In the past two weeks, both federal and state courts have upheld laws against giving kids toxic trans drugs. The US Supreme Court will hear the Tennessee Ban challenge on December 4, 2024 and is expected to rule against the Trans Drug Cult. However, in the Seattle School District, the number of kids who have fallen victim to the Trans Drug Cult propaganda has increased by more than 1000% since Trans King Chris Reykdal took office. In this report, we will review recent court rulings as well as briefs filed for the coming Supreme Court ruling. These briefs warn of the dangers to kids of allowing the Trans Drug Cult to continue their crimes. We will then present a summary of the extremely high level of Trans Child Abuse occuring in the Seattle School District.
Recent Court Rulings Against the Trans Drug Cult
On November 14, 2024, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an 86 page ruling upholding Indiana’s ban on giving minors trans drugs. Here is a link: https://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/OpinionsWeb/processWebInputExternal.pl?Submit=Display&Path=Y2024/D11-13/C:23-2366:J:Brennan:aut:T:fnOp:N:3291679:S:0
Here is a quote from this ruling: “In April 2023, Indiana enacted Senate Act 480. The law forbids medical practitioners from providing gender transition procedures to minors. I ND. C ODE § 25-1-22-13(a)… At issue here are two medical treatments: puberty blockers, which delay the onset of puberty, and hormone therapy, which introduces one of the primary sex hormones into the body’s endocrine system. Reports have noted the risks and side effects of interfering with puberty, one of the most critical developmental periods in a human being’s life, when the gender dysphoria could be treated by other means. For example, a case study explored the devastating impacts on fertility and bone density in long-term use of puberty block- ers. Ken C. Pang et al., Long-term Puberty Suppression for a Non-binary Teenager, 145 PEDIATRICS , Feb. 2020”
Judge ruled that Transgenders were NOT a “Protected Class”
The judge explained that the three classes protected by the 14th Amendment are race, national origin and sex. Thus, no one is allowed to discriminate against someone based on their skin color or whether they are from a bad country or whether they are male or female. Here are some quotes from the ruling:
“The key issue in this appeal is whether SEA 480 classifies based on a protected class? SEA 480… bars gender transition procedures regardless of whether the patient is a boy or a girl: Nobody may receive the treatment the state has chosen to regulate… Laws that apply evenhandedly to all ‘unquestionably comply’ with the Equal Protection Clause.”
“Is transgender status a quasi-protected class? The Supreme Court has been extremely hesitant to add new suspect classes, having not done so in more than 40 years. L.W. ex rel. Williams v. Skrmetti, 83 F.4th 460, 486 (6th Cir. 2023), cert. granted, 144 S. Ct. 2679 (2024). Transgender status is neither “an immutable characteristic determined solely by the accident of birth,” Segovia v. United States, 880 F.3d384, 390 (7th Cir. 2018)”
“Because the state believes puberty blockers are dangerous when prescribed to stop puberty’s natural course and hormone therapy is dangerous when prescribed cross-sex, limiting access for those purposes is reasonable.”
“In L.W. ex rel. Williams v. Skrmetti, the Sixth Circuit held that Tennessee and Kentucky’s similar laws did not violate substantive due process or the Equal Protection Clause. 83 F.4th at 491. And in Eknes-Tucker v. Governor of Alabama, the Eleventh Circuit held the same of Alabama’s law.”
In a similar ruling, on November 25, 2024, Missouri Judge Craig Carter issued a 74 page ruling, finding "an almost total lack of consensus as to the medical ethics of adolescent gender dysphoria treatment".
Here are some quotes from this ruling:
"The Constitution does not permit a single judge to nullify the results of democratically enacted legislation where, as here, there is a medical dispute about the safety or efficacy of those interventions."
"Physicians are utilizing unapproved drugs in an off-label fashion, and there are few studies to inform us as to the short- and long-term effects thereof. They don't "really have enough evidence to adequately warn patients and families of all the possible risks involved."
