11 stories
Family
Women’s health research must start with sex
The order gives HHS 90 days to establish an NIH division charged with sex-specific research and greater inclusion of women and girls in clinical trials.
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Culture
Parents—not schools—direct children. Chatham’s policy let counselors decide whether parents were involved
The settlement ends a federal fight over a school policy that let counselors decide whether parents could be involved when a student sought to identify as a different gender.
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Lancaster County boards set the rules to keep girls’ teams for girls
Conestoga Valley has 180 days to turn its girls’ sports rule into guidelines, potentially before spring sports, while parents wait to learn how it will work.
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Iowa schools must tell parents. Josh Turek voted no.
A federal appeals court documented a Linn-Mar policy that let students sideline parents; Iowa later required schools to notify them, and Turek voted no.
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Parents should see Finland’s warning before consenting to child sex-change procedures
A new Finnish analysis found psychiatric-care use rose after young people’s last intervention, giving parents reason to demand the full evidence before consent.
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Age checks put parents back in charge online
Cato’s warning arrives as Pew finds strong support for age checks and parental consent, and lawmakers face a clear choice over who controls children’s accounts.
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Parents Can’t Police Every App. State AGs Must Make Platforms Answer
Missouri’s actions put Temu, TikTok and Microsoft on the hook for answers, with TikTok’s Nov. 13 deadline and Microsoft’s 30-day response window now running.
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Biden DOJ Let Activists Shape Its Agenda Against Parents’ Laws
Newly released records show activist groups met quarterly with Biden’s Civil Rights Division as it challenged state laws on transgender medicine, bathrooms and women’s sports.
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News
OneBC proposes putting parents and sex-based rights first in B.C.
OneBC’s Oct. 20 proposal would remove gender identity from B.C. law, schools, sports and medical practice for minors, putting parental authority and women’s and girls’ rights at stake.
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Omar’s husband’s winery sold investors empty barrels, Comer says
California records show eStCru was terminated April 4, while House Oversight sought records on the finances of Mynett’s winery and venture-capital firm.
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Prisha Mosley: Glamorizing castration cannot change the operation
In an Oct. 19 X post, Mosley says only a man can be castrated and that glamorizing it does not change what the operation is.
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