Family Council Joins Legal Brief Asking Supreme Court to Protect Parental Rights

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On Wednesday, Family Council joined 65 other organizations in a legal brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to defend parental rights and stop a California school district’s secret social gender transition policy.

The case is Mirabelli v. Bonta. Parents and teachers are challenging a school district policy that required teachers to deceive parents about their child’s gender transition at school.

Advancing American Freedom led the amicus brief filed last week. In a statement, AAF said:

One of the families who brought this challenge did not find out that their daughter was being treated as a boy at school until after she attempted suicide.

The federal district court in San Diego rightly found for the parents and teachers and permanently enjoined Gavin Newsom’s California from imposing secret social transition policies on teachers and parents. However, the Ninth Circuit temporarily stayed the district court’s injunction leaving families and teachers exposed once again.

AAF’s brief on behalf of itself and other amici argued that this case is part of a nationwide pattern affecting parents and families, often irreversibly. The Supreme Court has, so far, avoided these critical questions. They must do so no longer.

Unfortunately the school policy in California is not an isolated incident. Over the years, we have seen pro-LGBT activists use public schools to promote transgender ideology and gender confusion to kids in many different ways.

Last year the U.S. Department of Education announced it was investigating four school districts in Kansas for alleged secret gender transitions after a complaint alleged that school officials let male students into females’ private spaces and sports at school and hid students’ sexual identity confusion from their parents.

Last summer, Family Council joined dozens of other pro-family organizations from across the country in an amicus brief regarding a New York school district that treated a middle-school girl as if she were a boy without her mother’s knowledge or consent.

Our friends at Alliance Defending Freedom have spoken out about how schools are hiding important information about students from their parents. But policymakers, legal experts, and parents are pushing back.

Arkansas has enacted good laws to help prevent schools from socially transitioning children or promoting radical pro-LGBT ideology in the classroom. These are good laws that protect children and affirm parental rights. But federal court cases like the one in California could affect schools nationwide. That’s why it’s important for us to stand up for students and parents in this case.

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Federal Officials Act to Protect Children from Sex-Change Procedures

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The week before Christmas, federal officials announced steps to protect children from sex-change surgeries, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said it would propose a series of regulatory actions to protect children from these dangerous procedures.

Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., issued an official declaration, saying:

Sex-rejecting procedures for children and adolescents are neither safe nor effective as a treatment modality for gender dysphoria, gender incongruence, or other related disorders in minors, and therefore, fail to meet professional recognized standards of health care. For the purposes of this declaration, “sex rejecting procedures” means pharmaceutical or surgical interventions, including puberty blockers, cross sex hormones, and surgeries such as mastectomies, vaginoplasties, and other procedures, that attempt to align an individual’s physical appearance or body with an asserted identity that differs from the individual’s sex.

The federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will also release a notice of proposed rulemaking to prevent hospitals from receiving Medicaid and Medicare funds if they perform sex-rejecting procedures on children.

All of this is really good news.

Public health experts and policymakers in the U.S., the U.K., Sweden, Finland, and other nations have found that science simply does not support giving puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to kids. These drugs and procedures carry serious risks — including infertility, sexual dysfunction, impaired bone density, and cardiovascular problems.

Whistleblowers have come forward to testify about how they were rushed through gender transitions as children without understanding the procedures’ risks, consequences, or alternatives.

Today we know pro-LGBT activists and medical organizations have been citing each other’s work in a circular pattern for years, manufacturing a fake consensus to support their agenda.

For the past 12 months, federal officials have consistently worked to protect children from these dangerous procedures.

Last year, President Trump issued an executive order prohibiting federal funding from being used for sex-change procedures on kids, and the federal government is expected to propose new rules that could help protect children from sex-change procedures nationwide.

Over the summer, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a public inquiry into whether U.S. doctors and clinics may have deceived parents and children about the risks of these procedures. The U.S. Department of Justice also subpoenaed doctors and medical facilities involved in performing sex-change procedures on minors.

In September, the U.S. Department of Justice sent Congress the federal Victims of Chemical or Surgical Mutilation Act. The proposed federal law would generally prevent doctors, hospitals, and clinics from performing sex-change surgeries on children or giving them puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones.

In 2021, lawmakers in Arkansas passed the Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act. This good law generally prohibits doctors from performing sex-change procedures on children or giving them puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. The SAFE Act was upheld in federal court last year and is protecting children in Arkansas right now.

It’s good to see federal officials taking serious steps to protect children from sex-rejecting procedures.

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Florida Attorney General Sues Medical Organizations for Misleading Families About Sex-Change Procedures

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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has filed a major lawsuit against three prominent medical organizations, accusing them of deceiving families about the safety and effectiveness of sex-change procedures for children.

The lawsuit targets the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), the Endocrine Society, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Florida’s A.G. alleges these groups made millions of dollars pushing experimental treatments like puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex-change surgeries on children — all while knowing there’s no solid evidence these procedures actually help kids with gender confusion.

The lawsuit exposes how these organizations have been citing each other’s work in a circular pattern for years, manufacturing a “facade of legitimacy.”

The lawsuit seeks to hold these organizations accountable under the state’s consumer protection laws.

Public health experts and policymakers in the U.S., the U.K., Sweden, Finland, and other nations have found that science simply does not support giving puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to kids. These drugs and procedures carry serious risks — including infertility, sexual dysfunction, impaired bone density, and cardiovascular problems.

Whistleblowers have come forward to testify about how they were rushed through gender transitions as children without understanding the procedures’ risks, consequences, or alternatives. It is absolutely vital that Americans understand just how harmful these procedures are.

In January, President Trump issued an executive order prohibiting federal funding from being used for sex-change procedures on kids, and the federal government is expected to propose new rules that could help protect children from sex-change procedures nationwide.

Earlier this summer, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a public inquiry into whether U.S. doctors and clinics may have deceived parents and children about the risks of these procedures. The U.S. Department of Justice also subpoenaed doctors and medical facilities involved in performing sex-change procedures on minors.

In September, the U.S. Department of Justice sent Congress the federal Victims of Chemical or Surgical Mutilation Act. The proposed federal law would generally prevent doctors, hospitals, and clinics from performing sex-change surgeries on children or giving them puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones.

Florida’s lawsuit points out that in 2021, lawmakers in Arkansas passed the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act. This good law was the first of its kind in America. It generally prohibits doctors from performing sex-change procedures on children or giving them puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. This year a federal court upheld the SAFE Act, which means the law is protecting children in Arkansas right now.

Florida’s lawsuit proves that Arkansas’ lawmakers were right to pass the SAFE Act back in 2021. The fact that Florida’s attorney general is now taking these organizations to court shows the tide of public opinion — and public policy — is continuing to turn in support of children. That’s something to celebrate.

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