Wyoming becomes latest state to ban gender-affirming care for minors

[AnrothElf]

Source: The Hill

Wyoming became the latest state to prohibit gender-affirming care for minors, joining 23 other states in the country that passed laws restricting or banning the treatment.

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The legislation would penalize pharmacists, doctors and other healthcare professionals for providing gender-affirming care to minors by revoking their licenses or outright banning them from practicing in the state.

Gordon said he supports the bill’s protections for minors, but added the new legislation means the government encroaching on the private matters of families.

“I signed SF99 because I support the protections this bill includes for children, however it is my belief that the government is straying into the personal affairs of families” Gordon said in a Friday statement. “Our legislature needs to sort out its intentions with regard to parental rights. While it inserts governmental prerogative in some places, it affirms parental rights in others.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/4551409-wyoming-latest-state-ban-gender-affirming-care-minors/

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We have a lot of small-L libertarian Republicans here, but they're totally cowed by the Freedom Caucus ... and Trump. We Democrats are a tiny minority in the state legislature, but a very hard-working minority, who very often have to work across the aisle with those libertarians to try to stop the worst of the worst legislation, or pass something less-bad, or maybe even good-ish. It only sometimes works.

Unfortunately, we're also one of those states that does not allow ballot initiatives for constitutional amendments.

Our state motto is, ironically, "Equal Rights".

[SarahD]

1. Unintended message.

They are sending the intended message, of course, by showing everyone how much they hate trans people. But the real message is how they allow themselves to become intensely obsessed with something that affects a very, very small number of citizens, and is not a problem in the first place. It's very odd that they can ignore real social problems and devote so much energy to matters of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and anything else related to what must be some really colorful masturbation fantasies.

[SARose]

2. 200 kids

Williams Institute Report

Scroll to pages 10-11.

Yep 200 kids 13-17 in Wyoming. Let that sink in. How many millions of dollars were spent on this bill? How much per child was spent on this bill?

Wyoming ranks 11th in school funding.

Texas has about 1.4 percent or 29,000 or so kids 13-17 who identify as trans. How much money per child was spent on this bill?

Texas ranks 42nd in school funding.

This is Crazy Town.

[Ziggysmom]

3. Yet Wyoming has no legal minimum age for child marriage!

Wyoming law will allow for marriage at any age. An existing statute has a suggested age of 16 but provisions of it allow for marriage to occur below that age with parental or guardian consent and a judge's approval.