Major U.S. Medical Group Finally Calls for Protecting Kids from Sex-Change Procedures

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The nation’s largest professional organization for plastic surgeons now recommends delaying sex-rejecting surgeries for children until at least age 19.

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons is one of the first major U.S. medical associations to stop promoting sex-change procedures for kids. The group said it found “insufficient evidence” that the benefits of surgery outweigh the risks for minors with gender dysphoria.

The ASPS reportedly changed its stance after reviewing England’s 2024 Cass Review that found glaring problems with giving children cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers and with subjecting children to sex-change surgeries.

All of this is really good news.

Public health experts and policymakers 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. These drugs and procedures carry serious risks — including infertility, sexual dysfunction, impaired bone density, and cardiovascular problems.

Whistleblowers have come forward to testify about how they were rushed through gender transitions as children without understanding the procedures’ risks, consequences, or alternatives.

Today we know pro-LGBT activists and medical organizations have been citing each other’s work in a circular pattern for years, manufacturing a fake consensus about performing sex-change procedures on kids.

For the past 12 months, federal officials have consistently worked to protect children from these dangerous procedures.

Last year, President Trump issued an executive order prohibiting federal funding from being used for sex-change procedures on kids, and the federal government is expected to propose new rules that could help protect children from sex-change procedures nationwide.

Over the 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 also subpoenaed doctors and medical facilities involved in performing sex-change procedures on minors.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has discussed a series of regulatory actions to protect children from these procedures.

In September, the U.S. Department of Justice sent Congress the federal Victims of Chemical or Surgical Mutilation Act. The proposed federal law would generally prevent doctors, hospitals, and clinics from performing sex-change surgeries on children or giving them puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones.

In 2021, lawmakers in Arkansas passed the Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act. This good law generally prohibits doctors from performing sex-change procedures on children or giving them puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.

The SAFE Act was upheld in federal court last year and is protecting children in Arkansas right now.

It’s good to see medical professionals finally taking steps to protect children from dangerous sex-change procedures. It represents what some have called “a refreshing return to sanity” when it comes to how we help children with gender dysphoria.

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

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Children Are Greater Than Our Desires: Guest Column

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“Babies aren’t a tool for adult validation,” and other messages society seems primed to hear.

Recently, singer Meghan Trainor posted a picture of herself in a hospital bed, teary-eyed, and holding a newborn for skin-to-skin contact. The woman who carried and birthed the child, however, was nowhere in sight. Trainor and her husband used a surrogate.  

Of course, as images go these days, this one is preferable to men pretending to be postpartum, having just bought a child via the surrogacy market. But that just shows how disordered our society is about marriage, sex, and babies.  

Many people, including many Christians, consider surrogacy a harmless and helpful technological advancement. People want babies, and more babies are good, the thinking goes. All the while, a blind eye is turned to the severe moral problems inherent in the mechanics of surrogacy, including the commodification of children and the desecration of the maternal bond. Not to mention, the system is so underregulated, pedophiles and child abusers have been able to acquire victims.

Thankfully, more are learning the truth about this practice and this industry. As Katy Faust of Them Before Us put it in response to Trainor’s post: 

Thousands are finally speaking up against surrogacy. The tide is turning. We’re grateful your baby is here, alive, and loved. But we won’t pretend the method was harmless. No child should be created through a system that turns women into means and babies into products. 

That system is enabled and protected by the 2015 Obergefell Supreme Court decision. Severing marriage in law from the intrinsically biological realities of male and female also severed the connection between children and those whose union creates them. Marriage is presumed now, both in culture and in law, to be an institution of adult feelings. Kids are accessories.  

As Faust told The Colson Center: 

Across the globe 38 countries have legalized gay marriage. Exactly 0 of them have simultaneously strengthened children’s claim to their own mother and father. All of them have either abolished or significantly weakened the idea that children belong to the two people responsible for their existence. 

