Across America, an alarming trend is unfolding: state governments are criminalizing conversations between therapists and children.
In Colorado, <a href="https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1312" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Bill 25-1312</a> makes it illegal for licensed professionals to provide “talk therapy” to help minors explore or reconcile their feelings about gender unless the therapist immediately affirms a self-declared identity. The constitutionality of this law was argued this week in front of the Supreme Court in Chiles v. Salazar, a case poised to decide whether counseling services for minors battling gender confusion are protected by the First Amendment.
Supporters claim this protects vulnerable youth. In reality, it silences them — and their therapists.
Colorado argues that, because counseling occurs within a licensed profession, it can control the content of the discussion. But the Supreme Court rejected that logic in NIFLA v. Becerra, affirming that the government cannot sidestep the First Amendment by labeling speech as “professional conduct.”
Free speech does not end at the therapy room door.
As someone who has spent decades working with traumatized children  — including those in foster care and victims of violence — I know that healing begins with open dialogue, not censorship. The ability to talk freely about one’s experiences, fears, and confusion is the cornerstone of mental health treatment. When the government dictates what can and cannot be said, it is not protecting children — it is silencing them at the moment they most need to be heard.
The American Psychological Association (APA) and allied organizations claim a “scientific consensus” supports these bans. Yet the APA’s own review concedes there are no scientifically rigorous studies proving that talk therapy for minors is harmful or ineffective. Despite this absence of evidence, the APA labels such therapy dangerous and demands conformity nationwide. That is ideology, not science.
Developmental science tells a very different story. Children and adolescents are still growing — not just physically but neurologically. The prefrontal cortex, responsible for impulse control, judgment, and long-term decision-making, continues developing into the mid-twenties. This means young people lack the biological maturity to grasp the lifelong consequences of irreversible medical interventions.
Yet many states are fast-tracking children toward puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries — procedures that can result in sterilization, chronic health problems, and deep psychological pain. Meanwhile, these same children are told they cannot even discuss their feelings with a licensed therapist who might help them slow down, ask questions, and address underlying issues such as trauma, anxiety, or family instability.
In every other area of mental health, patience, exploration, and informed consent are considered best practices. But when it comes to gender, ideology has replaced inquiry. The same professional groups that insist minors cannot consent to therapy now insist they can consent to sterilizing medical interventions. This contradiction exposes the political nature of the movement driving these bans — it is not grounded in scientific rigor or clinical ethics.
The First Amendment exists precisely to protect speech that challenges prevailing orthodoxy. It protects journalists, teachers, pastors, and, yes, therapists. The right to speak and seek understanding through conversation is fundamental to both liberty and healing.
When states like Colorado criminalize talk therapy, they don’t just violate constitutional rights — they betray vulnerable children. Young people facing profound questions about identity deserve compassion, time, and the freedom to explore all aspects of their experience without government interference.
The Supreme Court should once again affirm what our Constitution already makes clear: speech is speech. Children deserve care rooted in truth and freedom, not ideology and coercion. When we silence therapists, we silence hope.
Dr. Jennifer Bauwens serves as Director of the Center for American Values at the America First Policy Institute. 
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Following a light prison sentence for the transgender-identifying man who plotted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) introduced new legislation on Wednesday to bar far-left judges from using gender identity as a condition in sentencing. 
Cotton’s “Fair Sentencing Act” would ensure that transgender-identifying criminals do not get off the hook because of their gender confusion, according to a copy of the bill obtained by The Daily Wire. Cotton said the bill would keep sentencing fair and the American public safe. 
“Criminals are criminals. Radical left judges shouldn’t be able to use ‘gender confusion’ as a reason to assign shorter sentences. My bill will keep Americans safer by ensuring all criminals are properly sentenced,” the Arkansas Republican told The Daily Wire. 
If passed, the bill would make sure that judges could not shorten a sentence over someone’s perceived gender identity. 
Cotton’s proposal comes after a Biden-appointed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-man-who-planned-to-assassinate-brett-kavanaugh-gets-off-easy-will-serve-just-8-years?author=Luke+Rosiak&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Transgender+Man+Who+Planned+To+Assassinate+Brett+Kavanaugh+Will+Serve+Just+8+Years">judge sentenced</a> Nicholas Roske, the man who planned to assassinate Kavanaugh after the leak of a decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, to just eight years in prison. The sentence was 22 years lighter than the 30-year minimum recommended by federal sentencing guidelines. 
The sentencing took more than seven hours, with much of the time dedicated to discussing how Roske’s transgender identity meant he should get a lighter sentence, The Daily Wire reported. 
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Cotton also put forth <a href="https://www.cotton.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/preventing_violence_against_women_act.pdf">new legislation</a> to keep men and women in separate prisons, regardless of gender identity. 
“Prisoners should be placed based on their biological sex, not on what they chose to ‘identify’ as. Documented cases prove that placing men—including men who ‘identify’ as women—in women’s prisons puts female inmates at increased risk of sexual assault,” he told The Daily Wire. “My bill decreases the risk for women by ensuring men and women are separated in federal prison.”
Cotton’s ‘‘Preventing Violence Against Female Inmates Act of 2025’’ would prohibit housing prisoners of different sexes together and would block states from receiving grants if they put men in women’s prisons. 
The bill would codify executive action from Trump barring the Bureau of Prisons from housing men in women’s prisons. That order has been challenged by multiple transgender-identifying prisoners who claim the order violates their rights. 
In states where men have been placed with women in prison, women often fear for their own safety. In one example in California, a male double rapist was transferred to a female prison. The issue also came up during Roske’s sentencing, with the judge lamenting the fact that he would have to be housed in a male prison.

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WASHINGTON—Unlike Judge Deborah Boardman, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has no sympathy for the trans-identifying man who attempted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, she told The Daily Wire on Tuesday.
Leavitt was responding to comments made by the Maryland judge, named to the bench by former President Joe Biden, who sentenced Nicholas Roske to only eight years in prison and told him at his sentencing: “I am heartened that this terrible infraction has helped the Roske family … accept their daughter for who she is.”
Roske is a man who identifies as a woman. Ahead of his sentencing, his parents and family argued to the judge that their son should be treated leniently and given an opportunity to “thrive” as a transgender woman, court documents show. Boardman gave Roske eight years in prison, instead of the 30 years that the Justice Department had requested.
Asked about Boardman’s comment, Leavitt argued that political violence must be answered by severe punishment in order to actually deter criminals.
“The transgender maniac who traveled to Justice Kavanaugh’s home to murder him and his family over the draft Dobbs opinion leak doesn’t deserve a single ounce of sympathy,” Leavitt told The Daily Wire on Tuesday.
