Capitol Hill panel explores dangers of gender industrial complex: ‘This is about good and evil’

November 27, 2024

A panel hosted by the conservative advocacy group American Principles Project met at the U.S. Capitol last week to discuss the impacts of the emerging “gender industrial complex” and how to counter it.

The Christian Post reports that the panel included Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-AL., Rep. Mary Miller, R-IL., Heritage Foundation senior legal fellow Sarah Parshall Perry, and former University of Pennsylvania swimmer Paula Scanlan, was led by Sen. Roger Marshall R-KS.

Participants explored the burgeoning $4.4 billion market for sex-change hormones and surgeries and warned about the destructive and irreversible consequences of such treatments on minors.

Marshall and Tuberville also announced their support of the Safeguarding The Overall Protection of Minors Act (STOP) that they will be presenting in the coming weeks.

Under the STOP Act, doctors who perform sex-change procedures on minors could be fined at least $100,000 and face criminal charges.

The panel also discussed a report offering analysis of the financial investments of pharmaceutical companies and medical providers as well as the costs associated with various drugs and procedures.

Sarah Parshall Perry who serves as a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation warned that the goal of the transgender industrial complex is “about one thing, and that’s getting children.”

Perry said, “There are 12 million American school students that now attend a school where there is an express confidentiality policy that will keep your child’s gender identity information from custodial parents, regardless of whether or not those parents assert that they have a right to examine curriculum.”

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