Plastic surgeon applauds move away from trans youth surgeries as far-left outlet examines doctors' shift

Plastic surgeon Dr. Sheila Nazarian says it is a "stain" on her profession that so many doctors remained silent, she argues, while minors were steered toward irreversible gender surgeries. She said data suggests the risks of these procedures on young people could outweigh the potential benefits.

Nazarian responded to a new article in The Atlantic highlighting divisions within the medical community over gender surgeries for minors. The piece notes recent moves by major medical groups to delay certain procedures and questions whether a broad professional consensus still exists in the field. 

"It is a stain on my profession that so many were silent on this issue when they knew deep in their hearts and looking at the evidence that this is wrong," Nazarian said Tuesday on "Fox & Friends."

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The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) updated its guidance, recommending medical professionals delay these procedures until patients are adults.

The organization now recommends "surgeons delay gender-related breast/chest, genital, and facial surgery until a patient is at least 19 years old." The group said it found "insufficient evidence" that the procedures have a positive risk-benefit ratio. 

Nazarian said the United States is following Europe, where several countries have adopted more restrictive policies on gender surgeries for minors. 

The United Kingdom has restricted the sale and supply of puberty blockers for minors. Sweden and France have also tightened guidelines on gender procedures for young people.

Nazarian has been vocal about what she called "emotional blackmail," accusing doctors of pressuring both the patients and their parents into agreeing to these surgeries.

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In a lawsuit decided earlier this year, a transgender teen won a landmark medical malpractice lawsuit over surgery performed when she was a minor. The parents of the plaintiff, Fox Varian, claimed they were told by medical providers their daughter faced a high risk of suicide if the surgery was not performed.

On Jan. 30, a jury found that a psychologist and a surgeon were liable for malpractice, determining they had skipped key steps in deciding whether surgery was the best course of action. 

"Imagine being a mother and being told [to] either accept your transgender child or you'll have a dead child," Nazarian said.

"It is a horrific place to place a parent, that you just agreed to take off the healthy body parts of your child because doctors, people you trusted, told you that you would have a dead child if you did not," she later added.

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Portland pizza joint hits site visitors with 'F--- ICE' message, declares food is 'political'

A Portland, Oregon, pizza restaurant is greeting visitors to its website with a vulgar, anti-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) message.

Visitors who navigate to the website for the Portland-based pizza shop, Tastebud, are met with a vulgar anti-ICE pop-up message and a series of political and social statements.

"Food is Political, No one is illegal on stolen land, F--- Ice, Abolish Ice, Release the Trump/Epstein files," the pop-up reads, with an option to sign up for the restaurant's newsletter. 

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The pop-up continued, "Black Lives Matter, Trans women are women, Trans men are men, Love your LGBTQ+ neighbors, Free Palestine, The holocaust was real, Healthcare is a human right, Masks save lives, Get your damn vaccines, Wash your hands, Germ theory is science, Cook chicken to 165, Stay hydrated."

Tastebud, which offers wood-fire pizza and salads, was started in 1999 "under the creative vision and hands of Mark Doxtader. But like most good things, Tastebud is built on a community of friends, family and farmers," according to its website. 

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Tensions over ICE have risen following the death of Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed on Jan. 7 by an ICE agent after she allegedly attempted to ram an officer with her vehicle after refusing to exit it. Protests against federal agents have continued to escalate since Alex Pretti was shot and killed on Jan. 24.

In a Jan. 30 post on its Facebook page, the restaurant appeared to reference protests against ICE, saying, "We appreciate, support and respect all business and individuals who can participate in today’s call to general strike. We will remain open today — to feed and gather our staff and community. We will also donate a percentage of sales to organizations that are on the ground fighting, helping those who are directly effected by DHS/ICE/CBP and their lawless and terroristic actions." 

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The restaurant also mentioned Good and Pretti, saying, "Renee Nicole Good and Alex Prett were murdered in plain sight."

In January, ICE reported that it has had an over 1,300% increase in assaults, a 3,200% increase in vehicle attacks aimed at officers and an 8,000% increase in death threats.

Tastebud and ICE did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Fox News Digital. 

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Super Bowl champ slams Deion Sanders for his coaching style at Colorado

Christian Fauria, a former Colorado Buffaloes star tight end and two-time Super Bowl champion, criticized Deion Sanders as the head coach gears up for his fourth year at the helm.

Fauria appeared on "The Zach Gelb Show" and tore into Sanders, who joined Colorado after a few years at Jackson State. Sanders was the head coach when Travis Hunter won the 2024 Heisman Trophy award.

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"I’m just not a fan of the coach. I’m not. I’ll never be a fan of the coach," Fauria said. "I love the school. And this isn’t me picking on Deion Sanders because I pick on Joe Gibbs. The worst coach I’ve ever had was Joe Gibbs. So, my picking on Deion Sanders is nothing. I just don’t like the way he coaches football. 

