The bill is one of 238 introduced this year across the country that specifically targets transgender people.
for transgender minors in the state. The move comes as lawmakers in 18 other states consider similar bills that limit or outright ban gender-affirming health care for trans youth., prohibits health care providers from “providing a hormonal transgender treatment to new patients who were not diagnosed with gender dysphoria before a certain date” and also “prohibits performing sex characteristic surgical procedures on a minor for the purpose of effectuating a sex change.
This means anyone under the age of 18 seeking to transition cannot receive gender-affirming surgery, and bans any minor who wasn’t already diagnosed with gender dysphoria from receiving gender-affirming care. The law went into effect immediately with Cox’s signature. “This is a devastating and dangerous violation of the rights and privacy of transgender Utahns, their families, and their medical providers,” Chase Strangio, Deputy Director for Transgender Justice at the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project,“Claims of protecting our most vulnerable with these laws ring hollow when lawmakers have trans children’s greatest protectors — their parents, providers, and the youth themselves — pleading in front of them not to cut them off from their care.
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