For years, women and girls in California who wanted to work out or relax at the spa have been forced to confront male genitalia. One lawmaker wants to change that.
Assemblywoman Leticia Castillo on Tuesday introduced a bill that would require facilities, including gyms and spas, to provide &#8220;sex-separated&#8221; bathrooms and locker rooms for men and women. Castillo says the bill is a common-sense measure that protects California women — and helps combat the state&#8217;s embrace of radical transgender ideology.
&#8220;Parents across California are asking for clarity and commonsense protections in intimate spaces where females deserve privacy and safety,” Castillo told The Daily Wire. “This measure simply requires that bathrooms, locker rooms, and changing areas in businesses be separated by sex, while still allowing single-occupancy gender-neutral options. Protecting civil rights and protecting females are not mutually exclusive, and this bill makes sure we do both.” 
The legislation would require “sex-separated intimate spaces, except where a gender neutral facility is a single occupancy.” These intimate spaces include bathrooms, showers, changing rooms, locker rooms, dressing rooms, and “any other area in which an individual would have a reasonable expectation of privacy from the opposite sex.”
The proposal is backed by Erin Friday, the president of Our Duty USA, an advocacy organization dedicated to raising awareness about the dangers of transgender ideology.
&#8220;We need California to return to reality. It really shouldn&#8217;t be that hard to return to sex-based intimate spaces, because it was a foolish and dangerous idea to permit males to believe their way into the female category,&#8221; Friday told The Daily Wire. &#8220;You don&#8217;t need to be a genius to figure out the predictable outcome will be demented males terrorizing females. 
The legislation cites reports of incidents that have rocked California gyms and private spaces. One incident took place in July 2021 at WiSpa in Los Angeles, where a registered sex offender named Darren Merager was <a href="https://lamag.com/news/wispa-suspect-not-guilty-on-all-nine-counts-of-indecent-exposure/">accused</a> of exposing his penis while on the woman’s side of the spa. He was later found not guilty of indecent exposure. 
Using female pronouns, the lawyer who represented Merager told The Daily Wire that California law allowed people to use facilities in line with how they identified. 
&#8220;Ms. Merager was put through a years-long process. Multiple felony criminal charges were lodged against her. Ultimately, she was prosecuted for doing what California law expressly allowed her to do: use facilities consistent with her gender identity. The jury soundly rejected this prosecution and found her not guilty on all counts,&#8221; lawyer Elliott Tiomkin told The Daily Wire. 
Another incident involved a woman named Gracie Hutson, who <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/01/05/us-news/trans-gymgoer-caught-masturbating-in-womens-bathroom-at-california-planet-fitness/">said</a> she witnessed a male masturbating inside the locker room of a San Francisco Planet Fitness. She shared a video on TikTok from inside the location showing the shadows of a person inside a stall appearing to engage in the act. That person was banned from Planet Fitness and had his membership canceled, according to an email viewed by The Daily Wire.
Hutson told The Daily Wire she was in &#8220;shock&#8221; when she noticed what was happening in the locker room. She said the man claimed to be transgender and wasn&#8217;t even &#8220;trying to play the part&#8221; of a woman.
&#8220;There&#8217;s way too much leeway for predators to go into these environments and do things like masturbate in the bathroom,&#8221; she told The Daily Wire. &#8220;I felt my space was violated, and I know many other women feel that the locker rooms and restrooms, places that are supposed to be safe, places for women, are no longer safe.&#8221;
In another case, a woman named <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-tish-hyman-the-california-lesbian-fighting-to-keep-men-out-of-womens-locker-rooms">Tish Hyman</a> said she lost her membership at Gold’s Gym after saying that she was harassed by a transgender-identifying male in the locker room. 
“In recent years, male individuals who have adopted nonbinary or transgender identities have been in women’s intimate spaces where female individuals of all ages are in various states of undress,” a copy of Castillo’s legislation shared with The Daily Wire says. “Some male individuals have also been naked with their male genitals exposed.”
Other patrons of San Francisco-area YMCA locations also told The Daily Wire that men have invaded their locker rooms. 
“I felt violated. Nobody cared. I have never been in a domestic violence situation, but at that moment I felt the pain a woman must feel when violated — tears, shaking, loud, in disbelief, begging to be heard,” said Presidio YMCA member Nuchine Nobari. “I could tell from the ‘surprise’ look on the front desk staff member that he, too, was shocked.” 
Susan Pete, a member of the Stonestown YMCA, said that a Muslim mother and daughter quit the gym after being exposed to a naked man in the shower. 
“A Muslim mother was in the shower with her autistic daughter when the man appeared completely naked right outside the showers,” she told The Daily Wire. “The daughter became extremely distressed and was wailing, really screaming, loudly in the shower. The grandmother needed to bring clothes so they could dress in the shower, but she was terrified of walking past the naked guy because of her religious beliefs.”
Leftist groups in California, like the ACLU, <a href="https://www.aclusocal.org/know-your-rights/rights-transgender-and-nonbinary-people-gyms-and-spas-0/">argue</a> that businesses like gyms and spas are not legally allowed to keep men out of women&#8217;s spaces if they identify as female under the state&#8217;s civil rights laws. Guidance from Democrat attorney general Rob Bonta <a href="https://oag.ca.gov/lgbtq/rights">says</a> that entities cannot deny access to bathrooms based on so-called gender identity.
California Democrats have resisted even the most moderate restrictions of transgender ideology. Last year, lawmakers on the California Senate Public Safety Committee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-dems-vote-to-keep-male-sex-offenders-in-female-prisons">shot down</a> a bill that would have kept male sex criminals out of female prisons.

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In a landmark decision, the European Parliament <a href="https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/trans-women-are-women-eu-parliament-says/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email">adopted a sweeping resolution</a> calling for the &#8220;full recognition of trans women as women&#8221; at the upcoming UN Commission on the Status of Women.
The non-binding resolution, passed by a 340 to 141 vote, marks a significant shift toward gender self-identification as the primary standard for European governance.
The most contentious moment of the session occurred during a vote on a proposed amendment that sought to specify that “only biological women can become pregnant.” The amendment was defeated, with 233 members of Parliament voting against the biological distinction. While parliamentary resolutions do not immediately rewrite treaties or compel statutory changes, they serve as &#8220;soft law&#8221; that dictates Commission priorities, shapes funding guidelines, and influences how equality frameworks are interpreted across the 27 member states.
Critics note that if legal sex categories become entirely self-declared, epidemiological baselines could be compromised. For instance, the statistical incidence of female-specific cancers — such as ovarian or cervical cancer — could be diluted if biological men are categorized administratively as women.
