Detransitioner Claire Abernathy hadn’t even made it to high school yet when her doctors encouraged her to undergo a double mastectomy. Despite <a href="https://www.iwf.org/2025/04/28/new-identity-crisis-documentary-mother-and-daughter-expose-medical-industrys-transgender-manipulation-and-lies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">her concerns</a> about the procedure, her mother, Carrie, was told that affirming Claire’s gender identity was the only way to prevent her from killing herself.
Now, years later, both mother and daughter <a href="https://www.iwf.org/2025/04/28/new-identity-crisis-documentary-mother-and-daughter-expose-medical-industrys-transgender-manipulation-and-lies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opened up</a> to IW Features about how the medical system manipulated them into making permanent and irreversible decisions — the consequences of which they are still grappling with today.
The worst part? They’re not alone.
The Abernathy family is part of a growing segment of our population coming to terms with the damage done by gender ideologues. Hopefully, they will serve as inspiration for other families fighting not just gender confusion, but a manipulative industry that turns this confusion into profit.
The adolescent brain is a work in progress. We all know this to be true — after all, why else would we restrict young men and women from getting a tattoo until they’ve turned 18 or from purchasing alcohol until they’ve turned 21? It doesn’t matter how much a kid feels like an “old soul.” A young person’s prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for decision-making and impulse control, continues to <a href="https://hillcrestatc.com/teen-brain-development/">mature</a> well into their mid-20s.
Because teens go through this lengthy, often angsty developmental stage, they’re that much more susceptible to risk-taking behaviors and less capable of fully understanding long-term consequences. This is why <a href="https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/drunk-driving" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one in five</a> teen drivers involved in a fatal crash had some alcohol in their system — because teens are more likely to underestimate the effects of alcohol on their bodies and overestimate their ability to drive inebriated. Similarly, <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1016/j.soscij.2016.08.004" target="_blank" rel="noopener">studies</a> show that as many as one-third of tattooed adolescents regret inking up their bodies. And unsurprisingly, <a href="https://www.mdedge.com/psychiatry/article/98697/dermatology/teenage-tattoos-are-most-often-regretted" target="_blank" rel="noopener">research</a> indicates that the younger a teen is when they get a tattoo, the more likely they are to regret it later.
So why aren’t America’s trusted, highly esteemed medical professionals drawing the same conclusions about so-called “gender-affirming” procedures? While comprehensive data on regret following medical interventions in gender-confused minors is still emerging, stories like Claire’s are proof that medicalization can and does have victims. At least if you cop some bad ink, you might be able to get it <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/snl-pete-davidson-spending-six-figures-remove-all-tattoos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lasered off</a> later. But the permanence of gender-affirming procedures adds a sickening layer of complexity and potential for regret.
Teens might swear up and down they know what they want with their lives, like an unattainable dream job or goals to jet-set around the world childless and unbothered. But I’m willing to bet that teens can, and often will, change their minds. I know I did. If you asked 16-year-old Andrea if she wanted to get married and have children, she would have laughed in your face. And, if you asked her if she felt comfortable in her female body, she probably would have similarly scoffed.
Puberty is a really rough time for any young person. That’s not only something Claire expressed to me during her interview, but it’s a reality I have lived myself. I can recall the first conscious moment I felt insecure about my body: I was in elementary school, watching a movie starring young Lindsay Lohan, and I saw how her thighs didn’t touch when she sat down on a car seat.
<a href="https://depts.washington.edu/thmedia/view.cgi?page=fastfacts&amp;section=bodyimage">Studies</a> show that as many as 40% of nine and 10-year-old girls are already trying to lose weight, and as many as 70% of normal-weight teen girls <a href="https://archive.nytimes.com/well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/many-normal-weight-teens-feel-fat/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">think</a> they’re overweight. Should parents of young girls who wrongfully believe they are fat indulge their child’s delusions and allow her to diet, or worse, get liposuction? If that sounds ridiculous, that’s because it is.
Yet, that’s exactly what the medical and entertainment industries are telling parents of gender-confused children that they must do.
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In my home state of California, $28,890,512 has been spent on youth “transgender” medical interventions, according to <a href="https://stoptheharmdatabase.com/state/california/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">StopTheHarm</a>. Ethically speaking, plastic surgeons are supposed to assess the physical and emotional maturity of teen patients before they go under the knife for cosmetic procedures. So why does nearly every story of detransition reveal that medical professionals rarely, if ever, address underlying psychological issues — Borderline Personality Disorder, ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, etc. — in gender-confused youth ? And why is it that the only solution offered by most medical professionals is for these youth to have their healthy body parts modified?
And what can parents realistically do? Carrie’s experience reminds me of the old adage: Mother knows best. She knew something was off when the medical professionals rushed to transition her daughter, but was guilt-tripped and persuaded into proceeding with medicalization.
Looking back, Carrie said she realizes she should have trusted her parental intuition. Parents are often the first line of defense in protecting their child’s well-being. They should feel empowered to trust those instincts, especially when it comes to irreversible medical decisions. Carrie said it best when speaking with me: “You are the expert on your own child.”
Indeed, the Abernathy story is a timely reminder of the very real consequences of sidelining parental concerns and the dire importance of scrutinizing medical practices that clearly prioritize profit and ideology over patient well-being.
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Andrea Mew is the managing editor of Independent Women Features. She is the producer of its new <a href="https://youtu.be/nj1OUvFZM4A" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documentary</a> “Identity Crisis: Mother and Daughter Expose Medical Industry&#8217;s Transgender Lies” and the author of the related breaking <a href="https://www.iwfeatures.com/documentary/detransitioner-and-mother-were-sold-the-lie-of-gender-transition-now-theyre-exposing-the-real-costs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">feature article</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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‘I Feel Robbed’: After A Double Mastectomy At 14, This Detransitioner Is Speaking Out

