Latest news and developments in the mission to protect children from gender ideology:
ACPeds and Do No Harm Applaud Introduction of the TRUTH in Coverage Act to Protect Patients Seeking Restorative Care Following Sex-Rejecting Procedures: Last week, Rep. Diana Harshbarger and Sen. Roger Marshall introduced the TRUTH in Coverage Act, which would require health insurance plans that cover sex-rejecting procedures to also cover restorative care for patients seeking to address complications or restore healthy bodily function, to the greatest extent practicable.
House Judiciary Committee Advances Chloe Cole Act of 2026; ACPeds Submits Letter of Support: Last week, the House Judiciary Committee advanced the Chloe Cole Act of 2026, moving the legislation one step closer to a full House vote. ACPeds joined other medical and public policy organizations in supporting the bill, which would provide a private right of action for individuals harmed by sex-rejecting procedures as minors.
Olympic Champion’s Family Highlights Contradiction in Women’s Sports: The case of Olympic champion Alysa Liu’s brother competing and winning in girls’ sports underscores the contradiction of celebrating women’s athletics while supporting policies that allow males to compete in female athletic categories, reinforcing the importance of preserving sex-based protections for girls’ and women’s sports.
New Guide Helps Foster Parents Uphold Biological Integrity: Alliance Defending Freedom and the Ethics and Public Policy Center have released a new guidebook to help prospective foster parents who affirm biological integrity successfully navigate foster care systems increasingly influenced by gender ideology while providing loving homes for vulnerable children.
ACPeds and Do No Harm Applaud Introduction of the TRUTH in Coverage Act to Protect Patients Seeking Restorative Care Following Sex-Rejecting Procedures
Last week, Rep. Diana Harshbarger and Sen. Roger Marshall have introduced the TRUTH in Coverage Act, which would require health insurance plans that cover sex-rejecting procedures to also cover restorative care for patients seeking to address complications or restore healthy bodily function, to the greatest extent practicable. ACPeds and Do No Harm praised the legislation as an important step toward ensuring patients are not denied treatment for harms resulting from procedures their insurers agreed to cover.
House Judiciary Committee Advances Chloe Cole Act of 2026; ACPeds Submits Letter of Support
The House Judiciary Committee advanced the Chloe Cole Act of 2026, moving the legislation one step closer to a vote by the full House. If enacted, the bill will establish a private right of action for individuals harmed by sex-rejecting procedures as minors. ACPeds joined numerous medical and public policy organizations in submitting a letter of support, applauding the legislation as an important step toward protecting children and ensuring accountability for those harmed by irreversible interventions.
Olympic Champion’s Family Exposes the Contradiction in the Debate Over Women’s Sports
The story of Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu’s brother, Joshua (“Jaylin”) Liu, competing and winning in girls’ high school sports illustrates a profound cognitive dissonance: without a protected female athletic category, the world likely would never have known Alysa Liu as an Olympic champion, yet her family appears to support her brother competing in that very category. As highlighted in the recent Daily Wire report, Joshua Liu has won girls’ track events and competed on girls’ basketball and ultimate frisbee teams in California.
At the same time, the recently released model policy from the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty argues that preserving sports based on sex is essential to protecting fairness, safety, and equal athletic opportunities for girls and women, underscoring why maintaining distinct female athletic categories remains so important.
ACPeds Urges FCC to Update TV Ratings for Gender Ideology Content
The American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) has filed a Notice of Ex Parte with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) urging the agency to update television content ratings so parents are informed when children’s programming contains gender ideology.
ACPeds argues that young children have not yet reached the cognitive maturity to critically evaluate messages about sex and identity and that parents deserve clear content descriptors to make informed viewing decisions. The filing also highlights evidence questioning pediatric sex-rejecting interventions and calls on the FCC to strengthen parental transparency and protect children’s healthy cognitive development.
