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A Win for Women and Women’s Sports: Guest Column

Jul 1, 2024John StonestreetLGBTLGBT, Transgender

Earlier this month, the Court of Arbitration for Sport, an international court for sports governance, rejected a challenge from trans-identifying swimmer Lia Thomas to overturn policies that prevent men from competing in women-only “elite” swimming events.

Thomas, a man claiming to be a woman, is the former University of Pennsylvania swimmer who won the national championship in women’s swimming. He was seeking to overturn the policy in hopes of competing in the 2024 Olympics. However, the policy issued by World Aquatics, the body that governs elite swimming competitions, protects women’s swimming competitions from trans-identifying men who have gone through male puberty.

Women deserve the safety and opportunity that comes with competing on an even playing field—with other women. And the court’s decision to uphold this policy helps ensure that safety and opportunity for women will continue, even in our strange new world.

The World Aquatics celebrated the court’s decision. As they said, “we believe [it] is a major step forward in our efforts to protect women’s sport.” Let’s hope the sanity continues.

Most Americans Still Say It’s Morally Wrong to Change Genders

Jun 25, 2024Jerry CoxLGBTLGBT, SAFE Act, Transgender

Earlier this month Gallup released a survey showing most Americans still believe it is morally wrong to change genders.

The findings track with Gallup’s survey results from 2021 and 2023 — which also found most people believe it’s morally wrong to change genders, and that a growing share of Americans think athletes ought to compete according to their biological sex rather than their gender identity.

Oddly, the same Gallup survey published this month found most Americans oppose “laws that ban certain types of gender-affirming care for minors.”

But the survey’s questions about “gender-affirming care” were not as straightforward as its questions about whether it’s right or wrong to change genders. With that in mind, it is possible that the wording of the questions may have biased or simply confused the survey’s participants.

Regardless, it’s important for people to understand that more and more, scientific evidence shows sex-reassignment procedures are harmful to children.

Three years ago a major hospital in Sweden announced that it would no longer give puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to kids. This year the United Kingdom announced a new policy protecting children from being given puberty-blocking drugs.

In 2021 the Arkansas Legislature overwhelmingly passed the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act. The SAFE Act is a good law that protects children in Arkansas from cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers, and sex-reassignment surgeries. That law is currently tied up in court, but we believe our judicial system ultimately will recognize that it is a good law and uphold it as constitutional.

It is important for our laws to protect children from sex-change procedures and give them legal options they can follow if they are harmed by one of these procedures. Laws like Arkansas’ SAFE Act do exactly that.

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

Court Allows Detransitioner to Sue Doctors: Guest Column

Jun 24, 2024John StonestreetLGBTLGBT, Transgender

Late last month, a North Carolina court allowed Prisha Mosley to sue the doctors who provided her so-called “gender-affirming” care. According to Mosley, who began “transitioning” at age 16, “doctors and counselors … told me that changing my body to look like a boy’s body would cure my mental health problems.”

However, despite chemical and surgical interventions, Mosley’s mental health problems persisted: “Their ‘care’ … left me broken, with extreme physical injuries and without my body parts. It did not cure my mental health problems and instead made them worse.” Despite motions to dismiss her case, the court found Mosley’s complaint “sufficient” to proceed.

Stories like these, claiming that “transitioning” did not lead to greater wholeness, are rapidly growing. The court’s decision is the first of its kind and offers hope that ideologically motivated medical professionals who fast-track kids to transition can be stopped and even brought to justice. Let’s continue to pray that the light shines through the lies of so-called “gender-affirming” care.