In a TikTok video on Monday, a Michigan Democratic legislator offered to help children access “gender-affirming” care if they contacted her office. Michigan State Rep. Carrie Rheingans said in the video that she was specifically talking to “trans kids here in Michigan,” adding that life-altering gender procedures are still legal in the state. Wearing a “Protect Trans Kids” sweatshirt, the Michigan Democrat posted the video Monday in response to the University of Michigan’s hospital network ending gender procedures for minors under pressure from the Department of Justice. In her video, Rheingans told children that they could still get “care” at other places in Michigan. “I want you to know, as trans kids here in Michigan, that this care is obviously safe and effective. That’s why it’s been approved and why it’s been used all across the country and continues to be used,” she added. “So if you need to find a new place to get care it is still legal here in Michigan, and reach out to our office, we’ll be able to connect you to what might still be available in our community.” Rheingans, who represents Ann Arbor, urged children to “please contact our office” and provided contact information. “We love you. We are really supportive of you as kids, and we want to make sure that you can grow up and thrive here in Michigan,” she added.   @reprheingans ?️‍⚧️ #TransKids in #Michigan: we live you and want to see you grow and thrive here ??? #GenderAffirmingCare ♬ original sound – MI State RepCarrie Rheingans   The federal government and medical establishment previously pushed gender procedures for children as an effective way to treat gender dysphoria, but the practice has come under intense scrutiny as new research highlights the dangers of performing life-altering gender surgeries and puberty blockers. A Health and Human Services review released earlier this year, shortly after President Donald Trump took office, stated, “These interventions carry risk of significant harms including infertility/sterility, sexual dysfunction, impaired bone density accrual, adverse cognitive impacts, cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders, psychiatric disorders, surgical complications, and regret.” End of Summer Sale – Get 40% off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships Even before Trump stepped into the White House, the federal government was changing its tune on gender procedures for children. Last summer, the Biden administration opposed lowering the age minimums for hormonal treatments, mastectomies, breast augmentations, facial, and genital surgeries, The New York Times reported. The Trump administration has threatened to cut federal funding to hospitals that continue to perform gender procedures on children, resulting in many large hospitals such as Kaiser Permanente and Children’s National Hospital ending the practice. Michigan Republican state Rep. Brad Paquette, who is leading an effort in the Great Lakes State to protect children from gender procedures, told The Daily Wire that he has a “good relationship” with Rheingans and has discussed the issue with her “pretty extensively.” “So here in the state of Michigan, one of the unfortunate aspects is my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are completely captured by this ideology, this gender theory,” Paquette said. “So I’m trying to do my best to figure out how to get my colleagues informed as to what these procedures are.” “She has this mentality that she carries — that the trans activists carry — that there are safe spaces, that you’re an ally or you’re not,” Paquette added. “And this causes an extreme divide among families and in the political arena.” Rheingans did not respond to a Daily Wire request for comment, but she did address some criticism of her video on social media. “Horrifying because I told children that I love them. Calm down,” she replied to one post from conservative communicator Steve Guest, who said it was “one of the most horrifying videos that I’ve ever seen posted by a politician.” “Kids need to see that some grownups love them, and not all are bullies,” she wrote in another post. Rheingans has made LGBT issues a significant part of her political agenda, saying earlier this year that she was “proud to vote YES to expand Michigan’s civil rights law,” which added sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of protected classes. ?️‍??️‍⚧️?? Thank you to our many constituents and advocates from @equality_michigan for sharing your stories and being your beautiful selves! I was proud to vote YES to expand #Michigan‘s civil rights law … 1/2 pic.twitter.com/2M3mtsfooo — Rep. Carrie Rheingans (@RepRheingans) May 16, 2025 In 2024, Rheingans spoke at the Ann Arbor Pride Festival and urged gay people to run for office. “If you have never thought about running for office, we need more gays in office, go run for office,” she said. “We need to have a bigger LGBTQ caucus.”

