U.S. senator reintroduces plan to stifle the transgender agenda
One U.S. senator has moved quickly to build on the momentum started by President Donald Trump’s executive order to prevent federal promotions and payments for transgender “treatments,” also described as body mutilations, on children.
Trump on Tuesday signed his executive order titled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation.”
It includes, “It is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.”
But, as a report in RedState confirmed, “executive orders are, of course, limited, and must eventually be supported by legislation.”
That brought Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., into the discussion.
.@realDonaldTrump latest executive order directs the Attorney General to work w/ Congress to protect children from transgender surgeries that mutilate their bodies. Today I will reintroduce my legislation to allow victims of these surgeries to SUE the doctors who harmed them
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) January 29, 2025
He announced he is reintroducing the “Protecting Kids from Child Abuse Act,” which allows victims to sue the doctors who hurt them.
Online, Hawley explained his plan will “create a private right of action for individuals who were harmed by a gender-transition procedure performed on them when they were minors.”
The liability would fall on “a pediatric gender clinic where the procedure was performed; a medical practitioner who performed the procedure or was employed by the clinic; and a university or hospital that is affiliated with the clinic.”
Further, it was bar “federal funding to any pediatric gender clinic, to any university or hospital that is affiliated with a pediatric gender clinic, and for any gender-transition procedure performed on minors.”
It essentially “would enshrine most of President Trump’s EO into law,” the report said.
“This seems like a no-brainer, a policy statement that should be enshrined in the hallowed halls of the Museum of the Mind-Numbingly Obvious. But the fact is that the rise of ‘transgenderism’ has made it necessary, especially where children are concerned. There is a reason we don’t allow children to make certain decisions; they lack the maturity, the experience, and the wisdom to do so. That’s why we don’t let children sign contracts, or buy alcohol, tobacco, or firearms,” the report explained.
“We don’t let them sign consent for medical treatments, even as something as minor as filling a cavity; we don’t let them get tattoos. We sure shouldn’t allow them to get harmful, permanent, life-changing, and sterilizing treatments and procedures that will require them to have medical intervention for the rest of their lives.”