A recent survey found “the vast majority of Americans, including a majority of Democrats,” don’t think males should be allowed to compete in female sports. But, just last week, a 16-year-old California boy took championship medals in a girls’ competition. President Trump’s declaration of June as Title IX month demonstrates strong leadership against a harmful ideology. Worse yet, the “T” aspect of LGBTQ is nothing to celebrate as it relates to the often-irreparable harm it causes children who are guided into the mental health disorder known as gender dysphoria.
As I’ve studied this issue, I’ve come to realize that I may be putting myself at risk by speaking publicly about it. The author of a book on the harm to children influenced to transition used a pseudonym because she feared death threats, which were realized. Then, there is the case of a Jane Doe lawsuit on behalf of a mother whose daughter was secretly transitioned and, two years later, attempted suicide. She, too, fears harm for speaking out, resulting in her anonymity in the lawsuit. Her lawyer pleads with other parents in Rhode Island to also come forward to enhance the lawsuit, but the fear factor is real.
Jane Doe asserts that her daughter’s Rhode Island school implemented a Social Emotional Learning (SEL) survey that asked personal questions about her family and herself, including several questions related to her sex and whether she felt like a boy. The mother believes the survey could have been what influenced her daughter’s desire to transition into a boy.
While Jane Doe’s daughter had been transitioning for two years, her mother only learned of it after her daughter attempted suicide. After cutting herself in her bedroom, the daughter came into the kitchen and tried to stab herself with a knife right in front of her mother. The mother later learned that her daughter had been forced to live a double life for two long years — as a boy at school, and a girl at home. The school encouraged the daughter to hide the transition from her mother. Jane Doe believes the stress of living a dual life led to her daughter’s suicide attempt. The lawsuit says the school’s policies caused harm to the daughter and her mother. The obvious harm was in the near loss of life, but the fundamental harm, in my opinion, was caused by the school blatantly teaching the girl to lie to her mother, creating a wedge between the parent and the child.
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Not only did the school staff aid and support Jane Doe’s daughter’s transition, but so, too, did the medical staff who attended to her daughter when the mother took her to the hospital following the suicide attempt. The hospital staff referred to her daughter by a boy’s name and pronouns, and told the mother she should do the same. The mother refused, and she was made to feel unsafe and unfit as a parent. The mother tried to explain to the doctors that her daughter had been sexually assaulted when she was 5, and the trauma likely induced the mental health issues related to her wanting to be a boy. The medical staff told her she was wrong, and again encouraged her to affirm her daughter’s gender dysphoria.
Reuters Investigates published a special report on the science of “gender care,” where they spoke to 17 people who began medical transition as minors, and said they now regretted some or all of their transition. Some said, “sexual abuse or assault made them want to leave the gender associated with that trauma.”
In February, the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) published a position statement stating that, “Over half of LGBTQ+ sexual minority individuals experience ‘adverse childhood experiences,’ including child abuse.” They went on to say, “A study [that] purported to show a ‘lifetime suicidal ideation’ reduction in those who received puberty blockers actually found twice as many serious suicidal attempts in participants who received the blockers than in those who just wished they had received them.”
For Jane Doe, suicide was not just an idea for her daughter; it was attempted after transitioning, aided by her school for two years behind her mother’s back. In my opinion, this is government-sanctioned child abuse that violates parents’ rights and has done great harm to this family. It is unconscionable that a parent would not be consulted by the school before a child undergoes medical and psychological treatment, and the school encouraged the child to lie to her mother.
Common-sense Americans are asking themselves why this is happening. The answer might come from following the money. Unfortunately, transitioning children is a lucrative industry. According to Grandview Research, “The U.S. sex reassignment surgery market was estimated at $2.1 billion in 2022 and is anticipated to grow at a rate of 11.25% from 2023 to 2030.”
The Reuters Investigates report found that “from 2017 to 2021, there was a nearly threefold increase in diagnoses of gender dysphoria among children and adolescents in the U.S., from 15,172 in 2017 to 42,167 in 2021.” It appears to me, we have a mass psychosis of gender dysphoria in America, and, from the research I have done, there is clear evidence that this could stem from government (public) school persuasion.
Science does not support transgender ideology. Although it is clearly a mental health issue, many therapists fully affirm children right away, and many doctors won’t refer those children for a mental health evaluation. Even Planned Parenthood’s website says, “A therapist’s letter is not required to begin hormone therapy at our health centers.”
I humbly suggest that female sports be protected, and government-sanctioned transitioning of students behind parents’ backs, and creating a wedge between parents and their children, must be stopped.
Sheri Few is the Founder and President of United States Parents Involved in Education (USPIE), whose mission is to end the U.S. Department of Education and all federal education mandates. Few has written extensively about critical race theory and served as Executive Producer for the documentary film titled “Truth & Lies in American Education.” Few is also the host of USPIE’s podcast, “Unmasking Government Schools with Sheri Few,” which educates Americans on the various forms of indoctrination, harmful policies and affronts to parents’ rights occurring in government schools across the country. Listen to “Unmasking Government Schools with Sheri Few” on YouTube, Facebook, Spotify and X.