HR5, now before the Senate seems expressly tailored to concern someone like me: a woman, a mother of girls (including one by adoption) and a practicing Catholic.
But it is in my role as a physician that the House-passed act gives me greatest pause. If the bill becomes law, gender ideology will wrap itself like a straitjacket around the practice of medicine.The act could—see, for example, section 3's prohibition on health care "discrimination" on the basis of "gender identity"—force health care workers into taking a one-size-fits-all approach to the complex phenomenon of gender dysphoria, the distressing psychological rejection of healthy male or female bodies.