Lawmakers, Hospitals Move to Protect Children from Sex-Change Procedures

Policymakers, public health officials, and hospitals continue to take steps to protect children from sex-change procedures.

Media outlets report that last week New Hampshire enacted two bills protecting children from puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and certain sex-change surgeries. To date, most states in America — including Arkansas — have adopted similar protections. In June the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee law protecting children from these procedures, drugs, and hormones.

Hospitals in other states reportedly have stopped performing sex-change procedures and no longer prescribe puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children thanks to new policies from the Trump Administration.

In Italy, news outlets say policymakers are considering measures to protect children from puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex-change surgeries as well.

Over the past five years, it has become clear that the medical “consensus” regarding transgender procedures on children has been largely manufactured by pro-LGBT activists.

Men and women have come forward with chilling testimony about how they were rushed through gender-transitions as children.

Public health experts 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.

Last month 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, and the U.S. Department of Justice announced it had issued subpoenas to doctors and medical facilities involved in performing sex-change procedures on minors.

In 2021, Arkansas became the first state in the nation to pass a law protecting children from gender transition procedures.

Arkansas’ Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act prohibits doctors from performing sex-change surgeries or giving puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to minors. Unfortunately, the law has been challenged in court—but Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin continues to defend it, and we are confident our federal courts will uphold it as constitutional.

Protecting children from sex-change procedures isn’t just good policy—it’s common sense.

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