“This attempted assassin received a ridiculous, lenient sentence by a Biden judge when he should have been sentenced to at least 30 years in prison like the Department of Justice recommended,” she said. “Political violence must be severely punished and deterred, not excused away.”
This sentiment was echoed by the Department of Justice.
Attorney General Pam Bondi told The Daily Wire on September 19 that the attempted assassination was “an attack on the entire judicial system that cannot go unpunished” and her Justice Department attorneys had argued that the court’s sentence “must send the unequivocal, clear, and strong message that attempted violence and threats of violence against members of the judiciary — as well as other public and federal officials — cannot and will not be tolerated, and will be justly and severely condemned.”
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They specifically said that the court’s sentence must be significant enough to not only “reflect the harm sought to be inflicted on the judiciary,” but also to send a message that the “consequences for these acts — no fewer than 30 years to life in prison — are not worth the perceived ideological ends.”
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On Friday, the Justice Department told The Daily Wire that Bondi intends to appeal Roske’s sentence.
“The attempted assassination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was a disgusting attack against our entire judicial system by a profoundly disturbed individual,” Bondi said in a statement at the time. “The Department of Justice will be appealing the woefully insufficient sentence imposed by the district court, which does not reflect the horrific facts of this case.”
Roske pleaded guilty to the attempt to kill a United States Supreme Court Justice in April 2025, three years after authorities arrested him in Kavanaugh’s neighborhood, carrying a bag full of weapons and burglary tools.
The Daily Wire’s Luke Rosiak, who was present in the courtroom throughout Roske’s sentencing, reports that Roske has been detained for the past three years since his arrest. With time served and good behavior, Rosiak notes, Roske’s sentencing could mean he may be out of prison in four years.
Boardman gave a speech that was more than an hour, justifying her sentencing, in which she repeatedly referred to Roske as a woman, saying: “Ms. Roske came out to herself as transgender in 2020 but kept it secret. Ms. Roske’s sister came out as gay two years prior but Ms. Roske saw that their parents struggled to reconcile her sexuality with their religious beliefs.”
“Any prison time is punishment for her,” the judge said of Roske, who is a man. “The length doesn’t need to be particularly long … unduly harsh conditions make a difference, too … She will be imprisoned in a male facility even though she is a transgender prisoner, pursuant to an executive order from the president.”
The Biden-appointed judge also specifically criticized President Donald Trump, and argued: “Let’s not hide the fact that President Trump issued an executive order saying transgender inmates would be assigned to prisons with their biological sex.” Roske, Rosiak reports, is a tall man with a deep voice, whose social media posts indicate that he is attracted to women rather than “cis men.”

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear arguments in a case centered on a counselor in Colorado who could be punished under state law for helping gender-confused children become comfortable with their own body instead of pursuing irreversible transgender medical procedures.
The case pits the State of Colorado against counselor Kaley Chiles, who is challenging a Colorado law that <a href="https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_1129_signed.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prohibits</a> counseling that “attempts or purports to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity.” Chiles said that the law violates her First Amendment rights and has prevented her from taking several clients.
“When my young clients come to me for counsel, they often want to discuss issues of gender and sexuality. Yet my home state only allows my clients to pursue state-approved goals like gender transition,” she said. “Colorado’s law harms kids and censors speech. I’m hopeful the Supreme Court will do the right thing — for me, other counselors, and most importantly, kids everywhere.”
Chiles is being represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), which argues that Colorado’s law, passed in 2019, is a direct attack on professional speech.
“This case is about censorship. The state of Colorado is censoring counselor speech on the issue of gender ideology,” Alliance Defending Freedom lawyer Kate Anderson said on a press call attended by The Daily Wire. “Colorado is saying that if a counselor is going to speak with a minor, have a private, voluntary counseling session with a minor, and that minor is dealing with any kind of gender ideology, confusion, then that counselor has to encourage transition.”
“They can&#8217;t have conversations with that minor to help them become comfortable in their own body and align their feelings with their biology, even if that&#8217;s what that minor wants,” Anderson added.
She pointed to the 2018 Supreme Court ruling where the court sided with the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, which had challenged a California law that mandated that crisis pregnancy centers provide information on how to obtain abortions.
Anderson said she expected this past ruling to come up during oral arguments, as well as the science demonstrating the lack of scientific support for transgender procedures.
Colorado’s law was previously upheld by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, while the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down similar laws implemented by cities in Florida. The Supreme Court has been skeptical of transgender ideology in recent years and has allowed states to ban transgender procedures on minors.

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So much of the conversation around gender ideology centers on de-transitioners, and rightly so. People who were manipulated and mutilated, especially as children, deserve to be heard — not only so they can receive justice, but so others can be spared what was done to them by a medical establishment that they should have been able to trust.
And yet the harm of gender ideology is not limited to medical malpractice. Just ask Simon Amaya Price, the subject of a recent <a href="https://www.iwfeatures.com/documentary/how-this-desister-broke-free-from-the-transgender-contagion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documentary by IW Features</a>. His story shows us that the carnage that has been done is not just medical, but fundamentally human — and that our society will continue to crumble if we don’t attempt to understand what got us here in the first place.
Simon is a “desister,” which means that he identified as transgender but reverted to accepting his birth sex before doctors could drug him with cross-sex hormones or operate on him. Unlike so many others who had the misfortune of being entangled in gender ideology as children, he retains his physical health and his body parts.
Still, what’s obvious from his story is that the psychological and social elements of gender transition — which are what eventually lead transgender-identifying people to undergo medical transition — leave lasting damage.
Simon was the first boy at his school to start identifying as transgender — but not the last.
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“Between the time I left after 10th grade and the time my class graduated, one sixth of the boys in my grade identified as transgender, and a similar proportion continued in the grades below me,” he told IW Features. “In that way, I bear the responsibility as patient zero in my small private high school in a suburb of Boston, and some of these kids medicalized, and there&#8217;s a degree to which I bear some guilt for that.”
It’s understandable on an individual, human level why Simon might feel guilt, especially as he was able to escape gender ideology medically unscathed while many of his peers did not. Still, he was only 14 years old when he started identifying as transgender. A child who can’t even vote or buy a beer can’t be held responsible for this level of social breakdown.
So we have to ask ourselves as a society: who is responsible?
Simon’s story offers some answers.
He recalls being called anti-gay slurs and being sexually assaulted by an older boy in his early to mid-teens, which rendered him lonely. Unfortunately, he was not alone in this: a <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2792857" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2022 study</a> found that transgender-identifying children were two times as likely to have experienced sexual violence as their peers.
