ON FOX FIRST: Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., a former physician, is expected to introduce gender-related legislation medical procedures in minors and impose a fine on professionals who perform such treatments, Fox News Digital has learned.
The billTitled the Safeguarding the Overall Protection (STOP) of Minors Act, it aims to ban the gender transition treatments and “castration procedures” of young people by “prohibiting the use of interstate commerce to act, attempt to act, conspire to to act or refer to procedures for gender mutilation of a minor.”
“Americans firmly rejected the left’s dangerous transgender agenda. Let’s call it exactly what it is: child abuse,” Marshall said.
Marshall is expected to introduce the bill on Capitol Hill on Wednesday: “The days of demented doctors and activists getting rich by mutilating, sterilizing and neutering children are over.”
If the STOP law is passed, it would appeal Health and Human Services (HHS) to impose a civil penalty of at least $100,000 on those who “provide transgender mutilation services and treatments” for minors. Secretary Xavier Becerra currently leads HHS under President Biden. However, he will soon be succeeded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. when President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January.
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Leave. Roger Marshall, R-Kan. (Tom Williams/File)
The Republican Senator The bill also aims to provide assistance to people who no longer wish to continue the gender transition process, commonly referred to as detransitioners.
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Marshall indicated he would work with Trump, who has suggested he would try to cut back on “gender-affirming” care for minors in this area.
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“Our laws keep children’s safety top of mind by prohibiting anyone from providing, facilitating or even conspiring to provide these irreversible therapies and procedures to minors,” Marshall said. “This bill is just the beginning of what is to come with President Trump at the helm and our continued commitment to protecting children from the twisted and criminal agenda of transgender activists.”
Marshall first raised the bill during a panel moderated by Terry Schilling, chairman of the American Principles Project, and a group of lawmakers discussing an increased focus from the Republican Party. about legislation against transgender medical procedures on minors.
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Lawmakers on the other side of the issue have spoken out in support of such procedures for minors, such as hormone replacement therapy and laser hair removal. They recently pushed back on a ban in Tennessee that prevents minors from receiving puberty blockers.
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In September, a total of 164 lawmakers, including 11 senators and 153 representatives in the House of Representatives, filed an amicus brief defending transgender youth against the ban.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments on the law on Wednesday and decide whether to uphold the ban.
Fox News’ Jamie Josepheh contributed to this report.
