A recent video from the Heritage Foundation highlights the regret that people often feel as a result of using puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries to transition from one gender to the other.
Some years ago, medical experts at Johns Hopkins stopped performing gender-reassignment procedures after discovering they did not help individuals who identify as transgender. Since 2021, we have seen growing concerns about children and young adults rushed through the transition process without adequate mental health evaluations and without proper informed consent.
The Heritage Foundation recently interviewed three people who used surgery and hormones to try to change genders before ultimately detransitioning and accepting their biological sex.
Stories like these remind us why it is so important to protect people from the harmful lies that transgender ideology promotes.
Public health officials in the U.S. and the U.K. have released stunning rebukes of the so-called “gender affirming care” Planned Parenthood and others offer.
Last year The British Medical Journal wrote that ”the advocacy and clinical practice for medical treatment of gender dysphoria [through puberty blockers, hormones, and surgery] had moved ahead of the evidence—a recipe for harm.”
These procedures can leave children sterilized and scarred for life, and doctors don’t know the long-term consequences they may have for children. That is why to date about half the states in the U.S. have passed laws protecting children from sex-change surgeries.
In 2021, Arkansas lawmakers overwhelmingly passed the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act.
The SAFE Act is a good law that prevents doctors in Arkansas from performing sex-change surgeries on children or giving them puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
Unfortunately, the SAFE Act is tied up in court, and a federal judge in Little Rock has blocked the state from enforcing it for now. However, we believe our courts ultimately will recognize that the SAFE Act is a good law and uphold it as constitutional.
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