GOP senator to propose ban on gender transition treatment for minors

FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., a erstwhile aesculapian doctor, is expected to present authorities that would prohibition gender-related medical procedures connected minors and enforce a punishment for professionals who execute specified treatments, Fox News Digital has learned.

The bill, titled the Safeguarding the Overall Protection (STOP) of Minors Act, aims to prohibit younker sex modulation attraction and "castration procedures" by banning "the usage of interstate commerce to perform, effort to perform, conspire to perform, oregon supply referral for immoderate sex mutilation procedures connected a minor."

"Americans resoundingly rejected the Left’s unsafe transgender agenda. Let’s telephone it precisely what it is: kid abuse," said Marshall. 

Marshall is expected to present the measure connected Capitol Hill connected Wednesday: "The days of demented doctors and activists getting affluent disconnected of mutilating, sterilizing, and castrating children are over."

The STOP Act, if passed, would telephone connected Health and Human Services (HHS) to enforce a civilian punishment of astatine slightest $100,000 connected those "providing transgender mutilation services and treatments" for minors. Secretary Xavier Becerra presently heads HHS nether President Biden. However, helium volition soon beryllium succeeded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. erstwhile President-elect Donald Trump takes bureau successful January. 

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Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan. (Tom Williams/File)

The Republican senator's measure besides seeks to supply assistance to radical who nary longer privation to proceed the sex modulation process, commonly referred to arsenic detransitioners.

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Marshall signaled helium would enactment with Trump, who has suggested helium would question to slash "gender-affirming" attraction for minors, connected the issue.

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"Our authorities keeps children's information paramount by prohibiting anyone from performing, facilitating, oregon adjacent conspiring to springiness these irreversible therapies and procedures to minors," Marshall said. "This measure is conscionable the opening of what's to travel with President Trump astatine the helm and our unwavering committedness to protecting children from transgender activists' twisted and transgression agenda."

Marshall archetypal teed up the measure during a sheet led by Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project, and a radical of lawmakers who discussed a heightened GOP absorption on legislation against transgender aesculapian procedures connected minors. 

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Lawmakers connected the different broadside of the contented person spoken retired successful enactment of specified procedures for minors, specified arsenic hormone replacement therapy and laser hairsbreadth removal. Most recently, they pushed backmost connected a prohibition successful Tennessee that prevents minors from receiving puberty blockers.

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In September, a full of 164 lawmakers, including 11 senators and 153 representatives successful the House, filed an amicus little defending transgender younker against the ban. 

The Supreme Court volition perceive arguments regarding the instrumentality Wednesday and determine connected whether to uphold the ban.

Fox News' Jamie Jospeh contributed to this report.