House passes bill to criminalize gender transition care for minors with some Dem support
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The House on Wednesday passed a bill that would criminalize gender transition therapy for minors.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. The measure, sponsored by , passed with bipartisan support on a 216-211 vote.
Reps. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas, and Don Davis, DN.C. voted for the bill along with most Republicans, while Reps. Mike Lawler, R-Y., Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., Gabe Evans, R-Colo. and Mike Kennedy, R-Utah, voted against the measure along with most Democrats.
“Children are NOT experiments. No more drugs. No more surgery. No more permanent harm. We must allow children to make life-changing decisions without adult manipulation! Congress must protect America’s children!!!” Greene wrote about X before the vote.
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The measure, sponsored by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, passed by a vote of 216 to 211. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Greene reached a deal last week with House leaders to advance the bill in exchange for her support for a rule to advance the National Defense Authorization Act.
The bill faces a significant hurdle in passing the bill in the Senate, as Republicans need Democratic support to approve the legislation in the Upper House.
The American Civil Liberties Union criticized the bill, saying the measure would have “immediate and devastating impacts on the lives of transgender youth and their families across the country.”
“Politicians should never prohibit parents from doing what is best for their transgender children,” ACLU National Policy and Government Affairs Director Mike Zamore said in a statement. he said. “These families often spend years thinking about how best to support their children, but ill-equipped politicians intervene by trying to criminalize the health care that they, their children, and their doctors believe are necessary for their children to thrive.”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene reached an agreement with House leadership to advance the bill last week in exchange for her support for a rule to advance the National Defense Authorization Act. (Photo: Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)
“But this bill also sets an incredibly dangerous precedent that goes well beyond that specific care, criminalizing care based on ideology and placing Washington politicians between families and their doctors.” he continued. “We strongly condemn the passage of this measure and urge members of the Senate to do everything in their power to prevent it from becoming law.”
Greene and Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, butted heads before passing the bill. The Georgia congressman, who will resign next month, had criticized Roy, who sits on the House Rules Committee, for introducing an amendment that he claimed would “gut the commerce clause.”
Roy’s amendment sought to amend the bill to limit federal criminal liability under certain circumstances by “defining when prohibited conduct falls within federal jurisdiction,” according to the Rules Committee.
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The ACLU criticized the bill, saying the measure would have “immediate and devastating impacts on the lives and families of transgender youth and their families across the country.” (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
But Greene claimed the bill “criminalizes ALL pediatric gender-affirming care (transgender surgeries, puberty blockers, and hormones), NOT just those receiving federal funding, and protects ALL children by letting them grow up before making permanent changes to their bodies that they can never undo.”
“WTF is Chip Roy doing????? And this guy wants to be the attorney general of Texas but refuses to protect children??!!!” He wrote to X.
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Roy responded that “the constitution matters, and we should not bastardize it by using ‘interstate commerce’ to empower federal officials.”
But the Texas Republican said Wednesday that he would not propose the amendment “to avoid any confusion about how united Republicans are in protecting children from these strange procedures.”
