Discussions about healthcare services for members of the transgender community have resurfaced this week, as Tennessee faces legal challenges to its statute prohibiting gender-affirming care for minors.
Governor Henry McMaster has made it plain what his position is on the topic.
Governor McMaster sent a statement to ‘X’ shortly after the US Supreme Court heard arguments in support of Tennessee’s ban.
We are hopeful that the US Supreme Court will make the right decision to uphold Tennessee’s Help Not Harm Law.
He claims that the law keeps minors from “making life-changing decisions they may later regret.”
In May, McMaster signed a bill prohibiting gender-affirming care in South Carolina.
The state’s American Civil Liberties Union chapter has challenged it, filing a lawsuit in August.
News 4 spoke with the ACLU after filing the complaint, asserting that the prohibition prevented “life-saving care” and was a “harmful, cruel, and unconstitutional law.”
Certain Lowcountry healthcare facilities have undergone adjustments since the embargo.
On August 1, MUSC stopped providing gender-affirming care to current or new patients, citing a prohibition on performing gender transition procedures on people of all ages.
Nancy Mace, a South Carolina Congresswoman, has been outspoken about her efforts to prohibit members of the transgender community from utilizing certain facilities in federally sponsored buildings under her proposed law, the “Stop the Invasion of Woman’s Spaces Act.”
Mace too, expressed her thoughts on ‘X’, saying “gender affirming care is child abuse” adding “we can start calling it gender affirming abuse.”
“Don’t overdose our kids with hormones and other “gender affirming care” or pseudoscience. This shouldn’t be controversial,” said Mace in her statement on ‘X’.