, while Nicole and her husband tried to reason with Jane at home, the teenager&#8217;s school had been providing her with information about LGBTQ+ identities. Her teachers were calling her by a different name, and her peers pressured her into transitioning to another sex.
Nicole told The Daily Wire that “schools, outside counselors, children&#8217;s friends, phones, echo chambers within social media, and affirming family members” all influenced Jane’s embrace of a transgender identity.
Nicole believed that in June 2024, Jane was starting to see some of the harms of transgenderism. But this change of heart was short-lived, which Nicole believes was due, in part, to the influence of a Christian counselor Jane was seeing for help addressing her underlying struggles.
The counselor advertised herself as having a “Christian worldview,” and Nicole specifically asked the counselor not to discuss LGBTQ+ issues with Jane.
The Daily Wire reviewed a document that suggests the Christian counselor supported Jane’s transgender identity and told Oregon DHS their “main concern is the parents have really particular beliefs about LGBTQ,” and told a caseworker “mom had the perception that since she is listed as a Christian counselor, that she would be against the LGBTQ,” according to an Oregon DHS report.
When Jane used her tablet to access an online “gender support group,” the Christian counselor was “really proud of Jane for reaching out to somebody when she felt she needed help,” according to the report.
Nicole told The Daily Wire the counselor&#8217;s office was &#8220;where a lot of issues occurred.&#8221;
After Jane was taken into state custody in July 2024, the Department of Human Services sent letters to Nicole’s family members, alerting them that Jane needed a place to live. Gender-affirming child welfare systems seek to find “<a href="https://sogiecenter.org/programs/caff/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">chosen affirming families</a>” for transgender identifying children whose parents refuse to transition them to another sex. Nicole told The Daily Wire that this action was devastating, isolating, and harmed her familial relationships.
&#8220;CPS sent letters to my entire family saying, &#8216;Are you willing to take Nicole&#8217;s daughter,&#8217; because, basically — she&#8217;s unfit,&#8221; Nicole told The Daily Wire.
It’s been almost two years since CPS showed up at her door in July 2024. That was the last time Nicole saw her daughter.
“We lost her to the State when she was fifteen, along with all of my parenting rights,&#8221; Nicole told The Daily Wire. &#8220;We just want to bring awareness out there to parents everywhere that this is happening.&#8221;
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Public schools teaching children about sexuality and transgenderism without parental consent have been put on notice by the Department of Justice.
The Justice Department&#8217;s Civil Rights Division <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-launches-investigations-concerning-gender-ideology-pre-k-12-schools-36" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> Thursday it was investigating 36 Illinois school districts to find out if they have sexual orientation and gender ideology content in their pre-k and K-12 curricula, noting these districts receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funding.
“This Department of Justice is determined to put an end to local school authorities keeping parents in the dark about how sexuality and gender ideology are being pushed in classrooms,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon.
“Supreme Court precedent leaves no doubt: parents have the fundamental right and primary authority to direct the care, upbringing, and education of their children. This includes exempting their children from ideological instruction that contradicts their values or decisions about their children’s health and best interests.”
The Supreme Court sided with parents when it <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-sides-with-parents-says-schools-cant-mandate-lgbt-curricula" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled</a> in June 2025 that parents have the right to opt their children out of LGBT programs in public schools.
If Illinois school districts are discovered to be teaching students sexual orientation and gender identity content, the DOJ will determine if parents have been given the chance to opt out of the programming. The department will also be investigating whether students can access bathrooms and locker rooms based on biological sex and whether only biological females can compete on girls&#8217; sports teams.
Shannon Adcock, founder and president of the parental rights group <a href="https://www.awakeil.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Awake Illinois</a>, called the investigation a &#8220;huge win&#8221; for parents.
