'Can Men Get Pregnant?': Lauren Boebert Presses Becerra On 'Birthing Persons' Term

says thank you mr chairman and thank you secretary becerra thank you for being here today i appreciate you coming before the committee um to start off as a secretary of health and human services can you define for this committee what is a man you're looking at one great so you are a man i like that can you tell me can men get pregnant unless you know something i don't i think the answer is pretty obvious what is that answer sir i'm asking you is there something you know that i don't know that would say that a man well i'm asking what you know can men get pregnant i'm not aware of it okay well mr secretary material is coming from your department you've referred to mothers as as birthing persons replacing that title with are mothers not persons mothers are persons but it seems to be more inclusive like you're trying to include another gender in that i'm all about inclusion congresswoman there you go um so well you know just as a mother of four boys um i'm not necessarily offended at that i am a person um but it's just unscientific and absurd um how so to include men in that if you're going to be inclusive if you're going to be inclusive in birthing persons yes but but it seems to me that you're let's back up reclaiming my time can men get pregnant then we don't need to include them in this mothers or mothers moving forward mr secretary i want to read for you from a document from your office on the office of population affairs it says in here and i quote gender affirming care encompasses many facets of health care needs and support it has been shown to increase positive outcomes for transgender and non-binary children mr secretary what is a transgender child a a child in america is a child in america and i hope you and i can love that child just as much can you define what a transgender child is that's a child in america and it's american citizen child who needs the services and love just the way any other child does mr secretary do you believe that a child is capable of making life-altering decisions to maim themselves so let me let me just say to you that i don't agree with your premise but what i will say to you is children know much about themselves and with the help of them you believe that children are capable of making the decision to self-mutilate again i don't necessarily accept the people well mr secretary i mean you have gender affirming care for young people and so this is something i don't equate gender affirming care to mutilation so if that's where you're going then you're not going to get the answer you want so um mr mr secretary here can you um can you tell me if there have been mastectomies um uh mastectomies connect comedies or hysterectomies on children wow and have taxpayers funded that so i could probably use the help of my wife was an ob gyn who could talk more or maybe dr burgess could could help us out here or gender affirming care to be included in that i'm sorry pose the question one more time please in this gender affirming care mr secretary have there been tax dollars put forward to fund meth stectonomies pinectomieties and hysterectomies for sex reassignment purposes for minors with gender dysphoria so americans are entitled to receive healthcare services if they are entitled to receive any of the services that you just mentioned then it would be against the law for us to try to deny them that care so for the record you favor hhs's funding being able for to for sex reassignment for surgeries on minors i will do everything i can to defend any american including children whether or not they fit the categories you have mentioned or not and if they talk about gender affirming care i am there to protect the rights of any american mr secretary i want to turn to a different document your office released this gender affirming care is trauma-informed care in this document you clearly state that gender affirming care includes puberty blockers hormones and surgeries for minor children you go on to assure the parent to assure parents that there is no scientifically sound reason to doubt hormones and surgeries are helpful to minor children you also discussed this in a document that the potential for removing children from their parents is on the table if they're not providing providing gender affirming care mr secretary do you think that parents who believe in two genders only should have their children removed from them secretary mr secretary you can answer or respond in writing her time is exciting i can respond very quickly congresswoman i believe in supporting and protecting transgender youth i believe that they along with their parents and their uh caregivers will make the best decisions and i would really urge that politicians like you stay out of their business i would urge that children get to stay with their parents time has expired no you can't no you may not we're in a very tight time frame and then enter this into the congressional record you may oh yes without objection you may do that um all right the committee will be in recess please hurry back after the the second vote you

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Published: Wed Apr 06 2022