A county judge in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ohio">Ohio</a> placed a temporary block on the state’s law shielding individuals under 18 years old from life-altering transgender procedures for two weeks or until consideration of a broader injunction against the law. 
The law, called the “Save Adolescents from Experimentation Act,” bans so-called &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; surgeries, such as double mastectomies on girls who identify as boys, in addition to prohibiting giving minors cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers. The law does not prevent minors who were already placed on puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones before the legislation passed from staying on them. 
Franklin County Judge Michael J. Holbrook put a hold on the law <a href="https://www.10tv.com/article/news/politics/ohio-law-transgender-care-ban-blocked-by-judge/530-598b7f3b-477d-49a9-9ad7-336f2b8897d9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> that it may have been unlawful because the Ohio Constitution says that bills should have no “more than one subject.” The “Safe Act” included both a ban on transgender procedures and stipulated that males could not compete on female sports teams at grades K-12 and the collegiate level. 
The law, slated to go into effect on April 24, will be placed on hold for two weeks unless a hearing for a preliminary injunction against it takes place before that time. The ACLU challenged the law, claiming it was discriminatory. 
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, a Republican, said he expected the law to be upheld eventually. 
“This is just the first page of the book,” he <a href="https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Media/News-Releases/April-2024/Statement-from-AG-Yost-on-House-Bill-68-Ruling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “We will fight vigorously to defend this properly enacted statute, which protects our children from irrevocable adult decisions. I am confident that this law will be upheld.”
The law was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ohio-republicans-ban-trans-procedures-on-minors-boys-in-girls-sports-in-vote-overriding-gop-governor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> by Republican lawmakers in January over the veto of GOP Governor Mike DeWine. It was sponsored by state Rep. Gary Click (R), who said Tuesday that the law would be upheld after litigation was resolved. 
&#8220;We have lower court disappointments but higher court victories,” he said, <a href="https://www.10tv.com/article/news/politics/ohio-law-transgender-care-ban-blocked-by-judge/530-598b7f3b-477d-49a9-9ad7-336f2b8897d9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to 10WBNS. 
Click added that “there&#8217;s no constitutional right to injure children, there&#8217;s no constitutional right to chemically castrate children… there is no constitutional right to this, this is malpractice and we&#8217;re gonna win in the end.”
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DeWine said he expected the court battle to go to the state Supreme Court. 
&#8220;Everybody knew that this would go to court eventually,” DeWine said. “Whatever the decision the local judge makes, it will go up to the court of appeals and I&#8217;m sure it will go from there to the Ohio Supreme Court.”
More than 20 states have passed similar laws to Ohio&#8217;s, with most surviving court challenges so far. The Supreme Court on Monday allowed an Idaho law protecting minors from transgender procedures to go into effect while litigation against it proceeds. 
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, a federal appeals court ruled that West Virginia&#8217;s transgender sports ban violates a federal civil rights law that protects students from sex-based discrimination.

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Author <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jk-rowling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">J.K. Rowling</a> laid into &#8220;gender ideologues&#8221; on Tuesday for doing everything they could to stifle debate on the potential risks and long-term impact of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, particularly on children.
Noting that &#8220;no debate&#8221; was an oft-repeated slogan in the trans activist community, the &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; creator punctuated her comments with a series of X posts identifying individuals who had been scolded, bullied, and harassed — sometimes publicly — until they were either forced out of or quit their jobs.
The conversation began with a comment from Kirstie Allsop, who said in an X post that no one was blocking debate around those issues: &#8220;There [are] very real issues around the impact of puberty blockers on long term health. But the point I was making is that it is, and always has been possible to debate these things and those saying there was no debate are wrong.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m astounded by this comment,&#8221; Rowling replied. &#8220;One of the gender ideologues&#8217; favourite slogans is &#8216;no debate.&#8217; Opponents have been attacked, vilified, subject to discipline at work, had their lives overturned and lost their careers, all for the crime of wanting a debate.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/KirstieMAllsopp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KirstieMAllsopp</a> I&#39;m astounded by this comment. One of the gender ideologues&#39; favourite slogans is &#39;no debate&#39;. Opponents have been attacked, vilified, subject to discipline at work, had their lives overturned and lost their careers, all for the crime of wanting a debate. 1/13 <a href="https://t.co/UVS2KmWmm6">https://t.co/UVS2KmWmm6</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1779920317730709990?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Rowling quickly followed that with a series of posts naming people who had been directly harmed by the &#8220;gender ideologues&#8221; and their insistence that not only was no debate necessary, no debate could be permitted.
&#8220;Sonia Appleby, an experienced psychotherapist working at the now discredited Tavistock clinic, was monstered for raising concerns. A tribunal found that her professional reputation had been damaged and &#8216;prevented her from proper work on safeguarding,'&#8221; Rowling&#8217;s first post read.
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Sue Evans, a nurse who also worked at the Tavistock and was extremely worried that children were being harmed, tried to raise the alarm. She took concerns to management but was &#39;alienated&#39; and subsequently left for the sake of her own mental health. <a href="https://t.co/66x9VrES4q">https://t.co/66x9VrES4q</a> 3/13
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1779920689752850446?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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And the second: &#8220;Sue Evans, a nurse who also worked at the Tavistock and was extremely worried that children were being harmed, tried to raise the alarm. She took concerns to management but was &#8216;alienated&#8217; and subsequently left for the sake of her own mental health.&#8221;
A third post mentioned psychiatrist Dr. David Bell, who filed a report voicing the concerns of people like Evans and Appleby — &#8220;and the trust&#8217;s response was to attempt to open an investigation into him.&#8221;
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James Esses, who was doing a Masters Degree in psychotherapy, was expelled from his course for speaking out about the impact of gender ideology on child safeguarding. 5/13<a href="https://t.co/par3OwMcOF">https://t.co/par3OwMcOF</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1779921059338223747?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;James Esses, who was doing a Masters Degree in psychotherapy, was expelled from his course for speaking out about the impact of gender ideology on child safeguarding,&#8221; the next post read.
