GOP lawmakers pass bill allowing child genital exams without parental consent
GOP lawmakers pass bill allowing child genital exams without parental consent
Yesterday, the West Virginia House of Delegates approved an amendment from Del. J.B. Akers (R) to allow a child’s “treating health care provider” to examine a child’s genitals without the consent of their parents.
The amendment was actually an improvement over a previous version of the bill, which, state Democrats argued, would have allowed teachers to perform the genital examinations.
Akers’ amendment was the Republican response to one proposed by Del. Kayla Young (D), which would have banned child and adult genital examinations altogether.
“It’s unconscionable that Republicans would support legislation that authorizes intrusive visual inspections of minors without parental approval,” Young said. “West Virginians should be alarmed and disgusted by this invasion of privacy.”
It also says that all intersex people are “either male or female” but does not give a basis for assigning a sex to them.
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What level are they allowed to view? If the child says no are they able to force their way into their pants? At what point does it become rape?
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A child cannot consent.
So, immediately. It becomes sexual assault, at least, immediately.
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You're looking at this problem all wrong, it's not that children cannot consent. Nobody is arguing that. The change here is that now those that would be doing the tests are no longer considered child predators because they didn't do anything illegal. So now it would be totally fine for priests, doctors, senators, neighbors, etc to look at random kids genitals to verify sexuality without any resistance from their parents/guardians. Is this how we finally do away with rapists, by redefining sexual assault.
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It's the pedo enabling act!
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It's like they learned the wrong lessons from the US gymnastics team incidents.
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Genital Obsession Party
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Oh, come on, it's just a ChildS exAM
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Oh the irony that the shitheads that couldn't wear a mask, and want to ban books because of "parent rights", now want to ice parents out of the decision of a rando looking at their kids genitals.
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But drag queens reading books are the real threat.
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This shouldn't surprise anyone. Most pedophiles are Republicans. Now they get to visually molest your kids legally, neat.
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A government so small it fits into a child's pants
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WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS IS AN IMPROVEMENT
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Well, you see before it was a random stranger, but NOW it's a random stranger in a lab coat.
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It's all a part of making America great.
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Before it was allowing a republican to be in the room.
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Can we retrospectively inspect the law makers, just so they can have a lived experience before they next get together to make more crazy laws?
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Keep republicans away from my children
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Bloody mfers.
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So much for Parents Rights.
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So republican parents are ok with strangers inspecting their child’s genitals without their consent?
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Well that law will never on MY KIDS.
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traditional family values 😂
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:takes daughter to purity ball:
"She looks so much like her mother on prom night"
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The school nurse is going to be busy checking kids' privates for no good reason.
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I haven't seen a public school with the budget for a dedicated nurse in decades. It's going to be the vice principal or some other shitty non medically trained scum. Not that it would be less invasive from a nurse, but i bet it will be worse with random assholes deciding how it goes. This is truly fucked.
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That's called pedophilia
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Only a fucking piece of trash thinks it's ok for a teacher to look at a kid's junk, regardless of if the parents give consent.
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Former teacher here. Any teacher that would comply with such an order to inspect is also a fucking piece of trash.
Once our assistant principal went on a witch hunt about enforcing uniform compliance. He wanted us all to inspect socks to ensure they were the right color. Turns out the color of my kids' socks doesn't impact the learning environment, so no, we aren't wasting class time on this.
So no, I'm not inspecting genitals. And if there is a move to do such a thing at school, I'd spend the entire class time calling parents letting them know what's going on.
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Of course they did, it’s all they think about
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An amendment introduced by House Judiciary Chair J.B. Akers on March 6 would have allowed medical professionals to “to visually or physically examine a minor child for purposes of verifying the biological sex of the child without the consent of the child’s parent, guardian, or custodian.”
That amendment was adopted into the bill.
Before officially passing the Senate, Senator Patrick Martin (R - Lewis, 12) proposed two further amendments, one of which clarifies “that the article does not authorize certain examinations of minor children.”
Senator Martin’s amendment nullified Delegate Akers’ amendment, thereby excluding it from the final bill.
SB 456 was passed by the Senate Tuesday 32-1 with one Senator absent for the vote. In the House, 90 delegates voted in favor, eight opposed, and two were absent.
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That amendment doesn't nullify shit. It's waffle language. When the court cases eventually come up over this, judges will shrug and say that it doesn't clearly forbid it, so it's fine. Mark my words.
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We found the real freaks. I wonder if the Pizzagate/Qanon dipshits have figured it out yet: everything the qons do is about projection.
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I'm so damn glad I'm not a parent. There's no fucking way I wouldn't pulverize someone's limbs into paste if they touched my child.
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Cops already do it to black kids. One girl was on her period and they made her bend over and cough and everything.
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Parent here. You sound like parent material.
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Here's the text of the bill that was passed: https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Text_HTML/2025_SESSIONS/RS/bills/sb456 sub1 enr.pdf
Can someone please point out where this language is because I'm not finding it and it tracking the history of this bill, found here, it appears to me that it was removed.
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https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb456 hfa akers 3-6 _1.htm
It's an amendment, linked in the article.
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Yes, however Akers Amendment from 3/6 was superseded by two other ones from Martin on 3/11 and according to local media coverage the bill that was ultimately signed into law doesn't have Akers stuff in it.
That's why I posted the full text of the legislation that was actually signed into law. There's no "amendment" or text that I can find in that legislation that matches the stuff from Akers. It looks to me like Martin successfully killed Aker's amendments on the 11th of March.
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Something to do down in those otherwise unused pizza restaurant basements.
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This is stupid as fuck, right, but who doesn't accompany their child into the doctor's office?
Like there are no circumstances under which I'm leaving my child alone with an adult who may examine their genitals and having had child safety training myself just being alone with a child that isn't yours is a terrible idea altogether.
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So... under no circumstances are they going to bring doctors into schools to perform these inspections?
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I suppose that hadn't occurred to me because I live in a country where, if that were to happen, I couldn't imagine the level of social unrest it would cause.
It's just beyond reason.
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