The Golden Age of Donald Trump is officially upon us, ushering in a cultural shift that seemed unimaginable just a few weeks ago. 
Immediately after being sworn into office, Trump issued multiple important executive orders — none better than his <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">order</a> to make it the official policy of the U.S. government to recognize male and female as the only two genders. Because, of course, those are the only genders that exist. 
Trump’s order also seeks to protect women from the dangerous results of radical gender ideology — results like biological males dominating women in sports like swimming, track … or basketball. 
When “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/lady-ballers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lady Ballers</a>” came out on DailyWire+ in 2023, the message, while funny, was also a sad statement on the state of our culture. Trans-identifying men playing against women was a serious issue, and the legacy media and Big Tech companies were taking extreme measures to censor and downplay conservatives’ concerns on the topic. But now, with Trump’s victory and ascension to the White House, conservatives are successfully pushing back against those extreme gender ideas, and “Lady Ballers” can be viewed as a funny reflection of how crazy things became because of radical gender ideology. 
Thankfully, that craziness won’t be sticking around, and it’s easier to laugh about it now. “Lady Ballers” perfectly and hilariously encapsulates the insanity of men claiming to be women and playing in women’s sports. 
The film tells the story of a down-on-his-luck former high school basketball coach named Rob, played by Daily Wire co-founder Jeremy Boreing, who will do anything to win — in this case, teaching his team of men radical modern gender theory and leading them to identify as women in order to brutally dominate multiple women’s sports.
After coming out on DailyWire+ last year, the movie quickly received rave reviews from the audience on Rotten Tomatoes, where it still sits at an 88% rating. 
It’s time to celebrate the dawn of Trump’s Golden Age and laugh at the gender madness we defeated. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/lady-ballers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watch “Lady Ballers” on DailyWire+</a>.

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“<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">Emilia Pérez</a>” star Karla Sofía Gascón became the first <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender">trans-identifying</a> person in history to be nominated for an Academy Award as the committee announced the nominees on Thursday morning.
 Gascón, 52, is a biological man who will be up for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/oscars">Oscar</a> for Best Actress alongside Cynthia Erivo (“Wicked”), Mikey Madison (“Anora”), Demi Moore (“The Substance”), and Fernanda Torres (“I&#8217;m Still Here”).
Previously, Gascón jointly won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress alongside the movie’s other co-stars, becoming the first trans-identifying star to win the prize. The “Emilia Pérez” headliner also got a Best Actress nomination at the Golden Globes but lost out to Demi Moore for her role in “The Substance.”
Despite <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trans-advocates-cant-stand-pro-trans-golden-globe-winner-emilia-perez-heres-why">controversy</a> surrounding the film, “Emilia Pérez” received the most nominations at this year’s Oscars with 13. 
“Emilia Pérez” is also nominated for Best Picture, Best Director (Jacques Audiard), Best Supporting Actress (Zoe Saldaña), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Cinematography, Best Sound, Best Original Song (“El Mal” and “Mi Camino”), Best Film Editing, and Best International Feature.
Gascón previously spoke about being proud to be in the movie. “You have an action movie that’s not an action movie, a drama that’s not a drama, a comedy that’s not a comedy,” Gascón told <a href="https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/emilia-perez-plot-cast-release-date">Tudum</a> in November. “It is such a great gift, and I’m so proud to be part of it.”
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The narrative follows a Mexican drug cartel leader who fakes his own death to undergo gender transition surgery and live a new life. Chaos ensues when &#8220;Emilia Pérez&#8221; insists on reuniting with his family while disguised as a distant female relative following gender reassignment surgery. 
Reactions on social media to Gascón being nominated for Best Actress were mostly negative.
“The patriarchy continues to win,” one person <a href="https://x.com/cactusncookies/status/1882465536942161963">replied</a> to the nomination announcement on X.
“Another year of dismal ratings and awards to movies no one cares about,” another <a href="https://x.com/RoofKorean7/status/1882475439152902303">agreed</a>.
“Liberal Hollywood has learned nothing from the recent election,” a third commenter <a href="https://x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/1882447906998825195">chimed in</a>. “They keep trying to cancel women even though America soundly rejected Democrats in the presidential election for doing exactly that…the entertainment industry has lost its mind.”

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America&#8217;s Golden Age is just getting started.
And the Left has still not recovered.
They haven’t regained their semblance of reality or normalcy. One of the reasons why there is a feeling of unity in the country overall is because the era of weird is over and the era of the normie is back.
The Left cannot embrace this. The Democratic Party cannot embrace this. And that&#8217;s worth exploring for a moment, because the most obvious thing about this current election cycle is that the Democratic Party blew it. They absolutely blew it because of wokeness.
Woke issues are an 80-20 issue in the country. Americans do not believe in discrimination on the basis of race. That is an 80-20 issue. They reject it. Americans do not believe that little boys are the same as little girls, and boys can be made into girls or vice versa. That&#8217;s an 80-20 issue.
These issues are losers for Democrats, which prompts this question: Why don&#8217;t the Democrats separate themselves from those issues?
Every time a Democrat tries to separate from it, that person is immediately raked over the coals. This happened to Democrat Congressman Seth Moulton in Massachusetts, who made the signal error of suggesting that boys should not play in girls’ sports. He was then clubbed by his entire party.
Why can&#8217;t they separate themselves from an issue like that? If it&#8217;s an 80-20 issue, why is it so vital for them to continue embracing it?
Here’s the answer: Wokeness is now the core philosophy of the Democratic Party. It is the core philosophy that the Left cannot be separated from.
The reality is that we live in a country of immense prosperity and historic wealth. The typical Left-wing case, the Marxist case, is that there are classes, and these classes are solid and impenetrable, that if you&#8217;re born poor in America, you die poor; if you&#8217;re born rich, you die rich, and your kids die rich.
That&#8217;s not true. That has never been axiomatic in America.
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One of the most amazing things about the people who stood next to Donald Trump during his inauguration, those tech bros, is that they did not all grow up uber wealthy people.
For example, my company, The Daily Wire, was founded by three people. Jeremy Boring, co-founder of the company, did not graduate from college. Caleb Robinson did not even go to college. I went to Harvard Law School, but I grew up in a 1,300 square-foot house in Burbank, California, with two bedrooms — one for my parents and one for the kids, which meant four kids in one bedroom and one bathroom for all six of us until I was 11-years-old.
