Children wishing to alter their appearance so that they look like the opposite gender have an ally in the Campaign for Southern Equality (CFSE), a pro LGBT group that provides grants to children and families to travel to states who will perform the risky medical procedures from states that ban the controversial procedures. CFSE has organized what they call the Southern Trans Youth Emergency Project (STYEP), which provides access to “gender affirming health care,” which they claim is a “human right.”
Nevermind that transgender therapies are the very definition of elective healthcare; the STYEP will step in to provide “rapid response support directly to the families of youth who are impacted by anti-transgender healthcare bans in the South.”
“Health care is a human right and everyone should be able to access the healthcare that they need in their hometown,” the CFSE’s website trumpets. “But right now, lawmakers all across the South are passing extreme legislation banning best-practice medical care for transgender youth.”
Thus far, at least 22 states have passed some kind of ban on so-called “gender affirming” care for children, according to the LGBT activist group the Human Rights Campaign. Thirteen states in the south, including Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, have passed laws making it illegal to perform the risky and unnecessary procedures and therapies on children.
“This barrage of cruel legislation is causing great distress for transgender youth and their families as they make plans for how to ensure youth can access health care,” the page for the STYEP explains.
While the CFSE makes it seem as if these youth are being prevented from obtaining any healthcare, the laws in question only impact the elective transgender therapies, which include hormone treatments, sterilization and cosmetic surgery such as “top” surgery — removal or enhancement of breasts – and “bottom” surgery — castration or reconstruction of the genitals.
All of these “treatments” risk the sterilization of the child in question.
“Our country is in a time of crisis for youth having their health care removed,” Allison Scott of the CFSE told St. Louis Public Radio. “And we recognize that if we’re running a program that is scalable and sizable enough, if we can support other states, then we thought it was the right thing to do.”
Advocates of the STYEP claim that the program is modeled after abortion funds that help abortion seekers to go to states that allow abortion after the 2022 Dobbs Supreme Court decision invalidated Roe v. Wade.
“Is this taking a page out of the playbook for abortion rights and access to reproductive justice and freedom?” Katy Erker-Lynch, executive director of PROMO, an LGBT advocacy group and partner organization in Missouri told WGEM. “Yes, absolutely.”
“This [program] gives parents, whether they have a financial need, or just someone that they can talk to, help in navigating how they might get access to care for their child outside of the state of Missouri, so that they can continue care or so that they can begin care,” Erker-Lynch explained.
“It’s really complicated, and people are scared, and people need support,” Erker-Lynch added.
Actually, it’s not all that complicated. It’s an LGBT extremist group looking to circumvent state laws in obeisance to the LGBT agenda and the idea that transgender therapies for children are somehow “life saving.”
While LGBT extremists would like to classify bans on these risky transgender procedures on children as some sort of civil rights issue, the truth is that a program such as this STYEP is simply aiding perversion and genital mutilation. And worse, it’s a perversion and genital mutilation aimed at children.
