NEW YORK — (NEW YORK) -- Idaho could become the latest state to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth.
Anyone who provides or knowingly gives permission for a child or teen to receive hormone therapy or physical alterations to affirm their gender identity would be punished under this law and could face life in prison.
Gender affirmation can also come in the form of hormone therapy or surgeries to alter one's physical characteristics. "This is obviously not a step that a family takes lightly," Rubel said."This is a step that comes after literally thousands of hours of agonizing. There is no parent in the world who is just finding a way to force sex-change treatments on to their kids."
Rubel also noted that gender-affirming care is supported by medical organizations such as the American Medical Association, Idaho Medical Association, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the American Academy of Pediatrics and more.
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