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The Department of Health and Human Services sent a letter to health care providers urging them to discard discredited research on child gender transitions. Secretary Robert F. Kennedy told health care providers, risk managers, and state medical boards to heed his department’s recent review of child sex changes which determined the irreversible procedures can cause significant harm, including sterilization. “The Hippocratic Oath lays down the foundational commitment for the medical profession: ‘First, do no harm,'” Kennedy wrote. “The Review makes clear that ‘the evidence for benefit of pediatric medical transition is very uncertain, while the evidence for harm is less uncertain.’ For this reason, the Review states that when ‘medical interventions pose unnecessary, disproportionate risks of harm, healthcare providers should refuse to offer them even when they are preferred, requested, or demanded by patients.'” HHS sent a letter to health care providers, risk managers, and state medical boards urging immediate updates to treatment protocols for minors with gender dysphoria based on HHS’ comprehensive review that found puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries have very weak… pic.twitter.com/tj2mtx3Pq9— HHS.gov (@HHSGov) May 28, 2025 Providers should disregard the “World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People,” Kennedy said. WPATH, a controversial organization that transgender advocates and health agencies use to justify transgender medical interventions, frames itself as the leading expert organization on medical care for people who identify as transgender. It has faced criticism for advocating experimental practices that ignore serious concerns about informed consent and long-term side effects. WPATH’s standards of care were “fraudulent” and “marked *a clear departure from the principles of unbiased, evidence-driven clinical guideline,” Kennedy told health care providers. HHS’s review of transgender interventions for minors “employs the tools of evidence-based medicine, widely recognized by health authorities worldwide as the foundation of high-quality care, and assesses the evidence underpinning the use of hormones and surgeries for minors.” HHS released a report May 1 detailing the dangers of experimental transgender medical interventions euphemistically referred to as “gender-affirming care.” According to the executive summary, the HHS review found that most children will grow out of their gender dysphoria: “The natural history of pediatric gender dysphoria is poorly understood, though existing research suggests it will remit without intervention in most cases. Medical professionals have no way to know which patients may continue to experience gender dysphoria and which will come to terms with their bodies.” Kennedy urged providers to read the review, and said he expects them to update their treatment protocols and training “to ensure our nation’s children are protected from harm.” Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, praised Kennedy’s move. “As a doctor, I am extremely concerned that medical organizations continue to push irreversible gender transition procedures for children against scientific data,” he said in a statement. The post RFK Jr. Tells Doctors to Discard Unscientific Guidelines Promoting Child Gender Transitions appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. We’ve had another “ambush” in the White House. Ambush, remember, means an unexpected attack on someone from a secretive place. That was not an ambush. Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa, wanted that meeting with President Donald Trump. He requested it. And when he came in, he was prepared to refute Donald Trump. In fact, if you look at the media before the meeting, they didn’t use the word “ambush.” They were giddy. They thought, “Wow, he’s going to give Trump a bill of goods.” What he didn’t think was that Trump was ready for the bill of goods and had his own bill of goods. But here’s the real backstory to the whole thing. Why did he want to meet Trump? He wanted to meet Trump because he had a free trade agreement with the United States with no tariffs placed on South African agriculture—everything, metals, everything. And he was running a $9 billion surplus. And in addition to that, he was getting $500 million in foreign aid from the United States. And in addition to that, his ambassador had just been fired or expelled by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Why? Because in a performance art fashion, he made a video and said Donald Trump was a white supremacist. This is the ambassador, just before this visit, not too long earlier. And then said that he was part of a white victimhood movement. So, they kicked him out. Was he embarrassed? No. He had a hero’s welcome when he went back. And then we have the larger context of South Africa. It usually votes at the United Nations against the United States. It’s signed onto the International Criminal Court’s farce that was going to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a war criminal. We had the video that was shown about the leader of the third-largest party in South Africa saying that they wanted to “kill the Boer, kill the farmer” to a big crowd. And by the way, the year before—he said that in 2022—something called the South African Equality Court declared that “kill the Boer, kill the farmer” is not hate speech. I don’t know what hate speech is in South Africa if it’s not kill a designated minority. And so, when you look at all of