In 2018, New Hampshire legislators granted minority status to anyone who claimed that he or she has a mismatched gender identity. They were caught up in the belief that they were promoting “community, inclusion, privacy, and freedom,” as Richard Ober, head of the NH Charitable Foundation, wrote in his recent Union Leader op-ed, “LGBTQ Granite Staters deserve to feel safe and welcome.”
That same year the American Academy of Pediatrics issued an ideologically driven policy that calls for the immediate, unquestioning embrace of a child’s chosen gender identity, advocates for immediate social transition, and encourages puberty-blocking drugs and cross-sex hormones.
Related: Rotting from the Head Down: The American Academy of Pediatrics Gender Policy
Inevitably, we have seen exponential growth in trans-identifying youth as activists and an opportunistic medical industry push teens and young adults with emotional disorders and autism down a path of irreversible harm. Medical associations ignore the systematic reviews in Sweden, Finland, and England that found no sound evidence of benefit to these dangerous experimental treatments.
New Hampshire’s Gender identity laws don’t promote the values of “community, inclusion, and freedom,” as Ober claims – quite the opposite. Girls are coerced by laws and policies to sacrifice their privacy, safety, and spots on the podium to affirm gender identities. Children are turned into life-long patients dependent on clinics for synthetic hormones. Anyone who says the obvious, that sex is binary and unchangeable, is labeled as transphobic and ostracized.
Virtue signalers like Ober want to march with Martin Luther King and stand against injustice. Activists took advantage of their vanity. The sooner we correct our mistakes, the more young people will be saved from this convoluted ideology.
