NH Senator Becky Whitley tweeted on June 1, the first day of Pride month:
Happy Pride! It’s not always safe or easy to be your authentic self, but know you are loved and powerful just as you are. This month and always, I am proud to stand with you in the continued fight for true equality.
My response was:
Kids, you are loved and powerful just as you are. Don’t let them convince you that you need puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or to have your healthy body parts surgically removed to be your authentic self.
Becky Whitley has consistently voted for New Hampshire doctors to be able to administer puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to kids and, most despicably, to have kids’ healthy body parts removed, leaving them infertile and without sexual function and with other even more serious side effects. Now, she claims that they are loved and powerful as they are, and she wants them to be their “authentic selves.” Bizarro.
Read about how transgender interventions harm children from the American College of Pediatricians:
Temporary use of puberty blocker Lupron has also been associated with and may be the cause of many serious permanent side effects including osteoporosis, mood disorders, seizures, cognitive impairment and, when combined with cross-sex hormones, sterility. In addition to the harm from Lupron, cross-sex hormones put youth at an increased risk of heart attacks, stroke, diabetes, blood clots and cancers across their lifespan. Add to this the fact that physically healthy transgender-believing girls are being given double mastectomies at 13 and hysterectomies at 16, while their male counterparts are referred for surgical castration and penectomies at 16 and 17, respectively, and it becomes clear that affirming transition in children is about mutilating and sterilizing emotionally troubled youth.
Please call Gov. Chris Sununu at (603) 271-2121 and ask him to sign HB619 into law to ban genital gender reassignment surgery for kids.