President Donald Trump mounted an offensive against gender ideology as soon as he took office in January, and his administration shows no signs of letting up as it hits the 100-day mark.
Gender ideology became a hot-button issue in the years leading up to the November election. Parents across the country became outraged over transgender indoctrination by public school teachers, while female students protested being forced to let males use their bathrooms and play on their sports teams, and detransitioners raised the alarm about doctors pushing children toward puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and transgender surgeries.
During his campaign, Trump promised to take an axe to gender ideology, and he has followed through on multiple fronts.
In a day one executive <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">order</a>, Trump officially recognized “sex” as biological, either “male” or “female.” This initial order, &#8220;Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism,&#8221; laid the groundwork for his administration&#8217;s other actions.
&#8220;Efforts to eradicate the biological reality of sex fundamentally attack women by depriving them of their dignity, safety, and well-being,&#8221; the order stated.
Child Sex Change Drugs And Surgeries
In January, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daily-wire-celebrates-trumps-move-to-ban-child-transgender-medical-transitions">signed</a> another executive <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-children-from-chemical-and-surgical-mutilation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">order</a>, &#8220;Protecting Children From Chemical And Surgical Mutilation,&#8221; committing that the United States will not fund or support the “so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another and that it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.”
“This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end,” the order stated.
This prompted a slew of hospitals to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hospitals-across-u-s-stop-transitioning-children-after-trump-signs-order-protecting-kids" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pump</a> the brakes on transgender medicalization for children, including hospitals in New York City, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Colorado, and Virginia.
On Monday, the White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/report-to-the-president-on-protecting-children-from-surgical-and-chemical-mutilation-executive-summary/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> a fact sheet that said during the first three years of the Biden administration, more than 7,000 children were put on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, and more than 4,000 children got transgender surgeries like double mastectomies.
The Department of Health and Human Services and the Justice Department are leading the crackdown on transgender medical interventions for children.
The Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services also warned hospitals in March to comply with Trump’s executive orders on the “dangerous chemical and surgical mutilation of children,” or transgender surgeries and hormones.
The administration also <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/10/nx-s1-5355126/trump-nih-trans-regret-detransition-research" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ordered</a> the National Institutes of Health to research &#8220;regret&#8221; and &#8220;detransition&#8221; among children and adults who undergo transgender &#8220;social transition and/or chemical and surgical mutilation.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s day one order also bans federal funds from promoting gender ideology, which includes paying for medical gender transitions for prison inmates, the subject of his most effective campaign ad last year.
The campaign ad highlighted Harris’s support for taxpayer-funded transgender medical services for prisoners.
“Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you,” the ad <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-exposed-kamalas-radical-stances-on-gender-americans-voted-against-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
The ad aired across the nation, including during football games. Trump advisors <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-exposed-kamalas-radical-stances-on-gender-americans-voted-against-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the message reached suburban women, who were also being hammered with Democrats’ aggressive abortion ads.
Education
In his second week, Trump turned his attention to education, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-signs-order-defunding-schools-teaching-gender-ideology-crt">signing</a> an executive order titled &#8220;Ending Radical Indoctrination In K-12 Schooling&#8221; prohibiting federal funds from going to schools teaching “radical, anti-American ideologies,” including gender ideology.
Gender ideology includes the “false claim that males can identify as and thus become women and vice versa,” his day one order previously clarified.
In response, the Education Department <a href="https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-enforce-2020-title-ix-rule-protecting-women" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scrapped</a> former President Joe Biden’s reinterpretation of Title IX to include trans-identifying men as women, calling it an “unlawful abuse of regulatory power and an egregious slight to women and girls.” Title IX is the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in public schools.
Trump&#8217;s order also prohibits teachers or school counselors from encouraging the &#8220;social transition&#8221; of a trans-identifying child, which includes using a new name and pronouns or allowing them to use the bathrooms and play on the sports team of the opposite sex.
The administration is investigating multiple school districts, including five in Virginia that may be violating Trump&#8217;s orders on promoting gender ideology.
The Education Department also <a href="https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-ends-bidens-book-ban-hoax" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tossed</a> out a slew of complaints about “book bans,” or school districts removing sexually explicit materials.
The department has canceled <a href="https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-cancels-divisive-and-wasteful-grants-under-comprehensive-centers-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hundreds</a> of <a href="https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-cancels-additional-350-million-woke-spending" target="_blank" rel="noopener">millions</a> of dollars in grants to recipients who promote gender ideology, DEI, and Critical Race Theory.
Women&#8217;s Sports
Trump signed an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/keeping-men-out-of-womens-sports/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">order</a>, &#8220;Keeping Men Out Of Women&#8217;s Sports,&#8221; banning trans-identifying males in girls’ sports by threatening to rescind funds from schools that allow this, saying it “results in the endangerment, humiliation, and silencing of women and girls and deprives them of privacy.”
In response to Trump&#8217;s order, the NCAA <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ncaa-backs-down-changes-transgender-athlete-policy-after-trump-order" target="_blank" rel="noopener">changed</a> its policy to read that a “student-athlete assigned male at birth may not compete on a women’s team.”
The Education Department also <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/02/07/ed-department-investigates-sjsu-upenn-over-trans-athletes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opened</a> investigations into several universities for allowing trans-identifying males in women’s sports, including San Jose State University and the University of Pennsylvania, where trans-identifying male swimmer Lia Thomas won races on the women&#8217;s team.
On Monday, the administration <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/04/28/us-news/trump-admin-finds-upenn-violated-title-ix-by-letting-trans-athletes-compete-in-womens-sports/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> it had found that the University of Pennsylvania violated Title IX and gave the school 10 days to resolve the sports violations or face enforcement from the Justice Department. In March, the administration froze $175 million in taxpayer funding to the school.
In February, Trump stunned a room full of governors when he told Maine’s governor to her face that her state would not get any federal funding if it continued to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boy-wins-girls-pole-vault-championship-in-maine-days-after-state-pledged-to-defy-trump-order">buck</a> the president’s executive order on males in women’s sports.
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“Your population doesn’t want men playing in women’s sports. So you better comply because otherwise you’re not getting any federal funding,” Trump told Governor Janet Mills, a Democrat.
The administration ultimately moved to strip Maine of the $358.4 million it <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-04-23/trump-stops-maines-funding-over-transgender-athletes-could-california-follow" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gets</a> in federal education funding, although that action is blocked in federal court for now. The Agriculture Department also suspended some of Maine&#8217;s federal funds for school food programs. The Education Department has also referred Maine&#8217;s education department to the Justice Department for “further enforcement action.”
The Education Department is also eyeing California, which also allows trans-identifying males in girls&#8217; high school sports.
The department opened an investigation into the California Interscholastic Federation, which governs sports at more than 1,500 high schools. The administration has threatened California&#8217;s federal funding, but has not yet moved to cut it.
California also prohibits schools from automatically notifying parents when a student announces a new gender identity, another threat to its federal funding.
Other Moves
Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-radical-indoctrination-in-k-12-schooling/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prohibited</a> public schools from allowing a trans-identifying child to use the bathroom or locker room of the opposite sex.
Trump&#8217;s day-one order also protects women and girls from trans-identifying men in women’s prisons, rape shelters, and other “intimate spaces.”
Trump also issued an order <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/prioritizing-military-excellence-and-readiness/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banning</a> trans-identifying members from the military.
“A man’s assertion that he is a woman, and his requirement that others honor this falsehood, is not consistent with the humility and selflessness required of a service member,” the order read.
Federal employees were also instructed to remove pronouns from their email signatures, and, in a surprise move, Trump targeted the Kennedy Center over “Drag Shows specifically targeting our youth.” He <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113964959500715895" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fired</a> the center&#8217;s president and several board members, and the board voted to install Trump as president. He promised that “the best is yet to come” for the center.
Trump also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/eradicating-anti-christian-bias-trump-signs-executive-action-ending-targeting-of-christians" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> an order aimed at eradicating the “anti-Christian weaponization of government,” which cites the Biden Department of Health and Human Services’ attempts to shut out Christians from the foster care system if they did not affirm gender ideology for children.
Also on his first day, Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/initial-rescissions-of-harmful-executive-orders-and-actions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revoked</a> nearly 100 of Biden’s executive actions, including one preventing discrimination over “gender identity.”
His day one order also reverses a policy that allowed individuals to change the gender marker on their passports.
During his remarks to Congress, Trump highlighted some of the eye-popping waste the Department of Government Efficiency is targeting, including transgender <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-the-transgender-mice-experiments-trump-talked-about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">experiments</a> on mice.
Trump also <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/03/womens-history-month-2025/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recognized</a> Women’s History Month, saying, “No longer will our Government promote radical ideologies that replace women with men &#8230;”
Federal judges have blocked many of Trump&#8217;s actions, including the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fed-judge-puts-hold-on-trumps-ban-on-child-sex-change-procedures-calls-it-horribly-dangerous" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bans</a> on child sex change procedures and trans-identifying <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-asks-scotus-to-uphold-his-ban-on-transgender-troops-in-the-military" target="_blank" rel="noopener">troops</a>, but the administration plans to continue fighting those decisions in court.

