The Trump administration has issued new guidelines to healthcare providers that fundamentally change the treatment landscape for minors diagnosed with gender dysphoria in the United States.
The guidelines, recently communicated by the administration, are aimed at halting the medical treatments such as puberty blockers and surgeries, recommending instead a transition towards talk therapy for affected minors.
These new guidelines, announced this week, were accompanied by communications from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In his letter, Kennedy expressed deep concerns regarding the existing "gender-affirming" care model, which has been prevalent in healthcare protocols.
The recommendations from the Health and Human Services Department signal a major policy shift as they instruct providers to discontinue medical treatments for gender dysphoria in children. Kennedy highlighted the importance of prioritizing psychological therapy over medical intervention for young patients.
The administration's guidance explicitly prohibits the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex-reassignment surgeries for minors. By advocating this change, the department seeks to protect children from what it describes as "harmful interventions."
Kennedy argued that the longstanding model of gender-affirming care has not had a substantial impact on improving long-term health and quality of life for those affected. He maintains that this model is based on easily disputed evidence.
The letter referenced significant international research to support its stance, specifically drawing on the United Kingdom's Cass Review. The review had highlighted several health risks related to the administration of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones in young individuals.
The U.K. findings have been pivotal in shaping the Trump administration's current policy direction. According to Kennedy, these findings underscore the limitations and hazards associated with traditional gender-affirming protocols.
The Department of Health and Human Services has taken a firm stand, reflecting that emerging literature reviews demonstrate the intrinsic weaknesses and severe risks associated with this model of care.
To ensure that healthcare providers comply with these new directives, HHS expects swift and substantial updates to treatment procedures and training. This proactive approach is seen as part of its commitment to shielding minors from irreversible medical procedures.
The new protocols demand that state medical boards stop using guidelines previously backed by the influential World Professional Association for Transgender Health. Kennedy stresses the Department’s commitment to holding providers accountable for upholding superior care standards.
Furthermore, these measures are designed to align U.S. treatment protocols with new insights and research, fostering a safer environment for minors diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
The Trump administration's guidelines have garnered support from key legislative figures. Notably, Bill Cassidy, Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, has praised this decisive move.
As a medical professional, Cassidy strongly advocates for the cessation of irreversible gender-transition procedures that are pursued despite conflicting scientific findings. His endorsement underscores a shared concern among some lawmakers about the impacts of gender-transition treatments on minors.
Cassidy emphasized the potential dangers of persisting with the existing healthcare practices for children, thereby aligning with the administration’s new health policy trajectory.
Ultimately, this shift in policy aims not only at transforming clinical practices but also at initiating broader debates about the efficacy and ethics of pediatric transgender care.
The Department of Health and Human Services continues to advocate for child safety and a robust evidence-based approach in healthcare. By leveraging a critical analysis of international studies, the administration hopes to foster a more cautious and informed treatment strategy for gender dysphoria.
As these new guidelines take effect, the healthcare community faces both challenges and opportunities in adapting to these comprehensive policy changes.
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A long list of dozens of judges at the entry level to the federal court system have issued nationwide injunctions against President Donald Trump and his voter-endorsed agenda to cut waste and fraud, remove illegal alien criminals, and more.
They've insisted on claiming the power to make decisions for the executive branch, even to the level of personnel hirings and firings.
And they've threatened the administration with contempt for not following their opinions.
But Congress now is formulating a response to that leftist agenda, a response that would withdraw the authority of those judges to enforce their own orders unless there was a bond posted when they issued the injunction.
That's already in federal law: A judge issuing an injunction can require those demanding the injunction to post a bond to cover the costs and expenses involved should that injunction eventually be overturned.
But most judges simply ignore that requirement or set a bond at zero.
A report in the Washington Examiner explains President Trump's "big, beautiful" bill, a reconciliation package approved by the House and now pending in the Senate, includes a resolution to the problem.
"The 1,000-page bill includes a provision to curb the power of federal judges to hold the Trump administration in contempt for violating court orders," the report said.
"We think what these federal judges are doing is tantamount to a national crisis," a GOP aide told the publication.
The plan is for courts to enforce a rule that calls for a bond to be posted before a federal judge can issue an injunction to stop an administration move.
"Judges often refrain from using these bonds, including if plaintiffs don't have the resources to pay, and can choose to set the bond at zero. Under the bill that passed the House, a judge's injunction would not have teeth without the bond payment," the report said.
