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The ‘Trans’ Fad is Dying – Long May it Rest

It’s no longer as much in fashion to be sexually confused.

According to a new survey from The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), the percentage of undergraduate students in the United States identifying as other than their actual male or female sex has dropped from 6.8% in 2022 and 2023 to 3.6% in 2025.

Long suspected as being a social contagion as opposed to an inherent genetic or biological construct, the dramatic drop confirms what many of us have believed – the “trans” movement is a destructive fad.

So, what’s behind the shift?

“This is the biggest indicator yet that we aren’t just winning politically but the entire culture is shifting and waking up to the horrors of gender ideology,” wrote de-transitioner Chloe Cole on X. “Let’s finish the job! Every de-transitioner should sue their doctors for every penny they have.”

Elon Musk agreed.

“Yes, time to restore sanity and truth,” he responded. “What a terrible lie to tell a child they have the ‘wrong’ body.”

The new data also found that freshmen were less likely than seniors to fall for the delusionary labels – additional indication that the “trans” movement is akin to fading fashion trends like wide-legged jeans – only with deadly consequences.

Some have speculated that the drop is driven by a constellation of factors, including a corresponding decline in mental illness and depression, along with a successful or at least increasingly effective campaign against the woke propaganda infiltrating schools and social media.

While the trend is promising and revealing, it once again exposes the heartbreaking torture that far too many young people have endured and encountered over the years, often at the hands of adults who knew better but who refused to confront the cultural insanity.

“It’s horrific what they put me through when I look back on some of the things they told me and my parents,” Cole acknowledged. ‘Would you rather have a living transgender son or a dead daughter?’”

That manipulative and destructive line of defense and justification has enslaved thousands of young people in recent years.

Earlier this year, President Trump signed an executive order banning the surgical mutilation of children. In June, the Department of Justice announced plans to target medical professionals and institutions experimenting on sexually-confused children with the use of drugs, hormones and surgeries.

Attorney General Pam Bondi stated:

There is a radical ideological agenda being pushed throughout every aspect of American life – from TV programming and Hollywood film production to children’s books and elementary school classrooms – that teaches children to deny biological reality.

Gender ideology, masked as science, teaches that children should process adolescent stress and confusion as a case of mistaken identity and that the solution is not to root out and eliminate the underlying condition but to acquiesce in it permanently through life-altering chemical and surgical intervention.

It can’t be coincidental that the significant drop in “trans”-identifying youth corresponds with the arrival of a president who unapologetically affirms the biological reality of just two sexes – male and female. Unconcerned with offending the deluded, Trump’s use of the bully pulpit to declare common sense has a cumulative effect on culture.

Highly impressionable young people, especially, are hungry for guidance and leadership. They are poorly served when their confusion is affirmed, enabled, and compounded by the lies and lunacy of radicals who make things up and try and destroy and redefine God’s perfect and exclusive creation of male and female.

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Oregon High Schoolers Walk Out Over Boy in Girls Locker Room

Dozens of students and parents participated in a walkout at an Oregon high school last week to protest school policy allowing boys to use girls bathrooms and locker rooms.

The student-led event took place at Roseburg High School on October 8. Boys and girls alike left their seventh period class to join a crowd of supportive adults outside. They lined the street outside the school, waving signs proclaiming girls’ right to privacy.

“Honk to support our girls privacy,” one sign read.

“This all ends when enough of us say no,” proclaimed another bright orange marker.

Shannon Miller helped her daughter, Kyleigh, organize the walkout after Roseberg allowed a transgender-identified boy to change in the locker room.

Shannon told journalist Rick Dancer she met with the high school’s principle after learning two boys had been using the girls bathroom and locker rooms. The administration agreed to ask both male students if they would be willing to use the school’s private changing stalls and gender-neutral bathrooms.

One student agreed. The other continued using girls facilities.

The school told Shannon nothing else could be done because Oregon law prohibits discrimination based on gender identity in public schools. The administration suggested Kyleigh and other young women uncomfortable with boys in their bathrooms and locker rooms use the private facilities instead.

Multiple students say the private bathrooms are located in an auxiliary building and require a teacher to unlock the doors.

Roseburg High’s argument about upholding Oregon law is a cop-out.

