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Apr 07 2026

Medicalizing Gender Confusion Makes Things Worse, New Research Confirms

New research from Finland further demonstrates that the supposed “settled science” that gender medicine helps youth and young adults live healthier lives is not so settled after all. In fact, the research shows medicalizing gender confusion makes it worse.

It started with the suicide lie. Medical professionals told parents that if they did not wholly support, and pay for(!), their child’s gender transition, they might tragically take their own life. “Would you rather have a living son or a dead daughter?” parents were manipulatively warned by their child’s medical or psychiatric professionals. 

We now know that turned out to be false. The highly reliable Cass Review, conducted in the U.K. and published in 2024, reports, “In summary, the evidence does not adequately support the claim that gender affirming treatment reduces suicide risk” [see 15.43]. The Review also notes, “Tragically deaths by suicide in trans people of all ages continue to be above the national average, but there is no evidence that gender-affirmative treatments reduce this” [see 16.22].

Dr. Kenneth Zucker, a longtime leading expert in the field of youth gender, told Gender Clinic News, “It is now time to bury the ‘trans kid or dead kid’ trope.” He said this based on a 2024 Finnish study – “a very important study,” Zucker noted – which shows that suicide death rates are not alarmingly high for gender confused kids. In fact, they are no higher than rates for peers with any psychiatric treatment history and “medical gender reassignment does not have an impact on suicide risk.”

The four authors of this Finnish study have just published a very large nationally representative study spanning 3-decades which shows severe psychiatric problems are dramatically higher in adolescents and young adults who have sought out medical services for gender identity issues compared with other psychiatric patients of the same age.

This study followed young people 22 years of age and below from 1996 through 2019 who contacted that nation’s Specialized Gender Identity Services and compared them with a similar control group of psychiatric patients. Its findings strongly challenge the claims of trans activists.

The researchers explain that adolescents seeking gender change procedures “showed significantly higher psychiatric morbidity than controls” prior to seeking such services. Specifically, 46% of teens and young adults with gender confusion reported some form of serious psychiatric problem compared with just 15% of the general population that age seeking any psychiatric services.

Yet these rates of serious psychological problems increased significantly after two years undergoing gender medical services, 62% compared to the 46% at the start of the medical interventions.

Another astounding, but not surprising, data fact is that those youth referred after 2010 “had greater psychiatric needs than earlier cohorts, both before (47.9% vs. 15.3%) and ≥ 2 years after (61.3% vs. 14.2%) referral.” This means the trans craze that exploded over the last 10-plus years has had a measurably negative effect.

These scholars add,

Among adolescents who underwent medical gender reassignment, psychiatric morbidity increased markedly during follow-up – rising from 9.8% to 60.7% in feminizing gender reassignment and from 21.6% to 54.5% in masculinizing gender reassignment. After adjusting for prior psychiatric treatment, all gender-referred adolescents had similarly elevated risks of psychiatric morbidity, with hazard ratios approximately three times higher than female controls and five times higher than male controls.

In short, “The need for specialist-level psychiatric treatment increased considerably in follow-up among those who underwent medical GR [gender reassignment].”

These Finnish researchers conclude, “This does not support the suggested improvement in mental health after medical gender reassignment initiated during developmental years.”

It is continued revelations from careful research like this that are leading medical professionals to increasingly back away from their previous support for the trans agenda. The truth will continue to come out as good, honest research comes to press.

Additional Resources:

A Singularly Christian View of the Transgender Problem

Why Christians Can’t Avoid the “Trans” and Gender Redefinition Issue

Yes, Transgenderism is a False Belief System

New Research Shows ‘Transgender’ Identity Dramatically Driven by Immaturity

‘The New York Times’ and 20 State AGs Expose Medical Groups’ Trans Agenda

The APA’s 5 Failed Critiques of HHS Report Discrediting Sex-Rejecting Procedures for Kids

Florida Sues Medical Groups for Promoting ‘Transgender’ Mutilation of Children

What Does it Mean to Be Trans, Anyway?

How the “Trans” and Gender Redefinition Issue Attacks the Family

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

American College of Pediatricians: No Benefits From ‘Gender-Affirming’ Interventions

Written by Glenn T. Stanton · Categorized: Culture, Sexuality · Tagged: LGBT, mental health, research, transgender

Apr 01 2026

Jaden Ivey: ‘All I’m preaching about is Jesus Christ and they waived me.’

