Alabama State Senate Bans Transgender Surgery For Minors, Makes It A Felony

The Alabama State Senate voted decisively to make giving kids puberty-blockers, hormone therapy, or gender reassignment surgery a felony.

“Senators voted 23-4 to approve the measure, dubbed the Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, sponsored by Republican Senator Shay Shelnutt,” CBS News reported. “The bill now heads to the state House of Representatives, which has already approved a companion bill.”

Concerned parents were instrumental in passing the bill.

“Children aren’t mature enough to make these decisions on surgeries and drugs,” Shelnutt said. “The whole point is to protect kids.”

Far-left and Democrat activists were predictably outraged by the passage of the bill. They criticized Republicans for limiting choice.

Shelnutt fired back, reminding the outrage mob that substances like alcohol and tobacco are regulated to protect children too.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) recently grilled Dr. Rachel Levine, who is transgender, over the issue during Levine’s confirmation hearing. Paul is a medical doctor who received his training from the Duke University School of Medicine in 1988.

Joe Biden picked Rachel Levine to become the Assistant Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary.

“Genital mutilation has been nearly universally condemned,” Paul began, citing the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Population Fund. “According to the WHO, genital mutilation is recognized internationally as a violation of human rights. Genital mutilation is considered particularly egregious because, as the WHO notes, it is nearly always carried out on minors and is a violation of the rights of children.”

Dr. Paul warned about the social normalization process of sex changes for minors.

“Dr. Levine, you have supported both allowing minors to be given hormone blockers to prevent them from going through puberty, as well as surgical destruction of a minor’s genitalia,” Paul grilled, noting the permanent effects of such measures. He cited a statistic from the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) that “80 to 95 percent of pre-pubertal children with gender dysphoria will experience resolution by late adolescence if not exposed to medical intervention and social affirmation.”

Levine dodged Dr. Paul’s question.

Before leaving office, President Trump slammed policies that allow biological males to compete in women’s sports.

“Joe Biden and the Democrats are even pushing policies that would destroy women’s sports,” Trump said. “Lot of new records are being broken in women’s sports. Hate to say that, ladies, but got a lot of new records that [are] being shattered. You know, for years, the weightlifting, every ounce is like a big deal for many years. All of a sudden, somebody comes along and beats it by 100 pounds. Now, young girls and women are incensed that they are now being forced to compete against those who are biological males. It’s not good for women. It’s not good for women’s sports, which worked so long and so hard to get to where they are.”

Steeve Strange

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