The invoice, titled the Safeguarding the General Safety (STOP) of Minors Act, goals to ban youth gender transition remedy and “castration procedures” by banning “the use of interstate commerce to perform, attempt to perform, conspire to perform, or provide referral for any gender mutilation procedures on a minor.”
“Americans resoundingly rejected the Left’s dangerous transgender agenda. Let’s call it exactly what it is: child abuse,” stated Marshall.
Marshall is anticipated to introduce the invoice on Capitol Hill on Wednesday: “The days of demented doctors and activists getting rich off of mutilating, sterilizing, and castrating children are over.”
The STOP Act, if handed, would name on Well being and Human Companies (HHS) to impose a civil penalty of at the least $100,000 on these “providing transgender mutilation services and treatments” for minors. Secretary Xavier Becerra at the moment heads HHS below President Biden. Nevertheless, he’ll quickly be succeeded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. when President-elect Donald Trump takes workplace in January.
GOP LAWMAKERS REVEAL A HEIGHTENED LEGISLATIVE FOCUS AGAINST ‘IRREVERSIBLE’ GENDER SURGERY ON MINORS
Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan. (Tom Williams/File)
The Republican senator’s invoice additionally seeks to supply help to individuals who not wish to proceed the gender transition course of, generally known as detransitioners.
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Marshall signaled he would work with Trump, who has instructed he would search to slash “gender-affirming” look after minors, on the difficulty.
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“Our legislation keeps children’s safety paramount by prohibiting anyone from performing, facilitating, or even conspiring to give these irreversible therapies and procedures to minors,” Marshall stated. “This bill is just the beginning of what’s to come with President Trump at the helm and our unwavering commitment to protecting children from transgender activists’ twisted and criminal agenda.”
Marshall first teed up the invoice throughout a panel led by Terry Schilling, president of the American Ideas Challenge, and a gaggle of lawmakers who mentioned a heightened GOP give attention to laws towards transgender medical procedures on minors.
The U.S. Supreme Court docket (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Pictures/File)
Lawmakers on the opposite aspect of the difficulty have spoken out in help of such procedures for minors, resembling hormone substitute remedy and laser hair removing. Most lately, they pushed again on a ban in Tennessee that forestalls minors from receiving puberty blockers.
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In September, a complete of 164 lawmakers, together with 11 senators and 153 representatives within the Home, filed an amicus transient defending transgender youth towards the ban.
The Supreme Court docket will hear arguments relating to the regulation Wednesday and resolve on whether or not to uphold the ban.
