‘I Stand With Clayton Kershaw’: Tim Scott Condemns Dodgers’ ‘Shameful and Disgusting’ Stunt With Anti-Catholic Drag Group

By Tyler O'Neil, The Daily Signal  

Sen. Tim Scott

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., who is running for president, condemned the LosAngeles Dodgers’ decision to celebrate the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of drag performers who mock Christianity, and Roman Catholicism in particular, by dressing up as sexualized nuns and even sexualizing Jesus himself.

“We should all be incredibly disappointed in the Los Angeles Dodgers,” Scott told The Daily Signal in a phone interview Thursday, one day before the Dodgers’ Pride Night on Friday evening. “It was shameful and disgusting.”

The Dodgers announced May 4 that the team would bestow a “Community Hero Award” on the Los Angeles chapter of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence for “their countless hours of community service, ministry, and outreach to those on the edges, in addition to promoting human rights and respect for diversity and spiritual enlightenment.”

This sparked an avalanche of criticism, because the “Sisters” repeatedly have engaged in acts that most Christians—and especially Catholics—would consider blasphemous.

Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, compiled a list of the group’s most outrageous acts of anti-Catholic bigotry, including a 1987 “Condom Savior Mass” in San Francisco where the group burned the pope in effigy, multiple Good Friday shows featuring a sexualized Jesus pole-dancing on a cross, and its advocacy for abortion.

The Dodgers announced May 17 that the team would disinvite the group following backlash from Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., among others. Yet on May 23, the team flip-flopped again, offering “our sincerest apologies” to the “Sisters” and reinviting them to the June 16 event.

“In the weeks ahead, we will continue to work with our LGBTQ+ partners to better educate ourselves, find ways to strengthen the ties that bind, and use our platform to support all of our fans who make up the diversity of the Dodgers family,” the team announced in a written statement.

Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw condemned the team’s move in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, and said the team would host a “Faith and Family Day” on July 30.

“I don’t agree with making fun of other people’s religions,” Kershaw said. “It has nothing to do with anything other than that. I just don’t think that, no matter what religion you are, you should make fun of somebody else’s religion. So that’s something that I definitely don’t agree with.”

Scott, an evangelical Christian, praised Kershaw’s statement in his call with The Daily Signal.

“I stand with Clayton Kershaw,” the South Carolina senator said. “The act of denigrating faith as a way of celebrating independence, to me, is disgusting.”

“No one should be promoted and encouraged to denigrate someone else’s faith,” Scott added.

He noted that Americans wouldn’t mock Islam in the same way.

“I can’t imagine someone in this country doing that to the Muslim faith—it just wouldn’t fly here,” Scott said. “But to the Christian faith, it seems like people see us as a minority to be made fun of, or to be denigrated. I just reject it outright.”

“There’s never a place in America where being disgusting toward our Judeo-Christian principles should be OK,” the senator added.

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Kellogg’s Exploits Kids—Time To Boycott

By Bill Donohue, Catholic League President

The blowback against Bud Light and Target for getting into bed with radical transgender activists should have persuaded major corporations not to go there. But somehow Kellogg’s never got the memo. Maybe it will now.

Kellogg’s wants children to understand that transgenderism is a family-friendly ideology. Why else would it feature “Tony the Tiger”—Mr. Frosted Flakes—hamming it up with Dylan Mulvaney (the same trans activist that got Bud Light into trouble) on the red carpet at the Tony Awards on Sunday?

There is nothing normal about the trans agenda: it is built on a lie, one that denies the fundamental biological differences between males and females. Moreover, those who have elected to “transition” are fraught with long-term psychological and physical problems. So why would Kellogg’s want to push this agenda on kids?

Kellogg’s is no stranger to left-wing politics. “Since 1930 the mammoth W.K. Kellogg Foundation has given billions of dollars to causes and projects that encourage dependency on government.” That was how a report by the Capital Research Center put it.

The Kellogg Foundation is one of the biggest foundations in the nation, having given away billions to liberal-left causes for decades. Throughout most of its history, it has focused on issues such as welfare, racism, pollution, gentrification, homelessness, the environment and healthcare.