&#8220;In Canada, Kenneth Zucker, former head of the Child Youth and Family Gender Identity Clinic, was fired for questioning whether automatic affirmation of children in their trans identities was the best treatment model,&#8221; Rowling&#8217;s thread continued.
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In the US, trans man Scott Newgent (<a href="https://twitter.com/NotScottNewgent?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NotScottNewgent</a>) has made it his life&#39;s mission to raise the alarm about the dangers of transitioning children. He&#39;s lost his career for speaking out. 7/13 <a href="https://t.co/HmCh6kC0fm">pic.twitter.com/HmCh6kC0fm</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1779921388276473887?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The seventh post told the story of Scott Newgent, who transitioned from female to male as an adult and was featured in Matt Walsh&#8217;s &#8220;What Is A Woman?&#8221; documentary — and has spent years advocating against transitioning children.
&#8220;Jo Phoenix, professor of criminology at the Open University, was harassed and bullied because of her opposition to gender identity ideology, severely impacting her career and health,&#8221; the eighth post read.
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Allison Bailey, the lesbian KC who dared challenge gender identity ideology&#39;s impact on lesbians, was targeted by Stonewall, subject to horrendous abuse and effectively lost her career. 9/13<a href="https://t.co/dtC4WZNwtq">https://t.co/dtC4WZNwtq</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1779921682167152823?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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A ninth followed: &#8220;Allison Bailey, the lesbian KC who dared challenge gender identity ideology&#8217;s impact on lesbians, was targeted by Stonewall, subject to horrendous abuse and effectively lost her career.&#8221;
&#8220;Philosophy professor Kathleen Stock was hounded out of her position at the University of Sussex, shunned by colleagues and targeted by students, all for the crime of being critical of gender identity ideology,&#8221; Rowling&#8217;s tenth post added.
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Detransitioners are subject to horrendous abuse from their &#39;community&#39; online, because they speak out about the negative impact hormones and surgery have had on their lives. We&#39;ve all watched them being jeered at, even told to kill themselves, after sharing their stories. 11/13
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1779922139883217180?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Pivoting back to her original point, Rowling continued, &#8220;Detransitioners are subject to horrendous abuse from their &#8216;community&#8217; online, because they speak out about the negative impact hormones and surgery have had on their lives. We&#8217;ve all watched them being jeered at, even told to kill themselves, after sharing their stories.&#8221;
&#8220;These individuals are the tip of the iceberg,&#8221; Rowling added. &#8220;I know, because I&#8217;ve received innumerable letters and emails from other people in medical and related professions who&#8217;ve been bullied and harassed for wanting a debate on gender identity ideology and the affirmation model.&#8221;
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People like you who now claim there&#39;s never been any attempt to stifle debate are part of the reason this mess happened in the first place. If you want to remain in a state of blithe unconcern, fine, but don&#39;t tell those in the trenches they&#39;re making a fuss about nothing. 13/X
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1779922432578441227?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Turning back to Allsop&#8217;s comment, Rowling concluded: &#8220;People like you who now claim there&#8217;s never been any attempt to stifle debate are part of the reason this mess happened in the first place. If you want to remain in a state of blithe unconcern, fine, but don&#8217;t tell those in the trenches they&#8217;re making a fuss about nothing.&#8221;

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The Supreme Court ruled Monday to allow an Idaho law protecting children from life-altering transgender procedures to go into effect while the law is challenged in lower courts. 
The law, passed last year, bans procedures like double mastectomies on girls who identify as boys and giving children puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, which have been linked to bone development issues and heart problems. The law also stipulates that doctors who perform transgender procedures on kids could go to prison for 10 years. The decision means the law will go into effect for the state except for two families who say their children identify as transgender who sued with the help of the ACLU claiming the law was discriminatory. 
Justices Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett all <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23a763_n7io.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sided</a> with Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador who appealed to the court to turn back a sweeping injunction placed on the law by a federal judge who completely blocked the law. Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan all dissented.
Gorsuch said that Judge B. Lynn Winmill, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-blocks-idaho-law-protecting-kids-from-transgender-procedures" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blocked</a> Idaho’s law back in December, went too far in her decision.
&#8220;Ordinarily, injunctions like these may go no further than necessary to provide interim relief to the parties,&#8221; he <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/supreme-court-allows-idaho-enforce-ban-gender-affirming/story?id=108711989" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. &#8220;In this case, however, the district court went much further, prohibiting a State from enforcing any aspect of its duly enacted law against anyone.&#8221;
The ruling was the first time for the Supreme Court to weigh in on a state law shielding children from life-altering transgender procedures. Labrador <a href="https://www.ag.idaho.gov/newsroom/us-supreme-court-allows-idaho-to-enforce-law-protecting-vulnerable-children/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">celebrated</a> the ruling, saying it was a major win for children in his state. Litigation will continue and the Supreme Court will likely hear the case on its merits at some point after the appeals process. 
