"You need tissue, genital tissue, to create that vagina. And if we are taking an 11-year-old boy, who does not have a lot of genital tissue and blocking puberty right there, we’re preventing the growth of the vagina for down the road."
On calcium deficiency:
"The puberty blockers slow that calcium accrual back into the bones quite a bit, back to the prepubertal level."
"This is a concern that not everybody is getting their piggy bank completely filled up with calcium.”
On the unknown impact of puberty suppression on brain development:
“They seem to do reasonably the same as their friends but we’re not looking at their IQ and their learning ability and lots of other things.”
On Puberty Blockers being more invasive than portrayed in media:
“Oh puberty blockers are just reversible and it’s a very noninvasive treatment,’ I would say it’s more invasive than often times the media makes it out to be or other people.”
🧵EXCLUSIVE: Here’s How A Small Band Of Pediatricians Pushed Medical Org Into Nixing Age Minimums For Sex Changes
Based on the four doctors’ review, the AAP strong-armed WPATH into removing sex-change surgery age minimums from the SOC-8. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Emails reveal the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) asked just four doctors — all of whom are considered leaders in the field of pediatric sex changes and have performed various transgender procedures — to review and provide feedback on an embargoed copy of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health’s (WPATH) clinical guidance, called the Standards of Care version 8 (SOC-8), weeks before its expected publication.
In an amicus brief submitted in the upcoming Supreme Court case United States v. Skrmetti, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall explains that Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine — who is openly transgender — had unsuccessfully pressured WPATH to remove the surgical age minimums, but the pressure from the AAP “tipped the scales,” causing WPATH to remove the child sex-change surgery age minimums.
🧵The Biden-Harris Administration ‘War On Families’
The Biden-Harris embrace of transgender ideology puts parents who don’t affirm their child’s gender confusion at risk of being labeled ‘abusive.’
Across the country ‘non-affirming’ parents are losing custody of their kids.
In December, @katesrichardson reported on a document I discovered on a federal government website.
A federally funded “home visiting” program advised service providers to watch for signs of abuse against “gender-diverse children” like not letting a young child cross-dress.
The document was guidance for the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program which is intended to combat abuse and neglect while promoting “positive parenting” and school readiness among “pregnant people and families.”
EXCLUSIVE: Child Services Dept Working With Biden Harris-Admin Tracked ‘Trans Kids’ On Secret Database
Shocking story and the 4th installment of the @DailyCaller News Foundation's series on how child welfare systems are embracing gender ideology.
An Ohio child welfare agency created a “confidential spreadsheet” tracking the sexual orientation and transgender identity of children as young as 5, according to a document exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The Cuyahoga County Division of Children and Family Services (DCFS) created a database tracking the sexual orientation, transgender identity and pronouns of children that interacted with the child welfare system.
The spreadsheet was part of their ‘Safe Identification’ program, which teaches social services staff how to collect information about the sexuality and gender identity of children.
🧵Transgender Ideology: The intersection of religious freedom and parental rights.
While spending 10+ months researching how gender ideology is transforming the child welfare system, one thing that stood out was a focus on changing the minds of religious parents.
For many religions, a binary male-female view of sex is not only a matter of biology, it’s a matter of faith.
For example, for Christians gender ideology is a violation of religious conscience as the Bible clearly states “God created them male and female."
One of the interventions the @DailyCaller News Foundation covered in our report was the Youth Acceptance Project (YAP), which can be implemented by social workers to persuade hesitant parents to affirm their child’s gender dysphoria.
EXCLUSIVE: Biden-Harris Admin Paves Way For Bureaucrats To Take Gender-Confused Kids From ‘Non-Affirming’ Parents
🧵@katesrichardson and I took a deep dive into the ongoing LGBTQ affirming transformation of the child welfare system.
@DailyCaller News Foundation
When the Biden-Harris administration implemented a new policy in April 2024 requiring foster care families to be LGBTQ “affirming” concerms were raised that religous families would be excluded from becoming foster parents.
We discovered how it could impact all families now.
The Biden-Harris administration’s new federal rule directs states to ensure foster children who identify as LGBTQ are placed in affirming homes.
These “designated placements” must commit to creating an environment that supports a child’s “status or identity."
🧵Migrants Are Overwhelming School Districts In Key Swing State, Saddling Taxpayers With Hefty Price Tag
@jasonhopkinsdc and I found a huge surge in non-English speaking students in Pennsylvania public schools.
@DailyCaller News Foundation.
A massive influx in non-English speaking students in Pennsylvania is overwhelming school districts across the state,
The number of English Language Learners (ELL) in school districts in Pennsylvania has surged nearly 40% since 2021.
Across the state, there were a total of 71,766 ELL students — those requiring specialized education in learning English as a second language — during the 2020-2021 school year, according to data published by the Pennsylvania Department of Education.