In “Refreshing Return to Sanity,” President Trump Orders Government to Protect Kids From Sex-Change Procedures

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On Tuesday, the Trump Administration issued an executive order protecting children from puberty-blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex-change procedures.

In 2021 Arkansas passed the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act protecting children from these procedures. Since then, some two dozen states have followed suit. However, laws like Arkansas’ faced stiff opposition from the Biden Administration — which spent four years pushing one pro-LGBT policy after another.

President Trump’s executive order helps reverse the previous administration’s flawed policies.

The order prohibits federal funding from being used for sex-change procedures on kids — including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex-change surgeries.

Medical institutions, and facilities who receive federal research or education grants must “end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children” immediately.

The order also directs federal agencies to revoke pro-LGBT policies that were based on guidelines from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) — an organization that the order says “lacks scientific integrity.”

Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Matt Sharp called the executive order “a refreshing return to sanity,” saying:

“Not a single dollar should be spent to facilitate or push vulnerable kids towards experimental, often irreversible, drugs and surgeries. Instead of being a global outlier, America will now ‘follow the science,’ like the U.K. and other European countries have done, to ensure that we are identifying safe and effective ways to help kids who experience distress over their biological sex.

“The president’s order affirms that the federal government is standing with detransitioners and families hurt by gender transition drugs and surgeries. That includes supporting a legal remedy for those who have suffered at the hands of doctors who have pushed junk science on vulnerable kids. And it directs the Department of Justice to work to ensure that states like California and Minnesota can’t strip parents in other states of their parental rights for safeguarding their children from life-altering hormones and irreversible surgeries. We applaud President Trump for fulfilling his promise to America’s families and taking these critical steps to protect children from harmful, experimental, and often irreversible medical procedures.”

We have written before how files leaked from WPATH make it clear that medical professionals have been fully aware for some time that sex-change procedures can lead to lasting regret and complications — some of which may even be life-threatening. WPATH kept promoting these procedures anyway — and government officials continued to look to groups like WPATH for guidance.

Since 2021, a major hospital in Sweden has announced that it would no longer give puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to kids, the U.K. has adopted policies that protect children from puberty blockers, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration added a warning label to puberty blockers after discovering they caused some biological girls to experience swelling in the brain.

It is past time for our state and federal laws to protect children from these dangerous hormones and surgical procedures. President Trump’s executive order helps do exactly that.

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

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Arkansas A.G. Joins Letter Urging Costco to Stop Promoting DEI

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On Monday nineteen state attorneys general — including Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin — sent a letter to Costco’s CEO urging the company to eliminate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies. The letter says Costco’s DEI initiatives are discriminatory and violate federal and state laws.

Many companies established DEI policies to create an equal playing field for racial and ethnic minorities, but LGBT groups have hijacked those policies to promote gender-identity politics in the workplace. Employees who hold a biblical view of gender or marriage risk losing their jobs.

Backlash and boycotts over DEI and pro-LGBT activism have prompted many companies to change course. Late last year Walmart rolled back its pro-LGBT diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. Target, Toyota, John Deere, Lowe’s, Tractor Supply, Harley Davidson, and other corporations have moved away from DEI as well.

However, Costco has made headlines for refusing to end its DEI policies.

As we have said many times, it’s deeply troubling when multimillion dollar corporations use their wealth and influence to promote radical, pro-LGBT ideas. It’s clear that DEI is unpopular among Americans, and customers are tired of pro-LGBT pandering from the stores where they shop.

Costco — and other corporations like them — would be wise to recognize that and stop promoting an agenda that is out of step with most Americans.

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

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Montana Legislature Debates Bill Similar to One Arkansas Passed in 2023

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Recently Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Sara Beth Nolan spoke to the Montana House Judiciary Committee in support of a bill that requires schools, prisons, domestic violence shelters, and other included facilities to designate spaces like locker rooms, restrooms, and sleeping quarters as either males or females.

The bill is similar to a measure Arkansas passed in 2023.

Act 317 by Rep. Mary Bentley (R – Perryville) and Sen. Dan Sullivan (R – Jonesboro) protects privacy in public school locker rooms, showers, restrooms, changing areas, and similar facilities. The law requires public schools to designate these facilities for “male” or “female” use. It also addresses sleeping accommodations for students on overnight school trips — something that has been a serious problem for students in other states.

Laws like these are necessary to protect students from federal policy changes that seem to come with each election cycle.

In 2016 the Obama Administration issued federal “guidelines” directing every public school in America — including schools in Arkansas — to let biological males use girls’ locker rooms, showers, bathrooms, and similar facilities at school. The Trump Administration rescinded those federal policies in 2018, which gave schools a brief reprieve, but the Biden Administration moved to reinstate the policies shortly after the 2020 election.

Since his inauguration last week, President Trump has issued a series of executive orders addressing issues like this one, but a future president could repeal those executive orders.

State laws can help clarify how public schools protect student privacy in the face of changing federal policy.

You can watch ADF’s committee testimony below.

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