Last week, we told you how WPATH (the self-appointed international group which established itself as the authority on transgender “standards of care”) had been rocked by scandal. That scandal was the result of hundreds of pages of leaked documents and videos.

As we learn more, we find that inside WPATH there has been controversy, disarray and conflict.

The shocking thing is that despite that disagreement, all attempts to have rational discussions about real concerns for children were dismissed internally. Instead, the group pursued a radical agenda putting children on the fast-track to transgender procedures, simply shutting down disagreements and discussions about the most basic of psychological and medical concerns.

Along with our supporters, Family Policy Alliance recognized this early on and together we have been fighting this agenda since 2017.

To date we have worked together to pass Help Not Harm bills in 21 states!

Now, the entire world must begin to deal with the fact that WPATH and its “standards” appear to be nothing more than a political agenda.

Your help is key to continuing the progress in our work to protect children from this ruthless political movement.

Every day 115 children are diagnosed with gender dysphoria in the US and that unfortunately sets them upon the one-way street toward transition established by WPATH.

Now is not the time to relent – the truth is on our side, and we must push forward. Your help is key to that.

Please consider partnering with us today.

If you missed it, you can read last week’s email below.

Joseph Kohm
Director of Public Policy


 

March 13, 2024

Dear Friends,

We have an encouraging update for you from the frontlines of the fight to protect children and families from radical gender ideology.

An organization called the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) has provided cover for healthcare professionals across the world by promulgating “standards of care” for children struggling with gender dysphoria. These so-called “standards” encouraged doctors to attempt to “transition” children from one sex to another (something that is impossible) as early as possible. They also allow doctors to hide behind the justification that they were simply following the “standard of care.”

The fatal flaw in WPATH’s perverse plan: it’s not backed by science.

Recently leaked internal WPATH files revealed that the organization engages in experimental, blatantly harmful treatments that violate the Hippocratic Oath and contradict their own public statements claiming their standards of care are based in evidence and science. Those public statements have allowed these barbaric procedures to be covered by insurance in hospitals across the world.

FPA has worked successfully in 21 states to protect these vulnerable children from harmful and irreversible procedures done in the name of transgender ideology.

This important leak discredits one of the world’s leading transgender activist organizations and takes us one important step further to ensuring children struggling with gender dysphoria are protected everywhere.

Your support has made this possible, and we ask that you would continue that partnership.

Every day approximately 115 children in the United States are diagnosed with gender dysphoria. WPATH “standards” would send them down a path of barbaric, experimental “medicine.” You can help us to push back against deceptive practices by financially supporting our ongoing work to enact Help Not Harm in even more states.

Together, we will ensure children are not preyed upon because they are confused about who God made them to be. We will ensure they receive real help, not harm.

For our kids,Joseph Kohm
Joseph Kohm
Joseph Kohm
Director, Public Policy

Dear Friends,

We have an encouraging update for you from the frontlines of the fight to protect children and families from radical gender ideology.

An organization called the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) has provided cover for healthcare professionals across the world by promulgating “standards of care” for children struggling with gender dysphoria. These so-called “standards” encouraged doctors to attempt to “transition” children from one sex to another (something that is impossible) as early as possible. They also allow doctors to hide behind the justification that they were simply following the “standard of care.”

The fatal flaw in WPATH’s perverse plan: it’s not backed by science.

Recently leaked internal WPATH files revealed that the organization engages in experimental, blatantly harmful treatments that violate the Hippocratic Oath and contradict their own public statements claiming their standards of care are based in evidence and science. Those public statements have allowed these barbaric procedures to be covered by insurance in hospitals across the world.

FPA has worked successfully in 21 states to protect these vulnerable children from harmful and irreversible procedures done in the name of transgender ideology.

This important leak discredits one of the world’s leading transgender activist organizations and takes us one important step further to ensuring children struggling with gender dysphoria are protected everywhere.

Your support has made this possible, and we ask that you would continue that partnership.

