Texas is suing a “radical gender” doctor whom the state alleges perpetrated medical fraud and attempted to subvert state law pertaining to gender treatments for minors. Children’s Health System of Texas and Dr. Jason Jarin unlawfully provided minors sex-rejecting medications, including puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, defrauded state insurance programs, and skirted state law, according to allegations in a lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. “I will use every legal tool available to ensure radical gender activists like Jarin face justice for hurting our kids,” Paxton told The Daily Wire. “This criminal extremist not only permanently harmed children, but he also then defrauded Medicaid and stuck Texas taxpayers with the bill for this insanity. Experimental ‘transition’ procedures on minors are illegal, unethical, and will not be tolerated in Texas.” In June 2023, Texas passed Senate Bill 14, which banned sex-rejecting interventions for minors. Dr. Jarin, a Division Director at Children’s Health System of Texas and Associate Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center, continued to provide children cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers after the law went into effect on September 1, 2023, the lawsuit alleges. Dr. Jarin billed males for birth control medications that were intended to serve as cross-sex estrogen, fraudulently used diagnostic codes when billing for sex-rejecting procedures, and gave puberty blockers to “otherwise healthy children under the guise of ‘precocious puberty,’” according to the lawsuit. Puberty blockers, which can cost thousands of dollars, are approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of precocious puberty, an endocrine disorder in which early sexual development occurs in children. They are not FDA-approved for the treatment of gender dysphoria. “Although Texas law bans dangerous and experimental sex-rejecting procedures on children, the scourge of so-called ‘gender affirming care’ persists in the State of Texas,” the lawsuit reads. “Even worse, Texas taxpayers have been on the hook for millions of dollars in gender transition surgeries, hormones, and other procedures that turn otherwise healthy children and young adults into chronic medical patients.” “Our top priority is the health and well-being of the patients and families we serve. We comply with all applicable local, state and federal health care law,” Children’s Health said in a statement. “Due to ongoing legal proceedings, we are unable to comment further at this time.” In 2015, Children’s and UT Southwestern jointly opened a gender clinic, called the GENder Education and Care, Interdisciplinary Support clinic (GENECIS), which had more than 1,000 patients before abruptly closing in March 2022 after facing “intense scrutiny” as the public became more aware of the horrors of gender medicine, the lawsuit describes. However, despite the public-facing closure of the gender clinic, healthcare providers continued to provide sex-rejecting procedures to children through the Adolescent and Young Adult clinics at Children’s and the Department of Pediatric Gynecology. “Most patients continued to see the same providers at the same locations, and the partnership between UT Southwestern and Children’s remained essentially the same,” states the lawsuit. Both the GENECIS and Adolescent and Young Adult clinics were “overseen by overlapping department chairs at UT Southwestern,” which included the Department of Pediatrics chair, Dr. Jorge Bezerra, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology chair, Dr. Perrin White, and the Division of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics chair, Dr. Richard Adams, the lawsuit describes. When SB-14 went into effect, Dr. Jarin and two former GENECIS clinic doctors, Dr. Brett Cooper and Dr. Mary Lau, met with UT Southwestern leadership, including Bezerra, White, and Adams, to “discuss the implication of SB-14 for both institutions,” according to the lawsuit. Dr. Jarin was primarily tasked, alongside White, Lau, and Cooper, with creating a “wean protocol” that allowed patients to wean off of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones in compliance with SB-14 over a “medically appropriate” period of time, according to the lawsuit.  Patients who attended mental health sessions and were prescribed the medications before June 1, 2023, were eligible for the “wean protocol.” Paxton claims this protocol was an attempt to subvert compliance with SB-14 and “justify the continued, illegal prescription of cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers to children,” in the lawsuit. The “wean protocol” decreased the dosing of sex-rejecting hormones at such a low rate that it would take “2 to 5 years to wean completely off,” allowing children to maintain the feminizing or masculinizing effects of the drugs until age 18, when they could legally return to their “pre-SB-14 dosage,” according to the lawsuit. Furthermore, if patients met either of two “exception” criteria, they were permitted to discontinue weaning altogether. The protocol required patients to maintain the reproductive hormone levels of the opposite sex “in perpetuity,” claiming this was necessary to protect their bone health. If patients failed to maintain these artificially high hormone levels, which are the intended result of cross-sex hormone therapy, they were granted an “exception” from weaning off of the outlawed drugs, according to the lawsuit. Paxton said “there was no legitimate medical basis for their recommendation regarding bone health,” and the protocol was “always a pretext for patients to continue illegal cross-sex hormones,” as stated in the lawsuit. “There is no evidence to justify maintaining these hormone levels over prolonged periods of time. The vast medical literature on this topic shows that these