Veto overridden: Ban on gender-affirming care for minors takes effect in North Carolina

[Phil01]

Veto overridden: Ban on gender-affirming care for minors takes effect in North Carolina
https://apnews.com/article/transgender-health-care-veto-override-north-carolina-536351cc360a92cdd21f298f6212e6d2

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Transgender youth in North Carolina lost access Wednesday to gender-affirming medical treatments after the Republican-led General Assembly overrode the governor’s vetoes of that legislation and other bills touching on gender in sports and LGBTQ+ instruction in the classroom.

GOP supermajorities in the House and Senate enacted — over Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s opposition — a bill barring medical professionals from providing hormone therapy, puberty-blocking drugs and surgical gender-transition procedures to anyone under 18, with limited exceptions.

The law takes effect immediately. But minors who had begun treatment before Aug. 1 may continue receiving that care if their doctors deem it medically necessary and their parents consent.

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[CurtEastPoint]

1. Damn them all to hell. My native state. I used to love it.

[walkingman]

2. Sadly there are a lot of states that have gone to the dark side. I feel exactly the same

way about Texas. In the last 30 years since the takeover of the GOP it has gone downhill. Now we do not even resemble the Texas of the past. It is disgusting.