Some people were outraged when at a Boston, Massachusetts, Episcopal church hosting an Easter vigil emceed by a drag queen, the Episcopal bishop of the church jokingly <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/25/us-news/boston-episcopal-bishop-alan-gates-rips-collar-off-female-cleric-during-easter-vigil/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">removed the collar</a> of a female reverend who forgot where she was during the eucharistic prayer.
Bishop Alan M. Gates removed the collar from the neck of Rev. Tamara Tucker, the priest for The Crossing, which <a href="https://www.thecrossingboston.org/">states</a> it is a ministry “providing a welcoming worship space for LGBTQIA+ folks” at The Cathedral Church of St. Paul on March 30.
“Very simply, we’re going to allow somebody to take their own piece of bread, the small piece of bread, and you will say to the person taking the bread,” Tucker said, then paused before continuing, “Wait, what is it, I’ve been gone for a while,” as the congregation laughed.
“The Body of Christ,” she continued. “It’s very simple, the Body of Christ, that’s it, that’s all you got to do. And then when they take the cup, you’ll pass it to them the Love of Christ, or the Blood of Christ, whichever is more comfortable to you. Can we do that? If I can do that after three months, I think we can. We got this.”
At that point, Gates walked over and removed the white, plastic insert as the congregation laughed. After a moment, he quipped, “Just kidding,” and handed her back the collar.
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Some people were offended; “It was just really sad that an occasion that is supposed to be joyous had to be marked by the specter of long-term misogyny that is pretty essential to Christianity, even in a church that feels like it has advanced past that,” Rev. Rita Powell, the chaplain for the Harvard Episcopal Community, <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/04/24/metro/episcopal-bishop-apology-female-clergy-collar/?event=event12" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told the Boston Globe</a>.
&#8220;I know Bishop Gates didn’t think of it that way in his intention,” Powell added.
Gates ultimately released an <a href="https://www.diomass.org/news/diocesan-news/statement-apology-bishop-gates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">apology</a>, writing:
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Dear colleagues and siblings in Christ,
I write to share my remorse and deep apology for an action by which I have caused deep pain and hurt. &#8230; In an instant of altogether misguided mischief, I reached out and removed Rev. Tamra’s clerical collar. It was a devastating and demeaning act, which I regret with all my heart.
The Rev. Tamra Tucker is a valued colleague and fine priest whose leadership it has been my honor to affirm. It was not and would never be my intent to humiliate Rev. Tamra; however, that was precisely the impact of my action. Furthermore, that hurt has extended to The Crossing community, whose pastor I disrespected, as well as others who were present or have subsequently learned of this incident and its impact. By my action I misused my authority, failed to extend episcopal grace, and transgressed personal space and boundaries. I am deeply sorry.
I extend my remorse and apology to the Rev. Tamra Tucker; to the Crossing community; to the Cathedral community; to other communities present; to ecumenical companions who had joined us at the Vigil; and to those in the wider church and community whom I have hurt.
In our baptismal covenant we pledge to “respect the dignity of every human being.” I seek forgiveness for my failure to keep this pledge, and God’s grace to renew that commitment.
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The Republican-led Tennessee state Senate failed to pass a bill that would ban the display of ideological and political flags, including Pride flags, in public schools across the state.
<a href="https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/billinfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=SB1722" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate Bill 1722</a> was introduced by Republican state Sen. Joey Hensley and was a companion to a bill that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tennessee-takes-major-step-towards-banning-pride-flags-from-classrooms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed the state House</a> with overwhelming support. In a vote on Tuesday in the state Senate, however, SB 1722 failed to reach the required 17 votes for a constitutional majority as 13 lawmakers voted to pass the bill while six voted in opposition. Eight Republicans did not participate in the vote, The Tennessean <a href="https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2024/04/23/tennessee-senators-block-bill-banning-pride-flags-in-tennessee-schools/73430350007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
SB 1722 “prohibits LEAs [Local Education Agencies] and public charter schools from displaying in public schools flags other than the official United States flag and the official Tennessee state flag.”
Republican state Rep. Gino Bulso introduced the companion bill in the House after parents expressed concern about LGBT Pride flags being displayed in classrooms.
A previous version of the bill allowed for schools to display the American flag, the Tennessee state flag, the POW/MIA flag, and flags such as those that represent Indian tribes, a city, county, or metropolitan government, and an official school flag, among others. But an amendment from Republican state Sen. Todd Gardenhire was passed by the state Senate on Tuesday prohibiting schools from flying any flags other than the American flag and state flag.
Ultimately, the bill’s passage was blocked as five Democrats and one Republican, Lt. Gov. Randy McNally, voted against it, while eight Republicans skipped the vote. McNally said in a statement shared with The Daily Wire that he was concerned about constitutional challenges if the bill became law, such as “an adversarial First Amendment ruling against the state.”
“While Senator Gardenhire’s amendment language was a significant improvement, I believe comments made early in legislative process caused irreparable constitutional damage to the bill in my view,” McNally said. “Several members expressed interest in studying the subject of the bill over the summer in order to avoid a likely constitutional challenge. Because an adversarial First Amendment ruling against the state would be a near certainty if the bill passed, I voted no.”
The Republican senators who did not participate in the vote, according to The Tennessean, included: Sen. Paul Bailey (R-Sparta), Sen. Ferrell Haile (R-Gallatin), Sen. Becky Massey (R-Knoxville), Sen. Bill Powers (R-Clarksville), Sen. Shane Reeves (R-Murfreesboro), Sen. John Stevens (R-Huntington), Sen. Page Walley (R-Savannah) Sen. Bo Watson (R-Hixson).
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Sen. Haile told The Daily Wire that he doesn&#8217;t want flags that promote &#8220;controversial ideologies&#8221; in schools, but &#8220;legal guidance&#8221; from the state&#8217;s attorney general showed that there are Constitutional concerns surrounding the bill.
“As a grandfather, I firmly believe political flags promoting controversial ideologies have no place in public schools. As a conservative, I support the legislation in principle, which is why I voted for it in committee. After receiving new legal guidance from the Attorney General, there are constitutional concerns about this legislation and its ability to survive a First Amendment constitutional challenge,&#8221; Haile said. &#8220;If passed, that legislation would be tied up in court instead of keeping divisive symbols out of the classroom. The best path forward is to continue to work on this issue so that we can pass a constitutionally sound law to ban divisive flags from schools once and for all.”