“I’ve witnessed firsthand the devastating consequences of drugs and procedures used on children with gender dysphoria. And it’s a preventable tragedy,” Labrador said. “The state has a duty to protect and support all children, and that’s why I’m proud to defend Idaho’s law that ensures children are not subjected to these life-altering drugs and procedures.”
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“Those suffering from gender dysphoria deserve love, support, and medical care rooted in biological reality,” he added. “Denying the basic truth that boys and girls are biologically different hurts our kids. No one has the right to harm children, and I’m grateful that we, as the state, have the power — and duty — to protect them.”
Labrador’s appeal to the Supreme Court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/red-states-urge-scotus-to-back-idahos-transgender-surgery-ban-cite-daily-wires-bombshell-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was backed</a> by 19 Republican attorneys general, who argued that it would be a “devastating medical scandal” if Idaho was not allowed to protect children from transgender procedures. In recent years, over 20 states have enacted laws shielding children from transgender surgeries, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormone regimens.

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Democratic Kansas Governor Laura Kelly vetoed a bill on Friday that would have protected children from life-altering transgender surgeries, claiming that it trampled on parental rights. 
The Republican-backed <a href="https://legiscan.com/KS/text/SB233/id/2972770/Kansas-2023-SB233-Enrolled.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a> would have banned surgical procedures like removing the breasts of girls who identify as boys and other genital-related surgeries. It also would have banned placing children on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, which have been linked to poor bone development, future fertility issues, and heart problems. 
“This divisive legislation targets a small group of Kansans by placing government mandates on them and dictating to parents how to best raise and care for their children. I do not believe that is a conservative value, and it’s certainly not a Kansas value,” Kelly <a href="https://governor.kansas.gov/governor-kelly-vetoes-bills-allows-one-to-become-law-without-signature/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a veto message. “To be clear, this legislation tramples parental rights.”
Republicans have supermajorities in both the state House and Senate, meaning that they could move to override Kelly&#8217;s veto. The legislation, Senate Bill 233, passed the House 80 to 40 and the Senate 26 to11. 
The legislation also would have authorized a civil cause of action against healthcare providers for providing such treatments, restricted the use of state money to back “gender transitioning,” and require professional discipline for doctors who did transgender procedures on kids. 
Kansas House Speaker Dan Hawkins <a href="https://twitter.com/DanHawkinsKS/status/1778897440323612732" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Republicans stood by ready to override the veto. 
“As we watch other states, nations, and organizations reverse course on these experimental procedures on children, Laura Kelly will most surely find herself on the wrong side of history with her reckless veto of this common-sense protection for Kansas minors,” he said. 
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Last year, the Senate <a href="https://kansasreflector.com/2023/04/26/senate-attempts-to-override-slew-of-vetoed-transgender-bills-but-care-ban-fails/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fell short</a> of overriding Kelly’s veto of a similar bill that would have banned transgender procedures on children. The legislature was able to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kansas-will-no-longer-allow-residents-to-change-gender-on-birth-certificates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">override her veto</a> on a bill that defined men and women on the basis of their “biological reproductive system.” 
According to the <a href="https://kslegislature.org/li/b2023_24/measures/documents/summary_sb_180_2023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">law</a>, a “female” is “an individual whose biological reproductive system is developed to produce ova” and a “mother” is” a parent of the female sex.” The law also stipulates that “woman” and “girl” refer to biological females. 
In recent years, over 20 states have enacted laws shielding children from transgender surgeries, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormone regimes. The groups have been opposed by leftist activists who claim the laws are discriminatory and violate the 14th Amendment.

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Author J.K. Rowling let critics have it in a blistering thread aimed specifically at those who continue to push radical gender ideology even in the face of studies indicating that medical gender transitions — particularly for children — do more harm than good.
Rowling, who has long championed women&#8217;s sex-based rights — and argued that no combination of hormones, therapies, drugs, or surgeries can change sex — referenced Dr. Hilary Cass&#8217; <a href="https://cass.independent-review.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">review</a> of &#8220;gender identity services for children and young people,&#8221; which advised the medical community to <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/10/under-25s-trans-care-must-be-slower-says-cass-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stop the trend</a> of pushing children toward medical transitions.
The immediate response from the transgender activist community was to <a href="https://twitter.com/e_mmarussell/status/1777844056548077878" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attack the study</a>, calling it &#8220;flawed&#8221; and &#8220;ideologically led&#8221; — and Rowling fired back via X.
&#8220;Over the last four years, Hilary Cass has conducted the most robust review of the medical evidence for transitioning children that&#8217;s ever been conducted. Mere hours after it was released to the press and public, committed ideologues are doubling down,&#8221; she said.
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Over the last four years, Hilary Cass has conducted the most robust review of the medical evidence for transitioning children that&#39;s ever been conducted. Mere hours after it was released to the press and public, committed ideologues are doubling down. 1/6 <a href="https://t.co/J4fA4JYgkC">https://t.co/J4fA4JYgkC</a>
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&#8220;These are people who&#8217;ve deemed opponents &#8216;far-right&#8217; for wanting to know there are proper checks and balances in place before autistic, gay and abused kids — groups that are all overrepresented at gender clinics — are left sterilised, inorgasmic, lifelong patients,&#8221; she continued.
