Wyoming becomes latest state to ban gender-affirming care for minors [View all]

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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".