Saturday PITT Review - July 21 to July 25, 2025
Welcome to the PITT weekly roundup where you’ll find a list of the week’s postings along with links to some of our favorite books, videos, social media, and podcasts. Please continue the fight against the harms of gender ideology by sharing.
Access to all PITT content is free. Our objective is to inform the public of the devastating impact of gender ideology on families through our personal experiences. And it’s working - support for transitioning of children and distressed young adults is crumbling due to evidence-based findings.
Quote of the Week from The Different Layers of Mourning: “That’s the part I can’t stop grieving: the magic of our connection. Gone was that whimsy. Gone was that sense of mischief and play when he was around me. In its place came distance, snarls, accusations and confusion. A regression into adolescence—without the innocence.”
PITT POSTS THIS WEEK:
Friday, July 25: PITT: Now supported by Genspect
Thursday, July 24: The Different Layers of Mourning
Wednesday, July 23: Grandma restricted from contact with trans identifying grandson
Tuesday, July 22: Kicking It Down the Line
Monday, July 21: There Is Still Hope—If We Speak Out
IN THE NEWS
So much good news this week in the fight to stop “gender affirming care”, i.e. the mutilation of young bodies. Just a few of the many stories below….
Trump signs order to end federal support for gender transitions for people under 19 National Review, July 17, 2025
The Department of Health and Human Services will soon begin the rule-making process to prohibit the federal government from directly funding sex-trait modifications for minors through Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
Kaiser Permanente to pause gender-affirming surgeries for patients younger than 19, The Hill, July 24, 2025
Kaiser Permanente will pause gender-affirming surgeries for patients younger than 19 years beginning next month, the nonprofit health giant said Wednesday. “After significant deliberation and consultation with internal and external experts including our physicians, we’ve made the difficult decision to pause surgical treatment for patients under the age of 19 in our hospitals and surgical centers. This pause is effective August 29, 2025,” the health care nonprofit said. “All other gender-affirming care treatment remains available. We continue to meet with regulators as well as our clinicians, patients, their families, and the community with the goal of identifying a responsible path forward.”
Hospitals Are Limiting Gender Treatment for Trans Minors, Even in Blue States New York Times, July 22, 2025
Nothing remarkable about this coverage from the NYT, but the comments show the zeitgeist is shifting. A few examples:
This must be the only good thing coming out of the Trump administration. Children do not have the maturity to change their bodies irreversibly.
While I sympathize with these children and their parents, we must acknowledge that puberty is an essential process for the the full and healthy physical, psychological and sexual development of a human being.
It’s unfortunate that this article didn’t include the information previously published in the NYT about Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy not releasing results of her NIH funded study.
I would like to see The New York Times question the American Academy of Pediatrics
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I love Dr. McHugh's statement about coerced compliance with the patients' delusion, but actually all narcissists do this. They try to force people around them to treat the narcissists' false selves as real. Narcissists tend to go into rages and performative self-pity when other people see their underlying weaknesses, inadequacies and psych problems. In my opinion, "trans" identified men act the way they do primarily because so many of them are narcissistic, and not because they are "trans."