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I understand that the review&#39;s conclusions will have come as a seismic shock to those who&#39;ve hounded and demonised whistleblowers and smeared opponents as bigots and transphobes, but trying to discredit Hilary Cass&#39;s work isn&#39;t merely misguided. It&#39;s actively malign. 3/6
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1778105486765662600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I understand that the review&#8217;s conclusions will have come as a seismic shock to those who&#8217;ve hounded and demonised whistleblowers and smeared opponents as bigots and transphobes, but trying to discredit Hilary Cass&#8217;s work isn&#8217;t merely misguided. It&#8217;s actively malign,&#8221; Rowling – who has often faced such criticisms from her detractors — added.
Rowling then turned on those who were still actively supporting the idea of medically transitioning children, arguing that every new piece of evidence seemed to be flying in the face of the things they were advocating.
&#8220;Even if you don&#8217;t feel ashamed of cheerleading for what now looks like severe medical malpractice, even if you don&#8217;t want to accept that you might have been wrong, where&#8217;s your sense of self-preservation? The bandwagon you hopped on so gladly is hurtling towards a cliff,&#8221; she warned.
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And if I sound angry, it&#39;s because I&#39;m bloody angry. I read Cass this morning and my anger&#39;s been mounting all day. Kids have been irreversibly harmed, and thousands are complicit, not just medics, but the celebrity mouthpieces, unquestioning media and cynical corporations. 5/6
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1778105697105805392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;And if I sound angry, it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m bloody angry,&#8221; the &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; author continued. &#8220;I read Cass this morning and my anger&#8217;s been mounting all day. Kids have been irreversibly harmed, and thousands are complicit, not just medics, but the celebrity mouthpieces, unquestioning media and cynical corporations.&#8221;
&#8220;The consequences of this scandal will play out for decades,&#8221; Rowling continued to hammer her point. &#8220;You cheered it on. You did all you could to impede and misrepresent research. You tried to bully people out of their jobs for opposing you. Young people have been experimented on, left infertile and in pain.&#8221;
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I thought the last tweet was going to be my last, but I just burst into tears. The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CassReview?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CassReview</a> may be a watershed moment, but it comes too late for detransitioners who&#39;ve written me heartbreaking letters of regret. Today&#39;s not a triumph, it&#39;s the laying bare of a tragedy. 7/7
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1778106344295280884?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Despite her initial plan to stop the thread there, Rowling added one more post saying that she had &#8220;just burst into tears&#8221; over the fact that the report and others like it did not come in time to save the &#8220;detransitioners who have written me heartbreaking letters of regret.&#8221;
&#8220;Today&#8217;s not a triumph, it&#8217;s the laying bare of a tragedy,&#8221; she concluded.

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'I'm Bloody Angry': J.K. Rowling Scorches Critics In The Wake Of Cass Review On Child Gender Transitions

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/idaho" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Idaho</a> Republican Governor Brad Little signed a bill into law on Wednesday that prohibits taxpayer dollars from being used to pay for transgender surgeries and procedures.
The <a href="https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2024/legislation/h0668/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">measure</a>, which easily passed both the state House and Senate, prohibits <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/idaho" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Idaho</a> public dollars from going toward transgender procedures and stipulates that those procedures cannot be done in a government owned building or properties. It passed the House by a vote of 58-11 and the Senate by a vote of 26-8.
“The proposed legislation ensures taxpayer dollars are not used to provide medical treatment or surgeries for the purpose of changing the appearance of a person&#8217;s sex in a way that is not consistent with their biological sex,” a <a href="https://legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/sessioninfo/2024/legislation/H0668SOP.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> of purpose on the legislation said. &#8220;These medical and surgical interventions can cause irreversible physical alterations; and some render the patient sterile or with lifelong sexual dysfunction, while others mutilate healthy body organs.&#8221;
Included in the <a href="https://legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/sessioninfo/2024/legislation/H0668.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">law</a> is a prohibition of using Idaho Medicaid funds for transgender procedures, as well as blocking doctors employed with the government from performing the procedures in the scope of their government work.
Little, whose signing of the measure was first <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/03/28/idaho-gov-ban-taxpayer-funding-sex-change-procedures/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> by the Daily Caller, was widely expected to support the measure after it made its way through the legislature.
&#8220;If the government continues to send our tax dollars towards false answers to real questions, we do a terrible disservice to our citizens,&#8221; <a href="https://www.kivitv.com/downtown-boise/governor-brad-little-signs-bill-that-bans-public-funds-used-for-gender-affirming-care#:~:text=BOISE%2C%20Idaho%20—%20On%20March%2027,for%20any%20gender%2Daffirming%20care." target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Senator Ben Toews during debate on the bill.
The measure was opposed by Democrats and liberal groups like the ACLU, but backed by conservative organizations like the Alliance Defending Freedom.
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“There are only two sexes—male and female—and public funds shouldn’t be used to deny this basic truth,” said ADF Senior Counsel Matt Sharp in a <a href="https://adfmedia.org/press-release/idaho-law-ensures-public-funds-do-not-promote-dangerous-life-altering-procedures" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> praising Little’s decision. “Now and always, our loved ones deserve the loving embrace of family members who guide them toward this reality, along with access to safe and effective counseling. People should not be subjected to harmful—often irreversible—drugs and surgeries that block healthy development, alter hormonal balances, and remove healthy organs and body parts.”
“Idaho, through the leadership of sponsors Rep. Julianne Young, Rep. Bruce Skaug and Sen. Ben Toews and with the support of the Legislature and Gov. Little, now rightly joins a growing number of states that have enacted similar protections from these experimental procedures and bad science,” Sharp added.
