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Feb 19 2026

Kansas Legislature Overrides Governor’s Veto, Protects Women’s Bathrooms

The Kansas Legislature overrode a veto to pass a bill protecting women’s safety and privacy in single sex areas of public buildings, including bathrooms, locker rooms and showers.

SB 244 mandates that public buildings, including public schools and universities, have private spaces “for use only by individuals of one sex.” It also requires birth certificates and drivers’ licenses to designate “gender” based on birth sex — not false “gender identities.”

The new law defines “male” and “female” biologically, according to an individual’s reproductive system; sets penalties for those who repeatedly violate the law; and allows individuals whose privacy is violated by a member of the opposite sex to sue that person. 

Kansas Governor Laura Kelly vetoed SB 244, but the Senate voted 31-9 and the House voted 87-37 to override her decision. 

Kelly explained her veto in a press statement, saying the bill was poorly written and arguing: 

I believe the Legislature should stay out of the business of telling Kansans how to go to the bathroom and instead stay focused on how to make life more affordable for Kansans.

Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Sara Beth Nolan applauded the veto override, explaining why the bill was necessary: 

Women and girls shouldn’t be forced to sacrifice their privacy and safety in the name of promoting gender ideology. Allowing men to invade women’s most intimate spaces – including changing rooms and restrooms – compromises their dignity. SB 244 ensures that the private spaces of women and girls in government buildings are not open to men. It rightly prioritizes privacy and safety over ideology. 

Rep. Abigail Boatman, D-Wichita, who was born male but believes he is a woman, denounced the law’s passage, accusing lawmakers of trying to police and control women. 

Boatman, who was appointed to a seat by a vote of his party’s precinct leaders, told The Topeka Capital-Journal: 

It’s hard to feel like it’s not, at least in part, about me, since I am a transgender person who spends my whole day in a government building. 

But, as much as this may be about me and about transgender women in general, this is about policing women. 

Boatman continued: 

This is about policing what is acceptable expressions of womanhood and femininity, and we don’t do that to men. There’s been no outrage, at least not yet, about trans men and trans boys. 

It’s always trans girls and trans women, and that’s because this is a mechanism to control women. One among many. 

No. “Trans women” are not women. And boys and men are equally concerned when girls and women invade their privacy. 

Radical journalists went along with the charade that a man can become a women with destructive, body-damaging drugs, hormones and surgeries. 

Instead of calling this a reality-based, pro-woman bill that protects privacy and safety, many inaccurately labelled the bill an “anti-trans bathroom bill,” saying it requires “requires people to use bathrooms in public places that align with their sex assigned at birth.” 

But sex is not “assigned at birth” — it’s objectively recognized and acknowledged. And people should use sex-segregated facilities in line with their sex — not some spurious self-identity. 

Christians and conservatives have compassion for individuals struggling with self-hatred,  mental health, and sexual sin and brokenness — some of the contributing factors that might lead someone to live as the opposite sex. We want them to accept and embrace their bodily reality.

But we also hold to the truth about human sexual dimorphism. There are only two sexes, individuals are either male or female, and no one can change from one sex to the other. 

At least 20 states have laws protecting privacy and safety in bathrooms in public buildings or in K-12 schools and universities. 

Kudos to the Kansas Legislature for joining them in recognizing truth and protecting privacy and safety in sex-segregated spaces. 

Related articles and resources: 

California Students Battle to Protect Girls’ Private Spaces in Schools

Chloe Cole: Gender Reassignment Surgery Regret

Counseling for Sexual Identity Concerns: A Measured, Careful, and Compassionate approach

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly: Becoming the Woman God Made Me to Be

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly: The Journey Back to My True Identity

Helping Children with Gender Identity Confusion

Laura Perry Smalts’ Authentic Shift From Transgenderism To Embracing God’s Design

Middle School Girls Who Protested ‘Trans’ Athlete Are Banned From Future Competition

Riley Gaines and 15 Other Female Athletes Sue NCAA Over ‘Transgender Policy’

President Trump: ‘There are Only Two Genders: Male and Female’

Transformation: A Former Transgender Responds to LGBTQ 

Transgender Resources

Trump Signs Executive Order Protecting Women’s Sports and Spaces

Written by Jeff Johnston · Categorized: Government Updates · Tagged: culture, transgender

Feb 18 2026

Colorado Bill Would Legalize Prostitution

Colorado legislators have introduced a bill that would remove all legal prohibitions forprostitution throughout the state. 

