In the Media 2024
Praising J.K. Rowling’s Unwavering Courage and Clarity on the ‘Trans’ Issue
Daily Citizen, December 30, 2024
In recent years, Rowling has become increasingly fierce and courageous in defense of biological reality, children and women. Her posts refuting many of the lies told by transgender activists have been seen, liked and shared by millions on X.
‘Breath of Fresh Air’: Washington Post Admits More Data Needed on Transing Minors
The Washington Stand, December 16, 2024
In a significant shift away from reflexive support for minors undergoing gender transition procedures, The Washington Post Editorial Board published an op-ed on Sunday that called for more robust scientific research to be conducted to determine the health outcomes of puberty blockers and hormones on children.
MALPRACTICE: Woman Sues Doctor Who Gave Her “Sex Change” Drugs — at AGE 12
New American, December 16, 2024
Are the capons finally coming home to roost for the doctors prescribing “transgender” treatments for children and irreparably harming them? This may be the case if a new malpractice lawsuit is any indication. It was filed by a woman prescribed puberty blockers at age 12 and, unbelievably, a double mastectomy at 14.
Ban on military health plans covering sex changes for minors passes House
Christian Post Reporter, December 12, 2024
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a defense funding bill Wednesday that would prohibit military healthcare plans from covering gender transition procedures for minor relatives of service members.
UK Bans Puberty Blockers for ‘Transgender’ Minors
Daily Citizen, December 12, 2024
The United Kingdom’s Department of Health and Social Care announced it will protect children by indefinitely restricting “the sale and supply of puberty-suppressing hormones” for those suffering from “gender incongruence” because the drugs pose “an unacceptable safety risk.”
GOP Tennessee leader ‘cautiously optimistic’ Supreme Court will uphold ban on trans surgeries for minors: ‘Test case for the nation’
NY Post, December 3, 2024
Tennessee Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson is “cautiously optimistic” the Supreme Court will uphold the state ban he co-authored on transgender surgeries and hormone treatments for minors, describing the ongoing legal battle as a “test case for the nation.”
Missouri Ban on Transgender Surgeries, Treatments for Minors Upheld by State Court
National Review, November 25, 2024
A Missouri court upheld a state law on Monday that bans gender-transition surgeries and treatments, including hormones and puberty blockers, for minors — about a week before the Supreme Court considers a similar case.
Doctors Performing Trans Experiments On Kids Should Prepare To Be Sued In Texas And Elsewhere
The Federalist, November 18, 2024
In Texas, cases are mounting against physicians who broke state law by prescribing puberty blockers and hormones to minors under the guise of “gender affirming care.”
Anti-science gender movement exposed
The Catholic Weekly, November 11, 2024
An explosive report that exposes the “transition” from evidence-based medicine and holistic care to activism and human rights discourse in the care of children with gender dysphoria was released this past week.
Trans Drugs Bad? Block the Study!
American Thinker, November 7, 2024
Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, one of the nation’s leading advocates for “gender-affirming care” for kids, refuses to release a ten-million-dollar taxpayer-funded study because the results don’t support continued trans-medical intervention.
Doctors Who Protect Kids from the Trans Grooming Cult, Part 2
The Stream, November 2, 2024
Kids can’t consent to life-changing surgery, and it’s a scandal that doctors and hospitals are getting rich by ignoring that fact. Dr. Jill Simons, the executive director of the American College of Pediatricians, explains this in the second part of Jennifer Roback Morse’s powerful interview.
Abortion Pill Complications Can Hike Medicaid Costs
Heartland Institute, October 28, 2024
A new study that found abortion pills lead to more ER visits than birth or surgery raises questions about who is responsible for paying for the care, a coauthor of the study states.
Doctors Who Protect Kids from the Trans Grooming Cult, Part 1
The Ruth Institute, October 26, 2024
Far too often, state medical boards tend to gravitate toward what makes the most money or what is politically expedient — and that presents a problem both for the members they represent and the patients whose interests they are supposed to protect.
