A representative from the Diocese of Charleston told the committee that 'use of puberty blockers in children with gender dysphoria is reckless since it radically stops the natural sequence of physical and psychological development.'
Slated to take effect in January, the new West Virginia law will prohibit physicians from performing surgeries on minors to make them look like the opposite sex, or prescribing them cross sex-hormones or puberty blocking drugs.
Dr. Angela Kade Goepferd, the lesbian director of an ‘exclusively pediatric’ gender clinic in Minneapolis, is scheduled to give a talk at Loring Elementary School on April 13.
The new law fails to ban so-called 'puberty blockers' for minors, but it does bar doctors from prescribing cross-sex hormones to children with gender dysphoria.
‘Kinnon’ MacKinnon, a ‘transgender’ biological female professor at York University, says that her ‘perspectives have changed significantly’ regarding people who regret ‘transitioning.’
The puberty blockers are 'not as reversible as we always thought, and they have longer term effects on kids’ growth and development, including making them sterile and quite a number of things affecting their bone growth.'
Norway joins Finland, Sweden, and the UK in denouncing puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and ‘sex changes’ surgeries for minors confused about their gender.