Youth trans clinics providing 'gender-affirming' care targeted by new Hawley bill
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Sen. Josh Hawley's new bill is targeting clinics and providers who give "gender-affirming" care to minors to ensure greater accountability.
Kelly Laco is a politics editor for Fox News Digital.
"Children who are harmed by these dangerous procedures, which are often irreversible and sterilizing, will now be able to fight back against those who perpetrated their abuse. And federal taxpayers will no longer be forced to foot the bill for abusive treatment," he continued.
His bill would create a "private right of action" for people harmed by a gender transition procedure against clinics, a medical practitioner or an affiliated university or hospital. It would also prohibit federal funding to hospitals or clinics providing pediatric gender transitioning procedures.
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