Dr. Jennifer Bauwens Unpacks HHS Study Finding No Strong Evidence to Support Transgender Procedures

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Earlier this month Dr. Jennifer Bauwens, Director of Family Research Council’s Center for Family Studies, appeared on “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins” to highlight a new report from HHS regarding children with gender dysphoria.

The HHS study found no strong evidence supporting transgender procedures on children. Instead, medical experts say these children need mental and emotional support.

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

Recently, the U.K.’s National Health Service announced it will start advising clinics to assess children who identify as transgender for mental health problems and other conditions.

The U.K. opted to shutter its transgender clinic and stop giving puberty blockers to children after whistleblowers revealed families were pressured into subjecting their children to puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones without adequate mental health screenings or informed consent.

During her interview on “Washington Watch,” Dr. Bauwens explained how the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ 409-page report further debunks the myth that children who disagree with their biological sex must undergo hormone treatments and sex-change surgeries.

All of this reminds us why Arkansas was right to pass the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act in 2021.

This good law protects children in Arkansas from being subjected to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex-change surgeries.

Unfortunately, the SAFE Act is currently tied up in court. However, given how medical evidence continues to show these procedures hurt kids, we believe our courts ultimately will uphold the SAFE Act as constitutional.

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Detransitioners Tell Their Stories

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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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Trump’s First 100 Days Marked by Support for Female Athletes

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Our friends at Alliance Defending Freedom continue to highlight how the Trump Administration is working to prevent women’s athletics from being erased in American.

ADF writes,

During President Donald Trump’s first 100 days, he took important steps to protect female athletes. Most notably, he signed an executive order in February 2025 aimed at keeping men out of women’s sports. Selina Soule, an ADF client and former high school track athlete, was unjustly forced to compete against male athletes during her athletic career. She joined another female athlete, Paula Scanlan, on Newsmax to discuss President Trump’s work during his first 100 days. Learn more about Selina’s case: https://adflegal.org/case/soule-v-connecticut-association-schools/

We have written repeatedly about how women’s athletics is in jeopardy.

Female swimmers, powerlifters, cyclists, sprinters, volleyball players, and others have seen their sports radically changed by men who claim to be women.

Fortunately, steps are being taken to protect women’s sports

In 2023, the North American Grappling Association clarified its competition policy, saying biological males must compete against other men, regardless of their gender identity.

Last year year the professional golf league NXXT Golf announced that only biological females would be eligible to participate in the NXXT Women’s Pro Tour.

And the NAIA changed its collegiate sports policy to prevent male athletes from competing in women’s collegiate sports.

Letting men compete in women’s sports is unfair and reverses 50 years of advancements for women. In some cases it can even be dangerous.

In 2021 Arkansas passed Act 461 by Sen. Missy Irvin (R — Mountain View) and Rep. Sonia Barker (R — Smackover) to prevent male athletes from competing against girls in women’s athletics at school. This good law is in full effect, protecting fairness in women’s sports in Arkansas.

We appreciate our lawmakers who work hard to protect fairness in women’s sports both in Arkansas and across the country.

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