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N.C.: Father sues over schools’ alleged refusal to disclose if members of opposite sex use same facilities as his children

A North Carolina father is suing the Cabarrus County school board over its refusal to disclose if members of the opposite biological sex are able to use his children’s bathrooms or locker rooms at their respective schools.

On Friday, Brandon Matthews filed a suit against the county’s education board, the superintendent of the county schools, as well as the principals of his children’s schools.

“Because of his sincerely held religious beliefs and his convictions about what is best for his children’s safety and well-being, Mr. Matthews seeks to ensure that his children are not required or expected to undress or use the restroom in the presence of members of the opposite sex,” read the court document, which Fox News provided.

Matthews is the father of a fourth-grade daughter, who attends Mount Pleasant Elementary School, and a son, who is a high school senior at Mount Pleasant High School. In May, he asked the principals of both schools to inform him if a member of the opposite sex was permitted to use the same facilities as his children.

“But both principals refused to answer his questions, instead telling Mr. Matthews that he could contact them if and when one of his children found himself or herself in an uncomfortable situation,” the court filing read. “But the Constitution does not require Mr. Matthews to wait.”

The suit pulls on the 2025 U.S. Supreme Court ruling Mahmoud v. Taylor, in which the court found that schools must inform parents and give them an opportunity to excuse their children from instruction involving “LGBTQ+-inclusive” storybooks when it goes against their religious beliefs.

“If the Constitution requires notice and an opportunity to opt out before exposing children to certain storybooks, it necessarily protects a parent’s right to receive notice and an opportunity to protect his children before they are expected or required to undress or use the restroom in the presence of members of the opposite sex,” the suit read.

The document also asserted that Matthews is not seeking the identification of any student, but rather he wishes to know whether his children may be expected to share such facilities with a member of the opposite sex.

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Looks Like the WNBA’s Absurdity Is About to Sink the Entire Transgender Movement

Rush Limbaugh had a saying to explain how he would drive a point home about the left that perfectly applies to what we’re seeing in the WNBA today. He said that sometimes you have to illustrate the absurd through absurdity.

In other words, you have to take the left’s premise to its ultimate conclusion to more fully see just how messed up it is.

That would be a perfect description of how the WNBA is totally blowing its current men-in-women’s-sports crisis.

My colleagues David Manney and Robert Spencer both wrote separate stories about this trend, which is getting increasingly absurd: We now have former NBA stars declaring their intent to enter the WNBA draft as women.

Rush Limbaugh would be proud of these guys. Illustrate the absurd through absurdity. But what makes it all truly absurd is the amount of reality involved here. Both Royce White and Enes Freedom are simply following the rules the left has created, and in the process, they can legitimately claim to have a shot at getting a roster spot in the WNBA.

But it’s not just that. It’s the reaction they’re getting from the left, which in unison is saying, “No fair, you can’t do that!” 

The left forgets that yes, in the past, you couldn’t do that. But now, thanks to the left, you can. And the WNBA hasn’t taken a hard line on any of this yet, which is not only hurting the league, but is also hurting the transgender movement.

Reports are that the league is now reaching out to its teams to address, as US News and World Report reports, “ongoing discussions around transgender athletes in women’s basketball.”

WNBA Commissioner Cathy Englebert said, “I know many of you have received questions in recent weeks regarding transgender athlete participation in women’s basketball, and I expect this topic will continue to receive significant attention….I wanted to reach out to share how we are approaching these conversations at the league office and to thank those of you who have responded to questions from the media with thoughtfulness and professionalism.”

According to reports, a task force of team presidents and general managers will take this issue up in the near future.

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Southern elementary school erupts as parents bitterly divided over new transgender teacher… with furious families clashing over claims children are ‘too young’ for a ‘biological male in a dress’

A North Carolina elementary school is facing backlash after parents discovered a transgender music teacher was educating students while wearing a dress, causing a bitter divide. 

Middle Creek Elementary School in Apex, near Raleigh, went back to school on July 30, where students were met with a new music teacher, who is a ‘transgender biological male, who dresses as a woman,’ State Representative Erin Paré said in a statement. 

At a school board meeting on Tuesday, many parents said they were unaware of the new hire, with many finding out via social media, after popular creators, such as Libs of TikTok, posted about the teacher. 

The news bitterly divided parents over whether or not the educator should be allowed to wear clothing items, such as dresses and skirts, during school hours. 

