Soon after signing the executive order halting federal support for gender surgeries and drugs for minors, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles (CHLA) announced its pause on "affirming" procedures that Greg Burt of the California Family Council says have been detrimental to patients.
"This hospital has already been under a lot of scrutiny, and it's very satisfying to see that they're finally being forced to start to make changes," he says, celebrating that "finally, we have an ally in the federal government to stop these terrible procedures."
"Hospitals realize they need federal funding, and they're starting to lose, and so we rejoice over this," he adds.
And though Burt believes the mere threat of lawsuits and losing federal funds will put a stop to this "medical scandal," he hopes the federal government "isn't just making idle threats."
In Kentucky, the state Senate has gotten the conversation going in the right direction in the effort to push back against transgender ideology that has taken over much of the United States.
Nick Spencer, director of policy for The Family Foundation in Kentucky, says this came about in response to Governor Andy Beshear's (D) memo trying to implement the policy that would allow taxpayer dollars to pay for inmates to try to change genders.
"Obviously, there was quite a bit of outrage about that in the GOP majority in the state Senate," Spencer relays. "This is sort of the way that they are pushing back against that."
Senate Bill 2 and its companion bill in the House, House Bill 5, would prevent taxpayer funds from being used to pay for those sorts of procedures, specifically for individuals in the Department of Corrections. But The Family Foundation would love to see it expanded to say that no taxpayer funds can be used for these sorts of treatments anywhere in the state for any person.
"We don't think that the taxpayer should be footing the dime, footing the bill for this sort of thing," Spence asserts.
The state Senate has approved the measure, and if the House does the same, then it will go to Gov. Beshear's desk to be signed into law. If he vetoes it, the House and Senate can override that.
