BREAKING: The Utah Legislature has passed the bill blocking health care for transgender youths.
The pause, the bill says, is to allow the Utah Department of Health and Human Services to look at data surrounding the use of those medical treatments and make recommendations for policy changes to lawmakers, but does not set a deadline for the completion of that analysis.
The moratorium on hormone treatments for transgender youth, and only applies to new patients, will go into effect immediately if Cox signs the bill. The bill also bans surgeries on minors that are part of a sex change. Youth who are seeking many of those same surgeries, such as breast augmentation, would not be barred from undergoing them, so long as it’s not part of a sex change.Kennedy, a physician and lawyer, acknowledged on the Senate floor on Friday that the legislation is “highly likely” to see a lawsuit.
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