NC House committee passes bill banning transgender surgeries for minors | Eastern NC Now

A bill that would ban transgender surgeries for minors in North Carolina was hurried through a House committee on Tuesday.

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    A bill that would ban transgender surgeries for minors in North Carolina was hurried through a House committee on Tuesday.

    House Bill 808, Youth Health Protection Act, prohibits health care workers from providing "surgical gender transition procedures to any individual under 18 years of age."

    "If you are under the age of 18 in North Carolina, you cannot get a tattoo at all, even with your parents' consent," said Rep. Hugh Blackwell, R-Burke, the lead sponsor on the bill. "You can't get a body piercing, other than for earrings, without parent consent. But we allow these surgical procedures that, in many instances, maybe are irreversible and life-changing for children who have not arrived at 18 years of age."

    H.B. 808 passed the House Health Committee in a voice vote without debate. The hurried nature of the vote led to shouting from some members of the public who came to speak on the bill.

    "This bill is not an attempt to hurt trans children," said Rep. Ken Fontenot, R-Wilson. "It is an attempt to help protect vulnerable populations, when [gender transition surgeries] are clearly still experimental."

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It has been far too many years since the Woke theology interlaced its canons within the fabric of the Indoctrination Realm, so it is nigh time to ask: Does this Representative Republic continue, as a functioning society of a self-governed people, by contending with the unusual, self absorbed dictates of the Woke, and their vast array of Victimhood scenarios?
  Yes, the Religion of Woke must continue; there are so many groups of underprivileged, underserved, a direct result of unrelenting Inequity; they deserve everything.
  No; the Woke fools must be toppled from their self-anointed pedestal; a functioning society of a good Constitutional people cannot withstand this level of "existential" favoritism as it exists now.
  I just observe; with this thoughtful observation: What will happen "when the Vikings are breeching our walls;" how do the Woke react?
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