SIGNATURES

Please Sign A Statement of Support

If you would like to show support for our mission please sign our statement.

This organization is supportive of bisexuality and homosexuality and the acceptance of gender nonconforming behavior in society. We are gathering signatures on an ongoing basis from those who support basic employment and marriage protections for all people.

Statement

Gender Health Query signatories are concerned about the effects of medical treatments and aspects of gender ideology on gender nonconforming minors. We are insisting on proof from gender affirmative model advocates that they are not facilitating inappropriate medical transitions.  

1) Mental health and medical professionals, and organizations who claim to advocate for LGB and trans people, have a professional and moral obligation to prove that early social transitions do not increase persistence by interfering with a youth’s maturation process. This would be a human rights abuse against immature gender nonconforming people, and must be weighed against the argument that child social/medical transition is a human right. Currently the discourse and efforts to prove safety are lackadaisical or nonexistent, where posing the question is framed as transphobic. There appear to be no future plans to clearly answer this question with comparison populations that support the child in a mental health/body acceptance model, with transition as last resort.

2) Mental health and medical professionals, and “LGBT organizations,” have a professional and moral obligation to prove that use of hormone blockers do not increase persistence by interfering with a youth’s maturation process. Almost all children on blockers go on to medically transition. Therapists and doctors must establish that this is not needlessly medicalizing children and teens.

3) Mental health and medical professionals, and “LGBT organizations,” have a professional and moral obligation to demonstrate that the medical consequences to young peoples’ bodies (sterilization, possible loss of IQ points, possible eradication of sexual function, destruction about choices around bottom surgery, bone health issues, increased circulatory system risks) are worth relieving the youth’s distress and anxiety about passing. 

4) We see evidence that teaching children (and even young adults) that there are “multiple genders,” and that biological sex can be merely declared, is having some negative impacts on society and LGB and T youth specifically. We support a narrative of both respecting the trans experience and maintaining biological definitions of female, male, and homosexual attraction. Currently, governments should not be allowed to promote queer theory (gender is a spectrum, literal biological sex is based on identity) in public settings (i.e. elementary schools) undebated. They are scientifically suspect and may confuse children. They also have implications for free speech rights (i.e. forced use of 3rd gender pronouns), girls’ rights under Title IX, homosexual rights (a biology-based orientation), and empirical data collection.

5) Gender nonconforming and LGB youth have a right to protections in public institutions and society. They have a right to be free from harassment and violence in a world where people and society often socially punish and even physically abuse people who fall outside the norms.  These factors are known to negatively impact mental health.

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