The editors of New York Magazine decided that the person best suited for its debut "men's style" issue is a transgender-identifying actor.
The magazine's photographer "kibitzed" with some of the "most stylish" men at the Russian and Turkish Baths in New York City, but many online were not impressed.
'The Spirit of the Age wants us to know it is mocking and scorning us.'
"When even 15-year-olds are 'hype' about Ralph and Armani’s got a brand-new designer — it feels like the right moment to dedicate an entire issue to the subject," read a post from the magazine on Monday.
While the other covers featured biological men, one cover was dedicated to Ellen Page, who now identifies as Elliot Page after undergoing transgender surgery.
Much of the response online expressed bewilderment at the choice.
"Where is the man here? I see a mentally ill, testosterone injected woman that had her breast surgically removed," said one account.
"Fueling Elliot Page's gender dysphoria is not helping her or others. She needs to abandon Hollywood before it destroys what's left of her. Or, y'all do it for them," said another critic.
"I feel like this is sabotage or something," said another user. "Everyone knows that most people are so sick of trans crap being centered and don't relate to it. And it's icky to a lot of normal people even. And her face looks like she is scared or like a prisoner. Not flattering."
"Way to just alienate more of the audience of men's style. This poor woman's body is destroyed because she's traumatized. Just sad," replied one detractor.
BlazeTV host Steve Deace responded to the discordant cover in comments to Blaze News.
"Publications like the New Yorker are not for us, but for the opposing culture that occupies this land mass along side of us," he said. "And putting Ellen Page on its 'men's styles' issue is a clear declaration of that, but also a declaration of war."
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"The Spirit of the Age wants us to know it is mocking and scorning us," Deace added. "Except it's really doing something much riskier — shaking its fist at an all-powerful God."
Page is best known for her female role in "Juno" and most recently in a male role in Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey."
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Common sense versus crazy is the defining feature of today’s politics.
On immigration, the choice is between enforcing the law and tolerating policies that burden U.S. workers and communities. On elections, the SAVE America Act has exposed the same divide: More than 80% of Americans support voter ID, yet Democrats continue to resist basic election-integrity safeguards.
Do lawmakers recognize biological reality and protect children from irreversible treatment, or do they protect the establishment that branded dissent dangerous?
But one contrast between Republicans and Democrats this cycle is even more fundamental: whether government should recognize biological sex as real.
That fight now runs through women’s sports, military readiness, and the treatment of children suffering from gender dysphoria. Common sense says boys are boys, girls are girls, and children should not be rushed into life-altering medical interventions. The alternative is crazy.
For years, the gender-medicine establishment told vulnerable children that puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries could align their bodies with an internal identity. Too often, institutions presented those interventions with more certainty than the evidence justified.
U.S. Rep. Bob Onder (R-Mo.) wants Congress to answer that problem with H.R. 7651, the Chloe Cole Act, which targets providers where accountability is most likely to be felt: civil liability.
The bill would create a federal cause of action allowing patients and families to sue medical providers that prescribed puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones or performed sex-rejecting surgeries on minors.
Chloe Cole, the bill’s namesake, is a detransitioner and activist who says she was pushed toward irreversible treatment without clear, informed consent. Her own malpractice case has made her one of the most prominent critics of pediatric gender medicine.
The legislation also arrives as institutions that once claimed broad consensus are facing harder scrutiny. The Trump administration filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission against the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, challenging claims about medical necessity and insurance coverage.
In a recent legal filing, WPATH described portions of its guidance as “opinion” rather than binding scientific consensus. That distinction is important. Parents were told for years that the science was settled. Now the institutions involved are emphasizing judgment, interpretation, and professional opinion.
Malpractice cases are moving too. In the Varian case, a jury awarded $2 million in damages over a sex-rejecting surgery. Individual lawsuits may expose failures one patient at a time. The Chloe Cole Act would be a major step toward stopping this industrial-scale profiteering once and for all.
As Congress returns for its pre-midterm September sprint, the choice is once again common sense versus crazy. Do lawmakers recognize biological reality and insist on caution before children undergo irreversible treatment, or do they protect a medical and political establishment that insisted for years that dissent itself was dangerous?
Congress has already seen versions of the same fight. Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) is leading the charge to define men and women clearly under Title IX. Before the August recess, Heritage Action key-voted an amendment from Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) to codify President Trump’s “Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness” order requiring service members to serve in accordance with their biological sex.
The legislation asked Congress to say something extraordinarily simple: Men serve as men, and women serve as women. Every Democrat who voted on the amendment went on the record against it.
The Chloe Cole Act offers another clean vote. Members can side with children and families seeking accountability for irreversible medical treatment or with the institutions like the billion-dollar transgender lobby that told the country for years that common sense had to yield to crazy.
As the buzz of summer winds down, back-to-school season offers families a fresh start. Kids return to routines and extracurriculars. Moms like me return to schedules, snacks, playdates, forms, and the peculiar relief of getting everyone back on a calendar.
Before we get buried in backpacks and lunch boxes, though, parents need to brace for something harder: our children's mental health.
Our children need adults willing to talk with them, challenge them when necessary, and remain present when the conversation gets uncomfortable.
A recent Wall Street Journal investigation described Oregon as an epicenter of pediatric gender medicine, with diagnoses of gender dysphoria and use of cross-sex hormones among minors rising sharply in recent years. Oregon has only about 1% of the nation’s teenagers, yet its clinics reportedly accounted for roughly 7% of gender-related mastectomies performed on teenage girls from 2019 through 2023.
