Colorado bill sponsor compares to Native American sterilization. Activists threaten to sue U.K. NHS to stop puberty blocker trial after government-commissioned review frowns on medicalized gender confusion treatment.
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From the Rockies to Aoraki, so-called gender affirming care is playing defense globally against lawmakers, regulators, activists and overwhelmingly young people who regret the medical procedures they undertook to more closely resemble the opposite sex, seek to hold their providers accountable and want to spare others from the same regret.
The Colorado General Assembly’s House Judiciary Committee late Tuesday considered legislation, introduced last week, to allow patients who underwent “youth gender transition procedures” – puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries to remove healthy genitals and breasts – before age 26 to sue their providers for damages up to age 38.
