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Second FOIA Request Yields 200+ Pages of Documents From UAMS

Mar 10, 2022Jerry CoxTransgenderLGBT, SAFE Act, Transgender

On March 2, Family Council sent a Freedom of Information Act Request to UAMS in Little Rock requesting the following:

Any and all information (including educational materials in any medium) made available within the past five years to patients or their parents/guardians concerning treatment with a hormone, hormone suppressant, and/or pubertal blocker for the following conditions:
- Gender identity disorder
- Gender dysphoria
- Gender incongruence
Any and all information (including copies of blank consent forms) used within the past five years for the purpose of obtaining a patient’s or parent/guardian’s informed consent to treatment with a hormone, hormone suppressant, and/or pubertal blocker for the same conditions lifted in 1. above.

The FOIA request is part of ongoing research regarding puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones used for gender-transition in Arkansas. Family Council has previously sent Freedom of Information Act Requests to UAMS and Arkansas Children’s Hospital.

In response, UAMS sent Family Council more than 200 pages of documents.

Among other things, the documents include:

Information from the pro-LGBT Human Rights Campaign regarding “Supporting and Caring for Transgender Children.”
A 100-page document containing pro-LGBT literature from the organization PFLAG.
Informed-consent information for transgender patients using testosterone or estrogen.
Information on hormone replacement therapies in Little Rock.

In 2021 the Arkansas Legislature passed the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act.

The SAFE Act is an excellent law that protects children from sex-reassignment procedures, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones.

Researchers do not know the long term effects that puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones can have on children.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has never approved puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for the purpose of gender transition. Doctors are giving these hormones to kids off-label, in a manner the FDA never intended.

That is part of the reason many experts agree that giving puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children for the purpose of gender transition is experimental, at best.

UAMS operates a pro-transgender Gender Clinic that offers hormone replacement therapies and referrals for sex-change surgeries. However, many people know very little about how medical professionals utilize hormones and puberty blockers for sex-change procedures in Arkansas.

The ACLU and others filed a lawsuit against the SAFE Act last summer, before the law officially took effect, and a federal judge in Little Rock has temporarily blocked the state from enforcing it.

Several business interests and the Biden-Harris Administration also have joined the fight against Arkansas’ SAFE Act.

Arkansas’ Attorney General has appealed that order to the Eighth Circuit to let the state enforce the SAFE Act. A trial in the case is scheduled for October.

Download UAMS’s Full Response to Family Council FOIA Request Here.

Kentucky Lawmakers File Measures Similar to Arkansas’ SAFE Act

Jan 17, 2022Jerry CoxLGBTLGBT, SAFE Act, Transgender

Last week lawmakers in Kentucky filed legislation similar to Arkansas’ Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act.

Kentucky’s proposed S.B. 84 and H.B. 253 protect children from sex-reassignment procedures, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones.

The measures are similar to Arkansas’ SAFE Act that lawmakers passed last spring.

The Save Adolescents From Experimentation Act is an excellent law. Like these proposals in Kentucky, it protects children in Arkansas from sex-reassignment procedures, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones.

However, the ACLU and others filed a lawsuit against the SAFE Act, and last July a federal judge in Little Rock temporarily blocked the state from enforcing this good law.

Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has appealed that order to the Eighth Circuit. A trial in the case will take place during the week of July 25, 2022.

Unfortunately, several business interests and the Biden-Harris Administration also have joined the fight against Arkansas’ SAFE Act.

Researchers do not know the long term effects that puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones can have on kids. That is why many experts agree that giving puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children is experimental, at best.

That’s also why a major hospital in Sweden announced last year that it would no longer administer puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children.

Gender-transition hormones and procedures can leave children sterilized and permanently scarred. It’s good to see state lawmakers propose legislation to protect children from these hormones and procedures.

Men in Women’s Jails

Dec 27, 2021John StonestreetTransgenderLGBT, Transgender

*John Stonestreet, Radio Host and Director of the Colson Center*

Washington State now allows convicted male felons who identify as female to move to women’s prisons. No surprise but tragic nonetheless, reports are already emerging of biological males abusing and sexually exploiting female inmates.

One convicted child molester was transferred to a Seattle women’s prison after claiming to be a woman and changing his name. He’s now accused of raping a developmentally disabled female inmate.

A former guard told National Review that this predator was one of six men transferred there during his tenure. Another was also a convicted child molester. And all inmates must do to make the switch is convince an administrative panel they’re transgender.

California passed a similar measure, and already nearly 300 inmates have requested transfers… all men, no women. Now, prisons are reportedly handing out birth control. Ideas have consequences, bad ideas have victims—in this case, victims who can’t escape.