Paré is also calling for a mandatory dress code for public school teachers, which would include ‘requiring gender-appropriate professional attire,’ she said. 

However, the Wake County School Board said implementing a new dress code would be unconstitutional and discriminatory. 

‘Enforcing gender-differentiated clothing requirements based on traditional gender roles constitutes impermissible sex stereotyping under the Constitution,’ Board Member Chris Heagarty told parents. 

‘So can we all come together, respect the law, and work on how we can all come together and fund our kids’ education?’ 

Heagarty said the district is ‘following the guidance of the United States Constitution and our US courts system,’ which dictated that school dress codes ‘must be gender neutral and non-discriminatory.’ 

Many parents and board members spoke in support of the teacher, including board member Jennifer Job, who accused parents of using the educator to propel their political agenda. 

‘People online and in this room are willing to sacrifice this person’s love for their job for their culture war,’ she said at the meeting. 

Many parents and community members said the addition of a transgender teacher promoted diversity, and attacking the educator was only showing children to discriminate based on appearance and identity.  

‘We have a responsibility as a county to serve students of all diverse backgrounds and their families,’ Anna Crollman, who formerly taught in the district, said at the meeting, according to The Observer. 

However, some parents have formed a coalition called Middle Creek Parental Rights, which is led by Aaron Driver and his wife. 

The group is demanding the school release the hiring records for the transgender teacher and said parents should not have found out about the educator via social media. 

He said young students have come home with ‘big questions’ about gender identity. 

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“I’m Transgender. I’m a Woman” – Second Former NBA Player Announces Plans to Enter Next WNBA Draft

Another former NBA player on Friday announced he has plans to enter the WNBA draft.

“As I stated a few days ago, I am declaring for the 2027 WNBA Draft,” said former NBA player and current Republican Senate candidate in Minnesota, Royce White.

“I identify as a sometimes identifying transgender woman! My wig is in the mail,” he said.

Royce White said he will pursue legal action if the WNBA denies his bid.

“I have to file a discrimination lawsuit, right? I mean, that’s, that’s ridiculous,” Royce White said. “We’re gonna have to have a huge legal battle about discrimination if I can’t play.”

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REPORT: James Talarico Headlined a Gay Pride Event Alongside an 11 YEAR-OLD Child Drag Queen

James Talarico, the bizarre Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Texas, reportedly headlined a gay pride event in Taylor, Texas that featured an 11 year-old drag queen.

If you believe the liberal media, this person is leading in polls for this race against Republican Ken Paxton. How is that even possible?

This story is very easy to believe because Talarico is on the record in multiple instances talking about how much he cherishes trans kids.

The Washington Free Beacon has the story:

James Talarico Headlined Pride Event Alongside 11-Year-Old Child Drag Queen ‘Kween Kee Kee’: ‘Absolute Cutest and Youngest of Our Drag Performers’

James Talarico, a Presbyterian seminarian running for U.S. Senate from Texas, headlined an LGBTQ festival that featured “the absolute cutest & youngest of our drag performers,” an 11-year-old boy “drag queen” who goes by the stage name Kween Kee Kee.

Taylor PRIDE, a group in the town of Taylor, Texas, held the June 26, 2021, event to raise money to help “rural LGBTQ communities.” The Pride Month festivities included a series of pro-LGBTQ speakers, live music, a “drag story hour,” and adult drag performers such as Brianna Brinxx and the provocatively named Sedonya Face.

Talarico and Kween Kee Kee, a local preteen named Keegan, were the biggest attraction for Taylor PRIDE organizers. “[Taylor PRIDE] will be hosting numerous speakers such as State Rep. James Talarico, talented musical guests such as Venus Loves Mars, the absolute cutest & youngest of our drag performers Kween Kee Kee,” the group wrote in promotional materials.

“Not only … will this amazing pre-teen be performing a number at Texas Beer Company but they will also host Kee Kee Storytime … where children will find lots of PRIDE inspired craft activities,” Taylor PRIDE wrote of Kween Kee Kee in a post publicizing the event.

You might say that Talarico is obsessed with this topic.

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Little-Known Bureaucratic Procedure Pushed Medical Insurance To Be More Pro-Trans

Cultural shifts sometimes happen in ways you can’t help but notice, like the sudden growth of transgender themes on television. But there are also a bunch of quiet maneuvers you don’t see, producing change through obscure bureaucratic procedures.

