WESTERN STATES PASS BALLOT MEASURES BANNING GUYS FROM GIRLS SPORTS

New York Post

 

Western states pass ballot measures to ban trans athletes from girls’ sports

By Zain Khan

Published Nov. 5, 2026, 4:22 p.m. ET

 

Voters in four western states approved ballot measures this week barring transgender athletes from girls’ sports.

 

Washington and Arizona both passed measures to ban transgender athletes from competing on girls’ teams, while a similar proposal in Colorado was narrowly leading Thursday as votes continued to be counted.

 

Nebraska voters also overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment enshrining the state’s existing ban on transgender athletes in girls’ and women’s sports.

 

In deep-blue Washington, Initiative 638 passed with 56.6% of the vote, , according to the secretary of state’s office. Just four of the state’s 39 counties voted against the measure.

 

The initiative ends a policy the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association has followed since 2007, allowing transgender students to compete on K-12 teams matching their gender identity.

 

Under the measure, students assigned male at birth will be barred from competing on girls’ school sports teams.

 

Girls seeking to participate will need a signed statement from a health care provider verifying their biological sex, based on reproductive anatomy, genetics or natural testosterone levels.

 

The measure is set to take effect Dec. 3, though opponents could sue to block its implementation.

 

Arizona’s Proposition 318 also passed, winning 58.9% of the vote.

 

Unlike Washington’s initiative, Prop. 318 was referred to voters by the state Legislature. It requires public schools, private schools and athletic associations to designate teams as male, female or coed based on the sex recorded on a student’s original birth certificate.

 

The measure also bars transgender students from using locker rooms, restrooms and other athletic facilities that do not match their sex at birth.

 

It effectively revives a 2022 state law that a federal appeals court blocked in 2024. Arizona Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes had refused to defend the law in court.

 

“This is a historic week for girls and common sense. For years we’ve been told that protecting girls’ sports was a fringe position. Well it is not! Tuesday proved that wrong,” Sophia Lorey from the California Family Council told the California Post.

 

“Biology is not a partisan issue. Every girl who trains before dawn, gives up weekends and sacrifices to compete deserves a level playing field,” she added.

 

Golden State voters had no such measure on their ballot this year.

 

Protect Kids California tried to qualify a measure for the 2024 ballot that would have repealed the state law allowing transgender students to compete on teams matching their gender identity.

 

The group collected about 400,000 signatures but fell short of the 546,651 needed to qualify, and vowed to try again in 2026.

 

“This fight is not over in California,” Lorey said. “We’ll keep pushing bills, keep showing up at CIF meetings, keep standing with girls who’ve lost spots and medals, and keep building support through our XXOnly.org campaign. If Sacramento won’t act, the people will eventually have their say.”

 

Republican Assemblywoman Kate Sanchez has also introduced legislation to bar transgender girls from girls’ sports, but the effort has stalled in the Democrat-controlled Legislature.

 

“We’ve supported legislation like Assemblywoman Kate Sanchez’s AB 89, and I testified for it at the Capitol. Democrats on the committee blocked it, and one legislator compared protecting girls’ sports to Nazi Germany. That tells you how far Sacramento is from ordinary Californians,” Lorey told the Post.

 

Colorado voters were also weighing Proposition 134, which was leading with 52.7% of the vote, with about 87% of ballots counted Wednesday.

 

The measure would require athletic teams from elementary school through college to be designated male, female or coed, with eligibility based on a student’s biological reproductive system.

 

Girls would still be allowed to join boys’ teams when no girls’ team is available, and the state education commissioner could take action against school districts that refuse to comply.

 

Protect Kids Colorado, which collected more than 168,000 signatures to qualify the measure, is also behind Proposition 135, a separate proposal to ban gender-transition surgeries for minors that was also leading.

 

Nadine Bridges, executive director of LGBTQ advocacy group One Colorado, argued Prop. 134 could lead officials to scrutinize girls who appear too tall or too strong.

 

Nebraska voters approved the Fairness for Girls constitutional amendment with 68% support.

