Nearly two months after winning a landmark Supreme Court case that cemented states&#8217; ability to protect kids from transgender medical procedures, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti says the decision triggered a nationwide reckoning on radical gender ideology. 
The case, United States v. Skrmetti, centered on a Tennessee law that prohibited doctors from performing transgender surgeries on kids and giving them puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones. Discussing the impact of the case during an interview in Nashville with The Daily Wire at the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/america-is-not-a-short-term-thing-lawmakers-urge-young-republicans-take-up-the-fight">National Young Republican Convention</a>, Skrmetti said that the case may have sounded the death knell for radical gender ideology. 
“It&#8217;s almost like there was a balloon that kept getting filled up and filled up and filled up with this radical ideology. And as soon as it&#8217;s popped, all the air’s gone and everybody starts looking around and realizing, you know, maybe they did something they shouldn&#8217;t have,” he said, noting that the public&#8217;s faith in so-called medical experts had been shattered because of their promotion of transgender ideology. 
“The biggest thing that surprised me is the cultural effect, because it seems like it&#8217;s really sparked a lot of introspection about how we got to where we were, and a lot of people kind of went along with what they were hearing from experts are questioning the validity of that,” Skrmetti said.
In the years leading up to the Supreme Court clash, hospitals across the country opened gender clinics for kids, and groups like the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association all promoted the life-altering procedures.
The ruling coincided with efforts from the Trump administration to crack down on hospitals nationwide that have performed gender procedures on kids. Skrmetti pointed out that some hospitals may now face legal repercussions for performing transgender procedures on kids. 
For example, detransitioner Chloe Cole has sued the doctors who oversaw the removal of her breasts and hormone procedures, accusing them of pushing her to medically and surgically attempt to change her gender while she was struggling with mental illness and was incapable of fully consenting as a minor.
“If you give a kid a life altering procedure and it turns out that there was any coercion or that they didn&#8217;t really consent or that you were doing it knowing about risks that you didn&#8217;t disclose or whatever, that could potentially cost some of the hospitals that have done this incredible amounts of money,” Skrmetti said. 
Skrimetti said that he was unaware of any hospitals in Tennessee that were not complying with state law, adding that it would be “bonkers” to do so. 
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The Tennessee official added that he had expected to end up before the Supreme Court at some point during his tenure as attorney general, but that he hadn&#8217;t expected it to be such a high-profile case. The case came after the ACLU and the Biden administration sued Tennessee over the law. Tennessee was represented by Matthew Rice, the state&#8217;s solicitor general and a former professional baseball player. Skrmetti praised Rice for spending months preparing for oral arguments. 
Remembering the atmosphere of the case, Skrmetti described the Supreme Court as “a really special place,” adding that “you feel the weight of history in there.” 
Skrmetti added that it was surreal to be sitting so close to the justices of the court alongside Tennessee Solicitor General Matt Rice, who argued the case. He said he didn’t expect ever to have a similar experience again.
“I read about them all the time,” he said. “They&#8217;re the justices of the Supreme Court, and then all of a sudden, you&#8217;re sitting there in a case with your name on it, with Justice Gorsuch and Justice Barrett, like 10 feet away. It almost doesn&#8217;t feel real.”
Tennessee&#8217;s victory at the Supreme Court has already had legal ramifications for other states looking to shield kids from transgender procedures. Last week, a federal appeals court overturned a block of Arkansas&#8217;s first-in-the-nation ban on such procedures, citing the Skrmetti ruling.

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The Trump administration announced Thursday that it will be pulling more than $12 million from California over &#8220;gender ideology&#8221; in its sexual education programs.
The Health and Human Services&#8217; (HHS) Administration for Children and Families (ACF) put out a <a href="https://acf.gov/media/press/2025/hhs-defunds-californias-attempt-indoctrinate-children-gender-ideology">press release</a> announcing this move to stop California&#8217;s Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) from receiving a massive amount of federal funding over the next few years.
Acting Assistant Secretary of the ACF Andrew Gradison wrote in the press release, &#8220;California&#8217;s refusal to comply with federal law and remove egregious gender ideology from federally funded sex-ed materials is unacceptable.&#8221;
&#8220;Accountability is coming for every state that uses federal funds to teach children delusional gender ideology,&#8221; Gradison said.
According to the <a href="https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CFH/DMCAH/CA-PREP/Pages/default.aspx">California Department of Public Health</a> (CDPH), the program aims at changing behavior, including delaying sexual activity, increasing condom or contraceptive use for sexually active youth, and reducing the number of sexual partners for youth ages 10-19.
The program receives all of its funding from the Health and Human Services&#8217; ACF and Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB).
Gradison appeared on <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377188148112">&#8220;America&#8217;s Newsroom&#8221;</a> on Thursday to explain the process that went into this decision.
Gradison pointed to materials that promoted the belief that &#8220;boys could be girls and girls could be boys and that the solution, oftentimes, was mutilating their genitals.&#8221;
&#8220;The American people elected President Trump to restore sanity and common sense in this country,&#8221; Gradison said. &#8220;Part of that is removing gender ideology from state sex-ed curriculum.&#8221;
President Trump also threatened federal funding from any state that chooses to disobey the guidance from HHS in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-issues-ultimatum-california-schools-must-follow-transgender-policies-or-face-consequences">post</a> to Truth Social on Thursday.
