Republican Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia was serving as Speaker Pro Tem in the House of Representatives last week when he took the opportunity to insult his colleague from Delaware, Rep. Sarah McBride. But she showed that she was unfazed by the insult.

“The chair now recognizes the gentleman from Delaware, Rep. Sarah McBride, for five minutes,” Clyde said from the dais, introducing her on Tuesday.

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McBride ignored the misgendering slight and carried on with remarks honoring several Delawareans for their service and achievements in the state. The Democrat claimed she hadn’t heard Clyde disparage her.

“I didn’t hear the comment,” McBride told The Advocate through a spokesperson on Friday, before uttering seven words reminiscent of Mariah Carey’s famous dig at Jennifer Lopez: “I don’t know who Rep. Clyde is.”

“As always, I am grateful to serve and remain focused on lowering costs for my constituents.”

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It was just another day in chambers for the first transgender member of Congress.

McBride has endured an avalanche of insults from fellow members since before and after taking her seat in the House last January.

In November, 213 House Democrats signed a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) demanding he condemn Republican lawmakers for repeatedly using “demonizing and dehumanizing” language directed at McBride and the wider transgender community.

Those include Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) yelling “Tr***y! Tr***y! Tr***y!” in a House hearing, and members carrying their anti-trans campaigns online; Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) went after McBride last year, calling her a “groomer” while sharing McBride’s deadname on social media.

“We write to you to strongly condemn the rise in anti-transgender rhetoric, including from members of Congress, and to urge you to ensure members of Congress are following rules of decorum and not using their platforms to demonize and scapegoat any marginalized community, including the transgender community,” Democrats told Johnson in the letter.

Clyde is the latest example of that bigoted behavior. 

The staunch MAGA Republican from a solidly conservative district in Georgia doubled down on his disparaging remark after he made it.

“The People’s House recognizes basic biology,” he posted to X, along with video of his remark the same day.

The People’s House recognizes basic biology. pic.twitter.com/7FABwwLWZq

— Rep. Andrew Clyde (@Rep_Clyde) January 13, 2026

“[Deadname] ‘Sarah’ McBride is a man. No amount of makeup can change this biological truth,” Clyde posted to X on Wednesday, adding McBride’s deadname to the original insult.

Then Clyde went after the previous, correct references to McBride’s gender in the congressional record.

“MR. [deadname] ‘Sarah’ McBride is a MAN. The House Clerk must correct the congressional record to reflect this biological fact,” he said.

Several of Clyde’s Republican colleagues, all anti-trans and woke culture warriors in their own right, piled on following the Georgia rep’s break with decorum.

“[Deadname] ‘Sarah’ McBride is a man. Appreciate @Rep_Clyde for acknowledging this basic biological truth on the House floor,” Rep. Mary Miller of Illinois posted to X.

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) backed Clyde as well, declaring in a post, “A biological man can never be a woman, no matter how much makeup he puts on. My friend @Rep_Clyde stands for truth.”

“Truth Matters,” added Republican Rep. Sheri Biggs of South Carolina.

Clyde’s public demonization on the House floor happened on the same day the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases challenging state laws banning trans-student athletes from playing girls’ sports.

Hours later, he posted from the steps of the court, demonizing trans people yet again.

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Transgender rights advocates in the U.K. are blasting two recently announced research studies on the effects of puberty blockers on trans young people as unethical and biased.

In the wake of the widely criticized Cass Review and the U.K. government’s subsequent decision to ban puberty blocking medication for the treatment of gender dysphoria in minors, National Health Service (NHS) researchers announced two studies on the drugs’ effects on young people in November.

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According to The Guardian, one of the two studies, the Pathways Trial, will randomly divide some 226 participants between the ages of 10 and 16 into two groups. One will receive puberty blocking medication immediately, while the second will receive the medication after a year. Participants’ quality of life, emotional well-being, and physical development will be compared to those of a third group, which will not receive puberty blockers.

Medical journal The BMJ notes that the study has been approved by a research ethics committee and received regulatory approval from the Health Research Authority (HRA) and the Medicines Healthcare Products Regulatory Authority (MHRA).

