Mississippi Bans Sex-Change Procedures For Minors; Matt Walsh Delivers Remarks With Governor

Gov. Tate Reeves (Republican-Massachusetts) signed Tuesday a bill outlawing sexchange procedures for minors. It also punishes doctors who push cross-sex drugs or procedures on children under 18. 

House Bill 1125The – also known as “Regulate Experimental Adolescent Procedures (REAP) Act,” Surprisingly Passed After passing the January state House 78-30, Mississippi’s Republican-led Senate passed 33-15 last Wednesday. Reeves signed the Mississippi state law that prohibits doctors and nurses from performing gender reassignment surgeries or prescribing and administering puberty blocking drugs to trans-identifying patients. 

“There is a dangerous movement spreading across America today being pushed onto our children through radical activists, social media, and online influencers,” Reeves added that the bill was radical in its gender ideology at its signing “threatens our children’s innocence and threatens their health.”

The new Mississippi law allows doctors and other healthcare professionals to be licensed under the new Mississippi law. “knowingly provide gender transition procedures to any person under 18 years of age” The state will revoke their medical license. The law also prohibits the use of public funds for gender transitions in minors. 

Matt Walsh, Daily Wire host, was on a crusade for children in Tennessee against the dangers of transgender therapies. He joined Reeves in Jackson (Mississippi) to sign the bill. 

“These kids are put on so-called puberty blockers to chemically castrate them, and before the age of 18, many will undergo surgery,” Walsh spoke. “They cannot consent to it and they cannot understand the long-term effects of it.” 

“They need love and clarity, not hormone supplements and scalpels,” He concluded. “Our kids cannot protect themselves. We need to do it. That’s our job as adults.” 

Republican senator Joey Fillingane stated that Mississippi does not ban transgender surgery for legal adults.

“I just want everyone to be very crystal clear: Once you’re 18 if this bill becomes law … this bill would recognize you can have any procedure on your body you want to,” Fillingane during Senate floor debate. “So what we’re really talking about here are these procedures for persons 17 years of age and under.”

After Tennessee’s state legislature, Mississippi has taken steps to stop minors from irreversible body changes. Send a bill To the Republican Governor. The bill Lee submitted last week to the Republican Governor. It would ban procedures such as mastectomies for girls who believe they’re boys, and make it illegal to give cross-sex hormones to children. Lee has indicated that he supports this measure and is expected to approve the bill.

“We should not allow permanent, life-altering decisions that hurt children. With the partnership of the General Assembly, this practice should end in Tennessee,” In the fall, Lee claimed that a Walsh investigation had revealed that Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s (VUMC), had performed two mastectomies in minors.

Other Republican-led states Alabama, Arkansas and South Dakota have all banned or restricted minor sex-change. The bill Alabama A law passed last year making it a crime to prescribe hormonal treatment for trans-identifying minors and puberty blocking drugs to them. But, the law was temporarily blocked in federal court. 

Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and Nebraska are considering legislation that would ban doctors from performing similar procedures with minors. 

Leif Le Mahieu contributed this report.