by | Mar 6, 2025 | Fox News
A New Mexico adult infected with measles has died, state officials said Thursday.
The death comes eight days after an unvaccinated child in Texas died from the disease during a growing outbreak in the state that has infected nearly 160 people.
The adult was not vaccinated and didn’t seek medical help before dying, although the cause of death is still under investigation.
The victim lived just across the state line from the west Texas region where the outbreak is centered.
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“We don’t want to see New Mexicans getting sick or dying from measles,” Dr. Chad Smelser, deputy state epidemiologist, said. “The measles-mumps-rubella vaccine is the best protection against this serious disease.”
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said earlier this week it would send a team to help respond to the outbreak in Texas.
The adult is the 10th person in Lea County, New Mexico, confirmed to have contracted measles.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Fox News this week he recommended measles vaccines for community immunity during the outbreak, but he also continues to advocate for personal choice.
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“We’re going to do what’s right for the American people,” Kennedy told Marc Siegel, Fox News’ senior medical analyst. “We’re going to be honest with the American people for the first time in history about all the tests, about all the studies, what we know, what we don’t know, and that’s going to anger some people who want an ideological approach to public health.”
The Texas Department of State Health Services said the majority of those infected are unvaccinated children.
The outbreak began in late January.
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The CDC recommends “all children get two doses of MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine,” according to its website, adding that adults who don’t have “presumptive evidence of immunity should get at least one dose of MMR vaccine.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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by | Mar 6, 2025 | Fox News
Three states joined 11 others in passing universal school choice legislation.
Republican Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon has signed a bill that expanded a school choice program to universal eligibility.
The Steamboat Legacy Scholarship Act will provide $7,000 for students in non-public schools to be used for tuition or tutoring in the 2025-2026 school year.
The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Ocean Andrew, said that the signing of the bill marks a “major victory for Wyoming families with the signing of HB 199 into law.”
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“This ESA program is a huge step forward in expanding educational freedom and ensuring that parents — not the government — have the ultimate say in their children’s education,” Andrew said.
Idaho recently passed universal school choice legislation a week ago.
Republican Gov. Brad Little signed the Idaho Parental Choice Tax Credit into law. The measure will provide up to $5,000 per student for qualified expenses related to their education, including tuition and fees for enrollment.
“With the passage of the $50 million Parental Choice Tax Credit program, Idaho boasts even more abundant schooling options for Idaho students and families. Little added that “Idaho has become the first state to offer education freedom from kindergarten through career.”
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Tennessee’s legislature on January 20 passed Republican Gov. Bill Lee’s universal private school voucher bill, which saw opposition from some rural GOP lawmakers.
“I’ve long believed we can have the best public schools and give parents a choice in their child’s education, regardless of income or ZIP code,” Lee said in a statement. The Education Freedom Act gives students $7,296 each to cover education expenses and private school tuition.
Lee signed the bill into law on February 12 with hopes of starting the program in the 2025-2026 school year.
The three states passing universal school choice legislation is part of a trend of red states expanding education options for children. Lawmakers hope to provide education savings accounts for all K-12 students to use taxpayer dollars to have alternatives to local public schools such as charter schools, private schools, and homeschooling.
Tennessee, Idaho and Wyoming are states with many constituents who live in rural areas. Rural schools tend to face funding challenges due to low enrollment and scarce resources. Rural Republicans, once obstacles to school choice measures, have shifted to supporting the policy.
“This year’s momentum on the education freedom front should put to bed the myth that rural voters don’t want school choice,” said Corey DeAngelis, a senior fellow at the American Culture Project.
“Rural states are leading the school choice revolution. Three states have passed universal school choice this year, and each of them – Idaho, Tennessee, and Wyoming – are ranked in the top 20 most rural states in the nation based on Census Bureau data.”
Texas has been facing an uphill battle as Republican lawmakers representing schools in rural areas were at odds with Gov. Greg Abbott’s school choice vision. Lawmakers, including Republicans, share concerns that education savings accounts could drain funds from public schools, which are critical for schools in rural districts.