Doctor shares moving testimonies of 3 families who received adverse prenatal diagnoses
October 25, 2024, Catholic Vote
A pro-life neonatologist recently shared the moving testimonies of three expectant families who, having received adverse prenatal diagnoses, chose to embrace life for their unborn children — no matter how short or long that life might be.
Study on impact of puberty blockers on kids not published ‘over politics’
Straight Arrow News, October 24, 2024
A four-year study in the U.K. found no evidence supporting the use of transitioning drugs for children. The American College of Pediatricians stated there is no long-term study demonstrating the safety or efficacy of puberty blockers.
Coalition calls for higher standards of health care, information for women and unborn children
Catholic Vote, October 22, 2024
A coalition of medical and policy organizations representing thousands of healthcare professionals is calling for higher health care standards for women and unborn children. In part, they are urging hospitals to ensure staff members understand their state’s laws that relate to treating patients facing complicated or life-threatening pregnancy health situations.
Coalition of medical professionals combats lies with Women’s Healthcare Declaration
Live Action, October 23, 2024
A declaration calling for women to be given accurate information about abortion and life-saving medical treatment has been released, with the support of a coalition of doctors and medical organizations.
Clarity vs. pro-abortion misinformation in women’s healthcare
Pregnancy Help News, October 22, 2024
Countering claims that restrictions on abortion are causing a healthcare crisis, the Women’s Healthcare Declaration was launched Tuesday. The group consists of 12 medical and health policy organizations comprised of more than 75,000 physicians and healthcare professionals.
Coalition of doctors warns Supreme Court ‘transitioning’ children causes ‘significant’ damage
Todayville, October 21, 2024
The American College of Pediatricians, Catholic Medical Association, and other pro-family medical groups are defending Tennessee’s ban on ‘gender transitions’ for children and stressing to the Supreme Court that the ban is vital to their patients’ health and welfare.
AGs Question Pediatricians Pushing Trans Treatment
Todayville, October 20, 2024
Attorney generals from 20 states and legislators from Arizona signed an interrogatory letter to the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). "Often the AAP has exercised its influence responsibly,” states the letter. “… But when it comes to treating children diagnosed with gender dysphoria, the AAP has abandoned its commitment to sound medical judgment.”
CDC: 3.3% of U.S. high school students identify as ‘transgender’
Catholic Vote, October 15, 2024
Social contagion, in addition to both the widespread use of smartphones and social media and public schools that promote gender ideology, plays a major role in the rise of gender dysphoria among youth.
The Importance of Protecting Our Kids
Minnesota State Republican Caucus, October 15, 2024
Children are a protected class of people, which is why it’s shocking that so many new and absurd policies are putting them at risk, specifically policies that support non-proven medical procedures under the guise of “gender affirming care.” I really believe it’s getting to a boiling point and folks are sick and tired of our kids being put at risk for the sake of pushing a political agenda.
Canada’s woke Stasi
Spiked, October 13, 2024
An elderly school trustee who questioned trans ideology has been subjected to a legal witch-hunt.
“Gender Industry” Profits Millions While Mutilating Thousands of Children
The Desert Review, October 11, 2024
According to a groundbreaking new database, the “gender industry” medically mutilated nearly 14,000 gender-confused children with harmful and irreversible genital surgeries, puberty blockers, and hormones between 2019 and 2023, which generated nearly $120 million in revenue.
Thousands of sex-change surgeries performed on minors in 5-year period: database
Christian Post, October 10, 2024
Thousands of sex-change operations were performed on trans-identified minors from 2019-2023 in the United States as several states have worked to prohibit the life-altering procedures, a new database shows.
Thanks to liberal states, 'conversion therapy' strawman still has legs
American Family News, October 8, 2024
Dr. Quentin Van Meter, the former president of the American College of Pediatrics, says progressives' criticism is based on the cruel and misguided shock treatments that were used in the 1950s – a treatment he argues "does not exist anywhere today."