&#8220;Any California school district that doesn&#8217;t adhere to our Transgender policies, will not be funded,&#8221; Trump wrote on Truth Social. &#8220;Thank you for your attention to this matter!&#8221;
This decision to pull all federal funding from California&#8217;s PREP is the product of months of back and forth between the Trump administration and California health officials. The ACF originally requested PREP documents from California in March. In June, it demanded that the state revise its program within 60 days.
California state health officials failed to respond until one day before the deadline, when they denied any medical inaccuracies on the part of the program and said it would not take the recommended corrective measures.
&#8220;In a disturbing and egregious abuse of federal funds, California has been using taxpayer money to teach curricula that could encourage kids to contemplate mutilating their genitals, &#8216;altering their body … through hormone therapy,&#8217; &#8216;adding or removing breast tissue,&#8217; and &#8216;changing their name.&#8217; It instructed teachers to &#8216;remind students that some men are born with female anatomy,'&#8221; HHS said in a Thursday press release of the teachings, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kennedys-hhs-terminates-california-sex-ed-grant-after-refuses-drop-radical-gender-lessons">according</a> to Fox News.
Previous grant <a href="https://acf.gov/fysb/grant-funding/state-personal-responsibility-education-program-prep-grantees">funding</a> shows California&#8217;s PREP program received just under $6 million from the federal government in fiscal year 2022.
This is the most recent step that the Trump administration is taking against what the president has called woke programs that affect students and young people. The president recently signed an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-olympic-committee-bans-men-in-womens-sports">executive order</a> to keep men out of women&#8217;s sports.
Trump is also currently in a litigation battle against California for continuing to allow transgender-identifying males to compete in female sports. The suit <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-president-means-business-trump-admin-sues-california-over-transgender-athlete-policy">argued</a> that California was depriving young girls of athletic opportunities.

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President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to strip federal funding from California school districts that defy his administration’s transgender policies.
The Trump administration interprets Title IX as requiring schools to maintain separate bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports teams for males and females, a stance that directly conflicts with California state law allowing students to use facilities and join teams based on gender identity.
“Any California school district that doesn’t adhere to our Transgender policies, will not be funded,” Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115066339632774609">wrote</a> on Truth Social early Thursday morning. “Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Trump’s ultimatum comes after the Justice Department <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-president-means-business-trump-admin-sues-california-over-transgender-athlete-policy">sued</a> California last month for continuing to allow transgender-identifying males to compete in female sports. The suit argued that California was depriving young girls of athletic opportunities. 
“Title IX was enacted over half a century ago to protect women and girls from discrimination. The Justice Department will not stand for policies that deprive girls of their hard-earned athletic trophies and ignore their safety on the field and in private spaces,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon. “Young women should not have to sacrifice their rights to compete for scholarships, opportunities, and awards on the altar of woke gender ideology.”
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The California Department of Education was allocated around $44 billion in federal funding for fiscal year 2025.
Aside from California, other school districts across the country could also lose funding over transgender policies, including multiple districts in Northern Virginia. The Education Department <a href="https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-places-five-northern-virginia-school-districts-high-risk-status-and-reimbursement-payment-status-violating-title-ix">said</a> this week that the Alexandria City, Arlington County, Fairfax County, Loudoun County, and Prince William County school districts are all in danger of losing federal funding for violating Title IX. 
“States and school districts cannot openly violate federal law while simultaneously receiving federal funding with no additional scrutiny,” Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said. “The Northern Virginia School Divisions that are choosing to abide by woke gender ideology in place of federal law must now prove they are using every single federal dollar for a legal purpose.”
In February, Trump signed an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/keeping-men-out-of-womens-sports/">executive order</a> saying that “it is the policy of the United States to rescind all funds from educational programs that deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities, which results in the endangerment, humiliation, and silencing of women and girls and deprives them of privacy.”
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On the heels of his June arrest in Belgium, Chris Elston — better known as “Billboard Chris” on social media — is launching a new nonprofit aimed at combatting what he calls the “medical malpractice of child transition” worldwide.
Known for his advocacy against transgenderism, calm street debates, and viral confrontations while wearing billboards, Elston is taking his campaign against radical gender ideology to a new level with the founding of We Speak Truth.
“I’ve spent the last five years having conversations on the street about this issue, often while being assaulted for it,” Elston told The Daily Wire in an exclusive interview. “Now, with We Speak Truth, we’re formalizing a grassroots movement to educate, activate, and equip people to protect children.”
A key priority for the organization is defending free speech — particularly in countries where restrictions already affect public discourse, such as in the United Kingdom. “Freedom of expression comes with an asterisk in many European countries,” Elston said. “We will always endeavor to follow the law, while at the same time challenge abuses of authority.”
“It is still possible to speak the truth, even in the United Kingdom,” Elston said. “But we do need to be smart about it. If the government would like to put me in jail for saying children cannot consent to puberty blockers, I don’t think they’ll have much luck — the High Court stated exactly that in December of 2020.”
