A South Dakota bill that would have prohibited doctors, nurses, and medical assistants from providing gender-affirming care to transgender minors has been defeated. In a 5-2 decision, the Senate Health and Human Services Committee deferred action on the bill, effectively killing the radical bill. Now, the decision to use hormone treatments, puberty blockers and the like will remain at the discretion of trans minors and their families, not the state.
voted not to move ahead with the bill.LGBTQ advocates are celebrating, but likely know that their next battle isn’t far off. NBC Newsthat in January alone, South Dakota lawmakers introduced two other anti-trans bills: one that
would have forced school counselors to out trans children to their parents and another that prevented “the state from intervening if a parent refuses to consent to treatment for their trans kid.”
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