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The House is expected to vote later this week on H.R. 3492, Marjorie Taylor Greene’s extreme bill that would impose severe financial penalties and up to a 10-year prison sentence for providers who deliver lifesaving, essential healthcare to transgender and gender diverse patients.

Although this bill purports to “protect children,” it instead persecutes transgender, intersex, gender-diverse youth and their providers with potentially devastating consequences. Enacting a law that would endanger the lives of tens of thousands of adolescents is both unconscionable & unjustifiable.

This bill does not protect kids. Instead, it polices identities and criminalizes the practice of safe pediatric medicine. Make no mistake that point for point, every claim made within this bill regarding this long-standing and evidence-based field of medicine is refuted by a robust body of evidence.

Countless studies and systematic reviews have concluded that this lifesaving care not only reduces rates of suicidality and depression, but also improves life satisfaction and psychosocial functioning amongst transgender and gender-diverse adolescents.

Healthcare decisions should be made by patients, their families, and trained medical experts — who undergo nearly a decade of education and training to exercise good judgment in supporting patients’ needs.