Courts, Classrooms, and Clinics: The Battle for Our Children Continues Dear John,
This week brings fresh challenges in the fight for children and families, ranging from the West Coast to the East Coast, addressing parental rights and transgender procedures for children. Yet our conviction remains firm: Parents have the right and responsibility to direct their children’s upbringing, children deserve protection, and families must be honored and supported. California Gov. Newsom Signs "Kidnap Bill”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed AB 495, a bill allowing virtually any adult to pose as a child’s guardian to facilitate medical or mental-health procedures, including gender transition and abortion, without parental consent. Family advocates, including FPA and our friends at the California Family Council, warn that the law destroys safeguards for families and endangers minors by cutting parents out of critical health decisions.
We addressed this concerning issue in our recent House to Home podcast with Jonathan Keller, President of California Family Council. Watch the full episode here.
California to Connect Students to LGBT Hotline and Risky Newsom also signed into law AB 727, which requires schools issuing student ID cards to print the contact information for the radical transgender activist organization The Trevor Project’s suicide hotline. The bill raises serious safety concerns because The Trevor Project directs teens into the online community TrevorSpace—a chat platform where unverified adults may interact with minors in unsupervised settings. It also turns every student in California into an LGBT activist by forcing them to carry advocacy materials for a radical activist group on their official student ID card, with no religious exceptions.
We oppose this measure because it marginalizes parental involvement, sends students into unsupervised environments, and violates the First Amendment free speech and religious liberty rights of children and parents.
Major Health Provider Ends Hormone Interventions for Minors
In a positive development, Fenway Health in Boston announced it will no longer provide puberty-blocking drugs or opposite-sex hormones to patients under age 19. The decision follows new policies by the Health Resources & Services Administration discouraging “gender-affirming” interventions for minors and President Trump’s signing of an Executive Order adopting Family Policy Alliance’s Help Not Harm strategy. At least 21 gender clinics have stopped or restricted gender transition procedures for children in 2025, including Los Angeles Children’s Hospital and the University of Chicago Medical Center.
This move is a win for
children and parents. Children struggling with who God made them are vulnerable
to irreversibly harmful interventions Healthcare professionals must protect our
children rather than expose them to lifelong risks. Our kids deserve real help,
not harm.
Your faithful partnership ensures that when threats to family, life, and religious freedom arise, there is a strong voice ready to stand firm for what is true and right. Thank you for standing with us as we seek a nation where God is honored, religious freedom flourishes, families thrive, and life is cherished.
For the family, |
