On Thursday, the Tennessee Statehouse offered approval of a bill that would allow civil causes of action to be brought against adults aiding minors in accessing transgender procedures without parental consent.
A <a href="https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default.aspx?BillNumber=HB2310&amp;ga=113" target="_blank" rel="noopener">summary</a> of the bill on the Tennessee state legislature’s website states that “as introduced,” the bill “creates a civil cause of action against any person who knowingly removes a minor from this state without the consent of a parent of the minor for the purpose of assisting the minor in obtaining a healthcare procedure that is to enable the minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor&#8217;s sex or treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor&#8217;s sex and asserted identity.”
This means that adults who take such action, assisting minors in leaving the state to obtain cross-sex hormones or to undergo transgender procedures, are liable for taking that action and can be sued. The original version of the bill included criminal penalties for adults in violation of it, but it was amended to only allow for civil penalties for violators.
The <a href="https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-transgender-care-ban-minors-b7b6700f6a54a3788ec0697f065281b6?taid=662ad282ce74510001c0e6ac&amp;utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&amp;utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_source=Twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a> notes that the bill is extremely similar to one approved on Wednesday, which would allow civil action to be taken against adults who assist minors in obtaining an abortion without parental consent. That bill left the state Senate with a 26-3 vote.
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The Tennessee lawmakers&#8217; approval of the bill penalizing adults for helping minors access transgender procedures clears the way for it to go to Republican Governor Bill Lee, who is reportedly expected to sign it into law. Days ago, the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Bryan Richey, said: “At the end of the day, parents should have final say what medical procedures their children are receiving, and nobody else.”
Last year, Lee signed a bill <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-appeals-court-upholds-tennessee-kentuckys-bans-on-transgender-treatments-for-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banning sex-change procedures</a> for minors just months after Daily Wire host Matt Walsh <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/huge-money-maker-video-reveals-vanderbilts-shocking-gender-care-threats-against-dissenting-doctors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exposed</a> details about Vanderbilt University’s gender procedures on children.

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Daily Wire host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/andrew-klavan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Andrew Klavan</a> spoke to a crowd of students at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill on Wednesday, saying that American society’s embrace of transgenderism was teaching people to “live a lie.”
Klavan, who was brought to campus by the Young America’s Foundation, spoke to the college students about modern culture’s conception of the self in a speech entitled, “Sex, God, and Liberty.” During a Q&amp;A session after the speech, Klavan was asked to expound on his thoughts on transgenderism and why so many young people were starting to identify as transgender.
Klavan, host of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-andrew-klavan-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Andrew Klavan Show</a>,” said that he believed that transgenderism denied reality and that people needed to push back acceptance of it in a “loving way.”
“We’re teaching people to live a lie, we’re teaching people that if they can just bully everybody into believing the lie it will somehow magically become true, and that has its roots in postmodern theory where language creates reality, which it just doesn’t. Language describes reality,” Klavan said. &#8220;All of these things to me are tremendously damaging and are going to get worse until people start pushing back against it in a loving way.&#8221;
The bestselling author said that some young people were being pushed to embrace transgenderism because they believed that all men and all women needed to be exactly the same. He said that this belief was leading them to adopt an identity he said would be harmful to them.
“I know people, young people who are having this problem and it breaks my heart because I think that moving into an area of falsehood is going to make them miserable in the long run,”  Klavan said.
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Earlier in his speech, Klavan talked about the push for people to accept the phrase “trans women are women,” a slogan frequently posted across X. Klavan said the problem with the statement was that it was “not true” and it would lead to people living unhappy lives. 
He added that transgender ideology seemed to specifically target women because of the modern disdain for true femininity. 
“I can tell you from a lifetime of experience that if you live by things that are untrue you will be miserable,” Klavan said. “It’s just not a true statement. Words have meanings and the meanings of those words don’t make any sense. You can change, declare the meaning, but we all know what a woman is.”
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Andrew Klavan Urges Americans To Push Back On Transgenderism Because It’s Teaching People To ‘Live A Lie’

