NC fast tracks legislation to ban gender-affirming surgery for minors
Without questions or debate, members of the House Committee on Health advanced legislation Tuesday that would block gender-affirming surgical care for minors in North Carolina.
“If you are under the age of 18 in North Carolina, you cannot get a tattoo at all, even with your parents consent. You can’t get a body piercing other than for earrings without parent consent. But we allow these surgical procedures that in many instances maybe are irreversible and life-changing for children who have not arrived at 18 years of age,” said Rep. Hugh Blackwell in introducing his bill.
House Bill 808, the Surgical Gender Trans./Minors Act, would make it unlawful for any physician or other health care provider to provide surgical gender transition procedures to any individual under 18 years of age. As introduced, the bill would have also banned prescribing, administering, or supplying testosterone, estrogen, or progesterone to a minor in an amount greater than would normally be produced in a healthy child of that age and sex, but that language was removed in the “committee substitute” adopted Tuesday.
No state funds could be used for gender transition procedures or to support government-offered insurance policy that offer surgical gender transition procedures to individuals under 18 under the bill.
https://ncnewsline.com/2023/05/02/nc-fast-tracks-legislation-to-ban-gender-affirming-care-for-minors/