March 7, 2021 02:04:41 pm
The Alabama Senate passed the controversial anti-trans SB10 Bill on Tuesday, effectively prohibiting the performance of gender affirming medical treatment on minors. The Bill, which shall be called the Alabama Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, was introduced by Senator Shay Shelnutt and passed with a vote of 23-4.
Section 3 of the Bill prohibits any person from engaging in, counseling or making a referral for performance of various treatments such as through hormone therapy, puberty blockers, or surgical intervention, when performed with the intent of affirming the minor’s perception of his or her gender or sex. It also makes any performance of gender affirming medical procedure on a minor a Class C Felony as per Alabama’s Criminal Code.
Restricting medical interventions available to gender-confused children the right thing to do
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Committee approves bill to ban transgender treatments for minors
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A bill being considered in the Alabama House Judiciary Committee is titled the Alabama Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, but those for and against the bill have drastically different ideas about where the vulnerability of children affected by it lies.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Wes Allen, R-Troy, and Rep. Chip Brown, R-Mobile, would bar doctors from performing medical procedures or prescribing medicines intended to alter the appearance of a minor child s gender or delay puberty, and set a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison for violations.
The bill says the long-term effect of hormones and cross-gender medications have not been rigorously studied that their benefits are unproven and their continued administration to children constitutes dangerous and uncontrolled human medical experimentation that may result in grave and irreversible consequences to their physical and mental health.