Georgia state Senate Republicans advanced language that would ban puberty-blocking medication for transgender minors through a key committee Monday after grafting it to a bill requiring overdose reversal drugs in government buildings.
Democrats said they were blindsided by the substitute to the bill.
“None of us were expecting this particular bill, especially the part that we’ve been talking about with the puberty blockers,” said Atlanta Democrat Sonya Halpern. “The only people that we heard from today are the people who clearly knew that the sub was coming and support it, and we have not been able to hear testimony at all from anybody who would represent the opposing viewpoint.”
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