Watch: Why Is This Common Sense Legislation By Marjorie Taylor Greene Getting Panned By Democrats?

By Darren Nagel | Sunday, 21 August 2022 12:00 PM
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) presented a bill Friday that would make providing gender-affirming medical care to transgender minors a felony, punishable by up to 25 years in jail.

Greene’s “Protect Children’s Innocence Act” outlaws over a dozen medical interventions and procedures practiced treating gender dysphoria in transgender young people, including puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and particular kinds of surgeries done “to change the body of such individual to correspond to a sex that differs from their biological sex.”

The measure would further prohibit using federal funds for gender-affirming health care, including in Affordable Healthcare Act plans.

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“When it comes to ‘gender-affirming care,’ which is child abuse, this is an assault, and it’s child abuse,” Greene announced Thursday evening during an appearance on Fox News's “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”

“This practice should never happen,” Greene explained to host Tucker Carlson. “It’s so disgusting and appalling … this needs to be illegal.”

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Under Greene’s bill, anyone who “knowingly performs any gender-affirming care on a minor” is guilty of a class C felony, carrying a punishment of 10 to 25 years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000, Greene’s office stated.

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The measure is similar to a first-of-its-kind Alabama law passed earlier this year that makes it a felony, punishable by up to a decade in jail, for doctors or others to help transgender youth younger than 19 in accessing gender-affirming medical care, including puberty blockers or hormone therapy.

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A federal judge in May partially blocked state officials from enforcing the law, ruling that Alabama had not produced any credible proof that gender-affirming health care is “experimental” and parents – not the states or the federal courts – play the primary part in caring for their children.

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Attorneys for the state have attempted to appeal the decision.

Greene’s bill would further ban institutions of higher education from providing instruction on gender-affirming care and bar doctors that have provided gender-affirming care to a minor from getting visas or being admitted to the U.S.

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Greene’s bill has 14 Republican cosponsors so far: Reps. Mary Miller (Ill.), Jeff Duncan (S.C.), Bob Good (Va.), Ralph Norman (S.C.), Matt Gaetz (Fla.), Tony Gonzales (Texas), Rep. Diana Harshbarger (Tenn.), Clay Higgins (La.), Burgess Owens (Utah), Claudia Tenney (N.Y.), Andrew Clyde (Ga.), Lance Gooden (Texas), Lauren Boebert (Colo.) and Paul Gosar (AZ).

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House Republican leaders have begun to lean into culture war fights regarding transgender individuals, with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) vowing to bring up a bill that prohibits transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports if Republicans win the House majority.

Greene on Friday tweeted that two Republican U.S. Senate candidates – J.D. Vance of Ohio and Blake Masters of Arizona – have vowed to back her bill if they are elected.

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