To begin your introduction to one of those little-noticed avenues of change, take a moment to read the Independent Medical Review (IMR) obtained by California health care regulators in 2025 on behalf of a biological male (in the record, a “transgender female”) who wanted his health insurance company to buy him a prosthetic “vagina”.

The transgender patient had a history of depression, “with possible psychotic features,” and was taking anti-psychotic medication when his insurer denied coverage for a surgically created artificial vagina. (Surgical neo-vaginas are created by penile inversion, or less frequently by cutting out a piece of the patient’s bowels and sewing it into a surgical hole between his legs.)

Appealing that decision, the potentially psychotic patient asked the California Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC), which regulates health insurance plans, to conduct a review in which an independent medical expert would decide if his surgery was medically necessary.

A finding on an IMR is binding. Insurers must cover procedures an “independent expert” finds “medically necessary.” As the state’s IMR request form says: “Health plans must follow the IMR decision and promptly provide the service.”

In this case, a psychiatrist reviewed the patient’s surgical request, with no review by a surgeon. The psychiatrist overturned the insurer’s refusal to pay. A male on anti-psychotic medications got a surgically implanted fake vagina, in a procedure covered by insurance, because a psychiatrist found the surgery to be medically necessary.

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Olympic Gold Medalist Alysa Liu’s Transgender Brother is Quietly Dominating California Girls’ High School Sports

The brother of Olympic figure skating gold medalist Alysa Liu has been competing as a female athlete and steadily collecting victories in California high school girls’ sports, according to a new report.

Jaylin Liu, who previously went by the name Joshua and only recently began identifying as female, has taken first place in every 200-meter and 400-meter girls’ race he entered for Albany High School this season, including the Tri-County Athletic League Finals, according to reporting from Reduxx.

He is ranked the top “female” runner on his team in those events and the best in the league in the quarter-mile.

In 2025 alone, Jaylin Liu secured eight first-place finishes at seasonal meets, a silver medal at the NCS Bayshore Championship in the 400-meter, and a gold medal in the Tri-County Athletic League Frosh-Soph Championship 200-meter race.

Beyond track, he has also competed in girls’ varsity basketball, earning a silver medal at a championship, and played ultimate frisbee for El Cerrito High School at the Ultimate High School National Invite, where his performance was described as extremely dominant.

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When it comes to public indecency, why do the rules differ based on sexual orientation?

Lacey Tompkins had a memorable day at the beach the other day – for all the wrong reasons.

Here’s the skinny: Lacey and her boyfriend visited the beach at Dominion Park in Saint John, N.B. And the couple did what most people do at a beach – go for a dip, soak up the sun, and so on.

The trouble began when Lacey decided to do a little sun tanning. And hey, what better way to avoid those pesky tan lines than to go topless? So it was that Lacey removed her bikini top and started soaking up the rays.

Alas, not everyone was amused.

According to a Postmedia story, along came a female lifeguard. She lectured Lacey to cover up because being topless was indecent and there were children present at the beach.

Lacey responded by saying she was doing nothing wrong. She ignored the warning and continued to tan in topless mode.

About 20 minutes later, a uniformed police officer approached Lacey. He also warned her to cover up – or face public indecency charges. Thus, she reluctantly covered up.

Talk about a tempest in a B-cup!

But here’s the thing: women going topless in public is perfectly legal. And it is based on a court ruling that dates back some 30 years ago.

We speak of the Gwen Jacob decision. In July 1991, Gwen was a 19-year-old University of Guelph student who was criminally charged when she was spotted walking down a Guelph street topless on a hot summer day. Her rationale: if men are allowed to go topless, why not women?

Gwen fought the charge and the case went all the way to the Ontario Court of Appeal. In 1996, the court decided that she was not guilty of indecency. This ruling meant Gwen Jacob and other women had earned the right to appear topless in public.

The crux of the matter is that maybe you agree with the Gwen Jacob decision or perhaps you do not. But it’s a moot point given that women going topless in public these days is no longer a criminal act. Period, full stop.

Now you’d think that a competent cop would know the law of the land. But apparently not.

And so it is that Lacey Tompkins, much like Gwen Jacob way back in 1991, is not going quietly into the night. Lacey has filed an official complaint. And we’ll be shocked if that complaint isn’t upheld. Stay tuned.

But there is another angle to this story. And it is an angle that the mainstream media dares not report on. And it has everything to do with the blatant hypocrisy vis-à-vis public nudity.

