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Denver Summit Focuses on Safeguarding Children From ‘Transgender’ Medical Harms

The Rocky Mountain Summit on Safeguarding Children from Gender-Affirming Treatment will be held April 6 in Denver. The three-hour event focuses on protecting children from the devastating effects of “transgender” social and medical interventions.

Geared for “parents, educators, medical professionals and concerned citizens,” the summit features two panels that explore how gender ideology harms minors and their families.

The Family Impact Perspectives Panel features Erin and Chloe Lee, January Littlejohn, and Matt and Judith Rey, who will offer personal stories of how transgender social and medical interventions harmed their families.

Dr. Miriam Grossman, Leor Sapir, Candice Jackson and Dr. Michelle Stanford are on the Medical, Legal and Policy Perspectives Panel, which will explore scientific, ethical and legal concerns around “gender-affirming treatment.”

The summit is sponsored by parental rights and child health advocacy groups, including Do No Harm, Parents Defending Education, XX-XY Athletics and Colorado Parent Advocacy Network.

Panelist Erin Lee is a Colorado mom whose preteen daughter was targeted by gender activists when she attended what she thought was an art club after school. Since then, Lee has become an advocate for parents rights in education and an opponent of transgender ideology. Her family’s story is told in the documentary film Art Club.

Like Lee, January Littlejohn is a mom who found out her 13-year-old daughter was being “socially transitioned” at her Florida middle school – without her parents’ knowledge or consent. An activist for parental rights in education, Littlejohn was recently honored by first lady Melania Trump as a special guest at President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress.

Littlejohn is a Parent Advocate with Do No Harm, a medical advocacy group “focused on keeping identity politics out of medical education, research and clinical practice.” 

Matt and Judith Rey are activists with Gays Against Groomers, which describes itself as a “nonprofit of gays, lesbians, and others in the community who oppose the sexualization, indoctrination, and mutilation of children under the guise of radical “LGBTQIA+” activism.” Matt was born female but was badly damaged by a double mastectomy and opposite sex hormones that caused “symptoms that resemble Tourette’s and epilepsy.”  

On the medical and legal panel, Dr. Miriam Grossman is a child psychiatrist who has been combatting transgender activism for more than a decade. In her 2009 book You’re Teaching My Child What?: A Physician Exposes the Lies of Sex Education and How They Harm Your Child, she warned parents about sex education and gender ideology being taught in K-12 classrooms.

More recently, Grossman published Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist’s Guide Out of the Madness and was featured in Matt Walsh’s documentary What Is a Woman?

Leor Sapir is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing writer to City Journal and other outlets, focusing on education, culture and pediatric gender medicine. He’s written widely about the lack of scientific evidence for transgender medical procedures.

Dr. Michelle Stanford is a Colorado pediatrician who completed her Pediatric Residency at The Children’s Hospital, Denver. The hospital recently announced it was suspending transgender interventions for confused minors after President Trump signed an executive order saying the federal government would not fund hospitals and medical schools harming children through transgender drugs and surgeries.

Candice Jackson is the Deputy General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Education, and has consulted in her legal practice “with groups and individuals challenging the harmful effects of the concept of ‘gender identity’ in laws and policies in schools, employment, and public accommodations.”

To learn more about the conference, click on the link below:

Rocky Mountain Summit on Safeguarding Children from Gender-Affirming Treatment: Clinical Perspectives & Family Impacts, Sunday, April 6, 2:30-5:30 p.m., The Inverness Denver, Englewood, Colorado.

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Girls Just Wanna Have Privacy: Mom Files Complaint About Male in Girls Locker Room

A Chicago mom filed a complaint with the Justice Department after school administrators allegedly tried to force her 13-year-old daughter to change clothes in the locker room – while a male student was present.

Nicole Georgas spoke out against the incident at a Deerfield School District 109 School Board meeting on March 13, 2025, a meeting which was packed with transgender activists and their allies.

Georgas began by explaining what she wanted from the board, saying, “I’m here to demand that the locker rooms at District 109 be designated as biological male and biological female, as there already is a gender neutral option. The girls want their locker rooms and bathrooms back. They want their privacy back.”

Georgas then described the events at Alan B. Shepard Middle School that led her to testify.