While Nevada permits prostitution in licensed brothels in specific counties, and Maine has decriminalized selling sex — but not purchasing it, if this bill is passed and signed into law, Colorado would be the first state to fully legalize and regulate “commercial sexual activity.” 

Legalizing prostitution would be disastrous for the Centennial State. 

SB26-097, “Decriminalize Adult Commercial Sexual Activity Among Consenting Adults,” “repeals the state criminal offenses of prostitution, soliciting for prostitution, keeping a place of prostitution, patronizing a prostitute, and prostitute making display.” 

Public solicitation for prostitution could become commonplace in cities and towns, exposing even young children to this perversion of God’s good design for relationships and sexuality. 

The state law would preempt any city, town or county ordinances and regulations that criminalize commercial sexual activity. It also “repeals the offense of pandering when it involves knowingly arranging or offering to arrange a situation that permits a person to practice prostitution.”

SB26-097 is sponsored by four seriously misguided Democrats: Senate Majority Whip Nick Hinrichsen, Senate Assistant Majority Leader Lisa Cutter, Representative Lorena Garcia and Representative Rebekah Stewart.  

The bill declares: 

Criminalizing prostitution endangers adults who engage in consensual sexual activity. Fear of criminal punishment among consenting adults engaged in commercial sexual activity encourages physical, emotional, and structural violence against sex workers, subjects them to economic crimes, and increases resistance to harm-reduction practices.

SB26-097 also states: 

Like workers in other fields, sex workers deserve the opportunity to screen their clients to ensure a safe transaction. Criminalizing client conduct creates a disincentive for prospective clients to share personal information, which inhibits sex workers’ ability to maintain their safety.

But the truth is, prostitution is not like “work in other fields.” It is inherently damaging — spiritually, physically and emotionally — for both the prostitute and the “client.” 

As the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) documents, prostitution — even legalized — preys on vulnerable people: 

Many people in systems of prostitution suffer from vulnerabilities and marginalization. Common adverse experiences that are pathways to prostitution include childhood sexual abuse, homelessness, and poverty. 

Other factors associated with prostitution involvement include a history of foster care, not having a high school degree, being a racial minority, an immigrant, an indigenous minority, or LGBT person, as well as “entry” into prostitution as a child (i.e., sex trafficking).

NCOSE further notes that legalizing prostitution does not make prostitution safe: 

Prostitution creates trauma that cannot be regulated or decriminalized away. Prostitution is inherently harmful. Prostitution results in a wide range of devastating physical harms and/or psychological trauma to those sold in it – even when it’s legal or fully decriminalized.

Legalizing prostitution actually leads to even more coerced sex trafficking, as Janice G. Raymond points out in the Journal of Trauma Practice. When examining legal prostitution in the Netherlands, researchers found more illegal sex trafficking was taking place: 

One argument for legalizing prostitution in the Netherlands was that legalization would help to end the exploitation of desperate immigrant women who had been trafficked there for prostitution. However, one report found that 80% of women in the brothels of the Netherlands were trafficked from other countries. In 1994, the International Organization of Migration stated that in the Netherlands alone, “nearly 70 % of trafficked women were from CEEC [Central and Eastern European Countries].”

Researchers found the same increase in sexual trafficking in other countries where prostitution is legalized, such as Germany and parts of Australia. 