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April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. It is also a moment when many trans activists and aligned organizations have taken the opportunity to bring up studies and statistics about the high rate of sexual assault for those who identify as trans. These topics are inexorably linked — something I know firsthand, as both a sexual assault survivor and a detransitioner.
My desire to transition was largely due to being sexually assaulted when I was 14. I believed I could escape myself and my sex through medicalization. I know now that, in truth, I never changed sex. And undergoing hormones and surgery did not help my mental health or heal my torment. That required facing the trauma in therapy and doing the real work of recovery.
The trans community is right that sexual assault is a real and horrible reality for too many people who identify as trans. The same is true for those who detransition — we often have histories of sexual abuse. But what the trans activists are not honest about is the timing of the sexual assault and how it relates to trans identities themselves.
Like me, most of the people with trans identities I have interacted with (both online and offline) experienced sexual assault prior to their identifying as transgender, not because of it.
I remember talking with other members of the trans community online and in my doctor-recommended support group when I was a teen. We spoke about abusive or violent sexual encounters we had experienced. Many of us were extremely young when we experienced abuse, or were still forced to endure it while simultaneously trying to medicalize our bodies. Our relationships with ourselves were fragmented and in crisis, and our relationships with each other were an unhealthy bond forged by trauma. We all believed we wouldn’t be so burdened when we could finally transform into the opposite sex.
Sexual assault is a life-changing experience. Anyone who has experienced it knows what I mean. It takes away your power and your autonomy and makes your body feel unsafe. Activists try to sell transitioning as a cure to such vulnerable people. They insist that transitioning offers the victims of sexual assault the promise of greater control over their bodies. It allows the victims to change it into something they believe is less likely to be hurt. Transitioning is described by doctors and activists alike as a type of rebirth; many people try in vain to transition into a person who was never assaulted at all.
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It is cruel and unethical for a doctor to change the body of a sexual assault victim. Our bodies were never the problem. An identity crisis is not a medical condition. Trauma is not cured with hormones and surgeries, nor are future assaults prevented that way. Any doctor selling transition to someone reeling from the distress of a sexual assault is harming their patients. There are protocols and standards of care when it comes to victims. Evidence-based and ethical, trauma-informed care is the least the medical community can do for patients who were sexually abused. Instead, many doctors are taking the easy way out and making a profit off the distress and pain of the most vulnerable by selling “cures” that will never come to fruition.
The sexual assault I experienced changed my life when I was young, but transitioning destroyed my health and stole parts of my life away from me. If my doctors had not affirmed my self-hatred and my womanhood and instead listened to my pain and suffering because of my trauma and left my body alone, I would still be healthy. I am still a sexual assault victim, only now, I am missing pieces of myself. True, my breasts will never be touched again without my consent — but now I cannot ever give consent for them to be touched either, all because a doctor decided that the thoughts in my head meant that mutilating my body could heal me.
I have healed now from the terrible trauma of sexual assault, but the chemical and surgical changes my doctor made to my body are irreversible. No person who has been a victim of harm deserves more harm as a result, even if they are broken enough to ask for it. Doctors have a responsibility to say “no” instead of aiding their patients in self-harm. I hope that no doctor will ever be as cruel to another patient who identifies as trans as they were with me — or that lawmakers make it impossible for them to do so.
This Sexual Assault Awareness Month, I urge lawmakers, doctors, and the public to reexamine what’s behind the growing obsession with trans identity and permanently altering girls’ and boys’ healthy bodies. Take it from me: the abuse I suffered altered my life forever. Mutilating my body didn’t make it better, but only added additional trauma and hardship. Sexual assault survivors deserve so much more than that.
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Prisha Mosley is an Independent Women ambassador and detransitioner. IW Features, the storytelling platform of Independent Women, featured Prisha’s story as part of its “Identity Crisis” docu-series, which highlights the irreversible harms of gender ideology. Prisha’s story, including her pregnancy journey, was documented in two parts, which can be found <a href="https://www.iwfeatures.com/documentary/mentally-ill-teen-betrayed-by-health-professionals-who-recommended-testosterone-and-top-surgery/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and <a href="https://www.iwfeatures.com/documentary/a-detransitioners-pregnancy-journey/">here</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Sexual Abuse Forever Altered My Life. Mutilating My Body Didn’t Make It Better.

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What Is A Woman

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and two of her fellow GOP congresswomen discussed her bill banning transgender medical services for children and the &#8220;spiritual warfare&#8221; surrounding gender ideology.
Greene claimed that one of Georgia&#8217;s biggest megachurches trains youth pastors to affirm teens&#8217; new gender identities and pronouns.
&#8220;That should never happen in church because that is confirming Satan&#8217;s lie to these vulnerable children,&#8221; Greene said on the Republican Study Committee&#8217;s <a href="https://linktr.ee/republicanstudycommittee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">podcast</a> &#8220;Right to the Point.&#8221;
Two other Republican women in Congress joined the podcast for Wednesday&#8217;s episode alongside Greene: Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) and Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-TN). The podcast interviews members of Congress every week from Capitol Hill.
Both women are co-sponsors of Greene&#8217;s bill, the Protect Children&#8217;s Innocence Act, which would ban puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and transgender surgeries like genital sex changes and double mastectomies for minors.
Greene said she is hopeful her bill will get a vote on the House floor soon.
&#8220;President Trump is ready to sign it into action,&#8221; she said.
Rep. Mark Alford (R-MO), who hosted the podcast, said, &#8220;The Left tries to create language that softens things, gender-affirming care. What in the heck does that mean? You are mutilating the body of a young person.&#8221;
Harshbarger said she spent her whole life in the healthcare industry before coming to Congress, where she now fights to protect children from gender ideology.
&#8220;God is so good when he puts us where we need to be to take care of those issues,&#8221; Harshbarger said. &#8220;And it&#8217;s a lie from the pits of hell that you can change your sex, you can&#8217;t change your DNA.&#8221;
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s a direct attack on God&#8217;s creation. God created us male and female just like the bill is stating, male and female in His image, and that&#8217;s why the Left is attacking it,&#8221; Greene said.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a great lie that Satan had from the very beginning in the Garden of Eden, and he is a liar and deceiver, and I think he&#8217;s trying to get to us,&#8221; Alford said. &#8220;And they guilt you into if you don&#8217;t go along with this, then you&#8217;re not human, you&#8217;re not compassionate. No, we are compassionate. And calling gender dysphoria, why would you affirm any type of dysphoria?&#8221;
&#8220;Marjorie, that goes back to the spiritual warfare,&#8221; Harshbarger said after Greene mentioned the Georgia megachurch.
&#8220;When the pastors from the pulpit do not condemn evil, and they uphold what is wrong, what the Bible says, what is conceived as and what is construed as right in the end days will be looked at as wrong, and what is wrong will be looked at as right.&#8221;
&#8220;The truth sets people free,&#8221; Miller said. &#8220;We cannot lie about this. And I want to say that evil never retreats on its own, only when it&#8217;s confronted by a more powerful force. And number one, we have President Trump. He&#8217;s a strong leader. But all of us that have been elected to Congress, we want to be a force against evil.&#8221;
Miller said their opponents have told them they can have their beliefs, but only in their private spaces. &#8220;Go to your home or be quiet,&#8221; opponents insist, according to Miller. 
&#8220;We are not going to do that anymore,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And whether it&#8217;s teachers or it&#8217;s in government, the whistleblowers, parents that are speaking up. &#8230; But we need legislators. We need brave parents, whistleblowers. We need to shed light on all the evil and dark things that have been happening in our country, and praise God that it is happening.&#8221;