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Facebook&#8217;s parent company Meta said that two posts that included &#8220;misgendering&#8221; were not a violation of its policies, in a case that appears to have involved content from The Daily Wire.
The social media giant&#8217;s Oversight Board ruled that two posts about trans-identifying males do not violate the company&#8217;s hate speech rules.
&#8220;Despite the intentionally provocative nature of the posts, which misgender identifiable trans people in ways many would find offensive, a majority of the Board found they related to matters of public concern and would not incite likely and imminent violence or discrimination,&#8221; the Oversight Board <a href="https://www.oversightboard.com/news/wide-ranging-decisions-protect-speech-and-address-harms/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement on the <a href="https://www.oversightboard.com/decision/bun-1ynnk264/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decision</a>.
Back in September, Meta&#8217;s Oversight Board <a href="https://www.oversightboard.com/news/new-cases-to-consider-debate-around-gender-identity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> it was looking into two posts from last year that involve videos of trans-identifying males.
One of the posts <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/23/meta-oversight-board-trans-content-moderation-hate-speech/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appears</a> to be a video <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C7Mk01jo1P8/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> by Libs of TikTok on Instagram that shows an Oregon high school boy getting booed by the crowd when he finished first place in the girls’ 200-meter race.
&#8220;He&#8217;s a boy who thinks he&#8217;s a girl,&#8221; Libs of TikTok <a href="https://www.oversightboard.com/decision/bun-1ynnk264/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">captioned</a> the post.
Around the same time, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C7PjzzrOEkE/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> the same video on Instagram, using male pronouns for the trans-identifying high schooler.
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The other post was a video posted to Facebook showing a girl confronting a trans-identifying male in the women&#8217;s bathroom and expressing her discomfort. That video was likely <a href="https://www.iwf.org/2024/09/05/meta-considering-monumental-policy-change-to-ban-speech-promoting-womens-sports-and-spaces/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">taken</a> by Payton McNabb, a female high school athlete who was seriously <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">injured</a> in 2022 when a trans-identifying volleyball player spiked a ball at her head.
Both posts were reported for &#8220;Hate Speech and Bullying and Harassment&#8221; multiple times, but Meta left both posts up, deciding that neither violated Meta&#8217;s Community Standards. Users who reported the posts then appealed to the Oversight Board.
However, on Wednesday, the board ruled in favor of Meta&#8217;s original decision to leave both posts up. Rulings by the Oversight Board on specific posts are considered binding for the company.
&#8220;The Hate Speech policy does not include misgendering as a form of prohibited &#8216;attack,'&#8221; the Oversight Board noted when it announced it was looking into the videos.
The move is the latest victory for conservative users as Meta says it is working to dial back censorship, including on gender identity.
Earlier this year, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-pro-life-accounts-demand-meta-lift-suspensions-after-free-speech-promises" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> sweeping changes to his company’s content moderation policies, promising “more speech and fewer mistakes.”
“In recent years we’ve developed increasingly complex systems to manage content across our platforms, partly in response to societal and political pressure to moderate content. This approach has gone too far,” Meta said.
“We want to fix that and return to that fundamental commitment to free expression,” the company said.
The company also said it will be “getting rid of a number of restrictions on topics like immigration, gender identity and gender that are the subject of frequent political discourse and debate” and it will also recommend more political content if a user has indicated they are interested.
Meta has been fiercely criticized in recent years for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meta-doubles-down-after-zuckerberg-reveals-how-facebook-censored-hunter-biden-laptop-story" target="_blank" rel="noopener">censoring</a> political content such as the Hunter Biden laptop story, which broke just before the 2020 election.

