Despite her usual resistance to learning from other countries' policies, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is now suggesting that the U.S. should be more like England, which recently limited access to puberty blockers for transgender young people.
She expressed her desire for Congress to pass her Protect Children’s Innocence Act, which aims to prohibit puberty blockers and end child genital surgeries. This legislation would also restrict access to gender-affirming care for transgender adults and stop medical schools from teaching about this type of care.
“Protecting our kids from these life-altering procedures shouldn’t be a matter of political parties!” she remarked, despite her bill not having been voted on in the past 15 months, even though the Republican party controls the House.
She shared an article about England’s NHS England health care system announcing restrictions in accessing puberty blockers for transgender youth.
Puberty blockers are medicines that can temporarily stop children from going through puberty, giving them and their families more time to understand their gender identity. They have been proven to reduce the risk of lifelong suicide for transgender individuals. The new NHS England policy will stop the routine prescription of puberty blockers for minors, but individual clinicians can still request funding for patients on a case-by-case basis. The Conservative Party, which currently controls Parliament, praised the new policy, while LGBTQ+ advocates criticized NHS England for denying trans youth “access to high quality, timely healthcare.”
The usually isolationist congresswoman is suddenly using another country as an example for the US to follow.
