Many detransitioners who speak out receive death threats. I know, because my son, Simon, is a gender apostate, and people call for his death all the time. Gender ideologues become terrified when people like Simon prove there is life after trans identification. It turns out delusions can pass; people and families can heal. I knew this, which is why I stood up and spoke out when my son was in the throes of trans identification. When his doctor, right in front of my son, asked me, “Do you want a living daughter or a dead son?”, I told him it was the most shocking display of malpractice I had ever seen. In college, my son’s classmates called for his death, yet they were allowed to remain on campus. My son was the one they wouldn’t allow to speak. He just wanted to tell people he had stopped believing he was trans, but the dean bellowed that he would never be allowed to speak on campus. They tried to get him expelled, his classmates screamed at him in the street, and he received threatening emails. The gender ideologues want families like ours silenced. I’ve had a mob of trans activists scream at me, in my face, saying that I was evil and did conversion therapy on my son. I was surprised to feel calm — I knew there was nothing I had ever done in my life that was more right than helping my son find the way out of this delusion. I loved my son then — as I love my son now — enough to tell him the truth. He was born a boy, he is a man now, and he has been male every day in between. For a while, he was angry I didn’t see it his way, but now he is thankful I held to the truth. Puberty is hard for most kids, but it seems especially traumatic for autistic kids. When Simon was young, he would cry when anything changed — even when a restaurant or a gas station closed. When his voice began changing, he bawled abjectly — his own body had betrayed him from the inside. Likewise, trying to find acceptance among peers is a challenge for all teenagers; try it when you can’t read nonverbal social cues or interpret your own feelings. As a child, a preteen, or a teenager, my son never knew when somebody was going to bully him. In the case of boys, he was surprised every time he was punched or threatened; in the case of girls, he was surprised to be the target of vicious rumors or a group shunning. He didn’t know how to handle it, and I couldn’t teach him. I didn’t know how to teach social skills to a kid I didn’t even know was autistic. All of this contributed to Simon’s trans identification. My son was 14 years old when he called his mother and me into the dining room and played us a song on the piano about how he thought he was a girl inside. It was clear he didn’t want to be himself at that point. He was experiencing real distress, but he had been taught an escape rather than a solution. I wanted to get him help for his discomfort, his sadness, his worry. It’s hard to get mental health support for a kid. Once a kid says he’s trans, though, it becomes almost impossible. You enter an upside-down world, where they believe parents hate their children, and the child tells the doctor the diagnosis. If you’re a parent who wants a therapist to help your autistic teen learn about how to perceive social and internal cues, that can all be derailed when he says he’s trans. They may want to wash their hands of him and send him to the gender center (where all patients are trans as a matter of policy). They may demand you get on board the trans train — or else. This could be a kid who can’t tell whether he’s hungry or he’s angry. He needs help to distinguish those feelings. But if he says he feels like a woman, a therapist can’t even ask him what he means by that. Activists have gotten laws passed that can take a therapist’s license away if he doesn’t agree kids are trans whenever they say so. And if you, as a parent, aren’t careful, they could even take your kid away from you. Trans-identifying boys have cheerleaders everywhere. It’s not just the therapists, or the girls who will take your boy shopping and buy him women’s clothes. There are the school groups like GSA, which used to stand for “Gay-Straight Alliance,” but now stands for “Gender and Sexuality Alliance.” These groups preach the religion of gender. Our kids are taught about gender identities in health class as if they’re as real as chromosomes or conception. Online, kids can meet people of all ages with sometimes prurient enthusiasm for their gender identification. What’s one father against all of that? One father can be a start. I taught my son that lots of people believing an idea doesn’t make it true, it just makes it popular. Reality is what’s still there when you stop believing in it. Right now, trans ideology is popular. But sex is real, and it’s still going to be here when the trans fad passes or your kid overcomes his delusions. If you succeed in holding the line against medicalization, he may be healthy and whole when that happens. Parents have so many roles. Sometimes you’re a guide, walking in front of your children and showing them the way. Sometimes you teach, sometimes