The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nashville" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nashville</a> Metro Employee Benefit Board voted against covering transgender treatments for city employees on Wednesday despite lobbying by the city’s Democratic mayor, John Cooper.
Cooper told board members that adding such treatments and sex-change surgeries to city employee insurance coverage would improve employee recruitment and retention. Cooper’s arguments failed to sway most of the board members, according to <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/nashville/2023/06/07/benefits-board-gender-affirming-coverage-city-workers-nashville" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axios</a>.
“Working closely with the LGBTQ caucus, our Administration pushed hard to enact this live-saving change to our health care coverage,” Cooper said in a statement after the measure was voted down. “As a result [of this vote], our trans employees will have to wait at least another year for their rights to be affirmed by their peers on the Benefits Board.”
The vote came the same day that Daily Wire host Matt Walsh <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-walsh-undercover-investigation-catches-trans-health-care-providers-falsifying-patient-info-to-fast-track-sex-change-surgeries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> after an undercover investigation that transgender health care providers are “rubber-stamping” patients to receive transgender treatments even if they do not qualify. The providers purportedly provide letters to patients upon request that argue such procedures should be covered by insurance companies.
The board&#8217;s decision comes amid growing backlash to transgender ideology, especially as the ideology relates to children and grows more pervasive among influential medical groups. Organizations such as the American Medical Association and American Academy of Pediatrics have <a href="https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-states-stop-interfering-health-care-transgender-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">come</a> <a href="https://www.aap.org/en/news-room/news-releases/aap/2018/aap-policy-statement-urges-support-and-care-of-transgender-and-gender-diverse-children-and-adolescents/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">out</a> in support of “gender-affirming care” that includes hormone treatments and sex-change surgeries for minors in recent years.
States are increasingly moving to block such procedures. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed one such law in March that was scheduled to take effect on July 1. The Department of Justice has sued Tennessee over the law, claiming that it violates the 14 Amendment. A related law intended to shield children from sexually explicit performances was blocked by a federal judge last week.
Tennessee Republicans <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tennessee-law-shielding-kids-from-sexually-explicit-performances-ruled-unconstitutional" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slammed</a> the ruling from U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker.
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“I am disappointed with the judge’s decision on Senate Bill 3, which ignored 60 years of Supreme Court precedent allowing regulation of obscene entertainment in the presence of minors. Sadly, this ruling is a victory for those who support exposing children to sexual entertainment,” said Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson (R-Franklin), who authored the bill.

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The University of Oregon is <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=23388" target="_blank" rel="noopener">offering</a> an “emergency fund” for trans-identified students to attain “gender affirming resources,” including sex toys and &#8220;trans vocal lessons.&#8221;
The public university <a href="https://dos.uoregon.edu/gender-affirming-support-fund" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allows</a> LGBTQ students to request financial assistance to cover transgender treatments, support, and resources under the Gender-Affirming Support Fund. The form is processed through the Office of the Dean of Students in coordination with the Financial Aid Office.
The <a href="https://oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1SbDtYKBQZrKNue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">application</a> describes the fund as “an opportunity for LGBTQIA+ students at the University of Oregon to request emergency funding one time during each academic year to pay for items that impact their sexuality or gender identity.” 
The fund cannot be used to pay for textbooks, tuition, or university fees. Instead, the application points students to a different form. In the application form, students must present their gender identity, the anticipated cost per item, and their circumstances prompting them to apply.
The Gender Affirming Support Fund is but one of the LGBTQ “resources” UO Dean of Students Marcus Langford’s website promotes. The website <a href="https://dos.uoregon.edu/gender-affirming-support" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advertises</a> As You Like It, an “eco-conscious, green, gender-inclusive sex toy shop” in Eugene.
Langford’s website praises the store’s offerings, including packers, binders, gaffs, harnesses, breast forms, and “educational workshops about consent and kink.” The <a href="https://asyoulikeitshop.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">business</a> promotes “healthy and satisfying sex lives by offering a high-quality selection of non-toxic, body safe sex toys, lubes, and many other eco-sexy goodies for everybody and every body.”
In addition to this program, UO also offers <a href="https://dos.uoregon.edu/gender-affirming-support" target="_blank" rel="noopener">services</a> such as, “Letters of support for medical transition procedures and services,” “[identification of] trans-affirming referrals and providers,” “Gender-Inclusive Housing,” and “LGBTQIA Scholarships.”
The webpage promotes the services of <a href="https://www.yourlessonsnow.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Your Lessons Now</a>, who teach transgender voice lessons and whose purpose is to “help you find the voice that is true to yourself.” The company seeks to “help develop [clients’] feminine voice, masculine voice, or androgynous voice.”
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In addition, UO’s <a href="https://hedcoclinic.uoregon.edu/clinic/speak-gender-affirming-feminine-communication-therapy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HEDCO Clinic</a> offers “identity-focused counseling support with speech-language services for trans feminine communicators.” According to the website, these “trans feminine voice coaches” also give one-on-one lessons with student instructors.
Langford’s website also <a href="https://dos.uoregon.edu/ally-tips-faculty-staff" target="_blank" rel="noopener">instructs</a> faculty to “avoid binary gendered language” in course instruction. The website discourages the use of “sir” and “ma’am,” “Mr.” and “Ms.,” “ladies and gentlemen,” and “you guys” in favor of “folks,” “people,” and “ducks.”

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Oregon Dean Of Students Promotes ‘LGBTQ Emergency Fund,’ Sex Toy Shop To Students

Oregon Dean Of Students Promotes 'LGBTQ Emergency Fund,' Sex Toy Shop To Students

