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Doctors Sue Colorado for Forcing Them to ‘Transition’ Patients

Christian doctors and health care professionals filed a federal lawsuit challenging a Colorado law requiring  them to participate in “transitioning” sexually-confused children and adults.

The complaint was filed by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) on behalf of the Christian Medical & Dental Associations, the Button Family Practice and several health care professionals who “believe that a person’s biological sex is a gift from God that cannot be changed or chosen.”

Although they’ll offer puberty blockers, opposite-sex hormones and surgeries for genuine necessary medical care, they won’t prescribe or perform these for clients with mental health issues, like those who reject their sex and believe they can somehow be transformed into the opposite sex.

ADF explained in a press release that state court decisions threaten these Christian health care professionals’ conscience rights:

The Colorado Supreme Court and another Colorado state court recently interpreted the state’s anti-discrimination law to force medical providers who prescribe hormones and or perform procedures for other conditions to also provide gender-transition drugs and surgeries for children and adults or risk prosecution. 

The legal aid organization added that the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act (CADA) doesn’t even allow medical providers to explain “their reasons for declining to provide gender-transition procedures on their websites or to the public.”

ADF Senior Counsel Bryan Neihart said of the lawsuit:

Colorado is once again at war with common sense, sound science, and religious freedom.
Forcing doctors to perform dangerous, unproven gender-transition procedures against their medical judgment, their oath to do no harm, and their faith is unconstitutional. The state is not allowed to conscript doctors to harm the very children and adults entrusted to their care. The First Amendment trumps Colorado’s mandate to embrace the lie of gender ideology.”

The Colorado General Assembly amended CADA in 2008 adding “transgender status” to public accommodations protections – including hospitals and healthcare facilities. The legislation was amended again in 2021, through the “Gender Identity Expression Anti-Discrimination Act,” replacing “transgender status” with “gender identity” and “gender expression.”

But in 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation, stating:

It is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called “transition” of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.

To fulfill that mandate, the Department of Health and Human Services blocked Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program funding for puberty blockers, opposite-sex hormones and sex-rejecting surgeries for minors.

HHS also began investigating hospitals for harming children through medical “transgender” interventions, and its recent report “Wolves in White Coats” accused Colorado Children’s Hospital (Colorado Children’s) of falsely billing insurance companies for puberty blockers prescribed for children, listing a different condition besides “gender-identity diagnosis.” 

Following the investigation and the loss of federal funding, the TRUE Center for Gender Diversity at Children’s Hospital Colorado stopped offering these ineffective, harmful medical interventions to children.

But the hospital and healthcare workers continued to offer puberty blockers, hormones and surgeries when needed for serious, legitimate physical conditions. For example, doctors use puberty blockers to treat endometriosis or advanced prostate cancer.

Four transgender-identified minors sued Colorado Children’s, arguing it was discriminatory to offer these treatments to “cisgender adolescent patients” (i.e., an ideologically loaded term referring to those who identify with their natal sex) but not to sexually confused minors. They sought to force doctors and the hospital to treat them and other minors, or be charged with violating CADA.

A lower court agreed, blocking the hospital’s decision to shut down its clinic, and a 5-2 majority of the Colorado Supreme Court ruled in favor of that injunction, ordering hospitals to renew medical procedures for children who reject their sex.

Colorado Children’s says it is complying with the court’s decision, but its doctors have refused to offer transgender medical interventions, to minors. They are now in the midst of a contempt of court hearing.

Colorado’s anti-discrimination law and its Supreme Court are putting Christian and all biology-based doctors at risk. They must violate their religious beliefs and medical judgement, or risk being charged through Colorado’s anti-discrimination law.

Let’s pray they prevail in their lawsuit.

The case is Christian Medical & Dental Associations v. Sullivan.

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The Department of Health and Human Services announced in August it would no longer allow federal funds to pay for children to receive damaging “transgender” medical procedures, including puberty blockers, opposite-sex hormones and surgeries. 

