Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) and Representative Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.) on Monday introduced two bills aimed at protecting children from gender transition procedures into the Senate and House of Representatives, respectively. While the bills have been introduced into Congress before, in this session they follow a wave of state legislation designed to protect children in response to increasing awareness of the extent and harm of gender transition procedures on minors.
The End Taxpayer Funding of Gender Experimentation Act “would be focused on cutting government funding for anything that could cover … hormone[s], gender reassignment surgery,” LaMalfa explained Monday on Washington Watch. The Protecting Children from Experimentation Act “is an all-out prohibition with criminal charges.” Both bills have yet to receive a bill number in either chamber.
LaMalfa emphasized the law’s potential to guide and shape morality. “If we can do this federally, and we can make it stick,” he said, “it just can’t help but build a grass fire amongst normal folks out there that think this is outrageous.” He explained, “There’s folks that are intimidated by those that are pushing [gender transition procedures, who might] say, ‘Well, maybe [I’m] out of touch,’ and ‘Maybe I’m being too mean,’ or ‘I’m too this or that.’ No, you’re not. This is abnormal.”
“You’re not standing alone on this,” Family Research Council President Tony Perkins told LaMalfa, “because we’re seeing tremendous momentum at the state level.” So far in 2023, 13 states have enacted laws prohibiting gender transition procedures on minors to some degree, joining three states who had passed similar legislation in 2021-2022. Bills continue to approach the finish line in Florida, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, and Texas. As shocking revelations continue to come out regarding the behavior of gender clinic staff, state legislatures have stayed the course in advancing these bills, despite vehement opposition from pro-trans activists. “It’s high time that people really get fired up on this,” said LaMalfa.
“This ideology has gone from the radical fringe 10 years ago to being pushed by the president of the United States,” said Perkins. “How is it that we could be so arrogant?…”
Full story at Washington Stand.
Some good news in the struggle between good and evil.Stand for what is Godly. We will prevail!!
This is excellent!
Trans is demonic. The reason they prefer they/their pronouns is because they are influenced by satanic legions. Trans must be stopped.
It is actually BS. They don’t give children hormones or do surgeries on them.
Yes. They do. Stop lying.
A relative of mine was started on hormones at age 11.
Fortunately, the Lord intervened and she rejected the transgender nonsense at age 16.
We are still worried about the effects of her injecting testosterone, for 5 of her teen years.
Bad medicine.
If that is what the law is for, doctors who don’t know what they are doing, then it makes sense.
Taking this a face value, it is a reminder to get second opinions. That used to be a common practice.
Also, do your research.
I am wondering if there was another condition that was being treated as well because I don’t think this is standard practice at all.
BS, sadly, tragically, that’s not true. During one of my cancer battles, a pharmacist, via phone, asked me what does of Lupron my doctor prescribed. Then, he realized the other dosage was the “pediatric dosage.” To give Lupron to confused little boys is child abuse and should be illegal. The effects are not entirely reversible as is sometimes claimed. Examples are too numerous of chemical and surgical transexual procedures on children. Below is just one example:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-childrens-hospital-performs-sex-change-procedures-on-children-as-young-as-11-report?mkt_tok=NDI3LUxFUS0wNjYAAAGL0mUIhAgKhlcV3TFpr014bOhGRyuq-xuZyPBzZKl6iAWQRcHeyQjSYbnAJEQyBh-WHCoDNMPTiD-n5bCkUxvoUkV3b3Z3SifExl2UTRA
I’m sorry that you need that.
Lupron can have very serious long term side effects.
I don’t know that the law would prohibit this because often they are given to the child to give them more time for the gender dysphoria to resolve before puberty. They are prescribed for other conditions as well.
I would not let my kid have it.
In the article, they are calling puberty blockers a sex change procedure and they are not. It does not change your sex or gender.
They were used for kids with precocious puberty.
They are now sometimes used for kids with gender dysphoria to give them time for it to resolve or to give them and their parents time to think things through.
They are very serious medicines with the potential for some life long side effects.
I wonder if that is what Frank meant when he said hormones.
People get confused.
