Democratic governor forbids Kentuckians to talk kids out of sex changes



Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear signed an executive order Thursday forbidding so-called "conversion therapy" for Kentucky minors.

Radicals are still permitted to groom confused children into becoming transvestites even though Republicans have thankfully banned sterilizing sex-offender drugs and irreversible genital mutilation in the state.

However, medical and mental health professionals certified or licensed to practice in the state are now effectively barred from helping kids get over their gender dysphoria and accept their bodies.

The executive order — which both echoes and cites the Trevor Project as an authority on the subject despite the falsity of one of the radical activist group's core claims — defines conversion therapy as:

any practice, treatment, or intervention that seeks or purports to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity, including efforts to change behaviors or gender expressions or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attractions toward individuals of the same gender.

This definition reflects the successful campaign by gender ideologues to bundle efforts to treat gender identity disorder with efforts to dissuade homosexuals from being gay.

Beshear, who unsuccessfully attempted to veto Republicans' ban on sex-change mutilations for kids last year, said, "This [EO] is about protecting our youth from an inhumane practice that hurts them."

'He can't just issue an executive order and prescribe law.'

The language of the executive order suggests that those professionals who would dare coach children through their delusions and to accept the reality of their biological sex could lose their licenses.

Beshear's order makes clear, however, that affirming a confused minor's "gender identity" and facilitating the minor's "identity exploration and development" are acceptable, as is "any practice, treatment, or intervention that assists an individual seeking to undergo a gender transition or an individual who is in the process of undergoing a gender transition."

Beshear has tasked state agencies with taking reports of offending professionals to their respective certification or licensing boards for potential disciplinary action.

The governor appears keen to pressure those institutions beyond his reach to fall in line, encouraging all professional certification or licensing boards, departments, and autonomous agencies in the state not subject to his supervision to "explore and implement all options to prohibit the practice of conversion therapy on minors and the referral of minors for conversion therapy."

The order also makes it illegal to use state or federal funds "for the practice of conversion therapy on minors, referring a minor for conversion therapy, or extending health benefits coverage for conversion therapy with a minor."

Chris Hartman, director of the LGBT activist group Fairness Campaign, said in a statement, "Today Gov. Beshear sends a crystal-clear message to all of Kentucky’s LGBTQ kids and their families – you are perfect as you are," evidently missing the irony that the order bars professionals from helping kids accept the physical reality of who they are.

'This EO stands to chill and stigmatize Christian counseling in the midst of a mental health crisis in KY.'

Richard Nelson, executive director of the Commonwealth Policy Center, told the Lexington Herald-Leader that the ban's failure to advance in the Kentucky legislature is evidence that it shouldn't be enacted unilaterally by Beshear.

"The legislative route has been tried, which is how we arrive at laws and public policy in the state, and they've not garnered legislative approval. There's a reason for that," said Nelson, adding that the ban might infringe upon First Amendment rights.

Conservative attorney Chris Wiest suggested to the Herald-Leader that it amounts to political theater.

"He can't just issue an executive order and prescribe law. This is really basic Con Law 101 stuff, and I think the governor knows it, frankly," said Wiest. "He's not stupid, but he gets the headlines and he excites the base."

Republican state Rep. Josh Calloway tweeted, "Why is [Andy Beshear] determined to keep vulnerable children confused? I will fight this with every fiber of my being."

"Leave the kids alone!" added Calloway.

"This EO, which similar forms have been determined to be unconstitutional, will have a chilling effect on Christian counseling, and possibly violate religious liberties...I expect this to be s[w]iftly challenged!" tweeted state Sen. Robby Mills (R).

"Parents have the right to raise their children in a manner that is based on biblical standards and to help their children receive faith based counseling. This EO stands to chill and stigmatize Christian counseling in the midst of a mental health crisis in KY," added Mills.

Matt Sharp, senior counsel at the Alliance Defending Freedom, told the Washington Post, "The government has no business censoring private conversations between clients and counselors, nor should counselors be used as a tool to impose the government’s biased views on their clients."

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Time magazine tries defending Harris by fact-checking Trump — then forced into all-time correction



During Tuesday's debate, President Donald Trump said that Kamala Harris "wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison," adding, "This is a radical left liberal that would do this."

The liberal media dutifully rushed to defend the vice president, claiming that Trump's assertion was false — which it is not. In doing so, misleading publications like the New Yorker not only drew greater attention to Harris' desire to mutilate illegal aliens' genitals using taxpayer money, but to their own propagandic nature.