Asked whether the mission could shift if the exploitation of children through gender ideology was outlawed, Elston said the organization’s core will remain focused. “Our organization is open to branching out into other areas, or collaborating with other organizations. But our core mission is stopping the medical malpractice of child transition, worldwide.”
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“Beyond that,” he said, “it will take many years of education across the world to expose the lies of gender ideology to such an extent that governments and NGOs stop pushing it.”
While international in scope, Elston expects the majority of the nonprofit’s focus will remain on the United States. “I anticipate at least half of our attention will stay focused on the United States,” he said.
Daily Wire asked Elston about states like Minnesota, where gender clinics continue to provide puberty blockers and surgeries to minors. Elston said his strategy is that true change begins at the local and grassroots levels. “Change happens one conversation at a time,” he said. “Collaborating with other organizations is key, along with harnessing the power of social media.”
Despite increased awareness, Elston continues to face violence.
“I still face assaults on a regular basis. Radicals on the far left use violence in an attempt to silence. They always have,” he said. “But I receive far more support than when I started this campaign five years ago. People had no idea what puberty blockers were back then. That has changed dramatically.”
But engagement with lawmakers and policymakers is a top priority. “Communicating with those who write the laws and policy are of paramount importance,” Elston said. “We are building a worldwide network of friendly politicians who want to stop this abuse. Through educating them, we will be able to make headway much more quickly than anyone estimates.”
Those looking to support the effort can donate directly or learn more at www.wespeaktruth.com. While not everyone may take to the unique street discourse he is known for, Elston said, his team will equip supporters to speak with clarity and confidence. “Street activism isn’t for everybody, but we will be producing a series of short videos covering all the basics,” he said. “It’s important to always stress the positive message: that children are beautiful just as they are — no drugs or scalpels needed.”
While international in scope, Elston expects the majority of the nonprofit’s focus will remain on the United States. “I anticipate at least half of our attention will stay focused on the United States,” he said.
To political leaders and medical professionals, Elston’s message is direct: “Politically, this is a winning issue. It always has been,” he said. “On the street, I receive more than 90% support — especially from demographics that traditionally vote Democrat, such as the Black community and immigrant communities.”
“Transgenderism is a denial of reality, and it is causing irreversible physical harm to our most vulnerable children,” he added. “The more that politicians and leaders in the medical field expose the truth about this, the more support they will get.”
“We all need to stop being afraid of what a few activists and the leftist media will say, and stand up for our kids. Child transition is child abuse.”

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Albertsons, one of America’s largest grocery store chains, does not allow store managers to keep transgender-identifying men out of women’s bathrooms, a conservative watchdog warned Tuesday. 
The policy was revealed in a “Woke Alert” campaign from Consumers&#8217; Research targeting Albertsons over its promotion of gender ideology and DEI. Albertsons owns popular chains like Safeway and Vons and operates over 2,000 stores across the country.
In a document obtained by Consumers’ Research and shared with The Daily Wire, Albertsons writes that “requiring a transgender individual (customer or employee) to use the restroom of her gender at birth” would “be a form of transgender discrimination prohibited by our Company policy.”
Albertsons did not respond to requests for comment on when the policy was implemented or whether it was still in place.
The grocery chain was the top sponsor of a pride festival in Boise, <a href="https://boisepridefest.org/2024-sponsors">Idaho,</a> in 2024, while Safeway was “proud” to sponsor of <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/safeway-celebrates-pride-month-safeway-awjpc/">San Francisco</a> Pride festival. Albertsons Companies Foundation also recently made a number of large <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/912144510/202442509349301809/IRS990ScheduleI">donations</a> to transgender activists groups, including $25,000 to the National Center for Transgender Equality for Education. That organization, which is now known as Advocates for Trans Equality, <a href="https://transequality.org/news/a4te-condemns-supreme-court-ruling-upholding-tennessees-trans-health-care-ban">opposes</a> state laws that protect children from transgender medical procedures. 
The Woke Alert also hit Albertsons for its climate activism and DEI policies. 
&#8220;Consumers do not need their grocery stores peddling woke policies with produce, but that is exactly what Albertsons is doing,” Consumers’ Research Executive Director Will Hild told The Daily Wire. “Instead of focusing on providing high quality products and services to its customers at competitive prices, Albertsons has promoted discriminatory practices, gender ideology to kids, and committed to radical net-zero climate goals.”
In a 2024 <a href="https://s29.q4cdn.com/239956855/files/doc_downloads/2024/Dec/CorpComm_RFCReport2024.pdf">report</a>, Albertsons included “climate action” and “diversity and inclusion” as two “key ingredients” that the company was focusing on changing. This includes a push to hit net zero carbon emissions by 2040, the creation of a variety of identity-focused support groups, and push to support “diverse suppliers.” 
“We are steadfast in our mission to create growth opportunities for small businesses and diverse suppliers, helping to amplify their product visibility on our shelves so we can offer a wide range of products that support our mission to create customers for life among all communities,” the report said. 
Albertsons defines “diverse supplier” as a <a href="https://www.albertsonscompanies.com/newsroom/press-releases/news-details/2024/Albertsons-Companies-Seeks-Innovative-Diverse-Owned-Brands-Hosts-Fourth-Annual-Supplier-Diversity-Program/default.aspx">company</a> that is “at least 51 percent owned, controlled and operated by women, Black, indigenous and people of color, LGBTQ+, veterans or people with disabilities.”