comfort, sometimes inspire. Sometimes a father is just a lighthouse keeper, maintaining a beacon so they can find their way back. My son found his way back from his delusion. I don’t know all the reasons why, but I know he couldn’t have done it if I had let my light go out. * * * Gareth Amaya Price is the father of Simon Amaya Price, a desister. Gareth Amaya Price was featured in a new two-part documentary produced by IW Features, Independent Women’s grassroots storytelling and original journalism arm, as part of its “Identity Crisis: Real Stories About Escaping Gender Ideology” series. The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire. Up to 50% off razors & DW Shop, up to 50% off Candle Club, up to 25% off Mayflower—bundles, gifts, & last-chance holiday shipping

Far-left Democratic socialist and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will visit the White House for a high-stakes meeting with President Donald Trump on Friday. Trump previously threatened to yank funding from the Big Apple if the 34-year-old Mamdani was elected, urging New Yorkers to back former Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo instead. On Wednesday, Trump said that Mamdani had requested a meeting.  “Communist Mayor of New York City, Zohran ‘Kwame’ Mamdani, has asked for a meeting,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “We have agreed that this meeting will take place at the Oval Office on Friday, November 21st. Further details to follow!” Mamdani confirmed Trump’s post, issuing a statement that the meeting was routine and would focus on public safety and the economy.  “As is customary for an incoming mayoral administration, the Mayor-elect plans to meet with the President in Washington to discuss public safety, economic security and the affordability agenda that over one million New Yorkers voted for just two weeks ago.” Trump said on Sunday that he would be open to meeting with Mamdani, stating, “We want to see everything work out well for New York.” Mamdani said that he would be “Trump-proofing” New York by resisting cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and claimed Trump was a “despot” during his Election Day victory speech.  “If we embrace this brave new course, rather than fleeing from it, we can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves,” he said. “After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump, how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him.” Mamdani has promised to open city-run grocery stores and raise the city’s minimum wage to $30 an hour by 2030. Trump has said that New York’s economy will crumble under Mamdani’s leadership.  “If Communist Candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the Election for Mayor of New York City, it is highly unlikely that I will be contributing Federal Funds, other than the very minimum as required, to my beloved first home, because of the fact that, as a Communist, this once great City has ZERO chance of success, or even survival!” Trump posted on Truth Social before the election.

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News The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping The Second Quarter Quell Begins in the Trailer for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping Haymitch Abernathy’s story is coming to the big screen next year By Molly Templeton | Published on November 20, 2025 Comment 0 Share New Share We all remember what a Quarter Quell is from Catching Fire, right? Does anyone need a refresher? It’s when, every 25 years, the ever-so-clever folks in the Capitol put a fun little twist on the Hunger Games! Super nifty! Though in Sunrise on the Reaping, it’s more your garden-variety absolute horror: They send twice as many kids to the arena. That’s 48 young people fighting each other to the death instead of 24. And, because this story takes place long before Katniss comes on the scene, we know who the winner is. It’s the guy who grows up to be Woody Harrelson. Sunrise on the Reaping is the story of the 50th Hunger Games, which were won by Haymitch Abernathy. As a novel, it’s interesting, though the mechanics of the Games and their aftermath—the alliances, the tragedies, the all-powerful hand of President Snow—feel a bit familiar. But reading, it’s impossible not to remember Haymitch in The Hunger Games, and the shattered mess he was as played by Harrelson. So it’s pretty heartbreaking watching this kid take his first major steps down that path. And the spectacle, well, it’ll be a spectacle—especially with this cast. This trailer is mostly a teaser for the Games themselves, focusing on the young tributes, their initial race toward the Cornucopia, and the horrors that follow. But there are brief shots of the movie’s impeccably selected cast, which includes Jesse Plemons as young Plutarch Heavensbee (the role previously played by Philip Seymour Hoffman); a beaming Elle Fanning as young Effie Trinket (previously Elizabeth Banks); Glenn Close as Drusilla Sickle (that’s her at the beginning, in yellow); and Ralph Fiennes as