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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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 children’s 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 state’s 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.
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