The amount of income and wealth mobility in the United States is astonishing. That is always why it has been a land of opportunity, which means that in America, the typical Marxist case for the flattening and destruction of the free market in the name of equality does not work and has never worked for long.
Sometimes, it&#8217;s applied after an economic crisis when people are looking for some sort of answer. And that&#8217;s when you get the FDR administration. That&#8217;s when you get Obama.
But it doesn&#8217;t last for long because Americans are an aspirational people, a people who like innovation. We like adventure. We want exploration. The typical Left-wing economic Marxist case, that everything is economically unfair, does not tend to work in a system that has those levels of economic mobility. The aspiration most Americans have does not match up with what the Left believes, which is to free society in place, redistribute all the winnings and then everybody is equal in penury.
That is not the aspiration of the American people. When I campaigned with a series of Senate candidates during the last election cycle, whether it was up in the tip of Ohio with a bunch of white folks, or whether I was down in the Rio Grande Valley campaigning with Senator Cruz with an entirely Hispanic population, everyone wanted the same thing: to be able to keep their wealth, to build wealth for the next generation, to raise their family, to go to church, and to help their kids have a better life than they did.
That is why Marxism has never successfully been applied in the United States and will not win in the United States. And that is also the reason why for the Left, economic Marxism had to be recast as something else. It had to be recast as race Marxism or sex Marxism, which is wokeism.
The idea became that you had to completely restructure the system, to destroy capitalism.
Why? Because the Left says people are innately not different. But the beauty of capitalism is that it is a meritocracy, and you don&#8217;t have to be at the top level of any particular thing in order to succeed in the United States.
This is the theory of comparative advantage. For example, I may be really good at talking and writing, but I&#8217;m not so good at plumbing. That plumber can be highly successful and make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year starting a plumbing company.
That&#8217;s one of the beauties of capitalism. But what the Left says instead is that all people are innately exactly the same — not equal before God, but innately the same. “Men” and “women” are arbitrary categories. Group differentiation is all arbitrary.
That means any inequity between those groups must be a reflection of unfairness. That&#8217;s what wokeness is: Wokeness is the argument that all disparities are discrimination.
In order for that argument to make any sense, it means that all people must be exactly the same. So the argument to destroy capitalism has to be made on the basis that we are all basically undifferentiated widgets.
This is why the Left can&#8217;t let go of those arguments. They can’t. The minute they give up that argument, they&#8217;re relegated to arguing economic Marxism again. And economic Marxism in the United States tends to lose. Bernie Sanders is popular with a relatively small cadre of the American people. His candidacy would have been a disaster for Democrats.
Thus, they&#8217;ve had to move into a weird combination of economic Marxism, economic progressivism, race Marxism, sex Marxism: Wokeness.
Why do I bring this up?
Because one thing that&#8217;s been evident in the aftermath of President Trump&#8217;s swearing-in is that the Left will never give this up. That made itself absolutely apparent yesterday at the National Prayer Service at the Washington National Cathedral.
President Trump attended, along with Melania, the entire Trump family, and Vice President Vance and his family.
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In the middle of the service, Mariann Budde, a female Episcopal bishop, spoke. She proceeded to spew a diatribe of woke-mind nonsense that had nothing whatsoever to do with the Bible or Christian traditionalism. 50 years ago, you would have been much more likely to hear this in a Communist Party hall than in a church.
The decline of religion in America has led to hearing this kind of trash in churches. So this resistance pastor got up and decided she was going to make herself famous by ripping into Donald Trump and JD Vance the day after the inauguration.
And she was going to do so by spewing absolute nonsense wokeness about trans kids who don&#8217;t exist.
When I say they don&#8217;t exist, I mean that there may be kids with gender dysphoria, but the notion that a child knows that their body is not in line with their sex is ridiculous on its face. She spewed nonsense about trans children and illegal immigrants and suggested that if President Trump wished to emulate the values of Jesus, he must abandon his entire political agenda.
I’ve noticed that Jesus was not in favor of free migration across all borders. I certainly know that Jesus was not in favor of the idea that boys and girls are the same and are interchangeable and boys can become girls.
But of course, this had nothing to do with religion.
It is what the Left has done with nearly every institution. They&#8217;ve hollowed them out. They hollowed out the church, and they stuck in a bunch of Left-wing woke garbage.
“Our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger, for we will all want strangers in this land,” she pronounced.
This is ridiculous. It&#8217;s ridiculous. The notion that you are now citing the biblical injunction to be kind to the stranger in order to suggest you cannot have a border as a country is asinine. The suggestion that the Bible mandates that President Trump allow the mutilation, the hormonal sterilization of small children on the basis that they think they might be a member of the opposite sex is perverse.
Shame on whomever did not vet this woman, the same woman who said just a couple of years ago that everything about President Trump was antithetical to the teachings of Jesus.
This is all insulting, ridiculous, and divisive. It&#8217;s also bound to lose because the American people — anyone who takes the church or the Bible seriously, whether Christian or Jewish — don&#8217;t believe this. You don&#8217;t take this perspective seriously if you happen to be a person who believes in Biblical values.
But the Left can&#8217;t let it go.
The Left&#8217;s attachment to wokeness never dies.
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America’s Golden Age Starts, And The Left Still Goes Woke

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Mariann Budde, the Bishop who presided over the inaugural prayer service at Washington&#8217;s National Cathedral Tuesday, disgraced the nation when she used a nonpartisan occasion of religious worship to deliver a left-wing diatribe to President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and their families.
After asking Trump to “have mercy” on “gay, lesbian and transgender children,” she went on to harangue him from the pulpit about his immigration policies, describing illegal aliens as “the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings.”
Though Budde’s rant was wholly inappropriate to both the occasion and her office, it should have come as no surprise to White House staff, given her long history of left-wing activism. As the first woman to lead the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, Budde has routinely prioritized political matters over spiritual ones, staking out a public anti-Trump position.
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In June of 2020, she <a href="https://x.com/ABC/status/1268308499265658880">told</a> ABC that the nation needed to “replace President Trump.” When he made an appearance in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church to send a message to George Floyd rioters who had burned the historic building, she told <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/bishop-budde-trump-church/2020/06/01/20ca70f8-a466-11ea-b619-3f9133bbb482_story.html">The Washington Post</a> &#8220;Everything [Trump] has said and done is to inflame violence. &#8230; We need moral leadership, and he&#8217;s done everything to divide us.&#8221; 
Budde’s comments were especially ironic given her backing of divisive racial policies. In 2020, she <a href="https://x.com/realJeremyCarl/status/1882128912454742036">supported</a> a new healthcare proposal from Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear that would have provided coverage only to black residents, and she <a href="https://x.com/Mebudde/status/1267652002424725504">called</a> the Black Lives Matter protests a “sacred act.” <a href="https://edow.org/about/bishop-mariann/">Her biography</a> on the diocese’s website — which lauds her as “an advocate and organizer in support of justice concerns, including racial equity, gun violence prevention, immigration reform, the full inclusion of LGBTQ+ persons, and the care of creation” —  reveals that she is, in fact, a political operative in priestly robes.
