Public Policy and Law
Resources
Resources
- Biological Integrity: States that Protect Minors from Transgender Interventions Factsheet
- Ohio Saving Adolescents from Experimentation Act (SAFE): This Ohio law was enacted in January 2024 (Gov. DeWine vetoed the act but the veto was overridden by large margins). The SAFE Act prohibits physicians from treating minors with puberty-suppressing drugs, cross-sex hormones, or surgery for “gender transition” purposes and prohibits male athletes from participating on sports teams for females. PDF available here
- Bioethics Public Policy Report is a bi-weekly newsletter by the National Catholic Bioethics Center.
- Education Power for Parents: A State Legislation Tracker (2024) by the Heritage Foundation (2024, updated regularly). This link tracks state legislation introduced and passed to address academic transparency, a parents’ bill of rights, the given name act, and rejecting CRT discrimination.
- Opposition to Conversion Therapy Bans: “Dear Legislator” Fact Sheets (2023) by National Task Force for Therapy Equality. This link provides factual information to support therapists’ free speech rights and patients’ rights to pursue talk therapy aligned with faith and personal goals. [link]
- IndoctriNation Map (2024) by Parents Defending Education. This interactive map permits searching by state or public school district for policies that promote gender ideology, restrict parental rights, or where parents have exposed left-wing indoctrination by teachers or in the curriculum.
- List of Public School District “Transgender” Secrecy Policies (2024) by Parents Defending Education. This is a list of school districts that “openly state that district personnel can or should keep a student’s transgender status hidden from parents.”
- Protecting Minors from Gender Ideology, Policy Updates (2024) by Do No Harm, a non-profit for “physicians, nurses, medical students, patients, and policymakers focused on keeping identity politics out of medical education, research, and clinical practice.”
- Fact Sheets for Physicians and Policy-Makers (2023) by Our Duty, an international parents organization opposing “medical transition” for minors.
- Women’s Bill of Rights (2024) by the Independent Women’s Forum. Four states to date have passed a version of the Women’s Bill of Rights, which defines man and woman as male and female (respectively) for purposes of state law.
- State Policy Brief: Save Adolescents from Experimentation Act (SAFE) by the Family Research Council. As of early 2024, 22 states have passed legislation to protect minors from experimental medical and surgical interventions for “gender transition” purposes. Most recently, Ohio passed the SAFE Act, based on model legislation described here by the Family Research Council.
Articles
- 21 Attorney General’s Demand Answers (spearheaded by Idaho) from the American Academy of Pediatricians
- Justice Promotes Bill to Define ‘Woman’ in State Code,” Emily Rice, WV Public Broadcasting, January 29, 2024. A proposed bill in West Virginia aims to define “woman” and “girl” as the female sex for purposes of state law. The bill is called “The West Virginia Act to Define Sex-Based Terms Used in State Law, Help Protect Single Sex Spaces, and Ensure the Accuracy of Public Data Collection.”
- Say Sex, not Gender. Why Conservatives Need to Stop Using Leftist Language, by Jennifer Braceras of the Independent Women’s Forum, Fox News Opinion, January 30, 2024.
- Parental Notification Policies Keep Children Safe, by Matt Sharp, Alliance Defending Freedom, July 14, 2023.
- How Democrats Set the Stage in 2023 for an LGBT Onslaught in 2024 by Rachel Morrison, the Federalist, January 9, 2024.
- How UN Undermines Parental Rights by Pushing Gender Ideology by Emilie Kao, Alliance Defending Freedom, December 21, 2023.
Amicus Briefs
- Christian Healthcare Centers v. Nessel, Amicus brief, 6th Circuit Court of Appeals (written by EPPC scholars Eric Kniffin & Mary Hasson, filed October 25, 2023)
- Tamer Mahmoud v. Monifa B. McKnight (urging reversal), Amicus brief, 4th Circuit Court of Appeals (written by EPPC scholars Eric Kniffin & Mary Hasson, filed October 17, 2023)
- Rachel G. Damiano & Katie S. Medart v. Grants Pass Schol District No. 7, Amicus brief, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (written by EPPC scholars Eric Kniffin & Mary Hasson, filed September 13, 2023)
- Tamer Mahmoud v. Monifa B. McKnight, Amicus brief, 4th Circuit Court of Appeals (written by EPPC scholars Eric Kniffin & Mary Hasson, filed September 6, 2023)
- American College of Pediatricians v. Becerra, Amicus brief, 6th Circuit Court of Appeals (written by EPPC scholars Eric Kniffin, Rachel N. Morrison, & Mary Hasson, filed April 6, 2023)
- Parents v. Montgomery County Board of Education, Amicus brief, 4th Circuit Court of Appeals (filed by West Virginia and 16 other states)