hormonal treatments did not produce the desired effect of improving psychological well-being,” Do No Harm chairman Dr. Stanley Goldfarb told The Daily Wire. “Moreover, they are involved with all of the unfortunate side effects, including the potential for sterility as well as a number of genital problems associated with prolonged exposure to contra-sex hormones.” Patients were also granted an exception from weaning off cross-sex hormones if their mental health team failed to document their “mental health stability at least every six months,” according to the lawsuit. The same initial intake criteria used by UT Southwestern and Children’s to begin medicalizing gender confused children was used to continue cross-sex hormone therapy under the wean protocol, according to the lawsuit. The 75-page lawsuit outlined multiple allegations of billing fraud and the subversion of SB-14, providing examples from multiple patients. In the lawsuit, Texas claims both defendants violated the Texas Health Care Program Fraud Prevention Act and the Texas Business & Commerce Code. It also claims Dr. Jarin “knowingly” violated SB-14 “with respect to at least twelve minor patients.” “Jarin and Children’s conspired to subvert compliance with SB-14 and to receive reimbursement for gender interventions in violation of State law. Defendants conspired to violate SB-14 and therefore receive reimbursement from Texas Medicaid in violation of State law and regulation,” states the lawsuit. The federal government has not stated an intention to get involved in the Texas situation, but allegations of Medicaid fraud could draw interest from the Department of Justice. UT Southwestern Medical Center did not immediately respond to The Daily Wire’s request for comment.

President Donald Trump claimed on Thursday that former President Barack Obama had shared “classified information” when he stated on a recent podcast that aliens “are real.” Trump was speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One when Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy raised the topic, saying, “Barack Obama said aliens are real. Have you seen any evidence of non-human visitors to Earth?” “He gave classified information, he’s not supposed to be doing that,” Trump replied. When asked whether that meant that aliens were, in fact, real, Trump demurred and said he wasn’t certain whether “they’re real or not.” “I can tell you he gave classified information, he’s not supposed to be doing that,” Trump continued. “He made a big mistake. He took it out of classified information.”

Just as a matter of historical fact, ever since the Cold War ended, Americans haven’t spent that much time thinking about day-to-day life in other countries. But not too long ago, our leaders would encourage us to compare the quality of life in the United States with the quality of life in foreign nations. It happened all the time. That was the idea behind the “Kitchen Debate,” which Nixon attended in Moscow. Americans had nicer kitchens, well-stocked supermarkets, air conditioning, independent furnaces, and thermostats. Meanwhile the Soviets had breadlines. Commissars determined the precise level of heating they were entitled to, on any given day. Anyone who simply looked at day-to-day life in the Soviet Union, and then looked at the United States, would correctly conclude that we were on the right track, and the Soviets were not. It’s interesting that we don’t see many comparisons like this anymore. You never see any of the big broadcasters telling you to zoom out, and consider what daily life is like in, say, South Africa. Instead, they’ll bombard you with endless stories about a celebrity kidnapping, or routine immigration enforcement, or dumb podcast drama. And that’s too bad, because serious comparisons to other countries would be very illuminating right about now. Spend a few minutes doing it, and you’ll quickly discover just how third-world and dysfunctional we’re becoming, thanks to major Democrat-run cities. Consider this recent report from South Africa. This is just a random news report I found from a couple of months ago. Watch: Credit: Newzroom Afrika/YouTube.com Credit: News24/YouTube.com This is why they have a big cholera and E.Coli problem over there. In addition to South Africa’s many other issues — including having the worst unemployment rate in the world, collapsing buildings on every street, a failing electric grid, mass violence against white people, and so on — they now have poop in the water. And indeed, that’s a defining characteristic of virtually every third-world nation, including many nations in Africa. It wasn’t always like this in South Africa. Before they kicked the white people out of positions of power — and then stole their farmland and shot them — the infrastructure was a lot more stable. But now that racial equity has been achieved in South Africa, the residents are noticing that it’s not safe to fish, or drink the water, or go for a swim. So then you have to ask the million-dollar question: Could those two developments — the racial equity, and the poop in the water — possibly be connected? One way to answer this challenging question is to compare South Africa’s headlines to our own headlines in the United States.  This is from NBC News the other day. Watch: Credit: NBCNews/YouTube.com More than 240 million gallons of sewage have entered the Potomac River. And counting. That’s by far the largest sewage spill in American history. And although the pipe burst in Maryland, the D.C. Water Department owns the pipe that’s affected, and they’re responsible for containing it. Screenshot: DC Water So how big of a disaster is this? For comparison, during the Deepwater Horizon disaster, around 140 million gallons of oil were released into the Gulf. So the scale of Deepwater Horizon was a lot smaller. And they had movies and congressional hearings about that one. 

