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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A Utah lawmaker has filed a bill that would exclude transgender girls from competing in female sports in colleges and public and private grade schools a move that LGBTQ advocates say would alienate young people who are already at higher risk of suicide.
Titled “preserving sports for female students,” the legislation sponsored by Rep. Kera Birkeland would require schools or collegiate institutions to categorize all athletic activities as “male,” “female,” or “coed.” Students of the “male sex” would not be permitted to join in sporting events designated as being for women, according to the bill, which defines sex as the “biological, physical condition of being male or female, determined by an individual’s genetics and anatomy at birth.”