This pushed him to join his school’s Gay-Straight Alliance, as he had no friends but wanted and needed community to get him through his trauma. But instead of talking about homophobia and bullying, the Gay-Straight Alliance watched videos by a transgender-identifying YouTuber named ContraPoints, a man who identifies as a woman.
“This is where I learned about the concept of gender dysphoria and transition,” Simon recalled. His health class reinforced this, asking students to place themselves on the “gender unicorn.” And after these ideas were placed into his head, he began searches that led him down the rabbit hole of transgender identity. His therapist at Boston Children’s Hospital immediately affirmed him and referred him to the gender clinic.
This was a pattern among the adults he encountered.
“All of the medical professionals I saw, except when I moved to a new therapist, were explicitly affirming when I brought the subject up with them. Whenever I brought it up with a teacher or a professor, they were also affirming and caved [to] my requests,” he said.
In other words, the adults who should have known better enabled this madness. It was adults who were in positions of authority — in education, in medicine — who could have said “no,” but didn’t, either because they were true believers or because, more likely, they did not want to rock the boat.
But rocking the boat is the only way out of the grasp that gender ideology has on society today. In fact, much of the reason Simon desisted in the first place was because he was forced to start confronting questions about his “gender identity” head-on.
In addition to his father’s pushback, one event in particular helped Simon realize that progressives did not have his best interest in mind: he publicly opposed affirmative action in his freshman year of college, got canceled, and, in the wake of being labeled a “Nazi,” lost any social credit he got from identifying as transgender. This, he said, made him recognize the greater fallacy of gender ideology.
Simon&#8217;s story is a testament to what actual bravery looks like: a willingness to stick to one’s convictions — and, in the case of gender ideology, to reality itself. Every American who is willing, in the immortal words of Nancy Reagan, to “just say no” to an ideology that is so obviously false on its face can create a positive ripple effect, just like Simon did, and help restore sanity to this country.
Neeraja Deshpande is a policy analyst at Independent Women (<a href="http://independentwomen.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">independentwomen.com</a>) and a contributor to IW Features.
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Conventional wisdom holds that Republicans and Democrats are united in their desired outcomes for the country but divided on the best policies and actions for getting there.
For the good of the country, it’s time to dispel that notion.
Our political divide can be summarized with this simple metaphor: Democrats would like to drive the bus over the cliff. Republicans would like to drive the bus away from the cliff.
The fact that this is now our current situation is testimony to the success of the Leftists. Turn back the clock 50 years or so, and neither Republicans nor most Democrats wanted to get the bus anywhere near the cliff — despite both parties supporting some legislation and international behavior here and there that took us in that direction anyway.
How did we get here? In 2008, Barack Obama told us that we were five days away from <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/obama_rallies_columbia_missour.html%2523ixzz2sNoV8MER" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“fundamentally transforming”</a> the country. Perhaps more voters should have asked themselves, “Does someone really love something that he wants to fundamentally transform?”As has always been the case with radical Leftists in the United States, their chief goal is to destroy the existing cultures, traditions, institutions, and economic and governmental systems so they can build a socialist utopia from the ashes.
They start with sowing chaos by any means necessary, with hopes of graduating to complete revolution. In previous attempts, the seed for the chaos and revolution has been socioeconomic and class-based, pitting a far larger population of the impoverished against a much smaller population of the wealthy. Historically, their challenge in the United States has been that the middle class is too numerous, upwardly mobile, and content to entertain the push for jealousy, resentment, and unrest.
Taking notes from <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marcuse/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Herbert Marcuse</a>, the father of the new Left, Obama chose a different tack, substituting racial identity for socio-economic class as the dividing influence. <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/1687/race-relations.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gallup found</a> in the pre-Obama era that some 70% of respondents believed that racial relations between blacks and whites were “very good” or “somewhat good.” By 2015, that number had plummeted to 47%.
In his excellent piece, <a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/media-great-racial-awakening" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How the Media Led the Great Racial Awakening</a>, Zach Goldberg used extensive research to demonstrate a proactive effort from the media that correlated with Obama’s second term to normalize a new vocabulary regarding racial identity and oppression.
Between 2011 and 2019, use of the terms racists, racist, and racism by The New York Times and Washington Post, among others, increased over 700% and just under 1,000%, respectively. He notes that the phrase “white supremacy” rarely appeared in any media until 2015, but that by 2019, the Times and the Post respectively were using that phrase 17 to 18 times more frequently than they were in 2014.
He found similar massive jumps in usage of the phrases “systemic racism, white privilege, unconscious bias, diversity and inclusion, and whiteness” across mainstream media. As <a href="https://www.chicoer.com/2015/07/14/letter-democrats-run-on-unity-govern-based-on-division/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arthur Brooks</a> said, the president ran on optimism and unity but governed on pessimism and division.
In 2011, with Obama’s <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2011/08/23/2011-21704/establishing-a-coordinated-government-wide-initiative-to-promote-diversity-and-inclusion-in-the" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Executive Order 13583</a> — Establishing a Coordinated Government-Wide Initiative to Promote Diversity and Inclusion in the Federal Workforce — DEI language, metrics, and policies were officially cemented across federal agencies.
This was the divisive launching pad that the radical Left had long awaited, and, as <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Americas-Cultural-Revolution-Conquered-Everything/dp/0063227533" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christopher Rufo</a> observed, like a Trojan Horse, these once fringe ideas quickly became embedded in K-12 and higher education school curricula, HR departments, our military, and boardrooms. In the following years, Democrats allowed their party to be taken over more and more completely by radical Leftists. Judging by their leadership, proposed legislation, policies, and rhetoric, the Democratic Party is now officially a radical Leftist party.
The result is that Democrats — whether most of them recognize it or not — have become a party of chaos and revolution that supports obstruction and destruction. Immediately after President Donald Trump assumed office, the Democrats adopted the theme word “resist,” and that is exactly what they have been doing to stifle every positive move the Trump administration attempts to make. Lawfare and judge shopping are occurring at record numbers, with rogue district and federal judges issuing nationwide injunctions.
Is this assessment too harsh to apply to all Democrats? Strictly speaking, yes, of course. There are plenty of non-extremist, traditional Democrats who shake their heads about what has happened to their party and country. These folks do not wish to drive the bus over the cliff.
However, as long as they continue to vote for the radical Leftist leaders — including people like Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, AOC, Bernie Sanders, Zohran Mamdani, Hakeem Jeffries, and Ilhan Omar — and cling to the <a href="https://starrs.us/understanding-the-always-blue-mindset/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;always vote blue no matter who”</a> dictum, they are, for all practical purposes, indistinguishable from the radical Left ruling class. And their votes are helping move the bus closer to the precipice.