Now, a coalition of 21 states and the District of Columbia have filed a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) challenging the ban. 

The states want courts to overturn the ban, so medical professionals can continue to harm children with body-mutilating, damaging interventions. 

CMS’ new rule prohibits Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) from funding any “sex-rejecting” medical procedures, including puberty blockers, opposite-sex hormones and surgeries. 

The agency said the prohibition was “an administration priority consistent with its commitment to protect children from experimental and life-altering sex-rejecting procedures that carry serious long-term health risks and lack sufficiently reliable evidence of clinical benefit.” 

The complaint argues that HHS and CMS do not have the authority to make these determinations about state Medicaid and CHIP programs: 

Congress has vested the states with the authority to determine which services would be covered under their Medicaid and CHIP programs when made pursuant to individualized determinations of medical necessity. 

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell and California Attorney General Rob Bonta co-led the lawsuit and filed the challenge in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. 

Campbell denounced the HHS and CMS effort to protect children: 

The Trump Administration’s latest attack on access to gender-affirming care for young people unlawfully undermines states’ authority to regulate healthcare and tries to strip healthcare access from vulnerable kids. 

Bonta falsely called mutilating and sterilizing medical interventions for sexually confused children “crucial care,” adding: 

We will continue to fight to secure access to medically necessary care and protect transgender individuals’ abilities to prosper as their authentic selves. 

But “transgender” procedures that harm minors are not “healthcare,” nor are they “crucial” or “medically necessary.” Instead, they stop the normal process of puberty and damage healthy bodies, as CMS stated when the rule was released: 

Sex-rejecting procedures on children, which include puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical operations, can result in irreversible damage, including infertility, impaired sexual function, diminished bone density, altered brain development, and other lasting physiological effects.

And calling someone’s “gender identity” their “authentic self” is a false ideology, with no scientific or medical basis. 

Children who reject their sex and want to identify as the opposite sex need help and healing for their mental disorder, not “gender-affirming care.” 

HHS released a comprehensive review in May 2025, Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria Review of Evidence and Best Practices. The 409-page report cited “growing international concern about pediatric medical transition.” 

The medical review noted that “the diagnosis of gender dysphoria is based entirely on subjective self-reports and behavioral observations, without any objective physical, imaging, or laboratory markers,” adding that “systematic reviews of the evidence have revealed deep uncertainty about the purported benefits of these interventions.” 

The lawsuit argues that the report’s conclusion “was predetermined by President Trump and HHS itself,” claiming that it “suffers from serious methodological problems.” 

Three of the report’s critics – the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychiatric Association and the Endocrine Society – were invited to review it, but only the APA deigned to do so. 

HHS thoroughly refuted the APA’s criticisms, and even The Washington Post editorial board supported the conclusion, saying:

[The HHS report’s] core finding – that the evidence for [transgender medical] interventions is highly uncertain – echoes the results of systematic reviews in other countries. None of the peer reviews of the HHS report ultimately rebut that conclusion.

The complaint joins more than 1,750 lawsuits attempting to stymie Trump administration policies, including at least six that target “transgender” policies that protect children from harmful drugs, hormones and surgeries. 

Twenty-seven states have “Help Not Harm” laws protecting minors from these body-mutilating procedures, while the issue is on the November 2026 ballot in Colorado and Missouri. 

Campbell and Bonta were joined in the complaint by attorneys general of Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin, along with the governor of Pennsylvania.

The case is Massachusetts, et al. v. HHS. 