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This article is adapted from today’s Morning Wire Afternoon Update. To listen to the podcast version, click <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-walsh-undercover-investigation-catches-trans-health-care-providers-falsifying-patient-info-to-fast-track-sex-change-surgeries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Walsh &amp; Producer Expose Transgender &#8216;Health Care&#8217; Providers</a>
Daily Wire host Matt Walsh reported Wednesday that some of the nation’s largest transgender “health care” providers are “rubber-stamping” approvals for life-altering sex-change procedures so insurance companies will cover the medical expenses. In an undercover investigation, Walsh and his team discovered how easy it is to get approved for sex-change surgery when one of the host’s producers got a thumbs up for an orchiectomy — a procedure to remove testicles — after just a 22-minute virtual appointment with Plume, the largest transgender health care provider in the U.S.
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2/ First, some background. Ari Groner is a licensed clinical social worker who educates doctors on “trans healthcare.” At a recent training session for the Juniper Center, Groner explained that she writes whatever letters her patients want, because she’s not a “gatekeeper.” <a href="https://t.co/8CVUWiYetY">pic.twitter.com/8CVUWiYetY</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1666496309535072257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The full story can be read <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-walsh-undercover-investigation-catches-trans-health-care-providers-falsifying-patient-info-to-fast-track-sex-change-surgeries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/see-it-canadian-wildfire-smoke-shrouds-new-york-city-much-of-the-northeast-in-eerie-orange-yellow-haze">Canadian Wildfires Cause Mass Haze Down East Coast </a>
More than 400 Canadian wildfires are worsening air conditions throughout much of the northeast and mid-Atlantic United States. Photos taken yesterday and today show New York City and other locations covered in haze and smoke. These conditions are expected to last for the next few days, and a cold front could move the natural phenomenon ever further south as the week goes on. Dr. Darrien Sutton, a medical doctor and ABC News contributor, advised Americans in the affected areas, especially those in at-risk groups, to stay indoors.
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&quot;I would advise that you stay inside. Specifically, we should not be working out outside.&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/DoctorDarienMD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DoctorDarienMD</a> joins us as dangerous smoke from Canadian wildfires stretch into the U.S., impacting air quality in many states. <a href="https://t.co/dBk8LoNMBQ">pic.twitter.com/dBk8LoNMBQ</a>
&mdash; ABC News Live (@ABCNewsLive) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABCNewsLive/status/1666474179846184962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability has officially filed a resolution to hold FBI Director Christoper Wray in contempt of Congress and will hold a hearing on Thursday. Wray is accused of not complying with a subpoena by refusing to provide Congress with a document detailing an alleged bribery scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national. Chairman of the House Oversight Committee James Comer (R-KY) joined Fox News Tuesday night to discuss the issue.
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James Comer talking tough: 
&quot;I wouldn&#39;t want to be held in contempt and end up in prison being the former head of the FBI.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/WSj4PkIKcw">pic.twitter.com/WSj4PkIKcw</a>
&mdash; Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) <a href="https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1666252280163880960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/armenian-hispanic-parents-clash-with-antifa-school-board-over-lgbtq-agenda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Armenian, Hispanic Parents Clash With Antifa, School Board Over LGBTQ Agenda</a>
Tensions boiled over last night outside a California school board meeting, where parents had shown up to protest gender ideology being taught to their children. Parents and activists squared off against masked Antifa members.
The clash occurred outside the Glendale Unified School District’s headquarters, where parents, many from L.A.’s Armenian and Hispanic communities, were blasting board members for promoting a pro-LGBTQ agenda to young children. Other speakers, including a man in a skirt and high heels, showed up in support of the district’s pro-Pride agenda.
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Fighting breaks out in Glendale between Armenian American parents and progressive activists over the teaching of sexual materials in school.
This only reinforces my view Armenians are the most underappreciated expat community in modern America.<a href="https://t.co/htKsCnD1ek">pic.twitter.com/htKsCnD1ek</a>
&mdash; Ben Kew 🏌️‍♂️ (@ben_kew) <a href="https://twitter.com/ben_kew/status/1666281729135345665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Parents told board members inside and media covering the confrontation outside that they opposed pushing the pro-LGBTQ agenda on children.
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Armenian gigachad rips the Glendale School Board for letting boys use the bathroom with his daughter and then tells the LGBT activists in the room &quot;these fake people will go away and we will vote every one of you out.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/iDb7vNa5jk">pic.twitter.com/iDb7vNa5jk</a>
&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1666287237317664771?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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For its part, the Glendale school district says, &#8220;parents/guardians may not opt their child out of any lesson referencing LGBTQ+ individuals and history,&#8221; as dictated by The California FAIR Education Act.
2024 GOP Update
Three new candidates have hopped into the 2024 GOP presidential primary over the last 24 hours: Former Vice President Mike Pence, current North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
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I believe in the American people, and I have faith God is not done with America yet. Together, we can bring this Country back, and the best days for the Greatest Nation on Earth are yet to come! 🇺🇸 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Pence2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Pence2024</a> <a href="https://t.co/A8EkqgCDAm">pic.twitter.com/A8EkqgCDAm</a>
&mdash; Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence) <a href="https://twitter.com/Mike_Pence/status/1666377457157668865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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That brings the primary race to 10 major candidates so far with seven months until the first in the nation GOP New Hampshire primary.
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Wednesday Afternoon Update: Matt Walsh And Team Expose ‘Trans Health Care’ Providers, Will FBI Director Be Held In Contempt Of Congress?

Wednesday Afternoon Update: Matt Walsh And Team Expose 'Trans Health Care' Providers, Will FBI Director Be Held In Contempt Of Congress?

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Twitter owner Elon Musk had a very succinct comment on Matt Walsh’s Wednesday tweet thread <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-walsh-undercover-investigation-catches-trans-health-care-providers-falsifying-patient-info-to-fast-track-sex-change-surgeries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">uncovering frightening practices</a> by health care providers specializing in sex-change procedures. 
In an undercover investigation, Walsh and his team found that Plume and Folx, two of the largest transgender health care providers in the U.S., appear to be rubber-stamping approvals for life-altering sex-change operations — and allegedly even falsely representing health information about patients — so insurance companies will cover the medical expenses.
During the investigation, Walsh and his team discovered how easy it is to get approved for sex-change surgery when one of the host’s producers got a thumbs up for an orchiectomy — a procedure to remove testicles — after just a 22-minute virtual appointment with Plume, the largest transgender health care provider in the U.S.
“Insane!!” Musk responded under Walsh’s Twitter thread. 
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Insane!!
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1666500100783218698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Walsh’s producer Gregg Re got scheduled for a video call with Plume after providing a fake name on an intake form. Re made it clear that he had not been experiencing gender dysphoria for six months or more, he mispronounced the name of the surgery he wanted, and he said he didn’t know what effect the surgery would have on him. Yet, Plume’s nurse practitioner told Re “she wanted to write the most ‘solid’ letter possible to justify surgery,” Walsh explained. 
Three days later, Plume sent a letter to Re, who said his name was “Chelsea Bussey,” saying Re was experiencing “significant, ongoing gender dysphoria” — despite “Bussey” stating unequivocally that this was not the case — and recommending “Chelsea” for testicle removal. Walsh said that in a text message to Re, Plume explained that the letters of recommendation are sent using a template based on standards provided by the radical World Professional Association for Transgender Health, also known as WPATH. Plume sells letters of recommendation for $150 to those seeking transgender surgeries. 
This isn’t the first time Musk has engaged with Walsh’s work. Last week, the SpaceX and Tesla CEO responded after his platform <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitter-cancels-deal-with-the-daily-wire-to-stream-what-is-a-woman-over-misgendering-will-label-film-hateful-conduct" target="_blank" rel="noopener">canceled</a> a deal to stream Walsh’s groundbreaking documentary “What is a Woman?” and retweeted the film to his 140 million followers. 
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“Every parent should watch this,” Musk said of “What is a Woman?” 
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Every parent should watch this <a href="https://t.co/pIp6UP6vq8">https://t.co/pIp6UP6vq8</a>
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1664609193230204929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Elon Musk Has One-Word Response To Matt Walsh’s Trans Health Care Investigation