Haile&#8217;s concerns were echoed by Sen. Reeves, who added, &#8220;I believe we need a better bill that will withstand court scrutiny.&#8221;
Sen. Watson told The Daily Wire in a statement that he did not vote in favor of the bill because it would also prevent the POW/MIA flag from being displayed on school grounds.
&#8220;I have a consistent record of supporting veterans and wanted the sponsor to delay moving forward with the bill until we had worked out the deficiency. The sponsor elected to move forward,&#8221; Watson said. &#8220;I was not going to vote against our veterans, POW and MIA.&#8221;
The Daily Wire has reached out requesting comment from each of the Republican state senators who skipped the vote on SB 1722.
Tennessee Republicans’ failure to pass the bill banning Pride flags on school grounds comes the same week the GOP-controlled state legislature couldn’t come to an agreement on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/extremely-disappointed-tennessee-school-choice-bill-wont-pass-this-year-governor-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">school choice legislation</a> that was pushed by Republican Governor Bill Lee.
Lee said earlier this week that he was “extremely disappointed” that families “will have to wait yet another year for the freedom to choose the right education for their child.”
Lawmakers hope to end the 2024 legislative session this week, and a new General Assembly will be sworn in after the elections this fall.
This article has been updated to include comments from state senators.

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In the latest edition of UCLA’s queer student magazine, featuring so-called “Freaks,” students at the prestigious university cry for the acceptance of furries  and other fringe sexual preferences and identities into the larger LGBTQ movement.
The magazine, which can be <a href="https://issuu.com/outwritenewsmag/docs/w24-final-pages">read in its entirety online</a>, begins with OutWrite magazine’s editor-in-chief claiming classmates in high school would openly bully a trans student as a “freak and a monster.” This edition of the queer student magazine is fashioned as a “love letter to the freaks: the queers, cringelords, furries, kinksters, and monsterf***ers alike,” the editor, Rainer Lee, writes. 
“Explore with us what it means to be human and beyond,” Lee writes. “Come be a freak.” 
In one essay titled, “For The Love of the Furries,” the author writes that he is “advocating for furries.” 
“The way anti-furry stigma manifests is strikingly similar to past and present sexually-motivated constructions of queerness as an illness and a cause of moral panic,” the student writes, adding that it’s a “bigoted generalization” to say being a furry is a fetish.
The OutWrite magazine is copyrighted by the Associated Students of UCLA’s Communications Board, the student government of UCLA, and is another example of its embrace of radical liberal ideology. First-year students at the university were recently encouraged to listen to the “Idigenae” podcast that discusses people identifying as &#8220;two-spirit&#8221; and &#8220;womxn.&#8221; The university has also come <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-dei-medical-school-garbage-this-time-its-ucla">under fire</a> for its medical school infusing diversity, equity, and inclusion into the curriculum, hosting a mandatory “Structural Racism and Health Equity” course where students read about wars of indigenous resistance including a massacre of white people by Native Americans to “imagine what liberation could look like.&#8221;
Another article in the OutWrite magazine argues that BDSM kinkiness — the common acronym for  bondage, discipline, dominance and submission — should be included in the larger LGBTQ+ movement. It argues that the pushback regarding exposing children to inappropriate material “reinforces the stigma of kinky people as dangerous deviants.”
“What difference does it make to see someone wearing a collar at Pride or see a parade float full of dominatrixes? The student writes. “The average viewer might take only a slight note of it, but it would make a world of difference to those involved in the kink community and those who want to be.”
The magazine includes a page that features a student who says he started “dressing like a freak to gain agency over the reason why the conservative Christrians I grew up with hated me.” Other students disclose suicidal thoughts that they attribute to the failure of society to accept them, a rejection that they say they are now choosing to embrace. 
One writer, a self-described immigrant person of color whose actual gender is unclear based on the writing, complains that the United States he or she arrived in reinforces “capitalistic, heteronormative patriarchal circumstances” and pushed him or her to embrace “Void Punk,” a “subculture that refutes normative society’s idea of what it means to be human and instead celebrates the idea of not being human.”
The author states that “Void Punk” was created for “marginalized communities” who decide that they “don’t need to feel human.”
“Created for marginalized communities who often face dehumanization by an oppressive, normative society, it is commonly expressed through aesthetics of the inhuman,” the author writes. “The rhetoric surrounding humanity is largely decided by oppressive forces who find it convenient to decide who gets to be human and who does not. Dehumanization is a familiar instrument of colonization and conquest, a forced cognitive dissonance that allows the oppressor to justify violence.”
“I don’t feel human, and I don’t need to feel human,” the author concluded. “Instead, of having the label of humanity shoved onto me, I will choose to be with other people and care for them by not virtue of the ideal of humanity but for the sake of shared experience and care for the living.”
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/25/us/gen-z-adults-lgbtq-identity-reaj/index.html">Recent polling</a> shows that nearly one out of every three people in Gen-Z identify as “LGBTQ,” a massive spike from previous generations. And while much of the magazine is devoted to the defense of “kink” in this community, the magazine paints a depressing picture of the mental state of many of its members. 
A Virginia school district also recently put a BDSM-supporting sex therapist in charge of deciding if books parents are complaining about are inappropriate for children, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginias-largest-school-district-put-a-kink-affirming-bondage-specialist-in-charge-of-reviewing-parent-complaints-about-books">the Daily Wire previously reported</a>
Though this embrace of radical gender ideology has become commonplace on college campuses, it has broken through to the highest levels of government. The Biden administration raised eyebrows when it hired a transgender-identifying cross-dressing man who once taught a spanking seminar at a Los Angeles kink conference, the <a href="https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/slap-happy-thieving-nonbinary-biden-official-leads-spanking-seminar-at-sex-conference/">Washington Free Beacon reported</a>. The man, Sam Brinton, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-biden-nuclear-official-sam-brinton-arrested-as-fugitive-from-justice">was fired</a> after he was exposed for stealing multiple women’s clothing from airports.

