A Georgia Senate bill is advancing to bar some kinds of gender-affirming care in the state for anyone younger than 18 — part of a nationwide effort by conservatives to restrict transgender athletes, gender-affirming care and drag shows.
Senate Bill 140 was passed on a 10-4 vote Wednesday by the Senate Health and Human Services Committee. It would ban most sex-reassignment surgeries and hormone-replacement therapies. However, unlike laws adopted in some other states, it would still allow doctors to prescribe medicines to block puberty.
“We’re simply saying we want a wait-and-see approach, a do-no-harm approach,” said Sen. Carden Summers, a Cordele Republican who sponsored the measure.
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