WASHINGTON—In a major move against the transgender medical industry, the Federal Trade Commission hosted a workshop Wednesday in Washington, D.C., examining the dangers of so-called gender-affirming care.
The FTC&#8217;s workshop, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-federal-trade-commission-is-setting-its-sights-on-transgender-procedures-on-kids">first reported by The Daily Wire</a> in late May, has sparked the ire of leftist activists and Democrats, who argue that the focus is inappropriate. Yet the academics, commentators, detransitioners, parents, and doctors present at the workshop argued that the transgender medical industry is pushing ideology upon American children who are not able to fully consent to these life-altering procedures.
&#8220;The issue of gender medicine has shattered political boundaries,&#8221; said Texas Children&#8217;s whistleblower Vanessa Sivadge. &#8220;Not because of ideology, but because of conscience. This is not a partisan battle, but a battle of good and evil.&#8221;
At the beginning of the panel, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson addressed the objection that transgender issues are outside his agency&#8217;s purview. In fact, Ferguson said, the FTC targets industries and entities that lie or deceive the public, emphasizing that the FTC has a sworn duty to protect American citizens from false and misleading claims.
He then immediately launched into the stories of detransitioners, young people who shared that they attempted gender transitions because they were told they were born in the wrong body — and that undergoing these surgeries and hormonal procedures would save them from suicide.
Simon Amaya Price and his father, Gareth Amaya Price, shared how Simon was bullied as a child and attempted a social transition as a teenager, spurred on by the medical professionals who allegedly asked, &#8220;Would you rather have a dead son, or a living daughter?&#8221;
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Detransitioner Claire Abernathy emotionally shared how medical professionals encouraged her to undergo transgender surgeries when she was too young to get a tattoo, too young to drive, and hadn&#8217;t even learned algebra.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not healthcare,&#8221; she argued, &#8220;it&#8217;s blatant consumer fraud.&#8221;
Elvira Syed, the mother of a girl who took her own life as she attempted a gender transition, broke down sobbing as she shared her child&#8217;s story, saying through her tears: &#8220;They treated her ideology, not her illness.&#8221;
&#8220;I lost my 18-year-old daughter to gender ideology,&#8221; she sobbed.
Ferguson, who moderated the panel, was clearly affected as he promised the destransitioners and survivors: &#8220;the FTC hears you, we hear all of you, and we want to understand how the law is being broken.&#8221;
During the workshop, the Justice Department&#8217;s Chad Mizelle announced that the agency has issued nearly 20 subpoenas against clinics that are engaged in transgender transition attempts, noting that the Justice Department&#8217;s investigations include healthcare fraud, false statements, and more.
Mizelle urged Americans to come forward if they could provide information about deceptive practices in the transgender medicine industry.
Immediately following his announcement, Mizelle introduced another panel of detransitioners and parents, including Prisha Mosley, Soren Aldaco, Beth Bourne, Forrest Smith, Helen Spiegel Lee, and Gwen Turecki, individuals who emotionally shared their experiences as they navigated gender transition attempts or helped — or lost — a family member who attempted to transition.
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Made it to today’s FTC workshop, “The Dangers of Gender-Affirming Care for Minors.”
Detransitioners, parents, medical professionals, and whistleblowers will be sharing their experiences and expertise during today’s conference.
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Ferguson shared with The Daily Wire that this emphasis on personal stories was very purposeful.
&#8220;This is about the people we heard from and the suffering that they have had to endure,&#8221; he said in a brief interview. &#8220;As we learn more, it will be our normal enforcement process to figure out what&#8217;s going on, who&#8217;s been doing it, and take appropriate action.&#8221; 
As for the Justice Department&#8217;s news, Ferguson said he was &#8220;thrilled,&#8221; but not surprised.
&#8220;They have been moving at the speed of light, implementing the president&#8217;s agenda,&#8221; he commented, &#8220;and they have a ton of talented lawyers.&#8221; 
&#8220;I&#8217;m thrilled because, hearing from DOJ or the FTC if you&#8217;re a business can be a very intimidating thing, and if you&#8217;re breaking the law, a lot of times just hearing from the government that like &#8230; can curb illegal behavior on its own,&#8221; he noted. &#8220;So I think it&#8217;s great that DOJ is taking this seriously.&#8221; 
The FTC will issue a request for information from the public in the coming days, Ferguson said. As The Daily Wire previously reported, an FTC workshop is typically an indicator of the agency&#8217;s intentions, given that the commission often holds such events before initiating legal action against an industry to gather information, collect evidence, and solicit input from affected Americans.
The chairman noted to The Daily Signal that he believes the best way to hold the transgender medical industry accountable for deceiving patients is to bring enforcement actions against violators, saying: &#8220;If people are making material misstatements, sue them … but I think it&#8217;s taking people to court if the law is being broken, rather than undertaking a two year long rule making process followed by lengthy litigation.&#8221;
He also brushed off backlash from the Left and Democrats with concerns about the FTC&#8217;s focus on the transgender medicine industry.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t really care what Democrats think about this,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They don&#8217;t like the stuff that we do, that&#8217;s the nature of the party system. And so I sort of just price in almost everything we do is going to generate backlash from the other party. That is what it is. My job is to do the right thing and the right thing is protecting kids. I&#8217;ve been saying that since the day that I took this job in January.&#8221; 
Trump has made protecting children a priority, Ferguson pointed out.
&#8220;If there is this material deception going on in this market, it is picking on the most vulnerable human beings in America at the worst possible moment of their lives and brutalizing them,&#8221; he stressed. &#8220;And frankly, the ability of people to turn away from this and say &#8216;no action should be taken&#8217; boggles my mind. So at the end of the day, it is the right thing to do.&#8221;
&#8220;It is the policy of the administration set by President Trump and naysayers on the left, naysay everything, and that&#8217;s just priced in.&#8221;

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‘It’s Blatant Consumer Fraud’: Inside The FTC’s Workshop On Transgender Procedures

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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has issued nearly 20 subpoenas to doctors and clinics involved in performing transgender medical procedures on children, a DOJ official announced on Wednesday. 
The Justice Department&#8217;s Chad Mizelle made the announcement during the Federal Trade Commission’s workshop on the “Dangers of ‘Gender Affirming-Care’ For Minors” in Washington, D.C. Mizelle shared that DOJ has issued nearly 20 subpoenas against clinics who are engaged in transgender transition attempts, noting that the DOJ&#8217;s investigations include healthcare fraud, false statements, and more. 
Mizelle urged Americans to come forward if they could provide information about deceptive practices in the transgender medicine industry, saying Wednesday: &#8220;If you are someone who has been harmed please come forward and let us know.&#8221;
Immediately following his announcement, Mizelle introduced a panel of detransitioner survivors and parents, including Prisha Mosley, Soren Aldaco, Beth Bourne, Forrest Smith, Helen Spiegel Lee, and Gwen Turecki, individuals who emotionally shared their experiences as they navigated gender transition attempts or helped — or lost — a family member who attempted to transition.
The workshop signals the FTC’s interest in combatting the transgender medicine industry, following the directives of President Donald Trump’s executive orders on protecting children from transgender procedures and combatting radical ideology. 