Time magazine, another publication whose writers evidently underestimated Harris' radicalism, was among the offenders. Confronted with the truth of Trump's claim, it had to issue an embarrassing correction Wednesday.

'The truth was too crazy for the fact checkers.'

On Monday, CNN's investigative outfit KFile unearthed an American Civil Liberties Union questionnaire completed in 2019 by then-Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), which revealed several of Harris' extreme positions and goals.

Harris indicated that she supported the decriminalization of all drug possession for personal use; statehood for Washington, D.C.; the repeal of the Hyde Amendment; ending illegal alien detention facilities; and cutting Immigration and Customs Enforcement funding.

Harris also vowed to ensure that "federal prisoners and detainees are able to obtain medically necessary care for gender transition, including surgical care, while incarcerated or detained."

Time magazine, which has previously concern-mongered about "disinformation" and "fake news," originally reported:

The former President repeated a baseless Internet rumor that migrant invaders were killing and eating pet dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio, and falsely claimed that Harris 'wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison.'

The publication has since updated the article to read:

Trump glowered and grimaced, spewing old grievances and strange new attacks. The former President repeated a baseless Internet rumor that migrant invaders were killing and eating pet dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio, and claimed that Harris 'wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison.'

The latest version contains a corrective note at the very bottom admitting that Time's original story "mischaracterized as false Donald Trump's statement accusing Kamala Harris of supporting 'transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison.'"

"As a presidential candidate in 2019, Harris filled out a questionnaire saying she supported taxpayer-funded gender transition treatment for detained immigrants," added Time's correction.

Donald Trump Jr. noted on X, "Unreal."

Former presidential candidate and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy said, "Turns out the truth was too crazy for the fact checkers."

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk tweeted, "Kamala, TIME, and ABC collectively got owned on one simple, easily confirmed fact-check. This is fantastic."

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Harris Once Bragged About Working ‘Behind The Scenes’ To Get Sex Change Surgeries For Trans Inmates

'Medical attention that they required'

Biden admin successfully pressured WPATH to drop recommended age minimums for sex-change mutilations



The World Professional Association for Transgender Health is the organization responsible for the "gender medicine" guidelines regarded as authoritative by various American health institutions and groups, including the American Medical Association, the Endocrine Society, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

While Britain's landmark Cass Review and other studies have demonstrated WPATH's recommendations to be largely indefensible, a report published in March by Environmental Progress revealed that the organization may not be wholly interested in sound defenses. After all, some of its members appear to be freewheeling radicals happily engaged in horrifying pseudo-science.

According to Mia Hughes' 242-page report, WPATH members "demonstrate a lack of consideration for long-term patient outcomes despite being aware of the debilitating and potentially fatal side effects of cross-sex hormones and other treatments."

Internal documents and videos detailed in the report revealed that WPATH members have knowingly given irreversible medical treatments to mentally compromised victims incapable of providing consent; acknowledged minors cannot comprehend the long-term consequences of so-called gender affirmation; glossed over the regrets of victims of sex changes; and manufactured fake body parts in elective surgeries that do not "exist in nature."

Despite WPATH's clear lack of mooring in science and ethics, the organization is still apparently not extreme enough for the Biden administration.

According to an unsealed court document in the federal case Boe v. Marshall, Biden's transvestic assistant secretary of Health and Human Services successfully pressured WPATH to drop its recommended minimum age requirements for sex-change mutilations.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, and various other leftist groups have been working in Boe to undermine the democratic will of the residents of Alabama by axing the Alabama Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act. The act banned the administration of sterilizing puberty blockers, sex-change mutilations, or cross-sex hormones to minors.

The unsealed document that details conversations between the organization's leadership and Rachel Levine regarding WPATH's "Standards of Care Version 8" — as well as other subpoenaed materials WPATH apparently fought in court to keep hidden — is part of a broader report submitted in the case by Dr. James Cantor in support of Alabama's ban.

One internal WPATH message noted, "I have just spoken to Admiral Levine today, who — as always is extremely supportive of the SOC 8, but also very eager for its release — so to ensure integration in the US health policies of the Biden government. So, let's crack on with the job."

Another WPATH message indicated that Levine not only sought to rush the process but had communicated to the organization via his chief of staff, Sarah Boateng, that the "biggest concern is the section below in the Adolescent Chapter that lists specific minimum ages for treatment."

