Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) introduced a bill Wednesday that would ban doctors from performing life-altering and irreversible transgender procedures on kids across the country.
Marshall put forth the “Safeguarding The Overall Protection of Minors Act’’ to block doctors from giving kids puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, which can cause infertility, reduce bone density, and damage heart health. The legislation would also ban transgender surgeries for kids, including genital surgeries and removing the breasts of girls who identify as boys.
According to the text of the bill, doctors could be assessed a civil fine of up to $100,000 if they “knowingly perform, attempt to perform, conspire to perform, or provide a referral for any gender transition procedure on a minor.”
“Americans resoundingly rejected the Left’s dangerous transgender agenda. Let’s call it exactly what it is: child abuse,” Marshall, a doctor, said in a statement. “The days of demented doctors and activists getting rich off of mutilating, sterilizing, and castrating children are over.”
“Our legislation keeps children’s safety paramount by prohibiting anyone from performing, facilitating, or even conspiring to give these irreversible therapies and procedures to minors,” Marshall added. “This bill is just the beginning of what’s to come with President Trump at the helm and our unwavering commitment to protecting children from transgender activists’ twisted and criminal agenda.”
The proposed legislation would also allow anyone on whom a gender procedure was performed to sue in United States district court for proper relief. Additionally, the bill would authorize the attorney general to set up a grant program for individuals attempting to undo the impacts of transgender procedures.
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Marshall has been an opponent of transgender ideology, previously introducing bills to define male and female in biology and pushing back on the World Health Organization’s embrace of transgender activists. His bill was introduced the same day that Tennessee defended its ban on transgender procedures for minors before the Supreme Court.
While over two dozen states across the country have moved to protect kids from transgender medical procedures, Republicans in Kansas have so far failed. Earlier this year, they came just two votes short in the state House of overriding Democratic Governor Laura Kelly’s veto of their legislation.
Stop the Harm, a database that tracks where transgender procedures have been done on children across the country, records that there have been 71 puberty and cross-sex hormone child patients in Kansas and 22 surgery patients since 2019.
