Iowa Bans Transgender Procedures on Minors
Iowa has become the latest state to ban transgender procedures on minors after Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law on March 22.
Reynolds also signed into law a second bill banning transgender students from entering school bathrooms or changing rooms that do not correspond with their biological genders.
Under the first bill, SF 538 (pdf), health care professionals are prohibited from prescribing under-18s puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries including sterilizations, vasectomies, or hysterectomies.
There are exceptions to the law, however, such as in cases where a minor is “born with a medically verifiable disorder of sex development,” or been “diagnosed with a disorder of sexual development by a physician when the physician has determined through genetic or biochemical testing that the minor does not have a normal sex chromosome structure, sex steroid hormone production, or sex steroid hormone action for a biological male or biological female.”…