Republicans mount offensive against sex change treatments for minors

Congressmen from both chambers reintroduce a bill as more states coalesce on bans for these procedures.

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5 de marzo, 2023

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The Republican Party has launched an offensive in both houses of Congress against sex change treatments for minors. Rep. Jim Jordan reintroduced a bill Wednesday that would allow children who undergo surgery for this reason to formally denounce the doctors who perform it if they regret it in the future. In the Senate, it will be Tom Cotton who will introduce a similar initiative. These initiatives are in addition to the prohibitions of these procedures that more and more states are implementing to protect children and adolescents.

The bill, which Banks dubbed the Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act, also provides for preventing federal funds from going to states that force doctors to perform sex change procedures on minors. In statements to the Daily Caller, Banks laid out the case of Chloe Cole, a woman "who is currently suing her former so-called medical professionals for subjecting her to irreversible and damaging gender transition surgery at a young age."

"Radical doctors" who perform sex changes on minors

The congressman criticized the practise of allowing minors "too young to drive a car or get a tattoo" to undergo such life altering irreversible operations. According to Banks, this happens because of "radical doctors." The law establishes a 30-year time limit for these children or adolescents to sue these doctors.

Gender-transition procedures aren’t safe or appropriate for children. Unfortunately, radical doctors in the United States perform dangerous, experimental, and even sterilizing gender-transition procedures on young kids, who cannot even provide informed consent. Our bill allows children who grow up to regret these procedures to sue for damages. Any doctor who performs these irresponsible procedures on kids should pay.

More and more states are banning these treatments

These laws follow in the wake of several states that have banned these practices in their territory. So far, Florida, Utah, Tennessee, South Dakota, North Dakota, Texas, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Arizona, Alabama and Mississippi have passed laws protecting minors from these practices.