this, Donald Trump got sick of it. And he said, this country, we don’t have any problem with it. We don’t hate South Africa. But they’re not our friends. This is not Nelson Mandela. This is not the age of conciliation. This is not the South Africa with such promise 30 years ago. This is a racialist state. It’s one of the most violent countries in the world. And it’s one of the most anti-Western and anti-American. And so, when Ramaphosa came to set Donald Trump straight, Donald Trump said: You know what? I don’t think you like us. So I’m not gonna give you $500 million in foreign aid. You know what? I don’t think you like us because you think I’m a white supremacist, so we’re not gonna give you free trade into our markets. We’re gonna charge 30% tariff. You know what, you know, your ambassador—all you guys come over here, you don’t like us, you think that the left-wing foundations, the left-wing media, the left-wing universities are running the country, the left-wing—but they’re not. They’re not. So, when you come over here and attack us and call us racist, maybe you shouldn’t come over here. You know, just have a little peace. Maybe all your foreign students, your green card holders, your visitor visa—maybe we should just have a little cooling off period. And so, what Donald Trump was saying is that this is not the South Africa that we used to know. But it was running on the fumes of Mandelaism. At the United Nations, it’s hostile to the United States. It takes advantage of the free trade agreement to run up a $9 billion surplus. It gets $500 million in aid. And it shows no gratitude. It attacks us. It attacks us. And then when we try to say that you have a law that is going to appropriate land without compensation, you deny that you’re doing it. That was the whole purpose of it. No compensation. You can say, “Well, it was for public domain,” but everybody knows that. So, everybody who confiscates land does it for the public, but they compensate people, except you. And finally, you know, you want internet. You want internet like Ukraine has. You want internet like remote places in Asia and Africa have. And you want, therefore, Starlink. And you think that Elon Musk is a native son, so you’re going to invite him in and have Starlink. But you can’t even do that. You say, “You can come in. We’ll give you the privilege to come into our market,” as if Elon Musk needs that. “But we’re gonna take a third of your company and your franchise here in South Africa. And it has to be staffed, partnered with people who are of a particular color, black people.” And Elon Musk says, “I think I’ll pass on that nice invitation.” And then they get very angry. And now they’ll probably bend. Final word, I think Ramaphosa will be—I don’t think Donald Trump will visit South Africa, but I guarantee you Ramaphosa will want another meeting, like Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy did. And he will come in and he will say, “Please take away the 30% tariff. Please give us the $500 million handout in foreign aid. Please let all the South Africans, not just the 48 people—and who, by the way, whom he called cowards because they didn’t want to play the lottery whether they were gonna get killed or not—but let all of us come back in. Please. Please. Please. And we promise that we’ll not allow people to pack stadium, say, ‘Kill the Boer, kill the farmer,’ and say, ‘That’s not hate speech.’” We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post The Truth About South Africa’s Anti-American Agenda appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a big move against foreigners who trample the rights of Americans.  Rubio promised visa restrictions for those who work to censor Americans in a Wednesday announcement on X. “For too long, Americans have been fined, harassed, and even charged by foreign authorities for exercising their free speech rights,” he said. “I am announcing a new visa restriction policy that will apply to foreign officials and persons who are complicit in censoring Americans. Free speech is essential to the American way of life – a birthright over which foreign governments have no authority.”  [Story Continues on MRC Free Speech America] 

Hear me out… but maybe, just maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that the Woke Left’s “Punch a Nazi” cliche devolved into calls to finish Hitler’s job.  It’s no stunning revelation that our Hitlerian “anti-fascists” are projecting each time they recycle their worn out “Nazi” insult for everyone who rejects their ideology. They made their intentions obvious, even before gradually transforming Western society into a DEI recast of 1930’s Europe over the past year and a half. Perhaps we wouldn’t have reached the point where bystanders casually move on with their day, after two Jews were lynched in our streets, last week, if enough normal people called out our DEI nazis, starting with the Al-Sharpton inspired race riots in the 90’s.  In fact, ethnic lynchings wouldn’t be mainstream again, if enough Americans got out of their “white guilt” hypnosis when the “anti-racists” tried to start a race war by setting fire to every city in 2020. How many more lynchings and street executions will our society tolerate until enough people realize Nazism (racial Maoism) is what wokeness looks like in it’s purest form? It’s just a new word for the same racist and violent ideology that rears its ugly head every few decades in the name of “progress.” The rainbow flags and clown shows are just its latest smokescreen. We dissected this in Tuesday's latest “Woke of the Weak.”

