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President Donald Trump announced when he took office that the official policy of the U.S. government would be to recognize two sexes, male and female, a move that disrupted the pro-transgender ideology in many venues, including in American government programs and offices.

And he may even have had an influence overseas.

A report from the Christian Institute cites a Yougov polling that shows advocacy for "trans" rights across Great Britain has decreased "across the board."

The survey interviewed some 2,000 adults on issues ranging from medical "treatments" to men demanding to participate in women's sports, and the presence of males in intimate areas for women, such as locker rooms.

It revealed a majority say that certain "trans" rights actually are "a genuine risk of harm" to women.

And across the board, in all age groups, opposition to allowing people to legally "change" their sex has increased.

Actually, following the science, no one can "change" their sex since being male or female is embedded in the human body down to the DNA level, but activists in the campaign dress, act and portray themselves as the sex they are not.

The report added, "Opposition among the young has actively grown," and is up 16 points to 36%.

"The survey found that almost two in five Britons personally know someone who identifies as transgender, with noticeable differences across generations: 'While 53% of 18-24 year olds say they know someone transgender, this falls with each successive age group, reaching 26% of those aged 65 and above,'" the report said.

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Lawsuit targets officials for allowing a male to be on the women's volleyball team at San Jose State

A federal judge based in the leftist enclave of Colorado has refused to remove himself from a case concerning transgenderism despite his own court rules that call for all participants in cases to use the "proper" pronouns in his courtroom. And his decision should be appealed to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the plaintiffs say.

The issue of "proper" pronouns is one of the strategic points used by advocates for transgenderism, in which various authorities require others to call a man who says he is a woman "she."

The report comes from the Cowboy State Daily about the advocacy for transgenderism adopted by S. Kato Crews, a judge based in Colorado, who has imposed those pronoun requirements in his court.

At the same time, he is refusing to remove himself from a lawsuit by members of the University of Wyoming volleyball team who are among multiple plaintiffs suing the Mountain West Conference and its officials for allowing a male to be on the women's volleyball team at San Jose State.

The report explained, "The women are now trying to appeal that decision to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, according to an argument they filed Wednesday."

They had charged, based on his expression of his ideology, that Crews was harboring bias and infringing on their speech.

The report notes: "Crews' rule required parties in his court to refer to people by their preferred pronouns. But Crews told the plaintiffs early in the case, at a Nov. 20 status conference, that he wouldn't require them to call Fleming 'she' in accordance with the rule. He only asked them to be professional and respectful when speaking about Fleming, according to the judge's order."

The order concerned Blaire Fleming, a man who presents himself as a woman, who was on the San Jose State team.

Crews imposed his requirements, with, "I do want to make clear, though, that the parties should not construe my use of she/her pronouns (for Fleming) as any indication that the Court has prejudged any issues in this case."

He claimed that courts all over use "preferred pronouns" "out of courtesy."

But Crews' ruling has a "chilling effect' on speech in the courtroom, the plaintiffs argue.

Their lawyer told the court that the ruling is unconstitutional, whether it's enforced or not, the report explained.

He said, "The court's statements do not eliminate or address the constitutional questions raised by plaintiffs."

There are issues, the plaintiffs explained, of viewpoint discrimination, prior restraint and more.

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Retail mega-giant Amazon has taken action after blatant anti-Semitism was revealed inside its operations.

That's according to a report from the American Center for Law and Justice, which described how a client was attacked and hurt.

The legal team called the actions "a significant victory" against anti-Semitism.

"Our client, an author, received a shocking package from Amazon, as we discussed here previously. Upon opening her order of 10 books (published through Kindle Direct Publishing), our client discovered that the books about her father, a Holocaust survivor, had been blatantly defaced with anti-Semitic hate scrawled in thick black ink across the pages throughout. This deliberate act of harassment was not only personally distressing to our client, but it also represented a direct attack on her faith and Jewish identity. Every copy had been defaced with anti-Semitic slurs and threatening messages like 'Zionism kills Jews' and 'From the River to the Sea Palestine Will be Free.' The statements defaced the personal memoir she had written about her father's experience of the Holocaust," the organization revealed.

The author, not identified in the report, contacted Amazon and originally nothing happened.

But the ACLJ dispatched a demand letter, "calling for accountability and appropriate remedies," the ACLJ said.

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The future of the world order is hanging by a thread — and you need to know what's coming next!

