From Cradle to Clinic: Is Your Newborn GenderQueer?

How soon is too soon to ask a child whether he is GenderQueer? For the state of New Jersey, the question is preposterous—because you can ask his parents on the day of his birth. That’s the effect of a New Jersey law, signed into law via Bill A4385.

As a result, Inspira Health facilities in New Jersey greet new parents by giving them a questionnaire on the gender and sexual attractions of their newborn baby:

President and CEO Amy Mansue seemed excited about the questionnaire in a 2023 press release:

We are required to report this data to the New Jersey Department of Health, which shares it with the federal government. The goal is to carefully review how health care is delivered and to identify disparities and unconscious biases.

In rational times, such a questionnaire would only be used to determine whether a child needed to be taken away from his parents. After all, anyone who states their newborn child is transgender is a danger to the infant. While it is known that deranged parents are often chiefly responsible for children choosing to claim to be the other sex (when it’s not the school system), it’s shocking that parental choosing would be something so encouraged by those who promote this ideology. Moreover, such a survey attempts to sexualize the child at birth, and to get parents/caregivers thinking about children in a grotesque way.

The survey is supposed to help discover “unconscious biases,” but really, it creates them. It causes people to look at a healthy girl or boy and to evaluate every minor choice the child makes, so as to discover a mythical health condition: that a child’s brain is a different sex to the rest of his body. The moment a girl reaches for a Batman toy or a boy reaches for a doll, they are to be pathologized. Thereafter, the child will be told of his brokenness, his “condition” for which the supposed fix is mutilation and puberty blockers. So the child is indoctrinated, mutilated, and sterilized.

The survey further inquires as to the child’s attractions, but children do not have sexual desires. Projecting such appetites onto them is grotesque and depraved. Even if we accept the notion that homosexuals are “born that way,” how could one know of such before he is old enough to experience sexual attraction? Of course, such claims about children being born homosexual ignore the reality about people with same-sex attraction so often being raised in homes with domineering mothers, absent/neglectful fathers, and various types of abuse. It further marginalizes those who have healed and who no longer experience same-sex attraction.

It’s worth emphasizing that this is not limited to infants. The data collection law applies to everyone who seeks healthcare in New Jersey. They want detailed demographic data on everyone who seeks healthcare. Apparently the bill emerged during COVID as authorities were studying why black Americans were having different outcomes. Thus, government data collection can be used to pressure private healthcare organizations into engaging in ideological warfare. The data can then be used to make grandiose conclusions based upon self-identified characteristics.

There’s something particularly dehumanizing and degrading about considering a person’s sexual attractions when they are being seen for a cold. Sure, if sexually transmitted diseases are being considered, the patient’s sexual history becomes relevant. But most people do not wish to be sexualized by strangers when getting mundane medical help.

This obsession with sexuality is not confined to paperwork—it’s a lens through which modern society increasingly views the human person. Our modern world has become hyper-fixated on the sexual. For all of the longstanding accusations that Christians talk about sexual ethics too much, sex dominates in atheistic environments, where promiscuity and degenerate acts proliferate. More interestingly, people are less able to see each other for their inherent value and uniqueness. Hypersexualization reduces all human relationships and affects how people see each other—as sexual objects. Reducing man to the merely carnal is an inherent consequence of a culture that no longer sees the human person as made in the image of God, but as a thing to be managed, molded, and consumed.

This sexualization has a net result of leaving people feeling isolated because their connections are vapid. They can intuit the hollowness of their relationships and are thus engulfed in loneliness. Turning to the Internet, they find neither reprieve nor fulfillment. The Internet saps the intimacy of true human connection.

When even children are seen through a sexual lens, society is distorted. The very idea that an entire healthcare network would generate such a survey and present it to new parents should give us pause. Can it really be true that nobody found this to be unconscionable?

At least some state congressmen are trying to get this fixed, with NJ Congressman Jefferson Van Drew stating, “We are talking about newborns who are just minutes old, and already, the state government is trying to push its radical narrative on them.” It’s more than a radical narrative, it’s a redefinition of who they are, based upon a perverse ideology that is unable to acknowledge human dignity. It takes a child from birth and rewrites him as a sexual object, to be molded according to adult delusions, until he’s dependent on cross-sex hormones and forced to keep a surgically constructed wound from healing.