Associate resource groups <a href="https://myaci-benefits.com/work-life/arg/">hosted</a> by Albertsons include the Pride Alliance, Hispanic Leadership Network, Women’s Inspiration and Inclusion Network, and the Asian Network. 
Safeway, one of Albertsons&#8217; subsidiaries, also has posted that it is committed to “diversity and inclusion and thoughtful people practices is a core element of the company&#8217;s philosophy, ensuring our employees reflect the diverse communities we serve,” according to a screenshot from Consumers’ Research. 
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That page has now been <a href="https://www.safeway.ca/not-found">deleted</a>. 
Hild urged Albertsons to abandon its DEI policies, pointing to the Trump administration&#8217;s push to eliminate DEI from the federal government and crackdown on funding for entities that implement or offer identity-based quotas and opportunities. 
“President Trump has made it crystal clear that these discriminatory policies need to end and companies should walk away from these political agendas and focus on their core business,” Hild said. “Consumers’ Research will continue to expose companies that are putting a woke agenda over consumers.”

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A BBC presenter and transgender activist has launched a &#8220;transgender visibility&#8221; campaign that could include transgender adults asking young children to accompany them to the bathroom.
Dr. Ronx Ikharia, who&#8217;s described as a &#8220;black, non-binary, transmasculine emergency doctor,&#8221; calls the campaign &#8220;Safe With Me.&#8221; Individuals are asked to wear badges to make their trans &#8220;allyship&#8221; visible. Then, trans-identifying people can ask people wearing the badges to accompany them to the bathroom or other sex-segregated space that does not match their sex, out of hopes they won&#8217;t be asked to leave.
“I have often been kicked out of toilets because people don’t know where to place me,&#8221; the activist said. &#8220;But when I’m with someone, it happens less.&#8221;
Ikharia wants the campaign to be &#8220;everywhere,&#8221; including in schools.
“I want this to be everywhere. At schools, in NHS (National Health Service) settings, at festivals, in shops,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The trans community deserve to feel safe! Not just protected by law but actively welcomed and this badge is one small way we can all help make that happen.”
Ikharia says she launched the campaign in light of the United Kingdom’s highest court ruling in April that the legal definition of “woman” is based on biology and does not include trans-identifying men who say they are women.
The British Supreme Court ruled that the meaning of “woman” in equality legislation is a “biological woman and biological sex,” and the “concept of sex is binary, a person is either a woman or a man,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/uk-supreme-court-rules-trans-identifying-men-are-not-women">The Daily Wire</a> reported at the time.
&#8220;Toilets are one of the most dangerous of these spaces,&#8221; Ikharia said, following the ruling.
The campaign has drawn criticism, specifically for how it could endanger children. Helen Joyce, who&#8217;s the director of advocacy at the human rights charity Sex Matters, called the campaign a &#8220;safeguarding catastrophe.&#8221;
&#8220;Asking children to approach adult strangers and take responsibility for their safety in toilet facilities puts children at obvious and serious risk,&#8221; Joyce told The Telegraph. “As for adults wearing ‘safe with me’ badges that children are supposed to believe, it’s hard to think of a more irresponsible idea.&#8221;
Charlie Kirk had a similar critique, posting on X, &#8220;A British government employee wants adult biological men approaching school-age girls to ask them for accompaniment to a women&#8217;s bathroom, on the grounds that this makes them less likely to be kicked out of them for not being a real woman because, as the thinking goes, they have a child vouching for their gender.&#8221;
&#8220;You have no idea how lucky we are to have won last November,&#8221; he added.
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A taxpayer-funded BBC employee in the UK is leading a campaign to distribute bright yellow badges to schoolchildren. These &#8220;ally&#8221; badges would invite transgender adult strangers to approach the children wearing them to ask the children to accompany them to a bathroom.
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/health-care-puts-stop-to-trans-surgeries-on-kids">Health Care Provider Puts Stop To Trans Surgeries On Kids</a>

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America First Policy Institute (AFPI) filed a <a href="https://www.americafirstpolicy.com/assets/uploads/files/Oregon-1a-case-072325.pdf">federal lawsuit</a> against the Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA) on Wednesday, standing up for two female athletes who were relegated to the sidelines when they silently protested being forced to share the medals podium with a male athlete.
Jessica Hart Steinmann, executive general counsel at AFPI, <a href="https://www.americafirstpolicy.com/issues/afpi-sues-oregon-school-activities-association-for-silencing-female-athletes-first-amendment-rights">explained</a> the lawsuit filed on behalf of Alexa Anderson and Reese Eckard, who earned 3rd and 4th place medals in the high jump at the 2025 state championship meet.