Furthermore, existing laws designed to protect women, such as Germany’s 2024 <a href="https://www.germany.info/us-en/service/04-familymatters/self-determination-2671874?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email">Self-Determination Act</a> requiring 30% female representation on corporate boards, risk losing their foundation. If &#8220;woman&#8221; is a category detached from biological reference, the very group the statute was enacted to protect becomes legally amorphous.
The initiative was driven by a report from Socialist MEP Lina Gálvez, which argued that the EU should prioritize the international promotion of self-perceived gender identity. Surprisingly, the measure received support not only from left-wing blocs but also from a majority of the center-right European People’s Party (EPP).
Right-wing groups denounced the move. VOX MEP Hermann Tertsch accused the chamber of imposing an &#8220;ideological agenda&#8221; as official Union policy, while the Patriots for Europe group criticized their exclusion from the drafting process.
As the resolution moves to the Council, the European Union finds itself at a crossroads. By refusing to affirm a basic biological distinction in its own text, the Parliament has signaled a structural move beyond mere accommodation.
Once the legal architecture beneath sex-based rights is altered, every policy built upon it — from sports eligibility to prison safety — is likely to shift with it.

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Actor Ted Levine apologized recently for his iconic turn as cross-dressing serial killer Jame Gumb in the 1991  horror classic &#8220;The Silence of the Lambs,&#8221; saying that it was &#8220;f*cking wrong&#8221; that the film had &#8220;vilified&#8221; the apparent gender confusion of his character.
Levine told The Hollywood Reporter that his intent had always been to play Gumb — nicknamed &#8220;Buffalo Bill&#8221; — as a &#8220;f*cked-up heterosexual man&#8221; despite the fact that the character dresses in women&#8217;s clothing, wears makeup, and skins his female victims in an effort to make himself a suit of female flesh.
&#8220;There are certain aspects of the movie that don’t hold up too well,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We all know more, and I’m a lot wiser about transgender issues. There are some lines in that script and movie that are unfortunate.&#8221;
Levine said that when they were making the film — based on the 1988 Thomas Harris novel by the same title — he had not been particularly concerned, but that &#8220;over time and having gotten aware and worked with trans folks, and understanding a bit more about the culture and the reality of the meaning of gender — it’s unfortunate that the film vilified that, and it’s f*cking wrong. And you can quote me on that.&#8221;
&#8220;I didn’t play him as being gay or trans. I think he was just a f*cked-up heterosexual man. That’s what I was doing,&#8221; Levine explained.
Director Jonathan Demme offered a <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/silence-of-the-lambs-lgbt-criticism_n_5609372">similar take</a> on Buffalo Bill&#8217;s motivations, arguing during a 2014 interview that the character was drowning in self-loathing and that turning himself into a woman was a means of escape from who he was rather than an effort to become something he specifically wanted to be.
&#8220;He didn&#8217;t wish to be another gender. He didn&#8217;t really have a sexual preference. He loathed himself — he wanted to transform himself so that there was no sense of him in the &#8216;new&#8217; him [and] becoming a woman &#8230; that was his method of doing it.&#8221;
&#8220;We were really loyal to the book. As we made the film, there was just no question in our minds that Buffalo Bill was a completely aberrant personality — that he wasn’t gay or trans,&#8221; producer Edward Saxon <a href="https://pagesix.com/2026/02/16/celebrity-news/silence-of-the-lambs-star-ted-levine-denounces-his-legendary-villain-role-after-transgender-criticism/?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;utm_campaign=pagesix&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter#Echobox=1771222232">added</a>. &#8220;He was sick. To that extent, we missed it. From my point of view, we weren’t sensitive enough to the legacy of a lot of stereotypes and their ability to harm.&#8221;
&#8220;There’s regret, but it didn’t come from any place of malice. It actually came from a place of seeing this guy. We all had dear friends and family who were gay. We thought it would just be very clear that Buffalo Bill adapts different things from society, from a place of an incredibly sick pathology,&#8221; he continued.
Despite the confusion surrounding Buffalo Bill, &#8220;The Silence of the Lambs&#8221; became the <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102926/awards/">third film</a> in Academy history to sweep all five major awards: Best Picture, Best Actor (Anthony Hopkins), Best Actress (Jodie Foster), Best Director (Demme), and Best Screenplay (adapted). The other two films to do so were &#8220;It Happened One Night&#8221; (1934) and &#8220;One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#8217;s Nest&#8221; (1975).

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The sun beat down on 3,000 eager attendees as Hunter Kozak approached the microphone at the bottom of the amphitheater to talk to Charlie Kirk. He seemed a little nervous, but cheerful, and prepared with his question.
It was September 10, 2025. From under his white tent across the stadium, Kirk leaned forward and greeted Kozak, a Utah Valley University student and <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@hunterekozak">liberal TikTok commentator</a>. &#8220;Hey Charlie,&#8221; said Kozak, according to footage taken by his wife and shared with The Daily Wire, telling the Turning Point USA founder that he was hoping &#8220;to have a little more disagreement&#8221; than those who asked questions before him.
He then launched into his question: &#8220;A few weeks ago there was a transgender mass shooter, and ever since then, about three weeks later, the Trump DOJ said that we should start talking about revoking gun rights for transgender Americans.&#8221; 
The crowd of students erupted into cheers. Six days earlier The Daily Wire had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-doj-considering-gun-ban-for-transgenders">reported</a> that the administration was &#8220;actively considering&#8221; ways to keep firearms out of the hands of individuals suffering gender dysphoria. 
&#8220;I think you&#8217;re in support of this decision, yes?&#8221; Kozak questioned Kirk. &#8220;Is that fair to say? All right, great. So, do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?&#8221; 
&#8220;Too many,&#8221; responded the 31-year-old TPUSA founder. It was only two weeks after the Annunciation school shooting, in which a trans-identifying killer had killed two children and injured many others when he opened fire on a Catholic school mass.
Kozak&#8217;s initial response to Kirk was drowned out by the cheering and clapping of the crowd. Then the UVU student can be heard saying, &#8220;It&#8217;s five. Ok, now five is a lot, right? I&#8217;m going to give you some credit. Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last ten years?&#8221; 
&#8220;Counting or not counting gang violence?&#8221; asked Kirk.
&#8220;Great,&#8221; began Kozak, ready with a retort based on his own analysis of gun violence and trans-identifying shooters. But his response never left his mouth. 