While nearly two dozen states have banned transgender procedures on children, only <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/idaho-considers-ban-using-public-funds-facilities-transgender-care-rcna143870" target="_blank" rel="noopener">around</a> 10 have blocked state funds from being used to fund the procedures on others.

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Idaho Governor Signs Law Blocking Taxpayer Funding For Trans Surgeries

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Wyoming became the 24th state to ban gender surgeries on children when Republican Governor Mark Gordon signed legislation targeting the life-altering experimental practice into law on Friday.
<a href="https://www.wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2024/SF0099" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate File 99</a>, which overwhelmingly passed the state’s House and Senate, prohibits “physicians from performing procedures for children related to gender transitioning and gender reassignment.”
While Gordon signed the bill into law and said he supports protecting children from harmful gender procedures, he added that he was concerned about the government crossing the line into “personal affairs of families,” Wyo4News <a href="https://wyo4news.com/news/gordon-signs-child-gender-change-prohibition-bill-vetos-regulation-of-abortion-bill/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“I signed SF99 because I support the protections this bill includes for children. However, it is my belief that the government is straying into the personal affairs of families,” Gordon said in a press release, “Our legislature needs to sort out its intentions with regard to parental rights. While it inserts governmental prerogative in some places, it affirms parental rights in others.”
The bill includes exceptions for “Procedures or treatments that are performed with the consent of the child&#8217;s parent or guardian and are for a child who is born with a medically verifiable genetic disorder of sex development” and for “Any procedure or treatment that is performed with the consent of the child&#8217;s parent or guardian and is for a child with medically verifiable central precocious puberty.”
While Gordon passed the bill banning gender procedures on children, the governor vetoed legislation that would have regulated abortion clinics in Wyoming, arguing the bill would be vulnerable to legal challenges, according to Wyo4News.
Beginning in 2022, Republican-led states began banning gender surgeries on minors as more reports of hospitals conducting the procedures began to surface. In September 2022, Daily Wire host Matt Walsh <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/huge-money-maker-video-reveals-vanderbilts-shocking-gender-care-threats-against-dissenting-doctors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">uncovered</a> shocking details about Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s (VUMC) gender surgeries on children.
“It’s a lot of money,” VUMC Clinic for Transgender Health’s Dr. Shayne Sebold Taylor said at one Medicine Grand Rounds lecture, a video reveals. “These surgeries make a lot of money.”
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Following Walsh’s revelations on VUMC, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tennessee-law-protecting-kids-from-trans-procedures-to-take-full-effect-after-court-victory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tennessee</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mississippi-bans-sex-change-procedures-for-minors-matt-walsh-delivers-remarks-with-governor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mississippi</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alabama-allowed-to-start-enforcing-ban-on-puberty-blockers-cross-sex-hormones-for-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alabama</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-bans-mutilating-surgical-procedures-on-minors-other-woke-initiatives-not-happening-here" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-becomes-largest-state-to-ban-transgender-procedures-on-kids" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas</a>, among numerous others, passed bills protecting children from gender surgeries and hormone treatments. In Montana and Idaho, however, judges have temporarily blocked bans on gender surgeries, and a federal judge <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-strikes-down-arkansas-law-banning-sex-change-procedures-for-minors-as-unconstitutional" target="_blank" rel="noopener">struck down</a> Arkansas’ ban on the procedures, deeming it “unconstitutional.”

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It&#8217;s been more than two weeks since the <a href="https://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/wpath-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WPATH files</a> demonstrated very clearly that so-called &#8220;transgender medicine&#8221; is the single most unethical and barbaric practice that the medical industry has ever endorsed.
It&#8217;s a coordinated effort to permanently destroy the bodies of thousands of young children. The doctors who are involved in this butchery understand very well that children cannot consent to permanent sterilization and amputation. They&#8217;ve said it on tape, as the WPATH files prove, and yet, despite these revelations, no major hospital has announced that they&#8217;re cutting ties with WPATH. In fact, they haven&#8217;t responded to the WPATH files at all.
Instead, as of today, hospitals like UCLA and Massachusetts General proudly declare on their websites that they carefully follow WPATH&#8217;s so-called &#8220;standards of care&#8221; as they castrate their underage patients.
What this means is that the medical industry is all-in on WPATH. Hospitals and medical associations aren&#8217;t going to disassociate with these quacks, at least not until they&#8217;re forced to.
They simply don&#8217;t care about the fact that they&#8217;re ruining the lives of children who can&#8217;t provide informed consent. In practical terms, for now, this means that some of the most disturbed and ideologically driven deviants on the planet — the &#8220;experts&#8221; at WPATH — will continue to write the book on so-called trans medicine. They have free rein.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1331-the-transgender-movement-is-morphing-into-the-transhumanist-movement-and-the-results-are-horrific-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h4>
So it&#8217;s worth taking a closer look at who exactly these &#8220;experts&#8221; are, since no one else in the medical establishment is interested in doing so. As Genspect highlighted this week, one of these experts is a New York psychotherapist <a href="https://www.lauraajacobs.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">using</a> the name &#8220;Laura Jacobs.&#8221; On his website, Jacobs proudly lists his affiliation with WPATH, including his work on formulating WPATH&#8217;s &#8220;standards of care.&#8221;
Reduxx <a href="https://reduxx.info/exclusive-wpath-certified-trans-identified-kink-professional-who-promotes-age-play-and-genital-torture-influenced-standards-of-care/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">looked</a> further into Laura Jacob&#8217;s background. They found that he quote, &#8220;influenced the development of transgender health guidelines regarding &#8216;gender dysphoria&#8217; in adolescents [and] previously contributed a chapter to an anthology in which he promotes BDSM practices, including &#8216;age play&#8217; and &#8216;genital torture.&#8217;”
Apparently, this is the kind of resume that qualifies a man to become a WPATH-certified expert, and to come up with the highly permissive criteria that doctors use in order to castrate children all over the country.
