President Donald Trump called for Congress to pass a federal ban to criminalize performing transgender procedures on children during his join address Tuesday night.
Trump has already signed executive orders to cut off federal funding for schools that push gender-ideology on children and end any funding for institutions that promote transgender procedures on children.
“I also signed an order to cut off all taxpayer funding to any institution that engages in the sexual mutilation of our youth,” Trump said. “And now I want Congress to pass a bill permanently banning and criminalizing sex changes on children and forever ending the lie that any child is trapped in the wrong body.”
“And our message to every child in America is that you are perfect exactly the way God made you,” he added.
Trump’s executive order from earlier this year said that the government would not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the attempted gender transition of a child, promising that it will “rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.”
Over two dozen Republican-led states have passed laws to ban transgender procedures, such as cutting off the breasts of girls who identify as boys and giving cross-sex hormones to children of both sexes.
Republicans, like Senators Roger Marshall of Kansas and Josh Hawley of Missouri, have previously proposed legislation that would crack down on transgender procedures on kids nationwide.
Hawley introduced a measure in January that would allow children harmed by transgender procedures to sue the doctors and hospitals that carried out the operations.
Hawley’s bill would enable individuals to sue the pediatric gender clinics and doctors who gave them cross-sex hormones or performed transgender surgery on them as minors. The legislation comes after President Donald Trump signed an executive order blocking federal funding for any hospital that performs such procedures.
“Our children should no longer suffer from irreversible and dangerous child mutilation procedures, which the Biden administration enabled and promoted,” Hawley said. “I welcome President Trump’s strong action to reverse this child abuse and look forward to working with his administration to advance legislation that protects our kids.”
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