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Harris and Walz Funnel Vulnerable Children Through a Gender Transition “School-to-Clinic Pipeline”

Dr. Christopher Schorr,  September 20, 2024

RADICAL LEFT POLITICIANS PUSH GENDER TRANSITION ON AMERICAN CHILDREN

The School-to-Clinic Pipeline

Gender confusion and transgender medical procedures are rising rapidly among American children. A recent analysis of children aged 6–17 found startling increases in the following from 2017–2021:

  • New diagnoses for gender dysphoria (+178%: 15,172 to 42,167).
  • Initial puberty blocker prescriptions (+118%: 633 to 1,390).
  • Initial cross-sex hormone prescriptions (+122%: 1,905 to 4,231).
  • “Top surgeries,” i.e., breast implantation/removals (+18%: 238 to 282).

    K–12 schools are sowing gender confusion in the minds of malleable children by:

    Figure 1. Percentage Increases: Children Aged 6–17, 2017–2021


    Gender confusion is the first step in a process culminating in dangerous and irreversible transgender medical procedures: puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex-change surgeries. Puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones are associated with a host of side effects, including reduced bone density, stunted growth, infertility, blood clots, and cancer. They are typically prescribed to children “off-label” for purposes not approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The physical changes these therapies produce—e.g., hair loss/growth, voice changes, and infertility—are often permanent.

    Surgeries are likewise life-altering and permanent. Girls who undergo mastectomies will never nurse children. Boys who take puberty blockers or estrogen compromise their sexual function and reduce their chances of fathering children. To date, in the U.S.,

    • “Top surgeries” have been performed on children as young as 12.
    • Cross-sex hormones have been prescribed to children as young as 13.
    • Puberty blockers have been prescribed to children as young as eight.

    Biden, Harris, and Walz Promote gender transition procedures for minor children and gender confusion in k-12 schools

    Both the Biden-Harris Administration and Governor Tim Walz aggressively promote gender confusion and gender transition procedures for minor children. Both have weaponized their respective agencies by threatening to cut funds from and/or take legal action against non-compliant schools, insurers, and healthcare providers.

    Their continued commitment to childhood gender transition is all the more shocking, given the recently uncovered abuses in pediatric gender clinics. As other developed countries (e.g., Sweden and the United Kingdom) and the majority of U.S. states ban these harmful experiments on children, Biden, Harris, and Walz double down on supporting them.

    Figure 2. The School-to-Clinic Pipeline

    Biden-Harris Administration:

    The Office of Gov. Walz:

    Biden-Harris Administration:

    The Office of Gov. Walz:

    Summary

    Neither Harris nor Walz has given any indication they intend to abandon these policies they support in their current roles. A Harris-Walz Administration can be expected to continue pushing radical policies that funnel children through the school-to-clinic pipeline. Many children will suffer unnecessary and permanent damage as a result.

    An America First Administration would defend parental rights and break the school-clinic pipeline by:

    • Reversing the Biden-Harris Administration’s policies promoting gender transition for minor children.
    • Working with Congress to prohibit these abusive procedures nationwide.
    • Investigating the drug companies profiting from sterilizing children.
    • Providing legal recourse to children who have been victimized by these harmful procedures.

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