And yet, if you look a little closer, this guy is somehow even weirder and more unsettling than his bio would suggest.
This is a video that was found by a researcher named Jonny Bell. It&#8217;s from a TedX talk that Jacobs delivered a couple of years ago. Watch as Laura Jacobs begins by explaining his own &#8220;gender identity&#8221;:
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There&#8217;s more to this clip, but it&#8217;s important to stop there and highlight the complete and total incoherence of what you just heard. WPATH-certified medical professional Laura Jacobs says he likes to &#8220;play with gender,&#8221; which means he&#8217;s &#8220;gender-queer.&#8221; He says he &#8220;feels female and male.” He also feels both and neither, at the same time. He says that various labels feel &#8220;equally authentic and inauthentic.&#8221;
It&#8217;s hard to think of a better illustration of the way trans activists can string sentences together that mean absolutely nothing. It&#8217;s a characteristic that every single trans activist has in common, without fail.
They advance their ideas not by convincing anyone, but by confusing them.
Authenticity is the opposite of inauthenticity. Male is the opposite of female. If you think something can be two mutually incompatible things at the same exact time, then you are extremely confused on every conceivable level.
This is no different from saying that someone can be a bachelor and married at the same time, or that a square can be a square while equally being a circle. It’s the definition of nonsense. And this is how gender ideology is promoted. Not with arguments or explanations, but with an avalanche of pure, unbridled nonsense, that, the ideologues hope, will distract and confuse you so much that you throw up your hands and agree with whatever crap they’re spewing. And here I’m assuming that Jacobs knows he’s saying a bunch of nonsensical drivel. If he thinks that it actually makes sense then instead of working on the medical standards that every major hospital follows, these 30 seconds are strong evidence that &#8220;Laura Jacobs&#8221; should probably seek some help himself.
Although what comes next is even better evidence of that last point.
Laura Jacobs doesn&#8217;t stop there. Narcissists never admit defeat, even when their own arguments are self-defeating. Instead, Jacob launches into an extremely creepy transhumanist monologue. As you watch this, keep in mind, again, that this is a representative for WPATH, which every major medical organization and hospital currently pretends is a legitimate authority. Watch:
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&#8220;Do we have to stick to penis &amp; vagina norms?&#8221; asks Jacobs. &#8220;Can we have genitalia that look like flowers or abstract sculpture? Can we have multiple? Can they be interchangeable? And what about other areas of the body?&#8221;
This is body-horror at its most deranged. If a filmmaker made a horror movie where people were walking around with genitals that looks like abstract sculptures, I’d think that filmmaker was a deranged creep. But Jacobs wants to do this in real life.
Once you get past the raw, human disgust that you feel listening to someone talk like this, you begin to recognize that it was inevitable that we&#8217;d get to this point. Transgenderism — the belief that people can change their gender — has always had a lot in common with transhumanism, which involves the use of technology to alter the human condition. It was unavoidable that the two ideologies would converge, as they are really the same ideology — dimensions of the same basic idea. Both transgenderism and transhumanism are grounded in a rejection of both the classical and Christian traditions of human nature. They want to make human beings gods over themselves, over their own nature.
Transgenderism and transhumanism have more in common with Machiavelli, who taught that the only truth is &#8220;effectual truth&#8221; — meaning, what you can control. There is no transcendent authority in this understanding. Humans are their own gods. That is the essence of transgenderism, and now it&#8217;s coming to the forefront. More and more, people identifying as transgender are admitting that they&#8217;re not really receiving &#8220;medical care&#8221; or anything like that. That was always a lie — one that WPATH was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-secret-history-of-wpath-the-perverse-cult-that-pushed-gender-madness-into-the-mainstream" target="_blank" rel="noopener">founded</a> in order to spread. Now we&#8217;re seeing so-called &#8220;transgender&#8221; individuals coming right out and admitting that their real goal is to embrace transhumanism. They don&#8217;t just want to change genders; they want to redesign their entire body. They don&#8217;t want to resemble men or women; they want to carve up their body parts into starfish and flowers.
It&#8217;s not just one WPATH quack who&#8217;s pushing this, as disturbing as that would be. The child psychologist Elliot Kaminetzky recently <a href="https://x.com/elliotpsych/status/1770801106521591870?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> that the popular website Healthline recommends that visitors talk to a surgeon if they&#8217;re interested in splitting their penis in half, or creating other various designs out of their genitalia. There are various diagrams on Heathline&#8217;s website that are too graphic to share. This is supposedly a leading website that people turn to for medical information. Like WPATH, they&#8217;re trying to normalize genital mutilation, not in the name of transgenderism, but in the name of transhumanism.
Spend some time on social media, and you&#8217;ll find this idea is catching on. Here&#8217;s a few clips from an upcoming documentary on this topic. Listen to how young people are talking about transgenderism and how they perceive themselves:
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There was always a contradiction between transgenderism and Christianity. And now a lot of trans activists are making that contradiction explicit. They&#8217;re denying that man was made in God&#8217;s likeness, which is obviously a biblical teaching, and instead, they&#8217;re equating man with various inert objects, like wheat and grapes. Which means the whole pretense of &#8220;transgender medicine&#8221; is long gone. We&#8217;re entering into blasphemous, cultish territory here, and they&#8217;re basically admitting it. And again, this is a rapidly growing segment of the so-called trans community that&#8217;s talking like this.