Wake up! Putin isn't stopping at Ukraine—he wants to rebuild the Russian Empire, and if he succeeds, NATO could collapse, China could take Taiwan, and Iran could dominate the Middle East. Clifford May exposes the terrifying truth: America's weakness is fueling global chaos, and the Biden administration's half-measures are playing right into Putin's hands. Could Trump's hard-hitting economic warfare be the only way to force Putin into a ceasefire? Or will the West keep sleepwalking into disaster? The future of the world order is hanging by a thread—and you need to know what's coming next!

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'When you mess with our children, all other issues instantly become trivial. It is primal'

Progressives long ago took over teachers' unions and many school districts. They have their own ideologies and agendas, mostly far-left and extreme such as promoting the transgender segment of the LGBT lifestyle choices,, and fight parental rights in a multitude of ways.

They threaten catastrophes should moms and dads suddenly be assigned vouchers that would allow them to choose a private school over a public school. Parents, they charge, should not even necessarily be allowed to speak about the teachers' agendas, and have silenced them at school board meetings.

One radical, now former, school board member in Iowa claimed, "The purpose of a public ed is to not teach kids what the parents want. It is to teach them what society needs them to know. The client is not the parent, but the community."

And that agenda, if unchanged, according to a constitutional expert suddenly sharing his own feelings on the issue, will lead to a revolution of untold magnitude.

"Progressives' shock over the results of the last election could prove a prelude to what is coming if they continue down this road. There is no more powerful identity than that of a parent. When you mess with our children, all other issues instantly become trivial. It is not just passionate. It is primal," explained Jonathan Turley, the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University.

He's considered a constitutional expert, having testified before Congress on the subject, having represented Congress in court on related issues, and much more. He's also a parent.

"Many politicians are terrified of defying the far-left teachers unions. They and these 'experts' have no inkling of what is coming," he said.

His comments were prompted by a wild decision from the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that parents don't have the right to know if a school is indoctrinating their child into a transgender lifestyle choice.

That, he said, "could become the defining issue for many in the coming years. It is also a type of cultural war over what many of us view as a natural right over the raising of our children."

The 1st Circuit case was brought by Marissa Silvestri and Stephen Foote against Baird Middle School in Ludlow, Mass., "after they learned that school administrators did not inform them that their 11-year-old child had self declared as 'genderqueer' and that teachers and staff were using a new name and new pronouns for the student."

That all was concealed from them. In fact, school employees secretly "arranged for changes in everything from the use of male bathrooms to the exclusive use of the child's new name in class," he reported.

"In a truly Orwellian line, the [appeals] judges declared, 'As per our understanding of Supreme Court precedent, our pluralistic society assigns those curricular and administrative decisions to the expertise of school officials, charged with the responsibility of educating children,'" Turley noted.

"Most of us must have missed that memo. Few would believe that sending our children to a public school means we have transferred the most fundamental parental rights to 'experts' on rearing our children. We understand that schools need to maintain certain standards and conduct. However, changing the gender of a child is a bit more weighty than requiring a school uniform or stipulating nutritional choices in school lunches," he said.

Further "The Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment guarantees citizens that no state shall 'deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.' There is no part of our lives more valuable to most of us than our children."

He shared, "I remember when we had our first child and were escorted out of the hospital by a nurse. After helping my wife to the car, I turned around and was handed a swaddled bundle with a baby inside. The nurse then walked away as I stood there in a moment of utter panic. We were given a small human being at the curbside with the level of preparation of a Starbucks latte. I stood there looking at my son Ben with the same level of confidence that I would have had if handed a small nuclear device and then tasked with defusing it. You soon realize that you are all in."

And that's the difference, he said.

"Our children had us at hello. The moment that bundle was put in my arms, I changed. I was a dad and all of the prior priorities in my life suddenly became irrelevant. No one told me at the hospital carport that he was ours until he is old enough to be turned over to the expertise of public school officials. The fact is, by the time our kids go to school, we are the experts of that child. While teachers clearly have important training and expertise, they do not know that child. Not really. They were not there to perform monster inspections at 3 a.m. or to wrestle with a goat who decided to eat his favorite blankie at a petting zoo. They do not know that look when he is panicked or that curious smile when he is near tears. These experts took Child Development 101. We have a Ph.D. in our kids, a developmental dissertation on late-night fevers, sibling fights and orthodontic bills."

