Marjorie Taylor Greene Introduces Bill Making Gender-Affirming Care for Minors a Felony

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is introducing legislation that would make it a crime to perform “gender-affirming care” on minors.

In a tweet Friday, the Georgia Congresswoman wrote, “The Protect Children’s Innocence Act has been introduced. Thanks to all of the original cosponsors.”

Eleven other House Republicans co-sponsored the legislation, including Reps. Mary Miller (R-Ill.), Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.), Bob Good (R-Va.), Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), Tony Gonzales (R-Texas), Clay Higgins (R-La.), Burgess Owens (R-Utah), Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.), Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.), Diana Harshbarger (R-Tenn.), and Lance Gooden (R-Texas).

The bill states that anyone who “knowingly performs any gender-affirming care on a minor is guilty of a class C felony.”

The Hill notes that it carries a punishment of 10-25 years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000.

It prohibits over a dozen medical interventions “for the purpose of changing the body of such individual to correspond to a sex that differs from their biological sex” for minors, including the administration of puberty-blocking drugs.

In a separate tweet, Greene added that her bill “blocks all taxpayer-funding for these barbaric procedures, bans colleges from teaching it, and prohibits foreign aliens who commit these appalling acts from entering the U.S.”

The Association of American Medical Colleges describes gender-affirming care as a “range of social, psychological, behavioral, and medical interventions” which are supposed to “affirm” someone’s gender identity “when it conflicts with the gender they were assigned at birth.”