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State AGs Call on NCAA to Restore Women’s Sports Records

In a powerful moment of legal unity, a coalition of 27 attorneys general issued a formal letter to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) calling on the body to restore records and honors to female athletes that were displaced by men competing in women’s sports.

The effort marks a pivotal moment in the cultural debate swirling around “LGBT” policy and a shift back to commonsense protections for female athletes.

The letter demands the NCAA reinstate “all championships, titles, wins, awards, records and other recognitions that were wrongfully awarded to male athletes competing in NCAA women’s category events.”

Signatories argue that the NCAA’s past policy, which allowed men to compete in women’s sports, undermined the purpose of Title IX, which guarantees equal opportunities for women in education and athletics.

The attorneys general (AGs) contend:

“There is no doubt that the women forced to compete against biological males in female events were impacted negatively and unfairly disadvantaged.”

The letter recognizes the significant policy change the NCAA made in February, limiting female sports to students “assigned female at birth only,” following an executive order to keep men out of female sports, and urges them to extend that policy to practice as well.

The AGs note a February letter from the U.S. Department of Education to the NCAA and its member institutions urging the organizations to “restore to female athletes all records, titles, awards, and recognitions wrongfully credited to male athletes.”

Over 500,000 college athletes are impacted by NCAA policies, and these AGs maintain that the NCAA has not done enough to repair the damage caused by their policies.

The AGs contend, “The NCAA should take this step for former athletes to preserve the integrity of Title IX and show your support for the women harmed by years of bad policy.”

Attorneys general of the following states signed on to the letter: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming.

To date, the NCAA has not issued a public response.

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Radical and Dangerous Coed Olympic Scam is Over

Reflecting on his misgivings regarding slavery, Thomas Jefferson once wrote, “Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep for ever…”

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee expressed no such angst on Monday, but justice was nevertheless served in their decision to officially exclude sexually confused men from competing in women’s sports.

The overdue announcement was ultimately made in order to comply with President Trump’s executive order barring men from squaring off against women in women’s sports.

Titled, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” the official presidential action (Executive Order 14201) declares:

It is the policy of the United States to rescind all funds from educational programs that deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities, which results in the endangerment, humiliation, and silencing of women and girls and deprives them of privacy.  It shall also be the policy of the United States to oppose male competitive participation in women’s sports more broadly, as a matter of safety, fairness, dignity, and truth.

In announcing the eligibility changes, the Olympic Committee said they were “committed to protecting opportunities for athletes participating in sport,” and would work to “ensure that women have a fair and safe competition environment.”

Sadly, the National Women’s Law Center, which claims to “fight for gender justice,” condemned the change.

“By giving into the political demands, the USOPC is sacrificing the needs and safety of its own athletes,” they wrote.

It seems that intense political hatred and bias have blinded many to the greater needs and concerns of female athletes. In fact, the Olympic Committee is finally doing what radical groups like the National Women’s Law Center have refused to do – defend and protect women athletes.

Radicals criticizing opposition to the “trans” circus will often point out just how few sexually confused athletes are actually competing overall. In the 2024 Olympics, there were two known such athletes on Team USA. Of course, that means there were two women robbed of their lifelong dream who were kept off the squad. This was a season they’ll never get back, stolen away from them due to someone else’s delusion, selfishness and a governing body that was derelict in their duty.

Reports of this week’s announcement continue to promulgate an utter lie. Scan the internet and you’ll see countless headlines about the USOC barring “trans women” from competition.

It’s a lie.

There is no such thing as “trans women” – there are only men and women (Genesis 1:27). The only thing the USOPC did was ban men from competing against women.

Following the announcement, a spokesperson for the International Olympic Committee told ABC News, “This is a highly complex topic which has been approached by International Federations and National Olympic Committees in different ways depending on their sport and their national legislation and context.”

In actuality, it’s not complex at all. It’s commonsense. It’s only weak and confused male athletes who want to compete against female athletes. It took too long for the USOC to finally act – but at least they acted. The bullying of women athletes must stop.

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Christian Bookstore Sues Colorado Over Radical ‘Trans’ Law

Last week, a Colorado Springs-based Christian bookstore, Born Again Used Books, filed a lawsuit against Colorado, claiming the state’s radical “trans” law violates their constitutional right to free speech and religious freedom.

