Re: Poll: Americans support banning transgender surgeries, drugs for minors

In <[email protected]> wartwrangler wrote:
>
> (The Center Square) – The majority of Americans say transgender surgeries
> for minors should be illegal, newly released polling data shows, backing
> up a movement to ban the practice in states around the country.
>
> Convention of States Action, along with the Trafalgar Group, released the
> data, which showed that “78.7 percent of voters believe underage minors
> should be required to wait until they are adults to legally use puberty
> blockers and undergo permanent sex-change procedures.”
>
> Notably, 84.6% of Independents and even 53.2% of Democrats say the same.
>
> Mark Meckler, president of the Convention of States, said the poll shows
> Americans do not support “the idea that young people have to be 16 to
> drive, 18 to vote, and 21 to drink, and yet can undergo life-altering
> medical procedures in middle school”
>
> The poll comes as states around the country are considering bans on the
> practice. In recent days, a legislative committee in Utah advanced a bill
> of this kind, and Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt doubled down on his opposition
> to the surgery after signing a bill earlier this month to block the
> University of Oklahoma Medical Center from using COVID-19 relief money to
> pay for those transgender drugs and surgeries.
>
> “We have a duty to protect minors from a lot of things: we don’t let them
> drink, we don’t let them get tattoos,” Sitt told Fox News. “Their brains
> aren’t fully developed.”
>
> A leading transgender health association has lowered its recommended
> minimum age for starting gender transition treatment, including sex
> hormones and surgeries.
>
> The World Professional Association for Transgender Health maintains that,
> despite potential risks, it could be harmful to ban treatment including
> surgery in minors who want the procedure. The association says hormone
> treatments can begin as early as age 14 and some surgeries as early as 15.
>
> But Republicans in states like Michigan, Tennessee and others are
> considering similar bans. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s new policy to
> investigate those gender transition surgeries as child abuse has sparked a
> flurry of controversy and lawsuits as well.
>
> “We should not allow permanent, life-altering decisions that hurt children
> or policies that suppress religious liberties, all for the purpose of
> financial gain,” Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, a Republican, said in a
> statement.
>
> As The Center Square previously reported, in 2021 Arkansas became the
> first state to ban transgender drugs and procedures for minors.
>
> “They need to get to be 18 before they make those decisions,” Republican
> Rep. Robin Lundstrum said at the time.
>
> The poll surveyed more than 1,000 likely voters Oct. 8 through Oct. 11.
>
> https://readlion.com/poll-americans-support-banning-transgender-surgeries-
> drugs-for-minors/

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