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Arkansas Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks at the annual CPAC D.C. conference at the Gaylord National Resort in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025.

Arkansas enacts religious freedom protections for adoptive parents, faith-based agencies

Apr 14, 2025

By Madalaine Elhabbal

The Keep Kids First Act provides religious freedom protections to both prospective parents and faith-based adoption and foster care organizations. Read more

Kansas Capitol in Topeka.

Veto override: Kansas law will guard adoptive parents’ religious liberty

Apr 10, 2025

By Tyler Arnold

Kansas lawmakers voted to override Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of a bill that will protect the religious liberty of adoptive... Read more

National Institutes of Health building in Washington, D.C.

Trump White House directs NIH to study ‘regret’ following gender transition treatments

Apr 7, 2025

By Tessa Gervasini

The administration is ordering the NIH to resume some transgender research but with the goal of examining potential negative consequences... Read more

South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden.

South Dakota governor signs bill to keep men out of girls’ locker rooms, restrooms

Mar 21, 2025

By Tyler Arnold

“South Dakota is a place where common sense values remain common, and these bills reinforce that fact,” South Dakota Gov.... Read more

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Bill banning men from women’s showers, spaces in jails signed into law in Mississippi

Mar 21, 2025

By Tyler Arnold

The legislation prohibits men who self-identify as transgender women from accessing women’s changing rooms, restrooms, showers, sleeping quarters, and other... Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 4, 2025, as Vice Preseident JD Vance (back left) and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (back right) look on.

In joint session address, Trump urges Congress to continue fight against transgenderism

Mar 5, 2025

By Tyler Arnold

“I want Congress to pass a bill banning and criminalizing sex changes on children and forever ending the lie that... Read more

Members and guests on the floor of the House during a joint session of Congress.

Trump’s guests at joint session of Congress to highlight gender ideology and crime

Mar 4, 2025

By Tyler Arnold

In Trump’s first address to Congress in his second term, the president will focus on the theme of “The Renewal... Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump reacts to the crowd while arriving at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel and Convention Center on Feb. 22, 2025, in Oxon Hill, Maryland.

Trump celebrates end to ‘transgender insanity’ with thousands at CPAC

Feb 22, 2025

By Tyler Arnold

U.S. President Donald Trump celebrated an end to what he called “transgender insanity” during his Feb. 22 speech to the... Read more

Moms for America President Kimberly Fletcher.

CPAC speakers hail school choice, end of gender ideology in public schools

Feb 22, 2025

By Tyler Arnold

“The public education system in America has literally failed the American people,” said Erika Donalds of the Independent Women’s Forum... Read more

American Principles Project President Terry Schilling.

CPAC: Social conservatives shift from playing defense to offense

Feb 21, 2025

By Tyler Arnold

Social conservatives at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference said they are relishing the opportunity to switch from a defensive... Read more

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies during his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Jan. 29, 2025, in Washington, D.C.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. issues Health and Human Services guidance: ‘There are only two sexes’

Feb 20, 2025

By Kate Quiñones

The announcement comes in the wake of President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14168, which affirmed the biological reality of sex. Read more

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

U.S. defense secretary pauses allowing transgender troops to enter the military

Feb 11, 2025

By Tyler Arnold

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth issued a memorandum outlining the new policy on Friday, Feb. 7, which was made public... Read more

Demonstrators 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.

Justice Department ends lawsuit against Tennessee law banning transgender surgeries

Feb 7, 2025

By Tyler Arnold

In a letter written to the clerk of the United States Supreme Court, Deputy Solicitor General Curtis E. Gannon said... Read more

President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House.

Trump signs executive order keeping men out of women’s sports 

Feb 5, 2025

By Kate Quiñones

“With this executive order, the war on women’s sports is over,” Trump said as, surrounded by young female athletes, he... Read more

St. Josephine Bakhita Parish in St. Louis, Missouri.

St. Louis Archdiocese rebukes pastor’s comments opposing ban on transgender treatments

Feb 5, 2025

By Jonah McKeown

Father Mitchell Doyen, pastor at St. Josephine Bakhita Parish in north St. Louis City, testified that the bills “are dehumanizing... Read more

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Trump signs orders to expand school choice, end ‘radical indoctrination’

Jan 30, 2025

By Kate Quiñones

The executive order to expand school choice is designed “to support parents in choosing and directing the upbringing and education... Read more

Demonstrators 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.

Trump signs order restricting transgender ‘chemical and surgical mutilation’ of children

Jan 29, 2025

By Daniel Payne

The president has vowed that the United States “will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support” controversial transgender procedures. Read more

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Justice Department drops HIPAA charges against doctor who exposed trans child surgeries

Jan 24, 2025

By Daniel Payne

In May 2023 Christopher Rufo reported that Texas Children’s Hospital had “secretly continued to perform transgender medical interventions … on... Read more

Ethics and Public Policy Center President Ryan Anderson.

‘We have been living under a lawless regime’: Catholics celebrate Trump overhauls

Several high-profile Catholic intellectuals in the United States anticipated and celebrated a number of changes that are coming to the... 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