Strong research data, coming forth over the last few months, has demonstrated that “trans” identity among young people is not the natural thing gender activists wanted us to believe it is. The Daily Citizen has reported on the most recent developments.

Now new data from Washington University professor Ryan Burge strongly affirms this fact.

Burge wanted to “replicate and validate” Jean Twenge’s October finding from the nationally representative Cooperative Election Study (CES) survey showing that trans identity was in free fall among young people. Professor Twenge reported that data supports her conclusion: “It turns out identifying as transgender really is in free fall among the young in the U.S. So is identifying as nonbinary.”

Burge asked, “Has there been a noticeable decline in the share of 18 — 22-year-olds who identify as transgender over the last couple of years?” He replies definitively, “The answer is unequivocal: yes.”

In fact, the number of respondents who identified as “transgender” just years ago have fallen by more than half in many categories.

Pro-life organizations and advocates called for the FDA Commissioner to be fired this week over the failure of FDA health officials to review abortion pill safety.

The abortion pill is a two-step process. The first pill, mifepristone, prohibits a baby’s further development and eventually starves it. The second pill, misoprostol, expels the baby from the mother’s body.

As reported by the Daily Citizen, in May, the Ethics and Public Policy Center released a study revealing nearly 11% of women who take the pill experience serious adverse effects, including sepsis, hemorrhaging, infection, and emergency room visits.

That is 22 times higher than the FDA’s current label, which suggests the rate of adverse effects is only 0.5%.

When Senator Josh Hawley addressed the study with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy at a senate hearing later that month, Secretary Kennedy acknowledged the data was “alarming” and pledged HHS would perform a “complete review” of mifepristone.

Since May, the FDA has not completed a review of mifepristone, and instead approved a generic version of the drug at the end of September.

Lawmakers introduced three bills targeting child exploitation last week following a Senate hearing on sextortion.

Sextortion encompasses online blackmail schemes in which offenders manipulate people into sharing explicit images of themselves, then threaten to release the photos unless victims comply with their demands.

Perpetrators of sextortion may demand money or sexual satisfaction. Both types disproportionately harm kids and teens.

Authorities believe financially-motivated sextortion, which primarily effects young men, has caused as many as 40 teen boys to take their own lives. One of the most recent victim, athlete and honor-roll student Bryce Tate, committed suicide on November 6, just three hours after a sextortionist made contact. He was 15 years old.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) fielded more than 2,000 reports of sexually-motivated sextortion by an online terrorist group called “764” in the first nine months of 2025 — double the total number of reports received in 2024.

“This trend has led to the most egregious exploitation that NCMEC has ever seen,” executive director Lauren Coffren told the Senate Judiciary Committee at last week’s hearing on “Protecting Our Children Online Against the Evolving Offender.”

The murders this past weekend of actor, director and activist Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, are one of those stunning and heart wrenching tragedies made all the more awful given the arrest of their son, who is the main suspect in the case.

Nick Reiner was charged with two counts of first-degree murder.

Mr. Reiner, 32, has a long history of struggling with drug addiction. Reports indicate he’s been in and out of rehab facilities for decades. He even made a movie (“Being Charlie”) with his father that detailed the tragic story of a politician father navigating the spiraling drug problems of his son. The project was seen as something of a therapeutic balm for the Reiner family — a way to process and redeem years of heartache and struggle.

It’s tragically ironic that at a time when support for the legalization of drugs like marijuana and psychedelics is growing in some circles, more and more American families are dealing with chronic substance abuse in the home.

According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), upwards of a quarter of all children have a parent plagued by a substance abuse disorder. Over 3.4 million have multiple addictions. All told, nearly 30 million adults in the United States last year abused drugs.

At Focus on the Family, our counselors field thousands of calls each year from parents dealing with all kinds of issues — including many navigating the challenges of an adult child struggling with an addiction. Each desperate plea is uniquely painful, but a common thread woven throughout the conversations is often heartache and helplessness as a mother or father.