Gender affirming care is "well outside normal medicine" in the West by treating a mental disorder, gender dysphoria, with drugs that "inhibit normal healthy human growth" and surgery to "remove and replace healthy human organs" such as genitals and breasts, Carter wrote.
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He cited the Endocrine Society's estimate that 85% of prepubertal children outgrow diagnosed gender confusion naturally.
The Missouri plaintiffs' own expert witnesses acknowledged an emerging national consensus against pediatric gender affirming care and the "remarkably weak evidence" for it as judged by the U.K. National Health Service's systematic review of evidence and reviews by the Department of Health and Human Services and World Health Organization.
The supposed medical "cure" for gender dysphoria is a "journey that never actually ends," with lifelong provision of cross-sex hormones and "some form of psychiatric counseling long-term," Carter wrote. He cited detransitioners who testified including Chloe Cole, whose hormone treatments and surgical procedures left her unable to breastfeed or conceive.
"If we don’t let a 16-year-old buy a six-pack of beer and a pack of smokes, or let an adult buy those items for them, should we allow the same kid/parent team to decide to change a teenager's sex forever?" he asked rhetorically, again citing the 7th Circuit.
The Missouri law was prodded by Washington University pediatric gender clinic whistleblower Jamie Reed, whose testimony Carter deemed credible, without "ideological or other bias," in part because she gave up $1.5 million in educational benefits for her children by quitting. The judge also noted Reed's female spouse has long identified as a man and Reed "seriously considered transitioning herself." Tiger Reed recently went public with her own detransitioning, citing emotional and physical health problems from gender-affirming care.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has been perhaps the most active among his state peers on the subject of children and gender identity, issuing his own emergency regulation this spring with specific requirements for minor transitions, buttressed by legislative action. Seven months after Bailey launched an investigation of the pediatric gender clinic at Washington University in St. Louis, which was prompted by former case manager Jamie Reed's allegations of cavalier treatment protocols, the university said it will stop prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children.
While it cited Missouri's new law that lets minors sue providers who give them such treatments, claiming this creates "unsustainable liability" for the university, WUSTL tacitly confirmed some of Reed's allegations and The New York Times confirmed nearly all of them.
WUSTL is far from the only gender clinic in Missouri, and it’s not the only one getting out of so-called gender affirming care for minors even though the new law only stops new prescriptions, according to the Missouri Independent.
MU Health cited "significant legal liability" under the law, which puts a "clear and convincing" burden of proof on providers to show that blockers and hormones didn't cause a patient's infertility, a common side effect. Damages start at $500,000, with no maximum, and patients have 15 years to sue after receiving treatment or from age 21, whichever is later.
St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri affiliates of Planned Parenthood, which calls itself the "second largest provider of hormone therapy" nationwide, told the Independent they are seeing an uptick in minors seeking treatments since the law took effect. The first visit costs $250, and followup visits are $200, plus unspecified lab costs, and monthly treatments generally continue throughout life. The Planned Parenthood clinics emphasize minor patients don't need to be in mental health therapy to receive the treatments.
Bailey is also putting school districts on notice that his office won't tolerate keeping parents in the dark about how they handle gender identity among students. His office sued the Wentzville School District for "repeatedly" and "knowingly" excluding parents from "policy discussions about bathroom and locker room access for transgender students" in violation of the state open meetings law, seeking civil penalties against individual board members for consciously ignoring their annual legal training.
In sworn affidavits, school board directors Renee Henke and Jennifer Olson alleged that Superintendent Danielle Tormala rushed them to approve the proposals at summer meetings and, over their repeated objections, justified discussing them in closed session to avoid lawsuits.
Henke said she specifically objected to only having 30 minutes to review the "Transgender Student Accommodation" proposal, which would hide restroom accommodations from parents.
US Supreme Court to hear challenge to Tennessee Trans Drug Ban
Both of these court rulings come just weeks before the US Supreme Court is scheduled to decide on the constitutionality of the Tennessee Trans Drug Ban. The Tennessee case will be heard at 10 am on December 4, 2024. Here is the link to a page has a list of over 20 briefs that have been filed in this Supreme Court case. https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/23-477.html
Below are quotes from a few of these briefs.
