Republicans demand total ban on sex reassignment surgery: this is a ‘Frankenstein experiment on children’
- Kat Cammack called minor sex change a ‘Frankenstein experiment’
- Condemned her Democratic colleagues for walking out of a hearing last week when she began playing video of an expert discussing proceedings
- Cammack insists that no taxpayer money goes to these operations
Democrats staged a walkout from a hearing last week after Republicans began showing video of a minor expert on gender reassignment surgery admitting there are many unknowns regarding the procedure.
Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., said the surgeries Democrats want to approve for children are like a “Frankenstein experiment.”
She berated her Democratic colleagues on the Energy and Commerce Committee for refusing to listen to the facts regarding operations for prepubescent children and other minors.
The congressman explained that she believes the Democrats walked out because they knew the surgeon in the video “proved” and affirmed, perhaps unintentionally, that these surgeries should not be performed on adolescents.
“This is experimental, this is, I would say, almost akin to a Frankenstein experiment on children,” Cammack told Fox & Friends Monday morning. “There’s no permission you can give as an adolescent to change your anatomy.”
Rep. Florida’s Kat Cammack (pictured) called a relatively new sex reassignment operation for minors a “Frankenstein experiment,” as she slammed her Democratic colleagues for walking out of a hearing last week when she began playing video of an expert discussing the procedures
When the video started playing of an expert on sex reassignment surgery, Democrats from the Energy and Commerce Committee stood up and walked out of the hearing room
The Energy and Commerce Committee met last Wednesday to discuss funding for children’s hospitals. Cammack argues that Democrats are unwilling to address the looming threat of a physician shortage without including in new laws the right for minors to seek and undergo sex reassignment surgery.
After the panel paused and voted on whether or not to show the video, Democrats were seen rising from their seats and walking out of the room in protest.
The video contained clips of Dr. Blair Peters of the Oregon Health & Science University Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Clinic who answered questions about their sex reassignment surgeries for children – particularly those who have not yet gone through puberty.
“The only thing that’s really new is genital surgery,” Peters says in the video that Cammack played.
“The adolescents certainly present some unique challenges,” the doctor continued. “Clearly there’s tremendous evidence supporting pubertal suppression for a whole host of benefits. But the only thing that is very new is genital surgery on someone who has suppressed puberty.’
Peters admitted that, “As a specialty, those of us who do a very large number of gender-affirming surgeries, maybe a handful, have done a few adolescents with pubertal suppression. And nobody has published about it yet.’
Cammack says this is proof that these types of proceedings should not be funded by taxpayers as they are in an experimental phase — and remain highly controversial to Republicans.
“In this video, the surgeon himself admits that in many cases these kids haven’t had their first sexual experiences, and how do they affirm how things should feel and look if they just don’t know?” Cammack wondered as he discussed the video’s Democrat protest on Monday morning.
‘In this interview, in this video, they tell at length that things in the operating room never stay the way they really will be.’
Dr. Blair Peters (pictured) of the Oregon Health & Science University Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Clinic was featured in the video answering questions about their sex reassignment surgeries for children — specifically those who haven’t gone through puberty yet
It comes as Republicans push for a ban on sex reassignment surgery for minors — and hope to ensure no taxpayer money goes towards the procedures
She added that Dr. Peters admitted that they are often “trying to figure out right now” how to do these surgeries, as there is no playbook or precedent for it yet.
“They’re using robots that take the stomach lining from these kids’ bodies to create ducts. It’s a massive taxpayer-expenditure experiment with kids really just trying to figure themselves out,” Cammack complained.
“Now, if you’re an adult, that’s your choice,” she added, “but these kids haven’t even gone through puberty in some cases.”
“Essentially, the Republicans are trying to address the physician shortage, which will be 125,000 physicians short by 2034, by saying we are going to focus on the real issues here and address this physician shortage. Radical Democrats said no unless we include gender-affirming surgeries for adolescents. It’s crazy.’