NEW: Mississippi became the third state to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth in 2023 after Gov. Tate Reeves (R) signed the GOP-led bill into law on Tuesday.
prohibits the provision of "gender transition procedures," including puberty blockers and gender reassignment surgeries, to anyone under 18.
Healthcare workers will have their licenses revoked if they are found to violate the law, which also enables patients to sue their providers within a 30-year statute of limitations. The measure also bans people from "knowingly" engaging in conduct that "aids or abets" in performing the procedures, and bars the allocation of public funds, either state or federal, to any organization or individual that provides gender-affirming care to minors., Reeves lauded the measure as a necessary rebuttal to the "dangerous movement spreading across America" that pushes "false ideology and pseudo-science ...
He claimed that this movement tries to "convince these children that they’re just a surgery away from happiness" — a
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