Rep. Boebert Introduces House Companion to Senator Lee’s Bill Prohibiting Funding for Sex Change Surgeries, Chemical Castrations, and Puberty-Blocking Drugs for Minors
Rep. Boebert introduced a House companion bill to Senator Mike Lee’sProtecting Our Kids from Harmful Research Act to prohibit tax dollars from funding sex change, sterilization, chemical castration, and puberty-blocking procedures for minors suffering from gender dysphoria.
Rep. Lauren Boebert stated: “Add mutilating children to the National Institute of Horrors’ (NIH) long list of funding evil research, which already includes gain-of-function research in Wuhan, scalping aborted babies and fusing their skin to lab rats, organ harvesting aborted babies’ genitalia, and insects eating dogs’ faces off. Using psychologically vulnerable children as lab rats for testing the puberty-blocking drugs used in chemical castration procedures for sex offenders, medically unnecessary mastectomies, irreversible hormone treatment, life-altering sterilization procedures, and genital mutilation is wrong.”
Senator Mike Lee said, “The Federal Government should never fund research that harms kids. This bill will protect taxpayers from funding spurious research, but more importantly, it will protect kids from the permanent damage this irresponsible research can produce.”
Terry Schilling, President, American Principles Project said, "Most Americans do not want their tax dollars going towards studies that encourage children to undergo experimental, dangerous procedures to 'change' their sex. Yet here in Washington, left-wing ideologues in government seem intent on overruling the people and imposing their extreme ideology on the rest of the country. Thankfully, we still have courageous leaders like Senator Mike Lee willing to stand up to this insanity. APP applauds Sen. Lee for introducing this important legislation, and we urge every senator with an ounce of decency to support this commonsense bill."
Jessica Anderson, Executive Director, Heritage Action for America said, “Unproven, irreversible procedures related to gender transitions for children do more harm than good, as research shows that 80 to 95 percent of children with gender dysphoria no longer feel distressed by their bodies after puberty. The Left will stop at nothing to remake society, including waging war on our children, which is why Senator Lee’s Protecting Our Kids from Harmful Research Act, which prevents federal funds from being used to support research that preys on confused children, is so important.”
Joseph Kohm, Public Policy Director of Family Policy Alliance said, “American taxpayers should only fund sound, unbiased research—and when studies involve children and center around politically charged issues, these standards become even more imperative. Sadly, several NIH-funded studies fail this basic test: they are clearly biased in support of a fabricated narrative that children experiencing gender dysphoria should begin transition as early as possible. One of the studies even lacks a control group—indicating the researcher’s lack of concern for what happens when a child is not pressured to pursue transition. Senator Lee’s Protecting Our Kids from Harmful Research Act exposes these serious concerns. The public—and especially families with children struggling to identify with their birth sex—deserves the unbiased truth about such a critical issue. We endorse Senator Lee’s efforts to ensure scientific integrity through his bill.”
Doreen Denny, Vice President of Government Relations Concerned Women for America LAC said, “Under the direction of Dr. Francis Collins, NIH has fueled the promotion of reckless gender experimentation on youth, approving irreversible treatments for children as young as 8. This is not science, it’s medical scandal. Federal research should protect vulnerable children, not be complicit in subjecting them to irreversible damage in studies pushed by gender activists. No minor has the capacity to give informed consent for the lifelong consequences of taking destructing “gender transition” drugs. CWA has been working to expose this unethical federally-supported research and we applaud Sen. Lee for introducing legislation to stop it.”
Background:
The NIH has awarded almost $7 million since 2015 to fund sex changes, artificial hormone injections, sterilizations, and chemical castrations on youth as young as eight-years-old suffering from gender dysphoria. The Biden regime opted to extend this barbaric research until 2026.
Even Obama’s public health officials admitted that this research is dangerous, highly speculative, irreversible, medically harmful, and ineffective, finding that the test subjects “did not demonstrate clinically significant changes or differences in psychometric test results.” Indeed, physical transitioning is not an effective treatment to gender dysphoria in minors, and studies indicate that without intervention, 70-98% of males and 50-88% of females will no longer desire to transition after undergoing puberty.
In October, Rep. Boebert led a letter with Colorado Congressmen Ken Buck and Doug Lamborn blasting the Biden regime for requiring Medicaid, Medicare, the Children's Health Insurance Program, and private insurers to cover permanent, life-altering sex-change surgeries for minors in Colorado. The Biden regime’s new policy uses taxpayer dollars to fund puberty blockers, laser hair removal, surgical sterilization, eye and lid modifications, medically unnecessary plastic surgery, medically unnecessary mastectomies, breast implants, life-altering irreversible drugs, face tightening, and facial bone remodeling for facial feminization.
Senators Mike Braun (R-IN), James Lankford (R-OK), and Roger Wicker (R-MS) co-sponsored Senator Mike Lee’s (R-UT) Protecting Our Kids from Harmful Research Act.
Representatives Scott Perry (R-PA), Mary Miller (R-IL), Alex Mooney (R-WV), Ralph Norman (R-SC), Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Chip Roy (R-TX), Doug LaMalfa (R-CA), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Michael Cloud (R-TX), Jeff Duncan (R-SC), Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Brian Babin (R-TX), Diana Harshbarger (R-TN), and Randy Weber (R-TX) co-sponsored Rep. Boebert’s Protecting Our Kids from Harmful Research Act.
The full text of Rep. Boebert’s Protecting Our Kids from Harmful Research Act is available here.