Keri Smith addresses Austin City Council about Sterilizing and Mutilating Children

On May 2nd, 2024, the Austin City Council considered and shamefully passed a toothless resolution in which they stated they intended to flout State Law and to support sterilization and mutilation of children. These were my remarks:Show more

"Good afternoon. My name is Keri Smith and I live in the great state of Texas.

One of the purposes of law is to protect the most vulnerable among us from harm. As a society, we have ALWAYS recognized that children are not developmentally the same as adults. As such, our laws do not allow children to “consent” to sex with adults, to drinking, to smoking, to getting a tattoo, to driving a car or buying a gun. But somehow in the past few years, we have all collectively lost our minds and decided that children are capable of consenting to sterilizing themselves for life and to having their breasts and genitals cut off and mutilated.

I encourage you to read and listen to ALL of the leaked WPATH files, where where the very doctors who are chemically castrating and genitally mutilating children are caught ON VIDEO admitting that these children are not capable of understanding what they are “consenting” to. The president of WPATH, Marci Bowers, is even on video admitting that 100% of little boys in Tanner Stage Two - that’s around age 11 - who they’ve given puberty blockers to are never able to achieve orgasm in adulthood. That’s 100%. You can watch her say this on camera. Chemically castrating puberty blockers are not reversible!

I encourage you to listen to the voices of the mutilated children, some of whom were here today, voices of people like Chloe Cole and Layla Jane - both who had double mastectomies when they were children - who are now in young adulthood suing the butchers who did this to them when they were kids. Every single country that has done a systematic medical review of the evidence has banned this barbarism against children. And we are going to follow in the footsteps of progressive countries like the UK, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland and we’re gonna ban it in all 50 states here in the US.

The Hippocratic Oath for doctors says to FIRST DO NO HARM. It is a LIE that sterilizing and mutilating children does no harm. In the words of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, “Let the lie come into the world. Let it even prosper. But not through me.” I urge the Austin City Council not to be on the wrong side of history on this - the greatest medical scandal and atrocity against children in our lifetime.

Let the lie come into the world. Let it even prosper. But not through Texas."