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Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed two bills on Wednesday regarding what the left calls “gender-affirming” care for minors and the use of bathrooms and locker rooms by transgender students.
According to Fox News:
“The first bill prevents doctors in Iowa from prescribing puberty blockers or hormone therapy treatments to children under the age of 18.
“Additionally, the law also prohibits any ‘gender transition procedures’ that would ‘affirm the minor’s perception of the minor’s gender or sex.’
“Any doctor who is found in violation of the new law, according to the measure’s text, is ‘subject to licensee discipline by the appropriate licensing board or entity.’
“The measure also allows for individuals to take legal action against doctors who perform gender transitions on minors.
“Reynolds’ signing of the measure, in accordance with the bill’s text, forces minors who are currently receiving gender transition procedures in Iowa to forgo the care in 180 days.
“The other bill signed into law by Reynolds was Senate File 482, which is an act ‘prohibiting persons from entering single and multiple occupancy restrooms or changing areas and other facilities in elementary and secondary schools that do not correspond with the person’s biological sex.’”
Republican state Rep. Steven Holt sponsored the bill. During the debate about the bill earlier this month, Holt said the bill was intended to stop treatment that he considered too “experimental” to be allowed.
“I believe that the medical efficacy of these treatments is not proven,” Holt said.
Why are some adults so ready to jump on this gender change trend for children? Aren’t we responsible for protecting minors from doing something they may regret later?
“I’m a parent. I’m a grandmother. I know how difficult this is,” Governor Reynolds said. “This is an extremely uncomfortable position for me to be in. And I don’t like it.”
“But I have to do what I believe, right now, is in the best interest of the kids until we can have some more research done, or we can see what’s happening in some of the other countries that have been doing this, to better understand the impact. I think that’s reasonable,” she added.
One of the Democrat state representatives who is opposed to the bill, Rep. Jennifer Konfrst, said “I was under the impression that this session was going to be all about parents’ rights.
“So I guess the way I’m going to read this bill is that parents know best until the government does.”
The opposition to the bill was not exclusive to the Democrat party. Some Republicans voiced their criticism of the bill during the debate.
One representative said that the bill is too broad and he would be more supportive if it were more “narrowly focused on surgery.”
Iowa is joining several other states like Tennessee, Mississippi, Utah, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, and South Dakota in enacting bans on gender surgery for minors.
The laws in Alabama and Arkansas have been temporarily blocked by federal courts, however.
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