Elon Musk Has One-Word Response To Matt Walsh's Trans Health Care Investigation

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Dozens of Muslim and Christian parents showed up Tuesday at a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/maryland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maryland</a> school board meeting to protest a new policy that would stop letting parents opt their children out of reading LGBT books in school.
A large and vocal group of parents and other demonstrators protested outside the Montgomery County Public Schools headquarters in Rockville, Maryland, where the school board was preparing to discuss the rule change.
The group of parental rights demonstrators appear to be majority Muslim in video clips from the protest that were posted to social media.
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Security decided to allow 30 people from each side of the issue (pro-LGBT versus pro-&quot;opt-out&quot;) to come into the MoCo School Board meeting.
&quot;Percentage not number!&quot; chanted the opt-out side, claiming they had a bigger presence outside, so more should be allowed in. Not granted. <a href="https://t.co/uWDRIwrv64">pic.twitter.com/uWDRIwrv64</a>
&mdash; Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) <a href="https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1666195811904937998?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 6, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The protesters chanted &#8220;Not Your Children,&#8221; &#8220;Protect Our Children,&#8221; and &#8220;Religious Freedom Now,&#8221; and carried signs reading, &#8220;Restore Opt Out,&#8221; and &#8220;Family Rights.&#8221;
The demonstration was organized by the parental rights groups Family Rights for Religious Freedom and Moms for Liberty.
A significantly smaller group of counter-protesters also showed up carrying rainbow LGBT flags. They expressed support for scrapping the parental opt-out option, with one sign reading, &#8220;Keep MCPS Free From Hate.&#8221;
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Security for the school board meeting can be seen on video <a href="https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1666195811904937998" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> they will allow 30 people from each side of the issue to enter the board meeting.
The parents protesting the rule change can be heard in the video saying they have hundreds of demonstrators, many more than showed up to counter-protest in favor of the rule stripping parents of the option to opt out of LGBT content.
First, 30 parental rights demonstrators entered the school board meeting, and then 30 pro-LGBT content activists entered the building, passing by their opponents who shouted, &#8220;Protect our children!&#8221; as they passed, according to video footage.
During the board meeting, a former student in the district, a young girl wearing a hijab, addressed the board.
&#8220;Freedom of religion is a fundamental human right that protects the conscience of all people. It allows us to think, express, and act upon what we deeply believe,&#8221; the girl <a href="https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1666198033833287703" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;The issue of gender and sexuality are influenced by our faith, and we should not be caricatured as intolerant.&#8221;
&#8220;I respectfully request the restoration of the opt-out option at MCPS,&#8221; she said.
One Muslim mother spoke in favor of getting rid of the opt-out option, <a href="https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1666200167748456448" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> that &#8220;gender-fluid people have been part of Islamic societies from the beginning.&#8221;
Montgomery County Councilmember Kristin Mink also spoke at the school board meeting.
&#8220;This issue has unfortunately put some, not all of course, some Muslim families on the same side of an issue as white supremacists, and outright bigots. However, the folks I&#8217;ve talked to here today, I would not put in the same category as those folks, although it&#8217;s again complicated.&#8221;
An audience member called out &#8220;False!&#8221; at Mink&#8217;s comment referencing white supremacists, and several in the audience shook their heads.
Three families are suing the Montgomery County Board of Education and Superintendent Monifa McKnight over getting rid of the opt-out option, claiming their First Amendment rights have been violated.
The lawsuit claims the LGBT children&#8217;s books &#8220;Pride Puppy&#8221; and &#8220;Love, Violet&#8221; were added to the curriculum.
Also on Tuesday, across the country in Glendale, California, protesters and counter-protesters erupted into physical violence over the local district pushing LGBT themes.
The clash occurred while the Glendale Unified School District board met to vote on a resolution recognizing June as Pride Month and committing to a &#8220;safe, inclusive, and nurturing environment&#8221; for students. The resolution ended up passing.
Three of the Glendale protesters were <a href="https://laist.com/news/at-least-3-arrested-outside-glendale-school-board-meeting-as-pro-and-anti-lgbtq-protesters-clash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a>.

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WATCH: Muslim And Christian Parents Show Up In Force To Protest LGBT Books At Maryland School Board

Muslim And Christian Parents Protest LGBT Books At Maryland School Board

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Republican Missouri Governor Mike Parson <a href="https://apnews.com/article/transgender-missouri-republican-govenrnor-sports-d0d3ef01544dc7c22592d8ca2464138b?taid=6480bd9fd4faf0000139a7db&amp;utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&amp;utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_source=Twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> two bills Wednesday that will ban transgender treatments for minors and prevent men from competing in women’s sports.
SB 49, known as the Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act, will ban puberty blockers, hormones, and sex change surgeries from being prescribed to minors and prohibit Medicaid from covering transgender treatments for adults.  
The Republican governor released a <a href="https://governor.mo.gov/press-releases/archive/governor-parson-signs-legislation-protect-missouri-children-and-female" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> saying the bill will “protect Missouri children from harmful, irreversible treatments and procedures. These decisions have permanent consequences for life and should not be made by impressionable children who may be in crisis or influenced by the political persuasions of others.”
Missouri Republicans in the state House and Senate often disagreed on how far the restrictions in the SAFE Act should go, with each chamber passing its own version of the bill. Ultimately, the House adopted the Senate’s version, which allows minors who are already receiving treatment to continue to do so. The SAFE Act is set to expire in 2027 as part of a Republican compromise with state Senate Democrats.
The Act’s passage comes a day after a federal judge <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-judge-temporarily-blocks-florida-ban-on-prescribing-puberty-blockers-cross-sex-hormones-to-minors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">granted</a> a preliminary injunction against a similar Florida law to allow three minors already undergoing transgender treatments to continue receiving them. 
The other piece of legislation signed by Parson, SB 39, will strip all state funding from any public or private school that allows biological men to play in women’s sports.  The law applies to all schools from kindergarten through college.
“Women and girls deserve and have fought for an equal opportunity to succeed, and with this legislation today, we stand up to the nonsense and stand with them as they take back their sport competitions,” Parson said. “In Missouri, we support real fairness, not injustice disguised as social righteousness.”
The ACLU of Missouri said it would “explore all options to fight these bans and to expand the rights of trans Missourians.” 
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In anticipation of the SAFE Act’s passage, Planned Parenthood’s clinics in Missouri have been ramping up appointments and holding pop-up clinics so more patients can initiate treatment before the law takes effect.
“We will continue to do everything in our power to ensure all patients are supported, seen, and cared for,” said Yamelsie Rodríguez, president and CEO, Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, in a statement. “Any patient wanting to continue their gender-affirming care in a state that welcomes people of all identities: our Fairview Heights, Illinois, health center is open to you and we are here to help you make plans to get care.”