During Wednesday&#8217;s event, doctors, medical ethicists, whistleblowers, detransitioners, and parents of survivors focused on the deceptive practices often found within the transgender medicine industry. One mother, Elvira Syed, broke down sobbing as she described how her daughter ultimately committed suicide.
&#8220;I lost my 18-year-old daughter,&#8221; she sobs. &#8220;To gender ideology.&#8221;
The FTC notes, in a description of the event, that &#8220;Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act gives the FTC broad authority to protect consumers from unfair or deceptive acts or practices.&#8221;
&#8220;This authority could be implicated if there is evidence that medical professionals or others omitted warnings about the risks or made false or unsupported claims about the benefits and effectiveness of gender-affirming care for minors,&#8221; the description notes. &#8220;The workshop will help the FTC to understand whether consumers are being or have been exposed to false or unsupported claims about &#8216;gender-affirming care&#8217; and to gauge the harms consumers may be experiencing.&#8221;

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DOJ Subpoenas Transgender Clinics And Doctors For Transitioning Children

WASHINGTON—When President Trump&#8217;s Federal Trade Commission hosts its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-federal-trade-commission-is-setting-its-sights-on-transgender-procedures-on-kids">Wednesday workshop</a> where experts are expected to speak out against the so-called &#8220;gender affirming care&#8221; industry, there will be one somewhat shocking participant: a lawyer in the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James, who has been a fierce defender of transgender procedures on minors.
Glenna Goldis serves as an assistant attorney general for James, one of the most liberal and anti-Trump attorneys general in the country. But the self-described &#8220;lefty lesbian lawyer&#8221; based out of New York City is also outspoken against the dangers of gender ideology pushed on children by transgender activists.
Goldis will participate in the workshop in her personal capacity, and she&#8217;s aware that her positions on gender ideology put her at odds with James.
&#8220;You can see in the public record that my employer has taken positions that are supportive of pediatric gender medicine,&#8221; Goldis said in a phone interview with The Daily Wire. &#8220;You can see in the public record that Letitia James&#8217; view is not my view.&#8221;
James has not only spoken in support of what she calls &#8220;gender-affirming care,&#8221; but she&#8217;s taken legal action against Trump&#8217;s efforts to protect children from transgender surgeries, hormones, and puberty blockers. James called the policies &#8220;cruel, discriminatory, dangerous, and not based on science or law,” pushing the falsehood that transgender surgeries, hormones, and puberty blockers are &#8220;medically necessary&#8221; as she argued that “every young person deserves access to medically necessary care without government interference.&#8221;
Goldis says she&#8217;s &#8220;motivated by the fact that I&#8217;ve seen so many other people silenced, especially people who are similar to me,&#8221; she explained. She says, in many ways, &#8220;we are the people who are most silenced in America right now on this issue.&#8221;
&#8220;I want to end that, I want to break the taboo,&#8221; Goldis added. &#8220;There&#8217;s a taboo out there which is just performing so much work for the gender doctors. The healthcare industry is able to make all this money and pass off all these lies because there&#8217;s a taboo against criticizing it. And so I want to smash that taboo.&#8221;
The FTC workshop appears to be the first step towards major action against the industry, which is being investigated for &#8220;unfair and deceptive&#8221; practices. The FTC often holds such events before initiating legal action against an industry to gather information and solicit the input of affected Americans, bolstering the case against its target. A memo reported on by The Daily Wire in May indicates that the FTC looks to build off the Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on radical gender ideology.
And Goldis&#8217; presence at the event signals something significant as well: that the movement against gender ideology is not merely conservatives, as left-wing activists suggest, but a cohort of politically diverse individuals united to fight back against something much bigger than political party.
That coalition includes Goldis, but it also includes detransitioners like Chole Cole and Prisha Mosley, women who attempted to transition to become men as teenagers, medical whistleblowers Jamie Reed, Eithan Haim, and Vanessa Sivadge, conservative experts and leaders like Jay Richards of the Heritage Foundation and Terry Schilling of the American Principles Project, and more.
For her part, Goldis is tired of leftists suggesting that men and women who identify as gay are in complete agreement with the transgender agenda.
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s especially important for gay people to speak out,&#8221; she told The Daily Wire. &#8220;One of the big tools that trans advocates have used since the 1990s to normalize what they&#8217;re doing and to build public support is to pretend that they have something in common with gay people. And if gay people ever speak out and say, &#8216;Well, I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s quite true,&#8217; then they get clobbered. This has been true, like I said, for decades.&#8221; 
The general public can be forgiven for &#8220;thinking that there is a connection there,&#8221; Goldis said, since activists are constantly promoting the LGBTQ moniker — &#8220;It really gets in your head, even though it&#8217;s not a particularly catchy collection of letters, but at this point in history you do recognize it.&#8221; 
She suggested that wealthy nonprofits and global lawfirms promoting transgenderism like the ACLU and Lambda Legal hire gay or lesbian spokespeople in an effort to build on this theme.
&#8220;They give awards to gay people who join their cause,&#8221; she said. &#8220;They give jobs to them. So, with all of that happening and with all that money and all the carrots and the sticks that are out there for gay people. I think it&#8217;s important to stand up to all of that.&#8221; 
&#8220;I just think our voice has to be heard, even though we don&#8217;t have a megaphone, naturally, we don&#8217;t have money, we don&#8217;t have the healthcare industry or big law coming to amplify our message of gender nonconformity being natural and something that should not be medicalized, especially in minors. We don&#8217;t have any of that.&#8221;
She pointed to her friends in the movement, like whistleblower Jamie Reid and Lauren Leggieri of the <a href="https://www.lgbcouragecoalition.org/">LGB Courage Coalition,</a> which describes itself as &#8220;a lesbian and gay advocacy group committed to promoting evidence-based medical care, ending the medicalization of gender nonconformity, safeguarding homosexual rights, and building a pathway back for LGB individuals who have undergone medicalization.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;re all just going out there in our personal capacities and using our voices to stand up to the health care industry,&#8221; Goldis said.

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Attorney In Letitia James’s Office Breaks From Dems to Speak Out Against ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

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There are a lot of great things about Tennessee.
The food. The music. The Daily Wire.
And as of this month, you can add something else to that list: the fact that it’s now illegal for landlords to rent to illegal immigrants.
On July 1, Senate Bill 392 took effect, <a href="https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default.aspx?BillNumber=SB0392" target="_blank" rel="noopener">making it illegal</a> “for a person to harbor or hide, or to assist another in harboring or hiding, within this state an individual who the person knows or should have known has illegally entered or remained in the United States.”
Critics say that means landlords <a href="https://newschannel9.com/news/local/new-tennessee-law-would-criminalize-aiding-undocumented-immigrants-sparking-legal-concern" target="_blank" rel="noopener">won’t be able to rent</a> to illegals, to which we say: uh, great.
The Daily Wire has exposed several companies that profit by advertising property or mortgages specifically to illegal immigrants. And, as the shocking saga of Colony Ridge shows, this approach often leads to rampant crime.
This is the latest win for Tennessee. Senate Bill 392 took effect alongside <a href="https://www.newschannel5.com/news/177-new-tennessee-laws-go-into-effect-july-1st-here-are-the-ones-that-caught-our-eye" target="_blank" rel="noopener">176 other bills</a>, including legislation banning cell phones in classrooms, prohibiting the sale of abortion pills by mail, and guaranteeing more recess for elementary school students.
