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ESPN has fired a host who recently voiced opposition to female-identifying men competing in women’s sports.

On Thursday, The Athletic reported that ESPN has terminated the contract of “Sunday NFL Countdown” host Samantha Ponder, a longtime reporter for the network who previously covered college football. Former NFL quarterback Robert Griffin III was also fired by the Disney-owned outlet.

A report from the Manhattan Institute this week revealed that “gender-affirming” mastectomies for patients under 18 are more common than previously believed.

While cross-sex genital surgeries are rare in the US for both adults and minors, mastectomies — also known as “top surgery” in the context of transgender medicine — are widely available to minors and are the most common transgender surgery for this population. Around 5,000 to 6,000 girls underwent “gender affirming” double mastectomies in the US from 2017 to 2023, according to the Manhattan Institute, and at least 50 of those patients were younger than 12-and-a-half years old.

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons becomes the first major medical association to challenge the consensus of medical groups over “gender-affirming care” for minors.

The main justification for “gender-affirming care” for minors in the United States has been that “all major U.S. medical associations” support it. Critics of this supposed consensus have argued that it is not grounded in high-quality research or decades of honest and robust deliberation among clinicians with different viewpoints and experiences. Instead, it is the result of a small number of ideologically driven doctor-association members in LGBT-focused committees, who exploit their colleagues’ trust. Physicians presenting different viewpoints are silenced or kept away from decision-making circles, ensuring the appearance of unanimity.

Four years in the making, the final “Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People,” written by esteemed pediatrician Hilary Cass, was released back in April. It was commissioned by NHS England in the United Kingdom, following well-publicized whistle-blowing over allegedly reckless medical experimentation on gender-confused children at the National Health Service’s prestigious Tavistock gender clinic (which was closed following the Cass Review’s inculpatory interim report in 2022).

Elon Musk says he was “tricked” into allowing one of his children who transitioned from male to female to take puberty blockers.

The chief executive of Tesla and Space X claimed he had been told his child, formally named Xavier, “might commit suicide” if he was not allowed to undergo gender transition.

The billionaire businessman said that as a result of the therapy, he had “lost” his son, now aged 20.

A new Arizona State University study suggests that Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts in the United States military are ineffective.

The study done by the university’s Center for American Institutions argued that there is a emphasis on training new soldiers about social issues like “unconscious bias” and “intersectionality” in a way the center says runs contrary to typical American ideals. The study examined DEI plan’s in different sector of the military, including DEI office staffing and education at academies like West Point.

No child has ever been born in the wrong body. It’s a simple message—the true ones usually are. Yet in our muddied times, this statement has become so controversial so as to prompt a Canadian father to lay down a stable career in finance to take to the streets wearing a sandwich board to make this, and other similar proclamations of basic truth, known to the world.

The Justice Department may be trying to prevent the release of sensitive information about misconduct in youth gender medicine.

Things are going poorly for the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. Documents unsealed in Boe v. Marshall, a lawsuit challenging Alabama’s ban on hormonal and surgical transgender procedures for minors, reveal that WPATH manipulated the evidence review process when drafting its recommendations for treating youth and adults. It then misled the public and colleagues in the medical profession, claiming that its eighth version of “standards of care” (SOC-8) was “developed using an evidence-based approach.” Eli Coleman, SOC-8’s committee chair and lead author, claimed that the SOC-8’s developers employed “the most rigorous protocol in the world to ensure these standards reflect scientific evidence and meet the needs of transgender patients.”

Chris Elston—known online as ‘Billboard Chris,’ a Canadian activist often seen wearing a sandwich board reading “children cannot consent to puberty blockers”—has been censored by the Australian eSafety commissioner.