Last month, I stunned a Yale doctor into silence when I asked her a simple question at a Congressional hearing: are there any scientific studies that provide strong evidence of the benefits of providing transgender “care” for children?
What that exchange proved was something every single common sense American already knows: of course there are no studies showing the benefits of making permanent, dangerous changes to a child’s sex.
This week, that debate continued at my committee, where my Democrat colleagues once again argued that I was “cruel” for wanting to stop taxpayer dollars from going to program funding for children’s hospitals that perform child sex changes. But I am not the one who is cruel. Doing a double mastectomy on a 12-year-old girl is cruel. Castrating a ten-year-old boy—that’s cruel. And it’s certainly cruel to put kids on permanent hormone therapy and puberty blockers that could prevent them from ever having children and permanently change their physiology.
The idea that we should encourage and even help children to permanently change their gender is a new, dangerous phenomenon. We’ve seen this phenomenon sweep through our schools, in the mainstream media, and now at our children’s hospitals. Yet there’s no evidence of the safety or benefits of transgender “care” for minors, and no long-term studies to truly evaluate the impact this “treatment” could have decades later.
Moreover, our peer countries are practically screaming at us to put this madness to an end. Over the last few years, countries like Britain, Finland, Sweden, and France have all sounded the alarm on the dangers of “gender affirming care” for minors and have taken steps to rein in this practice.
That’s why I introduced legislation that would prevent federal funding - your taxpayer dollars - under the Graduate Medical Education program from going to children’s hospitals that provide “gender affirming care” to minors. This week, my committee advanced this legislation out of the Health Subcommittee, bringing it one step closer to a vote in the full House of Representatives.
That’s good news, along with the fact that the American people agree with us: according to the latest polls, nearly 70% of Americans disapprove of providing puberty blockers to minors.
The bad news is that Congressional Democrats are going to do everything in their power to stop this legislation and use their allies in the media to spread lies about this bill and smear our efforts. That’s why I need your help.
Sign the below petition to make it clear that you do not want your taxpayer dollars going to programs for children’s hospitals that perform this pseudoscience on our kids. The more people sign the petition, the better chance we have in making the argument that the American people do not support this dangerous ideology that has infected our country’s medical institutions.