Pediatricians: Biden-Harris administration pushing a ‘personal agenda’ of trans medicine on children
Catholic Vote, October 4, 2024
While leaders of the establishment organization of pediatricians in the United States gave Biden-Harris top health official Dr. Levine a platform to double down on subjecting children to unproven “trans” treatments, another organization of pediatricians says children are in danger because of an ideology that embraces “unethical, harmful, and experimental treatments promoted by activist organizations.”
‘Evidence Free’: Puberty Blocker Recommendation May Break Law, 21 AGs Warn Pediatrician Group
Daily Wire, September 25, 2024
A group of nearly two dozen state attorneys general is warning the American Academy of Pediatrics that it may be breaking the law by continuing to recommend puberty blockers to children who are unhappy with their biological gender despite evidence the drugs cause harm.
Plastic surgery expert expounds on insufficient evidence to justify trans surgeries for minors
Catholic News Agency, August 21, 2024
The president of the Plastic Surgery Foundation says that as of now, the research on chest and genital surgery for adolescents with gender dysphoria “simply isn’t strong enough to support any definitive recommendations” for such surgeries.
Gender-affirming' breast removal surgeries may have been performed on hundreds of young girls since 2017
Head Topics, August 16, 2024
Since 2017, hundreds of females age 12 and younger with gender dysmorphia have undergone double mastectomies, according to analysis released by the Manhattan Institute this week.
Controversy Surrounding ‘Gender-Affirming’ Breast Removal Surgeries for Young Girls
Wire News Fax, August 16, 2024
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has reaffirmed its support for gender-affirming care for transgender youth. However, the American College of Pediatricians (ACP) and other allied groups have expressed skepticism about current treatment protocols for children and adolescents with gender dysphoria, calling for a reevaluation of existing policies and practices.
Plastic Surgeons’ Rejection of Unscientific Consensus Inspires Hope
The Stand, August 14, 2024
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) broke with the dominant transgender ideology last month when, in response to a media inquiry, they declined to endorse “any organization’s practice recommendations for the treatment of adolescents with gender dysphoria,” due to the “considerable uncertainty as to the long-term efficacy” and “low quality/low certainty” evidence.
ABC News accused of 'misinformation' for claiming kids won't be taken from parents under Walz-passed law
Christian Post Reporter, August 13, 2024
An exchange debating whether a Minnesota law allows the state to take trans-identified children away from parents who refuse to provide them with hormonal or surgical gender interventions is reigniting a conversation about media bias.
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons does not endorse gender reassignment for children
VOZ Media, August 13, 2024
The association acknowledged that there is "considerable uncertainty regarding the long-term efficacy for the use of thoracic and genital surgical interventions" and that "the existing evidence base is considered to be of low quality/low certainty."
UPMC expert: Limit screen time to get kids moving
Williamsport Sun-Gazette, August 3, 2024
With screens virtually everywhere, monitoring a child’s screen time can be challenging. To complicate matters, some screen time can be educational and support children’s social development. The healthiest children have a balance between outdoor and online play.
A Case for Science over Politics
American Family News, July 22, 2024
An attorney says the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is rightly being sued for attempting to force doctors to administer transgender procedures to children.
Seven States Sue Over HHS Rule Requiring Doctors to Provide Transgender Medical Interventions
Daily Citizen, July 19, 2024
On Tuesday, July 9, a Mississippi federal judge “ordered a nationwide injunction blocking” the new HHS rule forcing the states to pay for transgender medical interventions. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has “made it clear it wants so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ available to all – including young children.”
UK’s Labour Party to affirm Tory rule protecting minors from puberty blockers
Catholic Vote, July 18, 2024
The UK’s left-of-center Labour Party government appears poised to commit to the protection of children and teens from experimental puberty blockers, consistent with the position of Labour’s more conservative Tory Party predecessor.
7 States Sue HHS over New Rule Forcing Doctors to Perform Gender Procedures
The Washington Stand, July 12, 2024
Seven states have come together to fight a new rule that could force doctors into performing gender transition procedures. The Biden administration has made it clear they want so-called “gender-affirming care” available to all — including young children.
