Top Letitia James Deputy Breaks From Dems to Speak Out Against ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

WASHINGTON— When President Trump’s Federal Trade Commission hosts its Wednesday workshop where experts are expected to speak out against the so-called “gender affirming care” industry, there will be one somewhat shocking participant: a top deputy to New York Attorney General Letitia James, who has been a fierce defender of transgender procedures on minors.

Glenna Goldis, serves as the assistant attorney general for James, who is one of the most liberal and anti-Trump attorney generals in the country. But the self-described “lefty lesbian lawyer” based out of New York City is also outspoken against the dangers of gender ideology pushed on children by transgender activists.

Goldis will participate in the workshop workshop in her personal capacity, and she’s aware that her positions on gender ideology put her at odds with James.

“You can see in the public record that my employer has taken positions that are supportive of pediatric gender medicine,” Goldis said in a phone interview with The Daily Wire. “You can see in the public record that Letitia James’ view is not my view.”

James has not only spoken in support of what she calls “gender-affirming care,” but she’s taken legal action against Trump’s efforts to protect children from transgender surgeries, hormones, and puberty blockers. James called the policies “cruel, discriminatory, dangerous, and not based on science or law,” pushing the falsehood that transgender surgeries, hormones, and puberty blockers are “medically necessary” as she argued that “every young person deserves access to medically necessary care without government interference.”

Goldis says she’s “motivated by the fact that I’ve seen so many other people silenced, especially people who are similar to me,” she explained. She says, in many ways, “we are the people who are most silenced in America right now on this issue.”

“I want to end that, I want to break the taboo,” Goldis added. “There’s a taboo out there which is just performing so much work for the gender doctors. The healthcare industry is able to make all this money and pass off all these lies because there’s a taboo against criticizing it. And so I want to smash that taboo.”

The FTC workshop appears to be the first step towards major action against the industry, which is being investigated for “unfair and deceptive” practices. The FTC often holds such events before initiating legal action against an industry to gather information and solicit the input of affected Americans, bolstering the case against its target. A memo reported on by The Daily Wire in May indicates that the FTC looks to build off the Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on radical gender ideology.

And Goldis’ presence at the event signals something significant as well: that the movement against gender ideology is not merely conservatives, as left-wing activists suggest, but a cohort of politically diverse individuals united to fight back against something much bigger than political party.

That coalition includes Goldis, but it also includes detransitioners like Chole Cole and Prisha Mosley, women who attempted to transition to become men as teenagers, medical whistleblowers Jamie Reed, Eithan Haim, and Vanessa Sivadge, conservative experts and leaders like Jay Richards of the Heritage Foundation and Terry Schilling of the American Principles Project, and more.

For her part, Goldis is tired of leftists suggesting that men and women who identify as gay are in complete agreement with the transgender agenda.

“I think it’s especially important for gay people to speak out,” she told The Daily Wire. “One of the big tools that trans advocates have used since the 1990s to normalize what they’re doing and to build public support is to pretend that they have something in common with gay people. And if gay people ever speak out and say, ‘Well, I don’t think that’s quite true,’ then they get clobbered. This has been true, like I said, for decades.” 

The general public can be forgiven for “thinking that there is a connection there,” Goldis said, since activists are constantly promoting the LGBTQ moniker — “It really gets in your head, even though it’s not a particularly catchy collection of letters, but at this point in history you do recognize it.” 

She suggested that wealthy nonprofits and global lawfirms promoting transgenderism like the ACLU and Lambda Legal hire gay or lesbian spokespeople in an effort to build on this theme.

“They give awards to gay people who join their cause,” she said. “They give jobs to them. So, with all of that happening and with all that money and all the carrots and the sticks that are out there for gay people. I think it’s important to stand up to all of that.” 

“I just think our voice has to be heard, even though we don’t have a megaphone, naturally, we don’t have money, we don’t have the healthcare industry or big law coming to amplify our message of gender nonconformity being natural and something that should not be medicalized, especially in minors. We don’t have any of that.”

She pointed to her friends in the movement, like whistleblower Jamie Reid and Lauren Leggieri of the LGB Courage Coalition, which describes itself as “a lesbian and gay advocacy group committed to promoting evidence-based medical care, ending the medicalization of gender nonconformity, safeguarding homosexual rights, and building a pathway back for LGB individuals who have undergone medicalization.”

“We’re all just going out there in our personal capacities and using our voices to stand up to the health care industry,” Goldis said. 

Tennessee Congressional Hopeful Says He’d Fight For Nationwide Trans Ban If Elected

A Tennessee state lawmaker running for Congress said one of the first thing he does if elected would be to push for a nationwide law to protect children from transgender procedures if elected. 

State Rep. Johnny Garrett, a Republican, told The Daily Wire in an interview announcing his run for Tennessee’s 6th Congressional District that one of the first bills he hoped to introduce would mirror Tennessee’s law shielding kids from transgender procedures. Garrett, a seventh-generation Tennessean from Goodlettsville, said that even one surgery on a gender-confused child was unacceptable, and that the issue would be one of his top priorities. 

“If indeed the good people of the 6th District want me to be their congressman, I want that to be the first bill that I file, to make sure that’s a nationwide ban that you cannot mutilate children,” he told The Daily Wire. “We have to protect our children, and that should be a priority. There should be a federal law filed tomorrow to make that a nationwide law, just like Tennessee.”

Garrett’s first campaign ad, shared with The Daily Wire, features him in a baseball uniform as president of the Goodlettsville Little League Baseball program. 

“Washington’s been throwing curveballs at Tennessee for years: open borders, out of control spending, boys in girls sports, and zero accountability,” he says in the ad. “I’m not going to Washington to play nice, I’m going to help President Trump fight and win.” 

He says that he will fight to finish the border wall, deport all illegal immigrants, and stop China from buying American land. 

Last month, the Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee law banning the practice of giving kids puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and performing surgeries like removing the breasts of a girl who identified as a boy. 

“That was a great win for children. A great win for the kids of Tennessee,” Garrett, who was part of the legislature when that bill passed, said. “We didn’t even realize that was taking place.”

Garrett, the current Tennessee House Majority Whip, is running for a seat currently occupied by Rep. John Rose. Rose announced earlier this year that he is running for governor to replace outgoing Governor Bill Lee, in a race that is also expected to include Senator Marsha Blackburn. 

The 6th District stretches from Middle Tennessee to the edge of Eastern Tennessee and includes parts of Nashville, and cities like Cookeville and Crossville. The area is solid red, and swung for President Donald Trump by over 65%. 

Garrett said he supported Trump’s America First agenda and was “inspired” with what the president has done since returning to the White House. He praised the passage of Trump’s signature “big, beautiful bill,” saying that the tax cuts provisions would benefit Tennessee and also lauded the dramatic decrease in illegal border crossings since Trump’s inauguration.

The lawmaker said he would like to see Congress adopt the Volunteers State’s approach to spending, as state law mandates a balanced budget.  

“Two things that I do when a piece of legislation is presented to me is I say, ‘One, how much does it cost and does it grow government? And if it costs a lot of money and it grows government, I can’t support it,” he said. “That has boded me well throughout my time in the legislature.”

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