{"id":84182,"date":"2026-07-07T15:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84182"},"modified":"2026-07-07T15:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:21:12","slug":"presbyterian-church-declares-support-for-body-deforming-trans-surgeries-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/presbyterian-church-declares-support-for-body-deforming-trans-surgeries-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Presbyterian Church Declares Support For Body-Deforming Trans Surgeries For Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> The Christian Post:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Presbyterian Church (USA), the largest Presbyterian denomination in the United States, has passed a measure expressing support for body-deforming sex-change surgeries for youth exhibiting gender dysphoria.<\/p>\n<p>At a plenary session for the PCUSA&#8217;s 227th General Assembly held last week, delegates voted 441-30 in favor of an overture called GEN-02, also known as \u201cOn Access to Healthcare.\u201dThe\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/myga.pc-biz.org\/search\/3001421\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rationale<\/a> for the overture describes so-called \u201cgender-affirming care\u201d as \u201cmedically necessary and evidence based for the well-being of many transgender, non-binary, and gender- expansive people who experience symptoms of gender dysphoria or distress that result from having one\u2019s gender identity not match their sex assigned at birth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Christian Post: The Presbyterian Church (USA), the largest Presbyterian denomination in the United States, has passed a measure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84183,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84182\/revisions\/84183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}