At that very moment a shot rang out. Kirk&#8217;s assassin had fired at 12:23 p.m. mountain time, hitting the TPUSA founder in the neck. By 2:40 p.m. local time, President Donald Trump had announced that Kirk was dead.
Kirk&#8217;s last conversation on earth centered on a topic that he had discussed at length, particularly throughout the end of August and beginning of September: the disturbing rise in transgender violence. Kirk was unapologetic about his stance, that trans-identifying individuals were targeting Christians, and, given their gender confusion, they were too mentally unwell to own firearms.
&#8220;If you are crazy enough to want to hormonally and surgically &#8216;change your sex,&#8217; you have a mental disorder, and you are too crazy to own a firearm,&#8221; he posted on &#8220;X&#8221; on August 27, 2025, the day that the trans-identifying shooter, Robert Westman, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-we-know-about-the-trans-identifying-gunman-who-slaughtered-catholic-school-children">killed Catholic school children</a> before taking his own life.
&#8220;First Nashville, now this,&#8221; Kirk asked the same day, referring to the trans-shooter who targeted children at Covenant Christian School. &#8220;How many times makes a trend?&#8221;
Westman’s attack came just two years after another that trans-identifying killer targeted Christian school children in Nashville. Leaders of Catholic and independent schools in Minnesota had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/minnesota-catholic-school-leader-warned-tim-walz-of-urgent-and-critical-need-to-secure-schools?author=Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=4&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Minnesota+Catholic+School+Leader+Warned+Tim+Walz+Of+%E2%80%98Critical%E2%80%99+School+Safety+Threats.+He+Did+Nothing." target="_blank" rel="noopener">begged Governor Tim Walz</a> to help prevent similar shootings, fearing that the next shooter would target one of their schools. That security funding was never authorized, a fact which became painfully evident after the Minneapolis shooting in late August.
Now five months later, the world is reeling from another <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/youtube-confirms-trans-themed-page-is-linked-to-canada-mass-shooting-suspect?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Canada+School+Attacker+Was+Trans+Identifying+Man%2C+Police+Confirm">transgender-identifying attacker</a>, this time in Canada. The shooter, a man who believed he was a woman and wore a dress, opened fire on a rural school in British Columbia, killing ten and injuring dozens. It is yet another example of transgender violence, but the pressing issue that Kirk was opining on regularly now seems to have fallen out of consideration.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-last-questions-charlie-kirk-answered-were-about-a-trans-gun-ban-that-initiative-is-stalled/screenshot-2026-02-12-at-1-16-06-pm" rel="attachment wp-att-1043131"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1043131 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/Screenshot-2026-02-12-at-1.16.06-PM-1024x339.png" alt="" width="1024" height="339" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/Screenshot-2026-02-12-at-1.16.06-PM-1024x339.png 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/Screenshot-2026-02-12-at-1.16.06-PM-300x99.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/Screenshot-2026-02-12-at-1.16.06-PM-768x254.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/Screenshot-2026-02-12-at-1.16.06-PM.png 1070w" sizes=" (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a>
It was after the Minneapolis shooting that the Department of Justice was deliberating how to respond to this rise in transgender violence. The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-doj-considering-gun-ban-for-transgenders">broke the news</a> on September 4 that the DOJ was considering blocking trans-identifying people from buying firearms, reviewing ways to ensure that mentally ill individuals suffering from gender dysphoria are unable to obtain firearms while they are unstable and unwell,&#8221; according to one source.
The DOJ’s discussions centered on the acknowledgement that those who identify as transgender suffer from gender dysphoria, a mental disorder, which describes the sense of unease that a man or woman may feel if he or she thinks that their biological sex is mismatched with their so-called gender identity.
“Democrats have called for common sense gun laws for a long time,” one DOJ source told The Daily Wire in September. “This seems pretty common sense to me.”
The news sparked massive debate from both the Left and the Right, with many raising Second Amendment concerns about such a proposal.
Then, on September 10, a gunman identified by authorities as Tyler Robinson was charged with shooting Kirk in the neck. Robinson lived with his &#8220;transgender partner,&#8221; a male named Lance Twiggs who is attempting to transition to a transgender female. Twiggs had vanished from the public view for months but was <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15542527/lance-twiggs-trans-lover-Charlie-Kirks-accused-assassin-resurfaces.html">just this week spotted living quietly in Texas</a> as the investigation plays out.
While it is known that Robinson deeply disagreed with Kirk&#8217;s political views, it remains unclear whether Robinson specifically targeted Kirk for his views on transgenderism. The FBI&#8217;s investigation into the murder is ongoing.
But the fact remains that Robinson fired at Kirk as the TPUSA founder was addressing transgender violence.
A review by the Daily Wire found a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-were-naming-the-minneapolis-shooter?author=Brent+Scher&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Why+We%E2%80%99re+Naming+The+Minneapolis+Shooter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">steady stream of transgender-related violence</a> over the past decade. And given this rise, many conservatives on the right were calling for closer examination of transgender violence at the time of Kirk&#8217;s death. Some wanted action, furious that officials like Walz had not taken the situation more seriously. Walz instead signed legislation establishing Minnesota as a “trans refuge,” promising to “protect those seeking gender-affirming care.”
Kirk&#8217;s death had stunned the world. He was a personal friend of many members of President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration, including the leadership of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice. Many members of the president&#8217;s cabinet and wider administration traveled to Phoenix, Arizona to commemorate Kirk with his wife and the Turning Point USA team at a massive memorial in Kirk&#8217;s honor.
<div id="attachment_1043335" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-last-questions-charlie-kirk-answered-were-about-a-trans-gun-ban-that-initiative-is-stalled/memorial-service-held-for-slain-conservative-activist-charlie-kirk-at-state-farm-stadium-7" rel="attachment wp-att-1043335"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1043335" class="wp-image-1043335 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/02/GettyImages-2236636785-1-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" data-wp-editing="1" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/02/GettyImages-2236636785-1-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/02/GettyImages-2236636785-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/02/GettyImages-2236636785-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/02/GettyImages-2236636785-1.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>Erika Kirk joins U.S. President Donald Trump onstage during the memorial service for political activist Charlie Kirk at State Farm Stadium on September 21, 2025 in Glendale, Arizona.  (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)</div>
Five months after the shooting, it is not clear whether the DOJ discussions on banning guns for trans-identifying individuals have moved forward. The DOJ did not immediately comment on the matter to The Daily Wire. A source familiar with the Trump administration&#8217;s thinking said that the topic is not something that they have heard discussed since the Daily Wire&#8217;s original reporting in September.