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‘Satan’s Lie To Vulnerable Children:’ MTG Talks Transgender ‘Spiritual Warfare’ With Congresswomen

'Satan's Lie To Vulnerable Children:' MTG Talks Transgender Spiritual Warfare With Congresswomen

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A Wyoming doctor who wrote an email to the Wyoming State Legislature where he expressed support for “Chloe’s Law,” — a law which prohibits gender reassignment surgeries and hormone therapies for minors — who was then was forced to resign from the Wyoming Board of Medicine by Governor Mark Gordon, has filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals.
Dr. Eric Cubin was appointed to the Wyoming Board of Medicine in 2023. The Board oversees medical regulation, compliance, and discipline in the state.
“On February 21, 2024, Dr. Cubin emailed Sheila Bush, the Executive Director of WMS, to express his concerns about WMS’s position on Chloe’s Law and to request that WMS present views of physicians on both sides of the issue,” the <a href="https://libertyjusticecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/Cubin-Appellants-Principal-Brief.pdf?utm_source=2023+Media+List&amp;utm_campaign=45034a9f82-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_03_26_03_21&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-45034a9f82-448659176" target="_blank" rel="noopener">brief</a> for the appeal states. “Dr. Cubin and WMS leadership exchanged emails over the next several days, but WMS failed to address Dr. Cubin’s concerns to his satisfaction. Then, on February 28, 2024, Dr. Cubin sent all members of the Wyoming House of Representatives an email expressing his personal support for Chloe’s Law and his criticism of WMS’s position against it.”
Gordon then “forced Dr. Cubin to resign from the Board, claiming that his letter created the ‘appearance of bias’ and could give the impression that he was speaking on the Board’s behalf, —even though his email was sent from his personal account, made clear that he was writing on his own behalf as a Wyoming physician, and did not even mention the Board or his position on it,” Liberty Justice Center, which is representing Cubin, stated.
Gordon’s letter stated that he believed &#8220;Dr. Cubin’s ‘personal comments’ in his email to legislators regarding Chloe’s Law ‘could give doctors, who are licensed by the Board of Medicine, a reason to be concerned that [Dr. Cubin] might use [his] position to advocate for a particular position when considering matters that should be considered absent an agenda,’ and that ‘medical professionals should be confident that their licensure, which is their livelihood, will be handled professionally and clinically examined on merits alone,’” the brief stated. “Governor Gordon’s letter further stated that he was terminating Dr. Cubin ‘as I have done before, when a member of a board chooses to express personal beliefs in a way that can be construed as speaking for the body.’”
Chloe’s Law was <a href="https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/chloe-s-law-becomes-law-july-1/article_4af7a64a-f136-11ee-9d1c-b39c89f88c92.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed into law</a> by Gordon in April 2024, although he had reservations, saying, “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. 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.”

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Wyoming Doctor Appeals Forced Resignation After Supporting Law Banning Trans Surgery On Minors

Wyoming Dr Appeals His Forced Resignation After Supporting Law Banning Gender-Reassigning Surgery