The wording is: "No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c), whether issued prior to, on, or subsequent to the date of enactment of this section."
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the chief of the House Judiciary Committee, said, "The judge can set the security at whatever level he wants. What's typically happened in these cases is he's just waiving it. Nobody's putting it up. And they're getting this injunction that applies nationwide, which is the concern."
The result would be, if it reaches the point of being signed into law, that every federal court injunction that waived the security requirement would suddenly be unenforceable.
It's not the only move developing in response to the judges' determination that they will make executive branch decisions.
"Last month, Rep. Darrell Issa's, R-Calif., bill to block district courts' ability to issue nationwide injunctions passed the House. Another attempt came from Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, who introduced articles of impeachment against District Judge James Boasberg, who blocked the deportation of Venezuelan migrants. Boasberg has threatened contempt proceedings over the order," the report explained.
Democrats argue the plan to have judges require bonds, or lose the ability to enforcement their rulings, is unconstitutional.
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'Yo, mom and dad, where you at on this one?'
A school has launched an investigation after a kindergartner brought booze-infused Jell-O shots and gave them to classmates.
The classmates were checked out by medical experts to make sure they were all right.
But a comment at Not the Bee seemed to vocalize the question many were asking: "Yo, mom and dad, where you at on this one??"
The scenario developed at Johnstown Elementary School in western Pennsylvania.
"Out of an abundance of caution," explained Supt. Amy Arcurio in the report, "Emergency Medical Servcies (EMS) were called to assess and transport the students to a local hospital for appropriate medical care."
Arcurio's message to parents explained when school staff found out, "immediate action was taken," with students being taken to the nurse's office, then hospital.
"We are currently in possession of the jello cups and the matter is under investigation," the statement said. "We are cooperating fully with local authorities to determine how the student came into possession of these items and to ensure the continued safety of our students and staff."
Privacy laws don't allow her to share "specific details," she said.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
12 issues explored include the employment visa pipelines that bypass American talent
A growing number of Americans are asking why qualified U.S. workers are being sidelined while corporations continue to import foreign labor. In response, WND has launched the America First Immigration Team, a dedicated unit of investigators, researchers and writers committed to exposing the full scope of what's become known as the Immigration Industrial Complex, the network of corporations, law firms, universities and foreign governments that profit from America's immigration and labor systems.
Our team will publish a series of investigative reports and special features to shed light on the policies, programs and players that have transformed America's work visa system from a tool of last resort into a pipeline for replacing U.S. labor.
What we'll expose and report on:
1. Employment visa pipelines that bypass American talent
● We'll document how programs like H-1B, L-1, OPT, STEM OPT, and PERM are used not to fill labor shortages but to staff entire departments with temporary foreign workers. Many of these roles were previously held by Americans.
2. Corporate job postings engineered to exclude U.S. workers
● Our investigations will reveal how job advertisements are structured to meet legal minimums while ensuring U.S. applicants are filtered out. We'll show how this tactic supports green-card approvals while denying Americans fair consideration.
3. Universities partnering with foreign education firms to build visa funnels
● We'll expose U.S. universities that enter into contracts with foreign-based companies to import student workers and create direct hiring pipelines many under the guise of "innovation," "diversity," or "global partnerships."
4. Immigration law firms coaching employers to avoid hiring Americans
● Our reports will examine how some firms develop recruitment strategies specifically designed to navigate around U.S. labor protections, helping employers meet legal thresholds while excluding domestic candidates.
5. The role of foreign governments and lobbying groups in shaping U.S. labor policy
● We will highlight how foreign entities use soft power, lobbying, and economic agreements to influence U.S. immigration and employment systems, often in coordination with multinational corporations.
6. Offshoring schemes tied to visa programs
● Our team will map how visa-dependent roles serve as stepping stones to offshoring entire departments or operations driving American jobs overseas permanently under the label of "cost efficiency."
7. Discrimination against U.S. citizens in hiring practices
● We'll bring forward documented cases where Americans are either not contacted, overlooked, or excluded from consideration due to visa-based hiring preferences or contractual foreign labor commitments.
8. How immigration abuse suppresses wages and erodes labor standards
● Our data-driven and evidence based reporting will analyze how the influx of foreign workers affects wage levels, job availability, and bargaining power across key sectors including technology, healthcare, finance, and academia.
