{"id":1649754,"date":"2022-09-20T17:49:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T21:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1649754"},"modified":"2022-09-20T17:50:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T21:50:07","slug":"republican-legislators-support-bill-to-protect-minors-from-gender-transition-procedures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-legislators-support-bill-to-protect-minors-from-gender-transition-procedures\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Legislators Support Bill to Protect Minors from Gender Transition Procedures"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublican-legislators-support-bill-to-protect-minors-from-gender-transition-procedures%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1649754&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>WASHINGTON\u2014Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and 10 other Republican legislators called for support of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/8731?s=1&amp;r=2\">Protect Children\u2019s Innocence Act<\/a>\u2014a bill prohibiting gender transition surgeries on minors\u2014outside the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 20.<\/p>\n<p>If enacted, the legislation would make it a felony to perform \u201cgender-affirming care\u201d\u2014operations, medication, or other procedures to change a minor\u2019s biological sex. The penalty is up to 25 years in prison, or a maximum $250,000 fine. The Act, introduced by Greene on Aug. 19, would also prohibit the use of any federal funds or facilities for gender-affirming care.<\/p>\n<p>The bill is about \u201cprotecting them [children] from \u2026 being fast-tracked into permanent harm to their bodies before they\u2019re old enough to vote, get a tattoo, buy tobacco, join the military, often drive a car, and go see an R-rated movie,\u201d Greene told the press.<\/p>\n<p>She said the bill will have more sponsors and pass in the next Congress, citing \u201cmassive support among Republican voters.\u201d The current number of sponsors is 35, all Republicans. Ten of the co-sponsors attended today\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis [gender-affirming care for minors] should never happen in the United States of America. As a matter of fact, it should never happen anywhere in the world,\u201d said Greene at the event. \u201cBut there\u2019s an ideology that is sexualizing children and pushing this among the most innocent kids, the most vulnerable, and all of our society. And it has to end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20\/0-DSC07214-All-Hands-1200x798.jpg\"><\/a> Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) with Republican legislators outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Sept. 20, 2022. (Terri Wu\/The Epoch Times) <\/p>\n<p>Pro-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-transgender\">transgender<\/a> groups have strongly objected to the Protect Children\u2019s Innocence Act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll people, including transgender young people, deserve access to health care that helps them live safe and healthy lives,\u201d said a statement issued by Dr. Kellan E. Baker, executive director of the Whitman-Walker Institute,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u2014Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and 10 other Republican legislators called for support of the Protect Children\u2019s Innocence Act\u2014a bill prohibiting gender transition surgeries on minors\u2014outside the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 20. If enacted, the legislation would make it a felony to perform \u201cgender-affirming care\u201d\u2014operations, medication, or other procedures to change a minor\u2019s biological sex. 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