PANEL 1: The Ideology Behind the Laws | Candice Jackson
2025 Rocky Mountain Summit: Medical, Legal, and Policy Perspective Panel
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7m 4s
Travis Morrell asks: “What’s driving legislators and regulators to take one side on gender treatments for kids?” Lawyer and former Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights of the United States Candice Jackson delivers a striking answer. She unpacks what she calls a three-part fraud, pseudo-science, false human rights, and a pseudo-religious belief system that has captured not only medical associations but policymakers, courts, and classrooms. From puberty blockers at age 8 to laws punishing dissenting parents, Jackson warns that this movement thrives on emotional manipulation, institutional complicity, and an unshakable commitment to a utopian fiction.
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