Mom morns the loss of her daughter to the Trans Drug Cult
This one let the court know that the failure to reign in the Trans Drug Cult led to the death by suicide of one girl after she discovered that she had thrown her life and her family away on the false promise that drugs could change her from a girl to a boy:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-477/328201/20241015112749966_No.%2023-477_Brief.pdf
Here is a quote: “Amicus Abigail Martinez is a bereaved mother who lost her daughter Yaeli Galdamez to suicide in September 2019. Ms. Martinez is a devout Christian who raised four children in southern California. She shares her family’s tragic story in hopes that other families will not experience similar heartache from policies that exclude parents and pressure vulnerable minors to pursue gender transitions, often at the expense of their mental and physical health. Ms. Martinez urges this Court to consider the consequences of striking down a bill that is meant to protect minors from making life-altering and irreversible decisions.”
Scientists summarize research on drawbacks of Trans Drugs
The Manhattan Institute filed a 42 page brief which summarized the scientific research from 30 scientists on the drawbacks of giving toxic Trans Drugs to kids.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-477/328152/20241015074027352_Skrmetti%20merits.pdf
Here are a few quotes from their brief:
“Well-established scientific evidence and a growing international consensus among medical professionals and authorities advise against the use of “gender-affirming” medications like puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones as first-line treatments for youth gender dysphoria. The most comprehensive assessment of the risks and benefits of pediatric gender medicine to date, conducted in the U.K. by Dr. Hilary Cass and finalized in April 2024, found “remarkably weak” evidence for the safety and efficacy of such medications. “
“In one of the studies, two adolescents committed suicide after receiving “gender-affirming” treatments. In another study, Gender “reassigned” individuals were 19.1 times more likely to die by suicide after undergoing sex-trait modification procedures. Cecilia Dhejne et al., Long-Term Follow-Up of Transsexual Persons Undergoing Sex Reassignment Surgery: Cohort Study in Sweden, 6 PLoS One 1, 1, 5 (2011)”
“Infertility and sexual dysfunction are the most widely acknowledged risks, especially when pubertal suppression is followed by cross-sex hormone therapy, which it almost always is. But there are many others, including: cognitive impairment, see Sallie Baxendale, The Impact of Suppressing Puberty on Neuropsychological Function: A Review, 113 Acta Paediatrica 1156, 1164 (2024); bone- density problems, see, e.g., Maria Anna Theodora Catharina van der Loos et al., Bone Mineral Density in Transgender Adolescents Treated With Puberty Suppression and Subsequent Gender-Affirming Hormones, 177 JAMA Pediatrics 1332, 1332 (2023); and heightened chance of cancer and cardiovascular disease are also risks, see Natalie J. Nokoff et al., Body Composition and Markers of Cardiometabolic Health in Transgender Youth on Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Agonists, 6 Transgender Health 111, 115–17 (2021).”
“There is no other example in pediatrics of treating a mental-health condition with invasive, life-altering, experimental drugs and surgeries—especially when the diagnosis relies on an adolescent’s subjective feelings.
“A German study based on national insurance data from 2013 to 2022 found that over 60 percent of adolescents with a GD diagnosis no longer had that diagnosis 5 years later. Christian Bachmann et al., Gender Identity Dis- orders Among Young People in Germany: Prevalence and Trends, 2013–2022, 121 Deutsches Ärzteblatt Int’l 370, 370–71 (2024). This important finding was then replicated (42.2 percent persistence rate after seven years) in an analysis of an all-claims, all payers U.S. national insurance database. Leor Sapir, Adolescent Gender Dysphoria Is a Temporary Diagnosis for Most Teens, City Journal (Aug. 30, 2024), https://tinyurl.com/t8jedpys”
“The director of the gender clinic at Boston Children’s Hospital admitted in a private video that they were giving out puberty blockers “like candy.” Spencer Lindquist, WATCH: Director of Boston Children’s Gender Clinic Says Puberty Blockers Cause Infertility, Are Given Out ‘Like Candy,’ Breit- bart (Oct. 10, 2022), https://tinyurl.com/24z4wsju”
“States like Tennessee are justified in taking steps to protect minors from potentially harmful medical interventions that are not supported by rigorous, reliable evidence.”
