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![Presbyterian Church and Gender Affirming Care](https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/images/daily_update/2026/July/july09/july092026-article.png)

A major US denomination has just given its blessing to cut body parts off children.

This is the Wilmington Standard Daily Update for Thursday, July 9, 2026.

Late in June, the Presbyterian Church in the USA – PC(USA) for short – [adopted the following resolution](https://myga.pc-biz.org/search/3001421) from the Gender and Sexuality Justice Committee to:

Declare that the PC(USA) supports all individuals to have access to all medically necessary, evidence-based gender-affirming healthcare.

The Gender and Sexuality Justice Committee chose to remove the phrase "including minors" from this recommendation at the request of young people who did not want to see this overture misused to cause more harm to transgender minors. This phrase was removed with the clear understanding that "all individuals" does, in fact, include people of all ages.

It passed 441 – 30.

To be clear, the Presbyterian Church just said it is consistent with the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to cut body parts off children and inject them with puberty-blocking drugs that will probably end up sterilizing them. Over [half of the states](https://www.cnn.com/politics/state-ban-gender-affirming-care-transgender-dg) in our union have put the breaks on transgender care for children[. Europe is also following](https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2023/06/06/increasing-number-of-european-nations-adopt-a-more-cautious-approach-to-gender-affirming-care-among-minors/) suit after finding little certainty in the benefits of puberty blockers and other medications. But the PC(USA) is holding fast to the idea that God wants you to trans your child.

If you are a member of this denomination, either you or your local church – or both – need to seriously consider leaving it behind. Clearly this flavor of Presbyterians – [along with many other major](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_denominations_affirming_LGBTQ_people) denominations – have left Scripture behind and married themselves to a cultural view that gender is determined by humanity – and not [by God](https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Genesis%201:27). They [are clearly preaching a different Gospel](https://biblehub.com/galatians/1-8.htm), and will pay the eternal consequences.

We have stated before that [our Republic cannot stand without the moral influence](https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/podcast/the-daily-update/culture-in-collapse-daily-update-june-9-2026?highlight=WyJwY3VzYSJd) of the established church. Our culture depends on the clear rights and wrongs that only proper preaching of Scripture can provide. And our Founding Fathers realized that churches need to be protected from government so they can carry out that function.

But – according to the Presbyterians – as long as we can chemically castrate children – none of that matters.

For the Wilmington Standard, I’m Reuel Sample. Thanks for listening.