Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to make it a felony for doctors to give gender-affirming care to youth
QAnon Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced an incredibly hateful and harmful bill targeting trans youth on Friday, Aug. 19, as covered at LGBTQ Nation. The Georgia representative tweeted that her legislation would “immediately” make it a felony for physicians to provide gender-affirming health care to trans youth, including puberty blockers and genital surgeries. Mind you, gender-affirming surgeries—including both “top” and “bottom” surgeries—are generally not done on people under 18. But given the right’s emphasis on pushing this hysteria recently, including garnering harassment and threats against physicians at Boston Children’s Hospital, I’m not surprised they’re trying to present this false information as fact in order to get people riled up.
To get into specifics, the bill is (again misleadingly) called the “Protect Children’s Innocence Act.” It would make providing gender-affirming care to youth a class C felony, which comes with a minimum sentence of 10 years in prison, and the sentence can go as long as 25 years. It can carry a maximum fine of $250,000.
It would also ban the use of federal funds for gender-affirming health care, which would include Affordable Care Act plans. The bill also seeks to ban colleges and universities from offering courses on gender-affirming health care.
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