Too many conservatives have yet to grasp the significance of this fact. They argue fervently about a given Democrat policy — say, open borders — explaining with data, anecdotes, and logic why it is an unfair, dangerous, and destructive thing for America. Their belief is that Democrats have not thought of these arguments or seen this data, or thought through the logic of what they are supporting. Put bluntly, they cling to the old-fashioned belief that we are two parties connected by intention and differing only in methodology.
Au contraire. The radical Leftists understand very well the damage created from such policies, and that damage is precisely their end goal. Perhaps the message needs to be delivered as if speaking to a three-year-old — “Yes, they&#8217;re doing it on purpose!”
That vile truth is what too many Americans have been too slow to recognize. Yes, they want to destroy the family unit, churches and religion, patriotism, American energy independence, free speech, the middle class, our military readiness, educational excellence, individual financial independence, the constitution, and the country as we know it.
Virtually every disastrous policy supported by the Democrats — from the Affordable Care Act to DEI, defunding police, to the Green New Deal, open borders to student loan forgiveness, cashless bail to transgender ideology and beyond — has been enacted to inflict some measure of damage to one or more of the country&#8217;s fundamental systems, or to simply bring about chaos and move the bus closer to the cliff. Leftists have been quite successful in their overall mission. That bus is arguably closer than it has been since World War II.
This divide also explains the knee-jerk opposition to anything proposed by President Trump or the Republicans. They know that if Trump or the Republicans are proposing or opposing something, it is no doubt intended to move the bus further away from the cliff; therefore, they don’t need to think about their response, no matter how ludicrous — they hold the opposite view.
Mutilating the genitalia of 12-year-olds with gender dysphoria? Sending the FBI after parents who complain about school policies at school board meetings? Letting arsonists and murderers out of jail? They support all of that. Sending an MS13 gangster, wife-beater, child-trafficker, and illegal immigrant back to El Salvador? Destroying the nuclear capabilities of the world’s largest sponsors of terror for the last 30 years? They oppose all of that.
The radical Left is now synonymous with the Democratic Party, and Democrats are pursuing what radical Leftists have always pursued — chaos and revolution.
Accordingly, they are supporting all policies that will promote that and opposing those that would support or enhance the existing governmental structure. The media are dominantly controlled by or are themselves the radical Left — and push narratives that align with those views. Further, they aggressively censor competing, conservative narratives. <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2025-09-23-letter-to-hjc.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google helped confirm</a> this with their announcement this week.
The best way to defeat all of them is to continue educating voters about who they are, ensure fair elections, and defeat the Leftists at the polls. The sooner that traditional Democrats and many conservatives can understand the new state of our political divide, the faster we can defeat the radical Leftists and get away from the cliff. Once this has been accomplished, instead of putting all of our energy and resources toward unwinding and fending off the Leftist policies meant to destroy us, perhaps we can begin to put them toward more positive and productive initiatives.
Greg Salsbury, Ph.D. is former president of Western Colorado University and Board of Advisor member for <a href="https://starrs.us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">STARRS.US</a>. He earned his Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Southern California, and an M.A. from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC.
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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GREENBELT, Md.—The man who planned to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022 in an attempt to change the court’s balance of power was sentenced by a Joe Biden-appointed judge on Friday to 97 months in prison, granting the defendant&#8217;s request for an eight-year sentence.
Judge Deborah Boardman, a Joe Biden appointee to Maryland federal court, acknowledged there was &#8220;a whopping 22-year difference&#8221; between that and the minimum of 30 years called for by federal sentencing guidelines. Prosecutors had asked for sentencing guidelines to be followed.
The Department of Justice plans to appeal the sentence, The Daily Wire has learned.
Nicholas Roske traveled from California to Kavanaugh’s Maryland home armed with cache of weapons after a leaked document showed that the court planned to rule against liberals on abortion. Although he had meticulously planned the assassination for months, he had a change of heart outside the conservative justice’s home and called the police to turn himself in.
He has been detained in the three years since, so with time served and good behavior, Roske&#8217;s sentence would mean he could be out four years after being sentenced on the charge of Attempt to Assassinate a U.S. Justice. The sentence also included lifetime court supervision.
Boardman said &#8220;Under the law I must consider the sentencing guidelines. The guidelines in this case are 360 months to life. It&#8217;s important to understand the Supreme Court stance on guidelines&#8230; They used to be mandatory, but in [a case called] Booker the Supreme Court held that they were advisory.&#8221;
The judge acknowledged that &#8220;this crime did involve domestic terrorism,&#8221; but undid most of the &#8220;terrorism enhancement&#8221; created by the U.S. Sentencing Commission to increase recommended punishments in terrorism cases.
&#8220;I have not seen evidence that the Sentencing Commission relied on evidence that it would reduce recidivism,&#8221; she said. She said recent research in the Georgetown Law Journal said terrorists are not uniquely incapable of being rehabilitated.
The sentencing took more than seven hours, with much of the time dedicated to discussing how Roske&#8217;s transgender identity meant he should get a lighter sentence.
In a more than hour-long speech justifying the light sentence, Boardman said &#8220;Ms. Roske came out to herself as transgender in 2020 but kept it secret. Ms. Roske&#8217;s sister came out as gay two years prior but Ms. Roske saw that their parents struggled to reconcile her sexuality with their religious beliefs.&#8221;
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“I am heartened that this terrible infraction has helped the Roske family… accept their daughter for who she is,” Judge Boardman said.
His mother Colleen told the judge on Friday that “I have attended PFLAG meetings and learned about the LGBTQ+ community. I am committed to going on this journey with Sophie&#8230; She was frustrated with what was going on in the world, and we weren&#8217;t a safe place to process it.&#8221; As his mother wept, Nicholas Roske also choked up, his Adam&#8217;s apple bobbing up and down.
Boardman said &#8220;Any prison time is punishment for her. The length doesn&#8217;t need to be particularly long&#8230; unduly harsh conditions make a difference, too.&#8221; The judge continued, &#8220;She will be imprisoned in a male facility even though she is a transgender prisoner, pursuant to an executive order from the president. Before the executive order, that wasn&#8217;t the case.&#8221;
Roske and his mother, father, and sister all spoke in court, emotionally describing how hard it has been on the family. Kavanaugh&#8217;s relatives did not address the court, but left the courtroom abruptly after the judge issued the light sentence.
Earlier in the hearing, Boardman lashed out at prosecutors and President Donald Trump, saying &#8220;Let&#8217;s not hide the fact that President Trump issued an executive order saying transgender inmates would be assigned to prisons with their biological sex.&#8221; The prosecutor replied that there was an injunction holding up much of the enforcement of that executive order, and the judge later state that Roske could, in fact, get hormone replacement in prison, at least while the injunction was in effect.
