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Fox News
22-06-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Attorney Arrested After Opposing Trans Treatments for Kids Speaks Out
The Supreme Court's decision to affirm Tennessee's ban on so called 'Gender Affirming Care' was a victory for people like activist/attorney Lois McLatchie Miller. On June 6, police in Brussels, Belgium arrested her and child protection advocate Chris Elston (aka 'Billboard Chris') for peacefully displaying signs promoting the protection of children against transgender medical treatments. Their signs read 'Children are never born in the wrong body' and 'Children cannot consent to puberty blockers.' The pair went to the EU capital to engage members of the European Parliament about the dangers of puberty blockers for children. On this episode of Lighthouse Faith podcast, Miller, an attorney for Alliance Defending Freedom International, reacts to the Justices' decision, and also talks about her experiences being arrested for standing up for her deeply held beliefs that 'children are made in the image of God, and they are made as beings that should be loved and cherished.' Miller shares how instead of addressing the mob threatening them, the police arrested the two holding signs. She says it's a blatant example of how deep Western culture has aligned itself with the transgender movement and pushes back aggressively against any who challenge its orthodoxy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit
Vogue
28-05-2025
- Business
- Vogue
Who Will BWho Is Most Affected by Trump's Big Beautiful Bill?
Last week, House Republicans passed H.R. 1, also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, in a 215 to 214 vote that all but two GOP representatives supported. Beyond sending a chilling message about Democrats' chances of defeating, well, anything Trump wants to prioritize, the bill, one of the biggest pieces of legislation to come out of the second Trump administration, has far-reaching implications for many marginalized groups. Below, an explanation of who's most likely to be affected by the bill—and how. Single Parents Not-so-surprisingly, the party of so-called "family values" is using its latest piece of legislation to discriminate against single parents when it comes to SNAP, or food stamp, benefits. One of the bill's provisions states that parents of children ages 7 to 17 must now work 80 hours a month to receive SNAP benefits, but in households where parents are married, only one has to work. In other words, single parents with kids as young as 8 must work in order to receive food aid, while people who are married to a working adult don't have to. Trans Medicaid Recipients The Big Beautiful Bill has justified trans communities' long-held worries about the future of gender-affirming care in ths US, banning gender-affirming care from Medicaid for all ages. 'For 10 years I got my hormones from the low-income American program Medicaid. 95% of my friends still do. Every American trans woman of color I know of this morning, Americans face the biggest practical, not legal or theoretical, loss of bodily autonomy of my lifetime,' trans author Torrey Peters said of the bill's passage at the Sydney Writer's Festival last Friday. Immigrants in the US The bill provides $46.5 billion to revive construction of Trump's wall along the US-Mexico border; $4 billion to hire an additional 3,000 new Border Patrol agents and 5,000 new customs officers; and $2.1 billion for signing and retention bonuses. Trump's second term has already proven dangerous for non-citizens, what with the increased deportations and persecuation by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). People seeking abortions and/or other reproductive health care The Big Beautiful Bill makes good on Republicans' long-threatened plan to effectively defund Planned Parenthood, closing nearly 200 clinics (90% of them in states where abortion is still legal). …Elon Musk? The tech billionaire appears to be at something of a distance from Trump's inner orbit now that he's no longer running the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), telling CBS News recently: 'I was disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decreases it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing…I think a bill can be big or it can be beautiful, but I don't know if it can be both. My personal opinion.'
Yahoo
24-02-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Trump rescinds Biden order protecting gender clinics from investigation, signals new whistleblower protections
The Trump administration is rescinding a Biden-era directive protecting hospitals from investigations and signaled that beefed-up protections for medical whistleblowers would be forthcoming. The Health and Human Services Department (HHS) announced Friday it would be rescinding an executive order issued by former President Joe Biden in March 2022, which, among other things, gave hospitals the right not to comply with state-level investigations related to their provision of transgender medical treatments to minors. Trump's directive eliminates these protections, and the rescission notice indicates that further safeguards for medical whistleblowers are anticipated in the future. "Under the Biden regime, the door for whistleblowers was closed," said Dr. Eithan Haim, who was prosecuted by the Biden administration after he leaked documents to the media that revealed Texas Children's Hospital in Houston was performing transgender medical procedures on minors, even after it said it had stopped. "It was a complete inversion of the role of HHS, the role of our legal framework, because the criminal entities were being protected and the individuals exposing criminal entities were now the ones being targeted." Riley Gaines Featured In Trump Hhs Website That Builds On 'Two Sexes' Executive Order Haim was indicted last year by Biden's Department of Justice for blowing the whistle on Texas Children's Hospital, after it continued to provide transgender medical treatments to minors even though the hospital had publicly indicated it had stopped such services in order to comply with new state guidance. Several days after President Donald Trump was sworn in, the charges against Haim were dropped. Under Biden's March 2022 directive, titled, "HHS Notice and Guidance on Gender Affirming Care, Civil Rights and Patient Privacy," hospitals were permitted, but not required, to comply with investigations seeking information on their provision of transgender treatments. But, according to HHS's rescission notice, such guidance lacked "adequate legal basis under federal privacy laws." The notice added that, "by its own terms," Biden's March 2022 directive "permits" the release of personal health information tied to transgender procedures when it is needed to comply with other laws. Read On The Fox News App Trans Star Of Hit Hbo Series Says Renewed Passport Now Says Male After Trump Order "Covered entities should no longer rely on the rescinded 2022 OCR Notice and Guidance," stated HHS' rescission notice. It added that "in consultation with the Attorney General" the agency will also be "expeditiously" issuing new guidance to protect whistleblowers who take action in accordance with Trump's efforts to protect children "from chemical and surgical mutilation." Haim said that under Trump's new leadership, the U.S. legal system is being restored "to a place of equal protection under law, particularly as it relates to people who are trying to follow [Trump's] executive order, or any other federal laws." "The key thing with this new directive is that, as a healthcare provider, if a hospital or other doctors are participating in misconduct, if they're lying about something, if they are intervening on patients in a way that is harmful to those patients – especially kids – as a doctor, it's not only something you should do, it's something you have to do," Haim pointed out. Click To Get The Fox News App In addition to compelling hospitals and gender clinics to begin rigorous compliance with investigations, the Trump administration's Friday directive also removed gender dysphoria from being considered a disability under the federal Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. It also rescinded orders from the Biden administration indicating it was discrimination for federally funded health programs to refuse to treat someone on the basis of their gender identity. Fox News Digital reached out to HHS for comment but did not receive a response by publication article source: Trump rescinds Biden order protecting gender clinics from investigation, signals new whistleblower protections
