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After the Republican-controlled General Assembly overrode the Democratic governor’s veto of that act and others addressing gender in sports and classroom instruction, transgender adolescents in North Carolina on Wednesday lost access to the gender-affirming therapies many credit as life-saving.
Over Governor Roy Cooper’s objections, GOP supermajorities in the House and Senate passed a law banning doctors from performing surgical gender transitions, hormone therapy, or puberty-blocking medications on anybody under the age of 18, with some medical exceptions.
The regulation goes into effect right now, although kids who started receiving therapy before August 1 may do so again if their doctors judge it to be medically essential and their parents agree.
The passage of legislation restricting or outlawing gender-affirming medical care for trans adolescents in North Carolina makes the state the 22nd to do so. However, several of those restrictions are being challenged in court, and local supporters for LGBTQ+ rights have vowed to do the same.
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Debate on Banning Gender-Affirming Treatment
After the Republican-controlled General Assembly overrode the Democratic governor’s veto of that act and others addressing gender in sports and classroom instruction, transgender adolescents in North Carolina on Wednesday lost access to the gender-affirming therapies many credit as life-saving.
The gender-affirming health care bill, according to Democratic Sen. Lisa Grafstein, who is the first openly gay state senator from North Carolina, may be the most heartbreaking bill in a truly heartbreaking session.
After Republican Lt. Governor Mark Robinson, who was presiding, interrupted Grafstein to allow another politician to speak, some LGBTQ+ rights supporters in the Senate gallery started shouting. Capitol police then led a number of people out of the chamber.
Sen. Joyce Krawiec, a Republican from Forsyth County and the primary proponent of the legislation banning gender-affirming medical treatment, claimed that the state had a duty to safeguard children from possibly irreversible treatments before they were old enough to make their own educated medical decisions.
According to that rule, public school teachers must typically notify parents before referring to a kid by a different name or pronoun. Additionally, the rule forbids the discussion of gender identity and sexual orientation in K–4 classes, which some have compared to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” statute.
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