The NBA’s Jaden Ivey was waived by the Chicago Bulls on Monday for “conduct detrimental to the team” — shorthand for politically incorrect comments he’s made ranging from criticism of “Pride Month” to his bold, outspoken and sometimes unconventional sharing of his Christian faith.

Initially drafted by the Detroit Pistons with the number five pick in the first round in 2022, Ivey credits his conversion to Christianity with helping him overcome a strong sexual addiction and otherwise reckless life. 

“Before I came to the Lord Jesus Christ, the NBA was everything to me,” Ivey acknowledged. “I didn’t know God. I didn’t know Jesus when I came to the NBA. I was a fornicator, I was a pornography addict and I used to get drunk. That’s all I knew. And after a win, and after all those points, I felt good… I felt like I had everything set out for me.”

But Ivey found those highs to be temporary and artificial. After hitting a game-winning shot one night, he decided there had to be a better way. Comparing his life before turning his addictions over to Jesus, Ivey said:

“I’m not the J.I. I used to be. The old J.I. is dead. I’m alive in Christ no matter what the basketball setting is.”

In recent weeks, the 6-foot-three-inch guard has released via livestream on Instagram a series of commentaries expressing his frustration with the NBA culture. In a message last week, Ivey declared:

The world proclaims LGBTQ, right? They proclaim, “Pride Month” and the NBA does, too. They show it to the world. They say, “Come join us for ‘Pride Month’ to celebrate unrighteousness.” They proclaim it on the billboards. They proclaim it on the streets. Unrighteousness. So, how is it that one can’t speak righteousness? Who are they to say that this man is crazy?”

After the Bulls cut ties on Monday, Ivey responded to the decision on social media.

“They’re liars, bro. This is lying,” Ivey said. “They’re lying saying my conduct is detrimental to the team. That’s a lie. Ask any one of them coaches in there, ‘Was I a good teammate?’ All I’m preaching about is Jesus Christ and they waived me. They say I’m crazy, right? I’m psycho.” 

Professional sports teams regularly make decisions regarding personnel, a calculus that Bulls head coach Billy Donovan alluded to when asked about Chicago’s decision to cut ties with Ivey.

“There’s a certain level of expectations and standards that are here,” Donovan said. “Everybody comes with their own personal experiences, right? But we have to all be professional, there has to be a high level of respect for one another, and we’ve got to help each other and be accountable to those standards.”

Ivey’s outspoken and unconventional methods and means of evangelism have included him calling out current and former players, including Steph Curry, LeBron James and Michael Jordan. “All them rings LeBron got, all them rings Michael Jordan got, all them people in the Hall of Fame who don’t know Jesus Christ. It’s not gonna matter on Judgment Day if you don’t know Jesus and your name is not written in the book of life.”

Jaden Ivey also took issue with the Bulls’ vagueness and lack of cited specifics surrounding his release, though when it comes to matters of hiring and firing, it’s not uncommon for those details to be left unsaid out of fear of instigating a lawsuit. Ivey, though, doesn’t have that same filter or concern.

“Jesus is not going to say on Judgment Day, ‘How many points did you score today?’ … He’s gonna say, ‘What did you do for My kingdom?'”

Given the NBA’s long fuse for other types of disruptive and detrimental player behavior ranging from domestic abuse to kneeling for the Star-Spangled Banner, Jaden Ivey’s separation from the league is understandably raising eyebrows and generating charges of ideological hypocrisy and religious bias. The now former NBA player appears unphased and even somewhat energized by the controversy.

“How is it when the gospel is preached that people hate it? That people don’t want to hear it?” he recently asked. “Jesus gives you power over the devil … please turn to Jesus Christ… it’s not His will that these players perish in the NBA.”

Written by Paul Batura · Categorized: Culture · Tagged: Evangelism, LGBT, religious discrimination

Mar 31 2026

The Supreme Court’s ‘Conversion Therapy’ Ruling: Four Truths You Should Know

On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Colorado’s law banning so-called “conversion therapy” is likely unconstitutional, violating the First Amendment’s free speech clause.

