Derry reps lead charge against transgender surgeries
Long before the conversation, Michelle Cilley Foisy had known her child Jack was not happy.
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Long before the conversation, Michelle Cilley Foisy had known her child Jack was not happy.
New Hampshire lawmakers are working on legislation that would prohibit physicians in the state from providing gender-affirming surgery to people under 18. The bill, House Bill 619, would also bar New Hampshire providers from referring patients to facilities outside of the state that could provide those surgeries.
Genital surgeries are only rarely performed on minors, but the bill still gets in the way of private medical decisions, opponents say.
Just like the original bill, a proposed amendment represents a "dangerous" approach to regulating health care, opponents say.
County prosecutors are working to convince a judge in Manchester that a man accused of sexual assault should stay behind bars, labeled as a dangerous predator.