My 13-year old daughter’s well-being and mental health and privacy are at stake.

This nightmare began on February 5th when my daughter was using the girl’s bathroom and was stunned that a biological male student was using it as well. She came home frightened and was extremely upset.

I asked her to talk with her teachers and find out more information. She was told by the administration that the [male] student can use the bathroom as well as a female locker room because they now identify as female.

Transgender-identified activists and their allies filled the room, booing and heckling this brave mom, shouting about “children” and their “genitals.”

The activists, who oppose privacy and safety for girls, also spoke to the board. One radical glared threateningly at Georgas, claiming that “trans students” were targeted “by an organization that weaponizes religion to push the white supremacist agenda of their cis white husbands.”

“Cisgender” is a nonsense term, made up by trans activists, to signify healthy people who accept their God-given male or female bodies.

Chicago’s Morning Answer radio show broke the story, and posted Georgas’ testimony.

The school’s transgender policy follows guidance from the Illinois Department of Human Rights, based on The Illinois Human Rights Act, passed in 1979, “providing for broad civil rights coverage for the people of Illinois.” The Act was expanded in 2006 “to include ‘sexual orientation’ as a distinct protected class and ‘gender-related identity’ within the definition of ‘sexual orientation.’”

According to the guidance,

Use of restrooms, locker rooms and changing rooms may not be restricted based upon a student’s physical anatomy or chromosomal sex. A student must be permitted to access restrooms or bathrooms, locker rooms and changing rooms that align with their gender-related identity and without having to provide documentation or other proof of gender.

Basically, any male student can claim to identify as female and use the girls restrooms, locker rooms and showers, regardless of a girl’s feelings, as the Department of Human Rights goes on to explain,

Under the [Human Rights] Act, the discomfort or privacy concerns of other students, teachers, or parents are not valid reasons to deny or limit the full and equal use of facilities based on a student’s gender-related identity. …

[T]here is no right that insulates a student from coming in contact with others who are different than them or a Bathroom Privacy Act, unless the behavior violates a school policy or is criminal.

Georgas went on to say that the school emailed her and the principal phoned her. The school’s legal counsel advised that “the [male] student could use both the [girls] locker room and bathroom.”

She then explained that the school was violating federal policy, pointing to the Trump administration’s executive order “restricting biological males from participating in girls sports and accessing female locker rooms.”

That same day, Georgas said, “I filed a civil rights complaint on behalf of my daughter with the Department of Justice. It has now been referred to the Department of Education.”

The situation then went “from bad to worse,” Georgas explained that, “A few days later, the male student was present in the girls locker room. Feeling violated, the girls made the choice to not change into their PE clothes with a biological male student present.”

The next day, the assistant principal pulled the girls into her office to question them, and then the superintendent, the assistant principle, and “multiple teachers all came into the girls locker room, making them change into uniform.”

“This went on all week,” she said.

Her daughter would not comply.

“She is not changing for the remainder of the year, and she is not changing into another [P.E.] class,” her mom stated, adding,

“The girls just want their privacy, and they want their locker room back. …”

“This is my daughter’s story and the story of many other young girls who have been forced at the difficult age to do something they know – and most adults know – is wrong.”

We are thankful for women like Nicole Georgas who speak out – and take action – on behalf of girls’ privacy and safety. May she prevail in her complaint.

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Judge Disregards Vital Testimony in Case of Gender-Confused Felon — Again

To read more about Jonathan Richardson’s case, check out the stories linked at the bottom of this article.

A federal district judge has disregarded yet another evaluation showing Jonathan Richardson, a mentally-ill man incarcerated for murder, should not get transgender surgery — especially on taxpayers’ dime.

On March 5, Judge Richard Young of the Southern District Court of Indiana extended his preliminary injunction against a state law preventing tax dollars from funding transgender surgeries.

Young first issued the injunction in September when he ordered the Indiana Department of Corrections (IDOC), a tax-funded institution, to pay for Richardson’s “gender-affirming” vaginoplasty (the construction of a fake vagina) and orchiectomy (castration).

Refusing Richardson surgery would constitute cruel and unusual punishment, Young wrote in his September ruling.

The IDOC opposed this month’s extension, submitting yet another psychiatric evaluation of Richardson finding he shouldn’t get transgender surgery.

