The most populous Muslim-majority has agreed to normalize relations with Israel, according to Israeli news outlet Ynet. The news comes "after three months of secret talks" regarding a bid by Indonesia to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Israel normalized relations with four Muslim-majority countries (Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, and U.A.E.) as part of the Abraham Accords promoted by the Trump administration, but further talks have not borne fruit since 2021.
House Bill 538 was signed on Monday, which stipulates that schools cannot require staff or students to use preferred pronouns or names. The second, signed on Tuesday, was House Bill 421. It states, "In human beings, there are two, and only two, sexes: male and female. In no case is an individual's sex determined by stipulation or self-identification." Most notably, in addition to ruling that sex and gender were synonymous, this bill "codifies in state law biological definitions for 'woman,' 'man,' and other sex-based terms, making [Idaho] the fifth to exclude men who identify as women from being legally recognized as female."
On Wednesday, a group of Republican hardliners in the House broke from the GOP majority and blocked a procedural vote from going forward to renew the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and numerous Republican lawmakers say that while FISA is in need of reform to protect citizens against government overreach, it is also a critical tool in maintaining national security.
In "the first described [case] about digits amputation," Canadian doctors surgically removed two healthy fingers from a young man experiencing "body integrity dysphoria" (BID). The sad, bizarre account, published March 27 in the open-access journal Clinical Case Reports, is linked to surgical interventions for gender dysphoria. This similar yet distinct case underscores the dangers of gender ideology from a slightly different vantage point, one which circumvents the deceptive veil of civil rights language which conceals the harms of gender transition procedures.
According to new data, Hispanic voters are increasingly abandoning President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party in favor of former President Donald Trump and the GOP. A study released this week by the Pew Research Center found that Democrats have lost their historic edge over Republicans among Hispanic voters.
A wide-ranging overview of the transgender medical treatment for minors, conducted over four years by a world-renowned pediatric specialist, found "no evidence that gender-affirmative treatments reduce" suicide, "remarkably weak evidence" for the use of puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones for youth who identify as transgender, and no reason to believe that childhood feelings of transgenderism predict whether anyone will experience "longstanding gender dysphoria in the future." But "toxic" discourse and "point-scoring" have made it impossible to serve children's best interests.
