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Should Openly Transgender People Serve in the U.S. Military? Gallup Poll Reveals How Americans Feel.

The United States needs a strong military that stands ready to confront any threat, so should people who openly identify as transgender be permitted to serve?

Common sense dictates that the answer to this question should be a resounding “no.” But according to a recent Gallup survey, a majority of American adults (71 percent) answered that they favor permitting openly transgender individuals to serve in the military, while just 26 percent oppose that idea. A small percentage (2 percent) had no opinion.

Gallup’s poll results show 88 percent of Democrats, 78 percent of independents and 43 percent of Republicans favor allowing openly transgender people to participate in military service, while 11 percent of Democrats, 20 percent of independents and 53 percent of Republicans oppose it. . .

A 2017 Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll found that “58 percent of adults agreed with the statement, ‘Transgender people should be allowed to serve in the military.’ Twenty-seven percent said they should not while the rest answered ‘don’t know.’”

The results of a January 2019 Rasmussen Reports survey found “43% of Likely U.S. Voters favor allowing transgender people to serve openly in the military,” while 44 percent opposed the idea and 13 percent were undecided. The wording of the survey question said, “The U.S. Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to ban most transgender people from serving openly in the military. Do you favor or oppose allowing transgender people to serve openly in the military?” (Read more from “Should Openly Transgender People Serve in the U.S. Military? Gallup Poll Reveals How Americans Feel.” HERE)

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WATCH: Teacher Allegedly Kicks Student from Class for Saying There Are Only Two Genders

A video has surfaced that shows a teacher — speaking in a heavy Scottish accent — invoking “national school authority policy” after allegedly kicking a student out of class for declaring there are only two genders.

There is no information about who the teacher is, where or when the video was recorded, or who the student is.

Over the weekend, the user who posted the YouTube video titled, “My Teacher Kicked Me Out of Class for Saying There are Two Genders,” had the following to say: “Just to be clear, this isn’t me. This is a reupload from Reddit.” But pages seen on the Reddit link appeared to be deleted, though hundreds of comments remain.

As the video begins, the student appears to position his cellphone in such a way that the teacher won’t be able to see that their conversation is about to be recorded — and then the teacher walks through what appears to be a classroom door. . .

When the student continues arguing the two-genders-only point, the teacher grows flustered and asks, “Could you please keep that opinion to your own house? Thank you. Not in this school.” (Read more from “WATCH: Teacher Allegedly Kicks Student from Class for Saying There Are Only Two Genders” HERE)

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WATCH: Transgender Track Champion Claims HE Has the Disadvantage Against WOMEN

. . .Telfer — formerly known as Craig — as recently as January 2018 ran with the Division II school’s men’s track & field team. Telfer started going by the name CeCe while competing with the men before transitioning to women’s competition. Telfer is the New Hampshire school’s first women’s track & field champion. . .

Telfer just told ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” that “if anything, me competing against cisgender females is a disadvantage”:

“My body is going through so many medical implications … It’s going through biochemistry changes. So, being on hormone replacement therapy [results in] muscle depletion … your muscles are deteriorating. You lose a lot of strength because testosterone is where you get your strength, your agility. So I have to work twice as hard to keep that strength, and if I slack a day, that’s like three days set behind. So … I have to keep up all my workouts … I can’t drink … I can’t eat unhealthy, or else it’s gonna impact me harder.”

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The NCAA has had a policy for transgender athletes for years. It is legal under NCAA bylaws for a biological male to compete in the women’s division if that male has suppressed his testosterone levels for one year.

A guidance document on the issue published by the NCAA took the stance that it is not accurate to assume that a male who has transitioned to become a transgender female has an unfair advantage over a biological woman, saying “it is important not to overgeneralize.”

(Read more from “Transgender Track Champion Claims HE Has the Disadvantage Against WOMEN” HERE)

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Poll: Majority Oppose Transgender Athletes on Opposite-Sex Teams

In his last year in office, Barack Obama unilaterally reinterpreted Title IX in order to bully public schools into letting biological males play on girls’ sports teams and use their bathroom and changing facilities or risk losing federal funding. As a result, the issue of biological males who “identify” as female playing on girls sports teams has become an increasing problem, even though Trump officially reversed this guidance in October 2018.

We’ve reported on a number of stories here at PJ Media of biological males who are breaking records by playing on girls’ or women’s teams. In April, a transgender “woman” broke world records in women’s squat, women’s bench press, and women’s deadlift. (Note: Those records were ultimately revoked on a technicality because the weightlifter had not transitioned yet). n February, two Connecticut boys playing on girls’ track teams broke state records, while actual girls found themselves unable to qualify for regional competitions, limiting their opportunities to be scouted by college coaches. . .

In a poll released Tuesday, Rasmussen reveals that “just 28% of American Adults favor allowing transgender students to participate on the sports team of the gender they identify with, letting biological males, for example, play girls’ sports.” Roughly the same number, 31 percent, favor allowing transgender students to use bathrooms of the opposite biological sex.

