Anti-trans health care bill would force Alabama schools to out transgender students to their parents
In addition to penalizing doctors, bill would force school officials to inform parents if their child s gender-nonconformity
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Alabama State Capitol – Photo: Carol M. Highsmith.
Alabama Republican lawmakers are pushing a bill that would bar transgender youth under the age of 19 from accessing gender-affirming medical care and also contains a provision to force school authorities to out transgender children to their parents.
The bill, proposed by State Rep. Wes Allen (R-Troy), is called, in Orwellian fashion, the “Alabama Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act.” But its intent is to make it a Class C felony, meaning that any doctor or medical provider who prescribes, dispenses, or administers puberty blockers or hormones to transgender children, or performs gender confirmation surgery on a trans youth could end up serving up to 10 years in prison.
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Alabama is advancing a bill that would make it a felony to prescribe puberty blockers and other treatment for transgender young people, despite a father’s moving testimony about his trans daughter.
The Alabama Senate Health Committee Wednesday approved Senate Bill 10, the so-called Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, by a vote of 11-2, sending it to the full Senate, reports AL.com, a website for several Alabama newspapers. The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on its version of the legislation the same day.
The legislation would bar doctors from administering puberty blockers and other drug treatment, such as hormones, to minors, in addition to banning transition-related surgery for this population. But trans people generally do not undergo genital surgery until they are at least 18, in keeping with accepted medical practices, and the effects of puberty blockers an
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David Fuller, a sergeant with the Gadsden Police Department, tells the Alabama House Judiciary Committee about his experiences as a single father with a transgender daughter.
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Alabama lawmakers today heard from supporters and opponents of a bill that would make it a felony to prescribe puberty-blocking drugs or hormones as transgender therapies for minors with gender dysphoria.
They heard from doctors on both sides of the debate and from an 80-year-old who said he came to regret sex reassignment surgery and helps others with the same regrets.