The Trans Teen Revolution

Plus: HHS Scraps Obama Rules on Gender Identity, Abortion Jun 13, 2020 Good morning from Washington, where the Trump administration officially discards Obama-era regulations elevating gender identity in health care while forcing doctors and nurses to perform abortions despite moral objections. Fred Lucas has the story. Plus: curbing teens’ rush to transgenderism; grown reporters behave like campus snowflakes; refusing to kneel for the left; and the Army’s enduring strength. On this date in 1967, President Lyndon Johnson nominates Thurgood Marshall, a federal appeals judge, to the Supreme Court. With his Senate confirmation, Marshall will become the first black to serve on the high court. Stay safe this weekend. Commentary [The Trans Teen Revolution]( [Photo]( By Tony Perkins Keira Bell can never get her childhood back. And her body, a scarred and mangled reminder, tells her every day. “I am living in a world where I don’t fit in as male or as female. I am stuck between two sexes,” she says. [More]( News [HHS Scraps Obama Rules on Gender Identity, Abortion]( [Photo]( By Fred Lucas The former rules “would have required doctors, hospitals, and health care organizations to act in ways contrary to their best medical judgments, their consciences, and the physical realities of their patients, or face steep fines and become easy targets for unreasonable and costly lawsuits,” says The Heritage Foundation’s Ryan T. Anderson. [More]( Commentary [Campus War on Free Speech Spreads to US Newsrooms]( [Photo]( By Mark Hemingway Much like campuses, The New York Times is now on record saying its staff is to be treated like young students who must be coddled and protected from ideas they don’t like. [More]( Commentary [The US Army, 245 Years Strong and Still True to Its Roots]( [Photo]( By Thomas Spoehr The U.S. Army has been steadfastly guided by the principles of duty, honor, and integrity, and all Americans should be rightly proud of it. [More]( Commentary [The Problem With ‘Pick a Knee’]( [Photo]( By David Harsanyi Kneeling is a tacit admission to a number of contentions that I simply don’t believe: I don’t believe that the United States, a nation conceived and run by flawed human beings, is inherently racist. I don’t believe there is institutional racism in America anymore. [More]( [LOGO-CHARCOAL_75percent.jpg] The Daily Signal is brought to you by more than half a million members of The Heritage Foundation. [Donate to The Daily Signal]( [Find us on Facebook]( [Find us on Facebook]( [Follow us on Twitter]( [Follow us on Twitter]( How are we doing? We welcome your comments, suggestions, and story tips. Please reply to this email or send us a note at [comments@dailysignal.com](. The Daily Signal 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 [(800) 546-2843]( Add [morningbell@heritage.org]( to your address book to ensure that you receive emails from us. You are subscribed to this newsletter as {EMAIL}. If you want to receive other Heritage Foundation newsletters, or opt out of this newsletter, [please click here to update your subscription.]( -