Sat Feb 4, 2023 – 5:35 pm EST
CHARLESTON, West Virginia (LifeSiteNews) — West Virginia joined the growing ranks of states moving to protect children from chemical and surgical mutilation.
The West Virginia House approved legislation on Friday that would ban physicians from providing “irreversible gender reassignment surgery or gender altering medication” to anyone under 18 years old.
The bill specifically defines “gender altering medication” as “puberty blocking medication to stop or delay normal puberty,” testosterone and other male hormones for females, and estrogen for males.
It defines “irreversible gender reassignment surgery” as “a medical procedure performed for the purpose of assisting an individual with a gender transition,” including surgeries to sterilize children or otherwise mutilate their reproductive organs.
The bill includes exemptions for children born with a “medically verifiable disorder” and for individuals undergoing “treatment of any infection, injury, disease, or disorder that has been caused by or exacerbated by the performance of gender transition procedures.”
West Virginia’s Republican-dominated House passed the measure 84-10 along party lines.
During debate on Friday, Republican Del. Jim Butler warned that teenagers’ brains are not developed enough to make decisions that they will “live with for the rest of
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