Abbott recently announced that he has enough votes to pass a school choice bill after several years of struggling to unify Republicans to support school choice.
A total of 14 states passed universal school choice. Indiana’s “Choice Scholarship Program” allows children in low- and middle-income families to receive vouchers to attend private schools. It turned out that 98% of families are eligible, making it nearly universal.
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by | Mar 6, 2025 | Fox News
Stephen A. Smith will continue to be ESPN’s staple — and make a lot of money while doing so.
The longtime reporter and analyst has agreed to a five-year extension worth at least $100 million, according to The Athletic.
Smith has been a longtime host of “First Take,” which will continue to be his primary duty with the network, the report said.
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The report also stated that he will make fewer other appearances, which will give him more rein on his own podcast. There, he further dives into other topics, including plenty of politics.
Smith has been a regular on NBA programming with the network, but The Athletic says that will no longer be the case.
The 57-year-old has also hinted at a political run. In an appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Wednesday, the sports journalist initially claimed that he “doesn’t want” the position, but he then made a comment that seemed to strongly hint at the possibility of a presidential run.
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“And I’m saying, ‘Wait a minute now. I don’t want to do this.’ But the fact that they’re talking about me this way, I must say, I approve this message,” he said.
The “I approve this message” comment clearly didn’t get by Fallon, who exclaimed, “Oh, my God!” in response.
Smith was critical of former President Joe Biden but voiced support for former Vice President Kamala Harris during the election cycle. A critic of President Donald Trump, he has regularly criticized the Democratic Party and their messaging ahead of the election as well as after Trump won.
The roughly $20 million annual salary is a huge raise for Smith, who had been making $12 million per year, per The Athletic.
Smith previously wrote for the New York Daily News and The Philadelphia Inquirer, and even did local radio in both New York and Los Angeles for ESPN.
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by | Mar 6, 2025 | Fox News
Nike debuted its first Super Bowl commercial in 27 years last month, and while a star-studded female lineup of athletes was involved, the ad received criticism for the company’s stance on supporting transgender athletes competing in women’s sports.
Caitlin Clark, Sabrina Ionescu, JuJu Watkins, Sha’Carri Richardson, Jordan Chiles and other stars from various sports were in the one-minute ad that had different language with the same theme.
The slogans included “You can’t flex, so flex,” “You can’t fill a stadium, so fill that stadium,” “You can’t be emotional, so be emotional” and “You can’t win, so win.”
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XX-XY Athletics, the athletic brand whose goal is to support female athletes by defending safety and fairness in women’s sports and keeping biological males out of women’s and girls sports, released a video of several athletes reacting to Nike’s ad.
Powerlifter April Hutchinson, who was suspended from the Canadian Powerlifting Union for two years for speaking out against a trans athlete entering competitions in women’s categories, took exception to the part of Nike’s ad about flexing.
“I’ve never been told that I can’t flex or can’t do this or that,” Hutchinson said.
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University of Nevada women’s volleyball captain Sia Liilii, who, among many teammates, fought against her school’s decision to play against trans athlete Blaire Fleming and the San Jose State Spartans last season, felt Nike was missing the mark.
“That Nike ad kinda represented old feminism. I don’t think anyone is telling women in sports they can’t champion their sport,” Liilii explained.
“Fake feminism,” “pretending to care about women” and “Nike is ignoring the real problem” were lines used by other athletes in the video.
The “real problem” is the main point of what XX-XY Athletics was getting across in its video response to Nike.
“Women can flex, be confident, be emotional, fill stadiums. And win. But what can’t they do? Speak. On one subject in particular: protecting women’s sports,” an XX-XY Athletics press release said.
“’Just Do It’ – that’s your slogan, isn’t it Nike? Just do it. Stand up for women. It’s the easiest thing in the world to do,” sports civil rights advocate Riley Gaines said, ending the video.
