Rep. Crenshaw leads effort to block program funding for children’s hospitals that transition minors
Rep. Crenshaw goes head-to-head with a doctor advocating for gender transitions for minors at a June 14 Energy and Commerce Committee.
June 15, 2023 | Washington, D.C.
In an Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on June 14, U.S. Representative Dan Crenshaw (District 2) went head-to-head with a doctor advocating for gender transitions for minors. When he asked her to provide studies on the benefits of transitioning minors, she couldn’t even name one - skip to 6:57 for this interaction.
Representative Crenshaw is leading an effort to block Children’s Hospital Graduate Medical Education Payment Program (CHGME) funding for children’s hospitals that provide transgender treatments or procedures to minors.
The Children’s Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act is a bill that must be reauthorized every five years. The bill provides funds to train pediatric medical residents at 59 hospitals nationwide. Historically, it has helped train almost half of the nation’s general pediatric residents.
This year, Representative Crenshaw is introducing the legislation with a stipulation that bans program funding from going to children’s hospitals that offer so-called “gender-affirming care” to minors.
“There is no other human rights atrocity in America that is so quickly gaining momentum and validation within the very institutions that should know better,” said Representative Crenshaw. “One of these institutions is children’s hospitals. In a place where ‘do no harm’ is the ultimate guiding principle, there is no excuse to ever perform these treatments that permanently alter a child’s physiology. From now on, we will not allow a dime of this taxpayer-funded program to go toward children’s hospitals that cater to the harmful pseudoscience that is ‘gender-affirming care.’”
Representative Crenshaw’s bill bars program funding to children’s hospitals that offer “gender-affirming care,” including surgeries, hormone therapy, and puberty blockers – procedures not backed by scientific data and ones that can cause serious irreversible damage to children.
U.S. Representative Dan Crenshaw (District 2)
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