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DEBATE: Should transgenders be allowed in the military?
To the applause of many on the right, the Pentagon has issued a ban on transgender men and women in the military. Officials have said that as of December, 2024, there were 4,240 troops who were diagnosed with gender dysphoria on active duty — but that number may be higher, as there are about 2.1 million total troops serving.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is among those pleased with the decision, writing, “No More Trans @ DoD" in a post on X.
Democrats are of course fighting the ban — and shockingly, BlazeTV host Alex Stein agrees with them.
“I disagree with this too,” he tells Congresswoman Nancy Mace (R-S.C.). “Because if you look at our military, Congresswoman Mace, and you look at transgenders — I’m just talking about statistically — you want a mean, tough military, right? Nobody’s meaner than a transgender person.”
“Nobody’s more violent than a transgender person,” Mace responds.
“We give them guns, we put them on the front line — the trans out there are like Rambo, and they’re going to fit in,” Stein says.
“But they love Hamas a lot, though,” Mace counters.
“But Hamas will throw them off the roof,” Stein fires back.
“I don’t know that they could shoot a terrorist, because they love them,” Mace says. “They like the terrorists. Look at what they’re doing — Trantifa — in California. Burning it down. I agree with you, but I don’t think they would shoot a terrorist in the Middle East, because they like them so much.”
“That’s a sad, sad, weird, confused person that will go there and protest for Palestinian people that would literally murder them. It’s kind of a weird moral conundrum,” Stein agrees.
“They would decapitate them in a heartbeat. They wouldn’t last five minutes,” Mace adds.
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Bare tactics: Nancy Mace’s ironic nude reveal condemns nonconsensual pics?
On May 20, 2025, during a House Oversight Committee hearing, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) displayed a shocking image of her nude silhouette that her ex-fiancé, Patrick Bryan, allegedly took without her consent.
The decision to share the brow-raising photo was tied to Mace’s advocacy for her legislation, the Protect Victims of Digital Exploitation and Manipulation Act, which seeks to criminalize nonconsensual deepfake pornography and similar digital exploitation.
Back in February, Mace accused Bryant and three other men of rape, sex trafficking, and nonconsensual filming during a nearly hour-long speech on the House floor, claiming she discovered over 10,000 photos and videos on Bryant’s phone documenting these acts, including images of herself.
Bryant has denied all accusations. In a social media post on Tuesday, he said, “I categorically deny the false and outrageous claims made by Nancy Mace. I have never raped anyone. I have never hidden cameras. I have never harmed any woman. These accusations are not just false — they are malicious and deeply personal.”
Dave Landau, ¼ Black Garrett, and Angela Boggs, BlazeTV hosts of “Normal World,” bring their unique blend of humor and analysis to the messy scandal.
“My wife took a naked silhouette of me … but it looked like a short Hitchcock,” jokes Dave.
“If I was a senator or something, I would bring up pictures of my exes and be like, ‘This is why Kevin's a d***,”’ laughs Angela.
In all seriousness, though, the panel can’t understand how showing a nude image of herself — the very type of material her legislation seeks to protect against — makes a convincing argument.
“I’m confused,” says Garrett, claiming the stunt is just Mace “using [her] time in the government” to address “private” issues.
To hear the panel’s hilarious banter about Nancy Mace’s strange self-exposure, watch the episode above.
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Mayo Clinic rebrands woke DEI initiatives to dodge Trump’s ban
The Mayo Clinic is rebranding its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives as “belonging,” following President Donald Trump’s executive order prohibiting all such DEI-related programs.
On Inauguration Day, Trump signed an executive action “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing,” banning the “illegal and immoral discrimination programs” within the federal government. The administration warned it would pull federal funding, including grant awards, from entities that continue implementing DEI-related initiatives despite the ban.
'In keeping with this focus and recent national events, we’re embracing an opportunity to accelerate Mayo Clinic’s belonging journey to reflect our culture of collaboration and respect and support positive patient experiences.'
Trump’s action appears to have prompted some companies, including the Mayo Clinic, to effectively cancel the acronym while potentially keeping the same goals under a new name.
U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) responded to the clinic’s actions.
“They aren’t fooling anyone! DEI is DOA [dead on arrival],” Mace declared in a post on X.
On Thursday, the Minnesota Star Tribune reported that the Mayo Clinic is undergoing a “renaming” effort, including changing its DEI office to the “Office of Belonging.” Additionally, staffers with DEI-related titles will be referred to as “Belonging” employees. It noted that the clinic’s website would also be updated to reflect these changes.
A webpage on the Mayo Clinic’s Office of Belonging states that its “vision is to create a global environment of empowered belonging.”
“This requires building an environment of psychological safety, making Mayo Clinic a place where people from all backgrounds, cultures and experiences can access the best healthcare and where all staff can bring their authentic best selves,” it continues. “Equity is embodied in every aspect of Mayo Clinic, from the individuals who constitute it to the organization as a whole.”
