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New Hampshire has become the latest state to ban child sex-changes, and the first such state in New England.
State Governor Kelly Ayotte has now signed two bills into law, both of which will restrict access to sex-change procedures for under-18s.
The first bill prohibits the administering of puberty blockers or sex-change hormones, but makes an exception for minors already undergoing treatment. Providers that violate the law will be subject to punishment, and individuals will be allowed to file suit against providers who have violated the law.
The second bill limits breast surgeries—often referred to euphemistically as “top surgery”—to “only those procedures needed to treat malignancy, injury, infection, or malformation and those needed to reconstruct the breasts after such procedures.”
“Medical decisions made at a young age can carry lifelong consequences, and these bills represent a balanced, bipartisan effort to protect children,” Ayotte said in a statement.
Republican State Senator Kevin Avard praised the laws, calling growth of transgenderism “almost a cult-like following of this gender confusion.”
Avard said he voted for the legislation because “biology speaks volumes” and he had heard testimony from multiple people who underwent child sex-changes and regretted it.
“They realized that they did long-term and irreparable damage to their bodies. The testimony was overwhelming: they were confused.”
A number of other states have already enacted similar bans after President Trump’s Executive Order declaring that no medical facilities that perform sex-change operations on children would receive federal funding, including from Medicare and Medicaid.
The Supreme Court recently upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender transitions.
Meanwhile, New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit against the federal government and the Trump administration. She has been joined by fifteen other states (California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, and the District of Columbia).
