Wed Jan 26, 2022 – 6:15 pm EST
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (LifeSiteNews) – A new Florida bill would crack down on devastating transgender procedures that experts have described as child abuse, but some Republican leaders are trying to block its passage, according to the bill’s sponsor.
HB 211, introduced by Republican Florida Rep. Anthony Sabatini, outlaws sterilizing surgeries that amputate a minor’s sexual organs, as well as the removal “any otherwise healthy or non-diseased body part or tissue.” The bill, known as the Vulnerable Child Protection Act, also prohibits administering, supplying, or prescribing transgender hormone drugs, like cross-sex hormones or puberty blockers, to children with gender disorders.
Under the bill, a doctor who performs the procedures or causes them to be performed on a minor in an attempt “to change the minor’s sex” or affirm a disordered “gender identity” would commit a first degree misdemeanor. Penalties could include up to one year in jail and fines of $1,000.
The bill wouldn’t apply in cases of a parent’s “good faith medical decision” for a child with a “genetic disorder of sex development,” like abnormal chromosome structure.
Republican lawmakers have proposed similar bills this month in several other states, including
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