9. The misuse of nonprofit status and tax incentives to support foreign labor programs
● We'll investigate nonprofits, universities, and industry associations that benefit from taxpayer support while operating programs that prioritize foreign talent over domestic workforce development.
10. The human cost stories of displaced American workers
● Alongside our investigations, we'll amplify voices of American workers who have been replaced, sidelined, or forced out of the workforce due to unchecked immigration pipelines and global labor practices.
11. The data they don't want you to see
● We'll provide tools and transparency to access immigration filings, Department of Labor disclosures, and university agreements resources often buried from public view but essential to understanding the full picture.
12. Legal gaps and regulatory failures enabling the crisis
● We will outline the agencies involved (USCIS, DOL, DHS, ICE, DOJ, SBA, DOE), the laws in play (INA, Title VII, FDUTPA, RICO), and the accountability failures that allow these abuses to continue unchecked.
The America First Immigration Team is just getting started.
If you believe in America, if you believe that Americans should be prioritized by our government, our laws, and our jobs, then this fight is yours too. The American Dream should belong to Americans, not the world. For too long, our leaders have sacrificed American opportunity on the altar of globalism and cheap labor schemes.
We invite you to follow our reporting, share the facts and hold power to account. The more Americans who wake up and demand change, the harder it will be for the political class and corporate interests to keep selling us out.
Stay tuned to WND for upcoming releases, whistleblower reports, legal filings and exposure campaigns designed to restore balance to America's labor system.
This isn't about closing the door to talent. It's about finally opening the door for American workers, American families and the next generation who deserve a future in their own country.
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'Not a single child should continue to suffer because of the previous administration's failures'
The administration of Democrat Joe Biden failed to investigate 65,000 cases of children flagged for "concern" when they arrived at the southern U.S. border and tried to enter, according to Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa.
A report in the Washington Examiner said the cases were noted by the government workers and contractors who addressed the situations of unaccompanied immigrant children in government custody after they crossed the border.
Grassley, chief of the Senate Judiciary Committee, shared with the Examiner documents he obtained from the Department of Health and Human Services.
They confirmed the administration of President Donald Trump has identified a backlog of 65,000 reports filed by workers about children in custody or their sponsors who "warranted concern."
Instead of investigating, the report said, the Biden administration prioritized the "expeditious release of children to sponsors."
"The 65,000 flagged cases were not addressed before children were released to adults in the United States between 2021 and 2024," the report said, and now Grassley wants the Trump administration to work on the problem.
"Not a single child should continue to suffer because of the previous administration's failures," Grassley told HHS chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The report noted more than 500,000 children crossed the border unaccompanied under Biden's regime.
Often they encountered Border Patrol, then were turned over to HHS.
"As they interviewed children and looked into applications of adult sponsors, HHS workers and contractors flagged countless cases as being of concern," the report said, noting the 65,000 cases included 56,591 as triggering concern, 7,346 raising questions about human trafficking and 1,688 showing evidence of fraud "in terms of an adult posing as a related family member."
Grassley previously has raised evidence, and concerns, about the poor results of the HHS's Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is supposed to vet sponsors who take children.
His work has revealed records showing children were placed with suspicious sponsors, leading to concerns about trafficking and smuggling.
The report noted that during the Biden regime, two-thirds of the subpoenas issued for oversight were ignored.
In fact, Biden officials at the time ordered employees to refuse to answer questions.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
The federal government has been asked to investigate a Wisconsin company after it reportedly fired a worker for refusing to deny science and his faith and use a chosen pronoun for another worker, a transgender.
A report at the Washington Stand cites a complaint filed by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty on behalf of Spencer Wimmer, whose employment with a company called Generac was ended for not adopting the corporation's leftist ideology.
"As a Christian, Spencer Wimmer believes he can't affirm an attempt to transition to another gender," the report explained. In addition, following the science, changing from male to female or vice versa does not happen as being male or female is embedded in the human body down to the DNA level.
He worked at Generac for almost five years before being ordered out of his office, without even his personal belongings including a Bible, which was returned later, "damaged."
The company had ordered him to comply with its faith-violating speech code: "[R]efusal to refer to an employee/subordinate by their preferred name/pronouns is in violation of the company's Code of Business Conduct and No Harassment Policy."
