GOP lawmakers reveal a heightened legislative focus against 'irreversible' gender surgery on minors

Republicans are gearing up for a trifecta of power successful Congress adjacent twelvemonth with a heightened absorption on legislation against transgender aesculapian procedures connected minors. 

During a Senate sheet connected Wednesday afternoon, lawmakers discussed the aboriginal of legislative enactment in Congress, specified arsenic bans connected biologic males competing successful women's sports, restrictions connected gender-related country connected minors and cessation of payer backing of these types of procedures for children, and expanding parental consent requirements.

The treatment was hosted by Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., and was led by Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project (APP). Schilling interviewed Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., and Paula Scanlan, a swimmer who shared her acquisition of competing alongside Lia Thomas, a transgender jock connected the women’s squad astatine the University of Pennsylvania.

"This question from the opening has been astir redeeming America, but mostly astir protecting our children," Schilling said successful his opening remarks.

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Senator Roger Marshall, a Republican from Kansas, speaks during a quality league astatine the U.S. Capitol successful Washington, D.C., U.S. connected Thursday, March 4, 2021. (Ting Shen)

Marshall, a erstwhile aesculapian doctor, discussed his efforts to "shut down the sex concern complex."

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"Here, today, we're protecting young ladies and men from genital mutilation, 'cause this is what this is," Marshall told the panel. "It's hard for maine to judge we're doing irreversible harm to these young children."

Tuberville, who introduced the Protection of Women and Girls successful Sports Act of 2023, said that "we've gotten nary assistance from the Democratic side," but that Republicans are going to proceed moving connected the contented successful the adjacent Congress erstwhile Senate Republicans volition apt person a majority.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., arrives for the Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation proceeding connected Wednesday, July 26, 2023.  (Bill Clark)

"I can't judge we're adjacent having to bash this," Tuberville added. "It is axenic insanity and has caused irreversible harm connected children. This isn't astir authorities folks, this is astir bully and evil."

"Title IX is the champion happening to travel retired of this gathering successful 50 years," Tuberville, a erstwhile coach, said. "Biological men playing successful women's sports is not a right."

Scanlan told the sheet astir her acquisition competing for the University of Pennsylvania's aquatics squad alongside a biologic male, saying that she had to alteration successful the locker country with Thomas "18 times per week."

Paula Scanlan shares her communicative arsenic a swimmer astatine UPenn competing against teammate Lia Thomas, the archetypal transgender D-1 jock to triumph a title.  (Aimee Dilger)

Marshall revealed that Congress volition beryllium introducing the Safeguarding the Overall Protection of Minors Act (STOP), which volition purpose to "punish radical who execute country oregon mediation connected minors."

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According to an APP study precocious covered by Fox News Digital, full revenues for transgender drugs and surgeries successful 2023 are estimated to surpass $4.4 billion. That number, according to the study, could transcend $7.8 cardinal by 2030.