Cash-starved OpenAI BURNS $50M on ultra-woke causes — like world's first 'transgender district'



OpenAI is providing millions of dollars to nonprofits, many of which openly promote race politics and gender ideology.

In September, the ChatGPT creators announced it would be injecting $50 million into nonprofits and "mission-focused organizations" that work "at the intersection of innovation and public good."

'The Transgender District is the first legally recognized transgender district in the world.'

In order to be eligible, organizations must be a 501(c)(3) charity, located in the United States, and preferably have an annual operating budget above $500,000, but not more than $10 million. Simply put, OpenAI did not choose startups or struggling businesses.

On Wednesday, the AI company posted its lengthy list of recipients, stating that it had plans to distribute more than $40 million before the end of 2025.

First, OpenAI highlighted programs like a radio and digital media studio and a group that helps those with developmental and intellectual disabilities.

However, after about a dozen examples, OpenAI began listing organizations that operate with ethnicity-based missions.

This included STEM from Dance, which serves "young girls of color" across seven states. This also included Maui Roots Reborn, which provides "legal, financial, and social support to Maui's immigrant and migrant" communities. This was followed by the Native American Journalists Association.

This was only the tip of the iceberg, though. The subsequent list of more than 200 entities included many other woke organizations as well as outright bizarre ones.

For example, the Transgender District Company out of Compton, California, is a literal district founded in the city in 2017 "by three black trans women — Honey Mahogany, Janetta Johnson, and Aria Sa’id — as Compton's Transgender Cultural District. The Transgender District is the first legally recognized transgender district in the world."

As well, the Source LGBT+ Center in Visalia, California, has transgender programs to hold "space for trans and nonbinary individuals."

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OpenAI is funding countless race-based organizations, with a particular focus on black women, for some reason.

Funding has been extended to groups like Black Girls Do Engineer Corporation (New York, Texas), the California Black Women's Collective Empowerment Institute, the Lighthouse Black Girl Project (Mississippi), and Women of Color On the Move (California, North Carolina).

Other strange organizations listed were focused simply on specific cultures, like the Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco, the Center for Asian Americans United for Self-Empowerment Inc. (California), and the Hispanic Center of Western Michigan Inc. (Michigan).

Some grant recipients were seemingly just political or legal groups, such as: California Association of African American Superintendents and Admin, Hispanas Organized for Political Equality-California (California,) and the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund, which operates in almost every state.

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Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc. Photographer: An Rong Xu/Bloomberg via Getty Images

While youth centers, YMCAs, and science-based organizations are sprinkled into the mix, it seems that, politically, only progressive and liberal groups received funding.

None of the groups mentioned had a "right-wing," "conservative," or "Republican" focus.

The race-based initiatives did not include any "white" groups or those based on European nations either — not even Ukraine.

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'I'm giving up pretending to be a man': Methodist pastor tells churchgoers he is 'transitioning,' throws on a wig



The woke pastor of the North Chili United Methodist Church in Upstate New York recently surprised his congregation with the news that he plans to masquerade as a woman full-time and take cross-sex drugs.

No longer sporting the beard he wore in his headshot photo on the United Methodist of Upper New York website, Rev. Phillip Phaneuf, 51, donned rainbow stoles and told his congregation on Nov. 23, "I am inviting you to join me in a season of creative transformation for myself and, I think, for all of us."

'They do not support me.'

"I'm transitioning. I'm affirming and saying to all of you that I am transgender," continued Phaneuf. "The best way to put this is that I'm not becoming a woman; I'm giving up pretending to be a man."

The Methodist pastor, who is hardly the UMC's first transvestite pastor, called for the Holy Spirit's involvement in the process and cautioned his parishioners about the "fear of the unknown" in such circumstances.

In an apparent attempt to assuage such fear, Phaneuf told churchgoers that while he's changing his name to "Phillippa," they could still call him "Phil"; that his personality wouldn't change; and that he would continue to prioritize "belonging." He noted, however, that he was now identifying as an "asexual" and that his face, name, body hair, voice, and clothes would change — adding that there is no such thing as "girls' clothes or boys' clothes."

Phaneuf — who claims his pronouns are now "she, her" — said that he wouldn't become the "pronoun police," as he expects that no one will "misgender or mispronoun out of malice."

The legacy media appears keen to respect Phaneuf's wishes, with even the New York Post playing along and Fox News Digital refraining from using his correct pronouns.

