Mississippi governor signs bill banning transgender health care for minors

TL;DR

Mississippi on Tuesday became the seventh state to enact a restriction on certain transition-related health care for minors. In the last two years, governors in seven states — Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and, now, Mississippi — have signed such measures into law, though judges have blocked Arkansas’ and Alabama’s laws from taking effect pending the outcome of lawsuits. Stacie Pace, the owner of Spectrum: The Other Clinic, which is in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and provides transition-related care, said in a statement after the Legislature passed the bill that there are no children undergoing gender-affirming surgeries in the state

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