WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 -- Sen. Eric Schmitt issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO), introduced the "Yaeli Martinez Child Protection Act" to establish guardrails within the nation's federal child-welfare framework to ensure federal funds are not used to punish parents for raising their children according to their sex or for protecting children from irreversible medical harm. The bill would preserve state authority to respond to actual abuse while preventing federally funded child-welfare systems
from treating a parent's affirmation of a child's sex as abuse or using it as a basis for adverse action against a family.
"The Left's radical gender ideology is harming children with irreversible treatments and ...