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The Department of Justice (DOJ) is defending gender clinicians in a medical malpractice lawsuit filed by a female detransitioner who received harmful testosterone treatments while experiencing dissociative identity disorder.
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Layton Ulery had eight documented personalities and was &#8220;practically and legally disabled&#8221; when she was prescribed sex-rejecting testosterone by <a href="https://www.vistaclinicalresearchgroup.com/jason-rafferty">Dr. Jason Rafferty</a> at the <a href="https://www.thundermisthealth.org/about-us/mission-vision-values/">Thundermist Health Center</a> (HC) in Rhode Island, according to her November 2025 <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/1-1-Ex.-A-Second-Amended-Complaint.pdf">lawsuit</a>. Rafferty, the <a href="https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/12710/Pediatricians-are-key-in-supporting-transgender">lead author</a> of the American Academy of Pediatrics gender transition <a href="https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/142/4/e20182162/37381/Ensuring-Comprehensive-Care-and-Support-for?autologincheck=redirected">policy</a>, recognized Ulery&#8217;s deeply troubled mental state but still recommended she start testosterone, according to the lawsuit.
&#8220;To take me when I was in such a vulnerable state and essentially give me no hope whatsoever that it was ever possible for me to recover and to sentence me to a life of health issues and permanent physical damage &#8230; I just think it is so heinous,&#8221; Ulery told The Daily Wire. &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe that it was ever allowed to happen.&#8221;
Thundermist HC is part of the <a href="https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/federally-qualified-health-center-fqhc/">Federally Qualified Health Center</a> program that <a href="https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title42/chapter6A/subchapter2/partD&amp;edition=prelim">funds</a> nonprofit community health clinics providing essential healthcare services to vulnerable populations. The program is run by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency within the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
HRSA-funded <a href="https://bphc.hrsa.gov/about-health-center-program">health centers</a> and their employees are treated as <a href="https://www.usphs.gov/">public</a> health employees and receive medical malpractice liability coverage from the federal government, in accordance with the <a href="https://bphc.hrsa.gov/compliance/ftca">Federal Tort Claims Act</a> (FTCA). Under the FTCA, those harmed by federal employees can <a href="https://www.opm.gov/about-us/get-help/federal-tort-claims-act/#:~:text=The%20Federal%20Tort%20Claims%20Act%20(FTCA)%20sets,act%20proximately%20caused%20the%20injury%20or%20damage">seek compensation</a> from the federal government rather than the individual who committed the tort, according to <a href="https://bphc.hrsa.gov/compliance/ftca/what-ftca">HRSA</a>&#8216;s website.
&#8220;A covered entity or individual is immune and will not be financially liable for any claims arising from covered activities,&#8221; states the HRSA <a href="https://bphc.hrsa.gov/compliance/ftca/what-ftca">website</a>. &#8220;Covered activities are acts or omissions in the performance of medical, surgical, dental, or related functions resulting in personal injury, including death, and occurring within the scope of employment.&#8221;
Legal documents show DOJ attorneys are representing Thundermist HC and its affiliates in Ulery&#8217;s malpractice lawsuit in accordance with the FTCA.
Ulery&#8217;s lawsuit was initially filed in October 2023 and bounced between state and federal courts for nearly two years before her federal claims were dismissed in September 2025. Ulery amended her complaint in November 2025, and the case was transferred back to federal court. DOJ attorneys recently moved to <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/7-Def-MTD-2.20.26.pdf">dismiss</a> Ulery&#8217;s case with prejudice, while Ulery is asking that the parties be allowed to engage in mediation.
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Josh Payne, PLLC, Ulery&#8217;s lawyer, told The Daily Wire he believes the DOJ&#8217;s actions in this case do not reflect the Trump administration&#8217;s commitment to stopping gender ideology.
&#8220;The Trump Administration is not practicing what it preaches in this particular circumstance,&#8221; Payne told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;We&#8217;re calling on Attorney General Pam Bondi to get a grip on this case and instruct her staff to negotiate with us and try to resolve this case without further burdening the court,&#8221; Payne told The Daily Wire. &#8220;This is not what federal tax dollars should be spent on to defend. It’s bad enough tax dollars were used to fund the mistreatment Layton experienced at the federally-funded clinic. The administration should be protecting vulnerable people like Layton, not fighting them.”
The DOJ told The Daily Wire it is &#8220;fundamentally opposed&#8221; to gender ideology and stated that Ulery filed her claims outside the statute of limitations.
&#8220;The Department is fundamentally opposed to woke gender ideology and is using every legal and law enforcement tool available to protect youth from being mutilated under the guise of ‘care.’ Any suggestion otherwise is patently false,” a DOJ spokesperson told The Daily Wire. “As the Department has stated through filings and to counsel, the U.S. has moved to dismiss Ms. Ulery’s case because her claims are procedurally barred by the statute of limitations and failure to exhaust.&#8221;
Ulery&#8217;s legal team argued the statute of limitations should be extended because the tort occurred when she could not realize she&#8217;d been harmed due to her incapacitated mental state, court <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/8-Response-to-US-MTD-Ulery-25-cv-00619.pdf">documents</a> show.
&#8220;Dr. Rafferty and others at Thundermist misled Layton into believing the testosterone would cure her mental health problems. She had no reason to think the testosterone could harm her. It was only when she heard stories of other detransitioners that she discovered testosterone can harm women like her,&#8221; Payne told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;All of the people that I was surrounded by were essentially people who were dissociated from reality, which was certainly not helpful in the circumstance that I was in,&#8221; Ulery told The Daily Wire. &#8220;No one even presented me with the idea that healing was possible.&#8221;
The lawsuit describes that Ulery escaped a cult from which she suffered 18 years of &#8220;physical, sexual, and psychological torment&#8221; and later sought the help of a therapist for her severe Dissociative Identity Disorder. Her therapist &#8220;began convincing Layton that she was a transgender man and in need of further medicalization&#8221; and referred her to <a href="https://www.thundermisthealth.org/about-us/mission-vision-values/">Thundermist HC</a> for sex-rejecting medical treatment, according to the lawsuit.
Thundermist HC removed a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250414024516/https://www.thundermisthealth.org/services/trans-health-access/">webpage</a> devoted to &#8220;Trans Health Access&#8221; that was saved in the Internet Archive on April 14, 2025. The Daily Wire asked the clinic if it still provides so-called gender affirming medical interventions, but it did not respond to requests for comment.
The Daily Wire asked HRSA to clarify if HRSA-funded clinics could provide so-called gender affirming care, but did not receive clarification. A HRSA representative told The Daily Wire it &#8220;does not comment on pending litigation and defers any questions regarding Federal Tort Claims Act litigation to the Department of Justice.&#8221;
Ulery has reclaimed her female identity and no longer experiences dissociation; however, she still suffers from irreversible effects of testosterone treatments, including body disfigurement, ongoing estrogen deficiencies, and chronic inflammation of her vocal cords.
&#8220;Every single day I wake up with a sore throat. Not only is it sore but my vocal cords are chronically inflamed, and I lose my voice very easily,&#8221; Ulery told The Daily Wire. &#8220;I am just asking for the consideration of the settlement for there to be some level of accountability because I think it was beyond unacceptable.&#8221;
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&#8220;Her case should be resolved. We should not even be having a discussion about this. The parties should be able to work this out and get it settled,&#8221; Payne told The Daily Wire.
