U.K. to Perform Mental Health Evaluations on Children with Gender Dysphoria

The U.K.’s National Health Services reportedly will start advising clinics to assess children who identify as transgender for mental health problems and other conditions.

The new guidelines come in the wake of the U.K.’s decision to shutter its transgender clinic in 2022 and stop giving puberty blockers to children last year.

A government investigation revealed healthcare professionals at the NHS’s Tavistock gender clinic pressured families into subjecting their children to puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones despite an obvious lack of scientific evidence and inadequate mental health screenings for children with gender dysphoria.

Since then, medical professionals have written extensively about the harm that these gender-reassignment procedures caused.

Under the new NHS guidelines, children in the U.K. with gender dysphoria would be assessed for ADHD, autism, learning disabilities, or mental health problems. These assessments could help identify underlying causes of a child’s gender dysphoria.

All of this underscores why it is so important that lawmakers in Arkansas overwhelmingly passed the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act in 2021.

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.

Since then, reports from Europe and elsewhere have shown time and again that Arkansas was right to pass the SAFE Act.

Unfortunately, the SAFE Act has been tied up in court since 2021. 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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Calista Wetzstein: “I just don’t think Planned Parenthood cared.”

Our friends at Alliance Defending Freedom recently released a heartbreaking video of Calista Wetzstein telling how Planned Parenthood gave her cross-sex hormones as part of gender reassignment.

In recent years, Planned Parenthood has become one of the nation’s largest supporters of transgender ideology and routinely dispenses cross-sex hormones as a result.

You can hear Calista tell her story in the video below.

Former UPenn Swimmer Discusses Ongoing Lawsuit Over Men Competing in Women’s Sports

Former University of Pennsylvania swimmer Margot Kaczorowski recently appeared on Fox Business to discuss her ongoing lawsuit over the school’s decision to let transgender swimmer Lia Thomas compete in women’s swimming.

Thomas — a biological male who competed as a female — made headlines in 2022 after shattering women’s swimming records and winning the women’s 500-yard freestyle in NCAA Division I championship. He was even nominated for the 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year Award.

In response, a group of female collegiate athletes filed a lawsuit against the NCAA arguing that letting Thomas compete in the 2022 national championship violated their federal rights under Title IX.

Stories like this are part of the reason many states — including Arkansas — have enacted laws that preserve fairness in women’s sports. In 2021 Arkansas passed Act 461 by Sen. Missy Irvin (R — Mountain View) and Rep. Sonia Barker (R — Smackover) preventing male student athletes from competing against girls in women’s athletics at school. This good law protects fairness in women’s sports in Arkansas.

President Trump has taken executive action to protect fairness in women’s sports, but it’s important for colleges and the NCAA to be held accountable for the harm that their pro-transgender policies have caused to female athletes.

You can watch Margot Kaczorowski’s interview below.