&#8220;These young women earned their place on the podium—and the right to express themselves,&#8221; Steinmann said. &#8220;Instead of respecting their viewpoint that girls’ sports should be for girls only, Oregon officials sidelined them. The First Amendment protects the right to dissent—school officials don’t get to reprimand students who refuse to agree with their beliefs.&#8221;
The complaint alleges that the OSAA has a long history of supporting student protests when the cause aligns with officials&#8217; political views — Black Lives Matter, for example — but selectively discriminated against Anderson and Eckard. It also alleges that the trans-identifying athletes were given special privileges at that particular meet, &#8220;allowing them to skip inspection protocols and competition rules that female athletes were required to follow.&#8221;
Following their events at the state championship meet at the end of May, Eckard and Anderson refused to step onto the medals podium alongside the trans-identifying athlete — who had tied for fifth place. Instead, they turned their backs on the podium and stood behind it. As soon as officials realized what they were doing, they were waved off to the side.
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Oregon girls high jump state championships just finished. 2 of the females refused to step on the podium with the male competitor and an adult official relegated them to the sideline for refusing. THIS MUST END. <a href="https://t.co/dxIzL8Qf95">https://t.co/dxIzL8Qf95</a> <a href="https://t.co/mAVVNBIPhW">pic.twitter.com/mAVVNBIPhW</a>
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Anderson later said in a statement to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/girls-track-field-athletes-dont-stand-podium-next-trans-athlete-oregon-state-championship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News Digital</a>, &#8220;We didn’t refuse to stand on the podium out of hate. We did it because someone has to say this isn’t right. In order to protect the integrity and fairness of girls [sic] sports we must stand up for what is right.&#8221;
The <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/trans-track-athlete-wins-varsity-girls-competition-previously-placing-last-against-jv-boys-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trans-identifying athlete</a> — who now goes by the name Lia Rose — previously competed on the boys team as Zachary Rose in 2023, where he took 11th place out of 11 competitors in the JV high jump event.

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Health care provider Kaiser Permanente confirmed to The Daily Wire on Wednesday that it was pausing all transgender surgeries for patients under the age of 19 in response to pressure from the Trump administration.
The health care giant said that effective August 29 it would stop doing transgender surgeries — which includes procedures like removing the breasts of girls who identify as boys or other genital procedures. The company said the pause was a result of pressure from the Trump administration cracking down on transgender procedures on minors. 
“After significant deliberation and consultation with internal and external experts including our physicians, we’ve made the difficult decision to pause surgical treatment for patients under the age of 19 in our hospitals and surgical centers,” the health care giant told The Daily Wire. “We recognize that this is an extremely challenging and stressful time for our patients seeking care, as well as for our clinicians whose mission is to care for them. We will work closely with each patient to support their care journey.”
The statement from Kaiser Permanente added that it would continue providing all “other gender-affirming care treatment.” This would include things like administering cross-sex hormones to kids, procedures that have been shown to have a serious impact on fertility and body development. 
Kaiser Permanente said that the decision was ultimately made because of pressure from the Trump administration. 
“Since January, there has been significant focus by the federal government on gender-affirming care, specifically for patients under the age of 19,” the company said. “This has included executive orders instructing federal agencies to take actions to curtail access and restrict funding for gender-affirming care, hospital inquiries by the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services, and regulatory changes to coverage and broader federal agency review, including by the Federal Trade Commission. Most recently, the U.S. Department of Justice issued subpoenas to doctors and clinics providing gender-affirming care to transgender youth, as part of ongoing federal investigations.”
The pause was first <a href="https://x.com/BillboardChris/status/1948111553229905931">reported</a> on X by activist Billboard Chris. 
Kaiser Permanente has been sued by Chloe Cole, a woman who underwent transgender procedures as a minor before she overcame her gender dysphoria. Cole says that her doctors pushed her to medically and surgically attempt to change her gender while she was struggling with mental illness and incapable of full consent.
Cole celebrated the pause on X, thanking the Trump administration for its actions.
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Kaiser Permanente, the gender clinic that destroyed my childhood, has confirmed they will be HALTING transgender surgeries for patients under the age of 19 nationwide, effective next month!
This is only a pause, according to internal emails, but these incremental wins must be… <a href="https://t.co/6zWQofQlkm">pic.twitter.com/6zWQofQlkm</a>
— Chloe Cole ⭐️ (@ChoooCole) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChoooCole/status/1948125026810515897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cole is represented by the Center for American Liberty, which also praised the decision. 
“Kaiser Permanente’s decision is a monumental step toward protecting vulnerable youth,” CEO Mark Trammell said. “For too long, children have been subjected to life-altering surgical procedures at an age when they lack the capacity for informed consent. Our ongoing litigation with courageous detransitioners such as Chloe Cole, Luka Hein, and Clementine Breen has exposed the irreversible harm caused by these medical interventions.”

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Freedom of speech has won a decisive victory in Australia. On Tuesday, a Melbourne tribunal <a href="https://adfinternational.org/news/free-speech-victory-in-australia-for-billboard-chris-as-x-post-censorship-overturned">overturned</a> the Australian government’s censorship order against Canadian street advocate Chris “<a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=support+billboard+chris+adf+international&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8">Billboard Chris</a>” Elston for an X post critical of gender ideology.
Back in 2024, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner had ordered X to remove Chris’ post, claiming it constituted “adult cyber abuse” under the country’s Online Safety Act. The post linked to a Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13119521/Sex-secrets-trans-kinky-Australian-bondage-bestiality-nudism-drugs-sex-change.html">article</a> about a WHO appointee and referred to the individual using biologically accurate pronouns. No threats. No private information. Just public facts and an opinion the government didn’t like. X initially resisted, but eventually geo-blocked the post in the country while filing its own appeal.
