SPRINGFIELD – Legislation sponsored by State Representative Bill Hauter, M.D. (R-Morton) would prohibit Illinois health care providers from performing gender reassignment surgeries on minors.
“In light of major medical organizations’ stunning new admission that transgender surgeries on minors are not backed by good evidence and should be delayed until adulthood, House Bill 4482 protects these vulnerable and confused children from the harms of ideology in medicine,” Hauter said.
In the past few weeks, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons issued new guidance recommending that gender-related surgeries be delayed until at least age 19. The American Medical Association then added that it too believes that surgeries for minors should be deferred until adulthood.
The legislation is currently assigned to the House Rules Committee.