Yesterday, the West Virginia House of Delegates approved an amendment from Del. J.B. Akers ® 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.
So republican parents are ok with strangers inspecting their child’s genitals without their consent?
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.
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.
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.
Keep republicans away from my children
So much for Parents Rights.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS IS AN IMPROVEMENT
Before it was allowing a republican to be in the room.
Well, you see before it was a random stranger, but NOW it’s a random stranger in a lab coat.
It’s all a part of making America great.
Something to do down in those otherwise unused pizza restaurant basements.
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?
A child cannot consent.
So, immediately. It becomes sexual assault, at least, immediately.
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.
So now it would be totally fine for priests, doctors, senators, neighbors, etc
“treating health care provider”
Some of these things are not like the others.
Genital Obsession Party
Oh, come on, it’s just a ChildS exAM
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.
But drag queens reading books are the real threat.
It’s the pedo enabling act!
It’s like they learned the wrong lessons from the US gymnastics team incidents.
This shouldn’t surprise anyone. Most pedophiles are Republicans. Now they get to visually molest your kids legally, neat.
Of course they did, it’s all they think about
A government so small it fits into a child’s pants
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.
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.
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.