When the Nike ad came out, Jennifer Sey, a former U.S. gymnast and founder/CEO of XX-XY Athletics, quickly called out Nike on X.
“You’re so full of it. The only thing female athletes are told they can’t do is stand up for the integrity of their sports, for keeping men out of women’s sports. Literally, that’s the only thing,” Sey wrote in response to the commercial on X.
Michele Tafoya, the veteran sports broadcaster and journalist, also took exception to it.
“Nike is too late to this party. And they’re stuck in stereotypical language from about 25 years ago,” Tafoya wrote, later adding, “What a waste of ad dollars.”
President Donald Trump fulfilled his campaign promise of protecting women’s sports, signing the “No Men in Women’s Sports” executive order Feb. 5. While some states complied and the NCAA revised its own trans athlete policy, states like Minnesota have rejected changes to their policies.
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by | Mar 6, 2025 | Fox News
The cockpit voice recorder, known as the “black box,” from a plane that crashed and left seven people dead soon after takeoff from a Philadelphia airport didn’t record the aircraft’s final moments, investigators said in a preliminary report released Thursday.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released its preliminary report into the Jan. 31 crash of a medical Learjet 55 bound for Missouri that crashed in Philadelphia, killing two pilots, two crew members, 11-year-old pediatric patient Valentina Guzman Murillo and her mother and a pedestrian on the ground.
More than a dozen others were injured.
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The crash created a fireball and sent shrapnel flying through a residential neighborhood where the plane crashed.
The NTSB said the plane was in the air less than a minute before it went down. During an investigation, officials found the voice recorder below eight feet of dirt and debris.
“After extensive repair and cleaning, the 30-minute-long tape-based recording medium was auditioned to determine its contents,” the report states. “The CVR did not record the accident flight and during the audition it was determined that the CVR had likely not been recording audio for several years.”
Murillo was in Philadelphia to receive life-saving treatment for spina bifida, Fox Philadelphia reported.
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“The plan was to bring them home to live out the rest of her life surrounded with love and with her adoring family,” said Susan Marie Fasino of His Wings Ranch, the organization that had been assisting the family the past five years.
Investigators determined the Learjet 55 took off at 6:06 p.m. and was headed to Springfield-Branson National Airport in Missouri. The flight traveled southwest and made a slight right before turning left at a peak altitude of 1,650 feet, the report states.
The flight was in communication with air traffic control, and no distress call was received, investigators said. It’s believed the plane struck a commercial sign during its descent and left behind a 1,400-foot debris field.
The plane’s enhanced ground proximity warning system, which investigators believe “may contain flight data in its nonvolatile memory,” was shipped to the manufacturer to see if data can be recovered.
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by | Mar 6, 2025 | Fox News
Two moderate Democrats who voted against censuring Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, suggested they did not believe Congress should be focused on such matters.
Ten Democratic lawmakers broke from their party to vote on a House GOP-led resolution to formally admonish Green for protesting during President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night.
The majority of those 10 are considered frontline Democrats in more moderate districts, while others, like Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., are generally known to cross the aisle and work with Republicans.
Fox News Digital reached out to nine other Democrats representing moderate areas, who were part of the 198 total who opposed censuring Green.
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Of those, just two – Reps. Jared Golden, D-Maine, and Josh Riley, D-N.Y. – offered responses.
“In today’s environment, censure tends only to give a greater platform to the censured legislator. So I tend to lean in favor of free speech unless a clear red line is crossed,” Golden told Fox News Digital.
The Maine Democrat’s written statement also included a link to a reference of his vote in favor of censuring “Squad” member Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., over her anti-Israel comments.
He did, however, offer criticism for Green’s interruption of Trump’s speech.
“I voted against censuring Rep. Green because I don’t believe he crossed that line – and I don’t believe it’s in the House’s interest to draw even greater attention to his misguided behavior,” Golden explained.
Riley’s statement did not remark directly on Green but more broadly dismissed attention-seekers in Washington.
