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New Paper Details ‘Emerging and Accumulating’ Adverse Effects of ‘Gender Affirming’ Estrogen

Yet another group of scientists call for “rigorous further investigation” into “transgender” hormone interventions in a paper details new, adverse effects associated with giving men and boys “gender affirming” estrogen.

Unproven, opposite-sex hormone treatments wreak havoc the body and the brain. Estrogen consumption among men and boys has long been associated with infertility, testicular atrophy, cognitive decline and increased risk of testicular cancer, dementia, venous thromboembolism and stroke.

Despite these risks, and with an astonishing lack of testing and research, doctors across the globe have been administering opposite-sex hormones to adults and children with sexual identity confusion.

“Beyond previously identified harms associated with estrogen use by [natal men], many new safety signals are emerging, [including] exacerbation of some previously identified harms associated with long-term [estrogen] use,” psychiatrist Lauren Schwartz and experts from Genspect and the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine write in their new paper, “Emerging and accumulating safety signals for the use of estrogen among [natal men].”

In pharmacology, “safety signals” refer to “information suggesting a previously unknown, potentially causal, association between a medicine and an adverse event.” Scientists document these signals to evaluate the ongoing effectiveness and safety of treatments.

The paper lays out several emerging “safety signals” plausibly related to men taking estrogen, including increased risk of:

  • Death
    A Dutch study of more than five decades-worth of patients at the Amsterdam gender identity clinic found biological men that took opposite-sex hormones died earlier than women and men who did not take opposite-sex hormones, most frequently from cardiovascular disease and cancer.
  • Developing or worsening autoimmune diseases
    One man with an autoimmune disease affecting his skin experienced a life-threatening manifestation in his kidneys after he began taking estrogen.
  • Diabetes
    Estrogen decreases lean mass, increases fat mass and worsens insulin resistance in men.
  • Pancreatitis
    Estrogen can increase triglyceride levels, which are associated with pancreatitis and gallstone pancreatitis
  • Thyroid cancer
  • Breast cancer
    Higher levels of estrogen are associated with breast cancer development in men.
  • Developing cancerous neoplasms or experiencing cardiovascular anomalies after taking certain medications.

Schwartz and company dedicate a large section of the paper to the effects of estrogen on the male brain, which evolutionary biologist Colin Wright summarizes in an article for City Journal.

“Estrogen and testosterone blockers reduced brain volume and altered brain chemistry,” Wright paraphrases, noting the same effects occurred when scientists fed male rates estrogen.

Estrogen consumption in men is also associated with declining Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) — a chemical Wright describes as “critical to mood and memory.” BDNF decline not only elevates risk for developing major depressive disorder but decreases the size of the hippocampus and damages the brain’s frontal lobe, grey and white matter.

These cases, Schwartz and company emphasize, need not be conclusively linked to “gender affirming” estrogen to be highly concerning.

“Even if causality cannot (perhaps yet) be firmly established, adverse effects must be reported to communicate potential risks to clinicians and patients … and to motivate further investigating,” Schwartz writes, continuing:

Medical decision-making tends to prioritize avoiding harm over achieving benefit, particularly when harms are severe and benefits are modest. Cataloguing potential harms is thus a critical part of evaluating treatments.

But experts in “gender affirming” care demonstrate suspicious reluctance not only to evaluate their treatments, but inform patients of their considerable risks. The paper assesses:

[Risks] associated with estrogen as a treatment for gender dysphoria do not seem widely known to clinicians treating this population or to the patients themselves, which undermines ethically necessary informed consent.”

It points to doctors like Stephen M. Rosenthal, the co-founder and medical director of the University of San Francisco’s Child and Adolescent Gender Center, who maintains there are “no clinically significant effects with gender-affirming sex hormones.”

Rosenthal was one of several transgender “experts” the federal government has paid to inject healthy children with opposite-sex hormones.

Dr. Richard Ogden Roberts of Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) repeated a similar line to Rosenthal’s at a prestigious medical lecture in 2023, claiming, “Gender-affirming hormone therapy overall appears to be safe and effective.”

Roberts was later identified as one of at least two doctors performing transgender medical interventions on children long after TCH claimed to have shut down its transgender program.

The common thread here is profit. Those who make the most money from “gender affirming” hormone treatments consistently minimize concerns from the wider medical community about performing unproven, irreversible experiments on children.

The Daily Citizen applauds Shwartz, her colleagues, Genspect and the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine for defending medical ethics.

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Public Libraries Promote ‘LGBT’ Books to Children and Teens – Year Round

(Caution: Includes disturbing content and links to book reviews with graphic content.)

