As Georgia organizations fighting for reproductive health, rights, and justice, we have strongly opposed SB 140 since its inception. It panders to extremist partisan lobbyists and the minority of people who want to further marginalize an already singled-out and oppressed group: trans and gender-expansive minors. Please visit the Trans Lifeline if you are in need. Wherever you are in your healthcare journey and no matter what the law says- you are loved you deserve safety and care and you can count on us.The Atlanta Trans Resource Guide can help you find transition-related medical providers in the Metro Atlanta area. This law takes effect on July 1, 2023, but any minor under 18 who started HRT before July 1 can continue that care.To our trans community members, we want to make two things very clear:
This is an attack on multiple communities. In addition to denying care to trans minors that can be life-saving, it allows their doctors to be held criminally or civilly liable for practicing according to the standard of care. While this law denies gender-affirming medical care for trans youth, it will in contrast protect medical providers who harm intersex children by performing unnecessary surgeries. Despite Georgians’ overwhelming opposition to SB 140, on March 21 the state legislature passed this bill, and today, March 23, Governor Kemp signed it into law. We are sad and angry that Georgia’s governor has signed Senate Bill 140, a deadly bill to ban hormone replacement therapy and gender-affirming surgeries for trans youth under the age of 18. Reproductive Justice Is For Everyone-Including Trans Youth In Georgia
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