Those numbers are shocking. But behind every one is a child. I was one of those children not very long ago.
When I was 16, I found Tumblr communities full of girls who sounded just like me. They were uncomfortable in their bodies. They struggled with anxiety, depression, isolation, and the feeling that they did not fit. Their stories felt eerily familiar. We fed off one another's pain until many of us came to believe that being transgender explained it — and that changing our bodies might cure our mental distress.
I was already battling anorexia. I hated myself and hated the body I saw in the mirror. That is why the contrast in how adults treated my two forms of distress still haunts me.
When I told doctors and therapists that I was starving myself because I saw myself as overweight, they did not affirm that perception. They treated it as something to question and work through. But when I said my breasts made me uncomfortable, my gender distress was not challenged in the same way. I was told that transition could be the answer. No questions, no pushback.
Looking back, I was not born in the wrong body. I was a hurting teenager looking for belonging, certainty, and an explanation for my pain.
The reality is that adolescence itself is full of unstable explanations. Teenagers are awkward, lonely, impulsive, anxious, obsessive, and desperate to belong. They compare themselves with peers, test identities, reject identities, and search for language that makes their discomfort intelligible. Sometimes the first explanation that feels coherent is not the right one.
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Across the country — consider states such as New Mexico, where schools have adopted policies accommodating students' asserted gender identities — vulnerable children can encounter adults who treat social transition as an appropriate response before parents even understand what is happening.
That should terrify parents, especially when gender distress appears alongside trauma, autism, depression, eating disorders, or a simple discomfort with narrow stereotypes about what girls and boys are supposed to be. Those possibilities should be explored, not hurried past.
Previous generations of girls were told, directly and indirectly, that happiness required becoming impossibly thin. Today, some distressed girls encounter a different promise: Maybe the body itself is the problem. The common thread is not merely social media or “woke” politics. It is vulnerability.
That’s why therapy should help a young person untangle difficult emotions, not merely supply a label for them. “Why do you feel this way?” and “What name and pronouns would you like me to use?” are not interchangeable questions. One opens an inquiry. The other can foreclose it.
As another school year begins, parents should remember that adolescence has always been messy. Teenagers feel awkward and lonely. They try things, fail at things, discover new passions, abandon old ones, experiment with style and music, and slowly begin to understand who they are. That process can continue well beyond high school.
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Our children do not need adults who immediately affirm every explanation they discover online. They need adults willing to talk with them, challenge them when necessary, and remain present when the conversation gets uncomfortable.
Use the dinner table. Talk about your own failures and insecurities. Tell them what helped and what you wish you had understood sooner. Get them outside. A scraped knee from the monkey bars is often healthier than another four hours alone with an algorithm.
Most of all, do not surrender the hard conversations to strangers, schools, influencers, or online communities. Do not let someone else take the reins of your child's life while you are still trying to figure out what happened.
The best back-to-school supply we can give our kids is not another lesson in identity. It is the reassurance that they do not have to change their bodies, their appearance, or every uncomfortable feeling in order to belong.
An amendment to a House bill intended to codify the president's executive order against transgender-identifying people serving in the military has failed after four Republicans voted with Democrats.
The amendment would have required all military personnel to serve as their biological gender but failed on a vote of 217 to 212 on Tuesday. Supporters said the ban was necessary to ensure military readiness and discipline.
'Four "republicans" just betrayed President Trump and our military in favor of the Transgenders.'
Below are the Republicans who voted against the amendment proposed by Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado:
Boebert responded with a condemnation of the four Republicans.
"Four 'republicans' just betrayed President Trump and our military in favor of the Transgenders. DISGUSTING!" she wrote on social media.
However, a separate amendment proposed by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) was supported by five Democrats to pass a ban on transgender medical procedures and treatments provided by the military.
She also proposed an amendment restricting biological males from K-12 sports at schools run by the Department of War. That amendment passed as well.
"Let's be clear: transgender ideology is a mental health crisis, not a medical one," wrote Mace on social media.
"Mentally ill individuals should not be serving in combat," she added. "Not one defense dollar should ever be wasted on chemical and surgical sex change procedures. Our NDAA amendment makes sure it never will."
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The president first issued a transgender ban in the military during his first term in 2017.
"Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender[s] in the military would entail," he wrote at the time.
Trump renewed the ban in his second term and argued that those suffering from gender dysphoria were at odds with the military's "high standards for troop readiness, lethality, cohesion, honesty, humility, uniformity, and integrity."
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The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Wednesday to shut down a rogue judge’s bid to restore federal prisoners’ access to transgender-related “treatments” and accommodations. Only Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito indicated they would stop the lower court’s antics. In its unsigned order, the high court rejected the Trump administration’s request to temporarily pause an […]
A federal court sided with Indiana on Friday in upholding a state law prohibiting “horrific” “trans” surgeries from being conducted on children. “We have won this critical fight against radicals who would otherwise impose this horrific practice on our kids for ideological and financial reasons,” Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita said in a statement. “My […]
The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to consider the legality of its policy effectively barring trans-identifying individuals from serving in the military. In its petition, the Department of Justice (DOJ) requested the high court to determine whether the War Department’s rule that “generally disqualifies” those who have “gender dysphoria, a history […]
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Rep. Harshbarger’s new bill could help the victims of transgender ideology access the real care they need.
Patients harmed by the atrocities of transgender 'medicine' may not experience the full effect for years, especially those coerced into treatment as minors.
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