Trans Lobby Lies Exposed
March 18, 2024 | Washington, D.C.
by Kris Ullman, President, Eagle Forum
Do you remember the kids’ book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, in which poor Alexander has a day filled with gum in his hair, tripping over his skateboard and dropping his sweater in the sink? Well, the trans lobby – those that push the insane notions that one can ‘change their sex/gender’ because men and women are interchangeable – just had a very bad week.
The UK National Health Service stopped authorizing puberty blockers for kids, Michael Shellenberger and Mia Hughes released the jaw-dropping WPATH Files and Riley Gaines & Company sued the NCAA for violating their civil rights by allowing males to compete against and change in locker rooms with female athletes. While the fight against those who cannot tell the difference between men and women continues, these three events indicate that their house of cards is beginning to weaken.
On Tuesday, March 12, NHS England (National Health Service) announced that they will no longer prescribe puberty blockers for children. This comes after months of public consultation on the topic and independent review of gender identity services for underage children. According to an article in Time magazine, the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) treated more than 5,000 kids from 2021-2022. A decade earlier only 250 youth were treated. Due to lawsuits by detransitioners and outrage by the public, the GIDS clinic is closing at the end of March.
“We have concluded that there is not enough evidence to support the safety or clinical effectiveness of puberty-suppressing hormones to make the treatment routinely available at this time,” the report says. Sadly, puberty blockers are widely prescribed in the United States for young people suffering from gender dysphoria. These blockers that can cause irreversible damage to developing bodies are the gateway treatment that more often than not leads to the administration of cross-sex hormones and gender mutilating surgery.
This reversal by NHS England, as well as reconsiderations by medical professionals in Finland, Norway, Sweden, and even France, are a blow to the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) self-proclaimed “internationally accepted Standards of Care (SOC) for the treatment of individuals with gender dysphoria.” Another shot across the bow of this radical, pro-trans advocacy group was the publication by Michael Schellenberger of the WPATH Files. The report, authored by Mia Hughes and based on documents leaked by WPATH insiders of an “internal messaging forum, as well as a leaked internal panel discussion, demonstrates that the world-leading transgender healthcare group is neither scientific nor advocating for ethical medical care.”
The report is truly shocking. “The files provide clear evidence that doctors and therapists are aware they are offering minors life-changing treatments they cannot fully understand. WPATH members know that puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries will cause infertility and other complications, including cancer and pelvic floor dysfunction. Yet they consider life-altering medical interventions for young patients, including vaginoplasty for a 14-year-old and hormones for a developmentally delayed 13-year-old.”
Hopefully doctors, politicians, parents, and judges hearing challenges to state bans on these harmful ‘treatments’ will read the WPATH files and realize, “the organization does not meet the standards of evidence-based medicine . . . Members are fully aware that children and adolescents cannot comprehend the lifelong consequences of ‘gender-affirming care,’ and in some cases . . . neither can their parents.” Thanks to Schellenberger and Hughes, and the brave whistleblowers who provided the inside information, WPATH’s Standards of Care may be headed to the trash bin where they belong.
In addition to these two positive developments in the war against insanity, this week Riley Gaines and a dozen female athletes filed a ground-breaking lawsuit against the NCAA for their policy that ignores the requirements of Title IX. This law was meant to protect women’s access to athletic opportunities.
The Free Press Substack publication broke the story reporting, “The lawsuit, the first federal action of its kind, seeks to change the rules, rendering any biological males ineligible to compete against female athletes. It demands the NCAA revoke all awards given to trans athletes in women’s competitions and “reassign” them to their female contenders. It also asks for ‘damages for pain and suffering, mental and emotional distress, suffering and anxiety, expense costs and other damages due to defendants’ wrongful conduct.'”
Riley Gaines, the former collegiate athlete who is leading the fight against males in female sports and private spaces, said, “The NCAA’s most basic job is to protect the fairness and safety of competition but instead the NCAA has been and continues to openly discriminate against women.”
It’s past time that women and girls stand up to the NCAA, colleges, and the radical trans lobby who seek to erase the rights guaranteed by Title IX and the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment. As Kylee Alons, another plaintiff and NCAA championship athlete told the Free Press, “I was literally racing U.S. and Olympic gold medalists and I was changing in a storage closet at the elite-level meet. I just felt that my privacy and safety were being violated in the locker room.”
“You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free,” Jesus says in John 8:32. The truth regarding the harm of puberty blockers, the sham authority of the WPATH, and the NCAA’s violation of the rights of female athletes were all exposed this week. The battle against the so-called Trans Lobby is not over, but it was definitely “a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week” for them and their lies!
Kris Ullman is the president of Eagle Forum. Kris served as Executive Director of Eagle Forum’s D.C. office from 1995-1998. She has served on the Eagle Forum Board of Directors since 2017.