House passes bill to criminalize gender transitional care for minors with some support from Democrats

The House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a bill criminalizing the transgender treatment of minors.

The measure, sponsored by Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, passed by a vote of 216-211 with some bipartisan support.

Reps. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas, and Don Davis, D-Texas, voted with most Republicans in favor of the bill, while Reps. Mike Lawler, R-New York, Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., Gabe Evans, R-Colorado, and Mike Kennedy, R-Utah, voted with most Democrats against the measure.

“Children are not experiments. No more drugs. No more surgeries. No more permanent harm. We need to allow children to grow up without manipulation from adults to make life-changing decisions! Congress must protect America’s children!!!” Green wrote on X before the vote.

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Greene reached an agreement with House leadership to put her bill before Parliament in exchange for her support for last week’s rule to advance the National Defense Authorization Act.

The bill faces a major obstacle to its passage in the Senate, as Republicans will need the support of Democrats to approve the legislation in the Senate.

The American Civil Liberties Union criticized the House’s passage, saying the measure “would have immediate and devastating effects on the lives of transgender youth and their families across the country.”

“Politicians should never prevent parents from doing what is best for their transgender children,” Mike Zamore, national director of policy and government affairs at the ACLU, said in a statement. “These families often spend years contemplating how best to support their children, only to have ill-equipped politicians step in by trying to criminalize the health care they, their children, and their doctors believe is necessary to allow their children to thrive.”

“But this bill also creates an incredibly dangerous precedent that goes far beyond the specific care in question, criminalizing ideology-based care and pitting Washington politicians between families and their doctors,” he continued. “We strongly condemn the passage of this measure and urge senators to do everything they can to prevent it from ever becoming law.”

Greene and Rep. Chip Roy, Republican of Texas, butted heads over the bill before it passed. The Georgia congresswoman, who is scheduled to resign next month, criticized Roy, who is a member of the House Rules Committee, for introducing an amendment that she said would “destroy the Commerce Clause.”

The Roy Amendment attempted to amend the bill to limit federal criminal liability under certain circumstances “by specifying when prohibited conduct falls within federal jurisdiction,” according to the Rules Committee.

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But Greene emphasized that her bill “criminals all gender-affirming care for children (transgender surgeries, puberty blockers, hormones) not just those that receive federal funds and protects all children who allow them to grow up before they make permanent changes to their bodies that they can never undo!!!”

“WTF is Chip Roy doing???? And this guy wants to be Texas Attorney General but refuses to protect kids??!!!” I wrote on X.

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Roy responded that “the Constitution is important and we should not abuse it to use ‘interstate commerce’ to empower federal powers.”

However, the Texas Republican said in a statement Wednesday that he would not introduce the amendment “to avoid any confusion about how united Republicans are in protecting children from these heinous measures.”