Fri Oct 7, 2022 – 3:59 pm EDT
OKLAHOMA CITY (LifeSiteNews) – Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt signed into law legislation Tuesday to prohibit the allocation of government funds to gender “transition” surgeries for minors at Oklahoma University Health (OUH), one of the state’s top health centers.
Under the bill, “gender reassignment medical treatment” includes “any health care to facilitate the transitioning of a patient’s assigned gender identity on the patient’s birth certificate, to the gender identity experienced and defined by the patient.” Specific “treatments” are identified as “interventions to suppress the development of endogenous secondary sex characteristics,” “interventions to align the patient’s appearance or physical body with the patient’s gender identity,” and “medical therapies and medical intervention used to treat gender dysphoria.”
“By signing this bill today we are taking the first step to protect children from permanent gender transition surgeries and therapies. It is wildly inappropriate for taxpayer dollars to be used for condoning, promoting, or performing these types of controversial procedures on healthy children,” Stitt said of the measure, which took effect immediately.
“I am calling for the Legislature to ban all irreversible gender transition surgeries and hormone therapies on minors when they
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