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Finland’s Supreme Court will hear the case of a politician facing “hate crime” charges over her Christian beliefs on marriage and sexuality. 
On Friday, the Supreme Court of Finland <a href="https://adfinternational.org/news/bible-tweet-case-to-be-heard-at-finnish-supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that it would hear the case of Finnish Member of Parliament Päivi Räsänen, who is facing state charges related to her sharing a 2019 tweet that included pictures of Bible verses and a pamphlet on marriage she wrote back in 2004. The charges were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/finnish-court-dismisses-hate-crime-charges-against-politician-on-trial-over-christian-beliefs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously dismissed</a> by the district court and the Helsinki Court of Appeal.
The case will now be heard by the Supreme Court, Finland&#8217;s top court for private law cases. The state prosecutors want the court to fine Räsänen tens of thousands of Euros and want her to be censored. Bishop Juhana Pohjola will be tried at the same time on similar charges for publishing Räsänen&#8217;s writings on marriage.
Charges <a href="https://adfinternational.org/campaign/free-speech-on-trial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were brought</a> against them after Räsänen publicly questioned why the church denomination she was part of was sponsoring an LGBT &#8220;Pride&#8221; celebration. She was accused of “agitation against a minority group,” under the section of “war crimes and crimes against humanity” in Finnish law. 
Räsänen said Friday that she has a “peaceful mind” and is “ready to continue to defend free speech and freedom of religion before the Supreme Court, and if need be, also before the European Court of Human Rights.” 
The member of parliament, who is being backed by the Alliance Defending Freedom International, added that the investigation into her had been going on for nearly five and that the outcome would have major implications for free expression. 
“This was not just about my opinions, but about everyone’s freedom of expression,” she said. “I hope that with the ruling of the Supreme Court, others would not have to undergo the same ordeal. I have considered it a privilege and an honor to defend freedom of expression, which is a fundamental right in a democratic state.” 
The case has garnered international attention, with Republican lawmakers in the United States urging the State Department Officials to step in and support Räsänen.
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“This is a watershed case in the story of Europe’s creeping censorship,” said Paul Coleman of the Alliance Defending Freedom International. “In a democratic Western nation in 2024, nobody should be on trial for their faith – yet throughout the prosecution of  Päivi Räsänen and Bishop Pohjola, we have seen something akin to a ‘heresy’ trial, where Christians are dragged through court for holding beliefs that differ from the approved orthodoxy of the day.”

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On Tuesday, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/federal-appeals-court-overturns-west-virginia-transgender-sports-109309437">overturned</a> a West Virginia law that barred biological boys from participating in girls’ sports.
The court claimed that HB 3293, passed in 2021, violated Title IX, which bars sex-based discrimination in schools. The case revolved around Becky Pepper Jackson, a 13-year-old boy who has been taking puberty-blocking medication and who was barred by the state from continuing to be a member of the middle school girls’ cross country and track team.
“I will keep fighting to safeguard Title IX. We must keep working to protect women&#8217;s sports so that women&#8217;s safety is secured and girls have a truly fair playing field,&#8221; Republican West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said after the decision was made. “We know the law is correct and will use every available tool to defend it.”
“Women and young girls deserve to compete on a level playing field,” Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Rachel Rouleau <a href="https://adfmedia.org/case/bpj-v-west-virginia-state-board-education">stated</a>. “The court’s decision undermines equal opportunities and contradicts both biological reality and common sense. Title IX was designed to provide women with fair competition, and West Virginia’s women’s sports law does the same. Across the country, women and girls are unjustly losing medals, podium spots, public recognition, and the opportunity to compete when males take their places. While everyone knows that men competing against women creates huge disadvantages and safety concerns, the 4th Circuit fell prey to activists who are pushing an ideology over what is just for women and girls. We are considering all legal options to protect women’s sports, including an appeal of this decision.”
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The court ruled 2-1 to overturn the West Virginia law. The dissenting judge, G. Steven Agee, wrote that the opinion “turns Title IX on its head and reverses the monumental work Title IX has done to promote girls’ sports from its inception &#8230; B.P.J. displaced at least one hundred biological girls at track-and-field events and pushed multiple girls out of the top ten. Similarly, by making the conference championships in two events (something reserved for the top three girls on a team), B.P.J. took away at least two biological girls’ opportunities to participate in the conference championships. And this was in a single season. Thanks to the new-found rubric of today’s majority opinion, such displacement will become commonplace.”

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The Biden administration’s Department of Defense leaned on debunked McKinsey and Company studies touting the benefits of diversity as justification to embed the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agenda into the military.
The consulting giant&#8217;s debunked studies, with titles such as “Diversity Wins” and “Diversity Matters,” are referenced in multiple reports from the Navy, a Pentagon newsletter, and a document from the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute, all of which advocate for the DEI agenda to be embedded deeper into the operations of the U.S. military.
McKinsey and Company published a number of studies claiming that the use of DEI policies led to increased profitability for corporations, stating that companies become more profitable as their executive levels become more diverse. But now the results have come under scrutiny, with a <a href="https://econjwatch.org/File+download/1296/GreenHandMar2024.pdf?mimetype=pdf">study</a> from Econ Journal Watch finding that McKinsey’s studies were deeply flawed.
“Caution is warranted in relying on McKinsey’s findings to support the view that US publicly traded firms can deliver improved financial performance if they increase the racial/ethnic diversity of their executives,” the study reads. It goes on to point out that the McKinsey study measured “firm financial performance over the four or five years leading up to the year in which they judge the race/ethnicity of firms’ executives,” a testing structure that the Econ Journal Watch says is unable to substantiate the claims of the McKinsey study.
The flawed findings from McKinsey were used to justify the DEI agenda, not just by corporations, but by the Biden administration’s Department of Defense. The DOD’s embrace of the far-left ideology came in the wake of Biden’s <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/06/25/executive-order-on-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility-in-the-federal-workforce/">Executive Order 14035</a> in June of 2021, which directed the federal bureaucracy to embrace the DEI agenda.
The revelation comes as the Pentagon and other federal agencies work relentlessly to embed the DEI agenda into policies and practices, spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to do so.
