Republicans’ commitment to ending the mutilation of children is being tested this week with the upcoming House vote on the Protect Children’s Innocence Act. 

The bill, sponsored by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and co-sponsored by more than 40 other House Republicans, seeks to criminalize providing transgender surgeries or medications to minors in the United States. It also creates a right to action to sue for damages if a minor is a victim of a transgender procedure, such as the administration of cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers, or genital surgeries. 

Laura Bryant Hanford, a visiting fellow at the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Human Flourishing at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal why establishing such a right is important. 

“Unless there are teeth to the bill in terms of actual consequences for people who provide these procedures, the incentives to provide them are going to remain because it’s a very lucrative industry,” Hanford explained. 

Terry Schilling, the president of the American Principles Project, which helped craft Greene’s bill, echoed that sentiment.

“The Protect Childhood Innocence Act provides the strongest protections for tens of millions of American children against a radical medical establishment that is all too willing to exploit vulnerable children for........

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