House passes bill to criminalize transgender care for children with some Dem support
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The House passed a bill on Wednesday that would criminalize the treatment of transgender children.
The measure, sponsored by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., won by a vote of 216-211 with some partisan support.
Reps. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas, and Don Davis, DN.C., voted with most Republicans for the bill, while Reps. Mike Lawler, RN.Y., Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., Gabe Evans, R-Colo., and Mike Kennedy, R-Utah, voted against most Democrats for the measure.
“Kids are NOT experiments. No more drugs. No more surgeries. No more permanent injuries. We need to let children grow up without adults manipulating them into making life changing decisions! Congress must protect America’s children!!!” Greene wrote in an X before the vote.
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The measure, sponsored by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, we won by a vote of 216-211. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Greene reached an agreement with House leadership to bring his bill to the floor to support legislation last week to advance the National Defense Authorization Act.
This bill faces a major hurdle to pass the Senate, as Republicans will need the support of Democrats to approve the legislation in the Upper Chamber.
The American Civil Liberties Union condemned the House’s passage, saying the measure “will have immediate and devastating consequences on the lives of transgender youth and their families across the country.”
“Politicians should not prevent parents from doing what is best for their transgender children,” Mike Zamore, National Director of Policy and Government Affairs at the ACLU, said in a statement. “These families often spend years thinking about the best way to support their children, and then disarmed politicians step in to try to make the health care they, their children and their doctors believe is necessary for their children to thrive.”
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene reached an agreement with House leadership to bring her bill to the floor to support legislation last week to advance the National Defense Authorization Act. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)
“But this bill also creates a very dangerous precedent that goes beyond the specific care it’s talking about, criminalizing vision-based care and putting Washington politicians between families and their doctors,” he continued. “We strongly condemn the passage of this measure and urge the members of the Senate to do everything in their power to prevent it from becoming law.”
Greene and Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, opposed the bill before it was passed. Georgia’s female minister, who will resign next month, criticized Roy, who sits on the House Rules Committee, for introducing an amendment that she said would “eliminate the commerce clause.”
Roy’s amendment sought to modify the bill to limit the state’s criminal liability under certain circumstances by “defining when prohibited conduct falls within the jurisdiction of the state,” according to the Rules Committee.
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The ACLU condemned the House’s passage, saying the measure “will have immediate and devastating consequences on the lives of transgender youth and their families across the country.” (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
But Greene argued that his bill “criminalizes ALL care that affirms the sex of children (transgender surgery, puberty blockers, and hormones) NOT those that receive government funds and protects ALL children that allow them to grow up before they make permanent changes to their bodies that they can never reverse!!!”
“WTF is Chip Roy doing????? And this guy wants to be the attorney general of Texas but refuses to protect children??!!!” wrote to X.
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Roy responded that “the constitution is important and we should not misuse it to use ‘interstate commerce’ to empower the authorities.”
The Texas Republican, however, in a statement Wednesday said he would not make the amendment “to avoid any confusion about how Republicans are united in protecting children from these terrible practices.”
