Arkansas became on Tuesday the first state in the country to ban medical treatments for transgender minors.
The state s mostly Republican legislature voted to override Gov. Asa Hutchinson s veto of House Bill 1570, which limits access to certain treatments for youth younger than 18 years old. The new law prohibits doctors from providing gender confirming hormone therapy, puberty blockers or gender-confirmation surgeries or from referring patients to other health care providers.
On Monday, Republican lawmakers in North Carolina introduced Senate Bill 514, which would prevent medical professionals from providing practices and health care services to transgender youth younger than 21 years old. It also defines the sex of a person as genetically encoded into a person at the moment of conception, and it cannot be changed.
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