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As we lay to rest <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pope-francis">Pope Francis</a>, a man entrusted with the astonishing task of leading <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/262883/worldwide-catholic-population-hits-14-billion#:~:text=Concretely%2C%20there%20has%20been%20a,to%20281%20million%20in%202023." target="_blank" rel="noopener">1.4 billion</a> Catholics worldwide, we must acknowledge that he was a pope who inspired devotion and yet also disillusionment.
The first non-European pope in over a millennium, the first Jesuit to hold the Chair of Peter, and the first to take the name Francis — after the saint of humility and radical poverty — he came to the papacy with the power of symbolism already at his side. But symbols alone do not make a legacy. His pontificate has been marked by deep paradoxes, extraordinary global events, and the unrelenting scrutiny of a digital age that magnifies every gesture, every silence, and every word into global significance.
Pope Francis led the Catholic Church at a time when questions of identity, history, and moral authority were being fiercely renegotiated across every sphere of public life. From the rise of “woke” ideology and the deconstruction of long-standing societal structures, to the counter currents of cultural revivalism and nationalist pushback, the world around the Church was changing — faster and more fundamentally than ever.
To that world, he showed incredible, compelling pastoral sensibility by embracing the very sick, the downtrodden, before the eyes of the world, making him a beloved figure among so many.
No moment captured the spiritual loneliness and universal leadership of Francis more than the evening of March 27, 2020. As the world reeled from the shock of a global pandemic, Francis <a href="https://catholicvote.org/when-pope-francis-became-a-solitary-beacon-of-hope-during-the-worst-days-of-the-covid-pandemic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stood utterly alone</a> in the rain-drenched emptiness of St. Peter’s Square. His solitary figure, small under the weight of a sodden white cassock, illuminated by the flickering torches before the Eucharist, became an icon of global grief — and hope. He did not thunder. He prayed. He did not offer a solution. He stood there in the silence of that unforgettable moment.
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Yet while he insisted Church doctrine could not and would not be changed, many weary Catholics saw how he loosened the uniquely stalwart position of the Catholic church on issues related to marriage and family. 
On one hand, he condemned abortion, equating it to <a href="https://catholicvote.org/throughout-his-pontificate-a-look-at-pope-francis-statements-on-abortion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;hiring a hitman&#8221;</a> and <a href="https://catholicvote.org/pope-francis-strongly-warned-against-ideological-colonization-gender/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denounced gender ideology</a>; but more than once he gave a <a href="https://catholicvote.org/pope-francis-writes-preface-fr-james-martins-book-about-lazarus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disturbing nod</a> to ministries aimed at changing Church doctrine over gay &#8220;marriage&#8221; and transgenderism, including his brief <a href="https://outreach.faith/2022/05/pope-francis-speaks-to-lgbtq-catholics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exchange</a> with Father James Martin, the founder of the LGBT Catholic ministry, Outreach.
Pope Francis’ handling of clerical sex abuse was also marked by troubling contradictions. On one hand, he <a href="https://www.usccb.org/news/2023/pope-issues-updated-vos-estis-text-handling-abuse-cases" target="_blank" rel="noopener">established clearer procedures</a> for investigating abuse and holding bishops accountable and publicly condemned the culture of cover-ups that protected abusers. On the other hand, his actions in high-profile cases like those of <a href="https://www.ncregister.com/cna/father-marko-rupnik-accused-of-abuse-and-returned-to-ministry-a-timeline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fr. Marko Rupnik</a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/04/argentine-catholic-bishop-gustavo-zanchetta-sentenced-sexual-abuse-pope-francis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta</a> raise serious questions about consistency and impartiality.
Perhaps more than any other pontiff before him, Pope Francis lived his entire papacy inside the glass house of modern social media. Every homily, every off-the-cuff remark, and even every carefully crafted document was instantly dissected by millions across ideological, religious, and national divides, though it was often his informality in communication that blurred clarity, allowing ideologues across the spectrum to weaponize his words.
In the echo chambers of the internet, he was often cast simultaneously as a reformer and a betrayer, a prophet and a populist, a revolutionary and a regressive. The speed with which opinions formed around his leadership was unprecedented — and sometimes uncharitable.
In his many interviews and press conferences that often required follow-ups or clarifications, it is clear that he perceived himself as a pope who stood at the crossroads of history amidst the noise of clashing narratives.
In many ways, his legacy will be as divided as his papacy. To his supporters, he will be the “Pope of the Peripheries,” to his critics, the Pope of Ambiguity, leaving behind a trail of confusion and even division that his successor in the papacy will have to deal with.
Francis reminded us that the Pope is both a man and a sign — fragile, flawed, and beloved. We now pray not only for his soul but for the Church he leaves behind: wounded in places and always in need of shepherds who speak with both his tenderness but also with the clarity of truth.
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Kelsey Reinhardt is Director of Media and Evangelization for CatholicVote.
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When Oregon&#8217;s Democrat governor announced her state would defy President Donald Trump&#8217;s ban on diversity, equity, and inclusion, she said she was doing it for a good reason: the kids.
“Since the start of the new federal administration, I promised Oregonians that I would not back down from a fight when it comes to safeguarding Oregon values,&#8221; Tina Kotek <a href="https://apps.oregon.gov/oregon-newsroom/OR/GOV/Posts/Post/governor-kotek-issues-statement-in-response-to-trump-administration’s-threat-to-take-away-funds-from-oregon-students" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Thursday. &#8220;Making sure every child has the opportunity to meet their future promise with a strong public education is one of the most fundamental responsibilities of government and one of my top priorities as Governor.&#8221;
That&#8217;s ironic. Because, under Kotek&#8217;s leadership, Oregon&#8217;s students are struggling to get by.
Nearly half of Oregon fourth graders scored below &#8220;basic&#8221; levels in reading, meaning they <a href="https://www.edweek.org/leadership/reading-scores-fall-to-new-low-on-naep-fueled-by-declines-for-struggling-students/2025/01#:~:text=Studies%20have%20shown%20that%20scoring,purpose%20of%20an%20informational%20text." target="_blank" rel="noopener">lack</a> important reading comprehension skills like being able to determine the main idea of a text. In math, about a third of fourth graders scored below basic, <a href="https://www.nagb.gov/news-and-events/news-releases/2025/nations-report-card-decline-in-reading-progress-in-math.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">meaning</a> they likely struggle with simple concepts like odd numbers.
Eighth graders&#8217; scores were just as concerning, with nearly half (45%) <a href="https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/subject/publications/stt2024/pdf/2024219OR8.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scoring</a> below basic in math, and over a third (35%) <a href="https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/subject/publications/stt2024/pdf/2024220OR8.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scoring</a> below basic in reading.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a bold strategy, Cotton,&#8221; school choice advocate Corey DeAngelis told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Let&#8217;s see if it works out for them.&#8221;
&#8220;Oregon should lose all federal funding if they want to indoctrinate kids with DEI Marxism. Tax dollars shouldn&#8217;t prop up divisive ideologies that pit students against each other and their country,&#8221; DeAngelis told The Daily Wire.
That&#8217;s exactly what the Trump administration says it will do if Oregon doesn&#8217;t comply with its DEI ban. The Department of Education <a href="https://www.ed.gov/media/document/reminder-of-legal-obligations-undertaken-exchange-receiving-federal-financial-assistance-and-request-certification-under-title-vi-and-sffa-v-harvard-april-3">informed</a> states earlier this month that &#8220;The continued use of illegal DEI practices may subject the individual or entity using such practices to serious consequences,&#8221; including &#8220;eliminating federal funding.&#8221;
But despite that threat, Oregon Democrats are, in DeAngelis&#8217;s words, &#8220;doubling down on failure.&#8221; To him, it&#8217;s because they &#8220;see the school system as a tool to control the minds of other people&#8217;s children as opposed to an education initiative.&#8221;
&#8220;Oregon Democrats are all-in on indoctrinating kids with their socialist worldview,&#8221; DeAngelis said. &#8220;Telling kids that they&#8217;re going to be failures based on their immutable characteristics holds them down.&#8221;
&#8220;This latest stunt proves their anti-parent agenda is even more about control than money,&#8221; he added. &#8220;These control freaks need to do their job, stay in their lane, and stick to the basics so kids can get an education.&#8221;
The governor&#8217;s office did not respond to a request for comment.
According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress — called &#8220;the Nation&#8217;s Report Card&#8221; — Oregon fourth graders <a href="https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/subject/publications/stt2024/pdf/2024219OR4.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ranked</a> second-worst in the country in math, tying with five other states, and third-worst in <a href="https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/subject/publications/stt2024/pdf/2024220OR4.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reading</a>, along with 11 other states.
But as scores plummeted over the last decade, Oregon schools did not drill down on phonics or multiplication tables. Instead, they focused on flashy, progressive wish-list items.
After the coronavirus pandemic, Portland-area parents <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/parents-apoplectic-after-oregon-school-board-goes-virtual-amid-gender-ideology-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">erupted</a> at school board meetings over schools&#8217; embrace of gender ideology, including the availability of alleged “pornographic” books in school libraries, and subpar academic performance.
In Portland, the teachers&#8217; union decided in 2023 that they would take gender identity and race into account before disciplining students, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/portland-teachers-will-take-gender-identity-race-into-account-before-disciplining" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the union&#8217;s collective bargaining agreement. After the pandemic, Portland teachers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/portland-teachers-will-take-gender-identity-race-into-account-before-disciplining" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> they were seeing “more students in crisis” with mental health issues, which can lead to fights.
In 2022, Oregon <a href="https://www.oregon.gov/ode/educator-resources/standards/science/Documents/K-12%20%20Oregon%20Science%20Standards%20with%20Guidance.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">updated</a> its science standards to teach that humans cause climate change.
Defending Education, a group that fights indoctrination in public schools, said Oregon should be focused on improving its dismal test scores.
&#8220;Oregon&#8217;s education leaders should be hanging their heads in shame,&#8221; Sarah Parshall Perry, the group&#8217;s vice president, told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;Instead, they&#8217;ve doubled down on divisive and racially discriminatory DEI programs that have done nothing to boost educational outcomes,&#8221; she said. &#8220;That&#8217;s not only a violation of federal law, it&#8217;s foolhardy and misguided. And the students of Oregon deserve better. They deserve an education focused on the academic fundamentals the state has so clearly failed to deliver.”
Jeanette Schade, a former Oregon teacher who ran for school board in the Portland area in 2021, blamed the state&#8217;s failing school system on a laundry list of problems, including &#8220;dumbed-down&#8221; teacher education programs.
&#8220;Teachers are being indoctrinated in their teacher education programs,&#8221; Schade told The Daily Wire, saying those teachers go on to expose children to DEI, Critical Race Theory, and sex education that includes gender ideology.
Schade also noted that Oregon scrapped its graduation requirements during the pandemic and never went back.
In 2021, Oregon <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oregon-extends-pandemic-pause-on-reading-writing-math-proficiency-high-school-graduation-requirement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made</a> the controversial move to stop requiring high schoolers to pass an &#8220;essential skills&#8221; standardized test <a href="https://www.oregon.gov/ode/educator-resources/essentialskills/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showing</a> basic proficiency in reading, writing, and math in order to receive their diploma.
Advocates for pausing the graduation requirement argued that the test put minority students at a disadvantage. Now, critics simply point to the sinking test scores.
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&#8220;DEI is the exact opposite of what the words mean,&#8221; Schade said. &#8220;Diversity means uniformity. Equity means not equal or helpful. And inclusive means exclude.&#8221;
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Dr. Eithan Haim, the surgeon who blew the whistle on Texas Children’s Hospital providing transgender procedures and drugs to minors testified to Congress on Wednesday about the horrors of these medical interventions.
&#8220;I understand and I&#8217;ve seen the effects of what these blockers do, what these hormones do, and what these surgeries do,&#8221; Haim <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/ending-lawfare-against-whistleblowers-who-protect-children-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government.
Haim said he sees serious complications with transgender genital surgeries &#8220;all the time.
&#8220;We&#8217;re talking about urethral stenosis, where you can&#8217;t go out to a coffee shop and go to the bathroom because the urethra is narrowed so that fluid builds up in the bladder,&#8221; he said.
In males who have had genital surgery to create a &#8220;neovagina,&#8221; fistulas can happen, &#8220;where stool from the rectum can pour into the wound that they call the neovagina,&#8221; Haim said.
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&#8220;A lot of them don&#8217;t see these problems in the first couple of months or even the first couple of years, but this is what happens.&#8221;
&#8220;We would take children to the operating room, and we would make them better,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But in the same operating room they were taking them there and making them sick.&#8221;
&#8220;They are destroying the lives of these children,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They&#8217;re putting them down a road where they become a chronic medical patient that they can never come back from.&#8221;
&#8220;Could I call myself a doctor if I didn&#8217;t speak against it?&#8221; he said.
Haim also told lawmakers about the Biden administration’s failed criminal prosecution against him.
Back in 2023, Haim <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-childrens-hospital-performs-sex-change-procedures-on-children-as-young-as-11-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">went</a> to the media anonymously and exposed the Houston Children’s Hospital for secretly continuing to perform transgender medical procedures on children despite the hospital’s public statements saying they had paused them.
In response, the Biden Justice Department sent federal agents to his house and charged Haim with four felonies related to HIPAA.
The Trump administration dismissed the charges against Haim shortly after President Donald Trump&#8217;s inauguration.
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Meanwhile, Rep. Mary Scanlon rambled about Elon Musk, child hunger, and guns.
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Dr. Eithan Haim, General Surgeon and Texas Children&#39;s Hospital whistleblower, exposes the Biden-Harris DOJ&#39;s baseless, politically motivated prosecution and threats made by a rogue leftist prosecutor against him and his family.
WATCH his full statement ↓ <a href="https://t.co/AYCw75syqd">pic.twitter.com/AYCw75syqd</a>
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Vanessa Sivadge, the former nurse at Texas Children&#8217;s Hospital who also became a whistleblower, testified on Wednesday as well.
&#8220;I witnessed how doctors emotionally blackmailed by telling them that if they did not affirm their child&#8217;s delusion, their child would harm themselves,&#8221; Sivadge told lawmakers.
&#8220;In particular, I was saddened to see young girls suffering from profound mental health struggles like depression or anxiety, many of whom had also suffered sexual abuse or trauma persuaded by doctors at TCH that hormones would resolve their gender confusion. History books will one day record this emotional blackmail as the greatest lie ever sold by the medical industrial complex to vulnerable parents and confused children,&#8221; she said.
Also during Wednesday&#8217;s congressional hearing, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said he believed not vaccinating children in Texas against measles was &#8220;child abuse,&#8221; but he did not say the same about transgender drugs and procedures.
Raskin also went back and forth with Haim&#8217;s attorney, Mark Lytle, who corrected several of Raskin&#8217;s statements about the alleged HIPAA violations.
Meanwhile, Rep. Mary Scanlon (D-PA) brought up a range of unrelated topics including Elon Musk, child hunger, budget cuts, unemployed federal workers, and even gun violence.

