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The NIH awarded millions of dollars in grants for studies seemingly designed to reach a particular conclusion pushing cross-sex hormones.BLADE RUINER: Transgender actor stars in Amazon's 'Blade Runner' reboot — after recently celebrating penis removal
Is Amazon deliberately trying to destroy beloved franchises?
The latest evidence for the prosecution: "Blade Runner 2099," arriving November 25.
'I just had bottom surgery ... and I love it so much.'
Bottoming out
Amazon's tagline for the new series — the latest entry in the decades-old sci-fi franchise — is "Humanity has fallen."
So has Hollywood, according to viewers outraged by the streamer's decision to cast transgender actor Hunter Schafer in a starring role.
The show serves as a sequel to Denis Villeneuve's 2017 "Blade Runner 2049," itself a follow-up to Ridley Scott's 1982 "Blade Runner." It taps actor Hunter Schafer for a lead role alongside Michelle Yeoh.
While the Malaysia-born Yeoh has an impressive résumé of action films and Hollywood blockbusters, she is also 64.
Schafer is a prominent transgender activist who achieved fame — and, eventually, a spot on HBO's debauched drama "Euphoria" — after helping repeal a North Carolina bill that would have required people to use bathrooms corresponding with their sex.
Not exactly your father's "Blade Runner."
Just days before Amazon Prime started promoting the series, Elle magazine published an interview with Schafer where he revealed the joy and thrill of having his penis removed.
"I just had bottom surgery in December, which was amazing, and I love it so much," Schafer told the magazine.
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Repli-can't
Schafer said that he had previously thought there was something "cool" about posing as a woman, but eventually felt the desire to attempt to shape his body to his beliefs.
"For a long time I've embraced the gender-expansive part of myself, and I really wanted to try to make that previous body work, because I thought there was something really cool and badass about it," he continued.
However, living in a "theoretical queer utopia," as Elle described it, "didn't match up with the world [Schafer] encountered every day, and the way she personally wanted to show up in it."
Schafer went on to describe this change as the "magical thing about queerness."
"On an ideological level, it's about possibility and expansion and growth, and being on that journey and finding yourself," the actor added.
"I'm a woman. I'm a girl," he said.
In a 2019 interview, Schafer also credited the internet with helping him transition.
"The internet saved me — being able to go to YouTube and watch people's transition timelines and see myself on a screen," he told Variety.
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Faulty franchises
Fans online are already declaring the franchise ruined, with some dismissing the new series as a "parody" or a "DEI checklist."
Viewers have long criticized Amazon for the way it handles popular franchises, often updating familiar characters and worlds to appeal to the dreaded "modern audience."
For example, in "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power," the studio introduced black elves and dwarves into Tolkien's Middle-earth and gave monstrous orcs surprisingly human emotions.
Amazon is hardly alone. Disney's "Star Wars: The Acolyte" took similar liberties with another beloved franchise, introducing a coven of witches whose supernatural powers allowed them to conceive children without a father.
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SCOTUS Says Rogue Judge Can Order Trump To Provide ‘Trans’ Procedures To Federal Prisoners
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 […]WNBA sends shocking letter to Congress about men playing in the league — but leaves out one huge detail
The WNBA just got one step closer to admitting what a woman is.
However, the league isn't quite there yet, and its latest response to a congressional inquiry still leaves the water more muddy than clear.
'This is their clear acknowledgment ...'
Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-Ind.) sent the WNBA a letter in September asking the league to answer some key questions about how the league is being governed.
Stutzman didn't exactly present the WNBA with any difficult questions, but the league still had trouble providing a clear answer.
In addition to queries about player safety, the letter asked how the league defines a "woman" and, if it doesn't have a definition, why it was preventing former NBA players Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White from entering the WNBA draft.
More than a month later, WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert has finally responded to the congressman and the House Republican Study Committee.
Stutzman posted the response on his X page, showing that while Engelbert provided the most clear answer from the league to date, she still won't provide a definition of what a woman is.
"With respect to your questions regarding eligibility, only women are eligible to play the WNBA," Engelbert wrote.
She added, "The individuals you cite in your letter are both men."
🚨🚨In a reply to my letter to the WNBA about @Enesfreedom and @Highway_30’s eligibility, the @WNBA declared they are “both men”.
This is their clear acknowledgment that simply identifying as a woman does not change basic human biology! https://t.co/aZ6oPabcyR pic.twitter.com/NLALHBDodO
— Rep. Marlin Stutzman (@RepStutzman) October 20, 2026
Rep. Stutzman declared victory over the response, writing, "This is their clear acknowledgment that simply identifying as a woman does not change basic human biology!"