In the 8-1 decision, the Supreme Court held the state’s “Prohibit Conversion Therapy for A Minor” law (HB19-1129), enacted in 2019, engages in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination since it prohibited therapists from voicing certain perspectives that Colorado disfavors.

Because of its speech restrictions, the law must satisfy strict scrutiny – the highest standard of judicial review, the Supreme Court said. The lower courts had erroneously applied rational-basis review – a much lower standard – in upholding the law.

The law prohibited licensed counselors from helping minor clients struggling with unwanted same-sex attraction or sexual identity confusion. The Orwellian speech code mandated counselors speak in a specific, state-mandated way when counseling minor clients.

Counselors could only help clients embrace homosexuality or a “transgender” identity. The law prohibited counselors from helping clients, through simple talk therapy, turn away from homosexual thoughts, behaviors and identities, or resolve feelings of gender dysphoria and embrace their biological sex.

“Under our precedents, viewpoint restrictions like that are not subject to mere rational-basis review or intermediate scrutiny,” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the Court’s majority. “Rather, they represent ‘an egregious form of content discrimination’ where First Amendment concerns are at their most ‘blatant.’”

The case stems from Christian Colorado counselor Kaley Chiles’ lawsuit seeking to prevent enforcement of HB19-1129 and protect her First Amendment right to speak freely in counseling conversations with minors.

“While the First Amendment protects many and varied forms of expression, the spoken word is perhaps the quintessential form of protected speech,” Gorsuch added, “And that is exactly the kind of expression in which Ms. Chiles seeks to engage.”

Justice Gorsuch continued,

The First Amendment stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country.

The Court’s decision is a clear win for all Americans’ free speech rights and for minors who want to find help and hope of healing from homosexuality and transgenderism.

However, you’d never know that from reading the mainstream media’s biased coverage of the Court’s ruling.

The Associated Press claimed the decision is “the latest in a line of recent cases in which the justices have [taken] a skeptical view of LGBTQ+ rights,” opining that “conversion therapy” is a “discredited practice.”

The New York Times said Colorado’s law prohibits counselors from “trying to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of L.G.B.T.Q. minors.”

NBC News called the decision “a blow to LGBTQ rights” in the opening sentence of its article on the ruling. The outlet called “conversion therapy” “widely discredited” and “ineffective,” deeming it “harmful, increasing a risk of suicide among people subjected to it.”

USA Today said “conversion therapy” is “ineffective and harmful.”

For all the smoke and mirrors proffered by other outlets, here are four truthful things you should know about the Court’s ruling.

“Conversion Therapy” Doesn’t Exist

There is no “harmful” or “discredited” practice known as “conversion therapy.” As the Daily Citizen has previously noted, “No counselor or therapist ever put out a sign saying, ‘I offer conversion therapy’ or ‘I’ll convert you from gay to straight!’ There is no such clinical practice.”

“The term was invented by activists who oppose the truth that some people with same-sex attractions or gender identity confusion who don’t want to embrace those thoughts, feelings, identities or behaviors.”

The Truth: Some individuals who experience unwanted same-sex attraction or sexual identity confusion seek counselors’ help to reach their own goals and find freedom from homosexuality and transgenderism; many individuals do find lasting freedom from these struggles.

Talk Therapy is Not Harmful

As the Court recounted in its opinion, Chiles (and other Christian counselors) does not “prescribe any medicines, perform any physical treatments, or engage in any coercive or aversive practices. All Ms. Chiles offers is talk therapy.”

A 2022 study conducted by Rev. D. Paul Sullins, Ph.D., a research professor of sociology with the Catholic University of America, found that “sexual orientation change efforts” are not associated with causing behavioral harms – unlike what the media claims.

The Truth: Talk therapy can be helpful for individuals who want to explore their past experiences, feelings, relationships, identities and behaviors and who want to live out a biblical sexual ethic.

The Court Upheld All Americans’ Free Speech Rights

The media inexplicably and incorrectly portrayed the ruling as a “blow to LGBT rights.” But the Court did not remove any “LGBT right.” Nor did it mandate any homosexual- or transgender-identified individuals receive talk therapy.

The Court merely said minor clients who want to leave homosexuality or transgenderism can receive a counselor’s help in doing so.

The Truth: The Court upheld Americans’ right to speak freely and receive counseling as they wish.

