West Virginia’s Republican-majority Legislature passed a bill on March 10 that would ban health care providers from performing “irreversible gender reassignment surgery” or providing gender-altering medication to minors.
House Bill 2007 was introduced by Del. Geoff Foster and passed the Senate in a 30–2 vote.
Under the bill, health care providers in the state will be prohibited from providing “irreversible gender reassignment surgery” or gender-altering medication to a person who is under 18, such as puberty-blockers, although it does contain certain exceptions in some cases.
Specifically, the bill bans any of the following surgeries from being performed on biological male patients: penectomy, orchiectomy, vaginoplasty, clitoroplasty, or vulvoplasty….