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Arizona Voters Pass Ban on Boys in Girls’ Sports, Despite Electing Dems Statewide

While Democrats across the nation performed well during Tuesday’s midterm elections, their policy prescriptions didn’t appear to fare as well.

In Arizona, for instance, voters approved a conservative ballot measure that’ll ban “transgender” students from using their preferred locker room and pronouns, according to NPR member radio station KJZZ.

“Prop. 318 was referred to the ballot by state Republican lawmakers earlier this year, and was opposed by legislative Democrats,” the station reported.

The ballot measure passed with 58 percent of the vote, despite Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs having vetoed similar legislative measures in the past.

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Washington State Voters Back Initiative to Block Trans Athletes from Girls’ Sports

Voters in Washington State are backing Initiative 638, a measure that would ban males who identify as female from playing on girls’ sports teams.

Initiative 638, also called the Sex Verification Requirements for Female School Sports Initiative, would prohibit biologically male students from competing with and against female students and would require girls to submit documents from their doctor stating that they were born female.

While votes are still being counted in Washington, as of Wednesday, the “yes” vote on the initiative led with 57 percent to the “no” vote of 43 percent, and it seems most likely that once counting is done, the “yes” votes will prevail.

“To every female athlete who wondered whether her voice mattered: tonight, Washington heard you,” said Brian Heywood, founder of Let’s Go Washington, the political organization backing the measure, according to the Washington State Standard. “Five years from now, I hope girl athletes don’t know this fight took place, because that will mean that boys know their place is not in girls’ sports.”

“This is a victory for girls like Frances, Ahnaleigh, Sadie, Bayley, Charlie, Sierra, and countless others who have been told time and again by the majority party that their voices and opportunities don’t matter. The opposition was working overtime to tell these girls that their experiences were made up and didn’t matter. Tonight, those girls see that well over a million Washingtonians stand with them and care that their sports are safe and fair. Voters have your backs,” Heywood added.

If the measure passes, it would require School boards, or other school governing entities, to create rules for what sex verification would look like. It would rely on “one or more” of the following: “the student’s reproductive anatomy, genetic makeup, or normal endogenously produced testosterone levels.”

Successful campaigns joined the effort in Washington State for similar bans on trans athletes in girls’ sports that passed in Nebraska and Arizona.

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Saying there are 2 sexes is ‘very transphobic,’ Oregon State instructor says

A class instructor reported an Oregon State University student to the bias response team after he argued there are only two sexes in a final course project.

The incident report, obtained by The College Fix through a public records request, reveals that an instructor (or teaching assistant) flagged the male undergraduate student for holding views critical of gender theory.

The incident was among 20 bias reports filed at Oregon State at the start of the Fall 2025 semester.

While specific details, dates, and course titles were heavily redacted by university public records office the remaining narrative makes it clear that the student’s offense stemmed from disputing that gender is on a spectrum.

According to the report, the student was enrolled in an eight-week summer Canvas course within the university’s College of Education. As part of the course requirements, students were tasked with submitting an “action project” designed to identify a local issue, outline potential collaborators, project a timeline, and take an initial step toward a solution.

Despite acknowledging that the student had “consistently done well in the course, and not struggled with any of the other social justice content,” the instructor initiated formal administrative intervention over the final project, writing that the submission contained “extensive examples of transphobia.”

“Many of the claims he makes in his paper, and the sources he uses, are very transphobic,” the instructor wrote in the report, which categorized the perceived motive as involving “Gender identity, Gender expression, [and] Sex.”

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INSANE VIDEO: Creepy Transgender Roblox Developer Says, ‘Republicans Should Be Shot in the Street,’ Gets Cited for Attacking Utah College Republican

A biological male who identifies as a woman and goes by the name “Amber Grace” told University of Utah College Republicans that “Republicans should be shot in the street” moments before tackling a student and ripping his shirt during a campus tabling event.

Rylie Barnes, president of the College Republicans chapter, captured the assault on video.

Journalist Andy Ngo identified the individual as Robert Jefferson Tulley, a Roblox game developer who works at Gamefam Studios in Salt Lake City on children’s gaming projects.

The confrontation took place near the Marriott Library, where the College Republicans had set up a whiteboard reading “There are only two genders” and inviting students to vote yes or no.

According to the group, Tulley approached the table, wiped the board clean by hand, and later returned after it was redrawn.

