Virginia Dems Introduce Bill Allowing Minors To Consent To Gender Transition, Hide Records From Parents

As Virginia’s state legislative session opened last week, lawmakers jockeyed over parents’ rights and gender issues, with Democrats offering a bill allowing minors to consent to medical procedures and allowing doctors to hide medical records from parents, and Republicans proposing the opposite.

Five Democrat delegates introduced House Bill 2091, which says that medical professionals and counselors may deny parents the right to their own children’s records if “the furnishing to or review by the requesting parent of such health records would be reasonably likely to… deter the minor from seeking care.”

It also mentions that “Any minor 16 years of age or older who is determined by a health care provider to be mature and capable of giving informed consent shall be deemed an adult for the purpose of giving consent to consultation, diagnosis, and treatment of a mental or emotional disorder by a health care provider or clinic.”

Sponsors were Candi Mundon King of Prince William, Stafford, Nadarius Clark, Chesapeake and Norfolk; Patrick Hope, Arlington; Michelle Lopes Maldonado, Prince William, Manassas, Sam Rasoul, Roanoke; Marcus Simon, Fairfax. Mundon King was not available for comment.

Jeanine Lawson, a Republican member of the Board of Supervisors in Prince William, where some of the Democrat bill’s sponsors hail from, who ran for Congress this year said of the Democrats’ bill: “Sixteen year olds are not adults. Their brains are not fully developed and they’re deeply affected by peer pressure. Parents must approve their driver’s license, field trips and skipping class. Parents are their guardians in the truest sense of the word.”

“The Left doesn’t care about the troubled teens they leave in their wake. They use them, evidenced by the hateful way they treat detransitioners. And now they are trying to separate them from the people who care for them most-their parents. It’s unconscionable and despicable. It’s Virginia Democrats today,” She spoke to The Daily Wire.

On the same day, Republican delegate Dave LaRock from Clarke (Frederick) and Loudoun Introduced House Bill 2280, asserting that parents have a right to children’s health records and blocking the ability for minors to consent to medical procedures without their parents.

The Daily Wire was informed by LaRock that “Activists, including those in schools, are doing everything they can to hide life-altering conversations and decisions from parents, even, in some cases, deliberately misinforming parents and children. This is not in the best interests of the students or parents.”

“Just over a year ago, Virginia voters strongly sided with parental rights over the ‘we know best’ education bureaucracy, and elected a ‘Parents First’ Governor. This new law I’m proposing will support parent’s rights to protect their children’s wellbeing,” He stated.

LaRock and two other Republicans proposed a similar proposal. constitutional amendment that would add to the commonwealth’s Bill of Rights the “Rights of parents. That there exists a fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children. The Commonwealth shall not infringe these rights without demonstrating that its governmental interest as applied to the person is of the highest order and not otherwise served.”

Another Virginia Democrat is Delegate Elizabeth Guzman from Fauquier. She previously stated she would introduce legislation that could benefit parents. criminally prosecuted If they don’t “affirm” their child’s decision to transition genders. This bill was not passed after much backlash.

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