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson Holds Press Conference On Planned Parenthood License

Missouri Governor Signs Bills Banning Transgender Treatments For Minors, Protecting Women’s Sports

Missouri Governor Signs Bills Banning Transgender Treatments For Minors, Protecting Women's Sports

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joy-behar-whitesplains-racism-to-actual-black-americans-tim-scott-and-clarence-thomas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joy Behar</a> sounded like she&#8217;s fine with sex changes for minors, saying, &#8220;it&#8217;s not like they&#8217;re 80% of the population&#8221; as she slammed Republicans for passing bills that banned such procedures.
&#8220;<a href="https://twitter.com/TheView/status/1666482934277128192?s=20">The View</a>&#8221; co-host made the comments on Wednesday&#8217;s broadcast while speaking to Elliot Page — the actor formerly known as Ellen Page who now identifies as a man — about the star&#8217;s new memoir titled, &#8220;Pageboy.&#8221;
The two discussed GOP-led bills passed across the country to stop minors from undergoing irreversible surgeries under the guise of &#8220;gender-affirming care.&#8221;
<a href="https://twitter.com/TheView/status/1666476414093205508?s=20">Page</a> said it felt like the right time to write the book because we live in a time &#8220;that is so especially rife with anti-trans rhetoric, lies, misinformation.&#8221;
Behar then asked Page about Republicans she claimed &#8220;are continuing to introduce hundreds of anti-trans bills&#8221; that will ban so-called &#8220;gender-affirming health care for transgender youth.&#8221;
&#8220;Why do you think the transgender community is being attacked like this?&#8221; Behar asked. &#8220;What is that about? I mean it&#8217;s not like they&#8217;re 80% of the population.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/TheElliotPage?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheElliotPage</a> calls the rise in anti-trans laws a &quot;political tool to gain votes, &#8230; to distract people &#8230; from real issues that are happening in our society that do need to be addressed.&quot;
&quot;There&#39;s such an inundation of lies and misinformation.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/cVclFZQmjA">https://t.co/cVclFZQmjA</a> <a href="https://t.co/0oULt2rwjv">pic.twitter.com/0oULt2rwjv</a>
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The &#8220;Juno&#8221; star said the bills by Republican lawmakers were probably a &#8220;political tool to gain votes.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s to make people upset,&#8221; Page added. &#8220;It&#8217;s to distract people from, scare people from real issues that are happening in our society that do need to be addressed.&#8221;
Page didn&#8217;t explain further what these &#8220;real issues&#8221; were.
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Page <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elliot-page-lands-time-magazine-cover-talks-of-transgender-surgery">announced</a> to the world in December 2020 the actor was transgender, about six years after coming out as a lesbian. In a March 2021 issue of <a href="https://time.com/5947032/elliot-page-2/">Time magazine</a>, Page discussed undergoing transgender surgery.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/smells-fishy-elliot-page-being-compared-to-jussie-smollett-over-alleged-transphobic-attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8216;Smells Fishy&#8217;: Elliot Page Being Compared To Jussie Smollett Over Alleged &#8216;Transphobic Attack&#8217;</a>

Joy Behar

Joy Behar Seems Fine With Sex Changes For Minors: ‘It’s Not Like They’re 80% Of The Population’

