The Children's Hospital of Los Angeles has paused initiating puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and so-called "gender-affirming" surgeries for minors under 19 years of age – an announcement that Jonathan Kelller of the California Family Council (CFC) calls an absolute bombshell.
The hospital, a major provider for transgender youth, says its officials are assessing President Trump's order for the protection of children from "chemical and surgical mutilation."
"The medical establishment [is finally] reckoning with the fact that this is a controversial procedure to try to sterilize and amputate the bodies of healthy young people just because they are struggling with gender dysphoria. It's really a medical scandal," Keller tells AFN. "It's something that never should have happened, and it's something that, Lord willing, is going to finally start to end."
CFC has long warned politicians and medical professionals in Sacramento and Washington about the risks these procedures entail, including permanent sterility, loss of bone density, and higher risk of cardiovascular disease – not to mention regret.
Now Keller hopes there will be some accountability for what has happened to young people, many of whom regret ever trying to change genders.
He notes that this sort of thing would not have even been considered as recently as 10 years ago, and he calls the level of social contagion that occurred during Biden's presidency "stunning."
But thanks to the election of President Trump and his new executive order, Keller expects "a whole host of changes" as the medical establishments, the publishing industry, and society in general come to terms with the truth about transgender ideology.
