Why Do Democrats Hate Those Who They Say They Are Protecting
Why Do Democrats Hate Those Who They Say They Are Protecting
On May 17th Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) introduced the Protecting Children from Experimentation Act (HR 3328) and the End Taxpayer Funding of Gender Experimentation Act (HR 3329). Senator Roger Marshall, MD (R-KS) introduced the same bills in the US Senate – S1597 and S1595 respectively. Both bills provide exceptions for the treatment of patients with medically verifiable sex development disorders.
A July 27th US House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government hearing once again displayed how heartless the Democrats are. For political points they are willing to sterilize and mutilate minors who are confused about their gender. How did it become acceptable in the psychological/ medical community to take medical advice from a confused minor child? How did removing healthy body parts become the acceptable prescription to deal with a patient’s issues? What are we doing to our children?
Let’s first take a look at the makeup of that committee:
Republicans:
Mike Johnson (LA-4) – Chair
Tim McClintock (CA-5)
Chip Roy (TX-21)
Dan Bishop (NC-8)
Kevin Kiley (CA-3)
Harriet Hageman (WY at large)
Wesley Hunt (TX-38)
Russell Fry (SC-7)
Democrats:
Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-5) – Ranking Member
Steve Cohen (TN-9)
Veronica Escobar (TX-16)
Cori Bush (MO-1)
Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18)
Henry “Hank” Johnson (GA-4)
The hearing "The Dangers and Due Process Violations of 'Gender-Affirming Care' for Children" began with Chairman Mike Johnson showing a short video clip of Dr. Blair Peters, an Oregon gender surgeon who specializes in “bottom surgeries”, explain just how the process works! Here’s the link to Congressman Mike Johnson’s opening remarks – viewer discretion is advised.
Detransitioner Chloe Cole “celebrated” her nineteenth birthday by giving her heartrending testimony during the July 27th hearing. During her testimony she called the attempt to “transition” to the opposite sex “one of the biggest medical scandals in the history of the United States of America.” Chloe tells of the journey she and her concerned parents were sent down beginning when she was 12: fast tracked onto puberty blockers, then testosterone. Some may ask why her parents would go along with this, but the “experts” asked them (as they do most parents facing the same situation): “Would you rather have a dead daughter or a living transgender son?” At age 15 she had a double mastectomy. Chloe notes that “Everything that I went through did nothing to address the underlying mental health issues that I had.” She concludes her remarks by stating, “This needs to stop. You alone can stop it. Enough children have already been victimized by this barbaric pseudoscience.”
Here’s the link to her full testimony.
Just feet away from Chloe, PA’s 5th Congressional Representative Mary Gay Scanlon assured her fellow representatives, Chloe and the others attending the hearing that the science is settled and “not up for debate.” She also assured everyone that these drugs are clinically approved medical treatments. Yes, they are – for chemically castrating sex offenders, not for administering to those suffering with gender dysphoria! According to Breitbart, Scanlon described the hearing as follows: “It’s a cynical and, frankly, dangerous that transgender children and their families, driven not by science or facts, but by polling and political strategists determined to mobilize conservative voters through fear. [It] is fear-mongering at its worst, picking on already vulnerable kids in order to stir up chaos that they hope to ride to success at the ballot box.”
Other Democrat committee members joined in accusing the Republicans of “political pandering” and simply using the hearing to get votes.
The Democrats simply ignore the harm done to Chloe and other detransitioners who have regretted their decision to follow the advice from the so-called experts. But it’s not just the Democrats who are denying the harm, it’s also the American Medical Association (AMA), which on June 12, 2023 strengthened its commitment to “gender affirming care.” On August 3, 2023 the American Academy of Pediatrics reiterated its support for “gender affirming medical care for transgender children.” Neither the AMA nor the Academy offer age-specific guidance, so anything goes at any age!! This article only names two medical associations that are part of what Chloe called one of the biggest medical scandals in US history. Forget children’s hospitals, as on March 1, 2022 the Children’s Hospital Association (CHA) issued a statement that the CHA, “supports transgender children and youth and their families in accessing comprehensive, gender-affirming and developmentally appropriate health care. Parents cannot trust the secular medical and psychological communities when it comes to this issue.
However, they can find hope and help through the Christian Medical and Dental Association (CMDA). Their policy statement on this issue contains this statement, “CMDA affirms the obligation of Christian healthcare professionals caring for patients struggling with gender identity to do so with sensitivity and compassion. CMDA holds that attempts to radically reconstruct one’s body surgically or hormonally for psychological indications, however, are medically, ethically, and psychologically inappropriate.”
Also, the American College of Pediatricians offers hope for parents seeking answers, “The treatment of GD (gender dysphoria) in childhood with hormones effectively amounts to mass experimentation on, and sterilization of, youth who are cognitively incapable of providing informed consent. There is a serious ethical problem with allowing irreversible, life-changing procedures to be performed on minors who are too young to give valid consent themselves; adolescents cannot understand the magnitude of such decisions.”
Gender confused children do not need affirmed in their delusion; they need support and love as they work through their confusion and embrace the gender God made them.