Republican and conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene has launched a bid to criminalise trans youth healthcare.
The Georgia representative stood outside the US Capitol building on Tuesday (20 September) to announce the Protect Children’s Innocence bill, that would make it a felony to administer gender-affirming healthcare for youth.
“How on earth can this be happening in America? It’s hard to even understand,” she said during her address, referencing her constant false claims that medical practitioners are performing gender-affirming surgery on minors.
Guidelines generally state that only over-18s can consent to such surgeries.
The bill’s 37 supporters include your typical list of far-right, anti-LGBTQ+ Republicans, including disgraced Florida representative Matt Gaetz, who was accused of violating federal sex-trafficking laws by allegedly paying a 17-year-old girl to have sex (he denies the allegations), and Arizona lawmaker Paul Gosar, who spread a completely false rumour that the Uvalde Texas school shooter was a “leftist illegal alien.”
If passed, the legislation would place “restrictions on the provision of gender-affirming care”, according to its introduction.
“Additionally, the bill prohibits the use of federal funds for gender-affirming care or for health insurance that covers such care,” the bill continues. “Such care may not be provided in a federal health care facility or by a federal employee.”
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