LGBT Activists Promote Conversion Therapy

LGBT activists who oppose counselors helping clients leave transgenderism, who want to trap individuals into a lifetime of confusion over their sexual identity, are the real advocates of “conversion therapy.”

These radical activists would prefer minors receive harmful, damaging and irreversible puberty blocking drugs, opposite-sex hormones and surgeries, rather than explore their feelings and identities with a licensed counselor.

This is a misguided attempt to “convert” children into looking and acting like the opposite sex, rather than helping them embrace biological reality. Most children with sexual identity confusion will desist, but transgender ideology tries to convince them – and their families – that they need to somehow “become” the opposite sex.

As commentator Allie Beth Stuckey wrote, “True, damaging ‘conversion therapy’ is the kind that convinces kids that they’re the opposite gender.”

The Truth: LGBT activists are the real proponents of harmful “conversion therapy” for children with sexual identity confusion.

Thankfully, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Kaley Chiles’ favor, upholding her free speech rights and the right of all licensed counselors to help minors receive the therapy they seek.

The case now goes back down to the lower court, where Colorado’s law will likely fail to meet a strict scrutiny analysis and be found unconstitutional.

The case is Chiles v. Salazar.

Related articles and resources:

Supreme Court Smacks Down Colorado’s ‘Conversion Therapy’ Ban in 8-1 Decision

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

What Is ‘Conversion Therapy’?

Four Things You Should Know About Michigan’s Ban on Therapy for Unwanted Homosexuality or Transgenderism

Elizabeth Woning Left Lesbianism for a Relationship with Christ – She Wants Others to Have that Same Freedom

New Study: Even Failed Efforts to Leave Homosexuality Are Not Harmful

New Study Shows Therapy to Leave Homosexuality Can Be Effective and Helpful

Photo from Getty Images.

Written by Zachary Mettler · Categorized: Government Updates · Tagged: LGBT, supreme court, transgender

Mar 31 2026

Supreme Court Smacks Down Colorado’s ‘Conversion Therapy’ Ban in 8-1 Decision

In an 8-1 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled a Colorado law banning so-called conversion therapy for minors “regulates speech based on viewpoint,” violating counselors’ First Amendment rights. 

The Court’s almost-unanimous decision in Chiles v. Salazar was written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson offering the lone dissent. Liberal Justice Elena Kagan filed a separate concurring opinion, joined by fellow liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor. 

The case was brought by Kaley Chiles, a practicing Christian and licensed professional counselor who helps clients with a variety of issues – including unwanted sexual identity confusion and same-sex attractions.

But Colorado passed a ban on “conversion therapy” for minors in 2019, censoring Chiles’ speech. Therapists in Colorado were only allowed to help minors move toward homosexuality or transgenderism, even when this conflicted with their deeply held religious beliefs. 

Chiles does not impose her beliefs on clients but helps them work toward their own goals. The ban locked minors out of voluntary counseling conversations that could help them live according to their faith and embrace their bodily reality. 

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) allied attorney Barry Arrington filed a lawsuit on Chiles’behalf in 2022, fighting this unwarranted violation of her First Amendment rights.  

After a district court failed to stop Colorado’s therapy ban, Arrington and ADF attorneys appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in 2024. When that court ruled against Chiles, she appealed to the Supreme Court, and ADF Chief Legal Counsel Jim Campbell presented oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court last October. 

ADF called the victory a “monumental” decision for free speech, saying, “The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that counseling conversations are speech and that states cannot silence viewpoints in the counseling room.” 

Campbell, in a statement from ADF, pointed out the damage to children from counseling censorship laws that prohibit help for those struggling with sexual identity confusion: 

Kids deserve real help affirming that their bodies are not a mistake and that they are wonderfully made. The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision today is a significant win for free speech, common sense, and families desperate to help their children. 

States cannot silence voluntary conversations that help young people seeking to grow comfortable with their bodies.

The ruling affects laws in 23 states, along with executive orders or regulations in four states and more than 100 municipalities, that censor talk therapy for minors with unwanted homosexuality or transgenderism. It also affects similar court cases across the country. 

In his opinion, Gorsuch noted that Colorado’s law forbade “any practice or treatment … that attempts … to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity,” including any effort “to change behaviors or gender expressions or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attraction or feelings toward individuals of the same sex” (his emphasis). 

