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marmar

(79,751 posts)
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 09:47 AM Dec 2025

House poised to vote on MTG bill criminalizing trans health care


(Salon) The House of Representatives is expected to vote on legislation that would criminalize transgrander health care as soon as Wednesday.

The Protect Children’s Innocence Act, introduced by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., would make it a federal felony for doctors to provide certain forms of medical care related to gender transition for minors, including puberty blockers and hormone therapy. The bill could also expose parents and guardians to potential criminal liability for facilitating that care.

Greene, who will resign from her seat early next year, said she flipped her vote on the annual National Defense Authorization Act in exchange for a promise from House leadership that her bill would receive a vote.

When Greene introduced the bill in May, she described the care it targets in incendiary terms, saying the measure would “stop the mutilation of kids” and hold those involved in what she called “barbaric procedures” accountable. ................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/12/16/house-poised-to-vote-on-mtg-bill-criminalizing-trans-health-care/




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House poised to vote on MTG bill criminalizing trans health care (Original Post) marmar Dec 2025 OP
Ah sabbat hunter Dec 2025 #1
Exactly what I was thinking. Ritabert Dec 2025 #5
She only changed because she felt dumped on, not that she changed any of her core "values". marble falls Dec 2025 #2
Demonizing children is not a great way to protect them Johonny Dec 2025 #3
MTG potentially in every psychologist's office with every patient bucolic_frolic Dec 2025 #4
Meanwhile, no vote on ACA subsidies that affects millions of people. allegorical oracle Dec 2025 #6
MTG is a disgusting and sad human being LetMyPeopleVote Dec 2025 #7
... Solly Mack Dec 2025 #8

marble falls

(71,944 posts)
2. She only changed because she felt dumped on, not that she changed any of her core "values".
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 09:56 AM
Dec 2025

Johonny

(26,184 posts)
3. Demonizing children is not a great way to protect them
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 10:06 AM
Dec 2025

And will only lead to bad results.

Awful bill, awful people that support it. Fuck them all.

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