Various different entities within the DOD justified their DEI policies by appealing to the flawed McKinsey studies. One <a href="https://www.dcpas.osd.mil/sites/default/files/HRFC%20Newsletter%20-%20November%202022.pdf">edition</a> of the Defense Civilian Personnel Advisory Service Newsletter explicitly referenced studies from McKinsey.
“[T]here is a business case for the Department’s prioritization of DEI as normal operations,” the newsletter reads. “McKinsey &amp; Company reports diversity in executive teams makes them stronger and ‘the most diverse companies are now more likely than ever to outperform less diverse peers on profitability,’” it goes on to say, referencing a study called “Diversity Wins: How Inclusion Matters.”
Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), who serves as the Chairman of the Anti-Woke Caucus and is a member of the House Armed Services Committee, warned that Biden is leveraging faulty studies to further an explicitly political agenda.
“The Biden administration is using junk science to transform our military into a far-left social experiment and push conservatives away from service. DEI divides, shrinks, and weakens our military, all to the benefit of Communist China,” Banks told The Daily Wire.
At least two different documents published by the Navy also rely on the findings of the flawed McKinsey studies. The Navy’s “<a href="https://media.defense.gov/2022/Jan/12/2002921211/-1/-1/0/CY21%20HOF_FINAL%20(11%20JAN%2022).PDF">Health of the Force</a>” report in 2021 reads “Gender-diverse organizations are 15% more likely to outperform other organizations, and diverse organizations are 35% more likely to outperform their non-diverse counterparts,” citing McKinsey’s 2015 study, “Diversity Matters.”
Then again in the Navy’s “<a href="https://media.defense.gov/2021/Jan/26/2002570959/-1/-1/1/TASK%20FORCE%20ONE%20NAVY%20FINAL%20REPORT.PDF">Task Force One</a>” report, the military branch asserted that “gender-diverse” organizations are likely to outperform “non-diverse counterparts,” again citing the same study from McKinsey.
There’s also a collection of news articles <a href="https://www.defenseculture.mil/Portals/90/Documents/Research/Library/NEWS-20210701.pdf">compiled</a> by the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute, which <a href="https://www.defenseculture.mil/About-DEOMI/Vision-Mission-Strategic-Plan/#visionmission">exists</a> to “advance an agile and inclusive force.” The Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute highlighted one article that touted the flawed McKinsey studies.
“They found companies in the top quartile of gender diversity and those in the top quartile of racial/ethnic diversity were more likely to generate financial returns above their national industry median,” the article says, also directly referring to a McKinsey study.
While the DOD has used the flawed studies to grant legitimacy to Biden’s DEI agenda, the Pentagon has aggressively pushed leftwing ideological material and policies on the federal bureaucracy and armed forces at great cost to the taxpayer. The DOD has spent as much as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-pentagon-slated-to-spend-nearly-270-million-on-diversity-agenda">$270 million</a> on the DEI agenda from fiscal years 2022 to 2024.
The ideological bias within the military was exemplified recently when the United States Air Force Academy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/air-force-academy-highlights-transgender-officer-at-leadership-summit">hosted a transgender military official</a> who led the effort for the military to recognize “transgender day of visibility” at a leadership symposium, where he told the cadets to push for transgender inclusion within the military.
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WATCH🎥: The U.S. Air Force Academy hosted a transgender Pentagon official for a symposium on inclusion. Our military is focused on transgender dogma while wars rage on two continents. 
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There was also a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-leaked-nsa-doc-reveals-massive-woke-glossary-pushing-critical-race-theory-gender-ideology-on-govt-employees">DEI glossary</a> produced by the National Security Agency (NSA), exclusively obtained by The Daily Wire, that included terms like “white fragility,” “queer theory,” “settler colonialism,” and the gender-neutral pronouns “ze” and “zir.”
Even the United States’ top intelligence office, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), has been captured by far-left ideologues. A newsletter sent by ODNI to the entire Intelligence Community, including intelligence components within each branch of the military as well as the FBI, CIA, and NSA, urged agents to avoid using <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/internal-docs-show-entire-intelligence-community-warned-to-avoid-problematic-phrases-on-islamic-terrorism">“hurtful” language</a> when discussing Islamic terrorism. It even included an article from an anonymous intelligence official who claimed that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-top-intelligence-agency-says-crossdressing-makes-man-better-intelligence-officer-internal-docs-show">crossdressing</a> makes him a better intelligence agent.
While the Biden administration has worked to embed far-left beliefs on race and gender into the military and other aspects of the federal government, policy architects from the former Trump administration have <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/07/22/trump-presidency-schedule-f-federal-employees">crafted plans</a> to gut the administrative state if Trump is reelected, using tools like <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/07/22/trump-presidency-schedule-f-federal-employees">Schedule F</a>, an executive order, to strip civil service employment protections from bureaucrats who have influence over the policy-making process.
“We will pass critical reforms making every executive branch employee fireable by the president of the United States,” Trump said at a rally, <a href="https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2022/03/trump-threatening-return-and-expansion-schedule-f/363145/">touting</a> the plan. “The deep state must be brought to heel.”
Others are preparing to fill in the gap left by outgoing officials, assembling a personnel database of those who might serve in the next administration through the <a href="https://www.project2025.org/">Project 2025</a> Presidential Transition Project, an initiative from the Heritage Foundation that seeks to “pave the way for an effective conservative Administration.”

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The North Face is one of the sponsors behind an overnight summer camp where children as young as 12 years old who identify as LGBT are encouraged to perform in drag.
Called <a href="https://www.bravetrails.org/">Camp Brave Trails</a>, the program has locations in both Southern California and New York and enjoys support from the outdoor brand The North Face, as well as shoe companies Toms and Chacos, among other brands. The North Face has sponsored Camp Brave Trails for multiple years, <a href="https://twitter.com/thenorthface/status/1400482435851341828">stating</a> in 2021 that it was donating over $70,000 to the organization.
Videos <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ByrpkKIX3s&amp;t=35s">posted</a> by Camp Brave Trails reveal that young children involved in the program dress and perform in drag while wearing makeup.
