Lawmakers in Idaho Tuesday advanced a bill that would criminalize providing gender-affirming medical care to minors — the latest in a series of moves by conservative-leaning states to further restrict the rights of transgender individuals
, with a preliminary hearing on the matter set for Friday.
Earlier this month, lawmakers in Alabama advanced a pair of identical bills that would charge doctors who provide hormone treatment or prescribe puberty-blockers to children with a felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison. “We’re not supposed to be here substituting our judgment for the person that’s closest to that child,” Rep. Chris England, a Democrat from Tuscaloosa,.
Last July, a federal judge temporarily blocked an Arkansas law from taking effect that also sought to prevent doctors from providing gender-affirming medical care to minors. Lawmakers in the state— the first of its kind in the U.S. — despite a veto from Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson.
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