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One of the arguments you hear a lot in the debate over gender ideology, across the political spectrum, is that adults should be able to do what they want. This is the supposedly &#8220;moderate&#8221; position. Several presidential candidates believe it. Millions of Americans believe it, too. As long as you stay away from the kids, they tell you, then there&#8217;s no problem. The moment you hit 18-years-old, do what you want. &#8220;Live your truth.&#8221;
It&#8217;s not hard to see why that position is tempting for so many people. Children obviously can&#8217;t consent to life-altering procedures, including genital mutilation and castration. Adults, on the other hand, are able to consent to a lot of things. They can vote, buy guns, and serve in the military. So, if they want to pay a doctor to carve up their bodies, then what&#8217;s the big deal? That&#8217;s the argument you hear again and again.
No one really means it, though. And you know that because none of the people making that argument would use the same reasoning to justify, say, lobotomies. If you walked into a doctor&#8217;s office today and asked him to drill a hole in your head and sever your prefrontal cortex in order to make you feel better about your life, he&#8217;d say no. If he did it, he&#8217;d go to prison. No amount of informed consent — no matter how old you were — could possibly justify it. It&#8217;s barbaric. Tens of thousands of people&#8217;s lives were ruined by lobotomies. And everyone recognizes that now. No one&#8217;s marching in defense of &#8220;lobotomy-affirming care.&#8221;
So, if you defend these gruesome &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; procedures on adults, you&#8217;re not really saying that adults should be able to do what they want. You&#8217;re saying that, yes, people can change their sex if they want. You&#8217;re conceding that these procedures — slicing up a woman’s arm to make a fake penis, lopping off healthy breasts, grafting fake nipples onto patients&#8217; chests, et cetera — are medically reasonable. And in the absence of any kind of statistical data about positive long-term outcomes of these surgeries, you&#8217;re trusting the doctors to follow an established standard of care. You&#8217;re assuming they&#8217;re not going to just mutilate anyone who walks in the door, without regard for what happens to these people afterwards.
The problem is that the entire industry of &#8220;gender affirming care&#8221; is a scam. We know that because we just spent weeks investigating the largest providers of so-called &#8220;trans healthcare&#8221; in the country. We went undercover at one of them.
What we found is that there are no real &#8220;standards of care&#8221; governing any of this. To be clear, there are &#8220;standards of care&#8221; on paper, and they&#8217;re provided by the transgender activist group WPATH. WPATH&#8217;s standards are used by major hospitals in this country, including UCLA, UCSF, and Mass General, just to name a few.
How rigorous are these standards, exactly? After a 22-minute video call, the largest &#8220;trans healthcare&#8221; provider in the country — carefully following the WPATH guidelines — approved one of my producers, Gregg Re, for an orchiectomy. That means testicle removal. Now, 22 minutes would be a record time to get approved for an orchiectomy if you had a real medical reason for it, like testicular cancer. It&#8217;s insane to approve any serious procedure that quickly, having just met a patient on a video call for the first time. But that&#8217;s what happened.
We recorded the whole call. At no point did anyone at this health care provider, which is called &#8220;Plume,&#8221; push back in any way. They didn&#8217;t suggest that maybe, this was a rash course of action. They didn&#8217;t verify any of the information Gregg provided, including his fake legal name. All &#8220;Plume&#8221; did was insist that he pay $150. If Gregg did that, they promised to write him a medically sound letter in support of life-altering surgery. That letter, under the WPATH standards, is required for anyone trying to get transgender surgery in the United States. You have to get one of these letters from a healthcare provider and present it to your surgeon. And Plume rubber-stamped Gregg&#8217;s letter in 22 minutes. And not all of that time was spent discussing the surgery, by the way. Some of the conversation was about traffic, and the weather. 
We&#8217;ve uploaded footage of the call <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on Twitter</a>. In this video call, Gregg assumed the name &#8220;Chelsea Bussey.&#8221; He did not dress up as a woman. He didn&#8217;t wear any women&#8217;s clothing or makeup. He didn&#8217;t go to Party City and dye his hair blue. He just told them he identified as a woman and that he was taking hormones prescribed by his father. Gregg couldn&#8217;t even pronounce the name of the surgery he wanted, calling it an &#8220;orchi-dect-omy.&#8221; He claimed at one point that the reason he wanted the surgery is that it would speed up his nonexistent transition, which the Plume nurse said didn&#8217;t make any sense from a medical perspective. But none of this raised any red flags for Plume. The nurse told Gregg she wanted to write him the strongest letter she could. Watch:
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10/ Plume quickly scheduled Gregg for a video interview anyway. He assumed the identity &quot;Chelsea Bussey.” He didn’t even attempt to pass. He badly mispronounced the name of the surgery he wanted. He made it clear he didn&#39;t know what effect the surgery would have. <a href="https://t.co/ph8UbM3i6r">pic.twitter.com/ph8UbM3i6r</a>
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11/ Nevertheless, Plume’s nurse practitioner said she wanted to write the most &quot;solid&quot; letter possible to justify surgery. Gregg tells her that he once wrote an essay in school about being a woman, which everyone thought was ridiculous. <a href="https://t.co/iY7Ec3Q1wd">pic.twitter.com/iY7Ec3Q1wd</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1666496334226939919?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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12/ Gregg also tells Plume’s nurse practitioner that his father has been prescribing him hormones for years. The nurse doesn’t question this in any way. Instead, she says that arrangement is “perfect.” <a href="https://t.co/YsB4BEkUpu">pic.twitter.com/YsB4BEkUpu</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1666496338035367937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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A couple days after that interview, as we documented on Twitter, Plume sent Gregg a letter diagnosing him with significant and ongoing gender dysphoria. Therefore, Plume said, he was an &#8220;appropriate candidate for Orchiectomy.&#8221; According to Plume, testicle removal would help Gregg make &#8220;significant progress&#8221; in alleviating his dysphoria. Even after Gregg followed up with text messages to Plume, explaining that he doesn&#8217;t have dysphoria, they didn&#8217;t retract or amend that letter in any way.
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13/ Three days later, Plume sent this letter to &quot;Chelsea Bussey” – who does not exist &#8212; saying he was experiencing &quot;significant, ongoing gender dysphoria.” The letter strongly recommended “Chelsea” for testicle removal. <a href="https://t.co/WzIMsjygS6">pic.twitter.com/WzIMsjygS6</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1666496344045805575?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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There&#8217;s no excuse for that. Plume had multiple opportunities to tell the truth in their letter, and they chose not to. In his intake form, Gregg indicated he didn&#8217;t have dysphoria for 6 months or more. That means, under the current version of the DSM, he never should have been diagnosed with it in the first place. But Plume never once asked Gregg about this in his video interview. Instead they just said he had dysphoria in his letter, which they intended to be used by a surgeon who would then carve up Gregg&#8217;s testicles.
Why didn&#8217;t Plume amend the letter once they were made aware that Gregg didn&#8217;t have dysphoria? As Plume&#8217;s nurse explained, &#8220;in order for the surgery to be paid for,&#8221; the diagnosis would need to remain. In other words, insurance companies won&#8217;t pay for the operation unless the letter contains a diagnosis of gender dysphoria. That&#8217;s why Plume uses templates that include the gender dysphoria diagnostic code. It appears that they plug whatever information patients feed them into the template, whether or not those patients actually have the diagnosis. The templates are provided by WPATH, by the way — Plume admitted that to us.
It&#8217;s not hard to conclude that this operation is fraudulent, but what do insurers think of it? What&#8217;s Aetna and United Healthcare&#8217;s position on paying for surgeries based on cooked-up diagnostic codes? How about Cigna? We understand those insurance companies work directly with Plume. What about David Sacks, whose venture capital firm is one of many that&#8217;s funding Plume? What are his thoughts on this? Is he aware this is happening? Those are good questions. 
But the problem is much bigger than Plume. They&#8217;re far from the only ones doing this. 
Folx, for example, is a major competitor of Plume. They&#8217;re in almost every state in the country. They&#8217;re also extremely well-funded by venture capitalists. Folx, like Plume, also sells letters that authorize surgeries under the WPATH guidelines. On their website, Folx admits, &#8220;It&#8217;s quite possible the information in a letter may not be specific to you. For example, they may use a gender dysphoria diagnosis, but you really do not have dysphoria&#8230; You may not fit this diagnostic code exactly, but in some cases, the code is needed in order for insurers to pay for the surgery.&#8221; We reached out to Folx to ask about this. They confirmed that a &#8220;diagnosis&#8221; — in scare quotes — was necessary in order for insurance companies to pay out.
Again, that&#8217;s probably news to the insurance companies. But the bigger issue, of course, is what&#8217;s happening to the patients who are mutilated as part of this process. It&#8217;s not just Plume and Folx who are authorizing surgeries like this. There&#8217;s a whole network of doctors who crank out these letters. It&#8217;s called the Gender Affirmative Letter Access Project, or G.A.L.A.P.
Think of the lives these doctors and these companies are destroying for profit. If they&#8217;ll approve Gregg for castration, they&#8217;ll approve anyone. Many of the luminaries in the field will admit that, by the way. On Twitter, we highlighted this training session from the Juniper Center, which is one of the largest gender therapy practices in the Chicago land area. Watch as the licensed clinical social worker, named Ari Groner, explains that she&#8217;ll rubber-stamp whatever letter patients want. She says she&#8217;ll even authorize a suicidal patient for surgery, because she&#8217;s not a &#8220;gatekeeper.&#8221; In fact, Groner says that if her patient is suicidal, that would just make the case for surgery even stronger. Listen to this:
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2/ First, some background. Ari Groner is a licensed clinical social worker who educates doctors on “trans healthcare.” At a recent training session for the Juniper Center, Groner explained that she writes whatever letters her patients want, because she’s not a “gatekeeper.” <a href="https://t.co/8CVUWiYetY">pic.twitter.com/8CVUWiYetY</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1666496309535072257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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If you&#8217;re defending &#8220;gender affirming care&#8221; for adults, this is what you&#8217;re supporting. You&#8217;re saying it&#8217;s reasonable for medical professionals to listen to a suicidal patient, who isn&#8217;t thinking clearly, and approve them for surgical castration within minutes. You&#8217;re saying there should be no barriers to this kind of mutilation, whatsoever. At that point, why not bring back lobotomies? What&#8217;s the serious, principled argument against it?
No serious person can defend this industry. It&#8217;s completely corrupted, at every level. It&#8217;s not just targeting children, although it&#8217;s certainly doing that as well. The underlying claims and promises of the entire &#8220;gender affirmation&#8221; industry are lies, and the lies are propped up by even more lies. And we’ll have much more on WPATH soon, and how they became so prominent in this field. It&#8217;s a truly disturbing story. Their supposedly rigorous standards of care are purpose-built to be manipulated, as we&#8217;ve now revealed. 
The practical effect of these WPATH standards isn&#8217;t to protect patients. Instead, the WPATH standards protect doctors who butcher their patients. These doctors understand that they need to follow some &#8220;standard of care,&#8221; or else they&#8217;ll eventually get sued into the ground for malpractice by the patients they&#8217;re disfiguring. So medical providers point to the WPATH standards, and say, &#8220;look — we followed those standards. These gruesome surgeries are in fact legitimate medical care!&#8221;
Now it&#8217;s time to put an end to this. Insurance companies should cut off these providers. Investors should stop funding this barbarism. And at the political level, we need laws so that any doctor who mutilates patients, or lies to insurance companies, goes to prison — regardless of the patients&#8217; age. Florida recently <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/desantis-signs-florida-ban-gender-affirming-treatment-transgender-minors-2023-05-17/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed a law</a> outlawing, among other things, &#8220;trans telehealth&#8221; services. They require in-person visits for most of these procedures. That&#8217;s a start — which is why the media and the trans activists are furious about it. They&#8217;re probably going to sue to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1178-you-won-t-believe-what-we-discovered-in-our-undercover-investigation-of-gender-affirming-care">block</a> that portion of the law, just like they blocked the part of the law outlawing child castration yesterday.
But once people see the truth about what&#8217;s happening, the radical gender activists won&#8217;t win that fight. That&#8217;s why we published our investigation today. The truth is obvious and undeniable. Now that the &#8220;standards of care&#8221; have been exposed for what they are, there&#8217;s nothing to stop a flood of lawsuits that could shut down these butchers. We saw it in the U.K. with Tavistock. If something like that happens here, it could save tens of thousands of lives.
This investigation is just one part of what we have planned for Pride Month. We&#8217;re going to expose the full extent of the depravity that you&#8217;re told to believe is &#8220;medically legitimate.&#8221; We&#8217;re going to show you the truth behind all the euphemisms. We&#8217;re going to reveal how exactly activists have managed to hijack the medical profession so they can mutilate patients for profit. 
This is just the beginning.

