LANSING — Michigan Republicans on Wednesday introduced a three-bill package that would ban gender transition procedures for minors, including hormone treatments, surgeries that alter genital appearance, and any surgeries resulting in sterilization. The bills, introduced by Rep. Brad Paquette (R-Niles) and Sen. Thomas Albert (R-Lowell), allow exceptions only for minors with medically verifiable disorders of sex development or life-threatening conditions.

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"It is time for the experimentation on children in the name of care to come to an end," Paquette said during a press conference announcing the legislation. "Children are not born in the wrong body. No one has the right to maim a healthy child’s body to try to achieve the unachievable."

The legislation would also expand patients’ ability to seek damages for medical malpractice related to transition procedures and would require insurance companies to cover detransition care if they cover transition treatments.

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Paquette and Albert's proposal follows a new review issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which expressed concerns about the safety and long-term effects of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender-related surgeries in minors. The procedures cited in the federal review would be prohibited under the Michigan legislation.

Paquette and Albert were joined by Prisha Mosley, a detransitioner living in Big Rapids, and Jamie Reed, a former case manager at the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital, both outspoken critics of gender-affirming care.

"It is critical that legislative bodies step in to protect children in this state from these dangerous and reckless practices," Reed said. "I was complicit in harming patients because the protocol itself harms patients. There is no safe or legal way to sterilize a child, and there is no safe way to medically disrupt a functioning endocrine system."

The three bills were introduced in the Michigan House as House Bills 4466-4468 and referred to the House Committee on Health Policy.

Opposition from LGBTQ advocates and medical groups
Although no Michigan-specific organizations had immediately issued statements about the new bills as of Wednesday afternoon, LGBTQ rights groups and major medical organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association, have previously opposed similar bans introduced in other states.

They argue that gender-affirming care is evidence-based, medically necessary, and often critical for the mental health and well-being of transgender youth. Critics of such bans say denying access to care can lead to higher rates of depression and suicide among transgender adolescents.

Democratic leaders, who hold a majority in both the Michigan House and Senate, have not yet announced whether they will consider the legislation.

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LANSING, Mich - Michigan residents and small business owners targeted by the Whitmer administration got a long-delayed chance to speak on April 23 as the Republican-controlled state House held its first hearings on government overreach during the COVID lockdowns.

Two business owners and a lawyer described how they were targeted by Attorney General Dana Nessel, the Whitmer administration, and local government at the House's Weaponization of State Government hearing.

Gov. Whitmer declared barbers and hairdressers “nonessential” in 2020. Six barbers and hairdressers defied the lockdown orders and were criminally charged for cutting hair at the Michigan Capitol on May 20, 2020. Click here to read more.

 

KIMBALLTON, Iowa - A water tower malfunction is forcing people in the western Iowa town of Kimballton to use bottles.

City officials have told residents it could be a while before the problem is fixed.

When Pat Crosley turned her faucet on, it was a shock.

“I thought maybe the radishes were leaking into the water, and then I realized it was actually coming out of the spigot, and so I was surprised that the water was pink,” the Kimballton resident said.

Officials said there was a problem with filters. Now, more than 200 people in town have to drink bottled water.

“You know, we never realize how much water we use,” Paul Christensen, another Kimballton resident, said. Click here to read more.

 

LOS ANGELES, CALIF - I have spent a lot of time covering psychiatric drugs like SSRIs. The problem with these drugs is that they’re incredibly potent, potentially dangerous, and they effect the mind in ways that the doctors prescribing them don’t fully understand. And all of these problems are compounded by the fact that they are increasingly easy to obtain. In fact, as the problems with psychiatric medications become more evident, the barriers to access them only become lower. It seems that things should be working the opposite way. But that’s how it goes now. If you want to get a highly potent, dangerous, mind altering drug, you can. In fact, you probably don’t even have to leave your house.

This trend is becoming more and more common with an ever increasing array of drugs. They are very easy to get, there is very little oversight, and you don’t have to leave your house to obtain them. This is a major problem that will require all kinds of legislation to fix. But there are some steps we can, and must, take immediately to address the problem of fraudulent, life-altering drugs being handed out in large quantities to young people, basically on demand. One of those steps is to defund some of the largest distributors of these life-altering drugs, which is something that should’ve happened a long time ago. Click here to read more.

 

Two women found their long-lost sister after a 57-year search thanks DNA test results that sounded like an ‘April Fools prank’.

Now in their 60s, sisters Trish and June spent their lives searching for their oldest sibling, Geraldine, who is more than a decade older.

Geraldine was a four-year-old when her mother Mary Wills was forced to put her up for adoption by a religious order of Catholic nuns in the convent where the single mom and her daughter spent their early years.

Mary moved on and later met Peter Wills, with whom she had three children after marrying in 1956, settling in Somerset, England.