Here is a link to a 19 page brief filed by Wisconsin Family Action:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-477/328323/20241015155908119_23-477%20Amici%20Br%20Wisconsin%20Family%20Action%20et%20al%20merits%20stage.pdf
They argue that the 2020 Supreme Court ruling called Bostock was wrongly decided because Bostock falsely assumed that there was no difference between a man pretending to be a woman and a woman who actually was a woman. This false assumption failed to take into account each biological male and female long standing “rights to privacy.” By allowing men to have women’s rights and participate in womens sports, real women no longer have any women’s rights left.
Here are some quotes:
“Transgenderism is just as irrational as “transstaturism,” explained by the following example: I am six feet tall. However, no matter what the tape measure says, I have a deep inner understanding that I am really 6’11”, and that’s the height that I believe myself to be. I do not believe anyone has a right to tell me what height I am, because I am the one who decides for myself what my inner self is and is meant to be. Thus, I also have a right to have surgery to lengthen my limbs and have my physical body correspond to my mental understanding of who I really am. I also believe I have the right to require others to treat me as 6’11” and to seek legal relief against those who fail to do so.”
“Another example would be “trans-ageism.” Even though under 60, could someone rationally claim that they consider themselves to be 65 and entitled immediately to retirement benefits? “
“Or a 16-year-old claims he considers himself to really be 21 and so he should be able to buy and consume alcoholic beverages? Or a 9-year old thinks he is “really 18” so he should be able to vote and drive a car!”
Here is a link to the Advancing American Freedom 34 page brief https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-477/328237/20241015122711936_2024%2010%2015%2023-477%20Skrmetti%20AAF%20et%20al%20BRIEF%20FILED.pdf
Here are some quotes:
“Children have the right not to have their bodies chemically or surgically altered in a way that interferes with natural development or destroys natural function, when not medically necessary. Further, children not only have present rights to bodily integrity. They have the right not to have their development interfered with in a way that would prevent them from exercising their rights fully as adults.”
“Just as States set age minimums for consequential activities like drinking, smoking, sex, and making contracts—all things that have both immediate and long-term consequences—States have a compelling interest in ensuring that only properly informed and consenting adults receive unproven elective chemical or surgical procedures.”
“Every minor in the country deserves to have their fundamental right of bodily integrity protected by the State in which he or she resides. States that fail to do so along the arbitrary line of whether a child experiences or does not experience gender dysphoria violate that right and undermine the principle at the heart of the Equal Protection Clause.”
Here is a link to the 60 page brief filed by the Independent Council on Womens Sports: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-477/328365/20241015174820126_23-477bsacIndependentCouncilOnWomensSports.pdf
Here are some quotes:
“Recognizing biological differences between the sexes and protecting women’s spaces from male intrusion are foundational for women to succeed in sports and in life.”
“The Court’s recent rejection of the Biden Administration’s request for stay in Dept of Educ. v. Louisiana, finding 9-0 that the parties challenging the Administration’s Title IX regulations were likely to prevail on the merits of their claim that the newly adopted Title IX regulations’ premise that “sex” and “gender identity” are equivalent is not well founded, should guide the Court’s decision here. Dep’t of Educ. v. Louisiana, 144 S. Ct. 2507, 2509–10 (Aug. 16, 2024) (agreeing Louisiana was “entitled to preliminary injunctive relief as to three provisions of the rule, including the central provision that newly redefines sex discrimination to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity”).”
