The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released a peer-reviewed study showing what most sensible people have always known: it is not safe to put children on hormones or give them surgery to try to change their sex. The government calls this “sex-rejecting procedures.” The Biden administration called it “gender-affirming care.” One of them is based in reality and the other is not. The review examined the evidence behind puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical interventions for minors and found the scientific support to be weak, inconsistent, or nonexistent. Long-term outcomes are largely unknown, the risks to fertility and bone development are significant, and the quality of most studies was rated “low” or “very low.” The report makes clear that psychological support, not irreversible medical procedures, should be the first-line approach for children in distress. It warns that the medicalization of minors has outpaced the evidence, driven more by ideology and clinical momentum than by data. Notably, the report does not address two of the most scientifically significant realities in this field: there are unusually high rates of autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions among gender-dysphoric youth. The report also omits longstanding research showing that most children with early-childhood gender dysphoria naturally resolve once they pass through puberty. Those omissions matter, because both factors dramatically affect diagnosis, treatment planning, and long-term outcomes. This is very much in line with the UK’s Cass Report from 2024, which reached a similar conclusion after a years-long independent investigation: the evidence supporting pediatric gender-transition treatments is unreliable, the harms are under-studied, and mental-health evaluation must come before medicalization. Taken together, the Cass Report and the new HHS study form the strongest international repudiation yet of rushing children into life-altering procedures under the banner of “affirmation.” The post The HHS Bombshell on Gender Medicine appeared first on Redacted.

Why has the U.S. ramped up drone strikes in Somalia? The U.S. bombed Somalia for the 97th time since President Trump took office and the attacks are getting almost no attention. I guess we’re just used to killing people with our tax dollars? Over the weekend, the attacks reportedly killed 12 civilians, including eight children, three women, and an elderly man. AFRICOM offered no details about the most recent strike other than that it was to target an ISIS affiliate. The U.S. strikes ISIS groups to hold up a weak government in Somalia. Why does our military bother with this with so many other global conflicts on the horizon? Who knows. We fight ISIS in Somalia but support ISIS-linked groups in Syria. Based on Antiwar.com’s count, the previous record for most bombings in Somalia in a year were in 2019 when President Trump bombed the country 63 times. He has since surpassed it by about a third with no end in sight. Since we’re counting, President Biden launched a total of 51 airstrikes in Somalia throughout his four years in office, and President Obama launched 48 over eight years. The post U.S. Sets New Bombing Record in Somalia appeared first on Redacted.

Israel killed at least 28 people including women and children in Gaza on Wednesday. Israel and Hamas are both accusing one another of firing first but no Israeli soldiers were harmed. Israel claims that their soldiers were attacked near Khan Yunis so they opened fire and killed at least 17 women and children. This happened on the Israeli-occupied side of the yellow line. According to Antiwar.com, “the strikes on Wednesday bring the total death toll during the “ceasefire” to more than 300.” The post Israel’s Fire Not Ceasing appeared first on Redacted.

The Justice Department now says it may not release all Epstein documents because it has opened a “new investigation.” That’s an interesting turn, considering the Attorney General already told the public that there was “no evidence” Epstein trafficked girls to other men. So what exactly is there to investigate now? Attorney General Pam Bondi hinted at “new information,” but nothing she described is actually new unless the DOJ has simply chosen not to look at it for two decades. If the government suddenly wants leads, there are some obvious ones. Start with Les Wexner: the only billionaire who ever handed Epstein full power of attorney, gave him his townhouse, his jets, and control of his money. Wexner is the financial origin point of Epstein’s empire, yet he has never been charged, subpoenaed, or interviewed in any federal probe. Meanwhile, independent journalists have uncovered far more: Israeli operatives staying with Epstein for weeks, and leaked emails showing Epstein trying to broker cyberweapons for the Israeli government, financed through the Rothschilds. None of this qualifies as new information. It only becomes “new” if the DOJ has finally decided to acknowledge it. Representative Thomas Massie warned that the DOJ has no authority under the new transparency law to hide documents behind a fresh investigation. But it certainly looks like they’re going to try. The only question now is whether this “new investigation” is a real inquiry or just another mechanism to keep the public from seeing who Epstein was really working with. The post The DOJ’s “New Investigation” Looks Like an Old Cover-Up appeared first on Redacted.

Two famous twin sisters decided to die together in Germany on Monday and the government let them. Alice and Ellen Kessler were famous TV stars in Germany in the 1950s and 60s. The women had long expressed a desire to “leave together… on the same day,” and under Germany’s increasingly permissive end-of-life regime, they were able to schedule it like an appointment: two sisters, a doctor, a lawyer, and a legal framework that treats death as an organized service. Neither of them was known to be ill, although one had reportedly suffered a recent stroke. There is something undeniably dystopian about it. We’ve entered an era where governments and medical systems not only permit assisted death but facilitate it, normalize it, and in some countries aggressively promote it. Dying is no longer a mysterious threshold; it’s paperwork and protocol. And in a lonely, aging Europe struggling with declining birthrates and ballooning pension burdens, that trend is not happening in a vacuum. To many, the Kessler Twins’ final act looks like peaceful autonomy. To others, it looks like a warning: a society so detached from the sanctity of life that even a double death can be wrapped in a tidy press release. The post Two Sisters Walked Into Assisted Death Together. A Society Let Them. appeared first on Redacted.