House poised to vote on MTG bill criminalizing trans health care

The House of Representatives is expected to vote on act that would criminalize transgrander fitness care as soon as Wednesday The Protect Children s Innocence Act introduced by Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene R-Ga would make it a federal felony for doctors to provide certain forms of biological care related to gender transition for minors including puberty blockers and hormone therapy The bill could also expose parents and guardians to possible criminal liability for facilitating that care Related Suicide hotline changes are a direct attack on trans youth Greene who will resign from her seat early next year reported she flipped her vote on the annual National Defense Authorization Act in exchange for a promise from House leadership that her bill would receive a vote When Greene introduced the bill in May she described the care it targets in incendiary terms saying the measure would stop the mutilation of kids and hold those involved in what she called barbaric procedures accountable Leader Steve Scalise has promised me that my bill Protect Children s Innocence Act H R will be brought to the floor for a vote next Wednesday Dec th she wrote on X last week This would make it a class c felony to trans a child under Every Republican campaigned to protect kids from the trans agenda Start your day with essential news from Salon Sign up for our free morning newsletter Crash Program Civil rights groups have condemned the bill as an unprecedented and extreme measure This extreme bill puts the threat of prosecution between hundreds of thousands of families and their doctors and would put doctors behind bars for exercising their best diagnostic judgment ACLU s Mike Zamore announced in a message Passing this bill would be a grave escalation of an already severe effort to not only push transgender people out of inhabitants life but also allow the state to control our bodies and our lives further A nti-equality members of the House may consider a bill to put doctors in prison just for doing their jobs Kelley Robinson president of Human Rights Campaign declared in a declaration That could mean a pediatrician facing jail time for providing the care they were trained to provide It could mean a parent being handcuffed and tossed into a police car because they went to the pharmacy and administered their child s medication as prescribed Read more about this topic Trump signs executive order barring transgender athletes in women s sports The real wild card is Amy Coney Barrett The Supreme Court episode that could eviscerate trans rights Trump s opening assault shows that Republicans want trans people out of general life entirely The post House poised to vote on MTG bill criminalizing trans strength care appeared first on Salon com