“A comprehensive review of fitness data from over 85,000 Australian children aged 9-17 years showed that compared to 9-year-old females, 9-year-old males were faster at short sprints (9.8%) and one mile (16.6%), could jump 9.5% further from a standing position (a test of explosive strength), could complete 33% more push-ups in 30 seconds and had a 13.8% stronger grip. Catley MJ, Tomkinson GR. Normative health-related fitness values for children: analysis of 85347 test results on 9-17-year-old Australians since 1985. Br J Sports Med. 2013 Jan;47(2):98-108”
“A similarly large advantage for males was found in a study of Greek children, in which 6-year-old males, compared to 6-year-old females, completed 16.6% more shuttle runs in a given time and could jump 9.7% further from a standing position. In terms of aerobic endurance capacity, 6–7-year-old males were shown to have higher absolute and relative (to body mass) maximum oxygen uptake than 6–7- year-old females. Kambalis KD, Panagiotakos DB, Psarra G, Daskalakis S, Kavouras SA, Geladas N, Tokmakidis S, Sidossis LS. Physical fitness normative values for 6- 18-year-old Greek boys and girls, using the empirical distribution and the lambda, mu, and sigma statistical method. Eur J Sport Sci. 2016 Sep;16(6):736-46”
“Differences in average body length can be detected by ultrasound from the first trimester of pregnancy, with males already longer than females. Pedersen, 1980. Ultrasound evidence of sexual difference in fetal size in first trimester. British Medical Journal 281(6250): 1253.”
“Dr. Hilton reports “DNA analysis of sex-specific genetic architecture in adults reveals some 6500 differences in gene expression, likely to influence development and function outside of hormone effects.” A.M. case, Dkt. No. 36-6, ¶ 3.2, citing Gershoni and Pietrokovski, 2017. The landscape of sex-differential transcriptome and its consequent selection in human adults. BMC Biology 15(1): 7.
Here is a link to the 39 page America Frontline Doctors brief (representing thousands of doctors): https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-477/328232/20241015122545084_23-477%20Amici%20Brief.pdf
Here are a few quotes: “We strongly protest using the phrase “gender transition surgery” as using this phrase is an intentional distraction from what is actually happening, which is a permanent Frankenstein-esque mutilation of a minor child’s healthy body. This Court must never lose sight of what is really at stake: permanent and irreversible loss of a minor child’s ability to ever create/produce sperm or egg; permanent and irreversible loss of a minor child’s ability to breast-feed, get pregnant, birth or father a baby; and permanent and irreversible facial, body, and voice structures. “
“True “gender reassignment” surgery is a medical fiction, due to the unalterability of the “XX” and the “XY” chromosomes. Every single cell in every single organ in the human body is either XX or XY. Testosterone on an XX female and estrogen on an XY male can never change that.”
“Tennessee minors are unable due to their age to give informed consent to a procedure that may lead to their sterilization for life, to irreversible termination of their normal growth during puberty, to numerous serious and ongoing medical complications, and to a lifetime of medications, medical treatments, and a very high likelihood of regret. Much data has been collected and is of record regarding the drastic, life altering, and lifetime adverse effects which are caused by such treatments as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and “gender reassignment” surgeries. These often-horrific long term adverse effects justify state regulation.”
Also see the all-too-often tragic detransitioner stories and videos on the PITT (Parents For Inconvenient Truth About Trans) substack. https://www.pittparents.com
Here is a link to the Do No Harm (10,000 Doctors organization) 31 page brief: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-477/328218/20241015120136164_23-477_Amicus%20Brief.pdf
Here are a few quotes:
“Do No Harm is committed to ensuring that the practice of medicine is driven by scientific evidence rather than ideology. In recent years, the practice of biology-denying interventions, euphemistically known as “gender affirming care,” has become more common despite the serious harm caused by those medical interventions and the complete lack of reliable evidence for any benefit caused by them. “
“Gender affirming care” is a medical scandal. This purported “treatment” calls for a host of biology-denying medical interventions from puberty blockers to cross-sex hormones to genital surgeries. All this to treat a psychological condition. These interventions inflict grave harms, and there is no reliable evidence demonstrating that they resolve gender dysphoria.”