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But the Pathways Trial has nonetheless received widespread criticism, both from advocates for and against gender-affirming care for minors.

In a November 22 statement, Chay Brown, healthcare director for U.K. trans rights nonprofit TransActual, said that the study “is the result of an ideological view at the very top of the NHS that being trans is a ‘less desirable outcome.’”

In the same press release, TransActual reiterated its position that the U.K. Department of Health and Social Care’s decision to ban puberty blockers for trans minors, but not for the treatment of conditions like precocious puberty in cisgender minors, is “discriminatory” and not based in actual scientific evidence. The group argues that the study represents an “unambiguously a violation of medical ethics,” as it is currently the only way for young people experiencing gender dysphoria in U.K. to access the medication they need.

“It is unconscionable to coerce young people into participating and, for half of the cohort, delay the care they’ve been assessed as needing,” Brown said. “It is and will be for a long time to come the only means that young people have of accessing puberty blockers through the NHS, and it is strictly capped at 226 regardless of how many would benefit from the care.”

Similarly, the World Professional Associations for Transgender Health (WPATH) and its European and U.S. counterparts EPATH and USPATH released a joint statement earlier this month outlining five ethical concerns about the Pathways Trial. These included the risk of coercion and compromised informed consent, and delayed access to medically necessary care for participants.

According to The BMJ, the study has also been criticized for lacking a placebo group, which limits researchers’ ability to determine whether any observable effects can be attributed to medication.

TransActual also noted the high potential for bias in the study, headed by researchers at King’s College London, due to its senior personnel. The group noted that Deputy Chief Investigator Dr. Michael Absoud has links to The Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM), a Southern Poverty Law Center-designated anti-LGBTQ+ hate group.

“We fear this study is designed from the outset to arrive at a specific conclusion, and so will not generate good scientific evidence. Indeed, it cannot while it operates in such a coercive manner, inducing desperate trans people to perform whichever version of trans-ness a panel of doctors will accept,” TransActual’s press release reads.

“Like the Cass Review before it, the trial is in all likelihood an elaborate pantomime to generate a false sense of scientific legitimacy for what is purely a moral panic about gender related healthcare – with the enthusiastic collaboration of most of the UK’s politicians and news outlets,” TransActual wrote.

At the same time, The BMJ notes that the hashtag #StopTheTrial has been shared thousands of times on social media by people who oppose treating gender dysphoria in minors with puberty blockers. In November, U.K. Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch sent a letter to health secretary Wes Streeting describing the trial as “activist ideology masquerading as research,” according to the medical journal.

Responding to criticisms, Dr. Hilary Cass, lead author on the Cass Review, told The BMJ that the study “would allow researchers to gather evidence safely within a structured study, rather than leaving young people to experiment on themselves.”

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A Black man and a transgender woman helped rescue white supremacist provocateur Jake Lang — a Republican U.S. Senate candidate who assaulted U.S. Capitol police officers during the January 6, 2021, riots — after Lang held an anti-Somali, anti-Islam demonstration last Saturday on the steps of Minneapolis, Minnesota’s City Hall.

Lang — who says that Jewish people want to turn the children of white Christian men into “[n-word] lovers” — had promised to lead a march through the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood (which has Minneapolis’ highest concentration of Somali-American residents) before burning a Quran on the steps of City Hall. But he reportedly didn’t get to do either because a group of about 100 anti-racist counterprotestors — who outnumbered the 10 attendees of Lang’s event — cornered Lang outside City Hall before attacking him and chasing him away.

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The anti-racist counterprotestors threw objects and water balloons at Lang before a 30-year-old Black Minneapolis resident named Isaiah Blackwell helped Lang escape.

While Blackwell and other men led Lang away, the crowd continued to lob abuse at Lang, with one person even kicking Lang in the head and numerous others opening the rear car door and kicking Lang some more as a Black trans woman eventually helped Lang escape. Lang suffered bruises, scrapes, and a cut on his head, though he didn’t report his injuries to local law enforcement, the Minneapolis police said.

