A bill banning gender-affirming care of any kind for minors is headed to the full Indiana Senate after the Committee on Public Health passed the measure along party lines following about four hours of testimony.
Senate Bill 480 would prevent gender-affirming care including hormone replacement therapy and sex reassignment surgery for minors. The bill also criminalizes discussion of gender-affirming care potentially available in other states with a minor and their family by physicians and therapists. If approved, it will force Indiana youth on hormone replacement therapy to end that care by Dec. 31.
“Families have a right to make important medical decisions like this that may simply save their child’s life,” Blair said. “I finally got my son back and seen the joy on his face. The kind of laughs that come from the belly. The genuine smiles not the once forced,” she said. “I’m angry, as usual. It’s hard to watch something happening in real time knowing I’ve sent so many emails and so much evidence,” Schranz said.
Those in support of the measure blamed social pressures for an increase in the number of youth seeking gender-affirming care with some saying gender dysphoria would go away if a youth is allowed to go through puberty in the gender in which they were born.
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