This is the third suit filed against the so-called “Kelly Loving Act” since it was passed in May.

Born Again Used Books filed its complaint on July 16, 2025 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. The case is Born Again Used Books v. Sullivan, represented by Alliance Defending Freedom.

Background

In May, Colorado lawmakers passed a law requiring places of public accommodation, like bookstores, to use people’s “preferred” pronouns and titles, or face discrimination claims.

As previously reported by the Daily Citizen, Focus on the Family spoke out against the law, noting it would threaten free speech by forcing schools and businesses to adopt gender-affirming policies that violate their beliefs.

Focus on the Family President, Jim Daly, spoke out against the bill online. Three analysts from the organization testified against the measure, and in support of parental rights and free speech, at the state capitol.

Complaint

The Christian bookstore argues Colorado’s new law violates their rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.

The owners of Born Again Used Books will sell their books to anyone, but they do not wish to violate their Christian beliefs about human sexuality. The bookstore owners believe God created sex to be immutable and that it is biologically determined.

The bookstore insists it is their constitutional right to recognize biological reality and use titles and pronouns consistent with their faith beliefs when addressing staff and the public.

They want to formalize the policy for the public, explaining their religious beliefs. However, under Colorado’s law it is illegal.

In a press release, ADF Senior Counsel Hal Frampton, director of the ADF Center for Conscience Initiatives explained, “The government cannot force Americans to say things they do not believe. Compelled speech — particularly on matters of conscience and belief — is unconstitutional.”

Specific Violations

The complaint alleges Colorado’s law violates the constitutional rights of the bookstore owners in three ways.

First, plaintiffs argue it compels them to use “preferred” pronouns and titles, or stay silent, which conflicts with their free speech.

Second, the bookstore alleges the law substantially burdens its sincerely held religious beliefs by preventing it from expressing its religious view on human sexuality and gender.

Third, the complaint argues the law is overly vague and can be used by the state to discriminate against viewpoints it dislikes.

Lastly, plaintiffs allege it violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment because it is not narrowly tailored to a legitimate government interest.

The legal question before the court is whether a state can compel individuals or businesses to use language that affirms a view of gender identity they reject on moral or religious grounds.

ADF Senior Counsel Hal Frampton further explained the store’s position:

As the Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed, the government has no business trying to strip traditional views about sex and gender from the marketplace of ideas. Nor can the state compel Coloradans to speak in ways that violate their deeply held religious beliefs. Born Again Used Books shouldn’t have to continually choose between violating the law and speaking consistent with its Christian beliefs.

Request for Relief

The bookstore is seeking a preliminary and permanent injunction to keep the state from enforcing the law against them, in addition to a declaratory judgment on the merits of the case finding the law, as applied to the bookstore, to be unconstitutional.

Impact

This case is not just about whether a bookstore is forced to use “preferred” pronouns and titles. Rather, it’s about whether Americans have the right to speak according to their conscience.

For many families concerned about government overreach into religious beliefs, especially in education, the outcome of this case could either affirm their rights or threaten a new era of state-mandated ideology.

Daily Citizen will continue covering this story.

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Gavin Newsom and the Dead-End Politics of the Sexual Revolution

California Governor Gavin Newsom is languishing in a political purgatory of his own making.

An ambitious and astute politician, the governor embarked on a media tour this month to position himself as the reigning “moderate” in a leaderless and increasingly radical Democrat party.

But the governor is struggling to reconcile his new, “common sense” platform with the progressive ideology that propelled him to prominence. The disconnect is nowhere more evident than in his shifting position on “transgenderism.”

Newsom began distancing himself from his more radical colleagues in March, when he called publicly called forcing girls to compete against boys in sex-segregated sports “deeply unfair.”

His comments effectively launched his centrist rebrand. But they also landed him in hot water with some of his most powerful supporters.

“My party was [angry], the LGBTQ caucus [was angry],” Newsom told podcaster Shawn Ryan in an interview released this week.

“I’ll never forget that meeting with my friends, furious with me because I don’t think it’s fair [to allow boys to compete in girls sports].”

Of course the LGBT caucus was angry; Newsom, a self-described “champion” of LGBT rights, has been a staunch supporter of the caucus’ agenda for more than two decades. In 2004, as mayor of San Francisco, he issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples — before it was legal to do so.