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“I’m a man, and I believe all humans should be treated the same. It doesn’t matter,” Blackwell told The Star Tribune when explaining why he rescued Lang. Despite Lang’s racist views, Blackwell said, “[Lang] has a story to tell, like I have a story to tell. I took my voice, and I told them, ‘Don’t touch him. Let him go.’ I made a space so he could get out of there.”

Seeing footage of Blackwell assisting Lang, former Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak told the aforementioned publication, “Lang saw that Black man as less than him. The Black man saw Lang as a human being.”

Mossad Parasite Jake Lang went to incite hatred in Minneapolis.

Well, he succeeded

Bravo to the beautiful people of Minneapolis pic.twitter.com/RP92xKAm49

— ADAM (@AdameMedia) January 18, 2026

Lang reportedly ducked into a local hotel about four blocks away from City Hall before exiting the hotel about 10 minutes later. Upon exiting, a 22-year-old trans woman named Daye Gottsche saw Lang bloodied and being attacked. Gottsche allowed Lang into the backseat of a car driven by her friend.

“All of a sudden, there’s a bloody man running up to our car and begging for help. We let him in,” Gottsche said. “We’re surrounded by a crowd of people that is clearly angry because they are like beating on the car door, trying to bust open the windows. It was insane.”

Gottsche, who was riding with her friend on the way to a bar, said she and her friend got “weird vibes” from Lang and asked him to leave the vehicle after he said that Trump had helped save his life. Trump pardoned Lang after he had served four years in prison for attacking a U.S. Capitol police officer during the January 6, 2021, riots.

Lang then gave Gottsche his phone number and promised to pay for the damage inflicted upon her friend’s vehicle, including a broken headlight.

Gottsche said she texted Lang, writing to him (in part), “While i do not whatsoever support you or ur ideals, im happy to see that you are gonna be okay, and i hope this has some sort of impact on you. Because the fear and urgency you felt trying to escape that crowd is what people here feel everyday. America was never ours to begin with, so how does it make sense that we cant share, especially with people seeking safety and shelter?”

Lang later recounted the incident to Alex Jones, the anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist who broadcasts InfoWars, saying that he was “lynched” but “Good Samaritans” saw “the humanity of the situation” and saved him.

“I’m so grateful for them,” Lang told Jones. “Many of them were Black. Some of them were even Muslim. And it shows, you know, obviously, this underlying human compassion.”

Lang spent the holiday weekend reposting supportive social media posts from a variety of anti-LGBTQ+ right-wing accounts that blame the Minneapolis counterprotestors for attacking Lang while omitting any mention of Lang’s provocative, racist rhetoric.

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Even though white supremacist influencer Nick Fuentes is officially banned from Instagram, his fans are reposting clips of his misogynist, racist, and neo-Nazi content, garnering millions of views, according to Media Matters.

The media watchdog organization said that a network of Fuentes’ fans, who call themselves “groypers,” have been uploading clips of Fuentes’ videos. While the video-sharing platform TikTok has banned searches for “Nick Fuentes” and “groyper,” Instagram allows such searches.

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“Instagram’s algorithm seems to be picking up videos from small groyper accounts and blasting them into virality,” Media Matters wrote, adding that Instagram has allowed Fuentes to “reach new audiences in ways that were previously impossible.”

Some groypers clip Fuentes’ content to make him seem like a funny and harmless figure: showing him making jokes, silly gestures, facial expressions, dance moves, or enthusiastic comments about cartoons.

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But other viral clips reveal Fuentes’ actual beliefs. One video of Fuentes mocking violence against women received over 2.1 million views on Instagram, even though it was posted by a groyper account with only 1,664 followers, Media Matters reported.

Noticing the recent success of his content on the platform, Fuentes told his followers in a broadcast that Instagram used to delete his videos and ban accounts that posted them.

“Now,” Fuentes said, “I do a show and I’m just like, ‘Yeah, Jews run the world, Blacks need to go to jail, women need to shut up.’ It gets 8 million views on Instagram! And it just goes to show it’s like the second that they lift the censorship boot off our necks — literally the second — it becomes a sensation.”

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