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North Carolina Still Allows Professionals to Practice Conversion Therapy on Minors
For 14 months, Seven Atsilaâs life was a nightmare.Â
The then 15-year-old Waxhaw resident, who was assigned female at birth but now identifies as two-spirit, an indigenous term used to describe someone who has both masculine and feminine traits, had been struggling with his gender identity along with other behavioral issues.Â
His parents thought it would be helpful to enroll Atsila at Solstice East, a treatment center outside of Asheville for adolescent girls struggling with everything from ADHD and academic issues to substance abuse and addiction, in 2015.Â
This is where Atsila, now 22, says he was forced to undergo conversion therapy while he continued to struggle with his gender identity.
Two new bills filed this week target transgender North Carolinians, part of a wave of anti-trans legislation filed by Republicans across the country.
Senate Bill 514 would prohibit transgender people under the age of 21 from receiving medical care related to gender transition, even if judged medically necessary by their parents and doctors.
The bill closely mirrors a similar legislation filed across the country, including in Arkansas this week where a similar bill was passed into law this week. To enact the law, that state’s legislature overturned the veto of Republican governor Asa Hutchinson, who condemned it as “government overreach.”
But in several respects SB 514 goes beyond the law passed in Arkansas.
North Carolina Bill Would Force School Staffers to Out Trans Kids
The proposed legislation would ban gender-affirming health care for people up to age 21 and require school staffers to out trans kids to their families. April 07 2021 1:58 PM EDT
Three Republican legislators in North Carolina have introduced perhaps the most repressive anti-transgender health care bill in the nation.
Senate Bill 514, titled the Youth Health Protection Act, would ban gender-affirming treatment, including surgery, hormones, and puberty blockers, for anyone up to age 21, whereas other bills of this nature would ban it up to age 18. It was introduced Monday by Sens. Ralph Hise, Warren Daniel, and Norman Sanderson.
As an alternative to medical intervention, the bill stipulates that medical professionals and health care providers cannot perform any gender-affirming procedures on a minor. Puberty-blocking medication, hormone therapy and more invasive surgeries would all be prohibited.
Additionally, government and school employees, among other professionals, are mandated to report to a child’s parents in writing if their child is exhibiting any symptoms of gender dysphoria or gender nonconformity.
Parents would also be allowed to withhold mental health services and other treatments and activities that “are designed and intended to form their child s conceptions of sex and gender or to treat gender dysphoria or gender nonconformity.”