Tue Sep 27, 2022 – 3:43 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – Georgia Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced a bill at a press conference last Tuesday that would make giving minors “gender-affirming” surgeries or drugs a felony offense.
Speaking at the press conference, Greene said that the bill, which she introduced in August as the Protect Children’s Innocence Act, is about “protecting them [children] from … being fast-tracked into permanent harm to their bodies before they’re old enough to vote, get a tattoo, buy tobacco, join the military, often drive a car, and go see an R-rated movie.”
“[‘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,” Greene continued. “But there’s 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.”
The bill would designate giving “gender-affirming care” to minors a class C felony offense, with penalties of 10 to 25 years in prison for doctors who provide “gender-affirming” surgeries and drugs and up to $250,000 worth of fines. If
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