&#8220;The DOJ’s launch of investigations into 36 Illinois school districts for pushing gender ideology in Pre-K-12 classrooms without proper parental notification is a huge win for parental rights and child protection,&#8221; Adcock told The Daily Wire. &#8220;For years, groups like Awake Illinois have been on the front lines demanding transparency, opt-out rights, and adherence to Title IX — protecting single-sex spaces, girls’ sports, and biological reality in our schools,&#8221; Adcock told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;Every district under scrutiny should immediately restore parental authority and biological fairness,&#8221; she added. &#8220;We won’t stop until our kids’ schools prioritize truth, safety, and parental involvement over ideology.&#8221;

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A Biden-appointed federal judge has ruled American taxpayers must continue spending millions of dollars on transgender procedures in blue states.
A coalition of <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72077914/28/2/state-of-oregon-v-kennedy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">20 states</a>, Washington D.C., and Pennsylvania Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-backyard-battle-between-dem-governor-and-couple-next-door?author=Jordan+Schroeder&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=The+Backyard+Battle+Between+Dem+Governor+And+Couple+Next+Door" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Josh Shapiro</a>, sued Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. over a December 2025 <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/declaration-pediatric-sex-rejecting-procedures.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declaration</a> that told medical providers and organizations they can be denied Medicaid and Medicare funding if they continue providing harmful &#8220;sex-rejecting procedures&#8221; to children.
&#8220;Sex-rejecting procedures for children and adolescents are neither safe nor effective as a treatment modality for gender dysphoria, gender incongruence, or other related disorders in minors, and therefore, fail to meet professional[ly] recognized standards of health care,&#8221; states Kennedy&#8217;s declaration.
Kennedy clarified in the document that the term &#8220;sex-rejecting procedures&#8221; includes puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries, which are sometimes referred to as &#8220;gender-affirming care.&#8221;
U.S. District Judge Mustafa Kasubhai, who is known for his judicial <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/senate-republicans-question-oregon-judicial-nominees-support-diversity-2023-10-04/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender</a><a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/PronounsPrivilege.Kasubhai.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> activism</a>, vacated the declaration on April 18, calling it &#8220;unlawful&#8221; and &#8220;one man’s musings on gender-affirming care.&#8221;
&#8220;This Court is not persuaded by Defendants’ attempts to gaslight it into believing that the Kennedy Declaration does anything other than what it says: proclaims that gender-affirming care for minors falls below professionally recognized standards of care, supersedes state laws that say otherwise,&#8221; wrote Kasubhai in his <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ord.191371/gov.uscourts.ord.191371.93.0_2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion</a>. &#8220;Secretary Kennedy’s unlawful declaration harmed children. This case illustrates that when a leader acts without authority and in the absence of the rule of law, he acts with cruelty.&#8221;
&#8220;HHS will continue to fight to protect our nation’s children, as this Biden-appointed judge’s ruling puts radical ideology ahead of their safety,&#8221; HHS Press Secretary Emily Hilliard told The Daily Wire.
The lawsuit&#8217;s plaintiffs include: Oregon, Washington State, New York, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin, the District of Columbia, and the Governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro.
Washington State admitted to spending more than $31 million providing &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; services to 10,000+ &#8220;transgender&#8221; individuals over three years in a <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ord.191371/gov.uscourts.ord.191371.34.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">legal document</a> submitted in the lawsuit. The federal government financed the bulk of the state&#8217;s spending, providing $25 million of the $31 million Washington State spent on transgender procedures from 2022 to 2024. It also spent more than $2 million on transgender interventions for minors just in 12 months, according to the document.
The data was provided in a declaration submitted by Dr. Judy Zerzan-Thul, Washington State Health Care Authority&#8217;s <a href="https://www.hca.wa.gov/about-hca/who-we-are/our-leadership" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chief Medical Officer</a>.
Washington State has nearly 6,000 &#8220;distinct Medicaid providers&#8221; offering sex-rejecting interventions, and not allowing providers who accept Medicaid and Medicare payments to &#8220;provide gender-affirming care&#8221; would cripple the industry, according to Zerzan-Thul.
