In the wake of reports surrounding details of Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s (VUMC) pediatric “gender-affirming care,” Republican lawmakers of Tennessee are calling on the clinic to pause performing such procedures on children.
In a letter sent on Thursday to VUMC board of directors, a group of 62 Tennessee House Republicans asked Vanderbilt’s pediatric transgender clinic to immediately halt “surgical mutilations of minor children” while they prepare a legislative response.
“While those 18-years and older are recognized as legal adults and free to make decisions in their best interests, it is an egregious error of judgement that an institution as highly respected as Vanderbilt would condone and promote harmful and irreversible procedures for minor children in the name of profit,” the Republicans wrote….