In his interview with Ryan, Newsom called it one of his “proudest accomplishments.”

The governor reconciles his long-standing support of the LGBT agenda, particularly same-sex marriage, and his new position on sex-segregated sports by treating them as two entirely separate issues.

“When you get to issues [of boys participating in girls sports], that’s no longer about celebrating [someone’s] rights,” Newsom told Ryan. “It’s about denying [other] people theirs.”

But they aren’t two separate issues — far from it. The rise of “transgenderism” is the direct result of the legalization and normalization of same-sex relationships.

Gender ideology, including “transgenderism,” and same-sex marriage both stem from the ideology of the sexual revolution, which Dr. Jay Richards describes as the legal and social “fracturing” of marriage, sex and childbirth.

Richards, who directs the Heritage Foundation’s DeVos Center for Life, describes the sexual revolution as a train traveling toward the end of a track. In this metaphor, each stop represents an increasingly radical manifestation of the sexual revolution’s core ideology.

The legalization and normalization of same-sex marriage is one such stop. At this station, the politics of the sexual revolution effectively fractured marriage and the sexual binary. The government cosigned the lie that all family structures are equally good — for society, for the health of both spouses and for the rearing of children.

The rise of “transgenderism” is just one stop further down the track. Whereas the legalization of same-sex marriage diminished the significance of male and female in a marriage partnership, “transgenderism” erases the distinctions between male and female all together.

This ideology treats men and women as entirely interchangeable. It recognizes nothing significant or unique about the complimentary construction of male and female humans. Thus, boys can compete in girls sports and children can casually flood their bodies with opposite-sex hormones.

In short, Newsom cannot logically support same-sex marriage and simultaneously oppose the participation of boys in girls sports because “transgenderism” is the logical consequence of legalizing alternative family structures.

Perhaps the governor recognizes this logical bind, at least subconsciously. When Ryan asked him point-blank if he believes an 8-year-old should be allowed to “consent” to  irreversible transgender medical interventions, Newsom replied:

Yeah. Look, now that I have a nine-year-old, come on man, I get it. So, those [concerns about age] are legit.

That’s not an answer. He never gives one, other than to say he’s still learning about the issue.

It takes no more than half an hour of reading from unbiased sources to understand the devastating effects opposite-sex hormones and surgical mutilation wreak on children’s physical and mental development. Newsom’s reticence isn’t about knowledge — it’s about ideology.

If he admits kids can’t be born in the wrong body, the ideology he’s fought for for decades will collapse. He’ll lose his voter base while trying to reach Democrats who defected from the party during the 2024 presidential election.

Where does this leave Newsom? Trapped. The politics of the sexual revolution, which made him a powerful Democrat player in California, are keeping him from seizing an unprecedented opportunity to ascend to party leadership on a national scale.  

He can’t convincingly accept the moderate policy positions his colleagues have rejected after years of supporting an ideology that can only become more radical.

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Christian Coffee Shop Owner Labeled a ‘Bigot’ Despite Helping the Homeless

A Christian coffee shop dedicated to helping the homeless in Denver, Colorado is being targeted by protesters for promoting biblical truths.

Founded by Jamie Sanchez in 2023, The Drip Café hires participants of “Project Revive” – a local program providing biblical and practical resources for homeless individuals seeking a fresh start.

Both The Drip Café and Project Revive are extensions of Sanchez’s homeless ministry, Recycle God’s Love. The organization is committed to “serving those who have been forgotten” by providing “hot meals, clothing, hygiene, life-saving winter supplies, and most importantly, the love of Christ.”

While Sanchez’s programs have done an incredible amount of good for Denver’s homeless population, The Drip Café continually receives extreme pushback from protesters.

Prior to the café’s opening day in 2023, Sanchez began receiving messages accusing the establishment of pushing an “anti-gay” agenda. He told Fox News:

It was really strange, actually, because we all of a sudden started getting like messages on Instagram about how we hate gay people and random comments like that.

And come to find out there was an organized group ready to protest the opening of our café before we even opened.

We did some digging, and we found out it was strictly because we were Christian.

Confirming Sanchez’s suspicions, a local group called the Denver Communists protested at The Drip Café on its opening day.