Beginning in 2016, the Foundation jumped on the LGBT’s bandwagon. Five years later, the Kellogg Company promoted its “Together with Pride” cereal. Now the Foundation is one of the LGBT’s most reliable donors, fighting state laws designed to protect children from being lured into propaganda about flipping their sex identity.

While the LGBT cause is relatively new, Kellogg’s moral compass has been broken for more than a decade. In 2012, it stood alone among large corporate sponsors of “The Daily Show” in making a thinly veiled defense of perhaps the most blasphemous and obscene attack on any religion ever aired on television.

On the April 16, 2012 edition of Jon Stewart’s show, the host made a strong appeal to women insisting they protect their right to abortion. He could have stopped there, but he didn’t. As he was making his pitch, a large picture of a naked woman with her legs spread was flashed on a screen behind him. In between her legs was a nativity scene ornament, which he referred to as a “vagina manger.”

On May 21, the New York Times published an op-ed page ad I had written condemning Stewart for his vulgar anti-Christian attack. I also asked advertisers to pull their ads, and some, like Delta, did. No one but Kellogg’s refused to condemn what Stewart did.

In a letter addressed to me, I was told, “Consumers speak most loudly when they vote with their remote control and change the channel or turn off the TV if a program does not fit their personal criteria.” This led me to take out an ad in the local newspaper of the Battle Creek company, the Kalamazoo Gazette, taking it to task.

The attempt to make Stewart’s vile assault on Christian sensibilities a matter of individual taste was insulting. There are social norms of decency that most Americans adhere to, and deliberate attacks on Christianity—or Judaism or Islam—are violative of them.

Many years ago, CBS decided not to allow reruns of “Amos ‘n’ Andy,” citing its covert racist leanings. It did not say to viewers, “If you don’t like it, change the channel.”

Given the ideological leanings of Kellogg’s, it is not a shocker to learn that it depicted “Tony the Tiger” embracing Dylan Mulvaney. In doing so, it also embraced the most morally debased movement in the country. One hopes that mothers throughout America will take note and exercise their right to change their buying options. A boycott is long overdue.

Illinois governor signs law to defund libraries that remove sexually explicit, LGBT books for children

CHICAGO (LifeSiteNews) — Illinois Democrat Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Monday signed a new law penalizing any public school that does not allow children unfettered access to whatever LGBT and/or sexually explicit material that it may house, in the first measure of its kind and a rebuke of states moving in the opposite direction.

HB 2789 declares it “the policy of the State to encourage and protect the freedom of libraries and library systems to acquire materials without external limitation and to be protected against attempts to ban, remove, or otherwise restrict access to books or other materials.”

To carry out this policy, it “adopt[s] the American Library Association’s Library Bill of Rights that indicates materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval or, in the alternative, develop a written statement declaring the inherent authority of the library or library system to” assemble a diverse collection of material and “prohibit the practice of banning specific books or resources.” Any library or library system that fails to adopt the ALA bill of rights or adopt an equivalent policy against the removal of materials will be ineligible for state grants.

“Here in Illinois, we don’t hide from the truth, we embrace it,” Pritzker declared upon signing the bill at Chicago’s Harold Washington Library. “Young people shouldn’t be kept from learning about the realities of our world.”

“Everyone deserves to see themselves reflected in the books they read, the art they see, the history they learn. In Illinois, we are showing the nation what it really looks like to stand up for liberty,” he added.

The ALA Library Bill of Rights to which the new law refers declares that books and other materials in libraries “should not be excluded because of the origin, background, or views of those contributing to their creation” or “because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval” and that a “person’s right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views.”

A note at the bottom of the page acknowledges that “questions do arise concerning application of these principles to specific library practices.” The ALA’s statement on how these principles apply to minors’ access to materials indicates that the group, and by extension any facility that formally adopts its standards, does not allow for any age-based restrictions on access to certain content.

“Equitable access to all library resources and services should not be abridged based on chronological age, apparent maturity, educational level, literacy skills, legal status, or through restrictive scheduling and use policies,” the group says, and concerns about that access should be handled exclusively by how parents “advise” their own children. “Libraries and library governing bodies should not use rating systems to inhibit a minor’s access to materials.”

“I support local control,” responded Republican state House Minority Leader Tony McCombie, the Associated Press reports. “Our caucus does not believe in banning books, but we do believe that the content of books should be considered in their placement on the shelves.”

