“This is a story about an insane medical mad scientist working with children,” Gigi LaRue told me.
what she is talking about is internal file From the World Association of Transgender Health Professionals leaked on Monday.
“I realized that it’s very easy to say, ‘If it was Nazi Germany, I would have been there to help people, too.'”
These files reveal an organization dominated by ideologues, many of whom identify as transgender. WPATH members publicly advocate irreversible surgical intervention and hormonal therapy for minors, but privately they say these children lack the ability to understand the long-term consequences of their decisions. I admit that there is no.
Still, WPATH is considered the leading authority on transgender medicine. ”[WPATH] That’s why we are where we are,” says Gigi. [The American Association of Pediatrics] And why the Endocrine Society? [followed WPATH’s guidance]. Everyone knew there was no evidence. ”
I first met LaRue (not her real name) at One Life LA, the annual pro-life march organized by the Catholic Diocese of Los Angeles in January. It was the last place she expected to find herself.
“I grew up believing that religious people were trying to take away my bodily autonomy as a woman,” says the lifelong self-described “liberal Democrat,” who calls herself pro-choice and pro-gay. Mr. LaRue, who calls himself a proponent, says. She now regularly attends conservative gatherings such as gun shows, as well as Catholic events.
She collects petition signatures as part of her volunteer work. Protect Kids California, an organization seeking to introduce a statewide ballot initiative that would ban the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, mastectomies, and genital surgery on minors. The initiative would also ban biological males from participating in girls’ sports or using girls’ locker rooms, and raised concerns about children’s mental health, including gender identity issues in school settings. The law requires schools to notify parents of any incidents that have occurred.
LaRue said she and her fellow Protect Kids activists quickly realized the benefits of reaching across ideological divides to people who “already got it.”
The battle of protect kids is AB1314, a California bill that requires parents to be notified about gender issues their children report to teachers and other school officials. When the bill failed, its author, Bill Esseri, took the idea directly to the school board. Those who took these notification actions were embroiled in a lawsuit filed by California Attorney General Rob Bonta.
Protect Kids therefore decided it would be more efficient to bring the issue directly to the public in the form of a ballot initiative, which could come as early as November of this year.
It is up to the Attorney General to summarize and title the ballot initiative. In this case, Bonta’s office initiated an initiative to “restrict the rights of transgender youth.”Protect kids recently sued the AG Change the title to something more descriptive and less provocative.
Not so long ago, LaRue would have maintained the typical “accepting” attitude toward transgender people that befits a kind, wealthy, coastal liberal. She started thinking more deeply when her high school daughter’s soccer team played against a team with a male player who identified as biologically transgender.
What she discovered shocked her and forced her to take action. “Now I know what it’s like to have a calling. If I can somehow stop one person from taking their child to a gender clinic and consenting to it, I will. What if I didn’t do anything and the symptoms got worse? ”
In her daily life, LaRue found herself surrounded by people who angrily dismissed her ideas as “transphobic.”
“I realized it was very easy to say, ‘If it was Nazi Germany, I would have been there to help people,'” she says.
She also sees many people trying to get along to avoid the effects of this label. “We know someone whose child just died, and the first thing the coroner asked was, ‘What is his gender identity?’ I would have punched him in the face. Let’s go.”
As for the experts best suited to oppose gender ideology, “They’re not standing up because they don’t want to risk anything. They just don’t do the surgery, they leave it to others to do it. ” he said.
All of this has given Larue, who is not religious, a newfound respect for the Christians she has encountered in her work. “They have the courage to stick to their beliefs even in unpopular times.”