The protesters specifically opposed the following belief statement from Recycle God’s Love:

We believe that a homosexual lifestyle is contrary to God’s Word and purpose for humanity and is sin (I Timothy 1:10).

Moreover, this organization is instructed to Love those living such lifestyles.

We Believe that showing hate towards people in these communities is not the way Jesus would respond.

Therefore, although disagreeing with the lifestyles we believe to be sinful, we must show love.

Since the café’s opening day, protesters have relentlessly accused Sanchez’s business, claiming “Drip Café exploits homeless labor and disguises it as charity,” and “The Drip Café condemns queer people to death – with love.” 

Most generally, the group asserts the shop’s affiliation with a “right-wing” church that supposedly hates the LGBT community,

A member of the Denver Communists commented to Fox News,

There are plenty of Christian denominations that don’t share their bigoted view, such as the ELCA [Evangelical Lutheran Church in America], and we’ve been joined by pastors and many Christians in our protests.

Drip has doubled down on its homophobic position. Jamie and his bigoted coffee shop don’t have a monopoly on Christianity, but he sure is willing to try and profit off of it.

Additionally, a blog post from the Denver Communists stated,

We may not succeed in running The Drip out of town before the end of its lease, but that is ultimately irrelevant.

The protests against the hate-café are serving as a training ground for new queer-rights activists, the message of queer liberation is being spread, and our ultimate victory, while delayed, is inevitable.

In reference to the opening day protests and comments, Sanchez recalled,

I was in shock. Our whole purpose opening the café was to serve the homeless community and help people get off the street, change their lives.

And here we got a group who just hates us because we’re doing that and we’re Christian.

The Denver Communist group continued protesting outside Sanchez’s café every weekend for some time. Now, the group only gathers during a monthly art walk event on the café’s street, Santa Fe Drive.

Although these protests have died down, hostility towards The Drip Café has not. Sanchez says the coffee shop has been vandalized on several occasions – broken windows, “Keep Santa Fe Gay” stickers slapped onto the property and even a spray-painted image of a hanging KKK member on the café’s front door.

Additionally, a recent Instagram post promoted an upcoming protest, “Drag Against Drip,” advertising the group’s plan for “drag performances right on the homophobes’ doorstep.” 

Sanchez has also reported aggressive interactions between the protesters and his customers. He specifically recalled how two protesters once followed an elderly woman into the shop and how a blind Christian DJ was screamed at outside the café. Sanchez commented,

Here’s this group trying to act inclusive, and they are harassing a Black blind guy in front of my café because he’s Christian.

The Denver Communists have also written aggressive messages about the coffee shop on their website and social media platforms, claiming the “bigots” at the café are “advocating for violence while hiding behind polite words.”

As if that isn’t enough, the group has also connected Sanchez to neo-Nazis, to which he responded, “It’s very silly of them to say I am part of a Nazi group, considering I am a brown-skinned Hispanic.”

Despite the constant hostility over the past two years, Sanchez says he has shown the protesters nothing but love:

The communists have told me I’m not welcome, told me to kill myself, and my response is, “I love you, and you are welcome to come in peacefully.”

We have offered them free coffee and food on cold days.

I’ve never shown anything but love to them and that’s why the only pictures they have of me is praying for them.

I understand that they feel like they are having an identity crisis, and they might feel hopeless and lost and the only way to rectify that feeling is through the Son of God who is Jesus Christ.

Since Sanchez has found no help from local authorities, his team at Drip now offers live worship music in the shop every First Friday in an attempt to “drown out” the protesters’ chaos.

While some harbor hatred for Sanchez and the café, Drip’s Google reviews are filled with love and praise for the inspiring establishment. Several reviews include comments such as:

I love this place! My coffee always tastes great, the staff are incredibly kind, and it’s inspiring to have a coffee shop that loves Jesus out loud. Very refreshing.

I came in from out of town and had a coffee here. they were the most welcoming people, they prayed with me, and I absolutely admire what they are doing for the homeless community!

They provide so much for the community by feeding the homeless, getting them off the streets and offering an environment of prayer, kindness, amazing food and love even for outsiders who hate on them for simply being Christian.

These reviews demonstrate that although hate often takes center stage, hope still exists in the midst of such darkness.

Please join the Daily Citizen in praying for Jamie Sanchez, The Drip Café, and all others who are being persecuted for their promotion of biblical truths.

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