Sen. JD Vance & Marjorie Taylor Greene are trying to ban gender-affirming care at federal level

[icymist]

Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) has filed a bill in the Senate that would ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors at the federal level, making following the standard of care supported by major medical organizations a Class C felony.

In a press release supporting his bill – which is a companion bill to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) Protect Children’s Innocence Act that she filed in the House – Vance spread misinformation about gender-affirming care, calling such care “these gruesome, irreversible operations on underage children.”

...“With this legislation, we have an opportunity to save countless young Americans from a lifetime of suffering and regret,” Vance said in the statement. “I want to thank Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene for leading on this issue, and I look forward to working with my Senate colleagues to protect children from these life-altering procedures.”

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/07/sen-jd-vance-marjorie-taylor-greene-are-trying-to-ban-gender-affirming-care-at-federal-level/

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These people want a cemetery full of graves with crosses that read "Saved From Life-Altering Procedures".

[TheRealNorth]

1. When they are okay with the government forcing their child to take a life-saving vaccination.....

Regardless of their religious or personal convictions, then we can talk about whether the government has the right to forbid a patent seeking gender-affirming care for their child.

[icymist]

2. This is why it's so important to vote in every election, no matter how small. From the article:

Greene and Vance’s Protect Children’s Innocence Act doesn’t just ban transgender minors from accessing gender-affirming care, it also makes it more difficult for transgender adults to access such care by blocking Medicaid funds from being used to reimburse patients for gender-affirming care. The bill would also ban medical schools from teaching about gender-affirming care, stop health care plans under the Affordable Care Act from funding gender-affirming care, and ban anyone found to have performed gender-affirming care from immigrating to the U.S.

The bill is unlikely to pass the Democratic Senate and, if it ever did, would likely not be signed by President Joe Biden, who has said that he believes that medical decisions should be left to families and their doctors. The bill is more of an indication of what Republicans may try to do if they get control of the Senate and the White House in a coming election

[Casady1]

3. If anyone thinks they will stop there

is naive. Abortion is next. The Taliban has come to America.

[Peregrine Took]

4. What about the old saw "You never get elected by taking things AWAY from people???" n/t

[yankee87]

5. Ohio here

I am so embarrassed that Vance was elected. He is such a lying POS.

To all, VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!