Lawmakers, Hospitals Move to Protect Children from Sex-Change Procedures

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Policymakers, public health officials, and hospitals continue to take steps to protect children from sex-change procedures.

Media outlets report that last week New Hampshire enacted two bills protecting children from puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and certain sex-change surgeries. To date, most states in America — including Arkansas — have adopted similar protections. In June the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee law protecting children from these procedures, drugs, and hormones.

Hospitals in other states reportedly have stopped performing sex-change procedures and no longer prescribe puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children thanks to new policies from the Trump Administration.

In Italy, news outlets say policymakers are considering measures to protect children from puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex-change surgeries as well.

Over the past five years, it has become clear that the medical “consensus” regarding transgender procedures on children has been largely manufactured by pro-LGBT activists.

Men and women have come forward with chilling testimony about how they were rushed through gender-transitions as children.

Public health experts in the U.S., the U.K., Sweden, Finland, and other nations have found that science simply does not support giving puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to kids.

Last month 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, and the U.S. Department of Justice announced it had issued subpoenas to doctors and medical facilities involved in performing sex-change procedures on minors.

In 2021, Arkansas became the first state in the nation to pass a law protecting children from gender transition procedures.

Arkansas’ Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act prohibits doctors from performing sex-change surgeries or giving puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to minors. Unfortunately, the law has been challenged in court—but Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin continues to defend it, and we are confident our federal courts will uphold it as constitutional.

Protecting children from sex-change procedures isn’t just good policy—it’s common sense.

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U.S. Department of Education Continues to Roll Back Transgender Policies at Schools

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Over the past two weeks, the U.S. Department of Education has continued to push back against pro-transgender policies that many schools adopted under the Biden Administration.

Title IX is a federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education and in activities that receive federal funding — like school athletic programs. But the Biden Administration issued executive orders and rules drastically redefining “sex” under federal law to include sexual orientation and gender identity. As a result, many schools, colleges, and universities adopted policies that let male athletes compete in women’s sports and use girls’ locker rooms, showers, restrooms, and changing areas at school.

However, earlier this year, President Trump signed executive orders undoing many of the Biden Administration’s bad policies.

Since then the U.S Department of Education has worked hard to ensure public schools, colleges, and universities treat women and girls fairly.

On July 25, the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that five Northern Virginia school districts had policies in place letting biological males use girls’ locker rooms and restrooms at school.

In a press release, the Office for Civil Rights said:

In February of this year, OCR opened an investigation into Alexandria City Public Schools, Arlington Public Schools, Fairfax County Public Schools, Loudoun County Public Schools, and Prince William County Public Schools. The investigation was based on complaints alleging that the Divisions have similar anti-discrimination policies pertaining to “transgender-identifying” students, which violate the sex-based protections of Title IX. The Divisions are also the subject of several lawsuits, informal complaints, and reports, which allege that students in the Divisions avoid using school restrooms whenever possible because of the schools’ policies, and that female students have witnessed male students inappropriately touching other students and watching female students change in a female locker room. 

On August 1, the U.S. Department of Education announced Wagner College in New York has entered into a Resolution Agreement to comply with Title IX.

Earlier this year, female fencer Stephanie Turner forfeited a match after she was forced to compete against a biological male from Wagner College during the women’s event at USA Fencing’s Cherry Blossom Open competition. The Department of Education opened an investigation into Wagner as a result.

According to the Department of Education, Wagner has agreed to make sure biological males do not compete in women’s sports and “issue a personalized letter of apology to any Wagner College female fencer and issue a public statement of apology to all female athletes who were required to compete against a male in a Wagner athletics program designated for women.”

In July, the Department of Education made a similar announcement when it issued a press release saying the University of Pennsylvania had agreed to restore female athletes’ swimming records, issue apologies to female swimmers, and take steps to make sure biological males don’t compete in women’s athletics.

We have written repeatedly about how female swimmers, powerlifters, cyclists, sprinters, volleyball players, and others have seen their sports radically changed by men who claim to be women.

Letting men compete in women’s sports effectively erases women’s athletics.

It hampers women’s ability to compete for athletic scholarships and hurts their professional opportunities as adults.

In some sports, letting men compete against women can even be dangerous.

Concerned Women for America reports that more than 1,900 male athletes have taken first place medals away from women and girls.

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.

Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin also recently joined 26 other state attorneys general in signing a formal letter calling on the NCAA to restore records and honors to female athletes.

And Arkansas has adopted good laws protecting physical privacy in school locker rooms, showers, restrooms, changing areas, and sleeping accommodations.

Most Americans agree that athletes should compete according to their biological sex — not their gender identity.

We deeply appreciate our elected leaders and policymakers who work hard to stand up for fairness in women’s sports both in Arkansas and across the country.

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Arkansas A.G. Joins Letter Urging NCAA to Protect Fairness in Women’s Sports

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Last week, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin joined 26 other state attorneys general in signing a formal letter calling on the NCAA to restore records and honors to female athletes.

The letter led by Mississippi’s attorney general urges the NCAA to reinstate “all championships, titles, wins, awards, records and other recognitions that were wrongfully awarded to male athletes competing in NCAA women’s category events.”

In 2022, transgender swimmer “Lia” Thomas — a biological male who claims to be female — made headlines for shattering women’s swimming records and winning the women’s 500-yard freestyle at the NCAA Division I championship.

The NCAA even went so far as to nominate Thomas for its 2022 Woman of the Year Award.

As a result, in 2024 a group of female athletes filed a lawsuit arguing the NCAA violated their federal rights under Title IX by letting Thomas compete as a woman.

The University of Pennsylvania has announced it plans to revoke Thomas’ medals and apologize to female athletes forced to compete against Thomas. The letter Attorney General Griffin signed urges the NCAA to do the same for all female athletes.

We have written repeatedly about how female swimmers, powerlifters, cyclists, sprinters, volleyball players, and others have seen their sports radically changed by men who claim to be women.

Letting men compete in women’s sports reverses 50 years of advancements for women and effectively erases women’s athletics.

It hampers their ability to compete for athletic scholarships and hurts their professional opportunities as adults. Concerned Women for America reports that more than 1,900 male athletes who claim to be female have taken first place medals away from women and girls.

In some sports, letting men compete against women can even be dangerous.

That’s why 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.

Earlier this year, President Trump signed an executive order protecting fairness in women’s sports under Title IX.

Most Americans agree that athletes should compete according to their biological sex — not their gender identity.

We deeply appreciate our elected leaders and policymakers who work hard to stand up for fairness in women’s sports both in Arkansas and across the country.

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