(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) A Pennsylvania Judiciary Committee passed a bill that could force doctors to prescribe puberty blockers and perform sex reassignment surgeries, according to a Democrat state representative on the board.
Rep. Emily Kinkead emphatically affirmed that bill HB 300 would require doctors to provide so-called “gender affirming care” if it becomes law, the Post Millennial reported.
“When we talk about are physicians going to be required to do X, Y, Z? Yes! If it does not harm, if it in fact helps people,” said Kinkead. “And when we deny gender-affirming care to people who do not identify with the gender that they were assigned at birth, that is causing harm.”
In addition to the possibility of holding doctors liable for not treating mentally ill patients, HB 300 would also make it illegal to discriminate based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Kinkead also claimed that doctors who refused to provide such care would be causing harm to people who want to transition.
Twitter users called out Kinkead for her baseless claims.
“Anyone promoting the surgical or medical process of removing or changing sexual organs in order to ‘change the gender’ of a child belongs in prison,” user Wade Miller said.
“Wow. She not only drank the Koolaid, she’s like the Mom who mixed it up in the kitchen and then called all the kids in and force it down their throats,” said one critic.
“If this bill passes Pennsylvania can say goodbye to millions of residents,” another user noted.
Scientific opinion on experimental sex changes via hormone therapy and surgery, particularly for minors, is varied. Recent research led several European countries to ban the practice outright, and other countries such as Sweden, Finland, England, France and Norway moved away from immediate medical transitions to therapy in order to help the troubled minors.
Several Republican-led states also banned the practice altogether.
People called Kinkead’s claim that such surgeries and mutilations are “life-saving” into question as side effects from hormones and surgery are under continued scrutiny.
