{"id":1424585,"date":"2022-04-07T19:29:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T23:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1424585"},"modified":"2022-04-07T19:29:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T23:29:58","slug":"republican-lawmakers-protecting-kids-from-puberty-blockers-trans-surgeries-put-on-notice-by-doj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-lawmakers-protecting-kids-from-puberty-blockers-trans-surgeries-put-on-notice-by-doj\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Lawmakers Protecting Kids From Puberty Blockers, Trans Surgeries \u2018Put On Notice\u2019 By DOJ\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublican-lawmakers-protecting-kids-from-puberty-blockers-trans-surgeries-put-on-notice-by-doj%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1424585&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239398617.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday that lawmakers who are working to protect minors from puberty blockers and transgender surgeries have been \u201cput on notice\u201d by the U.S. Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlabama\u2019s lawmakers and other legislators who are contemplating these \u2026 discriminatory bills have been put on notice by the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services that laws and policies preventing care that health care professionals recommend for transgender minors may violate the Constitution and federal law,\u201d Psaki said at a press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki\u2019s comments were in reference to the Alabama\u00a0Legislature\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/2022\/04\/ban-on-transgender-medical-treatments-for-minors-at-top-of-alabama-house-agenda.html\">passing<\/a> a bill that would ban doctors from mutilating children or putting them on puberty blockers if they \u201cidentify\u201d as the opposite sex. The Alabama Senate also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/educationlab\/2022\/04\/alabama-senate-adds-dont-say-gay-amendment-to-transgender-bathroom-bill.html\">passed<\/a> a parental rights bill that eliminates teachers\u2019 \u201cinstruction\u201d on sexuality and gender identity between kindergarten and fifth grade.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki claimed Republicans fighting for such parental rights and protecting kids from irreversible trans surgeries and treatments are\u00a0\u201cengaging in a disturbing, cynical trend of attacking vulnerable transgender kids for purely partisan, political reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday in Alabama, instead of focusing on critical kitchen-table issues like the economy, COVID, or addressing the country\u2019s mental health crisis, Republican lawmakers are currently debating legislation that, among many things, would target trans youth with tactics that threatens to put pediatricians in prison if they provide medically necessary, lifesaving health care for the kids they serve,\u201d Psaki claimed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden has committed in both words and actions to fight for all Americans and will not hesitate to hold these states accountable,\u201d the press secretary threatened.<\/p>\n<p>Jesse Signal writing at The Cut in 2016 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/2016\/07\/whats-missing-from-the-conversation-about-transgender-kids.html\">noted<\/a> that what\u2019s missing from \u201cthe conversation about transgender kids\u201d is the rate of\u00a0desistance, referring to kids essentially growing out of their gender confusion.<\/p>\n<p>Signal cited 11 available studies showing that an overwhelming number of children who are gender-confused outgrow their confusion:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.thecut.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cir24245n0022wny7prbcr8lj@published\" data-word-count=\"67\"><em>[An] Amsterdam study reported on 127 adolescents, 79 of them boys, and found that 80 of those adolescents, or about two-thirds, had desisted \u2014 that is, now identified as cisgender \u2014 at the time of followup. [Clinical psychologist Devita Singh\u2019s 2012 dissertation], meanwhile, found that of the 139 former <span class=\"caps\">GIC<\/span> patients she got in touch with, all of them natal males (that is, born with a penis), 122, or 88 percent, had<span class=\"widont\">\u00a0<\/span>desisted.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.thecut.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cir242461001m7by868brqqep@published\" data-word-count=\"84\"><em>And when you combine these two studies with the other, admittedly earlier and smaller ones Cantor lists, all of which find the same thing, the case grows even stronger. While the numbers vary from study to study, as you would expect to between research conducted at different times in different places, the basic storyline is always the same: If a kid has gender dysphoria, the most likely outcome is that he or she will grow up to be a cisgender, gay or bisexual adult.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">White House condemns Alabama law that prevents genital mutilation of minors, saying the state has been &#8220;put on notice.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xJFFtCIJmE\">pic.twitter.com\/xJFFtCIJmE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1512140815170166784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. 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