a dramatically coiffed President Snow (previously Donald Sutherland). The tributes are largely played by less well-known actors, but that’s Joseph Zada leading the cast as Haymitch (though he looks more like a young, blond Rufus Sewell than he does like Harrelson). Whitney Peak plays his girlfriend, Lenore Dove Baird; Mckenna Grace plays Maysilee Donner, another tribute from District 12. Also in the cast but not seen here: Kieran Culkin as Caesar Flickerman; Maya Hawke as Wiress; Lili Taylor as Mags; and Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Betee. And Billy Porter as Magno Stift. If you have read Sunrise, you may notice that this trailer shows a ton of major moments from the novel, though in quickly cut shots that give little away. It’s still a little disconcerting, but not as much as the fact that the trailer never lets Zada speak, relying instead on a line from Harrison himself: “I think these games are gonna be different.” (You can hear him say it in the Catching Fire trailer.) With a lush green arena and also an exploding volcano? You bet they are. The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping is directed by franchise regular Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by Billy Ray, based on the novel by Suzanne Collins. The film is in theaters in one whole entire year; it arrives November 20, 2026.[end-mark] The post The Second Quarter Quell Begins in the Trailer for <i>The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping</i> appeared first on Reactor.

The United States added 119,000 jobs in September, blowing past expectations following a slowdown in hiring over the summer. The Bureau of Labor and Statistics’ September jobs report, which was delayed by the 43-day federal government shutdown, showed an acceleration in jobs from the previous month. Vice President JD Vance said the September jobs report indicates most of the job growth is benefiting “native-born American citizens.” “You’re seeing the job growth go to native-born American citizens, and what happened under the Biden administration, to the extent that there was any job growth at all, is almost all the net job creation went to the foreign born,” he said. “Now, of course, some of those immigrants are legal immigrants to the United States, but that means that a lot of the job creation was actually going to illegal aliens that shouldn’t have been in our country.” “The best thing you can say about the Trump economy is that American jobs are going to American workers for a change,” he continued. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt celebrated that the report “doubled market expectations.” “In stark contrast to the disastrous Biden economy, almost all of these new jobs were in the private sector and went to American-born workers instead of illegal aliens,” Leavitt said. “Wages for workers are continuing to rise, a reversal of the Biden years where private sector wages declined by about $3,000 because of the Democrats’ inflation crisis.” “This strong report is more proof that President [Donald] Trump’s pro-growth, America First agenda is already making great progress, and it will continue to deliver positive results for American families and businesses,” she continued. The unemployment rate rose to 4.4%, according to the BLS data. Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer described the jobs numbers as a “solid report for the American people.” However, she said manufacturing jobs have “not been exactly where we want them to be.” DeRemer predicted this will reverse soon but will “take some time because of the investments the president has done with a lot of these companies as well as the trade deals he has made.” The post Better-Than-Expected BLS Report Shows New Jobs Went to ‘Native-Born American Citizens,’ Vance Says appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Is the next generation of romantic comedy viewers … boys? Two recent surveys suggest that it’s younger men, not women, who are more focused on getting married and having children. Seventy-four percent of 12th-grade boys say they will likely choose to get married, according to a November Pew Research Center analysis. In contrast, only about 6 out of 10 senior girls feel the same way. Of Note: New from @pewresearch 12th grade girls are less likely than boys to say they want to get married someday pic.twitter.com/1JzpqwxzMH— The Institute for Family Studies (@FamStudies) November 17, 2025 Meanwhile, when young adults aged 18-29 were asked what they viewed as most important for having a successful life, men ranked getting married and having children higher than their female peers did in a September NBC News Decision Desk poll. That disparity became even more stark when looking at women who voted for Kamala Harris compared to men who voted for Donald Trump. Among men who voted for Trump, having children was seen as the top indicator of success, while getting married was considered the fourth most important (out of 13 options). Young women who voted for Harris had decidedly different priorities: They saw