When a member asked whether he believed in free speech, Tulley laughed and replied, “No, I think Republicans should be shot in the street, personally.”

Tulley then demanded the video be deleted, and when refused, he lunged, tackled the student to the ground, and tore his sweatshirt and shirt.

Bystanders broke it up.

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Florida governor candidate David Jolly suggests boys have a constitutional right to play on girls’ sports teams

David Jolly, a former Republican congressman who is now running as a Democrat against U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds to replace Ron DeSantis as Florida governor, is raising eyebrows in the Sunshine State with his suggestion that boys have a constitutional right to play on girls’ sports teams.

His comments came during the “To the Contrary” podcast Charlie Sykes last year, and were unearthed Wednesday by Libs of TikTok.

Sykes had asked Jolly outright: “How do you navigate that issue?”

“I fundamentally think it’s an issue for the courts,” the Democrat replied. “And I don’t think one rule should apply to everything.”

“I think some latitude among the sports leagues to make decisions, but ultimately, it’s a constitutional question that the courts are gonna have to decide.”

Jolly continued: “I think where I fundamentally diverge from Republicans on this issue is you can immediately see where leaders and voters are either working in good faith towards equity or in bad faith against it. This is a new and novel moment for us as a country.

“It’s OK to wrestle with it. But you’re either wrestling to resolve it on behalf of all Americans, their fundamental and constitutional rights, their respect and their dignity, or you’re working to humiliate them. And I think it’s pretty disgusting what we’ve seen from Republicans in the past several years on this.

“I don’t think we need to knock down that youth soccer player who is working with their family and their doctor on whatever their current crisis is personally. I think it can be supportive of them to allow them to play in youth sports.

“If it’s a question of Olympic trials, obviously I think you get too far down the road there saying, Maybe it’s a bridge too far to let trains athletes in certain sports, but let’s leave it to the sports leagues.”

Donalds is a staunch opponent of biological males competing in girls’ or women’s sports, and his campaign posted video Wednesday of the Republican blasting Jolly’s stance.

“My opponent’s somebody who says it’s OK for boys to be in girls’ sports. It’s just him and the WNBA,” Donalds said.

“They’re the only two that think this is OK. Everybody else has said, ‘No, that’s actually quite stupid.’ Even the Europeans are realizing that’s dumb. But this is where the radical Democrats have gone in America today, and it’s sad to see.”

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Texas Children’s Hospital officially opens first-ever ‘detransition clinic’ after settlement with AG Paxton

Texas Children’s Hospital has officially opened its first-of-its-kind detransition clinic under a settlement it reached with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in May.

Paxton, who is also the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate from Texas, announced the opening of the clinic on Tuesday.

“BREAKING: The nation’s first-ever Detransition Clinic is now open as a result of my historic settlement with Texas Children’s Hospital,” he wrote on X.

An accompanying press release from his office described the new care center as “a multidisciplinary clinic that provides medical care to patients who previously underwent gender-transition interventions.”

Patients can receive detransition-related medical care through age 21, while detransition-related obstetric and gynecologic care is offered to patients older than 21. Paxton’s office added that patients may receive services at different Texas Children’s locations, depending on their individual needs and care team recommendations.

The clinic is a major pillar of the settlement, which additionally required the hospital to pay $10 million for claims brought by Paxton under the Texas Health Care Program Fraud Prevention Act for billing Texas Medicaid for “unallowable and illegal ‘gender-transition’ interventions.”

Multiple physicians were also stripped of their medical privileges for performing mutilating treatments on minors.

Texas Children’s previously offered a range of controversial services to gender dysphoric minors seeking to “change their gender,” including puberty blockers — medications intended to “pause” puberty, and hormone therapy — hormones including testosterone and estrogen used to promote the development of physical characteristics associated with the opposite sex.

The settlement also permanently prohibited Texas Children’s from performing surgical procedures on minors, which can sterilize and remove healthy tissue from patients.

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“Work Stress Makes People Gay”: Malaysian Minister’s Bizarre Remark Sparks Online Mockery

A Malaysian minister has sparked controversy after suggesting that work-related stress is a factor that leads people to “become involved in the LGBT community.” His remarks, delivered in a written parliamentary reply, have drawn widespread ridicule and criticism from citizens and human rights advocates. According to South China Morning Post, Dr. Zulkifli Hasan, Malaysia’s Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Religious Affairs), listed work stress, social influences, and a lack of religious practice as primary contributors to what he termed “LGBT-related behaviour”.

