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What would you say if you found out that some of America's biggest companies, ones you use and support, are paying for gender transition drugs and surgeries for kids?

This is really happening.

So our friends at Alliance Defending Freedom are doing something about it.

Companies like American Express and Home Depot

appear to cover irreversible experimental gender transition procedures for minors in their employee

health care plans. That means kids can get puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and life-altering

surgeries, and the companies you support foot the bill.

This has to stop and you can do something about it.

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This is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. California, as we're seeing through the lenses of the Los Angeles mayorial race,

is a dysfunctional state. The Democrats talk a lot about democracy dying in darkness. Democracy's

dying in California. Now, what do I mean by that? When you look at the L.A. mayorial race,

you start to see a familiar pattern that all of us who live in California have noticed in

state assemblies, state Senate races, and congressional races. And we saw it on the national scale as well.

But in California, what happens

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