NCOSE concurs, explaining: 

Brothels, illicit massage parlors, escort agencies, and online platforms are overlapping systems of prostitution and sex trafficking occurs in all of them. Normalization of prostitution expands demand for paid sex. This emboldens sex traffickers who see this as a conducive “business” environment. Cross-national studies have found higher levels of human trafficking in countries with legalized or decriminalized prostitution.

Raymond notes that decriminalizing prostitution also increases child prostitution, citing studies from Australia and the Netherlands. She writes:  

The Amsterdam-based ChildRight organization estimates that the number of children in prostitution has increased by more than 300% between 1996 –2001, going from 4,000 children in 1996 to 15,000 in 2001. ChildRight estimates that at least 5,000 of these children in Dutch prostitution are trafficked from other countries, with a large segment being Nigerian girls.

Nor does legalizing prostitution make it “safe.” NCOSE explains: 

Prostitution creates trauma that cannot be regulated or decriminalized away. Prostitution is inherently harmful. Prostitution results in a wide range of devastating physical harms and/or psychological trauma to those sold in it – even when it’s legal or fully decriminalized. 

In another article from the Journal of Trauma Practice “Prostitution and Trafficking in Nine Countries,” the authors concur, citing the harms to women: 

We found that prostitution was multi-traumatic: 71% were physically assaulted in prostitution; 63% were raped; 89% of these respondents wanted to escape prostitution, but did not have other options for survival. A total of 75% had been homeless at some point in their lives; 68% met criteria for PTSD.

These harms — and more – still occur when prostitution is legalized, “Our findings contradict common myths about prostitution … that prostitution is qualitatively different from trafficking, and that legalizing or decriminalizing prostitution would decrease its harm.”

There are more harms to prostitution, which you can read about here, here, here, here and here. 

Colorado politicians want to legalize selling sex, which is intrinsically harmful, degrading for all those involved and leads to greater destruction. 

They somehow believe that taking God’s beautiful gift of sexual expression, designed to unite a husband and wife, with the potential for creating new life, is something that can be commercialized like any other business. 

Coloradans must make their voice heard and oppose this horrific bill. 

SB26-097, “Decriminalize Adult Commercial Sexual Activity Among Consenting Adults,” has been introduced in the Senate and assigned to the Judiciary Committee, but no hearing date has yet been scheduled. You can find information about contacting the sponsors of the bill here. 

Related articles and resources: 

Colorado Committee Kills ‘Children Are Not for Sale Bill’

Counseling Consultation & Referrals

How to Prevent Sexual Exploitation of Your Child

How to Fight Human Trafficking

Human Trafficking: What You Need to Know

Meet Three Heroes Working to Protect Colorado Children

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC)

NCMEC’s 24/7 call center number: 1-800-THE-LOST (843-5678)

Prostitution Proliferates in California after Decriminalizing Loitering

Protecting Your Child From Sexual Abuse

Reclaiming Hope: Resources and Mentoring for Sex Trafficking Survivors

‘Still Hope’ Movie Tells Story of Hope and Healing After Horrors of Sex Trafficking

Understanding the Scope of Human Trafficking

Written by Jeff Johnston · Categorized: Government Updates · Tagged: culture, prostitution

Feb 13 2026

Was Don Lemon a Protestor, a Journalist or a Worshipper in Cities Church Disruption? 

Don Lemon pled not guilty to charges that he violated the law when he entered Cities Church, in St. Paul, Minnesota, with activists to film a pro-illegal immigration demonstration that intentionally disrupted and shut down the church’s worship service. 

Lemon previously stated, in an Instagram video defending himself, that he was not part of the protest, adding, “We did an act of journalism.” 

The other defendants charged along with the former CNN anchor are Nekima Levy-Armstrong, Chauntyll Allen, William Kelly, Jerome Richardson, Jamael Lundy, Trahern Jeen Crews, Ian Austin and Georgia Fort. Like Lemon, Fort is also an independent journalist. 

The indictment against Lemon claims he was an activist who “entered the Church in a coordinated takeover-style attack and engaged in acts of oppression, intimidation, threats, interference, and physical obstruction alleged herein.”