ADF files third lawsuit challenging Biden admin's attempt to hijack medicine
Alliance Defending Freedom, July 10, 2024
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing the American College of Pediatricians, together with seven states—including Missouri and Utah as co-leads—are suing the Biden administration for adopting a rule that forces medical professionals and insurance providers to perform or pay for harmful “gender-transition” procedures or face severe financial consequences.
How Medical Associations Are the Bait of Corruption and Politicization
Townhall, July 8, 2024
Recently uncovered emails have revealed that Health and Human Services apparatchik Admiral “Rachel” Levine coerced drafters of “standards of care” to remove recommended age limits on so-called gender-affirming treatment for confused children who are told they’re transgender.
Doctors demand halt to ‘harmful interventions’ on children with gender dysphoria
Florida News, July 5, 2024
Physicians and healthcare professionals across the U.S. signed a declaration titled “Doctors Protecting Children” to urge medical professional organizations to cease “harmful interventions” on children with gender dysphoria.
Pediatrician group condemns medical associations for pushing child gender transition
MSN, July 2, 2024
The American College of Pediatricians (ACP) has had enough with major medical associations in the United States pushing gender transition on children.
Court Docs: Biden HHS head pressed ‘trans’ health group to nix age minimums for minors
Catholic Vote, June 27, 2024
The Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) pressured the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) to remove from its draft guidelines its recommended age minimums for gender hormone drugs and surgeries.
Biden administration pressured health care association to back sex changes for minors
Catholic News Agency, June 26, 2024
President Joe Biden’s administration pressured at least one health care association to eliminate proposed guidelines that would have discouraged doctors from providing sex-change drugs and surgeries to young children, according to newly released court documents.
Top Pediatric Org Quietly Colluded With Trans Ideologues To Push Child Sex Changes, Emails Show
Daily Caller News Foundation, June 26, 2024
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) worked “very closely” with a transgender medical activist group to advocate for children to receive sex changes, according to emails obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoes bill requiring insurance companies to cover detransitions
The Christian Post, June 20, 2024
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has vetoed a bill that would require health insurance companies to cover detransition procedures of individuals who underwent gender transition procedures and are now seeking to align their physical appearance with their biological sex again.
Deepfake takedown is under way
American Family News, June 21, 2024
The Take It Down Act has been introduced by Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) to "protect children victimized by the distribution of deep-fake nude and sexually exploitative images in which they are depicted."
German study: Vast majority of people will grow out of transgenderism within 5 years
The Lion, June 17, 2024
A massive, years-long study shows the overwhelming majority of young people who identify as transgender will grow out of the diagnosis within five years. A similar supermajority of trans-identifying people suffered from at least one other psychological condition, found researchers who tracked all children and young adults diagnosed with gender dysphoria over a nine-year period.
American College of Pediatricians Condemns Child Gender Transition: Statement
Wire News Fax, June 17, 2024
The coalition, known as “Doctors Protecting Children,” claims that current treatments for gender dysphoria, such as puberty blockers and cross-sex hormone therapies, have not been proven effective and may have harmful consequences for patients.
Trans madness: treatment of minors becomes a political battle, not a scientific one
Voz Media, June 16, 2024
Numerous doctors and researchers dismantle gender ideology and call for an end to hormonal processes and surgeries that irreversibly mutilate children and adolescents.
Is This the End Gender Reassignment Surgeries?
CBN News, June 15, 2024
100 healthcare professionals admit what many people already know: altering a child’s gender is unhealthy for children. The American College of Pediatricians, along with Doctors Protecting Children have examined the scientific evidence and are now calling for an immediate end to the affirmation of puberty blockers and surgeries for children.
Europe’s example on gender treatment
The Deseret News, June 13, 2024
When it comes to transgender medical treatments for children, parts of Europe have taken an enviable approach that relies on science rather than politics, advocacy or emotion. The results have been telling.
Medical Body Calls Out Gender Treatments
SkyNews.com.AU, June 12, 2024
A major medical body, the American College of Pediatricians, has called for an immediate end to dangerous so-called gender-affirming operations and treatment for minors, says Sky News host.
College of Pediatricians Slams Flawed Science of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’
Breitbart, June 10, 2024
The refreshingly sensible American College of Pediatricians (ACP) has urged their fellow physicians to reject the harmful protocols informing so-called “gender-affirming care.”
‘Transgenderism is an ideology’: American College of Pediatricians bombshell condemns gender transition
The BizPac Review, June 9, 2024
"Pride”-pushers were called out by name as a growing coalition of doctors launched their stand to “respect biological reality.”
“Transition affirmation is not proven to be safe or effective…”
“Transition affirmation is not proven to be safe or effective…”
American College of Pediatricians Calls for Immediate Halt to Transgender Procedures on Children: 'Consent Is Not Possible'
The Western Journal, June 9, 2024
To its disgrace, the mainstream American medical community, including the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, have largely supported the agenda of the transgender movement — but that could be changing.
American College of Pediatricians issues fiery statement condemning child gender transition
Fox News, June 9, 2024
A coalition of pediatricians, health policy groups and conservative organizations is calling on medical professionals to stop promoting transgender medical treatments for children.
Pediatricians unite, call for end to gender-manipulation procedures for minors
American Family News, June 7, 2024
A coalition within the American College of Pediatricians (ACP) released Thursday its "Doctors Protecting Children Declaration." The document encourages American medical associations like the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Pediatric Endocrine Society and others – organizations that are currently promoting harmful gender-manipulation procedures for minors; procedures like puberty blockers, surgical options and more – to just say no.
Doctors, nurses urge medical organizations to stop performing trans procedures on kids
The Christian Post, June 7, 2024
A group of medical professionals have called on the medical establishment to abandon their support for sex-change procedures for minors suffering from gender dysphoria.
AAPS Signs Doctors Protecting Children Declaration
AAPS, June 6, 2024
Signers of the extensively-referenced declaration, authored by the American College of Pediatricians, affirm that the best evidence and research suggests that children are put in serious danger of harm by surgeries, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones and that these interventions do not improve the physical or mental well-being of adolescents with gender dysphoria.
Over 100 Health Care Professionals, Groups Sign Declaration Calling For Halt To Child Transgender Medical Services
The Daily Wire, June 6, 2024
More than 100 health care professionals and groups have signed onto a declaration calling on major medical organizations to halt dangerous transgender medical interventions for children.
American Doctors Sign Declaration Protecting Children from Gender Procedures
The Washington Stand, June 6, 2024
A mighty force within these thousands is the American College of Pediatricians (ACP), who announced their unwavering support of the Doctors Protecting Children Declaration (DPCD), which was created to push against the gender politics infiltrating medicine.
Doctors Urge Top US Medical Orgs to Stop Harming Kids With Transgender Surgeries, Hormones
The Daily Signal, June 6, 2024
A group of doctors, nurses, and pediatricians have signed on to a declaration calling on prominent United States medical organizations to stop performing experimental and harmful transgender procedures on children.
Biden Admin Abuses Its Power Again, Redefines ‘Sex’ in Section 1557
Alliance Defending Freedom, May 31, 2024
The Biden administration is no stranger to overstepping its authority. Just since 2021, it has misused federal law to try to force doctors to perform abortions, colluded with big banks to monitor groups with disfavored views, and coerced social media companies to censor ideas the administration dislikes. In the latest example of federal overreach, the Biden administration has redefined “sex” to include gender identity in both Title IX and Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This not only puts Americans in danger but also violates a number of constitutional rights.
Britain Bans Puberty Blockers For Children Due To Serious Health Risks
EVIE, May 30, 2024
On May 29, the UK's Department of Health and Social Care announced they are placing an "emergency ban" on puberty-suppressing hormones for kids under 18. However, the ban on prescribing puberty blockers to still-developing children is temporary.