“Societal influence, sexual experiences, work stress, and other personal factors come under this category [of possible causes],” Hasan said in a written parliamentary reply to a question by Siti Zailah Mohd Yusoff, a lawmaker with the opposition Islamist party PAS.

The minister’s comments came amid a parliamentary inquiry into LGBT trends, covering age, ethnicity, and contributing factors. He also said that from 2022 to 2025, a total of 135 cases related to LGBT activities were recorded as arrests or prosecutions. It is to be noted that same-sex relations remain illegal in Malaysia.

Public Backlash

Many Malaysians lampooned and mocked the statement on social media, with some sarcastically asking if the minister “works hard in parliament” since he has not seemingly “turned gay.”

“By this logic, I’m genuinely shocked my entire office isn’t gay by now,” said one user. “I know this is rage bait, but they lowkey got me considering the fact that I’m stressed and bisexual,” another user joked.

A third said, “Just to work less hours, I’ll accept and support this study.”

“Reminds me of the meme where a man sitting in front of a computer shouts to his wife, ‘Hey, Beth! I’ve found something on the internet that every doctor and scientist in the world have missed’,” joked a fourth.

Online users used the bizarre claim to advocate for better labour conditions, with comments suggesting that the government should “increase minimum wage and lower living costs” or adopt a four-day work week to prevent the population from becoming “more gay.”

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AOC Goes Full Woke On ‘Trans Rights’ Because She’s A ‘Girl’s Girl’

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said at a Maine town hall Thursday that she defends transgender rights because she is a “girl’s girl,” telling the crowd she does not support trans rights just to protect her own, but supports “the rights of trans women because I’m a girl’s girl.” She added that compromising one trans person’s rights compromises every citizen’s.

The event was a “Students vs. Billionaires” town hall at the State Theatre in Portland on Oct. 22, hosted by the group More Perfect University, where she appeared with Democratic Senate nominee Troy Jackson, the Bangor Daily News reported. Newsweek said students asked about healthcare, transgender rights and foreign policy; its account does not say what she answered on the last one.

Asked by a transgender-identifying college student why many Democrats are backing away from the issue, Ocasio-Cortez said “They’re wrong.” She said she was ashamed of people who “scare so easily after an election,” the Daily Wire reports. She then accused the Trump administration of using the issue to go after Title IX, the federal ban on sex discrimination in schools that receive federal funding.

She tied the sports fight to sexual assault, saying it attacks “all women’s ability to stand up against their abusers.” The remark was about campuses. The Daily Wire is the only outlet found so far that reports her answers on the issue, so the wording above is its transcription.

The Democrats she was rebuking are mostly in competitive races. Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur, in an ad covered by the Nationl News Desk on Oct. 8, says she “voted with Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of our schools”. North Carolina Rep. Don Davis’s ad says “states should decide what’s right for protecting women and girls.” New York Rep. Ritchie Torres, who co-chairs Equality PAC, called such ads “deeply offensive,” according to that report, which cites Axios.

In Iowa, state senator Sarah Trone Garriott released a spot saying she opposes “letting men in women’s locker rooms.” The Washington Examiner reported in August that she had voted as a state senator against bills restricting trans students in girls’ sports and locker rooms, and that Republican Rep. Zach Nunn’s campaign was running ads on the vote.

Maine is where Ocasio-Cortez’s pitch is being tested. The Senate race is a toss-up, and three October polls reported by Newsweek have Jackson ahead of Republican Sen. Susan Collins: Suffolk University 49% to 47%, InsiderAdvantage 49% to 47%, and a Washington Post/George Mason University poll 50% to 46%. Newsweek noted that polls underestimated Collins in 2020, when she won with more than 50% after trailing in surveys.

At the event, Ocasio-Cortez urged Maine women to back Jackson and faulted Collins for her vote to advance the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and her vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh. Collins spokesman Blake Kernen answered that Jackson spends time with “far-left progressive office holders,” the Bangor Daily News reported. The Daily Wire noted that Ocasio-Cortez is reportedly considering a 2028 presidential run.

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Hegseth Barred Trans Troops – Yet Navy And Marine Boards Are Voting To Keep Them

Military boards set up to push transgender troops out of the service are instead voting to keep many of them, the New York Times reported Friday, in a quiet break with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s ban.

