GOP Bills Will Enable Minors To Sue Doctors For Performing…

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Republican politicians in the House and Senate presented bills that will permit individuals who go through transgender ‘medical treatments’ as minors to take legal action against medical companies for damages.

The bill likewise specifies that federal law can not be translated to require doctors to use gender-altering treatments. The bill likewise forbids federal funds from going to states that require physicians to provide transgender treatments.

“Gender-transition procedures aren’t safe or appropriate for children. Unfortunately, radical doctors in the United States perform dangerous, experimental, and even sterilizing gender-transition procedures on young kids, who cannot even provide informed consent,” said. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), who is leading the Senate version of the legislation.

“Our bill allows children who grow up to regret these procedures to sue for damages. Any doctor who performs these irresponsible procedures on kids should pay,” he added.

Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Banks (R-Ind.) and Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.) presented the House variation of the Protect Minors from Medical Malpractice Act.

The bill would enable those who utilized the puberty blockers, hormonal agents, and surgical treatment to medically transition as a minor to demand “declaratory or injunctive relief, compensatory damages, and attorney’s fees,” the Republicans specified. The bill likewise permits parents of minors who went through gender transition treatments to take legal action against the companies as well. The statute of limitiations extends  up to 30 years after the kid becomes an adult.

Banks noted how the Biden regime guidance recommends “irreversible and life-altering surgery”on kids who are too young to discover how to drive.

“Ten years from now, there will be hundreds of thousands of Americans who were permanently scarred by the radical left’s agenda before they reached adulthood,” Banks noted. “If Democrats truly supported gender-confused children, they’d support our effort to give them legal recourse.”

LaMalfa explained: “Radical gender changing ideologies ignore scientific evidence and put children in harm’s way. Every time a doctor performs a gender-transitioning procedure on a minor, they endanger a vulnerable child, potentially sterilize them for life, and break their oath to ‘do no harm.'”

The legislation is backed by more than 10 conservative groups, consisting of Heritage Action and the Family Research Council.

H/T JustTheNews

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