Appearing on the Thursday night edition of Fox “News” Channel (FNC)’s Tucker Carlson Tonight, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) announced that she will be introducing a genocidal transphobic bill deceitfully called the “Protect Children’s Innocence Act” that bans gender-affirming healthcare for trans and gender nonconforming children nationwide should the GOP ever gain the trifecta by making it a Class C felony to perform them on trans and GNC minors, complete with up to an 25-year prison sentence.
During her appearance with fellow anti-LGBTQ+ zealot Tucker Carlson, Greene baselessly called gender-affirming healthcare for trans and GNC children “child abuse” and “genital mutilation”, a deranged assertion that flies against both common sense and sound medical advice.
You know what is child abuse, MTG? It is depriving trans minors of gender-affirming healthcare.
Greene has a long record of anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry and anti-transextremism.
Alia Slisco at Newsweek:
Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia plans to introduce legislation to federally ban gender-affirming care for transgender children.
Greene announced the bill during a Thursday appearance on Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight. The Georgia Republican argued that gender-affirming care—which is backed by most in the medical establishment, including by major mainstream organizations like the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)—is "disgusting and appalling" and "child abuse" when minors are involved.
"I find this absolutely appalling, Tucker," Greene said. "When it comes to gender-affirming care, which is really child abuse, this is actually an assault and it's child abuse. And this practice should never happen, it's so disgusting and appalling... gender-affirming care is... genital mutilation."
"This needs to be illegal and I'm introducing a bill called Protect Children's Innocence Act," she added. "It would create a law that would cause it to be a class C felony for any person involved in so-called gender-affirming care... anything involving any youth under the age of 18."
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Greene's bill would also block federal funding for any gender-affirming care, ban colleges from teaching gender-affirming treatments and prevent any foreign nationals who provide the care from entering the country.
This extreme anti-trans bill proposed by Margie Q is nothing more than a transphobic call to genocide against trans and gender nonconforming people.
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s announcement came amid a national push from right-wingers targeting trans youth and the healthcare providers who help them.
Republican-backed bills targeting trans healthcare have been introduced in multiple states with Arkansas being the first state to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth in 2021. Similar bills limiting gender-affirming medical care for trans minors have been signed into law in Tennessee and Arizona.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene is a stark example of the intersection between homophobic and transphobic rhetoric and the spread of health misinformation.
Greene blamed trans men for a nationwide tampon shortage despite it being caused by supply chain issues. She also claimed straight people will go extinct in “four or five generations” and said her husband would violently “beat” a trans person “into the ground” if they worked at a theoretical summer camp her daughter attended.
Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) spells out the horribleness of the proposed bill:
Brooke Migdon and Emily Brooks at The Hill:
Under Greene’s bill, anyone who “knowingly performs any gender-affirming care on a minor” is guilty of a class C felony, carrying a punishment of 10 to 25 years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000, Greene’s office said.
The measure is similar to a first-of-its-kind Alabama law passed earlier this year that makes it a felony, punishable by up to a decade in prison, for doctors or others to assist transgender youth younger than 19 in accessing gender-affirming medical care, including puberty blockers or hormone therapy.
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Greene’s bill would also prohibit institutions of higher education from providing instruction on gender-affirming care and bar doctors that have provided gender-affirming care to a minor from receiving visas or being admitted to the U.S.
Greene’s bill has 11 Republican cosponsors so far: Reps. Mary Miller (Ill.), Jeff Duncan (S.C.), Bob Good (Va.), Ralph Norman (S.C.), Matt Gaetz (Fla.), Tony Gonzales (Texas), Rep. Diana Harshbarger (Tenn.), Clay Higgins (La.), Burgess Owens (Utah), Claudia Tenney (N.Y.) and Andrew Clyde (Ga.).
From the 08.18.2022 edition of FNC’s Tucker Carlson Tonight: