We shouldn't constitutionalize a right to experiment on our kids.

Following oral arguments in United States v. Skrmetti, Kristen Waggoner, ADF’s CEO, President & General Counsel, spoke to CNN about the issue of gender ideology and the need to protect children from the harms of dangerous and irreversible drugs and surgeries.

“What we heard before the Court today is that the overwhelming science is saying, again and again, that the benefits of these drugs—there is little or no evidence to support them, and the risks are off the charts.”   –Kristen Waggoner, CEO, President & General Counsel, Alliance Defending Freedom

In the case before the court, the state of Tennessee is defending its law that protects children from harmful, unnecessary, and high-risk medical procedures that attempt to make their bodies look like the opposite sex.

Like Tennessee—and 25 other states—we know that children struggling with loving the body that God gave them need nurturing, not altering. They need guidance and reassurance that they are not “born in the wrong body,” but are made wonderfully and distinctly male and female in His image—something that cannot be changed.

We pray that the court upholds Tennessee’s law to protect minors from the dangers of gender ideology.