South Dakota House passes bill restricting medical treatments for transgender youth

The Hill ^ | 01 29 2020 | J. Edward Moreno

[yesthatjallen]

The South Dakota House on Wednesday evening passed legislation that would ban physicians in the state from treating transgender children with hormones and sex reassignment surgery.

The Republican-controlled chamber passed H.B. 1057 in a 46-23 vote. Under the proposed law, doctors would receive misdemeanor charges if they are caught giving transgender children under 16 years old hormone treatment. The bill also bans them from performing “castration” or vasectomies on children in that age range.

State Rep. Fred Deutsch (R), the primary sponsor of the bill, tweeted that after “some of the heaviest lobbying,” the legislature finally passed a bill to “protect gender confused children.”

On Tuesday, Duetsh (*foolishly* - my assessment) backtracked on a statement he made comparing medical treatment for transgender children to Nazi “experiments.”

SNIP

[South Dakota]

Thanks Fred.
C’mon Noem, get it down

[the_daug]

....transgender children.....
No such thing.

[nuconvert]

“The bill also bans them from performing “castration” or vasectomies on children in that age range. “

16 is too young. You can’t make a life changing decision like that at 16. I think 21 is too young.

[diverteach]

This article posted the other day is one reason why starting hormone therapy young is a bad idea.

Well, bad idea all the way around. But if someone chooses to mutilate themselves after their older....whatever. But by starting hormone therapy young and never being allowed to develop/mature as nature intended, there’s not enough “material” to work with later to do the mutilation without complications.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3811391/posts

[ImpBill]

WOOT:

Proud S.Dakotan

[david1292]

It’s going to end up in the courts and likely overturned since 90% of the medical and psychological community is against these laws.

[Veggie Todd]

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Any doctor who gives medications for imaginary illnesses, preforms medically unnecessary surgery or removes healthy body parts is guilty of malpractice no matter the age or mental state of the patient.

[Rannug]

I thoroughly support this message.