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The Biden administration has set out to encourage gender transition attempts among federal bureaucrats, establishing gender transition support plans, holding trainings pushing Left-wing gender ideology, and even telling federal employees that referring to someone by biologically accurate pronouns is discrimination.
In a document published by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), effectively the human resources department of the federal government, the Biden administration commanded federal agencies to embed “gender identity inclusion practices” throughout the bureaucracy.
​​Titled “<a href="https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility/reference-materials/guidance-regarding-gender-identity-and-inclusion-in-the-federal-workplace.pdf">Guidance Regarding Gender Identity and Inclusion in the Federal Workplace</a>,” the document was published on “transgender day of visibility,” March 31, and it instructs agencies to “take actions to ensure that all Federal employees have their respective gender identities accurately reflected and identified in the workplace.” The document specifically tells the federal bureaucracy to ensure that name and pronoun changes are respected, warning that those who use “incorrect” terms might “contribute to an unlawful hostile work environment.”
It also directs agencies to host gender identity trainings, saying they should “take steps to implement or increase the availability of training programs on gender identity and inclusion in the Federal workplace for employees, managers, and leadership.”
While the OPM document further formalizes the Biden administration’s support of transgenderism, numerous federal agencies have already established policies to encourage transgenderism in the federal workforce. The Department of the Interior (DOI), for example, published a <a href="https://www.doi.gov/document-library/human-resources-policy/pb-23-03-supporting-gender-transition-federal-workplace">document</a> called “Supporting Gender Transition in the Federal Workplace” that lays out how the federal agency will offer support to bureaucrats who are attempting to change their sex.
The guide includes a list of gender identity vocabulary terms and instructs employees to avoid using someone’s “dead name,” a term for the name one used before attempting to change sexes. “Repeated, intentional refusal to use the employee’s affirming … or repeated reference to the employee’s dead name/gender/pronouns … is contrary to the goal of treating all employees with dignity and respect,” the document reads. “Such intentional conduct could constitute unlawful discrimination.”
All departments are encouraged to “establish, in collaboration with their supervisor/manager, a support team … to assist in the development and implementation of their Workplace Gender Transition Plan.”
The DOI has also set out to celebrate transgenderism through trainings and activities. The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-celebrates-trans-day-of-visibility-by-screening-movie-pushing-for-more-queer-marine-biologists">recently revealed</a> that the agency celebrated “transgender day of visibility” by screening a documentary calling for more queer marine biologists. It also hosted a “Trans 101” employee training course in December. The course was led by Ben Greene, a “transgender advocate and educator” who discussed “the issues that the transgender community is facing in the world and workforce, and what individuals and organizations can do to create a safe, supportive environment for all people.”
The National Security Agency (NSA) has implemented its own policies on “misgendering,” effectively prohibiting its employees from using biologically correct pronouns when referencing someone who is attempting to change sexes.
“Intentional misgendering shall not be permitted or tolerated,” one 2021 <a href="https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/nsa-css-policies/NSACSS_P_1-78_20210525.pdf?ver=VA4t45iPZ83RG18Hz3NZXA%3D%3D&amp;darkschemeovr=1">document</a> from the NSA reads. The intelligence agency also pledges to “provide transgender and gender identity–awareness training to its workforce in order to promote an inclusive work environment for transgender personnel and to facilitate in the workplace gender-affirmation processes when appropriate.” It also states that the agency will &#8220;establish a Transgender Resource Coordinator&#8221; tasked with &#8220;assisting supervisors and civilian employees in navigating gender affirmation process&#8221; as well as be the agency&#8217;s primary resource for &#8220;transgender-related questions.&#8221;
The NSA also created a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-leaked-nsa-doc-reveals-massive-woke-glossary-pushing-critical-race-theory-gender-ideology-on-govt-employees">glossary</a>, exclusively obtained by The Daily Wire, that promoted “gender-neutral” pronouns like “ze” and “zir” and complained of “transmisogyny.”
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LEAKED NSA DOCUMENT📄: We just published a never-before-seen <a href="https://twitter.com/NSAGov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NSAGov</a> “diversity glossary” in my new exclusive investigation with <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realdailywire</a>.
It blames “White Europeans” for “settler colonialism,&quot; attacks &quot;white fragility,&quot; and warns of “transmisogyny.”
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&mdash; Spencer Lindquist 🇺🇸 (@SpencerLndqst) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1724807527232385515?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The NSA is not the only institution within the intelligence community that has celebrated transgenderism. A diversity newsletter from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-top-intelligence-agency-says-crossdressing-makes-man-better-intelligence-officer-internal-docs-show">obtained exclusively</a> by The Daily Wire, featured an article from an anonymous agent who claimed that crossdressing made him a “better intelligence officer.” The ODNI has its own <a href="https://www.odni.gov/files/documents/ICD/ICD_125-Gender-Identity-and-Inclusivity.pdf">policy</a> against “misgendering,” warning that offenders could face disciplinary action. “Intentional and repeated misgendering, including use of the incorrect name, pronoun, honorific, and gender-related language of an individual, could contribute to an unlawful hostile work environment or discrimination claims, and may result in disciplinary action.”
NASA announced similar policies in a 20-page <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/new_gender_transition_guidance_final_tagged.pdf">document</a> titled, “Supporting Gender Transition/Affirmation in the Workplace,” even encouraging employees to report others who use the “incorrect” pronouns to their supervisor.
“Be a good ally,” the document commands. “If you hear or observe a co-worker using an incorrect name or incorrect pronouns after an announcement or request to refer to the transitioning employee by a specific name and with specific pronouns, gently and discreetly correct them or discuss the matter with your supervisor.”
The United States Air Force Academy similarly embraced a policy against so-called misgendering, telling The Daily Wire that &#8220;intentional misgendering may be considered discrimination or harassment under our Equal Opportunity Policies.&#8221;
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BREAKING: The Air Force Academy just told me that &quot;intentional misgendering may be considered discrimination or harassment.&quot;
Our military faces record-low recruitment and the Air Force is enforcing transgender dogma on cadets and just hosted a trans Pentagon official 🧵 <a href="https://t.co/7lyQMce9nW">pic.twitter.com/7lyQMce9nW</a>
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When asked if it is the official stance of the Air Force Academy that men can become women and women can become men, a spokesman responded: “Yes, the U.S. Air Force Academy recognizes that an individual’s internal or personal sense of gender may not match the individual’s assigned sex at birth,” adding that “individuals assigned male at birth may transition to female.”
President Biden has issued multiple executive orders intended to institutionalize the DEI agenda in the federal government, all while former President Donald Trump pledges that he will gut the bureaucracy through <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/06/25/executive-order-on-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility-in-the-federal-workforce/">executive orders</a> of his own if he is reelected.
“We will pass critical reforms making every executive branch employee fireable by the President of the United States,” Trump said at a rally, <a href="https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2022/03/trump-threatening-return-and-expansion-schedule-f/363145/">touting</a> his plan. “The deep state must be brought to heel.”
Biden recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-moves-to-strengthen-bureaucrat-protections-as-trump-pledges-to-gut-administrative-state">implemented a policy</a> intended to strengthen civil service protections enjoyed by federal bureaucrats, making them more difficult to fire.
Trump is charging ahead with his plan to fire federal bureaucrats, with his allies at the Heritage Foundation’s <a href="https://www.project2025.org/">Project 2025</a> assembling a personnel database to take the place of outgoing bureaucrats who’ve pushed the far-Left agenda.

