Archimedes Banya will allow trans people at its monthly ladies-only and men-only nights, in a reversal of a recent policy that drew criticism and an investigation.

The full-nude Russian bathhouse in the Bayview announced the change Wednesday. The spa now asks attendees of its “Special Women’s Night” event “to keep their genitals covered” to respect the religious and cultural beliefs of women “who feel most comfortable in a space without visible genitals.”

The founder of a women-only gym has found herself at the center of a social media storm—with both critics and supporters—after she walked-back her initial plans to include trans-female clients.

Natalee Barnett, a 25-year-old fitness influencer from the U.K. with hundreds of thousands of followers across various platforms online, has been updating her "nataleebfitness" fans for years about her plan to open her own gym. She is currently preparing to open a venue in London called "The Girls Spot" catering specifically for women.

The most significant challenges facing Western nations today are arguably civilizational in nature and scope. They are not the result of imposition by any external enemy or force, nor of the typical fluctuations of economic cycles, but the product of deeper internal problems within the collective structure of these societies. They include problems in the domains of cultural and moral value systems, civic order and societal cohesion, family structures and intergenerational transmission mechanisms, and elite leadership capacity and legitimacy.

Pride flags and "Black Lives Matter" flags won't be allowed to be flown from U.S. embassies and outposts under a new Trump policy.

The Washington Free Beacon news outlet first obtained a copy of the "One Flag Policy" which says only the American flag can be flown from embassies and outposts.

The Texas Supreme Court upheld a state law on Friday that bans gender-transition medical treatment for minors, overturning a lower-court ruling that had temporarily blocked the law and dealing a blow to parents of transgender children.

The court, whose nine elected members are all Republicans, voted 8 to 1 in favor of allowing the law, which passed last year, to remain in effect. It bars doctors from prescribing certain medications to minors, like hormones and puberty blockers, and forbids them from performing certain surgical procedures, like mastectomies, on minors.

Americans’ embrace of same-sex rights and acceptance of gay Americans has been one of the steadiest trends in recent political history, with support for same-sex marriage gradually rising from less than 30 percent in the mid-1990s to around 70 percent today. Support has become so strong that pollsters have largely stopped even asking about it.

But there’s increasing evidence that these gains have halted and even reversed somewhat, largely thanks to Republicans moving in the opposite direction — in some cases, sharply.

Gallup is the latest to show this:

Support for same-sex marriage in the United States is declining, especially among Republican voters, according to new data.

Gay marriage was legalized nationwide in 2015, after the landmark Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges. While approval for same-sex marriage steadily increased across political affiliations, data from Gallup has shown a decrease over the past two years.

Republican support for gay marriage noticeably declined over the past two years as LGBT activists have increasingly focused their efforts on advocating medical transition for gender-confused youth and the teaching of gender ideology in schools.

After peaking at 55 percent in 2021 and 2022, Republican support for gay marriage is down to 46 percent overall, dropping 9 points in just two years, according to new Gallup polling. Gay-marriage support among Democrats remained steady at 83 percent compared to 74 percent support among independents.