A bill that would ban “gender-affirming care” on minors in Tennessee passed a major hurdle in committee this week and will now go to the full state Senate for a vote, which is expected to pass in the Republican-dominated Legislature.
The act would “prohibit a healthcare provider from performing on a minor or administering to a minor a medical procedure if the performance or administration of the procedure is for the purpose of enabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex.”
The bill was filed as the first piece of legislation for the 113th Tennessee General Assembly….