Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Friday introduced a bill to classify providing certain treatments to transgender minors as a felony.
The bill would make it a felony to provide puberty blockers or hormone treatments to minors and also prohibit federal funds from going toward such treatments, according to The Hill.
“When it comes to ‘gender-affirming care,’ which is really child abuse, this is actually an assault and it’s child abuse,” Greene said on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
“This practice should never happen,” she continued. “It’s so disgusting and appalling… this needs to be illegal.”
Greene’s “Protect Children’s Innocence Act” would make a range of treatments a class C felony, which would come with a 10-25 year prison sentence and a maximum fine of $250,000, The Hill noted.
The bill comes amid efforts by LGBT activists to pressure the Biden administration into expanding Title IX protections to include transgender individuals.
Thank you, @RepMTG, and your co-sponsors for standing up for children https://t.co/Td20jiKenh
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