I trust parents and medical professionals, not politicians, to make decisions about their children's health when it comes to gender-affirming care, and so does the Constitution.

I insist on pronouncing today, your life is worth it.

I will not sit here and allow the trans community to be abused or in essence to be rejected.

Government should not stick its nose into a parent's decision to seek gender-affirming care for their children.

You've got to have a better answer. You've got to do something different, or this is going to go on until your great grandchildren are sitting in this Chair as DEA head.

There is nothing limited about asserting the preferences and beliefs of Federal legislatures into individual healthcare decisions about young people.

They have done nothing for 17 years and for years before that, and it goes back to the 1930s.

I am absolutely disgusted by the Republican majority's bullying, bigoted framing of an issue that would otherwise be worthy of serious discussion.

These bans pose a serious threat to the health and safety of transgender young people across the country, and I urge the Members of this Committee to reject any Federal attempts to replicate that harm.

Limiting access to healthcare, wedging the right-wing ideology into the exam room, and substituting their personal beliefs for the professional judgment of doctors, they are causing needless suffering.

Those standards have been in place for a long time. They are not new. What is new is this recent massive overreach by State lawmakers to ban medical care for transgender youth.