“Medical Mutilation Trafficking” Bill Unanimously Fails in Maine

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The Judiciary Committee in the Maine House of Representatives voted unanimously yesterday to stop a bill that would have protected anyone who takes a child struggling with gender confusion away from non-consenting parents for the purpose of subjecting the child to experimental and mutilating medical procedures. The legislation would have also prevented Maine from enforcing child protection laws of other states by allowing out-of-state children to get these experimental surgeries in Maine without parental consent.

According to a video recording of the judiciary work session, LD 1735 died in committee by a unanimous bipartisan vote of 12-0 in a motion that the bill “ought not to pass.”

LD 1735, deceptively titled “An Act to Safeguard Gender-Affirming Health Care,” would have given any court in Maine the authority to take “temporary emergency jurisdiction” over minors “present” in the state who have been unable to receive “gender-affirming health care.” Essentially, the bill prioritizes medically mutilating procedures over parental rights by legalizing the taking of a minor from those who have legal custody if there is “evidence” the taking of the minor was for this “medical” purpose. The bill states that courts “may not consider” the taking of any child for obtaining medical mutilating procedures and “weigh” it against the person who took the child.

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