We Just Proved The Gender Affirming Care Industry Is A Scam

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-walsh-megyn-kelly-slam-u-s-navy-using-drag-queen-sailor-for-recruitment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Megyn Kelly</a> asked how anyone could vote for Democrats, which she described as the &#8220;party that&#8217;s in favor of letting minors chop&#8221; off their body parts after left-wing politicians tried to <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/05/17/transgender-healthcare-states-democrats" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stop the passage of bills</a> banning transgender surgeries on minors.
During the Sirius XM &#8220;The Megyn Kelly Show&#8221; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTul5W-svGc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">podcast</a> on Tuesday, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/absolute-humiliation-megyn-kelly-slams-chrissy-teigen-appearing-at-whcd-in-non-existent-dress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">host</a> was speaking with guest conservative radio talk show host Jesse Kelly about New Mexico Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan signing a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/17/politics/new-mexico-abortion-access-gender-affirming-care-law/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a> to &#8220;permit minors to access &#8216;cross-gender care&#8217; and abortions without parental knowledge or consent.&#8221;
Jesse talked about his new book &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=the+anti-communist+manifesto&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjw1YCkBhAOEiwA5aN4AVNXcD__V87BPQmMFHuALqvJpe5VvFD5UcCdwIXP9wO4naiLodbw9hoCg2wQAvD_BwE&amp;hvadid=657261582628&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvlocphy=9013184&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvqmt=e&amp;hvrand=3903224137141615456&amp;hvtargid=kwd-1956437418180&amp;hydadcr=15517_13657462&amp;tag=googhydr-20&amp;ref=pd_sl_2k1l26lnfb_e" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Anti-Communist Manifesto</a>&#8221; and said, &#8220;We&#8217;re not going to share a society and shouldn&#8217;t share a society with people who believe my 14-year-old son should chop his penis off and pretend he&#8217;s a woman.&#8221;
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&#8220;There&#8217;s no common values there at all&#8230;I don&#8217;t want to share a nation with any demon who wants these young girls and young boys mutilated,&#8221; he added, noting the girls who have spoken out after detransitioning who had double mastectomies and will never able to nurse their children.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/megyn-kelly-goes-viral-with-7-word-response-to-dylan-mulvaney-complaining-about-being-labeled-a-man" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Megyn</a> agreed, calling it &#8220;evil,&#8221; then got personal about the life-changing moment after she gave birth, when she breastfed her children, something these girls will never experience.
&#8220;It is a beautiful moment,&#8221; Kelly said. &#8220;And so to diminish it like there was this one trans doctor/activist who was like &#8216;so what you can have your breasts put back, you can have the fake breasts put back on.&#8217; That&#8217;s not the same. You will never be able to breastfeed once you have that double mastectomy.&#8221;
&#8220;You know, I look at it now, and I don&#8217;t get how you could vote for the party that&#8217;s supporting that,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I really don&#8217;t. I don&#8217;t mean to reduce all the big issues in our country down to the transgender debate because I realize there are a lot of big issues that really affect people&#8217;s families.&#8221;
&#8220;But I mean, how do you vote for a party that&#8217;s in favor of letting minors chop off their breasts, their penises, cut up their vaginas, and &#8216;cross over&#8217; to another gender that they will never be,&#8221; the podcast host continued. &#8220;That has a high likelihood of depressing them further.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-sold-us-a-bill-of-goods-megyn-kelly-says-transgender-movement-has-gone-too-far" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8216;They Sold Us A Bill Of Goods&#8217;: Megyn Kelly Says Transgender Movement Has Gone &#8216;Too Far&#8217;</a>

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Megyn Kelly: How Could Anyone Vote For A ‘Party That’s In Favor Of Letting Minors Chop Off Their’ Body Parts?

