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The U.S. Department of Education building in Washington, D.C.

Trump administration to investigate Virginia school districts over transgender policies

Feb 18, 2025

By Tyler Arnold

The inquiry into the five northern Virginia school divisions marks the first formal investigation into whether schools are complying with... Read more

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Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump ban on transgender surgeries for minors

Feb 13, 2025

By Madalaine Elhabbal

The move comes after a group of seven families with transgender-identifying children filed a lawsuit challenging the executive order earlier... Read more

President Donald J. Trump signs an executive order banning transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports in the East Room at the White House on Feb. 5, 2025, in Washington, D.C.

Catholic bishops praise Trump’s executive order barring men from women’s sports

Feb 7, 2025

By Tyler Arnold

“We welcome the president’s executive order that protects opportunities for women and girls to compete in sports safely and fairly,”... Read more

Members of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, biological women’s sports activist Riley Gaines, and lawyers from the Independent Women’s Law Center approach the 10th Circuit Courthouse in Denver on May 14, 2024.

NCAA bans men from women’s sports following Trump’s executive order

Feb 6, 2025

By Tyler Arnold

A new NCAA policy that went into effect on Thursday afternoon states that biological men are no longer eligible to... Read more

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention site changed the title of an article called “Safer Food Choices for Pregnant People” to “Safer Food Choices for Pregnant Women.”

Federal government scrubs transgender language from websites

Feb 4, 2025

By Tessa Gervasini

Trump issued the order “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government” on his... Read more

New York Attorney General Letitia James addresses a campaign rally at Barnard College in New York City on Nov. 3, 2022.

New York moves to protect transgender surgeries, abortion

Feb 4, 2025

By Daniel Payne

Lawmakers and officials in New York state are implementing moving to protect transgender surgeries and abortion doctors following a Trump... Read more

Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., “paused prescriptions of puberty blockers and hormone therapy” for transgender-identifying youth there in response to a Trump directive.

Children’s hospitals suspend youth transgender programs after Trump order

Feb 3, 2025

By Daniel Payne

President Donald Trump last week issued an executive order restricting transgender surgeries and drugs for youth. Read more

Bishop Robert Barron is the founder of Word on Fire, a media apostolate focused on evangelization.

Bishop Barron applauds Trump’s order banning sex-change surgeries for minors

Jan 30, 2025

By Madalaine Elhabbal

“So many young people who have been victims of this ideological crusade have profound regrets over its life altering consequences,”... Read more

An aerial view of the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., May 11, 2021.

Trump signs order barring transgender-identifying soldiers from military service

Jan 28, 2025

By Tyler Arnold

The order says any person who expresses “a false ‘gender identity’ divergent from an individual’s sex cannot satisfy the rigorous... Read more

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New York Supreme Court upholds ‘common sense’ law barring men from women’s sports

Jan 22, 2025

By Kate Quiñones

The judge ruled against a women’s roller derby league that had sought to block a Nassau County law banning men... Read more

President Donald Trump holds an executive order he just signed during the inaugural parade inside Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025.

Trump signs executive order affirming ‘biological reality of sex’

Jan 21, 2025

By Peter Laffin

The order officially affirms that “women are biologically female, and men are biologically male,” and overturns an array of transgender-related... Read more

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House passes bill to block males from competing in girls’ and women’s sports

Jan 14, 2025

By Tyler Arnold

The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025 would deny federal funding to schools that permits biological... Read more

The U.S. Department of Education building in Washington, D.C.

Court strikes down Biden’s Title IX ‘gender identity’ rule nationwide

Jan 9, 2025

By Tyler Arnold

The court’s decision to strike down the rule is being hailed as a major victory by opponents of the regulation. Read more

Parents protest the Montgomery County School Board's policy blocking them from opting out their children from pro-homosexual and transgender materials.

Poll finds most parents, including Catholics, oppose transgender ideology in schools

Jan 8, 2025

By Tyler Arnold

Nearly three-fourths of Catholic parents surveyed also oppose biological males on girls’ sports teams and nearly 60% oppose biological males... Read more

President-elect Donald Trump speaks during Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center on Dec. 22, 2024, in Phoenix.

Trump vows executive action ‘on Day 1’ to end ‘transgender lunacy’

Dec 23, 2024

By Tyler Arnold

“With the stroke of my pen, on Day 1, we’re going to stop the transgender lunacy,” President-elect Donald Trump said... Read more

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British government makes puberty blocker ban for kids permanent

Dec 12, 2024

By Tyler Arnold

The decision is based on “independent expert advice from the Commission on Human Medicines,” which determined “there is currently an... Read more

Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy (third from the left, with president of ABC Entertainment Karey Burke, Caitlin Jenner,  and producer Jane Cha Cutler at at fundraiser event for the Center for Transyouth Health and Development-Children's Hospital on Feb. 1, 2020) is being sued by a woman who says she was rushed into a gender transition.

Woman alleges doctors ‘fast-tracked’ her into gender transition as preteen, files lawsuit

Dec 11, 2024

By Tyler Arnold

The lawsuit, filed by UCLA student Kaya Clementine Breen, claims that “her body has been profoundly damaged in ways that... Read more

Ryan Clarke, Harrison Tinsley, and Adam Vena, who have each faced custody battles over their opposition to transgender ideology, rally on the steps of the United States Supreme Court with activist and detransitioner Chloe Cole on Dec. 4, 2024.

Fathers who lost their children to gender ideology: ‘I feel so betrayed’

Dec 7, 2024

By Madalaine Elhabbal

Demonstrating alongside activists, lawmakers, and medical professionals, the three men shared their stories with CNA. Read more

Activist and detransitioner Chloe Cole was among the speakers at a rally on the steps of the United States Supreme Court on Dec. 4, 2024, as justices heard oral arguments in a challenge to a Tennessee law banning transgender surgeries for minors.

Detransitioner Chloe Cole, Matt Walsh speak at rally on the steps of the Supreme Court 

Dec 5, 2024

By Madalaine Elhabbal

Tensions were high at times, as a rally organized by a coalition of trans-rights activists shared the space outside the... Read more

U.S. national and rainbow flags are pictured on the U.S. embassy in Moscow on June 30, 2022.

Trump could reverse State Department, USAID’s efforts to push gender ideology, abortion

Dec 5, 2024

By Tyler Arnold

Under President Joe Biden’s administration, officials have used USAID and DOS to promote transgenderism and other elements of gender ideology... Read more