Mississippi Becomes Seventh State To Outlaw Sex Change Surgeries for Minors

Mississippi governor Tate Reeves, (R. Signed A bill was passed Tuesday prohibiting minors from having sex with others. This makes his state the seventh to do so.

The Regulate Experimental Adolescent Procedures Act was passed by the Republican-led Senate along party lines last month. It protects children against receiving cross-sex hormones, puberty blocksers, or sex surgery as treatment for gender dysphoria.

“There is a dangerous movement spreading across America today,” Reeves At a Tuesday news conference “It’s advancing under the guise of a false ideology, and pseudo science is being pushed onto our children through radical activists, social media, and online influencers, and it’s trying to convince our children that they are in the wrong body.”

Lawmakers all across the country are concerned about so-called transgender practices for minors. In the last two years, six states—Utah, South Dakota, Arkansas, Florida, Alabama, and Arizona—have banned these treatments, and at least 25 other states are considering similar legislation. Mississippi is not far behind the Tennessee Congress, which sent legislation last week to Governor Bill Lee (R.). Lee has accepted it. promised to sign into law.

“This dangerous movement attempts to convince these children that they’re just a surgery away from happiness. It threatens our children’s innocence, and it threatens their health,” Reeves said.

These sex-change procedures were given to a young girl as a child by a woman named Aisha. Suing the doctors She was encouraged to make the transition because of medical negligence. Chloe Cole, who since detransitioned has announced her lawsuit against Kaiser Foundation Hospitals.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACU) and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) are two of the left-leaning advocates who strongly oppose these state measures.