A Major Win in the Transgender Craze

The Montana legislature takes a stand for harmed youth

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Victory! We got word that Governor Gianforte has signed into law HB 682, the bill aimed at minors who have been harmed by gender medicalization. This is a strong bill- it is the first law enacted in the nation to extend the statute of limitations for claims arising from gender medicine. It’s also the first to mandate insurance coverage for detransition if it first covered transition care.

The idea behind this bill is to make it perilous for healthcare providers to want to provide “gender-affirming care” to children, due to the strict liability they will be subject to until that child reaches the age of 27 (or age 30 if the harmed isn’t discovered until age 28 or 29). We all know the liberal, progressive courts of Montana, so this is one more arrow in the quiver to protect our youth.

Getting HB 682 through the legislature and on to the Governor was no easy task, particularly with the pro LGBTQ members of the House and factions of squishy Republicans frequently siding with the Democrats on contentious bills. It took a fairly monumental effort from many angles, and I am deeply appreciative to the organizations and individuals who, maybe for the first time, stood in full public view in opposition to the the gender ideology that has swept across our nation, stealing the futures of so many youth.

One Montana physician who testified in support of this bill is partners with a pediatrician who provides gender care. They get along and they normally agree on medical matters.

But he decided to take a stand.

This takes the kind of courage and conviction that, frankly, most physicians just don’t have. Most just keep their heads down, don’t rock the boat, think more of their medical school debt, lack of opportunities in rural Montana, and maintaining their reputations with the medical associations and hospital boards then sticking their necks out to stand up for medical integrity.

Bravo to you! This is how we change the trajectory of this crime against kids.

I am indebted to Jamie Reed, the official whistleblower of a large, gender clinic in St. Louis, MO, who was fully entrenched in the affirmation of gender confused kids. She helped hundreds, maybe thousands, of children transition before she realized the harm, not benefit, that was being done to them. Her life mission is now to influence policy in state legislation to stop this atrocity, as well as support and educate those caught up in it like she was.

I am indebted to the dozen detransitioners who testified, and who have also come to the realization that they were lied to, that they really can’t change their gender no matter how “affirmed” their physician said that they would be; who now face the hatred that the very community that tempted them with love and acceptance will spew on them publicly.

I am indebted to the Montana Family Foundation, who was instrumental in networking and organizing witnesses and finessing the final, complex workings of the conference committees and the legalese of the bill.

The Do No Harm organization provided the groundwork for the specifics of the bill as well as expert testimony from Dr Ivan Abdouch and Dr Roy Eappen, both experts in the field who are also passionate about stopping the harm. Thirty+ years of treating gender dysphoria brings about knowledge and expertise that the 25 year old ACLU lobbyists can’t hold a candle to. It was fun to watch, though.

Finally, I’ve said it many times, I am grateful for Representative Greg Kmetz for sponsoring this bill and enduring long, heated, hearings, probably a fair amount of hate mail, and certainly perturbing his democratic colleagues. It was good training for his Senate run.

God is good. His hand was guiding us as we navigated this bill. Thanks to all of you for your support. Many citizens prayed, emailed, called, and testified to get this bill passed. We have many engaged, passionate patriots in Montana and your voice was heard.

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