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Court Allows Detransitioner to Sue Doctors: Guest Column

Jun 24, 2024John StonestreetLGBTLGBT, Transgender

Late last month, a North Carolina court allowed Prisha Mosley to sue the doctors who provided her so-called “gender-affirming” care. According to Mosley, who began “transitioning” at age 16, “doctors and counselors … told me that changing my body to look like a boy’s body would cure my mental health problems.”

However, despite chemical and surgical interventions, Mosley’s mental health problems persisted: “Their ‘care’ … left me broken, with extreme physical injuries and without my body parts. It did not cure my mental health problems and instead made them worse.” Despite motions to dismiss her case, the court found Mosley’s complaint “sufficient” to proceed.

Stories like these, claiming that “transitioning” did not lead to greater wholeness, are rapidly growing. The court’s decision is the first of its kind and offers hope that ideologically motivated medical professionals who fast-track kids to transition can be stopped and even brought to justice. Let’s continue to pray that the light shines through the lies of so-called “gender-affirming” care.

Dads Can’t Be Moms: Guest Column

Jun 17, 2024John StonestreetLGBTChild Welfare, LGBT, Transgender

Recently, The Washington Post released an article with this headline: “Our daughter wanted a mommy, so she picked one of her dads.” In it, the author praised his same-sex partner for taking a “motherly role” as assigned by their three-year-old adopted daughter. He argued that the term should be broadened, as if anyone can be a motherly figure.

This is another iteration of a fundamentally bad idea of the sexual revolution, that men and women are interchangeable. Still, the story betrays itself. Why did this three-year-old girl sense something was wrong in the first place? She somehow knew she needed a mother.

In fact, throughout the article, the author expressed concern that his daughter was “bending the reality” of having two dads. And that’s the very point: “two dads” is not a reality, it’s a social construction. Moms and dads? Those are baked into the human condition.

Dads can’t mom. And moms can’t dad.

Not Even Sororities Are Safe: Guest Column

Jun 10, 2024John StonestreetLGBTLGBT, Transgender

On May 15, the United States Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in Westenbroek et al. v. Kappa Kappa Gamma. In fall 2022, Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority headquarters forced the University of Wyoming chapter to admit a male member. Women who objected or spoke up were threatened with discipline.

Months later, members of the chapter filed a lawsuit against the sorority for failing to abide by its own bylaws, specifically the one that says, “a new member shall be a woman.”

This is what happens when institutions and leaders sacrifice the safety, wellbeing, happiness, and protection of women on an altar of gender ideology. If a sorority is no longer a space reserved for women only, why should we expect anywhere else to be?

As one of the plaintiffs put it, “To girls across our great country—and their mothers and fathers—if you think you’re in a situation where this issue won’t affect you, think again.”