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South Carolina Republican lawmakers are introducing a bill in the House of Representatives that would ban hormone therapy, puberty-blocking drugs, and sex-reassignment surgery for people under 18.
According to reports, during the first two days of the 2024 legislative session, the Health, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs Committee voted in favor of advancing the bill. The bill is similar to medical restrictions for transgender minors already in place in at least 22 other states. Associated Press.
House Bill 4624 focuses on prohibiting medical professionals from providing the aforementioned treatments, medications, and procedures to minors, and also prohibits Medicaid from providing such services to anyone under the age of 26. It is also prohibited to cover
The bill specifies that transgender youth will still be able to seek and access mental health services.
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South Carolina lawmakers are moving ahead with a bill that would ban hormone therapy, puberty-blocking drugs, and sex-reassignment surgery for people under 18. (Rory Doyle of The Washington Post via Getty Images)
HB 4624 also states that school officials cannot withhold information related to a student’s gender identity from parents or legal guardians, and that school officials cannot withhold information from parents or legal guardians for minors. It also states that it cannot be “encouraged or forced.”
Additionally, school staff who believe that a student may be suffering from “gender dysphoria, gender dysphoria, or other psychological conditions that result in identifying as a gender other than one’s own” may Requires parents or legal guardians to be notified. .
“Parents need to know what’s going on in their children’s lives,” Rep. Thomas Beach, a member of the committee that pushed the bill, told The Associated Press.
Rep. Jordan Pace, a fellow committee member, agreed, saying that as a former educator, he would have been derelict in his duties if he had withheld such information from students’ parents.
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The bill has drawn criticism from parents of transgender children and some medical experts in the state.
Eric Childs, the father of a 15-year-old transgender son, told the AP that the decision to undergo hormone replacement therapy should be up to the child, not lawmakers. Childs also said the family wants the child to have access to all medically recommended options and that none of the medical decisions were made “on a whim.”
Eric Childs, the father of a transgender child, testified against House Bill 4624, which would ban medical care for transgender minors in South Carolina. (AP Photo/James Pollard)
Dr. Deborah Greenhouse, a pediatrician in South Carolina, said she has cared for several transgender children in her 30 years in the field, and that no minors undergo sex reassignment surgery in her state. He told The Associated Press that the treatment they receive is appropriate. With the consent of “fully involved” parents.
She also said minors don’t start taking the medication until they start puberty.
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Major medical organizations, including the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, consider these treatments to be safe for transgender youth when done properly.
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The Associated Press contributed to this report.