Dr. Kelsey Beers, the lead psychologist at New Castle Correctional Facility, conducted an assessment of Richardson at the request of Richardson’s would-be surgeon. According to Young’s nine-page order, Beers concluded:

Richardson’s purported distress is actually a manifestation of [his] Antisocial Personality Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder and that he “displays an established pattern of attention-seeking behavior.”

Beers expressed discomfort at evaluating Richardson without specializing in gender dysphoria. But her conclusions mirror that of Drs. Steven Levine and Michael Farjellah, who evaluated Richardson ahead of the hearing in September.

Farjellah claimed Richardson’s borderline personality disorder made him unable to consent to such drastic surgery.

Levine, a former member of WPATH’s predecessor, the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, concluded Richardson’s gender confusion was sufficiently managed by opposite-sex hormones and therapy.

He suggested more therapy be dedicated, in part, to Richardson’s “…. willingness to manipulate and mislead doctors.”

Young found Farjellah and Levine’s arguments “unpersuasive.” Last week, he found Beers’ qualifications “questionable” and her revelations about Richardson’s personality disorders “nothing new.”

The judge’s decision is flabbergasting, but also predictable. As the Daily Citizen previously reported, Young’s adjudication of the case is hopelessly skewed by his reliance on the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).

WPATH bills itself as an objective, scientific body dedicated to caring for those with gender dysphoria. In reality, its members, affiliates and researchers are ideologically and financially invested in transgender medical interventions.

Judge Young hasn’t clocked this conflict of interest. Instead, he disregards the testimony of every doctor that disagrees with WPATH’s “surgery at all costs” orientation.

Case in point: the judge found Dr. Randi Ettner’s testimony “credible and persuasive.”

Ettner, a WPATH contributor and employee at the Weiss Memorial Hospital Center for Gender Confirmation Surgery, painted Young two categorically opposed pictures of Richardson’s mental state in September.

The surgeries were “medically necessary,” Ettner argued, because Richardson could commit suicide if he didn’t go under the knife — a common refrain among gender idealogues. She simultaneously claimed he was mentally well enough to consent to surgery because his depression and personality disorders were under control.

Ettner even portrayed Richardson’s attempt to castrate himself as evidence of his healthy mind. She told Judge Young:

[These actions] should not be considered a sign of “uncontrolled mental illness”: on the contrary, such behavior represents a rational intention to eliminate testosterone by removal of the androgen-producing target organ.

I’m no expert, but I’m 200% sure self-castration isn’t a sign of rationality. That statement alone should have disqualified Ettner’s testimony — and maybe barred her from courtrooms altogether.

But even overlooking the castration kerfuffle, Ettner’s larger argument is coconuts. Richardson cannot simultaneously be mentally ill enough to commit suicide if he doesn’t receive “gender affirming” surgery and mentally well enough to consent to such interventions.

Interestingly, Beers’ wrote of a December 2024 counseling session in which Richardson was “clinically stable…with no remarkable symptoms of depression or anxiety.”

Judge Young did not take this testimony as evidence Richardson is doing perfectly well without a faux vagina. Instead, he doubled down on Ettner’s perspective — that Richardson’s stability simply confirms he can consent to transgender surgery.

I’m not the only one concerned about Young’s decision making. Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita appealed the ruling in October.

“[The Eighth Amendment doesn’t require] the state to provide experimental treatments generally, and it certainly doesn’t here, when multiple doctors have said this inmate is a poor candidate for surgery,” he argues.

Rokita doubled down on his stance this week, telling Fox:

Convicted murderers don’t get to demand that taxpayers foot the bill for expensive and controversial sex-change operations. It lacks all common sense. We won’t stop defending our state’s ban on using taxpayer funds to provide sex-change surgeries to prisoners.

In his order, Young writes he will extend the preliminary injunction until Richardson gets his surgery. That means taxpayers are still on the hook, unless the Indiana Court of Appeals overturns Young’s ruling first.

Please pray common sense — and speed — will have their day in Indiana soon.

