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A Ring Doorbell camera recently filmed a mailman kicking over a potted plant containing a rainbow flag. The mailman has since been fired, and police are now investigating the incident as a possible hate crime. The incident occurred in front of a home in Belfast, Northern Ireland on December 6 around 3:55 p.m. local time. Video footage shows the mail carrier dropping off the mail and briefly looking around before kicking the potted plant to the ground, Belfast Live reported. Related Video caught him tearing down a Pride flag. Kids helped the police identify him. A resident of the house said she and her female fiancée were “astounded” when they discovered the pot had been overturned by the postman. “We were absolutely stunned when we checked the Ring footage. You never expect to see your own postman looking around to make sure the coast is clear and then deliberately kicking over your property,” she told the publication. Never Miss a Beat Subscribe to our newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ political news and insights. Subscribe to our Newsletter today “It wasn’t just a gnome and a planter. It felt like a targeted message, and that’s what has really shaken us,” she continued. “There’s no doubt in our minds that this was a homophobic act. These items weren’t in his way. He sought them out and kicked them over on purpose.” After seeing the camera footage, the Royal Mail service quickly confirmed that the postman’s contract had been terminated “with immediate effect.” Inspector Matthew Adams of the Police Service of Northern Ireland told the publication, “This incident is being treated as a homophobic hate crime, and our enquiries are ongoing.” Adams has asked witnesses with any additional information to contact the police. This is just the most recent incident of video camera footage capturing someone vandalizing a rainbow flag. Surveillance video recently captured a suspect pulling down the flag in front of the Evolution Candy store. Police in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, identified the suspect as 60-year-old James Mellon. Luckily, surveillance video captured the suspect, reportedly pulling down the flag in front of the Evolution Candy store. Police in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, identified the suspect as 60-year-old James Mellon. In February, video from a family’s front door surveillance camera in Ohio showed a vandal pulling down his pants and urinating on the house’s Pride flag while repeatedly saying, “F**k the gays.” Trey Samuel Fetzer, a 20-year-old Ohio State University student, was charged with ethnic intimidation, criminal mischief, disorderly conduct, and criminal trespass after being caught on video committing the vandalism. Subscribe to the LGBTQ Nation newsletter and be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.

An ambitious and legally dubious lawsuit filed Tuesday by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier alleges that three medical organizations intentionally misled parents about the benefits of gender-affirming care for children. Uthmeier named the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Endocrine Society in the suit and accused them of conspiring to defraud parents over “the risks, limits, and evidence when promoting so called gender-affirming care for children.” Related United Kingdom bans puberty blockers indefinitely: It’s a “death sentence” “Behind closed doors, they knew the evidence was weak,” Uthmeier said in a video announcing the suit. “They knew the outcomes were uncertain and the risks very real. Parents were not told the full story. In fact, some parents were told that if they didn’t put their kids through permanent, life-altering, sick procedures like double mastectomies and castration, that their child would commit suicide.” Despite his rhetoric, such irreversible, bodily, and genital surgeries are rarely ever conducted on minors. Never Miss a Beat Subscribe to our newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ political news and insights. Subscribe to our Newsletter today Nonetheless, Uthmeier declared, “Children were irrevocably harmed because truth was replaced with political activism.” In 2023, @GovRonDeSantis signed legislation to ban so-called "gender-affirming care" for kids. Now it’s time for accountability!Today, my office sued @wpath, @AmerAcadPeds, and @TheEndoSociety for mutilating kids and misleading families. pic.twitter.com/RrbIfYEFEq— Attorney General James Uthmeier (@AGJamesUthmeier) December 9, 2025 The 75-page complaint filed in St. Lucie County, Florida alleges that the defendants’ claims about gender-affirming care for youth “are false and misleading,” and invokes the Florida RICO Act to assert the medical groups have engaged in “racketeering” (an ongoing criminal enterprise to make money, often involving organized crime, threats, and violence). The suit asks the court to declare the organizations’ promotion of gender-affirming care an unfair trade practice, levy large fines on the defendants, and bar them from advertising “the safety, reversibility, or efficacy or pediatric sex interventions.” The lawsuit labels the organizations’ actions “reprehensible and immoral” and an effort “to sell lucrative surgeries and drugs that irreversibly mutilate and chemically alter children’s bodies without providing any credible medical benefit.” The complaint relies on the debunked Cass Review commissioned by the U.K. government in 2024 for its assertion that gender-affirming care is harmful to children. The report was widely rebuked by medical organizations, but nonetheless provided the basis for an indefinite ban on puberty blockers for minors in the U.K. In July, the Department of Justice issued multiple subpoenas to gender-affirming care providers across the country with similar claims that clinics providing support for trans youth are rife with “healthcare fraud, false statements, and more.” As well as the Cass Review, the politically motivated suit references other debunked science to make the attorney general’s case, including claims drawn from the discredited Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria hypothesis, a belief that trans-identifying youth were a “rarity a decade ago” and diagnoses of gender dysphoria have “skyrocketed in recent years.” Trans identification is a form of mass hysteria and a “social contagion” brought on by “social media, smartphones, a lack of in-person interaction, and other societal ills,” according to the suit. A long list of respected medical organizations in addition to the named defendants have asserted the efficacy of gender-affirming care for youth. The American Medical Association, the World Health Organization, the World Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, and the American Academy of Child &…

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Marcel Dupree Jones’ family say his roommate at Ursula Sherman Village, Mark Dowling, was openly racist and threatened to shoot his Black neighbors. Dowling is charged with murdering Jones.