In her op-ed published at Fox News, Concerned Women For America leader Penny Nance wrote “gender-affirming care” is really “toxic and unloving” considering there have been seven shootings by a trans-identified shooter since 2018.
The term “gender-affirming care” is a nice-sounding phrase coined by trans activists and their allies to describe body-altering hormones and body-chopping surgery.
What is rarely mentioned by those activists is the issue of mental illness, since a trans-identifying person feels like they were born in the wrong body.
That condition is currently referred to as “gender dysphoria” by the American Psychiatric Association, which formerly called it “gender identity disorder.”
“Speaking the truth in love,” Nance writes, “means we don't affirm a mental illness and a medical regimen that destroys their hearts, minds and bodies.”
Hannah Lape is a a legislative assistant at Concerned Women. She tells AFN “gender-affirming care” is “very sweet sounding” but is “sinister” for what it means for a person’s body: Puberty blockers, chemical castration, and amputating the healthy breasts of girls.
Under the Trump administration, Lape said Concerned Women is grateful the tone has changed dramatically beginning with President Trump.
“He's telling children, even if they're confused, even if they are scared about their bodies, or they're sick in their minds,” Lape says, “that they are perfect, that they don't need to go under a surgeon's knife to fix their bodies."
Back in the Fox article, Nance says the pro-trans side is witnessing pushback. To date, 27 states have passed laws that ban children from trans surgeries and hormone therapy. Across the country, she wrote, 26 hospitals and medical clinics have halted those procedures.