Go on YouTube, and you&#8217;ll find an assortment of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oHEHkPfyvY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">demented</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9HxE4ROUvM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">videos</a> about so-called trans people who think they&#8217;ve transformed into lizards and dragons. And they have millions of views. Here are just two of them:
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The upshot of all this insanity, again, is that the veneer of transgenderism as some kind of serious medical discipline is fading, and it&#8217;s fading very quickly. We&#8217;ve seen how trans activists claim to be preoccupied with &#8220;gender-affirming care&#8221; and &#8220;freedom,&#8221; but in many cases, it&#8217;s really a trojan horse for the weirdest and most unhinged excesses of transhumanism.
And make no mistake about it — top hospitals in the country endorse this. Until they disavow WPATH and the freak shows like &#8220;Laura Jacobs&#8221; who work with them, then there&#8217;s really no other conclusion we can draw. Increasingly, transgenderism is explicitly about mutilation and body modification in order to achieve some sort of godlike status. And it&#8217;s very clear that these ghouls will sacrifice many more children on their quest for divinity, unless and until they&#8217;re finally destroyed for good.

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The Transgender Movement Is Morphing Into The Transhumanist Movement And The Results Are Horrific

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A group of 16 Republican attorneys general led by Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti signed a letter warning the state of Maine not to pursue a controversial piece of legislation that would enshrine the state as a sanctuary state for child sex change interventions.
The <a href="https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/attorneygeneral/documents/pr/2024/pr24-26MaineLetter.pdf">letter</a> to Governor Janet Mills (D-ME), Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey, the president of the state Senate, and speaker of the state House addressed a piece of legislation called LD 227, condemning it as unconstitutional. The law would shield medical providers who assist with sex change attempts from lawsuits, openly protect against “out-of-state laws that ban or restrict care that is legal in Maine,” and strip parents of legal recourse if their child traveled to Maine for sex change interventions.
“While it is extremely unusual for States to interject themselves into another State’s lawmaking, LD 227’s unique constitutional transgressions merit our comment,” the letter explains before noting that the legislation “seeks to contravene the lawful policy choices of our States’ citizens by imposing on the rest of the country Maine’s views on hotly debated issues such as gender transition surgeries for children. The law’s far-reaching provisions are unprecedented.”
The letter specifically contends that the legislation “violates the United States Constitution and flouts the federalist structure that allows each of our States to engage in self-government responsive to the will of our citizens.” It outlines the specific legal precedents that the legislation violates before adding that “the federal Constitution, in short, precludes Maine’s novel effort at state-sanctioned culture war litigation tourism.”
&#8220;Maine has every right to decide what Maine’s laws are and how those laws should be enforced,” the letter stated.“But that same right applies to every State. One State cannot control another. The totalitarian impulse to stifle dissent and oppress dissenters has no place in our shared America.&#8221;
&#8220;If Maine pursues LD 227’s constitutionally defective approach, we will vigorously avail ourselves of every recourse our Constitution provides,&#8221; the Republican attorneys general warned.
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Skrmetti who was joined by the attorneys general of Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, and West Virginia.

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New York Magazine was slammed on Monday after it ran a cover story arguing that children should have the freedom to “change their sex” through irreversible and life-altering medical procedures. 
The <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trans-rights-biological-sex-gender-judith-butler.html#:~:text=We%20must%20be%20prepared%20to,of%20people%20already%20believe%20it." target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a>, written by Andrea Long Chu, a man who identifies as a woman, argues that the “freedom of sex” should be expanded to children quickly drawing criticism from commentators pointing to the harmful impacts of transgender procedures on children. For example, putting children on things like puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones can permanently impact their fertility, stunt bone development, and cause heart issues among other health problems. Genital surgeries and procedures to remove healthy breasts from girls who identify as boys also have irreversible impacts. 
“We must be prepared to defend the idea that, in principle, everyone should have access to sex-changing medical care, regardless of age, gender identity, social environment, or psychiatric history,” Chu wrote. “This may strike you as a vertiginous task. The good news is that millions of people already believe it.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/NYMag?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYMag</a>&#39;s latest cover story is an essay by critic Andrea Long Chu, who makes the moral case for the right of anybody, at any age, to change their sex. <a href="https://t.co/Wxqds2ugj0">pic.twitter.com/Wxqds2ugj0</a>
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Elsewhere in the article, Chu said that it doesn’t matter where some children get the desire to identify as transgender comes from. Many commentators have pointed to peer pressure and social media influence to explain part of the explosion in children who claim to be transgender.
“We will never be able to defend the rights of transgender kids until we understand them purely on their own terms: as full members of society who would like to change their sex. It does not matter where this desire comes from,” Chu wrote. 
The article comes after a think tank called Environmental Progress <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-secret-history-of-wpath-the-perverse-cult-that-pushed-gender-madness-into-the-mainstream" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leaked files</a> from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health showing that doctors in the organization believe a 16-year-old girl may have developed liver tumors after being put on male hormones and that many recognize that children cannot give informed consent to transgender procedures.
Throughout the story, Chu also downplayed concerns about men entering women’s bathrooms, harming women during sports competitions, and parental influence over their children’s medical decisions. 
