More than 200 medical professionals in the South have signed an open letter opposing a bevy of state bills targeting health care treatment for transgender minors.
A group of doctors and other health workers signed an open letter opposing state bills that "violate the rights and freedoms of transgender young people."— and in some cases jail — doctors and other medical professionals who provide puberty-suppressing drugs, cross-sex hormones and transition-related surgery to adolescents. Bills being debated in Missouri and New Hampshire would classify this gender-affirming care as “child abuse.
"Enacting this disturbing anti-transgender legislation would prohibit me and other medical providers from doing our jobs, forcing us to violate existing standards of medical care for transgender patients.
The letter was signed by a wide variety of health care professionals, including mental health counselors, pharmacists, nurse practitioners, surgeons, speech pathologists and dentists. Dr. Michael Guyton-Nunley, one of the signatories and a physician practicing in Greenville, South Carolina, said denying medically necessary medication or surgery to trans youth would “cause long-term harm.”
“Enacting this disturbing anti-transgender legislation would prohibit me and other medical providers from doing our jobs, forcing us to violate existing standards of medical care for transgender patients,” he said. “I join so many of my colleagues across the South in urging lawmakers to reject these dangerous and discriminatory bills.”Sign Up
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