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| Subject: About Time: GOP Governor Signs Law Withholding Funds From Hospitals Providing Transgender Care for Kids Wed Oct 05, 2022 8:42 pm | |
| Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill this week that withholds COVID-19 relief funding from one of the state’s largest hospital systems until it ceases providing “transgender” children with “gender-affirming” care. This includes hormone therapy treatments, puberty blockers, and sex reassignment surgery.
Oklahoma Children’s Hospital at OU Health currently provides transgender health services for patients under 18. These services are provided to adults through 24 years of age. According to its website, the hospital 7collaborates with schools to provide transgender treatments and other services.
The bill signed into law by Stitt this week authorizes more than $100 million in federal funds from the American Rescue Plan (ARP) for the University of Oklahoma Medical Center. However, the health system can only receive the funds if it ends its transgender services for those under 18 years of age.
“By signing this bill today, we are taking the first step to protect children from permanent gender transition surgeries and therapies. It is wildly inappropriate for taxpayer dollars to be used for condoning, promoting, or performing these types of controversial procedures on healthy children,” Stitt said in a press release. He called on state lawmakers to ban all transgender surgeries and hormone therapy treatments on minors in the next legislative session.
.https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2022/10/05/gop-governor-signs-law-withholding-funds-from-hospitals-providing-transgender-car-n2614007
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