The Daily Wire tried to reach Dr. Jason Rafferty through his employer, Brown Health, but did not receive a response.
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Trump DOJ Forced To Defend Gender Doctor Against Detransitioner Lawsuit

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The Texas Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in a case surrounding a statute that could impact how gender medical malpractice lawsuits are handled across the country.
Detransitioner Soren Aldaco’s medical malpractice lawsuit was dismissed in November 2024 when a judge ruled her claims were filed outside of Texas’ two-year statute of limitations, nullifying her ability to seek damages for the harms caused by her sex-rejecting surgery.
When Aldaco’s appeal <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TaXEX_NtHw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reached</a> the Texas Supreme Court this week, her counsel argued the statute of limitations couldn’t begin until she was physically harmed by the surgeon&#8217;s knife.
“What was done to Miss Aldaco and many people like her is a medical scandal,” attorney John Ramer argued. “Kids and young adults suffering from severe psychological distress went looking for help, and what they found is medical providers saying that what&#8217;s going to liberate them from their distress is pumping them full of cross sex hormones and cutting off their body parts.”
Some Texas lawmakers have <a href="https://x.com/shelbyslawson/status/2019111108553084979" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposed legislation</a> that would <a href="https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/pdf/HB00888I.pdf#navpanes=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">extend</a> the statute of limitations from two to ten years for those harmed by rejection interventions in their state. They say that Aldaco’s case highlights the need for reform.
“Cases like Soren’s are not the intent of these two-year statutes of limitations in the Texas Medical Liability Act,” Texas State Representative Shelby Slawson told The Daily Wire. “Those limitations are not meant to give safe harbor hideouts for medical professionals whose ideology causes egregious harm to Texas patients.”
The outcome of Aldaco’s case could reverberate across the country. The statute of limitations for medical malpractice <a href="https://www.rocketlawyer.com/family-and-personal/health-and-medical/personal-injury/legal-guide/medical-malpractice-statute-of-limitations-by-state" target="_blank" rel="noopener">varies</a> from state to state, with many limiting the timeframe in which a patient can sue between one and three years after the injury occurred. If the Texas Supreme Court rules in Aldaco’s favor, it could inspire detransitioners in other states to bring similar suits.
Attorneys for Aldaco say the court &#8220;clearly expressed concern&#8221; at what was done to her, and are hopeful that its ruling &#8220;will encourage courts in other states to ensure justice for their vulnerable citizens.&#8221;
&#8220;Soren&#8217;s case reaching the Texas Supreme Court highlights the fact that the treatment she was subjected to is unprecedented,&#8221; Daniel Sepulveda, a partner 
at Campbell Miller Payne told The Daily Wire. &#8220;During oral argument, the Court clearly expressed concern at the idea of vulnerable individuals like Soren not having a reasonable amount of time to sue after being subjected to such medical and mental health treatments. A ruling in her favor would benefit all Texans harmed in these ways, and could also encourage courts in other states to ensure justice for their vulnerable citizens.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-one-has-a-right-to-sterilize-a-child-two-detransitioners-sue-doctors-over-medical-interventions?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=39&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=%E2%80%98No+One+Has+A+Right+To+Sterilize+A+Child%E2%80%99%3A+Two+Detransitioners+Sue+Doctors+Over+Medical+Interventions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prisha Mosely,</a> who was given testosterone and underwent a sex rejecting double mastectomy as a teen, filed a lawsuit in <a href="https://www.ewtnnews.com/world/us/north-carolina-woman-files-lawsuit-in-wake-of-gender-transition-surgery-as-a-teen?redirectedfrom=cna" target="_blank" rel="noopener">July 2023</a> against her gender affirming healthcare providers that was initially <a href="https://www.independentwomen.com/2025/08/14/detransitioner-prisha-mosley-fights-to-revive-medical-malpractice-claim-in-lawsuit-poised-to-set-national-precedent/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dismissed</a> because it was filed outside of North Carolina’s statute of limitations. In July 2025, the North Carolina General Assembly <a href="https://ncfamily.org/nc-general-assembly-overrides-governors-veto-of-hb-805/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed HB 805,</a> which extended the statute of limitations for sex-rejecting interventions to 10 years, allowing Mosely to <a href="https://www.thecentersquare.com/north_carolina/article_9097012b-b600-477b-b64c-3b1537846b44.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refile</a> her lawsuit.
Texas State Representative Brent Money told The Daily Wire that in cases where there has been a “clear violation of the duty of care,” it is important that individuals, particularly children, can seek compensation through the court system.
“We also need to make sure that, in cases where there&#8217;s a clear violation of the duty of care, that the patient, who has been wronged, can be adequately compensated for that. Especially when the patient is a child,” Money told The Daily Wire.
Aldaco, a woman who struggled with gender confusion throughout her adolescence, underwent a double mastectomy at 19 that she later regretted, court <a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/texas/second-court-of-appeals/2024/02-24-00217-cv.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documents show</a>. She sued her mental health providers, Barbara Rose Wood and Three Oaks Counseling Group, LLC, alleging they negligently wrote a surgical recommendation letter in February 2021 that allowed her to undergo the mastectomy in June 2021, <a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/texas/second-court-of-appeals/2024/02-24-00217-cv.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">court documents</a> show.
Many insurance companies and surgeons require a timely <a href="https://www.templehealth.org/sites/default/files/2023-08/surgery-readiness-letter-guide-2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mental health assessment </a>and surgery recommendation <a href="https://transcare.ucsf.edu/surgery-referral-assessment-requirements" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> in order to move forward with sex-rejecting surgery.
In May 2023, Aldaco sent her former healthcare providers notice of her “health care liability claims,” weeks before the two-year anniversary of her surgery, believing she was within the statute of limitations. However, a judge agreed with the defendants, who argued the two-year period of liability began when the surgical recommendation letter was written in February 2021, and Aldaco missed her window to sue, court documents show.
Ramer told the court that while the mental healthcare was provided before surgery, Aldaco didn’t have cause of action — giving her grounds for her lawsuit — until she underwent surgery.
“The limitations period for a health care liability claim does not begin to run before the claimant is even injured,” Ramer told the court.
“There&#8217;s no such thing as a tort without an injury, and more specifically here, there&#8217;s no such thing as a negligence claim without an injury,” Ramer stated.
Opposing counsel argued the statute of limitations began in February 2021, when the surgery letter of recommendation was written, and acknowledged Aldaco’s mental health provider did not discuss her gender dysphoria before writing the surgery recommendation letter.
Ramer explained to the justices that the surgical recommendation letter was not equivalent to a simple medical referral but was critical to Aldaco accessing a double mastectomy.
“The letter was the gateway to the injury,” Ramer said. “The letter is what got her into–onto–the operating table for purposes of receiving this surgery because it was a required letter from the psychologist under the standards of gender affirming care that have to be followed.”
In 2021, <a href="https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/625048/1/2011_WPATH_Standards_of_Care_V7-%202011.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">guidance</a> from the World Professional Association of Transgender Health, whose recommendations underpin insurance and health policies worldwide, required patients to undergo a mental health assessment to determine if sex-rejecting was “medically necessary.”