You’re welcome, kids.
And of course, last month, the Supreme Court <a href="https://newschannel9.com/news/local/new-tennessee-law-would-criminalize-aiding-undocumented-immigrants-sparking-legal-concern" target="_blank" rel="noopener">upheld</a> the state’s ban on transgender surgeries and treatments for minors — a landmark case that could pave the way for other states to ban these irreversibly harmful “treatments.”
Again, you’re welcome, kids.
If you’re not currently in the Volunteer State, you may be wishing that you were — or that your state was more like ours. We hope that for you, too. But we can’t make it happen overnight.
So, until then, gaze enviously upon our state while wearing an exclusive <a href="https://store.dailywire.com/products/make-america-tennessee-hat?_pos=1&amp;_sid=46402edec&amp;_ss=r" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MAKE AMERICA TENNESSEE hat</a>.
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When my school district was forcing children to attend LGBTQ storybook lessons, I banded together with like-minded moms, and we sued the school district. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court.
And we won.
Last week’s Supreme Court ruling in Mahmoud v. Taylor has been championed by every common-sense American who, like the Justices in their 6-3 majority opinion, understands that a massive government overreach had violated the religious liberties of families in Montgomery County Public Schools.
The parent plaintiffs, including myself, simply wanted to be able to receive notice and have the ability to opt our children out of the “LGBTQ inclusive” teachings in English class that conflict with our religious beliefs, and we were vindicated. Through the court proceedings, the entire country witnessed the spectacle that had become the one-sided, celebratory introduction of sensitive topics into the education of our young ones.
But how did we arrive at a place where the nation’s high court needed to weigh in on whether our four-year-olds should be required to read about lace, leather, underwear, and drag queens under the guise of “inclusion”? The answer is simple: an erosion of parental rights, contempt for religious beliefs, and a leftist agenda aiming to redefine childhood education into “what to think,” not “how to think”.
Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion, while addressing the larger legal issues, also highlighted the importance of parent advocacy and involvement at the most local level of government to help course correct the significant declines in public education. Whether he was aware of it or not, the public school board testimony he included was that of the then-chair of the Moms for Liberty Montgomery County Chapter.
“Some parents showed up at the Board’s public business meetings to express their concerns about the storybooks’ content,” Alito wrote. “In an early 2023 meeting, for example, one parent represented herself as ‘a voice for parents in [her] community, many of [whom] are actually working today and unable to attend.”
“She said that MCPS parents were ‘frustrated’ because, in their view, ‘educators and administrators are going behind what [parents] are teaching their kids at home, and pushing ideas of gender ideology on their kids’ … The parent felt that the Board was ‘implying to [children] that their religion, their belief system, and their family tradition is actually wrong.’”
When the opt-out was eliminated in the spring of 2023, nearly 70 parents spoke out at school board meetings, passionately advocating for their right to exempt their children from these controversial lessons. Hundreds — if not thousands — of emails flooded the Board of Education inboxes, and rallies drew more than a thousand attendees. While there was overwhelming support for reinstating the opt-out from a diverse coalition of families, several Montgomery County government officials, along with their allies, specifically vilified Moms for Liberty.
Every day, suburban moms like me were blamed by the Montgomery County Council’s Anti-Hate Task Force for “galvanizing the community” with our case. We were accused of “utilizing hate speech and unfortunate religious bias to spread disinformation about the books being introduced into our schools.” According to them, we were apparently so effective that we somehow convinced minority communities, Muslims and Ethiopians among them, to “latch onto this issue because they’ve not had a voice before.”
They can’t be serious, can they?
Some in the faux-tolerant progressive left can’t seem to grasp why a motley crew of religious parents — many of whom are immigrants — would band together and fight tirelessly on this issue. Again, the answer is simple: In America, it’s unconstitutional for a government institution to force its beliefs on others, especially on other people’s children.
Thanks to Friday’s landmark Supreme Court decision, every parent now enjoys the renewed right and responsibility to direct the upbringing of their children — and that doesn’t stop at the classroom door.
As we move forward, I hope that this case will serve as a catalyst for continued efforts to empower parents, protect their rights, and ensure that every child’s education is shaped by the values of their family, not a one-size-fits-all government mandate.
Rosalind Hanson is the Montgomery County Chair of Moms for Liberty
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Supreme Court Hears Arguments On Parental Rights Regarding LGBTQ Books In Schools

I’m One Of The Moms Who Just Won At The Supreme Court. Here’s Why We Fought.

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A group that ostensibly works to help schools implement Title IX protections is working to circumvent federal law and push radical gender ideology in schools across the country, a watchdog group warns.
The Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA) provides consulting, webinars, and certifications for its 19,000 members, who are tasked with implementing the law at schools, universities, and other organizations. But <a href="https://americanparentscoalition.org/the-lookout-atixa-association-of-title-ix-administrators/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the American Parents Coalition, the association is less concerned with protecting women&#8217;s sports and spaces than it is with helping them implement transgender policies.
In one video sold to schools, a representative for the association suggests that schools can implement “enhanced privacy” policies so they don’t have to tell parents if their child wants to use a different name or pronouns. 
 “It’s unacceptable that supposed nonpartisan organizations posing as policy experts are weaponizing Title IX to promote radical gender ideology at the expense of girls. Even worse, they are side-stepping parental rights to do it,” American Parents Coalition Executive Director Alleigh Marré told The Daily Wire. 
This isn&#8217;t the first time the Association of Title IX Administrators has come under fire. Its members have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/go-down-fighting-emails-reveal-school-official-plotting-to-skirt-trump-trans-guidance">been exposed</a> for encouraging ways to get behind President Donald Trump’s executive orders on transgender ideology. 
&#8220;Schools can become members of ATIXA without directly involving parents or the public. This membership allows them to purchase and implement ATIXA materials,” the American Parents Coalition warns in a &#8220;Lookout&#8221; bulletin released Wednesday, noting that the organization provides a job board to its members to help place Title IX coordinators at schools. 
In its alert for parents, the American Parents Coalition highlighted a training <a href="https://www.atixa.org/resources/transgender-issues-pertaining-to-minors-20-minutes-to-trained/">video</a> called “Transgender Issues Pertaining to Minors,&#8221; which Title IX coordinators can purchase for $99. The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atkZl9gRnp0&amp;t=18s">video</a> features a discussion where a presenter says that “a key thing” for “districts to navigate” is when a child comes forward who is “not comfortable” with their parents knowing about changing their gender identity or name. 
“Many districts are choosing to have a policy to allow for enhanced privacy around those particular requests,” the consultant says. 
Other <a href="https://www.ahu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/gender-equity-foundations-for-higher-education.pdf">materials</a> produced by the association include the “Gender Equity Foundations for Higher Education,&#8221; which was used <a href="https://www.ahu.edu/31/training-links-and-information">featured</a> by schools, and was featured on the website of AdventHealth University in Florida. After publication, AdventHealth University removed the ATIXA materials from its website and said that it had not used the materials for training.  
&#8220;While AdventHealth University is a member of the Association of Title IX Administrators, the school does not use the association’s materials in training and the materials are no longer available on its website,&#8221; the university told The Daily Wire.