True, the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) claims state antidiscrimination law protects students’ “right” to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their subjective gender identity, rather than their biological sex. It warns preemptively ordering transgender-identified students to change in a private area could be considered discrimination.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, one of the most left-leaning appellate courts in the country, affirmed ODE’s interpretation of Oregon law in 2020.

But policies and verdicts like these defy federal guidance on Title IX, which requires federally funded educational programs to segregate sports, bathrooms and locker rooms by sex. The federal government is working to withhold federal education funding from Oregon and several other states with laws that contradict Title IX.

Less than two weeks ago, the U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services ordered Minnesota to revise policies allowing boys to compete in girls sports in public schools, noting, “To the extent state law conflicts with Title IX, federal law preempts state law.”

The Department of Education launched an investigation into ODE for Title IX violations in July.

Shannon and Kyleigh Miller say Roseburg High’s position proves women have fewer rights in Oregon than transgender-identified men.

“[The school] is telling me the state law says that those who identify as the other gender have essentially more rights than Kyleigh … and every other girl in Oregon — or boy, if this was flip-flopped,” Shannon told Dancer.

“I take that to mean these transgender-identified students’ right to be comfortable and to feel safe and to have privacy is more important than the rest of the students’ at Roseburg High.”

Students at the walkout seemed similarly fed-up with the school’s inaction.

“We just want to create a safe environment for all of us,” one student told a reporter. “When [boys] come into the [girls locker room] … it creates a dangerous place for us [girls], because there’s no one in those bathrooms making sure we are going to be safe.”

Locker rooms had similarly lax supervision, another student claimed.

The students demonstrated enormous courage to stand up for themselves in a school, district and state that routinely labels girls with expectations of privacy “transphobic,” “bigoted” or “discriminatory.”

Their participation is even more impressive given the school allegedly tried to quash the walkout. Students say the administration threatened to cancel homecoming and hand out detentions and suspensions.

Video of an administrative meeting following the walkout shows an adult reading written remarks from a student who wished to stay anonymous for fear of retaliation.

“[Admin at Roseburg] made it pretty clear they felt the need to scare children today about the walkout,” the adult commented.

The anonymous student’s story is at once ridiculous and heartbreakingly familiar. She doesn’t want to wear her nice school clothes to weight training, but she also doesn’t want to change out in front of a boy.

“Why do grown adults keep putting young girls in one of the most awkward, uncomfortable, unbearable situations?” she asks in the letter, concluding:

If [I] can’t even hold a guy’s hand because [I’m] too scared, then having a guy be in [my] locker room watching [me] dress in a bra and underwear scares [me] even more.

The brave students who participated in the Roseburg High walkout deserve the highest praise for taking a risk in service of what is right. Advocates for biological reality everywhere should be taking notes.

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Transgender Ideology is Inherently Destructive

Transgender Ideology is Inherently Destructive, Part 2

Why the Move to Re-Pathologize ‘Trans’ Identity is Important

Genspect, a grassroots educational organization standing in direct opposition to gender ideology, is calling for what they call the “re-psychopathologization” of “transgender” identities. It is an important move for which they are getting expected pushback.

Yes, re-psychopathologization is an uncommon word in most people’s vocabulary, but it simply means reestablishing “trans” identity, not as something to be celebrated and affirmed, but as a psychological state of ill-health to be compassionately treated clinically in the mind of the individual.

As Mia Hughes, research analyst and author of the groundbreaking WPATH Files, explained at the September Genspect conference in Albuquerque, the “monster” in gender ideology is not necessarily the doctors performing experimental, body-modifying medicine on young people. The actual culprit is “an idea; the false belief that being transgender is innate, healthy and something to celebrate.” She stated this “is what is causing all the devastation.” And as a result, she explains, “to be absolutely clear, an entire field of medicine [“gender affirming care”] was built on a false belief; a fiction created by a political movement to serve its own agenda.”

Thus, no one is transgender.

As Focus on the Family has explained, “transgender’ means many different things … and nothing.The American Psychiatric Association explains transgender is “a non-medical term that has been used increasingly since the 1990s as an umbrella term” for anyone who rejects their biological sex believing their mind can be sexed differently than their body. There is no scientific discovery establishing this assumption.

These facts are why Genspect explains, “Re-psychopathologization means restoring transgender identities to their proper place in psychiatry – as conditions of the mind requiring careful therapeutic attention, rather than celebrating them as healthy identities.”

