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Liberal Judges Rule Powerlifting Ban on Male Athletes in Women’s Division ‘Discriminatory’

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In a decision drawing sharp criticism from conservatives and women’s sports advocates, the Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that USA Powerlifting discriminated against a biological male athlete identifying as female by barring him from competing in the women’s division.

The unanimous ruling — issued by a seven-member bench composed entirely of Democrat-appointed justices — sided with transgender athlete JayCee Cooper, who sued USA Powerlifting in 2021 under Minnesota’s Human Rights Act after being rejected from women’s competition in 2018.

The decision reignites the national debate over whether biological males should be allowed to compete in women’s sports, with critics saying the ruling undermines decades of progress in protecting fair competition for female athletes.

“At some point, we are going to have to defend the biology and stand on women being a protected class, and it might as well start in Minnesota,”
— Former USA Powerlifting President Larry Maile

USA Powerlifting has long maintained that male physiology provides an undeniable strength advantage in powerlifting, where muscle mass, testosterone levels, and bone density are directly tied to athletic performance. Despite this, the Minnesota court declared the organization’s exclusion of Cooper “discriminatory,” though it sent the case back to a lower court to determine whether “fair competition” constitutes a legitimate business defense.

Cooper’s attorneys at the activist group Gender Justice celebrated the ruling as a “historic victory.”

“This ruling sends a clear and powerful message: transgender people have a right to enjoy public spaces in Minnesota like sporting events,” said Jess Braverman, legal director at Gender Justice.

Their message comes at the expense of biological women, whose opportunities and records are being eroded by the inclusion of male competitors.

Republican Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth blasted the ruling as “another setback in the fight to protect girls’ sports,” vowing that GOP lawmakers will move to amend the state’s human rights laws in 2026 to clarify gender-based athletic protections.

Meanwhile, USA Powerlifting’s legal team says it will continue fighting to preserve fair competition based on biological sex, not gender identity.

“We have a compelling case to make on our inability to provide fair competition for our women athletes if USAPL is forced to include those born with male physiology,” said USA Powerlifting attorney Ansis Viksnins.

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Trans Swimmer Banned for 5 Years After Gender Test Refusal

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Transgender swimmer Ana Caldas has received a five-year ban and was stripped of all competition results between June 2022 and October 2024 by World Aquatics for allegedly refusing to take a gender verification test.

The 47-year-old Caldas, who goes by Hannah, explained that they feel it is “not medically necessary” to undergo costly chromosomal testing that is not covered by their insurance — and ultimately accepted the punishment. . .

“No US state requires genetic tests for recreational sports events like these. Not even US Masters Swimming, the national governing body for recreational adult swimming in the US, demands this for any of its events.”

The gender verification screening reportedly is part of World Aquatics’ investigation into Caldas’ eligibility, which stemmed from an investigation by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton into US Masters Swimming earlier this year.

“I understand and accept the consequences,” Caldas said. “But a five-year suspension is the price I have to pay to protect my most intimate medical information.

(Read more from “Trans Swimmer Banned for 5 Years After Gender Test Refusal” HERE)

Report: Transgender Americans to ‘Flee the Country’ as Trump Declared ‘Most Anti-LGBTQ+ President in History’

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Transgender Americans are preparing to leave the United States of America, believing that President Donald Trump is the “most anti-LGBTQ+ president in history.”

Vox reported that during Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, the rhetoric against “radical gender ideology” and “transgender insanity” grew “more hostile.”

The outlet noted, “A frequently-run Trump television ad claimed that ‘Kamala is for they/them. Trump is for you.’ And as his second term has progressed, Trump’s attacks on transgender rights have become increasingly virulent.”

Katie Sosin, who reports on LGBTQ+ issues for The 19th, spoke to Vox about the Trump administration’s policies:

Trump is generally viewed as the most anti-LGBTQ+ president in history, and a lot of that has to do with his approach to transgender rights. When he first got into office in 2017, there were still some questions about how he was going to approach LGBTQ+ issues, and he made a number of anti-trans moves in his first term. But this time, he really campaigned on anti-trans issues, and he’s made them a staple of his administration.
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We have him limiting health care access specifically for trans youth and revoking federal funding for medical providers that offer it. We have the reinstatement of the transgender military ban. And then, denying transgender people passports.

(Read more from “Report: Transgender Americans to ‘Flee the Country’ as Trump Declared ‘Most Anti-LGBTQ+ President in History’” HERE)

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I Searched For Stories Of Trans Contagion. Google Lectured Me With False Propaganda

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There are a plethora of stories of children being pressured into adopting transgender personalities, but don’t bother using Google to search for them. I tried, and the search engine spat out unsolicited propaganda and falsehoods about children and transgender identity.

