HEARING – Tuesday @ 1:00 pm – Cross Building Room 220
Maine lawmakers will consider Tuesday a proposal to drastically expand legal protections for medical professionals and other individuals who conspire to mutilate children in the name of so-called “gender affirming” medical care.
The unprecedented proposal, which also encompasses providers of late-term abortions, will also break new legal ground in attempting to impose Maine-based policy preferences on jurisdictions where laws regarding sex-change services for minors and abortions are different.
Although the scientific consensus around surgical and drug-based interventions for individuals suffering gender dysphoria has shifted in recent years in favor of less permanent, intrusive options, that hasn’t stopped Maine policymakers from plowing ahead with policies that aren’t inline with more modern scientific studies and study reviews.
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The bill — LD 227 — was deployed using a now-familiar ploy that involves introducing a generically named “concept draft bill” only to later substitute the bill for a massive amendment on short notice.
The tactic, which has been used frequently in recent years in order to reduce public scrutiny of legislative business, means that interested parties have had little time to understand the scope and impact of the bill, or to organize to attend the public testimony on March 5 at 1:00 pm in Augusta.
Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn) was among the first Republican lawmakers to draw attention to the sly move by majority Democrats to advance the radical piece of legislation using the “concept draft” technique.
Dubbed the “Maine Healthcare Freedom Act,” this amendment would establish access to sex-change surgeries, sex-change drugs, and late-term abortions as a legal right in the Pine Tree State.
The proposed law would also seek to protect those of profit from providing sex-change surgeries, sex-change drugs, and late-ter abortion services for the laws of other states.
In addition, the proposal would create an ability for third-parties to sue individuals who attempt to interfere with the provision of sex-change drugs and surgeries — including parents who attempt to stop a third-party for facilitating a sex-change for their minor child.
The bill introduces the new term “legally protected health care activity,” covering the provision of sex-change and late-term abortion services within the state’s legal framework. This protective umbrella extends to health care practitioners and those assisting them, safeguarding against civil, criminal, or administrative actions initiated in other states aimed at deterring or punishing such activities.
The amendment allows individuals targeted by “hostile litigation” in other states to counter-sue in Maine, potentially recovering damages, punitive damages, and legal fees.
In practice, that means someone who trafficked a minor into Maine for a sex-change procedure would be protected by Maine laws and even allowed to sue for financial damages in some cases.
The cross-jurisdictional law is an unprecedented attempt to set policy on significant scientific, medical, moral, and cultural debates for not only Maine but the entire country.
The legislation restricts the enforcement of foreign judgments and subpoenas related to healthcare activities deemed protected under Maine law, i.e. sex-change and abortion services. And it even goes as far as preventing public agencies and law enforcement from cooperating with investigations or proceedings that clash with the state’s protective measures for providers and patients of these services.
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Parts B and C of the amendment refine legal procedures and extradition conditions, further insulating Maine’s healthcare providers from out-of-state legal challenges. Meanwhile, Part D offers additional security measures for healthcare practitioners, including participation in the Address Confidentiality Program to shield their personal information.
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The amendment also extends existing protections against discrimination by insurers and professional licensing authorities, ensuring that healthcare practitioners are not penalized for providing or assisting in sex-change services and late-term abortions. This includes a prohibition on adverse actions based solely on a practitioner’s involvement in such services or the status of any related disciplinary action in another state.
The full draft bill can be read here:
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These people are demonic.
They also play into the Communist Manifesto which calls for the end of family loyalties and family units.
This is about destroying families and parental rights.
These people are deviants.
So Rep. Ann Perry is the sponsor? Is she the only one?
This proposal is so draconian that it’s hard not to conclude that beyond the “social” issues involved, large sums of money are as well.
Rep. Perry seems to represent among the most rural and remote areas of Maine, where use of expensive “medical services” may not be a thriving business. She is a retired Nurse Practitioner, which means she is intimately familiar with the medical profession landscape in her district.
There is growing recognition that “gender affirming care,” meaning “gender transition,” is a lifelong revenue stream, which, it is becoming clear, is the pecuniary motivation for prestigious Childrens’ Hospitals in the US competing to become the leader in the industry.
Taken as a whole, this proposal is grotesque, and as noted in the first comment, demonic. It deals with the taking of new lives, and the mutilation of existing ones leading to a lifetime of devastating consequences.
Rep. Perry would like the remote reaches of Maine to become a hustling and bustling center for the taking and/or ruination of young lives.
I wonder how many who have already been through this devastation are looking for fellow travelers so they don’t feel so “alone” in their irreversible suffering.
I was at the State House today in opposition to Bill LD 227…Mainers, wake up now. Your state is in fast decline, under these demonic politicians who are pushing bills/laws to take away your parental rights, laws to harm your children, laws to hinder your gun rights, laws to push cocaine/heroin legalization, laws to put illegals before citizens, laws to erase your basic American Constitutional Rights! What’s it going to take before Mainers wake up under complete Marxist rule. A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take away everything you have…T. Jefferson…
Get angry, get involved, speak out…fight for it or, God forbid, lose it.
This is just too sick to even comment on, the depravity displayed by democrats is beyond disgusting.
There is no such diagnosis of Trans-sexuality! It is called Body Dysmorphic Disorder. Treated by Physiatrists with Medication and Therapy! Very Treatable! This is child mutilation!