Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg
The recent U.S. Supreme Court case, United States vs. Skrmetti, has become one of the biggest cases in America for minor children’s access to transgender treatments. This case is a result of the federal government’s lawsuit against the state of Tennessee for Senate Bill 1, which
“prohibits a healthcare provider from performing on a minor or administering to a minor a medical procedure if the performance or administration of the procedure is for the purpose of enabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex.”
Recently, CNN’s Lucy Kafanov sat down in a six-minute interview with three transgender-identifying children from Arizona who traveled with their families to the steps of the Supreme Court to make their voices heard.
In the interview, it is clear that the three children are all equally confused about the biological reality of the body in which they were born and that this confusion has been nurtured and pursued by their parents.
One interviewee, ten-year-old Violet DuMont (a biological male), stated,
“I’ve heard transphobic politicians that say, ‘No, you have the wrong gender. You’re confused, honey.’ No.”
Much of what the children and their parents say can be debunked and dissected, but for the sake of time and emphasis, I want to focus on this one.
Violet’s statement sent chills down my spine for many reasons, most of all because Violet is actually a ten-year-old boy. He has been so abused by the medical community that his body, voice, facial structure, hormone levels, brain activity, and much more have all been irreversibly altered.
Violet DuMont has been chemically and medically altered to look and sound like a ten-year-old girl.
What affected me most was his last sentence, in which Violet addresses politicians. He continued,
“Myself is a fact, not an opinion. And they don’t get to decide that for me. I get to decide that for myself.”
Abigail Shrier is a former opinion columnist for the Wall Street Journal and the author of one of the most controversial books on the subject of transgenderism in youth, Irreversible Damage. In her book, she notes,
“I can’t think of any branch of medicine outside of cosmetic surgery where the patient makes the diagnosis and prescribes the treatment. This doesn’t exist.”
Ten-year-olds should not be making any type of medical decision for themselves. As Abigail Shrier notes, in any other branch of medicine, children cannot legally make any decision whatsoever.
Yet, when it comes to permanently damaging your body through harmful chemical procedures and surgeries meant to “change one’s gender,” children suddenly somehow know more than adults.
Allie Beth Stuckey, host of Relatable, recently sat down with Jamie Reed, who used to work at the Washington University Transgender Center and St. Louis Children’s Hospital.
When Jamie realized the tragic harm that the chemicals and surgeries were causing to these children, she decided to blow the whistle.
Children do not have the intellectual ability to make life-long decisions. Children do not have the emotional maturity to comprehend the harm that hormone treatments and genital-mutilating surgeries will have on them in the long run.
God gave children parents for a reason. Children need direction, protection, boundaries, and security. Children need parents who affirm not their insecurities or strange ideas but their inherent dignity and worth, which lies in who God created them to be.
It is not loving for parents to lie to their children or support them in the lie that they were “born in the wrong body.”
It’s cruel. It’s abusive. It’s evil.
Please Pray
Pray for a successful outcome for United States vs. Skrmetti.
Pray that more states will sign legislation into law that protects children from being subjected to these dangerous, experimental drugs and surgeries.
Pray that America would become a land where God-given gender is upheld and protected.
“And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” (Gen. 1:27)
