Alabama Governor Signs Anti-Transgender Bills into Law

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ABC News.Supporters of the transgender health care ban claim that treatments are irreversible and cause infertility and other health risks.

But most medical experts say that puberty blockers — which delay the onset of secondary sex characteristics — are reversible and do not carry long-term harm for those who have not yet undergone puberty.

Republican Sen. Shay Shelnutt, the sponsor of the bill, has even called providing gender-affirming care to minors a form of “child abuse.”“I believe very strongly that if the Good Lord made you a boy, you are a boy, and if he made you a girl, you are a girl,” Ivey said in a statement after signing the bill into law. “We should especially protect our children from these radical, life-altering drugs and surgeries when they are at such a vulnerable stage in life.

Instead, let us all focus on helping them to properly develop into the adults God intended them to be.”On Monday, two families with transgender teens and two physicians, enlisting the help of LGBTQ or allied organizations GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders, the Human Rights Campaign, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and the Southern Poverty Law Center, filed suit in federal court to block the law from taking effect next month.The lawsuit, Ladinsky v.