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A Minnesota appeals court ruled Monday a school district cannot bar students who claim to identify as the opposite sex from using bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender identity.

California lawmakers are poised to pass legislation allowing biological men to be put into the women’s prison population.

Opposition to men who identify as women competing in sports against biological females is growing according to polls in the U.S. and the U.K.

Many gays and fellow left-wingers took to Twitter to condemn the statement by gay actor George Takei that defending biological sex makes people sound “scientifically ignorant” and “elevate[s] transphobia.” Takei, who played Sulu on Star Trek and has since become

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling made waves on Saturday after publicly defending the concept of biological sex — a scientific truth largely rejected by the left — explaining to her 14.5 million Twitter followers that it “isn’t hate to speak the truth.”

The Idaho Senate voted Monday to approve the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act (HB 500a), which would ban biological males who identify as female from competing on girls’ and women’s athletic teams.

Ben Carson told the House Appropriations Committee the rights of transgender individuals do not trump those of abused women in federally-funded homeless shelters.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) is updating its handbook to include an expansive section on transgender church members that states “gender” is “biological sex at birth.”

A federal appeals court sided with a school district’s “student safety plan” that allows students to use bathrooms corresponding to gender identity.

Elites’ reckless applause for transgenderism is a massive medical threat to vulnerable kids who may otherwise grow up as gay or lesbian, says an op-ed by two university biologists.

The New Hampshire House Education Committee will hold a public hearing on Tuesday on HB 1251, legislation to protect female athletic programs from men, or transgender women, who want to compete in girls’ and women’s sporting events.

Rep. John Fillmore, a Republican Arizona state senator, is introducing bills to secure the practice of using biological pronouns in schools.

Republican lawmakers in five states are drafting bills to prevent high school students from participating in sports based gender identity.

The once prestigious Lancet medical journal argues this week that appeals to “biological sex” over gender are misguided because “sex, as much as gender, is culturally contingent.”

No reliable scientific evidence exists to prove “transgender” children benefit from impersonating the opposite sex or puberty blockers.

A conservative group has released a second ad attacking Kentucky Democrat gubernatorial candidate Andy Beshear for his support of biological men competing in women’s sports.

Multiple polls show many Americans are willing to support fellow Americans who say they are transgender — but the polls also show that generic support drops sharply whenever voters face specific trade-offs and dilemmas.

All but seven House Democrats voted Friday for a bill which ends legal and civic rights for women by allowing men who say they are transgender to freely use women’s legal rights, sports leagues, institutions, and private spaces.

A weightlifting league has revoked awards to a transgender athlete who claimed to have broken several women’s weightlifting records.

A Pentagon official championed President Donald Trump’s requirement that the sex of transgender soldiers be decided by their biology, not by their claimed “gender identity.”

Abortion vendor Planned Parenthood, which considers Mike Pence to be among its most fervent enemies, has released a list of suggested holiday presents for the pro-life vice president.

The American Medical Association (AMA) will place gender ideology above biological science as it adopts a new policy that affirms the “medical spectrum of gender.”

Education secretary Betsy DeVos “is not eager” to go along with other departments in the Trump administration regarding the possible establishment of a legal definition of sex that would ensure individuals’ identification as either male or female, says a new report.

“This was the preamble, if you will, to the transgender movement,” Van Meter said, adding, nevertheless, that the Hopkins program closed down because “it was basically a failure.”

Americans who recognize the central role played by biology in shaping human needs and desires are applauding a report by the New York Times that the administration will roll back President Barack Obama’s establishment of the transgender ideology.

The U.S. Education Department will not investigate complaints by transgender students who are barred from entering the bathrooms and locker rooms designated for the opposite biological sex, a report says.

A new study released at UCLA finds “gender nonconforming” young people in California are more than twice as likely to have psychological problems than those comfortable with their biological sex.

A new study released at UCLA finds 27 percent of California’s young people between the ages of 12 and 17 self-report that others view them as “gender nonconforming” at school.

A Texas border college teamed up with a local physicians group to fill a need for transgender health care in the Rio Grande Valley. The result is a “gender care” clinic and among the patients they serve are a community of transgender migrants.

A Federal Circuit court ruled today that a local Virginia school board violated the law by not allowing a girl to use the boys’ restroom.