“Upstate New Yorkers sent me to Congress to lower costs, create jobs, and ensure they get a fair shot. I wish we’d spent this morning focused on that instead of the drama and political theater in Washington,” the first-term House Democrat said.
Riley won his seat in November by unseating former Rep. Marc Molinaro, R-N.Y., in a district that spans much of central New York state.
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Green was censured in a 224 to 198 vote on Thursday morning after repeatedly disrupting the beginning of Trump’s primetime speech.
He shouted, “You have no mandate!” at Trump and shook his cane in the air as the president touted Republican victories in the House, Senate and White House. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., after giving a warning, had Green removed from the chamber.
The 77-year-old Democrat was unrepentant, posting on X on Thursday afternoon, “Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against [Trump’s] plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice.”
The 10 Democrats who voted to censure Green are Reps. Ami Bera, D-Calif.; Ed Case, D-Hawaii; Jim Costa, D-Calif.; Laura Gillen, D-N.Y.; Jim Himes, D-Conn.; Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa.; Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio; Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla.; Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash.; and Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y.
Green himself voted “present,” as did first-term Rep. Shomari Figures, D-Ala.
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Fox anchor Maria Bartiromo thanked President Donald Trump “for all that you’re doing for women” as he signed a proclamation for Women’s History Month.
On Thursday, Trump signed several executive orders and proclamations in front of reporters in the Oval Office.
Flanked by a map of the U.S. with the words “Gulf of America” in very large font, Trump was handed documents to sign.
“So, two very special proclamations,” An aide told him. “The first of which is a proclamation that proclaims March 2025 as Women’s History Month in honor of all the wonderful women in your administration, all the wonderful women in America, and in honor of everything you’ve done for women and this administration has done for women in just, what – a month and a half?”
“Yup, we’ve done a lot,” Trump replied. “And women have done a lot for us, right? This is an honor. We have a wonderful woman here, Maria Bartiromo.”
“Thank you so much,” replied the anchor of Sunday Morning Futures on Fox News and Mornings With Maria on Fox Business.
“Nice to have you, Maria,” the president told her.
“Thank you very much, Mr. President,” she replied. “And thanks for all that you’re doing for women.”
“She’s gonna do an interview of me later,” he said. “Maybe I shouldn’t do this interview. I should be like Biden, never do any interviews.”
Trump’s aides laughed as he signed the proclamation.
“That’s great,” Trump concluded. “Women, we love you.”
The aide who handed him the document added, “We love you too, Sir.”
The president has made banning transgender women from women’s sports a key plank in his cultural issue platform. Last month, he signed an executive order stating:
[I]t is the policy of the United States to rescind all funds from educational programs that deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities, which results in the endangerment, humiliation, and silencing of women and girls and deprives them of privacy. It shall also be the policy of the United States to oppose male competitive participation in women’s sports more broadly, as a matter of safety, fairness, dignity, and truth.
During a joint address to Congress on Tuesday, one of Trump’s guests was a former high school volleyball player who, the president claimed, was injured by a spike from a transgender opponent during a match.
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by | Mar 6, 2025 | Fox News
The Albanian Cabinet decided on Thursday to shut down TikTok for 12 months, blaming the popular video-sharing platform for inciting violence and bullying, especially among children.
Education Minister Ogerta Manastirliu said officials are in contact with TikTok on installing filters like parental control, age verification and the inclusion of the Albanian language in the application.
Authorities had conducted 1,300 meetings with some 65,000 parents who “recommended and were in favor of the shut down or limiting the TikTok platform,” the minister said.
The Cabinet initiated the move last year after a teen stabbed another teenager to death in November after a quarrel that started on TikTok.
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TikTok did not immediately respond to a request to comment on the government’s decision.
When Prime Minister Edi Rama said in December they were aiming at closing the social media platform, TikTok asked for “urgent clarity from the Albanian government” on the case of the stabbed teenager.