"I don’t think he’s very bright. I don’t think he can manage a game. I think there’s a lot of flash, but I think there’s no substance, you know? And he’s got a lot of people, like, brainwashed. And, you know, we’ll see. We’ll see what he can do. But I’m just — I’m not a fan of him, not a fan of his coaching style, not a fan of his messaging.

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"There’s a lot of things you know internally that I know about that I’m not a fan of, and it’s just not worth my energy to sit there and follow it and, you know, and then go back and forth with the ‘The emperor has no clothes’ crowd that support him, regardless of how stupid he is sometimes. So yeah, that’s the way I feel about it. And it bugs me that a lot of alumni just don’t speak up about it. They don’t say anything. But I will."

Colorado is 16-21 in three full seasons under Sanders. Colorado was 9-4 in 2024 but only picked up three wins during the 2025 campaign.

Fauria said he would rather see the team get more worried about picking up wins than being relevant on social media.

The Buffaloes’ 2026 season will begin on Sept. 5 on the road against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.

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Obama claims Democrats face greater governing challenges than Republicans in current political climate

Former President Barack Obama said during a podcast on Saturday that Democrats have the "harder job" governing, and that Republicans have it easier because they just tear "stuff down."

"Look, I think we have to acknowledge that we’ve got the harder job, right?" Obama said. "So we believe in government as a tool for good — for as a potential force to more jobs and as a way to make sure that the planet doesn’t roast. To make sure that as we move forward and the economy grows, that everybody, and not just some, are benefiting, and the kids are getting a good education. And what that means is that we have to think about the consequences of our actions. We have to try to figure out how do we get working majorities to actually pass laws and to implement those laws and to make things happen?"

Obama spoke to podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen and was responding to a question about whether Democratic leadership understood how to fight back against the GOP.

He added, "Tearing stuff down doesn't require all that."

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The former president said Republicans were unraveling a set of rules and norms that were already in place, and that it's easy to do.

"I say that because we should accept the responsibility and the challenge that our job is going to be a little bit harder, because in order for us to get stuff done, like, let's say the Affordable Care Act, well we've got to cobble together a majority, and we've got to persuade, and we've got to convince. And so, I do think that there's been some unwillingness on the part of Democrats in the past to break down some of the institutional barriers for us getting stuff done, just because, well, it's always been done that way," Obama said.

Obama explained that the filibuster in the Senate frustrated him as president, and said Democrats had been trying to preserve something that in some ways blocks the government from being effective.

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"The Senate is already structurally skewed and anti-majoritarian, right? Like the – it's hard for majorities to get stuff done, whether it's trying to pass civil rights legislation in the '60s or trying to get gun control legislation or what have you, because even though majority people support it, Delaware and Wyoming have the same number of senators as California, right? So that would require a constitutional amendment. You then compound that with a filibuster, and the truth is that Democrats, for some time, have been traditionalists in wanting to preserve that when it blocks us from making government effective, which in turn makes people feel like government is corrupt and not caring about them," Obama said.

He said it gave people like President Donald Trump "an opening."

Trump has called for ending the filibuster in the Senate, which has also gained some traction with other Republicans.

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Obama said he didn’t think Democrats should "duplicate" the behavior of Republicans but argued they shouldn’t cling to traditions either.

"I don't want us to simply duplicate the behavior of the other side. I don't want us to have a slash-and-burn strategy where we don't care about rule of law. We don't care about some of the guardrails around our democracy. We start lying and having no regard for the truth the way the other side seems to be comfortable with right now, because if that's how we fight, then we lose what we're fighting for. But that doesn't mean we have to get punked or be saps. And I do, or to cling to traditions just for the sake of tradition," he said.

Obama was also asked directly if aliens were real.

"They're real, but I haven't seen them," Obama said.

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NASCAR's Jimmie Johnson says next year's Daytona 500 will be final race in Cup Series

Seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson announced Saturday that the 2027 Daytona 500 will be his last in the Cup Series.

Johnson, who has taken home the checkered flag in the big race twice, wants to continue racing in other series, maybe even in other NASCAR events, but won’t return to stock car racing’s premier level again.

"I’ve been fortunate to accomplish more than I ever imagined in this sport," Johnson said. "The last six years have given me the freedom to choose where I compete and, more importantly, the clarity to understand where I’m needed most. I am going to focus all of my energy on leading and building a world-class organization."

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"Jimmie Johnson is a champion in every aspect of his life – with his family, as the leader of LEGACY MOTOR CLUB and with his incredible success behind the wheel," Toyota vice president Tyler Gibbs said in a statement. "As he prepares to close the chapter of his iconic on-track NASCAR career, we celebrate his legacy in the sport and look forward to what we’ll continue to achieve together in the years to come."

His seven titles are tied for the most ever in NASCAR history, along with Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt. His first five were won consecutively from 2006 to 2010, followed by titles in 2013 and 2016.

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Johnson walked away from full-time driving after the 2020 season and has racked up 83 Cup Series victories.