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Dr. Hilary Cass, who authored the long-awaited British report criticizing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender</a> medical procedures for children, said she is not taking public transportation due to safety concerns.
The Cass Review was <a href="https://cass.independent-review.uk/home/publications/final-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> earlier this month. It is the result of a major independent <a href="https://cass.independent-review.uk/publications/interim-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">review</a> on children and gender identity <a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/spec-services/npc-crg/gender-dysphoria-clinical-programme/implementing-advice-from-the-cass-review/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commissioned</a> by Britain&#8217;s National Health Service (NHS) in 2020.
Cass herself is a pediatrician and former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
“The reality is that we have no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress,” Cass stated in her report.
In an <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hilary-cass-i-cant-travel-on-public-transport-any-more-35pt0mvnh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with The Times of London published Friday, Cass, 66, said she has received “vile” abusive emails and been warned to stay away from public transportation in the wake of her report.
“There are some pretty vile emails coming in at the moment. Most of which my team is protecting me from, so I’m not getting to see them,” she told the paper.
“I’m not going on public transport at the moment, following security advice, which is inconvenient,” Cass said.
What bothers her more, however, is the &#8220;disinformation&#8221; surrounding her report.
“I have been really frustrated by the criticisms, because it is straight disinformation. It is completely inaccurate,&#8221; she said.
“What dismays me is just how childish the debate can become. If I don’t agree with somebody then I’m called transphobic or a TERF [trans-exclusionary radical feminist].”
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Just before the Cass Review came out, accusations circulated that the report had wrongly excluded dozens of transgender studies, a claim Cass said is false.
Labour MP Dawn Butler claimed there were about 100 studies that were not included in the Cass Review, and &#8220;we need to know why.”
&#8220;You don’t get up in parliament with an intent to spread misinformation,&#8221; Cass said.
“If you deliberately try to undermine a report that has looked at the evidence of children’s healthcare, then that’s unforgivable. You are putting children at risk by doing that,” she said.
Asked whether the attacks bother her, Cass said, &#8220;No.&#8221;
“It’s personal, but these people don’t know me,&#8221; she said. “I’m much, much more upset and frustrated about all this disinformation than I am about the abuse. The thing that makes me seethe is the misinformation.”
Cass&#8217; much anticipated report <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/weak-evidence-britains-nhs-to-review-all-transgender-treatment-after-major-report">sharply criticized</a> the transgender medicine industry targeting youth, saying the evidence for gender medicine is built on “shaky foundations.”
Cross-sex hormones — estrogen and testosterone — should be prescribed to trans-identifying 16 and 17-year-olds only with an “extremely cautious” approach, and there should be a “clear clinical rationale” for not waiting until the teen is 18, the report says.
Waiting would preserve fertility and manage any other conditions. The report also warns that children who are referred to gender services present with high rates of abuse and neglect, including sexual abuse and parental substance abuse.
Cass cautioned that she has also spoken to detransitioners who “deeply regret” their earlier transitions.
After the report&#8217;s release, the NHS responded saying it will review all transgender treatment it provides, including to adults, and all new treatment for 16 and 17-year-olds will be paused immediately.
Scotland also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/scotland-pauses-transgender-medications-for-minors">said</a> it would pause all new prescriptions of transgender medications for minors.

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Author Of Cass Review, Which Criticized Child Transgender Procedures, Says She’s Avoiding Public Transportation