However, the commissioner's statement that "only women are eligible" is in line with pre-existing WNBA rules set out by the league's latest collective bargaining agreement.
Article XIII, Section 1 of the WNBA's 2026 agreement says that "only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA," but does not provide a definition of the term. The league has not responded to multiple inquiries from Blaze News about what it considers a woman to be.
League officials even met in August to discuss the topic, but made no determination by the end of their meeting:
"There are no immediate eligibility matters affecting the WNBA, and we strongly denounce the bad-faith efforts to use these topics to demean or marginalize others," the WNBA declared.
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The two former NBA players declared themselves eligible for the 2027 WNBA Draft on the simple basis that the league has not defined what a woman is.
While Freedom, a 6'10" former NBA center, did not declare himself to be transgender, White, a former NBA guard, outright declared himself to be a woman.
"I'm a woman. I identify as sometimes identifying as a woman for the purpose of basketball, professional basketball, so I'll be declaring for the WNBA Draft in 2027 as well," he said in August.
Thrown into the mix was Julie Tétart, a man who seemingly believes he is a woman and plays professional women's basketball in France. The athlete dominated France's Ligue 2 for the 2025-2026 season, blowing competitors out of the water with over 20 points and 20 rebounds per game.
Tétart said if the WNBA contacted him, he wouldn't turn the league down.
"If they contact me, I won't say no."
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Philly women's sports bar named after transgender activist closes following claims it wasn't inclusive enough
A sports bar that called itself a hub of the queer community in Philadelphia is closing its doors after just over a year.
The bar was meant to serve as a counter to businesses that prioritize male sports on its TV screens over women's, a common origin story for these types of bars.
'More than ever this city needs more women/queer/BIPOC-owned businesses.'
In September 2025, owner Chivonn Anderson opened Marsha's, named after Marsha P. Johnson, a man the New York Times described as a "transgender pioneer and activist."
Anderson told the Philadelphia Inquirer at the time that she opened her bar because she couldn't find a place in Philadelphia that would put on the 2019 Women's World Cup.
However, despite its desire to be an inclusive location, the bar faced claims from former employees that they were mistreated, with one saying the bar was disparaging toward female employees.
As reported by the Advocate, that employee had claimed a manager said that women and nonbinary employees were "overly emotional" and should be replaced with men because the venue needs "more testosterone."
Anderson denied the claims, but vowed to speak with independent human resources and DEI consultants to hold her bar "accountable."
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The bar invited patrons for its "final weekend" in an Instagram post this week, saying that it was closing its doors for good.
"We have loved serving this community, and still believe that more than ever this city needs more women/queer/BIPOC-owned businesses. We sincerely hope that someone is able to step up and fill this void," Marsha's wrote.
Anderson provided bizarre statements to the Inquirer when the bar launched, saying she wanted to open a place for those who want to "go out and have fun and feel safe and be seen."
Followed by, "It's kind of like you're going to your favorite aunt’s house to indulge in the things you know you're not supposed to when you're at home," Anderson continued. "A little bit of drinking, a little bit of good food, and being around people who want to have just as much fun as you do."
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Marsha's inception story was similar to that of Seattle women's sports bar Rough & Tumble. For that venue, owner Jen Barnes said in 2022 that she couldn't find a bar that would turn on a women's soccer game because it was on at the same time as a Seattle Seahawks NFL game.
Rough & Tumble has since reportedly opened a second location in Seattle, while other women's sports bars have found success in other cities, like Portland, where the Sports Bra has been open for a couple of years. The Sports Bra now has plans to open another in bar in Boston.
Long Beach, California, has the Watch Me! Sports Bar, which has enjoyed two years of business, as well.
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Freedom of speech is still the law of the land in the United States, but on college campuses, that is apparently up for interpretation.
Look no further than the University of California and its sprawling system of 10 campuses across the state. One set of policies and standards governs all of its campuses, and with it comes a ban on "misgendering" and adhering to biological reality.
'UC's policy goes too far in restricting protected speech.'
Under UC's "Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment" policy — which is available in four different languages — sexual harassment is described as including conduct like "acts of verbal, nonverbal, or physical aggression, intimidation, or hostility based on gender, gender identity, gender expression, sex- or gender-stereotyping, or sexual orientation."
In its FAQ section of the same document, "intentional and repeated use of a name or pronoun inconsistent with the individual's gender identity (i.e., misgendering)" is also considered harassment. The policy even extends its harassment definition to include the use of a person's "dead name," which in many cases means one's legal name.
So long as the conduct is "unwelcome," students or faculty who violate the policy are subject to discipline, including dismissal, aka expulsion.
Fortunately, a federal judge has stepped in and entered a preliminary injunction that bars UC from enforcing its policy for the time being, following a lawsuit from Defending Education.
