Gender Ideology

No child is born in the wrong body and men should not be in women's sports or private spaces. CCV presses that conviction where laws are made, building what works in Ohio, then scaling it to statehouses across the country and equips families and churches to act on it.

Life & Family
The moral claim

Genesis 1:27, ESV:So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Every law makes a moral claim and there is no neutral legislation. Every statute assumes something about what a person is, what a family is, and what a society owes the vulnerable. Christians are not intruding on public policy by showing up, the claims are already being made, with or without us.

CCV shows up where those claims are made.

In CCV’s words

What CCV believes, and what it has done

God intentionally created humanity male and female, establishing an immutable biological reality essential to human identity. Center for Christian Virtue forcefully rejects harmful gender ideology that seeks to erase biological sex.

01

Protecting Children from Transgender Medical Procedures

CCV was the primary backer of the Saving Ohio Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act to ban puberty blockers and cross-sex surgeries on minors.

02

Safeguarding Women’s Sports

CCV led the fight to protect female athletes from being forced to compete against biological males.

03

Exposing Children’s Hospitals that Harm Kids

CCV was a part of the ground-breaking “Wolves in White Coats” report from the Trump Administration’s Health and Human Services, exposing potentially millions of dollars in fraud from Children’s Hospitals and others performing sex-rejecting procedures on children.

04

Protecting Single-Sex Spaces

CCV fights for state and local efforts to ensure that women’s locker rooms, bathrooms, and domestic violence shelters are protected from biological males.

The law today

Where the law stands in Ohio.

CCV tracks every bill that touches this issue as it moves: through committee, onto the floor and to the governor’s desk. Featured Ohio bills live in the For Buckeyes area, and older Ohio content on this issue stays searchable in the archive.

Senate Bill 1, enacted

CCV supported the Advance Ohio Higher Education Act through the Ohio Senate in 2025.

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Where CCV stands

Ohio is our proving ground, but America is our mission.

CCV builds, tests and wins state-level battles at home, then scales what works, exporting successful models and deploying resources to state-based allies across the country.

Inside the Advocacy Center
AnalysisTruth, love and privacy: why Ohio needs the Indecent Exposure Modernization Act nowA recent incident at the Louisville Area YMCA in Stark County has reignited a critical conversation about safety, privacy and the protection of women and children in private spaces.Read more
AnalysisWhat a veto override actually takes and why HB 68 heldHouse Bill 68 was vetoed in December 2023 and is law anyway. The procedural path from a veto to an override is short to describe and hard to walk.Read more

Part of CCV’s work on Gender Ideology

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