Public libraries across the nation celebrated “LGBT pride month” by promoting sexually confusing books with homosexual and “transgender” themes to children and teens.

But it’s not just June when LGBT identities and behaviors are pushed on children, as many libraries promote age-inappropriate books throughout the year.

This is especially the case as the American Library Association has become more radical and promotes sexualized books for children. But it’s also because LGBT folks and their allies claim more days, weeks and months to celebrate various sexual proclivities – from Bisexual Health Awareness Month in March to Transgender History Month in August, and from Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week in February to Transgender Awareness Week in November.

Libraries also promote inappropriate material during so-called Banned Books Week, in October each year.

Parents should be aware that this happens across the country – even in conservative communities.

In North Carolina, John Murawski reported at Real Clear Investigations about Raliegh public libraries celebrating LGBT pride month:

Like public libraries across the country, branches in North Carolina’s capital city turn rainbow-hued each June in celebration of Pride Month. Festive book displays featuring “queer-themed” titles written for all ages – from toddlers to teens and adults – are set out for the public as innocently as if the subject in question were cooking, gardening, or personal finance. 

He notes that the books promote a variety of sexual fetishes, including “cross dressing, drag queens, kink, BDSM (bondage, domination, etc.), poppers (recreational drugs used at sex clubs), … [and] polyamory (consensual non-monogamy) … among other delectations of the flesh.”  

While these books are especially featured during LGBT pride, parents should be aware that these books are available to children and teens all year long.

Libraries in Boston offer “We Are Pride Booklists” for children, teens and adults. That’s right, the staff-curated lists lump sexually explicit adult books together with LGBT books intended for children and teens. Hundreds of books are listed, such as: 

  • Who Are You? The Kid’s Guide to Gender Identity. The author is Brook Pessin-Whedbee, “a public school teacher and mama to three little ones who joyfully bend and break the gender boxes.” Written for children ages 5-8, the book introduces children to gender ideology, presenting “clear and direct language for understanding and talking about how we experience gender: our bodies, our expression and our identity.”
  • Transphobia: Deal With It and Be a Gender Transcender, is written by J. Wallace Skelton, “an educator, activist and writer.” Written for children ages 9-15, the book explains “Transphobia is intolerance of any part of the range of gender identity.” Through “information, quizzes, comics and true-to-life scenarios,” Transphobia helps “kids better understand gender identity and determine what they can do to identify and counter transphobia in their schools, homes and communities.”

Colorado Springs, Colorado is a generally conservative city, but libraries offer a list of “LGBTQIA+” books to adolescents and teens. The list, placed in the teen section of the library all year long, includes many unsuitable books:  

  • Cool for the Summer, by Dahlia Adler, is about a teenage girl who “is conflicted about her sexuality while she has romantic relationships with another teenage girl and her long-time boy crush.” One summary of concerns with the book says: “This book contains alternate gender ideologies; profanity [dozens of incidents]; sexual activities; sexual nudity; and alternate sexualities.”
  • Queer: A Graphic History, by Meg John Barker, has chapters like “Interrogating Heteronormativity,” “Open Non-monogamy,” “Polynormativity and Kinknormativity.” Rated Books says, “This book contains alternate sexualities; alternate gender ideologies; and controversial racial and social commentary.”
  • The Black Flamingo, by Dean Atta, a “fierce coming-of-age verse novel about identity and the power of drag,” is about a “mixed-race gay teen growing up in London” who explores sex with men and discovers his identity as a drag performing – the Black Flamingo. According to one review, the book contains: alternate sexualities; inexplicit sexual nudity; sexual activities; drug and alcohol use; alternate gender ideologies; controversy racial commentary; and references to racism.

While many librarians are helpful and hold conservative values, the American Library Association is a radical organization that has promoted unsuitable books for children for decades. The association dishonestly calls any parents’ concerns about sexualized books for children “book banning” and “censorship.”

The American Library Association’s “Library Bill of Rights” includes the following articles, which demonstrate what the group believes about parental involvement in children’s book choices:

  • Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.
  • A person’s right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views.
  • All people, regardless of origin, age, background, or views, possess a right to privacy and confidentiality in their library use. Libraries should advocate for, educate about, and protect people’s privacy, safeguarding all library use data, including personally identifiable information.

Basically, the association believes children should be able to check out whatever books they want, regardless of age, and that they deserve “privacy and confidentiality” – including from parents – in those decisions.

With libraries across the country promoting LGBT books throughout the year, it’s incumbent upon parents to give children a solid understanding of God’s good design for relationships, identity, sexuality and marriage.

