Marjorie Taylor Greene's bill criminalizing gender-affirming care for minors passes with Democrats' support

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Source: The Advocate

As the last vote of the day on Wednesday evening, the U.S. House on Wednesday passed a bill that would make doctors and parents criminals for providing gender-affirming medical care to transgender minors, marking the first time Congress has approved a national ban on such treatment and escalating a yearslong Republican campaign to regulate transgender lives through federal law. It now goes to the Senate, where it is unlikely to pass.

The legislation, introduced by Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and titled the “Protect Children’s Innocence Act,” would impose felony penalties of up to 10 years in prison on physicians who provide puberty blockers, hormone therapy, or surgical care to patients under 18. The bill would also expose parents and others who consent to or help minors access that care to criminal liability.

The bill passed with 216 members voting for it and 211 against it. Three Democrats, Texas Reps. Henry Cuellar, Vicente Gonzalez, and North Carolina Rep. Don Davis joined all Republicans in supporting the bill’s passage. President Donald Trump recently pardoned Cuellar after being indicted on a dozen charges of bribery, money laundering, and conspiracy.

Read more: https://www.advocate.com/politics/mtg-trans-youth-care-ban

[iemanja]

1. Three Democrats

Disappointing, but better than the headline suggests.

[Raven123]

2. Too bad we can't protect their innocence from gun violence

[Timeflyer]

5. Exactly.

[littlemissmartypants]

3. Don Davis, Greene County N C preacher.

[dsc]

4. He is currently my Congressional representative

I am turfed out of his district going forward. I am very disappointed in this vote but sadly not surprised.

[Oneironaut]

6. This is cruel. They know trans people have no power and they're using them as a political weapon.

I await their votes to ban all Gender Affirming Care as well. Somehow it stings more when you take a knife in the back from people who are supposed to be fighting against the evil consuming this country.

I hope no trans people vote for you, not that it will matter, and, you know that. We are just fodder so that you can run and brag about how “moderate” you are next election because you want us all to be forced into being “normal,” or, just want to bash us so you can join the anti-woke grift . You are pure evil.

[yardwork]

9. It's horrible, cruel, and deeply disrespectful to medical providers.

"No gender affirming care for minors" doesn't mean what they say it means. I don't think any reputable physicians do gender affirming surgery on minors. What they DO provide to minors is life saving talk therapy, hormone therapy, and primary care for young people whose family doctors in red areas might refuse to treat them for anything.

To take this away is cruel and stupid. In addition to being yet another attack on trans people, it's an attack on qualified, ethical medical providers.

[hunter]

11. It is pure evil.

Do they think their god creates certain people just so they can torment them?

What the hell.

All these hateful religions, those that do not cherish ALL people, need to die.

[progressoid]

8. 3 Democrats voted for it and 4 Repubs voted against it.

The bill passed with 216 members voting for it and 211 against it. Three Democrats, Texas Reps. Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez, and North Carolina Rep. Don Davis joined all but four Republicans in supporting the bill’s passage. President Donald Trump recently pardoned Cuellar after the congressman was indicted on a dozen charges of bribery, money laundering, and conspiracy. Democrats Reps. Eric Swalwell of California, Lucy McBath of Georgia, and Joe Courtney of Connecticut did not vote. Swalwell is running for governor of California.

[purr-rat beauty]

10. But but but...

MTG was turning a corner??

Oh wait....she's still a hateful bigot hypocrite