AMENDMENT #1 rewrites the bill to, instead, provide that an adult who recruits, harbors, or transports an unemancipated minor within this state for the purpose of receiving a prohibited medical procedure that is for the purpose of enabling the minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex or treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor’s sex and asserted identity, regardless of where the medical procedure is to be procured commits a Class C felony.
This amendment does not apply to: (i) a parent or legal guardian of an unemancipated minor; (ii) an adult who has permission from the unemancipated minor’s parent or legal guardian; or (iii) the provision of a medical diagnosis described in the law relevant to medical procedures for minors. Additionally, it is not a defense to prosecution under this amendment that the unemancipated minor consented to the actions.
While it’s still a bill to generate trans panic, and fuck them 100% for that, I still feel it’s important to be angry at the right things.
This bill only targets people who would do something like this to a child without a legal guardian’s permission.
I don’t really believe that it’s happening enough to make a fucking law about it, if at all. But fuck them still.
The next step will be extreme demonisation of parents of trans people followed by laws targeting the parents.
Basically their goal is to make the parents the only legal means to access medical care but put the parents at risk of breaking convoluted laws by doing so.
Trans healthcare will be “legal” but with so many complicated laws it will be impossible to avoid breaking some of them.
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