CHARLESTON (LifeSiteNews) — West Virginia became one of the latest states to crack down on mutilating transgender interventions for kids on Wednesday after Republican Gov. Jim Justice signed a new bill restricting the practice.
The measure contains a carveout for teens determined to be at risk of suicide or another type of self-harm, despite evidence strongly indicating that transgender interventions do not lessen, and may actually increase, suicidal ideation.
Slated to take effect in January, the new West Virginia law will prohibit physicians from performing surgeries on minors to make them look like the opposite sex, or prescribing them cross sex-hormones or puberty blocking drugs, The Associated Press reported Thursday.
While most transgender surgeries in the U.S. are undertaken by adults, children who express gender confusion across the country are increasingly prescribed puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, which can have serious permanent effects including sterility. Moreover, some U.S. gender clinics have policies permitting certain surgical interventions – including double mastectomies – for adolescents. Rates of surgical mutilation for minors have spiked in recent years.
West Virginia joins a growing number of states that are proposing and enacting legislation to ban the experimental procedures for kids
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Unlike many other states that have similarly moved to legislatively protect kids from permanent, life-altering mutilation, however, West Virginia will allow the prescription of hormone or puberty-blocking drugs if a gender-confused teenager is determined to be at risk of self-harm or suicide.
According to the AP, “a patient can be prescribed puberty blockers and hormone therapy after receiving parental consent and a diagnosis of severe gender dysphoria from two clinicians, including a mental health provider or an adolescent medicine specialist.”
With Drag Queens now targeting babies in a quest to normalize their degeneracy, it’s time for our lawmakers to ensure children in society are legally protected from this grooming.
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“Burlesque for Babies” is the latest depraved iteration of the Drag Queen Story Hours that have targeted children across the western world.
This involves woke parents taking their babies and toddlers to watch grown men, invariably wearing high-heels, make-up and little else, dance inappropriately for attention, gratification, money and grooming.
If you don’t believe us, just watch what this pro-LGBT commentator has to say (WARNING – graphic content):
This is nothing less than grooming – an attempt by perverted men to sexualize children with erotic dancing.
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How else can we describe half-naked men “twerking” in front of babies, if not by calling it “grooming”?
Aside from the degenerate men wanting to sexually perform for children, the other major culprits are of course the parents who bring their children to see them, tacitly endorsing the bondage outfits and overt perversion to allow these drag queens fulfill their sadomasochistic dreams with children.
Any adult who wants to be naked, or close to naked, in front of children is an immediate threat to young people, which is why lawmakers must do everything to combat this degeneracy before it’s normalized.
Normalization is, of course, the goal of the LGBTQ movement, and that’s why we have to push back now.
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The carveout comes in spite of the fact that studies do not show that “affirmation” of a person’s divergent “gender identity” resolves the extremely high rates of suicidality among trans-identifying youth and adults.
As LifeSiteNews has previously reported, a 2019 study by Richard Bränström Ph.D. and John E. Pachankis, Ph.D. that appeared to support the theory that “GAC” improves mental health was later retracted. A 2020 correction to that study found the “results demonstrated no advantage of surgery in relation to subsequent mood or anxiety disorder-related health care visits or prescriptions or hospitalizations following suicide attempts in that comparison.”
In addition, a recent JAMA study pointed out that a 2020 correction to a 2010 meta-analysis concerning transgender surgical and pharmaceutical interventions found “no mental health benefit from gender-affirming surgery after comparison with a control group of [gender-confused] people who had not yet undergone surgery.”
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A 2011 Swedish cohort study also found that “persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behavior, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population.”
Despite this, however, in recent years rising rates of transgender identification have been met with celebration and adulation in mainstream culture. In many public school classrooms, young children are actively being encouraged to deny their biology and live as the opposite sex, potentially contributing to lifelong physical and psychological harm.
In addition to West Virginia, states that have moved to curtail transgender procedures for kids include Alabama, Tennessee, South Dakota, Kentucky, Mississippi, Florida, and Georgia. Meanwhile, radical left-wing state California has reacted by enacting legislation to make the Golden State a so-called sanctuary for kids seeking transgender interventions.