The New York Times indicated that the draft guidelines initially recommended age minimums of 17 for genital mutilations, 15 for healthy breast removals, 16 for breast implants, and 14 for hormone treatments.

Levine wanted these minimums eliminated and to expose vulnerable children to unnecessary surgeries WPATH members elsewhere acknowledged they could not consent to — not because of scientific evidence but because of politics.

"[Levine] is confident, based on the rhetoric she is hearing in DC, and from what we have already seen, that these specific listings of ages, under 18, will result in devastating legislation for trans care," said the internal WPATH message. "She wonders if the specific ages can be taken out and perhaps an adjunct document could be created that is published or distributed in a way that is less visible than the SOC8, is the way to go."

"The issue of ages and treatment has been quite controversial (mainly for surgery) and it has come up again," said another internal WPATH message. "We sent the document to Admiral Levine. ... She like [sic] the SOC-8 very much but she was very concerned that having ages (mainly for surgery) will affect access to health care for trans youth and maybe adults too. Apparently the situation in the USA is terrible and she and the Biden administration worried that having ages in the document will make matters worse. She asked us to remove them. We have the WPATH executive committee in this meeting and we explained to her that we could not just remove them at this stage."

In a subsequent message, WPATH confirmed that in response to Levine's requests, the organization had made changes to how the minimum ages were presented in the documents.

The court document indicated further that rather than admit Levine's influence in the face of questions over its abrupt and visible removal of recommended age minimums, WPATH "fabricated a false explanation."

WPATH suggested that the changes were the result of an effort to place the "emphasis back on individualized patient care rather than some sort of minimal final hurdle that could encourage superficial evaluations and treatments outside of the thorough and comprehensive pathway recommended by WPATH standards."

Cantor told the Times, "What's being told to the public is totally different from WPATH's discussions in private."

Mia Hughes, whose report exposed WPATH earlier this year, reached a similar conclusion, but went farther, telling Blaze Media co-founder and nationally syndicated radio host Glenn Beck last month, "The Hippocratic Oath has long been abandoned by these people."

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Transvestite who wants puberty blockers as 'default option' for kids joins other radicals on WHO task force



The World Health Organization, a specialized agency of the U.N. still regarded by some to be an authority on health matters, has assembled a task force to develop "a guideline on the health of trans and gender diverse people."

Critics have blasted the WHO over this guideline development group, not only because it presumes at the outset that gender dysphoria must be entertained and that genital mutilation qualifies as "care," but because of the radical activists it comprises.

One member in particular has prompted serious doubt over the value and seriousness of whatever recommendations the group might ultimately make: a French-Canadian man who calls himself Florence Ashley and describes himself as a "transfeminine activist, academic, and slut."

The WHO, which has gone back to receiving hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars a year under President Joe Biden, announced on Dec. 18 that Ashley would be among the 21 appointees, predominantly transvestites and LGBT activists, who will meet in February to work on a guideline.

The guideline they are to work on will supposedly tackle the "provision of gender-affirming care, including hormones; health workers education and training for the provision of gender-inclusive care; ... health policies that support gender-inclusive care, and legal recognition of self-determined gender identity."

Ashley, an assistant professor at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law in Canada, has already made clear where he stands on these issues.

The radical transvestite claimed in a 2019 paper published in Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry that "Unbounded social transition and ready access to puberty blockers ought to be treated as the default option, and support should be offered to parents who may have difficulty accepting their youth."

He claimed in an article for the leftist blog Truthout that efforts to protect children from irreversible puberty blockers, genital mutilations, and LGBT propaganda are "rooted in racism and white supremacy."

Reduxx reported that Ashley has also called for destructive puberty blocker drugs to be mandated as a go-to "gender creative youth."

"Although taking puberty blockers is a form of medical treatment, it certainly facilitates exploration significantly more than letting puberty run its course; whereas puberty strongly favours cis embodiment by raising the psychological and medical toll of transitioning, puberty blockers structurally place transgender and cisgender hormonal futures in approximate symmetry," Ashley wrote. "Youth who take puberty blockers have their options wide open, their bodies unaltered by either testosterone or oestrogen."

Extra to championing irreversible, sterilizing medications for confused children, Ashley has called for parents "who have difficulty accepting their child's gender identity and transition" to be subjected to re-education to resolve their "parental hostility and rejection of their trans child."