The question for the court will be, was Lemon part of the group of protestors? Or was he acting independently as a journalist? Or a worshipper, as he told Cities Church Pastor Jonathan Parnell? 

And, do journalists have the First Amendment right to enter a house of worship with a group of activists and film the disruption of a service? 

An article from Samuel Oakford in The Washington Post indicates that Lemon was acting as a journalist. But then the reporter gives some contradictory evidence, saying: 

Lemon live-streamed at the church, he conducted interviews and repeatedly identified himself as a reporter, while also voicing sympathy for the protesters’ cause. (Our emphasis.)

He also drove to the event with activists. The Post also reports that Lemon’s producer participated in the chants of the protestors:

Lemon’s producer for the day, Jerome Richardson, who is among those charged, can be seen engaging in call-and-response with protesters.

So much for impartial reporting. 

The story quoted the indictment, which detailed Lemon’s actions at the church: 

The indictment alleges that Lemon, Fort and Richardson “largely surrounded” a pastor [Jonathan Parnell], standing close to him “in an attempt to oppress and intimidate him, and physically obstructed his freedom of movement,” while Lemon “peppered him with questions to promote the operation’s message.”

Oakford reports that a spokesman for Cities Church, Greg Scott, a representative of True North Legal, stated: 

Don Lemon participated in the disruption of a worship service on private property and was asked to leave. 

Later, Scott added: 

It is indisputable that Lemon invaded the pastor’s space while his church was being invaded. There is no world in which the aggressor and the accosted can be flipped here.

At one point in his exchange with Lemon, Pastor Parnell says, “I ask that you actually would also leave this building, unless you’re here to worship.”

Lemon responds, “I always worship; I am a Christian.” 

It took Lemon seven minutes to leave the private property. 

Later, Lemon filmed himself agreeing with the activists, saying: 

You have to be willing to go into places and disrupt and make people uncomfortable. That is what this country is about.

The indictment from the U.S. Department of Justice charges Lemon and the other eight defendants with two counts: “conspiracy against right of religious freedom at place of worship” and “injure, intimidate, and interfere with exercise of Right of Religious Freedom at place of worship.” 

So, was Lemon participating in the protest as an activist? Or simply reporting, as a journalist? Or was he even a worshipper, as he claimed? 

His own documentation of his actions that day are very telling.

Related articles and resources: 

Don Lemon, Other Activists Arrested for Disrupting Church Service in St. Paul

DOJ Arrests Three Activists Who Disrupted Cities Church Service in St. Paul

The Face Act Criminalizes Interfering in Church Services

It’s Compassionate to Oppose Illegal immigration. Here’s Why.

The Light Shines in the Darkness: When the World Storms the Church

Talking to Your Kids About Illegal Immigration

Tom Homan: We Have the Most Secure Border in American History

Trump Sees Lowest Border Numbers in History: ‘The Invasion is Over’

Violent Gang Takes Advantage of American Immigration Policy

Picture of Cities Church from Getty Images.
Picture of Don Lemon from Instagram @donlemonofficial.

Written by Jeff Johnston · Categorized: Religious Freedom · Tagged: culture

Feb 05 2026

President Trump Announces Guidelines to Protect Students’ Right to Pray in Schools

President Donald Trump addressed the 74th National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday morning at the Washington Hilton Hotel — the chief executive’s sixth speech to the group.

Focus on the Family president Jim Daly, who attended the annual gathering with over 3,500 attendees, including international dignitaries such as the president of Congo, qualified it as an important occasion to call on the Lord for His guidance and wisdom.

“Scripture commands that we pray for our leaders, and while we do so individually, it’s important to gather to do the same collectively,” Daly shared. “President Trump’s ongoing protection of religious liberty is deeply supported by faith leaders. We also appreciated his announced efforts to protect the rights of students to pray in public schools.”

