GOP lawmakers pass bill allowing child genital exams without parental consent
GOP lawmakers pass bill allowing child genital exams without parental consent
Yesterday, the West Virginia House of Delegates approved an amendment from Del. J.B. Akers (R) to allow a child’s “treating health care provider” to examine a child’s genitals without the consent of their parents.
The amendment was actually an improvement over a previous version of the bill, which, state Democrats argued, would have allowed teachers to perform the genital examinations.
Akers’ amendment was the Republican response to one proposed by Del. Kayla Young (D), which would have banned child and adult genital examinations altogether.
“It’s unconscionable that Republicans would support legislation that authorizes intrusive visual inspections of minors without parental approval,” Young said. “West Virginians should be alarmed and disgusted by this invasion of privacy.”
It also says that all intersex people are “either male or female” but does not give a basis for assigning a sex to them.
So republican parents are ok with strangers inspecting their child’s genitals without their consent?
I'm so damn glad I'm not a parent. There's no fucking way I wouldn't pulverize someone's limbs into paste if they touched my child.
Only a fucking piece of trash thinks it's ok for a teacher to look at a kid's junk, regardless of if the parents give consent.
Former teacher here. Any teacher that would comply with such an order to inspect is also a fucking piece of trash.
Once our assistant principal went on a witch hunt about enforcing uniform compliance. He wanted us all to inspect socks to ensure they were the right color. Turns out the color of my kids' socks doesn't impact the learning environment, so no, we aren't wasting class time on this.
So no, I'm not inspecting genitals. And if there is a move to do such a thing at school, I'd spend the entire class time calling parents letting them know what's going on.
Keep republicans away from my children
So much for Parents Rights.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS IS AN IMPROVEMENT
Before it was allowing a republican to be in the room.
Well, you see before it was a random stranger, but NOW it's a random stranger in a lab coat.
Genital Obsession Party
Oh, come on, it's just a ChildS exAM
What level are they allowed to view? If the child says no are they able to force their way into their pants? At what point does it become rape?
Oh the irony that the shitheads that couldn't wear a mask, and want to ban books because of "parent rights", now want to ice parents out of the decision of a rando looking at their kids genitals.
But drag queens reading books are the real threat.
It's the pedo enabling act!
It's like they learned the wrong lessons from the US gymnastics team incidents.
This shouldn't surprise anyone. Most pedophiles are Republicans. Now they get to visually molest your kids legally, neat.
Of course they did, it’s all they think about
A government so small it fits into a child's pants
Can we retrospectively inspect the law makers, just so they can have a lived experience before they next get together to make more crazy laws?
An amendment introduced by House Judiciary Chair J.B. Akers on March 6 would have allowed medical professionals to “to visually or physically examine a minor child for purposes of verifying the biological sex of the child without the consent of the child’s parent, guardian, or custodian.”
That amendment was adopted into the bill.
Before officially passing the Senate, Senator Patrick Martin (R - Lewis, 12) proposed two further amendments, one of which clarifies “that the article does not authorize certain examinations of minor children.”
Senator Martin’s amendment nullified Delegate Akers’ amendment, thereby excluding it from the final bill.
SB 456 was passed by the Senate Tuesday 32-1 with one Senator absent for the vote. In the House, 90 delegates voted in favor, eight opposed, and two were absent.
That amendment doesn't nullify shit. It's waffle language. When the court cases eventually come up over this, judges will shrug and say that it doesn't clearly forbid it, so it's fine. Mark my words.
Bloody mfers.
traditional family values 😂
:takes daughter to purity ball:
"She looks so much like her mother on prom night"
The school nurse is going to be busy checking kids' privates for no good reason.
I haven't seen a public school with the budget for a dedicated nurse in decades. It's going to be the vice principal or some other shitty non medically trained scum. Not that it would be less invasive from a nurse, but i bet it will be worse with random assholes deciding how it goes. This is truly fucked.