FLA LAWMAKER COMPARES TRANS CARE TO HUMAN EXPERIMENTS DURING HOLOCAUST

Jason Parsley

Florida GOP Rep. Randy Fine called gender-affirming care for transgenders individuals “evil” and people who support such it “baby butchers.” He also compared it to an infamous Nazi doctor who conducted medical experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz during the Holocaust.

“You all know I am Jewish and I study the Holocaust. … And I will tell you that when I hear this discussion [...] and I hear these medicines [...] I think of Dr. Mengele who was another doctor,” Fine said, referencing Dr. Josef Mengele. “So I will tell you this, I say these panels are often a predicate of what’s to come. That’s exactly what today was. And I promise you, you’ll like the bill that’s coming.”

The American Jewish Committee blasted Fine on Twitter.

“To compare gender-affirming care to the deranged human experiments conducted by the Nazi Josef Mengele is highly inappropriate. @VoteRandyFine should know better. We urge him to rescind these comments and avoid such comparisons in the future.”

The Brevard County legislator responded: “@ajcglobal should stick to antisemitism and leave the justification of baby butchers to others.”

Fine filled House Bill 1421, titled “Gender Clinical Interventions,” that would restrict gender-affirming care for minors and adults. Under the proposed legislation puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgeries will be outlawed for trans minors. Meanwhile trans adults would be required to submit a