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A GOP lawmaker, the son of an Auschwitz survivor, compared doctors treating transgender children to [View all]
Related: S.D. lawmaker compares transgender surgeries to Holocaust’s ‘bizarre medical experiments’ (Sioux Falls Argus Leader)
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Source: Washington Post
A GOP lawmaker, the son of an Auschwitz survivor, compared doctors treating transgender children to Nazis. He regrets it.
By Katie Shepherd
1/28/2020, 7:25:21 a.m.
The South Dakota legislature is considering the nation’s first law which could send doctors to jail for treating transgender youths with hormone therapy or surgery and the fight over the legislation is intensifying.
It’s become so heated that after the legislation passed out of its first committee, the bill’s sponsor recently compared the doctors who treat transgender children to Nazis.
He did it this week, as the world is remembering the liberation 75 years ago of the prisoners held in Auschwitz, where more than 1 million people, most of whom were Jewish, were killed in the concentration camp’s gas chambers.
“To me, that’s a crime against humanity when these procedures are done by these so-called doctors,” the bill’s sponsor, state Rep. Fred Deutsch (R), told Family Research Council president Tony Perkins in an interview on Wednesday. “You know, I’m the son of a Holocaust survivor. I’ve had family members killed in Auschwitz. And I’ve seen the pictures of the bizarre medical experiments. I don’t want that to happen to our kids. And that’s what’s going on right now.”
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Deutsch told The Washington Post late Monday that he did not intend to equate those crimes with the medical practices that would be affected by South Dakota House Bill 1057.
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By Katie Shepherd
1/28/2020, 7:25:21 a.m.
The South Dakota legislature is considering the nation’s first law which could send doctors to jail for treating transgender youths with hormone therapy or surgery and the fight over the legislation is intensifying.
It’s become so heated that after the legislation passed out of its first committee, the bill’s sponsor recently compared the doctors who treat transgender children to Nazis.
He did it this week, as the world is remembering the liberation 75 years ago of the prisoners held in Auschwitz, where more than 1 million people, most of whom were Jewish, were killed in the concentration camp’s gas chambers.
“To me, that’s a crime against humanity when these procedures are done by these so-called doctors,” the bill’s sponsor, state Rep. Fred Deutsch (R), told Family Research Council president Tony Perkins in an interview on Wednesday. “You know, I’m the son of a Holocaust survivor. I’ve had family members killed in Auschwitz. And I’ve seen the pictures of the bizarre medical experiments. I don’t want that to happen to our kids. And that’s what’s going on right now.”
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Deutsch told The Washington Post late Monday that he did not intend to equate those crimes with the medical practices that would be affected by South Dakota House Bill 1057.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/01/28/deutsch-transgender-doctors-nazi/
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Source: Sioux Falls Argus Leader
S.D. lawmaker compares transgender surgeries to Holocaust’s ‘bizarre medical experiments’
Lisa Kaczke, Sioux Falls Argus Leader Published 5:11 p.m. CT Jan. 27, 2020
PIERRE — Rep. Fred Deutsch on Monday defended a statement he made last week comparing gender confirmation surgeries to medical experiments conducted during the Holocaust.
But Deutsch, who is the son of a Holocaust survivor and had family members killed at Auschwitz, told the Argus Leader that he absolutely wasn't saying doctors who treat transgender children are the same as Nazis.
"I've been to a whole bunch of Holocaust museums all over the world. It's very personal to me. It's just a simple reflection that the pictures seem similar to me," he told the Argus Leader.
The comment was made during an interview last week with Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, about House Bill 1057, which makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for doctors to treat transgender children younger than 16 with hormone treatment, puberty blockers and gender confirmation surgery.
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Lisa Kaczke, Sioux Falls Argus Leader Published 5:11 p.m. CT Jan. 27, 2020
PIERRE — Rep. Fred Deutsch on Monday defended a statement he made last week comparing gender confirmation surgeries to medical experiments conducted during the Holocaust.
But Deutsch, who is the son of a Holocaust survivor and had family members killed at Auschwitz, told the Argus Leader that he absolutely wasn't saying doctors who treat transgender children are the same as Nazis.
"I've been to a whole bunch of Holocaust museums all over the world. It's very personal to me. It's just a simple reflection that the pictures seem similar to me," he told the Argus Leader.
The comment was made during an interview last week with Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, about House Bill 1057, which makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for doctors to treat transgender children younger than 16 with hormone treatment, puberty blockers and gender confirmation surgery.
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Read more: https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/politics/2020/01/27/rep-fred-deutsch-pictures-transgender-surgery-scars-remind-him-holocaust-nazis/4586822002/
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