 The training uses ideologically-loaded words and phrases like “gender fluid” and “sex assigned at birth,” and says that Title IX compliance requires allowing transgender identifying students to “access facilities consistent with their gender identity/expression.”
The training also discusses “support” through legal, medical, and social “gender transitions.” 
The coalition also highlights a presentation given by activist Shane Diamond, called “Supporting and Including Transgender Students in the Classroom and Beyond,” given at the Association of Title IX Administrators annual conference in 2021. Diamond, a woman who identifies as a man, has worked with radical groups like Transgender Legal Defense &amp; Education Fund and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. She was <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgPlz8GmRZU">featured</a> in a Title IX anniversary video celebrated by the Association of Title IX Administrators in 2022. 
Diamond’s materials, <a href="https://www.loyola.edu/department/title-ix-bias/title-ix/training-materials.html">used</a> by Loyola University in Maryland, discuss “being an ally” to transgender-identifying people and takes aim at states that have adopted laws to keep males out of female sports. 
“The school’s obligation to treat a student consistent with the student’s gender identity or expression does not require notice from the parent or guardian,” Diamond notes in her presentation materials. 
Previous reporting shows Brett Sokolow, the chair of the advisory board for the Association of Title IX Administrators, plotting in writing ways to get around the Trump administration’s crackdown on gender ideology.  
In a January email first <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/go-down-fighting-emails-reveal-school-official-plotting-to-skirt-trump-trans-guidance">reported</a> on by The Daily Wire, Sokolow told a Virginia school&#8217;s Title IX coordinator that he didn’t know if her proposal to “skirt” executive action would work, but that it may be worth it to “go down fighting.&#8221; Different emails <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/16/exclusive-university-consultants-lgbtq-church/">reported</a> on by The Daily Caller also show Sokolow suggesting ways to use religious exemptions to get around Trump’s gender directives. 
“If you could establish and promulgate a LGBTQ+ church that met the standard…the courts would have to tolerate that church’s beliefs, whatever they are,” Sokolow wrote in an email. Federal <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_name=Brett+Sokolow">records</a> reveal that he has given thousands of dollars to Democrat political candidates, including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
The American Parents Coalition asked parents to check if schools in their own districts were a part of the Association of Title IX Administrators, and if so, what materials they were using. 
“ATIXA’s quiet infiltration of American education not only flouts parental rights and undermines the safety and protection of girls, but it also flies in the face of President Trump’s recent executive orders,” Marré said. “It’s long past time for ATIXA to be held accountable so that parents can be at peace knowing that school policies protect their daughters and respect their rights as parents.”
This article has been updated to include comment provided by AdventHealth University.

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Title IX Group Pushes Trans Ideology In Schools, Watchdog Warns

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Wyoming Republicans are calling on Governor Mark Gordon to take action after a 27-year-old man used the women’s bathroom at the state capitol, in defiance of state laws.
The Wyoming Freedom Caucus said Tuesday that Gordon, a Republican, allowed Rihanna Kelver, a transgender identifying activist, to disregard House Bill 72, which requires government buildings to limit access to private spaces like bathrooms and locker rooms by sex. Kelver, a man who identifies as a woman, <a href="https://cowboystatedaily.com/2025/07/01/trans-woman-breaks-wyomings-new-bathroom-ban-in-state-capitol-nothing-happens/">was filmed</a> leaving a woman’s bathroom outside of the governor’s office in Cheyenne on Tuesday, the same day House Bill 72 took effect.
Kelver had <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/s/rih-a-trans-woman-is-going-to-/1037945768205167/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">broadcast</a> his intention to use the women’s bathroom in the weeks leading up to the Tuesday stunt. The Cowboy State Daily reported Tuesday that a Wyoming Highway Patrol officer said “OK” when the activist showed up outside the governor’s office and announced his intention to use the women’s bathroom. 
Republican State Rep. Rachel Rodriguez Williams, the chair of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus, said that the state has an obligation to uphold the law — which she says failed when Kelver was able to access the women&#8217;s bathroom with no consequences. 
“It&#8217;s unfortunate that the governor&#8217;s capitol law enforcement, which is the highway patrol, gave the guy permission to violate the law today,” she told The Daily Wire. “This obviously was a planned event, and it was posted to Facebook by the individual many months ago. So we believe that the governor did know about it and that he did know it was coming yet did nothing to stop it.”
“This is a victory of the radical trans agenda over the rights of women,” she added.
Kelver has been featured in glowing profiles by outlets like the New York Times.
“Direct action is the best course to address this bill potentially further and also to put some more public eyes on this issue and have conversations when I can,” Kelver told Cowboy State Daily on Tuesday. &#8220;I hope to achieve a message to the people that it’s OK to be trans. It&#8217;s OK to be the people that me and my other trans people are.”
House Bill 72 allows for a cause of action for women or others harmed to hold the government liable for damages if the law is not upheld. 
“We need them to draw a line in the sand once and for all and stand up for women, real women,” ​​Rodriguez-Williams told The Daily Wire. “While there was no woman inside the bathroom, the lack of action, it sends a message to women all over our state that you&#8217;re on your own.”
In Florida, a 20-year-old transgender-identifying man was arrested after entering the women’s bathroom at a Florida House office building. 
Gordon has often clashed with conservative legislators in Wyoming. He previously vetoed a bill that would have said abortion is not health care, and a bill that required ultrasounds for medication abortions. He has also been critical of several transgender-related legislation passed by the Republican supermajority. 
He <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dzW2OZ5Avxh5iIgQ-mWHtV4skZ5cNHj8/view?_ga=2.188192239.617489709.1751409810-1386271207.1751409809">criticized</a> a bill known as the “What is a Woman Act” that defined male and female as motivated by a desire to “scratch a welcome national political itch” and he <a href="https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/WYGOV/2023/03/17/file_attachments/2440949/SF%20133_Letter_3_17_23.pdf">called</a> a bill keeping males out female sports as “draconian” and “discriminatory.” He allowed both bills to become law without his signature. 
Gordon’s office did not respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire.

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It seems the whole world is rethinking the transgender procedures for kids.
Peer-reviewed studies show their long-term harm. European countries are moving to ban the practice. And just last week, the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Skrmetti that Tennessee&#8217;s law banning trans procedures for minors could stand. That landmark decision opens the door for future bans, and even caused The New York Times to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/magazine/scotus-transgender-care-tennessee-skrmetti.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QE8.7tVl.6ppovQTiJISu&amp;smid=url-share">warn</a> that the case may have &#8220;set the movement back a generation.&#8221;
But one group simply refuses to back down: the American medical establishment.
The American Medical Association (AMA) recently reaffirmed its commitment to performing transgender procedures on minors, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/americas-largest-medical-association-sides-with-child-mutilation-after-scotus-ruling">The Daily Wire</a> recently chronicled.
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They&#8217;re joined by a coalition of groups that essentially represent the entirety of the American medical establishment — including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychiatric Association, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists — to say nothing of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, which has long been at the forefront of the effort to make transgender procedures available to children.
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The AMA&#8217;s new president, <a href="https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/bobby-mukkamala-sworn-ama-president-william-underwood-iii-chosen-president-elect">Dr. Bobby Mukkamala</a>, condemned Skrmetti, <a href="https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/ama-press-releases/ama-statement-united-states-v-skrmetti">saying</a> without a hint of irony that “all patients deserve access to high-quality, evidence-based medical care.” He added that decisions about medical treatment “must be made through a shared decision-making process between the patient and their physician.”
