Utah bans gender-affirming surgery for young trans people

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Republican governor Spencer Cox signs into law bill that denies gender-affirming healthcare, as other states weigh similar measures

’s Republican governor on Saturday signed a bill that bans young people who are transgender from receiving gender-affirming healthcare as other states consider similar legislation.

Republicans controlling Utah’s legislature made the ban a priority and weighed a first draft of the measure less than two days after the state’s lawmakers opened this year’s legislative session on 17 January.similar legislation taking aim at young transgender people’s healthcare. He added: “While we understand our words will be of little comfort to those who disagree with us, we sincerely hope that we can treat our transgender families with more love and respect as we work to better understand the science and consequences behind these procedures.”

The ACLU’s letter continued: “By cutting off medical treatment supported by every major medical association in the United States, the bill compromises the health and wellbeing of adolescents with gender dysphoria.

 

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Surgery is not gender-affirming... genetics is. No matter how much a dropkick mutilates themselves to reflect their mental illness, their DNA will tell the truth. Science.

Awesome 👍

Good, detransition ingrowing to be a biggwrnproblem.

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