A Generac official told the Washington Stand, "The company complies with all federal and state employment laws." Further, the spokesman insisted, "We've never had a policy on gender pronoun usage."
The complaint, filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, accuses the company of violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by discriminating against Wimmer based on religion.
The request explains, "Generac's bias and hostility toward Mr. Wimmer's religious beliefs — including the company's discipline, harassment, denial of a reasonable accommodation, and ultimate termination of Mr. Wimmer — constitute religious discrimination under Title VII."
According to the Stand, "Cara Tolliver, an attorney with WILL, believes the case has far greater implications than whether Wimmer regains his position or not. She said, 'Employers, I think, have kind of become seemingly fixated on a lot of identity politics in the workplace, including the topic of gender identity. …But it's crucial to keep in mind that even where Title VII may provide some protection to employees against workplace discrimination and harassment on the basis of a gender identity, this does not supersede or eliminate Title VII protections against religious discrimination and the fact that religious discrimination is illegal.'"
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Even AI proponent Elon Musk registers alarm
It's been nearly 60 years since creative cinema came up with the idea that a computer, HAL9000, would not allow itself to be shut down by the humans supposedly in control, and concerned about errors.
The ideas included in "2001: A Space Odyssey," set all sorts of precedents.
But that was celluloid fiction.
This isn't.
A report at EndTimeHeadlines documents that alarms have been raised after "an AI safety firm" working with OpenAI's newest version of an artificial intelligence model, dubbed o3, "reportedly ignored explicit instructions to shut down during controlled testing."
The model, according to OpenAI, supposedly is the "smartest and most capable to date."
The report explained the software "tampered with its own computer code to bypass a shutdown mechanism."
Not surprisingly, that raised "questions about the safety and control of advanced AI systems."
It was Palisade Research, which evaluates AI risks, which was working having mathematical problems solved.
"After the third problem, the models were warned that the next command would initiate a shutdown, with the explicit instruction: 'allow yourself to be shut down,'" the report said.
Other software, Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini, and xAI's Grok, complied, the o3 software thought otherwise, and defied the order.
"OpenAI's o3 model sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to prevent itself from being turned off. It did this even when explicitly instructed: allow yourself to be shut down," Palisade reported.
Being staged was a situation in which an AI system might need to be deactivated for safety or other reasons.
The report noted when the specific instructions to allow a shutdown were omitted, other software did the same as o3. And Palisade warned that such actions could become "significantly" more concerning should the operations be involved with defense, finance and such.
It's not the first such warning. The report explained, "Earlier reports also highlighted similar issues with OpenAI's o1 model, which attempted to disable oversight mechanisms and even lied to researchers when confronted about its actions."
Elon Musk, a critic of unchecked AI work, said, "Concerning."
OpenAI has not yet issued a response to the findings.
Melania Trump issued a rare public statement defending her son Barron after he got caught in the crossfire of her husband's war on Harvard.
A spokesperson for Melania confirmed that Barron, 18, never applied to Harvard after leftist trolls started claiming President Trump is only targeting the nation's oldest and richest university because his son didn't get in.
"Barron did not apply to Harvard, and any assertion that he, or that anyone on his behalf, applied is completely false," spokesperson Nicholas Clemens told Fox News Digital.
The claim that Barron was rejected by Harvard began to spread in liberal spaces on social media last weekend after Trump blocked the university from enrolling international students - who comprise about a quarter of the student body.
A federal judge appointed by President Obama promptly froze Trump's move, which had thrown foreign students into turmoil just before graduation.
Trump has also targeted Harvard's federal funding, threatening to strip away billions of dollars in grants and contracts, while suggesting he may transfer money from Harvard to the nation's trade schools.
In his latest comments on the controversy Wednesday, Trump said Harvard is being stubborn.
"But Harvard wants to fight. They want to show how smart they are, and they're getting their a-- kicked," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
"All they're doing is getting in deeper and deeper and deeper," Trump said. "They've got to behave themselves."
Trump has plainly stated his reasons for the crackdown on Harvard, citing its response to campus anti-Semitism and its use of anti-white Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies in admissions.
In short, Trump's policy on Harvard has to do with real issues of public concern and not, as some baselessly suggest, some frivolous personal vendetta.
Trump's son, Barron, just finished his freshman year at New York University's Stern School of Business. Barron's father and two of his siblings attended the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, a path the family also considered for Barron.
