Sat Feb 4, 2023 – 5:00 pm EST
PIERRE, South Dakota (LifeSiteNews) — South Dakota is one step closer to eliminating dangerous transgender drugs and surgeries for youth.
The South Dakota House on Friday passed a ban on “chemical castration and cosmetic genetical surgeries” for minors in an overwhelming 60-10 vote.
House Bill 1080, nicknamed the “Help Not Harm” bill, blocks healthcare professionals from prescribing or administering to minors under 18 any puberty-blocking drugs or cross-sex hormones and performing “any sterilizing surgery” on them, including hysterectomy and castration.
The bill also prohibits any surgery that “artificially constructs tissue having the appearance of genitalia differing from the minor’s sex” as well as procedures to “remove any healthy or non-diseased body part or tissue.”
Three Republicans and all seven House Democrats voted against the bill, which now heads to the state Senate.
“We have heard stories of children as young as eight in South Dakota being injected with cross-sex hormones right here in our state,” Republican Rep. Jon Hansen said at a press conference last month unveiling the legislation. “Children that young, they cannot consent to this.”
House Bill 1080 requires professional and occupational licensing boards to revoke
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