 

The measure qualified for the ballot in August after organizers collected more than 200,000 signatures. It writes into the state constitution Nebraska’s existing ban on transgender athletes competing in girls’ and women’s sports from kindergarten through college.

 

Supporters sought to make the restriction harder for a future state Legislature to repeal.

 

“Washington and Colorado just showed this isn’t a red-state issue. It’s a common-sense issue. Even Governor Newsom has admitted it’s deeply unfair for boys to compete against girls,” Lorey said.

 

“The only thing standing between California voters and this protection is a Legislature that refuses to listen and a ballot process built to keep the people out.”

MAN DRUGGED GIRLFRIEND WITH SPIKED SHAKE, THEN FORCED ABORTION

New York Post

 

West Point cadet drugged pregnant girlfriend with spiked shake, then forced abortion in gruesome assault: ‘Eat this, it’s good for you’

By Peter Senzamici

Published Nov. 2, 2026, 5:10 p.m. ET

 

A West Point cadet fed his pregnant girlfriend a sedative-laced smoothie and “shoved abortion pills” into her vagina, killing the fetus — then enrolled in Columbia University’s public-health masters program, a new lawsuit says.

 

Disgraced former army cadet Caleb T. Suh — the son of VA Washington DC Healthcare System Chief of Staff Dr. Ryung Suh — already admitted in federal court that he deliberately tricked his then-girlfriend into chugging what he assured her was a “special pregnancy protein powder” shake in 2022, according to the lawsuit and his guilty plea.

 

The sick smoothie was actually chockful of the sedatives Xanax and Promethazine.

 

The ailing woman, also a cadet, was overcome with drowsiness, and that’s when “Suh shoved abortion pills into Ms. Doe’s vagina and in her mouth,” according to the suit.

 

The woman went on to lose the baby she had hoped to keep — while Suh ended up studying emergency medicine at Cornell University in upstate New York and received a bachelor’s degree from the Ivy League school in 2024, court documents said.

 

The defendant was eventually charged in the disturbing case this past spring and pleaded guilty to felony assault in June — repped by lawyer Thomas Kenniff, who previously defended and secured an acquittal for Manhattan subway vigilante Daniel Penny. He is awaiting sentencing.

 

Suh then enrolled in the prestigious master’s program at Ivy League Columbia in Manhattan, the suit said.

 

A source with knowledge of the situation said Columbia was unaware of Suh’s criminal conviction before the media recently began inquiring about his case, noting that applications do not ask for disclosures of criminality.

 

The source said that after learning of Suh’s past, the school “took swift action” — but did not specify what that meant.

 

“For years, Ms. Doe has been forced to grapple with her experience,” the lawsuit said. “Ms. Doe’s life has been irreparably changed, and she has lost a baby that she intended to keep.

 

“Meanwhile, Defendant Suh matriculated at Cornell University, earned a Bachelor’s degree, and is now enrolled at Columbia University.”

 

It is unclear whether either Suh or the woman — both of whom would be in their 20s — ever graduated from West Point.

 

The pair had started dating while enrolled at West Point in 2020, with the anonymous woman discovering she was pregnant in 2022, the suit claimed.

 

While she wanted to keep the pregnancy, Suh was staunchly opposed and “even threatened to commit suicide if she did not terminate the pregnancy,” the suit said.

 

Suh then began feigning support for her and the baby — even as he obtained the abortion pills by stealing her identity and opening a fake account with an online pharmacy, ordering the drugs in her name and having them shipped to West Point, according to his plea and the suit.

 

“I also obtained Xanax through a friend,” Suh admitted in his guilty plea. “My intent was [to] use the Xanax to unwittingly sedate my girlfriend so that I could then administer the abortion pills, which I had obtained via the online pharmacy.”

 

He even asked questions on the pharmacy’s online forum, including “[W]ill I feel the pills in my vaginia?”

 

Suh eventually gave the pregnant young woman what he called a “special pregnancy protein powder” laced with the sedatives, the suit said. It’s unclear how far along she was in the pregnancy at the time.