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The Methodist pastor claimed during his sermon that the scriptures, Methodist theology, his district superintendent, his bishop, and the UMC are "okay" with his transition.

At the expense of alienating thousands of congregations, the United Methodist Church has accommodated LGBT activists' demands in recent years. For instance, the 2024 General Conference removed the church's 40-year ban on non-straight clergy last year and dropped the prohibition against performing same-sex weddings.

While the pastor claimed that his superiors were receptive to his transvestism, he told his congregation that his parents were "absolutely not."

"They texted me this morning and asked for me to tell you all that they do not support me and that they have chosen their convictions and their beliefs over supporting their child," said Phaneuf.

Despite his parents' alleged rejection of his lifestyle choice, the pastor was quick to lean into his superficial female role-play, getting his ears pierced, wearing makeup, and throwing on a wig.

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Panthers transgender cheerleader gets cut from team — then blames exactly what you'd expect



The first transgender cheerleader in the NFL has been ousted from the organization over his gender identity, the dancer claimed.

While male cheerleaders recently sprung into existence in the NFL, Justine Lindsay became the first alleged transgender cheerleader in the league for the Carolina Panthers in 2022.

'Why the hell would I not wanna come back.'

At the time, the Panthers organization defended the move, saying the TopCats cheer squad members are "hired based on their qualifications and abilities."

The team told NPR, "We wish all the TopCats, including Justine Lindsay, an incredible season."

Now more than halfway through the 2025 season, Lindsay claims the reason he was let go by the organization was because he is transgender.

"I was cut because I'm trans," the cheerleader said during an Instagram live broadcast, according to Them.

"I don't wanna hear nobody saying 'She didn't wanna come back.' Why the hell would I not wanna come back to an organization that I've been a part of for three years?" Lindsay added.

Despite reportedly being "devastated" and "hurt," the cheerleader pinpointed one person within the organization who was to blame.

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(L-R) Justine Lindsay and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell attend a Night of Pride with GLAAD and NFL on February 8, 2023, in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images for GLAAD)

Lindsay fingered a new Panthers cheerleading coach as the reason for the departure, citing prior interactions with the woman.

"When she came over to our organization, I was like, 'Oh hell, here we go. Imma have to deal with the same mess that I dealt with two years prior,'" Lindsay claimed.

The 33-year-old accused the team of not "looking at the bigger picture" as far as who the cheerleader was "changing lives for."

"It was like a big slap in the face to not only me but for the youth," Lindsay added, before allegedly saying he was cut off after President Trump's re-election.

The North Carolina native confirmed in August that he had been released by the team but did not provide details surrounding the move. Instead, he provided the following statement to OutSports and insulted the president.

"For now, I’m focusing on my pageantry work and community involvement, striving to be recognized not just as an NFL cheerleader, but as someone making a positive impact, especially during these uncertain times," he said.

Lindsay called being in the NFL a "stepping stone" before adding, "Don't let a president who is delusional stop them from reaching their goals whether they are trans, African-American, not American, etc."

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Carolina Panthers cheerleaders prior to the NFL 2025 game against the Atlanta Falcons at Bank of America Stadium on September 21, 2025, in Charlotte, North Carolina. Photo by Kara Durrette/Getty Images

In 2023, Lindsay said he wanted to influence youth through his position and compared his fight to become an NFL cheerleader with becoming a doctor.

"Everything that I'm going through now, it's bigger than me," he told Elle. "I'm setting things up for the younger generation. No one is going to stop this show."

"I want to change the narrative for my trans sisters and brothers, just to [let them] know that if you have a goal, go for it," he said. "Turn that dream into a reality. Be an NFL cheerleader or a doctor or a nurse or whatever you set your mind to."

Lindsay says his exodus from the Panthers "doesn't mean I'm not still with the NFL" and claimed he still has "a lot of great connections" in the league.

"It's just a slap in the face," he complained.

Panthers ownership group Tepper Sports Entertainment did not respond to a request for comment.

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Porn-fueled fetish culture is driving surge of transgenders among young men



The rise of transgenderism among young girls was studied intensely and deemed a social contagion by Abigail Shrier in her incredible book “Irreversible Damage,” and BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey believes it's a similar story for young men — though the catalyst is different.

“It’s not true today that most of the boys and men who identify as the opposite sex do so because they have gender dysphoria that they were born with or that they developed as a child. But today it is, I believe, mostly due to pornography,” she explains.