President Trump used the event to announce the U.S. Department of Education was issuing guidance on constitutionally protected prayer and religious expression in public elementary and secondary schools. The president predicted foes of the plan would sue — but that his administration would ultimately prevail. 

In a wide-ranging address that covered dozens of hot-button issues, Mr. Trump also made news by announcing a special prayer event in Washington, D.C. on May 17 called “Rededicate 250: National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise, and Thanksgiving.”

As part of America’s 250th birthday celebration, the twelve-hour occasion promises that “In speech, song, and storytelling, we will bear witness to the extraordinary story of how God has powerfully and wonderfully shaped the United States of America — remembering the people, sacrifices, and defining moments in which God has powerfully manifested Himself in our history.”

“We’re going to rededicate America as one nation under God,” declared the president.

Mr. Trump spoke for over an hour, often veering away from his prepared text. Here are some of the highlights of what he said:

On the nation’s commitment to protecting people of faith all around the world:

“When Christians come under attack, they know they’re going to be attacked violently and viciously by President Trump. I know it’s not a nice thing to say, but that’s the way it is.”

“No administration in modern history has done more to confront the plight of persecuted Christians around the world than we have with us. It’s a mission. It’s actually a mission.”

On America’s deep Christian roots: 

“We are endowed with our sacred rights through life, liberty, and not by government but by God Almighty Himself. And those words rang out from Philadelphia and launched a revolution not just in America but in the hearts of all humanity.”

“The principles of the Declaration of Independence, which is one of three, sitting right beautifully in the Oval Office. I took it out of the vaults, and it’s beautiful. It’s beautifully protected, and it’s a magnificent document. I stare at it all the time, and I read it as often as I can. A true, brilliant work of art.”

On the importance of faith in a thriving country: 

“You have to have God. And thankfully, as we gather today, there are many signs that religion is coming back. And now it’s no longer signs. It’s just coming back. It’s coming back so strong. You know, your churches are filling up.”

On correcting the wrong of pandemic-era lockdowns:

“They were arresting people for going to church, and they were treating people horribly. I’ve made a lot of amends to those people. Those people were treated very badly for wanting to go to church … But the churches are now coming back stronger than ever.”

“In the last 12 months, young Americans attended church at nearly twice the rate as they did four years ago.”

“Some churches are seeing a 30 percent, 50 percent, or even 70 percent increase in the number of converts, and also the number of people going to church every week.”

President Trump praised Speaker Mike Johnson’s strong Christian faith:

“You know, Mike Johnson is a very religious person, and he does not hide it. He’ll say to me sometimes at lunch, ‘Sir, may we pray?” I say, ‘Excuse me? What happened to lunch?’ It’s okay with me. But he’s a very religious person, and he is popular, and he’s doing an unbelievable job. So, I think God is watching over you. God is watching over him. I don’t know about me, so I hang around with him because I feel I’m protected a little bit.”

On support for educational options for American families: 

“We passed the largest ever expansion of school choice so that every parent has a chance to send their child to a school that shares their values.”

On the administration’s socially conservative commitments: 

“We expanded the Mexico City policy to stop taxpayer dollars from being used to promote radical gender ideology all around the world … My administration also rejoined the Geneva Consensus Declaration to affirm the right to sovereign nations, to protect life, defend the family, and to be faithful to God.”

“I signed an executive order to slash federal funding for any public school that pushes transgender insanity. This is crazy on our youth. Who would think about that? Who would think if you go back 15 years, you’re talking about, and I stopped the mutilation of children. The word is mutilation. They mutilate.”

On the administration’s commitment to fight anti-Semitism and anti-Christian bias:

“I signed an executive order to combat the vile scourge of anti-Semitism, which is really raging. Surprising. Nobody’s ever seen it. I set up an official Department of Justice taskforce to eradicate anti-Christian bias, because you do have a lot of that. They don’t talk about that. They’re always talking about other religions and other different — but a lot of anti-Christian bias. And you see it going in foreign countries. I mentioned Nigeria. There are others. We’re hitting them very hard.”