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A 13-year-old girl spoke at a school board meeting and tearfully described watching a student use a Stanley cup to brutally beat up a female student.
The teen girl, who attends Pennbrook Middle School north of Philadelphia accused school officials of failing to step in despite being warned hours ahead of time that the attack was coming.
Reduxx <a href="https://twitter.com/ReduxxMag/status/1781693695894368593" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the attacker is a trans-identifying male student who identifies as &#8220;Melanie.&#8221;
&#8220;All of a sudden I just hear all this screaming and everybody running. &#8230; All of sudden you just hear these terrible loud bangs of the Stanley bouncing off her head. And then you see Mel grabbing her hair and hitting her against the table &#8230; There was blood going everywhere,&#8221; the young student recalled.
&#8220;We had to sit in there and watch them clean up her blood off those tables and ground, and we had to watch them take her out with blood dripping down her face and I will never forget that,&#8221; the girl said, her voice breaking.
The attacker also yelled &#8220;I&#8217;m going to murder you&#8221; repeatedly to students, she said.
The violent incident played over in her head as she lay in bed that night, the girl told board members.
The girl said she was &#8220;second on [the attacker&#8217;s] hit list&#8221; and begged school administrators for help five hours before the attack. The guidance counselor promised her the attack would not happen, the teen said.
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A male who identifies as transgender brutally assaulted a female student at Pennbrook Middle School in PA.
One girl who said she was &quot;second on [his] hit list&quot; told the school board that she had begged for help HOURS before the attack, but teachers did nothing. <a href="https://t.co/sRRZlnuwZU">pic.twitter.com/sRRZlnuwZU</a>
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The incident <a href="https://6abc.com/pennbrook-middle-school-fight-student-sent-to-hospital-following-incident-in-montgomery-county-cafeteria/14685285/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">occurred</a> at about 1:20 pm on Wednesday in the school cafeteria. Police and first responders were called to the scene.
Surveillance video shows a 7th grader walking along a lunch table when the student accused of attacking her runs up and begins hitting her in the head with a Stanley cup, according to Upper Gwynedd police.
The female student who was attacked needed staples in her head and is on concussion protocol, police said.
The incident is still under investigation, school officials said.
Incensed parents showed up at the school board meeting to voice their concerns.
&#8220;The fear in these kids&#8217; voices. This had to be a brutal attack because so many kids were screaming and crying,&#8221; one mother <a href="https://6abc.com/pennbrook-middle-school-fight-student-sent-to-hospital-following-incident-in-montgomery-county-cafeteria/14685285/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
&#8220;This was avoidable and the district truly failed to protect the students at Pennbrook,&#8221; one parent told school board members. &#8220;What are we supposed to say to our children after this? How do I send him back to school?&#8221;
The attacking student had only been at the school for three days when the attack occurred, parents said.
In a statement, Pennbrook Middle School Superintendent Todd Bauer confirmed that an incident had occurred resulting in &#8220;serious injuries&#8221; to a student.
However, he said rumors are &#8220;false&#8221; that the attacker was expelled from another school for violent behavior.
Bauer said the school is working with law enforcement and the families of the students involved. The school is working with the &#8220;district-wide traumatic event response team&#8221; to support the students who witnessed the attack, he said.

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Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich, a Democrat, exploded during a press conference on Friday after he was asked why local officials were trying to hide the fact that a teenager who was arrested for allegedly plotting school shootings was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender</a>.
The thwarted shooter, an 18-year-old woman from Rockville who identifies as a man, was arrested on Wednesday by the Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD), the county <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/court-docs-show-trans-teen-arrested-for-planning-mass-shooting-fawned-over-covenant-shooter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a news release, adding that the FBI notified the MCPD about a 129-page “manifesto” in which the teenager wrote about committing a school shooting, contemplated targeting an elementary school, and more.
&#8220;What is the reluctance of the county to admit that this individual was transgender?&#8221; an individual asked Elrich at the press conference. &#8220;This is the fourth time that we&#8217;ve seen this happen very recently. And right here I hear all of our leadership saying to us today, and what we do in journalism here, what we try not do is bury the lede. Why am I hearing about this from the New York Post?&#8221;
&#8220;Because it&#8217;s not a lede,&#8221; Elrich responded. &#8220;You know, how do you publicize every time somebody gets murdered that it&#8217;s a white Christian male, who&#8217;s heterosexual? No, you don&#8217;t, you don&#8217;t&#8211; are these the only crimes that get committed? You never publish somebody&#8217;s sexual orientation when you talk about them.&#8221;
&#8220;Why are you focused on it being a transgender is beyond me,&#8221; he claimed. &#8220;It is not a news story. It is not a crime to be transgender. And I&#8217;m sorry you feel that way.&#8221;
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The individual who asked the question fired back: &#8220;That&#8217;s not what I said.&#8221;
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Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich SNAPS when a journalist asks why they&#8217;re covering up the fact that Andrea Ye was transgender.
Andrea Ye is trans teenager (female) who planned to attack 2 Montgomery County schools. <a href="https://t.co/HkRnVPofkp">pic.twitter.com/HkRnVPofkp</a>
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Democrat Explodes Over Reports That Teen Arrested For Alleged School Shooting Plot Is Transgender

