House committee approves ban on gender transition medical treatment for minors
House committee approves ban on gender transition medical treatment for minors
FIGHTING TRANSITION SERVICES: From left, Lundstrum, Backholm, Wagner and Burleigh.
Rep. Robin Lundstrum’s HB 1570 to ban gender transition services surgery or hormone treatment to people younger than 18 won easy approval in a House committee this evening after a lengthy and emotional debate. About four members opposed the bill.
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Testimony included Lundstrum’s offhand reference to the World Health Organization’s condemnation of genital mutilation, which sex assignment surgery is not. That refers to a practice in some cultures of cutting off women’s external genitalia.
SALT LAKE CITY A proposed prohibition on doctors from performing gender reassignment treatments on minors stalled in a House committee on Friday after an emotional debate between doctors and LGBTQ advocates.
Under HB92, physicians and surgeons would be restricted from performing gender reassignment treatment on minors, including internal surgeries and facial feminization or masculinization surgeries. The bill would also prevent doctors from prescribing hormone therapy for minors who are considering transitioning.
Bill sponsor Rep. Rex Shipp, R-Cedar City, introduced a new version of the bill Friday that would prohibit such treatments for children under age 16 instead of 18. This is about protecting children. I have seven children of my own. I love them dearly. I have eight grandchildren as well, Shipp told the House Health and Human Services Committee.
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