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Foster Care License Restored to Couple Opposed to Transgender Treatments on Children

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A Vermont couple’s fostering license is being restored after their opposition to the practice of sexually transitioning children made them a target.

The married couple was identified as Melinda Antonucci and Casey Mathieu, who said the Vermont Department for Children and Families (DCF) forced them to participate in LGBTQ training when they applied for the license, Fox News reported Friday.

During that process, DCF discussed medical procedures for children transitioning to the opposite sex. In her statement to the outlet, Antonucci said they became foster parents because they wanted to help children in need.

“The state tried to disqualify us because of our protected beliefs and because we wouldn’t say what the government wanted us to say,” adding that the recent settlement meant “our family can continue serving foster youth, and it helps ensure other foster parents won’t be punished for speaking honestly or living out their faith.”

In an announcement Friday, the Center for American Liberty (CAL) said it reached the settlement with DCF, calling it a “landmark federal civil-rights case challenging Vermont’s attempt to impose ideological conditions on foster care licensing.” (Read more from “Foster Care License Restored to Couple Opposed to Transgender Treatments on Children” HERE)

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First Major Medical Group Opposes Sex Mutilating Surgeries for Minors

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The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) issued a position statement on Tuesday advising against sex change surgeries for minors.

The position statement went to the group’s 11,000 members, recommending that surgeons delay transgender-related chest, genital, and facial surgeries until a patient is at least 19 years old. The ASPS is the first major medical organization in the U.S. to reject transgender activists’ ideological push to mutilate young people without sufficient evidence. . .

ASPS pointed to a rollback on sex changes for minors in Europe, as well as a comprehensive review from the Department of Health and Human Services, the 2024 Cass Review in Britain, and other research indicating “limitations in study quality, consistency … alongside emerging evidence of treatment complications and potential harms”:

Available evidence suggests that a substantial proportion of children with prepubertal onset gender dysphoria experience resolution or significant reduction of distress by the time they reach adulthood, absent medical or surgical intervention. Evidence regarding adolescent-onset presentation, which has become increasingly common since the mid-2010s, is more limited but similarly does not allow for confident prediction of long-term trajectories. Importantly, clinicians, even those with extensive experience, currently lack reliable methods to distinguish those whose distress will persist from those whose distress will remit.

The HHS report underscores that this uncertainty has significant ethical implications: when the likelihood of spontaneous resolution is unknown and when irreversible interventions carry known and plausible risks, adhering to the principles of beneficence and non-malficence (i.e. promoting health and well-being while avoiding harm) requires a precautionary approach.

(Read more from “First Major Medical Group Opposes Sex Mutilating Surgeries for Minors” HERE)

Ed Department: California Violated Family Rights Law By Secretly ‘Transitioning’ Students

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The U.S. Department of Education found the California Department of Education (CDE) in violation of federal family rights law on Wednesday for facilitating the gender “transition” of children and hiding it from their parents.

California pressured school districts across the state to violate the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), a student privacy and parental rights law, by forcing them to conceal student records from parents about their child’s so-called “gender transition,” according to a senior department official detailing the results of an investigation Wednesday.

“FERPA requires that schools provide access to all education records upon a parent’s request. Schools do not get to choose which records they feel like providing to parents and which ones they don’t,” the official said. “As Secretary McMahon stated last year, this is not only patently unlawful, but morally reprehensible. Children do not belong to the state. They belong to their parents. Parents must know about the most sensitive information pertaining to their child’s health and well-being.”

A Student Privacy Policy Office (SPPO) investigation found that at least 300 students in California were put on “‘gender support plans,’ many without parental consent or knowledge.” At CDE’s direction, school officials placed the “support plans” in “separate filing systems” to keep parents in the dark about the plans.

As The Federalist reported, school personnel are often some of the first and most influential people a student interacts with regarding confusion about sex and “gender,” and many push children toward “social transition” like name and pronoun changes, which often leads to destructive medical interventions. (Read more from “Ed Department: California Violated Family Rights Law By Secretly ‘Transitioning’ Students” HERE)

Judge Orders Federal Prison to Provide Sex Change Procedures to Convicted Pedophile

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A federal judge has ordered the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to provide sex change procedures to a convicted pedophile serving more than two decades in prison for sexually abusing his own son — a decision that has sparked national outrage and reignited debate over taxpayer-funded gender surgeries for inmates.

Brian Buckingham, 47, who now identifies as “Nani Love,” was sentenced to 21 years for producing and possessing child sex abuse materials involving his 10-year-old son. Just before his sentencing, Buckingham declared a new transgender identity and began requesting gender-affirming medical care while in custody, including hormone therapy, laser hair removal, and facial feminization surgery, according to court documents reported by Reduxx and The Post Millennial.