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Five middle school girls refused to race against a trans-identifying male player at a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/west-virginia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">West Virginia</a> track and field meet on Thursday.
The five girls, who play for Liberty High School, which hosted the meet, refused to participate in the &#8220;shot put&#8221; event, where players throw a heavy ball as far as they can, Outkick <a href="https://www.outkick.com/sports/west-virginia-girls-protest-transgender-biological-male-track-field" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
One by one, the five girls stepped into the starting area and then stepped out, refusing to compete, video of the competition that was shared to social media shows.
The girls reportedly did the same for the discus throwing event.
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🚨🚨FIVE middle school female athletes in West Virginia refuse to throw shot put against male, Becky Pepper-Jackson. 
This comes just 2 days after the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the WV law that says you must compete in the category that matches your sex. 
It&#39;s a… <a href="https://t.co/RzMgh4jVRU">pic.twitter.com/RzMgh4jVRU</a>
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The trans-identifying 13-year-old boy reportedly competes in both shot put and discus throwing. He plays on the girls track and field team at Bridgeport Middle School in Bridgeport.
One of the girls who stepped out <a href="https://www.outkick.com/sports/west-virginia-girls-protest-transgender-biological-male-track-field" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that the trans-identifying boy won the championship shot put event.
A total of seven schools competed at Thursday&#8217;s competition, the Harrison County Middle School Championships.
The 13-year-old trans-identifying boy at the girls&#8217; track meet is at the center of a federal case dealing with biological males in girls sports.
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On Tuesday, a federal appeals court ruled that West Virginia&#8217;s law barring trans-identifying boys from competing on girls&#8217; teams cannot be enforced against this particular boy.
“The defendants cannot expect that B.P.J. will countermand her social transition, her medical treatment, and all the work she has done with her schools, teachers, and coaches for nearly half her life by introducing herself to teammates, coaches, and even opponents as a boy,” <a href="https://apnews.com/article/west-virginia-transgender-sports-ban-ruling-badf5518ada74d01a3f0a0420d2f4074" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> Judge Toby Heytens.
The ruling only applies to this particular 13-year-old boy, who has been on puberty blockers since third grade.
The video of the girls stepping out of the competition was shared by former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines, who criticized the adults who allowed the trans-identifying boy to compete against girls. Gaines previously swam against Lia Thomas, a biological male, and since then has been an outspoken advocate for girls&#8217; sports.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a sad day when 13-14yr old girls have to be the adults in the room, but I couldn&#8217;t be more inspired by and proud of these girls,&#8221; Gaines posted on X.
&#8220;Enough is enough. The tide is turning!&#8221; she added.
In recent years, women and girls across the country have raised objections to competing against and alongside biological males. Nevertheless, many schools and sports organizations still allow trans-identifying males to compete on the opposite sex&#8217;s teams.
Last month, a Massachusetts private school stood by its decision to let a trans-identifying male play on the girls’ basketball team after three opposing players said they got hurt.
However, there is some momentum against combining girls and trans-identifying males in sport.
Earlier this month, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), which governs sports at more than 240 small colleges, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/naia-college-athletics-org-bans-trans-identifying-men-from-competing-in-womens-sports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> a new policy on Monday banning trans-identifying male athletes from playing on women’s teams.

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Scotland has paused all new prescriptions of transgender medications such as puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors, the latest in a string of developments in Britain pumping the brakes on transgender medical services for minors.
Scotland&#8217;s only youth gender clinic, the Sandyford clinic in Glasgow, which is operated by Scotland’s National Health Service (NHS) <a href="https://www.sandyford.scot/sexual-health-services/gender-service-at-sandyford/gender-young-people-service/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made</a> the announcement on Thursday.
New prescriptions for puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones have been paused, although children already receiving these drugs will be able to remain on them, the clinic said in a statement. Teenagers must now be 18 before being prescribed cross-sex hormones, the clinic said.
&#8220;We are committed to providing the best possible clinical care for young people accessing and understand the distress that gender incongruence can cause,&#8221; the clinic said. &#8220;While this pause is in place, we will continue to give anyone who is referred into the Young People Gender Service the psychological support that they require while we review the pathways in line with the findings.&#8221;
Scotland&#8217;s decision <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/weak-evidence-britains-nhs-to-review-all-transgender-treatment-after-major-report">comes after</a> the release of the Cass Review, a long-awaited review criticizing youth transgender medical services was released last week in England.
The landmark final <a href="https://cass.independent-review.uk/home/publications/final-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from pediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass is the result of a major independent <a href="https://cass.independent-review.uk/publications/interim-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">review</a> on children and gender identity <a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/spec-services/npc-crg/gender-dysphoria-clinical-programme/implementing-advice-from-the-cass-review/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commissioned</a> by the NHS in 2020.
“The reality is that we have no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress,” Cass stated in her report. The evidence we do have for gender medicine is built on “shaky foundations,” she wrote in an accompanying <a class="css-yywogo" title="" href="https://www.bmj.com/content/385/bmj.q814" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">editorial</a> published in a medical journal.
Puberty blockers should no longer be prescribed to children except in the context of research due to these powerful drugs’ effects on brain development and bone health, the report says.
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Cross-sex hormones — estrogen and testosterone — should be prescribed to trans-identifying 16 and 17-year-olds only with an “extremely cautious” approach, and there should be a “clear clinical rationale” for not waiting until the teen is 18, the report says.
Waiting would preserve fertility and manage any other conditions. The report also warns that children who are referred to gender services present with high rates of abuse and neglect including sexual abuse and parental substance abuse.
In the wake of the report, Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) said all new treatment for 16 and 17-year-olds will be paused immediately, and it will review all transgender medical treatment.
The week before the report was released, the Tavistock clinic, England’s only youth gender identity clinic, officially closed its doors after being dogged by controversy for years.
The clinic, the biggest in the world, <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/health/2024/03/inside-the-collapse-of-the-tavistock-centre" target="_blank" rel="noopener">referred</a> thousands of children for puberty blockers. In its last years, Tavistock began to see an increasing flood of young girls with gender-related distress asking for drugs despite having other mental issues like depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and histories of abuse.
In the U.S., <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/indianas-ban-on-transgender-medical-services-for-minors-can-take-effect-court-rules#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">at least</a> 23 states have already moved to ban medical transgender services for children.