The guidance stated mental health professionals and surgeons had a “shared responsibility” when deciding to move forward with irreversible sex-rejection surgeries.
A recent <a href="https://www.plasticsurgery.org/documents/health-policy/positions/2026-gender-surgery-children-adolescents.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">policy statement</a> published by the American Society of Plastics Surgeons recommending minors do not receive sex-rejection surgeries addressed the role of “shared responsibility” in the multidisciplinary care of gender confused children.
“Diagnostic assessment, psychosocial support, endocrine intervention, and surgery form a connected clinical pathway rather than a series of independent steps,” the policy reads.
The American Society of Plastics Surgeons warned surgeons they cannot “rely” on the assessments of other healthcare disciplines when deciding if an adolescent is an appropriate candidate for sex-rejecting surgery.
“Surgical interventions inherit the foundational uncertainties present earlier in the continuum of care,” the policy says. “In this context, plastic surgeons cannot rely on the presence of a prior medical intervention, referral, or letter of support as a proxy for surgical indication or adolescent readiness.”
&#8220;Wednesday&#8217;s hearing at the Supreme Court of Texas is understatedly important. Even though I believe my case falls within the state&#8217;s two-year statute of limitations — and hopefully SCOTX will agree — detrans Texans deserve better,” Aldaco told The Daily Wire.
Barbara Wood and Three Oaks Counseling did not immediately respond to The Daily Wire’s request for comment.

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‘Safe Harbor Hideouts’ For Gender Surgeons Could Face Reckoning

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The American Society of Plastic Surgeons sent shockwaves through the medical community yesterday when it became the first major medical association to strongly disavow child sex-rejection surgeries.
The ASPS, the world’s largest organization of plastic surgeons, left no uncertainty about its position, recommending that “surgeons delay gender-related breast/chest, genital, and facial surgery until a patient is at least 19 years old,” in a <a href="https://www.plasticsurgery.org/documents/health-policy/positions/2026-gender-surgery-children-adolescents.pdf">policy statement</a> on gender surgery for minors, which could have a worldwide impact on the transgender surgical industry.
&#8220;Medical societies shape far more than professional opinion — they set the guardrails for how medicine is practiced, taught, and reimbursed,” Dr. Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer at Do No Harm, told The Daily Wire.
“That’s why the ASPS statement on pediatric medical transition lands with such weight,” Miceli added. “When a leading surgical society acknowledges that the risks of endocrine and surgical interventions outweigh their benefits, it makes clear that the so-called ‘standard of care’ pushed by gender activists is far from established. In fact, the evidence points to the harms of so-called ‘gender-affirming care.’” 
After reviewing the science supporting pediatric gender medicine, ASPS concluded there was “insufficient evidence demonstrating a favorable risk-benefit ratio for the pathway of gender-related endocrine and surgical interventions in children and adolescents,” according to the statement.
The ASPS statement was published just days after a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/detransitioner-awarded-millions-in-first-malpractice-verdict-this-is-how-it-all-ends">landmark</a> $2 million settlement was awarded to detransitioner Fox Varian, who sued her psychologist and surgeon after receiving a double mastectomy at age 16.    
Several comprehensive evidence reviews, including the Department of Health and Human Services <a href="https://opa.hhs.gov/gender-dysphoria-report">report</a> on the treatment of gender dysphoria, were cited as providing a basis for the ASPS statement, showing a departure from the consensus model adopted by many medical organizations. 
“In the United States, pediatric medical transition has relied heavily on support from medical associations rather than, and against the findings of, systematic reviews of evidence,” Leor Sapir, PhD, a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, told The Daily Wire. “That consensus was also very thin. It reflected the viewpoints of only a small number of groups that were, in essence, beholden to activists within their ranks.”
The peer-reviewed HHS report on the treatment of gender dysphoria found that pediatric gender medicine puts children at risk of “significant harms” and is supported by deeply flawed science.
“This is the first major medical group to cite the HHS report in a favorable way. The ASPS&#8217;s citation of the HHS report (alongside the Cass Review) is very significant because it suggests that leaders of a doctor organization have read it, engaged with its findings in a serious way, and found it persuasive,” Sapir, who co-authored the HHS report, told The Daily Wire. 
The American Academy of Pediatrics has sharply criticized the HHS report on gender medicine, saying it &#8220;prioritizes opinions over dispassionate reviews of evidence,” in a May 2025 <a href="https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/32145/AAP-speaks-out-against-HHS-report-on-gender?autologincheck=redirected">press release</a>.  
As staunch supporters of pediatric gender surgeries, the AAP <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/11/20/exclusive-how-small-band-pediatricians-aap-pushed-wpath-age-minimums-sex-changes/">used its influence</a> to persuade the World Professional Association of Transgender Health to abandon the inclusion of lower age limits for sex-rejection surgeries in its transgender medical guidance, the Standards of Care Version 8 (SOC-8), according to an <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-477/328275/20241015131826340_2024.10.15%20-%20Ala.%20Amicus%20Br.%20iso%20TN%20FINAL.pdf">October 2024 brief</a> submitted to the Supreme Court by Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall. 
“Days before SOC-8 was to be published, pressure from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) tipped the scales when it threatened to oppose SOC-8 if WPATH did not remove the age minimums,” Marshall wrote in the brief.
“Thanks to the Biden Administration and AAP, SOC-8 does not contain age minimums for any transitioning hormonal or surgical intervention except for one: phalloplasty, the surgical creation of a neopenis,” Marshall wrote.  
The Daily Wire asked the AAP if it supported or opposed the ASPS position statement on pediatric gender surgery, but did not receive a response.   
“It is now time for the Endocrine Society, American Academy of Pediatrics, and others in organized medicine to re-evaluate their clinical practice guidelines and position statements; ASPS has given the house of medicine an opening to end these harmful, unscientific, and dangerous practices on our youth,&#8221; Miceli said.

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Why The Shift From Major Medical Groups On Trans Surgeries Really Matters 

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Many detransitioners who speak out receive death threats. I know, because my son, Simon, is a gender apostate, and people call for his death all the time.
Gender ideologues become terrified when people like Simon prove there is life after trans identification. It turns out delusions can pass; people and families can heal. I knew this, which is why I stood up and spoke out when my son was in the throes of trans identification. When his doctor, right in front of my son, asked me, &#8220;Do you want a living daughter or a dead son?”, I told him it was the most shocking display of malpractice I had ever seen.
In college, my son’s classmates called for his death, yet they were allowed to remain on campus. My son was the one they wouldn&#8217;t allow to speak. He just wanted to tell people he had stopped believing he was trans, but the dean bellowed that he would never be allowed to speak on campus. They tried to get him expelled, his classmates screamed at him in the street, and he received threatening emails.
The gender ideologues want families like ours silenced. I&#8217;ve had a mob of trans activists scream at me, in my face, saying that I was evil and did conversion therapy on my son. I was surprised to feel calm — I knew there was nothing I had ever done in my life that was more right than helping my son find the way out of this delusion.
I loved my son then — as I love my son now — enough to tell him the truth. He was born a boy, he is a man now, and he has been male every day in between. For a while, he was angry I didn&#8217;t see it his way, but now he is thankful I held to the truth.
