New legislation intensifies crackdown on medical mutilation
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) introduced a bill on Wednesday that would allow children who have been medically mutilated to sue the provider for damages.
The Jamie Reed Protecting Our Kids from Child Abuse Act
Medical mutilation — or what gender activists call “gender-affirming care” — has become a common term for puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and genital surgeries. These interventions, given to children to “affirm their gender identity,” cause permanent sterility and a host of other harms like blood clots, heart complications, and suicidality.
“Our children should no longer suffer from irreversible and dangerous child mutilation procedures, which the Biden administration enabled and promoted,” Senator Hawley said in a statement announcing the Jamie Reed Protecting Our Kids from Child Abuse Act. “I welcome President Trump’s strong action to reverse this child abuse and look forward to working with his administration to advance legislation that protects our kids.”
Trump’s executive order
The legislation would also withhold federal funding from any institution that medically mutilates children, closely mirroring an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Wednesday. The order, titled “Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” disqualifies medical institutions from receiving federal funds if they medically mutilate minors.
“This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end,” the EO said. “Countless children soon regret that they have been mutilated and begin to grasp the horrifying tragedy that they will never be able to conceive children of their own or nurture their children through breastfeeding. Moreover, these vulnerable youths’ medical bills may rise throughout their lifetimes, as they are often trapped with lifelong medical complications, a losing war with their own bodies, and, tragically, sterilization.
“Accordingly, it is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.”
The order also directs various federal agencies to take several measures against medical mutilation providers — including insurance companies — and ends “reliance on junk science.”
“The blatant harm done to children by chemical and surgical mutilation cloaks itself in medical necessity, spurred by guidance from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), which lacks scientific integrity,” reads the EO. WPATH, which produced the “science” that has been used to justify medical mutilation, was outed last year as a controlled mouthpiece for the Biden administration’s agenda.
The STOP Act
In December ,Senator Roger “Doc” Marshall (R-KS) introduced a bill aimed at stopping medical providers from subjecting children to medical mutilation. The Safeguarding The Overall Protection of Minors (STOP) Act would make it illegal for doctors or hospitals to administer puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones to children. It would also prohibit medical providers from performing genital surgeries and double mastectomies on kids for “gender identity” purposes.
The bill does not apply only to physicians. Any healthcare professional can be hit with a $100,000 civil penalty if they “knowingly perform, attempt to perform, conspire to perform, or provide a referral for any gender transition procedure on a minor.” That includes mental health workers who refer children for “gender-affirming care,” as well as any medical institution where medical mutilation procedures are performed.
In addition, the bill would fund programs to help gender medicine victims try to reverse some of the effects of such interventions, a process known as “de-transitioning.”
