Thu Apr 6, 2023 – 2:47 pm EDTThu Apr 6, 2023 – 3:02 pm EDT
INDIANAPOLIS (LifeSiteNews) — The governor of Indiana has signed legislation to protect gender-confused children from partaking in irreversible drugs and surgeries.
On Wednesday, Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb signed into law a bill that prohibits medical professionals from distributing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones as well as committing “gender transition” surgeries for citizens under the age of 18.
Holcomb, who has previously vetoed pro-family legislation, reluctantly signed the bill after criticizing it.
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“A physician or other practitioner may not aid or abet another physician practitioner in the provision of gender transition procedures of a minor,” SB 480 states. “This section does not prohibit a physician or other practitioner from providing … services to individuals born with a medically verifiable disorder of sex development.”
Forbidden drugs include estrogen, testosterone, and progesterone which are “given to an individual in an amount greater than would normally be produced endogenously in a healthy individual of that individual’s age and sex.”
“Gender transition procedures” include “physician’s services, practitioner’s services, inpatient and outpatient
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