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A group of children and adults staged an hours-long walkout at a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/utah" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Utah</a> middle school on Wednesday over an unusual issue — &#8220;furries.&#8221;
The protesters walked out of Mt. Nebo Middle School, which is about an hour south of Salt Lake City, claiming that students who dress as &#8220;furries&#8221; were being disruptive.
Furries are people who have an interest in animals with human qualities, <a href="https://www.webmd.com/sex/what-is-furry-sex" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to WebMD.
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What a time to be alive.
Yesterday, over 70 students walked out of Mt. Nebo School to protest the school for letting &quot;furries&quot; to bite, bark, &amp; lick them.
ABC even interviewed a &quot;member of the furry community&quot; (they/them) to give a comment about the situation: <a href="https://t.co/zIMjoy9U9b">pic.twitter.com/zIMjoy9U9b</a>
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&mdash; Adam Bartholomew 🗨️ (@lifeisdriving) <a href="https://twitter.com/lifeisdriving/status/1780604433052901488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In video of the protests shared to social media, students accuse the alleged &#8220;furries&#8221; at Mt. Nebo of biting, scratching, barking at, spraying air freshener on, and pouncing on other students.
Some students who walked out complained that the furries wore masks every day, according to a video of the protest shared to social media.
&#8220;They think they&#8217;re so cool,&#8221; one girl <a href="https://twitter.com/lifeisdriving/status/1780612860957360200?t=bUQt3iyNbuqAGJ8PGor2LQ&amp;s=19" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
&#8220;We can&#8217;t talk or say anything to the furries or even look at them, but they can come look at us and say stuff to us and touch us,&#8221; said another girl.
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However, the school district&#8217;s public information officer, Seth Sorensen, <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2024/04/17/fact-check-nebo-school-district/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed</a> back on claims about students dressing up as animals. Students may wear headbands with ears, but they do not dress up in full-body animal costumes, he said.
“Today, we had some students and parents choose to exercise their right to assemble, and do a little protest for what they perceived was something that was happening in the school,” Sorensen <a href="https://www.abc4.com/news/wasatch-front/utah-student-furry-protest/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> ABC4. “It actually is not something that’s been occurring.”
“Interestingly enough, they really didn’t address us with anything they wanted changed,” he said. &#8220;We want every student to feel safe when they come to school, and we want students to get along. In fact, we want adults to get along.&#8221;
He <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2024/04/17/fact-check-nebo-school-district/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a> that the protest may have been the result of a miscommunication via an email from the school about an altercation between two groups of students.
The school also said it has worked with some students whose dress and appearance might be disruptive to the school environment.
At Wednesday&#8217;s protest, children held signs reading “Compelled speech is not free speech,” as well as “I will not comply,” and “We just wanted to learn.”
A <a href="https://www.change.org/p/students-for-humans-at-school-not-animals-aka-furries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">petition</a> dubbed &#8220;Students for Humans at School, not animals aka furries&#8221; has garnered nearly 1,700 signatures so far. The petition asks the school to enforce a dress code, which the petitioners say prohibits students from presenting themselves in a way that disrupts the learning atmosphere or creates a welfare issue.
The online “furry” fandom often <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-law-forces-furry-convention-to-bar-children">has</a> sexual overtones, although some self-identified “furries” insist sex has nothing to do with their interest in the fandom.
A 2011 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130308185939/https://sites.google.com/site/anthropomorphicresearch/past-results/international-online-furry-survey-2011" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey</a> of “furries” found that about a quarter of “furries” said they felt less than 100% human.

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender</a>-identifying teenager who was taken into custody and charged for alleged plans to commit a mass shooting at a Maryland high school kept a &#8220;manifesto&#8221; in which she praised the Nashville mass shooter, fantasized about pedophilia, and voiced concerns about being misgendered after her crime, according to court documents obtained by The Daily Wire.
The thwarted shooter, an 18-year-old woman from Rockville who identifies as a man, was arrested on Wednesday by the Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD), the county said in a <a href="https://www2.montgomerycountymd.gov/mcgportalapps/Press_Detail_Pol.aspx?Item_ID=45100" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>, adding that the FBI notified the MCPD about a 129-page &#8220;manifesto&#8221; in which the teenager wrote about committing a school shooting, contemplated targeting an elementary school, and more.
The <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/moco-docs.pdf">court documents</a> obtained by The Daily Wire show disturbing examples from the &#8220;manifesto,&#8221; which the teenager claimed was fictional, but an MCPD officer said had mirrored actual events and was &#8220;based on reality with a plan of threats of mass violence.&#8221;
&#8220;I really want to be famous. Even infamous,&#8221; she wrote on one page. A second entry confesses to pedophilic thoughts, but says she chose not to act on them — &#8220;I sometimes think I&#8217;m a pedophile. I get turned on by little kids,&#8221; she wrote. In a third, the teenager mused about potential news stories about a shooting at a Rockville school.
The court documents show that the teenager did web search on various mass shootings, including on the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nashville-police-say-ongoing-investigation-prevents-release-of-covenant-shooters-manifesto" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender-identifying shooter</a> who murdered six people at the Covenant School in Nashville in March of 2023.
The suspect appears to have been inspired by the Covenant School mass shooting. Media calling the now-dead Nashville shooter by birth name rather than preferred name made the arrested teenager want to change her name, the Maryland teenager wrote in the manifesto.
&#8220;Makes me want to change my name legally before I commit a shooting to make sure the news doesn&#8217;t misgender me,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;He was suicidal before the shooting. Just like me. He, too, wanted to kill little kids. A rush of adrenaline fills my body. He&#8217;s so relatable.&#8221;
As a result of the investigation, the MCPD&#8217;s Community Engagement Division coordinated with Montgomery County Public Schools to increase security at schools, particularly Wootton High School, police said.
The Maryland suspect was hospitalized in December 2022 after threatening to &#8220;shoot up a school,&#8221; and has not attended school in-person since then, the charging documents say. She spent time hospitalized for homicidal and suicidal ideations, but later returned home and attended school online, the documents show.
She was hospitalized again last month after she shared her manifesto with a fellow patient at a prior hospitalization, and that friend reported it to police. Hospital staff &#8220;felt they were required by law to break confidentiality to notify law enforcement and Wootton High School. The FBI was also notified,&#8221; the documents say, adding that she &#8220;has previously disclosed to psychiatric staff during his in-patient treatment that he had thoughts of a mass attack at his elementary school and high school.&#8221;
The police affidavit refers to the suspect with male pronouns.
A Wootton High School counselor told the FBI that she worked with the suspect from October 2022 through February 2023 and that the suspect &#8220;would express violent thoughts such as shooting up the school.&#8221; The suspect suggested it could occur at graduation.
Chat logs on Instagram, which police received as a result of a search warrant, showed messages that indicated a desire by the suspect to commit a shooting or bomb a school, the affidavit also shows.
The teenager is currently being held at the Montgomery County Central Processing Unit where she awaits a bond hearing, the release from police noted, adding that a news conference is being planned for Friday. The Daily Wire is not naming the suspect due to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/standards-policies">our policy</a> against printing the names or photographs of mass shooters in our reports.
Police made clear that the suspected teen is a biological female who was going by male pronouns. The legal system is treating her as an Asian female, authorities said.
Online court records showed the suspect has an attorney. The Daily Wire reached out seeking comment. A bail/bond review is scheduled for Friday and a trial is slated for June 3.

