The Mississippi Senate has approved a bill banning permanent medical intervention for minors who believe they are experiencing gender dysphoria.
Mississippi House Bill 1125, titled the “Regulate Experimental Adolescent Procedures Act,” prohibits physicians in the state from prescribing pharmaceutical and surgical alterations in an attempt to change a child’s gender.
The bill’s sponsor, Republican state Rep. Gene Newman, told The Epoch Times that the bill was written to prevent gender-affirming medical intervention on a child from becoming a standard of care.
Physicians who violate the law will face a revocation of their license. In addition to losing one’s license, the physician and the facility would be liable for complications from the treatments, Newman said, with a 30-year statute of limitations….