(Washington Stand) It may feel like the country is finally embracing sanity on girls’ sports, but not everyone has boarded the bipartisan bandwagon. While Americans of all political stripes loathe the idea of biological boys competing against their daughters, there are still some powerful holdouts making life absolutely miserable for the brave voices demanding justice. And on both coasts, they’re paying a steep price for it.

Across California and Maine, the winds of change that blew in with Donald Trump are facing stiff resistance in the form of far-left local and state leaders. At a Wednesday school board meeting in Lucia Mar, a brave 17-year-old was interrupted by the board president as she was telling the emotional story of changing in front of a boy at track practice.

(RedState) I’ve been writing a lot lately about California, because Gov. Gavin Newsom has been trying to recreate himself as some sort of moderate despite his extremist record and pundit Steve Hilton has injected some hope in weary voters with the announcement of his gubernatorial run.

This story sums up everything that is rotten in the Golden State, and I warn you, the details hurt the heart.

A twice-deported illegal immigrant with a long criminal record, presumably drawn here by the state’s welcome mat and generous taxpayer-funded benefits, killed a young couple in Orange County when he smashed into their car at high speed while drunk and high.

(California Globe) In a victory for parental rights, the United States District Court for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco has reinstated the lawsuit that Chico mother Aurora Regina filed against the Chico Unified School District for transitioning her daughter without her knowledge in accordance with their parental secrecy policy. The District’s policy prohibits staffers from notifying parents about a child’s transition without the child’s consent.

Reversing the district court’s dismissal of the case, the Ninth Circuit said that the Supreme Court has established “the fundamental right of parents to make decisions concerning the care, custody, and control of their children.”

(RedState) School should be a safe place for students to grow and learn, and parents should be confident in their child’s security. In a shocking breach of trust, however, a Jefferson County (Colo.) school exploited a child’s educational environment in the most reprehensible manner imaginable.

In April 2022, school staff assisted a minor student in fabricating a claim of homelessness so she could leave her parents’ home and move in with a teacher, Leann Kearney, who had cultivated an inappropriate relationship with the student through the school’s GSA club (Gay Straight Alliance).

This wasn’t a spontaneous, unilateral decision. The school counselor, multiple teachers, and the principal were aware of the minor’s close ties to Kearney and that the teacher was actively involved in facilitating the student’s false homelessness declaration.

(PJ Media) If there's one thing that undergirds parental rights, it is this: Parents know what's best for their own children.

If there's a second, it's Pierce v. Society of Sisters, where the Supreme Court ruled that the child "is not the mere creature of the state" and that parents have the right "to direct the upbringing and education of children under their control."

Enter Mahmoud v. Taylor, which is currently before the Supreme Court. At issue, according to Amy Howe at ScotusBlog, is "Whether public schools burden parents’ religious exercise when they compel elementary school children to participate in instruction on gender and sexuality against their parents’ religious convictions and without notice or opportunity to opt out."

(American Family Network) After a teenage girl was lured into sex-trafficking by a man she met on social media, an organization that exists to fight just such a scenario says it is sadly becoming a common occurrence.

The 13-year-old girl, who lives in Pennsylvania, believed she was meeting a 17-year-old boy named Jake who authorities say was really Zachary Lee McCauley, 29, according to a story by The Blaze.

Tori Hirsch, legal counsel with the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, calls that a “horrible situation” but one National Center is learning about more and more often.

(The Federalist) This is an adapted excerpt from Israel and Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish Nation and the Destiny of the West by Josh Hammer. Used with permission from Radius Book Group, a division of Diversion Publishing.

In June 2024, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signed a law making his state the first to mandate display of the Ten Commandments in all public school classrooms from kindergarten through university. As Landry, himself a Catholic, said before signing the bill, “If you want to respect the rule of law, you gotta start from the original law given, which was Moses…. He got his commandments from God.”