Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has reintroduced her landmark laws, the Shield Kids’s Innocence Act which might criminalize genital mutilation, chemical castration, and all sex-change procedures carried out on youngsters.
The laws goals to criminalize genital mutilation and chemical castration of minor youngsters by making it a felony to supply puberty blockers, hormones, or surgical intercourse change operations for minors. Those that violate the regulation might be topic to a federal jail sentence of 10 years or a major tremendous.
Particularly, the laws:
- Criminalizes any try to carry out or facilitate genital or bodily mutilation or chemical castration on a minor, with as much as 10 years in federal jail and/or a major tremendous.
- Bans all puberty blockers and cross-sex hormone therapies for youngsters.
- Offers no exemption for psychological well being issues as justification for these procedures.
- Defines “chemical castration” and “genital or bodily mutilation” with detailed authorized readability.
- Exempts youngsters born with sure uncommon genetic situations, or who’re experiencing medical emergencies as licensed by a doctor.
The invoice was beforehand launched within the Senate by Vice President JD Vance.
“The Shield Kids’s Innocence Act strengthens and codifies President Donald J. Trump’s government order banning gender transition procedures for minors,” Greene’s workplace mentioned in a press launch. “Collectively, this laws and the President’s motion ship a transparent message: the federal authorities will now not tolerate the abuse and exploitation of kids by the unconventional gender ideology of the Left.”
Greene first launched the invoice in 2022.
“Left-wing activists and medical establishments are focusing on America’s youngsters with harmful medication, disfiguring surgical procedures, and everlasting sterilization,” mentioned Greene. “My invoice stops the mutilation of youngsters and holds these liable for performing or facilitating these barbaric procedures accountable.”
Organizations supporting the invoice embrace American Ideas Challenge, Residents for Renewing America, CPAC, Gays Towards Groomers, Unbiased Ladies, and Mothers for Liberty.
