'Do You Support Genital Mutilation?': Marjorie Taylor Greene Asks Shocking Question Of Dems' Witness

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At today's House DOGE Committee hearing, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) questioned Emily DiVito, Senior Advisor for Economic Policy at the Groundwork Collaborative.

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00:00Thank you, and I look forward to your questions.

00:03I now recognize myself for five minutes of questions.

00:08The Doge website details much of the wasteful spending it hits the brakes on,

00:14and it has an incredible list of top hits.

00:17Some of the spending is not just embarrassing,

00:20but it is funding actually the genital mutilation of our children,

00:25forcing the American taxpayers to pay for it.

00:27A $620,000 HHS grant for hashtag Transcendent Health,

00:34adapting an LGBT plus inclusive teen prevention program for transgender boys.

00:41$620,000 from HHS.

00:45It's absurd.

00:46This is disgusting, and it facilitates a lie.

00:50Here's another one.

00:51A $2,000 NIH grant for cross-sex steroid therapy and cardiovascular risk in transgender females.

01:02This is another absurd grant that was handed out.

01:06A $120,000 NIH grant for personalized 3D avatar tool development for measurement of body perception across gender identities.

01:18Here's another absurd grant that, again, tells the lie that there's more than two genders.

01:24There's only two, male and female.

01:27That's it.

01:28Something else that the American people should know about,

01:31these radical extremist judges that are playing politics from the bench,

01:36a judge ruled that this has to be protected.

01:38This is a HHS program for gender-affirming care in young people.

01:47Again, the only thing that affirms gender is the fact that there's only two sexes, male and female,

01:53and the American people should never have to pay for that lie.

01:57Ms. DeVito, in your testimony, you talk about so-called failures of DOGE, in your opinion.

02:02But do you support the federal government funding HHS and NIH studies that promote the genital mutilation of children?

02:10Do you support forcing Americans to pay for genital mutilation of children?

02:15Yes or no, Ms. DeVito?

02:16Ms. Thank you for your question.

02:17I think we all agree that the government should work for people.

02:20No, I asked you, do you support genital mutilation of children and the American people having to pay for it?

02:25That's a yes or no question.

02:26Ms. I think government research is responsible for all sorts of innovations that we employ today.

02:31So, for the record, you do support the American people paying for top and bottom surgeries of children.

02:37Cutting off the breast of young girls, teenage girls, and castrating teenage boys.

02:44You support the American people paying for that?

02:46I think government research is incredibly important.

02:48That's not research, Ms. DeVito.

02:50That's mutilating kids' bodies before they're old enough to vote,

02:54before they're old enough to join the military,

02:56before they're old enough to even be adults.

02:58That's what you're saying the American people should pay for.

03:01Just so you know, Ms. DeVito, and I'm very proud to announce,

03:06that I have a bill called Protect Children's Innocence Act

03:08that will criminalize sex changes on children.

03:12And that bill will see a vote on the House floor.

03:14And I look forward to my Republican colleagues,

03:17and hopefully Democrats that come to their senses,

03:20voting yes for that bill.

03:21because it's absolutely repulsive and disgusting,

03:25and America voted against that this past election.

03:29Sick.

03:32Mr. Dickerson, how do we implement cuts and appropriations moving forward

03:38to prevent these agencies from ever being able to fund these studies

03:42that promote the mutilation of children's bodies ever again?

03:45I think what you need to do is ensure those riders are included

03:50in the appropriations bills that are passed to clarify to the agencies

03:54that even though they have never actually received authorization for these,

03:59so they shouldn't have actually done it in the first place,

04:01but if they need that funding rider to restrict American taxpayer funds

04:06for going to those terribly divisive and harmful things.

04:10Yeah, permanently, right?

04:12Exactly.

04:13Other egregious abuses of funds.

04:15A $10 million Department of Education grant

04:18to the Virginia Commonwealth University for faculty workshops

04:22on decolonizing the curriculum.

04:24A nearly $700,000 National Science Foundation grant

04:28to the University of Tennessee for Black and Latinx parents

04:32leading reform in advancing racial justice in elementary mathematics.

04:36A project that could provide a model for other communities and schools

04:40seeking to advance racial justice in mathematics and education.

04:45This is insane, absurd, and it's racist in itself.

04:48Math is math.

04:49A $500,000 EPA grant, green jobs,

04:52growing a new generation of environmental justice problem solvers.

04:56All of this stuff is far-left ideology,

04:58and the American people should not be paying for it.

05:01It looks like my time's up, so with that,

05:05I'll yield to the ranking member, Stansbury, for five.

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