In the understandable fallout from Budde’s “sermon,” many Americans who do not pay close attention to religious matters are asking how the Episcopal Church has fallen so far from anything resembling biblical doctrine. What few realize is that Marxists who infiltrated the church decades ago long worked to see activists like Budde placed in high church offices. 
As documents in the <a href="https://guides.loc.gov/comintern-archives/archive-to-scholars#:~:text=The%20Comintern%20archives%20constitute%20an,continued%20to%20add%20personal%20files.">Soviet Comintern Archives</a> and testimony from ex-communist Herbert Romerstein revealed during the Reagan Era, between 1920 and 1950, the Communist Party of the United States embarked on a program to infiltrate mainline Protestant churches, including the Episcopalians, to entice their pastors to embrace socialism.
After he left the Communist Party USA, Romerstein testified before Congress on the “suckers lists” his organization had assembled — that is, the lists of institutions and groups he and his comrades had planned to subvert. A key target among them? Clergy.  Indeed, Romerstein later <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2010/09/26/10-questions-with-dupes-author-paul-kengor/">told</a> Reagan biographer Paul Kengor that they were “the biggest suckers of them all” because he and his comrades had more success infiltrating their ranks than those of any other group. 
Members of the Soviet Comintern, the international socialist organization that included the Communist Party USA, were atheists, but they knew how to appropriate religious terminology for political ends. Their imitation game worked especially well on the National Council of Churches, a Protestant umbrella group that included the Episcopal Church.
By giving social justice causes pseudo-spiritual names, they were able to replace Heavenly concerns like saving souls with earthly ones like wealth inequality. In fact, later records showed that the Episcopal Church became one of the most deeply compromised denominations, with an <a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Compilation_of_Public_Records_20_5_141.html?id=MsDXzgEACAAJ">estimated 20.5 percent</a> of its rectors associated with communist activities.
According to now-declassified records, American communists acting under Soviet orders even successfully enlisted pastors to lobby President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to keep America out of World War II because Stalin and Hitler were, at that time, allies.
Presumptuously calling itself “we of the church,” the ecumenical activist group, American Peace Mobilization, published an open letter in The New York Times calling on President Roosevelt to “put an end to what we deem is an aggressive, militant foreign policy, which will inevitably lead to&#8230;the destruction of democracy.”
As soon as Stalin changed positions and wanted America to join the Allies, however, these religious leaders immediately became pro-war, and changed their name to the American People’s Mobilization. Congress would later call the American Peace Mobilization “one of the most seditious organizations which ever operated in the United States.” And many Episcopal pastors, claiming to speak for the “the church,” were a part of it.
The complete hollowing out of the Episcopal Church took time. Even as recently as 1998, the denomination approved a resolution asserting that homosexuality was “incompatible with Scripture.” Yet, in 2003, it consecrated its first <a href="https://episcopalnewsservice.org/2023/11/01/gene-robinson-reflects-on-the-20th-anniversary-of-his-consecration-as-the-churchs-first-gay-bishop/">openly gay bishop</a>. In 2012, it approved <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/episcopal-church-transgender-ordination_n_1660465">transgender ordination</a>. And today we see the full fruit of those early communist efforts, in a female bishop using the holy name of Jesus to lobby a president to lend support to practices that Scripture expressly condemns.  
Faithful Christians should see a stark warning in Tuesday’s prayer service debacle, and in the historic Episcopal cathedrals now draped in rainbow-hued flags:
Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves (Matt 7:12).
Guard your churches and police your sheep pens, lest the wolves ravage your house, too.

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It is a truth, long established, that a liberal woman over 50 with a lesbian haircut is sure to support the most evil ideas and policies that mankind has ever conceived. If evil had a face and a haircut, this is what it would look like. It would look exactly like Mariann Budde, the fake bishop of Washington for the Episcopal church. They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but some covers tell the whole story before you even read the first page. And when you see a woman like Mariann, especially if she is wearing priestly garments, you know exactly what you’re going to get. And that’s what we got, and what Donald Trump got, when this fake woman bishop delivered the homily at the National Prayer Service in DC on Tuesday.
Before we get to that, let’s back up a bit.
Let’s go back to the summer of 2020 when, encouraged by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the wake of George Floyd&#8217;s overdose, BLM and Antifa began rioting in the nation&#8217;s capital. No one at the Department of Justice or the FBI has ever pretended to care about this particular riot, but it was pretty substantial by any objective metric. They injured dozens of Secret Service officers, destroyed cars, vandalized monuments, and looted dozens of businesses — ultimately forcing Donald Trump to take cover in the White House bunker. The mob also set fire to a church in Lafayette Square, called St. John&#8217;s, just a block from the White House.
If you&#8217;re not familiar with it, St. John&#8217;s is an Episcopal church. It&#8217;s often called the &#8220;Church of the Presidents&#8221; because every president has attended the church since it was constructed in the early 19th century. And in 2020, because Democrats had riled up a violent mob to advance a narrative of racial injustice in an election year, the church was under attack. That’s in spite of the fact that the Episcopal church is the wokest institution on Earth. The Episcopal church makes Planned Parenthood seem far right by comparison. The Pride flag has long replaced the cross of Christ in the Episcopal church. And I use the word “church” only in the architectural sense.
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In any case, Mariann Budde was responsible for overseeing the church at the time. And after the violence and arson had subsided, she went on PBS to talk about what had happened. But instead of defending her church, or condemning the rioters who had just lit St. John&#8217;s on fire, Mariann blamed Donald Trump. She claimed that Trump, merely by appearing outside the church to survey the damage, had, &#8220;used the mantle of the church to communicate a political message.&#8221; Watch:
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Again, back to judging a book by its cover. You can play that video on mute, and you can guess everything she&#8217;s going to say, pretty much word-for-word. You can guarantee she&#8217;s going to talk about the &#8220;plight of black and brown people,&#8221; and how bad Donald Trump is, and so on. She doesn&#8217;t have to open her mouth at all. We all know what&#8217;s coming.
