DEMOCRATS, INDEPENDENTS AND REPUBLICAN PARENTS OPPOSE SB107 AND DO NOT WANT CALIFORNIA TO BE A SAFE HAVEN FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE GENDER MEDICINE IS THE TREATMENT FOR GENDER DYSPHORIA IN MINORS. THE LACK OF LONGITUDINAL STUDIES MAKES THIS EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE.THE LINK TO SUBMIT A LETTER OF OPPOSITION IN HERE:
https://calegislation.lc.ca.gov/Advocates/
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Dear Judiciary Committee Members:
I am writing as a representative and a lead of the US’s chapter of Our Duty, as leads of local chapters of Parents of ROGD Kids and as a lifelong liberal Democrats. We strongly oppose SB 107. This “gut and replace” bill was added late in session to avoid debate on a very controversial bill. The current language of SB107 is unrecognizable from its origin. The subversive tactic deprives legislators from receiving adequate notice and time to thoroughly review the consequences of proposed legislation prior to voting, including robust analysis. The public is denied input into a significant bill. Gender issues are extremely complicated and it is clear that most legislators have not been fully informed as to the realities of the harm resulting from the Gender Affirmative Model.
DEMOCRATS, INDEPENDENTS AND REPUBLICAN PARENTS OPPOSE SB107 AND DO NOT WANT CALIFORNIA TO BE A SAFEHAVEN FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE GENDER MEDICINE IS THE TREATMENT FOR GENDER DYSPHORIA IN MINORS. THE LACK OF LONGITUDAL STUDIES MAKES THIS EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE.
While the media and the blue states like to position any safeguards of minors in regards to gender medicine as being transphobic or bigoted, that is not accurate. Thousands of Democratic parents and Independents who left the Democratic party because of the gender issues are united in their stance against the medicalization of children. We support states that are banning medicalization of children.
SB107 cements California’s unscientific aggressive push of gender medicine for children. If California wants to continue its trajectory of harming children, at least don’t interfere with those states who have had the fortitude to educate themselves on the real harms.
This bill is overly expansive and will block separated parents, divorced parents, and other care takers of children from having any ability to know what medical treatment their child was subjected too. The gross overreach of this bill will prevent parents in custody battles from presenting the pertinent facts in a court of law.
This law furthers splinters this country and pits states against states, the antithesis of what America stands for. The mass migration of families from California is not due to costs, it is due to the extreme liberalism that is resulting in erosion childhood, science-based medicine and safe-guarding children.
THE GENDER AFFIRMATIVE MODEL IS HARMFUL
Puberty is not a disease. Parents are legitimately concerned with the increase in children seeking and receiving “gender affirming care” with little to no mental health assessments. The increase of kids seeking treatment is 5000%. The number of pediatric gender clinics increased from 6 to over 200 in a decade.
Before sterilizing and mutilating medicine is foisted on these children, the following questions need to be asked: (1) why is this substantial increase occurring? (2) why are the rates of suicide and self-harm consisting increasing despite the exponential increase of youth taking cross-sex hormones (is the affirmative model really staving off suicides, or is it adding to those figures? (3) can a child comprehend that they are giving up the right to have a child when they start puberty blockers? (4) can a child understand that he will lose sexual function for life? How does one explain an orgasm to a child? (5) should any parent have the right to choose a life for their child of perpetual drug use, sterility or lack of orgasm for their child?; and (6) why isn’t it ok for a little girl to like traditional male things or a boy to be effeminate – why must they be medicalized to mimic the other sex instead of accepted in their natural body?
THE FACTS
1. Puberty Blockers are NOT fully reversible. According to the NHS in the UK:
“Little is known about the long-term side effects of hormone or puberty blockers in children with gender dysphoria. Although the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) advises this is a physically reversible treatment if stopped, it is not known what the psychological effects may be. It’s also not known whether hormone blockers affect the development of the teenage brain or children’s bones. Side effects may also include hot flushes, fatigue and mood alterations.” WPATH also recently acknowledged the likelihood of anorgasmia in male patients who receive blockers before puberty.
2. Hormone therapy for minors has become increasingly popular, and parents are often told that their child may be a suicide risk if they don’t consent. This is not true. Kids who suffer from gender dysphoria have co-morbid mental health issues that are not resolved through hormones or surgeries. The Dutch model that started this medicalization of children had 55 participants (in the end) and has never been able to be repeated, yet it is used to as the model to transition kids who if left alone would likely just grow up to be same-sex attracted.
3. Hormones can be prescribed to minors in as little as an hour. In California, SURGERY letters can be obtained only require in a ONE-hour consultation with a psychologist over the phone - permanently life-alter changes to the body which preclude the most basic human rights. This is not comprehensive care.
California should not be subverting the laws in other states given the low-quality evidence backing this treatment. CHLA in Los Angeles has their youngest mastectomy patient on record as13 and Dr. Scott Mosser from San Francisco has no age limit for mastectomies for minors. Parental consent is needed, but many of these kids have become convinced that this removal of healthy body parts will make them feel better when it has the opposite effect. Parents are force feed the procedures because they are told repeatedly that their child will commit suicide. A double bilateral mastectomy is an extremely invasive procedure, and it is being sold to our gender non-conforming girls as “life-saving care”. Gender medicine is not based upon quality science.
Regret and detransition is real. No, it’s not 1% regret rate. Search detransitioners on Youtube, hear their stories. See the almost 30,000 detransitioners on Reddit. Listen to the young adults who fell prey to the affirmative model. “Gender affirming care” is simply gay conversion therapy, at best and eugenics, at worst.
Sweden, France, Finland, Norway and the UK have all ceased or significantly moved away from the “gender affirming care” because of the high regret rate and the lack of scientific evidence.