On Thursday Rama said they were in a “positive dialogue with the company,” and that TikTok would visit the country soon to offer “a series of measures on increasing the security for children.”
The company said it had “found no evidence that the perpetrator or victim had TikTok accounts, and multiple reports have in fact confirmed videos leading up to this incident were being posted on another platform, not TikTok.”
Albanian children comprise the largest group of TikTok users in the country, according to researchers.
There has been increasing concern from Albanian parents after reports of children being inspired by content on social media to take knives to school, or cases of bullying promoted by stories they see on TikTok.
Authorities have increased police presence at some schools and set up other measures including training programs for teachers, students and their parents.
The opposition has not agreed with TikTok’s closure and has set March 15 for a protest against the move. It said the ban was “an act of intolerance, fear and terror from free thinking and expression.”
TikTok, which is operated by Chinese technology firm ByteDance, has faced questions in many countries and was briefly offline in the United States recently to comply with a law that requires ByteDance to divest the app or be banned in the U.S.
The app suspended its services in the U.S. for less than a day before restoring service following assurances from Trump that he would postpone banning it.
Earlier this week, the U.K.’s data protection watchdog said was investigating how the app uses the personal information of 13 to 17-year-olds to deliver content recommendations to them.
The Information Commissioner’s Office said that there are growing concerns around how social media platforms were using data generated by children’s online activity to power their recommendation algorithms, and the potential for young people to see inappropriate or harmful content as a result.
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A Muslim journalist warned the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that antisemitism has become an “industry” in the United States, and called for the Justice Department to investigate the “malign foreign influence” behind it.
“Antisemitism is now an industry. It is an industry that is being perpetuated, unfortunately, by organizations that even have nonprofit status in America – 501(c)(3)s, 501(c)(4)s,” Asra Nomani, founder of the Pearl Project, told Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. “And these are organizations that are belying their own mission in order to use as a Trojan horse this opposition to Israel to perpetuate this hate. These young students that we have are the targets of that hate.”
“October 7th became their moment. And what has happened is that, unfortunately, pulling our punches and not recognizing their danger in our society serves no one,” Nomani added. “It absolutely does not serve our interests of an inclusive society. An actual inclusive society means that we do not allow hate of any kind, and the kind that we have right now against our Jewish community is of epidemic proportions.”
In her opening statement, Nomani detailed the origin of the Pearl Project, a faculty-student investigative project into the murder of Daniel Pearl. Pearl was Nomani’s colleague at The Wall Street Journal when they both reported in Pakistan in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He was kidnapped and killed by Islamic terrorists, who, Nomani asserted, targeted Pearl for being a descendant of Israel.
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“Many people will think that he was targeted because he was Jewish, but an FBI agent went and interviewed the kidnapper, and he said, ‘I didn’t target him just because he’s Jewish. I targeted him because he is a son of Israel,'” Nomani told the committee. “I am here to report to you that in the 22 years since then, I have been investigating the network that has perpetuated the hate that was targeted against Danny. We have called them agitators today, and we have called them protesters, but they have names. They are from organizations that are in a network that I have numbered now at 1,500. This is not a grassroots organization.”
Nomani held up posters seen at recent anti-Israel protests and at the Democratic National Convention disseminated by American Muslims for Palestine.
She said the person charged with spraying graffiti that read “Hamas is coming” on the Christopher Columbus statue in front of Union Station in Washington, D.C., during protests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit last July was “not just an agitator,” but “a man who is the Richmond Director of American Muslims for Palestine.” She claimed that other anti-Israel demonstrators were affiliated with the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
“The hate that killed Danny Pearl on the streets of Karachi is now in our streets. It’s on our campuses. It’s a frightening network of the far left and the Islamist groups,” she said. “Nobody in this room can support their ideals. Their ideals are against individual liberties and free enterprise. They want to destroy the United States of America. They want to destroy Israel. And our young Jewish students on campuses, our younger Danny’s, are in their crosshairs.”
