RFK Directive Confirms Our Litigation

May 8, 2025

On May 1, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., released one of the most comprehensive studies to date on so-called “gender affirming care.”

The report revealed “serious concerns about medical interventions, such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries, that attempt to transition children and adolescents away from their sex,” according to a press release from the agency.

As a result, the agency now recommends talk therapy to help children reconcile their gender dysphoria, as opposed to dangerous and irreversible chemical and surgical procedures.

But some radical state and local governments are refusing to comply. More than 100 cities and states have banned Christian change counseling. This fall, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up the issue in Chiles v. Salazar.

Liberty Counsel has already filed one brief and is preparing to file another, but we need your immediate financial help. A special Challenge Grant will DOUBLE the impact of every gift made to our legal fund.

“Despite increasing pressure to promote these drastic medical interventions for our nation’s youth, the review makes clear: the science and evidence do not support their use, and the risks cannot be ignored,” the HHS report states.

“Our duty is to protect our nation’s children—not expose them to unproven and irreversible medical interventions,” said National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. “We must follow the gold standard of science, not activist agendas.”

The HHS study notes that “transgender care specialists” have set out on a campaign of “mischaracterization of such approaches as” talk therapy to ban this important and successful gender dysphoria treatment.

STOP the Christian Counseling Bans!

Nathaniel was a bright and sensitive young man. Bullied at school and introduced to pornography at a young age, he began to experience gender dysphoria. But Nathaniel was never given the option of talk therapy to reconcile his feelings with his biological reality.

Instead, doctors pushed Nathaniel down the path of drugs and surgery.

“Now that I’m all healed from the surgeries, I regret them,” Nathaniel says. “The result of the bottom surgery looks like a Frankenstein hack job at best, and that got me thinking critically about myself. I had turned myself into a plastic-surgery facsimile of a woman, but I knew I still wasn’t one. I became (and to an extent, still feel) deeply depressed.”

And all the doctors who pushed Nathaniel to undergo surgery have since disappeared, leaving this young man to suffer alone from the irreversible Frankenstein-like experiments the surgeons did to his body.

Nathaniel’s body and mental health could have been saved by Christian counseling. Liberty Counsel is fighting to ensure that every child is safe from these butchers. Our briefs in the Chiles v. Salazar case are the culmination of over a decade’s worth of work fighting Christian change counseling bans.

Liberty Counsel has managed to overturn 23 bans, freeing the doctors and patients in Florida, Alabama, and Georgia to seek and receive lifesaving Christian change counseling.

Our win at the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals teed up Chiles v. Salazar for the U.S. Supreme Court. But we need your financial support to see this case through!

A generous supporter has established a special Challenge Grant that will DOUBLE the impact of every donation made to our legal fund today. Please, give generously so we can save this precious generation of children deceived by Frankenstein’s multimillion-dollar industry.

Please take advantage of this special opportunity to ensure Liberty Counsel has the funds to fight for America’s children.

Please be in prayer for the legions of children and adults deceived by the LGBTQ cult, that they may find peace and joy in God’s design for their lives.

Mat Staver
Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel

 
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Sources:

Heyer, Walt. “1 Year after Sex Change, This Teen Regrets His ‘Frankenstein Hack Job.’” The Daily Signal, November 17, 2019. Dailysignal.com/2019/11/17/1-year-after-sex-change-this-teen-regrets-his-frankenstein-hack-job/.

“HHS Releases Comprehensive Review of Medical Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Gender Dysphoria.” U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, May 1, 2025. HHS.gov/press-room/gender-dysphoria-report-release.html.

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