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Wyoming’s GOP Governor Backing the Trans Agenda on Yet Another Piece of Legislation

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By The Federalist. The Wyoming legislature enacted a law protecting government employees from the state forcing them to use “preferred pronouns.” But Republican Gov. Mark Gordon refused to sign, allowing the bill to become law by default.

The law — SF 077, or “Compelled Speech Is Not Free Speech” — bans “the state and its political subdivisions from requiring the use of preferred pronouns.” It keeps the state from requiring preferred pronouns for “employment or contracting,” for “receiving a grant, loan, permit, contract, license or other benefit,” or “under threat of adverse action … including but not limited to an adverse employment action, exclusion, sanction or punishment.”

The bill passed with vast majorities earlier this month in the state House (54-7, with one excused) and Senate (27-3, with one excused). It is set to take effect on July 1.

Republican state House Speaker Chip Neiman and state Senate President Bo Biteman signed the enrolled act on Feb. 24. According to the state legislature website, “If any bill sent to the governor is not signed by him and is not returned within three days … it becomes law without his signature. …” Gordon wrote Biteman on Feb. 27 saying he would allow the bill to become law without signing it.

Gordon’s communications director, Michael Pearlman, shared the letter with The Federalist. In it, Gordon called the legislation “a solution in search of a problem.” He conceded that “Wyoming governments should not condition” employment or other engagements on “requirements to strictly engage in certain kinds of speech” and said that the state should not “retaliate against employees if they don’t conform to strict free speech restrictions.” (Read more from “Wyoming’s GOP Governor Backing the Trans Agenda on Yet Another Piece of Legislation” HERE)

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FLASHBACK: Wyoming GOP Gov. Removes Doctor From State Board For Opposing Transing Children

By The Federalist. Wyoming radiologist Eric Cubin petitioned the federal court in Cheyenne last week to reinstate him to Wyoming’s Board of Medicine.

Cubin was appointed to the board, which oversees the licensing and regulations of the medical profession, by Republican Gov. Mark Gordon in 2023 and reappointed to another four-year term last March. Only weeks after his reappointment, the governor’s chief of staff notified him by telephone that the governor had removed him from the board. After hanging up, he received a letter from the governor, via email, that confirmed his removal and stated its cause.

Gordon wrote, “I have been made aware of your email to the members of the House of Representatives during this last legislative session regarding SF0099 in which you strongly encouraged the members to pass this legislation and criticized the Wyoming Medical Society’s opposition to this bill.”

SF0099 was originally named Chloe’s Law after Chloe Cole, a woman who was given hormone blockers and testosterone at the age of 13 and underwent a mastectomy at 15. The bill prohibits physicians and health care providers in Wyoming from performing surgeries and prescribing drugs to minor children “for the purposes of transitioning a child’s biological sex.”

While overwhelmingly supported by the public and passed by the legislature, Chloe’s Law was vehemently opposed by the Wyoming Medical Society (WMS), a lobbying group that carries a lot of clout in Cheyenne. (Read more from “FLASHBACK: Wyoming GOP Gov. Removes Doctor From State Board For Opposing Transing Children” HERE)

Army Veteran Miraculously Survives Grizzly Bear Attack With Stroke of Luck That Saved His Life in ‘Most Violent’ Plight Ever

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AMassachusetts man was severely injured in a gruesome bear attack at a Wyoming national park, which he described as the “most violent” plight in his life. However, the Army veteran miraculously survived the bear mauling by an astonishing stroke of luck.

Shayne Patrick Burke – a 35-year-old military veteran from Massachusetts – was hiking up Signal Mountain in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park last Sunday. He was “looking to photograph a Great Grey Owl.”

Burke said he noticed a bear cub near him and knew that it “wasn’t good.”

All of the sudden, he was confronted with a “surprise encounter” with a mother grizzly bear who came “charging toward him.” . . .

“When she pounced I opted to turn and give her my back and I laid down in the prone position on my belly and braced for the ride, interlocking my hands behind my neck to protect my vitals,” he wrote in an Instagram post.

(Read more from “Army Veteran Miraculously Survives Grizzly Bear Attack With Stroke of Luck That Saved His Life in ‘Most Violent’ Plight Ever” HERE)

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State Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Seeking to Remove Trump from Ballot

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An Albany County, Wyoming, judge dismissed a complaint that sought to remove former President Donald Trump — the leading Republican presidential candidate — from the ballot in the Cowboy State, citing Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment.

The lawsuit, which Judge Misha Westby dismissed on Friday as Fox News reported, was brought by retired attorney Tim Newcomb and mirrored arguments in efforts to take Trump off the ballot in other states, including Colorado and Maine.

Specifically, the complaint contended that Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment barred both Trump and Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) “from appearing on Wyoming ballots unless Congress removes such disability by a vote of two-thirds of each House.” It argued that Trump failed to uphold the “Constitution’s transfer of presidential power under Article II. Section I,” therefore disqualifying him from the ballot while Lummis “disqualified herself from appearing on Wyoming’s ballot when she refused to count Pennsylvania’s electoral ballots to the electoral count required by Article II, Section 1.”

Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray, the defendant in the case, expressed his joy with the dismissal of Newcomb’s “repugnant” lawsuit in a release shared with Fox News.

“I am extremely pleased with Judge Westby’s decision to dismiss Mr. Newcomb’s outrageously wrong and repugnant lawsuit to remove Donald Trump and Cynthia Lummis from the ballot in Wyoming,” Gray said. (Read more from “State Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Seeking to Remove Trump from Ballot” HERE)

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Parents Sue School District for Allowing Daughter to Secretly Identify as a Boy

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A Wyoming couple is suing their daughter’s school district for allegedly allowing her to identify as a boy behind their backs.

Sean and Ashley Willey, of Rock Spring in southwestern Wyoming, say in their lawsuit that district staffers used a male name and pronouns for their teenager without telling them for a six month period during 2021 and 2022, according to the April lawsuit filed in Wyoming federal court.

The Willeys, who are both teachers, found out what was going on when Ashley Wiley spoke to two teachers who told her that her daughter had been “affirmed” as a boy during a conversation at a district-wide school training on March 29, 2022.

The Wileys claim they had no idea their daughter was being referred to as a boy at school and sued, claiming their parental rights, family privacy, and religious freedoms were violated.

They also claim a new district policy implemented at the beginning of the 2022-2023 school year forced staff to use a student’s preferred name and pronouns and allowed that information to be withheld from parents. (Read more from “Parents Sue School District for Allowing Daughter to Secretly Identify as a Boy” HERE)

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Abortionists Open First Surgical Center to Kill Babies in State Called ‘Abortion Desert’

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Wyoming, a so-called “abortion desert,” will be opening its first surgical abortion facility this summer to be located between Wyoming Medical Center and downtown Casper. It will be operated by Circle of Hope Health Care Service, a pro-abortion non-profit whose mission, according to its website, is to “expand access to reproductive health care in abortion deserts around the world.”

Casper is centrally located in the state of Wyoming; therefore, this new abortion facility will be accessible to the majority of women within the state. Wyoming women have had access to chemical abortions up to the tenth week of pregnancy, but the new facility will be the state’s first surgical abortion facility. Julie Burkhart, Circle of Hope’s Director, explained, “Our goal in launching this clinic is to ensure that more people in Wyoming and the broader region have access to the reproductive health care they need, including abortion care.”

Burkhart was the CEO of Trust Women and has established two abortion facilities and oversees a third. She also previously worked alongside Dr. George Tiller, an abortionist who committed abortions up to 36 weeks and who was shot and killed in 2009 by a violent man professing to be anti-abortion. Dr. Tiller had a full-size crematorium in his office for cremating babies.

The new facility is expected to open in June of 2022 and is funded by private donors. The range of services the facility will offer has not been established but its goal is to provide full-spectrum reproductive healthcare, in addition to abortions. Burkhart said they are in the process of hiring doctors and staff members. (Read more from “Abortionists Open First Surgical Center to Kill Babies in State Called ‘Abortion Desert’” HERE)

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Wyoming Man Files Suit Over Massive EPA Fines for Building Pond

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01top_08-28-15By Eric Boehm. A rancher is taking the Environmental Protection Agency to federal court, asking a judge to stop the agency from fining him more than $16 million because he built a small pond on his property.

Andy Johnson of Fort Bridger, Wyoming says he made sure to get the proper permits from his state government before building the pond. After all, this is America in the 21st century, and nothing done on your own property — certainly when it involves the use of water — is beyond government concern.

Johnson is facing millions in fines from the federal government after the EPA determined his small pond — technically a “stock pond” to provide better access to water for animals on his ranch — is somehow violating the federal Clean Water Act.

“We went through all the hoops that the state of Wyoming required, and I’m proud of what we built,” Johnson said. “The EPA ignored all that.” (Read more from “Wyoming Man Files Suit Over Massive EPA Fines for Building Pond” HERE)

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Wyoming Man Takes EPA to Court

By Wyoming Tribune Eagle. A southwest Wyoming farmer is taking the Environmental Protection Agency to court for what he says is an illegal overreach of its authority.

Andy Johnson of Fort Bridger has been locked in a battle of wills with the EPA since 2013, when he built a stock pond on his property to provide a watering hole for his cattle.

Not long after the pond was built, however, the EPA informed Johnson that the pond, which is connected to Six Mile Creek south of Fort Bridger, was in violation of the Clean Water Act.

Johnson protested, stating that he had sought and received a permit through the state engineer’s office, which subsequently confirmed that the stock pond met all of the office’s legal requirements.

But that failed to convince the EPA, which sent Johnson a compliance order in January 2014 instructing him to remove the stock pond or face $37,500 in fines for every day he refused to do so. (Read more from this story HERE)

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