He said the Foote case needs to be moved up to the U.S. Supreme Court, for a ruling on a trend among education industry personalities who are making parents more and more alarmed.

"Faced with declining educational achievement and rising social agendas, many families are leaving public schools and others are demanding school choice in the form of vouchers. At the same time, there is growing support for a Parents Bill of Rights. The Trump administration can work with Congress to condition federal funding on schools' respect for parental rights, even if the courts do not protect such rights," he said.

"There is no greater natural right than the right to control the upbringing of our children. This right was not granted to us by the grace of the state. It rests with us as human beings. It is part of a panoply of natural rights embraced by the framers − a commitment made nearly 250 years ago in our Declaration of Independence," he said.

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A legal group is urging government officials to investigate an Ohio college it says is violating a state law and federal Title IX by forcing female students to share restrooms with men.

America First Legal, or AFL, has written to both the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights and Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, asking them to investigate Kenyon College, a private school located in Gambier, Ohio.

AFL notes that on Feb. 12, Kenyon President Julie Kornfeld and top administrators issued a statement saying, "[t]he law prohibits Kenyon from knowingly permitting members of the 'male biological sex' to use multi-occupancy student restrooms, locker rooms, changing rooms or shower rooms designated for use by members of the 'female biological sex,' and vice versa."

Kornfeld, however, says that no changes would be made to multi-occupancy restrooms in administrative and academic buildings on campus, claiming that these restrooms "are not considered student restrooms within the meaning of the Ohio law, as they are not, and cannot be, designated for use exclusively by students."

America First Legal asserts, "Kenyon's policy forces women to share intimate facilities in all academic and admissions buildings on campus with men."

According to AFL, the new law, signed by Gov. Mike DeWine in November, "explicitly prohibits academic institutions from constructing, establishing, or maintaining a multi-occupancy restrooms that are not designated for either men or women."

The organization also appealed to President Trump's executive order "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government," which establishes that there are only two sexes, male and female, and that intimate spaces are determined by biological sex, not by "identity," and must be designated accordingly.

Will Scolinos, AFL counsel, stated, "Ohio law is clear: multi-occupancy restrooms must be designated for either men or women. Schools of higher education should focus more on educating students rather than re-educating them into radical gender policies that require students, men and women, to share the same restrooms. It is not normal. America First Legal will to stand up for the rule of law for all Americans – the fight requires undoing the damage caused by radical administrators at institutions of 'higher education' and making common sense common again."

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A New Jersey hospital is raising eyebrows over a form it asks parents of newborns to complete that includes questions about the baby's "gender identity" and "sexual orientation" – a requirement of state law.

The law was passed in 2022 as a means to collect information about patients in hospitals around the state – and newborns are officially "patients" in health care facilities.

As reported at New Jersey 101.5, last week, the "Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Questionnaire" distributed at an Inspira Health hospital caught the attention of state Assemblywoman Holly Schepisi, a Republican.

The form asks parents if their newborn baby is lesbian or gay, straight, bisexual, or questioning, and also if their offspring is male, female, transgender, genderqueer, or another gender not on the list.

"Medical providers, laboratories and hospitals are being forced to provide the questionnaire below to NEWBORN patients," Schepisi said on Facebook. "While completely and utterly insane, these facilities are doing so to comply with another nonsensical law."

The law (A4385/S2933) requires hospitals "to collect race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity in a culturally competent and sensitive manner" – yet makes no exemption for age.

In a statement to NJ.com, Inspira spokesman Paul Simon said the hospital was following the law.

"Inspira Health, along with every other acute care hospital in New Jersey, is required by New Jersey law and the State of New Jersey Department of Health to request their patients provide their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender identity," Simon said.

"You may not want to believe it's real but it is, and on the upside at least you deep down now understand how absurd things have become in New Jersey," Schepisi told New Jersey 101.5.

The Republican vowed to introduce a bill to rescind the requirement.

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A rapper is singing a politically incorrect tune as he says Black Lives Matter is "literally a scam."

The singer is Lil Yachty who made the comment during an appearance on a cooking show with Quenlin Blackwell.

During the pair's kitchen discussion, Blackwell asked Lil Yachty: "You spent $100,000 on a trip to Disney once. How much have you spent on charitable causes this year?"

"It's just blurry, I've been doing so much," the rapper said.

"BLM?" asked Blackwell.

"BLM is a scam," the rapper said matter of factly.