Additional Articles and Resources

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Taxpayers Will Fund Violent Inmate’s Transgender Surgery, Judge Rules

Activist Group WPATH Influences Judgement in Case of Prisoner Receiving Trans Surgery

Suicidal or Stable? WPATH Activist’s Contradictory Evaluation Secures Felon Transgender Surgery

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

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

An Essential Primer on Defending the Reality of Male and Female

A revolution for truth and common-sense is breaking out in the United States Congress and it should be supported by all citizen of goodwill. We must all help it spread to our workplaces, classrooms, the public square and even our own families.

Earlier this week, Daily Citizen reported that Illinois Representative Mary Miller introduced the first openly “transgender” member of Congress as the man that he clearly is. Rep. Miller announced to the world, “Today on the House Floor, I refused to deny biological reality [because] I refuse to perpetuate the lie that gender is open to our interpretation. It is not.

On Tuesday, Rep. Keith Self of Texas referred to this same colleague as a male as he chaired a congressional hearing, and it blew up. Rep. Self chose to adjourn the hearing as things got out of control.

You can see the exchange here:

Representative McBride, the member being referred to, responded to Rep. Keith Self by saying, “Thank you Madam Chair” and began to give his remarks. Rep. Bill Keating of Massachusetts interrupted abruptly and asked Rep. Self, “Mr. Chairman, could you repeat your introduction again?”

Rep. Self took the bait and endeavored, a bit unsteadily, to explain why he chose the truthful wording he did: “We have set the standard on the floor of the House…” Rep. Keating then proceeded to bombastically moralize before the committee, asking Self if “he had no decency.” It was then that Chairman Self gaveled the hearing adjourned.

There are several important points worth addressing here, as we seize this cultural moment to publicly refute the lie that male and female are defined and determined by self-perception.

  1. Rep. Self, like Rep. Miller before him, was right to publicly refuse to participate in the confusion of what a man and woman are, particularly as members of the U.S. Congress.

  2. It is important to point out that Rep. Self was not offended in the least by being “misgendered” by McBride when he referred to him as “Madam Chair.” Healthy men know what they are. Call them anything you want. They are secure in the truth. When others get offended at being “misgendered” it is a clear sign one is wrestling with his or her “new” adopted self.

  3. Rep. Self should not have taken the bait. No one should. When you are put in a situation of needing to speak the truth about the objectivity of male and female, always stick to your guns. Self should have confidently responded, “I was crystal clear in what I said. Let’s continue.” Rule of thumb there: Never engage others who want to redefine biological reality on their terms. Doing so is a recipe for crazy-making.

  4. When others challenge your adherence to reality, simply state in a determined voice, “You and I seem to have a very different definition of what a woman (or man) is. Can you give me your working definition as we seek to establish exactly what we are talking about here?” Gender activists cannot answer that simple question which is why it must be asked.

  5. Always remember, anyone can identify anyway they want. That is their freedom. But it is irrational to expect everyone else to play along with one’s subjective gender identity. It is also a violation of basic self-determination and freedom of conscience to demand any of us to speak words we know to be untrue. Compelled speech is never compassionate nor democratic.

  6. Finally, never let anyone weaponize your compassion against you. Do not ever feel shamed or pressured into thinking going along with the lie of false language is compassionate. It is not.

We are in an extremely critical cultural moment where the gender ideology movement is rightly being put back on its heels as more people realize the belief system is logically incoherent. All citizens of goodwill must continue to press in and demonstrate their conscientious objection to an a-scientific redefinition of humanity that male and female are not biological realities.

Additional Articles and Resources

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What Does it Mean to Be Trans, Anyway?

The Shifting Ground of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

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Image credit: U.S. House of Representatives

‘Detransition Awareness Day’ Spotlights Those Who Left Transgenderism

March 12 marked the fifth annual “Detransition Awareness Day,” created by a coalition of groups and individuals “to raise awareness and break down the stigma around detransition.”

No person can become the opposite sex, but transgender activists claim many “awareness” and “remembrance” days throughout the year – including the whole month of November – trying to convince us otherwise.

But this one day a year gives a truthful counternarrative, and it celebrates those who were once caught up in the false gender ideology but have now found freedom.

“Transitioning” is a term used by gender ideologues to describe the attempt to look like the opposite sex, through clothing, makeup and hairstyles, name changes, drugs, hormones and surgeries.

