FRC's Dr. Jennifer Bauwens to Speak at Do Not Harm SCOTUS Rally

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 3, 2024
CONTACT: J.P. Duffy or Alice Chao, (866) FRC-NEWS or (866)-372-6397

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Tomorrow, December 4, Dr. Jennifer Bauwens, Family Research Council's Director of the Center for Family Studies, will be speaking at a rally in support of Tennessee's Senate Bill 1 (SB 1). SB 1 is a commonsense protection for minors from "gender transition" procedures that often result in sterilization and life-long medicalization. Dr. Bauwens has a Ph.D. from New York University and has worked extensively as a researcher and a clinician providing trauma-focused treatment to children in foster-care and adults who have experienced interpersonal and collective traumas. In her role at FRC, she researches and advocates for policies that will best serve the health and well-being of families and communities. She has also testified before Congress regarding "gender transition" procedures.

The rally will take place in front of the U.S. Supreme Court before and during the oral arguments in U.S. v. Skrmetti.

FRC, which worked with on-the-ground allies in Arkansas to pass the first such bill in the nation in 2021, submitted an amicus brief in this case, demonstrating that the American medical societies who support gender transition procedures on minors are motivated by politics and ideology. The amicus brief demonstrates that medical societies are recklessly ignoring the data, citing only a handful of slipshod studies that failed to control for relevant variables or to reach statistically or clinically significant results. Meanwhile, medical societies in Western Europe continue to put the brakes on performing experimental "gender transition" procedures on minors.

WHO: Dr. Jennifer Bauwens, FRC's Director of the Center for Family Studies

WHAT: Do No Harm rally

WHEN: This Wednesday, December 4^th starting at 8am ET

WHERE: In person, in front of the U.S. Supreme Court: 1 First St NE, Washington, DC 20543

To read FRC's amicus brief, please see: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-477/328283/20241015134044777_Amicus%20Brief.pdf

To read FRC's publication, Do Not Sterilize Children: Why Physiological Gender Transition Procedures for Minors Should Be Prohibited: https://www.frc.org/issueanalysis/do-not-sterilize-children-why-physiological-gender-transition-procedures-for-minors-should-be-prohibited

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