Every day approximately 115 children in the United States are diagnosed with gender dysphoria. WPATH “standards” would send them down a path of barbaric, experimental “medicine.” You can help us to push back against deceptive practices by financially supporting our ongoing work to enact Help Not Harm in even more states.

Together, we will ensure children are not preyed upon because they are confused about who God made them to be. We will ensure they receive real help, not harm.

For our kids,Joseph Kohm
Joseph Kohm
Joseph Kohm
Director, Public Policy

Dear Friends,

Today’s world can’t seem to define basic biological terms like “male” and “female.”

Infamously, a current US Supreme Court Justice couldn’t even define the word “woman” during her confirmation hearings. And now, the Biden Administration continues to work furiously to erase all distinctions between men and women in federal antidiscrimination law by redefining “sex” to include “gender identity” in Title IX. This will destroy all the protections and opportunities the Civil Rights Act has afforded women since 1972.

We are excited to tell you about new piece of model legislation FPA is proud to endorse: The model Defining Sex Act, written by our friends at the Heritage Foundation.

States can and should fight back against this to protect women and their opportunities, and one of the ways they can do so is to define terms like “men,” “women,” and “sex” in their laws. The model Defining Sex Act does just that, establishing definitions of these terms that are consistent with God’s created order as expressed in biological reality.

Instituting these definitions in your states law is critical to to following:

  • Protecting the rights of female athletes to compete against only girls and women in sports and for athletic scholarships,
  • Guarding women’s private spaces such as restrooms, locker rooms, and changing areas from use by men, and
  • Ensuring a subjective sense of “gender identity” doesn’t replace the important, God-created differences between men and women in the law.

Because of your partnership and efforts, much work has already been done in this area with the passage of 24 Save Girls Sports laws across the country, and that is worth celebrating!

Despite that, the Biden Administrations efforts to change the definition of sex in Title IX continue to threaten all that hard work to protect women’s rights and opportunities. Passing the model Defining Sex Act in states across the country is the next step to solidifying these protections and many others.

For these reasons, FPA is proud to endorse this legislation. You can help by advocating for this important bill to be introduced in your state legislature today.

Take action by sending a message to your legislators today asking them to introduce this bill in your state legislature or, if the bill has already been introduced, to cosponsor it and support its passage.

Click on the button below to send your message today and help us work to get the Defining Sex Act bill moving in your state.

Together, along with our friends at the Heritage Foundation, we will ensure God’s beautiful design of men and women is reflected in our state laws.

Can you help us today?

Sincerely,Joseph Kohm
Joseph Kohm
Joseph Kohm, III
Director, Public Policy

 

 

 

 

 

Family out for a walk

Dear Friends,

Along with our allies at Palmetto Family Council, we have an urgent request for your help.

We need your help protecting South Carolina’s next generations from woke ideology. This week, the South Carolina General Assembly will consider House Bill 4624, and we need you to encourage them to support it!

This important bill protects vulnerable children from gender transition surgery and procedures while holding doctors accountable.

House Bill 4624, based in part on our model Help Not Harm Bill, would prevent healthcare practitioners from performing dangerous, irreversible “gender transition” surgeries on children, including mastectomies or “top surgery.” It would also prohibit using puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to treat gender dysphoria in children. These procedures also cause irreversible harm, like infertility and body changes. Finally, it holds doctors accountable by providing a way to sue doctors that perform these procedures on children.

Our kids deserve to be kept safe from predatory medical procedures. Along with our friends at the Palmetto Family Council, who have worked tirelessly to get this bill introduced, we need your help to protect them.

Please send a message to your legislator(s) today telling him or her to support House Bill 4624.

It only takes a minute. By doing so, you will help ensure South Carolina law helps, not harms, our kids.

Sincerely,Joseph Kohm
Joseph Kohm
Joseph Kohm III
Director, Public Policy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Friends,

We are so excited to share yet another milestone victory with you!

