The House of Representatives passed a bill federally criminalizing sex change surgeries and puberty blockers for minors. The bill, called “Protect Children’s Innocence Act,” was supported in a 216-211 vote and now heads to the Senate.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA), the bill’s sponsor, called the passage a “win for children all over America!!” She noted that while three Democrats voted in support of the legislation, four Republicans did not. Republicans who voted against the bill are Reps. Gabe Evans of Colorado, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Mike Kennedy of Utah and Mike Lawler of New York.
According to the bill, chemically castrating a minor will be fined and imprisoned for no more than ten years. Similarly, an individual who “knowingly performs, or attempts to perform, genital or bodily mutilation on another person who is a minor, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.”
The bill codifies President Trump’s order titled, “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” which says that the United States “will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.”
“Countless children soon regret that they have been mutilated and begin to grasp the horrifying tragedy that they will never be able to conceive children of their own or nurture their children through breastfeeding,” the order notes.
Meanwhile, the congresswoman is set to resign from Congress on January 5.
