Senator J. D. Vance (R-Ohio) has introduced a bill seeking to end transgender procedures on minors, insisting it is necessary to save children in the country from “a lifetime of suffering.”
The bill (pdf), “Protect Children’s Innocence Act,” seeks to ban the genital mutilation, castration, and sterilization of children by categorizing “gender-affirming care” on minors as a Class C felony.
It will end all taxpayer funding for such activities, which will also be applicable to government-sponsored healthcare plans in the Affordable Care Act. The bill will ban higher education institutions from offering instruction on “gender-affirming care.”
Aliens who have performed such medical procedures on children will not be granted visas or allowed into the United States….