Lawmakers in a Utah House committee rejected a bill that would have penalized doctors for giving gender-affirming health care to minors, then moments later approved legislation that included similar restrictions, minus the punishment.
Lawmakers in a Utah House committee soundly rejected a bill that would have penalized doctors for giving gender-affirming health care to minors, then moments later approved legislation that included similar restrictions on transgender health care — minus the punishment — on party line during a lengthy committee meeting Tuesday.
Ward, who is a family practice physician, said in opposing Shipp’s bill that he preferred an option that included a way for the state to gather more information on the impacts of hormone treatments on transgender youth, and that he was concerned the bill would open the state up to lawsuits.Echoing Ward’s concerns, Loubet told the committee, “If you have somebody who’s transgender and you shut this window, this path, you’ve left nothing else open.
“In the long term, would have reinforced the mistaken belief that caused my gender dysphoria in the first place — that it was too dangerous to be a girl,” Brewer said. “If I had medically transitioned, I wouldn’t have gotten the help that I needed to work through my fear, my self-hatred and my shame.”
“I deserve a body to feel proud of,” she said, ending her remarks and earning applause from the crowd.
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