“Detransitioners” are those who were caught up in transgenderism, but now accept and embrace their true sex, albeit sometimes with lifelong damage and serious health issues from dangerous and experimental medical interventions.

This year’s Detransition Awareness Day featured a meeting in Washington, D.C., with medical experts discussing the medical harms from “gender-affirming care”; detransitioners telling their stories about how such medical interventions did not help them; and a legal panel discussing the role of litigation and laws to protect others from being harmed.

A final panel talked about the issue of transgenderism, “social contagion, cell phone use, and online grooming,” along with “the best approach to protecting minors from access to harmful content.”  

The conference was sponsored by a number of groups, including Genspect, The Heritage Foundation, Do No Harm, Moms for Liberty and the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

Among the participants were Heritage Foundation’s Jay Richards; surgeon and whistleblower Dr. Eithan Haim; California attorney and parents advocate Erin Friday; and Moms for Liberty Co-Founder Tiffany Justice.

Detransitioners Chloe Cole, Laura Becker, Soren Aldaco, Abel Garcia and Forrest Smith told their stories about leaving transgenderism.

As part of the panel of detransitioners, Smith, born in 1995, described how he got ensnared in the transgender movement. He explained that he was part of the “first generation of kids who grew up with unfiltered access to the internet” and was exposed to erotic cartoons as a child, eventually escalating to watching “fetish pornography.”

He said, “So pornography, in some ways, was my entrance into the world of transitioning.” 

As a child and a teen boy, Smith really couldn’t comprehend what he was seeing, but those experiences shaped his personality – even though he hated what he was watching. He now believes that some of those posting pornography and images of people transitioning on the internet are pedophiles, grooming young children.

Feeling shame and pain, and addicted to drugs, Smith dropped out of college and began living on the streets in Portland. There, he discovered The Homeless Youth Continuum, “a huge operation,” Smith said, “a whole network of social services that are geared toward serving homeless youth.” This included an outreach to “sexual minority youth,” ages 12 to 24, grouping together children and adults, and moving them toward homosexuality and transgenderism.    

Homeless and addicted to drugs, he was “rushed through a bilateral orchiectomy during COVID quarantines,” even though hospitals were shutting down elective surgeries. Oregon Health & Science University provided assistance with paperwork and insurance for these disfiguring and damaging medical interventions.

After he aged out of Portland’s youth services, he returned home to his family, where he found love, grace and acceptance, beginning his journey to embrace and accept his masculinity.

Detransitioner Chloe Cole participated in the panel on social contagion, saying, “If it weren’t for me using social media as an adolescent, I don’t think that I ever would have transitioned, let alone believed that I was a boy.”

Cole said her initial interests on social media were focused on her hobbies, things like video games, artwork and movies. But then she “started seeing more and more transgender-focused content,” and the conversations shifted from those initial interests to people talking about their struggles with body image and identity issues.

This social media engagement began to influence her thinking about herself, and then she began to believe she must be transgender, too.

Cole posted on X about her mixed emotions about Detransition Awareness Day, saying, “March 12 is sad yet meaningful for people like me,” adding, “For the first time, Congress is introducing a resolution to mark this day.”

Cole linked to an op-ed in the New York Post where she called on Congress to stop the medical system’s abuse of children with surgeries, opposite-sex hormones and powerful puberty-blocking drugs.

Cole wrote, “What happened to me should never happen to another kid — ever. But every day, it does happen. Children’s hospitals are ruining children’s lives in the name of radical transgender ideology. They need to be stopped. Those kids need to be protected from this insanity.”

Watch the conference: Genspect: Detrans Awareness Day – LIVE from Capitol Hill

Related Articles and Resources:

Addressing Gender Identity with Honesty and Compassion

Chloe Cole: Gender Reassignment Surgery Regret

‘Detransition Awareness Day’ Highlights Those Embracing Their True Identity

‘Detransition Awareness Day’ – Testimonies From Those Who Left Transgenderism

Focus on the Family: Transgender Resources

Genspect: Detrans Awareness Day – LIVE from Capitol Hill

How Science and Faith Can Defeat Gender Ideology – Part One and Part Two [MZ1] 

Yes, Trans Activists Admit They Are Grooming Your Kids

Image credit: Genspect