Transchausen by Proxy and the Erosion of Truth of our Republican Foundations of Liberty
By Ronald P. Bouchard Jr.
The spark for this conversation is a stunning yet unsurprising development. A New Jersey hospital is asking parents to declare the sexual orientation and gender identity of their newborn child. A question so absurd it would be laughable if it weren’t real.
Think about it. If identity is truly self-determined, then how can a parent declare it on behalf of a baby? Isn’t that undermining the very claim that identity belongs to the individual? If identity is an internal truth, a matter of personal discovery, then imposing it externally at birth is not liberation; it is indoctrination.
This is nothing less than transchausen by proxy. A term echoing Munchausen by proxy. A child’s very sense of self is preselected, imposed, and engineered by the adults around them for ideological validation and social approval. Dr. Erica Li, a longtime pediatrician, has warned of this phenomenon: “I propose that we have a problem of systemic Munchausen’s by Proxy. The abusers of these kids are not the parents but activists and ideologues who pose as counselors, social workers, teachers, and doctors.”
Far from protecting the child’s dignity, this practice risks erasing it. Treating the child as an ideological canvas rather than a human being. Beneath the slogans of inclusivity lies a deeper agenda. To reshape reality itself through the hands of authority, even if it means sacrificing truth, nature, and the child’s own emerging sense of self.
Dr Li further explains that many children who claim to be transgender are being coerced or manipulated by those who seek social status through the child’s identity struggles. Why do people commit Munchausen’s by Proxy. It’s usually something like this. Look at me. I’m such a victim. I’m so good. I’m taking care of a child who’s so complex and vulnerable. Give me attention. Give me sympathy.
This concern is not limited to individual doctors or isolated voices. In May 2025 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a comprehensive review warning that medical interventions for children and adolescents with gender dysphoria carry serious risks and are backed by very weak evidence of benefit. The review cites significant dangers including irreversible harm, infertility, and ethical concerns about exposing vulnerable youth to experimental treatments. NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya affirmed, “Our duty is to protect our nation’s children and not expose them to unproven and irreversible medical interventions. We must follow the gold standard of science not activist agendas.”
Despite mounting political pressure, the evidence is clear. The risks cannot be ignored and the ethical foundations of medical practice demand caution and protection not blind affirmation.
Social Engineering by Subtle Means
This isn’t empowerment; it’s social engineering masquerading as care. It teaches a child from birth that their being is not a given, but a choice imposed by others. It severs the link between reality and truth, between nature and nurture. It replaces certainty with confusion and stability with chaos. And most don’t even realize it. They believe they’re advancing progress unaware they’re repeating a pattern as old as history. Sodom and Gomorrah stood as a warning not simply because of immorality but because the people rejected the natural order the Creator established. They redefined what it means to be a creation of God exchanging truth for desire denying the boundaries that sustain life. By doing so they invited judgment and destruction. Today we follow the same path rewriting reality, reshaping identity, severing nature from truth and in doing so sowing the seeds of collapse. Every civilization that abandons moral law eventually collapses under the weight of its own corruption. Our founders knew this. They understood that liberty without virtue leads not to freedom but to ruin. As John Adams declared, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” This government and this republic were not built to sustain people who reject the very truths that make rights possible.
What they are missing is the foundational truth that every human being is created with intentional design and purpose. Just as a watch on the beach reveals a designer, so too does the human body reflect its Creator. The moment we deny this design; we deny the intrinsic value and dignity of the individual. We replace the certainty of design with the chaos of human whim. We turn children into experiments rather than protect them as masterpieces. We substitute the wisdom of the Creator with the arrogance of man. This rejection of design does not liberate; it enslaves. It does not uplift; it dismantles. It does not lead to fulfillment but to despair.
The Engineered Mislabeling of America
Before the Constitutional Convention, James Madison read two trunks full of books on the failures of democracies throughout history. He didn’t trust slogans. He didn’t trust feelings. He trusted facts. Hard-won, historical, undeniable, and what he found was clear. Democracies fail. Democracies devour themselves. Democracies sacrifice truth and justice at the altar of popular whim. That’s why they gave us a republic, not a democracy. John Adams added a grim warning: “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”
But today, how many have even read a single book on the subject? How many understand the difference? How many know why the founder’s rejected democracy in favor of the rule of law?
This ignorance isn’t an accident. It’s engineered. By blurring the meaning of words, they blur the meaning of law, of rights, & of truth itself. By calling us a democracy, they prepare the people to accept the mob over morality, majority over justice, and power over principle.
And it’s subtle. Social engineering doesn’t always come with banners or mandates. Sometimes it’s as quiet as a textbook calling us a democracy instead of a republic. Or a president repeating it in a speech. Or a teacher unknowingly passing it on to a new generation.