Chiles had argued that the prohibition applied to her use of normal, therapeutic talk therapy with clients, and it mandated speech that encouraged them toward homosexuality or transgenderism. 

Colorado argued that the law regulated “professional conduct,” not speech. But the Supreme Court rejected this, saying talk therapy “involves no physical interventions or medications, only the spoken word.” 

The opinion acknowledged the vital role of free speech in America: 

The First Amendment “envisions the United States as a rich and complex place” where all enjoy the “freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think.”

Gorsuch added:

This Court has long held that laws regulating speech based on its subject matter or “communicative content” are “presumptively unconstitutional.” … 

We have recognized, as well, the even greater dangers associated with regulations that discriminate based on the speaker’s point of view.

“While the First Amendment protects many and varied forms of expression, the spoken word is perhaps the quintessential form of protected speech,” the Court opined.

In her lengthy 35-page dissent – longer than Gorsuch’s opinion and Kagan’s concurring opinion combined – Jackson stated that Colorado was only regulating “medical professionals and their treatment-related speech.” 

She added, “Chiles insists … she has a constitutional right to flout Colorado’s statute and the standard of care it incorporates if a client asks her to do so.” 

Jackson tried to make a distinction between “talk” and “medical treatment,” saying Chiles had the right to oppose Colorado’s law and “freely promote conversion therapy” but “she cannot practice that therapy.” 

The rest of the Court adamantly disagreed with that baseless argument. 

Gorsuch made several key points in the Court’s emphatic rejection of Jackson’s distinction between “speech” and “therapeutic “practice.” First, he wrote: 

Licensed professionals “have a host of good-faith disagreements” about the “prudence” and “ethics” of various practices in their fields. … Medical consensus, too, is not static; it evolves and always has. A prevailing standard of care may reflect what most practitioners believe today, but it cannot mark the outer boundary of what they may say tomorrow. 

Far from a test of professional consensus, the First Amendment rests instead on a simple truth: “[T]he people lose” whenever the government transforms prevailing opinion into enforced conformity.

He went on to make a statement that captures the crux of this case: 

We do not doubt that the question “how best to help minors” struggling with issues of gender identity or sexual orientation is presently a subject of “fierce public debate.” … 

But Colorado’s law addressing conversion therapy does not just ban physical interventions. In cases like this, it censors speech based on viewpoint. Colorado may regard its policy as essential to public health and safety. Certainly, censoriousgovernments throughout history have believed the same.

But the First Amendment stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country. It reflects instead a judgment that every American possesses an inalienable right to think and speak freely, and a faith in the free marketplace of ideas as the best means for discovering truth. However well-intentioned, any law that suppresses speech based on viewpoint represents an “egregious” assault on both of those commitments.

Colorado’s “censorious government” believed it had the right to stifle free speech and only allow the viewpoint of LGBT activists and their allies to reign in counseling offices. 

Kaley Chiles celebrated the freedom to work with minors and their families who want to live according to the Bible’s guidance for sexuality and relationships. She said: 

When my young clients come to me for counsel, they often want to discuss issues of gender and sexuality. I look forward to being able to help them when they choose the goal of growing comfortable with their bodies. 

Counselors walking alongside these young people shouldn’t be limited to promoting state-approved goals like gender transition, which often leads to harmful drugs and surgeries. The Supreme Court’s ruling is a victory for counselors and, more importantly, kids and families everywhere.

The case is Chiles v. Salazar. 

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Related articles and resources: 

Alliance Defending Freedom: Chiles v. Salazar

Daily Citizen: 

Appeals Court Permits Colorado’s Counseling Censorship Law to Stand

Can Minors Receive Counseling Help for Unwanted Same-Sex Attraction or Sexual Identity Confusion? Federal Courts Split on Local Prohibitions.

Colorado Counselor Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Free Speech Case

Colorado Lurches to the Far Left

Four Things You Should Know About Michigan’s Ban on Therapy for Unwanted Homosexuality or Transgenderism

Is Therapy to Leave Homosexuality Damaging? New Review Says, ‘No Proof of Harm’

Therapy Bans Threaten Religious Freedom, Free Speech and Parental Rights

Why We Support Therapy for Unwanted Homosexuality

Focus on the Family: 

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

Resources: Homosexuality

Transgender Resources

Understanding Homosexuality

Written by Jeff Johnston · Categorized: Culture · Tagged: LGBT, supreme court

Mar 18 2026

‘Protect Kids Colorado’ Qualifies Three Child Safety Ballot Measures for November

Protect Kids Colorado announced that all three of its state ballot measures to safeguard children qualified for the November ballot. 

