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Health interim committee revisits bill to ban gender affirming care for minors Share this:     HB 92 would prohibit a physician or surgeon from performing a “transgender procedure” on individuals under age 18. The bill includes the prohibition of puberty blockers, which are meant to pause puberty in adolescents to allow that child to continue to work through their gender identity before taking further action.  According to Dr. Nicole Mihalopoulos, chief of the Division of Adolescent Medicine at the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine, there is no evide...

on March 1, 2021 at 8:37 am Last week, the Utah House of Representatives reviewed HB0092, a bill sponsored by Representative Rex Shipp that would ban Utah doctors from providing gender-affirming healthcare to transgender youth. This bill is currently co-sponsored by Cache Valley Representative Mike Petersen and, if enacted, would cause an incredible amount of harm to Utah’s trans youth, and to its larger transgender community. In a report released in 2019, the CDC revealed that about 1.8 percent of high school students identify as transgender (the numbers in the general population could be...