HB648, the “Stop Harming Our Kids Act,” would ban certain procedures to alter the sex of a minor child.
The Senate passed HB648 on June 5, 2023, by a vote of 29 to 10, prior to being vetoed by the Governor. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because Louisiana should act to ban sex mutilation, which not only violates the unalienable right to life and limb of children, but absurdly attempts to erase biological “sex” with fictional “gender” constructs. According to the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the States have a duty to protect the humanity of all people—male and female—who, as the Declaration of Independence affirms, are created by God and form the basis of individual and family self-government.