Nine of the 12 service members who have come before the boards have been approved to stay, according to the Times. Boards at Marine Corps Base Quantico, assigned to carry out the removals, “were doing the opposite,” the paper said, and Navy boards given strict instructions to force out sailors were “voting to let them stay.” A Marine staff sergeant who appeared in August thought his career was over, and the panel approved him.

The Air Force is the exception. The Times found no similar pattern there, where transgender airmen are being discharged quickly. The Pentagon has not said how many hearings have been held or how many people have been removed, and the proceedings are closed, even to spouses.

Rachel VanLandingham, a former Air Force lawyer now at Southwestern Law School, told the Times the boards “are being told to do something that they know is wrong.”

The boards are the last step in a removal campaign that began with a January 2025 executive order. In a September 2025 speech at Quantico, Hegseth told troops, “No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses.” The Supreme Court let the ban take effect on May 6, 2025, and Hegseth’s May 8 memo gave active-duty troops until June 6 and reservists until July 7 to leave voluntarily before involuntary separation began. Pentagon data from December 2024 counted about 4,240 service members with a gender dysphoria diagnosis.

The boards were designed to reach one result. Priya Rashid, a military attorney who represents transgender service members, told NPR in February that the outcome is “generally predetermined” and put the cost of assembling each board at $22,000.

An October 2025 Pentagon memo lets commanders overturn a board’s decision to let a transgender service member stay. The memo, from Undersecretary Anthony Tata and obtained by AP, breaks with longstanding policy that boards act independently. It also requires transgender troops to appear in uniforms matching their birth sex, and a hearing proceeds without them if they refuse.

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Supreme Court rules American taxpayers MUST FUND sex changes for ‘trans’ prisoners

The Supreme Court on Wednesday kept in place a block on the Trump administration enforcing new restrictions that prevented the use of taxpayer funds on medical treatments and “social accommodations” for trans-identified prisoners. The Court stated that the federal government, funded by US taxpayers, must continue to pay for sex changes for allegedly trans-identified inmates in federal prisons.

In a brief, unsigned order, the court stated, “the application for stay presented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the Court is denied. Justice Thomas and Justice Alito would grant the application for stay.” As of February 2025, there were 2,198 trans-identified inmates being held in federal prisons, the BOP said.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons adopted a policy in February that stated it will not provide sex change drugs to inmates or provide “social accommodations,” such as make-up, ladies lingerie, or other items. It said that inmates diagnosed with gender dysphoria who have never taken hormones before will not be able to start them while in prison, and those who came to prison taking them would be placed on a tapering plan.

The bureau said that inmates receiving social accommodations would no longer get them from the prison, and no new social accommodations would be provided. Social accommodations are items that are used to “alter the person’s appearance to align with the person’s ‘gender identity,’” the policy states. Such items include buttock padding, breast padding, binders, undergarments, makeup, and wigs.

The bureau said it would not be providing sex change surgeries to its inmates either, and for those who have already received such surgeries, the bureau said it would provide medical care for complications that arise, such as pelvic infections and urethral stricture.

The policy was adopted just over a year after Trump signed a day-one executive order directing the attorney general to “ensure that no Federal funds are expended for any medical procedure, treatment, or drug for the purpose of conforming an inmate’s appearance to that of the opposite sex.” The BOP said that the 2026 policy was adopted “independently of” the executive order.

A class action lawsuit was filed in federal court by three trans-identified inmates over the order from the BOP. Senior U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth issued a ruling on August 26 blocking the BOP from implementing the policy, and the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld the order.

The Trump administration asked the court on September 28 to pause the lower court’s order, with US Solicitor General D John Sauer telling the Supreme Court that the district court had “substitut[ed] its own policy judgment for that of the” BOP, “rel[ied] on evidence outside the administrative record, and fault[ed] the agency for following presidential directions,” per SCOTUSblog.

The inmates said the administration was asking the justices to “to overturn a three decades-long status quo,” and said that the BOP had not provided a “reasoned explanation” for its decision. The inmates said that they would be permanently harmed if the lower court’s order was paused. The Bureau of Prisons does not provide elective cosmetic surgery unless the inmate claims to be transgender.

The Supreme Court’s Wednesday ruling keeps the lower court’s pause on the order in place while legal proceedings continue.

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