Posted on 05/26/2023 6:30:27 AM PDT by Twotone
A Republican state senator in Louisiana joined Democrats on a vote to kill a bill that would ban transgender surgeries on children in the state.
Republican state Senator Fred Mills joined Democrats in a 5-4 vote on the Health and Welfare Committee to block the advancement of a bill that would have banned using cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers, and surgery “to alter a minor’s appearance in an attempt to validate a minor’s perception of his sex, if the minor’s perception is inconsistent with his sex.”
The bill had previously passed the House in a vote of 71-24, before it was moved along to the Republican-dominated state Senate. Included in the bill was a prohibition on transgender surgeries, including those “that artificially constructs tissue having the appearance of genitalia differing from the minor’s sex, including metoidioplasty, phalloplasty, and vaginoplasty.”
It was sponsored by Republican Representative Gabe Firment and called the “Stop Harming Our Kids Act.” “I am very disappointed in the outcome of today’s Senate Health & Welfare committee meeting. HB648 simply protects Louisiana’s children from experimental and often irreversible sex change procedures. The legislation passed easily through the House with bipartisan support, and I am confident that the full Senate would have passed this important legislation that is overwhelmingly supported by the people of Louisiana. It is unfortunate that the voice of the people was silenced today in a state Senate committee room. Louisiana remains the only state in the South to allow its children to be harmed by these experimental procedures, but we will keep fighting to pass this legislation and protect Louisiana’s children no matter the cost and despite the forces aligned against us,” he said in a statement obtained by The Daily Wire. During his testimony at the hearing, Firment said that the transgender treatment industry was lucrative for those involved.
“Senators, when you hear testimony from those in the healthcare field opposed to this bill, I want you to consider how lucrative these experimental procedures are for the gender industry. A single subcutaneous implant of a puberty blocking agent can cost up to $50,000,” Firment added. “We know that starting kids on puberty blockers practically always leads to injecting children with extraordinary doses of wrong-sex hormones, then to mutilating surgeries, and then to being lifelong customers of the gender industry and big pharma.”
Firment said that he was worried that Louisiana would become a destination for people in other states in the South to bring their kids for transgender procedures since lawmakers have taken action in nearby Mississippi, Arkansas, and Texas.
Mills, a pharmacist, who some conservatives criticized on Twitter for taking campaign donations from pharmaceutical groups like Pfizer and PHRMA, has been in office since 2011. The Daily Wire has reached out to Mills’ office for comment on his vote.
“I’ve always in my heart of hearts believed that a decision should be made by a patient and a physician. I believe in the physicians in Louisiana, I believe people that are licensed by the Board of Medical Examiners are well regulated,” Mills said during the hearing, claiming that it was the job of the board of medical examiners to ensure there was no malpractice related to the transgender procedures.
It was reported that Democrat Governor John Bel Edward had been pushing lawmakers to block the bill. Since Louisiana Republicans have a supermajority in both chambers, they could have overturned a veto if the bill made it out of the Senate.
At least 18 other states have passed measures that ban life-altering transgender surgeries on children.
Who is paying for this crap?
$50K is a down payment for a starter house and people are blowing that money on destroying someones life.
The GOOBers are all becoming political trannies. Going over from the GOP to the Dung Beetle Turd Roller Party. Idiots.
Wonder if Senator Fred Mills benefited financially from this legislation. He is very concerned about the preservation of the relationship between the doctor and the patient when it comes to minor children. However during the pandemic he seemed to be immune to that same relationship regarding a doctor and the patient when it came to any treatment for covid except the government prescribed protocol. Hydroxichloroquine and ivermecten would have saved untold lives and at almost no cost. Ventilators killed more patients than they saved.
“Louisiana Republican Blocks Bill That Would Have Banned Transgender Surgeries On Children”
Take that, Putin!!!
Am I reading this right? A GOP pol is PRO-trans surgery?
Mills is pro-life. He’s ok protecting the unborn, but minor children - not so much.
They are a big part of the problem.
A politico that stayed bought? Wow. Go figgur.
This idiot is a pharmacist by trade, from Iberia Parish, a heavily Catholic parish. Say goodbye to Senator Fred Mills
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Mills_(politician)
Sick. Just sick, that anyone should side with these medical vultures. Check his background. Follow the money.
This sick freak needs to switch parties or find other work.
This guy actually waived his Office to a lesser Board?
Well, you know who the worm in the apple is now.
A pharmacist. Money over principles, IMO.
But hey! Keep voting for Republicans, because they’re BETTER than the democrats, or some such bovine scatology. Republican voters LOVE getting it from behind, apparently. Backstab me again, Republican pol!
Somehow I don’t think that if the Louisiana House was majority Democrat that the anti trans bill would have even been proposed, let alone passed.
There was one RINO that blocked the bill. Now he needs to be primaried.
This is why Republican primaries matter. Get out and choose someone who is not a squish
Yes, they are. We had ONE turncoat.
We will likely bypass this committee and get the bill to the floor anyway.
Just have to get past Edwards VETO.
You son of a b*tch! I would start punching you in the mouth for daring to say that line of crap to me.
If someone suggested a child should consult his physician about cutting off his arm, you would immediately recognize it as absolute nonsense and you would become incensed that anyone would suggest that doing such a horrible thing was "medicine."
It is *NOT* medicine, and you need to be punched in the mouth repeatedly until you understand that it is *NOT* "medicine."
We just need to start hitting these liars in the mouth. Stop talking to them, just beat them until they understand they are playing with fire!
He needs to get his @$$ beat. People need to start putting the fear of God into these people and threatening them with the loss of their position doesn't send the right message. Whipping their @$$ does send the right message.
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