 

Despite the woman’s revulsion at the taste of the drink, Suh insisted she finish it, “holding the bottle against her lips and forcing her to drink it,” according to court papers.

 

She spent the next few hours sick and incapacitated, floating in and out of consciousness.

 

At some point, she recalled Suh “began touching her vagina,” the suit claimed.

 

She also remembered finding two pills in her mouth and spat them out, but Suh shoved them back in, the filing said.

 

“Eat this,” Suh allegedly urged her. “It’s good for you.”

 

When she awoke, the young woman discovered she was “profusely bleeding from her vagina,” according to the suit, and, fearing a miscarriage, tried to call Suh, but he didn’t answer.

 

The woman called 911, and doctors confirmed she was suffering a miscarriage, and she was given a D&C to remove the fetus’s remains, her suit said.

 

But Suh, still ignoring calls from the woman he drugged, was worried about being discovered and continued posting on the pharmacy forums about what to do if the doctors “see the remaining pills” in her vagina, the lawsuit said.

 

The two broke up soon after and Suh went on to finish his undergraduate degree at Cornell, enrolling the fall of 2024 — the same semester where a horrific frat house gang rape allegedly occurred — and began studying emergency medicine, claiming his long-term goal was to “become a physician leader committed to advancing both patient care and structural equity.”

 

His former girlfriend’s lawyer, Russell Kornblith, said in a statement, “As a parent it is difficult not to be incredibly emotionally drained by thinking about what our client has experienced both by the loss of a pregnancy she intended to keep and being robbed of autonomy over her own body.”

 

His client is allowed to remain anonymous at least for now — which is typical for sex accusers — but a judge could decide down the road to make her name public if the defendant successfully makes a case for it.

 

Suh was charged in Manhattan Federal Court, before his first semester at Columbia, and pled guilty in June.

 

Several weeks ago, he asked to delay his sentencing until January, so he could finish his semester without interruption.

 

The request was granted, and prosecutors are seeking two years behind bars.

AH: Of course, according to the world, if she hadn't wanted to keep the baby killing it would have been perfectly fine.

HOW A WOMAN SAVED HERSELF FROM CHOKING TO DEATH

Daily Mail

 

When Lisa started choking and couldn't breathe, she thought she was going to die. Here's how she saved her own life - and it's a vital tip we could all use

By JULIE COOK

Published: 11:48 EDT, 3 November 2026 | Updated: 11:48 EDT, 3 November 2026

 

Lisa Bennett was halfway through her lunch recently when a piece of chicken became lodged in her throat.

 

Alone at home, Lisa, who runs a blanket-making business, was soon gasping for breath and started to panic.

 

She tried retching and leaning over, but the chicken remained stubbornly in place.

 

'I could make no noise and get no air. I was terrified,' says Lisa, 60. 'I began to feel dizzy and I knew I had probably seconds before I'd hit the floor.'

 

She feared she would never see her three grown-up sons and eight grandchildren again.

 

Lisa tried to hit herself on the back, but it did nothing.

 

Then she had the idea to try to perform the Heimlich manoeuvre (now known as abdominal thrusts) on herself. As a trained nurse, she had seen this done before.

 

'I knew this was my last hope,' says Lisa. 'I was alone. No one could save me. I had to try doing it on myself.'

 

Using the last bit of strength she had, Lisa jammed her abdomen against the edge of a breakfast bar stool.

 

It was on the third attempt that the food finally shot out and Lisa gratefully inhaled a lungful of air.

 

'Doing that saved my life,' says Lisa, from the US state of Pennsylvania.

 

It could so easily have ended differently.

 

According to the Office for National Statistics, between 200 and 300 people die each year in the UK due to choking, which occurs when an object blocks the windpipe, cutting off the air supply.

 

While children and the elderly are most at risk, it can happen to anyone – as Lisa discovered. It can prove fatal within minutes. And it's more common than you might think.

 

On top of the hundreds who die annually, according to research by St John Ambulance, 'a third of people say they've choked to the point of panic because they couldn't breathe', says its chief medical officer, Professor Andrew Hartle.