Lupron is given to adolescents. The formula I get isn’t a medical implant, but a paste that provides a slow release of the drug which after a few weeks dissolves completely and testosterone production resumes. The article doesn’t say what the long term side effects are. What are they? Have you compared them to the long term side effects of not giving Lupron when it is medically indicated?
Actual surgeries of adolescents is pretty rare. Do you have any statistics? Are you qualified to make medical decisions?
https://www.statnews.com/2017/02/02/lupron-puberty-children-health-problems/
Yes they do. Don’t perpetuate misinformation.
No? https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/what-medical-treatments-do-transgender-youth-get
Age 16 is not a child. It is a minor and needs parental consent (maybe not in CA).
From PBS: “The World Professional Association for Transgender Health says breast removal surgery is OK for those under 18 who have been on testosterone for at least a year. The Endocrine Society says there isn’t enough evidence to recommend a specific age limit for that operation.”….wide as a barn door….
So if you start your testosterone at 16 this organization thinks it is OK to have breast removal surgery at 17.
Thanks for the NPR article. Balanced and informative.
I oppose transitioning procedures for minors and would never give permission for my child to have them.
But…do you really the government telling you how you can parent?
These laws have taken the nanny state to a whole new level that Hilary Clinton never dreamed of.
Do you really want to start down the slippery slope of relinquishing your freedom to make decisions about your children?
“But…do you really the government telling you how you can parent?” You raise a proper question, and one that taxes the wisdom of Solomon. Parents who desire to transition their children are guilty of abuse in the worse way IMHO. A federal law should be enacted to require people to be at least 21 before “gender affirming care” can be started. I personally think all such care should be banned, but I am trying to give your question some honest consideration. Parents can be caught up in the transgender craze just like their children. It is all insanity from beginning to end, and laws should make it hard for individuals to consider these insane moves.
This is why we have freedoms. People who think Catholics are insane can’t stop us from going to Church or from raising our kids Catholic. And you don’t get to tell other people what they can and can’t do with their bodies.
Some states banned conversion therapy because they thought it was bad, remember?
Do you really want the federal government telling you what surgeries you can have and what medications you can take?
Right now, it is minors and it is a surgery and medications you do not approve of.
Things never stay that way!
In 2019, the federal government, -the federal government- banned the sale of tobacco products to anyone under 21. Those are not minors. Those are people who can fight and die for this country.
The same thing will happen with this.
You will be euthanized to save you from suffering. Your grandchildren will be aborted to keep them from suffering. It will be the law.
Treat others how you want to be treated.
https://www.logicalfallacies.org/proving-too-much.html
This is something that I’ve noticed since 9/11 but even more so in the last decade and a half.
So many people are willing to give up their freedoms in order to control other people.
People fought hard in the ’60s, 70s, 80s and 90s to preserve and increase individual freedoms.
They had to persevere through a lot of antagonism to get those freedoms.
Now its only the gun rights people and the LGBTQ(Q++) (I got a google that one) and the abortion rights people who are fighting.
The fight for religious freedom should be stronger.
Are all “freedoms” the same?
https://apnews.com/article/transgender-health-ban-youth-0198357feb28469646eb27da50413e5d
Nobody reads the articles much less clicks the links.
If you click Washington Stand and then click on the word introduced you will be taken to a website with links to the bills.
First, a bill to amend chapter 110 of title 18 United States Code to prohibit gender transition procedures on minors, and for other purposes. (did you see that-minors-people under 18, got it?)
This Act may be cited as Protecting Children from Experimentation Act of 2023 (The government considers children those from age 1-12 and where did this experimentation word come from?) So the wording was changed to something different than what the bill really is.
Second, a bill to prohibit taxpayer funded gender transition procedures and for other purposes. (Got that? Federal funds can not pay for gender transition procedures or health care coverage plans that include gender transition coverage and no federally owned or operated medical facilities may do gender transition procedures and no medical personnel employed by the federal government as medical personnel may do gender transition procedures)
This Act may be cited as the End Taxpayer Funding of Gender Experimentation Act of 2023 (Again, the wording was changed)
There are over 330 million people who live in America.
Less than 0.5% of them are “transgender”.
America’s largest corporations have decided they would rather pander to them and push their sick ideas onto children instead of serving the vast majority of Americans.
Respond by denying these corporations your dollars.