EXCLUSIVE: School District Sued for Withholding Public Records About Gender Transition Plans for Children

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The nonprofit that has been exposing radical gender ideology in California filed a lawsuit Monday against the public school district in Lynwood, California, for failing to comply with state law by providing requested documents about its “gender transition” plans for schoolchildren.
“This is a clear violation of state law,” Mark Trammell, executive director of the Center for American Liberty, said in a statement shared with The Daily Signal. The center is a nonprofit dedicated to litigating free speech and civil liberties issues. “LUSD’s refusal to respond to a public records request is not only illegal, it is part of a broader trend of schools across California keeping parents in the dark about what’s really happening in the classroom. Parents have a right to know, and Lynwood is not above the law.”

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Evidence over Ideology: Gender-Distressed Children Deserve Nothing Less

Once again, the United Kingdom is leading the way in choosing evidence over ideology for gender-distressed kids. Over the summer, the UK’s high court deferred to science over activism and upheld an emergency ban on puberty blockers for children under age eighteen.
Many European countries—like Norway, Denmark, England, Wales, Scotland, Sweden, and Finland—are moving away from life-altering hormonal and surgical interventions for children experiencing distress over their biological sex. Their systematic reviews revealed insufficient evidence that these experimental protocols help vulnerable kids. On the contrary, the evidence indicates such protocols actually harm the overwhelming majority of children experiencing distress over their sex.

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Church must recognize, ask pardon for its sins, pope says before synod

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Catholic Church cannot be credible in its mission of proclaiming Christ unless it acknowledges its mistakes and bends down “to heal the wounds we have caused by our sins,” Pope Francis said.
In an unusual penitential liturgy Oct. 1, the pope had seven cardinals read requests for forgiveness that he said he wrote himself “because it was necessary to call our main sins by name.”

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Five ways the rights of children have progressed in the past 100 years

LONDON/GENEVA, 25 September 2024 – Children’s lives have changed for the better in many ways in the 100 years since the international community endorsed the ground-breaking Geneva Declaration on the Rights of the Child but still today children continue to be denied their rights in many places. Save the Children founder Eglantyne Jebb drafted the declaration adopted by the League of Nations on 26 September 1924 that officially stated for the first time that children were not the possessions of adults and deserved their own rights. It made clear that children had fundamental rights to education, protection in times of distress, food, and safety from exploitation

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