In court, Roske appeared as a tall man with a deep voice. His online posts show that even as a transgender, he is attracted to women, not &#8220;cis men.&#8221;
The judge opined about giving a shorter sentence because of Roske&#8217;s transgenderism even as she said that thanks to a court injunction, Roske may get female hormones in federal prison. &#8220;With the injunction in place, Ms. Roske could receive gender affirming care, but if that injunction goes away, she could be denied it. So when I sentence her, I take into account that she is a transgender woman.&#8221;
Prosecutor Coreen Mao said &#8220;A single-digit sentence will say the ends justify the means, it&#8217;s a gamble one will take to assassinate a Supreme Court justice.&#8221;
Boardman said &#8220;Why do you think that Ms. Roske, sitting here three years later, poses a danger to the public? &#8230; We can agree Ms. Roske neeeds intensive therapy. Will she be provided that in the Bureau of Prisons? We both know about the significant shortcomings by BOP in providing therapy.&#8221;
Roske&#8217;s lawyer said, and Boardman agreed, that Roske should get significant credit for calling the police and telling them about his plan. Prosecutors said he was spooked when he saw deputy U.S. Marshalls guarding Kavanaugh&#8217;s home.
His lawyer said &#8220;What makes this case unique is not that Ms. Roske tried to kill a political figure, it&#8217;s that she stopped and turned herself in.&#8221;
Boardman interjected: &#8220;Judges are not political!&#8221;
During the trial, the judge referred to the defendant by female pronouns, sometimes calling him by male pronouns and then correcting herself. Prosecutors avoided pronouns and called him &#8220;the defendant.&#8221; As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-attempted-kavanaugh-assassin-identifies-as-transgender-woman-legal-filings-show">reported</a> last month, Roske&#8217;s legal name remains Nicholas and the case is captioned United States vs. Nicholas Roske. His legal team telegraphed ahead of the trial that much of the argument at sentencing would be based around this transgender identity.
READ MORE: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/would-be-kavanaugh-assassin-should-be-let-off-easy-because-he-identifies-as-transgender-family-says?author=Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Would-Be+Kavanaugh+Assassin+Should+Be+Let+Off+Easy+Because+He+Identifies+As+Transgender%2C+Family+Says">Would-Be Kavanaugh Assassin Should Be Let Off Easy Because He Identifies As Transgender, Family Says</a>
A Daily Wire review of Roske’s postings on Reddit before the shooting shows that he is one in a string of violent trans-identifying individuals who are obsessed with video games and leftist politics. In one, he said he was a “Trans Gamer Girl Seeking Friend.” In another, he said he was “Seeking Daddy to Have Complete Sexual Control Over Me.”
Still another post said “Dating: I am into androgynous or feminine people who use she/her pronouns&#8230;. Play Partners: Pretty kinky, have a fet account and everything&#8230;. If you are not a cis man, chances are I am interested in playing with you :).”
Like the boyfriend of Tyler Robinson, who allegedly assassinated Charlie Kirk, Roske was apparently a “furry.”
He put out a classified ad calling himself a “MtF Pet For Owner.” It said, “I want to wear nothing but a collar, ears, and tail plug and communicate only through my body what I want.”
In one Reddit post, he explained that “I am pro-abortion (in favor of aborting fetuses, not pro-choice).” He said that all babies should be aborted, because they cannot give consent to being born. “This would require no deaths of people already in existence, it would simply prevent new people from coming into existence. Over time, resources would become more plentiful, another benefit of this method,” he wrote.
On May 20, 2022, he asked Reddit users, “The Roe v Wade leak has brought a lot of attention to the supreme court and what it is capable of. If going into the future the supreme court retains the same members, what is a realistic expectation for the future? On the other hand, if a conservative judge were replaced by a liberal judge, thus changing which party has the majority, what would change?”
The next day, he posted in Reddit’s “forensics” forum, claiming to be a novelist: “Writing a killer who is obsessed with not leaving evidence. What methods could they use?”

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Transgender Man Who Planned To Assassinate Brett Kavanaugh Will Serve Just 8 Years

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Netflix stock went down 2.4% following Elon Musk announcing earlier this week that he was canceling his subscription.
The billionaire Tesla founder made the proclamation on X Tuesday after clips of multiple children’s shows available on the platform started going viral. These animated shows, which were targeted at kids ages 7 and up, included explicitly LGBT storylines. One of the most egregious examples, “Dead End Paranormal Park,” included a cartoon character who identified as transgender.
&#8220;Cancel Netflix for the health of your kids,&#8221; Musk instructed his X followers.
Besides saying he was canceling Netflix, the SpaceX CEO reposted a meme of Netflix smuggling in a “transgender woke agenda” via a Trojan horse.
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Cancel Netflix for the health of your kids <a href="https://t.co/uPcGiURaCp">https://t.co/uPcGiURaCp</a>
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1973292474375479556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Following the clips going viral, Netflix stock dropped, and was down 2.4% as of Friday, per <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2025/10/02/netflix-stock-drops-again-now-down-24-since-musks-call-for-cancellations/">Forbes</a>. Many X users flooded the platform with screenshots of proof that they had canceled their subscriptions. Netflix shares are down 4.4% in the last five days of trading, the outlet noted.
Shares for the streaming platform have recently been on an upward trend, rising 30% since the beginning of last year. But Musk’s calls for a boycott did seem to make an impact, and social media users are celebrating.
The offending television show wasn’t just one isolated incident. Clips have been circulating all over X highlighting LGBT themes in Netflix content aimed at young children. Another clip going viral is part of the animated show “Ridley Jones,” which includes Fred, the non-binary cow, fretting over using a “different name and pronouns” for the first time since last seeing his grandmother.
In the animated show “Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous,” two women share a passionate kiss.
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Unbelievable.
Netflix is using a children’s cartoon, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, to push same-sex sexual relationships and the LGBTQ agenda.
This is the blatant sexual indoctrination of innocent children.
Boycott Netflix. <a href="https://t.co/pe30azv6Qm">pic.twitter.com/pe30azv6Qm</a>
— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) <a href="https://twitter.com/LilaGraceRose/status/1973834468168245532?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“CoComelon Lane” is also listed as one of the shows inspiring the boycott as it features a little boy wearing a princess dress for his two gay “dads.”
The animated show &#8220;Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City&#8221; promotes transgender drag queens to kids.
Chaya Raichik, who runs the popular account Libs of TikTok, has been leading the charge to expose the content of these shows and has been reposting screenshots of users proving they canceled their Netflix subscriptions, too.
