(File Photo by Kevin Mathewson, Kenosha County Eye)
PLEASANT PRAIRIE, Wis. — A new bill introduced Thursday by State Rep. Amanda Nedweski and Sen. Rob Hutton would allow individuals to sue doctors and healthcare providers over gender transition procedures they underwent as minors—potentially decades after the fact.
The legislation, known as LRB-2406, would create a civil cause of action for those who say they were harmed by puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or surgeries received before the age of 18. The bill would give individuals until age 33 to file a lawsuit, recognizing what supporters say is the delayed nature of the injuries involved.
“This bill is about accountability,” said Rep. Nedweski, a Republican from Pleasant Prairie. “As doctors continue to promote so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ for young children—despite the lack of long-term studies on potential side effects—it’s essential that we provide victims of harmful gender treatments with the same type of legal recourse as anyone else hurt by a medical professional.”
Nedweski cited a 178% increase in gender dysphoria diagnoses among children ages 6–17 between 2017 and 2021 and blamed the rise on the medical industry’s promotion of what she described as “experimental treatments.”
“Pharmaceutical companies and health care providers have built an extremely lucrative business model that preys on vulnerable children,” Nedweski said, estimating lifetime medical transition costs between $87,000 and $600,000 per person. She pointed to a 2022 estimate placing the global sex reassignment surgery market at $4.12 billion.
The proposed legislation does not criminalize any procedures or prohibit them outright but instead focuses on long-term civil liability for providers.
“Medical accountability should not be a partisan issue,” Nedweski said. “We have a duty to ensure children are protected from experimental treatments that can inflict lasting damage on their bodies and minds as they mature.”
The bill is expected to generate heated debate in the Legislature and among advocacy groups on both sides of the issue.
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As a fairly liberal person… I’m NOT mad at this. In fact, I agree! Here’s why…
I hate to see kids forced to make lifelong decisions because their parents think they are helping them. Their brains are not fully developed until 25 years old, give or take.
How can anyone think they can make decisions regarding their “gender/sex/body parts” before their brain has a chance to fully develop and understand things?!???
For example, a well known Kenosha family (now divorced) in town allegedly made facebook posts, tic tocs… about their “daughter” who was born with a [male sex organ]. They dressed the child in skirts, grew HIS hair out long, and had HIM wear make up. They told everyone to call him SHE/HER. They made a big deal about leaving the Catholic Church because the catholic school would not call him… “her”
So they sent the child to public school- KUSD let them pretend the child was a girl… and OMG was that confusing for all of the other little kids when it came time to use the bathroom but they were warned not to say anything because that one child might get upset. Nevermind the hundreds of other kids who KNEW he was a boy!! If any of them asked questions- boom! Their parents got a call that they were bullying and they needed to tell their child.to just accept it.
Then he actually went through puberty and HE decided he wasn’t a girl… so now the mom and dad don’t post about the child at all.
Sooooooo. This is exactly why I think everyone needs to WAIT until the child is an adult, who can then decide what they want to do. And even if we may not agree with their choice, AT LEAST THEIR BRAIN IS FULLY DEVELOPED.
Nina? Mitch?
Any comments?
I seriously hope they didn’t do anything to effect their kid long term. What a fucking huge mistake if they did
Trans “people” are just mentally ill gays.
Good!
It cost the United States HOW much in blood and treasure to fight in World War Two partially in order to stop this kind of stuff …………. only to see these actors commit these acts 85 years later IN the United States???
Yah, sue them ….. at the very,very least ..
It’s Wiemar, Germany all over again. Can you guess who’s behind it all?…..
That’s easy- Satan.
The Synagogue of Satan, as quoted by God.
I wonder who thumbs downed this……. probably a stienberg
I can’t but I’m interested …..
