{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://crenshaw.house.gov/2024/12/reps-crenshaw-presses-the-congressional-budget-office-to-estimate-the-cost-of-gender-transition-for-minors", "Rep. Crenshaw Presses the Congressional Budget Office to Estimate the Cost of Gender Transitions for Minors in Federal Programs", "2024-12-12", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "House", "TX", "Dan Crenshaw", "C001120", "crenshaw.house.gov", "crenshaw", "https://crenshaw.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, DC\u2014On December 12th, Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) sent a letter to the Congressional Budget Office requesting a budgetary score on the total cost of gender transitions for minors in federal programs.\n\n\u201cCosmetic self-harm for minors is not medicine. Children\u2019s hospitals offering gender-transition procedures should be stripped of their federal funding.\u201d said Congressman Crenshaw. \"To eliminate support, we must first expose the full extent of government complicity in this ideological fantasy, paving the way to cut it during budget reconciliation next Congress.\u201d\n\nRead the full letter here.\n\nWhat they are saying:\n\n\u201cChildren are held hostage for the rest of their lives by the irreversible nature of sex change treatments. Do No Harm applauds Rep. Crenshaw for holding the Biden administration accountable for misusing tax dollars to fund these harmful procedures. Every American should be alarmed by this malpractice, especially when every American is financing this malpractice. Between 2019 and 2023, nearly 14,000 minors underwent sex change treatments. Yet we continue to see a rise in these patients expressing deep regret for their treatments\u2013treatments that manifest as physical and emotional scaring for decades to come.\u201d \u2013 Stanley Goldfarb, MD, Board Chair of Do No Harm.\n\n\"Family Policy Alliance commends Rep. Crenshaw for this hard work. Kids are not experiments. The Federal government should not be funding these barbaric sterilization and mutilation procedures. This is the right step toward further understanding how deep this insidious problem goes so we can tackle it head on. FPA believes that this should be investigated with same rigor as the Tuskegee experiments. Our federal government has not been honest with their experimentation on children and adults.\" \u2013 Craig DeRoche, President and CEO of Family Policy Alliance.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T22:13:55Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://crenshaw.house.gov/2024/12/reps-crenshaw-presses-the-congressional-budget-office-to-estimate-the-cost-of-gender-transition-for-minors"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.3501460198312998, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}