This week, Faust announced the formation of a coalition of leaders and organizations called Greater Than. Advocates of same-sex “marriage” campaigned on the promise of marriage equality, posting memes of equal signs across social media. Greater Than proclaims the hard truth that children are treated as less than when they are deprived of mom and dad. As Faust described,  

Greater Than is a coalition of pastors, parents, influencers, policy makers, theologians, lawyers, students, and normie Americans who are all speaking with one voice. What are we saying? “Don’t touch the kids.” Marriage does not exist as a tool for adult validation. It is God’s Plan A for child protection, and we intend to retake it on their behalf. 

Rather than seeing kids as truly equal and deserving adult protection, the dangerous combination of abortion, surrogacy, and redefining marriage reduces them to one option among many, as a means to fulfill adult desires. Legally, just as Roe v. Wade deprived preborn children of their right to life, Obergefell is depriving children of their right to their mom and dad. Just as a culture of death enables the holocaust of abortion, a culture of sexual autonomy enables the commodification of children. As pro-lifers have done for decades now on the issue of abortion, so the Greater Than coalition is committed to the legal and cultural work necessary to protect children. 

The Colson Center is proud to join this list of 43 (and growing!) organizations and leaders. The Greater Than website features answers to difficult questions, opportunities to get involved, and the latest news and information about this pressing problem. 

Join the movement. As the Greater Than website puts it: 

The line has been crossed. The cost is our kids. It’s time to fight back—with truth, courage, and conviction. It is our responsibility to give kids their identity, security, and childhood back. 

Copyright 2026 by the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. Reprinted from BreakPoint.org with permission.

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Legal Challenge Serves as a Reminder Why Arkansans Stand Strong for Life

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In recent news, Arkansas pro-lifers have been given an opportunity to publicly address abortion rhetoric and reiterate why Arkansas still stands as the most pro-life state in the nation.

Last week, a legal challenge was filed in Pulaski County to overturn Arkansas’ law that generally prohibits abortion except in cases to save the life of the mother. Many pro-lifers in the state have been anticipating another abortion amendment similar to the one that reared its head in 2024, but attorneys with Amplify Legal are representing plaintiffs who want to strike down current law that has been on the books since Roe v. Wade was overturned. 

Interestingly enough, the lawsuit addressed three different aspects of the pro-abortion argument, particularly in Arkansas:

  1. It claims Arkansas law is vague, restrictive and unconstitutional.
  2. It argues a woman ought to be able to abort her baby if the baby has a fetal abnormality.
  3. It says there should be exceptions to Arkansas’ law for rape.

The lawsuit does not have much legal basis, but we shouldn’t miss this opportunity to address their arguments straightforwardly. 

Is the Arkansas abortion law vague, restrictive, or unconstitutional? No, and here is why.

Act 180 was passed in 2019 to prohibit abortion except to save the life of the mother. Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, this law has saved many lives and prevented the lifetime trauma of abortion for many mothers. Many of these mothers were invited into loving pregnancy centers instead and given the help they needed to carry their babies to term and care for them after birth. This is the loving option — one that does not leave the lasting effects of trauma from abortion. Women deserve better than abortion and Arkansas law reflects the care and compassion that Arkansans offer to hurting women.

Arkansas’ abortion law was amended during the 2025 legislative session to better its clarify definitions and wording. It says that physicians should use “reasonable medical judgement” to determine whether an abortion is necessary. This is the same medical and legal standard used to make other important medical decisions. This effectively made the law crystal clear for both mothers and physicians and leaves no room for confusion or malpractice. 

Family Council and many other pro-life leaders have spoken out against exceptions for abortion for many years. Pro-abortionists use the 0.09% to justify 99% and that is wrong. Pro-lifers lead on this matter out of a heart of compassion, truth, and value for every human life. Adding abortion to trauma does not take away the pain of rape or fetal abnormality. In fact, it adds more pain and suffering for the mother, her family, and the baby. Abortion is not the answer. These situations demand compassion, care, justice, and active support and assistance. 

Though we are confident our courts ultimately will uphold Arkansas’ pro-life laws, let’s not miss this opportunity to tell our friends, family, and neighbors the truth of abortion and its devastation. There is a better way — and abortion is not it.

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