“The Pro-Trans American Bar Association brief cited very poorly done scientific studies: The American Bar Association’s brief perhaps best exemplifies why it is wrong to bypass systematic reviews and begin reading individual studies instead. See generally Br. of the Am. Bar Ass’n as Amicus Curiae. On page 10 of its brief, the ABA (an “association of attorneys and legal professionals,” ) opines that “extensive scientific literature” supports the purported consensus that these interventions are beneficial. In support of that sentence, the ABA cites five studies. See id. at 10 n.21. Every single one was reviewed by one of the systematic reviews above that concluded the evidence is weak. Indeed, 4 of the 5 studies were so poorly designed, and thus subject to such a high risk of bias, that they had to be excluded from the analysis entirely in multiple systematic reviews. Most notably, the fifth study itself stated that it could “‘not provide evidence about the direct benefits of puberty suppression over time and long-term mental health outcomes.”
(Note: Bob Ferguson has also repeatedly made claims about studies that were the exact opposite of what the studies concluded – for example claiming that Trans Drugs reduced the suicide rate when the study data showed that Trans Drugs increased the suicide rate. This is why it is important to read and quote the actual study data rather than taking Ferguson’s word that he is telling the truth when he has a long history of not telling the truth. The use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries to treat gender dysphoria carries a host of known harms and risks and has no reliable evidence of benefit. )
Here is a link to the 20 page brief of Americans Defending Freedom https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-477/328244/20241015123549820_23-477%20US%20v%20Skrmetti%20Brief%20for%20Amicus%20Curiae.pdf
Here are a few quotes: “If this Court recognizes gender identity as a quasi-suspect class under the Equal Protection Clause, it will pit fundamental parental due process rights against a child’s equal protection “right” to receive “gender affirming” medical intervention. As this Court has noted, “the interest of parents in the care, custody, and control of their children is perhaps the oldest of the fundamental liberty interests recognized by this Court.” Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57, 65 (2000). Indeed, “there can be no doubt that the Due Process Clause does protect the parents’ right to control their children’s upbringing.” Fields v. Palmdale School Dist., 447 F.3d 1187, 1189 (9th Cir. 2006) (citing Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U.S. 390 (1923); Pierce v. Soc. of Sisters, 268 U.S. 510 (1925))”
“If the Court recognizes a child’s constitutional right to puberty blockers, this right would undoubtedly be at “war” with the parent’s right to control the upbringing of their child. Suppose a young teenage transgender girl (a biological boy) has parents that do not approve of their child’s decision to obtain and use puberty blockers.”
“Suppose that same child seeks puberty blockers from a state-operated medical provider, over the objections of the parents. The state-operated medical provider would then be put in a position to choose between the constitutional right of the parents and the constitutional right of the child. But this Court has held that the Constitution does not have “warring” clauses, and so the Constitution would not permit such a scenario. Id. This Court should not write an opinion that ignites a war between the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses.”
Here is a link to the 43 page brief of Our Duty USA – a parents rights group with more than 1000 members in all 50 states who share the experience of raising former and current trans-identified children. Our Duty thus provides insight that only parents who have raised children with gender confusion can share. https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-477/328386/20241015195327835_OUR%20DUTY%20Skrmetti%20Amicus%20Br.%2010.15.24-served.pdf
Here are a few quotes from their brief:
“Our Duty approaches this subject with personal knowledge that youth distress is genuine but believes adopting transgender identities is inorganic, the cure is not drugs or surgeries, and the child’s best interest is served by returning to comfort in his natural body. In contrast, the gender-affirmative care model places surgery and hormone administration above all else, leading to permanently harming children.”
