PR: Bill Introduced to Protect Parents and Facilitate Adoption and Foster Care
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March 25th, 2025
Contact: Ashley Vaughan
ashley@ncvalues.org
BILL INTRODUCED TO PROTECT PARENTS AND FACILITATE ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE
Senate Bill 442 was filed which aims to shield parents from losing custody of their children, and to facilitate adoption and foster care. Parents should never be required to affirm dangerous and unscientific gender transition interventions in order to parent, adopt, or foster children. There have been cases around the country of parents losing custody of minor children for refusing to support social and medical gender transition interventions, including in Indiana, Ohio, California, and Illinois. Currently in North Carolina, social workers are directed to assess whether children in foster care are at risk of ‘maltreatment and rejecting behaviors’ including parents refusing to affirm gender identity or sexual orientation. Court rulings and policies like these are not only wrong, they are also in direct conflict with legal precedent on parental rights. The North Carolina Supreme Court has just ruled in Happel v. Guilford County Board of Education that parents have a fundamental Constitutional right to direct the upbringing of their own children—including medical decisions—and government imposition of gender identity ideology on parents violates this principle.
NC Values Coalition Executive Director Tami Fitzgerald applauded the bill, saying “Parents should have the freedom to raise their children according to their values and make decisions for their well-being without fear of the government taking their child away. There is growing consensus in the US and abroad from a scientific perspective that the harms of gender transition interventions – including cancer, heart disease, bone problems, sterility, and mental health problems – make these treatments dangerous for minors.”
The bill, officially titled “Parents Protection Act,” is sponsored by Sens. Jim Burgin, Benton Sawrey, Amy Galey, Timothy Moffitt, and Norman Sanderson.
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PR: Men are Men and Women are Women bill Introduced in NC Senate
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March 25th, 2025
Contact: Ashley Vaughan
ashley@ncvalues.org
MEN ARE MEN AND WOMEN ARE WOMEN BILL INTRODUCED IN NC SENATE
Today, a bill was filed in the NC Senate that aims to define “male” and “female” by biology in NC law and to restrict men and boys from entering women and girls’ private spaces. The bills mirror President Trump’s recent executive order ‘Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government’ which declared that Federal policy will recognize the “biological reality of sex” and restricts men from entering women’s private spaces in federal agencies and facilities.
NC Values Coalition Press Director Ashley Vaughan applauded the bill, saying, “North Carolina must return to the common sense understanding that men are men, women are women, and men should not be allowed to rob women of their safety and privacy by invading their private spaces. Defining male and female by biology in North Carolina law is important because when men can identify as women it invalidates hundreds of laws and policies designed to protect women. We need to protect women and girls in private spaces where they are vulnerable. North Carolina schools should never allow children to be on the front lines of the gender ideology confusion. And North Carolina correctional facilities must protect female inmates from predatory male inmates claiming to be women. Trump got this right, and now North Carolina needs to get this right.”
If this bill becomes law, NC will join a growing number of states seeking to protect women from the harmful effects of gender ideology. Six states do not allow sex to be changed on birth certificates, and three states define “sex” by biology. Fourteen states have passed laws to segregate private spaces by biology, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just upheld a similar law passed by Idaho unanimously.
The bill introduced today only designate private spaces by biology in K-12 public schools, rape crisis centers, local confinement facilities, domestic violence shelters, juvenile detention centers, and prisons.
The bill sponsors are Sens. Overcash and Sawyer.
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PR: NC Values Praises President Trump’s Executive Orders that Stop Gender Madness
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January 29th, 2025
Contact: Ashley Vaughan
ashley@ncvalues.org
NC VALUES PRAISES PRESIDENT TRUMP’S EXECUTIVE ORDERS THAT STOP GENDER MADNESS
“We are extremely grateful to President Trump for the actions he has taken to curb the transgender madness and restore sanity, science, and safety to American society,” said NC Values Coalition Executive Director Tami Fitzgerald. Since taking office nine days ago, Trump has signed three separate Executive Orders aimed at protecting women, children, and society at large from the harmful effects of gender ideology. NC Values Coalition has been on the front lines of this issue for 9 years, and having the President’s support is extremely helpful to our continued efforts here in North Carolina.
One of NC Values’ top legislative priorities in 2025 is to protect girls and women from the harmful effects of transgender policies that allow men to identify as women and thereby rob them of their dignity, safe spaces, protection under non-discrimination laws, and distinctiveness as women. “North Carolina must stop the gender insanity and return to the common sense understanding that men are men, women are women, and men do not belong in women’s private spaces. Trans- affirming policies harm women and girls, put children on the front lines of the gender confusion battle, and create chaos in general,” said Fitzgerald.
Background: The Executive Order Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government says the Federal government only recognizes two sexes—male and female—and goes on to describe the sexes as immutable categories determined at conception by biology. It also prevents men from using women’s private spaces including bathrooms and locker rooms.
We appreciate that the Executive Order Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness not only contains a directive for the Pentagon to determine a policy for transgender service members, but also prohibits men from using women’s private spaces in military facilities.
Yesterday Trump signed the order titled Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation which says that the federal government will not fund, promote, or support chemical and surgical mutilation for the purpose of transitioning a person under 19 years of age from one sex to the other sex for. It goes on to say that these treatments leave the children with costly medical bills, regret, and sometime result in sterility. The executive order also directs the Office of Management and Budget to ensure that institutions receiving Federal research or education grants end chemical and surgical mutilation of children. In addition, the Secretary of HHS is instructed to end chemical and surgical mutilation of children through HHS programs, and the Department of Defense is instructed to end chemical and surgical mutilation of children in the TriCare system.
NC Values played a pivotal role in ending gender affirming care for minors in North Carolina when the Republican-led General Assembly enacted a law barring medical professionals from providing hormone therapy, puberty-blockers and gender-transition surgeries to anyone under 18 in 2023. President Trump’s executive order carries this out at the federal level.
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