“By what authority, Senators, do we permit the preying upon the young, allowing custom to usurp the very justice it was meant to uphold?”

“If a government may not protect its children from harm, then it is not a government but merely an arrangement.”

“When the names of healing and guidance are applied to practices that cause distress, the rectification of names is sorely needed.”

“The petition to protect the vulnerable is sent to a committee, which refers it to a court, which then defers it to an undefined 'local standard'.”

“This society, so eager to proclaim individual liberty, often finds itself hesitant to extend that liberty to the very inclinations of the soul.”

“These disputes over identity and nature will pass, as all things do, into the vast indifference of time.”

“One observes that the professional pride of some practitioners still outweighs the evidence of the harm inflicted, much like the old physicians with their leeches.”

“Freedom is not a debate for the courts, but a path to be walked, regardless of what others declare lawful.”

“The quiet desperation of those told to change their very being hangs in the air, unspoken, yet suffocatingly present.”

“This rejection reveals how deeply certain norms become 'common sense,' even when they serve only to maintain an oppressive order.”

“They call it 'therapy,' a word so abused it now means whatever the powerful wish it to mean, regardless of its original healing intent.”

“In some lands, the law seeks to protect the young from such practices, while in others, the courts permit what elsewhere is forbidden, revealing varied interpretations of justice.”

“Things that are hateful: a court that allows suffering when it could prevent it, and calls it 'freedom.'”

“Another triumph for the professional busybodies and their quack nostrums, proving that the American public will swallow any bilge, so long as it’s wrapped in pious cant.”

“Apparently, the universe has a very particular idea of who people should be, and some very clever men in robes are quite happy to enforce it.”

“It’s a peculiar kind of freedom that allows folks to pay good money to have their children told they ain't quite right, and then calls it 'therapy.'”

“One observes that the legal landscapes, much like the physical ones, vary greatly, some providing shelter while others leave the vulnerable exposed.”

“While the elegant legal theories about individual liberty are debated, actual young lives are being harmed, a cost not tallied in any court's ledger.”