Despite always knowing they had an older sister, Trish and June weren’t able to find her before their mom died from liver cancer in 2011.

When Trish gave her daughter, Laura, 34, an Ancestry DNA test for Christmas in 2023 it didn’t turn up any matches—until last month.

Little did they know that their biological half-sister Geraldine would upload her details onto the same website database and Laura would be notified that Ancestry had uncovered a match “without a doubt”.

 

WASHINGTON D.C. - The State Department had revoked about 1,500 visas throughout the United States as of late April, Inside Higher Ed estimates. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has investigated some of them, and some visa holders will be asked to leave or be deported if they have broken the conditions of their student status per U.S. immigration law. A small number may be deported if the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, deems their presence detrimental to U.S. foreign policy.

Two professors at Cornell and Yale claimed in The Washington Post that “our foreign students are terrified, and they’re right to be.”

Please. No foreign student who is obeying the conditions of his visa and staying focused on his studies has anything to worry about.

Who else should worry? Yale professors such as Erika and Nicholas Christakis, who treat students as adults, only to then deal with tantrums and Ivy League cancel culture. Click here to read more.

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WASHINGTON D.C. - On May 7, 2025, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a complete halt to operations at the U.S. Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick, Maryland. That following a shocking alleged act of sabotage.

Bhattacharya revealed the decision in a detailed thread on his X account (@NIHDirector_Jay).

He explained that he learned a contractor at the lab deliberately cut a hole in a co-worker’s biocontainment suit during a personal dispute, compromising critical safety protocols.

The incident, reportedly happened in early March but Bhattacharya says he did not learn of it until weeks later.

The Fort Detrick facility is part of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at NIH which was for years run by Dr. Anthony Fauci. It’s one of the few high-security labs in North America designed to handle deadly pathogens such as Ebola, MERS, and avian influenza. Click here to read more.

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SACRAMENTO, CALIF - A career criminal with a long rap sheet involving firearms, he was given a 10-year sentence in 2018 for punching, dragging and severely beating his girlfriend with a belt. In prison, Martin was found guilty of beating another inmate and engaging in other criminal activity. Nevertheless, he was freed just four years later, thanks to a plea deal that categorized him as a “nonviolent offender” and a California ballot measure that sharply reduced sentences for “good behavior.”

Just two months after his release, Martin and several accomplices, including his brother, were arrested for carrying out the worst mass shooting in Sacramento’s history – leaving six dead and 12 others injured on April 3, 2022. Martin was charged with three counts of murder and illegal possession of a firearm, including a machine gun. He will not stand trial on those charges, since the 29-year-old died in jail of a drug overdose last September. Click here to read more.

 

SPOTSYLVANIA, Va. - A celebration ahead of graduation has turned into a somber event after a Virginia high school senior was shot and killed.

The deadly shooting was reported Saturday in a Fredericksburg neighborhood during an alleged prank.

“It’s been very emotional, honestly, because we graduate next week,” student Khamoni Keys remarked.

Massaponax High School seniors are heartbroken after their classmate, 18-year-old Michael Bosworth Jr., was shot and killed on Saturday.

One minor at the scene was not hurt, but another teenager who was close friends with Keys was also shot. That victim survived.

“I went to the hospital that morning actually because when I heard one of my closer friends got shot,” Keys said. Click here to read more.

 

SEATTLE, WA - Single parents are caretakers of their children's hearts in a unique way. When a separation or divorce befalls a family, the fallout can leave many parents struggling to pick up the pieces of their own broken hearts and their kids'.

Instagrammer and single mom Mely (@allthingsmely) shared a vulnerable video of how she's helping heal her young daughter's heart after her father left their family. During the tender conversation, her daughter expressed her sadness, and Mely reminds her of her love and worth while allowing space for her to express her emotions.

"To every mom healing little hearts while healing her own: you are not alone. I see you," she wrote in the video's caption. She added, "Being a solo mom is tender, exhausting and beautiful all at once and it’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done." Click here to read more.

 

LANSING, Mich - Gov. Gretchen Whitmer continued her calls for a corporate tax increase in Shelby Township this week, insisting “new, fairer sources of revenue” are a must for fulfilling her campaign promise to “fix the damn roads.”

Whitmer attempted to leverage her recent win with President Donald Trump to bring a new fighter jet mission to Selfridge Air National Guard Base to demand a “compromise” on road funding during Monday’s Governor’s Luncheon with the Macomb County Chamber, The Macomb Daily reports.

“As we celebrate the big win of last week, the lesson that’s sticking with me is one that everyone in this room knows very well in Macomb County: The best way to get things done is by doing them together,” Whitmer said. “From local government officials to business leaders, the willingness to work across the aisle and across sectors has played a key role in making Macomb County an economic powerhouse.” Click here to read more.