Republican Senator Roger Marshall, R-Kan., moderated a panel discussion of legislation that would prevent the transgender medical establishment from mutilating children through transgender surgeries and procedures on Wednesday.
The legislation , discussed included a , bill actually officially fundamental “male” and “female” to reveal natural reality , and an eventual bill prohibiting doctors from performing dangerous medical procedures on children. Marshall even argued that doctors who castrate and perform child mutilation procedures with inevitable substances and procedures should lose their health licenses.
Terry Schilling, chairman of the liberal lobbying group American Principles Project, cited leaked documents from the World Professional Association of Transgender Health, which revealed medical practitioners around the world performed transgender procedures on minors without adequately revealing the risks. If he were managing a process where the doctors were “having for harmful conduct,” Marshall, who has over 20 years of experience as an OB-GYN, may be asked how he would react.
” ]W] hat’s your message to the medical community”? Schilling even asked.
” I’m almost speechless”, Marshall answered. ” I think, first of all, the state committee would take away their permit, for example. You think about what people are doing here once, it’s inevitable. Oftentimes, they’re doing stuff without parental consent. I believe they may also lose the ability to process there.
Marshall went on to discuss how the problem goes beyond the “profit margin” behind these dangerous methods, amounting to” an assault on our beliefs”.
” I think eventually, people … are saying that God is bad — that the sexual we were given, that God must have been bad on this, and if you would only change your gender, it may solve all your dilemmas”, he said.
He also spoke about the natural fact of sexual and healthy growth, suggesting that “irreversible”, so-called “gender-affirming” methods may ultimately interfere with these things.
” It is just sad that we are doing these irreversible procedures”, he said, noting, for example, how, “once a lady starts taking testosterone, she’s going to have facial changes that never go away”. He added that certain hormones have the potential to cause osteoporosis and affect fertility in the future.
During the panel, Marshall made the announcement that the STOP Act would be introduced “in the next week or two.” According to reports, the legislation would impose severe fines (up to$ 100 000 ) on doctors who perform transgender surgeries or administer related medications to minors.
According to a recent poll by the Napolitan News Service, the vast majority of Americans ( 72 percent ) believe it should be illegal” to provide children under 18 with puberty blockers, drugs, and/or]transgender ] surgery”. This included 86 percent of Republicans and 58 percent of Democrats, the Daily Signal reported.
” Any doctor who performs a sex change on a child should be put in jail”, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., said during the panel discussion ahead of Marshall’s discussion of the STOP Act. Earlier this year, Tuberville introduced the Protection , of , Women , in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act” to prohibit men from competing in women’s Olympic sports”.
According to a press release released on Wednesday regarding the Act, Marshall also recently introduced the Senate’s Defining Male and Female Act, which would” codify legal definitions of male, female, and sex to ensure they are based on biology rather than ideology.” The legislation would restore the “legal right” to” sex-separate sports and scholarships”, as well as the” sex separation of restrooms” and other private spaces. The bill would counteract the Biden administration’s attempts to weaken civil rights laws in favor of those who claim to not be related to their own sex.
Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., also on the panel, introduced the companion bill in the House in July.
Sarah Parshall Perry, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, was also among the panelists. She urged during the discussion that the left’s “gender industrialized complex, in all of its applications” is ultimately about “getting children”.
She noted that because they allegedly “unfairly target the drag and trans communities,” “legislators have downgraded the felony offenses for indecent exposure to minors” in Colorado and Connecticut. She also highlighted how “researchers at Johns Hopkins University have ]substituted ] language on’ minor-attracted persons’ for the less anodyne sounding’ pedophile,'” to effectively make it” just another sexual orientation”.
Perry applauded the lawmakers ‘ efforts to “protect biological reality.”
The transgender “medical” industry is worth about$ 4.5 billion right now and aims to” transition all 1.3 million Americans who identify as trans”, Schilling said, noting how, if that happens, the industry will balloon to$ 200 billion. But” they want to grow that 1.3 number, too”, he later said. The trans ideology in schools is about “absolutely everything,” according to the statement.” They literally brainwash our students and funnel them into this very lucrative pipeline.”
Schilling added that during the panel, “it is an industry that is meant to make money, and they are disguising themselves as a civil rights movement because it’s not very popular to make billions of dollars sterilizing children and even adults,” adding that.
As the panel came to a close, Marshall was adamant that” to do this type of surgery, these irreversible hormones that they’re giving, is absolutely child abuse”.
” These young children — adolescents — are not emotionally mature enough to make]such ] a long-term decision”, he said.
Breccan F. Thies is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. He previously covered issues of culture and education for Breitbart News and the Washington Examiner. He is a Publius Fellow at the 2022 Claremont Institute and holds a degree from the University of Virginia. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.
