Republican state lawmakers push bills to restrict medical treatments for transgender youths
Posted on AllSides January 22nd, 2020
From The Left
Republican state lawmakers have filed a wave of bills that would ban medical professionals from treating transgender teens with hormones and sex reassignment surgery, reigniting a polarizing national debate over the rights of transgender youths and the government’s reach into doctors’ offices.
More than half a dozen statehouses are considering bills that would penalize medical professionals — and, in at least one case, parents — who give young people access to puberty-blocking medicines and other treatments. Conservative lawmakers argue that they are protecting vulnerable children who may be experimenting with...
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