Posted on 02/11/2020 7:03:01 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Subtitle: The bill sought to block physicians from providing puberty blockers and gender confirmation surgery to transgender children under 16.
The South Dakota Legislature on Monday effectively killed House Bill 1057, which sought to block physicians in the state from providing puberty blockers and gender confirmation surgery to transgender children under 16.
By a 5-2 vote, the state Senate Health and Human Services Committee sent the bill “to the 41st day,” which means a bill has been effectively killed because the state’s part-time Legislature has only 40 working days.
"It's gone," Quinncy Parke, 17, who is transgender and testified against the bill, told The Associated Press. “I don’t have to worry about it until next year.”
The ACLU of South Dakota, which had led the fight against the bill, cheered its apparent demise.
“Though supporters claimed House Bill 1057 was aimed at protecting vulnerable youth, it was clearly fueled by a fear and misunderstanding of transgender South Dakotans,” said Libby Skarin, policy director for the group. “It’s time we stop these attacks and the very real harm they cause to transgender youth across our state. Let this be a signal to the South Dakota Legislature that discrimination against a marginalized group is a distraction from the needs of the state and hurts us all.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Sanity is dead.
South Dakota got it wrong; no one should be allowed to mutilate their children.
“Gender confirmation surgery”?
PENIS REMOVAL!
Call it what it is.
But they’ll happily ban gay conversion therapy because that’s harmful to children.
“”””it was clearly fueled by a fear and misunderstanding of transgender South Dakotans,”””””””””
Actually it was fueled by sane people who understand basic biology.
If you want to have an Addadicktome you should wait until you are an adult.
Creepy.
“Let this be a signal to the South Dakota Legislature that discrimination against a marginalized group is a distraction from the NEEDS OF THE STATE and hurts us all.”
The “State” has spoken.
Nice balanced article. Clearly presents both sides of the argument with equal weight to each.
Not.
No one is transgender. It must somehow be easier to think you are a different sex to explain same sex attraction. The fact that courts, who have great responsibility, fall for this nonsense is disturbing.
You cannot normalize the abnormal.
There’s a generation of seriously abused and damaged children who will become adults and demand a reckoning from their Munchausen-by-proxy moms.
Gee Quinncy so are your man parts
I could wish that they would just get to putting the Cool Aid out on the table, already.
What’s with dragging all of the rest of America through this sh** before they decide to end it all.
I will say that I was amazed that Jones offed himself in the end, too. Usually the “leaders” inciting insanity are nowhere to be found once the rat poison is out.
No. You should be tossed into a mental asylum because you are a nut.
Anybody with this sort of body integrity disorder is mentally ill.
PATHEYIC!!!!
PATHETIC!!!!
and by killing the bill, physicians will be happily providing
puberty blockers and gender confirmation surgery to transgender children under 16.
Of course! Children have the right to choose their own genders!
But voluntary conversion therapy is evil because your sexuality is chosen at birth!
Madness
I was wondering what that word was.
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