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A county judge in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ohio">Ohio</a> placed a temporary block on the state’s law shielding individuals under 18 years old from life-altering transgender procedures for two weeks or until consideration of a broader injunction against the law. 
The law, called the “Save Adolescents from Experimentation Act,” bans so-called &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; surgeries, such as double mastectomies on girls who identify as boys, in addition to prohibiting giving minors cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers. The law does not prevent minors who were already placed on puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones before the legislation passed from staying on them. 
Franklin County Judge Michael J. Holbrook put a hold on the law <a href="https://www.10tv.com/article/news/politics/ohio-law-transgender-care-ban-blocked-by-judge/530-598b7f3b-477d-49a9-9ad7-336f2b8897d9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> that it may have been unlawful because the Ohio Constitution says that bills should have no “more than one subject.” The “Safe Act” included both a ban on transgender procedures and stipulated that males could not compete on female sports teams at grades K-12 and the collegiate level. 
The law, slated to go into effect on April 24, will be placed on hold for two weeks unless a hearing for a preliminary injunction against it takes place before that time. The ACLU challenged the law, claiming it was discriminatory. 
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, a Republican, said he expected the law to be upheld eventually. 
“This is just the first page of the book,” he <a href="https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Media/News-Releases/April-2024/Statement-from-AG-Yost-on-House-Bill-68-Ruling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “We will fight vigorously to defend this properly enacted statute, which protects our children from irrevocable adult decisions. I am confident that this law will be upheld.”
The law was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ohio-republicans-ban-trans-procedures-on-minors-boys-in-girls-sports-in-vote-overriding-gop-governor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> by Republican lawmakers in January over the veto of GOP Governor Mike DeWine. It was sponsored by state Rep. Gary Click (R), who said Tuesday that the law would be upheld after litigation was resolved. 
&#8220;We have lower court disappointments but higher court victories,” he said, <a href="https://www.10tv.com/article/news/politics/ohio-law-transgender-care-ban-blocked-by-judge/530-598b7f3b-477d-49a9-9ad7-336f2b8897d9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to 10WBNS. 
Click added that “there&#8217;s no constitutional right to injure children, there&#8217;s no constitutional right to chemically castrate children… there is no constitutional right to this, this is malpractice and we&#8217;re gonna win in the end.”
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DeWine said he expected the court battle to go to the state Supreme Court. 
&#8220;Everybody knew that this would go to court eventually,” DeWine said. “Whatever the decision the local judge makes, it will go up to the court of appeals and I&#8217;m sure it will go from there to the Ohio Supreme Court.”
More than 20 states have passed similar laws to Ohio&#8217;s, with most surviving court challenges so far. The Supreme Court on Monday allowed an Idaho law protecting minors from transgender procedures to go into effect while litigation against it proceeds. 
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, a federal appeals court ruled that West Virginia&#8217;s transgender sports ban violates a federal civil rights law that protects students from sex-based discrimination.

