Former Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday refuted CNN host Dana Bash’s question about gender reassignment surgery for children at CNN Town Hall, saying he supports state laws banning gender reassignment surgery for minors. .
“When you’re talking about something that mental health professionals know is completely transformative and often has serious negative effects on people in the long run, it’s at least appropriate for state governments and states. I think there is.” Officials can just say whatever they want – adults can live however they want, but for children, they need to protect them from radical gender ideologies and keep them from turning 18. I’m going to say I won’t have a chemical or surgical sex change by the end of the year,” Pence said. Bash at CNN’s Town Hall. (Related: ‘That’s a bad parent’: Sunny Hostin and Zooey Zephyr attack Montana governor over child transgender restrictions)
At least 16 states ban or restrict gender reassignment surgery in children, US News report. The ACLU has filed lawsuits in multiple states to block the legislation.
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“Dana, I want to tell you, I’m speaking as a father and now as a grandfather, and you know, we shouldn’t let our kids get tattoos until they’re 18. There’s a reason’, right? “Because we who have been parents know that we don’t want to say anything until our kids are 18,” Pence said. But you know.”
In Florida and Wisconsin, parents sued school districts over efforts to transition children without their knowledge, and in Florida, administrators implemented social transitions without parental knowledge. A 12-year-old girl attempted suicide while doing so, Fox News reported. report.
The Biden administration endorsed gender reassignment for children in guidelines announced in March 2022. Biden administration official Rachel Levin, who is transgender, has been a vocal supporter of the process on numerous occasions. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra did not deny at a congressional hearing in March that the Biden administration wants to use the taxpayer-subsidized CHIPS insurance program to pay for the cost of a child’s sex transition.
“In America, extreme gender ideologies rooted in schools and colleges are pervasive, and they are spreading across the country. “And I stand by this view because it puts their lives on a difficult road forever, and that’s my position,” Pence added.
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