“Welcome to Camp Brave Trails, where we blend all the traditional elements of a summer camp with an LGBTQ+ twist,” the camp’s <a href="https://www.bravetrails.org/mission">site reads</a>. “Our camp is thoughtfully designed to serve as a safe haven for LGBTQ+ youth.” The camp <a href="https://www.bravetrails.org/mission">boasts</a> that children as young as 12 have gone on to start LGBT clubs at their middle schools after attending the camp.
The camp’s website <a href="https://www.bravetrails.org/summer-camp">explains</a> that campers will be immersed in “a space that encourages positive self-discovery, embraces diverse gender expressions, and nurtures creativity” and will have their “name, pronouns, and identity not only respected but celebrated!”
The camp&#8217;s <a href="https://www.bravetrails.org/meet-our-team">founders</a>, Kayla and Jessica Weissbuch, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIHpoFiajZs">appeared</a> on the Kelly Clarkson Show to tout the program and explain how they run the camp. “All of our housing is genderless, bathrooms are genderless, we ask for names and pronouns from campers and they can change them all they like,” Kayla Weissbuch said before adding that the camp has a clothing closet to allow children to explore their gender identity through different types of clothes. “I was able to perform, do drag, I was able to do … so many activities,” one camper who appeared on the show noted.
The <a href="https://www.bravetrails.org/camper-faq">camp is open</a> to children between the ages of 12 and 17, with the site explaining that &#8220;we divide campers into cabin groups by age; we never divide campers by gender.&#8221;
While Camp Brave Trails boasts several different sponsors, The North Face has repeatedly pushed a far-left agenda on both gender and race. The company most recently encouraged customers to complete a diversity, equity, and inclusion training course called “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-north-face-tells-customers-to-pass-dei-course-for-discount">allyship in the outdoors</a>,” enticing them with a 20% discount. The North Face was also met with backlash over its “Summer of Pride” campaign, which featured advertisements highlighting a drag performer.
The company sponsors a high-profile mountain climber who is currently being sued by America First Legal, which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-black-mountain-climber-ruined-a-mans-career-with-false-accusation-of-racism-lawsuit-states">filed a lawsuit</a> alleging that the climber and a North Face employee ruined a man’s career and got him fired over false accusations of racism.
Camp Brave Trails is just one of the many overnight camps marketed specifically for children who identify as LGBT. A Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chest-binders-and-sleeping-bags-summer-camps-for-transgender-kids-as-young-as-4-the-new-craze">investigation</a> found that similar camps operate across the country, with some accepting children as young as four years old. The Trans Youth Equality Foundation, an organization that <a href="http://www.transyouthequality.org/binders">encourages</a> children to wear binders, hosts a <a href="http://www.transyouthequality.org/youth-retreats-camps">youth camp</a> for “transgender and non-binary” children in a “confidential location in New England” where children as young as 7 years old may attend.
<a href="https://www.thecampindigo.org/">Camp Indigo</a>, a program with locations in California and Colorado that is only open to those who identify as transgender or non-binary, <a href="https://www.gaypinkspots.com/listing/camp-indigo-trans-camp.html">teaches</a> children as young as 12 years old about “trans history and trans focused sex education.” There’s also <a href="https://www.camplilac.org/average-day">Camp Lilac</a>, an Ohio-based camp that hosts “trans-centered activities” such as voice training, as well as makeup and hair tutorials.
New Hampshire-based Camp Aranu’tiq is open to children as young as 8 who identify as transgender. The camp’s parent organization, Harbor Camps, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/social-justice/2022/09/03/foundation-run-trans-billionaire-funded-overnight-camp-trans-eight-year-olds/">received $25,000</a> from the Tawani Foundation, an organization established by transgender billionaire Jennifer Pritzker, who is also the cousin of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat.
Neither The North Face nor the camp responded to requests for comment.

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Wisconsin&#8217;s Democratic governor on Tuesday vetoed a ban on trans-identifying male high school athletes competing on girls&#8217; teams.
Governor Tony Evers (D) had previously promised that he would veto the bill, which requires trans-identifying high school students to play on sports teams that align with their biological sex.
“I am vetoing this bill in its entirety because I object to codifying discrimination into state statute,” Evers <a href="https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/WIGOV/2024/04/02/file_attachments/2833681/Signed%20Veto%20Message%20-%20AB%20377.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement accompanying his veto.
“This type of legislation, and the harmful rhetoric beget by pursuing it, harms LGBTQ Wisconsinites’ and kids’ mental health, emboldens anti-LGBTQ harassment, bullying, and violence, and threatens the safety and dignity of LGBTQ Wisconsinites, especially our LGBTQ kids,” the governor said.
The bill had passed the Republican-controlled legislature last month. However, neither the state Assembly nor the state Senate  has the two-thirds majority that would override a veto.
Evers said he would continue &#8220;using every power available&#8221; to defend LGBTQ children.
He added a dig at the legislature&#8217;s Republican majority.
“We expect our kids to treat each other with kindness, respect, empathy, and compassion, and we should be able to expect adults to lead by example,” said Evers. “I urge the Republican majority to do so while fully considering the harmful consequences its efforts and actions have on our kids prior to introducing similar legislation in the future.”
Republicans argued that women need separate sports teams in order to keep competition fair.
&#8220;Men have major physical advantages. They&#8217;re bigger, they&#8217;re stronger, they&#8217;re faster,&#8221; state Representative Joel Kitchens, a Republican <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2024/04/02/tony-evers-vetoes-wisconsin-bill-aimed-at-trans-non-binary-athletes/73177911007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> last year when the bill was under consideration.
&#8220;Title IX was created so that women can have the same access to the same advantages, the same character building that takes place [in sports] that men always have experienced,&#8221; Kitchens said.
At least 24 states have laws <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/4569947-wisconsin-veto-transgender-athlete-ban/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banning</a> trans-identifying athletes from competing on school sports teams of the opposite sex.
The Biden administration is currently <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/wisconsin-governor-vetoes-transgender-high-school-athletics-ban-108750696" target="_blank" rel="noopener">working</a> on a rule to prohibit such state bans applying to trans-identifying athletes.
At least 24 states have also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sacramento-declares-itself-sanctuary-city-for-trans-identifying-people" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banned</a> transgender medical services for children such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender surgeries like double mastectomies and genital surgeries.
