North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum on Thursday signed into law an emergency measure banning gender reassignment surgeries for minors.
The bill, known as HB 1254, creates and enacts a new chapter in the North Dakota Century Code. It bans certain medical practices on minors commonly used in the treatment of gender dysphoria and provides a penalty for health care providers who violate this law.
These prohibited practices include castration, vasectomy, hysterectomy, oophorectomy, metoidioplasty, orchiectomy, penectomy, phalloplasty, vaginoplasty, and mastectomy on minors, the bill states.
It also prohibits prescribing, dispensing, administering, or supplying puberty-blocking medication, supraphysiologic doses of testosterone to minor females, and supraphysiologic doses of estrogen to minor males. However, male circumcision is still permitted….