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Protecting Children's Innocence...Except for Intersex Children
The hypocrisy is undeniable.
Chris Arnone
June 19, 2025
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The attacks on transgender and intersex children just won’t let up.
HR 3492
On June 10, 2025, Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced the “Protecting Children’s Innocence Act of 2025.” The title, of course, is bait. Who doesn’t want to protect children’s innocence? Similarly, the bill is filled with the phrase, “genital mutilation.” Because again, who isn’t against genital mutilation?
However, this bill is yet another blatant attack against transgender people.
The first two points in the bill are the ones that tell you what this bill is really about:
“(a) Genital or bodily mutilation.—Except as provided in subsection (g), whoever, in any circumstance described in subsection (d), knowingly performs, or attempts to perform, genital or bodily mutilation on another person who is a minor, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.
“(b) Chemical castration of a minor.—Except as provided in subsection (g), whoever, in any circumstance described in subsection (d), knowingly chemically castrates a minor shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.
To spell it out, point (a) is referring to gender-affirming surgeries performed on minors (the bill defines and describes this later). And in case you’re only listening to Fox News or Republican politicians, these surgeries don’t happen. When minors are experiencing gender dysphoria, they can eventually be prescribed puberty blockers. The only surgeries remotely in this vein are occurring if the child has a medical need.
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As for point (b)? Again, defined more clearly later in the bill, this is referring to those puberty blockers that I mentioned above. Oh, and those puberty blockers are NOT chemical castration. Castration of any sort leaves the person completely unable to have children, and puberty blockers do not. They simply delay puberty. Greene is again sensationalizing to align with her and her party’s twisted attacks against transgender people.
What about intersex innocence?
You might be wondering why I bring up this bill that’s attacking transgender kids. Ah, because of those pesky exceptions described in subsection (g). Specifically, these bits:
(A) An individual with both ovarian and testicular tissue.
(B) An individual with respect to whom a physician has determined through genetic or biochemical testing that the individual does not have normal sex chromosome structure, sex steroid hormone production, or sex steroid hormone action.
Ah, there we are. Those two parts of subsection (g) create exceptions for unnecessary surgeries on intersex children. If this bill were to pass, it would be criminal to provide gender-affirming care to minors, punishable by prison. Except, of course, if a doctor provides said “care” to intersex children, who are often mutilated before they can even form a memory.
Don’t be confused. This bill is not about protecting children’s innocence. Apart from the fact that criminalizing gender-affirming care for transgender kids doesn’t protect anyone, the bill is blatantly allowing the innocence of intersex kids to be destroyed by malicious or misinformed doctors.
If they really cared about children or their innocence, they could try actually protecting intersex kids, but then they’d have to admit that we exist.
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