Last week, in a massive win for vulnerable children and female athletes, the Ohio State Senate finished overriding Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of Substitute House Bill (H.B.) 48, the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act. In taking this step, the Senate followed the lead of the Ohio House of Representatives which had already voted to override the governor’s veto on January 10th.

The SAFE Act, which is based on our model Help Not Harm bill, will protect vulnerable Ohio children struggling with gender dysphoria from the irreversible harm of so-called gender transition procedures. These dangerous, experimental, and irreversible procedures include mastectomies or “top surgery,” as well as puberty blocking drugs and cross sex hormones.

Ohio is now the 21st state to pass a Help Not Harm bill, and the 5th to take the extraordinary step of overriding a governor’s veto to do so, protecting vulnerable children from these barbaric procedures.

Help Not Harm victory map

The Ohio SAFE Act also protects female athletes from having to compete against biologically male athletes in K-12 education and at the collegiate level.

This part of the bill was written and advocated for by Ohio State Representative Jena Powell, a graduate of Family Policy Foundation’s Statesman Academy. We are so grateful for her enduring, honorable hard work on behalf of women’s rights and opportunities in Ohio athletics. Her work has made Ohio the 24th state to ensure girls do not have to compete against boys in sports.

Save Girls Sports victory map

Along with our allies at Center for Christian Virtue, we want to say THANK YOU for making this victory, and the many before it, possible. These victories are so very important but are only possible because of you and the grace of God.

Help One Child LogoAmerica is in a time of national reckoning with transgender ideology, which is uniquely targeting vulnerable children and women’s opportunities in athletics.

YOU and like-minded people across the nation have been essential to our state-by-state effort to turn the tide and take a stand for children and female athletes.

We pray that you would continue to partner with us on this noble effort to protect the futures of our boys and girls.

For our children,Joseph Kohm
Joseph Kohm
Joseph Kohm III
Director, Public Policy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We just hit yet another milestone! Ohio recently joined the Help Not Harm movement by passing legislation that protects minors from dangerous and irreversible transgender procedures. Help Not Harm bills have now been passed in 21 states across the country!

Despite being vetoed by several governors, Help Not Harm bills have persevered. A total of 5 states have successfully overridden their governor’s veto of the bill – that’s unheard of! They are Arkansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Ohio.

To talk about this great success, Joseph Kohm will be joined on our podcast today by Jerry Cox of Arkansas Family Council and David Walls of The Family Foundation in Kentucky.

WATCH TODAY on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube,
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10:00am PT / 11:00am MT / 12:00pm CT / 1:00pm ET

Is your state a Help Not Harm state? Check out our map!

At Family Policy Alliance, our vision is a nation where God is honored, religious freedom flourishes, families thrive, and life is cherished. To stay up to date on the fight to protect families and learn how to take action, follow us on social media!

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See you in the comments section,

Emma Rarden
Digital Specialist, Producer

 

 

 

 

 

Soccer player silenced by California library

What happens when a leftist California librarian shuts down a female athlete for publicly speaking the truth about biology? Find out how she’s fighting back in our live podcast!

In our newest episode of the SoCon Report Podcast, Joseph Kohm III chats with Sophia Lorey from California Family Council, as she shares the story that led to this important case and what it all means for social conservatism and First Amendment free speech. She will be joined by her attorney, Mathew Hoffmann from Alliance Defending Freedom, who will give insight about the lawsuit and its implications. They will dive into the details of the lawsuit and discuss the importance of free speech and the role of the government.

Don’t miss out! Watch the LIVE interview today at the links below.

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SoCon Report or by clicking the image below
10:00am PT / 11:00am MT / 12:00pm CT / 1:00pm ET

At Family Policy Alliance, our vision is a nation where God is honored, religious freedom flourishes, families thrive, and life is cherished. To stay up to date on the fight to protect families and learn how to take action, follow us on social media!

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See you in the comments section,

Emma Rarden
Digital Specialist – Producer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This year, we achieved a significant milestone. Our Help Not Harm legislation was passed in 20 states to safeguard children from transgender drugs and surgeries. This means thousands of kids in those states are now protected from dangerous medical interventions!

