Kansas becomes 27th state to ban sex-change surgeries for minors after veto override
Kansas becomes 27th state to ban sex-change surgeries for minors after veto override
By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter
Kansas has become the 27th state to ban minors from undergoing body-mutilating sex-change surgeries after the Republican-controlled state legislature overrode a veto issued by Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly.
The GOP-majority Kansas Senate voted 31-9 to override Kelly's veto of Senate Bill 63 Tuesday while the Republican-controlled Kansas House of Representatives followed the same day with an 84-35 vote.
Also known as the Help Not Harm Act, SB 63 prohibits youth with gender dysphoria from obtaining experimental puberty-blocking drugs and cross-sex hormones, as well as cosmetic surgical procedures that mutilate functioning...
executive order establishing a new government policy where the government will not "fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called 'transition' of a child from one sex to another" and "rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit these destructive and life-altering procedures."
Although the executive order did not establish a federal ban prohibiting youth from obtaining the life-altering procedures, it directed the heads of federal agencies to "take appropriate steps to ensure that institutions receiving Federal research or education grants end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children." It also seeks to exclude coverage of the procedures from TRICARE, the healthcare program administered by the U.S. Department of Defense.
Last September, 22 Republican state attorneys general sent a letter to the American Academy of Pediatrics urging the body to retract a 2018 guidance on the alleged reversibility of puberty-blocking drugs.
Citing the the "Cass Report" commissioned by the National Health Service in the United Kingdom, the attorneys general contend puberty-blocking drugs can interfere with neurocognitive development, compromised bone density and cause infertility and sterility when combined with cross-sex hormones.
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