Louisiana Is The Only Deep South State Not Banning Trans Youth Health Care

A Louisiana Senate committee defeated a proposed law to ban gender-affirming health care for transgender minors earlier this week when the committee’s Republican chairman voted with Democrats to kill the bill. The bill will not move forward, making Louisiana the only state in the Deep South that does not expressly prohibit doctors from recommending gender-affirming treatments for transgender youth. Louisiana’s bill failed in a vote in the state Senate Health and Welfare Committee when Sen. Fred Mills (R-New Iberia), the committee chairman and a pharmacist by trade, voted to defer...