Fred Deutsch, who represents South Dakota's 4th District in the state House, is trying to pass a bill banning surgery on transgender children under the age of 16.
A GOP state lawmaker on stepped back from"inappropriate" comments he made during an interview with the president of a fundamentalist Christian group in which he likened gender confirmation surgery to Nazi medical experiments conducted during the Holocaust.
The legislation would also ban doctors from prescribing puberty-blocking or hormone drugs for children under the age of 16. "And it's terrible, that should not ever be allowed," he said."To me, that's a crime against humanity when these procedures are done by the so-called doctors that dance on the edge of medicine. I just don't think it should be done."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.
"It's very personal to me. It's just a simple reflection that the pictures seem similar to me," he added.In a further statement to, Deutsch added:"All I meant is the pictures of mutilated post-surgical bodies that some transgender people have shared online remind me of pictures of other people I have seen from the Holocaust.
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