Trump: Transgender Healthcare Ban Or Gov Shutdown

MSNBC Screen Grab: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) hold a press briefing.

Trump is demanding that an all-ages transgender healthcare ban be included in the government funding measure, or he will shut down the United States Government.

The Republicans are responsible if the Government is shut down, as they are the ones who included ideological demands in a routine government funding measure.

The Senate will vote on Wednesday, September 30, 2025, which is today. The Republicans can't pass this without Democratic votes

Call your Senator this morning and tell him not to allow this to happen.

Talking point: First off, you voted for them and they work for you! Secondly: Every major medical association agrees that transgender-affirming healthcare is lifesaving healthcare.

“These are not budgetary measures; they are ideological attacks.”

One person on Reddit, Pink News reports, called on members of the public to “contact your senators and house reps asap”, urging them to protect “the rights and dignity of LGBTQ+ Americans”.

They went on to say: “These are not budgetary measures, they are ideological attacks [that] would erase protections, endanger lives and weaponise federal funding to coerce institutions into abandoning care. For many, access to HRT and affirming care is not optional, it’s life-saving.

“Democrats have the power to stop all this from happening if they hold the line in the Senate.”

Call your Senator this morning and urge them to hold the line.

Anti-Trans Lawmaker Pleads Guilty To Child Porn Charges

RJ May faces up to 20 years in federal prison, a fine of $250,000, and at least five years of supervised release to follow any term of imprisonment.

Anti Transgender South Carolina State Legislator and "Freedom Caucus" founder Republican RJ May, 38, pleaded guilty Friday to avoid a trial on charges that he distributed videos of child pornography.

Prosecutors say May exchanged more than 200 explicit files of toddlers and young children on the Kik social media app during several days in spring 2024.

May resigned from the South Carolina House of Representatives last month.

May told the House in January 2024 regarding transgender issues and children: "We as legislators have an obligation to insure that our children have no harm done to them"

In January 2024, the South Carolina House of Representatives debated and passed a bill prohibiting medical professionals from performing gender-transition surgeries or prescribing puberty blockers and hormone treatments to minors.

This as it comes to light that Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson would prefer a government shutdown than allowing a House vote on releasing the Epstein Files that could prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Donald Trump is a pedophile.

Republican Analyst Tim Miller: It's an Authoritarian Takeover

Tim Miller, writer-at-large for the Never Trump opinion website The Bulwark, host for the Bulwark's daily podcast, and MSNBC analyst, weighs in on why Trump is sending the National Guard to Democratic strongholds.

“It is this authoritarian cosplay. It's like they're putting on costumes and they want to seem tough as part of this slow-rolling authoritarian takeover. That's what this is all about,” said Miller, speaking to MSNBC anchor Nicole Wallace. “It is not about crime. It’s important to say, clearly, this is not about solving crime.”

Charlie Kirk Murder and the Ultra Right Nationalist Shooter

Nick Fuentes, far-right activist, holds a rally at Michigan's Capitol in Lansing in 2020.Nicole Hester / Mlive.com / Ann Arbor News via AP file

It has come to light that Tyler Robinson, the man being held for the murder of Charlie Kirk, is a follower of the group "Groypers" led by white nationalist Nick Fuentes.

The Groypers are an ultra-nationalist, far-right group rooted in meme culture, and they use a mixture of internet memes, coded language, and mainstream conservative imagery to obscure their extremist beliefs and attract new followers.

This as the Wall Street Journal reported, shell casings left in the woods by Robinson were engraved with messages of transgender and antifascist idiology."

Trump, emboldened by Robinson's parents, who said he had become more "political," told Fox News that “For years, those on the radical Left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now," Trump said," but in reality, the exact opposite may be true.

Kirk was murdered as he engaged in an open debate with university students in Utah, an activity that the Groypers openly despised. They had previously disrupted an event like this simply because it was inclusive.

The memes and engravings that the Wall Street Journal falsely described as "transgender" and "anti-fascist" were standard engravings from the ammunition manufacturer or memes that the Groyper movement frequently uses. The Wall Street Journal has walked back those provocations but has yet to issue an apology or a full retraction.

Related: Extremist Groups Hated Charlie Kirk. They’re Using His Death to Radicalize Others

Wouldn't be ironic if Kirk was murdered for doing something I admire in a person, a willingness to engage in an open debate, something that most MAGA won't do?

I am relieved that the shooter was not a member of the LGBTQI community or ANTIFA. While I am not mourning his death, I do feel obligated as a Christian to say this: Rest in Peace, Charlie Kirk.

Appeals Court Rules Transgender people can obtain a passport

Photo by Pavel Danilyuk: Pexels

The First Circuit Court of Appeals on Sept. 4, 2025, ruled against Donald Trump keeping in place an injunction allowing transgender people the right to obtain passports that align with their gender identity.

In April, District Court Judge Julia Kobick granted a preliminary injunction requiring the State Department to allow six transgender and nonbinary plaintiffs in Orr v. Trump to obtain passports with sex designations consistent with their gender identity or with an “X” sex designation while the lawsuit proceeds.

Then, in June, Judge Kobick certified two classes of passport holders and expanded the preliminary injunction to include any class member applying to:

Obtain a new passport,

Change the sex designation or update their name on their current passport

Replace a lost, stolen, or damaged passport, or

Renew their passport within one year of its expiration.

This includes those who, under the Trump administration’s policy, were previously sent a passport with a sex designation listing their sex assigned at birth.

Read more at the ACLU Press Release.