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Nomani continued: “We must recognize this existential threat. It is a vast network. We must investigate them. We must have them register with the Foreign Agent Registration Act when they are doing the work of these malign foreign actors that want to destroy America. And we must support Muslim reform movement leaders who want to stand up with our Jewish brothers and sisters.”
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, later questioned another witness about the funding of antisemitism in the United States.
“Is it clear that there is significant money funding these attacks on Jewish students and attacks on America?” Cruz asked Dr. Alyza Lewin, president of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights.
“It is clear that there is coordination and there must be some common funding,” Lewin responded.
Lewin said she was not aware of any investigations under the Biden Justice Department to follow the money behind antisemitic activities, and neither was she aware of anyone being indicted over the flow of funding. Cruz again asked whether Lewin was aware of any university or institution having Title VI federal funds cut off because they “tolerated, welcomed” or “had their own officials cheering on” antisemitism, and the witness said she was not.
As for the free speech argument, Cruz also suggested that universities would bring swift punishment against people who dared to dress as Ku Klux Klan members on campuses.
“They should expel them. If they’re foreign students, they should be deported. And, mark my words, if you are horrified at the antisemitism, you will see the Trump Department of Justice follow the money, prosecute the people who are paying for this, prosecute those engaged in violence, and cut off the money from universities that are tolerating and celebrating this,” Cruz said. “That is the rule of law. And ask yourself, ‘Why did the Biden Justice Department do absolutely nothing about this horror that is unfolding?'”
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom found common ground with Turning Point USA founder and conservative activist Charlie Kirk when the liberal governor – who has been rumored to be eyeing a 2028 presidential run – agreed that biological men in women’s sports is “deeply unfair.”
“The young man who’s about to win the state championship in the long jump in female sports, that shouldn’t happen,” Kirk said on Newsom’s debut episode on his new podcast, “This is Gavin Newsom,” on Thursday. “You, as the governor, should step out and say no. Would you do something like that? Would you say no men in female sports?”
“Well, I think it’s an issue of fairness,” Newsom replied. “I completely agree with you on that. It’s deeply unfair.”
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Kirk further pressed Newsom on whether he would condemn the recent victory of a transgender track athlete with a more than 40-foot jump at Jurupa Valley High School in Southern California. Newsom didn’t directly address the win, but said “it’s a fairness issue.”
“So that’s easy to call out the unfairness of that,” Newsom, the Democratic Party’s torchbearer, said. “There’s also a humility and a grace… these poor people are more likely to commit suicide, have anxiety and depression, and the way that people talk down to vulnerable communities is an issue that I have a hard time with as well.”
“So both things I can hold in my hand,” the governor continued. “How can we address this issue with the kind of decency that I think you know is inherent in you, but not always expressed on the issue?”
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Transgender athletes in California have long been protected prior to Newsom’s administration under AB 1266, also known as the School Success and Opportunity Act. The law was signed by Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, in August 2013.
However, Senate Bill 132, also known as the Transgender Respect, Agency and Dignity Act, allows inmates to request cells and searches that align with their gender identity, which Newsom signed in September 2020.
Newsom agreed that trans issues are something his party is “getting crushed on,” which Kirk said he should express “compassion” about while calling out cases like the recent incident in Jurupa Valley High School as “not fair.” The portion of the conversation came up after Kirk told Newsom to “get better ideas” if Democrats want to make a comeback among the younger generation.
The student, AB Hernandez, won an invitational meet on Feb. 22, booting out a female runner-up who had jumped just over 32 feet in their competition category. Hernandez also took first place in two other events at the meet.
The wins come as all Senate Democrats voted against a bill that would ban transgender women from women’s sports nationwide last month. The bill failed to meet the 60-vote threshold needed in the upper chamber, with lawmakers voting along party lines 51-45.
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” in February, which said transgender athletes in women sports is “demeaning, unfair, and dangerous to women and girls.” The order requires institutions receiving federal funding to abide by Title IX and follow the definitions of biological sex.
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