Chicago-based Partners for Ethical Care (PEC) was formed in the fall of 2020. Martha Shoultz, an attorney and one of PEC's founding members, describes it as nonpartisan and secular, with people of different faiths, or lack thereof – many who had their own experiences with sexual abuse and/or gender confusion in their youth.
They want to make a difference for others.
"We're just a group of people who's concerned about all these kids," she tells AFN.
"It was like five months into the lockdowns, and there were a lot of people who found themselves online, just because everybody was asking questions that nobody seemed to have the answer to," Shoultz recalls.
Kids, boys especially, were getting a lot of information from the internet.
"When you have a lot of kids who are lonely and isolated and stuck at home, they kind of get into their heads and start finding all these theories online as to why they might be depressed," Shoultz poses. "To parents, of course, it's obvious why your kids are depressed in the middle of a lockdown."
Moms and dads soon began noticing a trend: gender confusion and sex-confused ideology.
"A lot of parents found that their children were being transitioned at school … even though school was remote," Shoultz reports. "It's Frankenstein medicine, and in our opinion, it's a crime against humanity."
PEC is working to pass legislation to protect minors in 10 different states, though the organization recognizes that 18-year-olds still need their parents, as the brain is not fully developed until the mid-to-late 20s.
PEC is among the many who are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold Tennessee's law that bans body-chopping surgeries and body-altering drugs for minors.
