Gender Ideology, from the Classroom to the Clinic

The fight to protect children from a harmful social experiment is only just beginning.

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Signs at a protest against the Trump administration’s reported transgender proposals at City Hall in New York City, October 24, 2018.

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The fight over gender-confused children and how, or whether, it is appropriate to interfere with their sexual development will increase in intensity under a Biden-Harris administration. During his campaign, Biden promised to pass the Equality Act — a law that has already passed the House and would redefine sex to include “gender identity” in the 1964 Civil Rights Act — within 100 days of his presidency. When asked by one voter, the parent of an 8-year-old “transgender daughter,” at the ABC October town hall what he intended to do about the Trump administration’s transgender policies, Biden responded, “I will flat-out just change the law.” Then, with characteristic ambiguity, he added: “The idea that an eight-year-old child or ten-year-old child decides, ‘You know I decided I want to be transgender. That’s what I think I’d like to be. It would make my life a lot easier.’ There should be zero discrimination.”

So does Biden approve or disapprove of medicalizing gender-confused youth?

Madeleine Kearns

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Madeleine Kearns

Madeleine Kearns is a former staff writer at National Review.

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