Posted on 12/27/2025 1:17:52 PM PST by Cronos
Puerto Rico Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón signed legislation on July 16 barring puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and gender-affirming surgeries for individuals younger the 21 years of age.
The law’s text justifies the move by making the case that minors “are particularly vulnerable to making decisions that can have irreversible consequences.” The law further stipulates that public funds cannot be used for gender-affirming care for youth.
González-Colón, a Republican who just took office this year, signed the legislation despite previously seeking amendments to safeguard access to puberty blockers and allow individuals already receiving gender-affirming care to continue to do so, according to the Advocate. However, lawmakers were not open to those changes.
The law carries sentences of 15 years in prison and $50,00 penalties, as well as the disqualification of medical licenses and permits, according to the Associated Press.
Several groups, including the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Association of Psychology, and the Puerto Rican Association of Professional Counseling, pushed unsuccessfully for the bill to be vetoed.
Waves Ahead Puerto Rico, an organization serving LGBTQ people on the island, described the governor as “vicious” for signing the bill into law.
“To our trans community after the governor’s vicious decision to make Senate Bill 350 into law, we remind you that we are here and we are not leaving,” the organization wrote on Facebook. “We have mental health services available to those who need it. Just as we do, we will fight alongside you, as always. We have each other.”
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When do the Nuremburg trials for the doctors, counselors and teachers start?
21? What about 18?
Hmmm… good things happening in Puerto Rico.
21 is better than 18...All those hormone treatments usually occur when they’re reaching puberty....11, 12, 13... (I think)
Democrats better think twice about making Puerto Rico a state. Obviously it’s filled with far right extremists who have blasphemed against one of the sacraments of woke.
It would seem that mental health services are perfect for the mental disorder of a boy thinking he is a girl or a girl thinking she is a boy! Mentally ill people need to find services that will speak the truth to them about their sexuality. XX and XY are indisputable characteristics of humans. Find a health care facility that knows what a woman is before you seek help from them!
“Waves Ahead Puerto Rico, an organization serving LGBTQ people on the island, described the governor as “vicious” for signing the bill into law.”
I’m reminded of the you brute scene from Blazing Saddles.🙄
How about forever? Those people need psychological treatment, not “affirming care.” Anyone who claims to be a gender other than his true sex is not mentally sound.
“Gender-affirming care” = a left-wing term for the mutilation and ruination of children for profit.
They have gone hard Republican due to trump
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