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Though the AMA has new leadership, the support for transgender procedures for children goes back years. About a year and a half ago, the AMA hosted a conversation on “what doctors should know&#8221; about so-called trans teens. The conversation was jarring, with one doctor claiming a child can know their gender is apparently wrong by age four. 
&#8220;What we know about gender formation for all human beings is that young people really do know their gender by about age four,&#8221; Dr. M. Brett Cooper <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nOdEIdwTZY">said</a>. &#8220;It&#8217;s that young female assigned at birth that says, &#8216;Mom, I am a boy,&#8217; or, &#8216;Mom, I&#8217;m like my brother. I&#8217;m a boy too.&#8217; And they keep saying that, over and over and over again. Those are the folks that likely, but not always, will have a very firm gender diverse identity.” 
Notably, in October 2024, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton <a href="https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-stops-texas-doctors-who-illegally-gave-children-gender-transition-drugs">sued</a> Cooper, as well as other doctors, for prescribing “gender transition” drugs to dozens of Texas children in violation of Texas law.
In 2023, the AMA passed a resolution to commit to working with legislators to oppose policies that curb access to these treatments or prioritize parental rights. The resolution also promised collaboration with other organizations to “educate the Federation of State Medical Boards about the importance of gender-affirming care.”
The group also enthusiastically supported Dr. Rachel Levine’s nomination as Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Joe Biden. Levine, a male who identifies as a woman, is a proponent of all types of trans drugs and procedures for minors, and once talked about children going through the “wrong puberty.” 
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Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Levine — who transitioned *as an adult* — dismisses the question of why children can’t wait until they turn 18 to pursue sex change surgeries:
“Adolescence is hard and puberty is hard. What if you’re going through the wrong puberty?”
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Meanwhile, the gap between the American people and the medical establishment is continuing to widen. According to a recent New York Times and Ipsos <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/us/politics/trump-policies-immigration-tariffs-economy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare">poll</a>, 71% of Americans believe children under the age of 18 should not be prescribed puberty blockers or hormones. 
Fortunately for them, medical professionals who disagree with their profession&#8217;s trade groups are speaking out, and forming organizations that call for evidence-based medicine.
One group, <a href="https://donoharmmedicine.org/gender-ideology/?gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=20707841002&amp;gbraid=0AAAAAo-mml2sQ9TwnUgwBn1NT5HLq5klM&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwmenCBhA4EiwAtVjzmuvg61iE0bzkY3AdFxTDzjFXzrKJNEneUCsvx5AOfI8JSZ7LRQu5yxoCM_4QAvD_BwE">Do No Harm</a>, has 16,000 members and is fighting to “curtail the unscientific and individually harmful practice of so-called ‘gender affirming care.’” The Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine, meanwhile, researches and questions trans procedures for minors and promotes non-invasive approaches for gender confusion, like psychotherapy. 
These groups have a strong ally in President Donald Trump, who ran on this issue, and gained massive support for opposing trans procedures for minors and protecting girls&#8217; sports. During his second week in office, Trump signed an executive order stating the United States will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support gender transitions for children. 
Now, his administration is joining the fight. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/ocr-rescission-february-20-2025-notice-guidance.pdf">rescinded</a> Biden-era guidance that promoted trans procedures for minors. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a memo in April that the Department of Justice would consider prosecuting doctors for mutilating children under the guise of “trans care.” 
And, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-federal-trade-commission-is-setting-its-sights-on-transgender-procedures-on-kids">The Daily Wire</a> exclusively reported, the Federal Trade Commission will hold a workshop in July on transgender surgeries, hormones, and puberty blockers.
An FTC memo said there’s reason to believe some doctors and medical providers are pushing these treatments on minors while “knowingly deceiving parents by exaggerating ‘benefits’ and downplaying&#8230;harmful side effects.”
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When Naomi Best began a counseling psychology master&#8217;s program last year at Santa Clara University, she did not expect her professor to ask her what she disliked about her genitals.
As a required part of Professor Chongzheng Wei&#8217;s &#8220;Human Sexuality&#8221; class, students were asked to submit a &#8220;sexual autobiography&#8221; that could include talking about their genitals, sharing when they first began masturbating, or discussing their &#8220;personal sexual aspirations,&#8221; Best said.
The syllabus said students need not answer questions that &#8220;make you feel extremely uncomfortable,&#8221; but that was easier said than done.
At one point, a trans-identifying male psychologist was invited to be a guest speaker for the class, she said. When Best asked him what he meant by &#8220;gender euphoria,&#8221; he allegedly told her that he &#8220;almost came&#8221; when he saw himself in the mirror as a woman for the first time, she said.
The trans-identifying psychologist also allegedly told students, “trans women have the only p***ies that can blow up the world,” Best said.
Then there was the day when Professor Wei, who goes by &#8220;he/they/ta&#8221; pronouns, allegedly shared that he had bought a device at a kink festival to elongate his foreskin, Best said. The professor also allegedly showed the class an instructional video on how to tie someone up who was wearing a slave “gimp suit” to an X-shaped cross.
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ICYMI: Therapy student <a href="https://twitter.com/naomieppsbest?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@naomieppsbest</a> blows the whistle on mandatory training in smut. <a href="https://twitter.com/maireadelordi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@maireadelordi</a> reports. <a href="https://t.co/xf5PmTcxGo">pic.twitter.com/xf5PmTcxGo</a>
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He also allegedly had students watch a video of a BDSM dungeon tour that featured a female influencer being flogged, electroshocked, ball-gagged, put in a guillotine, subjected to knife “play,” and wrapped in plastic and made to jump up and down as a &#8220;humiliation tactic,&#8221; all with no warning, Best said.
Afterwards, Wei smiled and asked if students wanted to try it themselves. Best walked out of class that day, and ended up dropping the class altogether.
&#8220;There&#8217;s an argument to be made that therapists should be aware of the breadth of human sexual practices, including BDSM, and I am not contesting that, but the manner in which this material was presented was promotional,&#8221; Best told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;There was no clinical framing,&#8221; Best said. &#8220;I want to be able to talk with clients about sex if they want to talk about it. If a client comes to me and brings it up that they get sexual gratification from inflicting pain upon somebody, I think that therapists should be trained to have curiosity about that association &#8230; not for the reason of telling them they&#8217;re a bad person. Therapists don&#8217;t do that. But to have a conversation about it, if they bring it up.&#8221;
She had dropped the &#8220;Human Sexuality&#8221; class once before when she was asked — and declined — to discuss her &#8220;masturbation history&#8221; in a group of four students that included a man, she said.
Best, a 26-year-old married mother of a toddler, believed that revealing her personal sexual history would be a violation of her Christian beliefs. So, she requested the same accommodation she had heard female Muslim students were offered, which was to take the course remotely. Instead, Professor Wei asked to meet with her and promised there would be no personal sexual disclosure in his class, but that turned out to be wrong, she said.
&#8220;It&#8217;s just clearly a hostile learning environment, and I don&#8217;t know how to explain that to somebody who just doesn&#8217;t inherently understand it,&#8221; she said.