Of course, there&#8217;s no self-awareness to any of it. This woman — the fake &#8220;bishop&#8221; — has built her entire career around using the &#8220;mantle of a church to communicate a political message.&#8221; For more than a decade, she has done exactly what she&#8217;s accusing Donald Trump of doing. And after St. John&#8217;s was torched, she doubled down on that approach.
This is worth reiterating because it was one of the single most remarkable moments of the first Trump presidency. The Left nearly burned down a church, and they made Trump into the villain of the story. They blamed him because a day later, the U.S. Park Police cleared out the violent protesters in Lafayette Square, and supposedly that was clear evidence that Trump was a fascist dictator.
And to push that narrative, every mainstream outlet sought an interview with Mariann. They even interrupted their broadcasts to make sure that Mariann’s grievances could be heard.
Here was CNN for example:
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Yes, police in riot gear had to use tear gas to clear the church yard. And you&#8217;re supposed to conclude that this is completely outrageous. After all, the protesters are &#8220;peaceful,&#8221; we&#8217;re told. And yet, in that whole rant she never once mentions anything about how the church was just set on fire by BLM arsonists a day earlier. It just doesn&#8217;t come up. CNN doesn&#8217;t mention it, either. It&#8217;s as if it never happened.
This is the extent of the overt lying we were all subjected to, just four years ago. They deliberately omit all relevant information, in order to push the most extreme, false narrative they can think of. And in this case, the narrative was that Trump was the bad guy, because he was &#8220;using a church as a photo-op.&#8221; So BLM gets a pass for burning the church down. But Trump doesn&#8217;t get a pass for appearing in front of the church afterwards. He&#8217;s also apparently to blame because the violent thugs outside the church — who were throwing stones at the cops — were eventually cleared out by the Park Police. Apparently the Park Police were supposed to let those protesters continue to terrorize Lafayette Square, indefinitely.
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This is all just background, of course. A lesson in recent history that most of us still remember. But here’s the reason I bring it up: It’s remarkable that Donald Trump&#8217;s advance team apparently didn&#8217;t know what they were getting into, when they sent Trump and JD Vance to listen to a &#8220;sermon&#8221; from Mariann Budde yesterday for the National Prayer Service, which was held at the Washington National Cathedral. 
Predictably, Mariann Budde used her &#8220;sermon&#8221; as an opportunity to lecture Trump and Vance about the plight of so-called &#8220;trans kids&#8221; and illegal aliens. This was entirely inevitable. There was no way that she WOULDN’T use her sermon to extol the virtues of transgenderism and illegal immigration. It’s unlikely that this woman has ever given a sermon in her entire life that didn’t extol the virtues of transgenderism and illegal immigration. Trump should not have been put in this extremely foreseeable situation. But he was, and it led to this: 
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You&#8217;ll notice that, whenever anyone on the Left talks about illegal aliens, and how we shouldn&#8217;t deport them, they immediately start babbling about how illegals are willing to do menial, low-wage jobs. Leftists can’t help themselves. They will just come out and admit that they want a permanent underclass to clean the toilets and pick the crops.
“We can’t deport the illegals. Who will mop our floors?” That is literally their argument. Explicitly so. It&#8217;s not about &#8220;dignity&#8221; or &#8220;human rights&#8221; or whatever nonsense. They want slave labor. That&#8217;s what it comes down to. They don&#8217;t care if these illegal aliens broke the law to come into this country. They don&#8217;t care if these illegal aliens are raping women on university campuses, or driving drunk and wiping out entire families. All they care about is whether they can pick up some cheap labor from the Home Depot parking lot.
And then of course there&#8217;s the discussion about &#8220;transgender children,&#8221; who are supposedly &#8220;in fear of their lives.&#8221; Again, this woman is only capable of repeating stock Left-wing talking points. And in this case, she&#8217;s employing very familiar emotional blackmail. Apparently we&#8217;re supposed to conclude that the &#8220;merciful&#8221; thing to do, for these confused, supposedly &#8220;transgender children,&#8221; is to permanently sterilize and disfigure them. Mariann’s says the most Christ-like thing we can do is chop off the breasts of a 15-year-old girl. What would Jesus do? Well, according to Mariann, he would dismember them. It’s blasphemy of the most extreme kind. Hell exists for people like Mariann. Although I do admit, so-called “Trans kids” do fear for their lives. I don’t deny that. They fear for their lives because the horrifically abusive adults in their lives have told them that they should. They fear for their lives because they have been exploited and brainwashed by wicked witches like Mariann.
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And of course, this grotesque display is coming from a female “priest.” You will only ever hear heresy and inanity from someone whose whole existence is blasphemous. We&#8217;ve <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVVTry3vgKo">covered</a> the plague of female pastors before, and how the Scripture makes it very clear — repeatedly — that women can&#8217;t serve as pastors, or have authority over men in the church. But I don&#8217;t even need to make that whole argument again. I don&#8217;t need to cite the letters of St. Paul on this point — as clear and unequivocal as they are — because honestly, Mariann Budde makes the argument for me. She is Exhibit A for why women should not be pastors, priests, or bishops. She would rather engage in emotional blackmail and blasphemy, than preach the word of God. And she&#8217;ll do it while claiming, at the same time, to be engaged in some kind of pursuit for the &#8220;truth.&#8221; Watch:
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You can tell from the reactions by Trump, Vance, and their families that no one expected this. Afterwards, at the White House, Trump basically said the sermon was unbearable. It was also extremely predictable, if you know anything about this fake bishop, or do five minutes of research into her. And yet, somehow, his advance team allowed this moment to happen. You can bet there are some conversations in the White House right now about how exactly that occurred.
But there&#8217;s also a lesson there for the rest of us, which is this: We shouldn&#8217;t be overconfident in the wake of Trump&#8217;s win. Yes, it was a major victory, and Trump and his supporters defied all of the odds. But the fact remains that Leftism is embedded deeply in our culture and our institutions — including and especially the Christian church in America.
Granted, a female episcopal Bishop is not a part of the Christian church. But that is exactly the point. There are many wolves in sheep’s clothing. Many Left-wing infiltrators masquerading as shepherds for Christ. The infiltration is vast in scope, and deep. Rooting out DEI in the federal government, as difficult as that may be, is still a lot easier than rooting out the cancer of heresy and leftist propaganda in America&#8217;s churches. But after yesterday&#8217;s prayer service in Washington&#8217;s National Cathedral — which somehow took a lot of people by surprise — it&#8217;s clear that it&#8217;s a fight we need to wage, and that we can’t afford to lose.
