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Tennessee's Latest Anti-LGBTQ+ Assault: Restricting Trans Health Care

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primarily addresses training for nurses who assist children with medications, contains an amendment that bans hormone treatment for gender-dysphoric minors who haven’t entered puberty — which no doctor in Tennessee prescribes, noted Chris Sanders, executive director of the Tennessee Equality Project.

Health care providers can still prescribe the treatment for young people during puberty. Lee signed the bill Tuesday.“We still opposed the bill because it is a form of discrimination,” Sanders told The Advocate via email. “We don’t normally codify health care protocols.

The legislature chose not to trust trans youth, their families, and their health care providers and put this law in place. We are also worried that it allows the legislature to.

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