Best took her complaints about the course all the way up the chain at Santa Clara University, exhausting every official avenue from the Title IX office to the school&#8217;s president. She explained her issues with the class — the invasive sexual autobiography, a swath of &#8220;gratuitous&#8221; sexually titillating course material, and alleged unprofessional behavior from the professor and guest speakers.
But she said her concerns were not taken seriously. The school dismissed her Title IX claim, and when she asked for a refund for the class, a school representative called her request &#8220;astonishing,&#8221; according to emails shared with The Daily Wire.
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The time is now to take on ideological capture of therapy. I’m just getting started. <a href="https://t.co/BTm4OrHUFM">pic.twitter.com/BTm4OrHUFM</a>
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Ideological capture is near complete in the field of psychology. Schools, training grounds, accreditation bodies, and professional guilds are all complicit.
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Blew the whistle in <a href="https://twitter.com/WSJopinion?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WSJopinion</a> on ideological rigidity in therapy training. A week later, I am fired from my internship with the regret of my boss. This field is in crisis. The public needs to know. <a href="https://t.co/EldOjq0hOG">pic.twitter.com/EldOjq0hOG</a>
&mdash; Naomi Best (@naomieppsbest) <a href="https://twitter.com/naomieppsbest/status/1933292756765716743?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Last week, Best received a letter from Sabrina Zirkel, dean of the School of Education and Counseling Psychology telling her that, &#8220;we do not agree with your interpretation or characterization of what the syllabus required&#8221; and &#8220;based on input from others who were present, we also do not agree with your assertions about and characterization of what occurred during the class.&#8221;
The dean argued that &#8220;the class requires internal self-reflection which is the type of work that therapists ask of their clients,&#8221; but that &#8220;under no circumstances were you required to disclose sexual memories, sexual experiences, or any other personal information that you did not wish to share.&#8221;
The school said Best still has the opportunity to &#8220;complete this content through approved continuing education classes offered by a third-party provider.&#8221;
Professor Wei and the heads of the Education and Counseling Psychology school all referred requests for comment to Santa Clara University&#8217;s media office.
In a statement to The Daily Wire, Santa Clara University said that &#8220;no student is expected to or required to reveal or disclose private sexual information they do not want to share&#8221; and &#8220;self-disclosure of an intensely personal nature is not required.&#8221;
The school said the class has been taught with a similar approach and similar assignments since the mid-1990s.
&#8220;We do not agree with many of the student’s public assertions about the class,&#8221; the university said. &#8220;People who were present dispute statements being made by the student and her characterization of classroom discussions and course content, including the readings, speakers, and assignments.&#8221;
Best says one of the books the class studied was &#8220;The Guide To Getting It On,&#8221; a book with explicit cartoons of sexual acts, whose author <a href="https://ucsdguardian.org/2004/06/01/summer-reading-heats-up-with-sex-guide/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he wrote the book as &#8220;revenge for eight years in Catholic school.&#8221; Santa Clara University is a Catholic Jesuit school.
The school said it could not comment on the details of Best&#8217;s complaint but said the Title IX office may sometimes conclude that &#8220;course requirements or classroom content are protected by the principles of academic freedom.&#8221;
Best believes her experience points to a deeper problem in the counseling psychology world.
&#8220;What happened at Santa Clara University was unethical and will be remedied,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I want to bring awareness to the fact that psychology and counseling has been ideologically captured. That means that there is one permissible worldview for upcoming therapists to hold, and it is grounded in critical theory.&#8221;
Earlier this month, Best came out publicly with her concerns and <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/santa-clara-universitys-crazy-idea-of-human-sexuality-therapy-licensing-higher-education-44e744ce?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAijGcRg9HzkiSNcp-aiyabuI168QfQHcSgOG8e-CkmVRCiDtuKx8MB3kTfwXg%3D%3D&amp;gaa_ts=685389bf&amp;gaa_sig=eP2Ptw3OgBEwcKj5AHvObMjHZ8FfWvgADp2XkRUWKX2-oX7ISvVUM9iI5v2Uu5eER1jBPWtyOlwX7tbFI52J0A%3D%3D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal.
After her op-ed ran, Best said she was fired from her required therapy internship — unrelated to the school — after she was called into a meeting with over a dozen colleagues where she said she was &#8220;attacked for what I wrote.&#8221;
&#8220;I think I just blew up my career,&#8221; she told The Daily Wire.
However, since going public with her allegations, Best has received an outpouring of support.
An alumnus of Santa Clara University <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/santa-clara-an-alumnus-would-like-a-word-human-sexuality-course-69440035?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAjukHLV0uaBwUu8n-oX1QMhkeRjH8Ez31nLAlhKctGAqw03SqRFKZCS4c-l4g%3D%3D&amp;gaa_ts=685389bf&amp;gaa_sig=o5uKqr-rOlgMrQUZTfxPe0JGPDTiE42klL79rBZwsXHDNKT43B1L3mdU0QFNkpZ7MS2E1T6JxiUunxEld0LrPg%3D%3D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> Best&#8217;s experience with her graduate class &#8220;gobsmacking, sordid and sad&#8221; in a letter to the editor The Journal published.
Her social media videos discussing the situation have been viewed millions of times, and many people have reached out in support, including lawyers and other students with similar experiences, she said.
&#8220;Two weeks ago, I was living a private life with a great career path,&#8221; Best said. &#8220;I am putting that on the line to bring this issue to the public&#8217;s attention because I think it is important and I think people will be harmed if it is not addressed.&#8221;

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Maine state <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/she-stood-up-for-girls-then-got-a-scotus-win-laurel-libby-speaks-out">Rep. Laurel Libby</a> (R) on Wednesday finally had her voice restored after state Democrats censured the Republican for a post calling out the state&#8217;s unpopular transgender sports policy.
Libby announced on X that state Democrats passed a House resolution to fully restore her voting and speaking rights, which were first stripped in February.
&#8220;VICTORY!! Democrats CAVE and give my Voice AND Vote back,&#8221; she said. &#8220;My constituent&#8217;s right to representation and my right to free speech should never have been stripped.&#8221;
Notably, Libby was told she would have to apologize to Democrats for her <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1053801876552826&amp;set=pb.100057690715704.-2207520000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook post</a> drawing attention to Maine’s controversial transgender policies if she wanted her voting and speech rights back. 
&#8220;I have NEVER apologized and NEVER WILL for speaking up for girls&#8217; sports,&#8221; Libby said. 
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🚨 VICTORY!! 🚨 Democrats CAVE and give my Voice AND Vote back.
My constituent&#8217;s right to representation and my right to free speech should never have been stripped. I have NEVER apologized and NEVER WILL for speaking up for girls&#8217; sports.
— Rep. Laurel Libby (@laurel_libby) <a href="https://twitter.com/laurel_libby/status/1937979317943767187?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Libby filed a lawsuit over the censure, and last month she scored a legal win at the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled to give the Republican back her voting rights as the lawsuit plays out.
&#8220;The Democrats caved because they know that they are losing, they are losing in the court of public opinion, they are losing in the literal court, and they have to save face,&#8221; Libby said in a video post.
As highlighted by Libby, constituents in Maine — though a liberal state — <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-trump-trans-athletes-womens-sports-maine">side with Republicans and President Donald Trump on transgender sports issues</a>: they want to protect female spaces and sports and keep trans-identifying males out.