Reached for comment on the matter, White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said Friday that the administration is committed to &#8220;investigating, disrupting, dismantling, and prosecuting individuals and entities engaged in organized political violence and domestic terrorism.&#8221;
Jackson slammed left-wing organizations for fueling violent riots, organizing attacks on law enforcement officers, coordinating illegal doxing campaigns, arranging &#8220;drop points for weapons and riot materials, and more,&#8221; promising that the Trump administration will &#8220;get to the bottom of this vast network inciting violence in American communities, and the President’s executive actions to address left-wing violence will put an end to any illegal activities.&#8221;
Her statement did not directly address transgender violence or the proposed gun-ban, referencing the broader &#8220;domestic terrorism&#8221; at play in the United States. Yet there are a number of indicators that the administration is taking transgender violence seriously.
Aboard Air Force One on his way back from Kirk&#8217;s memorial, Trump told The Daily Wire that his administration was “very strongly” examining the string of transgender violence throughout the United States.
“You know, we’re looking at that,” the president said gravely, asking, “What’s the reason for it?”
“Yeah, there seems to be something,” he reflected. “But we’re looking at it very strongly. Something seems to be going on.”
Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to President Donald Trump and senior director for counterterrorism, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/calls-to-investigate-trans-domestic-terrorism-escalate-after-devastating-school-shooting?author=Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Calls+To+Investigate+Trans+Domestic+Terrorism+Escalate+After+Devastating+School+Shooting">told The Daily Wire</a> in early September, before the assassination, that his draft U.S. Counterterrorism plan addresses transgender violence, asked whether there should be a transgender domestic terrorism label such as “Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violence and Extremism” (TIVE) (a classification <a href="https://glaad.org/understanding-anti-trans-tropes-transgender-ideology-inspired-violence-and-extremism/">suggested by The Oversight Project)</a>.
Trump advisor Stephen Miller and Vice President JD Vance, in interviews that took place shortly after Kirk&#8217;s death, vowed to dismantle the domestic terrorism movement within the United States.
&#8220;With God as my witness, we are going to use every resource we have at the Justice Department, Homeland Security, and throughout this government, to identify, disrupt, dismantle, and destroy these networks, and make America safe again for the American people,&#8221; said Miller. Vance similarly stressed: &#8220;We have to talk about this incredibly destructive movement of left-wing extremism that has grown up over the last few years, and I believe, is part of the reason why Charlie was killed by an assassin’s bullet.&#8221;
In December, Attorney General Pam Bondi <a href="https://charityandsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Bondi_Memo_On_Countering_Domestic_Terrorism_And_Organized_Political_Violence-1.pdf">issued a memo</a> to all federal prosecutors and law enforcement agencies that including &#8220;radical gender ideology&#8221; in a list of domestic terrorism threats.
&#8220;For too long,&#8221; her memo said, &#8220;rampant criminal conduct rising to the level of domestic terrorism—e.g., organized doxing of law enforcement, mass rioting and destruction in our cities, violent efforts to shut down immigration enforcement, targeting of public officials or other political actors, etc.—has been tolerated.&#8221;
&#8220;For some culpable actors, such as certain Antifa-aligned extremists, their animating principle is adherence to the types of extreme viewpoints on immigration, radical gender ideology, and anti-American sentiment listed below, with a willingness to use violence against law-abiding citizenry to serve those beliefs,&#8221; that memo continued. &#8220;Federal law enforcement will prioritize this threat.&#8221;
Where federal agents encounter crime, they will act, Bondi wrote. And where they encounter or suspect domestic terrorism, law enforcement will refer these matters to the Joint Terrorism Task Forces.

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Prominent transgender medical activists are up in arms over the American Society of Plastic Surgeons’ recommendation that children under 19 not have body parts surgically removed to treat gender confusion.
The ASPS left no uncertainty on its position on gender surgery for minors in its February 3 policy <a href="https://www.plasticsurgery.org/documents/health-policy/positions/2026-gender-surgery-children-adolescents.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>, which recommends “surgeons delay gender-related breast/chest, genital, and facial surgery until a patient is at least 19 years old.”
A group of only seven individuals, who identified themselves as “Concerned members of the ASPS Gender Surgery Task Force,” <a href="https://acaps-prri.informz.net/acaps-prri/data/images/Open_Letter_to_the_Board_of_the_American_Society_of_Plastic_Surgeons.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed an open letter</a> to the ASPS demanding the organization provide clarifying information about the gender surgery statement, including its authors’ names, how it was developed, and if the board considered the “areas of emerging consensus” being reached by the task force.
“Clarification of the process used in developing this position statement is necessary to ensure transparency, accountability, and confidence in ASPS governance,” the letter reads.
Signatories of the letter include leaders of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH), a leading force pushing transgender procedures for minors. That includes WPATH president Asa Radix, MD, President-Elect Loren Schechter, MD, and board of directors member Scott Leibowitz, MD, who expected the “Gender Surgery Task Force” to “inform future ASPS statements or policy positions,” according to the letter.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s be clear: this is not a serious response from unbiased plastic surgeons,” Dr. Kurt Miceli, Medical Director at Do No Harm, told The Daily Wire. “This is a malicious attempt by WPATH activists to sow mistrust in ASPS&#8217;s meticulous and well-supported position statement on pediatric sex-rejecting procedures.”
“Their objections amount to little more than procedural complaints and never grapple with the substance of ASPS’s new position statement. This coordinated pushback should be recognized for what it is: unfounded and politically driven,&#8221; Miceli added.
The Daily Wire first reviewed the letter after it was obtained by Do No Harm. The ASPS told The Daily Wire the letter is based on a &#8220;series of misunderstandings.”
“It is important to note that the letter is based on a series of misunderstandings, which ASPS is in the process of clarifying for its members,” the group said.
WPATH is an activist medical organization that promotes discredited <a href="https://opa.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/2025-11/gender-dysphoria-report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">science</a> that is heavily reliant on medical consensus, rather than scientific evidence.
When deciding what would be included in its clinical guidance, WPATH members <a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8299905/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">created consensus</a> among its members by anonymously voting if they agreed or disagreed with proposed clinical recommendation statements, according to its <a href="https://wpath.org/publications/soc8/methodology/#delphi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>.
The open letter described how a similar process was being used by the “Gender Surgery Task Force” to find areas of “emerging consensus,” noting the task force was “actively working towards a summary intended to inform Board-level deliberation regarding any Society position or policy statement.”
