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North Carolina lawmakers are pushing two bills attacking transgender youth’s ability to access gender-affirming health care treatments, including one measure that would force teachers to “out” trans or gender-nonconforming students to their parents potentially putting them at risk of abuse.
The two bills are part of a larger slate of anti-transgender and anti-LGBTQ measures introduced by Republicans this year, and mirror nearly-identical efforts in 29 other states to restrict transgender individuals’ ability to live their lives without government interference.
Supporters of the bills claim they are trying to “protect” transgender and gender-nonconforming children from being subjected to “experimental” transition-related procedures that they may later regret undergoing.
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NC Lawmakers Move to Protect Youth from Transgender Drugs, Surgeries
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Three North Carolina Republican lawmakers recently introduced legislation that would bar doctors from prescribing transgender drugs to or performing gender transition surgeries on individuals younger than 21.
Senate Bill 514, called the Youth Health Protection Act, is defined as an “act to protect minors from administration of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones and other related actions, procedures, and treatments.”
The measure, introduced by GOP Sens. Ralph Hise, Warren Daniel, and Norman Sanderson, would also protect the rights of parents to “withhold consent for any treatment, activity, or mental health care services that are designed and intended to form their child’s conceptions of sex and gender or to treat gender dysphoria or gender nonconformity.”
Wed, 07 Apr 2021 16:55 UTC The North Carolina State Senate introduced a new bill this week that would place restrictions on youth transgender access to health care as states nationwide reckon with similar legislation. Sens. Ralph Hise (R), Warren Daniel (R), and Norman Sanderson (R) sponsored the bill.
Senate Bill 514, or the Youth Health Protection Act, focuses on prohibiting minors from accessing various gender-affirming treatments, ranging from hormone blockers to sex reassignment surgeries.
The proposed legislation s main argument is that gender dysphoria, or the mismatch between a person s biological sex and their gender identity, may not be permanent or fixed, and pursuing medical treatments based on gender dysphoria diagnoses could result in long-term health complications.
Politics and Ideology, Not Facts, Drive Claim That Transgender Women Have an Unfair Athletic Advantage
The bills discriminate against athletes and ignore scientific evidence. (Photo Credit: nito via Adobe Stock)
When Republican lawmakers filed a bill last month to bar transgender women from competing against other women at schools and universities in North Carolina, LGBTQ advocates called it part of a new national wave of anti-transgender bills. Scientists and doctors who study and treat transgender athletes are calling it anti-science. North Carolina’s House Bill 358 (HB 358), like bills in more than 30 states pushed by the conservative Christian group Alliance Defending Freedom, is predicated on the premise that transgender women are simply men pretending to be women.
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