WoLF Files to SCOTUS in US v. Skrmetti to Protect Children from “Gender” Medicine
Today, WoLF filed an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in U.S. v. Skrmetti, defending laws that ban the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and genital surgeries on minors for so-called “gender affirmation.”
WoLF argues that these procedures not only cause permanent harm, but also stem from an ideological movement that seeks to erase biological reality to the detriment of society’s most vulnerable—children, women, and LGB individuals. As this case heads to the Nation’s highest court, the stakes for children’s futures have never been higher.
Case Background
Last year, The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld two laws in Kentucky and Tennessee that ban giving puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and genital surgery to minors for the purpose of “gender affirmation.”
The Appeals court ruled that the U.S Constitution does not grant trans-identified people a due process right to experimental drugs or any special rights under the Equal Protection Clause simply because of how they identify.
That ruling was appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), which agreed to hear the case.
Read more about the specifics laws in question and case background:
This case is expected to set an important precedent. Multiple high-profile activists and organizations have submitted briefs in support of performing procedures to attempt to imitate the opposite sex on children — including actress Elliot Page. Over 160 lawmakers also signed onto a brief defending this practice (see if your lawmaker is one of them!).
WoLF’s Argues in Defence of Women, Children, and Reality
Selected quotes from WoLF’s Amicus Brief
I. There Is No Constitutional Right To Pediatric Sex Trait Modification.
“There is an inherent contradiction in treating children whose identity is based on a supposed transition as a protected class with immutable traits. Perhaps recognizing this contradiction, Petitioner does not attempt to define “transgender,” although the term appears in their brief seventy-six times.”
“Far from being a civil rights movement to vindicate the rights of a supposed suspect class of trans-identified individuals, “trans rights” activism seeks to suppress the rights of women, children, as well as gay, lesbian, and bisexual people.”
“The medical interventions prevented by SB1 have not been supported by evidence, cause permanent physical impairments, are irreversible, and do not prevent suicide... The Legislature made specific findings about the detrimental impact on children of puberty blockers, wrong-sex hormones, and medical procedures when it promulgated Chapter 33. Ensuring that childrens’ bodies are not interfered with during an important developmental stage such as puberty is well within the state’s legitimate interest.”
II. The “Transgender Child” is an Invention of Activists.
“No child is born in the wrong body, but to obscure this foundational problem, activists have engineered a definition of the “transgender child” that is as expansive as it is unfalsifiable. Because no one—not medical practitioners or researchers, not activists, not trans-identified people themselves—can say what distinguishes the so-called transgender child from other vulnerable young people. This failure not only puts these vulnerable young people at great risk of irreversible, lifelong medicalization; by hiding radical activist goals behind the archetype of the distressed “transgender child”, the failure turns what purports to be a civil rights movement for a small, oppressed minority group into a far-ranging effort to re-order society to the detriment of children, women, and LGB people.”
III. The Ideology Behind the “Transgender Child” Harms Society and its Most Vulnerable Groups.
“It is not surprising that a movement that would use children to garner support would also put children on the front lines of harm. The harm to children begins with deceiving them with the confusing and false beliefs that children can be born in the wrong body and that sex change is possible.”
“Activists often minimize the prevalence of pediatric sex trait modification procedures and deny that such surgeries are performed on minors at all, but data from a recent analysis of insurance claims shows that in the United States between 2019 and 2023: 13,994 minors underwent sex trait modification treatments, 5,747 minors had sex trait modification surgeries; 8,579 minors received hormones and puberty blockers; and 62,682 sex change prescriptions were written for minors.”
“Lesbians, gay men, and bisexual people are harmed as they are more likely to be given sex trait modifications as children… Though billed as progressive, the “born in the wrong body” narrative is homophobic and has been notably embraced by countries such as Pakistan and Iran (where homosexuality is punished by death, but “sex change” is government subsidized)... Whistleblowers from a child “gender” clinic in the UK have stated that “gender-affirming” care is sometimes sought by families who prefer a “transgender” child over a gay child.”
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