In an entirely grassroots effort, the child safety and parental rights advocacy group gathered more than 500,000 total signatures for the initiatives.

The first measure, Initiative 108, would give predators convicted of trafficking children a life sentence; Initiative 109 would prevent males from participating in girls sports; while Initiative 110 would prohibit irreversible “transgender” surgeries for minors.

Protect Kids Colorado Executive Director Erin Lee announced the victory in a post on X, acknowledging the enormous effort from supporters: 

All 3 @ProtectKidsCO measures are officially ON THE BALLOT! 

# 108: The Children Are Not For Sale Act 

# 109: The Protect Girls’ Sports Act 

# 110: The Protect Kids from Irreversible Sex-Rejecting Surgeries Act 

People from every walk of life stepped up, sacrificed, and continue to fight for what matters. And because of ALL of you, the people will have a voice. 

🔥 HUGE NEWS 🔥

All 3 @ProtectKidsCO measures are officially ON THE BALLOT! 🗳️

# 108: The Children Are Not For Sale Act
# 109: The Protect Girls’ Sports Act
# 110: The Protect Kids from Irreversible Sex-Rejecting Surgeries Act

This didn’t happen because it was easy — it… pic.twitter.com/ZW5VHMnC8K

— Erin for Parental Rights (@Erin4Parents) March 17, 2026

In an email, Lee thanked volunteers who spent six months collecting signatures at hundreds of churches, grocery stores, ministries, colleges and signing events around the state: 

This is more than a milestone – it’s a historic, grassroots achievement powered by people across Colorado. What many said was impossible, you made a reality.
More than 3,300 petition carriers, 1,900+ notaries, hundreds of churches, and so many supporters stepped up – getting signatures, giving, sharing and showing up day after day. Every conversation, signature, and hour mattered.

Some volunteers faced anger and vitriol from transgender activists and their allies as they explained the ballot measures to registered voters. 

Collecting more than 165,000 signatures for each measure on a shoestring budget really was an extraordinary achievement. The Rocky Mountain Voice reported that Protect Kids Colorado raised $220,000 to fund the drive to place all three measures on the ballot.

By way of comparison, Let’s Go Washington spent almost $4.4 million to place two citizen-initiated measures, protecting girls sports and parental rights in education, on the November ballot. 

The notoriously radical Colorado Legislature considered three bills that would have done exactly what the ballot measures do – but each piece of legislation was voted down along party lines in House committees. 

The Children are Not for Sale Act, which would have given life sentences to those who traffic children, was defeated in the Judiciary Committee in a 4-7 vote. The Protect Female Sports Act was killed in the State, Civic, Military & Veterans Affairs Committee with a 3-8 vote. And a measure to Safeguard Minors from Sex-Altering Interventions failed to move forward, losing a 5-7 vote in the Health & Human Services Committee. 

So now, it’s up to Colorado voters to do what the Legislature would not: Give those convicted of trafficking minors a life sentence without parole; protect girls sports – and their privacy and safety – from male athletes; and protect minors from irreversible, body damaging transgender surgeries. 

Related articles and resources: 

‘Art Club’ Documentary — One Family’s Escape from Gender Ideology, and the Bigger Trend Sweeping the Nation

Athletes Rally at Supreme Court to Keep Boys Out of Girls Sports

Colorado Committee Kills ‘Children Are Not for Sale Bill’

Exclusive Interview: Colorado Parents Expose ‘Gender Cult’ at Public School in New Documentary

One Mom’s Journey Advocating for Children and Parental Rights

Protect Kids Colorado

Sign These Three Ballot Petitions to Protect Kids and Parental Rights in Colorado

Supreme Court to Hear Title IX Girls Sports Case

Protect Kids Colorado

Top 5 Moments From Supreme Court Arguments Over Girls Sports

Washington State Citizens Fight for Parents’ Rights, Girls Sports

Written by Jeff Johnston · Categorized: Culture · Tagged: Children, LGBT, parental rights, transgender

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