by Abigail Nichols, TheFederalist.com

Multiple states have laws that allow kids to go across state lines to get “gender” mutilation surgeries while simultaneously protecting medical providers from being held accountable. To help put an end to such practices, citizens in the so-called “trans refuge state” of Minnesota initiated the call for a coalition to unify states and legislatures against child mutilation.

A pastor, a homeschool mother of six, and other Americans joined members from the Republican state delegation in 2024, launching an effort to form “The Cornerstone Standard Coalition of States.” The goal is to “unify this great nation” on the fundamental issue of “protecting children.”

Cornerstone’s “standard for such a coalition corrects the terminology used in our social discussion around these issues and the use of terms like ‘gender-affirming care’ and calls it as they see it: ‘child mutilation,’” Michael Adamovich, a liberal (but not “woke”) Democrat and one of the founders of the Cornerstone Group, told The Federalist. As such, the coalition Cornerstone advocates for would maintain it is “a serious criminal offense to administer so-called ‘transgender healthcare’ to minors,” and seek to enforce laws against those who “perpetrate these serious crimes.” Cornerstone seeks the formation of “a coalition among the States and Counties of this nation who hold these beliefs in common cause to protect children.”

In an April memo on “preventing the mutilation of American children,” Attorney General Pam Bondi directed the DOJ “to enforce rigorous protections and hold accountable those who prey on vulnerable children and their parents.” In part, she called for the “enforcement of laws outlawing female genital mutilation” and the establishment of a “federal and state coalition against child mutilation.” She said the DOJ was launching the “Attorney General’s Coalition Against Child Mutilation,” by which she would “partner with state attorneys general to identify leads, share intelligence, and build cases against hospitals and practitioners violating federal or state laws banning female genital mutilation and other, related practices.”

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