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Dr. Eithan Haim, the surgeon who blew the whistle on Texas Children&#8217;s Hospital providing transgender procedures and drugs to minors testified to Congress on Wednesday about the Biden administration&#8217;s failed criminal prosecution against him.
Back in 2023, Haim <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-childrens-hospital-performs-sex-change-procedures-on-children-as-young-as-11-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">went</a> to the media anonymously and exposed the Houston Children&#8217;s Hospital for secretly continuing to perform transgender medical procedures on children despite the hospital&#8217;s public statements saying they had paused them.
Those procedures reportedly included the hospital inserting a &#8220;drug delivery implant&#8221; for &#8220;gender dysphoria&#8221; into the arm of an 11-year-old girl as well as multiple other children 15 and younger.
&#8220;They not only continued their program. They expanded it. All this was happening behind closed doors,&#8221; Haim <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/ending-lawfare-against-whistleblowers-who-protect-children-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a> Wednesday to the House Judiciary Committee&#8217;s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government.
&#8220;For exposing this truth my own government manufactured a case to send me to prison for 10 years,&#8221; he said.
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Dr. Eithan Haim, General Surgeon and Texas Children&#39;s Hospital whistleblower, exposes the Biden-Harris DOJ&#39;s baseless, politically motivated prosecution and threats made by a rogue leftist prosecutor against him and his family.
WATCH his full statement ↓ <a href="https://t.co/AYCw75syqd">pic.twitter.com/AYCw75syqd</a>
&mdash; House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) <a href="https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1910048457949147387?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Two armed federal agents showed up to Haim&#8217;s home on his graduation day for his surgical residency, Haim said.
The Biden Justice Department charged Haim with four felonies related to HIPAA.
In January, just after President Donald Trump took office, the Justice Department dropped the charges against Haim. He had been slated to go on trial in February.
&#8220;This was a political witch hunt,&#8221; Haim told lawmakers.
&#8220;From the very beginning, I knew this was nothing more than a charade,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I knew this because I never violated HIPAA. I never accessed the records of transgender patients or released any identifiable information. All of it was fully redacted, de-identified hospital data, which is used every single day to report infectious disease outbreaks like measles or conduct retrospective research studies.&#8221;
Tina Ansari, the associate U.S. Attorney who was prosecuting Haim admitted to Haim&#8217;s attorneys that she had not reviewed the evidence before sending federal agents to his home, Haim told lawmakers.
&#8220;She didn&#8217;t even know what statute she was investigating,&#8221; Haim said.
&#8220;Ansari threatened my wife, who had just been hired as an associate U.S. attorney in Dallas,&#8221; Haim said.
Haim&#8217;s attorney, Mark Lytle, who also testified on Wednesday, said Ansari had implied to him that she would not interfere in Haim&#8217;s wife&#8217;s legal career &#8220;unless she became difficult.&#8221;
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t really know what that meant, but I took it to mean a retaliatory phrase, that if she&#8217;s going to be involved in this then there&#8217;s going to be something that&#8217;s going to come for her too,&#8221; Lytle said.
The initial indictment accused Haim of hacking into the hospital&#8217;s electronic medical records system, which Haim called &#8220;pure fiction.&#8221;
&#8220;The DOJ&#8217;s own evidence, their own evidence that they gave us in discovery disproved every single one of the claims against us,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Ansari and her team either never reviewed this evidence or they ignored it.&#8221;
Later it was discovered that Ansari&#8217;s family had &#8220;quite the special relationship&#8221; with the hospital, Haim said, and Ansari was later removed from the case due to her conflict of interest.
&#8220;This can&#8217;t be the end of it. There has to be accountability when the unlimited resources of the federal government are used to destroy the lives of ordinary American citizens.&#8221;
Also testifying on Wednesday was Vanessa Sivadge, the former nurse at Texas Children&#8217;s Hospital who also became a whistleblower on the transgender practices on children.

