Protect Children's Innocence Act

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Ms. HOYLE of Oregon. Madam Speaker, today, we are not voting to reduce the cost of healthcare or make groceries or housing more affordable or to take back the power of Congress from the executive branch in determining tariffs or deciding whether or not we should invade a sovereign nation.

We are voting today on inserting government into private medical decisions. To listen to my Republican colleagues, you would think there is an epidemic of children being forced into unnecessary gender- affirming care. There is not.

The epidemics killing our children are drug addiction, overdoses, gun violence, and preventable diseases like measles. Let's work on that.

Banning doctors from providing healthcare to transgender young people has serious unintended consequences. Politicians are getting in the way of doctors, who have years of training and experience and are practicing according to professional standards of care. They know what is best for their patients. This is their area of expertise, not ours.

Providing care and advice is a doctor's job. Taking care of your children is a parent's duty. Let's keep it that way.

I am proudly voting ``no.'' I ask my colleagues to do the same.

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