&#8220;This is not over. This all began because I spoke up on behalf of Maine women and girls, who are being discriminated against,&#8221; Libby continued. &#8220;Their rights have not been assured. This is a Democrat maneuver to try to get themselves out of trouble — but they are still in trouble.&#8221;
In Maine, Democrat Gov. Janet Mills is still standing by her position to allow males in girls sports. The Trump administration has sued the state&#8217;s Department of Education and frozen federal dollars over that decision.
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Trump pressures NATO to increase military spending after mediating the Iran-Israel truce. New Yorkers head to the polls &#8212; will they elect a socialist mayor? And, the United States&#8217; largest medical group doubles down on transgender treatments despite the data.
It’s Wednesday, June 25, and this is the news you need to know to start your day.
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<h2>War &amp; Peace</h2>
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Topline: President Donald Trump headed to Europe on Tuesday for high-stakes NATO meetings after he brokered the tenuous ceasefire between Iran and Israel.
Leaders from all 32 members of the NATO alliance and some partner states are attending a two-day <a href="https://www.act.nato.int/activities/nato-summit/">summit</a> in the Netherlands to discuss defense policy and the broader strategy. President Trump’s main goal is to push NATO members to increase their defense budgets. Trump has long lamented that America is being taken advantage of by allies who benefit from our military without paying their fair share. At the moment, NATO members are expected to spend at least 2% of their GDP on defense — Trump wants to raise that to 5%. According to Reuters, &#8220;All NATO members have backed a statement enshrining the target, although Spain declared it does not need to meet the goal and can meet its commitments by spending much less.&#8221;
This is also the first large gathering of world leaders since the president’s strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities on Saturday, and the subsequent ceasefire announced on Monday. On Tuesday morning, hours after the deal went into effect, Iran reportedly launched a series of missiles at Israel, prompting the Israelis to respond with strikes on a radar facility outside of Tehran. For a moment, it looked like the war was back on, but then Trump intervened. With Israeli planes reportedly en route to Iran, the president called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directly with what the White House called an “exceptionally firm and direct” warning to abide by the ceasefire. 
Trump also made a <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/trump-i-need-israel-to-calm-down-do-not-drop-those-bombs-bring-your-pilots-home-now/">public appeal</a> on social media, writing, “ISRAEL. DO NOT DROP THOSE BOMBS. IF YOU DO IT IS A MAJOR VIOLATION. BRING YOUR PILOTS HOME, NOW!”
Shortly afterward, Netanyahu said he would refrain from further strikes.
While further escalation was avoided, Trump made it clear that he was unhappy with both Israel and Iran.
“We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f*** they’re doing,” Trump <a href="https://x.com/cspan/status/1937468807536169315">told</a> reporters bluntly. “[Iran is] not going to have enrichment and they&#8217;re not going to have a nuclear weapon. They&#8217;re going to get on to being a great trading nation.&#8221;
At the summit, Trump also <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-06-24/trump-nato-summit-iran-israel-putin">quipped</a> about ongoing tensions with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who launched an invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and has been accused of slow-walking the peace negotiations with the United States. “Vladimir called me up – he said ‘do you need help with Iran?’ And I told him ‘I don’t need help with Iran, I need help with you.”
<h2>Cuomo Concedes NYC Primary To Socialist</h2>
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Topline: New Yorkers went to the polls on Tuesday to decide the Democratic candidate for mayor.
The New York City Mayoral Democratic Primary took place on Tuesday, and the former frontrunner has already conceded. With 92% of the vote in, Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani had a 7-point lead over former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, although neither candidate secured a majority, and the official results won’t be tallied until next week. This kind of wait isn’t unusual — it took two weeks for this primary to be decided in 2021, in a large part because New York City uses <a href="https://vote.nyc/page/ranked-choice-voting">ranked-choice voting</a>.
In a ranked choice election, instead of picking one candidate, voters rank candidates in order of preference – if no candidate receives a majority in the first round, then the candidate who received the fewest votes is eliminated and their supporters&#8217; ballots are added to the tally of the candidate who was ranked as their next most preferred choice – the process continuing until one of the candidates has majority support.
There were 11 candidates on the ballot, but in the end, it came down to three: Andrew Cuomo, the former governor who resigned amid allegations of sexual misconduct; New York City comptroller Brad Lander, who received the New York Times’ endorsement; and the apparent rising star of the race, Zohran Mamdani, an state assemblyman from Queens and vocal member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Lander and Mamdani made waves a few weeks ago when they endorsed each other, urging their supporters to put both of them in their top two and not to rank Cuomo.
“We both love New York City, and that’s why it’s so important to not send scandal-ridden, corrupt, Andrew Cuomo to City Hall,” Lander and Mamdani <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYH_zerPE3M">said</a> in a joint statement. “New Yorkers deserve so much better than a disgraced creep. … Brad and I are officially telling our supporters: rank me number one, rank him number two. Let’s send Andrew Cuomo back to the suburbs.”
Cuomo led the pack in almost every <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/nyc-mayoral-primary-election-polls-2025.html">first-round poll</a>, but the most recent Emerson College survey suggested that Mamdani was only a few points behind and would actually beat Cuomo by 4 points in the final count. Despite conceding the Democratic primary, Cuomo is still free to run as a third-party candidate against Mamdani in the general election.
<h2>Trans Medicine &#8212; The Establishment Vs The Evidence</h2>
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Topline: The nation’s largest medical association is standing by its controversial guidance to promote transgender medical procedures for minors – despite mounting evidence against it and a landmark Supreme Court ruling.
The American Medical Association (AMA) released a statement signaling against the recent ruling in United States v. Skrmetti, which permits states to ban puberty blockers and other so-called gender-affirming procedures on minors – those procedures have been shown to be damaging and often irreversible. The new president of the AMA, <a href="https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/bobby-mukkamala-sworn-ama-president-william-underwood-iii-chosen-president-elect">Dr. Bobby Mukkamala</a>, condemned the decision and said that “all patients deserve access to high-quality, evidence-based medical care.” He added that decisions about medical treatment “must be made through a shared decision-making process between the patient and their physician.”
The AMA has a significant influence in shaping policy and common medical practices – it has long supported trans procedures for minors. In 2023, it passed a resolution to commit to working with legislators to oppose policies that curb access to these treatments or prioritize parental rights. The resolution also promised collaboration with other organizations to “educate the Federation of State Medical Boards about the importance of gender-affirming care.” The AMA also enthusiastically supported Dr. Rachel Levine’s nomination as Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Services during the Biden era. Notably, Levine – a man who identifies as a woman – is a proponent of many types of trans procedures for minors.
Other major players in the American medical establishment, including the <a href="https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/25340/AAP-reaffirms-gender-affirming-care-policy">American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)</a>, the <a href="https://www.endocrine.org/clinical-practice-guidelines/gender-dysphoria-gender-incongruence">Endocrine Society</a>, the American Psychiatric Association, the <a href="https://wpath.org/publications/soc8/">World Professional Association for Transgender Health</a>, the American Academy of Family Physicians, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the American College of Physicians are standing behind their position to support trans procedures for minors.