In recent years, several high-profile female athletes have spoken out about issues with men in women&#8217;s sports.
Some have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/injured-high-school-volleyball-player-reacts-to-congresswoman-saying-trans-identifying-males-dont-hurt-anyone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argued</a> that men&#8217;s physical advantages over women cause women&#8217;s sports careers to suffer and in some cases cause them to get physically injured.
Others have criticized trans-identifying male players being allowed in women&#8217;s bathrooms and locker rooms before and after sporting events.

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The Biden administration&#8217;s Department of the Interior (DOI) is set to celebrate “transgender day of visibility” with a screening of a documentary about LGBT inclusion in marine biology, an internal email obtained by The Daily Wire reveals.
The department, tasked with the management and conservation of federal land, announced that it would host a screening of &#8220;Diving for Rays: A Queer Conservationist’s Story&#8221; in an employee digest email sent on March 26th that was obtained exclusively by The Daily Wire
“Transgender Day of Visibility is an internationally recognized event that is celebrated annually on March 31st to help raise awareness and increase understanding of the challenges, importance and struggles of our transgender, non-binary and gender non-conforming communities,” the email reads. “The Department will mark this important occasion by showing a short documentary called ‘Diving for Rays: A Queer Conservationist’s Story.”
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The documentary that Interior is screening in celebration of transgenderism details the experiences of Nicole Morris, a native of San Diego, California who complains that the field of marine biology is saturated with straight men.
“After realizing the lack of LGBTQ+ visibility in marine science led her to abandon her childhood dream, Nicole Morris decided to re-route her life path to try and become a marine biologist, to conserve endangered rays,” a <a href="https://www.nps.gov/media/video/view.htm?id=2AEE1954-4F15-4D9A-8B26-7B741BB90BF9#:~:text=Close%20Copy-,Description,biologist%2C%20to%20conserve%20endangered%20rays.">description</a> of the film, posted to the National Park Service website reads.
“All I was ever exposed to were documentaries that had the perspectives of straight men,” Morris bemoans in the documentary. “As I got older it became harder and harder to imagine myself in those films,” she says before later adding, “So I had to ask myself ‘was marine science something that a queer woman could do?’”
The film screening comes as President Joe Biden has directed the entire federal bureaucracy to push leftist gender ideology and the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agenda. Biden most recently reaffirmed his commitment to far-left dogmas by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-declares-easter-sunday-transgender-day-of-visibility">declaring</a> Easter Sunday as &#8220;Transgender Day of Visibility,&#8221; a move that was widely condemned by his critics.
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On Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate the joy, strength, and absolute courage of some of the bravest people I know.
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The film details Morris’ journey to becoming a marine conservationist, with her learning how to scuba dive before later being accepted into a graduate school program.
“I think getting scuba certified helped me to finally see myself for the first time. That helped me to see myself as both a marine conservationist and as a queer woman,” she says at one point in the 22-minute long documentary. “I like to think that even though I might be different from most marine conservationists, my perspective as a queer woman in science is just as important.”
“I am fully out and I am fully proud and I am a queer marine conservationist,” Morris says at the end of the film.
An Interior spokesman told The Daily Wire that the screening is not mandatory, though he did not answer questions pertaining to the cost of the screening.
“Following the documentary, there will be a question-and-answer session with the filmmaker, Nova, West, and a panel of representatives from multiple LGBTQIA+ Employee Resource Groups from the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, and the National Park Service,&#8221; the email also states.
The email suggests that the screening was organized by Tristian Edgarian, who leads Interior’s <a href="https://www.usgs.gov/office-of-diversity-and-equal-opportunity/employee-resource-groups">LGBTQ Employee Resource Group</a> along with James Mosley. The film screening comes as the wider federal bureaucracy has embraced far-left views on both gender and race, institutionalizing ideology into their practices and initiatives.
Even the intelligence community has pushed far-left dogmas under the Biden administration. A recent Daily Wire investigation revealed that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence sent out a DEI newsletter to the entire intelligence community, including the FBI, CIA, and DOJ, instructing agents to avoid using “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/internal-docs-show-entire-intelligence-community-warned-to-avoid-problematic-phrases-on-islamic-terrorism">problematic phrases</a>” when discussing Islamic terrorism. The same DEI document also featured an article from an anonymous intelligence official who claimed that crossdressing makes him a “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-top-intelligence-agency-says-crossdressing-makes-man-better-intelligence-officer-internal-docs-show">better intelligence officer</a>.”
DEI trainings have become commonplace throughout the federal bureaucracy, with the Internal Revenue Service hosting a mandatory training for criminal investigators that pulled material from a radical transgender academic who called for the “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mandatory-irs-diversity-training-includes-material-from-trans-academic-who-called-for-death-of-whiteness">death of whiteness</a>” in an article titled “Dead Honky.”
Trump has signaled that he will take steps to gut the administrative state if he is reelected, using tools like <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/07/22/trump-presidency-schedule-f-federal-employees">Schedule F</a>, an executive order, to strip civil service employment protections from bureaucrats who have influence over the policy-making process.
“We will pass critical reforms making every executive branch employee fireable by the president of the United States,” Trump said at a rally, <a href="https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2022/03/trump-threatening-return-and-expansion-schedule-f/363145/">touting</a> the plan. “The deep state must be brought to heel.”

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An agency under the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-homeland-security" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Homeland Security</a> (DHS) of the Biden administration announced on Monday a third gender option, &#8220;X,&#8221; defined as &#8220;Another Gender Identity&#8221; for immigrants seeking U.S. citizenship.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said in a <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/alerts/uscis-provides-third-gender-option-on-form-n-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on its website that the option will appear on the revised N-400 application for naturalization.
The agency also noted that it is updating its policy manual &#8220;accordingly to account for this form revision and other forthcoming revisions that will add a third gender option.&#8221;
Applicants who have a pending form were advised they may request to update their gender.
&#8220;For all other forms, individuals must wait until USCIS revises those forms to include the X gender option,&#8221; the post added.
Because the announcement was made on April Fools&#8217; Day, which falls on April 1 every year, journalists and others posted about how this was not some prank.
