Tue Feb 14, 2023 – 5:10 pm EST
PIERRE (LifeSiteNews) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Monday signed a bill that bans “gender transition” drugs and surgeries for minors.
“South Dakota’s kids are our future,” Noem said in a statement. “I am signing HB 1080 to protect our kids from harmful, permanent medical procedures.”
HB 1080, nicknamed the “Help Not Harm” bill, bars healthcare professionals from prescribing puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones to minors and performing “any sterilizing surgery” “to alter the appearance of, or to validate a minor’s perception of, the minor’s sex, if that appearance or perception is inconsistent with the minor’s sex.”
The new law also prohibits any surgery that “artificially constructs tissue having the appearance of genitalia differing from the minor’s sex” as well as other procedures to “remove any healthy or non-diseased body part or tissue.”
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Medical professionals found to have violated the law must have their licenses revoked and can face civil action from individuals mutilated by “gender transitions” as children.
HB 1080 passed the South Dakota Senate last week in an overwhelming 30-4 vote after passing
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