Posted on 01/31/2023 8:34:13 AM PST by SeekAndFind
On Saturday, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed Senate Bill 16 into law. Under SB0016, sex change operations or “gender-affirming” surgery for minors is banned in the Beehive State. The bill also places limitations on the use of hormone treatments and puberty blockers.
Along with banning sex change surgery for minors, the key takeaways from the bill are that the state Department of Health and Human Services will “conduct a systematic review of the medical evidence regarding hormonal transgender treatments and provide recommendations to the Legislature.” The bill also directs the Department of Professional Licensing to create a certification for providing hormonal transgender treatments, ensuring that healthcare providers will now need to meet certain requirements to prescribe those medications.
It also prohibits providers from giving those treatments to “new patients who were not diagnosed with gender dysphoria before a certain date.” Notably, the bill also allows patients to sue for malpractice for certain treatments and procedures. And, it specifies that under some circumstances, a patient can disaffirm at any time and can bring a malpractice action against the provider.
This bill not only keeps minors from getting permanent, life-altering surgery even before their brains are fully formed. It also gives providers who may want to push the trans agenda good reasons to think twice before administering hormone treatments and puberty blockers.
The bill was sponsored by Sen. Mike Kennedy of Alpine. Kennedy is a physician and is probably best known for defeating Mitt Romney for the U.S. Senate nomination at the 2018 Utah GOP convention. He lost to Romney in the subsequent primary.
KUTV reports that Cox signed the bill, even though activists called for him to veto it.
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Legislation that impacts our most vulnerable youth requires careful consideration and deliberation. While not a perfect bill, we are grateful for Sen. Kennedy’s more nuanced and thoughtful approach to this terribly divisive issue. More and more experts, states and countries around the world are pausing these permanent and life-altering treatments for new patients until more and better research can help determine the long-term consequences.
We will continue to push the Legislature for additional resources to organizations that work to help this important Utah community. While we understand our words will be of little comfort to those who disagree with us, we sincerely hope that we can treat our transgender families with more love and respect as we work to better understand the science and consequences behind these procedures.”
One down, forty-nine to go.
Should ban it for everyone
That such a law is needed tells us what deep hole we are living in.
Good in principle, but isn’t it ‘divisive’?
Sincerely, Fred Luntz*
*the ‘pollster’ that 98% of Republicans believe without ever asking if he’s full of Shiite.
This is smart on Utah’s part because now California will pay for it.
How times change? We used to have the “Genital Mutilation Bill”, aimed at not slicing up little children’s naughty bits. Now we just mandate what we earlier prohibited.
It’s a blemish on every other red state that they haven’t done this yet.
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The bill signed into law Saturday certainly isn’t perfect. In fact, it doesn’t do much of anything.
The new law signed by the Utah governor, who has a history of introducing himself by stating his so-called preferred pronouns, only bars transgender procedures and hormone interventions for minors who have not been diagnosed with gender dysphoria. In other words, minors can find a sympathetic physician steeped in wrongly named “gender-affirming care” who will give them a diagnosis that enables them to pump their bodies full of wrong-sex hormones and amputate their healthy organs. Teens focused on gender-bending can even be diagnosed online.
Furthermore, under the new Utah law, once individuals turn 18, they’re free to do whatever they want. They can even schedule transgender surgeries on their 18th birthday.
Excellent!
“The new law signed by the Utah governor, who has a history of introducing himself by stating his so-called preferred pronouns,...”
He’s a mutt wannabe.
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