“My administration is confronting head-on the militant and, really, intolerant campaign that tried to drive religious believers out of public life and out of society.”

On addressing the Minnesota church invasion:

“The Department of Justice recently charged nine individuals for storming a church in Minnesota during a worship service and trampling on Americans’ First Amendment rights. I watched that tape, and that was violent.”

“I thought the minister was great. He was so calm and good. They’re screaming at him. Terrible. Right in the middle of a church service.”

On peace through strength:

“As the Bible tells us, ‘Blessed are the peacemakers.’ That’s true. The peacemakers are very important. But you can only have peace, I find, through strength. If you don’t have strength, peace is very hard. And we have strength.”

“Almost 250 years after our founding fathers took one of the greatest leaps of faith in human history … [the] faith of the American people remains unbroken. It actually became stronger than ever. And it reminds us that prayers strengthen, prayers heal, prayer empowers, and prayer saves. Quite simply, prayer is America’s superpower. It really is a superpower. And it always has been, and it always will be.”

The prayer breakfast included a moving keynote address from Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, who recounted the tragic death of his wife, who passed away following a horseback riding accident.

“Sometimes following God doesn’t always mean that it’s going to work out the way that we want it to,” he shared. “After all, Jesus did say that ‘in this world, you will have many troubles,’ but He also said, ‘I have overcome the world.’”

“In my life, that truth then became real, and He became real to me, like He had never been. Oh, I had known Him, but now I began to know Him in a way that I had never known Him before. He became a healer and a redeemer, and a dispenser of hope.”

Written by Paul Batura · Categorized: Education · Tagged: culture, Trump

Feb 04 2026

Jury Awards $2 Million to Young Woman Who Underwent ‘Transgender’ Surgery at 16

A New York jury awarded Fox Varian $2 million dollars in a malpractice lawsuit against medical professionals who attempted to socially and surgically “transition” her to look like the opposite sex. 

This is the first time a “detransitioner” has won a medical malpractice suit against those who caused irreversible psychological and physical damage to a person struggling with sexual identity confusion. 

Varian underwent a double mastectomy in 2019 when she was only 16 years old, hardly competent to consent to an operation that left her with scarring, ongoing pain, and the inability to ever nurse a child. 

Four years after her surgery, she filed a lawsuit against her psychologist, Kenneth Einhorn, who had written a referral letter to Dr. Simon Chin, the surgeon who performed the double mastectomy on the teenager.    

Writing at The Free Press, Benjamin Ryan explained that the jury decision hinged on “whether the care providers failed to observe standard safeguards and whether any deviations from those standards injured the patient.”

Ryan reported that Varian was 15 when “she began questioning her gender during sessions with her psychologist.” Born Isabella, she first changed her name to Gabriel, identifying as androgynous. 

“Over the next two months,” Ryan explained, “she cut her hair short, began binding her breasts, switched her name again, to Rowan, and started telling people she was transgender.” 

Finally, only “11 months after she started this public social transition, Varian underwent surgery to remove her breasts.” 

Ryan evinced sympathy for Varian’s mother Claire Deacon, who was pressured to approve the surgery, reporting: 

Varian testified that Einhorn served as an enabler, repeatedly assuring her that the mastectomy she desired would greatly improve her well-being. Deacon testified that Einhorn browbeat her into consenting to her daughter’s surgery, threatening that she would otherwise commit suicide.

“Varian’s attorney Adam Deutsch had asked the jury for $8 million in damages,” The Epoch Times reported, adding that the jury award included “$1.6 million for past and future pain and suffering, and another $400,000 for future medical expenses.” 

Ryan attended all three weeks of the jury trial in White Plains and said this verdict “could change gender medicine,” adding, “There are nearly 30 known civil suits filed by detransitioners to date (the first was filed in 2022), almost all of them malpractice cases structured similarly to Varian’s.”

