Breaking Free From Gender Ideology
- Parents Unite
- 2 days ago
- 3 min read
It has been an eventful week for people working to protect vulnerable young people from the grips of gender ideology.
Important medical organizations are finally admitting that the so-called benefits of gender affirmation surgery don’t outweigh the harms and that medicine needs to be evidence-based, not ideologically driven.
First, there was news that the 1st Detransitioner to Take a Medical-Malpractice Lawsuit to Trial Wins $2 Million Judgement. Benjamin Ryan reported that “Fox Varian sued her Westchester, NY, area psychologist and plastic surgeon for the gender-transition mastectomy she got at 16.”
Then, in a February 3rd Press Release, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) “declared the evidence base supporting sex-rejecting procedures to be “low quality/low certainty.” The ASPS position statement finds that “there is insufficient evidence demonstrating a favorable risk-benefit ratio for the pathway of gender-related endocrine and surgical interventions in children and adolescents.”
Leor Sapir further explains this major development in “It’s Official: No Consensus Among Medical Groups on “Gender-Affirming Care” for Minors, The American Society of Plastic Surgeons issues a bold new statement against irreversible interventions.”
The American Medical Association weighed in to a National Review reporter, saying, “The evidence for gender-affirming surgical intervention in minors is insufficient for us to make a definitive statement . . . the AMA agrees with ASPS that surgical interventions in minors should be generally deferred to adulthood.”
How has gender ideology had such a grip on society and on K-12 schools? Follow the money.
Much of corporate America has been pressured or coerced into donating large sums to activists pushing these ideas into every corner of society, including K–12 education. Like an extortion scheme, the donations bought protection—those who questioned the ideology were accused of engaging in “hate speech” and therefore silenced.
Is your company funding the cause?
The Project to Expose Corporate Activism database profiles the LGBTQ+ activism of nearly 1,600 companies, including all Fortune 500s and every company scored by the 2022-2023 Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index, through Pride 2024. It also provides a sampling of these companies’ DEI initiatives, which are too numerous to list in full.
“Today, the LGBTQ+ movement makes its presence felt across nearly every facet of American life. Movies, advertisements, schools, libraries, and even federal agencies all push the message. How was this done, who paid for it, and how much did it cost? This database tells a major part of this story.”
Is the funding starting to dry up?
According to Funders for LGBTQ Issues’ 2023 Resource Tracking Report: LGBTQ Grantmaking by U.S. Foundations, grant funding specifically for transgender, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary communities fell by 24% compared with 2022.
What will it take for schools to break free?
Now that major medical associations are changing their policies on pediatric gender surgery, what will it take for your school to finally break free from the transgender cult?
To start, schools can stop requiring the use of pronouns and stop compelling kids to check identity boxes. This is not about helping the kids who might be gay; in fact, it is hurting them.
Choate Rosemary Hall offers a useful example of how deeply gender ideology can be entrenched within elite schools. The school’s Medical Director, Meredithe McNamara, is a prominent advocate of pediatric gender medicine and a key defender of gender affirmation against critics. With such a figure in a leadership role, can Choate realistically break free from gender ideology? What advice would parents receive today if their child believes they are transgender—evidence-based guidance, or ideological reinforcement? If schools are going to change course, this is the moment to shut this down and reset policies around medical and psychological evidence.
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