She also noted that Hamish Steele, the trans-identified creator of the show “Dead End Paranormal Park,” made vulgar comments on Bluesky following the assassination of Charlie Kirk last month.

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Netflix Stock Drops Following Boycott Over Trans Content For Kids

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WASHINGTON—The parents and family of Nicholas Roske are arguing that their son, the man who attempted to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, should be treated leniently and given an opportunity to “thrive” as a transgender woman, court documents show.
In startling letters dated September 19, Roske’s family describes the 29-year-old attempted assassin as “Sophie,” use female pronouns to describe Roske, and pushes for leniency for their family member, who pleaded guilty to the attempt to kill a United States Supreme Court Justice in April 2025, three years after authorities arrested him in Kavanaugh’s neighborhood, carrying a bag full of weapons and burglary tools.
The family pleaded with Judge Deborah Boardman, who was appointed by former President Joe Biden, that “Sophie” needs therapy, relaxation, and the outdoors in order for him to ultimately “thrive.” His sister specifically expresses fears about him being placed in a male prison “with limited access to gender affirming care.”
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-attempted-kavanaugh-assassin-identifies-as-transgender-woman-legal-filings-show">first reported</a> last month that Roske’s legal team told the court he identifies as transgender and would be referred to as “Sophie.” It now appears, based on the family letters, that this is potentially part of its legal strategy.
“Placing Sophie in long term incarceration would stunt her ability to thrive and severely impact her overall life trajectory,” writes Olivia Roske, the gay sister of the attempted assassin. “Sophie needs a balanced life and appropriate support from loving people, not incarceration. Luckily, she has many loved ones eager to show her support, and we need her home in order to fully provide that to her.”
“Sophie has so much to offer the [world],” Roske’s sister insists, “and I ask that you allow her to live that out fully.”
Justice Department attorneys <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-attempted-kavanaugh-assassin-identifies-as-transgender-woman-legal-filings-show">are recommending that Roske be given 30 years in prison</a>. They ask that the court’s sentence “must send the unequivocal, clear, and strong message that attempted violence and threats of violence against members of the judiciary — as well as other public and federal officials — cannot and will not be tolerated, and will be justly and severely condemned.”
READ MORE: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-attempted-kavanaugh-assassin-identifies-as-transgender-woman-legal-filings-show">Attempted Kavanaugh Assassin Identifies As Transgender Woman, Legal Filings Show</a>
They specifically state that the court’s sentence must be significant enough to not only “reflect the harm sought to be inflicted on the judiciary,” but also to send a message that the “consequences for these acts — no fewer than 30 years to life in prison — are not worth the perceived ideological ends.”
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Roske’s family, on the other hand, believes he would do better at home with them. Their repeated references to Roske’s transgender identity indicate that they believe Boardman may be swayed towards a lighter sentence out of compassion for Roske’s gender identity. Over and over, Roske’s father, mother, sister, grandparents, uncle, and friends harken back to his mental health difficulties and suggest that prison life is too hard for Roske to endure as a trans-identifying individual.
In 2023, Boardman <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4171618-judge-rejects-maryland-parents-motion-to-keep-kids-out-of-lessons-with-lgbtq-books/">notably denied the request</a> of a group of Maryland parents who had asked that Montgomery County Public Schools allow them to opt their kids out of lessons that included LGBTQ books (the Supreme Court ruled this summer that the school system had violated the parents’ rights).
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“Sophie has had to face many challenges but remains positive, hopeful,” writes Roske’s mother, in a letter promising over and over to help and affirm her son in his transgender identity should he be allowed out of prison. “I have seen evidence of this during her incarceration. She is persevering. Over the past three years she has matured, reflecting on what happened and how to never have it happen again.”
Roske’s father argues that during the COVID-19 pandemic, Roske grew fearful of getting the virus or giving it to others, as well as “anxious about what COVID meant for the future,” since he had been accepted to get his master’s and possibly a doctorate in philosophy on the East Coast. Roske then moved to Seattle, where he lived for several months without a job before moving home and beginning to substitute teach. Shortly thereafter, when the school year ended, Roske then flew from California to Maryland to attempt to assassinate Kavanaugh.
“She does better with structure,” wrote Roske’s father. “Clear rules and a schedule will be given when she comes back to live with us. I think she would benefit from some assistance with developing organization and life skills. We will also work on teaching her how to do her own planning and organizing.”
Roske’s family describes him as smart and curious from a young age, an individual who excelled academically and loved philosophical conversations. Roske was an Eagle Scout, they shared, and was very active in the Boy Scouts. He was also homeschooled, his uncle wrote, but went to public school for high school, “isolating her from many of the friend groups that had already been formed,” and causing him to struggle to make friends, “leaving her marginalized.”
Roske’s uncle writes that his nephew deeply struggled with mental health: “She exhibited many of the signs of a troubled young adult. She had difficulties finding meaningful purpose, both personally and professionally, spending many hours isolated at home on the computer, withdrawn from life&#8217;s daily tasks.”
“Sophie is too smart for her own good,” writes his grandmother. “Frustration follows her around &#8230; I think she was trying to find herself and couldn’t find a place to fit in. Hopefully she is finding her way. She has a [lot] to offer.”
While Roske’s mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, and uncle all refer to him as “Sophie,” his cousin Daniel, his other uncle, Timothy, and his aunt Tjjohn refer to him as “Nicholas/Sophie,” and use the pronoun “they” to refer to his cousin, rather than “she” — perhaps an indication that they might not be as bought into Roske’s transgender identification as the rest of the family. Roske’s cousin insists that what Roske did “was a mistake” and asks that the court “look at the contents of this and the other letters written on Nicholas/Sophie’s behalf and determine a fair sentencing.”
Roske’s aunt Tjjohn specifically notes: “Nicholas/Sophie has always had a sense of what they believe to be right and wrong. The incident of the Uvalde [school] shooting and the overturning of Roe v. Wade upset them. Yes, they had a plan and intended to enact that plan. However, at some point, their conscience kicked in and had the wherewithal to call their sister.”
September DOJ filings show that Roske “meticulously researched, planned, and attempted to assassinate at least one — but had a stated target of three — sitting judges of the United States Supreme Court” with the “explicit objective” of “single-handedly” altering “the Constitutional order for ideological ends.” He conducted internet searches for the homes of the four Justices, purchased a Glock 17 pistol, ammunition, a rail-mounted tactical light with a laser sight, tactical gloves, non-slip grip socks, cable ties, pepper spray, a lock-pick set, a screwdriver, and a wrecking bar.
