If you were confused about the ‘drugs’ part in the title… as was I.
To clarify, the bill would ban child transgender surgeries and drugs associated with cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers.
Ultimately, I’m excited that more states are getting on board with being proactive about this.
Breitbart reported:
On February 27, Georgia State Rep. Ginny Ehrhart (R) introduced the Vulnerable Child Protection Act (HB 1060) in the Georgia House of Representatives.
The legislation would ban health care professionals from performing transgender surgeries on a minor child – such as mastectomy, vaginoplasty, castration, penectomy, etc. – “for the purpose of attempting to affirm the minor’s perception of such minor’s sex, if that perception is inconsistent with such minor’s sex.”
In addition, the bill would make illegal the administering of medications, such as puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones, to children for the same purpose.
If someone wants to mutilate their own body, they should be of legal age and pay out of pocket for it. But if the individual is a minor, it should be off the table entirely.
My personal opinion is that the root of individuals seeking gender reassignment procedures and drugs stems from a mental state that should be tended to before something so permanent takes place.
More from Breitbart:
Vernadette Broyles, president and general counsel of the Child and Parental Rights Campaign (CPRC), told Breitbart News in an interview the bill was partly modeled after one that came close to passing in South Dakota.
Broyles’ nonprofit, public interest law firm, one she founded to defend the rights of parents to protect their children from the harms of gender ideology, was involved in the drafting of the bill.
“Tremendous amounts of research went into this bill,” she said. “Medical, scientific research, and it was vetted by a variety of doctors and specialists.”
Broyles said the legislation would include criminal penalties for medical professionals providing transgender drugs or surgeries to minor children, as well as the possibility of review by professional boards and for civil liability.
Broyles ensured that she was going to make sure Georgians and legislators were educated about the detrimental effects about gender fluidity so that an informed decision can be reached.
Broyles explained that her law firm comes to this issue from both a child development and children’s basic civil rights perspective, rather than a political or faith viewpoint.
“Children have a central right, that should be protected, to be taught the truth about science and biology,” she asserted, adding:
“They have a very basic right to view their body not as their enemy, and their biological sex not as a disease. A child has the right to know that his or her biological sex is not a disease and that puberty is not a disorder.”
Parents should be the ultimate advocates for their children and not encourage basic biology to be a virus that’s infecting them and thus must be rid of.
It’s unfortunate that this isn’t common knowledge. I’m pretty sure child abuse has always been illegal and immoral. There shouldn’t be exceptions to abuse.
Abuse is abuse is abuse…
I can’t believe this is even controversial and I genuinely hope this bill passes.