Canada’s dangerous commitment to trans-affirming care for minors
Macdonald-Laurier Institute, May 8, 2024
Across the Western world, a reversal is unfolding. Steps are being taken to drastically limit or ban many of the radical gender-transition interventions and adjacent trans-affirming policies involving minors.
A Sponsored Bill that Brings Havoc to Maine and to Maine Families by Subverting Parental Rights
Machias Valley News Observer, April 26, 2024
Maine is becoming the most anti-child, anti-family State in the nation. LD227 is the child of LD1735 which is better known as the "trans-trafficking bill", which is pushing for "gender affirming care" and "reproductive health care" as legal rights, without considering the detrimental effects it may have on children, parents, and the overall well-being of the state.
SUPPORT DETRANSITIONERS
Catholic League, April 2024
March 12 was Detransition Awareness Day, the most important LGBT day of the year. Those who are responsible for transgenderism, the pernicious ideology that holds that the sexes are not binary and are interchangeable, will never call attention to this day, and that is because it seriously undercuts their crusade.
American Pediatrician on UK’s Cass Report Revelations: ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ Model for Children ‘Faulty from the Foundation’
Catholic Vote, April 16, 2024
The executive director of the premier group of American pediatricians that has opposed the so-called “gender-affirming care” model of treatment for gender dysphoria in children said the newly published final report by Britain’s Dr. Hilary Cass revealed significant flaws in the studies that have been used to treat young people with experimental puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
Pediatrician Responds to Damning Review on Gender Identity Treatment: ‘I Remain Hopeful’
The Washington Stand, April 14, 2024
The primary takeaway from the Cass Review is that children’s mental health must always be a priority. And yet, the study exposed the reality that many medical professionals are quick to diagnose children with body or gender dysphoria without considering their mental state, which has led to irreversible harm.
Put Transgenderism in Same Category as Eugenics, Lobotomies
NewsMax, April 13, 2024
The primary lies of "Transgenderism" are as follows:
- People can be born into the wrong body.
- Children who are gender confused can pause puberty and then resume puberty with no ill effects.
- If you refuse to transition your child, you’d best be prepared to bury your child.
- People can be born into the wrong body.
- Children who are gender confused can pause puberty and then resume puberty with no ill effects.
- If you refuse to transition your child, you’d best be prepared to bury your child.
Child gender report is admirable – but why did it take so long?
TCW Defending Freedom, April 12, 2024
Dr Hilary Cass submitted her final report on gender identity services for children and young people, and her recommendations for NHS England. It has been four years in the writing, and despite resistance and non co-operation by some involved in the service, it provides a comprehensive overview of what went wrong, and why.
Dr. Jill Simons analyzes Cass Review on Gender Treatments
Washington Watch, April 10, 2024
England's National Health Services commissioned pediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass to review the gender services it provides for children and adolescents. Dr. Simons analyzes this scathing report of the harmful services provided by the national health services..
'Puberty is not a disease.’ Landmark study shows majority of kids with gender dysphoria grow out of it.
The Lion, April 5, 2024
A long-term study from the Netherlands finds discomfort with one’s gender is “relatively common” among young adolescents and decreases as children get older, with most growing out of it. What’s more, such “gender non-contentedness” was found to be tied to dissatisfaction with self and poorer mental health throughout development.
Gender Dysphoria? Biological Integrity Initiative
VCY.org, April 3, 2024
The numbers of children dealing with gender dysphoria is off the charts. The result? A recent report out of the UK indicated over one-third of children on puberty blockers were experiencing worsened mental health. Interview with Dr. Jill Simons on Biological Integrity.
Rates of Suicide Attempts Doubled After Gender-Reassignment Surgery: Study
Epoch Times, April 2, 2024
Researchers found the rates of psychiatric emergencies were high both before and after gender-altering surgery, with similar overall rates in both groups. However, suicide attempts were markedly higher in those who received vaginoplasties.
