Alabama governor signs law banning medication for transgender youth
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Alabama lawmakers approved sweeping legislation Thursday to outlaw gender-affirming medications for transgender youths, as well as a separate measure setting rules about school bathrooms and prohibiting early classroom instruction on sexual and gender identity — a bill critics have dubbed "Don’t Say…
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers on Thursday approved sweeping legislation to outlaw gender-affirming medications for trans kids and advanced separate legislation to prohibit classroom instruction on sexual and gender
The state Senate has also advanced measures requiring students to use bathrooms corresponding to their sex at birth, and to limit instruction of gender and sexual identity in early grades.
A bill in Alabama that would ban transgender treatments for minors, such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy, has passed out of the legislature and will go to Gov. Kay Ivey’s desk for signature.
Once the bill is signed, doctors could face felony charges for prescribing puberty blockers and hormones to minors or performing gender reassignment surgeries.
Alabama lawmakers have approved sweeping legislation outlawing transgender youth's access to gender-affirming medications. The state Senate has also advanced measures requiring students to use bathrooms corresponding to their sex at
GOP Gov. Kay Ivey also signed a bill that would be the state's version of a "don't say gay" law and bans trans students from using the restroom that matches their gender identity.
Alabama lawmakers approved sweeping legislation Thursday to outlaw gender-affirming medications for transgender youths, as well as a separate measure setting rules about school bathrooms and prohibiting early classroom instruction on sexual and gender identity — a bill critics have dubbed “Don’t Say…
Steve Almasy and Amanda Musa, CNN Alabama’s Republican-controlled legislature passed two bills on the last day of the state’s legislative session that target transgender children, including one that makes it a felony for a doctor to administer gender-affirming health care to minors.
Alabama is the third state in the country to pass a restriction on gender-affirming care for minors — though it's the first to include criminal penalties.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey enacted a sweeping law Friday that bans gender-affirming medication for transgender youth and includes criminal penalties for doctors who prescribe it.
Story at a glance Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday signed into law a first-of-its-kind bill criminalizing gender-affirming care for minors. The law makes it a felony, punishable by up to a decade in…
Ivey also signed Alabama’s version of the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which bans students from using school bathrooms that don’t correspond with their gender at birth.
Alabama could become the third state to deny gender-affirming medical care to transgender children, part of a wave of similar legislation by Republican-controlled states.
Republican Gov. Kay Ivey of Alabama signed two bills Friday pertaining to transgender minors, one of which makes it a felony for medical professionals to provide “gender-affirming” medical care to
Alabama lawmakers approved sweeping legislation Thursday to outlaw gender-affirming medications for transgender youths, as well as a separate measure setting rules about school bathrooms and prohibiting early classroom instruction on sexual and gender identity — a bill critics have dubbed "Don’t Say…
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