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Author <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jk-rowling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">J.K. Rowling</a> laid into &#8220;gender ideologues&#8221; on Tuesday for doing everything they could to stifle debate on the potential risks and long-term impact of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, particularly on children.
Noting that &#8220;no debate&#8221; was an oft-repeated slogan in the trans activist community, the &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; creator punctuated her comments with a series of X posts identifying individuals who had been scolded, bullied, and harassed — sometimes publicly — until they were either forced out of or quit their jobs.
The conversation began with a comment from Kirstie Allsop, who said in an X post that no one was blocking debate around those issues: &#8220;There [are] very real issues around the impact of puberty blockers on long term health. But the point I was making is that it is, and always has been possible to debate these things and those saying there was no debate are wrong.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m astounded by this comment,&#8221; Rowling replied. &#8220;One of the gender ideologues&#8217; favourite slogans is &#8216;no debate.&#8217; Opponents have been attacked, vilified, subject to discipline at work, had their lives overturned and lost their careers, all for the crime of wanting a debate.&#8221;
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Rowling quickly followed that with a series of posts naming people who had been directly harmed by the &#8220;gender ideologues&#8221; and their insistence that not only was no debate necessary, no debate could be permitted.
&#8220;Sonia Appleby, an experienced psychotherapist working at the now discredited Tavistock clinic, was monstered for raising concerns. A tribunal found that her professional reputation had been damaged and &#8216;prevented her from proper work on safeguarding,'&#8221; Rowling&#8217;s first post read.
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Sue Evans, a nurse who also worked at the Tavistock and was extremely worried that children were being harmed, tried to raise the alarm. She took concerns to management but was &#39;alienated&#39; and subsequently left for the sake of her own mental health. <a href="https://t.co/66x9VrES4q">https://t.co/66x9VrES4q</a> 3/13
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1779920689752850446?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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And the second: &#8220;Sue Evans, a nurse who also worked at the Tavistock and was extremely worried that children were being harmed, tried to raise the alarm. She took concerns to management but was &#8216;alienated&#8217; and subsequently left for the sake of her own mental health.&#8221;
A third post mentioned psychiatrist Dr. David Bell, who filed a report voicing the concerns of people like Evans and Appleby — &#8220;and the trust&#8217;s response was to attempt to open an investigation into him.&#8221;
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James Esses, who was doing a Masters Degree in psychotherapy, was expelled from his course for speaking out about the impact of gender ideology on child safeguarding. 5/13<a href="https://t.co/par3OwMcOF">https://t.co/par3OwMcOF</a>
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&#8220;James Esses, who was doing a Masters Degree in psychotherapy, was expelled from his course for speaking out about the impact of gender ideology on child safeguarding,&#8221; the next post read.
&#8220;In Canada, Kenneth Zucker, former head of the Child Youth and Family Gender Identity Clinic, was fired for questioning whether automatic affirmation of children in their trans identities was the best treatment model,&#8221; Rowling&#8217;s thread continued.
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In the US, trans man Scott Newgent (<a href="https://twitter.com/NotScottNewgent?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NotScottNewgent</a>) has made it his life&#39;s mission to raise the alarm about the dangers of transitioning children. He&#39;s lost his career for speaking out. 7/13 <a href="https://t.co/HmCh6kC0fm">pic.twitter.com/HmCh6kC0fm</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1779921388276473887?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The seventh post told the story of Scott Newgent, who transitioned from female to male as an adult and was featured in Matt Walsh&#8217;s &#8220;What Is A Woman?&#8221; documentary — and has spent years advocating against transitioning children.
&#8220;Jo Phoenix, professor of criminology at the Open University, was harassed and bullied because of her opposition to gender identity ideology, severely impacting her career and health,&#8221; the eighth post read.
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Allison Bailey, the lesbian KC who dared challenge gender identity ideology&#39;s impact on lesbians, was targeted by Stonewall, subject to horrendous abuse and effectively lost her career. 9/13<a href="https://t.co/dtC4WZNwtq">https://t.co/dtC4WZNwtq</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1779921682167152823?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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A ninth followed: &#8220;Allison Bailey, the lesbian KC who dared challenge gender identity ideology&#8217;s impact on lesbians, was targeted by Stonewall, subject to horrendous abuse and effectively lost her career.&#8221;
&#8220;Philosophy professor Kathleen Stock was hounded out of her position at the University of Sussex, shunned by colleagues and targeted by students, all for the crime of being critical of gender identity ideology,&#8221; Rowling&#8217;s tenth post added.
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Detransitioners are subject to horrendous abuse from their &#39;community&#39; online, because they speak out about the negative impact hormones and surgery have had on their lives. We&#39;ve all watched them being jeered at, even told to kill themselves, after sharing their stories. 11/13
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1779922139883217180?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Pivoting back to her original point, Rowling continued, &#8220;Detransitioners are subject to horrendous abuse from their &#8216;community&#8217; online, because they speak out about the negative impact hormones and surgery have had on their lives. We&#8217;ve all watched them being jeered at, even told to kill themselves, after sharing their stories.&#8221;
&#8220;These individuals are the tip of the iceberg,&#8221; Rowling added. &#8220;I know, because I&#8217;ve received innumerable letters and emails from other people in medical and related professions who&#8217;ve been bullied and harassed for wanting a debate on gender identity ideology and the affirmation model.&#8221;
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People like you who now claim there&#39;s never been any attempt to stifle debate are part of the reason this mess happened in the first place. If you want to remain in a state of blithe unconcern, fine, but don&#39;t tell those in the trenches they&#39;re making a fuss about nothing. 13/X
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1779922432578441227?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Turning back to Allsop&#8217;s comment, Rowling concluded: &#8220;People like you who now claim there&#8217;s never been any attempt to stifle debate are part of the reason this mess happened in the first place. If you want to remain in a state of blithe unconcern, fine, but don&#8217;t tell those in the trenches they&#8217;re making a fuss about nothing.&#8221;

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J.K. Rowling Brings Receipts Showing How Activists ‘Bullied And Harassed’ Anyone Questioning Trans Orthodoxy

J.K. Rowling Brings Receipts Showing How Activists 'Bullied And Harassed' Anyone Questioning Trans Orthodoxy

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