The Louisiana State House voted on Tuesday to override Democratic LouisianaGov John Bel Edward's veto of a bill banning gender transition medicine for minors.
The chamber voted 75 to 23, with seven abstentions, in a special session to override the veto of House Bill 648, which prevents healthcare providers from facilitating medical gender transitions for minors, including the prescription of cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers.The legislation also prohibits the"performance of any sterilizing surgeries" on minors or"any surgery that artificially constructs tissue having the appearance of genitalia differing from the minor's sex.
"Data and facts do not support the need for this bill," Edwards wrote at the time."There are so many fundamental problems with this bill that I must believe that many of its most staunch supporters have never read it word by word, line by line like I have." Republican state Rep. Gabe Firment, the author of the bill, said on July 14 in advance of the veto session that the legislature must"simply protect kids from irreversible experimental medical interventions."— State Representative Gabe Firment July 14, 2023 "Every single Southern state has already passed similar legislation to protect their children," Firment said."We cannot allow Louisiana to become a sanctuary state for the sterilization of innocent children.
This is why Louisiana is so important to ending child sterilization for purposes of cross sex mimicry:
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