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A woman who has served as the managing director for a radical transgender activist organization handles the same role for over two dozen mainstream major medical organizations, a watchdog group revealed Wednesday. 
Sue O’Sullivan of Veritas Association Management is the managing director of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and 26 other medical organizations across the United States, according to tax documents reviewed by the American Accountability Foundation. WPATH is a radical organization that has pushed for transgender medical procedures on children, including the removal of breasts for girls who identify as boys, and opposed laws to protect kids from such procedures. 
O’Sullivan is the <a href="https://veritasamc.com/team/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">co-founder</a> and president of Veritas Association Management, an Illinois-based professional services company that manages operations for dozens of mainstream medical organizations like the American Pediatric Surgical Association and the American Society of Andrology. 
<a href="https://americanaccountabilityfoundation.com/news/">The American Accountability Foundation</a> told The Daily Wire that the ties between O’Sullivan and WPATH could jeopardize the medical integrity of other organizations managed by Veritas Association Management. In total, the watchdog group identified 51 medical organizations or symposia that have some ties to Veritas.  
“Veritas Association Management’s entanglement with WPATH represents a serious reputational and ethical concern for organizations that engage its services. The medical association community should scrutinize Veritas’ role in legitimizing WPATH’s radical practices and consider the consequences of these relationships,” the American Accountability Foundation said in a report shared with The Daily Wire on its findings. 
The ties between WPATH and Veritas are well-established on both social media and the association management company’s website. 
For example, a Facebook post shows O’Sullivan and a team from Veritas attending WPATH’s October 2024 symposium in Portugal. 
“The 2024 World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) 28th Scientific Symposium, held in beautiful Lisbon, Portugal, was an amazing event!” the company <a href="https://www.facebook.com/amcveritas/posts/pfbid02jyN9CGXd4fkPHZPE6aeYujR5F9pwa1vnF1NtbQjeNMs5JxQVfjLFLW8HiKHuvvwEl">posted</a>. “Proudly managed by Veritas since 2014, WPATH promotes evidence-based transgender health care, education, research, and public policy, plus justice and equality for people of all gender identities and gender expressions.”
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Veritas’ <a href="https://veritasamc.com/clients/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">client lists</a> include both WPATH and the United States Professional Association for Transgender Health, a regional affiliate of WPATH. Veritas is also currently <a href="https://veritasamc.com/careers/wpath-executive-director/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advertising</a> for an executive director role for WPATH, whose duties include “leveraging Veritas resources to plan, organize, direct, and coordinate the staff and administrative activities” and “advancing transgender health equity.” The position is listed as being based in East Dundee, Illinois, where Veritas Association Management is located. 
WPATH has opposed Republican-backed laws shielding kids from irreversible transgender medical procedures and put out a <a href="https://wpath.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/01.28.25-WPATH-Board-Statement-Regarding-Executive-Order.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> attacking President Donald Trump for his executive order directing all funding be cut off for entities that promote transgenderism for kids. 
O’Sullivan is listed on <a href="https://wpath.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/FINAL-Joint-WPATH-USPATH-Statement-On-Resumption-of-Medically-Necessary-Surgeries-During-COVID.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">multiple</a> WPATH documents pushing transgender procedures, including <a href="https://app.wpath.org/media/cms/Documents/Public%20Policies/2021/Joint%20WPATH%20USPATH%20Letter%20Dated%20Oct%2012%202021.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">putting</a> children on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. 
Tax documents analyzed by the American Accountability Foundation show that O’Sullivan spends eight times as much time working for WPATH than the other medical associations she manages or directs.  
WPATH’s IRS <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/942675140/202413039349301991/full" target="_blank" rel="noopener">form 990</a> for the fiscal year ending December 2023 shows that O’Sullivan is the organization’s managing director and reports spending eight hours per week in that role, which is more than the four weekly hours reported by WPATH President Marci Bowers. She only spends one hour a week for each of the other 26 medical organizations where she serves as either the managing or executive director, according to an analysis of tax documents by the American Accountability Foundation.
For example, O’Sullivan only reports working one hour per week for organizations like the <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/237097289/202432409349301603/full" target="_blank" rel="noopener">American Pediatric Surgical Association</a> or the <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/383845227/202423209349325737/full" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Society of Ob Gyn Hospitalists</a> where she is listed as the managing director. 
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“As many of the organizations that contract with Veritas operate on relatively lean budgets with no (or few) in-house staff, Veritas Association Management substantially runs all day-to-day operations for many of these organizations. In fact, many organizations that contract with Veritas disclose in their tax filings that their boards have delegated all management to Veritas,” the American Accountability Foundation reported. 
After reaching out for comment to the Indian American Urological Association, the group told The Daily Wire that it ended its affiliation with Veritas last year.
The same <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/942675140/202413039349301991/full" target="_blank" rel="noopener">form 990</a> reveals that WPATH has handed over many organizational responsibilities to Veritas. Veritas has control of WPATH’s books and records in addition to having responsibility for “management duties.” 
In its report, the American Accountability Foundation identified 10 major medical organizations where O’Sullivan is either the managing director or the executive director who delegates management responsibilities to Veritas.
These groups included the American Association of Clinical Urologists, Society of Abdominal Radiology, Society for Vascular Medicine, Society of Thoracic Radiology, the North American Society for Cardiac Imaging, Society for Basic Urological Research, Ohio Urological Society, Society Of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons, the International Skeletal Society, and the American Pediatric Surgical Association Foundation. 
Many of these organizations list their address at the corporate address of Veritas Association Management. 
In its <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/593243373/202410899349300416/full" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filing</a>, the American Pediatric Surgical Association Foundation noted that it “delegated control over management duties customarily performed by or under the direct supervision of officers, directors, trustees or key employees to Veritas Association Management, Inc.”
The Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, where O’Sullivan is listed as managing director, paid Veritas $<a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/223293645/202411379349301626/full" target="_blank" rel="noopener">358,900</a> in 2023. Other Veritas clients where O’Sullivan is listed as managing or executive director include the American Venous Forum Foundation, which paid Veritas $<a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/363634626/202433209349324968/full" target="_blank" rel="noopener">294,600;</a> the Society of OB/GYN Hospitalists, which paid $<a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/383845227/202423209349325737/full" target="_blank" rel="noopener">167,200</a>; and the Society for Academic Specialists in General Obstetrics and Gynecology, which paid $<a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/461912833/202431389349301343/full" target="_blank" rel="noopener">131,800</a>.
Other groups that Veritas says it is associated with include the Big XII Team Physicians (which a spokesman said is not officially affiliated with the Big XII conference), the Pediatric Pharmacy Association, and the International Pediatric Endosurgery Group.
Apart from WPATH, multiple other groups linked to O’Sullivan and Veritas Association Management have issued statements in support of so-called “gender-affirming care” for children or backing transgender ideology. 
For example, the American Pediatric Pharmacy Association <a href="https://www.ppag.org/?pg=PositionStatements" target="_blank" rel="noopener">endorsed</a> as its own position a <a href="https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/25340/AAP-reaffirms-gender-affirming-care-policy?autologincheck=redirected" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> from the American Academy of Pediatricians backing transgender medical procedures on kids. 
The American Pediatric Surgical Association also <a href="https://apsapedsurg.org/apsa-info/about-us/apsa-statements/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">points</a> visitors to its website to a letter from a number of Left-leaning medical organizations decrying proposals during the first Trump administration to define sex as only male and female. 
The American Accountability Foundation believes that these connections may lead to the radical transgender procedures advocated for by WPATH to be normalized in the medical mainstream. 
“Veritas’ client list includes mainstream medical associations, many of which may be unaware of the extent of Veritas’ involvement with WPATH,” the watchdog warned. “By managing these organizations alongside WPATH, Veritas risks mainstreaming and normalizing WPATH’s radical policies within the broader medical community.”

