California has


designated itself a sanctuary


state for parents seeking gender- transition


treatment for their children.


challenged the ban. Their challenges, however, have


had an unexpected consequence to the claims that gender-transition treatment for kids is all about “the science.”


Through discovery motions, the


states unearthed a cache of internal documents, including confidential emails from the Biden administra- tion’s highest-ranking health official. In 2022, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) released revised standard of care (SOC) for treating kids with alleged gender dysphoria — touting it as the medical bible for gender- transition treatment of kids. Politics and money seemed to


play a much bigger role than science in WPATH’s recommendations. Minimum age recommendations


for gender-transition treatments were eliminated from SOC at the direct request of Secretary of Health Rachel Levine because, as stated in a July 1, 2022, internal WPATH memo, it “will result in devastating legisla- tion for trans care.” WPATH’s original minimum age recommendation was 16. Documents show that WPATH


also caved to pressure to eliminate minimum age recommendations from the American Academy of Pedi- atrics (AAP). The AAP, whose members include


doctors who work in gender-tran- sition surgical units in children’s hospitals throughout the country,


threatened it would not endorse WPATH’s newly revised SOC if the age minimums weren’t removed. The reason: The pediatric


lobby feared insurance companies wouldn’t cover the cost for gender- transition treatments for children with the age guidelines intact. WPATH SOC drafters also warned


in internal memos to avoid using the word “children.” Instead, they rec- ommended “adolescence” and stick- ing “to medical definitions” rather than the word “hormones” because, as one doctor assessed in a report for the state of Alabama, “changing the sex of young children with powerful hormones is shocking to most of the public.” In other damning evidence,


WPATH internal documents showed that its SOC was not at all


These states have banned or restricted gender-transition care for minors:


Alabama Arizona Arkansas Florida Georgia Idaho Indiana Iowa Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi Missouri Montana


Nebraska New Hampshire North Carolina North Dakota Ohio


Oklahoma South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah West Virginia Wyoming


evidence-based but rather consen- sus-based, and the “119 experts from around the world” who were used for the draft were its own members. States and family courts seem to


be digging their heels deeper into promoting gender-transition treat- ments for kids. California has designated itself a sanctuary state for parents seeking gender-transition treatment for their children who are prohibited from doing so in their home state. That includes parents who might


be involved in custody disputes in states where gender-transition treat- ment is banned. Friday said the scariest part


about family courts is that their rul- ings are hard to appeal, and judg- es in the meantime are uniquely shielded by judicial immunity. Gender-transition care custody disputes seem to be the latest in a long-standing trend of family court judges almost always using the “wide discretion” they have


been bestowed to favor parents who embrace woke ideology. During COVID-19, judges at ran-


dom stripped parents opposed to the vaccine, despite it being a known experimental jab, and granted kids to the pro-vaccine parent. In 2021, Chicago family court


Judge James Shapiro handed Rebec- ca Firlit’s custodial rights of her 11-year-old son to her ex-husband after he complained she wasn’t get- ting the COVID-19 vaccine.


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