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NASHVILLE, Tennessee, May 6, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Tennessee is poised to enact groundbreaking new child protection measures after the state legislature approved a bill banning transgender hormone procedures for minors.
On Monday, the Tennessee House passed Senate Bill 126, a healthcare bill that bars prescription of cross-sex hormones to minors with gender dysphoria.
SB 126 “prohibits a healthcare prescriber from prescribing a course of treatment that involves hormone treatment for gender dysphoric or gender incongruent prepubertal minors.” The bill passed the Senate by a 24-6 vote last month before the House approved it by an overwhelming 43-vote margin earlier this week.
SB 126 has not yet been signed by Gov. Bill Lee, who enacted a ban on transgenders in women’s and girls’ sports in March.
Cross-sex hormones, which almost always follow use of puberty blockers in gender-confused children, cause infertility, permanently halt natural puberty, and are linked to fatal side effects, including heart attack and stroke. The FDA has never approved cross-sex hormones for gender dysphoria, and the drugs have been barred for minors in the U.K. and in leading European hospitals.
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