{"id":2635675,"date":"2026-07-26T12:15:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T16:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/laws-to-protect-minors-from-transgender-surgeries-still-fail-the-other-90-adults\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T12:18:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T16:18:37","slug":"laws-to-protect-minors-from-transgender-surgeries-still-fail-the-other-90-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/laws-to-protect-minors-from-transgender-surgeries-still-fail-the-other-90-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Laws to Protect Minors from &#8216;Transgender&#8217; Surgeries Still Fail the Other 90% &#8211; Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Flaws-to-protect-minors-from-transgender-surgeries-still-fail-the-other-90-adults%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=2635675&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--><p>The passage discusses efforts to regulate and restrict gender-affirming procedures, particularly for minors, emphasizing that legislation has already been adopted by many states to protect youth under 19 from irreversible surgeries, puberty blockers, and hormone treatments. However, it highlights that young adults aged 19 to 30, who comprise a significant portion of those seeking gender transition procedures, remain largely unprotected under current laws. The text criticizes the influence of social and educational environments that promote transgender identities among teenagers and young adults, often leading to harmful outcomes. <\/p>\n<p>It provides a specific case of a 20-year-old man scheduled for irreversible surgery, illustrating how social contagion and institutional promotion can impact vulnerable individuals.The author advocates for extending legal protections to all adults to prevent needless and damaging procedures, noting that legal recourse is currently limited and often costly. The piece concludes by urging for stronger legislative measures and providing resources for Christian communities to better understand and address these issues.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The legislation to protect youth under 19 years of age from the experimental, harmful protocol of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and radical surgeries has already been adopted by many states and is being considered at the federal level. That\u2019s a good start, but it doesn\u2019t safeguard a much larger group \u2014 young people in their 20s who are easy prey for surgeons and gender clinics.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2808707\">study<\/a> of \u201ctransgender\u201d surgery trends in the USA, youth aged 12 to 18 years accounted for 7.7% of all \u201ctransgender\u201d procedures (3,678) from 2016 to 2020. Protecting youth is an essential start. Thousands of children could be spared permanent harm with legislation that discourages surgeons and hospitals from carrying out irreversible surgeries on minors and prevents the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to treat gender confusion in children.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, over half the states have enacted laws to stop the practice, but the other half has not.<\/p>\n<p>At the federal level, the Chloe Cole Act proposed in Congress will get 7.7% of the job done. It specifically targets puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical procedures for minors, and provides an extended statute of limitations for filing malpractice suits. (You can support the Chloe Cole Act by <a href=\"https:\/\/frc.quorum.us\/campaign\/156429\/\">contacting your members of Congress here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>But the group accounting for over 50% of \u201ctransgender\u201d surgical procedures (52.3%) in the study was young adults, ages 19 to 30. Legally, they can do what they want, even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/can-sex-change-surgery-really-save-someones-life\/\" title=\"Can Sex-Change ... Really Save Someone...s Life?\">removing healthy body parts<\/a> and damaging their fertility. These individuals have no guardrails under the law. Many minors will wait until they are 19 to access gender care.<\/p>\n<p>This reality became especially clear to me recently.<\/p>\n<h3>The Case of the 20-Year-Old Son<\/h3>\n<p>Distressed Christian parents (names withheld for privacy) ed me to help them stop their 20-year-old son from having surgery to irreversibly refashion his genitalia to appear female. When he started identifying as \u201ctrans\u201d in his teen years, they thought it was a phase he would outgrow. Instead, now enrolled in university, he has scheduled the surgery.<\/p>\n<p>His desire to identify as female didn\u2019t come out of nowhere. It was fostered in the educational institutions he attended. His parents believed enrolling him at age 15 in an exclusive, private boarding school would foster success in life.<\/p>\n<p>But out of their watchful eye, the teenage son was susceptible to \u201ctransgender\u201d social contagion from his friends and indoctrination from the GSA club on campus. GSA, as described on the school\u2019s website, is \u201ca gay-straight alliance for students who question their sexual orientation or who identify as LGBT or as an LGBT ally. The group meets regularly for discussion, support, and socializing.\u201d GSA clubs and the teachers who oversee them cheer for confused kids who choose to identify as \u201ctransgender.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Allowing a boy to pretend he is a female is <a href=\"https:\/\/cmda.org\/social-transitioning-is-neither-neutral-nor-benign\/\">emotionally and psychologically harmful<\/a>, says Dr. Andr\u00e9 Van Mol, and far too often leads to reckless hormone therapies, followed by unnecessary radical genital surgeries. These schools and clubs are promoting emotional and psychological harm.<\/p>\n<p>That is certainly the case with this boy.<\/p>\n<h3>Something Needs to Be Done<\/h3>\n<p>Examples like this are heartbreaking and clearly demonstrate that the dangers aren\u2019t limited to minors. Something needs to be done for the larger group, young adults age 19 to 30, who represented 52.3% of this distressed population.<\/p>\n<p>Young adults are indoctrinated from childhood to believe a \u201ctrans\u201d identity will solve their problems, encouraged to adopt a false persona and applauded when they do, and preyed upon by surgeons willing to take their money.<\/p>\n<h3>Consider the Same for Adults<\/h3>\n<p>I had my surgery at 42, and I\u2019ve been suffering the consequences for over 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>If we intend on having a long-lasting, career-ending financial impact on the \u201cgender affirming care\u201d industry, then we\u2019ll need to defend more than minors (7.7% of their clients) and fashion similar protection for all adults (the other 92.3%).<\/p>\n<p>As it stands now, no prevention is available, only recourse in the courts through hard-to-win, expensive-to-file malpractice suits brought soon after the damage has been done. (Encouragingly, two women made news this year in winning settlements, <a href=\"https:\/\/adflegal.org\/article\/detransitioner-fox-varian-awarded-2-million-in-historic-lawsuit\/\">Fox Varian<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/benryan.substack.com\/p\/detransitioner-lawsuit-settles-on\">Camille Kiefel<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Extending the statute of limitations would help tremendously. However, ending the practice of removing healthy body parts in pursuit of \u201cgender change\u201d is the real answer.<\/p>\n<p><em>The FRC book, \u201cEmbracing God\u2019s Design,\u201d by Dr. Jennifer Bowens and FRC Senior Fellow Walt Heyer and the resources at <\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/embracethedesign.com\/\">embracethedesign.com<\/a><\/em><em> are available to equip Christians to understand this topic and to minister to those who struggle with their identity.<\/em><\/p>\n<div><em>Walt Heyer serves as Senior Fellow in the Center for Family Studies at Family Research Council.<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #171717; display: flex;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 600;line-height: 1.5;margin: 24px 0;padding: 18px 20px 18px 30px;text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"align-self: stretch;border-left: 3px solid #171717;flex-shrink: 0;padding-left: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/\">Choose The Western Journal as your preferred source on Google and never miss reporting that defends truth, protects freedom, and advances Western civilization<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; padding: 16px;\">Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/advertise-us\/?wj_source=article\">Advertise Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey == typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts = { \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs = [ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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