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Radical Trans Group’s Managing Director Linked To Dozens Of Medical Orgs, Watchdog Warns

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Whoopi Goldberg used an appearance by trans-identifying influencer Dylan Mulvaney on Monday to defend biological men invading women&#8217;s and girls&#8217; athletics and private spaces.
Goldberg and her cohosts on ABC News&#8217; &#8220;The View&#8221; invited Mulvaney, a biological male who skyrocketed to Insta-fame by documenting his transition into a parody of a teenage girl, to discuss his book about becoming said parody. Mulvaney added insult to injury, invading women&#8217;s spaces once again by releasing the book on International Women&#8217;s Day.
Goldberg and her cohosts <a href="https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/1899148581061251430">raved over Mulvaney anyway during Monday&#8217;s broadcast</a>.
Cohost Ana Navarro mentioned one anecdote regarding a biological woman who identified as transgender and competed against males, suggesting that somehow made the hundreds of trans-identifying males taking medals, awards, scholarships, and roster spots from women acceptable.
&#8220;Well, I think part of the problem that the trans community is facing, and it&#8217;s the same problem that women face, is if you don&#8217;t know anything about our bodies, you don&#8217;t know how it works,&#8221; Goldberg claimed, immediately affirming trans-identifying men as no different from women.
&#8220;So when you come in and say, &#8216;These men — these are men, you know, competing against women,&#8217; you&#8217;re assuming that the women are weak and just can&#8217;t do anything except be here,&#8221; she continued in mocking tones. &#8220;Have you seen female athletes? They know what they&#8217;re doing.&#8221;
&#8220;So I&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s going on or why this is an issue. The same for me is when people say oh, you know, &#8216;I don&#8217;t know how I feel about you.&#8217; You do. God doesn&#8217;t make mistakes,&#8221; Goldberg asserted, despite the fact that the idea that people can be born the &#8220;wrong&#8221; gender is predicated on the possibility of God making mistakes.
&#8220;The challenge is not to the trans people, it&#8217;s to the people who are not trans. That&#8217;s what God is looking at to see how you treat people,&#8221; she insisted. &#8220;That&#8217;s what — that&#8217;s what is happening.&#8221;

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Whoopi Uses Dylan Mulvaney Appearance To Defend Men Invading Women’s Sports

Whoopi Uses Dylan Mulvaney Appearance To Defend Men Invading Women's Sports

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President Donald Trump called for Congress to pass a federal ban to criminalize performing transgender procedures on children during his join address Tuesday night.
Trump has already signed executive orders to cut off federal funding for schools that push gender-ideology on children and end any funding for institutions that promote transgender procedures on children.
“I also signed an order to cut off all taxpayer funding to any institution that engages in the sexual mutilation of our youth,” Trump said. “And now I want Congress to pass a bill permanently banning and criminalizing sex changes on children and forever ending the lie that any child is trapped in the wrong body.” 
“And our message to every child in America is that you are perfect exactly the way God made you,&#8221; he added.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> honors January Littlejohn, whose daughter&#8217;s school had secretly &#8220;socially transitioned&#8221; her 13-year-old girl and calls on Congress to pass a bill permanently banning and criminalizing sex changes on children.
&#8220;Our message to every child in America is that you are perfect… <a href="https://t.co/Odf0rtL4fw">pic.twitter.com/Odf0rtL4fw</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1897130449203240967?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
Trump&#8217;s executive order from earlier this year said that the government would not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the attempted gender transition of a child, promising that it will “rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.”
Over two dozen Republican-led states have passed laws to ban transgender procedures, such as cutting off the breasts of girls who identify as boys and giving cross-sex hormones to children of both sexes.
Republicans, like Senators Roger Marshall of Kansas and Josh Hawley of Missouri, have previously proposed legislation that would crack down on transgender procedures on kids nationwide.
Hawley introduced a measure in January that would allow children harmed by transgender procedures to sue the doctors and hospitals that carried out the operations.
Hawley’s <a href="https://www.hawley.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Hawley-Protecting-Children-from-Chemical-and-Surgical-Mutilation.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a> would enable individuals to sue the pediatric gender clinics and doctors who gave them cross-sex hormones or performed transgender surgery on them as minors. The legislation comes after President Donald Trump signed an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-signs-executive-order-protecting-kids-from-irreversible-gender-transition-procedures" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive order</a> blocking federal funding for any hospital that performs such procedures.
“Our children should no longer suffer from irreversible and dangerous child mutilation procedures, which the Biden administration enabled and promoted,” Hawley <a href="https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-renews-effort-to-protect-kids-from-mutilation-following-trump-executive-order/">said</a>. “I welcome President Trump’s strong action to reverse this child abuse and look forward to working with his administration to advance legislation that protects our kids.”

