The New Hampshire House passed a bill on Thursday banning gender reassignment procedures for minors in CONCORD, N.H. (TND).
House Bill 619 would forbid young people from starting reproductive changes. Additionally, it would stop doctors from performing the therapies or recommending out-of-state services.
Those found guilty of the “unprofessional do” would be disciplined.
The measure states that only people over the age of majority may undergo genital gender reassignment surgery in the state of New Hampshire “in the presence of high quality data to show safety and efficacy, including longer term results.”
According to the bill, gender reassignment surgery is against a hospital’s “informed consent” because it calls for “adequate information,” “the capacity to consider,” and “absence of coercion.”
The act states that “adolescent genital gender reassignment surgery typically lacks enough details for informed consent and involves a higher danger of coercion for filial consent when parents believe they are forced to choose between their child committing suicide or consenting to the surgery.”
Additionally, according to HB 619, there aren’t enough high-quality clinical trials available to analyze the results of youth reassignment surgeries ‘use of cross-sex hormones and pubertal suppression.
“We must wait. According to InDepthNH, State Representative Erica Layon, R-Derry, argued that there should be a pause. nonprofit. If there is no information, can I still tell my parents that the process is safe and effective?
According to the policy, studies have not shown a decline in adolescents ‘suicide threat following surgery. Some reported a “major increase” in deaths and hospitalizations for mental illnesses.
According to the New Hampshire Bulletin, State Rep. Layon stated that “these procedures were prohibited by [medical] guidelines up until 16 months ago.”
Minors shouldn’t undergo reassignment surgeries, according to the World Professional Association for Transgender Health and the Endocrine Society.
The act was opposed by State Rep. Gerri Cannon, a Somersworth Democrat and the first transgender lawmaker to be elected to New Hampshire.
State Rep. Cannon stated, according to InDepthNH, “This is not about operation, but rather about why we are considering incorporating health operations into New Hampshire legislation that is frequently changing. “Medical professionals” are continually learning new patient treatment methods and methods.
The problem may move the state’s Senate, according to Chris Erchull, an counsel for GLBTQ Legal Advocates &, Soldiers.
According to Erchull, Governor Sununu will have to decide whether to reject hazardous legislation that violates trans people’s rights or, as Mike DeWine did in Ohio, whether he will give in to the interests of those working to get transgender people.