Puberty is hard for most kids, but it seems especially traumatic for autistic kids. When Simon was young, he would cry when anything changed — even when a restaurant or a gas station closed. When his voice began changing, he bawled abjectly — his own body had betrayed him from the inside.
Likewise, trying to find acceptance among peers is a challenge for all teenagers; try it when you can&#8217;t read nonverbal social cues or interpret your own feelings. As a child, a preteen, or a teenager, my son never knew when somebody was going to bully him. In the case of boys, he was surprised every time he was punched or threatened; in the case of girls, he was surprised to be the target of vicious rumors or a group shunning. He didn&#8217;t know how to handle it, and I couldn&#8217;t teach him. I didn&#8217;t know how to teach social skills to a kid I didn&#8217;t even know was autistic.
All of this contributed to Simon’s trans identification. My son was 14 years old when he called his mother and me into the dining room and played us a song on the piano about how he thought he was a girl inside. It was clear he didn&#8217;t want to be himself at that point. He was experiencing real distress, but he had been taught an escape rather than a solution.
I wanted to get him help for his discomfort, his sadness, his worry. It&#8217;s hard to get mental health support for a kid. Once a kid says he&#8217;s trans, though, it becomes almost impossible. You enter an upside-down world, where they believe parents hate their children, and the child tells the doctor the diagnosis. If you&#8217;re a parent who wants a therapist to help your autistic teen learn about how to perceive social and internal cues, that can all be derailed when he says he&#8217;s trans. They may want to wash their hands of him and send him to the gender center (where all patients are trans as a matter of policy). They may demand you get on board the trans train — or else.
This could be a kid who can&#8217;t tell whether he&#8217;s hungry or he&#8217;s angry. He needs help to distinguish those feelings. But if he says he feels like a woman, a therapist can&#8217;t even ask him what he means by that. Activists have gotten laws passed that can take a therapist&#8217;s license away if he doesn&#8217;t agree kids are trans whenever they say so. And if you, as a parent, aren’t careful, they could even take your kid away from you.
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Trans-identifying boys have cheerleaders everywhere. It&#8217;s not just the therapists, or the girls who will take your boy shopping and buy him women&#8217;s clothes. There are the school groups like GSA, which used to stand for &#8220;Gay-Straight Alliance,&#8221; but now stands for &#8220;Gender and Sexuality Alliance.&#8221; These groups preach the religion of gender. Our kids are taught about gender identities in health class as if they&#8217;re as real as chromosomes or conception. Online, kids can meet people of all ages with sometimes prurient enthusiasm for their gender identification. What&#8217;s one father against all of that?
One father can be a start. I taught my son that lots of people believing an idea doesn&#8217;t make it true, it just makes it popular. Reality is what&#8217;s still there when you stop believing in it. Right now, trans ideology is popular. But sex is real, and it&#8217;s still going to be here when the trans fad passes or your kid overcomes his delusions. If you succeed in holding the line against medicalization, he may be healthy and whole when that happens.
Parents have so many roles. Sometimes you&#8217;re a guide, walking in front of your children and showing them the way. Sometimes you teach, sometimes comfort, sometimes inspire. Sometimes a father is just a lighthouse keeper, maintaining a beacon so they can find their way back.
My son found his way back from his delusion. I don&#8217;t know all the reasons why, but I know he couldn&#8217;t have done it if I had let my light go out.
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Gareth Amaya Price is the father of <a href="https://www.iwfeatures.com/documentary/how-this-desister-broke-free-from-the-transgender-contagion/">Simon Amaya Price</a>, a desister. Gareth Amaya Price was featured in a <a href="https://www.iwfeatures.com/documentary/how-this-desister-broke-free-from-the-transgender-contagion/">new two-part documentary</a> produced by <a href="https://www.iwfeatures.com/">IW Features</a>, Independent Women’s grassroots storytelling and original journalism arm, as part of its “<a href="https://www.iwfeatures.com/our-stories/reclaiming-biological-reality-stories/">Identity Crisis: Real Stories About Escaping Gender Ideology”</a> series.
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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The Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling in United States v. Skrmetti — which upheld Tennessee&#8217;s ban on chemical and surgical gender transitions for minors — was major news.
But while legacy media outlets rushed to cover the decision Wednesday, their coverage belied the fact that their position on the matter was clearly biased.
Despite the fact that the majority of Americans, regardless of political party, believe children should not be subject to such irreversible procedures, mainstream media reporters still referred to the High Court&#8217;s ruling as a &#8220;major setback&#8221; or a &#8220;devastating loss.&#8221;
The Washington Post attempted to spin the issue as &#8220;polarizing national issue the Trump administration has seized on&#8221; — in spite of overwhelming support for reserving gender transition for adults — and claimed the 6-3 decision was the product of a &#8220;divided court.&#8221;
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Breaking news: A divided Supreme Court cleared the way for states to ban certain gender transition treatments for minors, a polarizing national issue the Trump administration has seized on in initiatives targeting transgender rights. <a href="https://t.co/er1uhGQE0W">https://t.co/er1uhGQE0W</a>
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1935342766701072577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Critics pointed out that The Washington Post had landed a bit wide of the mark.
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“Polarizing” <a href="https://t.co/gdm0syKbnt">https://t.co/gdm0syKbnt</a> <a href="https://t.co/vaVWR7wl5x">pic.twitter.com/vaVWR7wl5x</a>
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrewHolden360/status/1935407301923344818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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It’s the opposite of polarizing—it’s a unifying issue (according to WaPo’s own polling).
These numbers go up when asked about surgeries, by the way. <a href="https://t.co/l2P0FpZIPK">https://t.co/l2P0FpZIPK</a> <a href="https://t.co/yor0CmPXl4">pic.twitter.com/yor0CmPXl4</a>
— Cody Sargent (@codydsargent) <a href="https://twitter.com/codydsargent/status/1935434841341776011?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The New York Times, after leading with the breaking news, followed with a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/politics/supreme-court-trans-children.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">second paragraph</a> that gave away the game: &#8220;The decision, which came amid the Trump administration’s fierce assaults on transgender rights, was a bitter setback for their proponents &#8230;&#8221;
And from The Associated Press? &#8220;The Supreme Court upholds a Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors in a huge setback for transgender rights.&#8221;
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court upholds a Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors in a huge setback for transgender rights. <a href="https://t.co/moVnfy3auH">https://t.co/moVnfy3auH</a>
— The Associated Press (@AP) <a href="https://twitter.com/AP/status/1935341665239060652?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This headline is an opinion,&#8221; Michelle Tafoya noted.
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This headline is an opinion: <a href="https://t.co/GpZzYPM92g">https://t.co/GpZzYPM92g</a>
— Michele Tafoya (@Michele_Tafoya) <a href="https://twitter.com/Michele_Tafoya/status/1935354970163003502?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Ban on child abuse. The phrase you’re looking for is child abuse,&#8221; Red State&#8217;s Bonchie posted.
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Ban on child abuse. The phrase you’re looking for is child abuse. <a href="https://t.co/iA7XCfGMQq">https://t.co/iA7XCfGMQq</a>
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&#8220;The AP was hoping for more child abuse, not less. Tough day for them,&#8221; Seth Dillon added.
