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Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon signed a invoice Friday that bans docs from performing “gender reassignment” and gender reassignment procedures on minors.
Below Senate File 99, any well being care skilled who gives puberty blockers, hormone remedy, or gender reassignment surgical procedure to a minor might have their license suspended or revoked.
Whereas he signed the invoice, the Governor didn’t appear keen about doing so.
Governor Gordon mentioned in an announcement concerning the laws, “I signed SF99 as a result of I assist the protections for youngsters included on this invoice, nonetheless I consider the federal government is interfering within the private issues of households. “
Gordon continued, “Our legislature must type out its intentions relating to parental rights. Whereas it incorporates authorities prerogatives in some locations, it affirms parental rights in others.
After all, the American Civil Liberties Union of Wyoming opposes the ban.
“By signing this invoice, Governor Gordon has put the federal government accountable for making essential selections historically reserved for folks in Wyoming,” Libby Skrein, govt director of the ACLU of Wyoming, mentioned within the announcement. “This ban is not going to stop Wyomingians from being transgender, however it’ll deprive them of important helps that assist struggling transgender youth develop as much as turn into thriving transgender adults.”
This legislation will come into impact from July 1.