In addition, parents should strive to maintain a healthy, open relationship with their children, so that when they do come across disturbing sexual content, they feel free to talk about these experiences.

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National Education and Library Groups Co-Sponsor ‘Transgender’ Reading Day for Elementary School Children

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FBI Investigates Three Major Hospitals for Mutilating Children

The FBI has initiated criminal investigations into employees at Boston Children’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital Colorado and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles for performing irreversible “transgender” medical procedures on children, an anonymous source “familiar with the investigation” tells Fox.

The inquiries follow several statements from the Trump administration promising to prosecute so-called gender affirming care for children under laws preventing child abuse and female genital mutilation.

In his executive order “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” President Trump directed the Department of Justice (DOJ) to:

  • “Prioritize enforcement of protections against female genital mutilation.”
  • “Convene states’ attorneys general and other law enforcement officers to coordinate the enforcement of laws against female genital mutilation.”
  • “Prioritize investigations and take appropriate action to end deception of consumers, fraud and violations of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act by any entity that may be misleading the public about the long-term side effects chemical and surgical mutilation.”

The DOJ created the Federal and State Coalition Against Child Mutilation to carry out the president’s order. In an April memo announcing the coalition’s formation, Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote:

Through this coalition, I will partner with state attorneys general to identify leads, share intelligence and build cases against hospitals and practitioners violating federal or state laws banning female genital mutilation and other, related practices.

On June 2, the FBI wrote on X and Facebook, “As the Attorney General has made clear, we will protect our children and hold accountable those who mutilate them under the guise of gender-affirming care.”

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles runs the “Center for Transyouth Health and Development,” which the Daily Citizen’s Jeff Johnston describes as “one of the oldest and largest children’s ‘gender clinics’ in the country.”

For more than 30 years, the center has pumped children full of opposite-sex hormones and cut off their healthy reproductive organs. But, just two weeks after the FBI’s statement, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles announced the center’s abrupt closure, effective July 22, 2025.

Children’s Hospital Colorado claims it has never performed transgender surgeries on minors. It does, however, offer children so-called puberty blockers and opposite-sex hormones, Fox reports.

Dr. Eithan Haim, a surgeon who exposed a secret transgender medical program at Texas Children’s Hospital sayshormone interventions can be just as, if not more, damaging than surgeries.

“Taking these medications during adolescence is like undergoing a million micro-surgeries to your bones, heart and blood vessels every single day,” he told the Daily Citizen, explaining:

The changes are more gradual than a surgery, so people tend to think hormone-based interventions aren’t so bad. But there’s no surgery that can prevent your secondary sexual characteristics from developing. There’s no surgery that can cause your bones to become that of a 65-year-old woman. There’s no surgery in the world that can cause your brain not to develop. Nothing can do those things except for these medications.

Radical Colorado legislators ostensibly support Children’s Hospital Colorado and other providers performing these inhumane procedures on children. On May 23, Governor Polis signed a law mandating health insurance companies cover opposite-sex hormone “therapy,” “transgender” surgeries and cosmetic surgeries like rhinoplasties, “check, chin or nose implants” and “facial bone remodeling.”

Boston Children’s Hospital runs GeMS, or the Gender Multispecialty Service. It makes no attempt to placate federal or state officials prosecuting child mutilation.

“You may be aware that in states across the country there is a recent increase in proposed legislation aiming to restrict the rights of transgender and gender diverse youth,” a letter from the hospital on the GeMS website reads, referencing laws preventing child mutilation and protecting girls’ sports and spaces.

The letter reaffirms the hospital’s belief in “a gender-affirmative” model of care, which it describes as “a standard of care grounded in scientific evidence, demonstrating its benefits to the health and well-being of transgender and gender diverse youth.”

This is, as Johnston would say, a bald-faced lie. Overwhelming evidence, including a recent, 400-page report from the Department of Health and Human Services, shows transgender medical interventions harm children and teens mentally and physically.

Still, the hospital’s letter concludes:

The proposed bans on medical care, sports participation and other legislation aiming to restrict the rights of transgender and gender diverse youth are in direct opposition to our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusivity, as well as the standard of care we live by.

In other words, Boston Children’s Hospital doesn’t think it has done anything wrong and has no intention of stopping.

But performing “transgender” medical interventions, which amount to nothing more than lucrative experiments, on vulnerable children is horribly wrong. Doctors peddling lies about their efficacy make money off turning healthy kids into lifelong hospital patients.

Please pray God will guide and bless the FBI’s truthful investigation into this evil practice.

