The Senate of Georgia Tolerate two legislative proposals to prohibit most treatment with sexual transmission for minors and prisoners in state prisons, with some Democrats join Republicans in supporting the measures.
The legislators voted on Monday 34-19 for a bill to prohibit the most sex transition treatments, including puberty blockers, for everyone under the age of 18, even for people who are already being treated. In 2023, the State forbade most sex transition operations and hormone replacement therapies for transgender children, unless they were already received treatment.
“You ask (minors) to make changes that will have changes in the rest of their lives,” said Gop Senator Ben Watson, the sponsor of the bill, Monday. “It’s not a fair decision for them. It is not a fair decision for the parents.”
A second bill sponsored by Senate majority Whip Randy Robertson-Die would prohibit the most sex transfer treatment for prisoners in state prisons, became 37-15.
Senator Ben Watson speaks in the Senate rooms in the Georgia State Capitol, Monday, March 3, 2025, in Atlanta. (AP)
Opponents of the measures accused Republicans of Politize By focusing on transgender people and argued that legislators should concentrate on more urgent issues. They said that both accounts infringe the rights of transgender people and their families to make decisions about the treatment of gender transitions.
“This body announced Bill after Bill Trans People attacked the ultimate goal of making Trans -people disappear. We have been here earlier,” said Senate Minority Whip Kim Jackson, a democrat who is openly Lesbian, Monday.
At least 26 states have established laws that limit the treatment of sex transfer for minors, although most have been beaten with lawsuits.
At least 26 states have established laws that limit the treatment of sex transition for minors. (Adobe Stock)
Jackson and other Democrats presented an amendment in the Watson bill, so that minors would have already received a treatment of sex transition to the Medical and emotional risks To stop in the middle of the treatment, but the amendment failed.
Democrat Sens. Elena Parent and Sonya Halpern confirmed their dedication to protect the rights of transgender people, but brought party lines to vote for Robertson’s bill and said that they do not believe that taxpayers should be charged with the costs of treatment of gender transitions for prisoners. Parents proposed an amendment to make an exception for prisoners who already underwent hormone replacement therapy, but that amendment also failed.
“I will not let my party drag into an argument so that we do not make contact with the people we claim to represent,” Halpern said.
Four Democrats supported the bill that forbade the treatment of gender transitions for prisoners. (Istock)
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Democrat Senator Sally Harrell, who has two transgender children, said that “people wanted to remember that we are talking about very real people – parents, children, families.”
Senator Freddie Powell Sims was the only Democrat who voted for both bills, while four Democrats supported the bill that the treatment of gender transitions for prisoners banned.
Last month, the Senate approved accounts to prohibit biological boys to play in girls’ sports and stripped public financing for sex -transport treatment for adults.
The four bills now go to the house.
The Associated Press has contributed to this report.
