Tue Oct 3, 2023 – 6:27 pm EDT
LINCOLN, Nebraska (LifeSiteNews) — A ban on mutilating transgender surgeries for minors and emergency regulations restricting access to transgender drugs took effect Sunday, adding to a growing list of statewide regulations to protect children from permanent physical and psychological damage.
Legislative Bill 574, which was approved by Nebraska lawmakers and signed by Nebraska Republican Gov. Jim Pillen in May, took effect Sunday and prohibits transgender surgeries for minors like mastectomies and genital surgeries for gender-confused kids, and also protects preborn babies from elective abortions at 12 weeks’ gestation.
READ: Nebraska governor signs law restricting trans mutilation of children, abortion after 12 weeks
Under the legislation, Nebraska chief medical officer, Dr. Timothy Tesmer, was ordered to issue regulations on the use of transgender drugs, LifeSiteNews reported at the time.
According to the language of the law, healthcare professionals must be allowed to “prescribe approved puberty-blocking drugs, cross-sex hormones, or both to an individual younger than 19 years of age if such individual has a long-lasting and intense pattern of gender nonconformity or gender dysphoria which began or worsened at the start of puberty” under certain conditions.
Tesmer was accordingly
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