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The battle to protect children and youth from harmful transgender practices has not been won, according to detransitioner Chloe Cole. While great progress has been made during the first month of the Trump administration, the battle is far from over, Cole says.
“This is not a point in time where we can just assume that we’ve already won,” Cole told The Daily Signal at last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C.
“We need to continue to fight, because there’s so much ground left to cover,” she said. “We’ve only thrown the first punches at this movement, and we need to continue until this is completely gone from our country, until no child, no woman, no man is being harmed by this.”
Cole, now 20, was attracted to the transgender movement as a teen and started taking testosterone and puberty blockers at 13 and had a double mastectomy at 15. At 16, she detransitioned and about a year later began speaking out against the harms of transgender ideology and the medical practices that had permanently altered her own body. […]
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Independent Journalism Is Dying
Ever since President Trump’s miraculous victory, we’ve heard an incessant drumbeat about how legacy media is dying. This is true. The people have awakened to the reality that they’re being lied to by the self-proclaimed “Arbiters of Truth” for the sake of political expediency, corporate self-protection, and globalist ambitions.
But even as independent journalism rises to fill the void left by legacy media, there is still a huge challenge. Those at the top of independent media like Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino, and Tucker Carlson are thriving and rightly so. They have earned their audience and the financial rewards that come from it. They’ve taken risks and worked hard to get to where they are.
For “the rest of us,” legacy media and their proxies are making it exceptionally difficult to survive, let alone thrive. They still have a stranglehold over the “fact checkers” who have a dramatic impact on readership and viewership. YouTube, Facebook, and Google still stifle us. The freer speech platforms like Rumble and 𝕏 can only reward so many of their popular content creators. For independent journalists on the outside looking in, our only recourse is to rely on affiliates and sponsors.
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Independent media is the future. In many ways, that future is already here. While the phrase, “the more the merrier,” does not apply to this business because there are still some bad actors in the independent media field, there are many great ones that do not get nearly enough attention. We hope to change that one content creator at a time.
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