Both the <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20250310143933/https://cass.independent-review.uk/home/publications/final-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cass Review</a> and the Department of Health and Human Services report on the treatment of gender dysphoria note that pediatric gender medicine guidelines rely heavily on medical consensus amongst like-minded professionals, rather than strong evidence.
“Many internationally influential guidelines, including those from WPATH, the Endocrine Society, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, have been criticized for substantial methodological shortcomings and inadequately managed conflicts of interest, resulting in recommendations not reliably supported by rigorous evidence,” the <a href="https://opa.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/2025-11/gender-dysphoria-report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HHS report</a> says.
“This pattern of circular referencing and mutual endorsement among these guidelines further compromises their credibility and has likely perpetuated a perceived consensus in pediatric gender medicine that belies the actual paucity of high-quality evidence,” the report reads.
The ASPS statement cited several comprehensive evidence reviews, including the HHS <a href="https://opa.hhs.gov/gender-dysphoria-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a>, showing a departure from the consensus model adopted by many medical organizations.
WPATH did not immediately respond to The Daily Wire’s request for comment.

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A transgender-identifying man commits one of the deadliest mass shootings in Canada’s history, Ohio Republicans move to protect parents who rebuff the concept of gender identity, and the Food and Drug Administration zeroes in on chemical preservatives in American foods.
It’s Thursday, February 12, 2026, and this is the news you need to know to start your day. Today’s edition of the Morning Wire podcast can be heard below:
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Canada School Mass Shooting</h2>
At least nine people are dead and dozens more wounded after a mass shooting in British Columbia, Canada. The shooting is one of the deadliest in Canada’s history. 
The shooter, whom police initially described as a “gunperson” in a “dress,” appears to have killed at least eight people across two locations and wounded dozens. That person has now been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/youtube-confirms-trans-themed-page-is-linked-to-canada-mass-shooting-suspect?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Deadly+Canada+School+Attacker+Was+Trans+Identifying+Man%2C+Police+Confirm">identified</a> as an 18-year-old male named Jesse Van Rootselaar, who identified as a female and had a history of mental illness.
&#8220;I will say this, we identify the suspect as they chose to be identified in public and on social media,&#8221; said Royal Canadian Mounted Police Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald. &#8220;I can say that Jesse was born as a biological male who approximately six years ago began to transition to female and identified as female, both socially and publicly.&#8221;
 Two people were found dead inside a local home, who have since been identified as the shooter’s mother and 11-year-old brother. Most of the carnage took place at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, located in a remote area of northeastern British Columbia. There, at least six others were found dead, including the suspect. One more person died while they were being taken to a hospital. Students at the school said they were forced to barricade themselves in classrooms for roughly two-and-a-half hours before they were evacuated by police.
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Ohio Lawmakers Take On Gender Ideology</h2>
In the red state of Ohio, parents can lose custody of their children for refusing to affirm their “gender identity.” But Republicans are looking to change that. 
Ohio is one of many states where child welfare agencies have embraced radical gender ideology. Some parents of gender-confused kids who insist on referring to their child’s biological sex and given name could be labeled as “abusive” or “neglectful” by the state. This could mean being investigated and even losing custody of their children. 
The Republican-backed bill is called &#8220;The Affirming Families First Act,&#8221; as in, affirming the child’s natural family rather than a gender-affirming family found by the state. The bill would ensure that parents could not be accused of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-harris-hhs-consulted-activist-who-said-parents-should-be-prosecuted-for-transphobia?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=8&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Biden-Harris+HHS+Consulted+Activist+Who+Said+Parents+Should+Be+Prosecuted+For+%E2%80%98Transpho">abuse</a> or acting “contrary to the best interest of the child” by any state agency simply for affirming the child’s actual sex.
<h2 style="text-align: center;">FDA Reviews Food Preservatives Found In Rubber</h2>
The FDA is zeroing in on chemical food preservatives and making changes to food labels, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fda-probes-use-of-food-preservative-also-used-in-rubber-and-plastic?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=FDA+Probes+Use+Of+Food+Preservative+Also+Used+In+Rubber+And+Plastic">aiming</a> to bring American food more in line with European standards and make labels clearer. The agency announced on Tuesday that it plans to review a preservative called BHA, which is commonly used in many processed foods. FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary says that the preservative may contribute to cancer. 
“About 4,600 different types of food that are common in the U.S. Food supply have BHA. It&#8217;s an ingredient that&#8217;s found in rubber, in plastic, in glue,” Makary told Morning Wire. “A National Toxicology Program assessment said that there&#8217;s a reasonable anticipation that it&#8217;s carcinogenic or cancer-causing.”
The FDA is also rolling out new rules regarding food labels, specifically regarding claims around artificial dyes. 
“The FDA is making it very clear what these labels should mean, and what the criteria are. For example, the label, ‘no artificial dyes’ will now mean no artificial dyes. In the past, if you used a natural dye from natural ingredients, you could not use that label, and it created a lot of confusion among parents shopping for groceries for their kids,” said Makary.

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Societies that tend to mainstream delusions and treat them as though they are normal, especially mental illnesses that have an extraordinarily high crossover with suicidality and depression, are not doing anybody any favors.
It is very difficult to deny that we are now seeing an emerging trend in mass shootings from trans shooters. This was not an issue 15 years ago. Derangement took other forms.
That has obviously changed, and the media and governmental policy have a lot to do with it.
It is now being reported that the Canada school shooter in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, is a person who identified as trans. This has become an alarming pattern: people identifying as trans and engaging in acts of violence. It is not totally surprising, given that people who identify as trans have a very, very high rate of suicidality and depression.
The media continue to treat this as though it’s of no consequence. They&#8217;re referring to the prospective shooter in Tumbler Ridge as a “she,” even though it’s pretty clear it’s a biological “he.” This goes to our entire society&#8217;s willingness to say things that are biologically false, supposedly in pursuit of sympathy for people who are suffering from a mental disorder.
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Over the course of the last couple of weeks, major medical groups have now come out and completely reversed themselves regarding “gender-affirming” care. For years, it was de rigueur in the medical community to proclaim that hormone treatments, social transition, or actual surgery were the solutions for people suffering from gender dysphoria, particularly minors. The idea was that if you didn&#8217;t arrest puberty when a kid was 11 years old, that person would look more like their biological sex than they otherwise would.
Now, after a few lawsuits, it turns out that the science doesn&#8217;t reflect any of this.
