Health interim committee revisits bill to ban gender affirming care for minors
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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 evidence on the long-term effect of puberty blockers in children.