Idaho bans public funds from paying for sex-change surgeries, puberty blockers for kids
The Christian Post, March 29, 2024
Idaho has enacted a measure barring public funds and facilities from being used to perform or provide sex-change surgeries or hormonal interventions for children with gender dysphoria as concerns about their long-term impact persist.
Leave Our Children Alone’: ACLU Sues Ohio Law Protecting Kids from Transgenderism
Washington Stand, March 28, 2024
A left-wing legal agency has sued the state of Ohio over its policy protecting minors from transgender procedures and barring men from competing in women’s sports. But the law’s proponents say the plaintiffs based the lawsuit on junk science that will lead trans-identifying teens into deeper psychological, and irreparable physical, harm.
Doctors Rally At SCOTUS Against FDA’s ‘Reckless’ Abandonment Of High-Risk Abortion Drug
The Federalist, March 22, 2024
Doctors, politicians, pro-life leaders, and women’s health advocates rallied outside the United States Supreme Court Tuesday, calling for the overturning of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s reckless abandonment of care standards for women and girls with the deregulation of the chemical abortion drug mifepristone.
Wyoming becomes 24th state to ban gender transition procedures for minors
The Christian Post, March 22, 2024
Wyoming has become the latest state to ban minors from obtaining body-disfiguring gender transition procedures, bringing the total to two dozen.
IVF’s moral implications: Justice for preborn life outside the womb
The Christian Post, March 21, 2024
The Alabama Supreme Court recently affirmed the personhood of a preborn child and the sanctity of life at all stages in a case that involved the wrongful death of embryos conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF).
Tennessee House passes prenatal development bill despite pro-abortion attacks
Live Action, March 20. 2024
Members of the Tennessee House passed a bill Monday that will require public schools to show a three-minute ultrasound or computer animation of a developing fetus, such as Live Action’s “Baby Olivia,” as part of a state-mandated family life curriculum.
Caring for Babies at the Cusp of Viability
AAPLOG podcast interview, March 20, 2024
Healthcare today allows premature babies to survive and thrive at earlier and earlier gestation ages. Currently, the age of viability has been lowered to 22-24 weeks gestation. Neonatologist, Dr. Robin Pierucci, speaks to the challenges of treating these very premature babies.
Gender Identity | Éric Duhaime wants to ban mastectomies among minors
Actual News Magazine, March 13, 2024
Quebec-- Éric Duhaime’s Conservative Party wants the government to better regulate treatments for young trans people. We want mastectomies (breast removal) to be banned for minors and parental consent to be mandatory for a young person under 16 to take hormone blockers.
Who wants the U.S. Supreme Court to limit abortion pill access?
Shreveport Times, March 7, 2024
Anti-abortion groups, attorneys general from 25 states and more than 140 members of Congress have signed on to dozens of briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court during the past two weeks, encouraging the justices to revert use and prescribing of the medication abortion pill mifepristone to what was in place prior to 2016.
Report delivers 'battering ram' to weakening support for gender-manipulation procedures
American Family News, March 7, 2024
According to the Environmental Progress report, WPATH members have demonstrated a lack of consideration for long-term patient outcomes despite being aware of the debilitating and potentially fatal side effects of gender treatments.
Leaked Files Reveal WPATH’s Awareness of ‘Debilitating,’ ‘Potentially Fatal’ Effects of Trans Procedures
The Washington Stand, March 7, 2024
On March 4, the U.S. think tank Environmental Progress released leaked files from WPATH that “revealed that the clinicians who shape how ‘gender medicine’ is regulated and practiced around the world consistently violate medical ethics and informed consent.”
Trans Activists May Have Found Backdoor To Force Hospitals To Provide Sex-Change Surgeries
The Daily Caller, February 23, 2024
A lawsuit filed against a hospital for not providing transgender medical procedures could signal a new approach for LGBTQ activists to try to force medical professionals to affirm gender transitions, legal experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Media Ignore Science On Dangers Of Transgenderism In Kids To Tout Garbage Pro-Trans Survey
The Federalist, February 22, 2024
Two reports on the “transgender” population, an umbrella term for those who are psychologically uncomfortable with their sex, were published this month. One was a US Trans Survey and the other a research paper grounded in research.
