US Olympic Committee bans biological men who identify as women from competing against women in women’s sports

USOPC leaders Sarah Hirshland and Gene Sykes acknowledged the update in a message to Team USA athletes and partners, underscoring that the committee, as a federally chartered body, is bound to respect federal directives. “Our statutory framework requires us to uphold the expectations laid out by our government,” the letter states, pointing to the Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act as a foundational legal benchmark.

Christian bookstore sues Colorado for trying to silence its views on biological reality

A Colorado law recently redefined “gender expression” to include “how an individual chooses to be addressed,” that is, pronouns and titles based on gender identity rather than biological sex. Although Born Again Used Books happily sells its products to everyone, Colorado now compels the bookstore to speak using pronouns and titles based on a person’s preferred gender expression—thereby requiring the store to prioritize a person’s professed identity over biological reality. That violates the Christian bookstore’s beliefs and the First Amendment.

International Trans Lobby gives up on SCOTUS cases

If in good faith they believed rights based on “gender identity” or “sexual orientation” exist, they nevertheless chose not to claim so before the U.S. Supreme Court, arguably the most powerful court in the world. The absence of such arguments suggests that global homosexual/transgender lobby groups and their backers in government and academia have opted for a strategic withdrawal from the U.S. Supreme Court as a venue to advance their agenda