The majority of adults no longer support giving trans treatments to minors, and the medical “consensus” is evaporating. This is exactly what we’ve prayed for. God is changing hearts and minds!

From Breitbart. Nearly six in ten Americans (58 percent) are opposed to sex-change drugs and surgeries for minors, a Rasmussen Reports survey found.

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Out of the 58 percent who oppose sex changes for minors, 47 percent say they are strongly opposed to such measures. Thirty percent of Americans support such sex-mutilating drugs and surgeries for minors …

By political affiliation, Democrats are more likely (47 percent) than Republicans (13 percent) and unaffiliated voters (27 percent) to support sex-mutilating — and often irreversible — drugs and surgeries for confused youth. …

Americans across the political spectrum are uneasy with schools usurping the role of parents in directing the upbringing of their children. Fifty-nine percent of GOP voters, 40 percent of Democrats, and 42 percent of unaffiliated voters do not think schools should counsel students on sex or gender identities without parental knowledge or consent, the survey found.

Nearly four in ten (39 percent) of Americans say most schools “do too much to accommodate” students who say they are transgender. …

From The Daily Wire. “Consensus” is a word you hear a lot these days. And when you hear it, there’s a good chance you’re being told to keep quiet about something. For example, you might notice that celebrities are flying an awful lot for people who claim to be concerned about climate change. And you might find it odd that politicians like Barack Obama are buying up giant seaside properties if they think the oceans are about to rise and wipe entire continents off the face of the Earth. And then you might notice that average temperatures in your area haven’t changed much in the past century.

These kinds of observations might lead you to question whether man-made climate change is really a big deal, or even if it’s happening at all. And in response, you’ll be told that your questions are irrelevant. They’re an affront to science, in fact, because a consensus has already been reached among experts.

One of the effects of this kind of “consensus” is that it signals to everyone else in the field — the “experts” — that they need to fall in line immediately. Even if they disagree with the consensus view, they understand that they need to keep quiet or else they’ll face professional consequences. So a declaration of a “consensus” can quickly become self-reinforcing. …

That’s been the case with so-called gender-affirming care, which is the established euphemism for the sterilization and butchery of men, women and children in order to affirm their misguided conception of their own identity. Again and again, we’ve heard that there’s a “consensus” among professional medical associations that these procedures are medically necessary. Everyone from the HHS Secretary to the ACLU and the DOJ have made that claim repeatedly, in state and federal courts as well as the media. …

This week, that trend finally came to an end.

It turns out that all journalists needed to do was ask some professional medical associations about their views on gender surgeries for adolescents, and the facade of “consensus” would come crashing down. That’s exactly what Leor Sapir, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, decided to do. He reached out to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, or ASPS, which represents more than 11,000 members — and 90% of the field of plastic surgery across the U.S. and Canada. … Sapir wanted to know what ASPS thought about so-called “gender affirming care” for minors.

Here’s what the society of plastic surgeons sent back.

ASPS has not endorsed any organization’s practice recommendations for the treatments of adolescents with gender dysphoria. ASPS currently understands that there is considerable uncertainty as to the long-term efficacy for the use of chest and genital surgical interventions for the treatment of adolescents with gender dysphoria, and the existing evidence base is viewed as low quality/low certainty.

In other words, there is, in fact, no consensus among major medical organizations about any form of so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors. That is a lie that’s been repeated by the Biden administration repeatedly, but it’s not true. …

This admission from ASPS has massive ramifications for procedures that are underway right now in the United States. As City Journal notes, the WPATH standards — which pretty much all major hospitals follow — doesn’t specify any strict age minimum for gender surgeries. These are standards that the Biden administration has also defended in federal court. And these standards have been put into practice, apparently without the endorsement of a major medical association like ASPS. …

… With the statement this week from the plastic surgeons’ association, as unlikely as it was, any pretense of a consensus is now gone completely. It has been demolished as if it never existed — because it didn’t. For the sake of the millions of young people who are still eager to join the gender cult, this entire industry needs to meet the same fate.

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(Excerpts from Breitbart and The Daily Wire. Photo Credit: Thiago Rocha on Unsplash)