Federal Government Launches Attack on Our Children

March 31 was the International Day of Transgender Visibility. The federal government has decided to commemorate the day by attacking our children. The president has declared that the mutilation of children will be accepted practice in America – whether we like it or not. It’s further proof that all leftist paths lead to evil.

The attack came in the form of three torpedoes, silently launched by the current administration. The Department of Justice sent a letter to all state Attorneys General, informing them that their respective states will be sued if they attempt to pass laws or otherwise protect children from juvenile gender reassignment. Any attempt to shield a child from puberty blockers, hormone therapy, or even surgery, will be met with civil rights litigation.

The letter states that antidiscrimination laws from the 1960s will be used to ensure juvenile access to permanent gender reassignment. When we supported legislation to protect minorities from discrimination, we never understood that it would one day be used to enable the mutilation of children. So again, with gusto: All leftist paths lead to evil!

Your response may be that there’s no need to worry. The government is leaving the decision with the parents – where it belongs. Not so fast.

On the same day that the DOJ sent its little nasty-gram to the states, a couple of other departments were busy issuing their own guidance. The Office of Population Affairs (OPA) launched the second torpedo with a document entitled Gender Affirming Care and Young People. The OPA document classifies puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgery as gender affirming “care.”  “Care” is in scare quote for a reason – which we’ll get to in a moment.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) also got in on the act with its own attack. It issued a document entitled Gender-Affirming Care Is Trauma-Informed Care. The NCTSN document dictates that adults should simply believe whatever a child says about their perceived gender – because they obviously know better than our future Supreme Court justice, even though they aren’t biologists either.

These two documents lay the groundwork for claims that denying a child gender reassignment, is a denial of “care.” Further, the DOJ letter is a warning for states to keep their noses out of it.

In our not-too-distant future, little Billy will tell his second-grade teacher that he’d rather be Sally. The teacher will be empowered to report this to an enterprising young social worker. Said social worker will then proceed to remove Billy from his parents because they are jeopardizing the child’s welfare by denying gender reassignment “care” to Billy/Sally – per the federal guidelines.

And if the DOJ has anything to say about it, there will be nothing the state or local government can do to protect Billy. Does this scenario seem unlikely, given what we’ve seen in the last two years?

This sorry episode proves that a government with too much power will attempt to seize limitless power. Now it is demanding the right to mutilate our children.

State governments must take action to stop our runaway federal government. The Convention of States Action movement offers the only durable means to constrain our government, which appears quite comfortable with the use of evil against its own citizens.

For those groups that oppose an Article V convention I ask, “What’s your plan?” The evil amongst us is coming for our children, and time is short.