&#8220;The US agency tasked with handling asylum claims, visas, and citizenship announces it will now offer &#8216;X&#8217; as a third gender identity. No, it’s not an April Fools joke,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1774869971103011137" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Fox News reporter Bill Melugin.
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The US agency tasked with handling asylum claims, visas, and citizenship announces it will now offer “X” as a third gender identity. No, it’s not an April Fools joke. <a href="https://t.co/vv3rJpiYAz">https://t.co/vv3rJpiYAz</a>
&mdash; Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1774869971103011137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Others mocked and criticized the Biden administration for making the change while there are pressing border security issues.
&#8220;Crossing the border is inclusive,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/AliBradleyTV/status/1774886620417941593" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quipped</a> NewsNation reporter Ali Bradley.
&#8220;The Biden Administration has just launched a new [campaign] to convert transgender migrants into U.S. citizens,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/StephenM/status/1774872250866356398" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Stephen Miller, who served as an adviser to former President Donald Trump.
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) brought up Laken Riley, a Georgia nursing student who was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-republicans-expand-laken-riley-probe-seeking-immigration-details-on-alleged-murderers-brothers?0=utm_source=ground.news&amp;1=utm_medium=referral" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allegedly murdered</a> by a Venezuelan illegal immigrant.
&#8220;Biden’s Department of Homeland Security is too busy implementing woke DEI gender policies to protect Americans and secure the border,&#8221; Biggs <a href="https://twitter.com/RepAndyBiggsAZ/status/1774852822556692697" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on X.
&#8220;I’m sure Laken Riley’s family is relieved to know that immigrants can now register as &#8216;Gender X,'&#8221; he added. &#8220;Close the border.&#8221;
The Biden administration has taken other steps toward integrating gender ideology over the years.
In 2022, the State Department <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-rolls-out-gender-neutral-passports-americans-can-now-identify-as-x" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rolled out</a> passports in which U.S. citizens could select &#8220;X&#8221; as their gender instead of male or female.
DHS <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2022/03/31/dhs-announces-new-measures-better-serve-transgender-non-binary-and-gender-non" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> reforms that it said were meant to &#8220;better serve&#8221; transgender, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming Americans, such as accepting &#8220;X&#8221; as a gender marker for TSA PreCheck applications.
This year, the Biden administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-stands-by-transgender-day-of-visibility-on-easter-amid-backlash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faced backlash</a> when it celebrated &#8220;Transgender Day of Visibility&#8221; because its usual date of March 31 fell on Easter Sunday.

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Conservatives over the weekend voiced their outrage following news of President Joe Biden declaring Easter Sunday as &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-declares-easter-sunday-transgender-day-of-visibility" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Transgender Day of Visibility</a>.”
Biden&#8217;s Friday <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/03/29/a-proclamation-on-transgender-day-of-visibility-2024/">proclamation</a> said that &#8220;all Americans&#8221; should join in lifting up &#8220;the lives and voices of transgender people throughout our Nation&#8221; and work toward &#8220;eliminating violence and discrimination based on gender identity.&#8221;
&#8220;Biden is banning religious symbols from Easter celebrations at the White House, while flying the trans flag and declaring Easter Sunday to be &#8216;Trans Visibility Day,&#8221; Donald Trump Jr. reacted online. &#8220;This is the left&#8217;s new religion. They want people worshiping the trans flag instead of God. They must be stopped.&#8221;
Notably, the White House has <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/29/media/religious-themed-designs-banned-from-white-house-easter-egg-art-contest/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banned</a> religious themed Easter egg designs for an annual art contest.
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Biden is banning religious symbols from Easter celebrations at the White House, while flying the trans flag and declaring Easter Sunday to be &quot;Trans Visibility Day.&quot;
This is the left&#39;s new religion. They want people worshiping the trans flag instead of God. They must be stopped. <a href="https://t.co/vVTZf7t5M7">pic.twitter.com/vVTZf7t5M7</a>
&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1774129619005776205?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I have as low an opinion of Biden as you can possibly have and yet this is so outrageously evil that I had to check to make sure it was real. It is,&#8221; Daily Wire host and author Matt Walsh said. &#8220;Our &#8216;catholic&#8217; president has chosen the highest holiday on the Christian calendar to celebrate transgenderism. This man is a demon.&#8221;
Walsh preemptively tackled excuses for the declaration, writing, &#8220;The excuse will be that &#8216;Transgender Day of Visibility&#8217; is a fixed &#8216;holiday&#8217; that always falls on March 31. The problem with that excuse is that the president does not need to issue any proclamation recognizing it and no president has recognized it until Biden two years ago. He may not decide the date for this fake bullshit holiday but he does decide to officially proclaim it.&#8221;
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The excuse will be that “Transgender Day of Visibility” is a fixed “holiday” that always falls on March 31. The problem with that excuse is that the president does not need to issue any proclamation recognizing it and no president has recognized it until Biden two years ago. He…
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1774117359298424853?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Morning Wire cultural reporter Megan Basham asserted that Easter Sunday is &#8220;resurrection day,&#8221; not &#8220;trans visibility day,&#8221; adding, &#8220;We will not bow to the new gods of your new religion.&#8221;
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The Biden White House has declared Easter Sunday “trans visibility day.” No. It is resurrection day. We will not bow to the new gods of your new religion.
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&#8220;Another purposeful slam on faith from a White House that demeaned the Christian victims of the trans terrorist attack in Nashville,&#8221; conservative Dana Loesch posted. &#8220;No. It’s Resurrection Day. Easter Sunday. We do not acknowledge idols.&#8221;
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Another purposeful slam on faith from a White House that demeaned the Christian victims of the trans terrorist attack in Nashville. No. It’s Resurrection Day. Easter Sunday. We do not acknowledge idols. <a href="https://t.co/TygNyjWLQ3">pic.twitter.com/TygNyjWLQ3</a>
&mdash; Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) <a href="https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/1774106398449652216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Joe Biden replacing Easter with &#8216;trans day of visibility&#8217; while banning the [cross] from the White House egg hunt — sick and demonic,&#8221; congressional candidate Blake Masters wrote. &#8220;But we know who wins in the end — indeed today is the day our Lord descended into Hades and gained the final victory over Death. Glory to Jesus Christ!&#8221; 
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Joe Biden replacing Easter with &quot;trans day of visibility&quot; while banning the ✝️ from the White House egg hunt — sick and demonic. But we know who wins in the end — indeed today is the day our Lord descended into Hades and gained the final victory over Death. Glory to Jesus Christ!
