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Arkansas Lawmakers Pass Bill Banning Doctors From Providing Medically-Necessary Treatment to Transgender Minors

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Republicans in the Arkansas House and Senate have just passed a bill that would ban physicians and other medical professionals from providing medically-necessary treatment and services to transgender minors.

If Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson, who has already signed several anti-LGBTQ bills into law this month, signs HB 1570, experts warn transgender youths’ lives will be at risk.

Calling it “one of the most extreme and harmful anti-trans bills in the country,” the ACLU warned in a brief before the bill was passed that if signed, “it will be the most extreme piece of anti-trans legislation ever signed into law.” Lawmakers misnamed the legislation the “Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act.” Monday’s Senate vote was 28-7.

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