I don't believe for one second that most New Jerseyans truly believe the ideology that's driving this movement.
This bill is being sold as a healthcare bill. It's NOT. It's a shield bill that wraps legal protections around providers, institutions, insurers & organizations engaged in what it calls "reproductive health care activity." It limits licensing consequences, restricts cooperation with out-of-state investigations & throws up barriers to accountability.
Even the bill language changed, replacing the politically- unpopular terminology "gender transitioning" of minors with the much broader phrase "reproductive health care activity." Buried in the definitions remains language covering medications & medical procedures intended to support providers of gender transition, REGARDLESS OF AGE. The bill DOES NOT distinguish between adults and children. It repeatedly states "person."
WHY??? New Jersey law has always treated children differently. We prohibit minors from drinking alcohol, using tobacco/vapes, getting tattoos, restrict body piercings, gambling, or even using tanning beds because we recognize something very basic: children/adolescents are still developing physically, emotionally & neurologically.
Our laws already recognize that PERMANENCE MATTERS. We restrict tanning because of concerns about permanent skin damage. We regulate tattoos and body piercings because of concerns about permanent markings & permanent disfigurement. Every single day, NJ law acknowledges that minors DO NOT possess the mature judgment necessary to make decisions with lifelong consequences.
Yet somehow we are supposed to believe that this principle suddenly disappears when the discussion turns to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, abortions, and medical pathways that permanently affect fertility, sexual function, healthy body tissue, and other irreversible aspects of a child's future??? Children experiencing gender dysphoria deserve compassion, mental health support & medical oversight. Compassion does not require throwing basic common sense out the window.
Also, NJ allows minors to terminate pregnancies without parental consent, with no gestational limit, by people who are not even licensed physicians. If something goes wrong, this bill now protects the "PROVIDER" and not the child or their parents?
So here's a question for all of the "advocates": if these interventions are as well established as supporters claim, why are we building legal shields around the people performing them?
NJ should not be in the business of insulating providers from consequences before protecting children. I cannot support legislation that makes accountability harder while the medical, ethical, and legal questions surrounding these interventions remain the subject of active debate across the entire globe.
The consequences of this vote will not be carried by us. They may be carried by NJ children for the rest of their lives.
@__0HOUR1_ When I first saw part of the video, I thought black women shoots white guy with hands up.
Then citizen with gun drawn, guy charges her. She shoots. What if was my wife?
Wish I could hear audio
@FrankPallone I think you were in congress right after that. When did you start “serving” NJ again? Was it before or after the civil war? We all know your party was on the side of slave owners
@FrankPallone@RepLaMonica So sick of these lies out of you, Frank. Hillary H is getting my vote and a campaign donation this month. As a lifelong Momnouth County resident, it’s really time for a change for district 6.
@FrankPallone Give it a rest Frank. Get the illegals out. Do something for the citizens, especially in Dis 6. Tell your intern/lacky lib to focus on something else besides the anti-Trump stuff all day. It makes you look even more foolish.