[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 43 (Tuesday, March 7, 2023)]
[House]
[Pages H1119-H1120]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 CHILDREN'S INNOCENCE MUST BE PROTECTED

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from 
Georgia (Ms. Greene) for 5 minutes.
  Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, today I announce that I am 
reintroducing my bill, the Protect Children's Innocence Act. This bill 
will stop gender-affirming care on children. It will protect children 
from the heinous and evil ideology that is grooming kids and making a 
profit off of horrific surgeries that mutilate their genitals, give 
them life-altering medications like puberty blockers, hormone therapy 
that will have permanent damage to their bodies for the rest of their 
lives before these kids are even grown up, before they have graduated 
from high school, before they are old enough to vote, before they are 
old enough to get a tattoo--ink on their own skin--before they are old 
enough to join the military, before they are old enough to make adult 
decisions.
  This is an important bill that Congress must pass.
  My bill will charge any person who knowingly performs gender-
affirming care on a minor with a Class C felony. It will prohibit all 
taxpayer-funded gender-affirming care. It will prohibit institutions of 
higher education from providing instruction on gender-affirming care.
  There is nothing affirming about lying to children that they can 
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their gender because you cannot change your gender.
  My bill will deem aliens who are determined to have performed gender-
affirming care on a minor as ineligible to receive visas or be admitted 
into the United States.
  We need to take a strong stand in the United States of America that 
we do not abuse our children or sexualize them in any way.
  This is an important bill that must be passed, and I will give you 
some examples.
  In 2021, there was a father in Texas who lost custody of his twin 7-
year-old sons because he attempted to stop one of the boys from 
transitioning his gender. The mother began transitioning the boy when 
he was only 2 years old and then tried to enroll him in a pediatric 
gender clinic at age 5. This child, this young boy, needs to be 
protected, and his father has the rights to do it. They didn't give him 
his rights.
  Last summer, Boston Children's Hospital released videos promoting 
gender dysphoria and offering sterilization, castration, and mutilation 
of children. These videos not only explained its genital mutilation 
surgeries, but they were also promoting these surgeries to kids and 
their parents. By the way, this is for profit.
  Also, just recently, Jamie Reed, who worked at one of more than 100 
pediatric gender clinics across the United States, publicly came out to 
discuss the atrocities happening to children at these gender clinics.
  When a female takes testosterone, the profound and permanent effects 
of the hormone can be seen in a matter of months. Voices drop, beards 
sprout, body fat is redistributed, sexual interest explodes, aggression 
increases, and mood can be unpredictable. One of the side effects 
includes sterility.
  As a matter of fact, after only 4 to 5 years of taking testosterone, 
there have been many young women under the age of 18 that have had to 
have hysterectomies because of the damage done inside of them.
  Even more horrific is the Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, 
signed a bill into law to provide refuge for trans kids and their 
families. This bill will protect trans kids and their families that 
flee to California from States like Alabama, Texas, or Idaho, or any 
other State criminalizing the parents of trans kids for allowing them 
to receive gender-affirming care.
  My bill will protect these children and stop a State like California 
and the monsters and the groomers and the child predators in that State 
that look to damage them before they ever grow up.
  There are many States that are working hard to protect kids, but we 
don't have enough States doing it. That is why it is the responsibility 
of Republicans in Congress to protect children.
  This is imperative.
  We know what the left is trying to do, and we should have listened to 
them when they told us. Remember the San Francisco men's choir actually 
singing a song announcing that they are coming for our children? That 
is a threat that we should not ignore.
  We have had enough with drag queen shows in elementary schools and 
middle schools and high schools. We have had enough of drag queens 
gyrating in front of children in the public square.
  These groomers and child predators must be stopped because they are 
sexualizing children for profit in a multibillion-dollar medical 
industry that looks to grow and grow. Something must be done to protect 
the sacred identity of children because God made children and God made 
all of us, male and female, in His image, and God doesn't make 
mistakes.
  I urge every single Republican and all Members of Congress to 
cosponsor my bill. We must get it passed. This isn't just a Republican 
issue. This is an issue across the board. All voters agree.

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