House Passes Bill Banning Sex-Rejecting Procedures for Minors
The House of Representatives narrowly passed a bill yesterday which would ban doctors from performing sex-rejecting procedures on people under 18 years old.
The Protect Children’s Innocence Act (H.R. 3492) makes it a federal crime to administer wrong-sex hormones or perform sex-rejecting surgical procedures on minors struggling with wrong-sex confusion.
It also prohibits doctors from performing female genital mutilation, defined as “any procedure performed for non-medical reasons that involves partial or total removal of, or other injury to, the external female genitalia,” at a patient’s request.
Doctors who violate the Protect Children’s Innocence Act would face fines and up to ten years in jail.
“Children are not old enough to vote, drive or get a tattoo and they are certainly not old enough to be chemically castrated or permanently mutilated,” Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who introduced H.R. 3492 in May, defended the measure.
“This is common sense,” she continued. “This is good versus evil.”
The House passed the act on December 17 in a 216-211 vote. Though most legislators voted along party lines, with Republicans voting for the bill and Democrats voting against it, a few from each party defected.
Democrat Representatives Vincente Gonzales (TX), Don Davis (NC) and Henry Cuellar (TX) voted in favor of the Protect Children’s Innocence Act. Republican Representatives Mike Kennedy (UT), Brian Fitzpatrick (PA), Gabe Evans (CO) and Mike Lawler (NY) voted against it.
Representative Sarah McBride, a transgender-identified man, whipped up opposition to the bill, claiming sex-rejecting procedures would have improved her childhood.
“I was a kid once,” she commented. “My biggest regret in life is that I never got a childhood without pain.”
Detransitioner Chloe Cole praised H.R. 3492’s passage precisely because sex-rejecting procedures “destroyed” her childhood.
“The House of Representatives just passed a bill that seeks to end child mutilation!” she celebrated on X, continuing:
McBride argued politicians “should never insert themselves into the personal health care decisions of patients, parents and their providers.”
Mounting evidence proves “gender-affirming care” isn’t health care — it’s a dangerous scam promoted by doctors and activists with ulterior motives.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) began investigating the “gender-affirming” medical community for deception and false advertising earlier this year.
“The FTC is the federal government’s guardian against false and deceptive health claims,” FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson explained at the investigation’s onset.
“We have brought dozens of enforcement actions against false and misleading health claims, from shyster snake-oil salesmen to powerful pharmaceutical companies.”
The investigation centers on doctors who lied about the relative benefits and risks of sex-rejecting procedures or who used manipulative tactics, like asking parents whether they “would rather have a dead son or a living daughter,” to pressure patients into pursuing sex-rejecting procedures.
The FTC cannot turn a blind eye to the alleged wrongdoing perpetrated by “gender-affirming” doctors, Ferguson concluded:
The fate of the Protect Children’s Innocence Act now lies with the Senate. At least 60 senators must approve the bill to avoid a filibuster.
The Daily Citizen will continue updating this important story.
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