Hospitals Continue to Halt Sex-Change Procedures on Children as Policies Take Hold
News outlets report that clinics around the country continue to stop performing sex-change procedures on children in the wake of new state and federal policies.
To date, more than half of state legislatures have enacted laws protecting children from puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex-change surgeries, and the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that these types of laws are constitutional.
As a result, major children’s hospitals around the country have stopped performing sex-change procedures on kids.
In recent years, men and women have come forward with chilling testimony about how they were rushed through gender transition as children, and experts have revealed how the medical “consensus” in support of performing transgender procedures on children was largely manufactured by pro-LGBT organizations.
Public health officials and experts in the U.K., Sweden, Finland, and elsewhere have found that science does not support giving puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to kids.
We now know that sex-change procedures, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones can leave children permanently scarred, sterilized, and at risk of serious health conditions.
In 2021, Arkansas passed the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act prohibiting doctors from performing sex-change surgeries on children or giving them puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. The SAFE Act was the first law of its kind in America. It has been upheld in court and is protecting children in Arkansas right now.
In January, President Trump issued an executive order prohibiting 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 that receive federal research or education grants must “end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children” immediately, under the order.
Earlier this summer, 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. The U.S. Department of Justice issued subpoenas to doctors and medical facilities involved in performing sex-change procedures on minors. The DOJ also has asked Congress to enact legislation protecting children from these procedures, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has proposed a federal rule to help put a stop to them as well.
All of this is really good news for children in our country.
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