Attorney Arrested After Opposing Trans Treatments for Kids Speaks Out
The Supreme Court's decision to affirm Tennessee's ban on so called 'Gender Affirming Care' was a victory for people like
activist/attorney Lois McLatchie Miller. On June 6, police in Brussels, Belgium arrested her and child protection advocate Chris Elston (aka 'Billboard Chris') for peacefully displaying signs promoting the protection of children against transgender medical treatments. Their signs read 'Children are never born in the wrong body' and 'Children cannot consent to puberty blockers.' The pair went to the EU capital to engage members of the European Parliament about the dangers of puberty blockers for children. On this episode of Lighthouse Faith podcast, Miller, an attorney for Alliance Defending Freedom International, reacts to the Justices' decision, and also talks about her experiences being arrested for standing up for her deeply held beliefs that 'children are made in the image of God, and they are made as beings that should be loved and cherished.' Miller shares how instead of addressing the mob threatening them, the police arrested the two holding signs. She says it's a blatant example of how deep Western culture has aligned itself with the transgender movement and pushes back aggressively against any who challenge its orthodoxy.
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