Which is to say, why did Lacey Tompkins get harassed for NOT breaking the law? Yet so many members of the Rainbow Mafia at pride parades go BOTTOMLESS – which is indeed against the law. Yes, you can go topless – but you cannot display your genitalia and buttocks.

Speaking of which, we don’t care what your sexual orientation or gender identity is, please note: NOBODY wants to see your junk or your fat, ricotta cheese candy ass.

As a side note, can anyone kindly explain to us how it is that demonstrating one’s pride means getting totally bare-naked in public? Sorry, does not compute…

Regardless, these gross exhibitionists are never told to cover up nor are they charged with public indecency – despite the police presence at these parades.

Bottom line: if you are a heterosexual woman NOT breaking the law, you will be harassed by police. But if you are a member of the LGGBDTTTIQQAAPP community, well, law enforcement will turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to illegal public indecency. This is equal parts outrageous and egregious and a dereliction of duty by members of law enforcement who are supposed to uphold the law regardless of identity politics.

In the meantime, our advice for Lacey Tompkins is simply this: next time you’re sunbathing in a topless state at the beach and you are approached by a member of law enforcement, simply say that you’re trans. Trust us: you won’t be harassed nor criminally charged. Rather you will receive a heartfelt apology and then congratulated on celebrating your gender identity.

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Federal Appeals Court Upholds Florida’s Ban on Exposing Children to ‘Lewd’ Drag Shows

A federal appeals court has upheld Florida’s child protection law that seeks to prevent kids from attending or being exposed to “adult live performances” like suggestive drag shows or lewd “drag queen” story hours.

The case has been in litigation for three years after a federal judge blocked the law after Orlando’s Hamburger Mary’s Restaurant and Bar sued to preserve it’s ability to host “family friendly drag shows,” according to Courthouse News Service and other outlets.

The 2023 Protection of Children Act law defines an “adult” performance as any show that depicts or simulates “nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement or specific sexual activities, lewd conduct or the lewd exposure of prosthetic or imitation genitals or breasts,” the legal news service reported.

Drag shows are known to feature performers dressed in over-the-top sexualized costumes who perform suggestive dances and sometimes simulate lewd acts.

On Tuesday, the full 11th Circuit bench decided on the appeal, ruling 8-5 in favor of overturning the lower court ruling made by Clinton-appointed Senior District Judge Gregory Presnell 2023, as well as overturning an earlier three-judge panel in the circuit last year that agreed with the lower court’s ruling.

“We will not second-guess the Florida Legislature’s decision to regulate obscenity,” wrote U.S. Circuit Judge Andrew Brasher on behalf of the majority. “Preventing children from attending adult live performances obscene for them is rationally related to Florida’s interest in safeguarding the well-being of minors.”

Brasher was appointed to the appellate bench by President Donald Trump.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier praised the decision.

“Huge victory for our team at the 11th Circuit! After 3 years of litigation, the full court affirmed the constitutionality of Florida’s ban on children attending sexualized drag show,” he said in a statement. “Great work by Solicitor General Dave Dewhirst, who argued the case on the state’s behalf!”

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Children’s Hospitals To Begin Offering Restorative Care For Detransitioners

When Texas Children’s Hospital’s “detransition clinic” opens in Houston, it will become the first facility of its kind, giving patients who regret life-altering procedures a chance at restorative care.

The facility, which has yet to announce an opening date, is part of an agreement with state and federal authorities to halt “gender-affirming care” at children’s hospitals while offering help to those who transitioned medically.

A 10-page settlement term sheet, recently obtained by The Epoch Times through an open records request to the Texas attorney general’s office, showed that services at the clinic will focus on multidisciplinary care.

Services are to include endocrinology, surgery, fertility counseling, psychiatry, psychotherapy, and speech pathology, among others.

In May and June, the Department of Justice (DOJ), along with the attorneys general of Texas and Ohio, secured settlements with large hospitals over allegations of fraudulent insurance billing practices related to “gender-affirming care” for children.

The hospitals denied wrongdoing in their billing practices or standards of care.

These agreements require the hospitals not only to cease transitioning procedures, but also to offer discounted or free restorative medical care to detransitioners.

Attorneys representing detransitioners and their clients praised the efforts of the DOJ and the states to assist those suffering from the consequences of life-altering medical changes.

Detransitioners are those who stopped or reversed a medical gender transition they started earlier in life.

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