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"On a near-party-line vote, the Idaho House on Tuesday HB 675, Nampa Rep. Bruce Skaug's bill to make it a felony to provide gender care to transgender youth, including hormones, after a searing debate that touched on life and death, rights, God and more; there were tears shed. In the end, the only Republican to vote against the bill was the House's only physician, Dr. Fred Wood, R-Burley, who joined all 12 House Democrats in the 55-13 vote. Two Republicans missed the vote. The bill now moves to the Senate.
Skaug told the House, “We need to stop sterilizing and mutilating children under the age of 18.” He said his bill would protect “boys and girls who have their genitals mutilated by chemicals or surgery for purposes of changing their birth sex.” The bill passed, 55-13, and now moves to the Senate. Though mainstream medicine in the United States holds otherwise, he maintained that transgender children “if allowed to go through puberty, outgrow their problem and accept their bodies over time.”
Lawmakers with transgender relatives or friends sharply disagreed. Rep. Ilana Rubel, D-Boise, remembered asking a friend if she was "really, really sure" about allowing her teenager to begin gender transition hormones, only to learn, "This is obviously not a step that a family takes lightly. This is a step that comes after literally thousands of hours of agonizing." "This is the heaviest imaginable hand of government overriding family decisions on the most critical and frankly in many cases life-threatening questions," Rubel told the House. By forcing people to wait until after puberty to begin a transition, she said, in many cases the transition becomes much more difficult because gender characteristics become so much more pronounced, including things like stature. "You are really messing with their lives until their dying day," she said.
The bill would make it a felony, punishable by life in prison, not only to provide the treatment in question, but to provide permission for a minor to receive it, or to permit a minor to travel out of state to receive it."
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This is a form of genocide.
Skaug told the House, “We need to stop sterilizing and mutilating children under the age of 18.” He said his bill would protect “boys and girls who have their genitals mutilated by chemicals or surgery for purposes of changing their birth sex.” The bill passed, 55-13, and now moves to the Senate. Though mainstream medicine in the United States holds otherwise, he maintained that transgender children “if allowed to go through puberty, outgrow their problem and accept their bodies over time.”
Lawmakers with transgender relatives or friends sharply disagreed. Rep. Ilana Rubel, D-Boise, remembered asking a friend if she was "really, really sure" about allowing her teenager to begin gender transition hormones, only to learn, "This is obviously not a step that a family takes lightly. This is a step that comes after literally thousands of hours of agonizing." "This is the heaviest imaginable hand of government overriding family decisions on the most critical and frankly in many cases life-threatening questions," Rubel told the House. By forcing people to wait until after puberty to begin a transition, she said, in many cases the transition becomes much more difficult because gender characteristics become so much more pronounced, including things like stature. "You are really messing with their lives until their dying day," she said.
The bill would make it a felony, punishable by life in prison, not only to provide the treatment in question, but to provide permission for a minor to receive it, or to permit a minor to travel out of state to receive it."
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This is a form of genocide.