Related articles and resources: 

18 States Sue HHS for Protecting Children From Sex-Rejecting Procedures

HHS Ceases Medicaid, CHIP Funding for Sex-Rejecting Procedures for Kids

HHS Finalizes Report Finding Sex-Rejecting Procedures Harm Minors

HHS Releases Report on Harms of ‘Transgender’ Medical Interventions for Minors

HHS Will Block Hospitals From Performing Sex-Rejecting, Mutilating Procedures on Children

President Trump Signs Order Protecting Children From Transgender Medical Interventions

Sixteen States Sue Trump Administration for Protecting Children from ‘Trans’ Procedures

Transgender Resources

Young Activists Are Pushing Back Against Traditional LGBT Voices

LGBT ideology has always been radical. Revolution is the movement’s functional DNA, and as such, radical revolution is never satisfied. Radicals are gonna radical. That is why stories of younger LGBT activists publicly turning on old-school LGBT peers for not being radical enough are starting to appear in the news.

Tracy Hager lives in northeast Portland, Oregon and has flown what she calls “the gay American flag” outside her home for the past 30 years. It is an adulteration of the American flag, replacing the red and blue bars with the gay movement’s gaudy colors. Hager told her local NBC news affiliate, “I fly my flag just to support my gay community, bring awareness,” explaining, “I’m a proud lesbian; I’m a proud gay veteran.”

But being proud of one’s nation is too traditionalist for some LGBT activists.

Hager found her home had been vandalized last week by local trans activists because her flag seemed to support American patriotism. Her porch post holding the flag was vandalized with red paint with the message “F**k UR FLAG” above a curious symbol, also in red.

Hager explained to Portland’s Fox12, “We’ve come to realize that symbol is an LGBTQ transgender anarchy symbol, and it appears that I’ve been targeted by my own community for flying the gay American flag because it has the blue background and the white stars.” Hager confessed, “It just literally was like a gut punch,” adding, “It hurts to know that I may have been targeted by my own community because of the type of gay flag that I’m flying.”

“Targeted by my own community…”

That is how it works in so-called “progressive” politics today. You can faithfully serve the cause of lesbian politics for thirty years and vote for all the “right” people. But show some misplaced allegiance for America by turning the stars and stripes into a gay banner, and you will win the wrath of younger trans activists who are all too happy to send a message of their displeasure by damaging your home.

Being “old-school” radical is not enough. You must be super radical or your own will come for you! Of course, Ms. Hager is not alone here.

There is no one more radical for LGBT causes in California politics than state senator Scott Weiner. He has amassed a long list of troubling anti-family LGBT legislation in the Golden State in his decades as a legislator.

But in June (Pride Month!), CNN reported Sen. Weiner was viciously shouted down by LGBT activists at San Francisco’s annual Trans March, forcing him to leave for his own physical safety. He told CBS News the trans activists “were trying to bully me and intimidate me out of the park and I ended up leaving because it wasn’t safe for me.”

This wholly radical long-time gay activist felt for his physical safety at a major Pride event because, as a Jewish man, he is not as pro-Palestine as younger gay activists believe he should be. So they threatened him in ways that Weiner admitted went beyond free speech.

Christian parents and conservative citizens must realize it’s a fool’s errand to try to appease young activists by moving in their direction ideologically in hopes of building a bridge. We can mistakenly be inclined to do this with our own beloved children or co-workers. Faithful LGBT activists like Tracy Hager and Scott Weiner will affirm that you can never move far enough left for some people.

We must always speak truth in love, being equally full of grace and truth, just like Jesus. Trying to appease radical ideology will always end in frustration and further broken relationships.

Judge Dismisses DOJ’s Lawsuit Against California’s Policy Allowing Boys in Girls Sports

A federal judge has dismissed the U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit challenging California’s policy permitting biological males to compete in girls sports.

U.S. District Judge Cynthia Valenzuela threw out the case against California on Monday, as the DOJ is considering an appeal.

“We are disappointed by the Court’s order and remain committed to enforcing President Trump’s agenda of preventing boys from playing in girls’ sports,” the DOJ said after the ruling. A department spokesperson said the DOJ is “evaluating our options for appeal.”

Judge Valenzuela was nominated to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California by former President Joseph R. Biden in 2024.

The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) allows students to compete in sports and use locker rooms based on their “gender identity” rather than their sex.