They also explain the term re-psychopathologization is “not an accident of phrasing, nor an unfortunate choice of words.” Nor is it an uncompassionate statement. Genspect hold it “is a deliberate and necessary response to the catastrophic decision made by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) in 2010 to “‘de-psychopathologize’ transgender identities.” That effort to depathologized “trans” identity in clinical practice continues today in examples here, here, here and here.

Genspect correctly holds that you cannot successfully and compassionately treat a condition if you hold an incorrect belief about the thing itself. They explain re-psychopathologization “is a call to restore clarity, compassion, and safeguarding by recognizing that transgender identification is not innate or biologically determined, but an all-consuming pathological belief heavily influenced by culture.”

They see this an essential act of restoring clarity in medicine as “psychiatry must address pathological beliefs rather than collude with them.” It is also a way to restore genuine compassion for people, as those “caught in this cultural wave are innocent victims who need help and support, not experimental body modification in the name of a political ideology.”

Why Now?

Genspect launched its de-psychopathologization effort because “it is now clear that the experiment of ‘gender-affirming care’ has failed.” This is evidenced in many recent factors. One is this year’s June 18thU.S. Supreme Court decision in United States v. Skrmetti which rejected the idea that access to experimental “trans-affirming” procedures is a constitutional right. Second, countries such as Denmark, Sweden, Finland, France, and England have reviewed the evidence and moved away from allowing drug and surgical experimentation on children in the name of gender ideology. Third, people are increasingly learning of the harms gender policies are having on women, here, here, here and here, as just a few examples.

Genspect explains, “It is time to recognize transgender identification for what it is: a pathological belief requiring careful psychiatric attention, not celebration and widespread medicalization.”

This understanding is more medically and scientifically accurate. As such, it will serve mothers and fathers, children and the clinicians who serve them better.

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Male ‘Throuple’ Buys Toddler from Quebec Government

Three men in a polyamorous relationship purchased a three-year-old girl from the Quebec government last month — a frightening arrangement that prioritizes the men’s desire to legitimize their relationship over the young girl’s rights and safety.

The Quebec Youth Protection Service awarded Eric LeBlanc, Jonathan Bedard and Justin Maheu custody of the young girl when she was just one. These men legally became her “parents” on September 11.

At least one prospective adoption agency refused the “throuple” because Quebec does not award parental authority to more than two adults, LeBlanc told CTV News. The Youth Protection Service was reportedly “more open.”

“Through that process, they learned that we are a little different because we’re three, but we’re not different from any other family,” LeBlanc explained.

Of course they are. In fact, there are few places more dangerous for that young girl than with three unrelated, adult males.

Children statistically do best in the shared home of their married, biological mother and father. This is, in part, because the biological tie between parent and child guarantees better parental buy-in.

“Children reliably move their [biological] mothers and fathers to invest, secure, protect and nurture them,” child advocate Josh Wood writes for Them Before Us. “And they do so at a level no substitute arrangement consistently matches.”

Numerous studies show stepparents, in contrast, do not invest as much time and energy into biologically unrelated children in their care. Evolutionary psychologists Martin Daly and Margo Wilson coined this phenomenon the “Cinderella Effect.”

This little girl will always feel the loss of her biological parents. She, like all orphaned children, deserves to be adopted by a married, male/female couple who can best mimic the stability and safety of the parents she lost. Instead, the Quebec Youth Protection Service placed her in the care of three biologically unrelated men in celebration of a radical, untested family form.

There is no greater statistical threat to a child than an unmarried male living in the home.

Cross-analyses of several countries performed by Daly and Wilson found stepparents beat their children to death at a 100 times higher rate per capita than children living with their biological parents.

A more recent U.S. dataset of people sentenced for producing child pornography showed, when controlling for the population, children living with an unrelated male adult were over 900% more likely to be sexually abused than those living with biological fathers.

This toddler is at grave risk of abuse. If, God forbid, she is harmed, Quebec authorities may not find out for years. She’s far too young to know what abuse is, let alone ask for help.

Right now, only two of the three men have parental custody over the child — but that could soon change.

In April, Quebec Superior Court Judge Marc-Andre Landry gave the province one year to change its civil code limiting parental custody to only two adults. Quebec has appealed the decision.

