Mississippi wants to ban trans people under 21 from receiving gender-affirming care
not include surgical intervention.The bill explicitly states that people under 21 should be barred from receiving gender-affirming care because they “are incapable of comprehending the negative implications and life-altering difficulties” of their decisions.But the bill goes further, punishing providers who even attempt to diagnose a minor with gender dysphoria, unless they have express permission from the minor’s parents to broach the subject, and effectively requiring doctors to “out” minor patients who may be struggling with their gender identity.Hill’s bill contains one exception, allowing surgeries in the cases of minors who are intersex or have “external biological sex characteristics that are ambiguous and irresolvable,” but requires.