MLB’s Perverted Definition Of Bigotry

Bu Bill Donohue, Catholic League President 

Major League Baseball (MLB) is okay with one of its teams honoring a vile anti-Catholic group of drag queen bigots, but it is not okay with a pitcher who objects to the radical LGBT agenda. That is the principal takeaway in light of MLB’s response to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence being honored by the Los Angeles Dodgers, and former Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Anthony Bass’ rejection of LGBT extremists.

Everyone knows how Bud Light used a twisted cross-dressing activist to market its beer, triggering a backlash from normal men. Similarly, Target’s decision to market “tuck-friendly” women’s swimsuits that conceal male genitalia (the outfits are made for men who claim to be a woman yet refuse to have their sex organs cut off) inspired normal men and women to object. In late May, Bass posted an Instagram video that criticized the two companies.

The video included a plea by its creator, Ryan Miller, asking Christians to boycott Bud Light and Target. Although Bass did not personally comment on the post, he came under fire by LGBT activists and the front office of the Blue Jays. After the blowback, he apologized but it was too late. His team dumped him, saying he was a “distraction.”

We have not heard a word from Rob Manfred about this perversion of justice. 

We forced his hand on May 16 to nix the Dodgers decision to honor the “Sisters” (he was so bombarded with emails protesting this stunt that the next day the bigots were disinvited). But a few days later, he and the Dodgers succumbed to pressure from the LGBT crowd and reinvited them. So we know which side they’re on. 

Manfred’s silence with regard to the Bass matter suggests he is okay with the player effectively being fired for exercising his First Amendment right to freedom of speech and freedom of religion. Nothing in the video was obscene or insulting, but everything the “Sisters” do is both. 

What kind of moral compass Manfred, the Dodgers and the Blue Jays are working with is a mystery. They have managed to sanction a vicious assault on Catholic sensibilities while simultaneously punishing those who reject LGBT mania. They are twice wrong.

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The Threat, The Cure… Cultural Marxism In America

By Deacon Mike Manno

(The Wanderer) – Last fall two of the Heritage Foundation’s fellows, Mike Gonzalez and Katharine C. Gorka, issued a report that everyone should read. It is entitled “How Cultural Marxism threatens the United States — and How Americans Can Fight it.” I’ll provide a link to it at the end.

The report succinctly lays out the case against the Marxist left, its origins in Communist political thought and how it has morphed — with the help of the Academy — into the movement that threatens the viability of our precious nation. It begins:

“In 1989, as the Soviet empire was crumbling, The New York Times noted an interesting new development: While millions who had lived under the brutal rule of Communism for decades were finally throwing off their yoke, Marxist professors were taking over American academia.” Then quoting the Times article, it concluded:

“As Karl Marx’s ideological heirs in Communist nations struggle to transform his political legacy, his intellectual heirs on American campuses have virtually completed their own transformation from brash, beleaguered outsiders to assimilated academic insiders.”

Here, in a nutshell, is what happened: Marxism and Communism lost their clout in the United States over a very simple point: Capitalism worked. It had proved itself capable of doing what Marxism and Communism was unable to do: Provide for the needs of all. Marxism, on the other hand, relied on the proletariat to rise against their oppressors, the bourgeoisie, those owning property and the means of production which labor lacked.

The rise against the property owners would need to be violent.

But that violent rebellion was no longer necessary. Capitalism had proved that men could rise above their lowly conditions to provide for themselves and their families. Thus, being a member of the proletariat class was not a permanent status. Capitalism had shown that while not all might be able to obtain great wealth, they could rise their standard of living within the system, and could even become rich themselves.

Since the lower class could improve their situations, the allure of Marxism lost its shine. They then must re-package this whole ideology to find a substitute for the proletariat, who were not tied to the class struggle as much as the Communist propaganda had relied upon.

In short, the ideal new “class” were people who could not leave their tribe, those who had immutable characteristics which could not be thrown off as poverty could. Thus, the cultural Marxists focused on race, sex, national origin, emphasizing the “cancer of human history” is the white race, thus creating non-whites, women, and racial minorities as the poor and oppressed, the new proletariat.