I searched for testimonies from young people who adopted transgender identities “because it was cool” — like the story of Ash Eskridge, a young woman who became convinced she was a boy after watching social media influencers promote transgenderism.

But Google’s AI tool brushes off the idea that transgender identities are often a social contagion, despite evidence to the contrary. A 2018 study from Brown University — which was quickly repressed after outrage from transgender ideologues — found that 87 percent of the children in question “became gender dysphoric after friends did, after increasing their time online, or both,” as my colleague Joy Pullmann reported at the time. The study included examples of friend groups all adopting transgender identities together, and of kids being rewarded for transgender identities with social incentives like popularity and praise. Another study, by researchers at Virginia Tech in 2023, found girls who adopted transgender identities were “more likely to be accepted by peers.”

The search engine would have you believe that children are not just capable of arbitrarily choosing their sex but of doing so before they graduate from diapers. “Gender identity typically solidifies between ages 3 and 4,” the AI overview claims. The hard scientific proof that your toddler’s biology is actually backwards, it says, can be a “girl playing with trucks or a boy preferring dolls.” (Read more from “I Searched For Stories Of Trans Contagion. Google Lectured Me With False Propaganda” HERE)

Democrats Seek Funding for Male Prostitute Cooking Classes, African Pride Parade, Nepali Transgenders, and More

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Thanks to DOGE, Americans spent the beginning of this year learning the obscene ways the government wastes their tax dollars. Many of the examples were jaw-dropping. More emerged last week.

John Kennedy highlighted a series of Democrats’ proposed foreign aid initiatives during a speech on the Senate floor on Friday, including using millions of dollars for circumcisions and vasectomies in Zambia, transgender programs in Nepal, LGBTQ activities in the Western Balkans and Uganda, cooking classes and dance focus groups for male prostitutes in Haiti, electric buses in Rwanda, and a pride parade in Lesotho. We promise each of those is real.

Republicans cut funding for the above programs after Donald Trump reclaimed the presidency. Democrats’ current proposal to end the government shutdown would bring it back. We think we speak for this newsletter’s readers when we say the GOP should not let that happen. If coastal liberals want to cut checks for Zambian foreskin removal, then good for them. They shouldn’t force the rest of the country to do the same. (Read more from “Democrats Seek Funding for Male Prostitute Cooking Classes, African Pride Parade, Nepali Transgenders, and More” HERE)

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Docs Knew Gender Science Was ‘Shoddy,’ But Pushed Chemical Sex Changes On Kids Anyway

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Private emails from leaders of an influential transgender medical organization expose how ideology and consensus, rather than science, has undergirded the explosive growth of the child sex-change industry. The emails were revealed under Freedom of Information laws.

As their gender clinic boomed with patients, University of California San Francisco (UCSF) medical directors Maddie Deutsch and Stephen Rosenthal acknowledged behind the scenes that research supporting child sex-changes was “shoddy” and fueling “predatory practices,” emails show.

Deutsch and Rosenthal are leaders in the field of gender medicine and co-authors of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health’s (WPATH) highly influential medical guidance, the Standards of Care version 8 (SOC 8), which is used to inform clinical practice in healthcare systems worldwide. Rosenthal co-founded the UCSF Child and Adolescent Gender Center (CAGC) which had a “major backlog” of 230 new patients on waiting list in the fall of 2022, records show. Rosenthal said the staff’s capacity was “maxed out” and a colleague noted “the need far outpaces the access to care for gender diverse youth,” emails show.

When the Daily Caller News Foundation’s public record requests for Deutsch and Rosenthal’s emails were denied by the University of California in the fall of 2023, Judicial Watch, a government watchdog organization, filed a lawsuit challenging the denial and gained access to the records.

As a result of Judicial Watch’s lawsuit, UCSF released 2,491 pages of emails. Among the revelations is that UCSF gave puberty blockers to children as young as nine. Puberty blockers are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of gender dysphoria. (Read more from “Docs Knew Gender Science Was ‘Shoddy,’ But Pushed Chemical Sex Changes On Kids Anyway” HERE)

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Woke Officials in Tony DC Suburb Refused to Charge Trans Sex Offender Who Went ‘Hunting’ for Little Girls, Virginia AG Says

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Virginia’s Attorney General is blasting woke county officials for refusing to arrest a sex offender who claimed to be a woman so he could walk into girls’ locker rooms — and said there was clear evidence he was “hunting” little girls at pools and water parks in the tony Washington, DC, suburb.

Richard Cox, a prolific 58-year-old registered sex offender, allegedly exposed himself to little girls and women in the girls’ locker rooms. He was also found with child pornography and a schedule of girls’ swim class schedules at Fairfax County rec centers on his phone, cops said.

