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DOJ Subpoenas Clinics Over Transgender Procedures on Children

Jul 14, 2025Jerry CoxLGBTLGBT, SAFE Act, Transgender

Last Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a short press release announcing it had issued subpoenas to doctors and medical facilities involved in performing sex-change procedures on minors.

The statement said,

WASHINGTON — Today, the Department of Justice announced that it has sent more than 20 subpoenas to doctors and clinics involved in performing transgender medical procedures on children.

The Department’s investigations include healthcare fraud, false statements, and more.

“Medical professionals and organizations that mutilated children in the service of a warped ideology will be held accountable by this Department of Justice.” — Attorney General Pamela Bondi

Last Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission also hosted a workshop highlighting the dangers of so-called “gender-affirming care” for children.

Both federal agencies appear to be concerned about the deception that often surrounds sex-change procedures — especially when these procedures are performed on children.

Sex-change procedures, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones can leave children permanently scarred, sterilized, and at risk of serious health conditions.

Last fall, medical experts at the organization Do No Harm released a report showing that from 2019 to 2023, dozens of children in Arkansas underwent sex-change surgeries or were prescribed puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.

Doctors do not know the long-term effects that puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones might have on people. However, files leaked from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) organization show medical professionals have been fully aware that these procedures can lead to lasting regret and complications — some of which may even be life-threatening.

Since 2021, a major hospital in Sweden has announced that it would no longer give puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to kids, the U.K. has adopted policies to protect children from puberty blockers, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has added a warning label to puberty blockers after discovering they caused brain swelling in some biological girls.

In a comprehensive study published last year, Finnish researchers found transgender surgeries did not appear to resolve the underlying emotional and mental issues that youth with gender dysphoria faced.

And gender clinics have been shown to rush children and families through the transition process without adequate informed-consent and mental health screenings.

In 2021, Arkansas passed the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act prohibiting doctors from performing sex-change surgeries on children or giving them puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.

Unfortunately, a federal judge blocked the state from enforcing the law. However, in June the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision upholding a Tennessee law similar to Arkansas’ SAFE Act, and Attorney General Tim Griffin’s team has argued the ruling underscores that the SAFE Act is constitutional as well.

It’s good to see our state and federal policymakers taking a stand on this issue, and we look forward to a day when children are protected from these dangerous procedures.

Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.

FBI Arrests Chinese Nationals Accused of Running Massive, Illicit Marijuana Scheme

Jul 11, 2025Jerry CoxMarijuanaMarijuana

Above: File photo of an illegal marijuana operation authorities raided at an Oakland warehouse in March of 2025. At the time, law enforcement expressed concerns about possible links to organized crime and indicated that illegal marijuana operations like this one may be tied to “Chinese money-laundering for Mexican cartels.”

The FBI has charged seven Chinese nationals for their alleged roles in a multimillion-dollar marijuana scheme that involved money laundering, drug smuggling, and human trafficking.

Fox News reports,

The scheme allegedly involved interconnected grow houses that cultivated and distributed marijuana. Chinese nationals were also allegedly smuggled into the U.S. for the purpose of working in these houses until they paid off their debts related to being smuggled into the country, according to an announcement from the U.S. Department of Justice.

We have written again and again about how legalization has actually emboldened drug cartels and organized crime who profit from marijuana.

Some of these illegal marijuana operations are tied to labor trafficking, violent crime, and foreign adversaries like the Chinese Communist Party.

NPR reports how illegal immigrants from China “are taking jobs at hundreds of cannabis farms springing up across the U.S.” Other correspondents have reported how these illegal marijuana operations contribute to “modern day slavery on American soil.”

Chinese organized crime is dominating black market marijuana in states where marijuana is legal.

The U.S. Department of Justice says Chinese drug cartels may be making millions of dollars from illegal marijuana in states like Maine, New York, Massachusetts, and elsewhere.

CBS News has highlighted how Chinese investment is driving illegal marijuana production across the U.S.

CBN reports that Chinese investors with “suitcases full of cash” are buying U.S. farmland to grow black market marijuana.

And CNN writes that “illegal pot production . . . provides a glimpse of a hidden world – one that mirrors a trend playing out not only in California, but in states such as Oklahoma, Oregon, New Mexico and Maine: groups of people with apparent ties to foreign countries – most notably China – producing weed in colossal volumes.”

All of this simply further underscores how marijuana may be many things, but “harmless” simply is not one of them.

Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.