(Elizabeth Allen) Arkansas lawmakers passed a measure on Monday that could make the state the first in the country to prevent doctors from providing certain types of care to transgender youth.
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by Elizabeth Allen, March 29th, 2021
The Arkansas legislation threatens any healthcare professional who provides puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones or gender-altering surgery to minors with losing their medical license and opens them up to lawsuits from patients who later regret their procedures.
Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, has declined to say whether he would sign the bill into law.
This bill only pertains to minors. What eleven or twelve year old really knows or understands the permanency of transgender treatments and surgery? These kids have no concept of long term ramifications which is why they are not considered adults until the age of 18 and sometimes that seems questionable! If a person decides upon their 18th birthday that this is what they really want, then go for it.
Republicans across the country have introduced a record 127 bills on transgender issues in 22 states this year, according to the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ organization in the United States.
Proponents of the medical legislation say they want to protect children from irreversible procedures they could later regret.
“They’re not mature enough to make those kinds of decisions,” said Tennessee state Representative John Ragan, the lead sponsor of a bill that would ban most transgender treatment for minors unless it has the consent of three physicians.
Transgender advocates see the proposals as a political ploy to whip up right-wing outrage. They contend the measures are unconstitutional, defy the best medical science and rely on outdated stereotypes.
“As a trans person, as a parent, I can’t stress enough how devastating the consequences would be,” Chase Strangio, deputy director for transgender justice at the American Civil Liberties Union, told a news conference on Monday.
Maybe we should be focusing on mental treatment for these kids and save the gender altering treatment for when they are adults. The truth is the transgender community has a higher suicide rate as a whole, not just the youth.
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