Rep Gabe Firment (R) Grant Parish
Grant Parish Representative Gabe Firment wants to ban gender reassignment surgery and transition procedures in Louisiana for anyone under the age of 18. Firment filed a similar bill last year, but then withdrew it and filed a study resolution for the state health department instead. Firment said many of the procedures are experimental.
“And can result in really serious problems like sterilization, cancer, heart disease, loss of bone density, not to mention really severe psychological problems,” said Firment.
However, the study released last month is limited to Medicaid recipients and does not indicate the adverse outcomes Firment referred to.
When asked if he’d spoken with physicians who perform such procedures, the Republican insurance consultant, said he’s only talked to doctors who are opposed to gender reassignment.
“Understand how harmful they are to children and have even pointed out that oftentimes autistic children suffer from these situations and these procedures are performed on autistic children at a much, much higher rate,” said Firment.
Firment said in the past year the public has learned more about the dangers of such procedures and he’s confident the legislation will pass this session.
“Just think the timing is right, and the public understands that pumping kids full of hormones or puberty blockers or allowing them to remove healthy reproductive organs is really evil,” said Firment.
Click here to read the study from the Louisiana Department of Health.
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