&#8220;The consequence will be that no provider who accepts these forms of payment will be able to provide gender-affirming care to any child or adolescent patient,&#8221; states her declaration. &#8220;This action will make it very difficult, if not impossible, for Apple Health to find health care providers willing to provide gender-affirming care to Apple Health clients, even if such services were entirely state-funded.&#8221;
Apple Health, the umbrella term for the state&#8217;s health insurance programs, spent $10.8 million providing sex-rejecting procedures to more than 10,000 &#8220;transgender individuals&#8221; in 2024, more than $10.6 million providing the procedures to 9,500+ individuals in 2023, and more than $10.1 million providing the procedures to 8,500+ individuals in 2022, according to the Zerzan-Thul declaration.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/taxpayers-pay-millions-to-surgeon-who-performs-transgender-surgeries-in-prisons" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously reported</a> that the Washington State Health Care Authority spent more than $4.3 million on a cosmetic surgery practice led by Dr. Geoffrey Stiller, MD, who offers an array of “transgender” surgical procedures, including facial feminization, “non-binary” double mastectomy, and “bottom surgery,” according to the Stiller Aesthetic <a href="https://www.stilleraesthetics.com/gender-affirming-overview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>.
Zerzan-Thul cited discredited gender medical guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Endocrine Society, and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) as the state&#8217;s basis for determining that sex-rejecting interventions were &#8220;evidence-based, safe, and effective, medical treatments.&#8221;
&#8220;WPATH remains a globally recognized authority on gender-affirming care, and its Standards of Care have been widely adopted by medical institutions worldwide,&#8221; states the Zerzan-Thul declaration.
In its review of pediatric gender medicine, HHS noted that <a href="https://opa.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/2025-11/gender-dysphoria-report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">medical gender guidance</a> from the Endocrine Society, WPATH, and the AAP has been found to be of &#8220;very low quality.&#8221;
The Washington State Health Care Authority did not respond to The Daily Wire&#8217;s requests for comment.

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In this piece, originally published in <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/new-college-florida-gender-studies-activism">City Journal</a>, Colin Wright argues that faculty at New College of Florida continue to advance activist scholarship in ways that undermine the state’s post-woke reforms.
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When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis pledged to rein in “<a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/07/13/1110842453/florida-gov-desantis-is-doing-battle-against-woke-public-schools">woke indoctrination</a>” in public education, he wasn’t bluffing. Over the last several years, he and the legislature have pursued an aggressive legal and governance strategy to push far-left ideology out of taxpayer-funded institutions. The justification is straightforward: the people have the right to demand that public universities not become subsidized activist factories.
Laws can close academic departments and impose subject-area bans on paper, but campuses are still run day-to-day by faculty and administrators who may not be interested in what voters want. When progressive activists dominate a university, they will inevitably try to circumvent the law.
Such efforts appear to be happening at New College today. Though the Gender Studies department was shut down at the Sarasota school, and Florida law forbids the use of state and federal funds to “promote or engage in political or social activism,” faculty continue to oversee work promoting activist pseudoscience, treat opposition to explicit content in K-12 libraries as equivalent to Nazism, and celebrate “queer bibliographies” and “resistance” to elected officials.
Consider a 2025 undergraduate thesis covering the “Evolution of Gender” in drama and fashion.
Nova Myhill, a professor of English and Theater, Dance &amp; Performance Studies at New College, sponsored the thesis, which explicitly lists “Gender Studies” as its “Area of Concentration.”
At a glance, the thesis appears to be a broad, benign survey of gender-expression conventions through fashion in the context of theater. But it quickly advances to extreme activist views of sex and biology. The opening section, titled “Our Idea of Sex,” portrays sex in humans not as “concrete” or “permanent” but as something “closer to being reflections of societal preconceptions than anything based only on ‘biology.’” It claims that the idea that humans have two sexes became widespread only “around the mid-1700s” due to “changing values of what was important within identity, class and gender beginning to take the utmost importance when using clothing as a symbol or sign of identity.” It even asserts that “there was a time when we conceived of the human race as only ‘one-sex’,” and that our “re-envisioning of the sexes” during the Enlightenment into two categories — male and female — actually “led to the differentiation and specific designation of reproductive organs; the penis, testicles, ovaries, and uterus.”