Additional Article and Resources

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Shuts Down Harmful ‘Center for Transyouth’

DOJ Targets Those Mutilating Children with ‘Transgender’ Drugs and Surgeries

Colorado Law Mandates Health Insurance Coverage for ‘Transgender’ Mutilations

Pam Bondi Directs DOJ Attorneys to Investigate Transgender Procedures for Minors

HHS Releases Report on Harms of ‘Transgender’ Medical Interventions for Minors

President Trump Signs Order Protecting Children From Transgender Medical Interventions

EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Citizen interviews Dr. Eithan Haim, the surgeon who exposed a secret transgender medical program at Texas Children’s Hospital

Florida Investigates Man Who Invaded Women’s Privacy in Disney World

Florida is investigating Lilly Tino, a man pretending to be a woman, for invading women’s privacy at Disney World, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced this week.

Tino, a notorious transgender-identified social media influencer, sparked an internet firestorm earlier this month after posting photos of himself visiting ten different women’s restrooms in Disney World. At least four of the pictures included other women in the background.

As the Daily Citizen previously reported, Tino’s behavior violates two Florida laws — one preventing men from using women’s restrooms and another prohibiting people from taking pictures of others in private spaces without their consent.

At least one woman captured in Tino’s photos claimed she was looking at her legal options, because she doesn’t know what other footage he had captured.

Tino seems undaunted by legal action, posting several videos mocking women’s discomfort with his using the women’s restroom.

“As far as I know, I’m not getting sued,” he told TikTok viewers last week. “I don’t expect to, because I didn’t do anything wrong.”

Apparently, Attorney General Uthmeier thinks otherwise.

“Yeah, we’re investigating this,” he told journalist and podcaster Benny Johnson on Monday. “We do not tolerate men or boys in women’s and girls’ restrooms, gyms and private spaces.”

“No tolerance,” he emphasized.

Uthmeier further told Johnson his office had already taken significant steps to protect women’s private spaces in other parts of Florida.

“We’ve already cracked down on some gyms in South Florida that were allowing men who identify as women to go into women’s locker rooms,” he told Johnson. “We put them on notice legal action was coming. Thankfully, they changed their ways.”

Uthmeier also forced a kids’ camp to stop allowing fifth grade boys “identifying” as girls to sleep in girls’ cabins.

“It’s amazing we have to have these kinds of conversations today, but here in Florida, we believe there are two sexes, man and woman,” he concluded. “We’re going to protect our girls at all costs.”

Lilly Tino exemplifies the ways biological men use the nebulous umbrella of “transgenderism” to justify predatory behavior. He clearly enjoys the discomfort he inspires in women using the restroom, closely watching their reactions and describing them to his followers.

But, ultimately, Tino enjoys the power his subjective “gender identity” affords him over biological woman. He likes inspiring unease just by entering women’s spaces. And he’s constantly testing how much he can get away with.

In one of his Disney World videos, Tino contemplates whether anyone from conservative Florida would stop him from using the women’s room. When he returned, from peeing standing up, he claims, Tino commented:

That went as well as it could have gone. No one gave me any weird looks — definitely no one stopped me.

It’s long past time someone stopped him. Thank goodness Florida is up to the task.

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‘Transgender Means Many Different Things’ — And Nothing

Dylan Mulvaney’s New Song Puts Sexist Tropes to a Bubblegum Pop Tune

Yes, Girls Care When Boys Take Their Trophies

SJSU Hired Same Law Firm to Simultaneously Defend and Investigate Male Athlete on Women’s Team

San Jose State University (SJSU) hired the same law firm to simultaneously defend a male student’s right to play women’s volleyball and investigate him for misconduct against his teammates, Fox’s Brian Thompson reported yesterday.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher attorneys represented the Mountain West Conference in November against twelve women requesting a federal court court ban SJSU volleyball player Blaire Fleming, a man, from the conference championships.

The plaintiffs included SJSU volleyball’s co-captain Brooke Slusser and former associate head coach Melissa Batie-Smoose, whom SJSU suspended after she filed a separate Title IX complaint against the school.

Willkie announced its “high-profile win” on its website on November 27 after Judge Kato Crews ruled against the women.

While some Willkie attorneys worked on defending Fleming’s presence in a women’s volleyball game, another was investigating Fleming’s alleged misconduct against Slusser.

Slusser began playing with SJSU in Fall 2023. Unaware of his true sex, Slusser lived with Fleming on campus and often shared rooms with him while traveling. After discovering Fleming was male from other SJSU students, Slusser and some of her teammates raised concerns about his participation on the team.

