(WND News Center)—The legal fight brought by a boy who says he’s a girl and insists on being on their sports teams, changing with them and showering with them, a case now pending before the Supreme Court, has taken a horrible turn.
Two families from his school district have come forward with detailed allegations accusing him of sexually harassing girls on those teams.
The charges are not off-the-cuff remarks, they were made in a sworn statement under oath and penalty of perjury.
Lawyers with the Alliance Defending freedom are representing one girl, Adaleia Cross, who is a former track teammate of the boy while both were at Bridgeport Middle School in West Virginia. She charges the boy made comments to her in the girls’ locker room that constitute sexual harassment.
Fox News reported, “Cross, who is one year older than the trans athlete, said she quit the track and field team at Bridgeport High School last year as a sophomore to avoid sharing a locker room again with the trans athlete once that athlete reached high school.”
The ADF confirmed, “Our client has sworn under oath and under penalty of perjury in numerous cases about the events that took place between her and the male athlete. As a result of the situation, [Cross] had to step away from the sport she loved entirely and sacrifice a key element of her school experience to protect herself.”
The West Virginia case is one of two similar situations, now pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, on transgenderism, an ideology promoted by Joe Biden throughout his time in the White House.
It involves Becky Pepper-Jackson, a boy from West Virginia who went to court to overturn a state law barring biological males from competing in girls’ sports. The second pending case involves Lindsay Hecox, a boy who challenged a similar law in Idaho to be on the women’s cross-country team.
The Fox report confirmed the Cross family revealed when they reported the alleged harassment to the school, nothing was done to reprimand the trans athlete, to their knowledge.
“They told me they would do a full investigation into what I told them,” Adaleia said in the report. “And then, all of a sudden, it was like nothing else was happening, it was done, and it seemed like they thought nothing of it because they didn’t talk to us about it at all, they just left it there and didn’t tell us anything else, so it just made it seemed like, yup it’s done.”
The boy in the West Virginia case is represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, and, stunningly, a brief signed by more than 130 Democrats in Congress has been submitted to the high court supporting him.
Abby Cross, Adaleia’s mother, explained the basis for the harassment complaint. For example, when her daughter was in eighth grade, and the boy was in seventh, they shared a girls’ locker room.
“When Adaleia first told us, she told us that [the boy] was telling her and other girls ‘s— my d—.’ [The boy] was saying to her, coming up and saying to her, ‘I’m going to stick my d— in your p—- and also in your a–.’ At different times [the boy] was saying these things to her.”
The ACLJ has denied their client committed any offenses.
“Our client and her (sic) mother deny these allegations and the school district investigated the allegations reported to the school by A.C. and found them to be unsubstantiated. We remain committed to defending the rights of all students under Title IX, including the right to a safe and inclusive learning environment free from harassment and discrimination,” the organization stated.
Fox reported the Harrison County School district has not provided answers to requests for documentation about its “investigation.”
Making further allegations against the boy is former Lincoln Middle School girls’ track and field runner Emmy Salerno. Salerno declined to compete against the boy and then was subjected to “intimidation,” she charges.
“Salerno’s protest came on April 18, 2024, when she and the trans athlete were in eighth grade. Salerno, along with four other girls, refused to compete in the girls’ shot put competition that day at a local meet. Salerno claims her team was disqualified from the following meet, and then began to face intimidating stares from the trans athlete at public events,” Fox reported.
“After we stepped out, it was an immediate personality change. He didn’t want to talk to me. He just wanted to stare at me, and just stare down,” Salerno said.
The harassment also allegedly moved online, the report said.
Salerno charged, “At the basketball game when he just followed me everywhere, I kind of felt like, ‘Is he gonna try to fight me?’ Is he going to try and sneak up behind me and punch me?’”
Salerno said instead of creating confrontations, when there were issues, she just told her coach not to include her in the lineup for track meets.
WorldNetDaily reported when Franklin Graham, chief of the Samaritan’s Purse global Christian ministry, commented on the fight at the high court.
“If you believe men should be allowed in women’s bathrooms and to undress in your daughter’s or granddaughter’s locker room, then you should vote Democrat,” Graham warned on social media.
“Over 130 Democrats in the House and Senate signed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to support biological males in women’s sports.”
His opinion? “This is sick. If it turns your stomach, beware. It seems that most Democrats in Washington are buying into these lies. With many, it’s not about what is right or wrong, it’s about power—and they will sell their souls for power.”
He explained, “I’m not a Republican or a Democrat—no party has my loyalty. I’m going to vote for the platform that best supports American and Biblical values. Men in women’s sports and restrooms is perverted. Pray that God will guide the hearts of the Supreme Court justices to do the right thing as they deliberate this issue in just a couple of weeks.”
Biden supported that scientifically unsound agenda throughout his presidency, promoting it domestically and internationally. It’s the idea that men or women can, through chemicals and body mutilating surgeries, become the sex they are not. Actually, being male or female is embedded in the body down to the DNA level and does not change.
The Democrat coalition includes nine senators and 121 House members, and is led by Congressional Equality Caucus Co-Chair Rep. Becca Balint, D-V.t., Democratic Women’s Caucus Chair Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, D-N.M., and Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii.
The second case before the Supreme Court involves Hecox, a boy who challenged a similar law in Idaho to be on the women’s cross-country team.
Hecox had tried to run away from the court fight, but the agenda was rejected by District Judge David Nye.
The judge said in that case the state “has a fair right to have its arguments heard and adjudicated once and for all. … The court feels [the man’s] mootness argument is, as above, somewhat manipulate to avoid Supreme Court review and should not be endorsed.”
Hecox had claimed he just decided to “permanently withdraw and refrain from playing any women’s sports at BSU or in Idaho.”
Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley said, “Hecox clearly did not like the prospects on appeal and sought to withdraw the case after the granting of certiorari.”
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.
