Bill Banning Gender-Affirming Care for Minors Passes House, Heads to Senate › American Greatness

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Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly passed the Protect Children’s Innocence (PCI) Act which would criminally charge medical providers who perform so-called gender-affirming care on minors.

The Act prohibits permanent genital mutilation surgeries such as mastectomies or phalloplasties on otherwise physically healthy minors and also outlaws administering cross-sex hormones or puberty blockers for patients under 18.

The bill, which cleared the House by a vote of 216 to 211, would impose fines and up to 10 years in prison on medical providers who perform sex-change surgeries or administer hormone therapy to minors, with exceptions for rare medical conditions or the reversal of prior procedures.

The bill was introduced by retiring Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) who explained, “Protecting children is not optional, it’s our duty.”

Greene added, “Children are not old enough to vote, drive, or get a tattoo and they are certainly not old enough to be chemically castrated or permanently mutilated. This is common sense. This is good vs. evil.”


Greene had praise for 3 Democratic members of Congress who voted “to protect kids” by passing the bill, including Reps. Vicente Gonzales (D-TX), Don Davis (D-NC), and Henry Cuellar (D-TX).

The Georgia Congresswoman also lamented 4 of her Republican colleagues who voted in opposition to the act, including Reps. Mike Kennedy (R-UT), Brian Fitzpatrick ( R-PA), Gabe Evans (R-CO), and Mike Lawler (R-NY).

According to the New York Post, prior to the vote, Greene asked her House colleagues, “If a child believes they’re a unicorn, do adults take their word for it as well?”

Due to the 60-vote filibuster rule, the Protect Childhood Innocence Act will likely face an uphill battle upon reaching the Senate.

At least 26 states have passed laws restricting doctors from performing gender transition surgeries or administering puberty blockers or hormone treatments on minors.

Riley Gaines, a former collegiate swimmer and advocate for protecting women’s spaces from gender-confused males who claim to be women, applauded the passage of the bill for addressing what she called “the biggest medical scandal the world has ever seen.”