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Some of the nation’s largest transgender “health care” providers are rubber-stamping approvals for life-altering sex-change procedures — and even falsely representing health diagnoses of patients — so insurance companies will cover the medical expenses, Daily Wire host Matt Walsh revealed in a tweet thread Wednesday. 
In an undercover investigation, Walsh and his team discovered how easy it is to get approved for sex-change surgery when one of the host’s producers got a thumbs up for an orchiectomy — a procedure to remove testicles — after just a 22-minute virtual appointment with Plume, the largest transgender health care provider in the U.S. 
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🧵1/ BREAKING: The largest “trans healthcare” providers in the U.S. are rubber-stamping letters approving gruesome, life-altering surgeries. It’s such a racket that my producer was approved for testicle removal in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/22minutes?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#22minutes</a>. The tape is disturbing.
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1666496308150951954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Walsh’s producer Gregg Re got scheduled for a video call with Plume after providing a fake name on an intake form. Re made it clear that he had not been experiencing gender dysphoria for six months or more, he mispronounced the name of the surgery he wanted, and he said he didn’t know what effect the surgery would have on him. Yet, Plume’s nurse practitioner told Re “she wanted to write the most ‘solid’ letter possible to justify surgery,” Walsh explained. 
Three days later, Plume sent a letter to Re, who said his name was &#8220;Chelsea Bussey,” saying Re was experiencing &#8220;significant, ongoing gender dysphoria” — despite “Bussey” stating unequivocally that this was not the case — and recommending “Chelsea” for testicle removal. Walsh said that in a text message to Re, Plume explained that the letters of recommendation are sent using a template based on standards provided by the radical World Professional Association for Transgender Health, also known as WPATH. Plume sells letters of recommendation for $150 to those seeking transgender surgeries. 
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13/ Three days later, Plume sent this letter to &quot;Chelsea Bussey” – who does not exist &#8212; saying he was experiencing &quot;significant, ongoing gender dysphoria.” The letter strongly recommended “Chelsea” for testicle removal. <a href="https://t.co/WzIMsjygS6">pic.twitter.com/WzIMsjygS6</a>
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15/ Later, Plume’s nurse practitioner confirmed that &quot;in order for the surgery to be paid for,&quot; the dysphoria diagnosis would need to remain. At the same time, the nurse appeared confused as to why “Chelsea Bussey” had requested testicle removal in the first place. <a href="https://t.co/AocC3z0FQ2">pic.twitter.com/AocC3z0FQ2</a>
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Folx, another popular transgender telehealth service, also approves patients for sex-change procedures even if they are not diagnosed with “gender dysphoria,” according to Walsh.
“Folx, which provides letters authorizing surgeries for a nominal fee, goes on to admit that ‘it’s quite possible’ patients will receive a letter indicating a gender dysphoria diagnosis, even though they ‘really do not have dysphoria,’” Walsh noted. “We reached out to Folx about this. A staff member confirmed that a ‘diagnosis’ of gender dysphoria — with the word ‘diagnosis’ in scare quotes — is a ‘requirement’ for insurance purposes, even if it ‘doesn’t apply.’” 
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6/ Folx, which provides letters authorizing surgeries for a nominal fee, goes on to admit that “it’s quite possible” patients will receive a letter indicating a gender dysphoria diagnosis, even though they “really do not have dysphoria.” <a href="https://t.co/j9x3ZyKmGf">pic.twitter.com/j9x3ZyKmGf</a>
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Ari Groner, a licensed clinical social worker who educates doctors on “trans healthcare,” openly admitted in a video that those seeking transgender surgeries can easily get letters of recommendation.
“At a recent training session for the Juniper Center, Groner explained that she writes whatever letters her patients want, because she’s not a ‘gatekeeper,’” Walsh said, adding that “Groner explains that insurance companies won&#8217;t pay for these surgeries unless the patient is diagnosed with gender dysphoria.”
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3/ Groner was referring to the WPATH standards, which major hospitals follow. They require that trans patients obtain a letter before undergoing surgeries. But Groner tells her audience to treat the letters as a “persuasive essay,&quot; and to green-light even suicidal patients. <a href="https://t.co/dpQe6TCdRP">pic.twitter.com/dpQe6TCdRP</a>
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Walsh and his team dug deeper into how Plume and Folx have expanded across the U.S. with Plume reaching people in 41 states and Folx present in 47 states. 
“The answer is that there’s big money behind this,” Walsh said. “Plume and Folx raised more than $45 million last year. [Craft Ventures] just led Plume&#8217;s $14 million fundraising round. Is [Craft general partner David Sacks] aware this is going on?”
With Plume and Folx operating in most of the U.S., The Daily Wire host asked if medical insurance companies were aware that the transgender medical providers were sending letters of recommendation “based on obviously false information.” 
Walsh concluded his thread by arguing that his investigation revealed yet another dark secret in the “corrupt and fraudulent” transgender medical industry.
“[Trans activists] are furious because they know the ‘gender transition’ industry is corrupt and fraudulent from the ground up,” Walsh said. “Protecting kids is just one piece of the puzzle. The fight begins there, but it doesn&#8217;t end there. The whole industry needs to be shut down.”

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Matt Walsh Undercover Investigation Catches Trans Health Care Providers ‘Rubber-Stamping’ Sex-Change Surgeries

Matt Walsh Undercover Investigation Catches Trans Health Care Providers 'Rubber-Stamping' Sex-Change Surgeries

The Louisiana State Legislature <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/06/politics/louisiana-legislature-gender-affirming-care-ban-minors/index.html">passed</a> a bill banning the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormone therapy, and sex change operations on children, sending the legislation to Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards&#8217; desk.
The State Senate passed the bill along party lines by a vote of 29-10 on Monday, while the State House approved the bill 75-25 on Tuesday. If the bill is signed into law, doctors who provide medical sex change interventions could have their licenses revoked for a minimum of two years.
“Thanks to the bi-partisan support of the Louisiana State Senate, we are one step closer to protecting children in Louisiana from experimental chemical and surgical sex change procedures,” the bill&#8217;s sponsor, state Rep. Gabe Firment, remarked before going on to add &#8220;HB648 has passed both chambers of the state legislature with veto-proof majorities, and the people of Louisiana have made it clear that our children are worth fighting for.&#8221;
&#8220;The passage of this important legislation would not have been possible without the help of courageous detransitioners, brave Louisiana physicians and advocates, and parents and grandparents across our great state,&#8221; he added.
“This isn’t complicated. Kids should not have access to permanent medical procedures in order to affirm an identity that they might outgrow,” Republican Sen. Jeremy Stine <a href="https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-transgender-ban-gender-affirming-care-69a5a545a5ff0adc597a1696657479fa">said</a> in support of the legislation.
While Edwards has not stated whether or not he plans to veto the legislation, he recently <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LouisianaGov/videos/6488740654482964/">claimed</a> that bills regarding LBGT issues are &#8220;damaging&#8221; and do not &#8220;address any real problems.” Republicans have enough members in the State Senate and House to override a potential veto.
The legislation, HB 648, was previously <a href="https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-trans-gender-affirming-care-ban-ff6a5143c309e3239a2c0865a3ab77f7">rejected</a> in committee back in May by a tie-breaking vote from Republican State Sen. Fred Mills, who argued that he “relied on science and data and not political or societal pressures.” Following the initial rejection of the bill, the Senate <a href="https://apnews.com/article/lgbtq-transgender-gender-affirming-ban-louisiana-1e706e85c55800003f6759fbd9b9c6bd">voted</a> 26-11 to reassign it to a new committee, allowing it to be considered a second time.
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If the bill becomes law, Louisiana will join a growing <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/map-gender-affirming-care-targeted-us/story?id=97443087">list of states</a> that have enacted laws defending children from medical sex change attempts. Similar laws have so far been passed and signed into law in Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Arkansas, Mississippi, Utah, Iowa, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Indiana.
&#8220;It is my sincere hope that Governor Edwards will allow this bill to become law, ensuring that Louisiana children receive compassionate mental health care and a future filled with hope, happiness, and opportunity,&#8221; Firment concluded.