While this was bubbling up during the 1980s, the American Marxists had been spending generations infiltrating college and university campuses with scores of tenured professors ready to heed the call for Cultural Marxism, the result of which we are seeing today, as the report notes:

“Today’s cultural Marxists believe that the reason economic, social, cultural, academic, and health outcomes (to name just a few) show persistent racial disparities is because of a pervasive, systemic racism that can only be eliminated by smashing the system itself. The quickest way to do that is to create a never-ending number of racial and country-of-origin categories (such as Hispanics and Asian Americans, both created by government fiat in 1977 at the insistence of leftist activists), the members of which would be instilled with grievances about the disparity of these outcomes, to the point that they will want to become active soldiers in smashing the system.

“The Marxist narrative that all of society for all of history has been divided into categories of the oppressed and their oppressors is played over and over. The government, and all society, the purveyors of CRT say, must thus treat people not as individuals with liberties, but as categories that deserve special treatment and benefits as members of these categories.

“What is happening today, therefore, is nothing more than this age’s identity category version of Marx’s 19th-century claim that, because individuals have different abilities, and because they belong to different classes, their rights must differ. According to Marx, if government or society in general were to grant people equal individual rights (such as to consumption and services), material inequality (the bugaboo of all Marxists then and now) would ensue.”

Or, as the “anti-racist” Ibram X. Kendi stated, “the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.” Thus, the government must discriminate in favor of those categories of people deemed oppressed.

Marxism, through its base in the Academy, has been able to spread its tentacles throughout society with concepts such as DEI (Diversity Equity and Inclusion), CRT (Critical Race Theory), the “trans” movement, and the adoption of environmental controls through ESG (Environment, Social, Government) rules which require corporate boards to place greater emphasis on the environment and diversity than on return on investment which is being imposed on markets by asset firms such as BlackRock by using their ability to vote shares of stock over which they have control, but no ownership.

What about cancel culture? The report says, “Because of that absolutism, cultural Marxism cannot tolerate or co-exist with other worldviews. It demands censorship, which began as ‘political correctness’ but has since veered into the far more insidious censorship, which leads inevitably to tyranny (as Marxism always has everywhere it has been tried). It punishes alternative views by attempting to drive those who express them from public life, a phenomenon dubbed ‘“cancel culture’.”

The report did lay out a strategy for defeating cultural Marxism.
Focus locally, it says. While most folks are looking to national trends and politics, most of the damage being done by the cultural Marxists is done on a local platform: school boards, colleges, and local officials who control public funds and operate under the radar. Of course, that is not to diminish the importance of national politics, it’s just at the local level that the rubber hits the road.

Take back education, the writers urge. They point out how Gov. Ron DeSantis used legislative power to retake control of the schools in Florida. That same power can be harnessed by local officials determined to break the influence of the Marxists.

Another suggestion is using existing laws on child abuse to prosecute those who are sexualizing our children. If the laws you need in your jurisdiction do not protect children, work to change them.

There are several other suggestions made, but a twelve hundred word essay can’t cover the richness of the report, so I urge you to read it yourself at: https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/report/how-cultural-marxism-threatens-the-united-states-and-how-americans-can-fight.

The co-author of the report, Katharine C. Gorka, is scheduled to be on my Faith On Trial program this week. You’ll be able to find it using the link below, look for Episode 366.

(You can reach Mike at: DeaconMike@q.com and listen to him every weekend on Faith On Trial or podcast at https://iowacatholicradio.com/faith-on-trial/)

Americans to Congress: Leave the Court Alone

Poll commissioned by First Liberty Institute finds more than two-thirds of Americans oppose restructuring of Court and attacks on integrity, ethics of Justices.

Washington, DC—First Liberty Institute today announced the results of a nationwide poll from Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy revealing 72 percent of Americans believe that the politicization of the Supreme Court threatens judicial independence and 69 percent do not want Congress taking over and setting rules for judicial ethics.  First Liberty, the nation’s premier law firm dedicated exclusively to religious liberty, commissioned the poll.

Read the results of the poll here.

“Americans clearly reject the manufactured attacks on the integrity of Justices and radical attempts to delegitimize the Court,” Kelly Shackelford, President, CEO, & Chief Counsel to First Liberty said.  “Americans understand that if the politically motivated efforts to restructure our judicial system works, judges will lose their ability to enforce the rule of law with impartiality, and the last safeguard to our civil liberties will be gone.  The message of the American people to Congress couldn’t be clearer: leave the Court alone.”

