South Dakota lawmakers are expected to vote Wednesday on legislation that would limit doctors from prescribing puberty-blocking or hormone drugs and performing sex reassignment surgeries on persons under the age of 16.
Supporters of the bill believe that transgender adolescents under 16 are too young to begin a medical transition to the opposite sex. Opponents, including doctors, Democrats, libertarians, and transgender people, say it will harm the teenagers who seek treatment and incriminate doctors, who could face up to one year in jail for violating the law. Lawmakers who voted against the bill said they heard from young transgender people and their families who said the treatment had proven integral to the child's well-being.
The bill was introduced last year by Rep. Fred Deutsch, who says he was inspired by stories on the internet of people who regretted their decision. "I Googled ‘transgender medicine South Dakota,’ and I found a handful of doctors, not many, that do the procedures," Deutsch said, "and that’s the genesis of the concept of this bill."
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They should change it to age 21.
ReplyDeleteExactly cant even by cig until 21 but butcher your body is A OK
ReplyDelete12:49 why, because that's the arbitrary age for drinking established so states would receive highway funding?
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ReplyDeleteBecause that is the age established for consent to consume tobacco and alcohol
It has nothing to do with highway taxes
Child soldiers should no longer be used by the evil Empire either
1:53 it does though. Maybe you should open a history book or try google. Tobacco was recently changed to 21 to match drinking age.
ReplyDeletePisses me off. Im sixty but your old enough to die for your coutry at 18 but cant drink or smoke, but you sure can alter what GOD gave you at birth..more utter insanity from the luciferian left
ReplyDeleteI M O the doctors who perform these procedures are as sick as those who desire it.
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