More than 500 European associations join together against trans laws that harm children

More than 530 associations from seven countries around the world joined together in a movement to demand that their nations’ governments suspend or block laws that would allow minors to undergo gender reassignment procedures and treatments.

The movement was created by International Feminist Front, and its objective is to ensure that "treatments with puberty blockers and cross hormones and mutilations of healthy bodies of minors who self-determine trans and reverse the laws and protocols that allow it."

The groups argue that many countries in the world have already ended protocols that allowed "gender self-determination" for children after studying the negative effects that gender-affirming treatment can have on a physical and mental level:

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Spain joins the action

Six Spanish organizations signed a letter sent to the Spanish Ministry of Health arguing that "through transgender ideology" comes a "promotion of what sex transition is for minors." They also warn of the "threat" that this poses to "the healthy development and health of girls and boys."

The social-communist Spanish government supports these treatments for minors based on a rule called the "Trans Law," which, according to the Feminist Front, allows all surgical and pharmacological interventions to be carried out without having to consult with any mental health specialist.

The associations warn that Spanish penal code prohibits the prescription of puberty inhibitors for minors up to a certain age:

The letter was signed by the Alliance Against the Erasure of Women, Group of Mothers of Adolescents and Girls with Accelerated Dysphoria (AMANDA), Confluence Feminist Movement, Feminists in Congress, Feminists of Catalonia and Feminist Policy Forum. It warns of the “alarming situation” and the “health scandal that increases daily.” The groups asked “to stop these experiments on minors and adolescents, as they have already done in other countries around us.”

In the U.S., surgeries almost triple

The letter also states that these potentially harmful procedures are performed "under the calculatingly misleading term of sex or gender reassignment surgeries, a market that does not stop growing." In the U.S., this industry generated around $2.1 billion in 2022 and “is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.25% between 2023 and 2030.”

The increase in the number of surgeries in the country was also observed in a recent JAMA Network Open analysis, which revealed that "the number of gender-affirming surgeries almost tripled in the United States between 2016 and 2019":

The study shows that 85% of minors who present some type of gender dysphoria during their youth "spontaneously stop after overcoming puberty." It also argues that "there are not enough studies to support the use of puberty blockers as a treatment for dysphoria."