On Thursday, the South Carolina Senate approved a ban on transgender procedures and surgeries for minors.
The Help Not Harm bill (H4624) passed by a 27-8 vote which included all South Carolina Republicans and one Democrat who voted in favor of the ban.
If passed, the ban will make it so that healthcare professionals will not be allowed to perform gender surgeries, prescribe puberty blockers or provide hormone treatments for minors who identify as transgender.
Additionally, if a child presents as a gender that differs from their biological sex or uses a name that isn’t their legal name, school principals would be required to notify parents or guardians.
In response to the verdict, both those for and those against the bill took to X to comment.
Executive Director for the American Civil Liberties Union in South Carolina posted a video where he was on the…