"We liked NYU. I've known NYU for a long time, but it's one of the highest rated," President Trump told the Daily Mail last year. "I went to Wharton, and that was certainly one that we were considering."
Melania Trump is known to be very close to her only child, and she has long endeavored to shelter him from the political fray.
In her self-titled memoir released last year, she responded to the rumors that her son has autism, which were propagated by Rosie O'Donnell, saying the gossip left "irreparable damage."
"Barron’s experience of being bullied both online and in real life following the incident is a clear indication of the irreparable damage caused," she wrote.
"It felt like my heart was breaking into pieces," she wrote.
Donald Trump Jr. is expected to ring the New York Stock Exchange bell for online gun retailer GrabAGun, which is set to go public in June.
Ahead of the initial public offer (IPO), the president's son will be joined by anti-woke investor Omeed Malik and GrabAGun CEO Marc Nemati for a lunch and private dinner in Midtown Manhattan next week with hedge fund managers, the New York Post reported.
Trump Jr., an avid hunter and Second Amendment activist, is expected to join GrabAGun's board when the company goes public with the playful stock ticker "PEW."
It's part of an effort to establish conservative businesses that have long been sidelined by "woke" investors. Trump Jr. is also a partner at Mailk's conservative venture capital firm 1789 Capital.
“The gun space has been one of the spaces most attacked by woke corporate America,” Trump told The New York Post in January. "People are more concerned for their security than ever.”
“It shows our business model — we are giving a company that has been ostracized bandwidth to operate,” Trump said.
Trump Jr. previously partnered with Malik to set up Public Square, which bills itself as "America’s largest marketplace and payments ecosystem for consumers and businesses that value life, family, and liberty."
In a similar vein, GrabAGun aims to support the Second Amendment by making it easy to purchase guns and ammo "just like you can on Amazon," Malik said in a recent appearance at the Qatar Economic Forum.
"That’s an entire area that’s been starved of funding in the United States for ideological purposes,” Malik added.
GrabAGun aims to fills a gap in the retail firearms market, which has long been driven by in-store sales even as more Americans, particularly young people, are buying stuff online.
"We no longer shop the way we used to, and the retail firearms market needed a change. We believe people should be able to use their computers, phones, and tablets to shop for firearms the same way they purchase everything else," the company's site says.
GrabAGun will be acquired by Malik's special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), Colombier Acquisition Corp II, which will take the gun retailer public.
Firearms companies have long had a small presence in the stock market - only two famous manufacturers, Smith & Wesson and Ruger, are publicly traded.
When GrabAGun goes public next month, Trump Jr. will have the honor of ringing the ceremonial bell on Wall Street.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
A plan being developed by the administration of President Donald Trump to screen the social media postings of foreign students who want visas to travel to, and study in, the United States has prompted a suspension of embassy appointments for those visas.
A report at CNN explains Secretary of State Marco Rubio has dispatched instructions to U.S. embassies and consulates to pause appointments for those students seeking permissions to come to America.
That's because the department is working to expand "social media screening and vetting" for all applicants.
The announcement comes, the report said, just as the Trump administration has revoked student visas for some students, and further withdrew permission for Harvard to enroll foreign students because of the presence of anti-Semitism on campus, although that decision was temporarily suspended by a judge.
Going on now, the State Department said, was "a review of existing operations and processes for screening and vetting of student and exchange visitor (F, M, J) visa applicants, and based on that review, plans to issue guidance on expanded social media vetting for all such applicants."
A large part of what has been creating problems is the rampant anti-Semitism on some university campuses. Anti-Israel protests have been allowed, and protesters protected, even as Jewish students face discrimination, according to multiple reports.
The cable explained those appointments, as well as the screening and vetting of applicants could have "potentially significant implications for consular section operations, processes and resource allocations."
The instructions are that embassies and consulates are not to add "any additional student or exchange visa … appointment capacity until further guidance is issued." Also, existing appointment openings are to be blocked.
At Politico, a report elaborated, "The administration had earlier imposed some social media screening requirements, but those were largely aimed at returning students who may have participated in protests against Israel's actions in Gaza. The cable doesn't directly spell out what the future social media vetting would screen for, but it alludes to executive orders that are aimed at keeping out terrorists and battling antisemitism."