“My mental health is too poor for me to fear death,” he wrote on Discord on March 18, 2022, to another user, according to the DOJ filing. “But prison sounds worse. To be monitored to the point where you can’t even kill yourself. So if I did kill someone I would definitely try to get away with it.”
<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25476861-roskemts2010325/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Court filings show</a> that Roske described himself as “actively suicidal” and said he wanted to “do something positive before I die” by taking out Kavanaugh before the justice could vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. He found Kavanaugh’s neighborhood online after he saw an article with a “picture of the family’s house,” including the house number, because far-left activists had posted the addresses of the justices online in an attempt to intimidate them into preserving Roe.
In May 2022, POLITICO published a leaked draft Supreme Court opinion showing that the court was poised to overturn Roe, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision establishing a constitutional right to an abortion. That leak prompted Roske’s journey from California to Maryland.
“When I saw the leaked draft, it made me upset and then it made me want to — I don’t know,” he told authorities. “I was under the delusion that I could make the world a better place by killing him.”

Would-Be Kavanaugh Assassin Should Be Let Off Easy Because He Identifies As Transgender, Family Says

The CEO of the “wokest insurance company” in America once said that a bill to keep men out of women’s bathrooms was a “threat to democracy,” a watchdog organization revealed.
Chubb Corporation CEO Evan Greenberg attacked North Carolina Republicans over a 2016 bill aimed at protecting women’s privacy, video discovered by Consumers’ Research shows. Operating across 54 countries, Chubb Insurance is the largest commercial lines insurer in the United States.
Greenberg’s comments were highlighted in a “<a href="https://consumersresearch.org/woke-alert/woke-alert-chubb-insurance/">woke alert</a>,” first shared with The Daily Wire, sent out Thursday by the watchdog group to over 100,000 people.
“The rights of individuals, including our personal freedom and right to pursue happiness, are a universal right. We protect them. Actions like those in North Carolina and other states to discriminate against sexual preference and strip citizens of their protections, do not reflect who we are as a nation, and are ultimately, I believe, a threat to democracy,” Greenberg said.
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The bill Greenberg was referring to was one that required people to use public bathrooms in accordance with their sex. The intent was to keep transgender-identifying men out of women’s bathrooms. It also prohibited local governments from putting in place so-called non-discrimination laws allowing men into women’s bathrooms.
“After all, where does it stop? This is something we&#8217;re speaking about, and that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m speaking out about it,” Greenberg said.
His comments were made during a speech at the Chubb Leadership Forum, an insurance conference held in San Diego on April 12, 2016.
“Chubb prioritizes pushing a woke agenda to such an extreme extent that it’s earned the title of ‘wokest insurance company,&#8217;” Consumers’ Research executive director Will Hild told The Daily Wire. “Chubb should be focused on delivering the best insurance policies for its customers, not carrying water for repulsive ideological causes.”
Consumers’ Research first launched a national campaign highlighting Chubb’s woke policies on Wednesday. The campaign included a national TV ad, mobile billboards outside Chubb offices in Washington, D.C., and New York City, and a letter demanding the Treasury Department launch an investigation into the insurance giant’s DEI practices.
Chubb also has a 95% score from the far-Left Human Rights Campaign, which <a href="https://www.hrc.org/resources/corporations/chubb-ltd." target="_blank" rel="noopener">documents</a> that the corporation “provides four LGBTQ+ internal training elements (including an intersectionality training)” and “provides Gender Transition Guidelines and at least one additional transgender inclusive policy or practice for its employees.”
The insurance company’s <a href="https://about.chubb.com/our-workforce/racial-justice.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> is also full of diversity, equity, and inclusion language and it offers employees resources like a “Race Fluency Toolkit” and a “Race Matters” platform “to facilitate greater consciousness of racism and understanding of the Black experience.”
“We believe in being anti-racist because a rejection of racism alone is insufficient,” the company’s website says, noting that it places an emphasis on hiring employees from “underrepresented groups.”
In fact, in a 2021 interview, a Chubb executive <a href="https://www.leadersmag.com/issues/2021.3_Jul/Diversity_Inclusion/LEADERS-Joseph-Wayland-Chubb.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that “Diversity, equity and inclusion are the foundation of our Chubb culture.”
Chubb has also <a href="https://www.chubb.com/us-en/individuals-families/our-community/chubb-coal-policy.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">committed</a> to no longer underwriting “the construction and operation of new coal-fired plants or new risks for companies that generate more than 30% of their revenues from coal mining or energy production from coal.”
Hild said that customers should “be warned that doing business with Chubb is doing business with a company that has no problem fully embracing the most polarizing political agendas.”

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The Secretary of War and the President of the United States spoke before hundreds of top U.S. military leaders on Tuesday.
This event had been touted for a few days in advance. The idea was to have all the top U.S. military brass gather at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia. 
There was a lot of speculation about the meeting. Was it going to be an announcement about Ukraine? Or China? Or was it going to be about Venezuela?
It turns out, it was going to be a speech from Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of War, and a speech from the President of the United States, about recalibrating our military approach, particularly internally.
Pete Hegseth has spoken about this a lot over the past few years. I recorded an episode of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhVMY0AxZd0">Sunday Special</a> with Pete Hegseth about a year ago. He had a new book out, “The War on Warriors,” in which he wrote about wokeness in the military, lowered standards in the military, and the fact that more militaries around the world were not fearing us as much because we had implemented all of these left-wing ideologies within the military. This has legitimately been a big bugaboo of Hegseth’s for years.
Well, now he has the opportunity to change all of that because, of course, he sits atop the Department of War.
The event, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/30/hegseth-military-meeting-trump-generals/">The Washington Post</a>, was organized by Hegseth&#8217;s team at the Pentagon. He summoned generals and admirals from command posts throughout the world to Virginia.
General Dan Caine, Trump&#8217;s hand-selected Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told attendees in his opening comments that the event was an unprecedented opportunity, and an honor for assembled senior officers and their top enlisted advisers to hear directly from the military civilian leadership. 
Hegseth was going after wokeness in the military again, and he railed against what he called “Fat dudes and men in dresses.”
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So, optically, yes, I understand the Left being very, very upset about it. But it happens to be something that the American people agree with, along with the people who enlist in our military. Journalists around the nation are very, very upset about what Pete Hegseth did yesterday because they believe the military should be a place for social engineering, as opposed to a place for warfighters.
Well, Secretary Hegseth was a grunt. He&#8217;s a person who served in the trenches, and on the front lines. And that means he is significantly more in touch with the feelings of people who actually serve in the military, than certainly the people in the world of journalism — and truthfully, more than many of these sorts of political generals who have spent the last 40 years rising in the ranks.
