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The law expires on Aug. 28, 2027, and also prohibits transgender adults from access to transgender health care under Medicaid, and bars ‘gender-affirming’ surgery for prisoners and inmates.
The new poll comes on the heels of the state attorney general’s lawsuit against three school districts.
Members of religious orders affiliated with two Catholic high schools in Massachusetts have told Worcester Bishop Robert McManus that they will not be implementing the diocese’s new policy concerning gender ideology and sexual confusion because, they said, policies are already in place.
Lawmakers this week also set athletic standards that require students to participate in programs that align with their biological sex.
In the press release, the group offered links to ACPeds literature arguing that ‘transgender treatments harm children’ and that teenage brains are still ‘under construction’ and that, consequently, the ‘decision-making processes during adolescence are immature.’
Gov. Greg Abbott signed legislation banning such procedures on Friday, June 2.
New bill, signed into law on Monday, also regulates other drugs used in purported gender-transition therapies for minors.
The Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth cited a purported rise in transphobia as a reason to amend the state’s child-abuse laws.
The Washington State Catholic Conference, which represents the state’s Catholic bishops, noted that the bill undermines the foundational relationship between parents and their children and urged lawmakers to vote it down.
The legislation bans any surgery that is designed to alter or remove a healthy physical or anatomical characteristic or feature on a person’s body to make that feature or characteristic resemble the opposite sex unless the person is at least 18 years old; it also prohibits facial surgeries, voice surgeries, hair reconstruction, or any other aesthetic procedure designed to make the child appear as though he or she is the opposite sex.
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