Dear John,

Abby was just 12—within two weeks of her 13th birthday—when she came out,

declaring that she was male.

She had gotten very involved in the online LGBT community, and, looking back, she realizes she got caught up in the trendiness of trans—or as experts say, the “social contagion.”

Six months later, Abby (not her real name) went to a doctor who told her that she was too old to take puberty-blocking drugs but that she could go straight to testosterone. Abby was reluctant but felt almost obligated.

When she was 15, she got “top surgery.”

It wasn’t that she hated her body, but it seemed like the next step to take. She didn’t like chest binding, and she was embarrassed at school to be living as a man while being somewhat physically 

developed as a woman. For a handsome price, a doctor removed her healthy breasts, leaving a huge scar across her chest.

It didn’t take long for the regrets to take hold. A few years later, she now looks back with anguish:

I wish my parents made me wait, I wish I just waited. I wish I spent the time to actually figure out what I was feeling and what I should have done about it.

I hate what my body looks like now and what I've done to it. When I look in the mirror, I don't see myself. … It's too late to go back now. … My hair, my voice, my body, it's all changed for good. Any effort to be feminine just makes me feel like a creep; it's just a reminder that I'll never be the pretty woman I should be. It makes me feel so ugly and hurt.

As the push to “trans” our kids continues to sweep the nation, I think you agree that it is unconscionable what we are allowing to be done to young people like Abby! Incredibly, her story is truly just one of thousands—many of which are even more graphic and tragic.

The good news is that, together, we are already having a huge impact!

You may recall that a few years ago, we drafted the first legislation to prohibit the use of transgender drugs and surgeries for minors. We call it Help Not Harm.

Then Arkansas—thanks to the leadership of our allied state group, Family Council in Little Rock—became the first state to pass that law.

Since then, we’ve been working with dozens of state legislators (many from Family Policy Foundation's Statesmen Academy®) and our allied state organizations:

• Training them on the issue and the legislation
• Equipping them with talking points
• Providing expert witnesses for testifying in legislative hearings

Already this year, legislators have introduced the latest version of this legislation in numerous states around the country—and it was signed into law in South Dakota earlier this month!

This is the moment to go all in. As more Americans become aware of the tragedies that are being inflicted on our kids, momentum is growing to stop it. And it’s not just here. Late last year, the UK’s National Health Service put the brakes on transgender drugs and procedures for minors!

Still, passing these protections in even one state is a huge undertaking. We need all of the support we can muster to 1) mobilize an outpouring of grassroots support, 2) get our message out in the media and 3) directly assist legislators and our state allies.

Will you help us prevent more horror stories like Abby’s? 

Standing up for the kids,

Craig DeRoche
President & CEO

P.S. Activist groups—with the help of the medical community and media—are pushing dangerous drugs and surgeries on kids like Abby all over the nation. Please help us continue to lead the fight to protect our young people. Your gift really could make the difference in changing laws and stopping more lives from being destroyed. Thank you!