&mdash; Blake Masters (@bgmasters) <a href="https://twitter.com/bgmasters/status/1774113227443679484?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Conservative Greg Price criticized the White House for its routine attacks against Christians:
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&#8211; Banned religious symbols from their Easter egg event 
&#8211; Declared Easter Sunday &#8220;trans day of visibility.&#8221; 
&#8211; Prosecuted pro-lifers for praying outside abortion clinics. 
&#8211; Sent FBI raids to the homes of pro-life activists 
&#8211; Sent FBI agents to spy on Latin masses 
&#8211; Did nothing when churches and religious pregnancy centers were burned when Roe was overturned. </blockquote>
&#8220;How any Christian in their right mind can justify voting for Joe Biden is beyond me,&#8221; Price added.
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The Biden White House: 
&#8211; Banned religious symbols from their Easter egg event &#8211; Declared Easter Sunday &quot;trans day of visibility.&quot; &#8211; Prosecuted pro-lifers for praying outside abortion clinics. &#8211; Sent FBI raids to the homes of pro-life activists &#8211; Sent FBI agents to spy on…
&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1774110251890979250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;President Biden has announced that Easter Sunday is now &#8216;Trans Day of Visibility,&#8217; pushing the toxic lie that one can be born in the &#8216;wrong body&#8217; &amp; it’s &#8216;healthcare&#8217; to mutilate one’s body,&#8221; prominent pro-life activist Lila Rose said. &#8220;Speak out loudly against this evil, which is destroying a whole generation of kids.&#8221;
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President Biden has announced that Easter Sunday is now “Trans Day of Visibility,” pushing the toxic lie that one can be born in the “wrong body” &amp; it’s “healthcare” to mutilate one’s body.
Speak out loudly against this evil, which is destroying a whole generation of kids.
&mdash; Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) <a href="https://twitter.com/LilaGraceRose/status/1774107973281095734?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2024</a></blockquote>
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After a Planet Fitness in Alaska canceled a woman’s membership when she reportedly photographed a &#8220;man in the women’s locker room,&#8221; the company <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/20/us-news/planet-fitness-plummets-drops-after-defending-male-photographed-shaving-in-womans-locker-room/">lost roughly 15% of its stock price</a> in less than two weeks.
On March 7, the company’s stock price stood at $66.92 on March 7, but by March 19 it had dropped to $56.46, The New York Post reported.
Patricia Silva posted a Facebook video in which she stated, “Good day. I just wanted to say I came out of Planet Fitness and there is a man who is shaving in a women’s bathroom. I realize he wants to be a woman; he gets to be a woman; I love him in Christ. He’s a spiritual being having a human experience; he doesn’t like his gender so he wants to be a woman, but I’m not comfortable shaving in my bathroom. All right, just thought I’d say it out loud.”
She also posted a description of the incident on social media, as <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13203209/Alaskan-gym-goer-exposed-trans-woman-shaving-female-bathroom-12-year-old-girl-membership-cancelled-Patricia-Silva.html?fbclid=IwAR28oUcPZ4er22YzhEOx4EOQbpw8nTzLk_vIIJb4kTgr12otLs725GJ8F2I">The Daily Mail</a> reported:
&#8220;I went to planet fitness… Walked in the bathroom, and there stands a MAN shaving… I looked at him, said &#8216;hey&#8217; … he looked up… and I said, &#8216;You are a man shaving in the women&#8217;s bathroom, and I am not OK with that.'&#8221;
&#8220;He replied… &#8216;Well, I&#8217;m LGB…'&#8221;
&#8220;Whatever that is… nevertheless, I told him &#8216;You&#8217;re a MAN and you&#8217;re invading my space!'&#8221;
&#8220;He wanted to argue to justify why he can be there… I walked away… &#8220;
&#8220;I stepped out of the locker room and loudly asked the front desk, &#8216;Are you aware that there is a MAN shaving in the women&#8217;s bathroom… I&#8217;m not OK with that!?&#8216; The two men standing at the desk, put their heads down, and their tails between their legs! As I was walking out the door…at my back, a woman shouts &#8216;it&#8217;s a girl&#8217;… I shouted back &#8216;it&#8217;s a man!&#8221;&#8217;
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On March 13, Silva wrote, “I received a call this morning at 8:55 AM from Samantha at Planet Fitness announcing that they have chosen to cancel my membership rather than protect youth girls and women 12 years and older that enter the women&#8217;s locker room from men with a penis. Instead, they defended the man with the penis, who was shaving in the women’s locker room. Despicable.”
Silva wrote after her membership was canceled, “This morning I got canceled. Planet Fitness is defending the man in the women&#8217;s locker room, the man with a penis, rather than the child sitting in the corner with a towel wrapped around her &#8230; The little girl was freaked out that the man was there. I took a picture of him and asked him why he was there. You&#8217;re a man with a penis &#8211; you shouldn&#8217;t be there. So I just want you to know. This is weird. It&#8217;s not good. It&#8217;s rather disturbing. I would like for you women to stand up and stop these shenanigans. Use your authority. I took that picture because I felt like I was in an unsafe space so I am going to report this to the police today.  I want to tell Samantha and Joe that work there &#8211; thank you for cancelling my membership. You saved me a trip.”
A Planet Fitness spokesman defended the cancellation of Silva’s membership, saying, “As the home of the Judgement Free Zone, Planet Fitness is committed to creating an inclusive environment &#8230; Our gender identity non-discrimination policy states that members and guests may use the gym facilities that best align with their sincere, self-reported gender identity. The member who posted on social media violated our mobile device policy that prohibits taking photos of individuals in the locker room, which resulted in their membership being terminated.”

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Planet Fitness Stock Plunges After It Canceled Membership Of Woman Who Photographed 'Man In The Women's Locker Room'

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