Georgia House approves bill to limit treatment for transgender children

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The Georgia House on Thursday approved a bill that would prevent medical 
professionals from giving transgender children certain hormones or 
surgical treatment.

Senate Bill 140 passed 96-75 on a party-line vote, with Republicans 
supporting the measure. Since the bill was amended in a House committee 
earlier this week, SB 140 will go back to the Senate for its 
consideration.

Supporters of the measure say it protects children from taking steps 
toward gender transition that are permanent. Opponents say the bill goes 
against published “standards of care” and would end up hurting transgender 
children, who have a higher rate of suicide than their nontransgender 
peers.

Democratic lawmakers cited guidance from major scientific organizations 
such as the American Medical Association, the American Academy of 
Pediatrics and the World Health Organization that say medical and surgical 
care to transition genders is appropriate when properly administered. They 
encouraged lawmakers not to vote for a bill that goes against best medical 
practices.

State Rep. Mark Newton, an Augusta Republican and emergency physician, 
took issue with that, pointing to original guidance from medical 
organizations that encouraged the prescription of opioids, drugs that led 
to an epidemic of addiction and overdoses. Guidelines from what Newton 
called “well-meaning, well-intentioned doctors, pharmacists and scientists 
have since changed.”

“There were very serious, what we call unintended consequences, actually 
long-term devastating consequences. Hundreds of thousands of citizens have 
died related to accidental or intentional overdoses, addictions that may 
have started with the best intentions,” Newton said, implying that 
guidance could change concerning gender dysphoria — the distress that 
comes from feeling you’re one gender when you physically look like 
another. “The science is still in the early stages of understanding and 
grappling with the tremendous rise in reports of gender dysphoria.”

SB 140 would ban health care professionals from giving hormones such as 
estrogen or testosterone to transgender minors. Doctors also would not be 
allowed to perform surgeries on children seeking to align with their 
gender identity.

Medical professionals would still be allowed to prescribe a hormone 
treatment that aims to delay puberty or stop it from progressing under the 
proposal. Children who don’t identify with their biological sex at a young 
age are often prescribed the puberty blockers.

The bill includes an exception for the treatment of intersex children — 
those who are not born with the genitalia, chromosomes or reproductive 
organs of only one gender. There are allowances for physicians to treat 
children for nongender-related reasons, such as a sexual development 
disorder or an injury or infection.

SB 140 would also allow minors to continue receiving hormone treatments if 
they began before July 1, when the bill, if signed into law, would take 
effect.

State Rep. Karla Drenner, an Avondale Estates Democrat who became the 
first openly gay state representative in the South after she won election 
in 2000, said she was disappointed that lawmakers were telling parents 
that getting transgender care for their children made them bad parents.

“To all the children in our state that are going to be negatively 
impacted, please don’t lose hope,” Drenner said, holding back tears. 
“Please don’t give up. Please don’t kill yourself. This world is worth it. 
We need you.”


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