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PHOENIX (LifeSiteNews) — Arizona Senate Republicans passed legislation Thursday that would ban transgender surgeries for minors, amid an international reckoning on the mutilating, experimental procedures.
SB 1138 passed in a 16-12 vote along party lines, the AP reported. The bill, sponsored by Republican state Sen. Warren Petersen, prohibits irreversible “sex change” surgeries, including genital mutilation procedures, hysterectomies, and mastectomies for children under 18. It does not apply in cases of a “medically verifiable disorder of sex development.”
A previous version of SB 1138 would have also prevented doctors from supplying kids with transgender hormone drugs, such as puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. But a lone Republican, state Sen. Tyler Pace, blocked the measure earlier this month, refusing to vote it out of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee.
Pace voted for the updated bill Thursday, on the grounds that it aligns with standards proposed by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), according to the AP.
The WPATH, a radical pro-LGBT organization that defends child mastectomies, has been widely criticized by leading experts.
The group’s latest draft “standards of
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