Which means that recalibrating along those lines is actually not a bad thing at all.
As Secretary Hegseth <a href="https://www.c-span.org/program/public-affairs-event/defense-secretary-hegseth-addresses-senior-military-leaders/666410">said yesterday</a>:
<blockquote>Frankly, it&#8217;s tiring to look out at combat formations, or really any formation, and see fat troops. Likewise, it&#8217;s completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon and leading commands around the country and the world. It&#8217;s a bad look. It is bad. And it&#8217;s not who we are. So, whether you&#8217;re an Airborne Ranger or a “Chairborne Ranger,” a brand new private, or a four star general, you need to meet the height and weight standards and pass the PT test.</blockquote>
This, apparently, was very upsetting to folks. 
He also went after what he called “Dudes in dresses,” which was a specific reference to the fact that under the Biden administration, there were legitimate videos of troops doing drag as an attempt to drive people into the military. I can&#8217;t think of anything that would drive the types of young men who want to join the military away from the military more than men in drag.
Honestly, that does not seem like a recruiting pitch for the U.S. military. And you can see it in the numbers. The Biden administration was having a very, very difficult time fulfilling its recruiting quotas. From literally the minute Pete Hegseth was announced as Secretary of Defense, those numbers began to rise.
Hegseth then <a href="https://www.c-span.org/program/public-affairs-event/defense-secretary-hegseth-addresses-senior-military-leaders/666410">said</a>: 
<blockquote>This administration has done a great deal from day one to remove the social justice, politically correct, and toxic ideological garbage that had infected our department, to rip out the politics. No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses, no more climate change worship. No more division, distraction, or gender delusions. No more debris. As I&#8217;ve said before and will say again, we are done with that sh**.</blockquote>
People are apparently angry about this. And there&#8217;s also a fair bit of gaslighting going on here. 
So the way that this works is that when the Left takes over an institution, they skew that institution. And then, when somebody who is not on the Left takes over the institution and says, “We&#8217;re going to unskew it,” the Left then says, “How dare you do this? How dare you politicize?”
They do this with so many institutions in American life. For example, take higher education, a domain once designed to actually create better American citizens, people who are supposed to be in touch with their civilization. They took an institution that was supposed to be at least titularly nonpartisan and made it highly partisan in favor of the Left.
And then people get into power who are not on the Left. And they say, &#8220;Let&#8217;s shift it back. Let&#8217;s shift it back toward the center.&#8221; And the Left says, “How dare you touch our hallowed institutions? How dare you attempt to change the underlying politics of that institution?”
The same thing in the military. There is an attempt by the Left to hijack the military and use it for a wide variety of social engineering causes, ranging from climate change to DEI to gender identity.
And now, when the Right takes over and says, “Hey, we&#8217;re not going to do any of that stuff, we&#8217;re actually going to go back to the status quo where the military was about winning wars,” the Left responds, “How dare you? How dare you politicize? How dare you intervene? How dare you get involved in politics?” This is an exercise in gaslighting.
The Left is perfectly willing to gut these institutions and wear their faces around like a mask from “The Silence of the Lambs.” But the minute the Right says, “Let&#8217;s restore those institutions to what they were before,” the Left then claims politicization.
It’s nonsense.

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Elon Musk confirmed that he would cancel his Netflix subscription after clips of animated shows aimed at children featuring pro-trans content started circulating on X.
Musk posted on X, “Cancel Netflix for the health of your kids,” on Wednesday, which included a cartoon of the “transgender woke agenda” inside a Trojan horse.
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Cancel Netflix for the health of your kids <a href="https://t.co/uPcGiURaCp">https://t.co/uPcGiURaCp</a>
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1973292474375479556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The billionaire Tesla founder also <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1973101319222165785">commented</a> “Same” to someone on X who wrote, “Just cancelled my Netflix subscription. If you employ someone who celebrated the murder of Charlie Kirk and makes content that pushes pro-trans content on my kids&#8230;you will NEVER get a dime of my money. It&#8217;s as simple as that.”
This was after clips from multiple shows marketed to children ages seven and up were being shared on X. The short-lived series “Dead End Paranormal Park,” a Netflix original that aired 20 episodes across two seasons in 2022, featured a storyline in which the main character claimed to be transgender.
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OMG. Dead End Paranormal Park, a show on Netflix, is pushing pro-transgender on CHILDREN.
This show is advertised for 7-YEAR-OLDS
It’s being promoted on <a href="https://twitter.com/netflix?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@netflix</a> kids now.
Parents- BEWARE <a href="https://t.co/gh5UZftKns">pic.twitter.com/gh5UZftKns</a>
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1972756249986126260?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Another clip going viral was part of the animated show “Ridley Jones,” which includes Fred, the non-binary cow, fretting over using a “different name and pronouns” for the first time since last seeing his grandmother.
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ANOTHER kids&#8217; show on Netflix is pushing pro-trans propaganda with the use of pronouns
This show, Ridley Jones, is targeted towards 7-YEAR-OLDS
Parents, do you know what your children are watching? <a href="https://t.co/YMFpWf7qwk">pic.twitter.com/YMFpWf7qwk</a>
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1973050371300868281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Chaya Raichik, who runs the popular account Libs of TikTok, has been leading the charge to expose the content of these shows and has been reposting many screenshots of users proving they canceled their Netflix subscriptions, too. 
She also noted that Hamish Steele, the trans-identified creator of the show “Dead End Paranormal Park,” made vulgar comments on Bluesky following the assassination of Charlie Kirk last month.
“Why the f*** are you even commenting on this d***head? You [sic] sympathy for any of the families being slaughtered by your weapons but a random nazi gets shot and its a public statement. You’re such a f***ing evil sh**,” Steele’s alleged message said.
The post has since been deleted, but screenshots allegedly show Steele was replying to U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, offering condolences after Kirk’s murder.
Steele has addressed the controversy in a few posts on Bluesky, writing, 
“It&#8217;s all lies and slander! Netflix is NOT promoting [the show] at the moment!” 
A few hours later, the series creator wrote, “I have mostly been very ok today and found it all quite funny, while really appreciating everyone who has reached out, but the extremely nasty weird [homophobic] and antisemitic emails have started rolling in and it is getting a little scary so I apologise if I take longer to respond to stuff.” 
Steele also referenced backlash following the surfacing of the post about Kirk, writing, “My Instagram comments are now flooded with replies saying I AM CHARLIE KIRK and that I celebrated his death (which I never did).”

Elon Musk Says He Will Cancel Netflix Subscription Over Trans Propaganda Aimed At Children

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