Fighting America’s Medical Scandal Against Children

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WASHINGTON D.C. – With many states passing laws protecting youth from gender ideology, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing last week focusing on exposing the dangers associated with attempting to change a person’s gender. In the two-and-one-half-hour hearing, members of Congress from both parties heard different perspectives and powerful testimonies from witnesses about the damaging effects of puberty blockers, hormone treatments, and medical mutilation. They also heard emotional pleas for action to stop these “barbaric” procedures on children.

The hearing began with a video clip of a doctor explaining the current scientific state of “gender medicine.” Dr. Blair Peters from the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, a self-described “queer surgeon” who appeared in the video with pink hair, admitted that doctors are “just kind of learning and figuring out what works.” He explained the challenges of forging an artificial vaginal canal from the lining of a child’s abdomen. He stated plainly, “We know almost nothing about these outcomes.” Chairman Mike Johnson, who facilitated the hearing, responded by labeling this medical mutilation of children as “barbarism” and that it should be prohibited by law.

In a particularly powerful testimony, Chloe Cole, a biological female who had gender dysphoria at age 13, explained she and her family were victims of “one of the biggest medical scandals in America.” She explained her “lifelong, irreversible harm” began when she and her concerned parents first met with a “gender specialist.” Cole stated this encounter “fast tracked” her onto puberty blockers, testosterone, and then a double mastectomy by age 15. Cole stated that this first encounter with the specialist set her “entire family down a path of ideologically motivated deceit and coercion.”