Marjorie Taylor Greene Questions Witness on Federal Funding for Child Gender Surgeries

Concerns Over Federal Grant Allocations

• 💡 Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene highlighted several federal grants, including a $620,000 HHS grant for an LGBT+ inclusive teen prevention program and a $2,000 NIH grant for cross-sex steroid therapy.
• 📌 Another $120,000 NIH grant was noted for a personalized 3D avatar tool to measure body perception across gender identities.
• 🎯 Greene criticized these grants, stating they facilitate a lie that there is more than two gender identities, asserting that only male and female sexes exist.

Questioning Federal Funding for Gender-Affirming Care

• ❓ Greene directly questioned Emily DeVito, Senior Advisor for Economic Policy at the Groundwork Collaborative, on whether she supported federal funding for studies promoting the "genital mutilation of children."
• 🗣️ DeVito's responses focused on the importance of government research and innovation, which Greene interpreted as support for taxpayer funding of surgeries like top and bottom surgeries for minors.
• ⚖️ Greene referenced a judge's ruling that protected an HHS program for gender-affirming care in young people, reiterating her stance that taxpayers should not fund such initiatives.

Proposed Legislation and Funding Restrictions

• 📜 Greene announced her "Protect Children's Innocence Act," a bill aimed at criminalizing sex changes for children, which is slated for a House floor vote.
• 💰 She also discussed implementing funding restrictions in appropriations bills to prevent agencies like HHS and NIH from funding studies that promote the "mutilation of children's bodies."

Criticism of Other Federal Grants

• 💸 Greene also pointed to other federal grants, including a $10 million Department of Education grant for "decolonizing the curriculum" and a nearly $700,000 NSF grant for "racial justice in elementary mathematics."
• 🌍 An EPA grant for "green jobs" and "environmental justice problem solvers" was also cited as an example of what Greene considers "far-left ideology" funded by American taxpayers.