March 9, 2020 Group Watch: Senate Bill Blocks Transgender Treatments for Minors
The Alabama Senate passed a bill that would make it a crime for doctors to prescribe opposite sex hormones or drugs that block puberty for people under the age of 19 who identify as transgender. The bill is sponsored by Senator Shay Shelnutt of Trussville who argued that most children with gender dysphoria eventually adjust and that giving them medications that could have permanent effects amounts to child abuse. He refers to the bill as the Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act. The bill passed on a 22-3 vote.
