Alabama Doctors Stop Giving Kids Transgender Drugs as New Ban Takes Effect: 'It's Alabama Common Sense'

Raymond Wolfe : May 12, 2022
LifeSiteNews.com

"If the Good Lord made you a boy, you're a boy. If He made you a girl, you're a girl..." -Governor Ivey tweeted Monday

(Birmingham, AL) — [LifeSiteNews.com] A new ban on "gender transitions" for children took effect in Alabama on Sunday, prompting medical providers across the state to stop prescribing experimental transgender drugs to kids. (Screengrab image)

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey last month signed the Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act (VCCPA), which outlaws "prescribing or administering" hormones and puberty blockers to gender-confused minors under age 19.

The law also bans sterilizing "sex change" surgeries and other procedures to remove "healthy or non-diseased body part[s] or tissue" of a child. People who violate the measure can face felony charges and up to 10 years in prison.

"If the Good Lord made you a boy, you’re a boy. If He made you a girl, you’re a girl," Governor Ivey tweeted Monday. "It’s Alabama common sense."

After the law came into force, Children’s of Alabama, the state’s top children’s hospital, told AL.com that it will cease providing hormone drugs to minors. "Patients who are affected by the Alabama Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act have been made aware of the impact of the law," said the hospital, which includes a "gender clinic."

University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Hospital, which also houses a gender clinic, likewise affirmed that it will "comply with the law"... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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