Buckingham’s attorneys argued that denying such procedures constituted “cruel and unusual punishment” under the Eighth Amendment, claiming his gender dysphoria caused worsening depression and suicidal thoughts while in prison.

In a September ruling, Magistrate Judge David Christel found that Buckingham was “likely to succeed” in his claim, citing evidence that the Bureau of Prisons had once acknowledged his requests for treatment but then “discontinued them without reason.” U.S. District Judge Ricardo Martinez adopted Christel’s recommendation and ordered the BOP to begin consultations for Buckingham’s transition procedures within 30 days.

The Bureau of Prisons pushed back, filing objections and urging the court to delay implementation until after a related case, Kingdom v. Trump, is resolved. That class-action lawsuit challenges restrictions on sex change surgeries for federal inmates imposed during the Trump administration.

Buckingham’s attorneys countered that their client faces “irreparable harm” if denied treatment, arguing that gender transition procedures are medically necessary.

Court documents and investigative reports detail Buckingham’s disturbing crimes. The former suicide prevention worker for the Makah Indian Nation was arrested after moderators on the chat platform Discord flagged explicit content tied to his account. Investigators discovered videos showing the sexual abuse of his child, leading to his conviction in federal court.

Despite his crimes, Buckingham’s legal team maintains that his status as a convicted pedophile should not impact his right to “medically necessary” treatments while serving time at FCI Butner in North Carolina — a facility that already houses several high-profile inmates receiving gender-related care.

Survey Uncovers the Single Group in America That Would Push Transgenderism on Children

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. . .Members of “every race, sex, age, ethnicity, income, region, educational status, and political viewpoint” agree: that the administration of transgender-pushing chemicals and bodily mutilations on minors should be banned.

[But the] party of Kamala Harris, Tim Walz [and] Joe Biden [continues to] push to impose such ideological agendas on those too young to defend themselves.

The Washington Stand reported, “If the government passed a bill banning pediatric gender clinics from inflicting so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ on everyone under 18, every demographic group in the United States would favor it – except registered Democrats.” . . .

Nearly six of 10 said the government should ban the transgender industry from pushing any drug or doing any body-modifying surgery on minors. (Read more from “Survey Uncovers the Single Group in America That Would Push Transgenderism on Children” HERE)

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Pediatricians Group Says Research Doesn’t Support ‘Gender Affirming’ Treatments

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A review of 60 studies of the mental health of transgender-identifying youth found that “there is no long-term evidence that current ‘gender affirming’ medication and surgical protocols benefit their mental well-being,” according to a group representing pediatricians.

The American College of Pediatricians issued a position statement on Wednesday opposing the gender transitioning of youth based on the literature review. It comes just after a watchdog group filed a scientific integrity complaint against Department of Health and Human Services official Rachel Levine for claiming that “there is no argument among medical professionals regarding “the value and the importance of gender-affirming care.”

HHS provided only two pages to support the idea that the gender transitioning of children was “necessary.” Levine, a man who believes he is a woman, has often dodged the question by saying that “accredited medical professional groups agree that gender-affirming care is medically necessary.”

The American College of Pediatricians is a small group of pediatricians, many of them conservative, that formed in part due to dismay over the way that the much larger pediatrics group, the American Association of Pediatrics, passes activist statements that are then used as if they represent the views of all pediatricians, even though only a handful were involved.

Given the well-documented problems that often go hand-in-hand with being transgender, the sharp and sudden increase in the number of youth who question their gender should be something that raises alarm bells for physicians, the group said. (Read more from “Pediatricians Group Says Research Doesn’t Support ‘Gender Affirming’ Treatments” HERE)

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Joe Biden Centers Trangenderism Flag on White House; White House Accused of U.S. Flag Code Violation Over Display

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By Breitbart. President Joe Biden put the left’s “Progress Pride” flag — which is topped by the pink-and-blue colors of transgender advocacy — at the center of the White House for his “Pride” celebration.

The pro-transgender political display prompted many complaints that he disrespected the nation’s flag, which is the primary symbol of the nation’s solidarity with its ordinary citizens.

Biden’s decision to center the controversial pink-and-blue-edged “Progress Pride” flag reflects the Democrats’ need to goad their young progressive voters into the voting booth in 2024, amid his economy of declining wages, rising rents, and expanding civic chaos.