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Parents in custody battles who misgender or &#8220;deadname&#8221; their child would be accused of &#8220;coercive control&#8221; under a new radical Colorado bill.
The <a href="https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1312_01.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a> was introduced late Friday evening and on Tuesday it <a href="https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1312" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> the Colorado Assembly&#8217;s Judiciary Committee in a 7-4 vote. It now heads to the Assembly floor for a second reading.
The &#8220;Kelly Loving Act,&#8221; named for a trans-identifying man who was killed in the 2022 Colorado nightclub shooting, targets parents who do not affirm their child&#8217;s new gender identity.
In child custody decisions, &#8220;a court shall consider deadnaming, misgendering, or threatening to publish material related to an individual&#8217;s gender-affirming health-care services as types of coercive control,&#8221; the bill reads.
&#8220;Coercive control&#8221; also <a href="https://frascona.com/sweeping-new-domestic-abuse-laws-for-divorcing-couples-unmarried-couples-and-children/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">includes</a> things like threatening to kill someone or forcing someone to commit crimes under Colorado law.
The bill also bars Colorado courts from cooperating with other states&#8217; laws that remove a child from their parent because the parent allowed the child to receive transgender medical services like puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or surgery.
The bill also says that school policies allowing children to use a different name must be &#8220;inclusive of all reasons that a student might adopt a chosen name.&#8221; Also, school dress codes must not &#8220;enforce any rules based on gender,&#8221; according to the bill.
&#8220;Deadnaming&#8221; and &#8220;misgendering&#8221; would officially be &#8220;discriminatory acts&#8221; under Colorado law if the bill passes.
State Rep. Jarvis Caldwell, a Republican, called attention to the bill on social media and told The Daily Wire that Democrats introduced the bill &#8220;late Friday evening after we went home for the weekend.&#8221;
Usually lawmakers would have at least two weeks to prepare before a bill goes to committee, but this time Republicans had less than 24 hours to prepare despite Democrats apparently having the bill in the works for over a year, he said.
The bill has many &#8220;serious concerns,&#8221; he said, including targeting both parents and private business owners who misgender someone.
&#8220;In my opinion, the goal is to eliminate the ability of a parent to seek treatment for gender confusion and dysphoria,&#8221; Caldwell said. &#8220;I’ve seen many radical bills this legislative session, but this is by far the most egregious. At a minimum, it attacks parental rights, local control, the U.S. Constitution, and more specifically, the First Amendment.&#8221;
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This bill just got introduced late Friday evening &amp; we just found out today it’s scheduled for Judiciary Committee TOMORROW. And it’s RADICAL.
No time to analyze it. No time to coordinate testimony. No time to talk with stakeholders or constituents. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/coleg?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#coleg</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/copolitics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#copolitics</a> <a href="https://t.co/YvWkJVghhq">pic.twitter.com/YvWkJVghhq</a>
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Caldwell said the bill is likely to become law soon.
Lori Gimelshteyn, executive director of the Colorado Parent Advocacy Network called the bill an &#8220;unconstitutional overreach that turns parenting—a sacred duty to guide and protect your child—into a punishable offense if it doesn’t align with the state’s agenda.&#8221;
&#8220;This bill redefines love, conviction, and parenting as ‘coercive control’ — and that’s both dangerous and deeply wrong,&#8221; Gimelshteyn told The Daily Wire. &#8220;What kind of society are we becoming when a parent can lose custody of their child, not for abuse, neglect or endangerment, but for using the name they gave their child at birth?&#8221;
Gimelshteyn spoke in formal opposition to the bill during Tuesday&#8217;s Judiciary Committee hearing. Also speaking were two other women, Mia Hughes, senior researcher at Genspect, and Erin Lee, executive director of Protect Kids Colorado, who spoke in her personal capacity.
&#8220;There are consequences to lying to a child,&#8221; Hughes told lawmakers. &#8220;A parent telling their sweet, effeminate boy who likes Barbies and princess gowns that he can be a girl may solve his distress in the short term &#8230; but this is short-sighted.&#8221;
Hughes explained that the data shows most children will desist and identity as their birth sex again, but this &#8220;natural process&#8221; is interrupted if a parent affirms the child&#8217;s cross-sex identity.
&#8220;It&#8217;s easy to turn a little boy into a convincing girl just by putting him in a dress and giving him a girl&#8217;s name, but the illusion becomes unsustainable when testosterone begins to surge, so now he must medicalize,&#8221; she said, citing the often permanent harms of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and genital surgery.
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&quot;What kind of society are we becoming when a parent can lose custody of their child, not for abuse, neglect or endangerment, but for using the name they gave their child at birth. That is what this bill enables&#8230;&quot;
Great testimony today from <a href="https://twitter.com/LoriGim?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LoriGim</a> of <a href="https://twitter.com/CPANColorado?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CPANColorado</a> in… <a href="https://t.co/rFmrnuoXFT">pic.twitter.com/rFmrnuoXFT</a>
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&quot;It’s easy to turn a little boy into a convincing girl just by putting him in a dress and giving him a girl’s name. But the illusion becomes unsustainable when testosterone begins to surge.&quot;
My testimony earlier today in opposition to Colorado&#39;s completely insane HB25-1312. <a href="https://t.co/6uk3W1iG6n">pic.twitter.com/6uk3W1iG6n</a>
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My testimony against CO HB 25-1312. This committee is STILL going on. Despite more expert witnesses opposing than people supporting — this bill being unconstitutional — and costing tax payers $MILLIONS: I suspect it will pass. So we must keep fighting. 
Thank you to all who… <a href="https://t.co/8W1pWxqAab">pic.twitter.com/8W1pWxqAab</a>
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Lee said her sixth grade daughter was &#8220;secretly transitioned&#8221; at her school, convinced that her &#8220;normal pubescent discomfort&#8221; meant she was actually a transgender boy, and affirming her only caused her more mental distress.
&#8220;If this law was in place four years ago when CPS came to my door for non-affirmation I would have lost my child,&#8221; she said.
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&#8220;Parents have long been bullied by the suicide myth: that you must transition your child or else they will kill themself. Now the state is adding to that: transition your child or else we will take them from you,&#8221; Lee told The Daily Wire. &#8220;This will harm so many fathers who are fighting their ex-spouses medicalizing their children against their will in Colorado. It fortifies our status as a wrong-sex mutilation sanctuary state, encouraging more people to move here and transition their children.&#8221;
She said Democrats appear to be trying to quickly pass the bill before critics can mount a response.
&#8220;Democrats are seemingly trying to pass this in the night, so quickly that we don’t have time to read the bill or organize testimony against it,&#8221; she added. &#8220;But with 24 hours notice, more expert witnesses showed up to oppose than people who showed up to support this bill yesterday.&#8221;
Colorado parents who oppose their children&#8217;s transgender identities have found themselves in nightmare situations.
Earlier this year, one Durango mother <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/colorado-lgbt-activist-teacher-trans-husband-house-minor-teen-girl-against-moms-wishes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> the police would not help her retrieve her 17-year-old daughter from the house of her daughter&#8217;s former math teacher and trans-identifying husband, who had taken the girl into her home.
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Radical Transgender Bill In Colorado: It’s ‘Coercive Control’ To Not Affirm Child’s Gender Identity

