The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Matt Sharp, director of the ADF Center for Public Policy, regarding West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s signing Wednesday of SB 299, a law that strengthens existing protections for children to ensure they are not subjected to life-altering, experimental “gender transition” surgeries, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones:
“Children who experience discomfort with their sex need the loving embrace of family, not risky drugs and life-altering procedures that send them down a one-way path of lifetime medicalization. The new law closes a loophole that allowed profit-driven gender clinics to push vulnerable children towards the puberty blockers and hormones that far too often lead to irreversible surgeries. And it creates a legal remedy so that these gender clinics can be held accountable for the harm inflicted on kids. ADF commends Majority Leader Pat McGeehan and Sen. Chris Rose for their leadership on SB 299, and Gov. Morrisey for signing it into law. West Virginia has taken a critical step to fully protecting kids from a radical agenda that has devasted countless lives around the world.”
Alliance Defending Freedom is an alliance-building, non-profit legal organization committed to protecting religious freedom, free speech, parental rights, and the sanctity of life.
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