PR: “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act” passes in House and advances in Senate
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April 19, 2023
Contact: Laura Macklem
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“FAIRNESS IN WOMEN’S SPORTS ACT” PASSES IN HOUSEAND ADVANCES IN SENATE”
NC Values’ Executive Director Tami Fitzgerald made a statement today about the passage of “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act”:
“NC Values has been working for three years to advance a bill to guarantee a level playing field for girls in sports. Allowing biological males who identify as women to compete against girls in sports puts an end to women’s sports, takes away girls’ opportunities, and jeopardizes their safety. Today, Committees in both the House and Senate and the House as a whole, voted to allow females a level playing field in sports, upholding their rights under Title IX, which affords them fairness in sports. NC Values is thankful Riley Gaines and Payton McNabb worked closely with us and testified about this important legislation. I want to thank Representatives Jennifer Balkcom, Erin Pare, Kristin Baker and Senators Kevin Corbin, Vickie Sawyer, and Joyce Krawiec for being the lead sponsors on this bill to protect biological female athletes in North Carolina. We encourage the Senate to act quickly to pass this bill and join the 21 other states that have already protected fairness for women in sports.”
*Riley Gaines is a spokesperson for Independent Women’s Voice, and was a 12x All-American Swimmer at the University of Kentucky. Riley has made waves for speaking out after tying U-Penn swimmer Lia Thomas, a biological male swimmer on the women’s team, at the 2022 NCAA Division 1 Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships.
*Payton McNabb is from Cherokee, NC and played volleyball at Hiwassee Dam High School until she was severely injured after a transgender biological male spiked a ball in her face. She still faces partial paralysis in her hand, suffers vision, memory, and neck problems and host of other physical challenges.
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PR: “Medical Ethics Defense Act” would protect conscience rights of medical professionals
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April 5, 2023
Contact: Laura Macklem
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“MEDICAL ETHICS DEFENSE ACT” WOULD PROTECT CONSCIENCE RIGHTS OF MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS
“The Medical Ethics Defense Act” (MED Act) was introduced today to protect the conscience rights of medical professionals and entities from being forced to provide any health care service which violates their conscience. Nine out of 10 religious medical professionals say they would rather stop practicing medicine than violate their beliefs.”
“Every American has a Constitutional right to operate according to their moral, ethical, and religious beliefs, and medical professionals are no different,” said NC Values’ Executive Director Tami Fitzgerald. “There has been an attack on the ethics and personal beliefs of medical professionals, driving out doctors, nurses and other entities from medical practice, and this bill would shield them from discrimination while stopping the hemorrhage of people leaving the profession.”
According to a survey of members of faith-based medical organizations, 23% of respondents reported personally experiencing discrimination, and 20% decided against a career in certain fields due to a lack of tolerance for their moral, ethical or religious beliefs; 80% of those respondents chose not to pursue an OBGYN specialty. Thirty-six percent of medical students say they were pressured or discriminated against by medical school administrators or faculty based on their beliefs.
SB 641 would protect medical practitioners and entities from discrimination, punishment, or retaliation for exercising their rights of conscience. It would also insulate healthcare payers and institutions from financial responsibility for health care services which violate their conscience rights. This legislation would give a private right of action to any party harmed by MED Act violations.
Said Fitzgerald, “We thank Senators Ralph Hise, Buck Newton, and Norm Sanderson for sponsoring the MED Act which would protect the Constitutional rights of medical professionals and institutions dedicated to medical care for patients.”
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Press Kit: Youth Health Protection Act
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April 5, 2023
Contact: Laura Macklem
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Electronic Press Kit
“YOUTH HEALTH PROTECTION ACT” WOULD SHEILD MINORS FROM DANGEROUS GENDER TRANSITION SURGERIES AND TREATMENTS
North Carolina children would be protected from genital mutilation and irreversible damage from gender transitioning surgeries and chemical castration, if the “Youth Health Protection Act” is successful in the NC General Assembly. Today, Senators Ralph Hise, Norman Sanderson and Buck Newton introduced SB 639 to prevent medical professionals from administering procedures including sterilization, mastectomies, castrations, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and other life-altering procedures and treatments on gender-confused children.
“In 2019 female genital mutilation on minors was outlawed in North Carolina, with both the House and Senate voting unanimously,” said NC Values Coalition Executive Director Tami Fitzgerald said. “Now it’s time to extend those protections to all children and to prohibit puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones and surgeries which can have life-altering consequences.
“I’m grateful Senators Hise, Sanderson and Newton are standing in the gap between innocent, confused young people and the gender transitioning industry and their activists, to protect them from amputation of healthy body parts and life-altering hormone therapies. North Carolina children deserve a natural childhood with all the typical changes and discoveries, shaping who they will become as individuals without medical professionals manipulating the gender confused to line their pockets, permanently altering the bodies of healthy children.”
Studies indicate the majority of children (84.2%) who struggle with gender dysphoria, revert to identifying with their biological gender, without medical interventions like puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones. Researchers believe the increase in the condition is related to social media, “clusters” in schools, and the culture normalizing gender dysphoria. Hormone altering drugs cause anxiety, depression, joint disorders, bone fractures and other negative effects. One Swedish study found, “Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behavior, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population.”
“What started as an ideology has now become a multi-billion-dollar industry. Gender clinics operating in North Carolina at Duke, UNC, Cone Health, and Levine Children’s Hospital are mutilating patients without scientific proof of the efficacy of gender identity “treatments.” The use of puberty blockers for gender nonconforming children is experimental and not FDA-approved,” said Fitzgerald. “Allowing a child to make decisions on sterilization, amputation of healthy body parts and hormone manipulation is irreversible, irresponsible and immoral. This legislation would insulate children from the activists, companies, and medical professionals who are preying on children for profit.”
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