Minnesota True

By Sara Ronnevik

In the past ten years, a tidal wave of false ideology about gender and the body has swept throughout the world. In America these lies have become the standard operating framework for school counselors, therapists and doctors as they often encourage social and medical transitions, but abhor the idea of helping a child to love and be comfortable with his or her natural body and natural gender. Many of the children who were transitioned are now reaching adulthood and regretting the irreversible harm that was done to their bodies under the counsel of people who should have been protecting and caring for them.

Clementine Breen, a current student at UCLA, began to take puberty blockers at age 12 and underwent a double mastectomy at the age of 14. Like many girls with gender and sexuality issues at adolescence, Breen experienced both sexual abuse by someone outside of her family, and physical abuse from an autistic older brother when she was a young girl. Yet no one looked into her past experiences or her need for healing from those traumas. Her “gender affirming” doctor, Johannah Olson-Kennedy even told her that her mastectomy was reversible. No one explained to Breen that she would never be able to breastfeed and might become infertile from the use of testosterone. Breen filed a medical negligence lawsuit against Olson-Kennedy on December 5th, 2024 in California. (Watch this Brett Cooper video for more on The Growing Regret Among Trans Teens).

Meanwhile, back in 2023, Governor Walz declared that Minnesota is now a “Trans-Refuge State” and DFL lawmakers enacted legislation to ensure that Minnesota will protect the industry of pediatric transgender surgeries and medications. It needs to be stated very clearly that there are currently no states banning transgender surgeries or medications for adults. So being a Trans-Refuge State is 100% about medically transitioning children. Many states in the US and countries in Europe are passing laws to restrict sex reassignment surgeries, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones for children based on the testimonies of detransitioners, and studies that show no positive long-term outcome for those who undergo these procedures. The anxiety, depression and suicidal tendencies are statistically unchanged after transitioning. And furthermore, transitioners are left with a damaged body that can never be restored should they wish to be reconciled to their natural gender. Denmark restricted medical transitions for children in 2023 and the UK in 2024. But here in Minnesota, our DFL legislators are continuing to double down on support for these horrific procedures.

According to the Minnesota Legislature website, the Trans-Refuge laws “prevent out-of-state laws from interfering in the practice of gender-affirming health care here.” They also “give Minnesota courts jurisdiction in most situations where a child is present in Minnesota for the purpose of obtaining gender-affirming care.” Included in this legislation, the state of Minnesota may even claim temporary emergency jurisdiction of a child who ‘has been unable to obtain gender-affirming health care as defined in section 548.415’.

So, yes, you read that right. According to Minnesota law, the state can take “emergency” custody of a child under the age of 18 if the child has been:

• abandoned
• abused
• unable to obtain a mastectomy on healthy breasts, castration, puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones

Minnesota’s position as a Trans-Refuge state is very clearly promoting and protecting trans-medicine and surgeries for children. This is evil masquerading as compassion, and must be called out. Gender-transitions not only permanently damage healthy bodies, they also create life-long medical patients. It is no surprise that after Covid, when hospitals lost large amounts of money, it has become standard for most hospitals to have a “gender-affirming” department. These clinics are hardly concerned about the long-term health of the people whom they transition. They know that every medical transitioner is signing up for decades of medication and surgeries.

Some people wonder how we got here. As our culture has moved recklessly from one stage of sexual autonomy to the next, you might be wondering what comes after this. Besides the logical step of identifying as an animal rather than a human, there is also going to be a push for the public acceptance of pedophilia. If the culture can accept that a child has the authority to change his or her gender, then a child should also have the authority to be engaged in a ‘consenting’ sexual relationship with an adult. Again, the DFL lawmakers are already testing out the waters here. In 2023 they struck language from an anti-discrimination law that excluded pedophilia as a protected category of sexual orientation. The law formerly read: “Sexual orientation does not include a physical or sexual attachment to children by an adult.” But this sentence was deliberately removed, leaving open the possibility that sexual orientation can include a physical or sexual attachment to children by an adult.

We don’t have to go there. But we absolutely have to stop trying to CoEXisT peacefully with lies. We must say the truth out loud in public places. And I am hopeful that if the adults don’t do it, Gen Z and Alpha will. The girls who have been forced to change in front of a boy in their locker room are feeling justly violated. The California high school students who were given detention for wearing “Save Girls Sports” shirts are all the more determined to rebel against the adults in authority. And the detransitioners who are coming of age are revolting against the ideology that harmed them.

Is there healing for those harmed by gender transitions? Yes! In Jesus there is hope and healing for a life scarred by transgender ideology. God created our bodies with meaning and purpose. He made us male and female. We must help children love and care for their natural bodies.

1 Peter 2:24

(Calligraphy by L. Courtright)