LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Two Michigan lawmakers are looking to end “experimentation on children in the name of care” with a three-bill package banning gender surgeries on minor children.
Lasting health impacts.
The bill package introduced by Rep. Brad Paquette (R-Niles) and Sen. Thomas Albert (R-Lowell) would prohibit gender transition procedures for kids under the age of 18. House Bills 4466-4468 and Senate Bills Senate Bills 289-291 prohibit health care providers from conducting hormone treatments, surgeries for sterilization, and surgeries that alter genital appearance on minors. Exceptions include those with “medically verifiable disorders of sex development or those facing imminent danger from physical condition.”
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“We don’t yet know the long-term health consequences of these procedures that remove fully healthy body parts or involve chemically altering kids before they’ve even had a chance to fully mature,” Albert said. “I want any kid going through a difficult time to get the help they need [and] that care should be evidence-based and in the child’s short- and long-term best interests.”
“Children are being maimed.”
Rep. Paquette appeared on The Steve Gruber Show on Tuesday and said medical institutions are buying into a “pseudo-science” that is wrong and that other countries are starting to revert on gender transition care and chemicals for children.
“Children are being maimed in the name of care,” Paquette told Gruber.
In addition, Rep. Paquette told Gruber about Prisha Mosely, a Big Rapids resident who is detransitioning and supports the bill package. Paquette told Gruber most members of the media do not want to talk about what children actually go through when they receive so-called “gender-affirming care” and then change their minds.
“Prisha Mosely got a double mastectomy and was on testosterone and it has harmed her irreparably for the rest of her life,” Paquette said.
Medical malpractice lawsuits.
In addition, Paquette and Albert’s bills allow patients to seek more damages for medical malpractice. Health insurance providers would be on the hook for detransition costs since it covers transition costs already.
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The bills have been referred the House Committee on Health Policy.