"BLM was, it was literally a scam. They had bought mansions. You probably wouldn't know anything about it because you don't care about black people."

Blackwell responded as she caressed her arms: "I do care about black people. Look at my chocolate. You're mad."

"It's a disguise," the rapper quipped.

"I think I'm literally the most pro-black person in this room," she added.

"Because you have an all-white staff?" the singer asked.

"They're not white. They're P.O.C. [persons of color]," Blackwell replied.

Just this week, Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House in Washington, D.C., was being dismantled by the city after the local government agreed to retire it due to federal funding threats from Congress.

In 2021, Patrice Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, departed from her role as the organization's executive director amid reports of enriching herself.

Cullors "decried what she called a smear campaign from a far-right group, but said neither that nor recent criticism from other black organizers influenced her departure," the AP reported.

BLM Global Network had previously offered a vigorous defense for Cullors in April 2021 after reports revealed she had purchased four homes across the country for a total of $3.2 million since 2016.

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Infowars founder Alex Jones has announced the murder of investigative reporter Jamie White.

The Austin American-Statesman reported the death may have been by criminals who were burglarizing his vehicle.

The Austin Police Department said White was found lying on the ground in a parking lot of the apartment complex where he lived.

He was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.

"We pledge that Jamie's tragic death will not be in vain, and those responsible for this senseless violence will be brought to justice," Jones said.

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Asking Supreme Court to cancel mandatory lessons for 3-year-olds about sex worker

There likely are few issues on which Jewish, Christian and Muslim parents – and a wide range of others interested in constitutional issues – are in alignment. But there is at least one.

That would be to fight a school's scheme to force mandatory LGBT indoctrination lessons on children as young as three years old without even letting parents know.

The fight is over demands by officials in the Montgomery County, Maryland, Board of Education who adopted their mandatory secret indoctrination program for children, drawing opposition from Jewish, Christian and Muslim parents represented by Becket.

And now dozens of members of Congress, officials from 26 states and a wide array of legal scholars have joined the multi-faith coalition of parents.

Becket explains the school officials not only adopted a program to push a "one-sided ideology on gender and sexuality" on children as young as three, the board then "took away parental notice and opt-outs for storybooks that celebrate gender transitioning, pride parades, and pronoun preferences."

That means the district will force children to sit through such indoctrinations, and it won't even allow the parents to know about it.

According to Becket, "The new 'inclusivity' books were announced in 2022 for students in pre-K through fifth grade. Instead of focusing on basic principles of respect and kindness, however, the books champion controversial ideology around gender and sexuality. For example, one book tasks three and four-year-olds to search for images from a word list that includes 'intersex flag,' 'drag queen,' 'underwear,' 'leather,' and the name of a celebrated LGBTQ activist and sex worker. Another book advocates a child-knows-best approach to gender transitioning, telling students that a decision to transition doesn't have to 'make sense.' Teachers are instructed to say doctors only 'guess' when identifying a newborn's sex anyway."

Then the board summarily canceled all plans that would allow parents to have notice, and opt children out, a move Becket described as a violation of Maryland law, the board's own policies, and the advice of its own principals.

Joining the parents now is the solicitor general of the United States, whose brief explains the "obvious" violation of parental religious rights by the board.

Then a coalition of 26 states filed a brief in support of the parents, citing the longstanding national standard of protecting parental direction for their children on such issues.

The 66 members of Congress who joined the parents explained the requirements of federal law regarding the issue, and nearly three dozens members of the Maryland legislature said state law "requires affording religious families notice and opt-outs from this instruction."

A group of 10 different religious organizations warned about infringing on the Constitution's provisions for free exercise with the school move, and a dozen state family institutes warn about the role "authority" figures in schools have in influencing family religious traditions.

"Legal historians Eric DeGroff and Ernie Walton show the long historical tradition of protecting parental religious authority over their child's education, including in the public school context," Becket said. And, "Prominent legal groups including America First Legal Foundation and Americans for Prosperity explain the lack of historical pedigree for the controversial and one-sided instruction here, and how it goes beyond the delegated authority of parents to their public schools."

"As this outpouring of support makes clear, parents don't take a backseat to anyone when it comes to raising their kids," said Eric Baxter, vice president and senior counsel at Becket. "Montgomery County's decision to run roughshod over parental rights betrays our nation's traditions and common sense. The justices should restore the opt-out and allow parents to raise their children according to their beliefs."

The case is scheduled to be argued April 22.