“A gender dysphoric child’s distress is genuine but requires compassionate treatment that should never include permanent alterations of the body that inhibit reproduction and sexual function. As this Court has recognized, the hallmark features of youth are “immaturity, impetuosity, and failure to appreciate risks and consequences.” Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460, 477 (2012). Thus, while adolescents may firmly believe that their lives will improve by changing their appearances, “[a]dolescents appear to focus more on the immediate benefits (a socioemotional brain system function [that develops during puberty]) than the future costs of risky behavior (a cognitive-control brain system function [that matures in the mid to late 20s]), a finding that is exacerbated in the presence of peers. Douglas S. Diekma, Adolescent Brain Development and Medical Decision-making, 146 Pediatrics, S18, S21 (2020)”
“Should subjective belief be allowed to trump physical reality, a cascade of absurdities would follow, such as Caucasians claiming to be Black or senior citizens claiming to be teenagers.”
“Should this Court hold the Tennessee Act violates the Fourteenth Amendment, parents in custody disputes who refuse medical intervention may not be granted custody of gender dysphoric children, and non- affirming parents could be adjudicated emotionally abusive or medically negligent.”
If transgender becomes a suspect class, this would permit judges to deny custody to parents wanting the child to develop naturally.
“Some state judges are being trained by transgender activists to favor the affirming parent. See, e.g., Abigail Shrier, How a Dad Lost Custody After Questioning His Transgender Identity, The New York Post (Feb. 26, 2022) https://nypost.com/2022/02/26/dad-lost-custody-after-questioning-sons-transgender-identity/. This father is an Our Duty member.”
“Refusing to affirm gender identity is a real risk for parents. In some states, parental consent is not required before children can obtain permanent body modifications. See Wash. Rev. Code § 71.34.530;”
“California’s transgender sanctuary law places gender interventions on par with abuse, granting temporary emergency jurisdiction to California courts for any minor in the nation if the child travels to California seeking gender interventions. See Cal. Civil Code § 56.109. Minnesota passed a similar law in 2023. See Minn. Stat. § 260.925). Once a child is in foster care, gender interventions are available in some states.”
“Engaging mental health providers willing to go beyond the easy solution of medication and explore why a child is distressed is nearly impossible, especially in over half of states with laws forbidding conversion therapy, leaving no other treatment options outside affirmance, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries. Movement Advancement Project, Equality Maps: Conversion Therapy Laws (updated Oct. 11, 2024), https://www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/conversion_therapy”
“Exacerbating the legal and medical issues noted above is the reality that adolescents are predisposed to social contagion because they are susceptible to peer influence. The upswing began in 2010, increasing 20- to 40-fold in a decade for minors and ages 18 to 25. Qi Zhang et al., Changes in Size and Demographic Composition of Transgender and Gender Non-Binary Population Receiving Care at Integrated Health Systems, 27 Endocrine Practice 390, 390-395 (2021)”
New gender dysphoria diagnoses leaped from 15,172 to 42,167 in children aged 6 to 17 from just 2017 to 2022. Robin Respaut Putting Numbers on the Rise in Children Seeking Gender Care, Reuters (Oct. 6, 2022), https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-transyouth-data/
“Parents in the study reported that the following influenced their children to reject their sexed bodies: YouTube videos (63.6%); Tumblr (61.7%); a group of friends (44.5%); a community/persons met online (42.9%).”
Here is a link to a 70 page brief submitted by 24 states supporting the Tennessee Ban:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-477/327730/20241008130915048_23-477%20Respondents%20Brief.pdf
Here are quotes from this brief: “The “gender affirming” model encourages gender-transition interventions. These interventions proceed in four escalating steps: (1) social transition, (2) puberty-blocking drugs (for those in early pubertal stages), (3) cross-sex hormones, and (4) surgery.”