“The TERF [trans-exclusionary radical feminist] does not, after all, fear being assaulted by a Y chromosome in a women’s restroom,” he wrote. “Her paranoid fantasy is of a large testosterone-fueled body wielding a penis — an organ to which, as Butler points out, the TERF attributes almost magical powers of violence.”
Chu also claimed that it was a “fantastical idea” that males would perform better than females in sports competitions and that sex-segregated sports were meant to propagate “inequity.” 
“Widespread discomfort at the largely fantastical idea that trans girls will always dominate in their chosen sports reflects a basic patriarchal belief that the physical advantages of being male are perfectly acceptable so long as they are possessed by men. (In this sense, sex division in sport is meant to enshrine inequality, not to mitigate it.),” Chu wrote. 
Chue said that everyone, including children, should have the “right to change one’s biological gender.”
“What does this freedom look like in practice? Let anyone change their sex,” Chu said. “Let anyone change their gender. Let anyone change their sex again. Let trans girls play sports, regardless of their sex status. If they excel, this means only that some girls are better at sports than others. Let people use the gender-segregated facilities of their choice; desegregate whenever possible. Do not out children to their parents.”
Conservative commentators slammed the article saying that it was irresponsible and that it was impossible to change one&#8217;s sex. 
“You disgusting sadists,” Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro said. 
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You disgusting sadists <a href="https://t.co/602fMYMsQn">https://t.co/602fMYMsQn</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1767197099249025437?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 11, 2024</a></blockquote>
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“What&#8217;s that line liberals always trot out about &#8216;when they tell you who they are, believe them&#8217;? They want to manipulate and surgically mutilate kids. This is evil, and I&#8217;m not going to even entertain the idea there&#8217;s nuance here,” Real Clear Investigations writer Mark Hemingway said.
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What&#39;s that line liberals always trot out about &quot;when they tell you who they are, believe them&quot;? They want to manipulate and surgically mutilate kids. This is evil, and I&#39;m not going to even entertain the idea there&#39;s nuance here. <a href="https://t.co/1JwJAvX1fx">https://t.co/1JwJAvX1fx</a>
&mdash; Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) <a href="https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/1767192305474146408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 11, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The bad news is that no one, regardless of their age, CAN actually change sex. The destruction to children’s bodies is very real, the delusional pursuit of actually changing sex is not,” Inez Stepman said. 
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The bad news is that no one, regardless of their age, CAN actually change sex. The destruction to children’s bodies is very real, the delusional pursuit of actually changing sex is not. <a href="https://t.co/93tbkkf9um">https://t.co/93tbkkf9um</a>
&mdash; Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ (@InezFeltscher) <a href="https://twitter.com/InezFeltscher/status/1767222292847685962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 11, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Chloe Cole, a 19-year-old woman who was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/detransitioner-chloe-cole-announces-official-lawsuit-against-kaiser-permanente-for-medical-negligence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">put through sex change procedures</a> as a young teenager, detailed the horrifying side-effects of transgender procedures on Tuesday while testifying in support of a Tennessee bill called the “Detrans Bill of Rights.”
Cole was in Nashville on Tuesday to testify in support of the <a href="https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/Billinfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=HB2816&amp;ga=113" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a>, which would make gender clinics that perform transgender procedures and take any state money to also perform “detransition” procedures. It would also mandate that insurance companies who cover the transgender procedures also pay for “detranisition” procedures. During her testimony, Cole detailed the life-altering side-effects she still faced after being put through transgender procedures as a child in California. 
“They took skin grafts from my areolas that now leak clear fluid and sometimes blood,” she said. “I have to wear bandages every single day to keep it from staining my shirt and bedding. Doctors look at me and they just shrug. The experiment is never ending.” 
“California, my home state, is not safe for me,” she added. “They make it clear every time I walk into the doctor’s office. All they know is gender-affirmation. But I’m tired of being told there’s no way out for me,” Cole said. “We need to be able to come to Tennessee and get real medical care, instead of the ideological driven pseudo-science in California.”
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My testimony on The Detrans Bill of Rights in Tennessee, which will allow detransitioners to use insurance to heal from the harm that we’ve experienced. <a href="https://t.co/svnNH9l9zu">pic.twitter.com/svnNH9l9zu</a>
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Cole was questioned by Democrat Rep. Bo Mitchell who <a href="https://twitter.com/ChoooCole/status/1765180162193166630" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> that children struggling with their gender needed to be put on cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers or that they would commit suicide. 
“I felt like Rep. Mitchell (<a href="https://twitter.com/VoteBo">@VoteBo</a>) did his best to minimize and talk down to me regarding my medical trauma. I do believe his rhetoric around suicide is dangerous and misinformed, I believe that it perpetuates suicide and leads kids that view him amicably down a dark path,” she said. “I’m glad we can unify around the common good and I thank him for voting for the Detrans Bill of Rights.”
The bill, HB 2816, was proposed by Republican State Rep. Jeremy Faison, who is the majority caucus chairman. It advanced to the House Health Committee on Tuesday and is also working its way through the Senate. 
“I’m proud to carry this legislation that guarantees care to individuals suffering from mental health challenges who were groomed to undergo disfiguring surgeries or experimental interventions,” he told The Daily Wire. “True gender-affirming care is instilling self-worth in how our creator made us. This legislation recognizes the trauma endured by these individuals and helps provide a way back from the medical harm inflicted.”

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‘The Experiment Is Never Ending’: Chloe Cole Laments Dangers Of Trans Surgery While Testifying In Support Of ‘Detrans Bill Of Rights’

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