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Jilly_in_VA

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Fri Feb 24, 2023, 11:36 AM Feb 2023

Tennessee legislature passes ban on gender-affirming care for minors [View all]

Tennessee House Republicans on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a ban on gender-transition health care for minors, which will require transgender children to end their current medical treatment by March 2024.

The bill prohibits children from receiving puberty blockers, hormone therapies or surgical procedures.

People who received the treatments as minors would also be able to sue parents, guardians and physicians for authorizing the care under a statute of limitations under the legislation. Bill sponsors initially included language to categorize parents seeking such treatments for their kids as abuse or neglect, but that section was later stripped from the bill as it made its way through committees.

If it becomes law, the bill would officially take effect this summer and give existing patients until March 31, 2024, to cease treatment, a timeline House Democrats have argued could medically harm patients.

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/politics/2023/02/23/tennessee-legislature-passes-ban-on-gender-affirming-care-for-minors/69935900007/

These people are idiots and cruel besides.

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