“Puberty blockers interfere with signals from the pituitary gland to the sex glands, preventing the sex glands from producing hormones (testosterone for males or estrogen for females). This causes diminished bone density, undeveloped sex organs, and “compromised fertility” if “subsequently … treated with sex hormones.” Puberty blockers threaten normal brain maturation too, since delaying puberty may eliminate “a critical period for experience-dependent rewiring of neural circuits underlying executive function.” Nearly all minors placed on puberty blockers progress to cross-sex hormones, which heighten the risks. For both boys and girls, cross-sex hormones can cause lifelong infertility. Moreover, giving girls high doses of testosterone induces severe hyperandrogenism that can cause clitoromegaly, atrophy of the lining of the uterus and vagina, irreversible vocal cord changes, blood-cell disorders, and increased risk of heart attack. Risks also include liver dysfunction, coronary artery disease, cerebrovascular disease, hypertension, and breast or uterine cancer. And giving boys high doses of estrogen induces hyperestrogenemia, leading to a “very high risk of” blood clots and increased risk of tumors, breast cancer, coronary artery disease, cerebrovascular disease, sexual dysfunction, and gallstones. “
“Given high desistance rates among youth and the tragic “regret” of detransitioners, it was not improper to conclude that kids benefit from additional time to “appreciate their sex” before embarking on body-altering paths. “
“Nor is it improper for the State to protect minors from procedures that “encourage them to become disdainful of their sex”—and thus at risk for serious psychiatric conditions. Especially when research shows that gender-transition interventions can make mental distress worse. “
Trans Misled Students in Seattle Schools Skyrocket
A Seattle school district reported an 853% increase in non-binary identities, from 2019 to 2022. https://thepostmillennial.com/exclusive-seattle-public-schools-sees-853-percent-increase-in-non-binary-students-over-3-years
According to the data from Seattle Public Schools, out of the 55,417 total students in the district in 2019, 53 of them identified as “Non-Binary.”
For the 2022-2023 school year, the enrollment of the Seattle school district fell over 6 percent to 51,608. However, the number of students reported as non-binary skyrocketed to 505 – an 853% increase.
In 2022, there were 16 children who identified as non-binary in kindergarten, 89 in grades 1-5, 125 in middle school, and 272 in high school. Below is the 2024 September report:
For the 2024-2025 school year, enrollment also fell 6% compared to 2019. At the same time, the number of students reported as non-binary skyrocketed to 606 – a 1043% increase from 2019 and a 20% increase from September 2022. In Elementary School, the growth from 2022 to 2024 was over 30%.
Growth from 2019 to 2024
|
Grade |
2019 |
2024 |
Increase # |
Increase % |
|
K |
7 |
13 |
6 |
86 |
|
1-5 |
16 |
116 |
100 |
625 |
|
6-8 |
10 |
122 |
112 |
1120 |
|
9-12 |
19 |
355 |
336 |
1768 |
|
Total |
53 |
606 |
553 |
1043 |
Growth from 2022 to 2024
|
Grade |
2022 |
2024 |
Increase # |
Increase % |
|
K |
16 |
13 |
-3 |
-18% |
|
1-5 |
89 |
116 |
27 |
30% |
|
6-8 |
125 |
122 |
-3 |
-2% |
|
9-12 |
272 |
355 |
83 |
17% |
|
Total |
503 |
606 |
103 |
20% |
Seattle Public Schools P233 Enrollment Report September 2024
https://www.seattleschools.org/departments/dots/data-reporting/enrollment-reporting-p223/
111 pages by school Last Page is the Seattle School District Totals
How many kids in the Seattle School District have actually fallen victim to the Trans Drug Cult?
Recent Self report surveys conducted by both Gallup Polls and the CDC have indicted that the actual rate of gender confusion (kids who do not know if they are male or female) is between 20 to 30%. It is therefore likely that the Seattle School District is dramatically under reporting the number of kids that have fallen victim to the Trans Drug Cult. But what their enrollment reports do confirm is that the rate of students suffering from Trans Cult confusion in the Seattle School District is growing dramatically every year.
We will keep you posted on what happens at the Supreme Court in the coming weeks. But it definitely looks like the truth is finally coming out about the harm inflicted on children by the Trans Drug Cult.
On the other hand, what is happening in the Seattle School District indicates a severe case of State Sponsored Child Abuse. Hopefully, once the Supreme Court has clarified that Transgenderism is not a protected class, we will be able to hold those responsible for the Seattle School disaster accountable for their crimes against our kids.
As always, we look forward to your questions and comments.
Regards,
David Spring
Washington Parents Network