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Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) appears to be caught in contradictory statements concerning corporate interests that may have encouraged his veto of Arkansas’ recent transgender surgery legislation.

The Arkansas legislature voted to override Gov. Hutchinson on a bill that will block minors from receiving transgender drugs and surgeries.

The Arkansas State Legislature has overridden Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s (R) veto Tuesday on sex-reassignment surgeries for minors, rendering certain transgender procedures illegal in the state 90 days after April 30. 

PA Gov. Tom Wolf said that he would not sign any bill that would block trans athletes from competing in the gender category of their choice.

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson vetoed a bill Monday passed overwhelmingly by the legislature that would have blocked transgender procedures for minors, including drugs and surgeries, and prevented transgender procedures from being considered deductible expenses for income tax purposes.

National Public Radio (NPR) Boston affiliate WBUR aired an interview with a Massachusetts third grader and his parents describing their experience since being “startled” by their child’s announcement that he feels like a “boy-girl” at the mere age of six. Many listeners took to Twitter to voice their concerns over what they view as “child abuse,” with some calling to defund the taxpayer-funded radio network.

Rachel Levine, assistant secretary of the Biden Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), criticized efforts in some states to ban minors from obtaining transgender drugs and surgeries, saying such bans constitute a “health equity issue.”

Bravo’s “Top Chef” host Padma Lakshmi is lecturing parents on the subject of transgender children, saying they “have no business being a parent” unless they accept a child’s declared gender identity.

The official Facebook page for the Star Wars movie franchise celebrated “Trans Day of Visibility” on Wednesday by unveiling the recently created characters Terec and Ceret, who are “trans non-binary Jedi Knights.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) believes there is a “national attack on trans rights at the state level” and said it is necessary for Americans to educate themselves about “gender affirmation” because “ignorance is what’s weaponized to pass laws that hurt people.”

A slew of Hollywood celebrities including Julianne Moore, Brie Larson, Laverne Cox, and Amy Schumer have joined GLAAD in condemning feminists who disagree with the transgender agenda, calling them bigots and their views “damaging and violent.”

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A professor of gender studies at the University of Rhode Island (URI) has sparked a firestorm over her recent assertion the left has fallen into a state of “trans-sex fantasy,” a world governed by the belief one can change one’s sex and in which “real children are becoming actual victims.”

Enabling children who want to change their sex is a form of child abuse and causes “incalculable” damage, said Catholic League president Bill Donohue Monday.

SD Gov. Kristi Noem is signing two executive orders to try to stop biological men from competing in sports against biological women.

Dozens of conservative groups are asking South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) to support legislation that “protects all women—kindergarten to college—and provides them with a legal remedy when their rights are violated,” noting in a Monday letter that the Republican governor can join their coalition to defend Title IX by “supporting legislation like HB 1217 as originally passed.”

Soccer star Megan Rapinoe joined the effort to force children’s sports in America to allow transgender athletes to play sports.

Alabama is considering a bill to protect minor children from undergoing life-altering transgender therapy, including drugs and surgery.

Athlete activists and activist groups have joined in an effort to force Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Professional Golfers Association (PGA) to boycott the state of Georgia after the state government passed an election reform bill.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed a law Friday banning transgender athletes from participating in girls’ sports, making it the third state this year to approve a measure many critics warn would prompt costly lawsuits and hurt transgender youth.

A student has been reinstated by State University of New York (SUNY) Geneseo after being suspended from the school’s education program after he expressed his views on biology on social media, stating “a man is a man,” and “a woman is a woman.”

The Wikipedia page for actor Keiynan Lonsdale became a battlefield in the fight over “preferred pronouns” due to a Twitter thread noting Lonsdale once suggested “tree” as his preferred pronoun. Despite doubts about Lonsdale’s sincerity, editors repeatedly changed the male pronouns on his article to “tree” this past week until an editor sought a compromise by removing pronouns entirely. One editor who criticized the move and denigrated the idea of “tree” as a pronoun was banned for a week.

The self-proclaimed “front page of the internet” Reddit has reportedly fired an administrator identified as UK transgender politician Aimee Challenor after multiple subreddits went dark in protest of Knight’s position at the site due to Challenor’s links to convicted pedophiles. The site’s CEO sheepishly admitted, “We did not adequately vet her background before formally hiring her.”

The United States Senate voted Wednesday to confirm President Joe Biden’s nominee, Rachel Levine, to serve as assistant secretary of health at the Department of Health and Human Services.

A transgender student will receive a $300,000 settlement from a school district for being barred from using the boys’ locker room in 2016.

Transgender actor-comedian Eddie Izzard, who plays a male lead in the World War II espionage thriller Six Minutes to Midnight, says that “pronouns do not define me,” and he’s “not going to make a big deal” about it, as “it’s not the be-all and end-all” of what being transgender is about.

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed his displeasure Tuesday with “letting biological men compete in women’s sports.”

Republican SD Governor Kristi Noem said at a press conference on Monday she is launching a nationwide coalition to protect women’s sports.

Doug Emhoff, husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, spoke on Sunday at what was billed as a Rainbow Seder celebration.

Corporate media is lauding Leyna Bloom, the first black and Asian transgender to model in Sports Illustrated’s annual Swimsuit Issue.

American rapper Lil Mama announced Thursday she is starting a “heterosexual rights movement” to protest LGBTQ bullying.

South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem returned a bill designed to prevent biological men from competing in biological women’s sports back to her state legislature on Friday for changes.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said on the Senate floor Wednesday the Equality Act would treat millions of Americans as anything but equal by punishing those whose beliefs do not fall in line with the far-left ideology driving the legislation.

Kataluna Enriquez, a biological male who identifies as a woman, has been crowned Miss Silver State USA, which is described as the “biggest preliminary competition for the Miss Nevada USA pageant.”

A Canadian father has been arrested for “misgendering” his own 14-year-old child by calling her his “daughter,” and referring to her with the pronouns “she” and “her.”

Florida is the one of more than 20 states where lawmakers are crafting bills to prevent biological men from participating in women’s sports.