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Correction: A previous version of this article misspelled the name of the Episcopal priest as Marianne. The correct spelling is Mariann.

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Episcopalian Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde was nicknamed &#8220;the woke bishop&#8221; across conservative media after she delivered a &#8220;prayer&#8221; on Tuesday that was clearly intended to scold President Donald Trump for not adopting liberal positions on gender and immigration.
By the next day, she&#8217;d been invited to join the liberal hosts of ABC&#8217;s midday talk show &#8220;The View,&#8221; presumably to pick up where she&#8217;d left off, scolding conservatives for believing that there are only two genders and a country without strong borders is not a country.
&#8220;COMING UP: Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde joins #TheView LIVE to respond after Pres. Trump criticized her pointed message yesterday at the inaugural prayer service where she called on the the [sic] president to show &#8216;mercy&#8217; toward LGBTQ people and immigrants,&#8221; the show&#8217;s X page posted by way of a preview.
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COMING UP: Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde joins <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheView?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TheView</a> LIVE to respond after Pres. Trump criticized her pointed message yesterday at the inaugural prayer service where she called on the the president to show &#8220;mercy&#8221; toward LGBTQ people and immigrants. <a href="https://t.co/RwQXlu7GOy">pic.twitter.com/RwQXlu7GOy</a>
— The View (@TheView) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheView/status/1882084678946959836?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Trump also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-rips-into-so-called-bishop-who-asked-him-to-have-mercy-on-illegal-immigrants" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made it clear</a> that he was not impressed with Budde, calling her &#8220;nasty&#8221; and complaining that the prayer service had not been very good.
&#8220;The so-called Bishop who spoke at the National Prayer Service on Tuesday morning was a Radical Left hard line Trump hater. She brought her church into the World of politics in a very ungracious way. She was nasty in tone, and not compelling or smart,&#8221; he said in a late-night post to his Truth Social platform.
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Trump was far from the only one who objected to Budde&#8217;s remarks. Rep. Josh Brecheen (R-OK) walked out of the service early and explained why he&#8217;d done so in an X post.
&#8220;I purposely left the prayer service early after realizing how the pulpit was being used for liberal means and not for true worship unto God and to seek His will and wisdom. Mr. President … what accosted you today was political, not Biblical,&#8221; he said.
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I purposely left the prayer service early after realizing how the pulpit was being used for liberal means and not for true worship unto God and to seek His will and wisdom.
Mr. President … what accosted you today was political, not Biblical.<a href="https://t.co/fpJWORk4NM">https://t.co/fpJWORk4NM</a>
— Congressman Josh Brecheen (@RepBrecheen) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepBrecheen/status/1881855352721100919?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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A bishop asked President Donald Trump to “have mercy” on “transgender children” who “fear for their lives” and illegal aliens during her message at the National Prayer Service.
The comments from Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde come just after the newly inaugurated president signed a wide array of executive orders last night aimed at purging far-left transgender ideology from American institutions and securing the southern border.
“In the name of our God, I ask you, to have mercy on the people in our country who are scared now,” Bishop Budde said during the National Prayer Service. “There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and Independent families who fear for their lives.”
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“And the people, the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meat-packing plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals, they, they may not be citizens or have the proper documentation,” Budde went on to say to the president. “But the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes and are good neighbors. They are faithful members of our churches &#8230;”
“I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away, and that you help those who are fleeing war zones and persecution in their own lands, to find compassion and welcome here,” she went on to say.
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Budde’s statements come after the Republican president signed an executive order proclaiming that there are <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/">only two genders</a> and blasting “efforts to eradicate the biological reality of sex.” The order also mandates that executive agencies stop promoting gender ideology in their own operations and that federal funds are not given to grantees for the purpose of promoting gender ideology.
Trump also signed a range of different executive orders pertaining to immigration, including one declaring a national emergency at the border, an order to curtail birthright citizenship for illegal aliens, and another designating drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. The president is also expected to begin a wave of illegal alien deportations in the coming days.
Budde has a history of <a href="https://x.com/charliespiering/status/1881759652792455291">criticizing</a> Trump and blasted him years ago after he used riot police to clear Black Lives Matter protestors out of the area surrounding the White House, even saying that his message was &#8220;antithetical to the teachings of Jesus and everything that we as a church stand for.&#8221;
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Bishop Asks Trump To ‘Have Mercy’ On Trans Children, Illegal Aliens At National Prayer Service

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President Donald Trump will reportedly issue an executive order officially recognizing gender as &#8220;male&#8221; and &#8220;female&#8221; only on his first day in office Monday.
According to The Free Press, the executive order <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/trumps-day-one-executive-order-male-female-gender-ideology-pronouns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">will</a> be titled, “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.”
The order will reportedly officially define a woman as an “adult human female.”
It will also <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/01/20/us-news/trump-executive-order-to-define-sex-as-male-and-female/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reverse</a> the current policy of allowing people to change their sex on passports and personnel records. Since 2010, Americans have been able to choose male, female, or &#8220;X,&#8221; a designation that will be eliminated under the new order.
The order will also attempt to ban housing men in women&#8217;s prisons as well as taxpayer-funded medical gender transitions for prisoners. This move is likely to be challenged in court by liberal opponents. The order also aims to protect women&#8217;s privacy in migrant shelters and rape shelters.
Also, the order intends to prevent federal funds from promoting gender ideology, and federal agencies will be prevented from doing so.
The order also includes protections for Americans&#8217; First Amendment rights not to use &#8220;preferred pronouns&#8221; in the workplace and public schools.
Under the order, the attorney general will also be directed to tell agencies to ensure that federal workers are provided with Title 7, part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination based on race and sex.
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Trump was sworn into office around noon on Monday and is expected to sign a flurry of executive orders on a range of issues from immigration to gender ideology.
Gender ideology became a flashpoint during the election, especially as parents across the country sounded the alarm on child medical gender transitions.
Vice President Kamala Harris also attracted negative attention on the issue after the Trump campaign released wildly successful television ads highlighting her support of far-left policies, including taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for illegal migrants and federal prisoners.
“Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you,” one ad&#8217;s narrator said.

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New <a href="https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/f548560f100205ef/e656ddda-full.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">polling</a> from the New York Times shows that Americans, regardless of political party, agree with Republican positions on numerous transgender issues, including gender transitions for minors and sports inclusion.