“It’s not about stepparents or other potential realities. It’s really about three people sitting together and saying, ‘We should have a child together,’” Landry wrote.

The harm of this ruling, if it stands, cannot be overstated. At best, it prioritizes the sexual predilections and desires of adults over the rights of children to maternal and paternal love and care. At worst, it could allow child predators to share custody of an abuse victim under the guise of an “alternative family.”

CTV News captioned their interview with the “throuple”: “Three men and their daughter want their family recognized by the Quebec government.”

That is a lie. That child is not “their daughter,” because no child can have more than one father. She doesn’t care about family recognition; she wants her biological mother and father back, or the closest approximation to them.

Instead, the Quebec government sold her to three men who wanted a child to complete their parody of domestic bliss.

She did not consent — but it did not matter.

Please join the Daily Citizen in standing against such reckless family redefinition and in praying for the safety and salvation of this little girl.

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Virginia and Texas Move to Protect Girls’ and Women’s Private Spaces

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin directed the state’s Board of Health to take steps to protect sex-segregated spaces and activities.

Similarly, in Texas, Governor Abbott recently signed the Texas Women’s Privacy Act into law, protecting girls and women in locker rooms, showers, bathrooms, prisons and domestic violence shelters.

Here’s what happened in these states.

Virginia

The Family Foundation, a Focus on the Family-allied public policy group, explained the governor’s executive action in a press release:

“In a major victory for women and girls across the Commonwealth, Governor Glenn Youngkin today issued Executive Directive 14, instructing the State Board of Health to promulgate regulations protecting the health and safety of females in sex-separated spaces and activities.”

In his executive directive, the governor stated what prompted the order, “Students of both sexes have made high profile complaints about both harassment from students of the opposite sex within intimate spaces such as locker rooms, which threatens the health and safety of students, and the inclusion of biological males in girls’ athletic competitions, which is a clear violation of Title IX.”

He pointed to specific instances where privacy and safety were violated.

“Most recently, a complaint sent to USED [U.S. Education Department] alleges that on September 2, 2025, a biological male was watching girls change in a Fairfax County Public Schools girls’ locker room. …

“Additionally, more than a dozen witnesses have testified in a case involving a male Tier III sex offender who exposed and sexually gratified himself in front of female children in female locker rooms within schools and fitness centers in Northern Virginia.”

Governor Youngkin directed the Board to draft regulations that:

  • Prevent biological males from participating in organized female-only athletic teams and competitions in Virginia.
  • Prevent biological males from using designated female spaces where females are likely to be in a state of undress.

Texas

In September, Governor Greg Abbott signed SB 8, the Texas Women’s Privacy Act. The House passed the measure with a vote of 86-45, while the Senate voted 19-11 in favor of the law.

SB 8 defines male and female by their normal reproductive capacity, then it requires individuals to use sex-segregated facilities based on their sex.

According to Texas Values, a Focus on the Family ally, the law makes it clear “that women and girls are protected in their sex separated spaces like showers, locker rooms, domestic violence shelters, and prisons.”

The pro-family organization had been fighting since 2017 to pass legislation to keep sex-segregated spaces based on biological sex, not on an individual’s made up notion of their “gender.”

Texas Values’ Director of Government Relations Mary Elizabeth Castle applauded the new law, saying:

“Today, Texas made a historic move in making sure that no woman or little girl has to look over her shoulder with fear when she is in the locker room, restroom, or shower because a man has been allowed to wrongfully enter that space.”

“I thank Governor Abbott and other state leaders for being strong in passing the Texas Women’s Privacy Act before the calendar year is over. Our Texas legislature has made the message loud and clear: You don’t mess with Texas women and their dignity.”

The Daily Citizen applauds Virginia and Texas for taking steps to protect people – boys and girls, men and women – from those with wrong-sex confusion who insist they are the opposite sex. Gender ideology doesn’t change the truth that there are only two sexes – male and female.

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Transgender Resources

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UPenn Will Strip ‘Lia’ Thomas of Medals, Apologize to Female Athletes

What Does it Mean to Be Trans Anyway?

Why Christians Can’t Avoid the “Trans” and Gender Redefinition Issue

Yes, Girls Care When Boys Take Their Trophies