In court documents, the Central District of California Southern Division's decision included an example of what UC considers to be harassment.
The school said that harassment based on gender identity includes "when a transgender man is intentionally and repeatedly called by his dead name (i.e., refers to a name that a transgender person was given at birth but that they no longer use), or intentionally and repeatedly referred to by 'Miss' or 'Ms.,' by a professor in an intentionally mocking manner."
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The court also made its decision based on precedent, citing two recent cases that establish "UC's policy goes too far in restricting protected speech."
In Bates v. Pakseresht, the court noted that adoptive parents being forced into "affirming" a child's sexual orientation and gender identity (including preferred pronouns) "quite clearly restrict[ed] and compel[led] speech based on both content and viewpoint."
Furthermore, in Defending Education v. Olentangy, the court explained, a school district was prevented from enforcing a similar policy against Defending Education's members.
The court documents from the latest Defending Education lawsuit also pointed to training that "UC students must also complete," described as sexual violence and harassment, anti-discrimination, prevention, and education training, or SHAPE.
The lawsuit said the training formerly included the following scenario as an example of a hostile environment:
My name is Mona, and I am transgender. My classmate Jane continues to call me James, which was my name before I transitioned. Jane refers to me as a man and complains when I use the restroom. I asked her to stop, but she does not. I feel very disrespected and want this to stop.
The lawsuit notes, however, that "UC declares that this example is no longer included in the SHAPE training."
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To the court, all of this evidence was sufficient enough to grant the injunction.
Nicole Neily, president and founder of Defending Education, told Blaze News in a statement that her organization is grateful for the district court's decision against "the University of California system's coercive speech policy against our members."
Neily also called it "unconstitutional" for public universities to compel student speech.
"We will continue to defend this principle in California and other schools across the country as needed," she added.
UC did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.
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Charles Barkley defends WNBA, but says 'race' and 'sexuality' are behind Sophie Cunningham clashes
Charles Barkley says that "there's something going on with those women" in the WNBA.
The Hall of Fame player believes he has the answer as to why there is so much tension built up between the league's players, and race is definitely a factor.
'She said, "No, I'm protecting girls. No, no transvestites in the [W]NBA."'
Barkley compared conflicts in today's WNBA with the rivalry between Larry Bird and Magic Johnson in the 1980s, but he said that while some may have spotted "racial undertones" when those two went head-to-head, "there was always respect."
The same can't be said for WNBA players like DiJonai Carrington, Barkley said.
Barkley called it "stupid on her part" when Carrington made an X post that simply said, "White privilege," after a hard foul on WNBA star Sophie Cunningham got her penalized.
"That was a 100% mistake. It was a dirty play. Period," the former Phoenix Suns forward stated.
When it comes to Cunningham and her Indiana Fever teammate, perennial star Caitlin Clark, Barkley said plainly that the other WNBA players simply have a problem with them.
"Those girls do not like Caitlin Clark or Sophie Cunningham," Barkley told Michael Smerconish in an overlooked interview from late August.
"Whether it's race, sexuality, or whatever, there's something going on there. Because most of the time when you see something, it has something to do with Caitlin or Sophie. I think those other women in the WNBA don't like them," the 63-year-old went on.
"I think it has something to do with sexuality, race, and jealousy," he concluded.
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When probed, Barkley was consistent in that he felt all three attributes contributed to a strong disdain for Cunningham and Clark, but he said he didn't know how to "break up the percentages" between the issues.
"There's something going on with those women. Period. ... They're either jealous [or it's] sexuality or race."
While at times Smerconish tried to lead Barkley away from the apparent harsh truths, the former player refused to pull any punches with the WNBA, which he admitted to being a fan of.
Transgender controversy
Barkley's respect for the league did not stop him from vehemently stating that he thinks it should be for women only. Even after he said that he respects the gay and transgender communities, Barkley stated that no man, regardless of how much surgery he has, should be welcomed into the league.
Barkley also placed blame on the WNBA itself for not immediately shutting down the notion that a transgender athlete — a male — could play against the female ballers.
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"Under no circumstances do I think men should play against women," Barkley said.
"I can't believe people got mad at [Cunningham] for telling the truth. She said, 'No, I'm protecting girls. No, no transvestites in the [W]NBA.'"
The timing of Barkley's interview allowed for several other of his predictions to marinate, particularly his claim that the negative press has not garnered positive results for the WNBA:
"They're not having a great year," he stated.
In that vein, Barkley further suggested that no one would be talking about the WNBA when the NFL season starts, which is now heading into its second week.
Barkley piled onto that claim by asking, "When's the last time you heard something positive about the WNBA? I can't even remember."
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