The New York Times/Ipsos Survey, which was conducted earlier this month, found that a stunning 79% of Americans believe males should not be permitted to participate in female sports, even if the athlete identifies as transgender.
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&#8220;Thinking about transgender female athletes — meaning athletes who were male at birth but who currently identify as female &#8212; do you think they should or should not be allowed to compete in women&#8217;s sports?&#8221; the survey posed.
Overall, 79% of those surveyed answered no, including 67% of Democrats. In total, only 18% of Americans believe trans athletes should be allowed in female sports.
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NYT POLL: “79% of Americans — including 67% of Democrats — think transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete in women&#8217;s sports” <a href="https://t.co/w63pPLz04x">pic.twitter.com/w63pPLz04x</a>
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Another survey question asked about transgender medications for minors: &#8220;Thinking about medications used for transgender care, do you think doctors should be able to prescribe puberty-blocking drugs or hormone therapy to minors between the ages of 10 and 18?&#8221;
Overall, 71% of Americans answered &#8220;No,&#8221; including 54% of Democrats. Only 10% of respondents said minors should have access to the drugs, with another 16% saying minors ages 15-18 should have access.
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Respondents were also asked if we&#8217;ve gone too far as a society accommodating trans-identifying individuals. &#8220;Which statement comes closest to your feelings about the way our society deals with transgender people — that is, someone who does not identify with their sex at birth, like a person born male who now identifies as female,&#8221; the survey asked.
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A total of 77% of respondents agreed that society has gone too far or has gone far enough to accommodate trans people, while only 21% said we haven&#8217;t gone far enough.
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New NYT poll:
Society has gone too far or far enough accommodating trans people:
Total: 77% 
GOP: 93% 
Dem: 62%
Trans women should NOT be allowed in women’s sports:
Total: 79% 
GOP: 94% 
Dem: 67%
Minors should NOT be able to get puberty blockers:
Total: 71% 
GOP: 90% 
Dem: 54% <a href="https://t.co/ovXY5qKEEv">pic.twitter.com/ovXY5qKEEv</a>
— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) <a href="https://twitter.com/sfmcguire79/status/1880631804308426769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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NYT Polling Shows Americans Overwhelmingly Support GOP Position On Numerous Trans Issues

NYT Poll Shows Americans Overwhelmingly Support GOP Position On Numerous Transgender Issues

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In December of 2024, for the second year in a row, a male Irish dancer who identifies as a transgender girl has <a href="https://www.quickfeis.com/FullOireachtasResultsFreeV2?OireachtasId=29" target="_blank" rel="noopener">won the title</a> of Southern Regional Champion, beating out nearly 100 girls and indirectly depriving a young woman of the opportunity to compete at the World Championships. 
As an internationally competitive Irish dancer, I have been appalled at the introduction of men into women’s sports across the globe in the last several years, and specifically, at the effects of this practice upon my own sport. Despite recent victories such as the defeat in federal court of the Biden-Harris administration’s attempt to legally expand the definition of sex in Title IX to include the nebulous concept of “gender identity,” which would have <a href="https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/attorneygeneral/documents/pr/2025/2025-1-title-ix.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">punished states</a> for barring biological males from women’s sports, many female athletes are still forced to yield their spaces to boys and men.
In recent months, I have watched young women diligently balance AP classes, cross-training, and other sports with rigorous dance classes, frequent travel to competitions, and acute mental pressure that accompany athletes everywhere, only to have to compete against individuals with physiological advantages. These girls all train in the hope of qualifying for the <a href="https://www.clrgoireachtas.com/world-championships" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Irish Dancing Championships</a>, a feat attained by a mere 1%. The World Championships are often termed our “Olympics,” and for good reason. While a normal <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/fitness/expert-answers/heart-rate/faq-20057979#:~:text=A%20normal%20resting%20heart%20rate%20for%20adults%20ranges,to%20100%20beats%20per%20minute." target="_blank" rel="noopener">resting heart rate</a> for adults ranges between 60 to 100 beats per minute (BPM), the stamina required to compete in three champion-length rounds means our resting heart rates are often near 40bpm. Our complex rhythms must be unfailingly precise; we require the flexibility to kick well above our heads, and we must possess the explosive power to jump and freeze in midair, even while wearing heavy, fiberglass shoes. Some of us commute several hours to dance class, and in my case, as just one example, I delayed attending my first-choice university in order to secure a qualification.
After all this sacrifice, girls are then made to compete against individuals who, according to the National Library of Medicine, possess superior lung capacity, denser bones, and significantly greater muscle mass <a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9331831/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">even after estrogen therapy.</a> As of 2022, International Olympic Committee regulations require biological males wishing to compete as females to undergo “hormone therapy” to maintain testosterone levels “below 10 nmol/L (nanomoles per liter) for one year.” It is crucial to note here that this standard is patently unfair: The female range for testosterone is “&lt;1 nmol/L.&#8221; Furthermore, the National Library cites multiple studies demonstrating hormone therapy’s “limited success” with one study revealing that although male-to-female trans individuals’ testosterone levels “decreased significantly,” “nearly all” failed to reach female levels.
Additionally, current testosterone levels are a faulty metric to begin with: Male exposure to “testosterone secreted before birth … and postnatally &#8230; has driven permanent effects.” Females have “10-12%” smaller lung capacity and heart size “85% that of males.” Further studies reveal that male-to-female trans-identifying individuals experience “no bone mass loss” after “28-63 months of estrogen therapy,” and lose just “5-10%” of what can be a “50-75%” muscle mass advantage, an effect which evidence indicates could be “mitigated” by exercise. The implications of these findings upon policy for a highly aerobic, plyometric sport such as Irish dance ought to be self-evident.
Already, in the U.S., England, and Scotland, girls have been deprived of titles, World Qualifications, World Medalist status, and other honors. And now, this past December, we had to watch a boy win another female regional title. Anyone who was present or has seen the videos of that moment knows how discouraged his female competitors and their parents and teachers were.
One mother I spoke to asked to remain anonymous and expressed her frustration. Her daughter has competed in Irish dancing for eight years. She says this issue is “a biological thing,” citing the example of her 11-year-old son who has already overtaken his highly-ranked 15-year-old sister’s best cross-country runtime. Regarding dance, she says: “There’s a lot of disappointment from the girls feeling like there’s nothing that they can do training wise.” 
“There were a bunch of girls that have retired &#8230; and have cited this as the cause of why they were retiring. In particular, two girls that are on the podium &#8230; almost every year.”
