Republican state lawmakers push bills to restrict medical treatments for transgender youths

Posted on AllSides January 22nd, 2020
From The Left
LGBT rights, transgender rights, medical care

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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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/republican-state-lawmakers-push-bills-that-restrict-medical-treatments-for-transgender-youth/2020/01/22/7cbdf6ca-3948-11ea-9541-9107303481a4_story.html

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