NASHVILLE, Tennessee, May 21, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Tennessee has enacted a bill banning transgender drugs, like puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, for children. The state is the second in the nation to approve such restrictions this year.
Gov. Bill Lee (R) signed Senate Bill 126 on Tuesday, after lawmakers sent it to his desk last week. SB 126, which took effect immediately, prohibits “a healthcare prescriber from prescribing a course of treatment that involves hormone treatment for gender dysphoric or gender incongruent prepubertal minors.”
“Standard medical practice does not involve prescribing hormone treatment for gender dysphoric or gender incongruent prepubertal minors,” it adds. The bill passed 24-6 in the state senate and 67-24 in the house, before being okayed by the governor.
Tennessee’s latest move to protect children from the harms of transgenderism could save kids from life-threatening complications and other side effects associated with hormone drugs — including infertily. “Those in authority over the medical education system, and directives to practicing physicians, now recommend that all children, regardless of their age, be affirmed in their gender confusion,” Dr. Michelle Cretella, head of the American College of Pediatricians, noted at a Heritage Foundation webinar in February.
“This, then, will put them
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