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WASHINGTON— Former U.S. Attorney General Ed Meese and First Liberty Institute CEO Kelly Shackelford will reach out to state supreme courts to preserve free speech and religious-liberty rights for lawyers and clients around the nation, working to stop a draft gag order against lawyers now being touted as an ethics rule.

Family Research Council president Tony Perkins says North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory has shown “political courage” and “moral clarity” by refusing to acquiesce to the NBA’s threats to move its 2017 All-Star game out of his state.

President Barack Obama’s deputies will insert a rule in federal regulations on Friday that decrees all single-sex bathrooms in federal facilities must be opened to both sexes.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is fighting the Obama Administration’s executive dictate that Texas schools must let transgender students, or those who identify with the other sex on a given day, to use the bathroom of the opposite sex. Paxton went to court on Friday and led a 13-state coalition and argued for a preliminary injunction to stop the federal government overreach.

A number of LGBT activists have slammed Pope Francis after the pontiff denounced attempts to teach children that gender is fluid and can be chosen, rather than a biological fact and a gift from God.

North Carolina lawmakers are bending to media-magnified pressure from business groups, the sports industry and from advocates for transgender policies, say conservative supporters of the state’s popular ‘bathroom law’ which preserves sexual privacy in public bathrooms.

“I am a lone voice in the academic and social work world speaking out against the [trensgender] transitioning of autistic people, what I feel to be both a crime against the disabled as well as their sterilization,” Dr. Kathleen Levinstein says. Her 19-year-old daughter is accepting massive testosterone injections to “grow a penis.”

Youths in Fairfax County, Virginia, can now be disciplined and even expelled from school for criticizing the new transgender ideology.

Children in kindergarten need to “understand there are many ways to express gender,” says a “core idea” in the newly released Washington State health and physical education standards.

A Texas BBQ restaurant has made their transgender bathroom policy abundantly clear — “No Men Allowed in Women’s Bathroom.” A cross-dressing cowboy truck driver has been stirring-up trouble in the Texas BBQ joint. The trucker likes to come in dressed in a skirt or hot pants and a blouse and six-inch stilettos.

The University of North Carolina is trying to evade a new state law which says people should use the single-sex bathroom that matches their original or changed birth certificate.

The head of the ACLU in Georgia has launched her own advocacy group because she can’t explain to her daughters why the ACLU is forcing communities to open women’s bathrooms, locker rooms and changing room to men who claim to be women.

After spending months, even years, dancing around the topic, Massachusetts’ Republican Governor Charlie Baker is now supporting a new pro-transgender law that would force women to share their public restrooms, locker rooms and changing areas with men who insist they’re women.

A poll shows that Republican Governor Pat McCrory has surged 9 points since he stood up against President Barack Obama’s order to allow transgenders into girls’ restrooms, and he has now converted a 10-point deficit into a 5-point lead in his 2016 reelection campaign against Attorney General Roy Cooper, a Democrat.

Far-left gay activists have launched a sneak ambush in North Carolina to help win a culture war over sex, transgender and “gender identity,” even before the nation’s surprised voters realize what is happening, according to the state’s governor, Pat McCrory.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against President Obama and his administration and vows a fight on his transgender policy for Texas schools. Eleven states have joined the state of Texas in suing the federal government.

Students at a once-placid small town Vermont high school are rebelling against the administrators’ decision to impose a transgender-friendly, privacy-stealing policy on all students just to satisfy a single green-haired student who thinks she is a boy.

Sen. Ted Cruz urges all parents and school districts to “disregard” the Obama administration’s decree that gender-confused students must be permitted to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of their preferred sex.

The Texas Attorney General and two other state attorneys general have called out the civil rights heads of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for talking out two sides of their face about states’ compliance with their transgender policy “guidance.” They ask questions about the mandatoriness of compliance, and about conflicting statements and applications of this letter of “guidance.”

A new poll by Rasmussen shows that most parents of school-aged children oppose president President Barack Obama’s transgender-boosting K-12 bathroom and locker room policy.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton joined parents on Monday to protest Fort Worth ISD Superintendent Dr. Kent Paredes Schribner’s student transgender policy. The policy allows students of the opposite sex to use facilities that they “gender identify” with at the moment.

Black leaders are offended by President Barack Obama’s order that men who claim to be female must be allowed to shower with normal women and girls, and also by his deputies’ claim that federal support for transgenders and “gender identity” is just like the campaign to win equal civil rights for African-Americans.

Following the Obama administration’s recent threat that school districts that prevent gender-confused students from using whichever sex bathroom they prefer could have their federal funding withdrawn, some homeschoolers are pointing to the value of having independence from government control.

Obama’s crusade to push fluid “gender identity” in schools, has caused one Texas superintendent to respond, “I got news for President Barack Obama. He ain’t my president and he can’t tell me what to do. That letter is going straight

Chicago Public Schools are telling employees – and even students – that they will be punished if they don’t use government-directed language when debating or talking about sex and gender.

President Barack Obama’s new transgender plan for K-12 schools recommends parents be secretly excluded from any decisive role when their children experiment with sexual “gender identities” as male or female.

The president of the Coalition of African-American Pastors (CAAP) says that the Obama administration’s assertion that single-sex bathrooms are discriminating against gender-confused individuals in much the same way that blacks experienced discrimination in the United States is a “gross insult” to all who fought for equality for African-Americans.

The president of The Cardinal Newman Society – the premier organization that promotes and defends Catholic education – says Catholic schools should implement “human sexuality policies” that serve to protect the faith, not to conform to the federal government’s social engineering motives.

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick stated emphatically that the Lone Star State “will not yield to blackmail from the President of the United States,” in response to new guidelines released Friday from the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S.

President Barack Obama will decree Friday that 100,000 government-funded schools must create pro-transgender, mixed-sex bathrooms and locker rooms, and must deny sexual privacy, single-sex bathrooms and single-sex locker rooms to almost 55 million American kids in K-12 public schools.

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has fired off a letter to the president of Fort Worth Independent School District (ISD) saying he has a “strong concern” that the school district’s “Transgender Student Guidelines” violates parents rights to information. He also said the policies are motivated by a misguided view of federal law.

A campaign supposedly to celebrate Mother’s Day aims to normalize the notion that nation and culture should have no boundaries and claims traditional American’s view of motherhood is “outdated.”

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent a letter to the chairman of the Target Corporation asking him for “the full text of Target’s safety policies.” The AG wrote, “As chief lawyer and law enforcement officer for the State of Texas, I ask that you provide the full text of Target’s safety policies regarding the protection of women and children from those who would use the cover of Target’s restroom policy for nefarious purposes.”

A city council in a Dallas suburb has rejected a proposal by its mayor to adopt a proposal to use birth certificates to determine what bathroom people use. The ordinance is similar to a law passed in North Carolina and was aimed to address the use of women’s restrooms by men.

A Federal Circuit court ruled today that a local Virginia school board violated the law by not allowing a girl to use the boys’ restroom.