getting married as the 11th most important and having children as the 12th most important indicator of success. Harris’ young female supporters, instead, prioritized fulfilling careers, financial success, and emotional stability. What is going on? Can we expect to see TLC launch a “Say Yes to the Tux” series? Will groomzillas become the new norm? Whatever the reasons, it’s clear there’s a major cultural shift. In 1993, 83% of 12th-grade girls thought they’d be likely to choose marriage, as did 76% of 12th-grade boys. In other words, about 4 out of 5 12th-grade women planned to get married in 1993, and now only 3 out of 5 do. If those 12th-grade girls are accurate Cassandras, it could have massive ramifications. Already, the U.S. marriage and birth rates are in significant decline—and it’s married women who are most likely to have children. The U.S. birth rate is currently 1.6 children per woman, a historic low and one that portends a declining population for our nation, which will bring economic and societal challenges. But are these young women off base to be dubious about marriage? I always wanted to get married—and yet I also always wanted a happy marriage, and to be with a husband I shared religious and moral values with and respected. I ultimately didn’t marry until I was 37. If you had asked me during large chunks of my young adult years if I thought I was likely to choose marriage, I’m not sure how I would have answered. As Reason’s Elizabeth Nolan Brown notes, the survey wording suggests that “most of the 22 percentage point drop in girls saying they want to marry reflects a rise in girls saying ‘no idea,’ not girls saying certainly not or probably not.” When I was younger, I often felt like I was in some cruel numbers game that no amount of hopeful swipes on any dating app could necessarily overcome, just based on the stats. After all, a 2024 survey from Barna Group and Pure Desire Ministries found that 75% of Christian men viewed pornography. I noticed at church that it often seemed young women outnumbered the young men attending. (Although interestingly, new research suggests that men are now going to church more than women.) I was open to dating and marrying a man who didn’t have a college degree, as the number of women with college degrees rapidly outpaced the number of men among millennials. But at least in my experience, I didn’t encounter a lot of men who had forgone college but had steady careers in say, construction or plumbing, and who also possessed a love of reading or podcasts or trivia. And like many women, I was deeply uneasy over the manosphere surge. I completely agree that feminism is highly problematic, and that boys and men often receive unfair treatment in our modern culture. I had no issue with men who raised those flags. At the same time, I could not condone—or stomach—a man who would listen to some of the openly misogynistic blowhards who thrived in the ugly manosphere subculture. The answer to today’s unfair treatment of men is not to degrade and trash women. So perhaps some of those 12th-grade girls are thinking along similar lines. Maybe they would prefer marriage—but not at any price, to any man. A new NBC News poll gave Gen Z a list of choices of how to define personal success:Men who backed Donald Trump in 2024 rated having children at the top.Women who backed Kamala Harris rated it second to last. https://t.co/BDv7SdkKUA pic.twitter.com/0LVMFIVSIn— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 8, 2025 Or perhaps they are thinking along entirely different lines. If the NBC News poll is accurate, maybe this isn’t about a scarcity of good men—but about a true values shift, where women no longer see marriage and children as critical to a fulfilling life. That’s a shame—because there’s plenty of research that suggests women are ultimately likelier to be happy if they are married with children. Among married women with children, 19% were very happy, while among single women without children, only 10% were, according to an August Institute for Family Studies report. That same analysis also found that 47% of married moms found life enjoyable, compared to 34% of single, childless women. Another study, the 2022 General Social Survey, also showed that marriage and children were correlated with happiness. Among women who were married with kids, 40% were very happy and 47% were pretty happy (87% total). Among unmarried women without children, 22% were very happy and 54% were pretty happy (76% total). Of course, these numbers do demonstrate that some single childless women are happy. (I certainly had plenty of joy in my own single years.) Conservatives will only look foolish if they argue that happiness is incompatible with singlehood. But what the data does show is women are more likely to be happy as married moms. That’s the message we should be giving to anxious young women—even as we simultaneously encourage marriage-minded young men to be the best men they can be. The post Why Are Young Women Rejecting Marriage? The Reason Matters appeared first on The Daily Signal.