The bill would make performing or recommending gender-affirming care for people under 26 a felony.
As politicians in red states across the country pass one anti-trans bill after the next, they frequently claim that they’re doing soIn Arkansas, Tennessee, Arizona, Alabama, and Florida, for example, where various bans on gender-affirming care for minors have been passed, lawmakers have insisted that people under the age of 18 are simply too young to make decisions about their own bodies, arguing that laws and rules preventing them from doing so are in their own best interest.
Unfortunately, that argument is extremely difficult to believe for a multitude of reasons, including the fact that a number of states are trying toLate Wednesday, Oklahoma state senatorwhose passage would prevent anyone under the age of 26—a full eight years beyond the widely accepted threshold for adulthood—from accessing gender-affirming medical care. OK SB129, a.k.a. the Millstone Act of 2023, would make it a felony for health care providers to administer—or even just recommend—such care.
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