Wed Mar 1, 2023 – 3:38 pm EST
JACKSON (LifeSiteNews) — Republican Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill on Tuesday that bans doctors from providing “transition” procedures and drugs to minors, including dispensing puberty blockers and performing “sex change” surgeries.
According to the provisions of the Regulate Experimental Adolescent Procedures Act (REAL Act), doctors who provide someone under the age of 18 with “transition” procedures will be liable to lose their medical license. The law also allows those who received “transitions” to sue the doctors who provided them with drugs or surgeries, with a 30-year statute of limitations.
There are those attempting to push a sick and twisted ideology that seeks to convince our kids they’re in the wrong body and the solution is to drug, sterilize, and castrate themselves.
To these radical activists I only have one thing to say: Not in Mississippi! pic.twitter.com/XdsGjbb7SC
— Governor Tate Reeves (@tatereeves) February 28, 2023
The law further prohibits the use of government funds and tax deductions to fund any “transition” as well as bars Medicaid from covering “transitions” for those under 18. The law took effect immediately.
Speaking at a press conference, Reeves, who is
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