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Maine Governor Approves Bill Allowing 16-Year-Olds to Get Sex Change Drugs Over Parents’ Objections

Steve RobinsonBy Steve RobinsonJuly 31, 2023Updated:July 31, 202311 Comments2 Mins Read5K Views
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Gov. Janet Mills poses with activists from Equality Maine as they celebrate "LGBTQ+ Youth Lobby Day "
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Maine Gov. Janet Mills sent an email Friday letting subscribers know that she signed a bill that will allow 16-year-olds to obtain puberty blocking drugs and cross sex hormones without their parents knowledge and even in cases when their parents object.

[RELATED: Maine Lawmakers Approve Puberty Blockers, Cross-Sex Hormones for 16- and 17-Year-Olds โ€” Without Parental Consent…]

The new law will allow a “health care professional” to provide hormones to minors for the purpose of altering their physical sex characteristics if the minor has been diagnosed with gender dysphoria and their parents have refused to support hormonal interventions.

The law also contains legal protections for medical professionals who administer the controversial and irreversible treatments to minors despite their parents’ objections.

[RELATED: Maine Poised to OK Sex-Change Hormones for Minors Without Parental Consent…]

In Europe, medical guidance has shifted away from permanent medical interventions for minors experiencing gender confusion or dysphoria. Twenty states have passed laws prohibiting medical facilities from performing sex change surgeries on minors or from giving them sex change drugs.

But in Maine, the legislature has done the opposite, with several bills passed this session to increase minors’ access to sex change procedures, including taxpayer-funded sex change procedures.

During the public hearing for the bill (LD 535) in the Judiciary Committee, lawmakers speculated that the bill would, in some instances, allow children as young as seven to receive sex change drugs if their parents support the intervention.

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Ken Frost
Ken Frost
2 years ago

If parents do not protest about almighty state owning their children then they are already mere chattle slaves of the state

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ME Infidel
ME Infidel
2 years ago

But, donโ€™t even think about allowing 16-year olds access to flavored tobacco or vaping products!

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Jake
Jake
2 years ago

What is the degree of mental deficiency in the Maine government? It appears that on a 1 to 10 scale it is at least a 9.5! So, they can get sex change drugs that WILL affect their entire lives FOR SURE, but they cannot buy alcohol, cigarettes, or join the service at that age? What is wrong with this picture? or should I say, Is there anything NOT wrong with this picture?

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R.Champ
R.Champ
2 years ago

The State has been coming for your mind and unquestioning obedience. Now the State is stepping up the coming for your children. Mainers have to realize that voting or not voting has Consequences.

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Mark
Mark
2 years ago

And these people call me a Deplorable. Study the photo in this article and remember them as the real deplorables..

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Linda
Linda
2 years ago

Well parents, what are you going to do now? It’s not enough just to remove your kids from the public school system. The medical community is also against you. The state has now decided it knows what’s best for your child and has legally undermined your parental authority. Best of luck with that.

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Dam Doc
Dam Doc
2 years ago

Elsewhere in the Maine Wire news: “An insider at MaineHealth, the stateโ€™s largest healthcare organization, is sounding the alarm on the frequency with which transgender children who are taking hormonal pharmaceuticals show up to the hospitalโ€™s emergency room undergoing severe mental health crises.”

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Diane Lufkin
Diane Lufkin
2 years ago

Parents own and are responsible for their children until they are 18 years old . The State doesn’t have the right to change that. Parents need to rebell and scream from the roof tops. When children are under 18 and have sex with an old adult, it is considered RAPE. When children turn 18 years old, they can them join the service and vote. When they turn 21 years old, they can then buy alcohol, cigarettes, and other drugs.

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Tammy Whirty
Tammy Whirty
2 years ago

I am totally speechless. God help us all. How did the parents lose their own rights over their OWN children? This is not right.

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Nunya
Nunya
2 years ago

This is simply not true, this person writing this article is lying and spreading misinformation. NO CHILD UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE ANYWHERE IN THIS STATE OR COUNTRY can access sex change surgery, no matter what laws are in place. ADDITIONALLY, CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS 7 WILL NEVER BE ALLOWED TO ACCESS PUBERTY BLOCKERS OR HORMONES CONSIDERING THEY ARENT EVEN GOING THROUGH PUBERTY YET. USE YOUR COMMON SENSE PEOPLE, THIS AUTHOR IS WRITING IN HATE AND SPREADING THIS TRANSPHOBIC RHETORIC. Use your platform for truth-telling instead of spreading hate and misinformation bro, I think itโ€™s time we take this to the higher ups at the Maine Wire, for blatantly lying and spreading misinformation

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Walter Beasley M. D.
Walter Beasley M. D.
2 years ago

So The physocologically damaged govenor of the state of Maine wants Maine to be the next pedo- island ! She feels the need to take Epsteins royal crown of rich perverts !

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