N.J. senator’s bill would ban sex change surgery, puberty blockers for minors

It’s child abuse, and “Ed the Trucker” wants it treated as such in the Garden State.

“Children do not have the maturity to make life-changing medical decisions that cannot be reversed,” said state Senator Ed Durr (R-3) announcing the introduction of his “Child Protection and Anti-Mutilation Act”  on Thursday. “We cannot discount the fact that 10-, 11-, and 12-year-old children are extremely impressionable and can be influenced by adults who may push them to make choices they cannot fully comprehend. We can protect children from unnecessary and permanent harm by delaying these important decisions until they are adults.”

According to Durr’s office, his “bill prohibits any person from, with regard to an unemancipated person under 18 years of age, engaging in, performing, or causing to be performed the following practices:

  1. prescribing or administering puberty blocking medication to stop or delay normal puberty;
  2. prescribing or administering supraphysiologic doses of testosterone or other androgens to females;
  3. prescribing or administering supraphysiologic doses of estrogen to males;
  4. performing surgeries that result in sterilization, including, but not limited to, castration, vasectomy, hysterectomy, oophorectomy, orchiectomy, and penectomy;
  5. performing surgeries that artificially construct tissue with the appearance of genitalia that differs from the individual’s sex, including, but not limited to, metoidioplasty, phalloplasty, and vaginoplasty; or
  6. removing any healthy or non-diseased body part or tissue, except in the case of a male circumcision.”

There’s a carve out for procedures to treat medically verifiable disorders. Otherwise, violators face a third degree criminal charge carrying 3-5 years in jail and a $15,000 fine.

“It’s nothing short of child abuse to allow minors, including pre-pubescent kids, to undergo life-changing, medically unnecessary treatments and surgeries when they are unable to fully understand the inescapable consequences of these actions,” Durr continued. “It’s absolutely obscene that we’re letting kids agree to mutilating surgeries that can never be undone. No adult should ever look back wondering how they were allowed to make such monumental decisions as a child that they now regret.”

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