South Dakota House passes bill restricting medical treatments for transgender youth
Source: the hill
By J. Edward Moreno - 01/29/20 09:53 PM EST
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 backtracked on a statement he made comparing medical treatment for transgender children to Nazi experiments.
The bill will be sent to the state Senate as soon as next week. In a statement, the ACLU of South Dakota said that it is ready to challenge the law in court if it passes.
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Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/480623-south-dakota-house-passes-bill-restricting-medical-treatments-for
Repubs tell women they can not have family planning and now they tell young children and their parents, they have no control over medical decisions for their kids. Something has to give. Enough.
Here is the SD ACLU STATEMENT;
Janna Farley, jfarley@aclu.org
January 29, 2020
Today, House lawmakers voted to advance legislation that would criminalize doctors for providing medically necessary care to transgender youth and take away parents rights to make decisions about their childrens care.
The ACLU of South Dakota opposes HB 1057. It is unconstitutional to single out one group of people and categorically ban all care, no matter how medically necessary, and if the bill becomes law, the ACLU will challenge it in court.
By blocking medical care supported by every major medical association, the legislature is compromising the health of trans youth in dangerous and potentially life-threatening ways, said Libby Skarin, policy director for the ACLU of South Dakota. Discrimination against a marginalized group is a distraction from the states real needs and hurts us all. Transgender young people live in our state and need to feel like the government represents them, too. The more we legislate solutions in search of problems, the more our communities suffer.
HB 1057 continues the streak of bills that would codify discrimination against transgender youth that the South Dakota Legislature has attempted to pass over the last five years.
In addition to the ACLU of South Dakota, companies and organizations like the Sanford Health, the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the South Dakota State Medical Association, the South Dakota Retailers Association, the Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce, LEAD South Dakota and the Human Rights Campaign also oppose HB 1057.
underpants
(182,949 posts)I heard a report on it yesterday on Democracy Now (what a great program). These treatments are approved by the AMA and the American Psychological Association. Im guessing South Dakota is the test case for these being passed in other state houses.
in2herbs
(2,947 posts)csziggy
(34,139 posts)in2herbs
(2,947 posts)greymattermom
(5,754 posts)can South Dakota do anything about it?
Ligyron
(7,639 posts)as well as the rights of all transgendered and LBGQ people of any and every age.
However, I wonder how young is too young for children to decide they're the wrong sex and have this procedure done, even with the support of their parents.
Omen78
(81 posts)Children go through stages of development and maturity. There are reasons from a legal and social aspect we treat children different than adults. For example, the age of accountability, in most cases, prevents a life sentence or death as a consequence for decisions made lacking maturity. A child who goes through such a surgery for lack of a better metaphor is imposed to a life sentence. I personally believe that such a decision needs to be made as an adult.
I believe its reasonable for a child struggling with gender dysphoria to receive hormone therapy as the decision is reversible.
JMHO
We dont have children make other huge life decisions for good reasons; I have difficulty understanding why we support life changing surgery at young ages. We have gender fluidity already in our culture without having to resort to surgery. My opinion.
Nitram
(22,913 posts)unforeseen consequences. I am all for encouraging young people who self-identify with a different gender than their biological one, and I think there must be many ways we could support such people in their choice until they reached maturity and could make an informed decision about medical treatment themselves. There are many powerful hormonal and other changes going on during puberty, and we don't really understand how hormonal treatments could interfere with development other than sexual development. The brain interacts with hormones in many ways we don't fully understand.
EllieBC
(3,042 posts)Its very hard though to get them addressed without being told you are a transphobic though.
We dont allow children to decide many things regarding their health and surgery seems like a big one to let them have.
Ligyron
(7,639 posts)Glad to know others share my concern and hormone replacement, on the surface at least, does sounds like a good alternative until they're old enough to rationally opt for surgery. There again, not sure what age that should be either ...
Pisces
(5,602 posts)Very concerning with immature minds. Permanent decisions should be made as an adult. Reversible hormone therapy is much more reasonable.
killaphill
(212 posts)And between them, their parents, and their doctors, they should be able to make their own decisions
kimbutgar
(21,224 posts)The number of kids in South Dakota, population under a million is probably negligible. Doesnt the legislature have anything better to do?
One of the dumb ass states of America.
ck4829
(35,094 posts)hunter
(38,337 posts)He knows these kids are not "gender confused."
He's just pandering to his asshole constituents who worship a cruel tiny god.