Fri Feb 10, 2023 – 11:11 pm ESTFri Feb 10, 2023 – 11:42 pm EST
PIERRE, South Dakota (LifeSiteNews) — South Dakota is poised to become the next state to protect children from chemical castration and mutilating transgender surgeries after lawmakers passed a total ban on the practices on Thursday.
HB 1080, called the “Help Not Harm” bill, prohibits medical professionals from prescribing or administering puberty-blocking drugs or cross-sex hormones to minors or performing “any sterilizing surgery” on them, including hysterectomies 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.”
HB 1080 requires professional and occupational licensing boards to revoke the licenses of healthcare practitioners found to have violated the bill. And it allows individuals who underwent “gender transitions” as children to bring civil action against the doctors who mutilated them.
South Dakota Senate passed #HB1080, the bill that protects children from risky #transgender interventions in the state. We encourage @govkristinoem to sign this bill because struggling children deserve real #HelpNotHarm! @FH_Alliance
— Family Policy Alliance (@family_policy) February
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