The barbaric practice of mutilating girls' genitalia is banned in the U.S. Now this little-noticed law may be what saves teens from the butchers behind the profitable child “sex change” industry.

But if rabid LGBTQ radicals pass the “Equality Act,” children will become pawns while their doctors sport around in their expensive cars.

Once again, Faith & Liberty is helping to lead the fight to protect America’s children. Read on to learn what we’ve uncovered and how YOU can help defend the innocent from the LGBTQ mafia’s child mutilation plans. — Your Faith & Liberty team

Don’t let the radicals butcher even one more child. Fax Congress NOW and demand they VOTE NO on HR 15.

Layla Jayne was just 11 years old when, after watching a series of social media videos, she diagnosed herself as having “gender dysphoria.” Layla’s mother took her to a doctor seeking help.

The doctor met with Layla just twice — once for 30 minutes and once for 75 minutes — before presenting Layla’s parents with a false dilemma: Would they rather have a live son or a dead daughter?

Terrified for their child’s life, the parents agreed to allow doctors to put Layla on puberty blockers and testosterone at age 12. At the tender age of 13, Layla underwent a radical double mastectomy.

“These are decisions I will have to live with for the rest of my life,” says Layla, now 18. She is suing the Kaiser Permanente doctors and staff who ruined her body “so that no other child has to go through the torment I went through at the hands of doctors I should have been able to trust.”

It turns out the doctors who butchered Layla weren’t just reckless. They were operating illegally under both federal and California state law.

Child sex-change surgeries on women under the age of 18 are a violation of federal and many state laws. Hospitals, doctors, and even parents who authorize this monstrous butchery of the female body can face federal prison, as well as state charges and additional prison sentences.

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is defined by U.S. law as “any procedure performed for non-medical reasons that involves partial or total removal of, or other injury to, the external female genitalia.”

Like the once-performed lobotomies — driving an ice pick into the brains of patients, claiming the mutilation would “cure” rebellious behavior — FGM was practiced in the United States throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, claiming it would cure “hysteria, depression, and nymphomania.”

The barbaric practice of FGM was first federally banned in 1996 after waves of Islamic immigrants of African origin began flooding into the United States, and immigrant girls inundated emergency rooms, suffering from the grotesque mutilation forced upon them.

FGM is a standard practice in many African countries where the sexual organs of young females are sliced off in adherence to Islamic practices. The Shafai'I school of Sunni Islam and the Dawoodi Bohra branch of Shia Islam require that all women undergo FGM. The Maliki, Hanafi, and Hanbali schools of Sunni Islam consider FGM a virtue.

However, a U.S. district judge overturned the 1996 ban in 2017. Shortly thereafter, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) took action to protect young women, sponsoring the bipartisan bill “Stop FGM Act of 2020.” Former President Donald Trump signed the bill into law January 5, 2021.

As a result, 18 US Code Sec. 116 prohibits Female Genital Mutilation, making it a federal felony, punishable by fines and up to 10 years in prison for aiding and abetting genital mutilation or removal surgery in girls under the age of 18. The law specifically notes that hospitals, doctors, people who transport a minor to surgery, and even parents who authorize the surgery are guilty of a felony, punishable by fines and prison.

Even the U.S. State Department warns against FGM, saying in part:

“The U.S. Government opposes FGM/C, no matter the type, degree, or severity, and no matter what the motivation for performing it. The U.S. Government understands that FGM/C may be carried out in accordance with traditional beliefs and as part of adulthood initiation rites. Nevertheless, the U.S. Government considers FGM/C to be a serious human rights abuse, and a form of gender-based violence and child abuse.”

FGM is also banned in 41 states, many with higher penalties than the federal law. In Virginia, for instance, FGM practitioners face up to 100,000 dollars in fines and life in prison.

The federal law specifies, “It shall not be a defense to a prosecution under this section that female genital mutilation is required as a matter of religion, custom, tradition, ritual, or standard practice.” In fact, the ONLY allowance federal law makes is if FGM is “necessary to the health of the person on whom it is performed.”

Child Sex-Change Surgeries are, by definition, Female Genital Mutilation, and they are not medically necessary. But that’s not stopping hospitals and surgeons from cashing in. The social media-driven wave of “gender dysphoria” diagnosis has created a cash cow for those willing to slice healthy tissue and organs from troubled adolescents.

HR 15 would MANDATE that hospitals and medical professionals be COMPELLED to participate in child mutilation. And HR 15 revokes religious protections under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

STOP the Butchering Our Children! Demand Congress VOTE NO on HR 15!

Please also consider helping fund our crucial work as we fight to overturn bans on Christian counseling that has been shown to successfully resolve gender dysphoria and unwanted same-sex attractions without mutilating children’s bodies.

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Your missionaries to Washington, DC,

Peggy Nienaber, Vice President
Mat Staver, Chairman
Rev. Gregory Cox, Senior Pastor

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Billauer, Barbara Pfeffer. “Trans, Detrans, & Lawsuits Determining the Standard of Care.” American Council on Science and Health, April 13, 2023. Acsh.org/news/2023/04/13/trans-detrans-lawsuits-determining-standard-care-16986.

Cook, Michael. “California Teen Sues Doctors over Breast-Removal Surgery at 13.” BioEdge, April 4, 2023. Bioedge.org/featured/california-teen-sues-doctors-over-breast-removal-surgery-at-13/.

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“STOP FGM Act of 2020 (2021 - H.R. 6100).” GovTrack. Accessed August 8, 2023. Govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr6100.

“U.S. Government Fact Sheet on Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting (FGM/C).” U.S. Department of State — Bureau of Consular Affairs. Accessed August 9, 2023. Travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/fact-sheet-on-female-genital-mutilation-or-cutting.html.

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