He competed in the IndyCar Series for two seasons (2021-22), became a partial owner at LEGACY MOTOR CLUB, and drove in a number of bucket-list events such as the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Rolex 24 at Daytona and an Unlimited Hydroplane at Seafair.

He is making his 23rd start in the Daytona 500 on Sunday, having won in 2006 and 2013.

"It’s the only race you get a title," Johnson said earlier this week. "I was fortunate to experience that. You leave here and anything you do, you got a title. I never had a title in my life. That speaks to the importance of the race, the magnitude of the race, the history behind it all.

"You get a title, and you get reminded of it every time you’re introduced."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Reactions pour in after Ole Miss coach's head-turning testimony about new fathers during football season

Ole Miss quarterback Trinidad Chambliss was awarded a sixth year of eligibility by a Mississippi judge Thursday, but not before one of his coaches’ testimonies raised eyebrows.

Joe Judge, Ole Miss' quarterbacks coach, took the stand Thursday to discuss how important recovery is to athletes, considering one of Chambliss' arguments was that he deserved a medical redshirt for the 2022 season because of a severe case of tonsillitis that prevented him from sleeping properly and performing at full capacity.

Judge, who once gave a nearly 12-minute answer during his tumultuous time as the New York Giants head coach, then rambled about how fathers who are athletes "got to have different priorities" if they have a newborn during the season.

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"This is always a tough conversation to have, it’s not even popular. We would have to educate significant others who may have been pregnant during the season or have a baby during the season, and you have to educate them on, ‘You have this baby in the middle of season, that father has to play good football,'" Judge said.

"It’s a day-by-day production business. He has to be ready to perform and go out there and play. And when I say that is, you need to let him sleep, he needs to be in another room detached. You have to explain to the mother like, ‘Hey, listen, he ain’t waking up for midnight feedings. 

"After the season, he’s full metal jacket. You do whatever you want with him. He can change every diaper. But in season, he’s got to have different priorities.’"

Reactions were strong against Judge.

"I wouldn’t recommend sending your sons to play under this type of leadership. Good coaches know they aren’t just developing athletes but future husbands, wives, dads, moms and leaders beyond the weight room and competition," one X user wrote.

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"Never take advice from a coach that ran this play," Onyx Odds wrote along with a screenshot of an infamous Giants quarterback sneak on third-and-9 from their own 4-yard line in the 2021 season (the play arguably led to Judge's firing).

Another user said Judge's words were "goofball messaging."

"I’m a father myself I’ll always prioritize my kids needs over anything else. On top of that the things a woman has to deal with post childbirth is far worse than being tired at practice," the user said.

"Sure hope he never talks about developing his players into good men. Ever," NFL.com columnist Judy Battista added..

Two Giants reporters, however, quickly came to the defense of Judge.

"Joe is a good person, and he’s speaking about the realities of managing responsibilities for college players and their significant others during that uniquely pressurized period of their lives. Clipping this to ‘get’ him is bulls---," said The Athletic's Pat Leonard.

ESPN's Jordan Raanan echoed similar sentiments.

"Ironically, Joe Judge is the most family-oriented coaches I've seen. He's at Ole Miss in part because his son is on the team. And outside of football he does everything with his wife and four kids," he said.

Perhaps Judge's testimony was enough, as Chambliss, whose appeal was denied by the NCAA, got the sixth year he sought. The judge in the case said the NCAA "operated in bad faith."

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Federal judge orders deported Venezuelans to be returned to US

A U.S. federal judge has ordered the Venezuelan men that the Trump administration deported to El Salvador early last year be returned to the United States, stating that they did not receive due process in some cases.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg issued the order to bring back 137 Venezuelans on Thursday, citing as precedent the well-documented return of Kilmar Abrego-Gargia from El Salvador’s CECOT prison to the U.S.

The order comes after a hearing on Monday when Boasberg hinted he would order their return. Department of Justice lawyers at the time said they would prefer the Venezuelans return to the U.S. rather than try to do remote hearings from El Salvador, Venezuela or other locations outside the U.S.

Boasberg's order also asked that the government submit a status report by March 13th.

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The high-profile case involves the U.S. deportation of 252 suspected Venezuelan nationals, who were also suspected Tren de Aragua gang members, to CECOT prison in El Salvador last March under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.

The case has emerged as one of the defining court fights of President Donald Trump’s second term, allowing the administration to test its mettle against the federal courts and the practical limits of judicial authority, on one of Trump’s biggest policy priorities.

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It's a fight that has also put Boasberg, who is overseeing the Alien Enemies Act case, squarely in the Trump administration's crosshairs as he attempts to determine what due process protections, if any, the administration is legally obligated to provide and how far the courts can go to enforce them.

DOJ lawyers, who have appealed nearly every decision Boasberg has made in this case so far, can appeal Boasberg's latest order.

Fox News' Jake Gibson and Fox News Digital's Breanne Deppisch contributed to this report.

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