Those type of things, So we just put a number there, 18, I mean, that’s where I think-the brain is not mature, they say, until 25 years old. ‘We shouldn’t be meddling in allowing people to do what they want to.’ But you can’t vote until you’re 18. There’s very little middle ground….It’s the same thing you always hear. “So I get tons of people, either for or against it. The Clayton Crescent asked Summers, a farmer and businessman, whether he had met with opponents of the bill. It also forbids hospitals from allowing doctors to perform gender reassignment surgeries and bans hormone replacement therapy for patients under 18 years old: The current version of SB140, as passed by the House on March 17, would allow doctors to prescribe puberty blockers in some cases, as well as to perform surgery on children with ambiguous or deformed genitalia. I’m not sure they should have them under 21. I don’t think anybody should have surgeries under 18 years old. That’s the only thing left to do.”Īsked how he feels about the bill, Summers said, “I’m for the bill. And then we’ll have to go into conference. “It’ll either come back to the Senate for a vote on the amendment where they changed it, and then either we’ll agree or disagree. “It’s passed the house, ma’am, that’s what I know,” Summers said. Carden Summers (R-13, Cordele) after the House passed the amended version and sent it back to the Senate. The Clayton Crescent spoke with one of the bill’s cosponsors, Sen. Proponents claim the measure would prevent children from making medical decisions with long-term consequences that minors do not fully understand.īecause children cannot legally consent to medical procedures, it would be the child’s parent or parents who would consent to treatment. A flyer calling for parents and supporters of transgender youth to attend a prayer vigil and lobbying effort Maat the Georgia State Capitol.Ĭritics of the bill call it government intrusion into personal medical decisions between families and doctors. The bill would likely go immediately to Gov. Monday, March 20 at Central Presbyterian Church in downtown Atlanta, then head to the Gold Dome to lobby against its final passage, which could happen as early as Monday morning. Parents and transgender children will gather for a prayer vigil at 9 a.m. Georgia is one of at least 21 states where at least 85 similar bills are in play or have passed this year. Parents and supporters of transgender children expressed devastation at the Gold Dome on Thursday after the Georgia House voted to pass an amended version of Senate Bill 140, which would ban both surgical and hormonal treatment for minors diagnosed with gender dysphoria and criminalize doctors who treat those children.
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