“It is due to a sexual fetish that they have developed over time, that there is now a very real algorithmic pipeline via Pornhub and other porn sites that push young men to seek more and more exciting dopamine hits,” she continues.

Stuckey recalls the editor of Reduxx magazine, Genevieve Gluck, finding a link between pornography and the rise of transgenderism, which Stuckey describes as the “fetish of wanting to be feminized as a man, wanting to be submissive as a man.”


“So it’s true that these men who want to go into girls' locker rooms, who want to go into girls' bathrooms, are not doing so because they really think that they were born in the wrong body, but because they’re perverts. Those are the exact opposite kind of men that you want infiltrating women’s spaces,” she continues.

“Of course, you don’t want any man doing that, but especially not a man who is a sexual deviant in every way and who actually gets off on humiliation — humiliation for themselves and humiliation for women and girls. This kind of sissification porn actually depicts women as objects and depicts women as just things to be degraded and humiliated,” she adds.

While transgenders and their enablers will claim it’s about feeling uncomfortable in their own skin and slap the label of “gender dysphoria” on these men, it has nothing to do with biological sex at all — and everything to do with sexual fetish.

One subset of hardcore fetish pornography is “furry porn,” which oddly appears to have been a favorite of both Trump’s would-be assassin and Charlie Kirk’s assassin.

“I do not think it’s a coincidence that both of these men who are suspected as the killers of these top, you know, conservative, one politician and one activist, were also allegedly addicted to this kind of pornography and obsessed with transgenderism,” Stuckey says.

Trump’s would-be assassin was allegedly using they/them pronouns online and had an account on Deviantart — where he seemed especially drawn to scantily clad images of muscular male-looking bodies with female heads.

“So right away, this should sound the alarms for you of something satanic,” Stuckey says.

“I think about Mark 5 when Jesus heals a man with a demon, and this person goes by the name of Legion, or the demons go by the name of Legion … and when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him, out of the tombs, a man with an unclean spirit,” she explains.

When Jesus spoke to the unclean spirit, he asked him, “What is your name?” And the spirit replied, “My name is Legion, for we are many.”

“Even though he is one in this body, goes by a multiple pronoun, goes by we. Now, I’m not saying that this Legion is necessarily possessing all of these people who go by they/them. I am saying unapologetically that it is demonic,” Stuckey says.

“That you cannot be a they, that you cannot be a them, that you cannot be a we. Subverting reality is demonic. Denying biological truth is demonic. Satan loves it. Why?” Stuckey asks, answering, “Because he is the father of lies.”

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Undercover video reveals Ohio school official IGNORING ban on boys in girls’ sports



One of the first things President Trump did when he got into the Oval Office was to take action to protect children in this country by signing an executive order to ban men from women’s sports.

And in 2024, Ohio passed a law banning males from competing in girls’ sports — but the law isn’t actually being enforced. In fact, it is being actively ignored.

In an undercover investigation carried out by Accuracy in Media, an interview with Jodi Zunk, assistant principal and athletic director of Eastwood Middle School in Pemberville, Ohio, revealed just that.

“We as a school are very open, but I will say in the larger community, there is still some — you know, it’s a small rural community. Whenever you get rural, you get pushback sometimes. But we are here to protect. Pronouns — him or her?” Zunk said in the secret recording.


“Ohio just passed a bunch of laws with the current administration. I’m very left-leaning, and I’ll just put that right out there. And so, this has been a struggle for me. But with the Trump administration and Ohio’s a Republican state, there have been some recent laws in OHSAA, which is our governing athletic body,” she continued.

“Previously, before they just changed some of these laws, we’ve had transgender students participate on the boys’ track team, or the girls’, or vice versa. Like, not their biological gender,” she added.

The reporter then played along, saying, “I do have an adopted birth certificate for my sister. She passes for a young lady. So we have that adopted birth certificate.”

“I wonder if we just don’t even tell anybody,” Zunk responded.

Accuracy in Media President Adam Guillette has had his team doing these undercover investigations in more than 250 schools.

“It’s gosh darn everywhere,” Guillette tells BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales. “You know, we’ve been undercover in Texas. In districts throughout the state, the exact same thing was occurring.”

“This is a part of our investigations in Ohio. I think it’s part seven. Both of them red states. If that’s what's happening in presumably conservative, Republican states, you know, what’s happening in Illinois, Rhode Island, California, or even the purple states?” he continues.

“These radicals put their agenda ahead of the safety of girls every time,” he adds.

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