It is not only parents who see injustice in this practice. One dancer, who competes at the North American level, talked to me about not just her own but also her competitors’ sadness on the changes to their competition: “We work all year for this championship &#8230; and we expect it to be just a girl’s competition.” She says the biological males “tend to be more aggressive, dominant, and take over the stage,” and deprive her competition of opportunities like “getting a recall or a national qualification.” “The majority of us girls feel that disappointment and disagree with” the policy. She concludes, “Awards for me used to be the absolute highlight of Oireachtas &#8230; but this year, when the boy won the championship title for the second time &#8230; my gut dropped.” Another highly-ranked dancer in the competition concurs, recalling that awards “felt pretty awkward.”
They were not alone in their displeasure, with the first dancer noting that “many of us” and “lots of the audience” did not applaud. What used to be “a fun vibe” of “friendship and girlhood backstage” has shifted to one in which “everyone is now on edge.”
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In addition to a physical advantage, boys dancing against girls poses a greater risk for female injuries. Power and swift motion are key components of Irish dancing, and we usually compete two or three dancers at once. Despite our best efforts, differing choreographic floor patterns and an impulse to retain the front of the stage or lose points for timidity sometimes cause collisions.
An anonymous male World Qualifier, talking to me about his in-studio training, said that “aggression is a very big difference between how I dance” compared with “girls at the studio,” continuing to say that “boys will take the front of the stage more definitively,” than girls, who have cause to fear accidental collisions with boys. He speaks strictly out of a sense of fairness, stating that if “a biological male who identifies as a female competed in the male competition, I would have no problem with that.”
It is past time to end this open discrimination against our girls. Given the obvious evidence demonstrating the physical advantages of boys over girls, and the widespread recognition of injustice among the dance community, it ought to be very clear that our girls deserve their own competitions. Although many of the parents, dancers, and instructors who have spoken out on this topic have chosen to remain anonymous, fearing ended careers or vitriolic tirades against personal character, those of us who wish to protect our girls do not ascribe to such “cancel culture.” We do not call for ostracization or exclusion based upon differing beliefs; dancing is a joy which is and should be accessible to everyone. Just never at the cost of young women’s dreams.
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Emily Claire Boulet has Irish danced competitively for the past nine years. She is currently pursuing a B.A. in English with a concentration in Business Administration at the University of Dallas.
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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‘My Gut Dropped’: Trans-Identifying Dancer Wins Female Irish Dancing Competition. Again.

'My Gut Dropped': Trans-Identifying Dancer Wins Female Irish Dancing Competition. Again.

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From “Queer Time, Queer Space” to “Black Shakespeare,” universities across the United States are offering left-wing courses that range from the radical to the downright strange.
It&#8217;s no surprise that elite colleges and universities have left-wing biases. But rather than offer courses on Marx or critical theory, many institutions are going even further in the spring semester. Academics are bringing increasingly fringe subjects to the classroom, &#8220;queering&#8221; the world of architecture and &#8220;racializing&#8221; science fiction.
Here are some of the most woke classes being offered on college campuses this semester.
Art Films: Queer Time, Queer Space (Brown University)
The Ivy League institution in Providence, Rhode Island is offering students <a href="https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=queer">Art Films: Queer Time, Queer Space</a>, which will encourage “a sustained meditation on cinematic practices that trouble and disrupt normative, reproductive, developmental, and accumulative time.” The description goes into more depth, explaining its methods.
“By situating queer theories of temporality in proximity to time-based art-making, we will engage with and analyze art films, digital media, and performative works that push the boundaries of the aesthetically and politically possible,” it adds.
Spaces of Queer Theory (University of California Berkeley)
Not to be outdone, UC Berkeley is hosting “<a href="https://classes.berkeley.edu/content/2025-spring-arch-139-001-lec-001">Spaces of Queer Theory</a>,” a class that examines architectural practices and their interactions with queer politics. It will delve into “queer necropolitics and the carceral state” as well as “the architectural futurity of queer communities,” all while discussing “queering architecture,” “queer ecologies,” and “spaces of queer consumption.&#8221;
Black Shakespeare; Race, Climate Change, and Environmental Justice (Columbia University)
Called “<a href="https://doc.sis.columbia.edu/#subj/AFEN/BC3817-20251-001/">Black Shakespeare</a>,” the Columbia University course raises the question, “Can performing Shakespeare be an activist endeavor?” It goes further. “Can creators and scholars separate Shakespeare from the apparatus of white supremacy that has been built around his works?” the course description inquires. It even probes, “What are the challenges and obstacles for BIPOC scholars working on Shakespeare in academia?”
Students at Columbia can also <a href="https://doc.sis.columbia.edu/#subj/EESC/GR9810-20251-001/">take</a> “Race, Climate Change, and Environmental Justice,” which seeks to untether science from its “colonial foundations” and encourages students to “decolonize their own research.”
“We begin by examining the colonial foundations of the sciences, with a special focus on the geo- and climate sciences,” the description explains. “The ideological underpinnings of these sciences assume the earth to be an inert object ripe for exploitation; this legacy of European modernity is often at odds with the worldviews of indigenous peoples and their relations with nature.”
AfroFuturism (Vassar College)
“Afrofuturists reconfigure notions of race and identity by appropriating science fiction tropes while speculating potential futures free from any Eurocentric gaze,” reads <a href="https://catalogue.vassar.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=55&amp;coid=379772">the description</a> of the course at the Poughkeepsie, New York college.
“Beginning with Afrofuturist progenitor Sun Ra, we go “black to the future” and closely encounter other Afronauts such as Octavia Butler, Janelle Monáe, Nnedi Okorafor, OutKast, Parliament-Funkadelic, Ishmael Reed, and Fatimah Tuggar, among others.”
The Sexual Life of Colonialism; Race, Gender, and Medicine (Harvard University)
Students at Harvard University are <a href="https://courses.my.harvard.edu/dw_course/fas_crse_cat.pdf">invited</a> to take a course called “Race, Gender, and Medicine” which employs “feminist theory, disability justice movements, critical race theory, queer theory, anti-colonial thought, and trans liberation movements.” One of the focuses of the course, the description explains, is “the development and racialization of transgender medicine.” It also poses the question, “What unique challenges do trans and gender-diverse youth face in seeking medical care as a result of recent transphobic laws and policies?”
Another course at the institution is titled “The Sexual Life of Colonialism” and seeks to “investigate the role of colonialism and neocolonialism in racial imaginations of gender and sexuality.”