The clinic admitted that the move was prompted by “recent national events.” Yet, Trump’s executive order banning DEI initiatives also clearly prohibits such rebranding and masking efforts.
It reads, “The Director of the Office of Management and Budget ... shall coordinate the termination of all discriminatory programs, including illegal DEI and ‘diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility’ (DEIA) mandates, policies, programs, preferences, and activities in the Federal Government, under whatever name they appear.”
While not under the federal government, the nonprofit medical group has received $500 million over the past two years from the National Institutes of Health. According to USASpending.gov, the federal government has provided more than $4.4 billion to the Mayo Clinic since 2008.
Minnesota Star Tribune reported that the medical group did not respond to questions concerning whether any jobs would be impacted, and it is unclear whether any functions will be changed.
Andrea Kalmanovitz, the Mayo Clinic’s director of media relations, told the news outlet, “Mayo Clinic’s commitment against racism remains.”
“Since 2020, Mayo Clinic has intentionally focused on belonging as a cornerstone of staff wellbeing,” Kalmanovitz stated. “In keeping with this focus and recent national events, we’re embracing an opportunity to accelerate Mayo Clinic’s belonging journey to reflect our culture of collaboration and respect and support positive patient experiences.”
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The NCAA can’t lead college sports if it rejects biological reality
The NCAA has no excuse any more.
The spineless leaders who run it got the cover they desperately needed from President Donald Trump to acknowledge the obvious biological differences between men and women. It was like the Garden of Eden all over again — after smoking crack.
Any organization that can’t define what a woman is shouldn't be allowed to survive, let alone oversee the future of collegiate athletics.
Male and female he created them, sayeth Trump upon signing an executive order on National Girls and Women in Sports Day. Instead of being cast out of paradise, though, for violating that order, the penalty for the trans terrorists will henceforth be investigation and loss of federal funding as well as heaping portions of mockery, scorn, and — if we should be so lucky — Nancy Mace yelling, “Tranny, tranny, tranny!” until their ears bleed.
Now that we’ve settled where penises do and don’t belong, the NCAA has a chance to salvage a shred of dignity on another front. Soon, its officials will appear before the Senate Commerce Committee to argue for its role in the future governance of college athletics. If the NCAA fails to follow through on protecting female athletes after Trump’s photo op with Riley Gaines and her allies, it will collapse before the committee, now chaired by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).
This isn’t about gender clarity for the NCAA’s leadership. They aren’t having a sudden moral awakening. More likely, they’re barely capable of doing the math on societal relevance and financial survival.
Let’s be honest — that makes far more sense than expecting the same gender ideologues to suddenly see Trump as their Rosetta stone for truth, science, and decency.
Now, back to Cruz. Since the chaotic and unsustainable introduction of “name, image, likeness” funding for college athletes in 2021, the NCAA has struggled to navigate its own future. A group that couldn’t muster the will to keep mentally ill men out of women’s locker rooms was never going to figure out the next phase of college sports without help from leaders like the junior U.S. senator from Texas.
In 2023, Cruz introduced draft legislation to guide the NCAA and its member institutions toward recognizing student athletes as employees of their universities. But moving beyond the draft stage is fraught with land mines.
Title IX remains in jeopardy, no matter what Trump just accomplished, because men’s football and basketball generate significantly more revenue than any women’s sport. Meanwhile, many school presidents and athletic directors warn that losing Olympic men’s sports at the college level is becoming a real possibility — especially for institutions without deep budgetary resources or major donor support.
Hint: That’s most of them.
Without the NCAA’s agreement to protect women’s sports, Cruz and the Commerce Committee might have had an easier job. If the NCAA had refused to cooperate, it would have effectively forfeited its place at the grown-ups’ table. But now, the organization’s leaders can dig in their heels, leveraging their compliance with Trump’s order as a bargaining chip in his favorite game — “let’s make a deal.”
This will be a high-stakes poker match. The NCAA will undoubtedly use Title IX as a defense — whether legitimate or a bluff — to convince the Commerce Committee that paying college athletes is financially unworkable without cutting jobs and eliminating sports programs.
I worked for Cruz, so I know firsthand how seriously he takes his principles and how thoroughly he does his due diligence. He’s a proud girl dad and a dedicated sports fan, making him both knowledgeable about these issues and personally invested. Cruz also just won re-election by defeating a former Baylor college football star — someone he mocked for supporting transgender insanity and the push to replace women with men in sports.
I probably don’t need to suggest this to my former boss — he’s likely already thinking it. But under no circumstances should federal legislation save the NCAA unless it makes clear that the organization isn’t just paying lip service to Trump’s executive order. It must commit to upholding biological reality in sports permanently.
The NCAA should be forced to acknowledge that reality once and for all. Otherwise, it can continue its losing streak in the courts.
Any organization that can’t define what a woman is shouldn't be allowed to survive, let alone oversee the future of collegiate athletics.
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