“I would say that when gender clinicians and their allies are speaking to the public, in particular to the skeptical public, lawmakers and legislative hearings, to news reporters and mainstream media outlets, and even to parents who kind of have concerns about their kids and want to know what to do, then, yes, they frame these interventions as a mental health intervention,” Leor Sapir of the Manhattan Institute told me. “They make claims about reduction in depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation and so forth. When they talk amongst themselves, and you can see this when you look at their videos from conferences, when you watch video calls that were somehow leaked to the public, you see that they actually offer different rationales. They say that this is about helping kids or helping people in general who are otherwise healthy achieve their embodiment goals, achieve their cosmetic goals for how they want their body to look in light of their internal sense of gender.”
We are not doing anyone any favors when we ignore the mainstreaming of mental illness.

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The 18-year-old man who attacked a rural Canadian school identified as a woman and had a history of mental illness, law enforcement confirmed Wednesday. 
Police identified the man who opened fire on Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in British Columbia, killing six people, as Jesse Van Rootselaar. Van Rootselaar, who was found dead at the school, began to “transition” about six years ago, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald said.
“I will say this, we identify the suspect as they chose to be identified in public and on social media,” he said. “I can say that Jesse was born as a biological male who approximately six years ago began to transition to female and identified as female, both socially and publicly.”
McDonald used female pronouns for the attacker despite the fact that he was a male and repeatedly called him &#8220;female&#8221; throughout a Wednesday press conference. 
Two people, identified as Van Rootselaar’s mother and brother, were found dead at a nearby residence the day of the shooting. McDonald said that police had seized guns from the residence in previous years. Canadian outlets have <a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/tumbler-ridge-shooter-identified-ctv-news-confirms-live-updates-here/">identified</a> the mother and brother as Jennifer and Emmett Strang, respectively. 
He also said that police had visited the residence multiple times, dealing with “concerns of mental health” with regard to the shooter. He said the shooter had been detained in the past because of mental health concerns. 
In the immediate aftermath of the attack, investigators refused to release the name and sex of the attacker. The first alert described the attacker as a woman wearing a dress, and they later referred to him as a “gunperson.” 
Speculation began circulating that a YouTube page called “JessJessUwU” was run by the shooter. The page featured an anime figure and a rifle with colors associated with the pink, purple, and blue transgender flag in the background, according to screenshots <a href="https://www.junonews.com/p/exclusive-family-confirms-identity">captured</a> by conservative publisher Juno News. 
After the reports started linking the shooting to the account, it was removed. The YouTube channel’s owner showcased “she/her” pronouns in the biography section. 
“Following this horrific incident, our Trust and Safety teams identified and removed a YouTube channel associated with the alleged suspect in accordance with our Creator Responsibility Guidelines,” YouTube told The Daily Wire. 
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The lone post on the channel was an anime illustration of a person smoking, captioned “I’ve been pretty, um, aimless.” 
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A police alert issued immediately after the shooting said the suspect was wearing a dress, and called them a &#8220;gunperson,&#8221; as opposed to a gunman, since the shooter identified as &#8220;nonbinary.&#8221;
The YouTube channel account number was “@jessjess347” which was similar to a Reddit account “jesseboy347” that was also removed. Reddit has not responded to requests for comment. 
The victims at the school included a 39-year-old teacher and five children between the ages of 12 and 13.

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Some LGBT advocates and media have celebrated the first openly transgender athlete to compete at the Winter Olympics as a “<a href="https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/02/swedish-skier-elis-lundholm-will-make-history-as-the-first-out-trans-athlete-in-a-winter-olympics/">major milestone</a> in trans sports.”
Elis Lundholm, a woman who identifies as a transgender man, will compete for Sweden at the Milan-Cortina Olympics as part of the ski team. But here’s the interesting part: Lundholm will take part in the women’s category, not the men’s. 
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The skier began identifying as a transgender man five years ago and <a href="https://www.aftonbladet.se/senastenytt/ttsport/sport/a/j0BoeL/identifierar-sig-som-man-moter-kvinnor-i-os">told</a> the Swedish outlet Sportbladet that she “has never had a problem competing as a woman.” 
Social media users pointed out the implications of Lundholm remaining in the women&#8217;s category, which is based on biological sex under current rules.
“Lundholm is female, identifies as trans, uses he/him pronouns and has not gone through medical transition, competes in the female category,” British professor Jon Pike <a href="https://x.com/runthinkwrite/status/2018270959677968618">posted</a> on X.
“Lundholm is a walking/skiing refutation of the claim that it’s unreasonable to require TiM [Transgender identifying Male] athletes to compete in their sex category,” he said. “It’s said that this is the equivalent of ‘banning them from sport.’ Lundholm competes in the correct sex category, even though this is not the category into which Lundholm identifies, and has ‘no problem with this.’”
Most social media commenters didn’t have an issue with Lundholm competing with other women, noting how the only thing that could make competition unfair is if she had been using testosterone.
Last summer, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee changed its policy to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order banning men from competing against women, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-olympic-committee-bans-men-in-womens-sports">reported</a>. The committee posted an update stating that it would “&#8230;ensure that women have a fair and safe competition environment,” consistent with the executive order.
This change followed years of controversy in the world of sports. 
In the 2024 Summer Games, Imane Khelif of Algeria, a boxer who had failed gender tests, dominated the women’s welterweight division and won the gold medal. Khelif’s success in Paris drew outrage across the globe. 
In 2021, trans-identifying man Laurel Hubbard of New Zealand competed against women in weightlifting in the Tokyo Games. Chelsea Wolfe, a man who identifies as a woman, was also at the Tokyo Olympics as a reserve cyclist for the U.S. women’s BMX Freestyle team.

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A Tennessee court has overturned a judge’s decision to block the release of writings by the transgender-identifying woman who killed three children and three adults during an attack on a Christian school in Nashville in March 2023.
The Tennessee Court of Appeals <a href="https://www.tncourts.gov/sites/default/files/OpinionsPDFVersion/Majority%20Opinion%20-%20%20M2024-01139-COA-R3-CV.pdf">said</a> Wednesday that the city of Nashville must allow inspection of the writings of The Covenant School attacker under public record laws. In August 2024, Davidson County Judge I’Ashea Myles <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/conservative-publisher-appeals-decision-to-block-release-of-covenant-attackers-writings?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Conservative+Publisher+Appeals+Decision+To+Block+Release+Of+Covenant+Attacker%E2%80%99s+Writings">ruled</a> that copyright claims put on the writings preempted public records requests.