The poll, conducted by Mason-Dixon of registered voters nationwide May 30-June 2, suggests 91 percent of Americans believe an independent judiciary is a crucial safeguard of our civil liberties.  In addition, 68% of all respondents oppose court packing, a number consistent with previous polls.  Importantly, self-identified Independent voters overwhelmingly reject plans to pack the court (66% opposed).

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About First Liberty Institute: First Liberty Institute is a non-profit public interest law firm and the largest legal organization in the nation dedicated exclusively to defending religious freedom for all Americans.

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In Doe v. Ladapo, (ND FL, June 6, 2023), a Florida federal district court issued a preliminary injunction barring Florida from enforcing against plaintiffs its ban on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for treating minors who have gender dysphoria. The court said in part:

The elephant in the room should be noted at the outset. Gender identity is real. The record makes this clear. The medical defendants, speaking through their attorneys, have admitted it. At least one defense expert also has admitted it....

Despite the defense admissions, there are those who believe that cisgender individuals properly adhere to their natal sex and that transgender individuals have inappropriately chosen a contrary gender identity, male or female, just as one might choose whether to read Shakespeare or Grisham....

Addressing plaintiffs' equal protection challenge, the court said in part that "Drawing a line based on gender nonconformity—this includes transgender status—... triggers intermediate scrutiny." The court went on to say in part:

The record establishes that for some patients, including the three now at issue, a treatment regimen of mental-health therapy followed by GnRH agonists and eventually by cross-sex hormones is the best available treatment. These patients and their parents, in consultation with their doctors and multidisciplinary teams, have rationally chosen this treatment. The State of Florida’s decision to ban the treatment is not rationally related to a legitimate state interest. 

Dissuading a person from conforming to the person’s gender identity rather than to the person’s natal sex is not a legitimate state interest....

The defendants say the many professional organizations that have endorsed treatment of gender dysphoria with GnRH agonists and hormones all have it wrong. The defendants say, in effect, that the organizations were dominated by individuals who pursued good politics, not good medicine. 

If ever a pot called a kettle black, it is here. The statute and the rules were an exercise in politics, not good medicine.

This week on FOT: Cultural Marxism and the Dodgers' fake nuns

 Listen now: https://iowacatholicradio.com/faith-on-trial/. This is Episode 366.

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Studies Affirm Medical Mutilation Is Mentally Harmful

ORLANDO, FL – In recently published medical studies, numerous scientists confirm that mutilating gender surgeries fail to improve the overall lives of people struggling with gender dysphoria while worsening mental health in most people by increasing feelings of loneliness and increased suicide rates. Peer-reviewed studies suggest mutilating surgeries leave as high as 83 percent of people feeling lonelier and almost 50 percent dissatisfied with their lives after surgery.

Additionally, research finds a 14 percent increase in suicide rate for people who have access to such procedures, such as people in states without a law banning mutilating surgeries.

In a study published May 22, 2023 titled “Loneliness and Social Isolation among Transgender and Gender Diverse People,” researchers at the University of Hamburg Medical Center concluded “…people, who have undergone gender reassignment surgery [generally] feel lonelier” than others who have not had surgery. In a subsequent study published May 30 by the same researchers titled “Are transgender people satisfied with their lives?,” 44 percent of people reported varying levels of dissatisfaction with their lives after irreversible surgeries where 30.1 percent reported “slight” satisfaction and only 1.1 percent reported extreme satisfaction. The authors attributed the higher quality of life satisfaction to higher age groups and noted that younger age groups, such as ages 18 to 29, experienced disproportionally high rates of depression, anxiety, suicidality, and non-suicidal self-injury.”

In a June 2022 Heritage Foundation report called “Puberty Blockers, Cross-Sex Hormones, and Youth Suicide,” Senior Research Fellow Dr. Jay Greene noted a correlation between fewer legal barriers to mutilating surgeries and hormone treatments to higher suicide rates among youth experiencing gender dysphoria. Greene explained that suicide rates among ages 12 to 23 began to accelerate in 2015 as access to medical interventions without parental consent became more prevalent.  