Biden’s display — and the speeches at the event — offered progressives the distracting and uplifting 2024 role of supporting rights for “transgender people.” (Read more from “Joe Biden Centers Trangenderism Flag on White House” HERE)

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White House Accused of U.S. Flag Code Violation Over Pride Month Display

By New York Post. President Joe Biden’s administration is receiving backlash online over its Pride Month display at the White House on Sunday as many Twitter users are saying it violates the US Flag Code.

Biden celebrated the LGBT community in a post Saturday, revealing a set of flags hanging from the White House that faced the South Lawn.

The display includes a rainbow-colored Pride flag flanked by two American flags.

Twitter users argue the display violates a section of the US Flag Code that mandates the American flag be in the center of any display featuring multiple national flags or pennants.

“To advance revolutionary transgender agenda targeting children, Biden violates basic tenet of US Flag Code and disrespects every American service member buried under its colors,” wrote Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. (Read more from “White House Accused of U.S. Flag Code Violation Over Pride Month Display” HERE)

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Joe Biden: ‘Ugly’ People Shield Their Kids From Transgenderism

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President Joe Biden is using the bully pulpit to stigmatize parents who oppose transgenderism for their kids, even as a growing library of studies confirms public concerns about the safety of government-backed medical interventions.

Biden spoke ahead of the scheduled, base-pleasing “pride month” celebration at the White House, using his platform to criticize adults who are protecting children from so-called “gender-affirming” treatments. Individuals who are worried about the far-left’s attempts to “affirm” a confused child’s gender via hormone therapy, puberty blockers, and genital surgery are, according to Biden, “hysterical.”

“We have some hysterical, and I would argue prejudiced, people who are engaged in what you see going on around the country,” he said.

“It’s an appeal to fear, and it’s an appeal that is unjustified and ugly. It’s wrong,” Biden continued.

Biden addressed a reporter who claimed to speak to a family of a transgender child, describing them as “afraid” and adding that they are considering leaving the country. The 80-year-old asked for the family’s number so he could call the to let them know the president “has their back.” (Read more from “Joe Biden: ‘Ugly’ People Shield Their Kids From Transgenderism” HERE)

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Trans Runner Beat 14K Women in London Marathon after Running NYC as a Man

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A transgender runner is under fire for crediting “girl power” for beating nearly 14,000 others in the female category of the London Marathon — just months after racing in New York as a man.

Sports bra-wearing racer Glenique Frank — who ran the New York Marathon on Nov. 6 as Glen Frank — went viral after stopping to talk to a BBC reporter covering the UK race Sunday.

“London is the best!” the 52-year-old runner said of [his] 17th marathon, which last year included Tokyo and Chicago and will include all of the “six majors,” including Berlin and then Boston.

“Girl power!” Frank said of [his] marathon efforts while flexing [his] bulging biceps above rainbow-colored armbands.

The runner — whose social media still shows photos of [him] running earlier races as a balding man — ended the mid-race chat to gush about how [his] “beautiful son” is expecting a baby. (Read more from “Trans Runner Beat 14K Women in London Marathon after Running NYC as a Man” HERE)

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This Largely Unknown Psychological Phenomenon May Be Driving Men to Become Trans, Experts Say

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Autogynephilia, or a man’s condition of being sexually aroused by the concept of himself as a woman, is a driving force behind male-to-female transgenderism, according to some experts, but activists and a leading transgender medical group have been reluctant to acknowledge the issue.

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), the leading transgender medical organization, removed the term from its standards of care between 1998 and 2001, and proponents of the transgender movement have decried the term as inaccurate and stigmatizing.

Autogynephilia, or AGP, undercuts the narrative pushed by proponents of transgender ideology that gender transitions aren’t sexual, and a significant proportion of transgender people are heterosexual men who are sexually aroused when they present themselves as female and wear women’s clothing, researchers and transgender people have argued. . .

AGP drives the overwhelming majority of male-to-female transsexual cases, according to Dr. Ray Blanchard, a Canadian psychiatry professor who coined the term in the late 1980s. Most of the pushback against the classification of AGP comes from transgender activists and their allies in the mental health field rather than from medical institutions, he said.

“Acknowledging the existence of autogynephilia creates certain problems,” Blanchard told the DCNF. “First, it challenges the conceptualization of male-to-female (MTF) trans as normal, ordinary women who happen to have been born in the wrong body. It threatens the rationale they may have used for terminating their marriages, for risking alienating their children, and sometimes for experiencing a career setback.” (Read more from “This Largely Unknown Psychological Phenomenon May Be Driving Men to Become Trans, Experts Say” HERE)

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