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The AP was hoping for more child abuse, not less. Tough day for them. <a href="https://t.co/xFq6cEebhw">https://t.co/xFq6cEebhw</a>
— Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) <a href="https://twitter.com/SethDillon/status/1935355852237541399?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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NBC News offered similar fare, publishing a piece declaring that the &#8220;Supreme Court upholds a Tennessee law restricting gender transition care for minors, delivering a major blow to transgender rights.&#8221;
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BREAKING: Supreme Court upholds a Tennessee law restricting gender transition care for minors, delivering a major blow to transgender rights. <a href="https://t.co/QiUjyPfDlQ">https://t.co/QiUjyPfDlQ</a>
— NBC News (@NBCNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1935341651410423816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This is activist commentary, to be clear. However, it&#8217;s also very misleading. Medically interfering with the physical development of children for an artificial, hypothetical future outcome based on gender identity is in no way connected to, &#8216;transgender rights,'&#8221; Chad Felix Greene posted.
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This is activist commentary, to be clear.
However, it&#8217;s also very misleading. Medically interfering with the physical development of children for an artificial, hypothetical future outcome based on gender identity is in no way connected to, &#8216;transgender rights.&#8217; <a href="https://t.co/fBwtND1eKj">https://t.co/fBwtND1eKj</a>
— Chad Felix Greene 🇮🇱 (@chadfelixg) <a href="https://twitter.com/chadfelixg/status/1935358226058342572?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Even <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/supreme-court-skrmetti-decision-permits-ban-on-gender-affirming-care-for/">Scientific American</a> lamented the decision in the second paragraph of coverage — under the header &#8220;Why this matters&#8221; — writing, &#8220;The ruling is a major blow to transgender Americans’ rights and protections, which have been under attack at the state and federal level.&#8221;

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Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller went on an absolute tear during Thursday morning&#8217;s White House press briefing, reaffirming President Donald Trump&#8217;s commitment to ending &#8220;barbaric&#8221; child gender transitions — whether chemical or surgical — saying that they amounted to &#8220;child torture&#8221; and &#8220;medical malpractice.&#8221;
Miller began with the executive orders issued by President Trump early on — ending policies supported by former President Joe Biden and the Democrats that had allowed men to play women&#8217;s sports and change in their private locker rooms — and then pivoted to more recent moves aimed at ending all gender transition procedures for minors.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/StephenM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StephenM</a>: &#8220;It is CHILD ABUSE to change a child&#8217;s gender &#8230; Castration surgeries, castration drugs, sterilization treatments of children are barbaric. They violate all sound medical ethics. They are completely unwarranted. They harm children for life — irreversibly.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/AMNM6eXTau">pic.twitter.com/AMNM6eXTau</a>
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&#8220;This administration ended the Biden administration&#8217;s policy and the Democrat Party&#8217;s policy of allowing men into women&#8217;s sports, men into women&#8217;s spaces,&#8221; Miller began. &#8220;We are using every single legal and financial tool we have at President Trump&#8217;s direction to make it clear that schools and universities are and will lose federal funds, as you&#8217;ve seen in Maine, if you allow men to invade women&#8217;s sports and women&#8217;s spaces.&#8221;
Miller went on to say that the administration&#8217;s policies applied to every school in the K-12 system, adding, &#8220;The Department of Justice is also coordinating with state and local law enforcement to fight child abuse in our school system. It is child abuse to change a child&#8217;s gender, particularly if you do not inform the parents. In other words, if a five-year-old or a six-year-old goes to school, or a seven-year-old goes to school, and the teacher tries to turn the boy into a girl and a girl into a boy, that is child abuse, and this administration is treating that as child abuse. And it is a gross violation of parental rights.&#8221;
Miller then directed the message from the administration to hospital systems across the country, saying that they would not be able to funnel taxpayer dollars into gender transition programs.
&#8220;Castration surgeries, castration drugs, sterilization treatments of children are barbaric. They violate all sound medical ethics. They are completely unwarranted. They harm children for life — irreversibly,&#8221; Miller said. &#8220;It is child torture. It is child abuse. It is medical malpractice.&#8221;

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April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. It is also a moment when many trans activists and aligned organizations have taken the opportunity to bring up studies and statistics about the high rate of sexual assault for those who identify as trans. These topics are inexorably linked — something I know firsthand, as both a sexual assault survivor and a detransitioner.
My desire to transition was largely due to being sexually assaulted when I was 14. I believed I could escape myself and my sex through medicalization. I know now that, in truth, I never changed sex. And undergoing hormones and surgery did not help my mental health or heal my torment. That required facing the trauma in therapy and doing the real work of recovery.
The trans community is right that sexual assault is a real and horrible reality for too many people who identify as trans. The same is true for those who detransition — we often have histories of sexual abuse. But what the trans activists are not honest about is the timing of the sexual assault and how it relates to trans identities themselves.
Like me, most of the people with trans identities I have interacted with (both online and offline) experienced sexual assault prior to their identifying as transgender, not because of it.
I remember talking with other members of the trans community online and in my doctor-recommended support group when I was a teen. We spoke about abusive or violent sexual encounters we had experienced. Many of us were extremely young when we experienced abuse, or were still forced to endure it while simultaneously trying to medicalize our bodies. Our relationships with ourselves were fragmented and in crisis, and our relationships with each other were an unhealthy bond forged by trauma. We all believed we wouldn’t be so burdened when we could finally transform into the opposite sex.
Sexual assault is a life-changing experience. Anyone who has experienced it knows what I mean. It takes away your power and your autonomy and makes your body feel unsafe. Activists try to sell transitioning as a cure to such vulnerable people. They insist that transitioning offers the victims of sexual assault the promise of greater control over their bodies. It allows the victims to change it into something they believe is less likely to be hurt. Transitioning is described by doctors and activists alike as a type of rebirth; many people try in vain to transition into a person who was never assaulted at all.
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It is cruel and unethical for a doctor to change the body of a sexual assault victim. Our bodies were never the problem. An identity crisis is not a medical condition. Trauma is not cured with hormones and surgeries, nor are future assaults prevented that way. Any doctor selling transition to someone reeling from the distress of a sexual assault is harming their patients. There are protocols and standards of care when it comes to victims. Evidence-based and ethical, trauma-informed care is the least the medical community can do for patients who were sexually abused. Instead, many doctors are taking the easy way out and making a profit off the distress and pain of the most vulnerable by selling “cures” that will never come to fruition.
The sexual assault I experienced changed my life when I was young, but transitioning destroyed my health and stole parts of my life away from me. If my doctors had not affirmed my self-hatred and my womanhood and instead listened to my pain and suffering because of my trauma and left my body alone, I would still be healthy. I am still a sexual assault victim, only now, I am missing pieces of myself. True, my breasts will never be touched again without my consent — but now I cannot ever give consent for them to be touched either, all because a doctor decided that the thoughts in my head meant that mutilating my body could heal me.
I have healed now from the terrible trauma of sexual assault, but the chemical and surgical changes my doctor made to my body are irreversible. No person who has been a victim of harm deserves more harm as a result, even if they are broken enough to ask for it. Doctors have a responsibility to say “no” instead of aiding their patients in self-harm. I hope that no doctor will ever be as cruel to another patient who identifies as trans as they were with me — or that lawmakers make it impossible for them to do so.
