NTD: Montana’s Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte on Friday signed a bill restricting transgender procedures for minors.
The bill, the “Youth Health Protection Act” (pdf), prohibits certain medical and surgical procedures—including puberty blockers—for children struggling with gender dysphoria.
According to the text of the legislation, the measure seeks to enhance the protection of minors from “any form of pressure to receive harmful, experimental puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones and to undergo irreversible, life-altering surgical procedures” prior to entering adulthood.
In a statement, Gianforte’s press secretary Kaitlin Price said that the governor is “committed to protecting Montana children from invasive medical treatments that can permanently alter their healthy, developing bodies.”
Gianforte signaled his willingness to sign the bill on April 17 when he offered several amendments that make it clear that public funds could not be used to pay for hormone blockers, cross-sex hormones, or surgeries. more here
Can someone please tell me why this isn’t Child Abuse under existing law???
Wow. The next thing you know, Montana will ban cigarettes and alcohol for minors – all in the name of “safety.” What if my pre-pubescent “gender affirming care” involves a carton of Marlboros and a handle of Jack Daniels?
HOOOOOOOOO-AAHHHHHHHH!!!!
“Zooey” and friends should get together and release an album of uncontrolled weeping, sobbing and screeching! I’m certain it would sell somewhere beyond Missoula, Bozeman and Helena.
The fact this this is even controversial is mind boggling.
Does it allow us to legally feed groomers into the wood chipper?