Billboard Chris, who travels the world engaging in conversations exposing the truth about gender ideology prompted by his wearable signs, refused to bow down to the order. With legal support from ADF International and the Human Rights Law Alliance, he challenged the eSafety Commissioner, and won in a decisive victory not just for himself, but for everyone who values the right to speak freely.
The Administrative Review Tribunal found what should have been obvious from the beginning — the post wasn’t intended to cause harm, wasn’t likely to be seen by the complainant, and was consistent with Chris’s well-known public message — namely, that children are never born in the wrong body. It ruled clearly that this did not constitute a form of abuse and revoked the takedown order.
The Tribunal recognized what the eSafety Commissioner refused to acknowledge, which is that this isn’t about harassment of any kind. The protection of Chris’ expression is about upholding the basic right to participate in a public conversation, one that touches on some of the most urgent questions of our time. To silence that conversation under the guise of “cyber abuse” is both intellectually dishonest and dangerous.
The absurdity of the government’s case was exposed in the hearing itself. Chris had merely reposted a widely read article that included publicly available information about the transgender activist appointed to a WHO panel of “experts” — information the activist had willingly shared on social media. Instead of defending public transparency, the government claimed those details were irrelevant and demanded censorship.
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The Tribunal’s written decision was clear: “The post, although phrased offensively, is consistent with views Mr Elston has expressed elsewhere in circumstances where the expression of the view had no malicious intent. For example, his statement placed on billboards that he is prepared to wear in public ‘children are never born in the wrong body’ expresses the same idea about the immutability of biology that he expresses, albeit much more provocatively, in the post”. Further, it held that, “an ordinary reasonable person would not conclude that that it is likely that the post was intended to have an effect of causing serious harm to Mr Cook”.
This case is about more than just one post or even one country’s speech laws. Not only will this decision likely shape future enforcement decisions, but also Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, has just been <a href="https://x.com/k_mahlburg/status/1939872951895302531">named</a> in a U.S. congressional investigation for colluding with foreign governments and corporate cartels to suppress speech worldwide — including in the United States. The U.S. House Judiciary Committee <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/2025-06/Exporting%20Censorship%20Final.pdf">released</a> a 100-page report detailing how Grant worked with GARM — a World Economic Forum-linked advertising consortium — to push platforms like X into silencing disfavored views. She demanded global takedowns of lawful content. She participated in pressure campaigns against X after Musk’s takeover. And she allowed so-called “brand safety” coalitions to influence her regulatory decisions.
This is coordinated censorship. The report lays out how GARM and other WEF-affiliated coalitions, working with officials like Grant, sought to blacklist voices they disagreed with under the pretense of maintaining a “safe” internet. In reality, they were constructing a global censorship machine — one that’s ideologically aligned, politically unaccountable, and willing to cross borders to silence dissent. Billboard Chris&#8217; case is living proof of what this looks like.
If the Tribunal had sided with the Commissioner, it would have emboldened this aggressive censorship campaign and reinforced the idea that a government can suppress the speech of any person on any platform, even beyond traditional jurisdictional boundaries. And make no mistake — that’s exactly what the eSafety Commissioner and its allies are trying to do.
Fortunately, Billboard Chris’ free speech victory is a warning to the censors. He stood up to a system designed to silence him, and he won. But the same people trying to censor speech in Australia are working to do the same everywhere else. 
On the same day of Chris’ victory, the European Union took a significant step toward strengthening online censorship, beefing up its censorial Digital Services Act by enforcing the accompanying &#8220;Code of Conduct on Disinformation&#8221;. The DSA enables Brussels bureaucrats to control online speech at scale — both in Europe and globally — under the guise of “safety” and “protecting democracy”. Platforms that fail to remove content ambiguously deemed “illegal” face massive financial penalties and even suspension. Coupled with the framework’s approach to “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and “hate speech,” the DSA could lead to the sweeping removal of online content.
Threats to free speech online are evidently immense and growing, but Billboard Chris’ successful challenge shows that this tide can be turned. Courageous individuals, armed with principle and the law, can stand up to the censorship industrial complex — and win. And their victories protect not just their own speech, but those too who would come after them. Others must be emboldened by the lead of this Canadian father and vigilantly defend against censorship if we are to see free speech prevail.
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Robert Clarke is a barrister and director of advocacy for ADF International, which coordinated the legal defense of Billboard Chris in Australia. Follow him on X at <a href="https://x.com/Rob_ADFIntl?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Rob_ADFIntl</a>
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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A group that ostensibly works to help schools implement Title IX protections is working to circumvent federal law and push radical gender ideology in schools across the country, a watchdog group warns.
The Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA) provides consulting, webinars, and certifications for its 19,000 members, who are tasked with implementing the law at schools, universities, and other organizations. But <a href="https://americanparentscoalition.org/the-lookout-atixa-association-of-title-ix-administrators/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the American Parents Coalition, the association is less concerned with protecting women&#8217;s sports and spaces than it is with helping them implement transgender policies.
