Child Abuse

"The five former clinicians at the Gender Identity Development Service...expressed their concerns to the British daily The Times. Each of them was part of a team charged with deciding whether patients as young as three should be prescribed hormone blockers to prevent the onset of puberty. The number of child referrals to GIDS skyrocketed from 94 in 2010 to 2,519 in 2018." - National Review

"...earlier that day, a doctor at a naturopathic clinic in Chandler, Arizona, recommended the mother take her two-year-old son—who had a temperature of 100 degrees and is unvaccinated—to Banner Cardon Children’s Hospital emergency room in Mesa, Arizona." - Intellectual Takeout

"On Thursday, the Health and Human Services committee of the South Dakota House killed a bill that would have protected the right of parents to refuse to consent to medical or psychological treatment for a child suffering from gender dysphoria if the treatment 'would induce, confirm, or promote the child’s belief that the child’s sex or gender identity is different from the child’s sex presented at birth.'” - The Federalist

"Her story was heartbreaking and the conviction of being a boy was not as solid as everyone portrayed. If only she had a good counselor or one Christian friend who would listen to her. Then we asked to share our thoughts with her. We started with creation and ended with redemption. No one had ever told her that story before." - Crosspolitic

Theology Central: The scandal isn’t dying. It’s getting bigger.

The New Republic article

Challies comment

Boy Scouts release secret child abuse files — ‘the pain and the anguish of thousands’

Delaware became the first state in the in the nation to effectively outlaw corporal discipline of children by their parents… the legislation creates a definition of the term “physical injury” in the child abuse and neglect laws to include “pain.”

“Church safety is something for which the wise prepare. To wait until a crisis happens to create safety plans is too late. To believe that ‘this will never happen to us’ is risky.”