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according to Erin in the Morning. The anonymous statement Bell read said that the change happened without parental consent, and “goes against our Christian faith, the advice of [their] therapist and quite frankly common sense.”Bell then claimed that the school district was “purposely and secretively transitioning minors.”READ MORE: GOP Candidate Complaining She Wasn’t Allowed to ‘Have Kids Laugh At’ Transgender Students in Viral Video Draws RebukeState Representative Steve Toth—who represents a different district than the school is in—informed Abbott of the complaint in a letter on February 26.

Lia Thomas to compete in 2022.Thomas originally competed for the men’s swim team but competed on the women’s team following her transition.She complied with what NCAA regulations regarding transgender athlete eligibility were at the time, undergoing hormone therapy for a year before competing.In 2022, Thomas began breaking school and meet records, becoming the first transgender woman to win an NCAA swimming championship medal in the Division I women’s 500-yard freestyle event.She also placed fifth in the 200-yard freestyle — tying with Riley Gaines, who has since marshaled her anger over Thomas’ participation into becoming an anti-transgender activist — and eighth in the 100-yard freestyle at the championships.Since taking office, President Trump has promised to direct the Department of Education to investigate schools that allow (or have allowed) transgender athletes to compete on sports teams aligning with their gender identity.Trump made that promise to investigate specific colleges with known cases of transgender athletes while signing an executive order barring transgender females from competing in girls’ and women’s sports.That order threatens to strip funds away from those schools, allowing transgender athletes to participate on female-designated sports teams.The federal money — which came from the Defense Department and the Department of Health and Human Services — was suspended in a separate review of discretionary federal money going to universities, according to a White House official, reports The Associated Press.A senior White House official confirmed to NBC News that the agencies paused the funds specifically because of Thomas’ 2022 participation.

House Bill 675, sponsored by Rep. Caleb Hinkle (R-Belgrade), which sought to ban drag performances and Pride parades in Montana.Hinkle previously sponsored a ban on public performances of a “sexual nature” that was specifically intended to target drag shows and Drag Queen Story Hour-type events (even if they do not contain sexually explicit content).The ban was was struck down by a federal judge as unconstitutional in 2023 on the grounds that it was likely to be enforced against not only drag performers, but “any person who falls outside traditional gender and identity norms.”In his most recent version of the bill, Hinkle included a provision to allow private individuals to sue drag performers for $5,000, plus damages and attorney’s fees, if children are exposed to or attend a drag show — rather than relying on the government to enforce the law against performers.Hinkle’s bill described drag performers as adopting a “hypersexualized” persona, often incorporating “sensual dancing, provocative costuming, striptease, and adult humor” in their acts.Zephyr pushed back against that characterization, as well as past comments from Hinkle describing transgender identity as a “fetish based on crossdressing.”“At its very core, drag is art,” Zephyr said.

recent directive from Secretary of State Marco Rubio that would permanently ban transgender athletes from entering the United States for athletic competitions if they have identity documents with a gender marker that does not align with their assigned sex at birth.It also aligns with an executive order from President Donald Trump declaring that the federal government will only recognize two sexes — male and female — based on a person’s assigned sex at birth.It comes on the heels of a bill introduced last year that banned transgender residents from changing the gender marker on their drivers licenses or birth certificates to align with their gender identity.This year, Republican lawmakers have introduced a separate bill to ban gender-affirming care for all individuals, including adults, after successfully passing a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth two years ago.If passed, the bill could prove problematic for transgender individuals who have had some of their identity documents changed to reflect their gender identity.Moreover, regarding private employers, anybody seeking to have their gender identity recognized at work could be prosecuted under the law. Callie Butcher, the founder of Butcher Legal Group, a Dallas law firm that serves the LGBTQ community, told the Houston Chronicle that while she doesn’t believe Oliverson’s bill will pass, it is consistent with other bills introduced in Texas seeking to erase transgender identity and restrict freedom of expression.

This is Gavin Newsom, in which he seeks to interview “the biggest leaders and architects in the MAGA movement.”In the episode, Newsom interviewed conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk, executive director of the conservative youth-focused Turning Point USA.Newsom asked Kirk what advice he would give to the Democratic Party.“Get better ideas, governor,” Kirk replied, before railing against transgender inclusion in sports, specifically a transgender high school athlete who won the triple jump event at a California track and field invitational.“You, right now, should come out and be like, ‘You know what? The young man who’s about to win the state championship in the long jump in female sports — that shouldn’t happen,'” Kirk said. “You, as the governor, should step out and say, ‘No.'”“I think it’s an issue of fairness,” Newsom replied.