This Sexual Assault Awareness Month, I urge lawmakers, doctors, and the public to reexamine what’s behind the growing obsession with trans identity and permanently altering girls’ and boys’ healthy bodies. Take it from me: the abuse I suffered altered my life forever. Mutilating my body didn’t make it better, but only added additional trauma and hardship. Sexual assault survivors deserve so much more than that.
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Prisha Mosley is an Independent Women ambassador and detransitioner. IW Features, the storytelling platform of Independent Women, featured Prisha’s story as part of its “Identity Crisis” docu-series, which highlights the irreversible harms of gender ideology. Prisha’s story, including her pregnancy journey, was documented in two parts, which can be found <a href="https://www.iwfeatures.com/documentary/mentally-ill-teen-betrayed-by-health-professionals-who-recommended-testosterone-and-top-surgery/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and <a href="https://www.iwfeatures.com/documentary/a-detransitioners-pregnancy-journey/">here</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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The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to a Colorado law that has been called the state&#8217;s so-called &#8220;conversion therapy&#8221; ban. 
The case was brought by the Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of private Colorado Springs counselor Kaley Chiles, who says the law violates her First Amendment rights to free speech. Passed in 2019, the law <a href="https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_1129_signed.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prohibits</a> counseling that “attempts or purports to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity.”
“Many of my clients chose to work with me because we share a similar perspective on faith and values,” Chiles said during a press call on Wednesday morning. “However, I&#8217;m facing a serious challenge. Colorado’s counseling censorship law threatens my ability to engage in private, professional conversations with my clients.” 
Chiles added that the law pushes children with gender dysphoria “toward harmful medical interventions” while not allowing counselors to help those who may want to detransition. 
Penalties for violating the law include a fine of up to $5000 and professional disciplinary action that could include loss of one’s counseling license. 
“We’re very grateful that the U.S. Supreme Court decided to hear this very important case. It’s essential that children and parents have access to safe and effective counseling that meets their needs and that avoids dangerous and experimental medical interventions,” ADF lawyer Jim Campbell said. 
Campbell added that Chiles has been forced to turn away multiple clients over the law. 
“Colorado censors Kaley from speaking words her clients want to hear because the government does not like the views she expresses,” he added. “Government officials may not impose their ideology on private conversations between counselors and their clients.”
Colorado’s law was previously upheld by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals while the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down similar laws implemented by cities in Florida. The Supreme Court is expected to hear arguments on the Colorado law in October. 
The Supreme Court is also poised to rule this summer on another transgender-related case. In December, the court heard a challenge to a Tennessee law banning transgender medical procedures on children. Analysts believe that the justices will uphold that law after the conservative-leaning court appeared largely skeptical of the challenge.

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The University of Minnesota offered to pay children as young as five to play with transgender dolls with mix-and-match genitals.
Kids ages five to 10 were offered between $20 and $60 to play with &#8220;MyGender <a href="https://x.com/JohnsonHildy/status/1869378196678029690" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dolls</a>,&#8221; an Instagram post advertising the activity <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C34HtPKMJVZ/?igsh=MTJ1NHlhcWtjenlnMg%3D%3D" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.instagram.com/p/C34HtPKMJVZ/?igsh%3DMTJ1NHlhcWtjenlnMg%253D%253D&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1734544456378000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1lCSPKCjN0ZSGaHY3SyDCc">shows</a>.
&#8220;We are looking to hear from transgender and gender diverse children between the ages of 5 and 10 years old and their parents about a new hands-on activity to help talk about gender and bodies!&#8221; reads the February 27 post.
The activity was <a href="https://crowdfund.umn.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.personalCampaign&amp;participantID=1098" target="_blank" rel="noopener">organized</a> by the National Center for Gender Spectrum Health, which is part of the Human Sexuality program at the University of Minnesota&#8217;s medical school. The Center has also <a href="https://med.umn.edu/sexualhealth/ncgsh/projects" target="_blank" rel="noopener">produced</a> a handbook to &#8220;support sexual pleasure education&#8221; for trans-identifying men after transgender genital surgery.
It is unclear if any parents volunteered their children for the study. The University of Minnesota did not respond to a request for comment.
The &#8220;MyGender Dolls&#8221; are similar to classic paper dolls, but they <a href="https://med.umn.edu/sexualhealth/ncgsh/projects/mygender-dolls" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have</a> movable internal sex organs, external genitals, hairstyles, clothing, and other accessories that children can “layer on,” supposedly to build a representation of their true gender. The dolls were created by &#8220;transgender and gender diverse artists&#8221; and are intended for use by &#8220;a gender competent therapist who sees young children and adolescents for gender exploration,&#8221; the Center said.
The &#8220;affirming&#8221; clinical approach for children who declare they are a different gender has received fierce pushback from both parents and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/over-100-health-care-professionals-groups-sign-declaration-calling-for-halt-to-child-transgender-medical-services" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doctors</a> over the last few years, especially when it comes to medicalization. A growing number of detransitioners — men and women who were put on puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones as children — have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/these-five-women-are-suing-over-their-transgender-medical-treatments" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spoken</a> out about their regret.
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The dolls have already garnered national attention. They were <a href="https://med.umn.edu/sexualhealth/ncgsh/projects/mygender-dolls" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://med.umn.edu/sexualhealth/ncgsh/projects/mygender-dolls&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1734544456378000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0XnlkdSSmSsEYQMOVa9AHs">presented</a> at the 2019 symposium of the U.S. division of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), whose controversial standards of care for trans-identifying people have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wpath-explains-why-they-removed-minimum-age-guidelines-for-children-to-access-transgender-medical-treatments-so-doctors-wont-get-sued" target="_blank" rel="noopener">come</a> under fire in recent years.
Elsewhere on its website, the National Center for Gender Spectrum Health <a href="https://med.umn.edu/sexualhealth/ncgsh/projects" target="_blank" rel="noopener">touts</a> that it has faculty serving on the WPATH Standards of Care document revision committee.
One of the Center&#8217;s co-directors is Dr. Dianne Berg, who serves on WPATH&#8217;s child and adolescent committee and is interested in both &#8220;gender creative children&#8221; and &#8220;compulsive sexual behavior,&#8221; according to <a href="https://med.umn.edu/bio/dianne-berg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">her</a> biography on the University of Minnesota&#8217;s website.
Her co-director is Dr. Katie Spencer, who <a href="https://med.umn.edu/bio/katherine-spencer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">is</a> &#8220;passionate about social justice and feminist approaches&#8221; to clinical practice, her biography says.
The Center <a href="https://crowdfund.umn.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.personalCampaign&amp;participantID=1098" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://crowdfund.umn.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction%3DdonorDrive.personalCampaign%26participantID%3D1098&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1734544456378000&amp;usg=AOvVaw04j8ebCyWoqmLEg5avqcG_">says</a> part of its mission is to &#8220;eliminate gender-based stigma and discrimination.&#8221; It also <a href="https://med.umn.edu/sexualhealth/national-center-gender-spectrum-health" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://med.umn.edu/sexualhealth/national-center-gender-spectrum-health&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1734544456378000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1BYM3ZdI6-f7E_fvqKg4W_">says</a> it wants to promote scholarship by trans-identifying people, &#8220;challenge cisnormativity in healthcare,&#8221; and &#8220;promote pleasure and positive sexuality for all bodies.&#8221; It also touted recently getting $87,500 more in grant funding.
