- State legislatures in Utah, South Carolina, Missouri and Maine on Wednesday considered bills on transgender issues, focusing on bathroom access, gender reassignment surgery for minors and parental rights.
- Last year, several states introduced and passed legislation banning minors from receiving transgender medical procedures.
- “A state should never put a loving parent above a loving parent and irrevocably destroy the reproductive health of a minor child,” said Republican state Rep. Katrina Smith of Maine. .
Several state legislatures debated bills on transgender issues in the first weeks of 2024, focusing on bathroom access, gender reassignment surgery for minors, and parental rights.
In 2023, many lawmakers introduced and passed bills that would ban minors from receiving transgender medical procedures, including one in Washington state. To give permission Children fleeing to another state to undergo hormone therapy or sex reassignment surgery without their parents' consent. The issue is expected to gain renewed attention in 2024, with states including Utah, South Carolina, Missouri and Maine considering transgender ideology bills on Wednesday. (Related: Supreme Court rejects trans student's request to accept bathroom lawsuit)
Utah lawmakers on the state House Business and Labor Committee voted in favor of moving forward with a bill that would set the legal definitions of men and women. according to To the Salt Lake Tribune. A woman is defined as “an individual whose biological reproductive system is of the general type that has the function of producing eggs,” and a man is defined as “an individual whose biological reproductive system has the function of fertilizing a woman's eggs.” defined as an individual of a common type.
of invoiceAccording to the Tribune, the bill, authored by Republican state Rep. Kera Birkeland and released on Jan. 11, would also restrict women's access to women's restrooms, locker rooms and domestic violence shelters. That's what it means.
“I think we're here to resolve the concerns,” Birkeland said at the committee hearing, according to the Tribune, adding, “We don't wait until an 8-year-old has been raped or sexually abused by a predator. I don't think it's possible,” he said. We believe we find accommodations that act respectfully and with integrity and always show consideration. ”
LGBT activists and supporters gather in support of transgender people on the steps of New York City Hall on October 24, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
The South Carolina House of Representatives passed it 82-23. invoice Excludes transgender medical procedures for minors, including gender reassignment surgery, puberty blockers, and hormones. according to to News 19, your local CBS news affiliate. The “Do No Harm” bill would also prohibit taxpayer funds from being used to fund similar procedures for adults and cover these procedures for people under 26. will limit Medicaid's ability to do so.
According to News 19, Republicans argued that the bill would not only protect children, but would also prevent taxpayers from paying for highly controversial transgender medical procedures. But Democrats argued the bill violated privacy between patients and doctors.
“This treatment is like any other treatment, and it's reckless and wrong for us to sit here and have 124 members of Congress who are not doctors legislate what is the standard of care. '' Democratic state Rep. Seth Rose said, according to the newspaper.
Similarly, lawmakers on the Missouri House Emerging Issues Committee held a nearly nine-hour hearing on several bills, including one that would ban transgender medical procedures for minors. The bill would amend state law to remove the expiration date of August 28, 2027. according to This was reported to local media outlet The Missouri Independent. The other would allow doctors to opt out of treating both adult and minor patients seeking transgender procedures.
The Missouri saves the youth from experiment, or safety According to the text, the law was passed in June 2023 and prohibits doctors from performing gender reassignment surgery on children under 18. Republican lawmakers are also considering striking another provision that would allow minor patients who were treated before the bill's passage to continue treatment.
another invoiceThe program, introduced by Republican state Rep. Brad Hudson, would create an exception for Missouri doctors to refuse surgeries to transgender people. Leandra Morgentaler, a medical student at the University of Missouri-Columbia, said he felt his Catholic faith and his position on the issue had been attacked, according to the Missouri Independent.
According to the paper, Morgenthaler said, “I have been told by classmates who share my beliefs that I should not intersect faith and medicine because of our religion. “People who hold such beliefs clearly have wrong opinions.”
Maine lawmakers on the state House Judiciary Committee were scheduled to debate an issue. law That would have allowed minors to flee to the state for transgender medical procedures, including surgery, without the consent of a parent or guardian. according to to the main wire. Debate was postponed until Jan. 25 after a 5-5 tie on Republican state Rep. David Hagan's motion to remove him from office.
Democratic state Rep. Laurie Osher followed California's lead in introducing the bill in 2023. passed it Similar legislation is also in the works, according to Maine Wire. However, Republicans expressed concern that the bill amounted to nothing more than legalizing kidnapping.
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