Congress Takes on Protections for Minors
It’s taken years, but it looks like cracks are beginning to show in the transgender “medical” complex. Tragically, this blessing of a development comes largely as a result of the devastation of thousands of young men and women who have now come to regret their decision to “transition” to the opposite sex when they were minors.
A Long-Overdue Reckoning
In January of this year, a New York jury awarded a 22-year-old detransitioner a $2 million settlement against the provider who inflicted a double mastectomy on her at the age of 16. In May, Texas Children’s Hospital settled with the DOJ and the Texas Attorney General, agreeing to stop giving puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries, and to open a center to help people harmed by “transgender medicine.”
These developments, among others, follow the Trump Administration’s executive order that banned government funding for the procedures and treatments and encouraged lawsuits against those peddling these “therapies.” HHS also recommended that medical practitioners refuse to affirm so-called transgenderism in kids and instead address the underlying mental health conditions they face. Imagine that!
The medical institutions that used to trumpet the safety and even the necessity of such devastating procedures and treatments are running scared, finally being forced to admit what we’ve always known: children cannot consent to sterilization or the mutilation of their healthy body parts, and parents must be included in their children’s healthcare decisions.
Taking Action at the Federal Level
Last week, the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee held a hearing on the dangers of irreversible gender transition procedures on minors, during which 21-year-old detransitioner Chloe Cole shared her personal story, testifying to the devastating physical, mental, and emotional impacts she has experienced as a minor who underwent gender transition, starting at age 12.
During the hearing, she recalled,
“Despite what the doctors told me, I was not a sick boy trapped in a girl’s body. I was a distressed girl. But the medical system treated my body as the problem.”
Only after suffering a double mastectomy at 15 did Chloe begin to understand what had been done to her. Though she lives with what are likely to be lifelong repercussions, she has made it her life’s mission to draw attention to the evil of gender transition procedures by bringing a lawsuit against her medical providers and speaking out in a variety of venues.
During the course of her advocacy work, Chloe has spoken to multiple state legislatures where SAFE (Save Adolescents from Experimentation) Acts were proposed and, in 27 states, passed. Just last year, Tennessee went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, where the Skrmetti decision allowed that state’s SAFE Act to stand. It was a massive blow to pro-trans forces and an indicator of the larger shift in opinion against these devastating, experimental treatments.
Thank God many states, the Trump Administration, and the Supreme Court have all taken action to protect vulnerable young people from chemical castration and mutilation of their healthy body parts. These are all steps in the right direction, but now Congress must act to enshrine these protections in federal law. Thankfully, Republicans in the House and Senate are working to do just that with the Chloe Cole Act, a bill currently working its way through Congress.
The bill is sponsored on the House side by Rep. Bob Onder (R-Mo.), who describes the legislation as being: “Designed to hold those accountable who commit chemical or surgical mutilation on our children and to end that horrific practice.”
Onder is a physician, and he is deeply committed to his oath to first do no harm by protecting vulnerable kids from predatory forces bent on ruining their futures.
Keeping Up the Pressure
We don’t yet know when this important bill will come up for a vote, but it’s never too early to contact your representatives and tell them you stand for truth on the issue of gender transition procedures for minors.
Also, make sure you’re ready when it comes time to vote in the midterms. The majority republicans currently hold in Congress is razor-thin, and the midterms could shift that balance of power. Your vote matters and could make the difference for vulnerable kids throughout the nation if this bill doesn’t come up for a vote before the fall.
Praise God for the triumph of reality! Pray this revealing of evil and the steady march of truth will continue, and share this information with your family, friends, and other community members.
