Congressman Troy Nehls To Introduce Bill To Rescind Biden’s Executive Order Requiring All States To Offer Gender Transition Therapy To Minors
This week Congressman Troy Nehls will introduce the “Stop Child Abuse Act,” seeking to rescind the Executive order signed by President Biden on June 15, which prohibits individual state governments from banning the use of gender transition therapies in minor children and removes the states’ right to govern independently.
Biden signed the Executive Order on Advancing Equality for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Individuals as part of his administration’s plan to further the cause of the LGBTQI+ community in America.
According to the executive order, the administration seeks to “protect LGBTQI+ individuals’ access to medically necessary care,” including gender transition therapies such as hormones and surgical intervention for individuals suffering from gender dysphoria.
The administration, including the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), now classifies hormone therapy and gender reassignment surgeries as a proper treatment for the mental health concerns of LGBTQI+ youth.
The order further states that “200 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of HHS shall develop and release sample policies for States to safeguard and expand access to health care for LGBTQI+ individuals and their families, including mental health services.”
All major medical associations now recommend gender-affirming care to treat gender dysphoria.
The entirety of the Biden Administration has come on board with these ideas included within the President’s Executive order. Other statements from inside the administration have previously been released.
In March, a document titled “Gender Affirming Care and Young People” was issued by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Population Affairs (OPA).
In the document, the HHS describes suitable treatments for transgender youth, including” ‘top’ surgery to create male-typical chest shape or enhance breasts” and “‘bottom’ surgery … on genitals or reproductive organs, facial feminization or other procedures.”
“Medical and psychosocial gender-affirming healthcare practices have been demonstrated to yield lower rates of adverse mental health outcomes, build self-esteem, and improve overall quality of life for transgender and gender diverse youth,” the OPA release states.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) released a similar document titled, “Gender-Affirming Care Is Trauma-Informed Care.”
The NCTSN went a bit further than the OPA document, expressing support for hormone therapy for minors. In it, the NCTSN release says that proper treatments “may include evidence-based interventions such as puberty blockers and gender-affirming hormones.”
“Providing gender-affirming care is neither child maltreatment nor malpractice. The child welfare system in the US, charged with ‘improv(ing) the overall health and wellbeing of our nation’s children and families,’ should not be used to deny care or separate families working to make the best decisions for their children’s wellbeing. There is no scientifically sound research showing negative impacts from providing gender-affirming care,” the release states.
However, Nehls and many other national leaders disagree with this sentiment. The choice to subject a minor to hormone therapy or gender reassignment surgeries that permanently alter their bodies prior to an age where they can give informed consent is seen as abuse.
Most recently, Governor Greg Abbott ordered the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to begin investigating and reporting instances of minors undergoing sex-change procedures or therapy.
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