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The top lawyer for an embattled Northern Virginia school district has emerged as a central villain in the coverup of a bathroom rape by a skirt-wearing boy, even though he narrowly avoided an indictment in May.
Following The Daily Wire&#8217;s bombshell, October 2021 story of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-schools-tried-to-conceal-sexual-assault-against-daughter-in-bathroom-father-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rape coverup</a> by Loudoun County Public Schools, district officials pledged to hire a law firm to conduct an independent investigation. In-house attorney Robert Falconi apparently steered LCPS’ insurance company to hire his former employer, Blankingship &amp; Keith, for it.
But when the report was finished, LCPS declined to release it to the public — and even refused to hand it over to state Attorney General Jason Miyares. At a court hearing last week, a judge <a href="https://www.loudounnow.com/news/judge-orders-school-boards-independent-report-be-turned-over-to-ag-s-office/article_97472e28-ff27-11ed-b59c-57b873569bcf.html">ordered the district to produce</a> the report to Miyares — but not the public — within a week.
The hearing, part of the criminal prosecution of former Superintendent Scott Ziegler, who was indicted for falsely saying there had been no bathroom sexual assaults, raised questions about Blankingship’s role at Loudoun and who it was really working for. The school district claimed it wouldn’t release the report because of “attorney-client privilege,” but the judge said that Falconi hired the firm and couldn’t show that the “client” — the school board — asked him to invoke the privilege. In fact, school board members weren’t given copies of the report, but Ziegler was.
The judge ruled that attorney-client privilege didn’t apply, and separately said the school district’s lawyers were using “closed-door meetings” to hide information in ways that could violate the Freedom of Information Act.
Last week, a school board member, John Beatty, blamed Falconi for compounding the bathroom rape scandal, saying that he and other board members were not lawyers and had trusted the advice of the district’s lawyer, and that it was <a href="https://wjla.com/news/local/loudoun-county-public-schools-lcps-sexual-assaults-independent-review-judge-ordered-released-court-hearing-superintendent-scott-ziegler-wayde-byard-rape-investigations-glenn-youngkin-virginia-education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bad legal advice</a>.
Shortly after winning election, Miyares launched a special grand jury. Falconi and Blankingship tried to <a href="https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/state-high-court-denies-loudoun-school-board-request-to-file-appeal-under-seal/article_7aab6eee-27d9-11ed-b025-e341d44d7eaf.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shut down</a> the panel and even hide its own arguments for secrecy by filing under seal. Virginia’s Supreme Court ruled that “additional sealing is unwarranted.”
The grand jury&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/grand-jury-finds-virginia-school-bathroom-rape-handling-worse-than-known-rips-officials-intentional-amnesia">fact-finding report</a> suggested that Falconi &#8220;was trying to control the flow of information to the special grand jury by using his position as division counsel to exert control and influence over all LCPS and LCSB individuals subpoenaed to testify. We also received testimony from one school board member that division counsel ‘blew a gasket’ when the school board member informed him that he did not need a lawyer, let alone a lawyer of division counsel’s choosing,&#8221; the report said.
Ziegler falsely claimed that Title IX prevented the school system from removing the rapist from school until his criminal case had been adjudicated — a decision that allowed the youth to sexually assault a second girl in a classroom.
But years-old records reviewed by The Daily Wire cast doubt on claims that Loudoun wasn’t familiar with Title IX, because Falconi had previously worked for neighboring Fairfax County Public Schools, which got into trouble for problems with Title IX. Under Blankingship’s and Falconi’s watch, FCPS was disciplined by the federal government for its failures, and the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) walked it through exactly what it needed to do.
Falconi worked for Blankingship from 2012 to 2017. For at least a decade, the firm has been paid about a <a href="https://www.dobetterfcps.com/fcps-spending" target="_blank" rel="noopener">million</a> dollars a year for legal for work FCPS. Falconi later became in-house counsel for FCPS and then, beginning in August 2021, for LCPS, according to his LinkedIn profile.
In 2012, a girl filed a complaint with OCR alleging that she had pleaded with administrators for help stopping sexual harassment, but they did little. She later filed a supplement “advising of additional instances of rape, anal rape, and physical assault with weapons she endured, as well as death threats directed to her,” according to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/school-system-downplayed-alleged-sexual-misconduct-against-12-year-old-citing-hard-life-of-suspect-suit-claims" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a>. A medical examination corroborated evidence consistent with anal rape.
Thousands of pages of documents reviewed by The Daily Wire show that Falconi and another Blankingship attorney played lead roles in that OCR investigation, in which the federal agency said it had “concerns that the Division does not have a system to track reports of sexual harassment to determine whether there may be a hostile environment at a particular school, whether individual schools are responding in a prompt and appropriate manner to reports of sexual harassment, whether the Division’s efforts to educate students regarding sexual harassment are effective, or whether school-based investigations of reports of sexual harassment are prompt and equitable.”
The other lawyer was John Cafferky, who went on to represent the Loudoun school board in the rape coverup matter as a Blankingship attorney.
In December 2012, the attorneys said they were “baffled” by the request for documents about Title IX compliance, saying “we just don’t store information in the manner requested by OCR. Frankly concerned by the broader scope in this case.” A Fairfax representative told OCR that Title IX training was “not centralized” and “is done in a bunch of ways throughout the system. She stated that the Division does not keep track of it,” according to OCR minutes.
OCR told Fairfax’s attorneys that “the education materials are, in general, much more focused on bullying than on sexual harassment.” It also “expressed concern” that Fairfax had reported no incidents” through the federal government’s Civil Rights Data Collection tool – a situation that was later mirrored when Loudoun falsely reported to a state database that there had been no sexual assaults.
The Fairfax incident also triggered a letter acknowledging that — contrary to what Loudoun would claim years later — Title IX did not mean that schools couldn’t act until a criminal investigation was closed. “FCPS will move forward immediately after witness interviews are conducted by the police and in no case will FCPS wait until the completion of the full police investigation before initiating its own investigation,” a document submitted to OCR said.
In 2014, Fairfax entered into an agreement to settle the complaint, with FCPS agreeing to more faithfully implement Title IX procedures. But a few months later, OCR wrote a letter to Falconi finding a “breach” of the agreement.
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Despite being one of the largest school districts in the country, evidence suggested that Title IX compliance was an informal afterthought in the “Office of Equity and Compliance,” which was tasked with overseeing it. The phrase “Title IX” did not appear at all in district budget documents until 2015.
In 2018, further evidence emerged that Fairfax was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-mcauliffe-linked-law-firm-fighting-virginia-student-who-said-she-was-gang-raped" target="_blank" rel="noopener">still not complying</a> with Title IX or its promises in the 2014 agreement. A second girl sued alleging that administrators failed to protect her after she reported a sexual assault on a bus. After the first incident, &#8220;FCPS agreed to take prompt and robust action to comply with Title IX, which led to creation of the Bullying and Harassment Management System (BHMS),” her lawyers wrote. “As of December 2016, although the system had been in effect for three years, ‘about 30 schools that have never entered anything into the system and most also do not have an appropriate person identified as their Bullying and Harassment Liaison.’”
Instead, the evidence related to her complaint was destroyed, leading a judge to <a href="https://www.whsv.com/content/news/Judge-sanctions-school-system-for-destroying-documents-511980771.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sanction</a> the court system.
In August 2021 LCPS hired Falconi, LCPS went on to its own scandal for its seeming apathy towards Title IX — and Falconi, in turn, hired Blankingship. LCPS declined to comment.

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