The Senate of Georgia adopted two bills to ban most of the sexual transition treatments for minors and prisoners in state prisons, some Democrats joining the Republicans to support the measures.
Legislators voted on Monday 34 to 19 years for a bill to prohibit most of the sexual transition treatments, including puberty blockers, for anyone under 18, even for people already in treatment. In 2023, the state prohibited most transitional surgeries between sex and hormonal replacement therapies for transgender children unless they already received treatment.
“You ask [minors] To make changes that will have changes in the rest of their lives, “the GOP senator said on Monday, the sponsor of the bill.” This is not a just decision for them. This is not a fair decision for parents. “”
A second bill – sponsored by the Whip of the majority of the Randy Robertson Senate – which would prohibit most of the sexual transition treatments for prisoners in state prisons, 37-15.
Senator Ben Watson speaks in the Senate rooms at the Georgia State Capitol, Monday March 3, 2025 in Atlanta. (AP)
Opponents of measures accused the Republicans of do politics By targeting transgender people and argued that legislators should focus on more urgent issues. They declared that the two bills focus on the rights of transgender persons and their families to make decisions concerning the transition processing between the sexes.
“This organization promulgated Bill after Bill attacked trans people with the ultimate goal of making Trans people disappear. We have already been here,” a whip of the Senate of the Senate, a democrat who is openly lesbian on Monday, disappeared.
At least 26 states have promulgated laws restricting the transition from the sexes for minors, although most were struck by prosecution.
At least 26 states have promulgated laws restricting the transition from the sexes for minors. (Adobe Stock)
Jackson and other Democrats proposed an amendment to the Watson bill which would have allowed minors to already receive sexist transition treatment to avoid the Medical and emotional risks to stop in the middle of the treatment, but the amendment failed.
Democrat Sens. Elena Parent and Sonya Halpern have reaffirmed their commitment to protect the rights of transgender persons, but have shaken up the party lines to vote for the Robertson bill, saying that they do not believe that taxpayers should be overwhelmed by the cost of transitional processing between sexes for detainees. The parents proposed an amendment to make an exception for prisoners who are already undergoing replacement hormone therapy, but this amendment has also failed.
“I will not let my party be trained in an argument that makes us appear out of contact with the very people we pretend to represent,” said Halpern.
Four Democrats supported the bill prohibiting transition from the sexes for detainees. (istock)
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Democratic senator Sally Harrell, who has two transgender children, said that she wanted to “remind people that we are talking about very real people – parents, children, families”.
Senator Freddie Powell Sims was the only democrat who voted for the two bills, while four Democrats supported the bill prohibiting the processing of transition between the sexes for prisoners.
Last month, the Senate adopted bills to prohibit organic boys from playing in girls sports and stripped public funding for transitional treatment between sexes for adults.
The four invoices will now go home.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
