[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 212 (Tuesday, December 16, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H5937]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM UNSCIENTIFIC MEDICAL PROCEDURES

  (Mr. CARTER of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CARTER of Georgia. Madam Speaker, I rise today in strong support 
of the Do No Harm in Medicaid Act, which protects children from 
unscientific sex-rejecting procedures.
  Dangerous and irreversible sex-change interventions for children 
should have no place in our medical system. These life-altering 
procedures, performed on minors who are still developing, carry serious 
risks, including infertility, sexual dysfunction, psychiatric 
complications, and long-term regret.
  Subjecting healthy, developing children, many of whom may be 
suffering from mental health issues, to damaging and harmful procedures 
without a clear, proven medical purpose is simply wrong.
  Additionally, comprehensive studies reveal profound uncertainty about 
the alleged benefits of these interventions. In fact, the Department of 
Health and Human Services issued a report finding that the so-called 
gender-affirming model of care for gender-distressed children lacks 
sufficient scientific and ethical justification.
  Prohibiting Federal Medicaid funding of sex-rejecting procedures for 
minors is essential to protect our Nation's children, not exposing them 
to unproven and irreversible medical interventions.
  We must be guided by sound science, medical ethics, and our 
responsibility to do no harm, not the radical left's agenda.
  Madam Speaker, I encourage my colleagues to support this bill.

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