75 Percent of Polled Say ‘Transgender Movement Has Gone Too Far’

A gender neutral sign is posted outside a bathrooms at Oval Park Grill in Durham, N.C., on May 11, 2016. Sara D. Davis/Getty Images

U.S. citizens’ opinions are turning increasingly negative toward the transgender movement, according to a poll conducted by Christian nonprofit Summit Ministries.

In an interview with NTD’s “Capitol Report,” Jeff Myers, president of Summit Ministries, pointed out that people are thinking about the transgender movement as a voting issue.

“And some of it is because the president made it a voting issue. He said, ‘We ought to support every minor when they want to have procedures done,' pharmaceutical surgery, whatever. And he seemed to be indicating that he supports this at any age with no restrictions. A lot of people in America disagree with that,” Myers said.

“We are doing a lot of polling just to understand the cultural moment. And 75 percent of people in our most recent poll say they believe the transgender movement has gone too far.”

Myers believes that people oppose the transgender movement mainly due to its support of actions such as “mutilating kids.” There are 70 Planned Parenthood clinics offering cross-sex hormones and puberty-blocking drugs to children, many of them being offered without seeking parental consent.

Drugs such as Lupron are “extremely expensive” and will cost the government in Medicare billions of dollars. The gender transition surgery and pharma business is already worth $2 billion per year and is growing fast, he noted.

Some of the drugs being injected into children, which are experimental in nature, are for “off-label use,” and the long-term consequences aren’t being taken into account, according to Myers.

Detransitioning, Legislation

Talking about the rising detransitioning movement—those that reverse the procedures to return to their natural sex—Myers notes that those who do detransition might already be suffering from side effects of the drugs that were earlier injected into them. For instance, Lupron might cause bone density issues, vision loss, and headaches.

Lupron is used to slow down the growth of cancer in the body.

“When you put it into the bodies of teenagers, it can actually create permanent damage. Doctors aren’t talking about this. They’re saying, ‘Well, let’s just pause puberty for a little bit,’” he said.

The debate over transitioning among children is getting heated as several Republican states introduce legislation to ban the practice and protect minors.

In Virginia, state Sen. Amanda Chase has proposed legislation seeking to prohibit medical gender transitions for children in the Commonwealth. It seeks to prohibit doctors from prescribing genital mutilation surgeries, hormone treatments, and puberty blockers for children.

In Texas, two measures in the state House of Representatives aim to make the offering of “gender-affirming health care” to children equivalent to child abuse and even a felony.

Texas state Rep. Bryan Slaton, who filed one of the measures, recently said that he plans on introducing legislation that would ban minors from attending drag shows across the state, insisting that such a law is critical to protect children from “perverted adults.”