President Trump Delivers First Address To Joint Session Of Congress

Trump Calls For Congress To Pass Bill To End The ‘Sexual Mutilation’ Of Kids

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From defeating Biden&#8217;s COVID vaccine mandate to suing doctors who performed transgender surgeries on children, Harmeet Dhillon brings an established record of challenging government overreach and fighting for First Amendment rights ahead of her Senate confirmation hearing.
Dhillon, whom President Donald Trump tapped to be Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, is set to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, where she will face questions from lawmakers about her legal experience and knowledge. Throughout her legal career, Dhillon has fought for free speech, religious liberty, and defended Trump when a group of leftist voters attempted to throw him off the ballot in Colorado.
“I’m extremely honored by President Trump’s nomination to assist with our nation’s civil rights agenda. It has been my dream to be able to serve our great country, and I am so excited to be part of an incredible team of lawyers led by [Attorney General Pam Bondi]. I cannot wait to get to work!” Dhillon said, adding, “I would not be here today without my amazing mother and brother’s support, and my beloved father Tejpal and husband Sarv, who did not live to see this day. I hope I will honor their memories, with God’s grace.”
Dhillon’s appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee will be livestreamed by The Daily Wire.
Through her legal firms, the Dhillon Law Group and the Center for American Liberty, Dhillon has been involved in a number of impactful cases that have shaped the country over the last several years. One of Dhillon’s former law partners, David Warrington, is currently serving as White House Counsel, a role he was appointed to after working as the general counsel for Trump&#8217;s 2024 presidential campaign.
In November 2021, Dhillon <a href="https://www.dhillonlaw.com/lawsuits/the-daily-wire-challenges-biden-administration-vaccine-mandate/">represented</a> The Daily Wire in the legal fight that led to the Supreme Court blocking the Biden administration from enforcing a COVID vaccine mandate for private employers. With Dhillon’s help, The Daily Wire became the first major company to file a lawsuit against the emergency mandate in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit.
Fighting more COVID overreach, the Dhillon Law Group and the Center for American Liberty defended a coalition of congregants from three Christian churches in Southern California that sued California Governor Gavin Newsom over restrictions on religious services he imposed as part of his COVID crackdown. The Christians argued that Newsom was being harsher on religious groups than he was on certain businesses.
That case also made its way to the Supreme Court, which sided in February 2021 with the churches. The case was later settled.
Dhillon also represented Trilochan Oberoi, a Sikh man who sued the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in California for discriminating against his religious beliefs, which include not cutting his hair or shaving his beard. He was prevented from working as a prison guard if he insisted on keeping his beard. Dhillon successfully compelled the defendant to hire Oberoi, make an accommodation for his Sikh religious beliefs, and pay him a $295,000 settlement. 
In 2017, Dhillon sued the president of the University of California school system, Janet Napolitano, on behalf of the Young America’s Foundation and the Berkeley College Republicans, who accused UC Berkeley of restricting the free speech rights of conservatives through its guest speaker policies. The conservative groups alleged that the college had implemented certain high-profile speaker policies that disproportionately impacted their ability to bring speakers to campus and allowed leftists to exercise a “heckler’s veto” over controversial speakers.  
The university agreed to end security fees for speakers invited by student groups, implement First Amendment training for administrators, and provide universal guidelines for event planning. 
In recent years, Dhillon has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/detransitioner-chloe-cole-announces-official-lawsuit-against-kaiser-permanente-for-medical-negligence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">waded into</a> the battle against radical transgender ideology. She sued a group of health systems, including the Kaiser Foundation, and doctors for medical malpractice on behalf of Chloe Cole, a woman who was put on cross-sex hormone therapy and had her breasts removed because she identified as male as a teenager.
“Chloe’s family sought medical treatment for her at Kaiser,” Dhillon said at the time. “Her physicians and other medical professionals violated the first norm of the profession, the Hippocratic Oath, when, instead of caring for her and providing medically competent diagnoses and treatment, they permanently disfigured her for profit.”
Dhillon has worked for Trump in the past, defending him after a group of Colorado voters attempted to kick him off the ballot, claiming that he had violated the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment and was ineligible for office. The Supreme Court unanimously sided with Trump and ruled that he must be allowed to stay on the ballot.
In his announcement that he had picked Dhillon for the role, Trump said that she would be “a tireless defender of our Constitutional Rights.”

Harmeet Dhillon greets President Trump after he arrives aboard Air Force One at Moffett Federal Airfield in Mountain View, Calif. to attend a Republican Party fundraiser at an undisclosed location on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019.

Here’s Why Conservatives Are Excited About Harmeet Dhillon’s Nomination To Key DOJ Position

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The Cleveland Clinic, which ranks as one of the best hospitals in the country, &#8220;proudly prioritizes race-based care, DEI, gender ideology, and climate activism over patients,&#8221; a new opposing ad campaign claims.
The new six-figure <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy5oznBwIVo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ad campaign</a>, called &#8220;Cleveland Clinic Exposed,&#8221; was launched last week by Consumers&#8217; Research, a conservative organization that has educated Americans about policies and products for nearly a century.
&#8220;Is Cleveland Clinic the wokest hospital in America?&#8221; the group&#8217;s ad <a href="https://consumersresearch.org/woke-alert/woke-alert-cleveland-clinic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asks</a>. &#8220;They prioritize care based on skin color, perform child sex changes, push transgender propaganda on vulnerable kids, insert DEI into everything they do, and spend millions on climate activism.&#8221;
The ad highlights a statement from the Cleveland Clinic&#8217;s CEO and president, Dr. Tomislav Mihaljevic, who <a href="https://my.clevelandclinic.org/-/scassets/files/org/about/community-reports/sustainability-global-citizenship-report/gri-index-2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in 2023: &#8220;Providing high-quality healthcare is only a part of our mission.&#8221;
The ad against the Ohio-based clinic was scheduled to run during a Cleveland Cavaliers basketball game against the Toronto Raptors earlier this month. However, it was pulled from FanDuel Ohio after &#8220;significant external pressure,&#8221; said Will Hild, executive director of Consumers&#8217; Research,
The Cleveland Cavaliers said that it was an &#8220;an organization decision&#8221; to push for the ad to be pulled.
&#8220;This was not done at our request, and we are disappointed this is the decision they came to. We firmly believe the Cleveland community and potential patients should be informed about the priorities of Cleveland Clinic, which put politics ahead of quality care,&#8221; Hild said in a statement to The Daily Wire.
The Cleveland Clinic also sent Consumers&#8217; Research a cease and desist letter, using the same law firm Hild said his group uses for many legal matters. Hild called the letter &#8220;both pathetic and demonstrably false.&#8221;
&#8220;We gladly ignore the clinic’s intimidation tactics and will continue to pressure Cleveland Clinic until it&#8217;s proven they&#8217;ve ceased and desisted from discriminating against patients and performing child sex changes,&#8221; Hild said.
Hild also accused the clinic of &#8220;covertly deleting web pages.&#8221; The Cleveland Clinic appears to have quietly <a href="https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2025/02/17/huge-red-state-healthcare-system-quietly-scrubs-website-of-pages-pushing-gender-ideology/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">removed</a> some of the web <a href="https://archive.ph/35jDy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pages</a> on child transgender medicalization since the ad campaign launched.
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Hey <a href="https://twitter.com/ClevelandClinic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ClevelandClinic</a>, got your Cease &amp; Desist letter from <a href="https://twitter.com/JonesDay?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JonesDay</a>&#8230;
It&#39;s both pathetic and demonstrably false. Happy to help educate you and your lawyers 🧵 <a href="https://t.co/VyiWYfPgG8">pic.twitter.com/VyiWYfPgG8</a>
&mdash; Will Hild (@WillHild) <a href="https://twitter.com/WillHild/status/1890102147754393673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The campaign <a href="https://clevelandclinicexposed.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">breaks down</a> how the Cleveland Clinic is allegedly &#8220;focused on a political agenda, not what&#8217;s best for patients.&#8221;
It takes aim at the clinic over gender ideology, accusing it of transgender medical interventions on children.
According to the Stop the Harm database, the Cleveland Clinic has <a href="https://stoptheharmdatabase.com/state/ohio/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prescribed</a> puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to dozens of people, including children.
In a statement responding to the campaign, the Cleveland Clinic <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/ad-attacks-cleveland-clinic-woke-118863820" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> it does not provide transgender surgeries for patients under the age of 18.
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The campaign also points out that the Cleveland Clinic&#8217;s DEI chief <a href="https://my.clevelandclinic.org/podcasts/studies-in-empathy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a 2023 podcast episode that diversity and inclusion &#8220;has to be embedded in everything that we do.&#8221;
In 2020, during the peak of the riots related to the death of George Floyd, the clinic supported the city of Cleveland in <a href="https://newsroom.clevelandclinic.org/2020/06/03/cleveland-clinic-supports-cleveland-city-council-resolution-declaring-racism-a-public-health-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declaring</a> racism a &#8220;public health crisis.&#8221;
Also in 2020, the clinic <a href="https://newsroom.clevelandclinic.org/2020/12/11/cleveland-clinic-joins-coalition-to-create-one-million-jobs-for-black-americans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joined</a> a coalition of large U.S. employers committing to hire and promote one million black Americans over the next 10 years.
Last year, the Cleveland Clinic was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cleveland-clinic-accused-of-racial-discrimination-over-health-clinic-for-minority-men" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> for allegedly prioritizing people for treatment based on race through its Minority Stroke Program and Minority Men’s Health Center.
The next month, the Department of Health and Human Service’s Office for Civil Rights <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-investigating-after-cleveland-clinic-accused-of-treating-white-individuals-differently" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opened</a> an investigation into whether the Cleveland Clinic had discriminated against white patients based on race.
&#8220;So in other words, not only are they discriminating against their own employees in the workplace, they&#8217;re also treating different patients differently based on their skin color, which I think is obviously egregious,&#8221; Hild said.
The Cleveland Clinic&#8217;s climate activism is also problematic, the ad campaign says, citing the clinic&#8217;s 2016 launch of a $7.5 million fund to &#8220;drive energy efficient projects across health system,&#8221; among other moves.
&#8220;You&#8217;ve got pushing irreversible transgender, quote unquote, care or what I call genital mutilation on children. You&#8217;ve got them discriminating against their staff, but also their patients, and then you have them pushing their own environmental virtue signaling, which is going to do nothing but raise costs for consumers. So that&#8217;s where we got the line that they may be the wokest hospital in America,&#8221; Hild said.
In addition to its television spots, mobile billboards for the ad campaign are running outside the Ohio Statehouse, the Cleveland Clinic Main Campus, and the Florida State Capitol, Consumers&#8217; Research said.