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The Biden-Harris Department of Health and Human Services consulted left-wing transgender activists as it sought to further “LGBTQI accessibility,” with one activist even calling for families that do not accept a child’s gender identity to be prosecuted in a video reviewed by The Daily Wire.
HHS convened the activists late last year for a <a href="https://aspe.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/emerging_practices_for_supporting_lgbtqi+_young_people_across_human_services_programs.mp4">webinar</a> on “Emerging Practices for Supporting LGBTQI+ Young People Across Human Services Programs.&#8221; The project sought to identify “practices that human services agencies, programs, staff, and leaders are using to make human service delivery and prevention more welcoming and accessible for LGBTQI+ young people (ages 10-24),” with a particular focus on the “child welfare and juvenile justice systems.”
One activist, Alexander Roque, was particularly extreme, calling for families who engage in “homophobia or transphobia” to be prosecuted on child abuse charges.
“There are no systems that prosecute or address family rejection as it relates to homophobia or transphobia,” Roque, the <a href="https://www.aliforneycenter.org/our-people">president</a> of an LGBT community center and homeless shelter called the Ali Forney Center, complained. “I’ve been beating this drum that homophobia and transphobia is child abuse, and we need to recognize it as such.”
He went on to complain that Child Protective Services has forced him to return children to their families.
&#8220;We’ve had so many instances where young people have run away from their homes and have come into our care and we’ve literally had to hand over a young person to their family in front of a child protective worker.”
“I really think that providers who are seeking to represent LGBT youth have to really support a systems change on how systems address homophobia and transphobia. Right now nothing happens to the families,” Roque said, again indicating that he wants parents who do not accept a child’s gender identity to be punished or prosecuted.
Asked by The Daily Wire if he supports prosecuting parents for alleged transphobia, Roque said that he does not &#8220;believe that parents should be persecuted nor am I advocating for that.&#8221; It is unclear if Roque&#8217;s disavowal of persecution means that he does not support prosecution.
The federal bureaucracy has been mobilized to push far-left ideologies by the Biden-Harris administration, which named Admiral Rachel Levine, a man who identifies as a woman, as the Assistant Secretary for Health at the HHS. Levine went on to pressure a medical organization to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admins-rachel-levine-met-with-wpath-as-he-pushed-for-removal-of-trans-surgery-age-restrictions">remove minimum age restrictions</a> for children who undergo medical procedures that seek to change their sex. A new study found that the Biden-Harris administration pushed far-left ideology throughout the government with 500 &#8220;DEI actions,&#8221; The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-harris-administration-pushed-far-left-ideology-with-500-dei-actions-report-finds">reported</a> this week.
Another activist criticized families who do not want their child to attempt to transition to the opposite sex, even saying that others may need to step in as a child’s “chosen family.”
“Supporting families is an important form of prevention. Programs are working to support families by using a relationship-based approach that builds connections with families and aims to understand their stage of acceptance with their child’s sexual orientation or gender identity,” Eli Michaels, a <a href="https://www.mathematica.org/staff/eli-michaels">health equity researcher</a> with the research organization Mathematica, said during the webinar. “In some cases that may mean helping youth find and even serving as their chosen family.”
The program was organized by HHS Deputy Assistant Secretary Miranda Lynch-Smith, who, according to her <a href="https://wokewagon.aflegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Miranda-Lynch_HHS_Resume.pdf">resume</a>, focuses on “child welfare policy” and “systematic policy changes that build well-being systems and address race equity.” It was performed in conjunction with Mathematica, a New Jersey-based research organization that frequently contracts with federal agencies.
HHS has repeatedly pushed child transgenderism under the Biden-Harris administration, investigations from The Daily Wire have revealed. The National Institutes of Health, a subagency of the HHS, allocated over $3 million to expand the availability of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republican-senators-blast-nih-for-3-million-grant-to-expand-medical-transitions-for-minors">sex change operations for minors</a> despite hospitals admitting that such medical interventions can result in sterilization.
The department also agreed to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-government-to-spend-700k-on-trans-inclusive-sex-ed-for-14-year-olds">spend nearly $700,000</a> to create “an inclusive teen pregnancy program for transgender boys” and appears to have authorized the use of taxpayer funds to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/under-biden-federal-foster-care-funds-can-be-used-to-buy-kids-chest-binders-fake-penises">buy chest binders and prosthetic penises</a> for children in the foster care system.
Bureaucrats who pushed the far-left agenda could be ousted from the federal agencies pending the results of the November election, however. Former President Donald Trump has pledged to gut the bureaucracy through <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/07/22/trump-presidency-schedule-f-federal-employees">executive orders</a>, cutting down the size of the administrative state and firing those who may otherwise work to undermine his policy agenda.
HHS did not respond to a request for comment.

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One of the most agonizing sights in politics is watching Democrats trying to ape the motions of normal, everyday people. We&#8217;ve talked about this a lot lately. Tim Walz tried to play a football video game and go hunting, only to demonstrate that he doesn&#8217;t know what a &#8220;Pick 6&#8221; is, or how to load his own shotgun. 
Then, White Dudes for Kamala, led by Adam Kinzinger, went to the range for a fun day of shooting, only to violate every single gun safety rule that exists. They even managed to accidentally <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2024-10-23/flyaway-metal-from-missouri-democratic-senate-candidates-rifle-grazes-reporter-at-campaign-event" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shoot</a> a reporter who was covering the event. He was <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/reporter-hit-shrapnel-shooting-range-lucas-kunce-1973634" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hit</a> by a bullet fragment off a very predictable ricochet, which is a story that should probably be getting more attention than it is. And then there was Kamala Harris <a href="https://x.com/BrutalBrittany2/status/1850362943680164276" target="_blank" rel="noopener">grabbing</a> a casual beer with the governor of Michigan the other day, surrounded by dozens of cameras that she pretended not to notice so she could have a fake &#8220;hot mic&#8221; moment. The whole thing looked about as phony as Elizabeth Warren&#8217;s infamous &#8220;beer catastrophe.&#8221;
Democrats struggle to emulate basic human interactions like this for a lot of reasons. One of them is that Democrats are statists. Maintaining interpersonal relationships, and having normal interactions with one another, isn&#8217;t something that concerns them. Their goal is advancing the broader interests of their party. This is an outlook that makes it extremely difficult for Democrats to relate to everyday Americans who, unlike Democrats, aren&#8217;t transfixed by the idea of obtaining more political power. It shows up everywhere in their messaging. They can&#8217;t help but reveal how clueless and manipulative they are.
<h3><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1475-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h3>
That brings me to what may be the single most vile political advertisement I&#8217;ve ever seen. This ad just came out the other day on social media. On paper, the idea behind this advertisement is to appeal to liberal women who are married to conservative men. But in just the span of thirty seconds, this advertisement — which was produced by the nonprofit &#8220;Vote Common Good&#8221; — reveals that Democrats don&#8217;t understand anything about marriage, or women, or men. Instead, probably without even realizing it, the people who made this advertisement were very transparent about the goal of the Democrat Party, which is to turn families against one another.