Radical Transgender Bill In Colorado Says Misgendering A Child Is 'Coercive Control'

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A federal judge on Monday ruled that the University of Texas A&amp;M cannot ban drag performances on its campuses following a lawsuit from an LGBT activist group.
U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal said that the decision from the university&#8217;s board of regents likely violated the First Amendment and blocked the ban while the case played out in court. The Texas A&amp;M Board of Regents was sued earlier this month by the Queer Empowerment Council which claimed the ban on drag performances in university spaces was unconstitutional.
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&#8220;The Board, and some members of the A&amp;M community, are offended by the Draggieland performance. To ban the performance from taking place on campus because it offends some members of the campus community is precisely what the First Amendment prohibits,&#8221; Rosenthal <a href="https://www.thefire.org/sites/default/files/2025/03/Opinion%20-%20Texas%20A%26M%20Queer%20Empowerment%20Council%20v.%20Mahomes%2C%20et%20al..pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
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As part of its justification for the prohibition, the board <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-texas-ag-to-defend-texas-am-over-decision-to-ban-campus-drag-shows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed</a> to an executive order from President Donald Trump that directs federal funding to be cut from entities that promote gender ideology and a directive from Governor Greg Abbott to comply with the order.
The board said that “both the System and the Universities receive significant federal funding, the use of facilities at the Universities for Drag Show Events may be considered promotion of gender ideology in violation of the Executive Order and the Governor’s directive.”
Rosenthal said she was unconvinced by this argument.
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&#8220;The Board has failed to show that permitting drag shows to occur at Special Event Venues would cause the harassment of female students, much less the type of severe and pervasive harassment that violates Title IX,&#8221; the judge wrote. &#8220;Nor does the Board point to evidence in the record showing that President Trump’s executive order regarding &#8216;biological truth&#8217; specifically refers or applies to drag shows, or that the Draggieland message denies the existence of the male and female sexes.&#8221;
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is representing the board of regents, said that taxpayer-funded schools have no obligation to host drag shows.
“Our colleges and universities exist to help students learn and equip them as they take their next steps in life,” Paxton told The Daily Wire earlier this month. “They are not, and have never been, a place for taxpayer-funded drag shows where men pretending to be women engage in obscene, offensive, and degrading behavior.”
The judge&#8217;s ruling will mean that the university will be forced to host a drag festival called  “Draggieland&#8221; on March 27.
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Protest over the cancellation of Draggieland and other drag shows on Texas A&M campus