In one video sold to schools, a representative for the association suggests that schools can implement “enhanced privacy” policies so they don’t have to tell parents if their child wants to use a different name or pronouns. 
 “It’s unacceptable that supposed nonpartisan organizations posing as policy experts are weaponizing Title IX to promote radical gender ideology at the expense of girls. Even worse, they are side-stepping parental rights to do it,” American Parents Coalition Executive Director Alleigh Marré told The Daily Wire. 
This isn&#8217;t the first time the Association of Title IX Administrators has come under fire. Its members have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/go-down-fighting-emails-reveal-school-official-plotting-to-skirt-trump-trans-guidance">been exposed</a> for encouraging ways to get behind President Donald Trump’s executive orders on transgender ideology. 
&#8220;Schools can become members of ATIXA without directly involving parents or the public. This membership allows them to purchase and implement ATIXA materials,” the American Parents Coalition warns in a &#8220;Lookout&#8221; bulletin released Wednesday, noting that the organization provides a job board to its members to help place Title IX coordinators at schools. 
In its alert for parents, the American Parents Coalition highlighted a training <a href="https://www.atixa.org/resources/transgender-issues-pertaining-to-minors-20-minutes-to-trained/">video</a> called “Transgender Issues Pertaining to Minors,&#8221; which Title IX coordinators can purchase for $99. The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atkZl9gRnp0&amp;t=18s">video</a> features a discussion where a presenter says that “a key thing” for “districts to navigate” is when a child comes forward who is “not comfortable” with their parents knowing about changing their gender identity or name. 
“Many districts are choosing to have a policy to allow for enhanced privacy around those particular requests,” the consultant says. 
Other <a href="https://www.ahu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/gender-equity-foundations-for-higher-education.pdf">materials</a> produced by the association include the “Gender Equity Foundations for Higher Education,&#8221; which was used <a href="https://www.ahu.edu/31/training-links-and-information">featured</a> by schools, and was featured on the website of AdventHealth University in Florida. After publication, AdventHealth University removed the ATIXA materials from its website and said that it had not used the materials for training.  
&#8220;While AdventHealth University is a member of the Association of Title IX Administrators, the school does not use the association’s materials in training and the materials are no longer available on its website,&#8221; the university told The Daily Wire.
 The training uses ideologically-loaded words and phrases like “gender fluid” and “sex assigned at birth,” and says that Title IX compliance requires allowing transgender identifying students to “access facilities consistent with their gender identity/expression.”
The training also discusses “support” through legal, medical, and social “gender transitions.” 
The coalition also highlights a presentation given by activist Shane Diamond, called “Supporting and Including Transgender Students in the Classroom and Beyond,” given at the Association of Title IX Administrators annual conference in 2021. Diamond, a woman who identifies as a man, has worked with radical groups like Transgender Legal Defense &amp; Education Fund and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. She was <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgPlz8GmRZU">featured</a> in a Title IX anniversary video celebrated by the Association of Title IX Administrators in 2022. 
Diamond’s materials, <a href="https://www.loyola.edu/department/title-ix-bias/title-ix/training-materials.html">used</a> by Loyola University in Maryland, discuss “being an ally” to transgender-identifying people and takes aim at states that have adopted laws to keep males out of female sports. 
“The school’s obligation to treat a student consistent with the student’s gender identity or expression does not require notice from the parent or guardian,” Diamond notes in her presentation materials. 
Previous reporting shows Brett Sokolow, the chair of the advisory board for the Association of Title IX Administrators, plotting in writing ways to get around the Trump administration’s crackdown on gender ideology.  
In a January email first <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/go-down-fighting-emails-reveal-school-official-plotting-to-skirt-trump-trans-guidance">reported</a> on by The Daily Wire, Sokolow told a Virginia school&#8217;s Title IX coordinator that he didn’t know if her proposal to “skirt” executive action would work, but that it may be worth it to “go down fighting.&#8221; Different emails <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/16/exclusive-university-consultants-lgbtq-church/">reported</a> on by The Daily Caller also show Sokolow suggesting ways to use religious exemptions to get around Trump’s gender directives. 
“If you could establish and promulgate a LGBTQ+ church that met the standard…the courts would have to tolerate that church’s beliefs, whatever they are,” Sokolow wrote in an email. Federal <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_name=Brett+Sokolow">records</a> reveal that he has given thousands of dollars to Democrat political candidates, including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
The American Parents Coalition asked parents to check if schools in their own districts were a part of the Association of Title IX Administrators, and if so, what materials they were using. 
“ATIXA’s quiet infiltration of American education not only flouts parental rights and undermines the safety and protection of girls, but it also flies in the face of President Trump’s recent executive orders,” Marré said. “It’s long past time for ATIXA to be held accountable so that parents can be at peace knowing that school policies protect their daughters and respect their rights as parents.”
This article has been updated to include comment provided by AdventHealth University.

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Wyoming Republicans are calling on Governor Mark Gordon to take action after a 27-year-old man used the women’s bathroom at the state capitol, in defiance of state laws.