AB Hernandez, a boy who attempts to live as a girl, won two state titles at the California girls track and field championships earlier this year, taking first place in the girls high jump and triple jump, and third place in the girls long jump.

Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon filed a complaint in the district court on July 9, 2025, alleging CIF’s policy violates Title IX, which ensures both sexes have an equal opportunity to participate in school athletic programs.

“California’s … discriminatory policies and practices ignore undeniable biological differences between boys and girls, in favor of an amorphous ‘gender identity,’” the lawsuit alleged. “The results of these illegal policies are stark: girls are displaced from podiums, denied awards, and miss out on critical visibility for college scholarships and recognition.”

California’s policy threatens Title IX, the complaint stated, saying, “It erodes the integrity of girls’ sports, diminishes their competitive experience, and undermines the very purpose of Title IX: to provide equal access to education benefits, including interscholastic athletics.”

The DOJ has been attempting to enforce President Trump’s executive order “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” which he signed in February 2025, directing the secretary of education to “take all appropriate action to affirmatively protect all-female athletic opportunities and all-female locker rooms” and prioritize enforcement against schools that violate the policy.

In April 2025, the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education created a Title IX Special Investigations Team to investigate and prosecute schools, states and athletic conferences that allow boys in girls sports.

The DOJ has also filed lawsuits against Maine and Minnesota for violating Title IX, and the DOJ’s Special Investigations Team has initiated dozens of investigations into school districts for discriminating against girls and women, the Daily Citizen has previously reported.

In this case, you might be wondering why California is still fighting to let boys compete in girls sports after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled earlier this year states can protect girls and women’s sports.

The Court decided in State of West Virginia v. BPJ and Little v. Hecox, in which “transgender”-identified male athletes challenged West Virginia and Idaho laws protecting girls sports, that the 14th Amendment and Title IX permit states to enact such laws.

However, the Court did not decide whether Title IX requires states to do so. The Court could consider that in a future case, perhaps even in this case if it’s eventually appealed to the high Court.

Any appeal filed will next be heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, which hears appeals from Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington.

Once widely seen as the most liberal federal appellate court, the 9th Circuit has become increasingly conservative thanks to 10 appointments by President Donald J. Trump in his first term, and an additional appointment in his second term. President Biden nominated eight judges to the 9th Circuit who were confirmed in his single term.

The court now has 13 judges nominated by Republican presidents and 16 judges nominated by Democrat presidents.

After the judge’s decision, Dhillon intimated the agency would imminently file an appeal.

 “California judge …,” she wrote on X. “Stay tuned.”

The case is United States of America v. California Interscholastic Federation.

Related articles and resources:

California Will Continue to Allow ‘Transgender’-Identified Male Athletes in Girls Sports

Clarence Thomas: There are Only Two, Unchangeable Sexes

Blockbuster Supreme Court Ruling: Girls Sports Are for Girls

Male Athlete Wins Three Girls California Track and Field Titles — Again

Female Athletes Beg California Interscholastic Federation to Keep Boys Out of Girls Sports and Locker Rooms

DOJ Lawsuit Describes California Department of Education’s Infuriating Treatment of Girls

Feds Sue California Department of Education, Interscholastic Federation For ‘Illegal Sex Discrimination’

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NIH Study: Drugs, Hormones Don’t Help Sexually Confused Youth

The National Institutes of Health funded a multimillion-dollar study where sexually confused children were given puberty blockers and opposite-sex hormones: The experiment showed no improvement in their mental health. 

That’s right, taxpayers financed a Mengele-esque experiment, where children as young as eight were injected with powerful puberty blockers and opposite-sex hormones in order to find out if these “transgender” medical interventions improved their mental health. 

Participants received gift cards for allowing health care workers to damage their bodies. 

The study was first approved under the Obama administration in 2015.

The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project released the final report to The Daily Signal, which described the study: 

The National Institutes of Health first allocated a nine-year grant of up to $10 million for the study through the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. The study was led by Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, who specializes in “gender-affirming care.”