Federal Judge Says Texas A&M Has To Host Drag Show Festival

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An LGBT activist teacher in Colorado and her trans-identifying male husband are housing a 17-year-old girl who identifies as a boy. Police say they are unable to intervene to bring the teen home to her mother.
JoAnn Smotherman, a former math teacher at Durango High School, took the teen, one of her students, into her Durango home in December when the girl left home after a fight with her mother. JoAnn is married to Vivian Smotherman, a trans-identifying man who ran for Colorado State Senate as a Democrat last year.
The teen&#8217;s mother, Cynthia Stein, has gone to the Smothermans&#8217; home and attempted, unsuccessfully, to take back her daughter. She called in the police, but the officers who responded to the scene said they would not force the teen to go home, according to the police report and body cam footage of the incident obtained by The Daily Wire.
The situation is the culmination of months of outside influences on the vulnerable teen, her mother told The Daily Wire.
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JoAnn Smotherman was the girl&#39;s math teacher at Durango High School
Her husband is Vivian Smotherman, a trans-id man who ran for Colorado state senate as a Democrat last year
They took in the 17yo girl who identifies as a boy in December after she had a fight with her mom <a href="https://t.co/eKPnxbn4qL">pic.twitter.com/eKPnxbn4qL</a>
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&quot;You don&#39;t appear to be in distress. I don&#39;t want to put words in your mouth,&quot; one officer told the 17yo girl, who said she did not want to leave
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The 17-year-old girl has identified as a boy since the fall and now uses a unisex name. She has been diagnosed with autism, ADHD, an eating disorder, depression, and anxiety, according to medical records provided by her mother. At school, the teen was seeing a counselor, without her mother&#8217;s knowledge, who advised the girl to terminate parental notification and encouraged her to participate in LGBT support groups, her mother said.
The turn to radical gender ideology came amid difficult times at home. Stein underwent treatment for an aggressive cancer in 2023, and believes that crisis deeply affected her daughter, who became &#8220;very withdrawn&#8221; from the family.
&#8220;Smotherman stepped in and took advantage of my kid,&#8221; Stein told The Daily Wire. &#8220;She&#8217;s just inserted herself into my family, and I still can&#8217;t get her out.&#8221;
&#8220;I just can&#8217;t stress to you enough how floored I am that this woman has gotten away with what she has, and that there is nothing that I can do to make it right or hold her accountable,&#8221; Stein said.
On November 2, the teen ran away from home after her mother told her they were moving to Denver to be near family, and to put some distance between the teen and local influences. Law enforcement and Child Protective Services got involved, and the child ultimately went home to her mother.
However, the girl left home again on December 21 after a fight with her mother. This time, she went straight to the Smothermans&#8217; house, her mother later discovered, although she initially did not know where her daughter was and filed a runaway report with the police.
On January 5, Stein went with two friends to the Smothermans&#8217; house and tried to retrieve her daughter. Stein called the police, and two deputies with the La Plata County Sheriff&#8217;s Office responded and conducted a welfare check on her daughter.
&#8220;Basically, as long as I know that everybody&#8217;s okay, that&#8217;s really the extent of law enforcement involvement, you know what I mean? I don&#8217;t know. I don&#8217;t know what else to say,&#8221; one deputy told both Smothermans on their porch when he arrived.
&#8220;We get it. He&#8217;s just incredibly terrified right now because of everything that they&#8217;ve been through,&#8221; Vivian responded, using male pronouns for the girl.
The officer went inside and asked the teen how she was, and she responded, &#8220;I&#8217;m good, how are you?&#8221;
&#8220;Good, that&#8217;s all I need to basically hear,&#8221; the officer said, adding later, &#8220;You don&#8217;t appear to be in distress. I don&#8217;t want to put words in your mouth.&#8221;
&#8220;No, not until my mom showed up,&#8221; the teen responded. &#8220;I was totally fine. I was having fun.&#8221;
&#8220;I mean yes, by legal standard you&#8217;re technically a minor as a 17-year-old,&#8221; the officer said, telling her that &#8220;as long as you&#8217;re not being held against your will or kidnapped or anything awful like that, things get a little more complicated when we hit 17-years-old and have the ability to drive and go places and make decisions about who we hang out with.&#8221;
&#8220;I appreciate your willingness to, I don&#8217;t know, I guess help me check boxes,&#8221; the officer said as he exited the house.
Meanwhile, the other officer was speaking with Vivian outside about how the teen ended up at the Smothermans. The teen claimed her mother kicked her out, but her mother said that while they did have a fight, she never meant to kick her daughter out.
&#8220;He got kicked out, and now they want him back?&#8221; the officer asked.
&#8220;He has not been told by his parents to come back,&#8221; JoAnn Smotherman said.
&#8220;Well it seems like they want him back now, no?&#8221; the officer said.
The Smothermans also informed the officers that the teen was a couple of months away from turning 18.
&#8220;Certainly not what I would consider a &#8216;child,'&#8221; the first officer said, using air quotes.
Vivan Smotherman, the transgender-identifying Democrat activist, told the cops he &#8220;absolutely&#8221; does not want the teen&#8217;s mother coming onto his property.
As the officers walked to their cars, the first officer told his partner, &#8220;probably going to have to speak with them,&#8221; referring to the teen&#8217;s mom and her friends.
&#8220;Yeah they&#8217;re gonna have a meltdown,&#8221; the second officer said.
&#8220;Exactly,&#8221; the first officer responded, laughing.
Back at the bottom of the driveway, Stein told the deputies, &#8220;She is a minor. I don&#8217;t care if she&#8217;s a day away from 18. A minor is a minor, and she does not have my permission to be here.&#8221;
The first officer told her that &#8220;minor and child are different&#8221; and that the situation was &#8220;on a civil level&#8221; and &#8220;does not rise to the level of law enforcement involvement.&#8221;
&#8220;So I&#8217;m sorry, you&#8217;re telling me that you&#8217;re not going to —&#8221; Stein began.
&#8220;Physically rip her out of that home? Yeah,&#8221; the officer responded.
In the police report, the first officer wrote, &#8220;Being that [the teen] is roughly two months from turning 18, has filed for emancipation, has had recent involvement with CPS including investigations into the difficulties at Cynthia&#8217;s home, did not wish to return home, has stayed with Jo Ann when experiencing problems at home in the past and appeared to be of sound mind, in good health and spirits in what appeared to be a safe place, engaged in constructive activities and was not in distress, I did not force [the teen] to leave.&#8221;
Before the police incident, Stein was also served legal documents to emancipate her daughter from her custody, a move she believes JoAnn Smotherman was behind.
On February 23, Smotherman <a href="https://www.facebook.com/JoAnnSmothermanCO" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on Facebook asking for money to continue paying a lawyer for a &#8220;young transman.&#8221;
&#8220;Hello Friends. I need your assistance again. Some months ago we raised the needed funds to provide a lawyer to a young transman,&#8221; Smotherman wrote. &#8220;The lawyer has successfully protected this young man from his abusers. However, our retainer ran out a couple weeks ago. Dispite [sic] the lack of funds, the lawyer continued working on the case, which is now coming to a successful close. We need to raise another $1000 to pay for services that have already been provided. Anything raised beyond what is owed to the lawyer will go to updating the young man&#8217;s gender marker and name so that he can be further protected from the coming challenges. If you are able to help, please message me for how to contribute.&#8221;
The emancipation request was ultimately denied. A &#8220;small victory,&#8221; Stein said.
JoAnn Smotherman did not respond to a request for comment. The lawyer who filed the emancipation petition likewise did not respond.
Asked why law enforcement was unable to return the teen to her mother, Sergeant Chris Burke with the La Plata County Sheriff&#8217;s Office pointed to law enforcement&#8217;s policy on juvenile non-offenders, which states that juveniles may be taken into custody for their own safety if they are abused, neglected, under the influence of substances, or an illegal alien.
JoAnn&#8217;s Facebook page is chock full of posts promoting LGBT activism. Her profile picture shows her at &#8220;Drag Bingo in Denver.&#8221; Other posts ask for volunteers for Pride and Transgender Day of Remembrance events. A cartoon she posted accuses parents of pushing their gay kids away and then accusing the LGBT crowd of &#8220;grooming&#8221; them. She also posted to &#8220;protect the pride flag&#8221; in public schools. Recently the Durango school district had a months long saga over the Black Lives Matter and &#8220;progress pride&#8221; flags, and the school board ultimately <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/colorado-school-board-could-allow-teachers-to-fly-blm-transgender-flags-in-classroom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decided</a> both are allowed in schools.
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Vivian Smotherman has been a public figure since last year when he <a href="https://x.com/ImMeme0/status/1792207136899924269" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ran</a> for Colorado State Senate. He was promoted by local Democrats but ultimately <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Vivian_Smotherman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lost</a> to his Republican opponent.
The teen&#8217;s mother had at least one advocate in her corner — the Colorado Parent Advocacy Network (CPAN)​ spent months supporting Stein as she navigated the situation, reaching out to the police, lawyers, and the media.
&#8220;CPAN has supported Cindy since she first filed her incident report. This case is a devastating example of what happens when schools and state systems bypass parents. We’re calling on lawmakers and citizens to demand accountability and protect families,&#8221; Lori Gimelshteyn, CPAN&#8217;s executive director told The Daily Wire.
The situation has caused Stein and her family a world of &#8220;chaos and hurt,&#8221; Stein said. Her daughter has not contacted her since she left the house, although the teen did come by to get some of her stuff in January.
The teen&#8217;s mother said she had been giving her daughter Hallmark cards telling her she loves her through friends of hers who are employees at the local grocery store, where the teen worked. However, Stein said she recently heard her daughter quit that job.
The teen&#8217;s lawyer has demanded Stein stop contacting her daughter and turn over the account numbers for the college fund and inheritance set up by Stein&#8217;s parents, the teen&#8217;s grandparents, she said.
&#8220;Because I love my child, I have honored that request,&#8221; Stein said.
The teen turns 18 on Tuesday, and is still living with the Smothermans.
&#8220;I&#8217;m sure I don&#8217;t have to tell you that I&#8217;m heartbroken not to be able to share this milestone with her,&#8221; her mother said. &#8220;She and I actually share the same birthday so it&#8217;s a double whammy for me. I&#8217;m devastated at the idea that she thinks I hate her and never want her in my life again.&#8221;

LGBT Activist Teacher, Trans Husband House Minor Teen Girl In Colorado Against Mom’s Wishes

Colorado Teacher, Trans Husband House Minor Teen Girl Against Mother's Wishes, Police Won't Help

The Biden administration spent millions of taxpayer dollars on at least six transgender experiments on mice, National Institutes of Health records show.
President Trump mentioned the transgender mice experiments during his address to Congress on Tuesday night.
&#8220;Eight million dollars for making mice transgender. This is real,&#8221; Trump said as the chamber erupted in laughter.
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CNN quickly spun up a fact check, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/04/politics/fact-check-trump-address-congress/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> Trump &#8220;falsely claimed&#8221; the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) identified $8 million for &#8220;making mice transgender.&#8221; The outlet cited $477,121 in government funding for three projects involving giving estrogen to monkeys to test how it affects their susceptibility to HIV.
The White House responded with a fact sheet <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/03/yes-biden-spent-millions-on-transgender-animal-experiments/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">citing</a> six studies involving gender ideology and mice, all funded by the NIH and costing American taxpayers over $8 million.
One <a href="https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10891526#description" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> treated both male and female mice with estrogen to discover how to better &#8220;treat and prevent asthma in cis and transgender women.&#8221; That study cost taxpayers over $3.1 million over four years starting in 2021.
Another <a href="https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11000334#description" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> that cost over $1.2 million and began last year used mice to explore how testosterone affects the reproductive systems of &#8220;transgender males&#8221; or biological women who take testosterone.
Another <a href="https://reporter.nih.gov/search/-NkoAnjCB0uKdDs0r_5qxw/project-details/10944419#description" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> last year on &#8220;gender affirming hormone therapy&#8221; in mice <a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11093603/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">injected</a> male mice with estrogen and female mice with testosterone to analyze the relationship between the hormone drugs, the gut microbiome, and skeletal maturation. That study cost the taxpayers $735,113.
One <a href="https://reporter.nih.gov/search/Y3xbwNgJV0-V2-RIROPR1Q/project-details/10912193#description" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> used mice to explore how taking testosterone affects breast cancer in the &#8220;underserved transmasculine community&#8221; or biological females who identify as male. That study from 2023 cost just under $300,000.
A <a href="https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10619517#description" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> that has cost $2.5 million since 2019 <a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10889210/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gave</a> mice both puberty blockers and testosterone to explore the effects of testosterone on the reproductive systems of trans-identifying females. The study said it &#8220;developed a mouse model to mimic T treatment for FTM gender transition&#8221; and found the mice &#8220;manifest defects in ovarian architecture&#8221; and see changes in egg development.
Finally, one <a href="https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10849830#description" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> developed a &#8220;mouse model of gender-affirming hormone therapy&#8221; to &#8220;test the immune responses of &#8216;cis&#8217; vs. &#8216;trans&#8217; mice to a HIV vaccine.&#8221; That study began last year and cost the taxpayers $455,120.
&#8220;The Fake News losers at CNN immediately tried to fact check it, but President Trump was right (as usual),&#8221; the White House said.
Frivolous scientific research is a target of Elon Musk&#8217;s DOGE, which was tasked by Trump with rooting out federal waste.
Gender ideology has become a searing political and cultural issue across the country over the last several years.
Trump signed several executive orders during his first weeks in office banning males from women&#8217;s sports, defining sex as male and female, and pulling federal funding from schools that promote gender ideology.

