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Tennessee Bans Gender-Affirming Health Care for Trans Youth

Author:     BRETT WILKINS
Source:     Truthdig
Publication Date:     MAR 3, 2023
 Link: Tennessee Bans Gender-Affirming Health Care for Trans Youth
Stephan:  

Here is yet more about the sexual dysfunction and the crazed obsession the MAGAt world has over the LGBTQ community. I don't see this as primarily political, the politics are just the expression of the mental illness that defines MAGAts.

Advocates gather for a rally at the state Capitol complex in Nashville, Tenn., to oppose a series of bills that target the LGBTQ community. Credit: Jonathan Mattise / AP.

A trio of civil rights groups on Thursday said they will sue after Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee ignored pleas from human rights and health experts and signed a bill banning gender-affirming healthcare for transgender youth — a move that came on the same day the governor also approved legislation criminalizing public drag shows.

Under S.B. 1 — introduced by state Sen. Jack Johnson (R-23), the same lawmaker behind the public drag ban — transgender minors undergoing hormone therapy or taking prescribed puberty blockers as of July 1, 2023 will be cut off from such care in Tennessee after March 31, 2024. Trans youth not receiving gender-affirming care by July 1 will be barred from doing so in the state.

Tennessee joins Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Utah in outlawing or restricting gender-affirming care for trans youth — and, in the case of Alabama, […]

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