The WHO appointee also argued in the Dalhousie Law Journal for the decriminalization of rape by fraud, specifically in cases where a transvestite has sex with a victim without indicating he isn't actually a woman as advertised. "To turn f***ing into a crime because the person's gender challenges the sexual identity of their consenting partners is an attempt to further entrench a cisheteronormative social order," wrote Ashley.

Ashley himself has contemplated committing sexual assault by fraud, writing, "I can’t wait to have sex with a cishet guy and ask him: 'Oh babe, how does it feel f***ing a penis with your penis?'"

The Post Millennial's Libby Emmons further highlighted that Ashley has argued against requirements that prospective victims undergo mental health assessments before receiving sex-change surgeries or taking hormone therapies.

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Leor Sapir, a political scientist and fellow at the Manhattan Institute, wrote, "I've been asked how it's possible that a reputable institution like @WHO can appoint as an expert to a clinical guideline panel an activist lawyer who demands that others use 'that b****' as a pronoun. And yet that's exactly what WHO has done."

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Reem Alsalem, the U.N. special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, lashed out at WHO, claiming it was taking a "one-sided," pro-medicalization approach to so-called "trans healthcare," reported the Guardian.

Alsalem wrote to WHO's director general that the task force contained "significant unmanaged conflicts of interest."

"Stakeholders whose views differ from those held by transgender activist organisations do not appear to have been invited," wrote the feminist special rapporteur. "Such stakeholders include experts from European public health authorities who have taken the lead on developing an evidence-based and consequently cautious approach to youth gender transitions (eg England, Sweden and Finland)."

The WHO task force also includes former presidents of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, an American lobby group that Reduxx indicated has "multiple ties to academics involved in either pro-pedophilia activism or pedophilia apologism."

WPATH's latest "Standards of Care," reportedly developed in collaboration with the Eunuch Archive, a castration fetish forum that hosts erotica concerning the castration of children and other grotesque acts, calls for no age limits on sex changes for minors, reported the College Fix.

Most appointees, including Ashley, suffered "strong, one-sided views in favour of promoting hormonal gender transition and legal recognition of self-asserted gender," Alsalem continued in her letter to the head of the WHO. "Not one appears to represent a voice of caution for medicalising youth with gender dysphoria or the protection of female-only spaces."

The Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender, a large group of clinicians in the U.K. and Ireland, recently raised the question of why the WHO task force figured mutilations and chemical treatments were necessarily the best way forward.

"There are no robust randomised-controlled trials supporting gender-affirming medical and surgical interventions, and therefore there are no studies which tell us about the efficacy of these interventions, in children or adults," the group said in a Jan. 4 statement.

The CANSG also noted that allowing transvestites to claim access to the rights of the opposite sex has "harmful public health consequences," including on "women in prisons, in hospitals, in care, in mental health settings, women accessing services following domestic or sexual violence, and those that are dependent on other people for intimate care."

"WHO is trusted the world over to produce reliable guidelines that take a human rights approach to promoting health equity. Given the rising controversy in this field, it would appear that WHO is out of touch with developments globally. We urge WHO to pause this guideline and rethink its approach," added CANSG.

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Dem Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon Accuses Republicans Of ‘Fearmongering’ For Opposing Child Sex Changes

'Make no mistake: Today's hearing is not about protecting children'

House passes anti-woke amendments to defense bill that would end payments for abortion excursions, defund sex-change programs



The Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a host of amendments to the $886 billion National Defense Authorization Act Thursday that will kneecap wokeness in the Pentagon and spare the military from subsidizing leftist initiatives.

Democrats have indicated that they cannot support the resultant version of the defense bill and will hold America's defense ransom unless Republicans capitulate, allowing the military to continue footing the bill for abortion excursions and sex-change mutilation while promoting woke propaganda on its bases.

The amendments

Republicans managed to successfully pass numerous anti-woke amendments, which one senior House Democrat told Axios "will poison America's national defense capabilities by stalling the NDAA."

No more sex-change money

Republican Rep. Matt Rosendale of Montana saw his amendment to end the military's sex-change mutilation program pass in a 221-211 vote.

Should the NDAA pass with Rosendale's amendment intact, the Department of Defense and its health program TRICARE would be barred from covering and "furnishing sex reassignment surgeries and gender hormone treatments for transgender individuals."

Rep. Ralph Norman's amendment prohibiting the provision of gender transition procedures, including surgery or medication, through the Exceptional Family Member Program also passed in a 222-210 vote.