“Gender-affirming care” is a euphemism for social and physical interventions for mentally confused children who reject their God-given bodies and attempt to live as the opposite sex. 

As the Signal reported: 

The study included people as young as 8 years old. The sample receiving puberty blockers included participants up to age 16, while the sample receiving hormone treatments included participants up to age 20.

The results? 

Well, first of all, as reported by The New York Times two years ago, Dr. Olson-Kennedy initially would not even publish the results “because of politics.” In actuality, she already knew the results showed no mental health benefits: 

The leader of the long-running study said that the drugs did not improve mental health in children with gender distress and that the finding might be weaponized by opponents of the care.

Two years later, “Mental and Emotional Health of Youth after 24 months of Gender-Affirming Medical Care Initiated with Pubertal Suppression” was finally published online at medRxiv(med-archive). The study states: 

[T]he mental health of youth as reported by both themselves and their parents/guardians is relatively stable from baseline over 24 months after starting medical intervention with GnRHa [a puberty suppressant].

So the children’s mental health remained the same: There was no benefit from puberty suppression and opposite-sex hormones.

Dr. Olson-Kennedy has long been an activist for transgenderism. As previously reported by the Daily Citizen, she is “married” to Aydin Olson-Kennedy, a woman who attempts to live as a man. She is a licensed clinical social worker who works as a therapist and as a lecturer and consultant “on topics centered around the social and clinical needs of transgender individuals and their families.” 

Dr. Olson-Kennedy also produced a study on the mutilation of young girls, “Chest Reconstruction and Chest Dysphoria in Transmasculine Minors and Young Adults,” which examined a group of 68 gender confused teens and young women – between the ages of 13 and 24 who had their breasts removed within the past five years.

The girls were given a 10-minute survey about “chest dysphoria,” and the results compared with a non-surgical, gender-dysphoric group. 

Dr. Olson-Kennedy, former Medical Director of The Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles, gained notoriety when a video of her surfaced teaching that adolescents make big decisions all the time, so breast removal is no big deal: 

And here’s the other thing about chest surgery. If you want breasts at a later point in your life, you can go and get them.

She is now on staff at Prosilio Care’s Gender Confirmation Center, in Pasadena, California. 

The Signal published a second story about the study, reporting: 

A long-suppressed, taxpayer-funded report on transgender youth found that treatments with puberty blockers and hormones could have lasting negative impacts on bone density and heart health, among other health issues.

In May 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released an important evaluation of the evidence for how best to treat children and adolescents with “gender dysphoria.” The report listed other damages to children receiving this “care”: 

The “gender-affirming” model of care includes irreversible endocrine and surgical interventions on minors with no physical pathology.

These interventions carry risk of significant harms including infertility/sterility, sexual dysfunction, impaired bone density accrual, adverse cognitive impacts, cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders, psychiatric disorders, surgical complications, and regret. 

Thankfully, HHS and the Department of Justice are working to shut down the mutilation of children through these unscientific procedures. We look forward to the day when all health care providers view “gender-affirming care” with the same horror that we view lobotomies and bloodletting with leeches. 

Related articles and resources: 

American Society of Plastic Surgeons Backs Away From Supporting ‘Transgender’ Surgeries

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

Focus on the Family Counseling Consultation and Referrals

Helping Children with Gender Identity Confusion

Hospitals and Doctors “Transition” Hundreds of Children with Drugs, Hormones and Surgery

INVESTIGATION: Taxpayers Fund Transgender Experiments on Children

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

Questioning Drugs, Hormones and Surgery for Youth Confused about Their Sexual Identity

Transgender Resources

Transgenderism and Minors: What Does the Research Really Show?

U.K.’s Review of Child Gender Policy Reveals Profound Failures That U.S. Still Defends

The WPATH Files Exposes ‘Surgical and Hormonal Experiments on Children’

The WPATH Files – Transgender Interventions Are ‘Unethical Medical Experiments’