It’s in the way freedom is now framed as freedom from any limits rather than freedom under law. It’s in slogans that replace principles and catchphrases that bypass the hard work of moral reasoning.
Most never notice. But each small distortion builds on the next until the foundation of truth is buried beneath layers of carefully shaped half-truths. And a people who no longer know their form of government will no longer know how to defend it.
History’s Warnings
History offers warnings. The Roman Republic fell when the people traded rule of law for the promises of powerful men. When Caesar crossed the Rubicon and republican virtue gave way to imperial rule, ancient Athens descended into chaos when democracy devolved into demagoguery and popular whim drowned out wisdom. Even the French Revolution, cheered at first as a cry for liberty, quickly devolved into mob rule, bloodshed, and the guillotine.
The Weimar Republic in Germany collapsed under similar confusion. Where law, morality, and cultural foundations eroded, paving the way for totalitarian control. Venezuela, once among the richest nations in South America, descended into economic and political ruin when populist movements promised prosperity while dismantling the structures that upheld liberty.
Each of these nations followed a pattern. They forgot the principles that made them strong. They exchanged ordered liberty for license, moral law for personal, and truth for convenience. And each time freedom was not expanded, it was extinguished.
The founders knew this pattern. That’s why James Madison read those books. They weren’t guessing; they were studying. They built a system designed to resist those very failures. A republic ruled by law, not by the passions of the moment.
Yet today we watch the same forces at work again. What seems like a simple question on a hospital form asking parents to declare a newborn’s gender identity is not just a bureaucratic absurdity. It is a symptom of a deeper disorder. The rejection of reality, the replacement of truth with ideology, and the substitution of natural law with human whim.
When law departs from nature and when government departs from truth, liberty departs from the people. This is why the founders rooted our republic in natural law. Because natural law is immutable, transcendent, and beyond the reach of majorities or monarchs. It binds both ruler and ruled. It protects the weak from the strong, the minority from the majority, and the individual from the state.
Natural Law the Unchanging Foundation of Liberty
Our founders understood that no human government, no constitution no set of man-made laws can secure liberty unless it is grounded in something higher. Natural law. The laws of nature and nature’s creator are not optional philosophies. They are the very framework of reality, the moral order woven into creation itself.
Natural law is not a matter of opinion. It is self-evident, knowable through reason, affirmed by conscience, and observable in nature. It is what tells us that children are born male or female. That life is sacred. Those rights come from God, not government.
Without natural law, rights become permissions granted and revoked by whoever holds power. Freedom becomes an illusion, a tool of manipulation, a privilege distributed by the state. But under natural law, rights are inherent and inalienable, beyond the reach of rulers or majorities.
This is why the founders bound our republic to natural law. It is the safeguard against tyranny. It is the boundary against the chaos of mob rule. It is the fixed point by which all human law must be measured.
As the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 declared, “all men are born free and equal and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights.” And as Thomas Paine wrote, “a constitution is not the act of a government but of a people constituting a government. And government without a constitution is power without right.”
A Call to Remember and Reclaim
Just because you don’t believe in gravity doesn’t mean you won’t fall if you step off a cliff. Denying natural law doesn’t negate its existence. It only ensures you suffer the consequences.
Today the very freedom that critics of truth enjoy is proof of the moral law they reject. The God they despise still shields their dignity, still restrains tyranny still upholds their rights. But how long can a people spit on the source of their liberty and expect that liberty to endure?
This is not the end. The law of nature does not vanish because of denial. The republic does not cease because some misname it a democracy. The foundations remain whether acknowledged or not. And it is the duty of the people to reclaim, reinforce, and insist on the truth. Not merely for ourselves but for the generations yet unborn.
For, as Benjamin Franklin warned, “when the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”
We must choose. Rule by law or rule by whim. Truth or delusion. Liberty or collapse.
And let it be shouted from the rooftops. We are not a democracy. We are a republic ruled by law. God’s Law is natural law, immutable and supreme. No mob, no politician, no institution can lawfully override it. To depart from this order is to depart from justice itself.
The choice remains ours.
About the Author:
Ron Bouchard is a Strategic Interventionist, Freedom Strategist, and leading expert in Constitutional and Fundamental Law. He is a dynamic speaker, trainer, and author, and co-founder of WeThePeople2.us, where he advances public education on history, common law, and the restoration of self-governance. Ron is known for his principled advocacy, deep historical insight, and unwavering commitment to natural rights and the sanctity of life. His work equips others with lawful and moral clarity in the face of modern overreach.
This is a fantastic article!