Alabama governor signs two anti-transgender bills into law [View all]
Source: The Guardian and agencies
Alabama governor signs two anti-transgender bills into law
One criminalizes medical care for trans youth and another requires students to use bathrooms that match birth certificates
Oliver Laughland and agencies
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Fri 8 Apr 2022 21.45 BST
First published on Fri 8 Apr 2022 15.26 BST
The governor of Alabama on Friday signed into law two controversial bills: one that criminalizes healthcare providers who offer gender-affirming care to transgender youth and another that requires students to use bathrooms that match the gender on their birth certificates.
Kay Ivey, a Republican, said she “believed very strongly that if the Good Lord made you a boy, you are a boy, and if he made you a girl, you are a girl”.
The anti-gender-affirming care bill, described as the first legislation of its kind in the US, makes it a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison to provide medical care including hormone treatment and puberty blockers to minors.
It also includes bans on gender-affirming surgeries for transgender youth, which are extremely rare, and compels school personnel to disclose to a parent or guardian that a “minor’s perception of his or her gender or sex is inconsistent with the minor’s sex”.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/08/alabama-transgender-youth-medical-care-bill
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