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This Iraq Veteran Has Been Betrayed

Dec 19, 2024

Ryan Clarke is a U.S. Army veteran from the Iraq conflict. When he got back to the U.S., he started seeing changes in his kids that unsettled him. His oldest appeared depressed, and his youngest child, who was 9 at the time, started claiming she was “trans.”

Ryan lost custody of his kids ten years ago, but he was still active in their lives every weekend. He knew the origin of some of his daughter’s ideas. “She had a teacher who was trans in elementary school,” Ryan says. “I think that maybe had a lot of influence on it.”

His youngest daughter is now 12. She recently received her first shot of Lupron, a synthetic hormone. Lupron was initially developed to treat advanced prostate cancer to decrease hormones. Today some gender-bending doctors use this drug to delay puberty. And for this, there is no long-term research on the drug’s effects.

The FDA even issued a warning against off-label use because some children 12 and under contracted a rare condition growth known as pseudotumor cerebri, in which pressure builds inside the skull and appears like a brain tumor. This comes with a very serious side effect.

Without his approval, a judge sided with the mother and allowed this puberty-blocking drug to be given to Ryan’s daughter — even over the risks and Ryan’s strong objections.

These are the kind of judges that Joe Biden is pushing to put on the bench for life. Tell the Senate to block these judges.

“As we go through court, I’m studying Lupron,” Ryan recalled. “I kept an open mind at first, but ultimately, what’s best for my child? It is not this cancer drug. I know that.”

The more Ryan learned, the less he liked the drug. He did everything he could to stop his daughter from taking it. But instead of listening, the judge allowed the mom to move up the second injection of Lupron.

Ryan begged his daughter to NOT go through with it. He even offered “the hardest thing I could have ever said.” He promised his daughter that if she would stop taking the shots, and if she wanted it, he would disappear from her life for as long as she wanted. This offer was heartbreaking, but it was the last thing he had to give. Even that wasn’t enough to save his daughter from this medical/judicial abuse.

We cannot have judges destroying children and families. Federal judges can serve for 40 to 50 years or more. YOUR IMMEDIATE HELP is needed to urge the Senate to stop Joe Biden before it is too late for people like Ryan’s daughter and so many others.

“The worst part about it all is it’s all paid through Medicaid, right? Who pays for Medicaid? The citizens,” Ryan warns. You and I do. “So literally everyone is paying for this child abuse to happen. And nobody really understands or realizes that fact, but that’s what’s happening.”

This Iraq war veteran’s eyes filled with tears as he recounted his family’s painful story. “I feel so betrayed,” he told Catholic News Agency. “I served in Iraq, I went to war for my country — I come back and this is what’s happening to my kids? This is what they’re allowing to happen to my children?”

What is deeply concerning is how quickly this can take a hold of children. No family is safe from these lies!

Ryan was reaching out to everyone who would listen. “I filed for full custody, saying that she’s abusing my children. I’ve called CPS [Child Protective Services]. I’ve called dozens of law firms in my area. But New York is so pro for it, nobody will help me. Even CPS hung up on me. I’m at wit’s end. I don’t know what to do."

For Ryan, the path forward is uncertain. Judges, like the one in his case, are setting a very dangerous precedent, one that could harm many more people beyond Ryan’s daughter. He is trying everything that he can to protect her.

But meanwhile, Biden is nominating an army of judges who are in lockstep with this radical ideology.

We need our senators to stop the judges currently up for nomination. The people have spoken. President Trump should be the one nominating judges — not Joe Biden.

Liberty Counsel Action has worked hard to enact state laws that ban puberty blockers, hormones, and mutilating surgeries on minors. These laws should protect children from this medical and judicial abuse. However, these judges and their radical ideology are the loophole radicals need.

These judges have enormous power. This is why this is so critical.

Mat Staver, Chairman
John Stemberger, President
Liberty Counsel Action

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