Magnus Hirschfeld was the key figure in Weimar Germany who performed the first gender-affirming surgeries. He founded the Institute for Sexual Research in 1919, where he and his colleagues conducted pioneering work in transgender medicine. By 1930, the institute had performed the first modern gender-affirming surgeries in the world.
Who are not allowed to criticize?….
Hirschfeld was born in Kolberg in Pomerania (since 1945 Kołobrzeg in Poland),[6] to an Ashkenazi Jewish family,
So glad finally someone with some common sense is stopping all of these surgeries! These kids are going to be so messed up in the future. Asking all of us not to say anything and pretending that someone is who they are not is insanity! I don’t play these silly games with people.
Did you not read this Story ????
This isn’t Stopping ANYTHING !!
This is blaming the Doctors instead of the Parents !!! After the fact !!
This bill says, according to this story, anyone who had this care, drugs or surgery can sue the doctors. How about the parents ?????
When under 18, nothing happens without the parents approval. Hell the kids can even drive to the Doctor office much less get in the door without the parents. And what about the insurance companies paying for this ?!?
This Bill is so wrong on so many levels.
Sure, doctors today and in the past shouldn’t have been part of this.
Do no harm. Remember that ?
But to blame and sue doctors who by rights and laws “were” allowed to do these things ?
That wrong. These “kids” should sue their own parents !! And these parents should be jailed for harming their own children.
Any child can dress, play with toys and grow their hair to whatever gender they feel like. And I believe parents should allow those experimentations to happen. Let little Jonny put on a dress. Let him put on makeup. Wear stupid shoes. Let him experience his friends supporting him or laughing at him. He’ll figure it out over time.
But in school and anywhere else, he has to use the boys restroom !
To allow physically cutting their bodies and or give drugs to anyone under the age of 18 should be a crime. A crime of the parents !
Amanda. Concentrate on stopping this going forward for anyone under 18. Regardless of parental involvement. Parents don’t get to decide to harm their children anymore than they are allowed to put them behind the wheel of the family car before they have a license !!
Says Nedweski above;
“We have a duty to ensure children are protected from experimental treatments that can inflict lasting damage on their bodies and minds as they mature.” Before it happens !!
And from their parents who authorized and pay for this !!!
This Bill does none of that !
Do you want to fix a problem ?
Did you know ANY PARENT can order a drink and let a child drink alcohol in a restaurant in Wisconsin ??
As long as they are with them out for dinner !
Stop that parental abuse of their own children !
Start there
Well, the so-called “doctors” COMMIT the acts, so …….
Doctors should not do things just because they can.
Just because Doctors “can”reconstruct a body doesn’t mean they should respond to ANY Request. Save those talents for people injured or disfigured in accidents. Vehicle, industrial or even birth defects if possible. Cleft lip is one that’s been done forever.
I also co-sponsored Assembly Bill 104 this year and last legislative session, which bans gender transition surgeries and the use of puberty blockers on minor children in Wisconsin. You can view my Assembly floor speech on that legislation here: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Le93UfcAj/?mibextid=WC7FNe
These bills will not be supported by Governor Evers.
The text of the bill can be read here: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/related/proposals/ab104
…. on recruiting a decent gubernatorial candidate for next term.
We are so weak as a party deciding on who’s going to run. For all offices.
Rebecca Kleefisch would have beat Evers instead we backed Tim Michels because he had a checkbook. But then closed it early.
Should have run Dorow for Supreme Court. Female against female.
Would have won that one for sure !
These are simple observations regardless of the inside people trying to reward someone.
Go with the hot commodity when you have one. Case in point was Dorow !
She was just off the big trial. Female !
Why did we run a failed rerun of a candidate instead ????
These are simple fixes. Yet we don’t
Do you actually belive voting is real?! Anyone can vote, and they vote often. We gotta slash and burn. Get back to the constitution.
Thank you Amanda!! Can you pass one to sue for brainwashing kids to think they have no gender or wrong “pronouns”?
Broken society with a slow degradation of morals.
All by design