Jo Calderone in 2011.But her drag king persona, who appeared in her “You and I” video and at the 2011 MTV Video Awards, has been retired.“The character is no longer with me,” she told Them. “But I wish Jo all the best.”Still, Gaga — whose eighth studio album, “Mayhem,” drops on Friday — looks back on the era as an important one.“That was actually kind of a big moment for me as a woman to put all the pent-up fear or anger I had about relationships into one character,” she said.“[‘You and I’] was actually, I think, the first video that I ever did where I played multiple me’s, and I brought that back on ‘Mayhem.’ But Jo was an important character for me.

a pair of executive orders from President Donald Trump seeking to criminalize the provision of gender-affirming health care to transgender youth.U.S. District Judge Brendan Hurson, of the District of Maryland, granted a preliminary injunction to the families of several transgender young adults and adolescents whose access to gender-affirming care was disrupted by Trump’s orders.

Defying an executive order from President Donald Trump, a federal judge blocked the U.S. Department of Justice from transferring 12 transgender female inmates to male prisons.The Bureau of Prisons was slated to relocate the inmates to comply with a Trump executive order stating that the U.S.

The Guardian instructs visa officers to enforce a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act that allows the United States to refuse entry to any visa applicant who commits identity fraud or misrepresents who they are.Unlike regular visa denials, anyone violating that section can be permanently refused entry to the United States, effectively constituting a lifelong ban.“In cases where applicants are suspected of misrepresenting their purpose of travel or sex, you should consider whether this misrepresentation is material such that it supports an ineligibility finding,” the directive from U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio reads.The directive comes in response to an executive order from President Donald Trump banning transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports.While signing the order, Trump directed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to deny visas to “men attempting to fraudulently enter the United States while identifying themselves as women athletes” during the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.Trump also pledged that Rubio would tell the International Olympic Committee that America “will not stand by and watch men beat and batter female athletes.”Transgender athletes are already a rare occurrence due to the small percentage of the population that they comprise globally.

died by suicide in 2017, shared their major life update in an Instagram message on Valentine’s Day.“As today is a day to celebrate love and what love truly means, whether it’s for a partner, family, or ourselves, I thought it would be the perfect time to show some love to myself,” Draven wrote.“For a long time, I tried to be someone, someone I truly wasn’t on the inside,” they said. “Ignoring it worked for a while, but continuously coming to the crossroads of being happy or being complacent was one I couldn’t keep crossing.”Draven revealed that in August 2024 they “decided to take the path of happiness and being true to myself” by coming out as transgender. They said they “started hormone replacement therapy, and it has been the best decision I’ve ever made in my life.”“I do have to say I am very blessed to be able to do this, as well as having very supportive family and friends,” Draven continued.

his transgender son on social media, declaring he hasn’t “been relevant since 2007.”Soulja, 34, posted his homophobic and transphobic message on X (formerly known as Twitter) on Wednesday, writing, “That f—-t s–t run in the family huh? @MarlonWayans no wonder u like dressing up as a bitch it’s in ur blood.”The Chicago native accompanied his comments with screenshots from stories published in 2023, one from TMZ and one from Men’s Journal, about Wayans’ support for his transgender son. Over 3 hours later, Wayans, 52, clapped back.“If @souljaboy had a career he could get cancelled for this type of slander,” the “White Chicks” star wrote on X along with a screenshot of the rapper’s post. “Luckily he ain’t been relevant since 2007.”Soulja rose to fame in ’07 with the release of his song “Crank That (Soulja Boy)” which spent 7 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100.

claims the five school districts are violating President Donald Trump’s recent executive order preventing schools that receive federal funds from affirming trans students’ gender identities.The group says that if all five jurisdictions are found to have violated Title IX and still refuse to end their gender-affirming policies, then those school districts should be stripped of all federal funds. “In each of those school districts, a ‘gender expansive or transgender student’ has access to the sex-segregated common restrooms and locker rooms of the opposite sex because it is consistent with their ability to be safe and comfortable in their subjective sense of ‘gender identity,'” the complaint reads.“But when other students whose ‘gender identity’ is the same as their biological sex object on the grounds that they now feel unsafe and uncomfortable in the common sex-segregated restrooms and locker rooms that have traditionally been designated exclusively for their sex, those students’ only option is to use a private restroom or an alternative that ‘minimize[s] the loss of instructional time.’“In other words, the relevant policies provide greater rights to students whose ‘gender identity’ does not match their biological sex than it does to students whose ‘gender identity’ matches their biological sex.

Sarah Hagi earlier this month.In one 2020 tweet posted in Spanish and translated by USA Today, Gascón wrote: “Sorry, is it just me or are there more Muslims in Spain? Every time I pick up my daughter from school there are more women with their hair covered and their skirts down to their heels. Next year instead of English, we’ll have to teach Arabic.”The exposed posts come amid Gascón’s film “Emilia Pérez” being one of the most critically acclaimed movies of 2024.“Emilia Pérez” led the Oscar race this year with 13 nominations, coming up only one nod shy of tying the record for most-ever nominations for a movie.

inspiring documentary, “Will & Harper,” from the 2025 nominations list.“Ask me if we got Oscar-nominated,” Ferrell said to Stephen Colbert on a recent episode of “The Late Show.”“It’s such a good documentary, it’s one of the best documentaries I’ve seen in years,” Colbert, 60, told Ferrell.“It was beautiful, it was timely, it was heartfelt, I was inspired by it,” Colbert continued, before asking, “Tell me, how was the Oscar nomination?”“We didn’t get it,” Ferrell bluntly said. Colbert told Ferrell he was sorry about the snub, adding, “Well, f–k those guys, right?”“I know, right? Thank you,” Ferrell said.“F–k the academy.