“Construing the [Tennessee Public Records Act] broadly to promote access to public records, as we are required, we conclude that under these particular circumstances, the only overt action Metro must take to meet its obligation is to allow Petitioners access to the records for personal inspection,” the judges wrote. “Simply put, so long as Metro maintains the records, it must allow Petitioners access … for personal inspection.”
The writings of the shooter include journal entries made in the months leading up to the March 27, 2023, attack. After the attack, the Nashville Police Department refused to release the writings, citing an ongoing investigation. A group of parents whose children attended The Covenant School also intervened to block the release of the writings, citing a copyright claim to the materials granted by the attacker’s parents.
The parents and the school also said that releasing the attacker’s writings would cause school safety concerns, a position that Myles agreed with in her ruling.
“This conclusion strains credulity, and we are neither willing nor able to make the blind logical leap the Covenant Intervenors ask of us,” the appeals court said, noting that many of the writings were made years before the attack.
The judges also said that there was no school shooter manifesto exemption to public records law because of fears about the writings inspiring future attacks.
“Respectfully, this argument is rooted in speculation about potential future events, not facts present in the record before us. This is a policy debate not contemplated by, or anywhere mentioned in” public records law, the judges said.
The parties who sued for access to the writings included Tennessee Star publisher Michael Patrick Leahy, the Tennessee Firearms Association, The Tennessean, and the National Police Association. Leahy was represented by the America First Legal Foundation.
“This unanimous ruling by the Tennessee Court of Appeals is a major victory for freedom of the press, the people of the State of Tennessee, and The Tennessee Star,” Leahy <a href="https://tennesseestar.com/covenant-school-shooting/court-of-appeals-gives-the-tennessee-star-major-victory-in-covenant-manifesto-case/tpappert/2026/02/04/">said</a> of the ruling. “It is in the public interest for all of these documents to be released to us expeditiously, as the Court of Appeals ruled.”
Despite these efforts, portions of the shooter’s writings have already been released through the FBI and through media reports, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/covenant-journal-revealed-my-imaginary-penis?author=Brent+Scher&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=COVENANT+JOURNAL+REVEALED%3A+Shooter+Said+Being+Female+Was+A+‘F***ing+Curse%2C’+That+She’d+‘Kill’+To+Have+Had+Puberty+Blockers">including</a> The Daily Wire. Ramblings of the shooter posted by the FBI in December 2025 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-covenant-school-killer-hated-religion-and-white-people-fbi-files-reveal?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=The+Covenant+School+Killer+Hated+‘Religion’+And+‘White+People%2C’+FBI+Files+Reveal">revealed</a> that she hated white people and religion.

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While other major medical organizations are backing away from their support of damaging transgender procedures for minors, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is doubling down on so-called trans care.
The AAP, which represents tens of thousands of professionals in pediatric medicine, said on Wednesday that its support of trans procedures for minors remains unchanged.
“The guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics for health care for young people with gender dysphoria does not include a blanket recommendation for surgery for minors,” AAP President Dr. Andrew Racine <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/health/gender-surgery-minors-ama.html?smid=fb-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawPxyzhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFRVTY3d0VFT2NKUWtlTTZQc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHtMS8_-ScSNtkKq81VkqaTVzCxWdMcAfeXhdvtL-v8OLdebPSy9ucGQ-kj5P_aem_BU6FM8f2LLHxBWFlwAWZ7g">said</a> in a statement.
“The A.A.P. continues to hold to the principle that patients, their families and their physicians — not politicians — should be the ones to make decisions together about what care is best for them,&#8221; he added.
AAP publications still claim that puberty blockers are &#8220;<a href="https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/142/4/e20182162/37381/Ensuring-Comprehensive-Care-and-Support-for?utm_source=chatgpt.com">reversible</a>&#8221; and cross-sex hormones are &#8220;partially reversible.&#8221; Gender surgeries for minors, including <a href="https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/142/4/e20182162/37381/Ensuring-Comprehensive-Care-and-Support-for?utm_source=chatgpt.com">so-called &#8220;top&#8221; and &#8220;bottom&#8221; surgeries</a> and facial surgeries, are still recommended for minors on a &#8220;case by case basis.&#8221;
&#8220;Top&#8221; surgeries involve the removal of the healthy breasts of young girls, and &#8220;bottom&#8221; surgeries are performed on the genitals or reproductive organs of both sexes.
Back in June, the AAP similarly reaffirmed its commitment to trans surgeries, balking at a U.S. Supreme Court decision that effectively allows for states to ban trans procedures on minors.
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The Supreme Court’s decision today does not change the science. Gender-affirming care remains evidence-based, medically necessary care that improves the health and well-being of transgender youth. Learn more: <a href="https://t.co/YxmqZFGTnN">https://t.co/YxmqZFGTnN</a> <a href="https://t.co/fcSYK46hEj">pic.twitter.com/fcSYK46hEj</a>
— American Academy of Pediatrics (@AmerAcadPeds) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmerAcadPeds/status/1935370245847330852?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
Elected Democrats, too, are generally on board with trans procedures for minors.
In October, far-Left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), for example, expressed support for so-called trans youth in reaction to a question about GOP-backed bills banning trans surgeries for minors.
“I want to say that I know this time is completely terrifying for so many people, and it feels hard to know where your place is, and especially in politics, where it feels like people in both parties are blaming you for everything that’s happening, I just want you to know that they couldn’t be more wrong,” AOC <a href="https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/aoc-assures-trans-kids-theyre-not-to-blame-for-anything-you-are-fine-just-the-way-you-are/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">said</a>.
Failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris, Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE), Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) are other notable figures in the party who support such measures.
Conversely, both the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) and the American Medical Association (AMA) — which wields major influence as the nation’s largest medical association — have backed away from their support of such trans procedures on minors.
As highlighted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-fight-is-not-over-major-medical-org-rejects-transgender-surgeries-for-kids">The Daily Wire</a>, ASPS released a statement on Tuesday that said available evidence does not support genital procedures or removing the breasts of young girls who identify as boys. The ASPS also said there was “insufficient” support for placing kids on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
The AMA then followed. In a <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/first-major-medical-org-comes-out-against-trans-surgeries-for-minors/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">statement</a> to National Review, the AMA said “the evidence for gender-affirming surgical intervention in minors is insufficient for us to make a definitive statement,” adding that it “agrees” with the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) “that surgical interventions in minors should be generally deferred to adulthood.”
The AMA added that it supports “evidence-based treatment,” including other types of so-called gender-affirming care for minors.