44% of trans-identified individuals report ‘serious psychological distress,' one-third experienced homelessness
The Christian Post, February 16, 2024
The U.S. Transgender Survey from the National Center for Transgender Equality assessed 92,329 people who identify as trans or nonbinary from Oct. 19 through Dec. 5, 2022. Nearly half of trans-identifying individuals reported experiencing “serious psychological distress” within the last 30 days according to a study.
ACPeds Challenges Gender-Affirming Therapy for Children: Debating Benefits and Risks
BNN, February 14, 2024
In a controversial move that has sparked heated debates across the nation, the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) released a position statement challenging the benefits and risks of gender-affirming therapy for children.
Risky Gender “Transitioning” Not Supported by Scientific Studies, Doctors’ Group Warns
New American, February 14, 2024
While the news media, social media, Hollywood, public schools, and progressive politicians push the notion that “transitioning” children with gender dysphoria is the best way to resolve their confusion, the truth is that the literature on the subject supports no such conclusion.
American College of Pediatricians: No Benefits From ‘Gender-Affirming’ Interventions
The Daily Citizen, February 13, 2024
The American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) released a position statement about youth who experience conflict between their biological sex and their so-called “gender identity.” The position statement is significant, given the full-court press by other medical groups to use medical interventions and “gender-affirming therapy” to “transition minors” to try to appear like the opposite sex.
American College of Pediatricians Confirms Transitioning Kids is Not Beneficial
NewsBusters, February 9, 2024
The American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) just released a statement regarding transgender children. The Florida based group declared that, after extensive research, giving children gender affirming “care” has absolutely no benefits on the well-being of the child.
Research Shows ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ Hurts Mental Health, Fails to Address Underlying Trauma
The Washington Stand, February 9, 2024
The American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds), a national professional membership organization, released a position statement on Wednesday that said, “Adolescents who have a gender identity not congruent with their biological sex have an increased incidence of mental health issues, including depression and suicidal ideation.
Pediatricians group says evidence lacks to support gender sugeries, hormones for trans youth
The Christian Post, February 9, 2024
The American College of Pediatricians has released a new position paper outlining findings based on a review of dozens of studies to claim that providing gender transition procedures to minors with gender dysphoria does not lead to an improvement in mental health.
National Medical Association Concludes ‘Gender Affirming Care’ has ‘No demonstrable, long-term benefit’ to Adolescents with Gender Dysphoria
The Maine Wire, February 8, 2024
The American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) released a statement Wednesday following a review of 60 studies that concluded “social transition, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones have no demonstrable, long-term benefit on psychosocial well-being of adolescents with gender dysphoria.”
Pediatricians Group Says Research Doesn’t Support ‘Gender Affirming’ Treatments
The Daily Wire, February 8, 2024
A review of 60 studies of the mental health of transgender-identifying youth found that “there is no long-term evidence that current ‘gender affirming’ medication and surgical protocols benefit their mental well-being,” according to a group representing pediatricians.
Bill allowing Maine to seize children from parents opposed to gender transition dies
The Christian Post, January 30, 2024
A bill that would have given the state of Maine authority to seize a child from their parents if the child expressed confusion about their sex and wanted body disfiguring trans procedures was killed by lawmakers.
Groups slam Gov. DeWine's executive order banning trans surgeries but not puberty blockers
The Christian Post, January 9, 2024
In an executive order signed Friday, DeWine, a Republican, banned sex-change surgeries for minors. The executive order comes a week after DeWine vetoed House Bill 68, which would have banned trans-identified minors from obtaining body mutilating surgeries, puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
The American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) is often cited in the media for its stand. With the understanding that the ACPeds may not always be accurately quoted, these unedited articles offer the reader exposure to various debates on issues affecting the child and the family.
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