Here&#8217;s the full, 30-second advertisement, which is narrated by the actress Julia Roberts. Watch:
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It&#8217;s actually impressive they managed to jam so much insanity into one 30-second advertisement. According to Julia Roberts, the voting booth is &#8220;the one place in America where women still have a right to choose.&#8221; Outside of the voting booth, women can&#8217;t make any decisions for themselves. Women are completely controlled by men, 24/7, in every aspect of life — except in the voting booth on Election Day. That&#8217;s their one, precious moment of freedom. It’s not like they’re free to make choices every moment of every day, all the time. No, they have no freedom to choose anything, except on the ballot. 
If that&#8217;s true, it raises the obvious question of how Julia Roberts was able to do the voiceover for this advertisement. What man told her to do that, against her will? Who exactly is holding Julia Roberts hostage and making her embarrass herself like this? Surely, she couldn&#8217;t have made the decision to read these lines on her own. After all, she&#8217;s a woman, and she&#8217;s not in a voting booth. So, by the advertisement&#8217;s own terms, we can only assume that Julia Roberts is tied up in a basement somewhere. Or maybe she&#8217;s being blackmailed. The possibilities are endless. And none of them are good. 
<h3><a href="https://www.amiracist.com/?_gl=1*jtghwp*_gcl_au*ODQ1NjYzNTg2LjE3Mjg5MDk3OTE.*_ga*MTc2NzM0NDQ2NS4xNzI4OTA5Nzkx*_ga_CZKR9ZYKJP*MTczMDEyMDgwOS40OS4xLjE3MzAxMjA4MzkuMzAuMC4w" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MATT WALSH&#8217;S &#8216;AM I RACIST?&#8217; NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+</a></h3>
Not to mention, if the patriarchy has successfully banned women from making any choices in life at all, then how do women still have the right to vote? That seems like a rather significant oversight by the patriarchy. It’s almost like the patriarchy doesn’t exist. 
But aside from that, there are about a million other problems with it. You&#8217;ll notice that, in the ad, the conservative man has the hat with the American flag and the bald eagle. He seems like a patriotic, friendly guy. And his wife&#8217;s hat has an American flag, too. But then we learn that the wife is only pretending to be patriotic because her husband is abusive or whatever. Really, she identifies more with the mysterious woman across from her, who&#8217;s not wearing any hat. The two women exchange a knowing glance. And then the man&#8217;s wife walks away with the mysterious woman, like they&#8217;re going on a date or something.
So far, the two messages this ad is sending is that conservatives are patriotic, and that Democrats think women have no agency whatsoever. They&#8217;re supposedly too cowardly to speak their own minds to their own husbands, or to make their own decisions about anything. And this particular ad is coming from a nonprofit that says it wants to appeal to &#8220;Evangelical and Catholic voters,&#8221; because, apparently, &#8220;evangelical and Catholic&#8221; voters are in the habit of lying to their spouses. 
As insulting as this is, again, it would be a mistake to dismiss this ad as merely tone-deaf and patronizing, although it&#8217;s obviously both of those things. The ad is actually saying something important, which is that one of the goals of the Democrat Party is to turn spouses against one another. They want women to keep secrets from their husbands, and to see their husbands as some kind of threat. Democrats are pushing this message because ultimately they want to destroy marriages and families, which are the single greatest threat to their political power.
A couple of days ago, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1463-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">I talked about this effort</a> in the context of Democrats&#8217; last-minute pitch to win over male voters. 
Michelle Obama delivered a 30-minute <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEe4ujgHapk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speech</a> in which she repeatedly told men that their role is to be subservient to liberal women. The only time she talked about improving the lives of men was when she was telling them to kill their children. If you kill your child and destroy your family, Michelle Obama said, then you can go to college. And then you can be a miserable, screeching activist who&#8217;s loyal to the Democrats, instead of your own children. Watch:
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As with everything else we hear from prominent figures in the Democrat Party, nothing exists in isolation. It&#8217;s all part of a broader, collective message. Every single agent of the party has to push the same exact script at all times. Michelle Obama didn&#8217;t come up with her anti-family message, anymore than that nonprofit came up with its anti-family message. 
They&#8217;re all working in concert to push the same rhetoric that ultimately leads to the enactment of policies like this one, in California:
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So over the past couple of years in California, various school districts were requiring that administrators notify parents if their child starts identifying as transgender. That&#8217;s a policy that makes sense for a lot of reasons. One of them is that children who think they were born in the wrong body are about a million times more likely to suffer from serious mental health conditions. They&#8217;re also almost certainly being influenced by their teachers or their peers — neither of whom care about these children. They care about an ideology. The only people who actually care about the children in this scenario, in basically every single case, are their parents.
But in California, the state thinks it knows better than parents. Here&#8217;s just one example of how that plays out. In 2019, mother in California named Abigail Martinez lost her 16-year-old daughter to suicide, after she says her school and the Department of Children and Family Services pressured her daughter to &#8220;transition&#8221; into a boy. Authorities placed Martinez&#8217;s daughter in foster care because she wouldn&#8217;t &#8220;affirm&#8221; her daughter&#8217;s new gender identity. She didn&#8217;t see her daughter again until she deliberately sat down on some railroad tracks and was hit by a train. 
Here&#8217;s an excerpt of the mother&#8217;s remarks, where she outlines the horror that the state of California put her family through:
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This woman&#8217;s daughter probably wouldn&#8217;t be dead today if the state of California hadn&#8217;t taken custody of her child. And by the way, if you watch her full remarks, you&#8217;ll hear that even after her daughter committed suicide, the state still treated this mother like a criminal. These people are ruthless in their efforts to destroy families and ruin the lives of children. That&#8217;s why California just made it a law that prevents schools from mandating these kinds of parental notifications.
But Gavin Newsom sees it differently. Newsom&#8217;s <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/07/16/california-trans-school-law-parents/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spokesman said</a>: “This law helps keep children safe while protecting the critical role of parents. It protects the child-parent relationship by preventing politicians and school staff from inappropriately intervening in family matters and attempting to control if, when, and how families have deeply personal conversations.”
So if you&#8217;re following the doublespeak, the state of California is &#8220;protecting the child-parent relationship&#8221; by making it easier for schools to hide critical information from parents about the mental state of their children. The more secrets there are, the better.
This is the same message that nonprofit was pushing in that advertisement with Julia Roberts. Democrats want family members to treat each other with suspicion and contempt so that, eventually, families collapse. It&#8217;s the same reason the Soviets encouraged people to report their relatives for wrong-think. When families are gone, the state can move in to fill that power vacuum. This is the plan that Democrats, with the help of former celebrities like Julia Roberts, are now attempting to execute.
The problem they&#8217;re having is that they&#8217;re being extremely obvious about it. At a time when trust in the Democrat Party has never been lower, they&#8217;re pitching themselves as your surrogate family. It&#8217;s as heavy-handed and unappealing a pitch as you can imagine, but it&#8217;s clearly what they&#8217;re going with. And in less than a week, we&#8217;ll find out exactly how well that pitch works out for them.

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