The timing of the shifts is incredibly notable. Just last week, a young woman was awarded a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shocking-details-emerge-in-landmark-2-million-trans-malpractice-judgment?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Shocking+Details+Emerge+In+Landmark+%242+Million+%E2%80%98Trans%E2%80%99+Malpractice+Judgment">$2 million judgment</a> in her lawsuit against the medical professionals who advanced and performed the removal of her healthy breasts at just 16 years old as part of transgender “treatment” for the teen, who at the time was suffering from a series of mental health issues.
There are still more than two dozen detransitioner cases pending, and many medical professionals and legal experts expect favorable verdicts for those who were mutilated in the name of &#8220;transgender care.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/another-major-medical-group-reverses-course-on-trans-surgeries-for-minors?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Another+Major+Medical+Group+Reverses+Course+On+Trans+Surgeries+For+Minors">Another Major Medical Group Reverses Course On Trans Surgeries For Minors</a>

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American Academy Of Pediatrics Sticks To Democrat Script On Trans Surgeries For Minors

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WASHINGTON—The Federal Trade Commission has hired a lawyer fired by New York Attorney General Letitia James after she spoke out publicly against transgender procedures for children, The Daily Wire can first report.
Glenna Goldis will work as a senior litigator in the Bureau of Consumer Protection, a person familiar with the matter told The Daily Wire. She will spearhead investigations into any potential harms from so-called “gender affirming care.&#8221;
“Glenna is an extraordinary, brave, and intelligent woman with an impressive history of working on consumer protection matters,&#8221; said Joe Simonson, Director of Public Affairs at the FTC. &#8220;We are so excited to have her aboard.”
Goldis, a self-described &#8220;lefty lesbian lawyer,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-letitia-james-deputy-breaks-from-dems-to-speak-out-against-gender-affirming-care">previously served</a> as assistant attorney general for James, who has earned a reputation for herself as one of the most liberal and anti-Trump attorneys general in the United States.
Goldis <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lefty-lesbian-lawyer-fired-by-letitia-james-after-opposing-transgender-procedures-for-kids">lost her position</a> in James&#8217; consumer fraud bureau after she spoke out against the dangers of so-called treatments like puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors. In July, The Daily Wire first reported that Goldis had <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/Healthcare-Workshop-Speakers-July-9-2025.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">participated</a> in an FTC roundtable on transgender procedures in her private capacity.
“Today I was fired by NY Attorney General Letitia James for speaking out against pediatric gender medicine (PGM),” Goldis shared on X in late January. “I was an attorney in [New York Attorney General’s] consumer frauds bureau, which did not work on anything related to PGM. Since 2024 I’d been raising the alarm publicly and within NYAG that PGM providers may be engaged in a dangerous consumer fraud. James’s officials treated me like a pest.”
<div id="attachment_1039081" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-hires-glenna-goldis-lawyer-fired-by-letitia-james/together-for-democracy-2026-hosted-by-democracy-forward" rel="attachment wp-att-1039081"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1039081" class="wp-image-1039081 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/02/GettyImages-2259080544-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/02/GettyImages-2259080544-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/02/GettyImages-2259080544-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/02/GettyImages-2259080544-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/02/GettyImages-2259080544.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>New York Attorney General Letitia James (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Democracy Forward)</div>
Goldis says that James&#8217;s team “struggled” to figure out what, exactly, was problematic about her public statements. They finally landed on Goldis&#8217;s writing on United States v. Skrmetti, a Supreme Court case dealing with transgender medical procedures for kids, and said that the lawyer&#8217;s work contradicted James&#8217;s legal position on the topic.
<div class="ad-wrapper" data-narration-ignore="true" data-testid="ad-wrapper">James has not only spoken in support of “gender-affirming care,” but also taken legal action against Trump’s efforts to protect children from transgender surgeries, hormones, and puberty blockers.</div>
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<div class="ad-wrapper" data-narration-ignore="true" data-testid="ad-wrapper">James called Trump&#8217;s policies “cruel, discriminatory, dangerous, and not based on science or law,” pushing the falsehood that transgender surgeries, hormones, and puberty blockers are “medically necessary” as she argued that “every young person deserves access to medically necessary care without government interference.”</div>
Her team reportedly told Goldis that she could not “take public legal positions that conflict” with James under the Rules of Professional Conduct. She contests this claim and accuses James of trying to cow her “into silence.”
A spokesman for James confirmed to The Daily Wire in late January that Goldis had been fired.
<div id="attachment_1039079" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-hires-glenna-goldis-lawyer-fired-by-letitia-james/ftc-chair-andrew-ferguson-interview" rel="attachment wp-att-1039079"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1039079" class="wp-image-1039079 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/02/GettyImages-2230622343-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/02/GettyImages-2230622343-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/02/GettyImages-2230622343-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/02/GettyImages-2230622343-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/02/GettyImages-2230622343.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>Andrew Ferguson, chair of the Federal Trade Commission (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images)</div>
“The Office of the Attorney General has rules and protocols for employees who engage in activities that can impact the work, operations, or integrity of the office,” the spokesman said at the time. “This employee’s flagrant and repeated disregard of these rules and protocols disrupts and undermines our efforts to protect the rights of all New Yorkers.”
In her new capacity at the FTC, Goldis will likely be an asset in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ftc-takes-major-step-in-war-on-trans-procedures-for-kids">FTC&#8217;s investigation</a> into whether minors and consumers have been harmed by transgender medical procedures — and whether medical professionals “have violated Sections 5 and 12 of the FTC Act by failing to disclose material risks associated with ‘gender-affirming care’ or making false or unsubstantiated claims about the benefits or effectiveness of ‘gender-affirming care.&#8217;”
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In May, The Daily Wire first <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-federal-trade-commission-is-setting-its-sights-on-transgender-procedures-on-kids" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the FTC would be holding a workshop on “gender-affirming care,&#8221; often a sign that the commission is preparing to initiate legal action against an industry.
“Under the Federal Trade Commission Act, the FTC is provided broad authority to protect consumers from unfair and deceptive trade acts and practices,” an FTC memo on the workshop said. “There is now considerable reason to believe that the doctors and medical providers pushing [gender-affirming care] on minors are knowingly deceiving parents by exaggerating [gender-affirming care’s] ‘benefits’ and downplaying its harmful side effects.”
The FTC held the workshop on July 9 and featured academics, commentators, parents, doctors, and detransitioners — young people who attempted to transition, spurred on by activists and medical professionals who falsely promised them that they could change their gender.
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson told the detransitioners: “The FTC hears you, we hear all of you, and we want to understand how the law is being broken.&#8221;
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