Thu Nov 10, 2022 – 4:37 pm ESTThu Nov 10, 2022 – 5:06 pm EST
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (LifeSiteNews) — Tennessee lawmakers introduced a bill on Wednesday that would ban both puberty blockers as well as “sex change” hormones and surgeries for minors in the state.
The legislation was reportedly put forth because a report from The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh revealed that Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, was mutilating minors with “gender transitions” as a “huge money maker.”
The Republican Tennessee Majority Leaders, William Lamberth, and Jack Johnson introduced the Protecting Children from Gender Mutilation Act on Wednesday, November 9, The Daily Wire reports.
“This bill is about protecting children,” Johnson said. “Under no circumstances should minors be allowed to undergo irreversible elective procedures to mutilate body parts and intentionally harm their reproductive systems. This practice comes with lifelong health complications that children are not capable of understanding.”
The bill would effectively bar doctors from prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones and performing gender-related surgeries on minors for the purpose of “gender transition.” The legislation would also allow patients and their families to sue a healthcare provider for damages for knowingly committing violations of the
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