Below is a guest post from Ray Waldbusser,  Vice-Chairman of the Craven Country God and Country Christian Alliance. The interesting part of this article is that Fox News has taken down the articles on gender affirming care for toddlers–if you search for it, a link comes up, but when you click on the link, it is not there. However, The Education First Alliance has a similar article (link here) that illustrates what is happening in our schools.

Guest article:

According to The Epoch Times, gender clinics affiliated with three North Carolina medical schools are seeing patients as young as two years old for gender dysphoria. The medical schools at Duke University, the University of North Carolina (UNC), and East Carolina University (ECU) referenced providing “treatment” for toddlers and grade-school-age children with gender dysphoria on organization websites, in documents, and in news articles. In 2022, ECU’s Brody School of Medicine developed the ECU LGBTQ+ Health Clinic. Watch EdFirstAlliance (Sloan and Nancy), who were interviewed by Fox News on May 3rd for their exposé on gender affirming medical schools and programs at Duke, UNC and ECU.

Gender dysphoria eventually resolves itself in 87 percent of those who experience it, according to Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, M.D., board chairman of the Do No Harm medical watchdog group. A new report released by the Heritage Foundation found that easing access to cross-sex treatments without parental consent significantly increases suicide rates. The report went on to recommend that state and federal governments should reverse the push to make puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones more widely and readily available to minors and that facilitating access to these treatments without parental consent is particularly dangerous. NC HB 808, which passed the House 74-44, would make it “unlawful for any physician or other health care provider to provide surgical gender transition procedures to any individual under 18 years of age,” with limited exceptions. The bill would also prohibit health care providers, including physicians, from referring minors to other providers for “surgical gender transition procedures”. According to the NC Family Policy Council, the original version of HB 808 also would have prohibited the administration of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to minors, but those provisions were removed from the bill during consideration by the House Health Committee. Please encourage your State Senator to amend this bill to reinsert the prohibition of the administration of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to minors, move it out of committee, and vote for it on the floor.