After injuring military members by forcing an experimental vaccine on the soldiers and their families, Department of Defense (DOD) doctors now want to force experimental puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex change surgeries on children, even as young as 7 years old.

The DOD claims so-called “trans gender therapy” is the ONLY treatment for children suffering from body dysphoria. They are dangerously WRONG.

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“I was a kid,” says Chloe. “I shouldn’t have been allowed to go through with this.”   

Chloe was just 13 years old when a therapist convinced her parents to put her on puberty blockers and started giving this biological girl testosterone treatments. She was 15 when the therapists told her parents they should have their daughter’s breasts chopped off to match her so-called “gender dysphoria.”  

Help us STOP child mutilation by overturning bans on lifesaving Christian change counseling.

“It felt like I was being put on a path to transition, rather than him [the doctor] actually deeply exploring my issues,” says Chloe, who is now suing the doctors and hospital that irreversibly mutilated her young body.

Medical professionals convinced Chloe’s parents that gender-confused children committed suicide if their God-given genitalia are not removed.

But one year after Chloe’s breasts were removed, at the tender age of 16, she realized her mistake. Chloe was never a boy and never would be, no matter what surgeries she underwent. But it was too late. Chloe would never get back the fully functioning female body God had originally given her.

Now the DOD wants to force this dangerous practice on children.

After two years of poisoning military members’ bodies with a largely untested experimental COVID shot, the DOD now wants to put young military dependents under another experimental treatment — gender transitioning through chemical puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and child “sex change” surgeries.

In a recent publication of the American Public Health Association, several Department of Defense doctors state that the only answer for military children struggling with gender confusion is to immediately put them on puberty blockers and hormones.

In “Caring for Military-Affiliated Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youths: A Call for Protections,” authors David A. Klein, M.D., M.Ph.; Natasha A. Schvey, Ph.D.; Thomas A. Baxter, D.O.; Noelle S. Larson, M.D.; and Christina M. Roberts, M.D., M.Ph., stated that on the basis of “human rights,” “youths … have an inherent ability and right to consent to gender-affirming therapy.”

Drs. Klein, Schvey, and Baxter work at Travis Air Force Base in California. Dr. Larson practices at the Department of Pediatrics at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Roberts is with the Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children’s Mercy Kansas City, and the Department of Pediatrics, University of Missouri — Kansas City School of Medicine.

These five doctors insist that children as young as age 7 can make decisions about “transitioning” to the opposite sex.

The doctors demand the military train all providers on their ideas about gender medical interventions for minors, even though they acknowledge that 53% of military-affiliated physicians in the DOD health system indicated they would refuse to prescribe hormones regardless of any training.

A 2016 study conducted by two Johns Hopkins University scientists reveals that scientific evidence does not support the "born this way" claim regarding homosexuality or the so-called transgender "trapped in the wrong body" claim. Written by Dr. Lawrence S. Mayer and Dr. Paul R. McHugh, this study evaluated data from over 200 peer-reviewed studies regarding sexual orientation and gender identity.

The study states: “The hypothesis that gender identity is an innate, fixed property of human beings that is independent of biological sex — that a person might be ‘a man trapped in a woman’s body’ or ‘a woman trapped in a man’s body’ — is not supported by scientific evidence.

Trans therapy is detrimental to physical and emotional health outcomes. Regarding health, the research reveals non-heterosexuals experience 1.5 times more anxiety and depression, 1.5 times more substance abuse, and 2.5 times more risk of suicide than heterosexuals.

Suicide attempts by “transgender” individuals are estimated at 41% compared to less than 5% of the overall population.

The study also concludes that there is no evidence to suggest that children should be encouraged to identify as the opposite gender if they act or speak in a way that is typical of their opposite gender and warns against any treatments or surgeries on young people who identify with the opposite gender.

Liberty Counsel recently won two court of appeals cases striking down 23 ordinances that prohibited minors from voluntary counseling with licensed professionals. These licensed therapists provide lifesaving counseling to minors who desperately desire to conform their attractions, behaviors, and gender identities to their sincerely held religious beliefs. Counselors in Florida, Alabama, and Georgia are now free to help their minor clients.

But the LGBTQ crowd isn’t stopping. There are 87 such laws still in place, and they are pushing for yet more Christian counseling bans, even going as far as to demand that major newspapers, like the New York Times, stop publishing any news, comments, or scientific articles that expose the dangers of “transitioning.”

We need YOUR HELP to counter the lies and life-destroying bans on voluntary Christian change counseling. Please fund our critical legal work defending our children — and the Word of God — today. When you do, a special Challenge Grant will DOUBLE THE IMPACT of your donation.

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Mat Staver
Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel

Sources:

“Damaged.” Daily Caller. Accessed March 31, 2023. https://dailycaller.com/stream/damaged/.

“DOD Doctors Push Hormones and Puberty Blockers for Military Children.” Liberty Counsel, March 30, 2023. https://lc.org/newsroom/details/033023-dod-doctors-push-hormones-and-puberty-blockers-for-military-children-1.

‌Klein, David A., Natasha A. Schvey, Thomas A. Baxter, Noelle S. Larson, and Christina M. Roberts. “Caring for Military-Affiliated Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youths: A Call for Protections.” American Journal of Public Health 113, no. 3 (February 15, 2023): 251–55. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2022.307163.