Tennessee Legislators Move Ban On Child Sex Changes Forward

Tennessee The state is now one step closer to banning child sexchange procedures.

The bill SB 0001After passing a Senate committee’s 8-1 vote on Wednesday, the bill that would ban Tennessee’s pediatric medical transition is moving quickly. It will now be sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is scheduled for Tuesday.

“From the very beginning, the doctors were negligent,” Chloe ColeCalifornia-based detransitioner, 18 years old, is now permanently scarred after having a double breastectomy to remove her breasts at 15. “They treated me as if I were an adult who was capable of making informed lifelong decisions that would affect every area of my life — from socialization and relationships to sexual function and my ability to have children.”

According According to NewsChannel 5, the meeting, which was held in Cordell Hull in Nashville, attracted a large audience. Before Governor Bill Lee can review the bill, it will need to pass through additional committees and chambers in the House or Senate.

Jack Johnson and William Lamberth, both Republicans in Tennessee, introduced the Protecting Children from Gender Mutilation Act last Nov. This would prohibit doctors from prescribing cross-sex hormones or puberty blocksers to minors. It also bars them from performing gender-related surgery on minors for the purposes of medical transition. It would allow patients and their family to sue the court for damages. The courts can also impose a $25,000 fine for each violation.

“The bill would clarify that performing these medical procedures can constitute abuse,” Johnson stated. “The bill would treat these procedures as our law treats other attempts to wound, injure or disable a child.”

After Daily Wire host Matt Walsh posted a viral video showing a doctor at Nashville’s university hospital talking about gender-transition, the Republican leaders agreed to draft the bill. “huge money makers.”

Vanderbilt University Medical Center – VUMC “paused” After Tennessee State representatives wrote to VUMC officials urging them to conduct gender transition surgeries on all children, all of the October gender-transition surgeries were completed. “halt all permanent gender transitioning surgeries on minor children.” VUMC claimed they have performed “gender-affirming” Since 2018, approximately five minors have had double mastectomy surgery to remove their breasts.

Reporting on Clinics for children with gender issues “gender-affirming” care, which effectively puts children in the driver’s seat to dictate the terms of their own sex change, has raised nationwide awareness and serious ethical concerns about the medications offered and procedures performed on minors.

“Interfering or destroying the healthy, normal reproductive organs of a child for the purpose of altering their appearance is profoundly unethical and morally wrong,” Lamberth said. “Tennesseans across our state have demanded an immediate call to action.”

“Through the passage of House Bill 1/Senate Bill 1, Tennessee will protect vulnerable children who cannot give informed consent for adult decisions they aren’t ready for,” Lamberth also added.

Protecting Children from Gender Mutilation Act also created a private right for minors and parents of minors to bring a civil action to recover damages. Additionally, it would enable a child to bring a civil cause of action against a parent if that parent helped to facilitate their child’s medical transition.

The bill would allow courts in the United States to impose a $25,000 per violation penalty and allow the state attorney General to bring action against healthcare providers for knowingly violating the law within the 20-year period. The state attorney general would be required to create a reporting process for violations of the law under the proposed bill.

The bill allows for hormones or surgeries to be provided for children with congenital anomalies, chromosomal anomalies, and developmental sex disorders.