SPEAK UP
Gender identity ideology has created a profound public health crisis and medical scandal. If Democrats want to continue to be the party that protects children, women, and other at-risk groups, rank-and-file Democratic voters are going to need to object loudly, creatively, and relentlessly. Help DIAG bring our fellow Democrats back to reality using the following options:
WRITE: USE OUR LETTER TEMPLATES
WRITE YOUR LEGISLATORS
Download the Legislator Letter Template (Word doc)
Documents released as a result of the lawsuit challenging Alabama’s ban on sex-trait modification for minors exposed collusion between WPATH, HHS Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine, Johns Hopkins, and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). These communications show a cover up of the glaring lack of evidence of safety and efficacy for these interventions and a push from both the AAP and Admiral Levine to remove age limits in order to reduce the risk of lawsuits and political push-back.
Use our template letter to let your legislator know that it’s past time for a bipartisan commission to investigate this medical scandal and HHS’ involvement.
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WRITE TO YOUR LOCAL GENDER CLINIC
Download the WPATH Files Letter Template (Word doc)
The WPATH Files have exposed the profound lack of ethics and poor medical practice within WPATH. Use our letter template to let U.S. gender clinics know that we're paying attention and that the days of hiding behind WPATH are over.
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Search online for the gender clinics in your state that post on their website that they adhere to the guidelines developed by WPATH. These statements will look something like this example from Oregon’s OHSU “Transgender Health Program”:
“OHSU providers follow World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Standards of Care, Version 8.”
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Copy your local clinic’s WPATH statements and use them to customize our letter template (above). Mail or email your note to the clinical staff and hospital administrators.
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WRITE TO JOURNALISTS WHO SPREAD MISINFORMATION
Download the Facts for Journalists Letter Template (Word doc)
Journalists in radio, print, and television news have utterly failed to do their jobs when it comes to reporting on gender (we're looking at you NPR, WaPo, and NYT). It's maddening to read articles that sound like a collection of repeated slogans rather than honorable investigative reporting.
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Use our template letter to let these journalists know their false narrative and shoddy reporting aren't acceptable.
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REPLY TO THE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE (DCCC)
Download the DCCC Letter Template (Word doc)
While this letter is for the DCCC, any of the various Democratic organizations seeking your donation and support for candidates need to hear this message, so customize it as needed. Let our Party officials know that their policies promoting gender ideology are unfounded, unethical, and unpopular.
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WRITE TO THOSE ONCE REVERED ORGS AND USE THEIR OWN DONOR ENVELOPES
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Remember the good old days, back before your favorite orgs branded you a right-wing, hate-filled bigot? You’d proudly slip a check into those donor envelopes that, along with their passionate, pleading letters, seemed to arrive every other day. Planned Parenthood, ACLU, Southern Poverty Law Center, Human Rights Campaign, and the Democratic Party all need our feedback about where they’ve got it wrong. So instead of sending their prepaid envelopes straight to the recycling bin, or placing an angry “take me off your mailing list!” call, put them to good use! Spread the word on biological reality and evidence-based medicine on their dime. Customize and print our letters or write your own and mail them in. Don’t forget to let them know where your donations are going now that they’ve decided that promoting the medical harm of young people is a winning strategy.
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Download the ACLU donation envelope letter (Word doc)
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Download the SPLC donation envelope letter (Word doc)
HIT REPLY​
Before you delete or unsubscribe from the mountain of emails from candidates or orgs begging for donations, or volunteer time, or asking polling questions, hit the Reply button, explain why you are not donating, and link them to the DIAG website.
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Some examples:
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The ACLU has discredited itself and its legacy through political partisanship and advocating for censorship. Your organization has replaced philosophical principles with political ideologies, and can no longer call itself a defender of free speech. Your own employees advocate publicly for book banning. Your website calls sex-trait modification for minors “medically necessary” but the ACLU is not a medical provider, scientist, or psychiatrist. To regain its integrity, the ACLU needs to go back to its roots — protecting first amendment rights.
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I understand that Planned Parenthood is the nation’s second largest provider of cross-sex hormones, and operates on the “informed-consent” model, putting the responsibility for understanding the full risks of harm on the patient — no full disclosure required. Your organization requires no physician referral and for those 18 or older, it can take as little as a short virtual session to get a prescription for hormones. Planned Parenthood also provides ideology-based sex-education training for high schools, with inaccurate and anti-science messaging. I’m not sure when Planned Parenthood stopped focusing on female reproductive healthcare, but I’m not interested in donating to an organization responsible for so much medical harm to young people.
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DNC/DEM CANDIDATES: As a lifelong Democratic voter I can no longer support the party due to their stance on the harmful medicalization of gender-confused children; the wrongful hitching of the T to the LGB wagon; their lost grasp on biological reality. I cannot support the party’s anti-science movement that undermines the sex-based rights and safety of women.
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The SPLC advocates for the placement of violent male offenders in women’s prisons simply because they say they are female. This compromises the safety and dignity of women prisoners, puts all incarcerated women at risk, and denies biological reality. The SPLC has disgraced itself. Where is your due diligence regarding the known risks and poor evidence base for transing kids? Your organization makes false claims, calling exploratory therapy “conversion therapy,” and continues to promote unproven medical interventions for gender distressed youth.
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DON'T HANG UP
Receiving calls from any of the above? Resist the temptation to throw your phone at the wall! Instead, take these steps before using the above responses:
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Ask if the call is being recorded.
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Explain that you’d like to help the organization understand why you will no longer be donating/contributing.
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Tell the caller you’d be willing to continue the call if they agree to play the recording for their supervisory staff or to pass on your points.
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Proceed to make your case. Be concise and polite. Stick to the facts.