Variety reported on how Cumberbatch, best known for playing Doctor Strange in Marvel movies and the titular detective in “Sherlock,” cringed at having played a non-binary fashion model named “All” in the “Zoolander” sequel.In the 2016 comedy, the two main characters, played by Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson, meet the character named “All” and immediately have questions.The character, with shaved eyebrows and an androgynous appearance, is asked by Stiller’s character, “So… are you, like, a male model or a female model?”“All is not defined by binary constructs,” Cumberbatch’s character replies.“That’s cool, I don’t like labels either,” Wilson’s character says. “But I think he’s asking, ‘Do you have a hot dog or a bun? You have a wiener or a ‘vageener’?”This and other awkward moments featuring this character were condemned by liberal critics.“I’ve had to apologize for that quite a lot.

The Hollywood Reporter, Gascón responded to the massive public backlash by setting up an interview with CNN en Español, “without the involvement of anyone working on the film, which was distributed by Netflix.”The performer offered, “my most sincere apologies to all the people who may have felt offended by the ways I express myself in my past, in my present and in my future,” but vowed not to step down from the nomination during the tearful interview.“I cannot renounce a nomination because what I have done is a job and what is being valued is my acting work,” Gascón told anchor Juan Carlos Arciniegas, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “And I cannot renounce a nomination either because I have not committed any crime nor have I harmed anyone.

international travel advisory page. The department’s “International Travel” section on the website, which used to be designated for “LGBTQI+” travelers, now only denotes “LGB Travelers”“LGB travelers can face special challenges abroad,” the website reads.

Oscar nomination, but now she’s under fire as her past social media comments have resurfaced. The Spanish star’s controversial posts on X, formerly Twitter, have since been deleted, but they were preserved in screenshots shared by journalist Sarah Hagi earlier this week.According to Variety, in a 2021 post reacting to that year’s Oscars, Gascón wrote, “More and more the #Oscars are looking like a ceremony for independent and protest films, I didn’t know if I was watching an Afro-Korean festival, a Black Lives Matter demonstration or the 8M.

banned from using the women’s bathroom and other sex-specific facilities in the Capitol complex.According to an anonymous Republican member of Congress who spoke to the Daily Beast, Boebert was allegedly overheard telling other members on the House floor that she found McBride inside the ladies’ room.The GOP member claimed that Boebert told other members of Congress that she had confronted McBride, allegedly telling her, “You shouldn’t be here.”It turned out that Boebert never confronted McBride, because McBride never entered the women’s bathroom.Instead, the hullabaloo about the person in the women’s bathroom appears to have been a case of mistaken identity.Billy House, a reporter for Bloomberg, reported on X that, on January 23, he witnessed Boebert “bursting out of the House Women’s restroom…complaining to security personnel stationed in the nearby Speaker’s Lobby of ‘a guy’ inside the bathroom.“Intrigued, I stuck around to see who would emerge from the bathroom…and saw just 4 other people leave, all women. Within minutes, however, Boebert was storming back from the House floor into the restroom, — reinforced by Rep.

Folk artist Lucy Dacus recently announced she is donating to individuals seeking transgender medical operations in an apparent attempt to get back at President Trump’s executive orders regarding gender and transgender individuals.Dacus, who is one-third of the Grammy-winning all-female music group “boygenius,” told her X followers on Wednesday that she will give $500 to each person who comments on her status with a link to donate to their transitions, up to $10,000.“If trans people wanna comment surgery gofundmes, I’m gonna give away 10k in $500 increments until it’s gone, & if other people wanna scroll through and make donations, please do,” Dacus wrote.“The government will never be the source of our validation or protection, we have to do it ourselves,” the singer added, signaling she made the offer as a political protest.Dacus’ post came two days after President Trump signed an executive order, titled, “Defending women from gender ideology extremism and restoring biological truth to the federal government.”The EO clarifies that it is U.S. policy to recognize two sexes, male and female and that men and women are biologically distinct, along with addressing how agencies should handle these directives.Left-wing critics slammed Trump’s order immediately.

order, the U.S. government will no longer recognize transgender identity as valid.Instead, it will recognize only two sexes, male and female, which Trump has declared “not changeable” and “grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.”The order defines “male” and “female” according to biological characteristics and a person’s ability to reproduce.Females are defined as those who, “at conception,” are biologically capable of producing “the large reproductive cell,” or eggs.