In March, the Trump Administration issued an Executive Order (EO) calling for a restoration of “Truth and Sanity to American History” which included a review of the Smithsonian Institute Museums. Now, the Administration is making good on that EO. Naturally, politicians, Left-wing media, and the far-Left are pouncing with charges of “Stalinist tactics,” “fascism,” and “Trump’s historical vision.” Yet, the most glaring example to justify the Administration’s action is the now infamous Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture’s “Aspects and Assumptions of Whiteness in the United States.” But it is not just the one museum, the American Art Museum also features a page titled “Furthering the Conversation About Whiteness.” While the auditing of these institutions is probably overdue and necessary, there also needs to be a spotlight put on the teaching of culture and history in our educational institutions, especially K-12 schools. The defensive position from the Left is that they just want to teach “honest history.” Meant to sound noble, this is nothing more than wordplay. It is misdirection in an attempt to hide their heavily curated and far-Left [re]vision of history. “Honest history,” as they will have the public believe, is just teaching the history of “underrepresented groups” to highlight their contributions to the United States. However, peel back the feel-good façade and it is clear there is a political agenda to advance anti-American, anti-Western ideologies – i.e. anti-“whiteness.” In the context of K-12 education, there is no clearer example of this than [liberated/critical] ethnic studies. Sold to school districts, parents, students, and the public writ large as the teaching of history and culture of minority groups, it is a far-Left radical political programming. It is agitprop being deployed on children into K-12 schools. Amping up their emotions, preying on their empathy, and then feeding them politically biased content. It’s general framework begins with a heavy focus on a student’s various racial and ethnic “identities,” or intersectionality. The intention is to create a strong tribal attachment to the student’s collective identities. It then introduces “critical consciousness,” which trains students to find racism and oppression everywhere in their lives. Driving them into a constant state of anxiety and fear. End of Summer Sale – Get 40% off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships For example, a recent Castro Valley Unified School District ethnic studies presentation to the district board demonstrates this via student art which states “As an Asian American, racism is prevalent all around me.” Ethnic studies activate deep feelings of anger and resentment in students towards the United States, and even towards their white teachers and peers. A review of Saint Paul Publics Schools’ ethnic studies program by the University of Minnesota highlights several students’ reflections on the course. One anonymous student stated “Why would a course about being critical have white teachers? My school has one [B]lack teacher teaching it. How can we be critical if we don’t listen to the voices who are firstly impacted? Also, white teachers even if they mean well will implement their own biases that students will have to deal with.” The political programming continues by creating heroes, legends, and mythology through the intentional curation of historical events and peoples that have modeled “resistance” against whiteness. Examples include Che Guevara, the Black Panther Party, Angela Davis, and even a defense of anti-Israel activism and terrorism. Finally, students are taught and required to engage in far-Left social justice activism. Under the guise of “Youth Participatory Action Research,” students are trained to become street activists for the flavor-of-the-day far-Left cause. Eventually, the goal is to embed it into every single subject area and curriculum. They admit this outright. In California, San Rafael City Schools contracted with the University of California Berkeley’s History-Social Science Project to integrate ethnic studies “concepts and pedagogies” into the district’s World and U.S. history courses. The university’s site states that it is assisting teachers and districts in integrating the “CA Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum” into courses, which includes helping teachers “familiarize themselves with…critical race theory, intersectionality, which are key theoretical frameworks and pedagogies.” This issue is not about the actual teaching of culture and history; it is about how far-Left actors are advancing their cultural revolution via the long march through American institutions. While the Administration and public focus their attention on the national museums, heavy scrutiny must simultaneously be placed on the teaching of “honest history” and ethnic studies in K-12. The advancement of anti-American and anti-Western ideologies need to be removed from classrooms. * * * Rhyen Staley is a researcher for Defending Education. He holds a master’s degree in elementary education and has over a decade of classroom experience in both public and private schools. He has over 25 years of volleyball coaching experience from Women’s Division I down to junior high. The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Vanity Fair may go ahead with a magazine cover featuring First Lady Melania Trump in the coming months — but only if the feat can be pulled off before all the disgruntled employees walk out the door. According to a report published by Semafor on Sunday, the magazine’s new global editorial director Mark Guiducci had indicated a desire to put the first lady on the cover — but as The Daily Mail reported a day later, his staffers may not be entirely onboard with his plan. “I will walk out the motherf***ing door, and half my staff will follow me,” one editor told the outlet. Another staffer who did not give a name appeared to be in agreement, adding, “We are not going to normalize this despot and his wife; we’re just not going to do it. We’re going to stand for what’s right. If I have to work bagging groceries at Trader Joe’s, I’ll do it. If [Guiducci] puts Melania on the cover, half of the editorial staff will walk out, I guarantee it.” One employee told The Daily Mail that the outrage was likely to amount to little more than a few loud complaints and protests, saying that it wasn’t likely many would actually sacrifice their careers to make a political statement about who was on the magazine’s cover. End of Summer Sale – Get 40% off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships “It’s all talk. If they put her on the cover, people will protest and gripe about it, but I don’t see anyone quitting such a prestigious job over that. Honestly, there will be people who push back, but it’s ultimately Mark’s decision. He’s the one who will sink or swim over that choice, not the rest of us.” The first lady may not mind if she never makes it to the cover, however, if her last comments on the subject still stand. When the magazine passed over her for a cover during Trump’s first administration — despite featuring former First Lady Michelle Obama on several occasions — she brushed off questions about it and said that it wasn’t important. “Look, I’ve been there on the covers — on the cover of Vogue, on the covers of many magazines before,” Trump said, referencing her days as a model and then as Trump’s wife prior to him running for president. “We have so many other important things to do than to be on the cover of any magazine. I think that life would not change for anybody if I’m on the cover.”

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