The Senate Health Committee announced today AB 2218, a controversial transgender measure, was dead for the year. The bill would have funded trans-affirming treatments such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and mutilating surgeries and amputations, all known to permanently destroy the reproductive systems minors and adults. The Committee, chaired by Senator and pediatrician Dr. Richard Pan, revealed the news this morning when AB 2218 was not on the list of bills to be heard in their last committee hearing. The bill had already been approved by the Assembly with little debate, largely along party lines.
“The people of California spoke, and the Senate Health Committee listened,” said California Family Council president Jonathan Keller. “Children and young adults with gender dysphoria deserve true compassion. We are grateful that California lawmakers chose not to fund mutilating surgeries and sterilizing hormones that cause irreversible damage.”
The bill’s death comes after weeks of activism from the California Family Council and other like-minded pro-family organizations that targeted the nine members of the Senate Health Committee. Many of these groups hand-delivered Senate offices copies of “Irreversible Damage,” a recently published book which details a new social phenomenon of “rapid-onset gender dysphoria” emerging among teen girls.
Full story at California Family Council.
See earlier CalCatholic story: Fate of transgender treatment for minors in hands of state Senate committee.
This is good news for the time being but crazed politicians will not be satisfied. Their agenda is harmful to vulnerable people who need psychological intervention, not horrific surgical and drug regimens.
Notice the vote was mostly along party lines – stop sending these liberal fanatics to Sacramento, they are immoral and unworthy of your vote!
The Sexual Anarchists are greatly distressed ……………..
I believe Biden said that Trans rights is the preeminent civil rights issue of our day. Don’t expect this defeat to be the final word, especially if he is elected.
This is a surprise. California is not going to allow minors to hack their own bodies? I am glad about this, but it still surprises me that California legislation is somewhat logical and realistic!
Well praise God for this one, but we all know it is probably just the calm before the storm. Got my Idaho potatoes ready to bake and fry, and I expect Attorney General Becerra to come after me any time now. St. Michael the Archangel, by the power of God, defend us in this battle.
And thank you also to the California Family Council, Dr. Quentin Van Maler, Abigail Shrier and the American college of Pediatricians for all of their involvement. Maybe, just maybe, some have finally realized that putting money into hacking children’s body parts off and wasting much needed medicines in the wrong way, when other children in the world cannot even get food or medicine to remain alive, is NOT a “cool” thing to do.
That last post was mine too.
Thank you for clarifying that the other post was yours so we know who you are.
Anne TE
There is a lesson to be learned here. I should not have mentioned Attorney General Becerra’s name. We need “win, win” situations, not “win, lose” situations. God does not desire the death of any of us, especially spiritually, nor does he desire hardened hearts.
May the Good Lord help us to do His will in spite of ourselves.
Yeah, ever since we started praying that St. Michael prayer in our diocese after masses things have gotten worse. Prayers seem to have the opposite effect.
Anonymous ( 10:13), never judge the efficacy of prayer by the immediacy of results. It may take a generation for the blind to see their folly. Let us pray nonetheless that it be sooner.