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Cleveland Clinic Prioritizes Race, Gender Ideology Over Patients, Ad Campaign Says

Cleveland Clinic Prioritizes Race, Gender Ideology Over Patients, New Campaign Says

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Kansas Republicans on Tuesday passed a bill banning irreversible transgender medical procedures on minors, overriding a veto from Democratic Governor Laura Kelly. 
Republicans voted 31-9 in the state Senate and 85-34 in the state House to pass the “<a href="https://www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/measures/documents/sb63_enrolled.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Help Not Harm Act</a>,” which blocks doctors from performing transgender surgeries on minors or putting them on cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers. The move comes after Republicans <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/governor-vetoes-bill-protecting-children-from-transgender-procedures-in-state-with-gop-supermajority-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">failed</a> to override Kelly’s veto of a similar measure last year. 
&#8220;Today, we sign the Help Not Harm Act in honor of the children who Governor Kelly failed to protect with her repeated vetoes of this sensible legislation,” Senate President Ty Masterson and House Speaker Dan Hawkins said in a joint statement. “With help from Kansas voters last fall, we were able to override her veto and protect Kansas children from these harmful, irreversible, and experimental gender-reassignment surgeries and medicines. We are so thankful to everyone who made this victory for common-sense possible.&#8221;
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Great news! Following our vote in the Senate, the House successfully overrode the governor&#8217;s veto of the Help Not Harm Act, and it is now law! Speaker <a href="https://twitter.com/DanHawkinsKS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DanHawkinsKS</a> and I made it official just moments ago by signing the bill. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ksleg?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ksleg</a> <a href="https://t.co/QOMM9F63fk">pic.twitter.com/QOMM9F63fk</a>
— Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson (@sentymasterson) <a href="https://twitter.com/sentymasterson/status/1891998635514094073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The legislation includes an avenue for both minors and parents who were harmed by transgender procedures to bring civil action against a doctor who violates the new law. The harmed individual could be eligible for punitive damages and injunctive relief. Doctors who violate the law could be subject to professional discipline and lose their medical license. 
The law will also take steps to block state officials and state money from going toward promoting the “social transition” of a minor. 
“A state employee whose official duties include the care of children shall not, while engaged in those official duties, promote the use of social transitioning or provide or promote medication or surgery,” the text of the legislation says. 
The legislation was opposed by every Democrat in the Senate and House, alongside Republican Rep. Mark Schreiber. 
During debate on the bill, Democratic Sen. Cindy Holscher <a href="https://kansasreflector.com/2025/02/18/kansas-legislature-overrides-governors-veto-of-legislation-that-targets-trans-kids/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">compared</a> transgender procedures to getting glasses and contacts or dyeing one’s hair. 
Data compiled by Do No Harm, a nonprofit that advocates against transgender medical procedures, <a href="https://stoptheharmdatabase.com/state/kansas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shows</a> that from 2019 to 2023, there were 22 transgender surgery patients and 71 hormone and puberty blocker patients in Kansas. 
U.S. Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS), who has introduced legislation in the U.S. Senate to ban the procedures nationwide on children, praised the Republican-led legislature. 
“Despite Kansas Governor Laura Kelly’s best efforts, the mutilation and sterilization of minors will not happen in Kansas,” he said. “Praise God!”
President Donald Trump issued an executive order in January banning the federal government from funding or supporting transgender procedures on children.

