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.
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