Below is our Statement as it appears on GHQ resources.
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We at LGB Alliance are concerned about transitioning trans-identified minors for some of the same reasons others are. The risks are too great. Trans-related medical interventions, including gender reassignment surgeries, puberty blockers, and exogenous hormones, have many potentially dangerous and irreversible health consequences. It’s particularly troubling to subject kids to these treatments when their brains are still growing and malleable. Reifying and medicalizing kids’ subjective identities before they have reached maturity stunts their development by locking them into decisions they may come to regret.
Furthermore, the trans kid phenomenon is particularly harmful to lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) youth, as evidence suggests that LGBs are overrepresented amongst minors struggling with gender dysphoria. The reasons for this are that LGBs are disproportionally gender-nonconforming and often struggle with internalized homophobia or biphobia. Transgender identities can seem like an alluring way out for LGB youth, even though the solution to their problems lies in accepting their sexuality and biological sex. Transing the gay away is a modern version of conversion therapy. We do not think it promotes tolerance or acceptance to tell children that it is ok to solve their problems by denying the biological reality of who they are and using experimental medical procedures to fix their bodies.
We at LGB Alliance USA have shifted away from the born in the wrong body concept, embracing the idea that gender nonconforming youth are born in the right body. Let's talk about the outcomes of medical modifications versus non-medical paths. We're discussing potential health risks, sterility, financial costs, and lifelong dependencies tied to medical transition. Full brain development doesn't happen until we're 25, so let's seriously think about informed consent for permanent body modifications.
We share the mission to prevent unnecessary medical treatments for minors and young adults because sometimes problems need therapy or time to sort themselves out. And with the staggering number of young adults transitioning these days, this can cause more harm than good. Post-transition challenges like shifting gender dysphoria, anxiety, depression, and suicide ideation might still linger. We address this as an organization despite the fact others refuse to.
Education today is loaded with much misinformation on biology and presumes that identity trumps biology while it would never promote other types of falsehoods to children. Misogyny and rejection of womanhood are central to trans-identified females declaring themselves to be a child's father or to be "a man who gave birth." Biologically, men lack the necessary reproductive organs.
This isn't about discrimination; it's basic anatomy. While everyone has the right to live authentically, we should all be concerned that this narrative is slamming the door on facing biological realities.
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Thank you LGBA for bringing reason to the conversation.
Children can no more "consent" to have their healthy breasts and genitalia removed or take puberty blockers than they can "consent" to have sex with an adult.
Similarly, parents and doctors can no more approve such permanent mutilation simply because a minor child desires it than they can approve pedophilia.
Ultimately society will see the truth and ban the practice as we have banned female genital mutilation. Do people support that practice if the parents consent? I truly hope not
It is monstrous to believe otherwise and those who do will ultimately be held to account for their actions.