He explained: 

While there are no guarantees in medical malpractice lawsuits, legal experts believe Varian’s victory could inspire a wave of similar cases that would significantly disrupt pediatric gender medicine.

Other young women who were damaged by “transgender” drugs, hormones and surgeries, and who have filed lawsuits against medical institutions and professionals who harmed them, applauded the jury decision. 

Chloe Cole filed a lawsuit in 2023 alleging that Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, The Permanente Medical Group and three doctors had improperly treated her sexual identity confusion with chemical and surgical interventions, leaving her with “deep physical and emotional wounds, severe regrets, and distrust of the medical system.”

Doctors prescribed powerful puberty blockers and testosterone to Cole when she was only 13, performing a radical double mastectomy on her when she was only 15. 

Cole stated in a post on X, “I couldn’t be more happy for Fox Varian. Detransitioners need justice.” 

I couldn't be more happy for Fox Varian. Detransitioners need justice.

My lawsuit with @Liberty_Ctr will further this precedent by exposing the major medical institution known as Kaiser Permanente.

I will be giving an update on my suit soon so follow CAL and myself for more. https://t.co/nBnNAZF6Uv

— Chloe Cole ⭐️ (@ChloeCole) February 2, 2026

Prisha Mosley is another young woman who filed a lawsuit alleging medical fraud against those who used chemical and medical interventions in an attempt to make her look more like a male. Her lawsuit stated: 

Instead of telling Prisha the truth and informing her accurately and fully, Defendants lied to Prisha. They lied when they told Prisha she was actually a boy; they lied when they told her that injecting testosterone into her body would solve her numerous, profound mental and psychological health problems. …  And they lied by omission, withholding critical information from her about the long-term adverse health consequences and permanent damage these “treatments” would cause her, and failing to inform her of alternative courses of treatment for her psychological problems and ensure she had a clear understanding of those alternatives.

Part of her case was dismissed, but Mosley has appealed that decision. 

In an appearance on The Ingraham Angle, Mosley told Laura Ingraham how encouraged she was by the jury’s award to Varian: 

I think this sets an incredible precedent for detransitioners like me, who are trying to hold our doctors accountable. To see a win, an agreement from a jury that this patient was wronged, especially in a blue state like New York, is especially encouraging for detransitioners like me.

🚨 Prisha Mosley: “This sets an incredible precedent for detransitioners like me trying to hold our doctors accountable.”

“A jury agreed this patient was wronged — even in a blue state like New York. That’s incredibly encouraging for others to come forward.” pic.twitter.com/AVMSyJpteW

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) February 3, 2026

As Christians, we must have compassion on children — and adults — wrestling with sexual identity confusion. But true compassion means protecting strugglers from harmful and damaging drugs, hormones and surgeries.

Legal victories can’t undo the irreversible damage caused by these treatments. But, as legal experts told Benjamin Ryan, “Major jury awards could drive up malpractice insurance rates and perhaps even drive providers who fear reputational damage out of the field entirely.”

Related articles and resources: 

DOJ Targets Those Mutilating Children with ‘Transgender’ Drugs and Surgeries

Do Not Fall for the ‘Affirm Them or They Will Die’ Lie

Expert in ‘Transitioning’ Children Admits ‘We Were Wrong’ About Puberty Blockers

Focus on the Family: Counseling Consultation & Referrals

Focus on the Family: Transgender Resources

Four Brave Young Women File Lawsuits Alleging Harm from ‘Transgender’ Interventions

More Hospitals Stop Mutilation of Sexually Confused Children

New Video Equips Parents and Counselors to Help ‘Gender Dysphoric’ Children

ReFOCUS with Jim Daly: Addressing Gender Identity with Honesty and Compassion

ReFOCUS with Jim Daly: Chloe Cole: Gender Reassignment Surgery Regret

Transgenderism and Minors: What Does the Research Really Show?

Written by Jeff Johnston · Categorized: Sexuality · Tagged: culture, LGBT, transgender

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