Mark Takano: “I appreciate the witnesses appearing here today from the various sectors most involved in this process.”

I am disgusted by this political agenda that attacks the rights of school districts and parents to decide the policies of their schools in their own backyards.

Providers who engage in these practices are actively endangering the wellbeing of young LGBTQI+ people and defrauding their families by promising to “fix” something that is simply not broken.

Because America is an idea worth fighting for.

Young LGBTQI+ people should not have to be subjected to this kind of cruelty—especially by licensed health care providers.