Every other state is literally saying “well, we do need SOME child mutilation. After all, we have to be reasonable.”
Good on Dakota.
CNN:
South Dakota is set to prohibit nearly all forms of gender-affirming treatment for transgender minors after a proposed law gained sweeping approval through its state legislature.
The state Senate passed a House bill banning surgical and non-surgical gender-affirming treatment for minors on Thursday in a 30-4 vote, advancing the legislation to Gov. Kristi Noem’s desk. Noem will sign the bill into law, a spokesperson for the Republican governor told CNN on Friday.
The legislation bars puberty blocking medication in patients under the age of 18, as well as sex hormones and surgery related to gender transition.
Not mutilating children is “controversial”
Opponents of the measure say it would be harmful to transgender children and is an intrusion by the government into medical decisions.
“Surgeries-gone-wrong are simply not happening in South Dakota,” said Democratic state Sen. Liz Larson while announcing her opposition. “I don’t know about you, but I don’t need the state Legislature when I’m in the doctor’s office.”
Susan Williams, who heads of the transgender advocacy group Transformation Project Advocacy Network in South Dakota, decried the measure.
Susan Williams
“Our community is sad. Our community is angry. Worst of all, our community is scared,” Williams wrote in a post on her group’s Facebook page. “I feel betrayed by the elected officials who are supposed to protect my family that just voted against us.”
By the way: Ron DeSantis, the supposed right-wing extremist, didn’t do this.
He said you’re not allowed to indoctrinate children into the tranny agenda before 4th grade, when they’re 9.
Ron DeSantis is a fraud. There are 15 governors more right-wing than him.
Now do something about the schools