Project Veritas released undercover footage Wednesday that appears to show Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg and Deterrian Jones, a former staffer in the Biden administration's Office of Digital Strategy, spill the beans about who was really running the Biden White House. Their answers might be of interest to congressional investigators on the House Oversight Committee and to Ed Martin, the incoming Department of Justice pardon attorney and director of the DOJ's Weaponization Working Group, who are looking into who might have been using the autopen to sign documents in former President Joe Biden's name in the geriatric Democrat's mental and bodily absence. 'I can't stress to you how much power he had at the White House.' Responding to a question concerning corruption at the DNC, Hogg — facing a potential ouster next month after party elites effectively declared his election null and void — noted the "bigger issue was, like, the inner circle that was around Biden." "Jill Biden's chief of staff had an enormous amount of power," Hogg allegedly told Project Veritas, referring to Anthony Bernal. RELATED: Ed Martin floats names of 'gatekeepers' in Biden autopen controversy; Trump accuses exploiters of 'TREASON' Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images Deterrian Jones told one of Project Veritas' undercover reporters that Bernal was a "shadowy, 'Wizard of Oz'-type figure" who "wielded an enormous amount of power." "I can't stress to you how much power he had at the White House," added Jones. Jake Tapper and Axios correspondent Alex Thompson's new book, "Original Sin," reportedly characterizes Bernal as one of the most influential people in the White House and a key member of Biden's so-called politburo. A source familiar with the inner workings of the Biden White House told the authors, "Five people were running the country, and Joe Biden was at best a senior member of the board," reported the New York Post. The book claims that "in practice, Bruce Reed was the real domestic policy adviser, Mike Donilon was the actual political director, Steve Ricchetti controlled Legislative Affairs, and Klain controlled a bit of everything." RELATED: Justice is coming for Biden's 'autopen' pardons — and Trump's DOJ just put everyone on notice Photo by Evan Vucci-Pool/Getty Images After hearing from a whistleblower involved with the 2020 Biden campaign at the highest levels, Ed Martin — who revealed on May 20 that his investigation into the use of the autopen has actually been under way for weeks — identified the "gatekeepers" who were "dominant characters in the White House." Martin's list partially overlapped with the "politburo" members listed in Tapper's book — Klain, Ricchetti, and Jill Biden were names common to both. However, Martin also named former Biden adviser Anita Dunn and Barack Obama's former personal attorney Robert Bauer. The admissions from Hogg and Jones, coupled with the revelations in Tapper's book, appear to confirm President Donald Trump's suspicion, which he expressed to Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck in October, namely that Biden was effectively a figurehead for a "committee" of unnamed bureaucrats. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

President Donald Trump obtained a court victory Wednesday after an official in the copyright department filed a lawsuit against her firing. Trump has been trying to cut down the size of government, as well as root out political opponents by firing various officials and employees, but Democrats have argued that he is acting unconstitutionally in some cases. Perlmutter would not be irreparably harmed if she continued to be unemployed. Shira Perlmutter, former director of the U.S. Copyright Office, filed an emergency bid to reinstate her employment, but U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly ruled in favor of the government. Perlmutter had claimed that the firing was "unlawful and ineffective." Kelly ruled that Perlmutter would not be irreparably harmed if she continued to be unemployed as the case progressed. Democratic Rep. Joe Morelle of New York had accused the administration of firing Perlmutter over a dispute about artificial models that would benefit tech billionaire Elon Musk. “Donald Trump’s termination of Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, is a brazen, unprecedented power grab with no legal basis. It is surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk's efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models," wrote Morelle in part. RELATED: Judge rules Trump administration must rescind 'illegal' order to fire probationary federal workers Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images "This action once again tramples on Congress’s Article One authority and throws a trillion-dollar industry into chaos. When will my Republican colleagues decide enough is enough?” Morelle added. Perlmutter is also arguing in her lawsuit that the firing threatens the separation of powers of the federal government insofar as the Copyright Office is intended to advise Congress, and the executive branch firing officers imperils that balance. Kelly was nominated by Trump to the court in 2017. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!