October 21, 2022

Welcome back. We're excited to share the latest from The Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family. 

Latest on the Fight Against Transgenderism 

In The Genital Mutilation Market, Business Is Booming

The transgender surgery industry is booming. Doctors and drug companies make billions while they subjugate minors to dangerous sterilization surgeries and lifelong health risks.  

KEY TAKEAWAYS

1. By 2030, the market for gender reassignment surgeries is expected to grow 11 percent.  At that rate, the market revenue will grow to $5 billion by the end of this decade. 
2. The initial surgery can take hours, followed by years of medical operations to deal with complications, infections, maintenance, and hormonal drug use.
3. The challenge of the present moment is to wake up millions of Americans who are only vaguely aware of these horrors, and then to channel their shock and outrage into actions that will end them once and for all.

The Democrats Are Losing Black Men. The Moynihan Report Explains Why

The recent trend of African American males leaving the Democrat Party has liberals wondering why? Two-thirds of African Americans are born into single families and fathers remain absent in many communities. Groups supported by the Democrat party, such as Black Lives Matter have been clear about their goal to disrupt the nuclear  family, this might help explain the black exodus from the Democrat Party. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

1. The Black community has been locked in a matriarchal structure that imposed a "crushing burden" on Black men while also depriving them of the authority they needed to lead.
2. Women in these communities are married to the government, which plays the role of husband and father. Democratic officials promise and provide food, shelter, health care, and childcare to millions of low-income Black women and their children.
3. Black men are leaving the Democrat party because the left has disaffected and abandoned so many of their communities in exchange for woke social values.  

A bill proposed in the Virginia State House would allow the State to charge parents with child abuse if they do not affirm their child's gender identity. If convicted they could lose custody of their children. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

1. The bill would expand the state’s definition of “child abuse and neglect” to include parents who fail to accept their child’s sexual orientation or gender identity
2.  An investigation would be conducted if a parent is accused of not affirming their child’s identity, possibly resulting in a misdemeanor or a felony.
3. If a child reports that their parent does not accept their gender identity or sexual orientation, Child Protective Services would be involved as well as the police.

The left is moving to normalize porn use among minors. They are doing this through the promotion of “porn literacy” in public schools. “Porn literacy” aims to eliminate the stigma around watching porn, but ends with the promotion of porn use and encourages young children to integrate porn into their increasingly active sex lives.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

1. Planned Parenthood and its government partners are already promoting porn literacy to school trainers and public health officials.
2. Porn literacy is being taught in classrooms to children in an effort to expand their sexual awareness. 
3. The teaching of porn literacy must be opposed, teaching porn to children will lead to child participation in porn.

School boards are promoting books in school that describes graphic sexual behavior, gay sex instruction, and teaches children how to use technology to make themselves sexually available to adults.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

1. School boards are encouraging and promoting drag queen shows and sexually explicit reading material under the guise that it is family friendly
2. Gender ideology is taking over elementary school, and parents need to know what might be going on in their child's classroom 
3. Former child sex abusers have been recently released from prison and have become trans-activists and they have spoken at top-tier universities to discuss gender ideology

Scholars Rachel N. Morrison and Natalie Dodson submitted comments opposing a rule proposed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that would include taxpayer-funded medical benefits coverage for abortion and abortion counseling for veterans and certain beneficiaries. Under the new rule, American taxpayers must now pay for abortion and abortion counseling

Melanie Israel and Emma Waters submitted a comment in response to the Veterans Affairs' Interim Final Rule that was due on October 11, 2022. This interim rule violates key pro-life protections and does not honor the rich tradition of the Hyde Amendment. 

Dr. Richards discusses the pathway of gender affirming care and how it starts with social transitioning (the use of preferred pronouns), quickly moves to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and concludes with gender transition surgeries. He concludes with the political strategy to defeat left-wing gender ideology. 

Emma Waters discusses the "Respect for Marriage Act" and how it is the next step in the left's effort to redefine marriage. 

Emma Waters discusses why detransitioner Chloe Cole is starting an organization and standing up to political leaders on the transgender issue. Plus, she discusses the 66 abortion clinics that have closed since Roe v. Wade was overturned and gives a rundown of the pro-life fights ahead, and explains why it matters. 

Emma Waters discusses why detransitioner Chloe Cole is starting an organization and standing up to political leaders on the transgender issue. Plus, she discusses the 66 abortion clinics that have closed since Roe v. Wade was overturned and gives a rundown of the pro-life fights ahead, and explains why it matters. 

Melanie Israel discusses why the Women's Health Act of 2021 is more extreme than Roe V. Wade. This bill would legalize all abortions until birth and it would prevent states from passing laws that require informed consent, clinic safety regulations, and conscience protections for people that do not want to participate in abortions.