[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 84 (Thursday, May 18, 2023)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E465]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





             CONDEMNING PROFITMAKING FROM CHILD MUTILATION

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                           HON. PAUL A. GOSAR

                               of arizona

                    in the house of representatives

                         Thursday, May 18, 2023

  Mr. GOSAR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to condemn the health care 
industry's obscene profitmaking derived from mutilating little 
children.
  The grotesque fad of chemically castrating boys or performing breast 
removal surgery on girls is not healthcare. This is a shameful time for 
those doctors and hospitals that enjoy mutilating children--for sky-
high profits (surgery costs about $150,000).
  As a society, we have decided that children and young adults have not 
developed the mental capacity to make wise decisions in certain areas. 
For example, if you are under 21 you can't rent a car, buy tobacco, buy 
a shot of whiskey, and you have to be 18 to vote or buy a gun. You are, 
after all, still maturing.
  However, today, a 5-year-old or l0-year-old child can ``decide'' they 
are really the opposite gender, and once a doctor at a children's 
hospital gets a whiff of that, they smell profits and want to start the 
process of chemically, surgically, and often permanently castrating 
boys and maiming girls. It is horribly disfiguring of our children.
  In my view this is not healthcare. This is abuse. It is parental-
abuse for any parent to subject their child to this. It is unethical 
and unprofessional for any hospital or doctor to participate in this 
mutilation.
  Victims of this abuse are starting to speak up, but for many it is 
too late.
  If a person is 18 or older, and they want to castrate themselves, I 
would recommend counseling for mental illness, but at least they have 
reached the age of majority where they can make decisions, even dumb 
decisions, on their own behalf.
  There is no excuse for any doctor who does this mutilation on anyone 
under 18. I would vote to criminalize this practice and revoke the 
medical license of any quack that does these surgeries and hormone 
treatments.
  History will prove us right. The leftists agitating for child 
mutilation are fundamentally demonic and harming children.
  This story is about a hospital in Minnesota claiming that ``gender 
dysphoria'' is just like asthma and diabetes. It is not. It is about 
big money for this hospital--a hospital that cares nothing about the 
long term impacts its actions will have on these children.

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