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates appeared to back out of giving a keynote address at an AI summit in India on Thursday as fresh questions circle about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Gates was scheduled to address the AI Summit in India on behalf of his nonprofit, the Gates Foundation, that he launched with his now ex-wife, according to The New York Times. “After careful consideration, and to ensure the focus remains on the AI Summit’s key priorities, Mr. Gates will not be delivering his keynote address. The Gates Foundation will be represented by Ankur Vora, President of Africa and India Offices, who will speak later today at the Summit,” the Gates Foundation said in a statement on Thursday. “The Gates Foundation remains fully committed to our work in India to advance our shared health and development goals,” it added. Gates’ relationship with the late, disgraced financier Epstein, convicted in 2008 of sex crimes involving a minor, was revealed after Epstein died by suicide in his cell in a New York correctional facility in 2019. But the full extent of Gates’ relationship with Epstein, which lasted for years after Epstein’s conviction, is still unknown. Gates has since called his interactions with Epstein a “mistake.” More questions were raised about Gates’ involvement with Epstein in the latest tranche of Epstein files released to the public last month. In the hundreds of thousands of pages of messages and other information, emails that Epstein wrote to himself say that the financier helped Gates acquire medication “in order to deal with consequences of sex with Russian girls.” Gates has dismissed the claim. “These claims — from a proven, disgruntled liar — are absolutely absurd and completely false. The only thing these documents demonstrate is Epstein’s frustration that he did not have an ongoing relationship with Gates and the lengths he would go to entrap and defame,” a Gates representative has said. Gates and his ex-wife, Melinda, divorced in 2021 for reasons that in part included Gates’ past relationship with Epstein. On Epstein’s message suggesting Gates was involved in extramarital relationships, Melinda Gates did not deny the allegations. “For me, it’s personally hard whenever those details come up, right? Because it brings back memories of some very, very painful times in my marriage,” she said on an NPR podcast earlier this month. “Whatever questions remain there of what — I can’t even begin to know all of it — those questions are for those people and for even my ex-husband,” she added. “They need to answer to those things, not me.”

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South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley, a Republican, received over 650 consumer complaints in December about advertisements across the state that read, “Pregnant? Don’t want to be?” directing consumers to Mayday Health. Jackley filed a cease and desist order in state court against Mayday Health, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides education about the abortion pill. The attorney general claimed that the advertisement was in violation of South Dakota’s laws on abortion. On Easter Sunday, we went to Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. With 45,000 weekly attendees, we figured it was the perfect place to spread a crucial message: abortion pills are available by mail in all 50 states. pic.twitter.com/8QV7Kop7lu— mayday.health (@HealthMayday) April 20, 2025 South Dakota has some of the strictest abortion laws in the country, as abortion is only permitted when it is necessary to save the life of the mother. Mayday Health, however, pushed to have their case heard in a New York federal court that could be sympathetic to it’s argument in favor of the advertisements. On Feb. 11, Judge Katherine Polk Failla ruled against intervening in the case by declining to grant Mayday Health a preliminary injunction. “I do believe that the law requires me to abstain from exercising federal jurisdiction in this case,” said Failla. “I trust that the South Dakota court will get it right.”  Jackley spoke to The Daily Signal following the pro-life victory. “My position has been clear and unwavering that the deceptive advertisement is harmful to South Dakotans. I will fight against it. I will do everything I can to stop it,” Jackley told The Daily Signal. Mayday Health provided a statement from Executive Director Liv Raisner in response to a request for comment from The Daily Signal. Raisner said, “The district judge said it best herself: ‘I do believe that the proper way to view Mayday’s website and the materials on it is noncommercial speech subject to protection under the First Amendment.’ The judge ruled that she doesn’t have jurisdiction over this case, but we look forward to bringing this fight to South Dakota.” Mayday Health Provides Abortion Pill Access to Girls Just 15 Years Old The Daily Signal went onto Mayday Health’s website to see how easy it was to obtain an abortion pill. Girls as young as 15 years old can seek abortion help or order abortion pills on Mayday Health’s website. On Mayday Health’s website, the service asks users, “What do you need?” The website’s options include “abortion,” “morning after pills,” “birth control,” and “gender-affirming care.” When users click on the abortion button, the site asks when the user’s last period was, as well as an option that reads, “just take me to the abortion pills.” The website also informs users that “you can proactively order abortion pills even if you’re not currently pregnant.” The website continues that “abortion pills are safe, effective during the first 12 weeks, and FDA-approved to get in the mail in all 50 states.” “It is safe to do your own abortion at home with abortion pills,” the website adds. Dr. Christina Francis, CEO of the American Association of Pro-Life OBGYN’s, or AAPLOG for short, challenged these claims in an interview with The Daily Signal. “Mayday Health’s website not only openly flaunts that they are violating the laws of pro-life states by shipping to all 50 states, but they also appear to intentionally mislead women to think that these dangerous drugs are FDA-approved up to 12 weeks,” Francis told The Daily Signal. “In fact, they are only approved by the FDA up to 10 weeks, and the already significant risks increase even more beyond that.” If a user says their last period was “less than 12 weeks” ago, the website shows a map of the United States, with red states showing restrictions on abortion and blue states without restrictions. When users answer “yes” to living in a state shaded in red on the map, Mayday Health prompts users with multiple providers for abortion pills. If the user claims they do not live in a restrictive state, they are redirected to an “ineedana.com” page that asks, “Need an abortion?” Ineedana.com’s “about” page says “we’re designers and engineers that research, report, and seek to improve how people get abortions in the United States.” “No matter what state you live in you still have options,” the ineedana.com website adds above a button that says “search your options now.” Users are then asked to fill out a form that asks their location, the date of their last period, and their age. The Daily Signal filled out this form as if it were a 15-year-old girl living in South Dakota who had her period last on Jan. 1. Ineedana.com then provides a disclaimer that reads, “Abortion is banned in South Dakota, but you’ve still got options.” The options presented to this fictitious 15-year-old girl from South Dakota include flying to another state, driving to an out-of-state clinic, or ordering abortion pills online. The closest clinic, ineedana.com claims, is nearly a six-hour drive away in Omaha, Nebraska. Ineedana.com projects that the trip will cost over $800, but includes a hyperlink that says “don’t worry, there’s $ help!” That hyperlink directs users to a list of a dozen organizations that ineedana.com claims “may be able to offer you financial help, travel assistance, emotional support, and more.” The page lists the “Justice through Empowerment Network,” “Midwest Access Coalition,” and “South Dakota Access for Every Woman,” as organizations that work inside the state of South Dakota and could provide help. While Justice through Empowerment Network and South Dakota Access for Every Woman did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment, Midwest Access Coalition responded. “We are a practical abortion fund that helps people traveling to, from, and within the Midwest to access a safe, legal abortion,” Midwest Access Coalition wrote in an email. “To do that, we support clients with travel, accommodations, food, and childcare, so that they have the support they need to reach they care they deserve. We use ineedana.com so that our clients can find an abortion clinic that can meet their needs.” A disclaimer under the order abortion pills online option claims that “taking pills on your own is medically very safe,” though “may come with legal risk.” Dr. Francis disputed the alleged safety of the abortion pill. “The abortion pill can lead to serious complications for women, including hemorrhage, severe infection, and the need for emergency surgical care.” “They can be ordered online by anyone, meaning a woman, a minor, or even an abuser, without identification, confirmation of pregnancy, or any medical oversight or follow up,” Francis continued. When users click through to ineedana.com’s legal risk page, it claims “when it comes to abortion bans, most laws specifically say the pregnant person can’t be criminally charged. Self-managed abortion, or ending your own pregnancy, isn’t a crime in any state (except past 24 weeks in Nevada). But, just because something isn’t a crime doesn’t mean you can’t be harassed or arrested by law enforcement (even in ‘safe’ places like California).” “Most people take ‘legal risks’ all of the time, like speeding, jaywalking, or smoking weed. You make decisions about risk every day without really thinking about it,” the page adds. “‘Legal risk’ doesn’t inherently mean criminalization.” If a user decides to pursue obtaining abortion pills online—which “can cost an estimated $150 or less and arrive in as few as 2 days”—from ineedana.com, users are presented with several providers in “shield law” states. Shield laws are laws that prevent abortion providers from prosecution if they provide abortion services or so-called transgender care to patients who live in states where these procedures and treatments are illegal. Many of the providers, as well as Mayday Health, also connect mothers with other non-profits who provide financial assistance to cover the $150 cost. One of the options includes Choices Rising, an abortion pill virtual clinic, which ineedana.com notes the service has a “minimum age” of 15. Choices Rising’s entry on the webpage is the only option on the page that notes a minimum age. Ineedana.com and Choices Rising could not be reached for a comment. Dr. Francis warns of the danger that FDA-approved accessibility to these drugs has had. “This situation amounts to medical negligence, and the FDA must act responsibly by reinstating essential safeguards.” South Dakota Continues Fight With Mayday Health “This was an important decision, not just for South Dakota, but for all states when it comes to respecting our laws and respecting states rights and state sovereignty,” said Jackley.   “Beyond the issue of the abortion pills, it is an abstention doctrine that is very important to the states, very important to me as Attorney General, and it was important to me as United States Attorney,” continued Jackley. “I just appreciate that the federal court gave us the opportunity to be heard and arrived at the conclusion that South Dakota is the right place to enforce our laws in this instance.” The central question in the case is whether or not Mayday Health’s advertisements were protected by the First Amendment. “[The First Amendment] doesn’t apply in this situation because it’s an unprotected speech. It is an illegal activity,” Jackley argued.   “The laws in South Dakota, in my opinion, are constitutional. They fit within Dobbs. It was a trigger decision, a trigger statute, that once that decision occurred, became the law of the land, and the legislature has made a very strong effort to protect not just the unborn, but the pregnant woman,” said Jackley.   The case Mayday Health v. Jackley is set to be heard in Pierre, South Dakota on Feb. 20. The Attorney General explained where he stands going into the case. “We believe there’s deceptive practices and illegal practices occurring,” he said. “One is the sale of abortion pills, which are illegal in South Dakota. The other is public safety, how they are going beyond the FDA approved use of certain pills.” “There’s also concerns raised about deceptive practice advising young pregnant mothers that if they, if they order the pills, they take the pills and they have a medical complication to not seek medical assistance, which is, of course, dangerous for both the baby as well as the pregnant mother,” said Jackley.   He believes the fact that these ads were targeting vulnerable women will be a big part of this case. The New York Federal Court records listed approximately 10 examples where the pills were being illegally brought into the state, including dangerous instances where mothers were being given the pills unknowingly by the fathers and ultimately experiencing losing the baby and severe health issues.   South Dakota shut down their last abortion facility. This is a win for the pro-life movement and for many many innocent lives! pic.twitter.com/AKYTpdXrPQ— Kristan Hawkins (@KristanHawkins) April 30, 2020 The Attorney General believes South Dakota “became the tip of the spear” for Mayday Health. Mayday Health has also conducted similar campaigns in Kentucky and North Dakota. In both states state officials have taken legal action against the campaigns. The post Nonprofit That Helps 15-Year-Old Girls Obtain Abortion Pills Spars With South Dakota AG appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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A Tennessee pastor has been indicted on horrific charges related to the alleged abuse of a child in Memphis, after another pastor was convicted on similar allegations. The mother of the child told WHBQ-TV that Martineous Tyler was the second pastor from the same church arrested in connection to alleged sexual abuse of her child.'It wasn't enough time, because I don't think it's enough time in the world to give somebody for a crime like this.'The mother, who wanted to remain unidentified, said her son first met Tyler in 2024 when he went to work for him at his businesses, the Memphis Obituary Company and Tyler's Graphics and Printing."He liked doing graphic design, and the guy has a business, so he used to take him to the business to print out things and get little orders together; he liked that," said the mother.Another pastor by the name of Demarcus Smith was charged with sex crimes in 2025 involving the woman's son after she looked at her son's phone."When I opened it up, my heart shattered," she said.She said that she had found nude photos and sexual conversations on her son's phone and called the police.Then she discovered that Smith had previously been in prison for a conviction related to his coercing a boy to send him sexually explicit photographs of himself. Smith had been a pastor during that time, and when he was released from prison in 2023, he became a pastor at the same church as Tyler.WHBQ reported that social media indicated Smith had preached at a "Clergy Appreciation Celebration" in Sept. 2024 at the Jordan River Missionary Baptist Church.On Feb. 10, Tyler was indicted on state charges of aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor and human trafficking. His bail was set at $200,000.RELATED: Man who brought Happy Meal to buy 11-year-old girl for sex slavery to be deported after decades in prison Smith was sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to the newest federal charges in May 2025."It wasn't enough time, because I don't think it's enough time in the world to give somebody for a crime like this," said the boy's mother.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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