This is a policy that Republicans are in the mainstream, while Democrats are not. “Seventy-seven percent (77%) of Republicans and 52% of those not affiliated with either major political party oppose allowing transgender students on the teams of the gender they identify with,” according to Rasmussen. “Democrats support such a policy by a 43% to 36% margin, with 21% undecided. There’s a similar partisan breakdown when it comes to bathroom policy.” (Read more from “Poll: Majority Oppose Transgender Athletes on Opposite-Sex Teams” HERE)

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Transgender Girl Crowned Prom King at High School

A female student who has “transitioned” to identifying as a male has been crowned prom king at a Massachusetts High School in a vote made possible because teachers deemed her eligible.

Nicole “Nicholas” Bulman is a 19-year-old senior at Barnstable High School who began identifying as transgendered starting in eighth grade, the Cape Cod Times reported. She legally changed her name and, after what she calls years of consultation with a primary care doctor, endocrinologists, psychologists, therapists, and a support group, has undergone testosterone treatments and gender-transition surgery.

Her school community has reportedly been so overwhelmingly supportive that Barnstable teachers named him as one of five candidates eligible for this year’s prom king, according to teacher and Class of 2019 adviser Lyn Vazquez. “He’s just an all-around great person,” she said. “Teachers at Barnstable High School felt Nick was a great candidate.”

Bulman ultimately won, the Times reported in a follow-up, attending prom last week in a beard and full tuxedo, alongside friend and prom queen Kalyani Clarke.

“It just feels like a weight’s off my shoulders, like I can be more free and open with all those around me and I’m happy with myself,” Bulman told CBS Boston. Her mother, Jaime Gallagher, said she “love(s) the fact that Barnstable High School validated and acknowledged Nick in that way.” (Read more from “Transgender Girl Crowned Prom King at High School” HERE)

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Supreme Court Won’t Protect This Girl’s Privacy Rights Against Trans Activism In School

On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to take up the important case Doe v. Boyertown Area School District, which centered on the question of whether or not students have the privacy right to sex-segregated bathrooms and locker rooms. Boys were shocked to find a girl changing with them and teenage girl Alexis Lightcap was terrified to a find a boy in her restroom. These violations of privacy were justified in the name of transgender inclusion. While the Supreme Court did not take up Lightcap’s case, it may consider similar ones coming down the pike.

“Students struggling with their beliefs about gender need compassionate support, but sound reasons based on common sense have always existed for schools to separate male and female teenagers in showers, restrooms, and locker rooms,” John Bursch, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, the firm representing Lightcap, said in a statement. “No student’s recognized right to bodily privacy should be made contingent on what other students believe about their own gender.”

The Boyertown Area School District secretly implemented the pro-transgender policy during the 2016-2017 school year. Boys discovered a girl changing in their locker room. Embarrassed and confused, they sought help from school officials, who told them they should just “tolerate it” and “make it as natural as possible.” One of the male students left the school as a result of the policy. Lightcap encountered a boy in her restroom. Shocked and afraid, she fled the restroom, but school officials rejected her privacy concerns.

The lawsuit, Doe v. Boyertown, argues the school is violating its students’ fundamental right to bodily privacy under the Constitution and effectively denying them access to locker room and restroom facilities on the basis of sex under Title IX.

The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled for the school, and ADF had appealed the case to the Supreme Court. (Read more from “Supreme Court Won’t Protect This Girl’s Privacy Rights Against Trans Activism” HERE)

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Trump Releases Health Plan Allowing Providers to Refuse Transgender Treatment

By Slate. . .Trump’s HHS has been crafting this policy for years in an effort to exclude trans people from the Affordable Care Act’s Section 1557. That provision bars most health care providers and insurance companies from discriminating against patients on the basis of sex (among other things). It incorporates the definition of sex discrimination used in various civil rights laws, most notably Title IX, which applies to educational institutions. The Obama administration enacted a rule interpreting Section 1557 to protect transgender people, explaining that discrimination against a patient who transitions from one sex to another is, by definition, sex discrimination. But on the last day of 2016, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor issued a nationwide injunction blocking the rule, ruling that sex encompasses only “biological differences between males and females.” (Read more from “Trump Releases Health Plan Allowing Providers to Refuse Transgender Treatment” HERE)

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Trump Administration Rolls Back Health Care Protections for LGBTQ Patients

By Politico. The Trump administration today proposed to scrap an Obama-era policy that prohibited health care providers from discriminating against transgender patients, in its latest rollback of federal protections for transgender people. . .

HHS said it is repealing the Obama-era definition of sex protections in order to make its regulations “more consistent” with other agencies. The proposal, released on a Friday before holiday weekend, comes two days after the Department of Housing and Urban Developmentmoved to let federally funded homeless centers deny services to transgender people.