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Here Are The Transgender Mice Experiments Trump Talked About

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A trans-identifying man in Canada is on the streets again after he was arrested for allegedly stabbing his two young children earlier this month, leaving the eight-year-old on a feeding tube.
Alice Micheal Attwood, 35, was <a href="https://www.dailyheraldtribune.com/news/grande-prairie-parent-charged-with-aggravated-assault-child-at-stollery-recovering-from-knife-wounds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charged</a> with aggravated assault after his two children suffered knife wounds on February 19 in Grand Prairie, Alberta.
One child, age eight, was <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/11047732/grande-prairie-children-stabbed/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">taken</a> to the hospital with a severed esophagus and will be on a feeding tube for several months. The other child, age seven, suffered minor knife wounds. Both children are reportedly in stable condition.
Attwood identifies as a &#8220;transwoman&#8221; and &#8220;genderfluid,&#8221; as well as a &#8220;leftist,&#8221; and uses &#8220;they/she/he&#8221; pronouns, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/reel/581350857734961" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/reel/585860344134885" target="_blank" rel="noopener">multiple</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ravenfortruth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posts</a> on his <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DB7RF-iPTId/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">social</a> media accounts.
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Attwood appears to have prolific social media accounts where he shares pro-transgender and anti-Trump posts as well as a YouTube LGBT &quot;podcast&quot; <a href="https://t.co/E7El4jEzqJ">pic.twitter.com/E7El4jEzqJ</a>
&mdash; Mairead Elordi (@JohnsonHildy) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnsonHildy/status/1895221390200184857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Attwood was initially arrested and released with a court date. However, his family was <a href="https://www.dailyheraldtribune.com/news/grande-prairie-parent-charged-with-aggravated-assault-child-at-stollery-recovering-from-knife-wounds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">concerned</a> he was still a safety threat, so they successfully petitioned for a psychiatric hold that allows a doctor to keep someone for 30 days. Attwood was kept in the hospital for several days, but he was released again on Tuesday, earlier than his family hoped.
In a Facebook live <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?mibextid=wwXIfr&amp;ref=watch_permalink&amp;v=648551841020764&amp;rdid=y9eSlT0InZ7IQyEf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> recorded by a man who confronted Attwood at his home after the incident, Attwood identified himself by name and appeared to admit to hurting his children.
&#8220;I felt super stuck, and so I stabbed my child &#8217;cause I was scared we were going to get picked up by human traffickers,&#8221; Attwood told the man recording.
&#8220;I stabbed my daughter in the shoulder, that&#8217;s what I did, above her clavicle,&#8221; Attwood said. &#8220;I felt like I was possessed or something, like I lost my mind.&#8221;
Attwood said he did not intend to kill his children but that he wanted to &#8220;get my kids out of this situation.&#8221;
&#8220;So why&#8217;d you stab your kid? To get them out of what situation?&#8221; the man recording asked.
&#8220;Being f***ing stuck with me,&#8221; Attwood responded. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been trying to tell people, I can&#8217;t just have these kids.&#8221;
&#8220;I was a good parent,&#8221; he added later.
&#8220;I feel like I got f***ing isolated here,&#8221; he said, adding that people are rarely able to watch his children and that his car is broken.
Later in the video, Attwood said he &#8220;wanted to have my kids before I transitioned&#8221; and that &#8220;being trans isn&#8217;t a mental problem. I have other mental problems.&#8221;
&#8220;Just do some soul-searching man, and pray to God, man, and repent,&#8221; the man recording told him.
&#8220;I am, I am,&#8221; Attwood responded.
In one <a href="https://www.facebook.com/reel/958382149549331" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a>, Attwood said he had been on leave from work for years and collects government disability benefits from his EMT job with Alberta Health Services.
A GoFundMe account for Attwood set up last year <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/donations-for-debt-relief-current-bills-and-food" target="_blank" rel="noopener">raised</a> about $1,640. On the fundraiser page, Attwood described struggling to care for his two youngest children by himself while being separated from his partner, ending up homeless twice, and suffering with fibromyalgia.
He described wanting to get certifications for some kind of work, but said &#8220;I don&#8217;t have the energy to get into a regular workforce job again.&#8221;
Attwood said he also made money giving &#8220;oracle readings&#8221; to people, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/reel/958382149549331" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to social media posts.
On his YouTube channel, Attwood has <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@Ravenfortruth/videos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recorded</a> lengthy &#8220;podcasts&#8221; with various LGBT guests that garnered a few dozen views each.
His social media is filled with pro-transgender and anti-Trump posts, as well as videos of himself talking about political issues.
Attwood has a court date on March 13 in Grande Prairie, Alberta.

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The Department of Health and Human Services is spending more than $400,000 in taxpayer funds to research the alleged role of “structural racism’s” effects on substance use and HIV outcomes.
The University of California Los Angeles will receive <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_R01DA061345_7529">just under $440,000</a> from the National Institute on Drug Abuse as it works to blame differences in HIV and substance abuse treatment outcomes on an overarching system of oppression.
“It is well established that racial disparities in HIV care outcomes and use of substances among sexual minority men (SMM) of color persist because of structural racism in Los Angeles County,” the abstract’s opening line <a href="https://reporter.nih.gov/search/tOdEyhgo1UaPJS0JbgaWsQ/project-details/10986884">claims</a>.
The UCLA study seeks to “interrogate” how “historical racist practices influence unequal spatial patterns and how such unequal structural factors are associated with distinct patterns of movement across social and geographic space” among black and Latino “sexual minority men.”
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The description for the grant program, which began in September 2024 and extends until July 2029, explains that the academics will use “Critical Race Praxis” and “intersectional anti-racism frameworks.”
It goes on to explain the alleged necessity of the study, arguing that “understanding how structural racism influences how BLSMM navigate the geography of LAC to receive SU and HIV care and how peer case managers, with racial and SU congruence, may enhance access to care will provide novel insights into the relationship between racism and HIV and SU treatment.”
UCLA will collaborate with researchers at the University of California Santa Barbara and the Los Angeles LGBT Center, which The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-government-to-drop-over-1-5-million-funding-lgbt-youth-mentorship-and-campus-activism">recently reported</a> is set to receive $1.5 million from the Department of Health and Human Services to fund its youth mentorship and campus activism programs.
The UCLA study is one of many ideologically-tinged projects set to receive government funding. The Department of Health and Human Services has also agreed to fund the University of Houston study on “systemic inflammation” caused by “fear of deportation,” The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/government-to-fund-study-on-fear-of-deportation-leading-to-systemic-inflammation">reported</a>.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has also been used as a vehicle to advance far-left ideology, with a Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/27-of-national-science-foundation-grants-went-to-dei-projects-study-finds">investigation</a> revealing that 27% of all grants from the NSF went to support diversity, equity, and inclusion projects. Among the leftwing pet-projects raking in taxpayer funding through the NSF was a project at Columbia University to “decolonize geoscience” and another complaining that the academic peer review process is racist.
A representative for the UCLA study did not respond to a request for comment.

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