Members of the House Freedom Caucus explained to reporters why the expenditure on sex-change mutilations and hormone treatments is detrimental to the U.S. armed forces as well as how it detracts from "readiness and lethality":

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No more abortion travel money

Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson (Texas) saw his amendment, which had over 70 cosponsors, pass in a 221-213 vote. Two Republicans voted against the amendment, and one Democrat, Rep. Henry Cuellar (Texas), voted in favor.

The amendment would prohibit the payment and reimbursement by the Pentagon of expenses relating to abortion services.

Jackson noted in a statement that following an Oct. 22, 2022, memo from Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, the DOD "can and will reimburse travel expense for servicemembers and their dependents who travel, specifically, to obtain an abortion in another state. DOD will also reimburse any associated feeds for healthcare professionals seeking to be licensed in another state for purposes of performing abortions - all on the taxpayer's dime!"

"Taxpayer funding of travel for an abortion is in fact taxpayer-funded abortion," said Jackson, adding that the DOD is therefore "carrying out an illegal policy that is divisive, immoral, and does nothing to provide for our national security."

No more DEI, no DEI czars

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) successfully advanced in a 217-212 vote an amendment that would prohibit federal funds from being "obligated or expended" to establish a chief diversity officer position or a senior adviser for diversity and inclusion position within the DOD.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) tried to go one step farther and ban federal funds for training on diversity, equity, and inclusion, but that amendment failed.

Republican Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska told Axios that "to say we should defund ALL diversity training isn't smart."

No woke agitprop in military schools

Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert's amendment barring DOD Education Activity Schools from buying and having "pornographic and radical gender ideology books in the library" passed.

Roy also successfully passed an amendment barring the DOD Education Activity from promoting various identitarian ideas often associated with critical race theory, including the notions that:

  • "Any race is inherently superior or inferior to any other race, color, or national origin";
  • The "US is a fundamentally racist country";
  • The Declaration of Independence or the US Constitution are racist documents";
  • "An individual's moral character or worth is determined by the individual's race, color, or national origin"; and
  • "An individual, by virtue of the individual's race, is inherently racist or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously."

Leftist apoplexy

Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), ranking member of the House Rules Committee, called the Republican amendments "radical," adding "the clowns have taken over the circus."

Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.), on the House Armed Services Committee, suggested that the amendments, including those scrapping payouts for abortion excursions and genital mutilations, amounted to a hijacking of national security by the "far right."

"This makes our country less secure, less safe, and it's an insult to all of our women in uniform," said Ryan. "So I'm a no, and I think almost all my Democratic colleagues will be a no."

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y), Democratic Whip Katherine Clark, and Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar released a joint statement Thursday, saying, "Extreme MAGA Republicans have chosen to hijack the historically bipartisan National Defense Authorization Act to continue attacking reproductive freedom and jamming their right-wing ideology down the throats of the American people."

Further calling House Freedom Caucus efforts to depoliticize the military "an extreme and reckless legislative joyride," the Democrats suggested the NDAA now "undermines a woman’s freedom to seek abortion care, targets the rights of LGBTQ+ servicemembers and bans books that should otherwise be available to military families."

The Democrats vowed to vote no on the final passage of the bill.

Aguilar suggested that this would set a personal precedent, noting, "I don't think I've not voted for an NDAA."

Republican Thomas Massie of Kentucky, on the other hand, noted that while never before voting in favor of the NDAA, he may reconsider this time, saying, "Everything up here is a crap sandwich. And this one's got some bread on it," reported The Hill.

Rep. Roy dismissed his Democratic colleague's fuss over the amendments, saying, "It’s always funny to listen to my Democrat colleagues say that we’re politicizing this somehow by injecting cultural issues, as if they’re not driving the train on cultural issues over at [the Department of Defense] as we speak."

House Leader Kevin McCarthy suggested that the Democrats were the ones "becoming so extreme."

Concerning the amendments tossing DEI initiatives, McCarthy asked, "Do they want Disneyland to train our military, or do they want a military that can defend the nation?"

As for Democrats' promise to hold up the bill, McCarthy said, "It’ll really show America that the Democrats are so extreme that they won’t defend the military."

Even if House Democrats prove unable to prevent the bill's ultimate passage, the Democrat-controlled Senate and President Biden will likely jump in to preserve the woke initiatives.

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Sounds Off On Judge Who Blocked Sex Change Ban For Minors

'We will fight this and the Attorney General plans to appeal Judge Moody’s decision'