 

Professor Hartle, who is also a consultant anaesthetist at St Mary's Hospital in London, says people can choke on anything – even their own saliva – but according to research by the first-aid charity, the top culprits are meat, sweets, nuts, pizza and fruit.

 

Young children are especially at risk as they put things such as small toys in their mouths out of natural curiosity. Older people, meanwhile, lose muscle tone in their mouth and throat and start to produce less saliva, all of which increases the risk of food lodging in the throat.

 

However, despite being 'a relatively common occurrence', Professor Hartle says 'many people don't recognise that choking is a medical emergency and can become fatal within minutes if the blockage isn't cleared'.

 

What's more, he says, 'less than half of people in this country know the correct first aid for choking – that is, how to give firm back blows and abdominal thrusts'.

 

Lisa is eternally grateful that as a former nurse – she left the profession 30 years ago – she knew how to do the thrusts, because she's not sure she would have survived otherwise.

 

It was in August this year that she had her choking incident – and she admits that, at the time, she was bolting down her food.

 

She says: 'I always eat fast. I'm always on the go, planning the next thing, so I'll admit I wasn't taking my time.

 

'My husband Jim was out and it's just the two of us at home, so I sat down to a chicken pasta dish.'

 

Lisa was a few mouthfuls in when she realised she had something stuck in her throat and couldn't breathe.

 

She recalls: 'There was no air movement in or out. The following week my grown-up kids and grandchildren were coming over for my mother's 90th birthday and I just had this thought: "My son will be coming to attend my funeral."'

 

Lisa tried to cough, but when that didn't work she attempted the abdominal thrusts.

 

'I had seen the manoeuvre done many times but always on other people,' she says.

 

Staggering around her kitchen, Lisa found a tall, metal bar stool. 'I slammed myself against the hard edge of the back of it. It didn't work. I hadn't done it hard enough. I knew it was now or never,' she says.

 

'I turned the sharp edge of the back support of the stool towards me and slammed myself against it with such force it actually hurt. I did it once, twice, still unable to breathe.

 

'I did it one last go with huge force – and on the third time, when I really thought I would die, the food flew out.' Lisa then started crying in shock over how she had almost died.

 

If you are alone and start choking, the first thing to do is call 999 immediately, says Professor Hartle.

 

And if you can't speak, try to make sounds or tap your phone's keypad so they know you're there. 'The operator should be able to locate you and send help,' he adds.

 

The next stage is to try to cough forcefully to remove the blockage – and if that fails you can attempt abdominal thrusts on yourself.

 

You do this by placing one hand in a clenched fist between your belly button and the bottom of your chest.

 

With your other hand, grasp your fist and pull sharply inwards and upwards.

 

Lisa's abdomen was covered in bruises from the force with which she threw herself against the metal bar stools.

 

She says: 'It hurt for a few days and turned blue but I didn't care. I was alive!

 

'I now realise how dangerous eating fast can be and how I could have died that day.

 

'When Jim came in later that day I told him what had happened and he just gasped and stared. Then he hugged me and we both just said "Thank God".'

 

Now Lisa takes time to chew her food slowly and properly.

 

'I know it's all too easy to choke,' she says.

 

What to do if you see someone choking

 

Cough it out

Encourage the person to cough and remove any obstruction from their mouth.

 

Hit it out

Give five sharp back blows by helping them to lean forwards, supporting their upper body with one hand. With the heel of your other hand, give them five sharp back blows between their shoulder blades. After each back blow, check to see if there's anything in their mouth.

 

Squeeze it out

If back blows fail to clear the obstruction, give five abdominal thrusts.

 

To do this, stand behind them and put your arms around their waist. Place one hand in a clenched fist between their belly button and the bottom of their chest. With your other hand, grasp your fist and pull sharply inwards and upwards up to five times. Check their mouth again after each thrust.

 

If the blockage has not cleared, call 999 or 112 for emergency help. Repeat five back blows and five abdominal thrusts until help arrives, checking their mouth each time.

 

If they become unresponsive, start cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), which involves chest compressions and breathing into the person's mouth to manually circulate blood and oxygen around the body.