West Virginia enacts partial ban on child ‘sex changes’

CHARLESTON, West Virginia (LifeSiteNews) — West Virginia became one of the latest states to crack down on mutilating transgender interventions for kids on Wednesday after Republican Gov. Jim Justice signed a new bill restricting the practice.

The measure contains a carveout for teens determined to be at risk of suicide or another type of self-harm, despite evidence strongly indicating that transgender interventions do not lessen, and may actually increase, suicidal ideation.

Slated to take effect in January, the new West Virginia law will prohibit physicians from performing surgeries on minors to make them look like the opposite sex, or prescribing them cross sex-hormones or puberty blocking drugs, The Associated Press reported Thursday.

While most transgender surgeries in the U.S. are undertaken by adults, children who express gender confusion across the country are increasingly prescribed puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, which can have serious permanent effects including sterility. Moreover, some U.S. gender clinics have policies permitting certain surgical interventions – including double mastectomies – for adolescents. Rates of surgical mutilation for minors have spiked in recent years.

West Virginia joins a growing number of states that are proposing and enacting legislation to ban the experimental procedures for kids

Unlike many other states that have similarly moved to legislatively protect kids from permanent, life-altering mutilation, however, West Virginia will allow the prescription of hormone or puberty-blocking drugs if a gender-confused teenager is determined to be at risk of self-harm or suicide.

According to the AP, “a patient can be prescribed puberty blockers and hormone therapy after receiving parental consent and a diagnosis of severe gender dysphoria from two clinicians, including a mental health provider or an adolescent medicine specialist.”

The carveout comes in spite of the fact that studies do not show that “affirmation” of a person’s divergent “gender identity” resolves the extremely high rates of suicidality among trans-identifying youth and adults.

As LifeSiteNews has previously reported, a 2019 study by Richard Bränström Ph.D. and John E. Pachankis, Ph.D. that appeared to support the theory that “GAC” improves mental health was later retracted. A 2020 correction to that study found the “results demonstrated no advantage of surgery in relation to subsequent mood or anxiety disorder-related health care visits or prescriptions or hospitalizations following suicide attempts in that comparison.”

In addition, a recent JAMA study pointed out that a 2020 correction to a 2010 meta-analysis concerning transgender surgical and pharmaceutical interventions found “no mental health benefit from gender-affirming surgery after comparison with a control group of [gender-confused] people who had not yet undergone surgery.”

A 2011 Swedish cohort study also found that “persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behavior, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population.”

Despite this, however, in recent years rising rates of transgender identification have been met with celebration and adulation in mainstream culture. In many public school classrooms, young children are actively being encouraged to deny their biology and live as the opposite sex, potentially contributing to lifelong physical and psychological harm.

In addition to West Virginia, states that have moved to curtail transgender procedures for kids include Alabama, Tennessee, South Dakota, Kentucky, Mississippi, Florida, and Georgia. Meanwhile, radical left-wing state California has reacted by enacting legislation to make the Golden State a so-called sanctuary for kids seeking transgender interventions.

this is encouraging- EVERY republican state should ban it though- but at least we are seeing a few states do so tonight- thanks for posting the articles on the states that are- good to know not all states are spineless-

although it’s another ‘partial ban- i didn’;t see that in the title at first- oh well- hope many repub states do complete bans and soon!

I read the article and what it’s saying is the kid has to jump through a lot of hoops before he or she can go through the process.

That is how it was done in the old days. A person had to see all kinds of therapists before starting hormones or blockers.

Now they just go into clinics and leave with the meds in ten minutes. This bill does not allow that.

ok that sounds better- —but— given the fact that there is evidence transitioning surgeries and meds might infact raise the risk of suicide, there should i think be a total ban... to err on the side of caution so to speak-

“The measure contains a carveout...”

Sounds more like a poison pill, since virtually every shrink will make the suicidal claim, just to keep the pipeline running.

Conservatives in WV just got hoodwinked.

Enacts partial ban on child ‘sex changes.

Is that like a enacting a partial ban on murder?.

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