The Wyoming Freedom Caucus said Tuesday that Gordon, a Republican, allowed Rihanna Kelver, a transgender identifying activist, to disregard House Bill 72, which requires government buildings to limit access to private spaces like bathrooms and locker rooms by sex. Kelver, a man who identifies as a woman, <a href="https://cowboystatedaily.com/2025/07/01/trans-woman-breaks-wyomings-new-bathroom-ban-in-state-capitol-nothing-happens/">was filmed</a> leaving a woman’s bathroom outside of the governor’s office in Cheyenne on Tuesday, the same day House Bill 72 took effect.
Kelver had <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/s/rih-a-trans-woman-is-going-to-/1037945768205167/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">broadcast</a> his intention to use the women’s bathroom in the weeks leading up to the Tuesday stunt. The Cowboy State Daily reported Tuesday that a Wyoming Highway Patrol officer said “OK” when the activist showed up outside the governor’s office and announced his intention to use the women’s bathroom. 
Republican State Rep. Rachel Rodriguez Williams, the chair of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus, said that the state has an obligation to uphold the law — which she says failed when Kelver was able to access the women&#8217;s bathroom with no consequences. 
“It&#8217;s unfortunate that the governor&#8217;s capitol law enforcement, which is the highway patrol, gave the guy permission to violate the law today,” she told The Daily Wire. “This obviously was a planned event, and it was posted to Facebook by the individual many months ago. So we believe that the governor did know about it and that he did know it was coming yet did nothing to stop it.”
“This is a victory of the radical trans agenda over the rights of women,” she added.
Kelver has been featured in glowing profiles by outlets like the New York Times.
“Direct action is the best course to address this bill potentially further and also to put some more public eyes on this issue and have conversations when I can,” Kelver told Cowboy State Daily on Tuesday. &#8220;I hope to achieve a message to the people that it’s OK to be trans. It&#8217;s OK to be the people that me and my other trans people are.”
House Bill 72 allows for a cause of action for women or others harmed to hold the government liable for damages if the law is not upheld. 
“We need them to draw a line in the sand once and for all and stand up for women, real women,” ​​Rodriguez-Williams told The Daily Wire. “While there was no woman inside the bathroom, the lack of action, it sends a message to women all over our state that you&#8217;re on your own.”
In Florida, a 20-year-old transgender-identifying man was arrested after entering the women’s bathroom at a Florida House office building. 
Gordon has often clashed with conservative legislators in Wyoming. He previously vetoed a bill that would have said abortion is not health care, and a bill that required ultrasounds for medication abortions. He has also been critical of several transgender-related legislation passed by the Republican supermajority. 
He <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dzW2OZ5Avxh5iIgQ-mWHtV4skZ5cNHj8/view?_ga=2.188192239.617489709.1751409810-1386271207.1751409809">criticized</a> a bill known as the “What is a Woman Act” that defined male and female as motivated by a desire to “scratch a welcome national political itch” and he <a href="https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/WYGOV/2023/03/17/file_attachments/2440949/SF%20133_Letter_3_17_23.pdf">called</a> a bill keeping males out female sports as “draconian” and “discriminatory.” He allowed both bills to become law without his signature. 
Gordon’s office did not respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth laid into a reporter who asked why he hadn&#8217;t specifically congratulated the female pilots who had been a part of the United States&#8217; recent strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities after they stated: &#8220;The early messages that you sent out only congratulated &#8216;the boys.'&#8221;
Hegseth, in the hours after the mission had been completed, touted the success of &#8220;our boys on those bombers&#8221; – and The New York Times, among others, complained that not all of those involved had been male.
Times Pentagon reporter John Ismay, most notably, wrote, &#8220;In the briefing, Hegseth referred to B-2 pilots as ‘our boys on those bombers,’ yet both men and women have been trained to fly them.&#8221;
When that topic came up during Thursday morning&#8217;s briefing, Hegseth bowed his head slightly, laughing, before responding.
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. <a href="https://twitter.com/SecDef?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SecDef</a> gave the PERFECT response when asked
&#8220;Why not acknowledge female pilots that participated, early messages congratulated the boys?&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/BAqwj6bfdV">pic.twitter.com/BAqwj6bfdV</a>
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&#8220;Why not acknowledge the female pilots that also participated?&#8221; the reporter asked. &#8220;The early messages that you sent out only congratulated &#8216;the boys.'&#8221;
&#8220;So, when I say something like &#8216;our boys in bombers&#8217; — see, this is the kind of thing the press does,&#8221; Hegseth replied. &#8220;Of course, the Chairman mentioned a female bomber pilot. Fantastic. She&#8217;s fantastic. She&#8217;s a hero. I want more female bomber pilots.&#8221;
&#8220;I hope the men and women of our country sign up to do such brave and audacious things,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But when you spin it as because I say &#8216;our boys in bombers&#8217; as a common phrase – I&#8217;ll keep saying things like that, whether they&#8217;re men or women. I&#8217;m very proud of that female pilot, just like I&#8217;m very proud of those male pilots.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t care if it&#8217;s a male or a female in the cockpit, and the American people don&#8217;t care,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;But it&#8217;s the obsession with race and gender in this department that&#8217;s changed priorities, and we don&#8217;t do that anymore. We don&#8217;t play your little games.&#8221;

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'We Don't Play Your Little Games': Hegseth Smokes Reporter Asking Why He Didn't Mention Female Pilot

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