House Republican compares gender reassignment surgery to 'wanting one eye'
United States Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) compared gender reassignment surgery to requesting that a doctor remove an eye during a House hearing on Wednesday.
"I, I, I thank the gentleman," Crenshaw said of Congressman Greg Pence (R-Indiana), who yielded his time.
"Look, I just wanna make a few more points and I wanna, I want to run everyone through this thought experiment," Crenshaw began.
"So, so, you know, my daughter's gonna grow up with a father with one eye," Crenshaw continued. "And at some point, she might say, 'you know what, I want one eye,' right? 'I identify as somebody with one eyeball' — which by the way is far less important than your gender, just physiologically speaking. And so if I take her to the doctor and I say, 'can you just denucleate that eye for us because she identifies as a one-eye. She wants to be just like her dad.' What would the doctor say? They'd say, 'You're crazy and I'm gonna have you arrested.'"
Crenshaw insisted, "That's what that, well, that's what they should say. And this is, this is for a physiological intervention that is far less important than your actual gender and your reproductive organs. Like we, we have to stop this madness. This has gone too far."
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\u201cU.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), arguing against gender-affirming care, says his daughter could hypothetically "identify as somebody with one eyeball" and tell the doctor that she wants to be blinded in one eye.\u201d— Heartland Signal (@Heartland Signal) 1686779273
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