However, individual medical professionals speak out about this – and now organizations are forming that call for evidence-based medicine. One group called <a href="https://donoharmmedicine.org/gender-ideology/?gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=20707841002&amp;gbraid=0AAAAAo-mml2sQ9TwnUgwBn1NT5HLq5klM&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwmenCBhA4EiwAtVjzmuvg61iE0bzkY3AdFxTDzjFXzrKJNEneUCsvx5AOfI8JSZ7LRQu5yxoCM_4QAvD_BwE">Do No Harm</a> has 16,000 members, and one of its stated goals is to “curtail the unscientific and individually harmful practice of so-called ‘gender affirming care.’” Another group, called the “Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine,” researches and questions trans procedures for minors. It promotes non-invasive approaches for gender confusion, like psychotherapy.
Since Trump took office, a number of hospitals have announced that they are curtailing or entirely stopping trans procedures for minors. During his second week in office, Trump signed an order saying that the United States would not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support gender transitions for children. Under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., HHS <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/ocr-rescission-february-20-2025-notice-guidance.pdf">rescinded</a> trans guidance from the Biden administration that promoted these procedures. An April memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi said the DOJ would look at prosecuting doctors for mutilating children under the guise of “trans care.”

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Planned Parenthood has long been synonymous with abortion, profiting from the violent destruction of preborn children. But now, the nation&#8217;s largest abortion chain has added another sinister revenue stream — mutilating young people in the name of “gender-affirming care.” It is past time for Congress to cut off the more than half a billion dollars in taxpayer funding that Planned Parenthood receives annually. Americans should not be forced to subsidize an organization that ends the life of preborn babies and irreversibly harms confused young people.
Planned Parenthood’s <a href="https://www.liveaction.org/news/report-details-planned-parenthood-record-abortions-funding/">total revenue</a> for 2023-24 was $2.03B, nearly the same as the previous fiscal year of 2022-23 at $2.05B. They took in a staggering $498 million just in donations in 2022 — and instead of improving the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/us/planned-parenthood-clinics.html">horrific conditions</a> inside its clinics, it funneled much of it into advancing its radical political and legal agenda. In 2024 alone, the abortion giant spent <a href="https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/pressroom/statement-from-planned-parenthood-action-fund-on-presidential-election-results#:~:text=Planned%20Parenthood%20advocacy%20and%20political%20organizations%20made%20a%20record%2Dbreaking%20%2469.5%20million%20investment%20during%20the%202024%20election%20cycle.">$69.5 million</a> to defeat pro-life Republican candidates and policies.
<h3>Abortion: The Business of Death</h3>
According to its 2023-2024 <a href="https://www.liveaction.org/news/report-details-planned-parenthood-record-abortions-funding/">annual report,</a> Planned Parenthood performed 402,230 abortions in the 2022 to 2023 fiscal year. This breaks down to an average of 1,102 daily abortions, nearly 46 hourly, and one every 78 seconds Its business model revolves around ending innocent lives, and they are unapologetic about it. The science is clear: from the moment of fertilization, a unique human life begins. Yet Planned Parenthood treats preborn children as disposable. Their so-called &#8220;care&#8221; consists of poisoning or dismembering the youngest members of our human family.
This brutality is not an unfortunate byproduct of their work — it is their core business. Despite offering <a href="https://lozierinstitute.org/fact-sheet-planned-parenthoods-2023-24-annual-report/">fewer legitimate healthcare</a> services each year, Planned Parenthood’s abortion numbers continue to rise. Women in crisis deserve real support, not an organization that profits from their despair by ending their children’s lives.
Defunding Planned Parenthood is not about limiting healthcare access; it is about redirecting taxpayer dollars to organizations that actually serve women and children. Yet, year after year, Congress continues to funnel hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars into this abortion behemoth.
<h3>Gender Transitions: The Business of Mutilation</h3>
As if poisoning and dismembering preborn children weren’t evil enough, Planned Parenthood has also become one of the largest providers of cross-sex hormones, pushing powerful, life-altering drugs onto vulnerable teenagers with little to no medical oversight. According to <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/how-did-planned-parenthood-become?utm_source=chatgpt.com">insurance claim data</a>, Planned Parenthood has prescribed gender transition hormones to at least 40,000 young adults in just one year, often after brief, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/undercover-investigation-planned-parenthood-prescribing-hormones-minors-minimal-oversight">superficial consultations</a>.
One of us, Chloe, knows firsthand the devastation of this industry. As a teenager, she was encouraged to believe that she was born in the wrong body. Medical professionals — including those at organizations like Planned Parenthood — fast-tracked her onto puberty blockers, testosterone, and eventually a double mastectomy, all before she was old enough to legally drive. She was told it would bring her happiness. It didn’t. It left her with permanent scars, a deep voice, a damaged body, and the realization that she had been betrayed by the very people who claimed to help.
Planned Parenthood is not providing informed, compassionate care. They are running a conveyor belt of gender transition services, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfoZCtbvdhM">pushing vulnerable young people</a> toward a medical pathway that results in permanent sterilization, sexual dysfunction, and lifelong regret. Many of those who detransition, like Chloe, find themselves abandoned by the medical community that once rushed them into these procedures.
<h3>No More Taxpayer Funding</h3>
The American people should not be forced to pay for the destruction of innocent lives or the mutilation of confused young people. Planned Parenthood has shown time and time again that it is not a legitimate healthcare provider. It is an ideological machine that profits off death and suffering.
According to a recent <a href="https://lozierinstitute.org/fact-sheet-planned-parenthoods-2023-24-annual-report/#_ftn14">report</a> from the Lozier Institute, &#8220;Taxpayer funding in the form of government grants, contracts, and Medicaid reimbursements hit $792.2 million, over $2 million per day&#8230;&#8221;
European nations such as Sweden, Finland, and the United Kingdom are now restricting the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors, recognizing that the evidence supporting them is weak and the risks catastrophic. Yet, in the U.S., Planned Parenthood continues to push these treatments at record rates, all while receiving taxpayer dollars.
Enough is enough. Congress must act. Every dollar that funds Planned Parenthood is a dollar spent enabling the deaths of preborn children, the mutilation of young people caught in an identity crisis, and political attack ads on Republican leaders. That money should be invested in real healthcare — providers that support women, protect children, and offer genuine, life-affirming care and psychological help.
The fight to defund Planned Parenthood is not just a policy battle; it is a crossroads for our nation. Lives are at stake for both the preborn children who deserve the right to live and the young people being led down a destructive path from which they may never fully recover. We must demand that our lawmakers stand against this barbarism. It’s time to end taxpayer funding for an organization that kills and mutilates the most vulnerable in our community. Congress must defund Planned Parenthood now.
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Lila Rose is a writer, speaker and activist. She is the founder and president of Live Action, a human rights nonprofit with the largest digital footprint for the global pro-life movement.
Chloe Cole, a poised and articulate 20-year-old woman, passionately advocates against the practice of transitioning minors.Driven by a noble mission to safeguard children from potentially harmful ideologies and medical interventions, Chloe draws from her personal experiences to shed light on the distressing consequences of gender-affirming care for adolescents. Having embarked on her own transition journey at the tender age of 12, only to subsequently detransition at 16, Chloe speaks with firsthand authority on the deeply traumatic effects experienced by minors undergoing such treatments. Follow her: @ChoooCole
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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