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Kansas Republicans Override Dem Governor’s Veto To Ban Trans Procedures On Kids

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The Justice Department told the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court</a> on Friday that it was dropping its challenge to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tennessee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tennessee</a>’s law shielding children from transgender medical procedures.
In a <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-477/342223/20250207133625781_Letter%2023-477.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to the clerk of the Supreme Court, Deputy Solicitor General Curtis Gannon said that the DOJ no longer took the position that Tennessee’s SB 1, which banned transgender medical procedures on minors, violated the Fourteenth Amendment. The court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/proponents-of-transgender-procedures-make-shocking-admissions-before-scotus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">heard a challenge</a> to the law in December from both the Biden administration and the ACLU. 
“Following the change in Administration, the Department of Justice has reconsidered the United States’ position in this case,” Gannon wrote. “The purpose of this letter is to notify the Court that the government’s previously stated views no longer represent the United States’ position.”
Tennessee’s law bans procedures like giving minors puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones and performing surgeries like removing the breasts of girls who identify as boys. 
The law was temporarily blocked by a federal judge after it was passed in 2023 before the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals allowed the law to take effect. 
“The Department has now determined that SB1 does not deny equal protection on account of sex or any other characteristic. Accordingly, the new Administration would not have intervened to challenge SB1 — let alone sought this Court’s review of the court of appeals’ decision reversing the preliminary injunction against SB1,” Gannon wrote. 
While the DOJ&#8217;s challenge to the law may now be moot, the ACLU’s suit against it still stands. Additionally, the DOJ said that it is not seeking to dismiss the case, saying that a “prompt resolution of the question presented will bear on many cases pending in the lower courts.”
After oral arguments on the case in December, the Supreme Court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-appears-poised-to-uphold-tennessee-law-protecting-kids-from-trans-procedures" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appears poised</a> to rule in Tennessee’s favor. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, John Roberts, and Amy Coney Barrett all seemed skeptical of the claims made by the ACLU and the previous Biden administration. 
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti <a href="https://x.com/AGTennessee/status/1887999361633894663/photo/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">praised</a> the DOJ for dropping its opposition and noted that the state also welcomed a decision from the court. 
“We commend President Trump for abandoning the previous administration&#8217;s effort to enshrine gender ideology into the Constitution and prevent the people&#8217;s elected officials from resolving these important and contentious issues,” Skrmetti said. “We look forward to receiving much-needed clarity when the Court issues its decision.”

Supreme Court Considers Tennessee’s Ban On Treatments For Transgender Minors

DOJ Ends Challenge To Tennessee’s Law Shielding Kids From Transgender Procedures

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As the human costs of selling “gender-affirming care” en masse continue to rack up, the zeitgeist has decidedly shifted against activist organizations like the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). Only a few short years ago, the tenets of the HRC were considered an indispensable part of the conversation for any politician or corporation looking to claim the mantle of ‘inclusivity.’ 
“History will be brutal to those responsible [for gender ideology]. But almost certainly not brutal enough,” <a href="https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/will-big-trans-be-held-to-account-3ad">wrote</a> Andrew Sullivan last year, in a withering assessment of how sharply the cultural tides turned on the extremes of the transgender movement. He’s right. Sullivan’s <a href="https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/will-big-trans-be-held-to-account-3ad">assessment</a> of the HRC now seems far more descriptive of many Americans’ perspective: a “morally bankrupt institution … using the scarred bodies of gender-dysphoric children to fundraise.”
But what’s to be our tactical response to organizations like the Human Rights Campaign, who focus much of their efforts on pressuring private companies to adopt radical activist agendas to avoid being deemed bigoted? The significance of the gender ideology debate is only growing — and the tides have mercifully turned away from narratives like the HRC’s, and back toward sanity and normalcy, President Trump’s recent executive <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-just-dealt-a-massive-death-blow-to-gender-ideology" target="_blank" rel="noopener">order</a> being one such example. It’s a huge win for the public sector — but how bad is it in the private sector, where activists have been hard at work implementing gender ideology for years?
It’s bad. The incursion of gender ideology into the workplace is perhaps most obvious in the healthcare sector. When it comes to the Human Rights Campaign, and their requirement that companies cover puberty blockers as part of their healthcare plans for a perfect score on their Corporate Equality Index, many of the biggest names in healthcare have bent the knee. <a href="https://www.hrc.org/resources/corporations/walgreen-co." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Walgreens</a>, <a href="https://www.hrc.org/resources/corporations/unitedhealth-group-inc." target="_blank" rel="noopener">UnitedHealth Group</a>, <a href="https://www.hrc.org/resources/corporations/novo-nordisk-inc." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Novo Nordisk</a>, <a href="https://www.hrc.org/resources/corporations/mckesson-corp." target="_blank" rel="noopener">McKesson</a>, and many more have perfect scores on the Index — in the absence of any information to the contrary, they’ve complied with activist demands and allowed gender ideology into their corporate policies.
And that’s not even addressing companies like AbbVie (a company my firm’s currently engaging with), that dodge scrutiny regarding the off-label use of their products as puberty blockers. Dodging scrutiny is a common pattern when it comes to the extent of corporate participation in the radical demands of gender ideology — but it’s a pattern we have the ability to break.
There’s no solution aside from a full-court press when it comes to corporations that kowtowed to gender ideology. The notion of ‘gender-affirming care,’ be it hormone blockers, cosmetic procedures, or sex ‘reassignment’ surgeries, performed on literal children, many of whom were not properly informed about the irreversible risks of their choices, is no longer culturally in vogue — and it’s a damnable shame that it ever was. Now is the moment to retake culture ground for sanity and morality in corporate healthcare policy. Shareholders and customers alike need to leverage their various influences to push companies who are involved with the Human Rights Campaign, or accepted WPATH guidelines, for answers: now that the most radical narratives of gender ideology have crumbled in the face of scrutiny, isn’t it far past time for the biggest names in business to ditch such discredited activist groups?
We cannot, and will not, settle for half-answers or dodgy responses. The tragic and irreversible bodily damage done to generations of Americans in the name of inclusivity and affirmation will one day be viewed as one of the great moral stains of the past century. In the name of good governance, business success, and the basic morality of not mutilating children to appease activist demands, it’s time for companies to not merely right the course on ‘gender-affirming care,’ but recommit to the path of political neutrality and activist-free corporate policies to ensure that such widespread corporate complicity can never happen again.
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Isaac Willour is an award-winning journalist focusing on race, culture, and American conservatism, as well as a corporate relations analyst at Bowyer Research. His work has been featured at outlets including USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Opinion, C-SPAN, and The Daily Wire. He is a member of the Young Voices contributor program and can be found on X <a href="https://twitter.com/IsaacWillour" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@IsaacWillour</a>.
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