On Tuesday, Republican Gov. Brad Little signed the Vulnerable Child Protection Act in a major victory for children and families, effectively banning the use of puberty blockers, cross sex hormones, and mutilating surgeries in the name of "gender affirmation."

"These experimental, irreversible, and medically unnecessary pharmaceutical and surgical interventions violate the Hippocratic oath, taken by physicians for millennia, to 'do no harm'," the bill states. "Therefore, the state of Idaho has a compelling government interest in protecting the health and safety of its minor children from such medical interventions for the purpose of attempting to affirm or change a child's gender expression."

The bill language also includes statements regarding the "objectively defined category" of biological sex and points out that "gender dysphoria among children rarely persists into adulthood," instead resolving after puberty. Long-term health problems such as infertility, osteoporosis, obesity, cancer, and cardiovascular disease are mentioned as additional compelling evidence to ban child mutilation.

HB 71 prohibits any medical professional from "performing surgeries that sterilize or mutilate, or artificially construct tissue with the appearance of genitalia that differs from the child's biological sex" and "administering or supplying" children with "puberty-blocking medication to stop or delay normal puberty," "supraphysiological doses of testosterone to a female," and "supraphysiological doses of estrogen to a male."

Exceptions to the ban include surgeries which are "necessary to the health of the person on whom it is performed," such as emergency removal of organs after childbirth or due to "a medically verifiable genetic disorder of sex development." In such cases, procedures must be performed by licensed medical professionals and with the consent of parents and guardians... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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