Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) introduced a bill to allow those harmed by gender procedures as minors to sue the doctors and hospitals behind the surgeries.
“Our children should no longer suffer from irreversible and dangerous child mutilation procedures, which the Biden administration enabled and promoted,” Hawley said in a statement. “I welcome President Trump’s strong action to reverse this child abuse and look forward to working with his administration to advance legislation that protects our kids.”
The bill, called the Protecting Our Kids from Child Abuse Act, would “establish a Federal tort against pediatric gender clinics and other entities pushing gender-transition procedures that cause bodily injury to children or harm the mental health of children,” it says.
According to the bill, “An individual who suffers bodily injury or harm to mental health that is attributable, in whole or in part, to a gender-transition procedure provided to the individual when the individual was a minor may, not later than 30 years after the date on which the individual turns 18 years of age, bring a civil action against an individual or entity” such as a doctor, hospital, gender clinic, or a place of higher education that partners with or is affiliated with the gender clinic.
Hawley’s bill follows President Donald Trump signing an executive order to prohibit the “chemical and surgical mutilation” of children.
“Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions,” Trump’s order states. “This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end.”
