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During the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on "Protecting Pride: Defending the Civil Rights of LGBTQ+ Americans" this week, former NCAA swimming standout Riley Gaines argued that comments from the president of the far-left Human Rights Campaign about Serena Williams were not accurate.

HRC President Kelley Robinson recently said Williams could beat men in a game of tennis during the hearing.

"There's been this news article about men that think they can beat Serena Williams in tennis," Robinson said. "And it's just not the case. She is stronger than them."

But Gaines, a 12-time All-American swimmer who tied with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas in 2022, said in response: "Both Serena and Venus lost to the 203rd ranked male tennis player," Fox News reports.

Here are three takeaways from Gaines' testimony:

Faith-based hospitals and doctors won a major legal victory Tuesday when the Biden administration gave up in its attempt to force medical professionals to perform procedures, including gender transition surgeries, that violate their conscience.

A California legislator is urging parents to flee the state in light of a bill that would rewrite child custody laws so as to favor a parent who “affirms” the identity of a transgender-identifying child.

Messengers to this week’s Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in New Orleans passed a resolution labeling gender transition a “direct assault on God’s created order” and urging states to ban the procedure when it involves children.

Christian and conservative groups are sounding the alarm on a California bill that would rewrite child custody laws to favor a parent who "affirms" the identity of a transgender-identifying child.

The United Kingdom will no longer "routinely" give puberty blockers to children under a decision by the nation's National Health Services that will limit such drugs to minors within clinical trials.

In his documentary An Inconvenient Truth, former Vice President Al Gore famously showed an image that became an icon of global warming. The so-called “hockey stick” graph plotted global temperatures over the centuries, reportedly showing that a spike occurred after humans began using fossil fuels. For Gore and his fellow climate activists, this was the “smoking gun” that something unprecedented was happening to the planet. Except, this graph has been widely disputed as containing “serious flaws.”

Today, a different “hockey stick” graph, using data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey, shows a huge, sudden, and startling spike in the number of girls and women identifying as transgender. Since such records have been kept, the percentage of adults who identified as transgender within a population remained consistently low. For baby boomers and Gen Xers, those who identified as transgender were overwhelmingly men who identified as women.

A church in New York City has divided members and ignited a social media debate after hosting an art display claiming "God is trans."

Controversy surrounding transgender athletes in sports continues to ramp up across the country, especially following the recent first-place victory by a transgender cyclist against biological female athletes.

Tennessee’s governor and attorney general say they will defend a lawsuit by the Biden Department of Justice against a new state law that bans transgender treatments on children and teens under 18.