Greene stated, “By 2020, there are about 1.6 more suicides per 100,000 people ages 12 to 23 in states that have a policy allowing minors to access health care without parental consent than in states without such a policy…an increase of 14 percent in the suicide rate. This increase in suicide rates in states where it is easier for minors to access puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones increased at almost the same time, and to the same degree, as those interventions became available.” Today, at least 19 states now prohibit puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and mutilating surgeries for children.

These studies are consistent with a 2011 study conducted in Sweden, a nation friendly to gender ideology, titled “Long-Term Follow-Up of Transsexual Persons Undergoing Sex Reassignment Surgery: Cohort Study in Sweden.” The study found “substantially higher rates of overall mortality, death from cardiovascular disease and suicide, suicide attempts, and psychiatric hospitalizations in sex-reassigned transsexual individuals compared to a healthy control population.” The study recommended improving “psychosocial care” for post-surgical individuals.

However, the lack of “pre-surgical” care in these studies may suggest the “sex-reassignment surgery” industry is giving little attention to “psychosocial care” to individuals before life-altering surgery. The industry, consisting of major medical centers and pharmaceutical companies, with backing from medical associations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American Medical Association (AMA) and the Children’s Hospital Association (CHA), was valued at $1.9 billion in 2021 and is expected to increase to nearly $3 billion by 2030. In fact, the number of gender clinics treating children in the United States has grown to as high as 300 over the last few decades. According to Komodo Health Inc., in 2021, about 42,000 children and teens across the United States received a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, nearly triple the number in 2017. The analysis found that at least 121,882 children ages 6 to 17 were diagnosed with gender dysphoria from 2017 through 2021.

Yet, the profitable “gender business,” in its rush to irreversibly mutilate children and adults, largely ignores data that shows a correlation between gender dysphoria and earlier trauma or underlying mental illnesses. 

In the 2021 study “Disparities in Childhood Abuse Between Transgender and Cisgender Adolescents,” gender-confused adolescents had a significantly higher likelihood to report childhood sexual abuse, physical abuse, and psychological abuse than their non-gender dysphoric peers. In the study titled “Attachment Patterns in Children and Adolescents With Gender Dysphoria,” scientists found that “gender dysphoria in children arises in association with…high rates of unresolved loss and trauma,” such as sexual abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, and exposure to domestic violence. The study also indicated 87 percent of children in the study who had gender dysphoria also had anxiety, behavioral disorders, or autism. 

As science continues to establish correlations and links regarding gender dysphoria, therapeutic counseling has helped many people get beyond mental health struggles. Liberty Counsel has represented several licensed counselors in preserving free speech in private counseling. Those counselors have treated several clients with gender dysphoria (brought on by trauma and abuse), where those clients have testified under oath that without counseling, they would have continued down a dark, irreversible path, and it was the counseling that helped them resolve their health issues to embrace their biological sex. 

Counseling for gender dysphoria, which the “gender business” and media falsely refer to as “conversion therapy,” is actually talk therapy and is a lot like a GPS map system for mental health. The clients tell the counselor the direction in which they want to go, and the counselor helps them reach that destination. Counseling operates from the viewpoint that people do not have to be chained to gender dysphoria or unwanted desires, behaviors, or confusion.

Mary Beth Waddell, director of Federal Affairs for Family and Religious Liberty at Family Research Council, said, “The only way individuals dealing with gender dysphoria will come to live happy, healthy, and authentic lives is by addressing the source of their dysphoria and pursuing healing…Until these root issues are properly dealt with, these individuals will not be completely satisfied.” 

Waddell also underscored that a high percentage of children will eventually have gender dysphoric feelings dissipate if allowed to go through puberty naturally. Supporting this assertion, a 215-page report from Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration states, “In total, there have been 11 outcomes studies…from a variety of countries, conducted by a variety of labs, using a variety of methods, all spanning four decades, every study without exception has come to the identical conclusion: Among prepubescent children who feel gender dysphoric, the majority cease to want to be the other gender over the course of puberty.” 

Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, “Gender ideology is permeating the medical community monetizing the act of mutilating children and adults alike into a billion-dollar industry. Scientific research is connecting the dots between gender dysphoria and underlying mental health issues. Liberty Counsel has successfully defended licensed counselors who have helped people with gender dysphoria by treating those underlying issues.”

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