Alabama Senate Votes to Ban Gender-Affirming Care for Minors March 02 2021 7:55 PM EST
The Alabama Senate Tuesday approved a bill that would ban gender-affirming health care for transgender minors amid protests against the measure at the state capitol in Montgomery.
Senate Bill 10, dubbed the Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, passed by a vote of 23-4, the
Montgomery Advertiser reports. A companion bill is under consideration in the state’s House of Representatives. Similar pieces of legislation have been proposed in several other states over the past few years, but not one has become law.
The Alabama bill would bar medical professionals from administering hormones or puberty blockers to anyone under the age of 19, in addition to prohibiting gender-affirming surgeries for this age group. Doctors could face prison time for violations.
Alabama Senate votes to make hormone therapy and surgery for trans youth a felony
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Alabama state senators approve ban on hormone therapy, surgery for transgender youth
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Alabama governor leases CoreCivic prisons in $3 billion plan
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Kim Chandler February 01, 2021 - 12:21 PM
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Gov. Kay Ivey agreed on Monday to lease two mammoth prisons as a partial solution to the stateâs troubled correction system, over the objections of some legislators and advocates who warn that her $3 billion plan wonât resolve chronic violence and severe understaffing woes.
The governor signed two 30-year lease agreements with separate entities of CoreCivic, one of the nationâs largest private prison companies. The prisons will be built in Tallassee and near Atmore. The governor s office is negotiating with another company to build a prison in Bibb County.
While President Joe Biden has ordered the federal system to eliminate the use of private prisons, these facilities will only be built and owned by private companies. They ll be operated by the state Department of Corrections and staffed by state workers. Together, the two prisons being built by CoreCivic will house 7,000 inm