{"id":3106,"date":"2019-11-28T07:54:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T07:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mymedicplus.com\/news\/?p=3106"},"modified":"2019-11-28T07:54:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T07:54:39","slug":"south-carolina-lawmaker-introduces-bill-to-ban-minors-from-getting-sex-change-surgery-hormone-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedicplus.com\/blog\/south-carolina-lawmaker-introduces-bill-to-ban-minors-from-getting-sex-change-surgery-hormone-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Ban Minors From Getting Sex Change Surgery, Hormone Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source: theepochtimes.com<\/p>\n<p>A newly proposed bill in\u00a0South Carolina\u00a0aims to ban anyone under 18 from getting sex-change surgery and also make it illegal for doctors to prescribe hormones to children.<\/p>\n<p>Republican state Rep. Stewart Jones said he filed the bill in response to the case of 7-year-old James Younger in Texas.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cover_container\">\n<div class=\"cover_container_static\">\n<p>The boy\u2019s mother claims that he should become a girl and accused her ex-husband of child abuse for not treating the boy as a girl. Video footage showed the boy when he was 3 talking about how his mother had told him he was a girl. The mother said she wanted to have James undergo sex-change surgery in the future.<\/p>\n<p>James\u2019s father, Jeff Younger,\u00a0won joint custody\u00a0of James and his twin brother, Jude, in October, with the case drawing nationwide attention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy son doesn\u2019t really know this conflict is going on,\u201d\u00a0Younger told The Epoch Times before the decision, which included a gag order. \u201cJames is trying to basically make his parents love him, and he\u2019s doing whatever it takes for his parents to love him. He dresses as a girl because he wants his mother to love him. Jude is confronted with an ethical challenge as a young man. When he goes to his mother\u2019s home, he is lying. He is struggling with how he is supposed to lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones, the South Carolina lawmaker, told\u00a0The Post and Courier\u00a0that the push for\u00a0transgender\u00a0rights \u201chas almost been weaponized.\u201d The proposed law \u201cis to protect children,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The law wouldn\u2019t affect adults, Jones noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a child, it\u2019s a whole different matter,\u201d Jones said. \u201cSomebody under 18, they can\u2019t buy cigarettes and alcohol, and so they shouldn\u2019t be able to have a sex change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If the bill, which has no co-sponsors, passes and a doctor provides a banned procedure, the doctor would be reviewed by the state\u2019s Board of Medical Examiners and could lose their license.<\/p>\n<p>The bill is one of several that have been introduced recently across the nation. Legislation banning sex-change surgeries and other associated treatments for minors has been introduced in Alaska, Illinois, and Texas.<\/p>\n<p>A Georgia lawmaker said that she is also working on a bill that would make it a felony to\u00a0perform sex-reassignment surgery on minor children, including vasectomy, castration, mastectomy, and other varieties of genital mutilation.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia state Rep. Ginny Ehrhart, a Republican,\u00a0told The Epoch Times\u00a0her legislation would protect children from being subjected to irreversible procedures when they are young, but wouldn\u2019t affect physicians working with adults who seek a sex change. Georgia law currently allows minors to receive surgery and prescription medicine if a parent consents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re talking about children that can\u2019t get a tattoo or smoke a cigar or a cigarette in the state of Georgia, but can be castrated and get sterilized,\u201d she said. \u201cThe removal of otherwise healthy or non-diseased body parts from minor children would also be prohibited.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1158,2489,2488,2487,166],"class_list":["post-3106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sex-reassignment","tag-ban","tag-hormone-therapy","tag-sex-change-2","tag-south-carolina","tag-surgery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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