Black Feminist and Queer Contemporary Culture (Swarthmore College)
Pennsylvania&#8217;s Swarthmore College will offer a <a href="https://catalog.swarthmore.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=30&amp;coid=100025">course</a> on “Black Feminist and Queer Contemporary Culture,” with a focus on “the works of black queer and trans visual artists and writers.”
“Using the tools of black feminist and queer theory, the class will cover topics and concepts such as Afrofuturism, stereotypes, intersectionality, surveillance, film, performance, abstraction/figuration, photography, poetry, and ungendering,” the description states.
Queer and Trans of Color Critique; Queer and Trans Latino Studies (Northwestern University)
Evanston, Illinois’ Northwestern University joins the ranks of the other institutions with <a href="https://catalogs.northwestern.edu/search/?caturl=%2Fundergraduate&amp;search=queer">classes</a> on race and queer politics. Students can take both “Queer and Trans of Color Critique” and “Queer and Trans Latino Studies,” the latter of which “will explore the construction of gender and sexuality as it intersects with race, class, immigration, and other relationships of power” and focus on “Black feminist, women of color feminist, and queer of color critique writing and activism.”
Queer, Quare, Ku&#8217;er: or Queer of Color Critique (University of Chicago)
The highly-ranked University of Chicago advertises a course titled “Queer, Quare, Ku&#8217;er: or queer of color critique,” which poses the question &#8220;what could queer theory look like if we begin from the premise that its model subject is not white?&#8221;
It also has a number of different <a href="http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&amp;P=queer">courses on queer politics</a>, including “Queer Theory and Queer Practice,” “The Aesthetics of Camp: Queer Style, Queer Sensibility,” and “Queer Theology and Queer of Color Critique.”

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Queer Time, Black Shakespeare, and Afrofuturism: The Wokest College Courses In America

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/texas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas</a> Daughters of the American Revolution Chapter (DAR) has decided to fight back against its national organization’s decision to allow trans-identifying males into the historic female group.
In a letter from the Martha Laird Chapter — with help from the Center for American Liberty (CAL) — it has pushed back against a threat from its leadership that by prohibiting transgender males, the DAR would somehow lose its tax-exempt status, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/texas-daughters-american-revolution-chapter-challenges-premise-must-admit-transgender-members">Fox News</a> reported.
The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michael-knowles-exposes-transgender-attempt-to-infiltrate-daughters-of-american-revolution">previously revealed</a> &#8212; in a viral thread on <a href="https://x.com/michaeljknowles/status/1838267625962405922" target="_blank" rel="noopener">X</a> &#8212; how a group of daughters were &#8220;channeling their rebellious spirit of their forebears&#8221; by fighting back “this time building a larger, grassroots effort to affirm the original intent of the bylaws and prevent men from continuing to invade their genealogical society.”
Knowles shared details of an internal DAR FAQ document which said that “members are expected to pretend that ‘transgender women’ have always been eligible and that their inclusion took place ‘organically,’ as if implicit in bylaws written before ‘transgenderism’ was even thought to exist.”
“Members have been told that in order to keep our nonprofit status we must allow men who submit an altered birth certificate indicating they are female to be eligible members,” a letter on the DAR <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1659132851538607/permalink/1776056659846225/?mibextid=wwXIfr&amp;_rdr">Facebook</a> page read.
“Our hope is that once members and the NBOM [National Board of Management] can feel confident that our nonprofit status is not in jeopardy, they will no longer feel intimidated and vote to allow this bylaw amendment to be heard at Continental Congress,” it added.
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“The Martha Laird Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution has engaged the Center for American Liberty to evaluate (1) whether the National Society (DAR) has a First Amendment right to change membership requirements to exclude trans-identifying men from eligibility, and (2) whether such a change would impact the DAR’s tax-exempt status,” the letter posted on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1659132851538607/permalink/1776056659846225/?mibextid=wwXIfr&amp;_rdr">Facebook</a> read.
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BREAKING: 🚨 We&#8217;re proud to support Texas&#8217; Martha Laird Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution to preserve women-only membership by banning men—including trans-identifying men.
Will the DAR preserve its promise to women? Stay tuned! <a href="https://t.co/wH0g8iGc9B">https://t.co/wH0g8iGc9B</a>
— Center for American Liberty (@Liberty_Ctr) <a href="https://twitter.com/Liberty_Ctr/status/1879950152783561180?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
The answer to question 1., it found was &#8220;Yes,&#8221; and to question 2., it decided was &#8220;No.&#8221; The letter concluded, “If the DAR changes its bylaws to exclude trans-identifying men from membership eligibility, it is possible that a state or local government could bring an enforcement action against the DAR under a public accommodations law, but the DAR would have a strong First Amendment defense to such an action if it determined that admitting trans-identifying men interferes with its expressive message and articulated reasons why this is the case.”
“Moreover, it is unlikely that the IRS or the District of Columbia would revoke the DAR’s non-profit status over such a bylaw change given the facts that there is likely no public policy opposing exclusion of transgender-identifying men from female-only private genealogical organizations and that any such attempted revocation would likely violate the DAR’s associational rights,” the letter added.
The Martha Laird Chapter — with the endorsement of eleven other Chapters — in September 2024 submitted a second proposed bylaw amendment to prohibit all men, including trans-identifying males, from the group, after a prior one was rejected on the basis that it would put their nonprofit status in jeopardy, the letter noted.
The new proposed bylaw amendment says, “A woman is defined as a biological female at conception, having naturally occurring X chromosomes, exclusive of Y chromosomes, and certified as female or girl on the original birth certificate. NSDAR and its chapters may not discriminate against an eligible applicant.&#8221;
On February 8, the DAR NBOM now must consider this amendment and if approved it will go up for a vote by the entire DAR membership at the Continental Congress this summer, the outlet noted.
&#8220;We will continue doing this every year until we at least get a vote at the Continental Congress,&#8221; Laura McDonald, member of the Martha Laird DAR Chapter, said. &#8220;That&#8217;s the only fair and transparent way to handle this.&#8221;
&#8220;Everybody is realizing that this trans ideology, this agenda to have men infiltrate women&#8217;s spaces, is starting to not be popular anymore, and it&#8217;s not as accepted,&#8221; she added.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michael-knowles-exposes-transgender-attempt-to-infiltrate-daughters-of-american-revolution" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Knowles Exposes Transgender Attempt To Infiltrate Daughters Of American Revolution</a>

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