If this were the only undergraduate thesis at New College promoting such radical activist views, it might be dismissed. It is not.
In January 2026, the college approved and archived an undergraduate thesis in the Division of Humanities that engaged in political activism and covered Gender Queer and Fun Home — books the sexually explicit content of which has prompted parents to oppose their inclusion in school libraries. Myhill also sponsored this thesis and is thanked effusively in the acknowledgements.
Oddly, this thesis includes two abstracts. The first, more formal one describes an exploration of “book censorship, theft, and destruction,” framed as actions “employed to specifically target queer, trans, Jewish, and other marginalized communities,” and ends by describing the authors’ “queer works” as “an act of cultural legacy, heritage transmission, and resistance.” The second reads like a direct taunt of DeSantis and New College’s policy reforms:
<blockquote>This thesis is about queers, trans people, gender, Nazis, book burning, moral panics, censorship, Magnus Hirshfeld, pornography . . . queer bibliography, the Phantasma, classroom libraries, Ron DeSantis, what it’s like to be erased, and also how people fight back . . . so why not read it already?</blockquote>
This isn’t “academic” in any meaningful sense, but rather activist writing designed to indoctrinate, recruit, and promote activism.
In one section, the thesis classifies Gender Queer as essential reading and mocks DeSantis for displaying redacted pages from the book during his November 2023 debate with California Governor Gavin Newsom. It frames Florida’s higher education reforms as part of an “anti-gender movement” with “chilling reach.”
The thesis also compares Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Christopher F. Rufo’s rhetoric to the “paranoia and persecution of McCarthyism in the 1950s” and claims that he helped incite a “reactive moral panic” like the one behind Nazi-era book purges in 1930s Germany. It compares <a href="https://x.com/christopherrufo/status/1824307070839165333">Rufo’s tweet</a> about abolishing the college’s Gender Studies program to a “long and fiery radio address” delivered by “Joseph Goebbels.” Again, such comparisons are not objective scholarship but political activism.
Other recent theses at New College also veer in an activist direction, including a 2025 thesis on “Queer Resistance and the Fight for Change in Morocco,” a 2026 thesis on “Why Queer People Like Horror Films,” and another in 2025 titled “Who Holds the Mic?: Exploring Image, Control, and Identity in Queer.”
Of course, Florida’s higher-ed reforms don’t ban students from discussing controversial topics in class or engaging in activism in their free time. State leaders intended them to prevent public institutions from using public funds to “promote, support, or maintain” programs or activities that “advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion” or “promote or engage in political or social activism.”
The work required to shepherd student theses entails faculty time and labor, institutional oversight, and curriculum funded by and developed under the authority of the university. It strains credulity to present as legitimate scholarship works that push false, ideologically charged views of biology or that describe themselves as works of “resistance.” A process that produces such works appears to flout Florida law’s intent to prevent state and federal funds from being used to “promote or engage in political or social activism.”
None of this is to say that shutting down New College’s gender-studies department was in vain. The volume of activist “scholarship” produced at the institution has declined markedly, and that’s a true achievement.
Nonetheless, Florida’s academic reforms are not self-enforcing. As always, personnel is policy. True believers on the faculty will look for workarounds. If nobody is paying attention, abolished departments will soon reappear inside more traditional ones — in this case, the departments of English and Theater, Dance &amp; Performance Studies.
Institutional responsibility lies with the faculty and administrators who decide which scholarship to approve, endorse, or reward. New College’s trustees and the state legislature can pass resolutions and rewrite statutes, but they cannot monitor every thesis committee or syllabus. 
That requires constant vigilance, because the pattern is predictable: abolish the department, then watch its ideology migrate to the English department, the history department, or the library.
If New College wants to fulfill its evolution into a post-woke institution, its guardians should not approve scholarship that treats its vital reforms as analogous to a second Holocaust. Leaders should hold faculty accountable when they use university resources to resurrect discarded programs and pursue activism under new names.
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<a href="https://www.city-journal.org/person/colin-wright">Colin Wright</a> is an evolutionary biologist and Manhattan Institute Fellow.

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