New appointment with the column on pro-life victories obtained against the throwaway culture, relating to the period between June and September 2025.

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New episode of our column dedicated to the most significant pro-life and pro-family successes at the global level.

A moment that offers a sign of hope for those who work for life and family, showing concretely the value of their efforts.

Especially in a context where many major media tend to omit these news or tell them in a partial and slanted way.

Periodically, we propose a summary of the most relevant developments in the fight against the so-called “throwaway culture” (Pope Francis) and in favor of the “non-negotiable values” (Benedict XVI), including topics related to ethics, life, family and religious freedom.

Below we report the main news relating to the period from June to September 2025.

 

Pro-life and pro-family victories around the world

 

• PENNSYLVANIA

  The University of Pennsylvania has cancelled the records set by transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, apologizing to the athletes “disadvantaged” by her participation in women’s competitions. It also established that it will not allow men to compete in women’s sports and that it will adopt male and female definitions “based on biology”.

  The university’s School of Medicine announced that the institute’s medical faculty will no longer perform sex-change procedures on minors affected by gender dysphoria.

 

• WASHINGTON

  The Children’s National Hospital, the state’s main hospital, stops prescribing puberty blockers and hormones to children affected by gender dysphoria.

 

• EL SALVADOR

  The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Karla Edith Trigueros, has banned the use of “woke language” (or “inclusive”) in public educational centers and offices. The provision establishes that terms such as “amigue”, “compañere”, “niñe”, “todxs”, “todes”, “alumn@”, “jóvenxs”, “nosotres” nor other linguistic distortions related to gender ideology are allowed. According to the text, the purpose is to consolidate «a clear, coherent and respectful institutional communication» rejecting «ideological or globalist interferences».

 

• NEBRASKA

  Governor Jim Pillen has signed a bill (LB 89) that requires athletes to compete on sports teams that reflect their biological sex rather than their declared gender identity. The law was signed together with the athletes harmed by having suffered unfair sports competition with transgender men.

 

• QUEBEC

  Quebec’s Minister of Public Security, François Bonnardel, announced that detainees with a confused gender identity will be sent to prison facilities based on their biological sex and no longer based on the gender with which they identify.

 

• LOUISIANA

  With 77 votes in favor and 18 against a law is definitively approved that makes anyone who facilitates a chemical abortion liable to civil lawsuits, further suppressing efforts to violate the law that prohibits pregnancy termination except in cases of grave necessity to prevent the mother’s death.

 

• NEW HAMPSHIRE

  The new law prohibits healthcare providers from prescribing puberty blockers and hormone therapy to persons under 18 years of age when such drugs are used by transgender youth as part of a gender transition.

 

• FRANCE

  The French Haute Autorité de santé (HAS) refuses to pronounce on minors who wish to undertake a gender transition, recognizing wide controversies about the advisability of hormonal treatment aimed at delaying puberty.

 

• ILLINOIS

  UChicago Medicine, Chicago’s main hospital, announced the suspension of gender-affirming medicine procedures for transgender minors.

  The hospital of the University of Illinois (UI Health) followed the same decision, in turn followed by Advocate Health Care, a hospital system that manages 11 hospitals and 200 facilities across the state.

 

• WEST VIRGINIA

  A federal appeals court has upheld the near-total abortion ban, including restrictions on the abortion drug mifepristone.

 

• OREGON

  A federal appeals court sided with a Christian mom, Jessica Bates, who was excluded from a state adoption program because of her critical view of gender identity, including disagreement with accepting children’s “preferred pronouns”, taking them to LGBTQ+ Pride events, or to clinics for gender transition procedures.

 

• NETHERLANDS

  Parliament rejected a motion urging the government to promote the recognition of abortion as a human right at the European and international level. The initiative was supported by several parliamentary groups but failed to reach the necessary majority (68 seats out of 150).

 

• VIRGINIA

  The Children’s Hospital of Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth University has stopped providing surgeries and and puberty-blocking medications to individuals with gender dysphoria under the age of 19.

 

• TEXAS

  Planned Parenthood has announced the closure of two of its six centers in the Houston area, Texas, including the Prevention Park site, known as the largest abortion facility in the Western Hemisphere.

  Another law passed with 86 votes in favor and 45 against requires citizens to use restrooms and private spaces in government buildings based on biological sex and forces prisons and and family shelters to keep spaces separated by biological sex.

 

• CONNECTICUT

  The medical centers of Yale Medicine and Yale New Haven Hospital eliminate “transition” procedures for minors by stopping gender-affirming pharmacological treatment for patients under the age of 19 (Yale’s program already did not include “surgical interventions”).

 

• SLOVAKIA

  As reported on UCCR, with 90 votes in favor out of 150 the parliament approves an amendment to the Constitution recognizing only two sexes, male and female biologically determined, bans surrogacy, restricts adoption to married couples who guarantee sexual difference and provides access only in “serious” cases for the so-called “gender medicine”.

 

• CALIFORNIA

  The largest American “clinic” for transgender minors, the Center for Transyouth Health and Development (CTH) of the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, has stopped administering its experimental treatments, including puberty-blocking medications and surgeries. The center has closed.

 

• OKLAHOMA

  The Court of Appeal has confirmed that the State may protect minors affected by gender dysphoria from “transition” interventions that permanently harm them. Therefore the state law prohibiting healthcare providers from offering gender transition procedures to anyone under eighteen remains valid.

 

• IDAHO

  A federal court has upheld the state law that prohibits biologically male students from using women’s restrooms and locker rooms in public schools.

 

• DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

  The parliament reaffirms one of the most ambitious pro-life legal frameworks in the world. With an overwhelming vote of 159 to 4, legislators approved a new Penal Code that leaves the constitutional ban on abortion intact. President Luis Abinader signed the bill on August 3.

 

• ARKANSAS

  A federal appeals court rules that the state may ban “gender transition” procedures for minors with gender dysphoria, overturning the lower court decision that had prevented the law from taking effect.

 

• MINNESOTA

  A federal judge strikes down a law that excluded private schools and universities from state funding solely because they were religiously affiliated.

 

• MICHIGAN

  One of the state’s largest healthcare providers, Corewell Health announced that it will no longer perform “gender-affirming care” on minors with gender dysphoria.

 

• UNITED STATES

  The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) has banned men from participating in women’s sports in compliance with President Donald Trump’s executive order.

  The Office of Personnel Management allows federal employees to speak about their religious beliefs at work, display religious items, and pray together or individually. The new guidelines, according to OPM Director Scott Kupor, state that agencies “should allow employees’ personal religious expression to the fullest extent possible, unless such expression imposes an undue hardship on agency operations”.