However, in Fairfax County — where a Dem-majority board oversees the cops — authorities aid they have no plans to charge Cox for his visits to three rec centers there where children were present, WSET reported.

When he was finally arrested, it was in neighboring Arlington County — where Cox is facing charges for a laundry list of sex crimes.

Video obtained by WSET shows Cox, a biological male, entering women’s locker rooms at Fairfax County’s Oakmont, Audrey Moore, and Franconia rec centers last year. (Read more from “Woke Officials in Tony DC Suburb Refused to Charge Trans Sex Offender Who Went ‘Hunting’ for Little Girls, Virginia AG Says” HERE)

‘Trans Women Are Men’ — Richard Dawkins Warns Transgenderism Is Undermining Scientific Truth

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British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has declared that “trans women are men” and that transgender ideology is a part of a broader movement to undermine scientific truth.

Speaking to London’s Daily Telegraph on the launch of his recently released book, The War on Science, leading atheist and emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, Richard Dawkins decried the infiltration of postmodernism and transgenderism in academia.

“Both politics and personal feelings don’t impinge scientific truths and that needs to be clearly understood. I feel very strongly about the subversion of scientific truth,” he told the British broadsheet.

“I think part of what’s happened is the move of academia towards postmodernism, which is pernicious, and probably does account for the current vogue for the nonsense lie that sex is a spectrum.

“There’s this post-modern hubris which presumptuously and falsely dismisses science as a social construct. The human conceit here is the idea that personal feelings can change reality.” (Read more from “‘Trans Women Are Men’ — Richard Dawkins Warns Transgenderism Is Undermining Scientific Truth” HERE)

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Brigitte Macron to Submit Pregnancy Photos in U.S. Lawsuit Against Candace Owens

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French First Lady Brigitte Macron is preparing to submit photographic evidence to a U.S. court to prove she is biologically female, as part of a high-profile defamation lawsuit filed against conservative commentator Candace Owens.

The lawsuit, filed in July in the state of Delaware by both Brigitte and President Emmanuel Macron, accuses Owens of spreading “malicious falsehoods” — including baseless claims that Mrs. Macron is secretly a transgender woman. The suit also targets statements alleging that President Macron was a victim of CIA mind control experiments and that he was “statutorily raped” by his now-wife during their early relationship — another unfounded assertion the couple seeks to debunk.

Speaking on the BBC’s Fame Under Fire podcast, attorney Tom Clare, who represents the Macrons, said the false claims have caused “substantial reputational damage” and were deeply distressing for both the President and the First Lady.

“These rumors are incredibly upsetting to Mrs. Macron and a serious distraction for the President,” Clare said. “When your family is under attack, it wears on you. And he’s not immune from that because he’s the president of a country.”

In response to a question about whether the Macrons would present evidence of Mrs. Macron’s pregnancies and role as a mother, Clare confirmed such documentation exists and would be submitted under the court’s evidentiary rules.

“This is a court of law, not a social media platform,” Clare said. “There are rules, and the evidence will speak for itself.”

The decision to move forward with photographic proof — reportedly including images of Brigitte Macron during pregnancy and family life — underscores the seriousness with which the French First Family is treating the ongoing rumors. The lawsuit also seeks to draw a clear line between freedom of expression and defamation.

The conspiracy theory suggesting Brigitte Macron is a transgender woman originated on fringe French blogs before being amplified by figures like Owens in English-speaking media spaces. President Macron first publicly addressed the issue in 2023.

Owens, known for her controversial commentary and high-profile feuds, has not publicly responded to the lawsuit at the time of writing.

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Comedian Says He Was Arrested by ‘Armed Police’ over Transgender Critical Tweets

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Award-winning Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan said that he was arrested in London over posts on social media criticising transgenderism.

The creator of celebrated comedy programmes, including Father Ted and The IT Crowd, said on Tuesday that upon recently arriving at Heathrow Airport, he was met by five “armed police officers” who he says arrested him over “three tweets”.

“In a country where paedophiles escape sentencing, where knife crime is out of control, where women are assaulted and harassed every time they gather to speak, the state had mobilised five armed officers to arrest a comedy writer for this tweet (and no, I promise you, I am not making this up),” Linehan wrote on his Substack.

According to the Irish writer, the posts for which he was arrested included one in which he argued that biological men who enter female-only spaces are committing a “violent and abusive act”. “Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls,” Linehan suggested.

Another included a photograph of an LGBTQ+ rally in London, which Linehan captioned: “A photo you can smell”. (Read more from “Comedian Says He Was Arrested in London by ‘Armed Police’ over Transgender Critical Tweets” HERE)

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