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Expanded Republican supermajorities delivered to the Kansas Legislature last November by voters appear poised to set into action a major child protection law on Tuesday, when House Republicans revisit a bill that would make it illegal to begin sex change procedures against a minor in the state.
An initial hearing is set for 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Senate Committee on Health and Welfare on House Bill 2071 “The Help Not Harm Act,” which is expected to be the major legislative focus this week.
Republicans in the House failedby two votes to get a ⅔ majority to override Governor Laura Kelly’s veto last year – courtesy of Republicans Susan Concannon of Beloit and Jesse Borjon of Topeka, who succumbed to pressure from the governor to change their votes from earlier in the session. Concannon opted not to seek re-election. Borjon won re-election in House District 52. But other Republican wins in both the House and Senate are expected to shore up those deficiencies in what’s expected to be another veto this session.
Some two dozen states have banned the use of hormones in an attempt to counteract the natural sexual profile of children under 18 years of age even though their parents may consent to the procedures, as well as well as what opponents describe as the brutal and irreversible amputation of healthy breasts and penises and attempts to surgically construct fake sex organs opposing the child’s natural sex. Multiple European countries have banned such procedures on minors, citing inconclusive research that such radical medicine actually helps gender-confused youth cope with the mental condition formerly known as Gender Dysphoria in professional medical circles. Transgender individuals are at high risk of suicide.
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In fact proponents of chemical and surgical sex change for gender dysphoric youth conceded in December, during testimony to the U.S. Supreme Court on a Tennessee law, that such initiatives Include numerous aspects that threaten the patient’s future health. Those risks include infertility caused by cross sex hormones, regret among some of those who receive the procedures and a lack of empirical evidence that sex change operations reduce incidents of suicide among gender dysphoric youth. The ACLU and the Biden Administration brought the suit and appealed it to the Supreme Court with the argument that Tennessee’s law violates the equal protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
Chloe Cole, a California woman who was put on cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers at age 13, and underwent a double mastectomy at age 15, has become one of the most outspoken opponents against transgender procedures on women.
“This (Tennessee) case really means everything to me,” Cole told The Daily Wire before the high court took up the argument, “because if a law like this were in place in my state while I was growing up, if this were just federally banned across the board when I was going through this, this never would have happened to me.”
Evidence connects transgender tendencies in children with the incidence of depression in their mothers, particularly for boys. A 1991 study by the National Institute of Health and published in the National Library of Medicine compared mothers of boys with gender identity disorder (GID) with mothers of normal boys to determine whether differences in psychopathology and child-rearing attitudes and practices could be identified. Results of the Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines and the Beck Depression Inventory revealed that mothers of boys with GID had more symptoms of depression and more often met the criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder than the controls. Fifty-three percent of the mothers of boys with GID compared with only 6% of controls met the diagnosis for Borderline Personality Disorder. Results of the Summers and Walsh Symbiosis Scale suggested that mothers of probands had child-rearing attitudes and practices that encouraged symbiosis – a desire to cling the child to the mother – and discouraged the development of the child’s autonomy.
Besides the costs of the procedures and the Pharmaceuticals required to maintain the supposed transition, sex change patients often develop Associated medical conditions that require future Healthcare procedures that run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
As testimony in the case wrapped up in December, it appeared the court was on its way to affirming Tennessee’s law.
If it becomes law, the Kansas measure will prohibit doctors treating psychological conditions who receive state funds for patient care from prescribing drugs or surgeries that attempt to change a child’s sex, and would prevent the state’s KanCare system from reimbursing for those services. No state property, building or facility could be used for the procedures, and healthcare providers would be banned from executing such procedures on minors.Those who do would face revocation of their medical licenses, And their medical liability insurance would not be obligated to pay claims brought by minors or others injured by the procedures.
Dane Hicks is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and the United States Marine Corps Officer Candidate School at Quantico, VA. He is the author of novels "The Skinning Tree" and "A Whisper For Help." As publisher of the Anderson County Review in Garnett, KS., he is a recipient of the Kansas Press Association's Boyd Community Service Award as well as more than 60 awards for excellence in news, editorial and photography.