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION (ACLU) TALKING POINTS
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The ACLU has damaged its reputation and its legacy through political partisanship and advocating for censorship.
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The organization has replaced philosophical principles with political ideologies, and can no longer call itself a defender of free speech.
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Your own employee advocated publicly for book banning without any retraction from your organization, and your staff have engaged in illegal judge shopping.
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The ACLU website calls sex-trait modification for minors “medically necessary” but the ACLU is not a medical provider nor does the latest evidence support this statement.
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The ACLU has filed multiple lawsuits allowing male prisoners convicted of rape and murder to transfer to women’s prisons if they claim a trans identity.
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The ACLU has filed multiple lawsuits to overturn state laws that ban sex-trait modification procedures for minors, despite there being no evidence that these medical interventions are safe or effective responses to gender distress.
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To regain its integrity, the ACLU needs to go back to its roots — protecting first amendment rights.
PLANNED PARENTHOOD TALKING POINTS
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I understand that Planned Parenthood is the nation’s second largest provider of cross-sex hormones, and operates on the “informed-consent” model, putting the responsibility for understanding the full risks of harm on the patient.
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The organization requires no physician referral and for those 18 or older, it can take as little as a brief virtual session to get a prescription for opposite-sex hormones.
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These serious interventions have been proven to lack any evidence-base.
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Planned Parenthood’s ideology-based sex-education training includes inaccuracies that obscure biological reality.
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Planned Parenthood has stopped focusing on female reproductive healthcare, and believes that men can become women and women can become men. I cannot trust an organization that doesn’t know what a woman is.
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I won’t donate to an organization that doesn’t support the sex-based rights of women and girls.
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE (DNC) TALKING POINTS
Despite being a lifelong Democratic voter, I am at the point of leaving the party because the DNC supports…/I cannot vote for any candidate who supports…
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Medicalization of gender-confused children.
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Prioritization of the feelings of men who claim a trans identity over the rights and safety of women.
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Housing male sex offenders and murderers in female prisons.
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The decimation of protections for women as a sex-class. The American electorate does not support the inclusion of the nebulous concept of “gender identity” under Title IX, but the Democratic party continues to push this change that undermines women’s rights.
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER (SPLC) TALKING POINTS
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The SPLC advocates for the placement of male offenders — many of them rapists and murderers — in women’s prisons simply because they say they are women. This compromises the safety and dignity of female prisoners and puts all incarcerated women as well as female prison guards at risk.
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The SPLC falsely claims that standard exploratory therapy is “conversion therapy” and continues to promote harmful, unproven medical interventions for gender-distressed youth.
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The SPLC wrongly portrays organizations advocating for evidence-based care for gender distressed youth as “hate groups.”
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The SPLC has been given an “F” rating by CharityWatch for hoarding its donations.
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PETITIONS AND OTHER ACTIONS
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Looking for a quick, easy way to take action? This is the place to find ballot measures, petitions, phone campaigns, and national and international calls to action to support. Some require only a click or a phone call. Send us an email to let us know if we’ve missed any!
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Tell Congress to Investigate Planned Parenthood
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Planned Parenthood is a chief source of drug therapy prescriptions for minors and young adults seeking to present themselves as the opposite sex. Detransitioners, including those featured in IWF’s Identity Crisis series, have described how, when experiencing confusion about their identity, they reached out to Planned Parenthood and were quickly prescribed life-altering drugs. Planned Parenthood received in excess of $500 million in taxpayer funding in 2023—so these “treatments” are being paid for at least in part by your taxpayer dollars.
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Send a message to Congress to investigate how Planned Parenthood is misusing your taxpayer dollars and has become one of the country’s largest suppliers of these hormones and other therapies that are destroying the healthy bodies of so many vulnerable young women and men.
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Petition to Urge President Biden to Prohibit the Use of Puberty Blockers
Following release of The Cass Review, England’s National Health Care Service (NHS) announced a ban on puberty blockers for delaying puberty in gender distressed teens. This decision was made due to concerns about their long-term effects and lack of evidence supporting their safety. Sign this petition from Genspect U.S. to urge the Biden Administration to follow suit.
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Good Wardens Petition/Open Letter
Good Wardens, a coalition of parent-led safeguarding organizations, seeks an end to the indoctrination and medicalization of children in the name of gender identity ideology. Sign their open letter to the world’s health regulators and policymakers asking them to cease and desist from their reliance on WPATH as an arbiter of ethical, evidence-based medical treatment for those with transgender ideation.
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NOT OUR CRIMES (A Petition For Accurate Data Reporting In Criminal Statistics)
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“Crime Statistics are rendered useless if violent and sexual attacks committed by biological men are recorded as female crimes.”
-JK Rowling
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The goal of the petition is to call attention to the reporting inaccuracy of criminal statistics as it pertains to women (XX) and men (XY). Statistical inaccuracies related to gender identity affect the reliability and validity of crime data, significantly impacting research outcomes, policy decisions, and the understanding of gender identity issues and can also further isolate female victims of sexual abuse and assault.
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Rachel Levine has deliberately endangered America’s children—putting politics ahead of children’s health.
Newly unsealed court documents show that as one of President Biden’s top health officials, Levine pressured WPATH to drop age restrictions for sex-trait modification interventions. The group opened the door to invasive, irreversible, and harmful surgeries and drugs for the youngest children.
Levine’s demands were politically motivated and showed no concern for medical evidence or ethics. As the documents show, Levine worried that age restrictions would cause more states to pass laws protecting children. But health officials shouldn’t be focused on promoting political demands. They should be focused on protecting patients — especially vulnerable and innocent young people.
Call on President Biden to fire Rachel Levine. Anything less will send the message that politics matter more than children’s health. America’s children should always come first.