The Obama administration had issued a rule asserting that Obamacare’s nondiscrimination protections, Section 1557 of the law, covered gender identity. But a federal judge blocked those protections in 2016 following a lawsuit from religious groups. The Trump administration said it rewrote the rule in response to the court ruling.

However, the Trump proposal eliminates similar nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ patients that weren’t blocked by the court. The proposal also reaffirms the rights of health care workers to deny care based on a religious or moral objection, strengthening rules issued earlier this month by Trump’s health department. (Read more from “Trump Administration Rolls Back Health Care Protections for LGBTQ Patients” HERE)

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Watch: Gillette Has Managed to Come up with an Even More Ridiculous Ad Than Their Last

After igniting controversy in January with a commercial urging men to push back against “toxic masculinity,” and more ads last month aimed at promoting body positivity, Gillette released a commercial last week showing a father teach his transgender son — Samson — how to shave. . .

“Growing up I was always trying to figure out what kind of man I want to become, and I’m still trying to figure out what kind that I want to become,” Samson says in the commercial. “I always knew I was different. I didn’t know that there was a term for the type of person that I was. I went into my transition just wanting to be happy.” . . .

After Gillette published the ad, Samson wrote on Facebook that he is “confident that this ad will encourage many of my trans siblings and fill them with the knowledge that our existence in this world can be filled with the love and support we deserve.” (Read more from “Watch: Gillette Has Managed to Come up with an Even More Ridiculous Ad Than Their Last” HERE)

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More Transgender ‘Males’ Reportedly Viewing Pregnancy as ‘Possible’

By The Blaze. Trystan Reese is a transgender man who gave birth to a son in 2017 and who’s counseled hundreds of transgender men around the world who’ve also given birth, NBC News reported. . .

“You can be a man and have a baby,” Reese — director of family formation for the Family Equality Council, a national nonprofit that advocates for LGBTQ families — told NBC News. “And they are starting to see that that is possible, and that hasn’t always been the case.”

The network added that Reese “believes it’s a good thing that more trans men and nonbinary people are beginning to see that pregnancy is a possibility for them, whether they want to experience it or view it simply as a means to an end.”

Jay Thomas is married to Jamie Brewster, NBC News said, and the 33-year-olds are both transgender.

In 2016, Thomas — who had been on testosterone for more than two years — wanted to get pregnant, the network said.

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Trans Dads Tell Doctors: ‘You Can Be a Man and Have a Baby’

By NBC News. There is no data on how many transgender men and nonbinary people give birth in the United States each year, because medical systems track them as female, but experts believe the numbers are likely higher than many would expect. The number of people who identify as transgender is growing: A 2016 study from the Williams Institute found that 1.4 million adults in the U.S identify as transgender, which was double the estimate based on data from a decade earlier.

In Australia, where government agencies began tracking both sex and gender in official records in 2013, 54 transgender men gave birth in 2014, according to statistics from the country’s universal health care system. And a Dutch study published in the journal Human Reproduction in 2011 found that a majority of trans men reported wanting families.

But doctors, nurses and medical office staff are still adjusting to the idea that those who are pregnant may not identify as women. (Read more from “Trans Dads Tell Doctors: ‘You Can Be a Man and Have a Baby'” HERE)

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A Pregnant ‘Man’s’ Medical Emergency Proves a HUGE ISSUE with Transgenderism

When the [woman] arrived at the hospital with severe abdominal pains, a nurse didn’t consider it an emergency, noting that [she] was obese and had stopped taking blood pressure medicines. In reality, [she] was pregnant — a transgender man in labor that was about to end in a stillbirth.

The tragic case, described in Wednesday’s New England Journal of Medicine, points to larger issues about assigning labels or making assumptions in a society increasingly confronting gender variations in sports, entertainment and government. In medicine, there’s a similar danger of missing diseases such as sickle cell and cystic fibrosis that largely affect specific racial groups, the authors write. . .

Transgender men, who are considered female at birth but who identify as male, may or may not be using masculinizing hormones or have had surgical alterations, such as womb removal.

The 32-year-old patient told the nurse [she] was transgender when [she] arrived at the emergency room and [her[ electronic medical record listed [her] as male. [She] hadn’t had a period in several years and had been taking testosterone, a hormone that has masculinizing effects and can decrease ovulation and menstruation. But [she] quit taking the hormone and blood pressure medication after he lost insurance. . .

Several hours later, a doctor evaluated [her] and the hospital test confirmed pregnancy. An ultrasound showed unclear signs of fetal heart activity, and an exam revealed that part of the umbilical cord had slipped into the birth canal. Doctors prepared to do an emergency cesarean delivery, but in the operating room no fetal heartbeat was heard. Moments later, the [woman] delivered a stillborn baby. (Read more from “A Pregnant ‘Man’s’ Medical Emergency Proves a HUGE ISSUE with Transgenderism” HERE)

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