In a Senate floor speech his office titled 'the Transgender Mental Disease,' the Alabama governor candidate blamed Charlie Kirk's killing and the Butler shooting on trans people, said doctors should spend life in prison, and warned your pilot might be a furry. The FBI and the charging documents say otherwise.
Under deals announced September 18, UPMC and NYU Langone will stop providing gender-affirming care to minors and pay the government $9.45 million combined. Both denied wrongdoing. The Justice Department had spent a year demanding the private records of trans children — and losing in court.
Asked whether America is ready for a gay president, Rep. Derrick Van Orden told TMZ that 'African Americans don't want to vote for a homosexual.' Polling shows most Black voters say a candidate's sexual orientation makes no difference.
After the May primary, Mackenzie's campaign cut his pro-life rating, gun rights, voter ID, women's sports and sanctuary city lines from its 'Record' page and put in 'Working Across the Aisle.' The record behind them is all still on file.
The ad, titled 'King James,' uses an AI-generated Talarico to deliver a monologue rewriting the Bible. It stitches together fragments of his real remarks, strips their context, changes some of his words, and scripts them into a speech that does not exist. Paxton's campaign did not answer when The Advocate asked why it manufactured footage instead of using real video.
Her campaign registered ColomForSenate.com to imitate Scott Colom's real site, ScottColom.com, and calls him the 'transgender defender' who 'pushed radical sex change surgeries for children.' The 2021 letter it cites is the only document linked anywhere on the site, and the word surgery does not appear in it once.
The ordinance would have added veterans as a protected class and extended existing LGBTQ protections from housing to public accommodations. Three Tulsa city councilors say Kevin Hern phoned them to raise concerns about federal funding. The sponsors pulled it, and Tulsa's law reads the same today.
S. 5202 would bar federal funds from any research or publication on gender transition in minors. Blackburn and Tuberville cosponsored it on July 30 — two weeks before Medicare's agency published the rule ending Medicaid coverage for the care itself. Both are running for governor.
PolitiFact rated the Friends of Byron Donalds PAC ad False. The clip was edited to make David Jolly appear to endorse surgery for children, when he was retelling a grandfather's story about a suicidal trans teenager. Donalds' spokesperson stood by it.
