Stop Transgender Surgeries.
Arkansas has become the firist US state to outlaw gender confirming treatments and Surgery for transgender people under the age of 18.
The bill also in effect bans doctors from providing puberty blockers or from reffering them to other providers for the treatment. The republican state governor had vetoed the bill, calling it a vast government overreach. But the state's republican controlled House and Senate overruled him.
The bill has faced much opposition from groups including the American Academy of pediatrics, which said the law would block trans youth from important medical care and increase their already high risk of suicide.
The American civil liberties union said it was preparing litigation, stating that the bill will drive families, doctors and Businsses out of the state and send a terrible and heart breaking message to the transgender youth who are watching in Fear.
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