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Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has signed a pair of bills she says will protect children and promote common sense throughout the state by banning transgender treatments for minors and requiring restrooms and locker rooms to be divided by biological sex.

Strange New World is more than a Reader’s Digest version of Dr. Carl Trueman's Rise and Triumph. It is a book to be carefully studied, especially by Christians committed to engaging this cultural moment with the truth and love of Christ. Increasingly, the battles over gender, sexuality, and selfhood are being fought in more areas of our lives: not just across political aisles or in courtrooms, but across dinner tables, classrooms, and social media feeds. Sometimes, those closest to us have radically different views of what human flourishing looks like, and these relationships can quickly become vulnerable, even volatile.

Theologian and seminary president Albert Mohler is criticizing Fox News' hiring of Caitlyn Jenner as a contributor, saying the move by the conservative network should not itself be viewed as conservative.

In recent months, states such as Texas and Florida have taken legislative steps to prevent children from being subjected to such mental and physical harm. However, the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), an entity of the Department of Health and Human Services, issued a release proclaiming that “gender-affirming care” is neither “child maltreatment nor malpractice.” Around the same time, the Department of Justice sent a letter to all state attorneys general, saying that opposing HHS guidance is discrimination, is essentially an attack against “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, nonbinary, or otherwise gender-nonconforming” people, and that such actions “may be unconstitutional.”

A female college athlete is accusing the National Collegiate Athletics Association of showing favoritism to trans-identifying swimmer Lia Thomas after she tied with Thomas for fifth place at the recent NCAA Women's Swimming Championship in Atlanta, Georgia.

A California church with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is calling for the removal of the denomination’s first trans-identified bishop.

On Wednesday, a crowd of Christians gathered outside Disney headquarters in Burbank, California to protest the entertainment giant's efforts to include more LGBTQ+ content in its films and TV shows.

On Monday, Oreo released a short film chronicling a young man's decision to come out as gay to his extended family.

Conservative Christians recently criticized Fox News for adding former Olympic athlete and reality star Caitlyn Jenner as a contributor to its network programming.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has fired an education advisor from the city's Panel for Education Policy after the New York Daily News reported on some of her past writings on gender and sexuality.