Tension on the team came to a head in an October game against Colorado State University. A now infamous video shows Fleming set the ball for Malayla Jones, a CSU player, to spike the ball at Slusser.

After the play, Jones appears to blow a kiss at Fleming.

Batie-Smoose claims she clocked Fleming’s bizarre behavior early in the game.

“In set one, I called blocking,” Batie-Smoose told Fox News Digital last year. “[Fleming] was not looking at me, would not even give me eye contact when [he] kept setting up the block wrong [and] didn’t follow the game plan.”

Fleming’s errors became so egregious, Batie-Smoose recalls, that she told head coach Todd Kress, “I know this sounds crazy, but I think [he’s] throwing the match and [he’s] definitely not listening to a word I’m saying about blocking.”

Batie-Smoose witnessed the interaction between Fleming and Jones and waited for Kress to pull Fleming from the game — but he never did. Instead, she heard him telling an assistant coach, “This is so horrible for Blaire, all this stuff is taking such a toll on Blaire, I feel for [him].”

After the game, Batie-Smoose learned that Fleming and another SJSU teammate had allegedly visited Jones’ dorm the night before the game. Another teammate had received a social media message warning SJSU players to keep their distance from Slusser.

Slusser recalled of the message:

[It] basically [said] that my teammates needed to keep their distance from me on gameday against Colorado State, because it wasn’t going to be a good situation for me to be in.

Batie-Smoose filed a Title IX complaint making these allegations public on October 29. On November 12, SJSU launched an investigation into the incident headed up by Tim Heaphy — an attorney at Willkie.

Heaphy closed the investigation in just three days, concluding there was insufficient evidence to find Fleming guilty of wrongdoing. The official statement concluding the investigation misdates the initial incident, Fox’s Thompson notes — an ironic error for an ostensibly thorough probe.

Notably, Slusser and Batie-Smoose did not consent for Heaphy to interview them.

Some might chalk Willkie’s involvement in defending and investigating Fleming up to the Mountain West Conference retaining a single law firm. But Heaphy, at least, seems sympathetic to men competing in women’s sports.

On February 6, the Department of Education (DOE) announced an investigation into SJSU for violating Title IX. According to emails reviewed by Thompson, Heaphy offered to defend SJSU from the inquiry. Dustin Mays, head counsel for California State University and San Jose State University, allegedly turned him down.

DID YOU KNOW?
Judge Crews based his dismissal of Slusser and company, in part, because of the Supreme Court’s reasoning in Bostock v. Clayton County, a damaging opinion finding “sex discrimination” under Title VII included discrimination against “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.”

Importantly, Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for the majority, specifically clarified the court’s interpretation of “sex” in Bostock only applied to Title VII. Crews’ decision to cite favorable court precedent, omitting the Supreme Court’s caveat and other precedent finding Title IX does not protect discrimination against “gender identity” betrays dangerous bias.

The sentiment likely extends beyond Heaphy. Willkie has deleted its post announcing the firm’s successful defense of Mountain West and, by extension, Fleming. The scrubbed document notably refers to Fleming as a “transgender woman” and repeats highly suspect legal reasoning from Judge Crews concluding legal precedent establishes “‘sex’ under Title IX’s prohibitions includes discrimination based on an individual’s trans status or sexual orientation.’”

Perhaps most importantly, Willkie’s involvement in both cases further illustrates the web of secrecy and corruption surrounding Fleming’s participation in women’s volleyball. Slusser, Batie-Smoots and the other women in this case endured physical and financial retaliation to bring Fleming and SJSU’s misconduct to light.

Yet Fleming, for all intents and purposes, was allowed to come out on top. He continued playing women’s volleyball and graduated SJSU in May.

Slusser had to leave campus to finish her degree at home.

At least two other athletes lost scholarships and starting positions on SJSU’s volleyball and beach volleyball teams.

Batie-Smoots was fired in January.

SJSU’s prioritization of Fleming over the physical wellbeing and advancement of women is egregious and unjust. Please pray the DOE’s ongoing investigation will provide some relief to those that have been victimized.

Additional Articles and Resources

Yes, Girls Care When Boys Take Their Trophies

NCAA and San Jose State ‘Transgender’ Volleyball Player Usurp Women’s Rights

San Jose Coach Suspended for Filing Discrimination Complaint Against Transgender Player

Four Women’s Volleyball Teams Forfeit — Won’t Play Team with a Man

The Bostock Slippery Slope: Girls Who Think They’re Boys Must Be Allowed to Use High School Boys’ Restroom, Appeals Court Rules

Appeals Courts Affirm Rulings Stopping the DOE’s Rewrite of Title IX