New Year. New Actions.
Plus a brief PA news roundup
PA4SBR wishes all our readers a safe, happy, prosperous, and courageous 2026.
Brief Pennsylvania News
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that a Philly sex shop for adults received a warning letter from FDA for selling breast binders. Breast binders are an FDA Class I medical device and selling them requires a license. Naturally, the article is entirely pro-trans.
PA school district, mother reach settlement in suit involving teen's preferred pronouns. (Thank you to a subscriber for bringing this to PA4SBR’s attention.) The mother filed the lawsuit in April 2025 after she said the district honored her 14-year-old’s wish to go by male pronouns without informing her. We hope this mother receives a substantial financial settlement and that her daughter receives the qualified mental-health treatment that she obviously needs.
As Dear Readers may know, 2026 is an election year. In Pennsylvania, voters will determine control of Pa. legislature, which party sets policy.
A new analysis says Harrisburg is among the least effective legislatures. Some say reform is needed. Shocking!
Finally, Pa.’s list of wacky political party names signals strong third-party impulse.
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New Actions!
LGB Courage Coalition brings us this action:
Last week, Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr announced regulatory action to bar what HHS calls “sex-rejecting” treatment for minors – puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex-trait modification surgeries. The proposed rule would implement Trump’s executive order directing HHS to end such treatments by yanking federal funding from institutions that provide them.
The announcement follows final publication of Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices, a peer-reviewed report commissioned by HHS. The report, Kennedy said, found that pediatric gender treatments “do not meet professionally recognized standards of health care.”
The HHS report and now the proposed rule recognize a lack of solid evidence supporting medical interventions for minors experiencing gender distress. This acknowledgment marks a significant moment: a federal agency rejects gender ideology talking points and defers to scientific caution.
But this is not the end of the story — it’s the beginning of our opportunity to make a proposed rule a reality.
HHS has opened a public comment period on proposed policy changes. We must make sure that voices grounded in evidence, developmental reality, and lived experience are heard. Government agencies do read and consider public comments, especially when they reflect nuanced, scientific, and human-centered perspectives.
LGB Courage Coalition has a sample message you can personalize and submit to HHS.
Gays Against Groomers (GAG) reports on HR 2387, the No Harm Act.
Introduced in the House by Missouri Representative Robert Onder, a physician, this legislation aims to end federal financial support for medical gender transitions for minors. Despite being introduced months ago, the bill has seen no movement. It was referred to four separate committees, including Energy and Commerce and the Judiciary, and has effectively been left to sit without a hearing.
This lack of action allows federal tax dollars to continue funding procedures that many believe are inappropriate for children. Many of our organization’s volunteers grew up not adhering to gendered stereotypes. The push to medicalize children who feel different seems like an attempt to erase the very people the movement originally claimed to protect.
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The No Harm Act is a comprehensive strategy to remove federal incentives and protections for the medical transition of children.
GAG clearly breaks down HR 2387’s primary components here. Warning: GAG includes many photos of mutilated young women in their post. This is what a woman’s chest looks like post-double mastectomy.
Please contact your member of Congress and urge her/him to cosponsor and demand a committee hearing for HR 2387. Find your US representative here.
Remember, our elected officials are deluged with messages from trantifa. They MUST hear our voices too!
Today’s palate cleanser:
h/t: Anonymous subscriber, Bored Panda