Gender Identity

Organizations Come Together to Explain Why Gender Ideology Harms Children

The affirmation of gender dysphoria has no basis in science, harms children and is highly controversial among experts.

• Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria Research Vindicated
  Dr. Michelle Cretella Executive Director of ACPeds made the following comment, “Dr. Littman and her very important work have been doubly vindicated—essentially having undergone the peer review process twice and coming to the same conclusion. However, it remains deeply disturbing that a scientific journal would kowtow to the bullying tactics of transgender activists. Dr. Littman’s work should not have been forced to undergo a second round of review.”
• The Inequality of the Equality Act: Concerns from the Left (video panel discussion)
  A panel discussion featuring speakers from the political left as they share their stories of the harmful consequences of what will happen if “gender identity” ideology is enshrined into U.S. civil rights law.
• Gender Dysphoria in Children by American College of Pediatricians (PDF)
• Study Proves LGBT Indoctrination at School is Working
  The militant LGBT movement and its establishment sponsors have long argued that brainwashing and sexualizing children is simply an effort to end bullying, ensure “safety,” and promote tolerance. But as the CDC study and other data show, and as the LGBT movement understood all along, the real result is a dramatic surge in confusion and perversion.
• Growing Pains – Problems with Puberty Suppression in Treating Gender Dysphoria (PDF version)
  A comprehensive, well documented analysis of puberty, gender dysphoria and the use of puberty suppression.
• Gender Ideology Harms Children (PDF)
• Sample letters against conversion therapy bans
  Joint Therapy Letter (PDF)
  Joint Letter to Superintendent of Schools, Spicer-New London, MN (PDF)

Gender Ideology

• What is Gender Radicalism?
  This article explains how gender radicalism claims full moral authority over our children, subverts the very knowledge of biology and freedom of conscience and exposes them to great physical, emotional, and mental harm.
• War on the Family and Biological Sex (PDF)
  A concise examination of the concept of gender Identity and its inherent problems.
• Facts About Youth
  Resource created by health professionals to provide policymakers, parents and youth with current medical and psychological facts including letter packets for school officials.
• Don’t be Fooled by American Psychological Association (PDF)
  Why to beware of the discredited APA.
• Follow the Money Trail: How a Scientific Cover-up Led to the Gender Identity Deception
  The history behind the movement.
• Agenda Driven Research
  • Feds Send $1 Million To Study Designed To Push Transgenderism On Children
    The National Science Foundation has made a $1 million grant for a longitudinal study of gender- confused children. It appears designed to reach conclusions more political than scientific.
  • U.S. Doctors Are Performing Double Mastectomies On Healthy 13-Year-Old Girls
    In a study funded by a $5.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), researchers including Dr. Johanna Olson of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles are supposedly evaluating use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones on dysphoric children.
• A sample of how children are being taught about gender in our public schools.
  (Mounds View High School study of gender in Sociology class in April 2014)

Medical Experts Weigh in on Transgenderism

• The American Psychological Association Says Born-That-Way-And-Can’t-Change Is Not True of Sexual Orientation And Gender Identity
• Dangers of Puberty Blockers (5 min video)
• Male and Female Differences Throughout the Human Body
  • Science finds 1500 genetic differences between boys and girls, destroys ‘transgender’ arguments
  • The REAL difference between men and women: Researchers find 6,500 genes differ between the sexes
• I’m a Pediatrician. How Transgender Ideology Has Infiltrated My Field and Produced Large-Scale Child Abuse
• New Paper Says Puberty Blockers Aren’t the Answer to Gender Confusion
• Prominent Psychiatrist: Transgender is ‘Emotional Unhappiness … Purely Psychological
• Transgenderism: A Pathogenic Meme
• Transgender Surgery Isn’t the Solution (PDF)
  A drastic physical change doesn’t address underlying psycho-social troubles according to experts.
• Experimenting on the Young
  by MN Katherine Kersten
  The use of sex-reassignment treatments in children amounts to a massive, uncontrolled experiment.

Transgender Issues

• I Was America’s First ‘Nonbinary’ Person. It Was All a Sham
  America’s first ‘non-binary’ person switches back: “There is no third gender”
• In their own words – What Transgender Activists have in Store for your Children
• Opposing the Transgender Movement
• We Are the Parents of ROGD Kids
  Read the struggles of parents whose children now have this ”new epidemic”, Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD). See the devastating impact ROGD has had on their children and their families.
• Ask Me First Resources
  Online resources provided by the Minnesota Family Council including Parent Resource Guide
• War on the Family and Biological Sex (PDF)
  A concise examination of the concept of gender Identity and its inherent problems.
• The ​Myth of the “Desistance Myth”
  Will we continue to make children pay for the identity experiments of adults? Using a “watchful waiting” approach to gender dysphoric children.
• I Used to Be Transgender. Here’s My Take on Kids Who Think They Are Transgender
• Detransitioning: Former Transgenders Speak Out (PDF)
  Men and women who once considered themselves “trans” realize they got it wrong and have regrets.
  Their stories are being denied and hidden by transgender activists and the media.

Disturbing Video Shows Risk to Girls and Women Posed by Co-Ed Restrooms and Locker Rooms

• 6 Myths About Allowing Transgender Students to Use Restrooms of the Opposite Sex
  Distinguishes between the facts and the myths in the law.