<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Republican state senator in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/louisiana" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Louisiana</a> joined Democrats on a vote to kill a bill that would ban <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender-surgery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender surgeries</a> on children in the state. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Republican state Senator </span><a href="https://senate.la.gov/smembers?ID=22" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fred Mills</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> joined Democrats in a <a href="https://twitter.com/SaraLCline/status/1661428182732492801" target="_blank" rel="noopener">5-4 vote</a> on the Health and Welfare Committee to block the advancement of a </span><a href="https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322786" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">bill</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that would have banned using cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers, and surgery “to alter a minor&#8217;s appearance in an attempt to validate a minor&#8217;s perception of his sex, if the minor&#8217;s perception is inconsistent with his sex.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The bill had previously passed the House in a vote of 71-24, before it was moved along to the Republican-dominated state Senate. Included in the bill was a prohibition on transgender surgeries, including those “that artificially constructs tissue having the appearance of genitalia differing from the minor&#8217;s sex, including metoidioplasty,  phalloplasty, and vaginoplasty.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It was sponsored by Republican Representative Gabe Firment and called the “Stop Harming Our Kids Act.”  </span></p>
<div dir="auto">&#8220;I am very disappointed in the outcome of today’s Senate Health &amp; Welfare committee meeting. HB648 simply protects Louisiana’s children from experimental and often irreversible sex change procedures. The legislation passed easily through the House with bipartisan support, and I am confident that the full Senate would have passed this important legislation that is overwhelmingly supported by the people of Louisiana.  It is unfortunate that the voice of the people was silenced today in a state Senate committee room. Louisiana remains the only state in the South to allow its children to be harmed by these experimental procedures, but we will keep fighting to pass this legislation and protect Louisiana’s children no matter the cost and despite the forces aligned against us,&#8221; he said in a statement obtained by The Daily Wire.</div>
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<div dir="auto">During his testimony at the hearing, Firment said that the transgender treatment industry was lucrative for those involved.</div>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Senators, when you hear testimony from those in the healthcare field opposed to this bill, I want you to consider how lucrative these experimental procedures are for the gender industry. A single subcutaneous implant of a puberty blocking agent can cost up to $50,000,” Firment added. “We know that starting kids on puberty blockers practically always leads to injecting children with extraordinary doses of wrong-sex hormones, then to mutilating surgeries, and then to being lifelong customers of the gender industry and big pharma.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Firment said that he was worried that Louisiana would become a destination for people in other states in the South to bring their kids for transgender procedures since lawmakers have taken action in nearby Mississippi, Arkansas, and Texas. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mills, a pharmacist, who some conservatives criticized on Twitter for taking </span><a href="https://eap.ethics.la.gov/CFSearch/LA-108726.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">campaign donations</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> from pharmaceutical groups like Pfizer and PHRMA, has been in office since 2011. The Daily Wire has reached out to Mills’ office for comment on his vote. </span></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING: After passing the House, a bill in Louisiana that would have banned pediatric sex changes just failed in the Senate Health and Welfare Committee because &#39;Republican&#39; State Senator Fred Mills voted with Democrats to kill it.</p>
<p>One look at his donors shows massive… <a href="https://t.co/JFhBvHc5q4">pic.twitter.com/JFhBvHc5q4</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1661442800976527360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 24, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I&#8217;ve always in my heart of hearts believed that a decision should be made by a patient and a physician. I believe in the physicians in Louisiana, I believe people that are licensed by the Board of Medical Examiners are well regulated,” Mills said during the hearing, claiming that it was the job of the board of medical examiners to ensure there was no malpractice related to the transgender procedures. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It was </span><a href="https://www.nola.com/gambit/news/the_latest/louisiana-wont-ban-gender-affirming-care-for-minors-in-rare-win-for-lgbtq-community/article_98dd09b4-fa64-11ed-a7e2-032201ff3476.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that Democrat Governor John Bel Edward had been pushing lawmakers to block the bill. Since Louisiana Republicans have a supermajority in both chambers, they could have overturned a veto if the bill made it out of the Senate. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At least <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nebraska-becomes-18th-state-to-ban-transgender-surgeries-on-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">18 other states have passed measures</a> that ban life-altering transgender surgeries on children. </span></p>

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