And, we couldn’t have done it without YOUR partnership and support.

2023 was truly the year of Help Not Harm! Let’s celebrate this achievement with a message from our CEO, Craig DeRoche, and an exciting highlight video that recaps the journey of  how together we overcame obstacles to get where we are today. Tune in to watch the premiere online today!

PREMIERING TODAY on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube,
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At Family Policy Alliance, our vision is a nation where God is honored, religious freedom flourishes, families thrive, and life is cherished. To stay up to date on the fight to protect families and learn how to take action, follow us on social media!

Your partnership is a vital part of all these accomplishments!

Thank you for helping us protect kids more than ever before in 2023!

Emma Rarden
Digital Specialist – Producer

 

 

Five years ago, Family Policy Alliance (FPA) saw the writing on the wall: LGBTQ activists were setting their sights on “transitioning” children from one sex to the other.

We quickly set to work drafting legislation to protect our kids from this extremist ideology and prohibit the use of hormone drugs and gender transition surgeries on children.

Without support to get these protections across the finish line, though, our bills were just ink on paper.

But you stepped up.

With your help, Arkansas was the first state in the nation to adopt FPA’s Help Not Harm legislation in 2021. And thanks to your continued support, 19 more states have adopted Help Not Harm protections for children, including 17 states just this year.

Nearly 100,000 at-risk children have been saved from becoming the Left’s science experiment, and countless more have been spared the social contagion. We celebrate this monumental victory with you, but we’re not done yet. Millions of children still live in states without protections from the LGBTQ agenda.

In 2024, FPA will continue to advance Help Not Harm legislation in as many of the remaining 30 states as possible, as well as lead an alliance of groups pushing for adoption of the Detransitioner Bill of Rights.

The Detransitioner Bill of Rights would rein in rogue states that have allowed transgender procedures to be performed on minors without parental consent, and would require insurance companies to cover the medical treatments of those seeking recovery from transgender therapies.

At Family Policy Alliance, we battle for the mountain top and every hill along the way. Do No Harm policies are the gold standard for protecting children from the Left’s agenda, and legislation like the Detransitioner Bill of Rights will help us protect even more children nationwide.

No hill or mountain top is won alone. Thank you for your continued partnership with Family Policy Alliance. We look forward to our next victory together in 2024!

Sincerely,
Joseph Kohm
Joseph Kohm
Director, Public Policy

 

 

 

 

Dear Friend,

Along with our allies at Center for Christian Virtue, we have an urgent request for your help.

Governor DeWine has chosen to veto the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act – Substitute House Bill (H.B.) 48, a bill that protects our children from the irreversible harm of gender transition procedures and ensures female athletes are not forced to compete against boys. You helped us get this bill passed, and now we need your help once again to get it across the finish line!

The SAFE Act, would prevent healthcare practitioners from performing dangerous, irreversible gender transition surgeries on children, including mastectomies or “top surgery.” It would also prohibit using puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to treat gender dysphoria in children. These procedures also cause irreversible harm, like infertility and body changes, but they are lucrative for children’s hospitals.

The SAFE Act also protects female athletes from having to compete against biologically male athletes in K-12 education and at the collegiate level. Currently, biological males are allowed to compete in women’s sports at every level in Ohio. This denies women and girls opportunities to compete for the scholarships and championships that their hard work deserves. Parents are now concerned for their daughters’ opportunities and physical safety during play.

We need you to send a message to your legislator today urging them to act swiftly to protect our kids and right this wrong before more children are hurt.

Our kids deserve to be kept safe from predatory medical procedures. And no female athlete should have to compete against a biological man for championships and opportunities.

Please send a message to your senator using the form at the bottom of this page. By doing so, you will help ensure Ohio law helps, not harms, our kids.

Sincerely,
Joseph Kohm
Joseph Kohm III
Director, Public Policy